—lt:lsprotxtsed to name one of the Territories In the Far West, "Lincoln." --CoL Bustow, ex-Grnor of Vilsconatn, tiled at Leavenworth, Minus, onthe 13th Instant. —Gen. Glint intends goon to ehilt the - • - xollitary poet, on the Rio anode. —The popidstlon of Memphis, Tom., isi#o,l):lo —. beer e the war; now tt Is over 64,000. v, —Alabama sent Into the Confederate a r my us o , 000 men. Of these, 34,1100 were km* or, pubed from disease. —A lump of Imam told, welghlng nearly a pound, was batelyjed op byA boy 1- who waknalting lu creek, -v County, root. —A Coptempoday style' Mn . Swaney .lheo'weliggi charge Calalres bf DIVIOOTrovideACAS In thls eonn try.!!. . '' . 3esept Albley, a Tel River(Thas.) glutton, recently ate. =a bet of V.3,turkm. weighing 9 poapda l in 30 minutes. " • —Mr. Galt, th. Canadian Minister of Mammy re cast)) t Wieder= on a special iniadoliecitroect• ed with , the Reciprocity Treaty, baa returned to Canada rather discouraged with the - prospect: —A oonvention of the American Horne Trade Icerne—an organization designed to counteract the intheegee of the New York Free Trade League—war held on the 14th lest, in Pldkdelnt& —4:Xp. Ward of the Veteran Reserve Corps, Keep er of the Old Capitol bison, bee been cashiered for extending to Henry Win and Richard Winder no asaai eumuues. —Vhe Muyland Supreme Court two decided that the segiabalitni law that State, which excludes trOcil voting thaw who cannot tail* the teat oath, Is constitutional. —The traffic of the New York Central .shroud fer the year ending Sept. 30th, 1635, amounted to *15,915,524 ; and for the year ending 18691, SOO. The net lucerne of last year waai3,394,tiT6 ; and for MS year, 13,616,072.. .-Theeemate of lEsaisalppl bee panedw ingeeP . 'Mg resolution repudiating all debts the, were in curred by the State between the 9th day of January, 1861, and the 16th day of October, Ma. —The Sergeant-at-Aran of the Louisiana Senate la without lega. the Doorkeeper without arms, and the Secretary of the Swam, and the Clerk of the House am both on crutches. —Captain Peter S. Corbett, who ran the Shenan doah out of en English port to deliver her Into the hands of the rebel Waddell, Ina been acquitted by en EngNah jury of the charge of violating the neu- Minty laws, —C. - P. Van Belden, formerly of the West Branch Buffeffia. is now associated with M. H. Cobb, of the Welleborough Agitator. The latter spirited sheet Is about to be enlarged and further improved. —Oen. Logan dined on the 14th bat Pint. M. Ro• mere, the Mexican Mintatar at Waattlngton, and In &Wed, It Is said, that he should accept the Mexican mission. —The Custom-Haase officers throughout the totted States have been ordered to prevent the en• trand.e into M. porta ef defier Spanish or Chilian prizes, pending the hostilities between these nation: a. Mr. Wendell Philips Garrison, eon of the great Boston reformer, and Assistant. Editor of v.. N Mu, was recently married to Miss Lucy McKim, daturhter of J. Miller McKim, of Philadelphia, and grand daughter of Lucretia Mott, the great Quaker preachyr and reformer. —The number of Minters and trappers living on or near the Red rUcer of the North I• estimated at thirtylhousand. They have no newspapers, no po Utica organisation, and only a limited communica tion Witllthe outer world. —The Cincinnati requiter announces in big. blart - bitad leiter, that " The Democratic Party is Nat Dead." That will be news to a great many peo pie,Who are tinder the impression they attended Pa Mineral last falL —Rome bas bean greatly scandalised by the flight of Ave nuns from the Convent of the Good Shep herd. One of them fell In gettind over a wall and broke her led. The other four made gwod their es cape. Strange to say, each of the latter considers hazel! n-nun-fortunate. The Cholera was trobsldlng In Europe at last dates. There was no alarm in Emuland, where a few irorsuilc eves had occurred. If it should visit the United States at all,—and we think It will not,—it will not come Wore May or June.. The Hest Treason case, cmsequeat upon the late rebellion, to now being tried In the United States District Court, before Judge Trigg, against John S. Gamble, who was an enrolling officer under the reb el government, In Blount County, East Tennessee. This is the fleet treason trial since the memorable AIMII Burr ease. The Savannah Republican, in smiting of the reception of General Gent, says "We never re member witnessing so cold, inanimate and cheerless a reception." Well, that is natnraL It is sant in hu man nature, or any other sort of nature, for the con quered to welcome the conqueror with garlands and shouts, and bonllre& —There is no correctness in thepore notwith standing its repetition, that Col. A. re K. McClare, of Chambersburg, la *bunt to start a new daily in Phil adelphia. in a recent private letter toe friend be dtschstum such an intention, .d. new Republican daily at 'Tallithim: is talked of, and his name is mentioned in connection with 11. —The L.:Fabians Senate recently received a corn unmication from a committee of Wiles who desired to present that body with a 11. & flag. The Mil ton received the communication, accepted the nag, and freed the time for its presentation ; but it being brought to light that the ladies were "colored," the Senate immediately voted that everything relative to thedag be expunged from the journals. —Edmund Morris, be 'nth - or of "Ten Acres Enough," the series of papers in the Atlantic, enti tled "Needle and Garden," "Fairoing for Boys," in Our Yowuy Fab, and other productions of an agri cultural character, is about to assume the editorial conduct of a monthly journal called the /howl Odd wet, to be published by Mr. D. Reston, a job et at Dristol, Pa. Mr. Morris resides near Burling. ton, J &fecal across the Delaware, from the former place. Edwin Forrest has taken steps to be married to Ms former wife. be sometime since mewed a de cree of divorce and a large allowance out of her husband's estate, but be has recently taken an ap. peal to the Supreme Court of the United States to have the decree annulled. The effect of a reversal of the judgment of the Court below would, of course, he to re-unite the parties in the " holy bond of wedlock. —"Piton," the eery able correspondent of the Boston Daily Advertisowafter travraing• on foot and horseback all over the South, and conversing freely with whites and blacks, comes to the conclusion that It will not be safe for some time to come to entrust the Southern whites with the reins of Government. He says the only chance of safety for the freedmen consists In the maintenance of the Freedmen Bu reau and the continuance of the military occupa tion. —Han. Schuyler Colfax, Speaker of the Ronne of Representativre,4a yet a young man. He was born in the city Of New York in 1824, and In early life rc moved to Indiana, At the age of twenty-one he be came the editor and proprietor of the South Bent Register, and continued with thatJotonal until 1884. In the year 1848 he was a delegate to the Indiana Constitutional Convention. In 1852 be was again a delegate to the Whiz National Convention, and was chosen Its Secretary. In 1854 be was that elected to Congress, and was re-elected in 1855, '5B, 'CC, 'B2, and '64. He has merited all the ramie that has crowned his eamer,and cull higher honors await him In the future. Reconstruction. Governor Humphrey, of Mississippi, his ordered the disarming of the negroes in thatltate. The Georgia Legislature adjourned on the 15th Inst. until January 15th, without eumt!ug 11. 8. am afore The Kentnelry Legislature, has weeds bill pardon ing all who have committed treason against the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Negro troubles continue In Lcrnislana. In one or two parishes, where the negroes are especially men acing, the newspapers char= that their hostile atti tu d e L e o ne t o th e ow.binatrons of evil-disposed whites. President Johnson, in a recent telegram to Provis tonat Governor Johnson, of Georgia, directs the in auguration of Mr, Jenkins, the Governor elect of that Mate, and advising that the issuing of certifi cates of election to liembers.of Cana= be left to hint. 'The t3eorgla House has refused to adopt the ram. Intim to elect United States Senators at any etided day. This has been done in th e hope that the disa bilities of Alexander 11. Stephens my be soon err moved. election is to be held in Washington on the 21st Lost., to take the sense cd the people the bill now before Congress for permitting the in the District of Columbia to vote. 'The Virginia Dept. stators has passed b rains 'Mug for the pardon of Jett Dols and ot polit ical prisonme, and the restoration of the bees cor- Jonathan Worth was inaugurated as Gotreinor cf North Carolina on the .12th inst. Be dell erect a abort address, claiming that the North Carolinians Oared the r ed CO the 18th estonition of he Union. The Well time imiljourn int. • Nottiolvat. -Extvossa.—The coat of governing the 'city of New York is twenty millions of dollars' aim- and the estimated cost of governl the ci ty a rldladelpkilis put down at the ly low We of seven millions of dothus. This is twice es such es It takes to rovers the whisks State of Penasylvaals,.and.tha landod debt of the city ex ceeds that of the State, heinX over SWAN:WA - with etertPusq,s4 of gpdowlviciesrty. To Ads° tbla 111110 or. seven zegllotte, welltentleiveti ci five inn/on the dollar;bat the'eounette are afraid to ievi. so Ur ante, sot Dive4Lted It at loot mate, Intstellog Atttrblor the otherlftb.thue ailitlegto tbecity".4olloo4 op trpthe Mani "A Union 'Abdo* end a thafeat of lauds, trades none eon wen A thdon of hearts,,ead a Won, of hands. And the Pl* crow Caen forever," CIRCULATION 3,300. H. H. FRAMER, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. Montrose, Pa., Tuesday, Deo. 28,1865. ADVIgATISING There is one branch of tiro business of the IN DEPESDESer Rayantresw office In which we have never done °Mathes Justice. When we commenced publishing a paper In Montrose, nearly fourteen yap ago, the rates of charging for advertising were extremelylow,and we have never increased them anything like what we ought to Have done. Then %the circulnlion of our paper, ne kluveltanna Miter, was 800; now the circulation of Tthz brozrzaroarer 11e runtickti is 83)0, or more than four times as much. It is generally recognized es a correct rale to charge for adifertising in proportion to the circulation given to the `advertisement If 1000 copies of an advertisement are worth five dollars to the advertiser, 8000 copies ought to be worth fifteen dollars. Printing paper is now worth twice as much as it-was when our old advertising rates were established. If our chem. es for advertising were doubled, once on account of the increase of the cost of paper and other material, and twice on acrenatt of the increased circulation, who would say that such charges were unreasonable? We do not propose to make so great a change, but we do propose to come up a little nearer to what we ought to charge and to what our neighbors in other counties charge. The newspapers of Luzerne county,—not one of which we believe has half our circulation—have adopted uniform rates of advertising, and we propose to adopt the same rates. From and after January Ist, 1868, therefore, the rates of advertising in The independent Re publican will be as follows One square of 8 llnesi One One " One " One '• " " . 1 year Executors' and Adminietratoie Notices Auditors' and Assignee Notlea 'Yearly advertisements with occasional noti ces and changes, including subscription, I squsze, • 15,00 Professional or business cards, net exceed ing 5 lines, per year, • 8,00 Yearly advertisements—X column, 125; X col umn, PO: 1 column. $lOO. All no'ices of public meetings, hitherto Inserted grab:M.oll4y, except notices of politics] or religious meetings, must be paid for at advertising rates. Editorial or local advertising will be charged 20 cents per line. Obituary notices 10 cents per line. MrAll transient advertising must be paid for at the time of Insertion. Where we have made special contracts for a definite period, we shall of course fulfill the con tract at the rates agreed on. But those who have been advertising from year to year, with occasional settlements, will please take notice that we cannot go on at the old rates, but shall charge according to our new terms after Janu ary let. We hope not to lose any advertising patronage because of this change, but if we do, it will make more room in the paper for reading matter, and also give those who do advertise a better chance with the public. Those who are already paying as much per annum as they believe they onghf to, can oc cupy less space and pay no more. We intend soon to make a great _lmprove- matt in onradvertising columns, and by a dif ferent arrangement and classification of adver t:l3=mM make them more easily referred to. Fy:1:41144•+/I.} There is no day in the year that is more ea gerly looked for, by all clams in the:community than Christmas. It is one of general rejoicing and festivity throughout the world. All civi lized nations commemorate it as the anniversary, of the moat important event which has teen apired dune the dawn of creation. Kingdoms have flourished and passed away, Empires have risen and fallen, the awe and ' cnatolna of men and nations have changed, ."old things have passed away and all things have become new, " yet still the memory of the manger at Bethlehem, the ministering angels, the star which guided the watching shepherds and the infant Redeemer, is fresh and green in the hearts of all christian people. The old and young look forward to gas approach of Christmas with the most Intense interest and anxiety. It is the first among the world's anniversaries. It is a universal holiday. In our county. and among many nations of the old world, the ° celebration of this day Is net exclusively festive in its character. It is nsna lly ushered in by the ringing of the church. belle and the assembling together u of the people in their several sanctuaries, for divine service. The deep swell of the organ, ; the music of the choir and the voice of prayer is mingled with the notes of general rejoicing. The purpose of the birth, the sufferings and ; the death of the Saviour, is pronounced by lips accustomed to dwell upon sacred things and announce to a guilty world the terms of salvation. Bin Is rebuked and mercy and redemption are pleaded, and our hearts are lifted up and our eyes opened to a sense of duty, as the cross, with its bleeding victim, is once more placed before us. How beautifully appropriate on this day, are these testimonials of infinite lova - Hew they are calculated to calm the tumult of passion in the soul and incline its aspirations heavenward. As we enter the sanctuary of God, on that day, decorated as it usually with wreathe of evergreen our beasts are subdued by an unseen but hallow ed influence, and we almost feel that we are really in the divine presence. We may be strangers to grace and aliens from the covenant, but on an occasion like that, it is not claiming too much for us to say, that', " heaven has left some reumantrof the angel still in this poor fallen nature. " Bat Christmas is not only a day of. worship and festivity, but ills alias:Won for the renewal of friendships, the cementing and recognition of old tics end the exchange Of tokens of love and association. The Christmas gift is an inseparable auxiliary in the **per observance of the day. They are passed ;between the aged as well as the young, and those who do not receive them may be numb* among the ob eMire and forgotten in society. No matter how simple it is, the gift is generally provided for, and.there ire few families in the land whose hearts are not made glad 4 by its cheering miasma. Its cost is usually regulated by the means of the donor. Probably one o? the most touching which we are familiar, Wai the gift k$ an eel widow lady, who had recently burled herotftl 064 1 / 7 101Stiood akilegtale elk 'haul; of a flule4 aft of Sumning,. It was W41 : 44111411411 4 61R1 4 41ai1ial was sacred in the sight of heaven as the End costly ornament which the,wealth of the 7" could purchase. BooksOilhiat. ~ -- - tti Ally selected sea gift and but -14'131141,, t;;Siiittion alli=r; the youth its Voi4 yobrate, sitidi:iht the more il:0111* in puska work on : sone literary or 1 4*InciiuttleCts pinteAsthigaiketbn of pcs ems Or Mabry, of the divine personage, whose birth it is designed to commemorate. These constitute the useful and the lasting tokens el Mrodship which are usually ekthanged on this I day. Th e y outlive the year, and properly cared for, even the m ention in : which they are given. If we: were bleared with 1 1 1) abunqsorsocolelMMTlr n not knots of anything: Id *e would vest atom liberally than choice and select books.-for our blends on Christmas. We have In our possession now a beautifully bound Bible pre sented tons on Chrielmea by a Mend Who has long since slept in the grave. That Mend was out Mother. and we would not exchange this simple but honest token of maternal love for any thing the wealth of the age could purchase. his to us a sacred relit, and although we have notatudied It as we should, or lived according to its teachings, who knows but what it luny yet prove the key which will unlock the door of heaven endeeture for us a final and lasting 're union with the loved ones who have gone be fore. Who does not remernher the christmas tree that stood in the corner of the room, its 'obese( etre! , green and the interest it etched among the Izettls and happy crowd t RSA year it occupies its chosen iscaddoa ; every returning anniversary it hat new and increased attractions. This year our business men are prepared to clothe it with new furniture. Their store* and witdows are supplied with everything which could be desired for that purpose. Let the Christmas tree be placed in its old corner. It is an emblem ~f in nocence, gaiety end gladliness. Let the sacred mexnories of this day he kept alive, let all rejoice at its coming. Let those who are poor and with out means be provided for and the needy supplied out of the abundance of the rich. That goodly cheer which makes the heart thankful should be carried to every door, and none through chill penury and biting want should be prevented from joining in the general refrain, that "to day a Saviour was born who is Christ the Lord TEE DANGER OP A MAJORITY Congress meets under the most favorable auspices. There are very difficult questions to be settled, but the coarse of the President and the Elections have fully illuminated the tams tion. We trust, therefore, that Congress will be , mindful of the dangers of a vast majcuity. The party of the Administration has two-thirds of the House. It can do what) it chooses, and it should therefore choose with the utmost calmness and deliberation. To the normal Sc- 3 weeks $1,50 1 month 2, 00 3 months 4,00 6 months 6,00 lion of a free goverment in peaceful times a vig orous and able opposition Is essential. But the present Opposition is neither. It is curiously deficient in names of distinction, while the Ad ministration is signally strong. If the Opposi tion candidate for Speaker In to he considered its leader, it is very clear that, had the members from the unorganized Slates been at once ad mitted, the Opposition would have been led and its policy dictated by the old masters of the Democratic party. 10,00 2.00 2,50 The chief danger of a huge majority is not so much impatience of contradiction from the Opposition as it is crudity and extravagance of suggestion from its own members, which the Op position may not have wit enough thoroughly to search and expose. In the present Congress. therefore, if the majority be wise, a part of its own number will do the legitimate work of an Opposition upon such occasions. There are many legurlaHve proposition of which the spirit is perfectly right while the method is es clearly iniudicions . The party Opposition will attack of course upon the ground of the intention, but the true difference among Union men will be upon the point of detail and execution. It is with questions involving such differences that this Congress will largely deal ; and we took for able and most generous and friendly debates. The crisis in public affairs is vital, as it has often been before. The action of Congress has a con sequent importance which can not easily be overstated. But no body of legislators ever bad a clearer knowledge of the wishes and views of their constituents ; and the dangers of the vast majority are so obvious that we readily believe so intelligent a body wil *WM them as much as possible, and do only what they ought, and not merely what they can. ARE THE REBEL STATES WITHIN OR Wirramrr TUE vazoar v In the cotirse of a debate on that portion of the President's message referring to the question of reconstruction, Hon. Thaddeus Stevens advanced the opinion that the rebel States had never been nut of the Union—that they were within the Union, but to all intents and purposes had ceased to exist as States; had, by the treason of their cit deem, forfeited their political franchises, and could not resume political action until the 'breath of life bad been breathed into their lungs by the same power from which they derived their first existence. Mr. Stevens declared that the President nor the Supreme Court, could or ganize or create a State. It wan the exclusive right of the one to define,and the other to exeente the laws. Congress alone was the law making power- Congress was alone the power which could breathe the life of States Into territories.— if by any unnatural means, the functions thus derived were suspended, Congress alone could restore them. Nor was It the peculiar business of one branch of that body to engage in this work. It required united action—and hence, in the admission of Senators and Representative! from the dead States, in restoring the States thus dead, to life within the Union, it required the united action of both Houses of Congress. The ignorance of the Southern masses was the main-spring of Southern treason. In no one of the Slave States, was there over ester blished a system by which education was made free. Intelligence and the institution of slavery can not progress and develop in the same locality. In order to make slavep strong, those who are bound as well as those who are free and depen dent on their labor for support, most be kept in ignorance, debarred from education, and forever prevented from that mental cu ]tare which cre ates true feelings of manhood and aspirations to be free. Hence it was, that the slave-masters, while they made the act of imparting education to their slaves a crime, also placed every impediment in the way of improvement of the "poor white traah." By thus encouraging ignorance, it was not hard, when the ptoper time arrived, to engender treason. The Igno rance of the Southern mimes made them the ready tools for those who plotted the rebellion. It Is proposed now, by the introduction of free schools in all the slave States, to puts perpetual guard over treason in that locality. The edu cation of the messes, their enlightenment as to the biestnipi of a freegovemment, will certainly render them loyal to Its anthoritlea Nay, It will do more, it will uttaro &tiro, the influencer of modems Democracy. Intelligence, properly inculcated, Is no more antagonlipc to slavery than it is to modern Democracy, so that it only needs the introduction of the common school system Ls the Boutin:met* . s, to Republllanige them thoroughly. EDUCATE THEM. ni ALIN aye V iqulalte number—pree fourths—of the States having =did liatiuin of the ,ScittatibiirtnlioMbitlegitieyery eve me n t *ltifie =within the ¶raft ed atg end " mit Ai liarlottheinnlimibiteof the land. , This einendment of the C4nsl4tetkin in dicates- a •iinxidellot.eluirige In the fif ditiON Old m akesou r future Still, though stymy legat'Otince, there tan berno 'doubt thati settled' Purpose ex -among a large clam of &mtbcrn men. to make the future condition of the freedmen a pe. Anegirbut, little- better than the odiousaystein now abolished. Against this it is the duty of the fiereitthent to guard ; and we doubt not that the right will yet fully triumph, and the last vestige of alavery, with all its attendant vi ces and es*, be wholly awent from tbe laud-- But is ye, though the physical conflict is end ed, the moral conflict continues. That war must also be fought through. The old slavery aristocracy, already again plotting for the mast ery, must never again rule the nation. Else the war of freedom will have been fought in iottieoll ittatzini. he champion of itailso liberty and nationality. and the eoritisteht Mind of the United States in all her atiuggles to elreicome the rebellion, has written • letter to Moncure D. Conway, in which he ex prawn !Amelia" follows npon the great question now before the American proola Yofs_boYe ItVddldfie4 slithery. You have as a erderning ► b• your glorious straggle, as a religious ebbtieeestion to battles which otherwise would have been deplorable eventeXecreed that the sun of the republic shines on all ; that be who breathes the air oft he republic is free; that ea ged le one, ab, on the blessed soli wheels liberty is hot 6 bete backend hazard fate s but 6 faith end a gospel. the stamp of nutettital fe aim Can you mutilate this great prin ciple? Can you sue It down to the monarchical half-freedom standard? proclaim the existence of tha half-man? enthrone • dogma of half-msponsibill ty ? constitute on the rvpublican American land a. middle-ages class of political serfs? Is there liberty without the vote? Is not political liberty the sane- Hon, the guaranty, of elyil liberty? Is not the vote the stamp of self-asserting human taint,. through the moral world, u the right of labor and property Is Its self-asserting stamp through the physical world? WM Ton torn, by denying that, your de ll:IOC:11MT to an incipient aristocracy T Will von de cree that color fa a moral embalternity ? This suf frage question, unjustly settled now, will be to you • source of Perm:dal agitation. A sacred programme not to be deserted to thews amongst you who stand by rehrinn and logic, a Weapon to your enemies, a Damocles' sword in the bands of the four millions of political serfs, it will unavoidably absorb you. weaken you. keep you powerless and Inert abroad, until it is solved. The President and Cohgrees. WABUITIGTON, Dec. 18th, 1845 There is be dancer that Concreas will make heete to admit the Southern claimant., for, thoneh the Senate modified the Stevens resolution, yet It was not done to facilitate the admission of the rebellious claimants. Senator froassenden stated distinct/y, he fore the adoption of the amended resolution. that It wail not Just to infer from the modification that the Senate, or those &eater. Who voted for the modifi cation. were ready to admit M. States recently in rebellion to representation. The three extreme conservatives—Cowan, Doolittle. and Dixon—reins ed to vote the resolution in its amended shape. The House adopted the resolution, as amended, with promptness, and the committee—on the pert of the Hones—is well made up. An if to put the "radicalism" of the House beyond a doubt, it passed the Stevens resolution in Its original shame, limiting its application to the House_ The vote etnod 107 to 56. Nearly twenty Republicans voted, with the nays—some of them good and true men—thinking the resolution totally unnecessary. Its adoption shows what the sentiment of the House is upon this entire subject I take it a. a certain thing that none of the South ern claimants can get into the House during the present session. Its members mean to obtain a verdict from the people Snit, and the congressional elections next fall will glee an admirable opportoni ty to tart the sentiment of the people on this im portant question. The president believes that a majority of the pen• pie scree with him ; the House thinks otherwise. So let the people decide next autumn. The loyal States alone must decide it, for the rebels are not willing to give the colored people a solitary vote. and there to no other way than to abut tint the peo ple of the rebellions Suttee altogether. When a ma jority of the people of the Inyal States are ready to admit the Southern people to representation, areas will ewe to the clamant& their seats—not be fore. The judiciary committee of the Boner—With anch men as Wilson, Eoutwell, and Bingham upon P— harr agreed upon a bill that strikes out the word "white" wherever It occurs In the charter elven to the city of Washington. It will be reported in a day or two, and early In January trill pass both Branches of Congress. Then we shall Bee whether the President will veto the bill The people of Washington who are pro-slavery and rebellions •re expecting the President to stand between them and Congress. Per myself, I have no doubt that the President will sign the bill. He does not care to precipitate a quarrel with Concretes on this or any other question. Even on the question of reconstruc tion be evidently means to avoids enamel. lie will doubtless use his Influence to modify the action of Congress—if he cant but will hardly undertake to break down the clearly expressed opinions of a large majority of both Houses. A radical delegation, waiting upon him last week, told him that they simply asked him "to tolerate an honest difference fn opinione" He can hardly refuse that.—D. W. B, in the N. Y. Independent. Tris Mama ton Busarrso Cans.—The Pittsburg papers are pitching Into the custom of traveling In sleeping cars, and one of them says : "Few persons traveling upon rattroads by night, will ride In any other than the patent sleeping cars For the privilege of so doing they are charged an ex• ['summit:it over the regular fare. It is decidedly a luxurious mode col getting over space, but If every body only knew bow much poison they receive In to their system from the broken rest taken In one of the hunks of such Cara, they would certainly give them a wide berth. Thousands of persons have oc cupied the same berth in which you are stowed, and perchance every disease known has rented with somebody In the same couch which yon deem to be a tunny. Frequently travelers arrive home after an extended tour, and are immediatcly stricken with a fever or-other type of disease, and set the canse down—not to Its true origin, riding in sleeping cars— but to the imagined fatigues of the Journey. The ventilation, too, is poor and improperly managed, as the occupants of the top berth very naturally object to sleeping in a draft for the benefit of the ground- Hogs and your attendants will shut up ventilators tomb heat until the car becomes a foul, revolting charnel house, wherein sleep is perilons,and breath ing the inhalation of disease and death. Until this abuse shall be reformed, and every car thoroughly ventilated from the bottom as well as the top, so as to maintain a pore atmosphere within it, whatever may be the temperature without, and utterly Inde pendent of the will of the conducter, we advise pas sengers to keep out of sleeping care" Hit Already The pries of copper has gone up forty pounds ster ling rer ton. and England has begged ( listen Spa n h 111 alone. But Spain is not sir ready to to England's voice. She answers Lord Russell's monstrance with the assurance that Spain has "re solved not to permit Its dignity, ca uselessly and gratuitously affronted, to remain witnont the Just reparation to which it Is entitled." Now, Bpaln Is a third-rate power, and some years ago England would have lollowed up her remon strance against such a power with a demand. But circumstances alter eases; the Spectator remarks, "II England goes a step further than advice, it is ve ry doubtful whether the Spanish nation, morbidly proud and sensitive, aware that Its trade is of minor Insportanft and conscious that at the worst it could lose to us only the Philllplues, would not ac cept the challenge. Short of force there appears no remedy, and no English Ministry would willingly give the signal for what might prove • general Eu ropean war, moreesperodlo while a false peeeeclent, :till tatreinoval, would allow Spain io toter evert/ sea with America Alabama,." . . This is where the shoe pincher, and will continue to phOelyjirdil Englepd pays up end acts hereell right before the worlff. We need not he impatient ; we can afford to welt. The Evening DM wrote long ago that England 'would some day very gladly pay all our Alabama claims, and would be very much embarraseed ff we should decline to receive the mon ey. Events ere already beginning to justify our pre dletion.—New Perk The. Ocrit Tzaarrontm,Tairr.—The total area of the Untted States and its territories ts 24=0,612 square mitre. Its territorial extent is therefore nearly ten MOM as WO as FMCS, Great Britain, anstria,k Prussia, BPaln Portugal, Belgium, Holland and Denmark toget her; one and ono-n.l( time as large as the Russian Empire In Europe ; one-sixth less only than the area covered by the fifty-nine or eat! Empires, States and Bepubllrri of Europe; of equal extent with the Roman Empire, or that of Merlin. Jer, neither of Which Is said to have exceeded 3,000,- 000 square Lomoul. Coemmutrnos.--(leneral Spinner, United Stabs Treasurer, received a contribulion from a beggar, amounting to ono cent, which he tendered u his contribution towards cancolling the carload debt. The dpruition has been erupted, and tnuisierred to theTreasury,passing through the same channels and forms as would a more munificent sum. The action of this mendicant is In commen dable coutrut to the sample set by many wealthy individuals whose contributions for this object, in the Wilk, do sot loom up attosholy. e iica4matiao Dam Zdabitsktng tawdry or ()pintos-4f Attornry-Onvral Spaect-4kr= pate..A 2.110,1 a, WAs ' nintirrag„Wedneildity, Elie. ek.alti.. A feW days sgo the Hokin - of Ikpresentstiven passed a. resolution elating 'for .any b:formation fn possession of the-Executive DepartnltMe with refer mice to the soktHilled decree of .11animillim, the French agent bi-Mexteo, andr. datei- of September last, estatillabingalavery or peonage in that liteplibSet It appeani from the reply to this resolution that on the 10th of September, W. H. Corwin, Charge de Affairs tent a copy of thisdecree to ffeeretary Rew ard, who requested the opinion Of AtUtentelt-ffettert l - Speed aim that paper. The latter gave en elabor attresjamise, saying among other things that by the behold dWaration in the Met regulation all men of color are free by the fact alone of having trod on Mexican territory: It Is manifest that in the•Mtbse.. quest regulations, a grinding and odious form of slavery is soughtto be establisheilt and be ecreelndert as follows : I have no hesitation In Raying that, these regulations constitute a law which deprive workingmen of rights which we in this country regard, and which In every well organized commu nity should be regarded as Mestimlible, Inalienable and Indestructible, and certainly makes them slaves. The history of this Poultry, and particulasly the history of the troubles from which we. - 's )wt emerging. shows that -,',., .„ ( .10 4 , ea he minified p er m anent' { - {{{ C antM ain at peace . w u Its own notices t.ti iylth the outside wort where these irAsit Old Impartial rights are dent to any con siderable clefs o f , Secretary ward wrote to Minister Bigelow on the 10th of November, saying the decree had re ceived the attention of thin Government, and that the law officer bad submitted an opinion that If they were carried into execution they wonid ineyitably operate to reduce to a pqmiltion of. pooh slavery ..tkinituleu of the African race, and of course such of tbe ty•.:r•dtrien before mentioned as, with or with out their Intelligent consent, may be brought within the jurisdiction of Mexico, Tee Secretary requested Mr. Bigelow to place a copy of Attororry.General Speed's opinion, Ip the bands of M, Droop) de,tdmyth std. to aak that the attention of the Ftenth Clokeioment may be directed to the question, which the Attorney-General has (fireweed with ability, end with an anxious desire to arrive at Jost conclusions. ' Mr. Bigelow has already furnished a copy of the opinion to the French Uovernment,but no response has yet been 1-eceived by this Government. It fhr ' ther appears from the correspondence that M. Romero, the Mexican Minister. famiebetl,. a copy of ~ the decrees, with appropriate cointnebta, to.Elecreta ry Seward, who, bhder date of December 10th, In forms that gentleman that Mee:dikes have been adopted which ane deemed proper to meet the exi gencles which they present The Committee on Foreign Affairs now have the subject before them. State Reform, vs. High Salaries This manor It receiving very general attention, and the agitation may result favorably, even though it stir up some feeling among those who have shared in squandering the people's money. The West Chester "Village Record," quotes ar ticles from Pottsville, Chester, and other papers, and SIT S), • Vre are happy to Bay that the conduct of the Legislators in advancing their pay, has found on apologist in the preen of the State. No respectable newspaper has come nut to repel attacks, nor to espouse their cause. Patiently awaiting a voluntary reform of the humiliating abuses at Harrisburg, that glorious sentinel on the watch-tower of Liberty is beginning to speak out in firm but respectful re monstrance." The Lebanon "Courier," after alluding to the plundering of the Canal fonds under Democratic ad ministratinns, odds: "We therefore give the Union members of the ap proaching Legislature, warning, that the Union press of the State will keep a vigilant eye on them this winter, and expose without fear or favor, any disposition that may be shown to depart from the strict lines of faithtul and honest representatives." The "Record" further says: "The actual number of days In which the Legisla ture actually eat, was 52. This Includes the sessions on what Is known. as "blue Sionday." which fat nine weeks commenced at N o'clock !tithe evening. Saturday was religiously observed as a "holiday" by the members. It was the fashion, years ago, when the pay was 13 per dav, to call the roll every morning; but this was found to be troublesome, and wan dispensed with—as It affected the pockets of the absentees!" Aft , wr alluding' to the gradtml Inerease of pay from $3 up to $5, $7, $lO (and up to 2)9,) the same paper adds.. "From smell a rapid "progress" In the pay of the Pennsylvania Legislature, It was very naturally In ferred that "war prices" had been established In the other States. At least, It was supposed that the ex ample of the "Keystone" would be followed In those States where the people have not the ad vantage of "common schools!" To ascertain what "progress" has been made elsewhere, letters have been addrresed to the Executive departments of other States, and we are thus enabled to present the following: LEGISLATIVE PAT IN OTUER ?MATES. New Ynrk—s3 per dap for 100 days; then, 0 New Jersey—Vl for 40 days; then, $1,50. Obto—lF3 per dal. Vermont---V per day [An attempt to raise the pay last session, was detested. I New Ramnstdre—s3 per day. Indiana—LS per del, illlnote--$2 for 40 days; then, al. Rhode leklaod—Sl Der dov. Massachusetts-1865-189 days for $4OO. Delaware—C3 per day. Connecticut—Formerly, $9 per day; raised in 113E5 to IS, not to take effect until 1800. Thla, on an average, la not gate $8 per day—el:a ian of Penneylv:Lola—even in "War times," when "Eggs la so high!" The Reading "Journal" says: "We think with the "Record" that the Republican Members of the Legislature should art an example by cutting down unnecessarily high salaries. Retrench ment should be the order of the day in every depart of the government " The 'lliltonian" suggests, as payment, a sum about equal to what Members would earn at home. This would be fair—and vet it seems to be Impeach-- cable to artlve at a sum In that manner, inasmuch as business capacities vary so greatly. One man may earn by his private business nothing at all, while another May make $lO, slo, or $ l OO per day. Wm. B. Astor, and some Oil, Coal and Iron men are said to realize hundreds per day Men contrive to get to Harrisburg who could not matte. (lunar at borne, and —by fair means or fool—there pick up a living for the year. An honest farmer's affairs may be as well attended to In his absence as If he were at home. A lawyer or merchant can so arrange his business that it will sniler no considerable loss, or h. will ,leave, without permission, to attend to It. So that—as no one Is obliged to go—no one probably would lose anything at the lowest rates of compensation. Leg islatom end Jurors should serve on the same princi. ple—not to lay up money, hat for the honor, and the public good—their reasonable expenses being paid. The Lewleburg "Journal" joins the general con demnation of the last session's extravagance, but attempts to make party capital by showing that the Republicans had the majority. That Is true—but an analysis of the votes shows that a larger proportion of Democrats than Republicans voted Inc the $1'.....V0 bill In the House, and for the $lOOO bill In the Sen ate on the first trial. It Is evidently not a partisan question, and all who are sincerely anxious tor re form should keep It out of politics. It Is, however—ln connection with the Tax bur den which must soon be keenly felt—an Important matter. The party which makes the most honest and reasonable endeavors to guard the Treasury against extravagance, will command the confidence of the tax-payers. The "Agitator . ' argues for liberal wages and' claims that, "the less hire, the more bargain and sale." A great mistake. In the 13 days, there were fewer charges of corruption than since. Members have gone on voting their own compensation up, from $3 to $5, from $5 to $7, then, 11000 for 138 days, and at last $lOOO for Si day nominal or 53 days real labor. All this while, public confidence in them decreased in an inverse ratio. "The tree of deepest root Is found Least willing still to quit the ground. 'Tam therefore said by ancient sages That love of life increased with years, Bo much that in our later stages, When pains grow sharp and sickness rages, The greatest love or We appears" Even so is It with the avaricious, money-loving man, who goes to Harrisburg to get gain- The more you give such men, the more they want—their greed is never sated. Instances of Legislative corruption are very rare In New England—they are painfully too common in Pennsylvania—vet Pennsylvania in her liberality pays her Legislators greatly higher salaries than New England does. The proposition to dispense with German print ing, we think is judicious. Union is a German county so called, but we think would willingly give up that large useless outlay. The price of living will be higher than In the VT days, for some years to come. To "compromise," acid snit all around, we would say that $5 a day for actual attendance, and uo extras or stealing& would be lair, liberal pay to , Legislators. At that rate, BB out of 100 men could make reasonable wages. if anyone thinks he could "do bettor," he is nut com petite to "ran." If the peoplq desire reform to commence at the proper point, let them make known their will to their own Senator and Repreientative—then bold them personalty to account for every vote they give or don't give.—Lswisbuty, Chronicle. Tax Mar Smarr.—lt all the people of the South held the same views as the editor of the Savannah Republican, there would be less difficulty In the way of reconstruction. In an article on the sectional differences between North and South, he says: We recogniza no Southern raze. The Idea Is myth— the contemptible creature of a class—nurtured and kept alive to promote the Interests of a email minor. ity to the Loftin , of all others. Its very existence, real or Imaginary, Ls incompatible with th• Demo cratic principles which constitute the life-giving power of our Government. We areone people with a common destiny—with no differences save such as are attributable to the influence of el mate, which are In a great measure neutralized by our facilities for communicatkin and interchange of sentiments. No one Ls so blind to the changes which have taken place, that he cannot read the doom of this absurd fallacy. It is beyond the power of leglslation to resuscitate It—la fact all atk.mpta to that and will only prolong the death Waggle. The BerabilleDilowthroliterissach,". throw of Slower -an.ssitstlfiesttess of the Coop , atlitothsaal Amendisteat.- 0 00Triselamo - Una ofllecectisirral• :11. howsril sWeetery of State erthe I United St eti ates, Jo all' to whota theta presents may COMO, gret:- linow yta, t, whereas, the Cciftgreia of Abe Hated Statist, Ms the Seat of letatilry ltst, payed a resolution which lain the wotds following; name ly "A resolution shbfbitting to the Legislatures of the several States a proposititin . to- amend the-Dow atittrtion - of the Dotted States." Bucked, By the Senate and House of Representa tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. two-thirds of both Houses concurring, tbatrthe followlog article-be proposed to the. -Leafs lab:lies of the several - States; as an amendment to the. Constitution of the United States, which, when landed three-fourths of said Legislatures, shell be'valid to ail Intents and purposes as a part of said ConstittillgetaiduciY4' , Article IS, Section I.ligtber slavery tare servitude, except as ir punishment for crime whereof the patty shaTrhifve been duty convicted abail exist with , " "-; 7:ltedlltates ur any place I enniect to their Jurlaictioll. Section 2. Congress shall hart *inter to 'enforce this article by appropriate Legislation. And whereas, It appeers.froin olhcJal doeiiments on file in bin depattMent, that the Amendment to the Const itution of the United !Rates proposed as aforesaid. has been ratified by the Legislatures of the States of Illinois, Rode Island, Michigan. Mary land, New York, West Virginia. Maine, Kansas, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania; Virolnia, Mis souri, Nevada, Indiana, Loalsianti, Minnettots; MA conein, Vermont Tennessee, Arkansas, Conureti cnt, New Haumehire, Sontbearolina, Alabama, North Carolina, and Georgia, In all twenty-seven States. Anti whereas the whole number of States in the United States is thirty-six, and whereas the buforb specially named &stet Millie Legislatures Imre miffed the said proposed amendment constitute three-fourths of the actual numbei of Stites in the United States: Now, therefore, be It known that I, Wm. IL Sew ard, Secretary of State of the United States, by vir ' tue of and in pursuance of the second section or the act of Outgrew approved the 20th day of A urn, 1818, entitled Act to provide for the _publication of the laws of the United Plates and lot other par- Poses," do hereby certtry that the amendment afore said has becenhe Valid do all intents adti pirrpores as a part of the Constitution of the United States. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my band and caused the seal of the Department of State to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington, this 18th day of December, In the year of our Lord 1865. and of the independence of the United States of America the 90th. WM. H. SEWARD, Secretary of Stale Shameful Outrages As the truth In regard to the riots In Jamaica be :tame better understood, so does the conduct et the British Governor and the troops under his command appear more brutal and crueL We have a Jamaican's examination of the evidence, all given by the Enz lish authorities themselves; he shows that the riot was quelled on the first day; that It was but a mere local disturbance; but that the troops for a number of days afterwards scoured the country in detachments so small that they must have been cut off If the people bad been prepared for rebellion as was asserted; and that these smell detachments of soldiers burned negro villages, shot the Men. flogged the women, and to use the phrase of an officla. re port, "enjoyed the sport greatly." The murder of Mr. Gordon, the member of As sembly, Is already exciting attention In England, where he was well known, and it la not imposs.lble that the atrocious and brutal course of the Gov- . . . . ernor and the troops will be Investigated In thse ease it Is not Improbable that this tragedy will bet known In history, not as a negro rebellion, but at a wanton and brutal massacre by the whites. The Morant Bay correspondent of the Jamaica Standard molly remarks, that, as nothing could be proved against certain persons captured by the troops. thirty of them were lashed to guns, and Dogged with the cat, receiving fifty blows each. Among these persons whipped because nothing could be proved against them, was "George Marshall, brown man, about twenty-five years old, who on receiving forty-seven lashes, ground bin teeth and gave a ferocious look of defiance at the provost marshal. Ile was immediately ordered to he Liken from the gun and banged," and he was banged There are dozen of stories like this, and worse—for these English gentlemen did not hesitate to flog women and girls as well as men.—M. F Ervaiey Flat. Obituary—Hon• Thomas Cowin This prominent and distinguished gentleman breathed his last In Washington at half-past two o'clock, December 19:h, In the midst Ma 1.,v -ous rathering or friend+ he was stricken down with trtralysis on the evening s of the 15th Inst. Mr. Cor win was born in Bourbon county, Ky., July 22th, 1794. He rose from humble IPe , stndled law, and was admitted to the Bar In 18:7. Be soon gained distinction as a lawyer and poll. tician. lie made bit drat appearance in pnbllc lire as a member of the Ohio Legislature le 1822 In 1831 be was for the tint time elected to Congress, representing the Warren District. -le remained in Congress 1111 1840, In which year he served as a Presidential Elector, and was elected to fill the Gubernatorial chair of Ohio He was Governor but two nears. In 1845 he was elected to the Senate of the United States, In which position he remained till 1850, when he was appointed Sec retary of the Treasury by President Fillmore. In October, 1858, be was again elected en a Rep resentative lc Congress from Ohio for the term commencing In 1859, and during that year a volnitte of his speeches were published. He held the Chair manship ofthe Committee on Foreign Affairs. He wan elected a memher of the Thirty-seventh Con gress; but in 1861 was appointed Minister to Mexi co by President Lincoln, the last public position he • . Before the disintegration of the Whig party Mr. Corwin was a steadfast and Prominent advocate of - - its policy. When the present party lines were drawn he ranged himself on the Republican side. Mr. Corwin possessed a gift of genial eloquence, which, on the stump and helore a jury, was very ef tective. Re always enjoyed great popularity as a political speaker, end contributed materially to the success of the Republican party In ikzq. Pow= or Cowatox Swam Aura Srsonuss. —On I Monday we witnessed a singular case of insanity, and the remarkable power that some persons have to control Insane persona. As the morning Accom modation Train from New Haven to thin city stop ped at Southport, Conn, an Insane woman, appar antly about 34 years of age, was forcibly brought on board'the ears by her friends, to be taken to the In sane Retreat at Bloomingdale. She was perfectly wild with excitement, and her hands were firmly tied at her waist to keep her from tearing off her clothes. As she was forced down into her seat, and held there by her attendants, an entire stranger ap preached her, and, addressing a few kind words to her, inquired after her health, naked to see her tongue, telt her pulse, smoothed her forehead gent ly with his hand, and In a few momenta entirely soothed and quieted her. Her illusion was, that she had lost her head and feet. The stranger told her she was partly right and partly wrong In her im- Pressions ; that it was true she bad temporarily ost her feet, but that her head was all right, as was proved by her showing her tongue. He conversed with her nearly all the way to the city, got ber finally to admit that her bead was right, and told her that when she got to Twenty.seventh street she would find her feet. Oh reaching there, the strong er requestgd that he might hire her out of the cars and place ber In a earrlege. The friends were In credulous, but consented. The stranger then 5014, "Well, I told you you would find your feet when you got here, and sure enough you have. Come with tee." This was said mildly, hat with a firm voice of assurance and authority, and to the aston ishment of all present she got up, followed her stranger friend out of the cars, ond allowed him to conduct her to a carriage and placed her in it. He then kindly hid her good by, and disappeared In the crowd, without waiting to receive the showers of thanks from her friends—New Y"ek Sew. A SPIIII7TiL CgE►T.—An amusing affair occurred at en exhibition of Spiritual manifestations in Bos ton, on Friday night. A shrewd person present, In order to satiety himself as to the corporeality of a " ophitnal hand" which was shown In an aperture in a "cabinet" used, supplied himself with a syringe tilled v ith Ink, and Wafeblog a favorable opporfunl. ty, squirted the dark Sold over the digits and wrist of the phantom member. On emerging from the cabinet, the hand of the lady who had previously been brand inside, was examined, and the inky marks liberally found upon it. The consequence was a denouncement of the affair as a humbug, denial of the Impeachment, and a grand finale made up of an indignation meeting of the audience, and the passage of resolutions declarinc the demonstra.: lion. of spiritualism a very decided physical hum bog and cheat DOTI/MOTION OF TOE Saxes.—Tbo number of malea In the United State. Is 13.685,854 *gating 13,- 001,473 females, showing 631.463 excess of males, according to the census of 1860; so that there is now more than a man to every woman In spite of the lose by war. In Europe, exclusive of Unseals, TurUey. Penult', flarlizerand, and Austria, there are 51,350,706 malea and 53,316.01 S females, allowing an excess of tr06,1`.'4 fanlike. Thls„dliTerence to Eu rope ll'accounted for by the fact that 04,063 more metes than female. have emigrated to America.— Thai accounts for the excess of male. to this coun try. Had It not been for this we should have near 300,000 more - females than males. - Bad the amy7a don of the sexes been equal there would be in Eu rope about 100,000 more females than males; so that this country is tar more favemble that Europe to the Increase and preservation or females. DICKINSON on =a Pninicewr.—The Ron. Daniel FL Dickinson, In Ids speech lathe serenade last week said: " Andrew...Tobiason Is not a hot house plant, bnt a mountain oak, which defies the Wry of the thunder-grist—intrepid, yet patient, firm, yet forgiv ing. With the Union and the Constitution for his pillar and his cloud, he seeks to reconcile and bring together again the estranged children of a common Father. Let us all aid him ip Ow good work, and so. we VA seeomplkihmott". Etenion, Senate - liar—Bills were Introduced fist detent e ?..• of the liOrthetietern I Wetter and for a nolforrit tlfrobgheitte the United States. Mr. Moine, presented shill to suspend the Freedmen's Bun.; *OW Withdraw the troops from any State no lorrgi . st Rebellion,-which was referred to the Collitnithy. on Milltary Affairs. Bills were also presented and referred! tO. *mend an act for the dialysis' or co i l taUds, skid concerning the Court of Claims. A roe. 1 , Onion by Mr. Wilson wee adopted telling on as henna!, OtWer for Information as to the conll. 1 Hon of the Regnisr Army, and another as to Voles. leer Generale. A bill was reported to amend lbs -pension law, and a joint resolution phased to 'omen s j the bonds of the public printer to $20,e00. Ile 1 House resolution concerning the Christmas „receti Lwas attended by:limiting:the vacation to 'Janos?, 841; - and 'ln that ehape wret 'passed, Mr. Trumbou Freedmen's notire _of a MS to outgo the powers of Freedmen's Bureau to as to sechre freedom and 114 rights of person and property to „Cry person h the United Statteil: A message was It stirred (rain the 'President la refeteece to a resolution of theAentate caljing is Inftirinatton" at td - the condition of the Soothers States, which wan read, together with reports on the some vulltet from tientertanteGeneral Gram 1 &int General . G n arl Shun. rarnswortb, of Minas, offered fa resolution to Inquire tato Ab e jOy a tt . i-oe G . Harris, of Maryland, and report what setton the Houma should take; whieh was posted by 127 to 21. Mr. Weahhnrne reported a bill to extirugolab rat, way monopolies, which was passed." The Boos concurred In the Senate amendment shortening tb, morose. Mr. Wilson, .from the Committee on the judiciary, resorted a joint resolution log en amen!- went to the ronetitat lon, prohibiting the psymeet of the Rebel Debt, which was adopted by 149 to 11. Senate, Dec. 20.—Petitions were presented froz the Society of Friends recently aestmbled In Balti more, from citizens of Maeseehuaetts, New Fort and many other States, from Dr. Cbeever, of Ile* York, and others, ad relating to the general subject of !floatation in regard to the rebellious States and in behalf of the freedmen. They were referred to lit Special Committee on Reconstruction.. A bill was reported to add certain! counties to the State of West Virginia, Mr. Morrill reported a bill to ten lete the elect Ive franchise In the District of Colnm bia with restrictions to those able to reed the United States Constitution In English. The bill to main lain the freedom of the people of the rebelliOra Stadia by abolishing ail distinetson of color. was called np by Mr. Wilson, and Wad-debated-at length hy..Mr. Sommer, who reiterated his remark that the Message-of the President was an attempt to white ' wash the unhappy condition of the rebellions States. Mr Sanlebury and Mr. Cowan replied. Mr. Hank delivered a eulogy upon the late Mr. Kellogg, member of the House from New York, and a moll tion of reepe,ct, to the memory of the deceased was passed. A conference report its favor of the adjourn. ment of both Houses from Thursday, 21st inst., to Friday, Jan. sth, was agreed to, and the Senate, at P. Y. adjourned. douse.—Mr. Broomall offered a resolution of tore rratnistion on. the ratification of the anti-Slavery Amendment, which was referred to the Reeonstrne lion Committee, and a resolution that the rebellious States have no political rights except such es may tr granted by C;ongreas, which wax objected to. A hill !ass parsed anthorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to appoint *assistant- A asessors of Intereal Revenue. The Secretary of War was directed to commnnteate to the House the record of the Hank Court-Martial. Mr. Banks swotted a resolution rt otganizime The Glebe reporters as officers of the Houst,anil making their eppointment and remnnl auti}eet to the approval of the Speaker. On this the House refused by V to 71 to order the reelect question, and then sent it to the Judiciary Cora mittee to Inquire Into the matter. An Arkansas certifieste of elution was presented and referred to the Reenotrection Committee. Mr. Stevens in trnduced a bill to double the pensions of sufferers by the late war, to pay damages by Rebel Invasion', and enforce confiscation to provide a food for these purposes, which was referred to Committee of the Whole, and a reconsideration moved. The petition of Judge Warmonth to be admitted as a delegate from the territory of Louisiana was referred to the Reconstruction Committee. Mr Lawrence of Otto offered a aeries of resolutions demanding a speedy trial ofiefferson Darla, ids punishment if convicted, toretr er with other chief conspinstors, and the trill by military tribunal of all accomplice; In the eases alnation of the President or the starving of the ta lon prisoners. These were laid on the table and or dered to be printed. The conference report on s eccess was agreed to. Mr. Stevens offered a resolution which was nuescd, dirstirg Gen Howard to Inform the House whether any lands assigned to freedmen bad been restored to Rebel owners, and by whose authority, and under what pretence. A message was received from the President concerning the Paris Exposition. The Senate reantntlon relating to Internal revenue sad imports we. parsed. Eningies were pronounced on Orlando Eellogg, of New York, resolution of respect passed, and the House adjourned. ... Political Metamorphosis. How thornnebtr the democratic party has been transformed Is shown by the fact that Mr. James Brooks,. member of Congress from this city. is se lected so Its representative for the office of Speaker of the House. Mr. Brooks began his political life fl writer against slavery, having travelled all nverthe South to furnish himself with the materials for strong and even violent anti-slavery letters He wu next en extreme whist. in times of high political ex citement editing the Ea-pm% and outdoing in tha vehemence of his denunciation of all democratic men end measures the Tribune or the old Courfer and Ex.oniaer. Many people mast remember his fierce and almost Insane T Irtoperat lons of the radicals, the destroctives, the loco-fneos, the demagogues, the Ignoramuses, in abort, of the democrats, who seemed to his fanev the very scum of the earth. Finally this same Mr. Mucks devoted several yeara of bin life to an effort to debar our foreign-born population from the right of suffrage. and particularly that part ni It which bad been educated In the Catholic religion, ills hatred of Catholics and ails na was nosy equalled by his detestation of the democracy Bat now Mr. James Brooks Is the candidate of the same so-calird democracy for the Speakership of the }loose of Representatives. Mr Brooks has not changed, east in reference to slavery, which he now loves uhe once disliked it, and yet there is a perfect affiliation between him and the "democrats."—N. Y. /bat. Governor Curtin and the Legislature HARRISBURG, Pa., Dec. 18. It Is expected that the Governor will return about the middle of January next. Hl* visit to Cubs has been mapped oat for him to the let of Febraary. bat it is known by his personal friends that he will Ca home, if po,sible, by the middle of Jsmtary. The inquiry has been made of the Secretary of the Commonwealth If It is necessary for the Legislators to adjourn in the absence of the Governor, to which It Is only necessary to say that the Legislature can do as It pleases. The Constitution has wisely provided for such occurrences. In out history, on the ab sence of the Execntive, If bills are not signed or vetoed within ten days alter their passage, they be come laws. If bills of , the last session, Passed at a late period, are not returned signed or vetoed with in three days after the assembling of the Legislature, they too become laws. The Census The census volume on manufactures, Just comple ted and printed, replete with Interesting details. from which we extract the following In reference to cotton : The growth and. manufacture or cotton Is there pointed out as the most striking feature of the la• dustrial interests of the last half century. Th. acct water-forme for spinning was erected In 1790, In Rhode Island. Thls branch is an established Indus try In twenty.nine States of the Union. and eree.da all other branches of doe manufactures in value of product and employment, to capital, labor, to avi culture, the domrstie arts, and to Internal and for eign trade. In 1660 its annual product was one-elz• teenth or the egKeeerMe of all branches of Industry, Including the large items of flour and marl, sawed and planed lumber, the Ilshcriea, coal, and the base metals. NEW WINTER GOODS! I=l NEW SUPPLY of WINTER. GOODS a; lova rates Ws Print. at Delathes at CO and I. liontrae. Do; to. leas. u Notice to the Public. TUE sEr m ct d ru rerpectfally InibrES . thepabl, tha BL4CKSIIIIIITII %IMP of It. 0. CLEgnwp, neat the Foundry of S. II SATRE "Cm cludom,s .1110... ed to ro, as they cat gel arena rg dOOll litadrunitt tng line nvoly owl promptly, for C •Stl ~lnnlcula. sovottoo t... 11.1 to none Shoe ng . Mo.Lruse, Ino.O Wks EuWARD P •TAIIP. FOR SALE. runs saredber propness to ode en ptivata &e ,' the ItTeebt I. at's-n*4 Teal v's ♦ F AHII 00IstalrADE 140 arcs. well watered and word , 4 • S••^ 4 dwell co Imo. -almost new, 2 bats 5., Ted an ,rani.ll; 0./• ti Oil talc 'ran Dimock t canon, n the Mont. ea mad LBO- to gems of vslthl.l o . lend CAI.IIEIIO , Ia to the .11`ahe crf D meat, eontatilleit I dvellind hottor.l bans, a rood orchard, ad the hultillag known ea We ()DMA V P '?" AC AU , IIT , • b,ol .‘ 1 moderate mat mold he tholis consertod Mtoadood dwell ea bons, Alt ni which will to offered together, or ditlCrd up nod P.e` tad orP, to cult parsh•se,s. ALhO—n Iwadtor ho-so and 14.41ractiv open as ofthe (MS homers, with a horse tarn...ad, shed. and a Sob' . aulteele for the Dry Hood or (bore" man. 'I he 01.0. d.rodtor4 Rom dear, terther with • qnsolllY or r." • anal prop arty and live atc.k, will be Laved on WV, fav-tat , e to the patellar., L. N. WoODRI3? V Dlmtak bugeett.kaca Co. Pa. Dectmber tBS3.- tr. DeHART. SHAFER, & CO. CoMMISMON MERCHANTS IN LIVE AND DRESSED HOGS, REEF, .IITITTO.V. POULTRY & CAL= BUTTER, EGGS, STRAWBERRIES, PEACHES, AND ALL KINDS OF FRUITS. 403, 404, 405. & 406 WEST WASHINGTON lAAIOLET, NEW YORE HENRY DOUBT, W WRISAMS. Tes, Dos a MAIL4m i. 6. WAsAIGAWO 40.%. ie Coln. 10 30, & P. B. CIIA2.DLEA.
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