f7T Ekuotcit to jpoUtics,, f itcraturc, Vgricnltuvc Science,: illovalihj, ;anb cneral 2ntc!!igcucc. ; VOL. 27. STROUJDSB LTE G, MONROE COUNTY, 7P A., DECEMBER ,24, 1868. NO. 39. ' , . i t ;' . , . Published by Theodore Schoch. TERMS Two dollar n year in advance nl if not pail before the end of Hie year, two dollar and fifl cent will be charged. So paper disi-onlinued until all arrearages are paid, except a Hie option ot the Editor. rCAdveriisements of one square of (eight line?) or leu. one or three insertions SI 50. Each additional insertion, 50 cenu. Longer ones Lit proportion. JOB KKINTI35, OF ALL KINDS, ,' . ExeruwJ tu Uie higlwst Myle of the Art, and on the most reasonable terms. im. D. D. SMITH, Surgeon Dentist, Office nn Main Street, oppos.te Judge Stokes resdence, Strotdsbcrg, Pa. OCT Teeth extracted without pin. JQ August 1, 1967. Drs. JACKSON & RIDLACK, PHYSH UXS AM) SUIU.E0XS. DR.S. JACKSON fc BIDLACK, arc prepared to attend promptly to all calls fa. Professional character. OJict Op posite the Stroudsburg Bank. April 25, lS67.-tf. C. W. SE1P, rV3. D., Physician and Surgeon, STROUDSBULG, PA. Office at his residence, on Main Street, early opposite Marsh's Hotel. All c:tlla promptly attended to. Charges rttfomblc. Stroudsburg, April II, 1867.-tf. P V Card. Dr. A. REEVES JACRSO.V, Physician and Surgeon, BEGS TO ANNOUNCE Til AT IIAV ing returned from Europe, he is now prepared to resume the active duties of his profession. In order to prevent disappoint ment to persons living at a distance who way wish to consult him, he will be found at his office every THURSDAY and SAT URDAY for contultation and the pcrform amce of Surgical operations. Dec. 12, HG7.-1 yr. XTU. W. PAUL. J. D. HOAR CEAHLE3 W. DEAN, WITH VM. W. PAUL &, CO. Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers in BOOTS & SHOES, WAREHOUSE, 623 Market St., & 6U Commerce St. above Sixth, North side, PHILADELPHIA. March 19, 1.663. tf. Itch! Itcli! Itch"! SCRATCH! SCRATCH! SCRATCH! res HOLLtfSHEAD'S ITCH & SALT RHEl'M OLNTMEST. No Family should be without this valua ble medicine, for on the first appearance of the disorder on the wrists, betweeu the fin gers, ic, a slight application of the Oint ment will cure it, and prevent it being ta ken by other. Warranted to give satisfaction or money refunded. Prepared and sold, wholesale and retail, by W. HOLL1NSHEAD, Stroudsburg, Oct. 31, '67. Druggist. XI. D. COOLBAUGII, Sip and Ornamental Painter SHOP ON MAIN STREET, Opposite Woolen Mills, STff Ot DIIl'KG. IA., Respectfully announces to the citizens of Stroudsburg and vicinity that he is prepared to attend to all who may favor him with their patronage, in a prompt and workman like imnner. CHAIRS, FURNITURE, kc, painted and repaired. PICTURE FRAMES of all kinds eon stantly on hand or supplied tu order. June II, 1663.--Iy. BEBF, IRON AND PURE BRANDY, liY DR. HART MAN, Regular Graduate of the University of Penn sylvania. O-It will positively cure Consumption, Coughs and Co'd, and ail diseases of the Langs or Bronchial Tubes. It has been the mean of RESTORING THOUSANDS to health who huve been giv- n up beyond the reach of medictl assist ance. It does riiore to relieve the Consump tive than anything ever known. Unequal led strengtliener for delicate Lad it a and Children. Each bottle contains the nu tritious POXTIOS OK TWO POUKl'tJ OF CHOICE Bur. The cure of Consumption was fir.it efivct d by the use of RAW BEEF and BRANDY ia Russia, afterwards in France, in which cpuctnes I have travelled for years. 1 have used it with perfect succesu in my vn family. In presenting this preparation te the public I feel confident that every af flicted one who rids this (even the most skeptical) may become convinced, by a sin gle trial that it is truly a most valuable med icine. Circulars and medicines Bent to any ad drew. Price 1 per bottle six for $5. Laboratory 512 South Fifteenth Street, PHILADELPHIA. Wholesale Agents. French, Richards & Co., Tenth and Market streets; Johnson, Holloway & Covvden, 602 Arch street; R. Shoemaker & Co., Fourth and Race streets, Philadelphia. -LSold by Druggists Everywhere. Cheap Feed. GRAIN AT 25 CENTS PER BUSHEL. Apply at the BREWERY, July 39, I6e.-tf. East Stroudburg. If You Want a Kiss. Take it, : There's a jolly Saxon proverb. That is pretty much like thi, That a man is half in Heaven " , .."When he has a woman's kit's. ' ' But there's danger in delaying, And the sweetness may forpake it ; So I tell you, bashful lover. , . If you want a kis, why take it. , Never let another fellow . Steal a march on you in this; Never let a laughing maiden See you spoiling for a kir. There's a royal way of kiting, And the jolly ones who make it. Have a motto that is winning ' If you want a kiss, why take it. '" Ar.r fool may fj.ee a cannon Anybody wear a crown But a man mutt win a woman, ; If he'd have her for his own. Would you have the golden apple, You must find the tree and fhake it ; If the thing h worth the having, ' And You want a kiss, why take it. "1 Who WGuld burn upon a desart, , Willi a forcf smiling by ? . - - , : Who would give his sunny summer For a black and wintry sky ? - . Oh ! I telj you there is magi-, ? And you cannot, cannot break it ; For the sweetest part of loving 13 to want a ki.-s and take it. "Women's Laws. Mark Twrin says when women, frame law? the first thing they do will do will be to enact: 1. That all men should be at home at ten P. M., without fail. 2. That married men should bestow considerable attention upou their own wives. 3. That it should be a hanging offence to sell whiy in faloous, and that fines and disfranchisement should follow it in such places. 4. That the smokiug of cigars to ex cess should be forbidden, and the smok ing of pipes utterly abolished. . 5. That the wile should have the title of her own property when she marries a man that hadn't any, - 'Sueh tyranuy as this," says Mark, "we could never stand. Our free souls could never endure such degrading thral dom. Women, go away ! b'cek not to beguile us of our imperial privileges. Content yourselves with your little fcrni inice trifles your babie3, your benevol ent societies and your kuitting and let your natural bosses do the voting. Stand back jou will ba wanting to go to war next. We will let you teach school as much as you want to, and pay you half price, too; but beware ! we don't want you to crowd U3 too much." The llischief of Passion. ''Will putting out's self in a passion mend the matter ?" sail an old man to a boy who had picked up a stone to throw at a dog. The dog only barked at him in phy. "Yes, it will mend the matter," said the passionate boy ; and quickly dashed the stone at the dog. The animal, thus enraged, sprang at the boy, and bit his leg; while the stone bounded against a shop-window, and broke a pane of glass. Out ran the shopkeeper, and seized the boy, aud made him pay for the broken pane. He had mended the matter fiuely, indeed! It never did, and never will, mend a matter to go into a passion about it. If the thinjr be hard to bear when jou are calm, it will harder when you are in au ger. If you have met with a loss, yoa will only increase it by losing your temper. Try to be calm, especially iu trifling troubles; and, when great ones comejiry to bear them bravely. There is a magistrate in a town in In diana, named Helser. A clergyman in the same place was called upon by a young couple, not long since, who wished him to join them the holy bonds ofmatri mouy. He asked the Lridegroom (a sold ier, by the way) for h's marriage license. The m.n iu blue responded that he had been engaged to the girl lour years, and thought that would do. Clergyman thought not, and remr.ried, as the speed iest way to obtain a license. "You had better take your girl aud go to Helser." "You goto hell yourself "reported the an gry veteran. And seizing the bride by the arm, he dragged her from the house, woudering what manner of a profane in in. ister he had met with. Half an Hour too Late. ' 1 A young couple cloped from a neigh boring town, lately, and when at a cafe distance from home were married. Soon after, an officer was sent in pursuit, and arriving at the hotel where they were stopping, he immediately entered their room and found them snug in bed. He explained his errand, when the young lady said, with a ringing laugh : ' "Tell ma it's too late. We've been married some time, and have been in bed half an hour, enuggle up, George, and don't get out of bed for him." . - Some one says the best way for a man to train up a child in the way it should go, is to traTcl that way occasionally him- cir. LUCRETIA SMITH'S SOLDIER. . : f , BY MARK TWAIN. i I am ardent admirer of those nice, sick ly war stories which have lately been 80 popular, and for the lust three months I have beeu at work upon ono of that char acter, which id now completed. It can be relied upon a$ true ia every particular, in as much as. the facts it contaius were compiled from the official records in. the War Department at Washington. It is but just, also, that I should confess that I have drawn largely on JonunCs Art of War, the Message of the President and Ac compahytng Documents, ai d sundry maps aud. military works, so necessary for refer ence iu building a novel like this. To the accommodating Directors of the Over laud Telegraph Company I take pleasure in returning my thanks for tcuderiug me the use of their wires at the customary rates', And linally, to all those kind friends who have, by good deeds or en couraging words, assisted me in my labors ('upon the story ot 'Lucretia bmith s bol ! dicr," during the past' three months, and ! whose names are too numerous for special mention, I take this method of tendering : my siucercst gratitude. CHAPTER I. On a balmy May morning iu 1SG1, the little village of Hluemass, in Massachu tests, lay wrapped in the pplendor of the newly-risen sun. Reginald de Whittaker, confidential and only clerk in the house ofRoshrod & Ferguson, general dry-goods and grocery dealers and keepers or the post ofSce, rose from his bunk under the counter, and shook himself. After yawn ing and stretching comfortably, he sprink led the floor and proceeded to sweep it. He had only finished his task, however, when he sat on a keg of nails and fell in a reverie. ''This is ray last day in this shanty," said he. "How it will surprise Lucretia when she hears I am going for a soldier.!. How proud she will be, the little darling !'r He pictured himself in all man ner of warlike situations ; the hero of a thousand extraordinary adventures : the man of rising fame ; the pet of Fortuue at last ; and beheld himself, finally, return ing to his home, a bronzed and scarred brigadier-general, to cast his houors and his matured and perfect love at the feet of his Lucretia Borgia Smith. At this point a thrill of joy and pride suffused his system ; but he looked down and saw his broom, and blushed. He came toppling dowd from the clouds he had been soaring among, and was an ob scare clerk again, on a salary of two dol lars and a half a week. CIIArTER II. At eight o'clock that evening, with a heart palpitating with the proud news he had brought for his beloved, Reginald sat in Mr. Smith's parlor awaiting Lucre tia's appearance, The moment she enter ed, he sprang to meet her, his face lighted by the torch of love that was blazing in lm head somewhere and shining through and ejaculated, "Mine own !" as he open ed his arms to receive her. "Sir !" said she, and drew herself up like an offended queen. Poor Reginald was stricken dumb with a?touishment. This chilling demeanor, this angry rebuff, where he had expected the old and tender welcome, banished the gladness from his heart as the cheer ful brightness is 6wept from the landscape when a dark cloud drifts athwart the face of the sun. He stood bewildered anion ent, with the sense of goneness on him like one who finds himself suddenly over board upou a midnight sea, and beholds the ship pass into shrouding gloom, wl.il j the dreadful conviction falls upon his soul that he has not been missed. He tried to speak, but his pallied lips refused thtir oflice. At last he murmured : "O Lucretia! what1-have 1 done; whut is the m-itter'; why this cruel coldness? Don't you love your Reginald any more?" Iler lips curled iu better scorn, and she replied, iu mocking toues : "Don't I love my Reginald any more 1 No, I don't love my Reginald any more ? Go back, to your pitiful junk-shop and grab your pitiful yard stick, and . stuff cotton iu your ears, so that you CJtj't hear your country' hhout to you to fall in and shoulJcr arms. G6j" Aud then, unheed ing the new light that flashed from his eyes, she fled from the room and slara mcd the door behind her. Only a moment more! Only a single moment more, he thought, aud he could have told her how he had already answer ed the summons and signed. his name to the muster roll, and all would have been will ; his lost bride would have came back to his arms with words of praise and thanksgivjug upon her lips. He made a step forward, oncej to rocall her, but he remembered that he was no longer an ef feminate drygoods student, and his war rior soul scorned to sue for quarter. He ftrode from the place with martial firmness, and never looked behind him. CHAPTER III. ' .. When Lucretia awoke next morning tho faint music of fife and the roll of a distant drum came floating upou the soft spring breeze, and as she listened the sounds grew more subdued, and finally passed out of hearing. She lay absorbed in thought for many minutes, and then she sighed and said : "Oh ! if he were only with that band of fellowey Low I could love him !" Id the course of the day a ueighber dropped in, and when the conversation turned upon the soldiers, the visitor said: ''Reginald de Whittaker looked rather down-hearted, and didu t shout when he marched alonjr with the other boys this morning.' I expect it's owing to you, Miss Loo, though when I met him com ing here yesterday evening to tell you he'd enlisted, he thought you'd like it and be praud of Mercy ! what in the nation's the matter with the girl ?" Nothing, only a sudden misery had fal Ien like a blight upon her heart, aud a deadly pallor telegraghed it to her coun tenance. She rose up without a word and walked with a firm step out of the room; but once within the sacred seclusion of her own chamber, her strong will gave way and she burst into a flood of pas siouate tears. Uitterly the upbraided herself for her foolish haste of the niirht before, and her harsh treatment of her lover at the very moment that he had come to anticipate the proudest wuh of her heart, and to tell her that he had en rolled himself under the battle flag, and was going lorth to fl-ht as her soldier . V.'V. .i.u.uvu W V . . V. . . in those glorious heldf, and be entitled to the sweet pain of feeling a ten dar solici- ? tude for them, but she would beunreprc- sented." No soldier iu all the vast armies would breathe her name as he the crimson tide ot war: She wept again 1 or, rather, she went on weeping where she Yank then placed his hand against a fence jfull. iuvestigation of this u a ter should, left off a moment before. Iu her bitter- and told him to strike it as hard as he could. , be made, and, if Russia has either wil ness of spirit she slmost curfed the preci- Shon, "not thinking that any harm could be-; li,jrlj 0r unwillingly beeu deprived of a. sorrow upon nnr vnnr. urn.. "ir.Ti it: nn,"1 " Thn words were : in h?r bosom, but she locked nr.A -a ..;, ' , and closed her bps against , them there their utterance. For weeks she nursed her grief in sil- ence, while the roses laded from her cheeks. And through it all she clung to the hope that some day the old love would bloom again in Reginald's heart, and he would write to her; but the long sum mer days dragged wearily aloug, and still no letter came. The newspapers teemed with stories of battle and carnage and eagerly she reau tuem, uui always i i I., i.i the same result; the tears welled up and blurred the closing lines the name she K J sought was looked for ia vain, and the dull aching returned to her sinking heart. Letters to the other girls sometimes con tained brief mention of him, and presented always the same picture of him a mo rose, unsmiling, desperate man always in the thickest of the fight, begrimed with howder, and moving calini aud unscathed through tempests of shot and shell, as if he bore a charmed life. Rut at last, in a long list of maimed and killed, poor Lucretia read these ter rible words, aud fell fainting to the floor: R. D. Whittaker, jyricate soldier, desper ately u-'ounded '" CHAPTER IV. On a couch iu one of the wardsofa hospital at Washington lay a wounded soldier ; his head was so profusely band aged that his features were not visible ; but there was no mistaking the happy face of the young girl who sat beside him it was Lucretio 13orgia Smith's. She had hunted him out several weeks before, and since that time she had patiently watched by him and nursed him, coming in the morning a3 soon a3 the surgcou had finished dressing his wounds, and never leaving him until relieved at night fall. A ball had shattered his lower jaw, end he could not utter a syllable I through all her weary vigils she had never once been blessed with a grateful word from his dear lips; yet she stood to her post bravely and without, a murmur, feeling that when he did get well again she would hear that which would more than reward her for all her devotion. At the hour we have chosen for the opening cf this chapter, Lucretia was in a tumult of happy excitement ; for the surgeon had luld her that ,:it last her Whittuker had recovered sufficiently to admit of th-i removal of the bandages from his head, aud she was no. waiting with feverish impatience for the doctor tocjrne aud disclose 'the loved features to her view. At last he came, aud Lucretia, with beaming eyes and fluttering heart, bent OFer the couch with anxious expec tancy. Ooe bandage was removed, the Bo- other aua another was aud lo : the poor i wounded face revealed to the light of day. j "O my own dar " , ' , j What hate we here! What is the mat- i tsvwf ! .i j t ifr V fists j f n ctr"inrnf fl It T I XXV. l 1 1 ing her upturned eyes, she stagge .I. ' : . r . 1. rrM.' , , , ired back u spasm Willi a uiuau oi aniruisu. aucij of fury distorted her countenance as she brought her fist down with a crash that made the 'medicine bottles outhe table dance again,- at:d exclaimed : "(lh ! confound my cats, if I haven't gone and fooled away three mortal weeks here, snuffling and slobbering oyer the! wrung auiuier; , It was a sad, sad truth. Hie wretched; puancy mat nau orou-rut an una sorrow;""' vj uu,"o ",v-"" 1 , . . ... lit t..-. : '. i r I.:..: 1.'.. U.. . I but innocent and unwitting tmposter was or-the itCUSi Mountain Coal and Iron Cora R: I)., or Richard Dilworthy Whittaker, pBny, the coal lands of the Coal Ridge Com of Wisconsin, the soldier of dear little : pany, and one halt of the coal lands of the Eugenie Le Mulligan, of that State, and Treverton Company. The consideration utterly unknown to our unhappy Lucretia price, paid for these acquisitions amounts it R.Smith. j is said, t no leas than one a half million of Sucb is life .and the tail ofthescrnent is over us all. Let us draw the curtain over this melancholy history for melan choly it must still remain, duTing a season at least, for the real Reginald de Whitta ker has not turned up yet. s Two hundred persons from Pennsylva nia aro to settle in Caroline county, Md., during the 'present year." . v : ' Man Wanted. crronf nint nf this a?fi The Ulcn who are not for r " v . is man.- ale. Men who are I honest, sound from centre to circumfer ence. 'true 'to the heart's core. Men whoi will condemn wronz in friend or far, in themselves as well as other3. Men whose jsiderablc portion cf the purchase money consciences are as steady as the needld to; for that Territory was intercepted in thsj: the pole. .Men who will .' stand for the j United States, and went into the V.od- right if the heavens totter aud the earth j of the lobby men, who got paid Lr doing reels. Men who can can tel! the truth I nothing it 'the nppropriatiat? was roada i, i.i ii i.i i i i . - f l. i n.tm.v.kn.;,.A i i i. anu loot inc world ana the uevii ngm in s the eye. Men. that never bra nor run. i Men that neither flajr nor flinch. Men i who can have courage without shouting ' to it. Men in whom the course of ever- lj-tinsf life runs still, deep and stronr. Meu too lariie for sectarian bonds Mcn'uress had nothing to do iu. the Alaska af who do not cry uor cause their voices to be heard on the streets, but who will not ! fail nor he discouraged, till iudirment be jset jQ- t1(J eartK 5len who know their i ,n0. rtll n Mon wli,i kndw their!cesar7 that somebody should be bouuht. rdnres and fill thsm. Men whowill r.otbeiwc have a richt to know who was sold, too tazy to work nor too proud to be poor. Men who are willing to eat what they jhave earDedi aQli WCar what they . huve ,.1. for The Dutchman's Trick.' ?arufne a city in Vermont a Yankee came up tohim j brcaftedlaRd paid ..shon if you treat me to the cider,: 1 will Icarn vou a trick." Shon - agreed. i ii. . .. . i 'all mm by coing so. situck a niacKsmiui- .hJow, cut insieau oi nuung laniis nana ine J.a,tjerki"?awy.Pr fence board, knocking it oil. 'iiein Uott in , Mwhal mikcs you ifoolibh 1 I kneck : elbow ! O ! socker r blitz' my poor frau, wIiatjVnYa. hu win ene say: Poor Shon was bound to have revenge;: so oue day as' he was passing through a field, lit i he espied a tr.nn. Going up to him he said : ! "Mynheer. I thovr you a little trick fori nodding." As there was no fence no tree, near. Shon nut his hand aerainst his mouth i nnd said: Strike as hard as yo:i can. Mynheer struck, and Shon pulled away his i l,nn,l on.l .nnniro I llin MrttTT fin lllo n nil til , knocked down. Shon jumped up.Upr tuJJat.titfn rnni? . k x. his mouth bleeding, and commenced danciDg : wilijmiii. . t i i. xrn i .1 l country. 1 goes luck 10 iiuuanu uu uc uisi train." ' The Red Sea. The Red Sea is said to be the ho'test place in the world. The atmosphere for about sixty miles in that sea is steamy and sticky. Everything in the shape of iron or steel about a ship takes on a coat of rust. Durin the summer months no one travels on the Red Sea unless com pelled by business or military orders to do so. In the winter and spring the pas sage is delightful. Yet navigation io that body of water is always attended with many dangers. The Red Sea is long and narrow, with sunken rocks and pro jecting reefs; and counter winds prevail, which produce dangerous currents. There are three light-houses in the sea, which must be kept by salamander-like men, since the thermometer runs up to one hundred aud twonty degrees in July, and approaches ninety in early spring. 4 o- : Philadelphia Mint. The deposits of bullion at the Mint and its branches during the fiscal year, ending June 30, 1803, were as follows: Cold. $2, 472,ey4.2; silver, 1. 003,423 St?. Total deposits, 27,165,319.70. DeJuction from this total the deposits of bullion cr bars made at one branch of ihe Mint, and deposited at another for coinage, the umount will be 091,333.81. The coinage fr the fame period was as follows: Gold coin pieces. C7G.539; value, $19,114,423 (10. unparted and fine gold bnrs, S0,02G,S01.0G ; siNrr coin pieces, 3,321,- urjj; value, ;si,iytj,7au uu; silver b.irs, j 1 S 0,23G48; nickel-copper and bronze coinage piece, 43,439.000; talue. $1,713, 3S4.00. Tot il number of pieces struck, 40,-733.-40. , ToUl value of coinagc,327,4l7, G0G.54. Maxims for Young Ladies. Don't scream unless you are frighten cd. . ; .A narrowness of. waist shows a narrow uess of mind. It is fine silk that knows no turning. Practic3'(oti tho piauo) makes jerfee. The true . test of a man's temper is to keep him waiting ten minutes for his diui ner. : , Never faint when you are iilono. Al nuya cciuv-t. DUI11U liuvvi imm'ui tun it i ui f : . ' ' jjuuug luau. : iue uiuie peisuua iiiciciuc i , mnra successful will bt your faint. . A woman should not only faint well, but be above suspicion. The hand that can make a pie is a con tinual feast to the husbaud that niarrieh it. - Coal Lauds. Thc Ldjigt, Valley Itailroad Company fca aCnuired. hv nurchase. the coal lands ollars. payable in nrst mortgage Lehigh Valley Railroad Bonds. The cbjfct of pur chase is, doubtless, the securing of coal ton nage to the Lehigh Valley Railroad and aU to the Lehigh Valley main trunk from ihs Shamokin coal region. Mauch Chunk Gazette. . We see it stated that coal or gas tar ap plied about a corn crib will keep tho ,$rain from devuMstljn by rat. The Alaska Appropriations. We really cannot perceive how Con gress can refuse to postpone any longer some investigation into the question, What became oT the money appropriated for Alaska ? It is rumored that a con- uuursuj, m nuvwimiMissicctneu vi m;r. as agents for members of Congress, whos votes were bought. It may be said, if Russia, is willing to stand the fraud, it i.i nobouy sbusiuess. Dut thisascrtion will- uot be sustained by the thoughtful. Con- Hair but to provide lor the payment oftba j money to Russia. If, iu order to finisb the business by the passage of an annro- priation to complete the treaty, it was ne- land delivered. If members of Congress jetood back until bribery ratified their consciences, their colleagues should knew ;it. If, on the contrary, as U most likely, ! money was wasted upon the impudent creatures who hang-rcuid legislative 'halls, pretending to have iufluence, who- ther tru.y or lalsely, the i connected with the transact! means of ail action should bo kuowu and they should be punished. Av nortion oi me mouev aue to uer. me iacs ... J ' ,r tn tl0 i.tAriirn nn,i nrnnP nn.,,r,a to vindicate thi hoLorof th' i . . , . ... . ;country, and to- punish if possible, the. iqutrcr. Universal Suffrage. Mr. I'omeroy lias introduced in ths Senate a proposition to amend the Con stitution as follows : Article 15. The bassis of suffrage ia 'the Uuited States shall be that of citizen-- ship ; and all native or naturalized cit- I: .1.11 ! . I : -i n : .u I. . i ; gtate shau jeterraine by law the a of a 'citizen and the time of residence requir- eel for the exercise of the right of suff- rage, which shall apply eounlly all cit- izeus ; and also shall make all laws con cerning the times, places, and manner, ot hoi ling elections. In the House, Judge Kellev (Pa,) introduced the following: Article 16. No State h-ll deny to or exclude from the exercise of any of the rights and privileges of an elector, any citizen of the Uuited States by rea son of race or color. Roth of these propositions were pre perly referred to committees. In due time, the subject will be discussed bold ly and exhaustively. There is lass doubt as to the sentiment of members, than as. to the feasibility of securing the adoption, of any amendment embracing the broad; priuciple, by the requisite number of Le gislatures. 31 r. Sumner has introduced in the Senate a Political Rights bill, also defin ing the qualifications of electors under Federal laws, and in some form, that measure has already secured much favor among members. Who will Have Influence with Grant?" There is a great deal of speculation on- this subject just now. Soma people think that Mr. K. B. Washburne will control him ; some say that he is in fre quent and confidential correspondence with A. T. Stewart, tho dry good man some say that Geueral Rawlins ia ail : powerful with him, and others that Gen eral Radeau wields a wonderful influence. We have been frcqnentl' asked what we think about the matter, and to save the trouble of further inqury we may as- well-, state our views. On one occasion whr, General Grant was riding with us behind Peerless, he quietly remarked : "I should lilec to take hold the reins." Now, we rather thiuk General Grant will bold the reins himself the next four years. He has beeu elected Preidjnt, aud he will be Presi lout. It is true that ho has said that he should only carry out t ha rt ill of the people as declaie 1 by the laws-, of Congress, but then h; will carry it out.. We shall have an administration, lie will do his duty, aud the men under him will have to do their duty. Therefore we conclmle that the most inffueutia man with the administration for the uext four veata will be Ulysses S. Grant. Arcw ,1'orc Iftdijcr. Very grave matters are encaging the attention uf the Tennessee Legislature, if we may judge from the character of some, bills introduced recently, and which pass ed their first reading. One bill for the 1 euefit of Mrs. Granville Lindsay andi O'hers, provides first, that 31 rs Lindslaj shall receive seveuty-five dollars annual ly, in consideration of rcceutly giving birth to three children at one time ; and secondly, tli3t a like annuity stall be paid to all other Tennessee women, who shall, in future be equally prolific. ., The revolut'oai ts in Spain are uot hav ing matters all thotr own way. An in aurrcction agaitst them has been started at Cabiz, nominally iu the name of Re publicanism, but supposed to bo inspired and controlled by the Reactionists. Tl e number cf immigrants arrived at the jtortff New York to thcPihinst., was 1 501 a lot-1 .!'( 6.W 0 since January U. h i: V ., y . V 1 2' '"it li (i w i l' -. r.' ' i . '.. M 1 i.i it : i : ' . i : . " J' . n n
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