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'Atz ,0 1 ,-.,„q ?•1- , • 7.r t11 --.1 - , ....„ ~ .:.....,, • ?.g 2 • ' fr•l > '',l 4 4', , ~,- • '94i .te ISZ , :• 4 ,- • 4* '''V---',, I. , e ... 1 A. * J. GERRITSON, Proprietont The Montrose Democrat PIRDZEIRED EVERT TDESDAY MORNING, AT MONTROSE, • . 13II8QIIMIARNA COUNTY, PA., DT Ja.• arm CP El Wt. va. is cs AT jarlit ANN= EN ADVANCE-OR s2li AT END OF TEAR. • Business advertisements inserted at $1 per square of 101initi,litree times, and 25cts for each additional week. Yearly advertisers, with usual changes, charged $lO ibr tour squares, quarter column $l5, Ilan' column $3O, one column $6O, =da r ker Amounts inexact proportion. Buslaesseards of three lines, $3; or ono dollar a line. 'Legal notice& at the customary rates,—about 50 per cent. in addition to business rates. BUSINESS-CARDS. M. C. SUTTON, Auctioneer, and Insurance Agent, sp7 (fag Frlendsvillo, Pa. J AMES E. CARMALT, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office over Stone A Warner. Montrose, Dec. 18,1868. II WM. D. LUSK, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Montrose, Pa. Office opposite the Franklin Hotel, near the Court House. nev27 '62 DR. E. L. GARDNER, PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. Montrose, Pa. Gives especial attention to diseases of the Heart and Lungs and all Surgical diseases. Office over the Post Office. Boards at Searle's Hotel. [Sept. 4, 1866. BALDWIN, ALLEN, du MITCHELL, DBALERS in Flour, Salt, Pork. Fish. Lard, Grain, Feed, Candles, Clover and Timothy Seed. Al!., Groceries, such as Sugars, Molasses, Syrups , Tea and Coffee. West side of Public Avenue. Montrose, April 17, 1556.• BURNS it NICHOLS, DEALERS In Drubs, Medicines Chemicals. Dye stuffs, Paints, Oils, Varnish. Liquors, :Spices. Fan cy articles. Patent Medicines, Perfumery and Toilet Ar ticles. gar Pres cr: ritt on is carefully compounded. Public Avenue, above Searle's Hotel, Montrose, Pa. B. Iltrana, Altos Ntcnot.s. Sept. 11, 1966. D. W. SEARLE, I TTORMET AT LAW. omee over the Store of Z ja.. Cobb. opposite Searle's Hotel, Montrose, Pa. May 1, 1868. Da. E. P. NINES, I'AB permanently located at Friendsclilefor theptir pose of practicing medicine and surgery in all its branches. He may be found at the Jackson Home. °Mee hours from 8 a. in.. to 9 p. m. janliltf Friendsville, Pa., Jan. 15th, 1865. ROGERS & ELY, Maioorilsoci aa.11.1.0t140033.0 CI TM, trulo* Brooklyn, /a. PETER HAY, • X.sicie.33.Aseocl. ..gLuatic>3l3.c,4ez-, re Sitf Auburn 4 Corners, Pa. C. S. GILBERT, Malooxusgcci .81.a.cticbms.c)or. sep7 Utf Great. Bend, Pa. STROUD & BROWN, • mar. AND LIFEINSURANCE AGENTS. All business attended to promptly, on fair terms. Of fice first door north of " Montrose Hotel," weat side of Public Avenue, Montrose, Pa. [Jan. 1, Ein.r.nios STROUD, 7 - Cuantns L. Bnown. C. 0. FORDIIA.II, 8007 d SHOE Dealer and Manufachirer Illontrpse, Pa. Shop on Main street, one door below the Post Office. All kinds of work wade to order, and repairing done neatly. jani Dn. E. L. BLAKESLEE, 13IITSICIAIC & SURGEON, bas located at Bronxlyn, fineq'a co., Pa. Will attendpromptly to all calls with which he may be rtv o red: - Office at L. M. Bald win's. [July 11-1 y JOHN SAUTTER, RI{SPECTFL'ILY annoances that hells naw pre pared to cat all kinds of Garment,in the most Fashionable Style, and warranted to fit th elegance and esse. Shop over I..N.Ballard's Store, Montrose. DOCT. E. L. HANDRICK, PHYSICIAN & SVBOEON, respectfully tenders Ms professional services to the citizen of Friends vale and vicinity. Or Office in the officeof Dr. Lest. Boards at J. Hosford's. .113 . 30 G3tf ABEL TURRELL, FOAL= in Dritgs, Medicines, Chemicals, Dye - 15 Stuffs, Glass Ware, Paints, Oils, Varnish Win dowOlass, Groceries, Fancy Goods, Jewelry Petra. mery,/cc—.A.gent for all the most popular PATENT ICLICINICI3,—Montrose, Pa. • .DR. WAL SMITH, 6,IITRGBON DENTIIYA—Nontrose, Pi. Latttrops` new building, over Bank. An Dentaloperations will be. ' performed in good style and warranted. . . . JOHN GROVES, mtABIIIONABLE TAILOX Montrose. Pa. shop 1: one door west of Searle's Hotel. OMR orders filled promptly, in first-rate style. Cutting done on short notice, and warranted to tit WM. W. SMITH, • riABINST AND CHAIR MANUPACTUREMS,—Foot ‘..! of Main street, Montrose, Ps.. tf • P. LINES, FASIIIONABLETSILOR.—Montrose. Pa. Shop in Phcinix•Slock, over store of Read. Watrons • &Foster% <A7I work warrantedas to fit and finish. 1, Cutting done on short notice, In best style- jan'6o I BrIMITT, INHALER% Statile and ?gnu Dry Goods, Crockery, .LP Hardware. Iron. Ca ps. gs. 0114,and Paints, Boots and Shoes, Hate and Fora, Buffalo Robes. Groceries; provistotts,t:e., New ZdilfOrd, Pa. Will. H.:COOPER. & CO., 11DpAIMECRS, Montrose, Ps. Buteessoreto Post,Cextper & Co. Othee, Lathrop's new building, Turnpike-st. wx. n mamma *awe ~:antergor reuraza. A. O.' WARREN, A TTOBBBP AT LaW. Bounty, Back Pay, Pesto i xt. CIL and Exemption Claims attended to. le ur Office ant door below Boyd's Store, Montrose, Pa ON HOTEL, NEW MILFORD, 4, Lately kept by R. C. Vail. JOHN FACTHOT, Proprietor:, ideils • alWays ready. Time to eat; withoutThelat harriedjor persons arriving CPU the stage, wiebing take the awn. I_ 4 f DIVYTONIiOUSE, GRtATBEND, .re. NiatiVllE RAILROAD DATOT... Xiogeo ppfflt et ell home of the night for tie seootentoestloe of Pitseetzem *Kr* DAVID THOMAS, Proprietor. IMEZZZ =MM A History of the , Great Struggle in America between Liberty and Despotism. Thai the character of Alexander Ham ilton, the lead& of the party which is now ruling ' this nation may be more fully known, a further history from the "Lif. and writingsdaT John Adams" is selected for this number: . "The retirement of Washington from the Presidency, removed the last check upon the fury, of parties. Nobody else stood in the same relation to the whale people. No expectation was entertained that the person about to Succeed him in (ACC would he chosen by any general agreement. !He was to be elected by the one or the other of the par ties into which the country was equally divided. The statesman whoin the Re publicans would sustain with the greatest nnaniimity, was Thomas Jefferson. A portion of the Federalists reposed implic it confidence in Alexander Hamilton. But this confidence was not shared by the people at large, and an attempt to oppose him to Thomas Jefferson would be futile. Two other persons were particularly prominent—John Adams and John Jay. .51r. Jay, however, had latterly been se verely handled on•account of his agency in negotiating the treaty with Great Britain, which so narrowly escaped rejec tion. ,The only effective counterbalance to Mr. Jefferson was John Adams. Un fortunately, however, fur this decision,the indispensable element to success was overlooked. That element was perfect good faith. Had it been entirely preserv ed, the Federalists would, even from their reduced vantage ground, have been able for some years longer to breast all opposition. But it was not. The fact is beyond dispute, that a clandestine effort was made at this election to set aside the person who had been openly adopted as the candidate of the Federal party, in fa vor lofanother individual. "This attempt was originated by Mr. llatnilton, and carried on by his particu lar friends in and out of New England.— The:mode selected was a perversion of tire spirit, if not of the letter of the Con stitutton. Every elector of President, and Vice President was directed to vote for two persons without designating the office to which either was to be elevated. The consequence might easily follow in a sharply contested election, that, with a little collmion on the part of two or three electors in scattering here and there a vote, the person realty iptended for.the second office would be found to have Endre votes than he who had-been selected to fill the first. "Thomas Pinckney, of South Carolina, the individual in whose favor this secret dive-sion was attemp. el, was so little known by the great body of Federalists, as scarcely to be relied upon to be one of their number. He had never been seri ously spoken of as a successor to Wash ington, so that, had. he been actually ad vanced to that position by virtue of this device, his election would never have been regarded in any other light than as a shrewd trick, to be sanctioned only by its success. " Atki t turned out, the scheme utterly failed. But even the attempt was atten ded with the most fatal consequences to the Federal party. It made the first spot on their good name, and was ominous of the darker designs Which were to follow. Mutual cenfiden s ce ceased to exist, and the rst , 'Sign. of ditiaster immediately appear ed. . A rumor got abroad, and spread dis trust into every college of Federal elec tors; . Those ,of them who meant .to act in god faith to lilr. Adams, determined at all hazards to cut off the possibility of such a result. As a consequence, eighteen 'iu , New Enpland alone, who voted for him / gave their second vote for some oth er person than Mr. Pincknef: The end of It u as, his failure to, gain the second place for which he had been tho't of. The aggregate number of votes for him was only 59, while that given to Mr. Jeffeison was 68. Hence, under the ope ration of the Constitution, Mr. Jefferson, though really the competitor for the Presidency, yet standing second on the 1 list of suffrages, became the Vice Presi dent for four years. The great opponent of the Federalists was thus put in a con spicuous place forthe succession, by the very act of those Vho entertained a dread amounting almost to a mania' of the bare Possibility of his elevation. "Neither is this the only instance furn ished by the recoeds of a popular govern. ment, of the meatier in which the keenest political contrivances are apt not only to baffle all the expectations formed of them, but to precipitate the very results against winch they were designed most seditious, ly to provide. The election proved a ve ry close -one. Mr. Adams received 71 votes—one more than the requisite num ber. But the quarter from _which be ob tained"thein betrayed . changes adverse to the furtheb ascendancy of tbe Federalists. 'Pennsylvania now, for the first time in 20 yenrs:deserted Massachusetts. Her elec ting w!th one (*two exceptions, voted for tore, A single voice in,. Vir ginial and one in Borth Carolina, turned the Scale: Ilad these been 'given to Mr. ==EI For the Democrat. MONTROSE, PA., TUESDAY, FEB. 19, 1867. Jefferson be would have been - President." We now behold this same party resort ing to these same practices for which they were famed at that early day: A minute history of those transactions at time will be given hereafter by Jefferson himself and others engaged in the scenes as they transpired. But here is a history of that party by a member thereof, which paints their character in the darkest hues. They are described as a treacherous, de ceitful, dishonest and intriguing party.— They could resort to any " trick' , or " de vice, ' even to the destruction of their own friends, if .by the aid of those tricks and devices they could prevent Democratic principles from triumphing and prevailing in the nation. They could even go to South Carolina for a President, and elect a slaveholder over a non-slave holder of Massachusetts holding the same principles, for the sake of crushing out the Democracy. "They entertained a dread amounting almost to a mania of the bare idea that the author of the Declaration of Indepen dence should hold any office under the United States government. Here is proof incontrovertible that it was not slavery against which those pious souls enter tained such holy horror, but Democracy --‘ equal rights for all white MOH: " Another Presidential election carne,alid four years of reflection found them no nearer a belief in the equality of their own race than before, nor any purer in charac ter or morals. Their " darker designs" are brought to light by the same histori an, Mr. Charles F. Adams. Ile says : "The election in 1800 threw both the Federal candidates, John Adams and C. C. Pinckney aside, and elevated Jefferson and Burr, both receiving the same num ber of votes. The choice of the Federal ists therefore was between these two.— There was not a doubt in the mind of a single member of the House, which of the two the people intended to make Presi dent. Yet such is the strength of party passion, that no calculation of what will be done can ever be based upon abstract consideration of expediency or right. "Tbe Federalists controlled the votes of six States, and neutralized two more- There were 16 States, 9 of which were necessary to elect. But Mr. Jefferson had only Bin his favor. He could not there fore be chosen without their consent, ex press or implied. It was enough that they had the power to change the result, for them to be tempted to use it. The combined fear and hatred of Mr. Jeffer son led them to give the preference to Mr. Burr. The violation of the spirit of a popular election by a perversion of its forms had already been made familiar so to them by the sanction of Mr. Hamilton, that they were little moved by his re monstrances, now that they were earnest ly applied to to prevent this to him un welcome result. Mr: Hamilton was not averse to any refinement of policy short of actually electing Mr. Burr.' He wrote to Mr. Wolcott, that it might be well en ough to throw out a lure to Mr. Burr, in order to tempt him to start for the plate, and then lay the foundation of dissension between the two chiefs." But, further than this he was unwilling to go. To him, Burr was the more foftrii dable of all his opponents, because he liv ed on his own ground, and baffled him at every turn. But the Federalists, being mostly from the Northern States, sympa thized the more with Burr for that very reason. Thus it happened that the Fed eralists took a course, success in which, would have proved a misfortune, and wherein failure sunk them forever in the public esteem. The triumph of Jefferson gave so great an impulse to the vittors, that no credit was ever awarded to the Federalists through whom it was attain ed. In all political strokes no medium is to be found between success and utter ru in. The great Federal party sunk into obscurity and disgrace, martyr to the false and unmoral maxim, that "the end will sometimes justify bad means." This is the history of these evils by the Grandson of John Adams. In 1809 Mr. Adorns himself wrote as follows : " I was assured that the Federalists in New York with Hamilton at their head, bad in secret caucus agreed to sacrifice Adams. If your namesake was now alive he could inform you as be did me, of. his indignation against the treachery of my pretended Federal friends. I bad other informations from other quarters, that at the meeting of the Cinncinnatti in New York, when they chose Hamilton for their President General, it was agreed, and the learned doctors bf Divinity, (and these were several of thoie present,) concurred in the pions project, and the pions lan guage, to sacrifice Adams and bring in Pickney. The intrigues they practised to accomplish this, were very extensive and very jesuitical. The Boston and the Pennsylvania, if not the South Carolina Federal leaders were in the same plot. They were asssisted too by the .publics-' Cons in England. I know that French [ influence drove me into banishment, but it oould not havebad the power, if it bad I not been essentially assisted ky the phari saical, jesuitical intrigues and influence of the leading Federalists." Here is what a Massachisetts Federal ist thought of mixing religion and poli . tics when be had to be sacrificed thereby. These phaiisicial, jesuitical intriguers, the Rev. Doctors of Divinity in New York, concurred in the pious project•of bringing in a Southern Slaveholder for President of the United States. Thus showing their willingness to have slavery rule the na tion, if it would only rule it in the inter est of Federalism. What made slavery so wicked in their eyes, was because Southern statesmen could not be- won over to their principles. They preferred Aaron Burr for President rather than the founder of religions freedop. It was probably in view of thejesuitical intrigues of these Ministers of the Gospel, that John Adams wrote not long after, " I would as soon establish the Episcopal Church, and almost as soon the Catholic Church, as to promote a national establish ment of Presbyterianism in America." Contriving the same wicked plots to keep themselves in power, those Federal ists; instead of restoring the Union which 'they pretended was worth sacrificing the lives of hundreds of thousands of their fel low beings to preserve, are trampling the Constitution under their feet, and resort ing to every trick and device to prevent the Union from being restored. This his torian shows how they were twice caught in their own snares, and at last sank into obscurity, and disgrace. Let the friends of liberty therefore, take hope, that the star of Federalism which is now in the ascendant, may soon sink to rise no more forever. NEW ORLEANS RIOT. Report of the Committee of Investigation WASHINGTON, Feb. 11, 1867. The select committee of Congress, ap pointed to investigate the riot of July last, made report to day. The disunion major ity recommend that a military govern ment be established in Louisiana in lieu of civil government. Minority Report. ," Representative B. M. Boyer, of Penn sylvania, who dissents from the conclu sions of his colleagues, says the avowed object of the convention Netts an amend ment of the existing Constitution of Louis iana in such manner as to secure to their party the absolute control of the offices in the State, negro saffrake and -the dis franchisement of a sufficient number of those who bad been connected with the late rebellion. These were the measures by which the desired ascendency was to be obtained. Mr. Boyer proceeds to show the illegality of the convention, saying the government which was in force in Lots tans, under the Constitution of 1861, was on the 30th of July, 1866, even from the radical stand point, by that acquiescense, the consent of Congress, a State, de jure, as well as a government, de facto, and binding as such upon all persons within its jurisdiction. The Conven tionists coun ted upon Congressional cooperation. Un der ordinary circumstances, a small body of men assembling for the purpose of changing the government of a State, with so little color of law, might be treated as a harmless body, and be regarded as enti tled to but little public notice, but in this case, the times and circumstances were extraordinary, and well calculate to ex cite serious apprehension. A judge of the Supreme Court was at the head and the Governor of State encouraged it. It was given out that Congress had been consulted, and would lend its ass:s tance: P;ecediug the action °Ole Con vention, Juge Howell proceedethozWash ington to consult in person with the lead ing members of Congress. He infornied the committee that he had consulted with members of Congress, and named the Hon. Messrs. Boutwell, Stevens, Kelly, Banks, Grinnell, Morris, Paine and others. The result was that he returned to New Orleans and went on with the movement. The encouragement which Mr. Howell testified he received at Washington was made known to the friends of the Conven tion, perhaps with exaggeration, and on the 24th of July, six days before the meet ing, a telegram was sent from New Or leans to the Washington correspondent of the New York Times, stating among oth er things, that Mr. Howell had returned with assurances that Congress would support the Convention, &c. The indorsement and support of Con gress appears to have been the common topic of conversation among the Conven tionists before the 30th of July. Mr. Boyer, s in reviewing the origin of the riots, said the Conventionists appeal ed to the negroes to arouse them, and their active co operation was invited. It will be remembered, he says, that the demonstrations were made in the heart of the city, yet the speakers were not in terrupted nor the meeting disturbed. Af ter the harrangues were over, a proces -1 sion of between two and three thousand colored persons, between ten and eleven o'clock at night, appeared with torch lights, hurrahing and shouting through several of the principal streets to the city Hall.; There the orowd was addressed by Dr. Dostie, and exhorted to go home peacea bly, but to kill any wbo might assail them. After this no disturbance took place, and the crowd peaceably dispersed. Yet no soldiers were engaged, and no po licemen cared to interfere. May not, be ask., these acts be cited as striking ovi- IMMO dence of the toleration of free speech in the city of New Orleans at that date ?' The cause of the riot might be sought for elsewhere. It was the acts and de clared intention of the conventionists, and the illegal and violent proceedings which produced the excitement and bro't about the_ collision. The character and antecedents of the conventionists were not such as to make them the accepted standards of Unionism and loyalty in the locality. The proscription threatened by such men through the action of the con vention, must have been peculiarly galling to those to be affected by their proceed ings. It bad already been shown that no interference was made with free speech, but incendiary appeals and acts of revolu tion could not be pursued with impunity, and arrests might properly and' lawfully be made to arrest the progress of such af fairs. Mr. Boyer does not agree with the ma jority that the riot was deliberatelyplann ed by Mayor Monroe, l and refers.to the evidence to show that the first shots fired were by a negro at a policeman. To Lieutenant Governor Voorhies (ex-rebel) belonged the credit of having supplied the place of his official superior in originating timely precautionary measures, which if carried out would have prevented the ri ot, and which failed from -no fault of his. In reviewing the comments of the majori ty of the committee on the course of the President, Mr. Boyer says the President 'needed no vindication if it were not on account of the partisan slanders with whioli he had been so unscrupulously as sailed during the late election. 4" It might justly be deemed an offense against good taste to name him in this connection. His acts, so far as they had any bearing upon the circumstances inves tigated by the committee, exhibited him in no other light than as a Chief Magis trate actuated by a sincere desire to pre serve the public peace, and uphold the law. Mr. Boyer controverts the views of the majority, that the riot was to be at ; tributed to those who are charged with hostility to the Union, and as proscribing those from business who are loyal to the country. Mr. Boyer submits the follow ing conclusions First. That the riot of the 30th of July was a local disturbance, originating in lo cal circumstances o f great provocation, and in no wise-the result of any hostility or disaffection on the part of the commu nity of New Orleans towards the Federal Government. It was not, in any just or fair sense of the term, a vestige or out crop of the Rebellion, nor can it be said any indication, even in the remotest de gree, of a disposition on the part of the people of tlie. city of New Orleans, or the State of Louisiana, to renew hostilities in I any form with the established authorities either State or Federal. Second. It would be a monstrous in justice to hold the whole people of the State Louisiana accountable for the acts of those engaged in a riot confined to a small portion of the city of New Orleans, and for that cause to abrogate, by act of Congress, the civil government of that State, now in peaceful and successful op eration, would be a usurpation of power not warranted by the Constitution, and a gross outrage upon the principles of free government. • Third. The riot was provoked . by the incendiary speeches, revolutionary acts and violence of the cotiventionists, 'such as, under circumstances similar, would probably have led to a riot in any city in the Union: Fourth. To provoke .an attack on the colored population, which was expected to be suppressed by the military before it had seriously endangered the white lea ders, appears to have been part of the scheme of the conventionists. This would afford an excuse for Congressional inves tigation, resulting in Congressional legis lation favoring the ultimate design of the conspirators, namely, the destruction of the existing civil government of Lonisia na. Fifth. As respe.ets that part of the res olution of the House, which makes it a subject of investigation by the committee whether, and to what extent those acts were participated in by the members of the organization claiming to be the Gov ernment of Lonisiarla, the following con clusions submitted. In no proper sense of the term, and is in no degree whatever, is the riot of the 30th of July, attributable to the Govern ment ofLouisiana. If there be any mem - - hers pf the Government of Louisiana in whose official or personal acts the remo test cause of the riot are to be traced, the chief among them are Judge R. R. who, as the usurping President of the minority of an extinct Convention, headed the conspiracy to overthrow the State Constitution, which, is Judge of the Supreme Court, he had sworn to support, and Governor J. Madison Wells, who lent to the conspiracy his official sanction, but on the day of danger deseited his post without an effort to preserve the public peace. And if there be any members of the Federal government who are indirect ly responsible for the bloody result, they are those members of the present Con gress, (whoever they maybe) who ennour aged these men by . their contisele, and promised to them their individual and of ficial support. {VOLUME XXIV, NUMBER 8. The Seuate has not yet acted upon the bill transferring the management of In dian affairs to ibe War Department. This is a most important matter, and it, should be donsummated during the present:4oi sion. _ • All who look to the née of opening new routes of travel from the At'anti° States to the interior of . the continent, and also to California, are interested in this ques tion. It will not do to allow the develop ment of that vast region to be interfered with by the conduct of roving bands of savages. In the spring emigration will set westward, train after train will leave the frontier tor the 4nterior and thou sands of men; - women, and Children will be subjected to the toils, privations, and dangers of pioneer life. As the, Pacific Railroad stretches west, the settlements will also become more remote from the States, and hence the impdttanbe of hav ing the Indians under proper control. If travel is attended with more than ordina ry danger, peop'e will not populate the Territories, and thus the progress of the oonntg will be retarted, and its revenues diminished. The present system of managing the Indians is a confessed failure. A corres pondent of one of the Western } papers, •who had lived among the Indians' for siev-• eral years, in describing the operations of the plan now pursued by the government, says : " Once a year the tribes , on -the great Western plains and mountains are assembled around some fort or agency to receive their annuities and presents. There too, in spite of all law,. comes the sharper and the whisky dealer, to ,deal with In dians as with ignorant children. The gov ernment pays them money and blankets., and lurking around are men who sell them powder, and ball, and arms. After awhile their money and provisions are gone, and then their powdei and ball are used to kill gome, if they can find enough, and if not, to rob and kill the emigrats over the plains. They use ,tho government subsidies and arms to make war against our people, when they find it hard to get subsistence in any other way. Then, be fore the time for paying them again comes they are all very innocent—all for peace. Then they are again paid, and again rob; and thus this folly continues -to be repeat ed year after year." It is now proposed to put a stop-tothis worse than trifling with the lives of white people who are compelled to cross the plains, and by placing the whole care and management of Indian affairs in the War Department to secure such a courso of ac tion as will benefit alike the white man and the Indian. Experienced army offi cers are certainly best qualified to deal with the red men. They know their hab its, wants and temptations, and can man age them accordingly. Under this eve tern, also, they will be free from the ra pacity of unscrupulous traders, and' the intercourse of the agents of the govern ment with them will be of a character to win their confidence and respect, not to excite their evil passions. •On the other hand, they will know that punishment, 'speedy and exemplary, will follow each .Outrage committed upon the whites, or even upon' each other. Under such a sys tem the Indians can be'rnahaged in Christian and humane manner, and the Senate should not adjourn without .put ting this plan in operation by, giving the necessary power to the War Department. Injustice to a Faithful Public Servant. Col. Gilleland, who. perfornied all the business of the State agency at Washing ton City for its chief—Frank Jordan—du ring the latter's absence electioneering for Geary throughout the whole of the, last campaign, has been disniissed* from his position. Because Jordan' was a rad ical, who faithlessly neglected' the duties of his office for more than half a Year to work for his party, he has been rewarded with the position of Secretary of the Com monwealth by Geary, and the salary of that position raised for him by the radical majority of the Legislature. Because; however, Col. Gilleland was a Conserv*. rive; (or at least a pot over ardent radical partisan,) who attended to both his own duties and those neglected by' Jordan, be has been dismissed—to make a place, no doubt, for some radical pimp who will do as Jordan did. Is this just to the faithful public servant—is it just to the. tax payers of the State, who have been defrauded of three thousand dollars annually topai Jor dan for rioting as chairman of the radical' State Central Committee and neglecting the duties of his appointment: l —M:6W. . —A bookseller being 'liked for a copy o f t h e constitution, replied, 4 $ r keep no periodicals." Not a bad hit at the Radi cals. —Massachusetts has .three negroea in her Legislature and three hundred and thirty four in the State l'rison. —The bakers of London are to have a newspaper. devoted to their interests, to be called the Staff of Life. —Old harem are being fattened in Ps ris, to prepare for the dentatid,oonsaquent upon, the exhibition. —At a printer'efeatival given aa New Year's day, the following wait one of - tbs toasts : " Women—Second only to tho press in the publication of newe. Our Indian Affith.s.
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