—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.