i s I gtv. IL W. JONES, ) JAB. S. iENNINGB4 1141" rs• " 040 00 1 807, 00e ConstiNtion, One bestny." Ilti‘ikil4lso‘4l In WOW: UM 15,1854. rea pRICSIDENT IN 1804, OEN. GEORGE B. McCLELLAN, [Subject to the Decision of the Democratic Na tion ol Convention.] 44141/Ila =Ana) ? Is Pighting. you ascit- Wit fee t tpe war is prosecuted for flnulerratiou of t)ie Union and the diellstiention, and of your nationality aLd YAW rights as citigens. 9o GM). MCCLELIAN. J oill-"The ICapatltatkm and the Union tame s = Ingather. If they stand, thty al tagather; If they fall, they atagether."-.Daniel Webster. COIMIT CONVEiTION. Is conformity with the usages of the Democratic Party, a Convention will be held in the Court House, at Waynes- r im*, on Tuesday eviinktg, March 22, 1864, Ding in the first week of Court, for the purpose of seleeting a Chairman and GentrdCorunittee for the ensuing year, end to consider upon the propriety of orgatabing Democratic Clubs in the various townships of the county, and with a view ..to the traroaction of such other holiness as may he deemed of in terest to the party. It is expected that Gnu. S. B. Wu:. soar, of Beaver county, and several other able speakers will address the conven den. P. CV,AWFORD, I:3olmag of the Central Committee Al Al Mi.* in Legislation--the Stets eta withont a Speaker. ilew days since, Dr. St. Clair, who was clotted to the Senate of this State to fill the money ocoastoted by the resignation of Mad. Harry White, of the Indiana District, took his seat in that body. It was at once pitratedthat, the Senate proceed to the elm ** o( ,a Speaker, .hut the Abolitionists re fused. though they consented to the selection oVeihiet *Seers. This, says a Harrisburg eeelgeirlauitult tithe Philadelphia Murcua• hilrthatihttacratoprecisely in the same po- AO, h they bare been since the first stf the 118.44015. They contended that the piain ccentitutiepal prevision is, that each Hews shell meet-and elect its Speaker and alma. and they refused to recognize the Speaker elected to serve during the recess, as the Speaker bf the present Senate, The refightt of the flepttWans to go int* an elec tion. leaves the Senate nearly, if not quite as tigtiAL..disogapized as it was before. No r bill oiesi:lleough unless under the lash of the previonevettion, and even when it is velledo and the limber of yeas and nays called, and amendments proposed, so retard matters, that if this state of things is to con tinue, the overage passage of bills will not bit over two a day. As it reqtdres a two third vote tp puma a rule, no bill cap be res lwiee the eame (ley, and the now, gift*** that it Must have three hestriags at tire tusakum op diffetaat dive, .X4O/litymxicatic Senators are right. They estabibibed principle, and they ere deter inteddontaintain it at all hazards, The *by wilionehdn them. They have present ed no petitions, and 'erase to act upon apy of the standing committees. The Ile palilcang, now having the power to elect a Speyer, but refusing to do so, are pursuing the very muse they charged upon the Demo crats—retarding legislation. lkitll.r. Penny is not quite satisfied that bets the legal Speaker of the present Senate, without being elected to that position, and it is more than intimated Oat he will resign the chair with a view to resuming it again ender a more satisfactory title. And this intended action of Mr Peppy Is rendered the more necessary by the sugges tion that it he should continue to retain his seat as Speaker of the present Senate with /Ml:Station to it, all the acts of this Legis !attire Tepid be liable to have their authori ty pelted the Courts of the Common mils* 04 that, therefore, all individual anktorpqrsto r y ;interests and titles, vesting by v Wee of eneif Jegielation, would be efiheriiittid validity, and iuigl i tt be declar ed of no binding force-in law by Elie civil trittliWe of *f a StA td • /mem* vogy Begions iview be whole quegliito smite thetalpeolterehiP atthe Senate, and-ihgrialreliably agog* the *publicans to asesaitioart ghbehlau, mad thereby virtual ly reengage Ad** tie aottudnese of the welkilittakelOttilhaeginteertiere the begin leg by the Defeeeratieakmitors. Ptimeighe fienge' buthoiallegs pasugulles __ear . • . bepiihswessoptiesstMet.ffleMiliw, hissitihileAkens hOtedi 'VeleilhAffo ; iroti far the reconsideration of the Senate vote od the a for the tine of ;laying bounties to voluntert, and the other to the members othptitifoveso 711=_t ttrollit form *was te told i l oo.onouniteionad aim* balkilisee ado. lations woad have pawed the Senate' unani mously had that boy bean properly organ hod. As ft was, they went through by a very slow process, and too late to be of any utility at Washington. The attempt of the Republican press to make a little capital fur their sinking party out of the fact that the Democratic;Senators refuse to vote for any measure brought be fore them, until a Speaker is chosen, will prove a complete failure. Sensible people will see, at a glance, that no matter how wise and proper an Act or Resolution may be in itself, its support by them would be tanta mount to acknowledging thit the Speaker of the Senate continues to occupy Lis position from year to year and until his successor is chosen, regardless alike of legislative prece dent and the plain provisions of the Consti tution. P. S. Since the above was penned, Mr. Penny . has resigned the iSpeakershik and been re-elected, thus showing that the Abo litionists themselves had no faith in their opinio,na and pretensions concerning the Speali.-ership. Gov. -Seymour of N ew York.. There has been a wide spread conspiracy among the radical press to fix upon [this pure, upright and talented gentleman charges affecting his patriotism. They have charg ed him with disloyalty, hostility to the war and instigator of the riots in New York city in July last. But in this they have only treated him as they have treated every Wier prominent. Democrat of the country, who has protested against the flagrant inva sions of the constitution and laws, by the present administration. It is needless to say that their charges have been stimulated only for the purpose of vainly attempting to tarn ish his well earned reputation in the country and that the most severe of all their charges is the truth, in relation to this much abused statesman. Re foiled the corrupt and dishonest schemes of the subordinates of the adminis tration at Washington. in their attempt to fix a grossly fraudulent quota upon the Democratic Congressional Districts of his State, in relation to the draft last spring by directing a draft from them in many in stances more than double the number that should have been assigned to them. Gov, Seymour, as it was his duty, as the repre sentative of his State, remonstrated against the wrong, and demonstrated its rank In justice, and that it could only have arisen from a fraudulent design on the part of the vindictive subordinates of the administra tion. The draft was hurried, at first regard lees of these exposures without periniting any investigation to be had. The result was the terrible and disgraceful riot of July. The ignorant masses of the city took this mis •taken and fearful remedy in their own hands. The administration seeing the hideous effect of their meditated wrong, finally consented to draft from the City Districts, which were Democratic, in the same proportion as the country Districts, which were mostly Re publican, and postponed the investigation of the facts demanded by the Governor till a later period. This investigation was recently made, under a commission of three disinterested persons appointed by the Government at Washington, and has resulted in reducing the quota of the Districts complained of over fourteen thousand, and thus vindicated Gov. Seymour from the foul and villainous accu sations of his political enemies. The following is a list of the Districts— embracing New York and Brooklyn cities— together with the quota originally assigned and the corrections made t Original Corrected Reduc quota, quota tion. District 2 5,056 8,337 1,719 District 8 3,905 8,000 905 District 4 7,192 8,060 4,132 District 6 8,963 2,962 1,016 District 6 5,520 2,660 2,860 District 7 4,240 8,008 1,232 District .8 '5,935 8,950 1,985 District d 8,245 2,843 402 Totals 39,081 24,810 Reduction In New York and Brooklyn, 14,251. The "World" oommoutiug ou this subject says ; Governor Seymour owed It to the people of the state whose chief magistrate he was; he owed it to the cause of good government and to the principles of justice and of right, to insist upon a correction *of this gross and palpable wrong. He owed it to his own dig nity and honor, to the noble men who had stood by their country's cause in the hour of trial ; he owed it to the blind and reckless administration at Washington to set bounds to their headlong career of partisan maligni ty, and force them to a decent respect for the rights of the_people of the Empire City and the Empire State. This official vindication of the act ot Gov ernor Seymour is none the less.significant from the tardy manner in which it has been made at Washington. The injustice to the several-congressional districts sought to be punished by Secretary Stanton for tneir De mocracy was patent and palpable, and the President, when his attention was called to the matter, ought not only to have corrected the evil, but. he should have discharged every official who had been implicated in the great wrong, It would be too much to expect, of ,the ribald sheets and to.ignes which have Wiled in promulgating the false charges against the governor, that they will retract . a word of their unjust aspersions, their oft-repeated calumnies. They had a political object to gain, and it is no part of their system of po litical morality to acknowledge a wrong or correct an unjust attack ,upon an upright public officer. The government has been compelled to subscribe to a full vindication of Governor Seymour's official action on this subject. Ills political detainers will hold their tongues, to hide their shame. Miscegenation. The Troy Daily Whig—an able and lode penant Republican paper—in 'peeking of 4 , l4ksvnation," says: "We dare any that oar readers will be solarised, as we are, to Inas the eldest to which this dividing thoryllids otrodstes , amtligthe extreme Ateataimiibi, iiltd to* tir tendlair Silt is is iielemnim a prominent article in their emed." It will be • et the r ome iper o p, mit Batardly Usti "tharthe Ilioneougy of Gree ne have indlustedibeir pamihrenui for General hicelelhus as the auslildate for the next Presideatel. The party throughout the coun try seem to be almost unanimously in favour of his nomination, and are sanguine of their ability to elect him, if they have fair play or the last color of justice :from the party in power. What it Costs. It is well for us to consider occasionally what we are paying for a chance to have Mr. Lincoln's scheme of reconstruction carried into effect. Let us, therefore, re call what Wendell Phillips said fourteen months ago : I will not speak pf the cost of war, though you know that we shall never get out of it without a debt of at least $2,000,000,000.- 1 will not remind you that debt is the fatal disease of Republics—the first thing and the mightiest—to undermine Government and corrupt the people. The great debt of En gland has kept her back in all progress at least a hundred years, Neither will I re mind you that, when we go out of this war, we go out with an immense military spirit embodied in two thirds of a million of sol diers, the fruitful, the inevitable source of fresh debts and new wars. I pass by all these, and lying within those causes are things enough to make the most sanguine friend ' s of free instillations tremble for our future. A Bolt Threatened. The Missouri Democrat, the leading Re, publican organ west of the Mississippi gives the following klnpha4ic warning to the Lin coln wire-pullers : 'flf a high-handed attempt is to be made to force Mr. Lincoln's nomination upon that convention, the attempt will necessarily be get a revolt, for which, and for whatever disasterous consequences flow from it, these desperate schemers will be held responsi ble." Riot in Greensburg. The abolitionists of Greensburg, on Mon day, the 22d ultimo, instigated a number of soldiers belonging to company 13, of the 28th Pa. regiment, to make an attack on the office of the Greensburg Democrat and also on the Tittering Rouse, but they were in gloriously repulsed, and it required much effort to save the property of the °vile politi cal hacks who had instigated the outrage.— The company had been brought in from Mount Pleasant for the special purpose of doing the dirty work of these scoundrels. geenan, Esq., the proprietor of the Democrat, at the commencement of the re bellion enlisted as a private in one of the Pa. Reserve regiments ; was promoted to a position on General McClellan's staff, where he served until the officer was removed.— He then resigned and again took charge of the Democrat. Thus, it will be seen, that unprincipled Abolitionists will even attempt to destroy the property of soldiers who have the manhood to denounce the policy of the present corrupt Administration. Confederate Minister to'Mexloo. Mr. Jefferson Davis seems determined to have:alrecognition of the rebel confederacy by some foreign government. Re has tried En gland, France and Spain, and failed. Now he is about to try the experiment with Napoleon's Lieutenant, Maximilian, who, it is said, has finally consented to wear the imperial diadem of Mexico, which Napoleon has bound himself to place safely on his head. The Atlanta, Ga., Register, announ ces that Brig. Gen. William Preston. former ly Minister from the United States to Spain, is on his way as Minister Plenipotentiary from the confederacy to the Court of Mexico, and adds : "He is instructed to make a treaty with Maximilian, based upon the mutual recogni tion of the two governinents, with a commer cial clause granting re rocal privileges of trade and "cominerce.W recoguition by Maximilian will be tantamount to a recog nition by France," Demooratio National Convention. The Commort Council of Chicago have passed a series of patriotic resolutions re turning "thanks to the 'National Committee for its selection of Chicago as th'e place of meeting of its Convention." The hitspitaii ties of the city are extended to the Conven tion, and "gratificatian" is expressed "at the assembling of the delegates of a great and patriotic party in our midst on the na tion's natal day." Several Republican members of the Council voted for the resolu tions, to- The Daily News, of Philadelphia, an out-and-out Abolition paper, says that "candor as well as a just appreciation of its duties as public journalists, requires that it should state that in its own political household the elements of discord are much more rife than is generally supposed." We think so too. Let Democrats prepare; the light of better days is dawning! ,`There have been instances of audacity since the war commenced, but we should like to know what Oopperhead ever attempt ed to show so conclusively the imbecility, unpopularity and criminality even of the present Administration as Messrs. Blair, Pomeroy and Greeley? Theodore Tilton says that "this na tion has a bakY At the breast, the negro."— Yes, and it is a plain p,nd palpable case of desertion. The Abolition party bionght the brat forth, and then, like any other piece of depravity, palmed it off on a respectable family. Mir Chase has written a letter declining the Abolition nomination for the Presidency. We imspect he had either to do that or give uP Lls , Peat in the Cabinet. tdrAtetiersdy'.. 6 Pa"'NP 4l4 '''''' The Late Elselees, The late shades in Nev Hampshire re suited in taw, occeo of 9iltstire, 14 143 lition candidate for tkaestior, by an estima ted majority of 8000. All five of the Abo lition Counsellors are elected. Probably nine of the twelve Senators elected are Abo lition, and also a large majority of the Rep resentatives. Nsw Yoax, March B.—The election in the city to-day on the amendment to the Constitution, passed off quietly. The total vote cast was 23,280, of which 16,401 was in favor of the amendment to the Constitu tioNallowing the soldiers to vote, mid 6,879 against. Roon - sersu4 March B.—James Brackett, Democrat, was elected Mayor to-day by nearly 200 majority. Last year the Demo cratic majority was 509. Eight of the 14 Alderman elected are Abolitionists, which will give them a majority of two in Common Council. SYnacusit, March B.—The charter election here to-day resulted in the election of the entire Abolition city ticket, except Overseer of the Poor. MIDNIGHT —Returns from only 48 towns have been received up to this hour including this city.L;:jlie majority in favor of allowing soldiers to vote is 24,699. It is estimated that the majority in favor of the amend ment in the State will reach over 50,000. The Clarion (Pa.) Democrat says the elec tions recently held in that county have re sulted in a complete Democratic triumph.— The 4bolitionists carried only one township in full and three boroughs in part. The Democrat "would not be surprised if Clarion gives a Democratic majority next election high up in the teens," which we suppose means from fourteen to eighteen hundred.— That will do. Damocneno Vicronv.—At the late annual election in Lock Haven Pa. for borough and ward officers, the Democracy carried every ward by decided majorities, electing all their nominees except one constable, whom they lost by one vote. In the language of our jubilant friend of the Democrat, we say, "good for Lock Haven." DEMOCRATIC VlcToliT ILLmots.—The municipal election of Rock Island was held on Tuesday, and resulted in the choice of the Democratic ticket:by 177 majority, be ing a Democratic gain of 150. The City Cou . ncil stands seven Democrats and one Abolitionist. The Mayor elect is Bailey Davenport. The contest was fought on national political issues, and the Democratic triumph is complete. Pottn&No, Ma., March 7th.—Jacob Mc- Clellan, the Abolition candidate, was elected Mayor of this city to-day, over John B, Car rol, Dem. by a majority of 1156. The vote stands, McClellan 1941—Carrel 805. All the - wards have elected Abolition Alderman, Councilmen, &o. Changed his Mind. When the Chicago Committee waited upon President Lincoln to stiffen his back bone for the great work of abolishing slavery by proclamation, tho philosopher of the White [rouse expressed his opinion of the efficacy of the process in his usual quaint way. "You remember," he said, "the slave who asked his master, 'lt I should call a sheep's tail a leg, how many legs would it have ?' 'Five.' No, only four ; for my calling the tail a leg would not make it so.' Now, gentleman, if I say to the States 'You are free,' they would be no more free than at presont." This interesting conversation occurred only a little more than a year ago, and yet, in that short time, Old Abe has so thoroughly changed his opinion that he believes to-day or professes to believe—if you call a sheep's tail a leg, the sheep will have five legs—in other words, he imagines he has set all southern niggerdom free by proclamation.— Whst a queer fish he is. The Idol of the Army. We are favored by an old Democratic friend with a vote recently taken in the bOth Regiment, Pa. Vols., at Knoxville, Tenn. The Regiment 000tained 810 men, the vote stood : For M'Clellan 777 " Lincoln 83 Majority fur M'Gieilan 773 — . M'Clellan is the soldier's man, and will be the people'sPresidant. ircnx OVER.—Seward recently asserted that "every man in the Northern States is richer in consequence of the war." His cir cle of acquaintances is probably confined to army contractors and highly pr4fl We wish he were obliged to make his word substantially good with every man in the Northern States. He would then be compell ed to fork over a few hundred dollars deficit to us.—fPenp lan Democrat, Sensible. A movement is on foot among the Metho dists.in various sections of the North to kick political preachers out of the church. This we regard as a sensible movement, and one that might be inaugurated everywhere, with great spiritual benefit to the churches. ROYAL LEAGUE NOACIATA.TWIEG ; For President—The Government. .Fer Vice President—The Vice Govern ment. airAs soon as the preserit draft is filled, wp are to have another. This is the agreea ble information communicated by the Pro vost Marshal !General to a member of °m um.. SlMlLNntiona iII s Ante of wet are like in dividuals ins stem of intoxication ; they frequently mow* &btu when drunk, which they are ohligadi to pay when sober. MrGen. lAtior, Hon. Jahn L Dawson and other asead*po of Col* woo will accept oar thanks fop divers documentary aw on. an.. Wendell Mips thinks he coup put alt Thifenists in the South hates Amid weir oinhibos. Cretin In the Drift. The Harrisburg Telegraph publishes tere n to be mons particularly into : A great mistake is being made'with . reference to the credit on the draft, and many districts, after having expended large sums of money to fill up their quotas, will find that they have not in reality furnished a soldier to secure ex emption under the present call. The error is committed in this manner : Agents are now in this city from all parts of the State looking after the vet erans who have just returned on fur lough. These agents make it a busi ness to bargain with the veterans, pay ing each soldier a certain sum of money to allow himself to be credited to a certain district, when that veteran has already been credited and received a bounty. The locality of the enlistment of the veteran—where he was first cred ited, cannot be and was not changed when he re-enlisted. Hence the wrong of tempting these men into allowing their names to be credited to localities only now offering bounties. In all cases, such credits will be disallowed by the Provot Marshal in the several dis tricts. The people will at once see that if the double credit were allowed, the Government would get no soldiers, while the people would be enormously taxed This is an important select, and we trust that great care will be taken to prevent the injury likely to result through it from becoming general. The Age of Purity, When Lincoln was elected one of the Abolition sheets that advocated his, election in a burst of exultation, ex claimed "THE AGE OF PURITY EETCRNS, and HONEST MEN COME TO CLAIM THEIR OWN. The thieves and plunderers that have cursed us so long have been thrust aside by the people to make way for an Honest Man to rule, and honest men to assist him. And in due time the Augean stables will be cleansed, the Treasury rats will be dislodged, and the govern ment WISELY and HONESTLY ad ministered, and will cease to be a curse, and be once more a blessing and an honor to the land. An hail then to the era of Peace, Free• dom and Justice." To recall a reminiscence like this is rather heavy on the party which was to bring about a return of the "age of pu rity." The "honest men" Old Abe brought td 'assist him, were the Came rons, the Staffords, the Hurtts, the Cornwells, and others who have cleaned the Treasury of MILLIONS OF DOL LARS ! The era of Peace, (negro) Freedom and Justice is: Draft, Internal Revenue, Heavy Taxation, Inflated Currency, Military Rule and Arbitrary Arrests and Imprisonment ! Such is the age of pu rity brought about by Abraham Lin coln's Administration. What we are Worth. The entire value of land and other prop erty in the United States is estimated at $6,000,000,000. We have contracted a debt of $2,000,000,000 within the period of three years. Mr. Chase has asked of the present Congress appropriations to the amount of $800,000,000, and other expendi tures will swell that sum to $1,000,000,000. Hence at the end of the present fiscal year, one-half of the value of the property in the United States of every description will have been expended by the Government at Wash ington. The debt of England is a little over s4,ooo,ooo,ooo—the value of property of every description is $30,000,000,000; in other words, the debt of the United States, at the end of 1864, will have risen to one half the value of the whole wealth of the country, while that of England is only about one-eight of the real wealth of the country. Abolitionism Practically Illustrated. We are authentically informed that Gen, Burnside said in this city last week, that out of 30,000 contrabands in the department assigned to him, full one-half had died within a year, owing to destitution, starvation and diseNc.— Abolition of slavery has thus become, practically, abolition of the nen° ; and reasonable reflection must teach us that this sjecies of " philanthropy" could have no other result. We do not observe that the radical papers here make any allusion to the statement of Gen. Burnside on this subject.—Boston Courier, A Venal Body. The Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial, writing on the 20th of February, speaks as follows of a body in which its own friends have an overwhelining majority : "It really looks as if a set of unprincipled speculators owned the present, Congress, and had bought the whole arrangement, body and soul=if, indeed, it can be said to have a soul, which I very much doubt. * * * They do not hesitate to say within the walls of the National Capitol that they can carry their point, whatever it may be, and woe to the man who has the honesty and patriotism to cross their selfish purposes." Better than Mass Meetings. A Democratic exchange says "Now is the time to make advances. Flood your townships with newspapers. What democrat is it who can't afford to spend from three to ten dollars in spreading amnocratic pipers ? This is the way to insure the, success of democ racy in '64. A few dollars spent in this way will do more good, than hun dreds in getting up the mass meeting*. In thieway, quietly and surely, the pub. lie mind may be disabused; and awaken ed to a sense of the awful condition of our dearly beloved country. Shall it be done" The Pr. ideatfal Term. Wm. H. Seward pays that Lincoln was elected President of the United States and ALL of them for four posts and is entitled to serve out his full te'm, and as he has been President d the Northern Slates alone his lbw pens will eminence only when his pewees exhimilniee over the Soothers Mahe. At ail this we agien pswehied ihteeln ippress the esdond term of leer year in the Confederate States. 4111MMON. A • ef e ats from the Fe towndillps of County was held in 'the Court Hain at. Waynesburg on Satur day last, in accordance with the call of the County Committee. On motion, BARNET WHITLATCII, of Franklin tp., was called to the Chair. Taos. W. TAYLOR, Esq., of Washington tp., Tnoi. laxis of Morris, Jons BRADFORD of Franklin, and WM. GRIMES, of Jackson, were made Vice Presidents, and Col. Jas. S. Jennings of Marion and George Thomas, of Franklin, appointed Secretaries. On motion of Wm. A. Porter, it was unan imously RESOLVED, That Col. R. W. JONES be our Delegate to the approaching Democratic State Convention, and Dr. Alexander Patton be his alternate, and that the Delegate be in structed to favor the nomination of Gen. Gao. B. McaaLLAZI for the next Presiden cy. On motion of D. Crawford, Esq., the Convention adjourned. [Signed by the Officers.] A Card. MESSRS. JONES & Jr.szNiNas :--I under stand there is a report in circulation in some parts of the county that I have left the Dem ocratic party. It is utterly false. I will give any man fifty dollars that will establish it.— lam as firm a Democrat as there is in the county ; but when Abraham Lincoln was elected President constitutionally, I was in favor of letting him serve his time out, and then defeat him and the party in power by electing George B. McClellan, or any other good Democrat that the National Conven tion may see proper to select. EDMUND SMITH The Florida Slaughter. Tho Post is endeavoring to find some other cause for the recent defeat of our forces in Florida under General Seymour than the bad conduct of the colored troops. Accordingly, it makes a series of unwar ranted assumptions, totally without any foundation in the evidence as yet presented, and upon these it bases an attack upon Gen. Seymour. That officer may have been grossly to blame ; but the country will re quire some evidence in proof of it besides the desire to represent the negro troops as far superior to the white troops under his command, in endurance and courage. Whosever the specific fault for the slaugh ter of our souldiers at Olustee, the respon sibility rests at last on the shoulders of President Lincoln, and cannot be shifted.— He ordered the expedition to be sent to Florida against the wishes of his military advisers in Washington, in spite of the pro tests against the "scatteration policy" of his organs in this city and elsewhere. He sent the expedition thither on his own responsi bility, for his own purposes. Those purposes were, to organize Florida as a rotten-bor ough, to have his young private secretary, John Hay, returned to Congress as the rep resentative of the state, and so to secure its three electoral votes for himself as a can didate for the next presidency, or, in the event of the election going into the House of Rapresentatives, to have John Hay with the votes of a single regiment of men counterbalance and destroy the votes of New York with its four milliqns of inhabit ants. For these three electoral votes Mr. Lincoln has already paid down the lives of 1,200 brave Union soldiers. Nor is this al their price.—N. Y. World. The Negro Question. A correspondent of the New York Times, (administration) is severe on the radicals of the party in Congress who never permit a daily session to pass over Without introduc ing the negro in sune shape. The game is becoming monotonous, to such a degree that the outsiders are becoming tired looking on. The Times correspondent says; "Let me illustrate : Slavery is the cause of the war ; and slavery Awn sig DEsTaorso. This is admitted. The war will destroy it ; and if it does not, an amendment to the Constitution will. But is that .any reason why, like Monsieur Ning Tong Porer, we should breakfast, dine, and sup on Slavery ? It seems to be the notion of Mr. Charles Sumner, et id omne genus, that we the peo ple of this country dorrt know anything, and can't do anything without we take our bitters before breakfast, in the shape of a resolution against Slavery." Abolition Traitors. The only Northern man, since the war be gan, known to have given valuable informa tion' to the Confederates, is Mr. Harvey, a Republican, and now Lincoln's minister to Portugal. It is also a fact that the only per sons in the North known to have tarnished materials of war to the Confederates, are Republicans—as Palmer, Collector Barney's Clerk, and Chairman of the New York Re publican Central Committee, Lincoln prompt ly put him under Federal protection, to shield him from prosecution for his crimes, Waite of Benevolence. A correspondent, writing from Chat tanooga, enters into an alaborate detail of the frauds committed on the sick and wounded of the army in the dispensa tion of the benefactions so liberally fur nished by the various charitable com missions established throughout the country. But a small fraction of the necessaries and luxuries reaches those for whom they are intended. They are arrested on their way to contribute to the revels of the army officials, and even of the pious agents of the Commission. The Term Traitor Defined. }lel, Wade said, in his place in the United States Senate, that the man who "quotes the Constitution in this crisis is a Traitor : " Daniel Webster said : "The Constitution of the United States it a written instrtonent, a recorded FUN DAMENTAL LAW ; it is the bond, the ONLY BOND OF THE UNION of the States ; it is all that gives us national character." oft,.The whole number of National Banks organized on the 12th of January was 208, isavinF au aggregate capital of 1132,134,200_ , dazided among 23 States, and ** 1101444. at.Ceintabia. Shies *a Mk t ahue been *Old to the above with a eapihd of eel* 412,500,000. TV, Nor aillanal Banks. The motes of the new banks are to be rid out by the Government and thew creditors, and employees must, take them. What shall they do with them? If the banks refuse to take them, 'sell them to the brokers. But you say "the banks dare not refuse to take them." So say we, but that, like Beecher, on the origin of evil, only shoves the difficulty back a step, doing nothing toward removing it. The banks take the new currency, but what are they to do with it If they paid it out again indiscriminately, the people will begin to sift it, and after awhile these institutions will find themselves holders of a large sum of notes distant from any point of redemption, and un avavailable for the legal discharge of their obligations. No! the banks can-- not pay them altogether. If they take them at par the people will pour them in on deposit, and in payment, "until the banks will be choked with them.— What outlet have they ? Sell them to. the brokers They will come back at once. Here then the redemption process be gins. The banks must send them home for conversion into legal tenders. This will be the greatest financial job ever undertaken in any country. When it is remembered that the banks are lo cated at different points from Maine to Kansas, some idea of this task may be. conceived ; but no one who has not tested it in practice can fully realize its. magnitude. But why not compel, these banks to redeem in New York 1— Yes, indeed, why not This is the proposition now before the proper Committee of the House of Representa tives. But it is not all plain sailing, even here. If the issues are allowed to redeem here at a discount, and the gov ernment may legally pay them out at, par, there will be some confusion, and a possibility of dissatissaction on the part of the public. If they are compelled to redeem at par they will find the task one of great difficulty, and in case of expansion, will all be broken in the first pressure. We throw out these hints as topics for thought and discussion. They are practical, and the questions cannot be evaded.—Yew York Journal of COM. 'Tierce. The Future of the Negro. The Springfield (Mass.) Republican, thorough Administration journal, says : " After the war the demand for their labor will determine the habitat of the negroes and all other questions connect ed with them." What a confession is this, that after the war the status of the negro will be determined! So the war which was to "settle the negro question" affords no. settlement at all. And this, no doubt, is the fact. By irrevocable laws, de creed by the power which arranged the various zones and tropics, the Southern States are mainly devoted to agricul ture, and under circumstances where competition from white labor is impos sible. Negroes are probably destined to constitute the great body of the la boring classes at the South for the fu ture. Any disturbance of this arrange ment must be artificial and temporary. Other questions relating to the govern ment of these black laborers, must mainly be determined by the respective. States in which they reside. The lan guage of the Republican seems to indi cate that this subject is receiving new light.—Jour. of Corn. Sugar Making. The present weather, frosty nights and sunshiny days, is favorable for sugar. making, and those who have "sugar camps" are now busily engaged in col lecting and boiling the sweet juice of the maple, and converting it into home made molasses or sugar. The busin has long been regarded as a sort of country amusement, but since the re bellion has doubled the price of sugar, there is profit as well as amusement, in maple sugar-making. The annual pro duct is now very large, and will no doubt be greatly increased during the present season. Hundreds of farmers, who never paid any attention to their sugar camps, further than to get a home supply, are now manufacturing for the market, and will• obtain a ready sale at good prices for all they can produce.— Every farmer in the country who has "sugar trees" on his place, shogld turn them to account, and thereby confer a benefit upon himself and tbie rest of mankind. Maple sugar is delicious, and we can't have too much of it. 13 `The political friends of the Ad ministraton prate continually about free dom, and yet they fear freedom's great est safeguard—free. open discussion be froe the masses. When they first be gan to discuss the merits of slavery, they deelfweil that the system must be evil because it shunned and feared pub lic discussion. Now this argument recoils upon their own heads. The acts, of this Administration must be evil be cause it shuns and fears public discuss ion. Good and honest men love the light of day, none but rogues skulk in the thick mantling darkness of the night. Hypocrites may prate and brawl, but be is the true friend of freedom who stands immovably in defense of its great bulw arks, sarWho does not see the shadow of death that is passing over our land?— That eyary day there is less sun ? That faith has perished, that love has perish ed, that union has perished, tnat all which made no happy at home, and great abroad, has perished I` What have we left I We have Mr. Lincoln, the negroes. the bastile, the Congress. God have mercy on us . Henry Ward Beecher and Fred Douglas! The fu ture ? Go not thou into its secrets, oh, my soul. II ..The type founders have inmedTa cir cular to all printers that they have raised•the price of printing material 25 per cent. Pa per-makers have raised the price of paper one hundred per cent. The reader will see that publishers of newspapers are not likely to become millionaires in a hurry under this sate otairairs. Tho only way to get along at all is to insist niers prompt - idttlernopt4 accounts.
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