CURRENT NEWS.
John C." Brockoniidge is to be President i
..t a Kentucky railroad. 1
There are sixty national bank directors
iu the House of Representatives. . |
The snow on some of tho Canada railroads
is 31 feet deep.
Miss Maria T. Han ford is a candidate for
Couuty Superintendent in Chester County,
By a chemical process, knife handles and
tine tooth combe, it is said are now made
from potato pulp.
There is trouble in a New Haven Pnblio
School on account of the violent whipping
of little boys by female teachers.
When stoves arc red-hot, the gases of
combustion, it is said leak through their
pure* like water through a sponge.
The Pennsylvania Canal along the banks |
of the Susquehanna is to bo made ten or
tit'teen feet wider and several f(>et deeper.
A bed of pure chalk has been found near
Omaha. Then tho State can make its
mark.
Cincinnati pork dealers made an aggre
gate of three million dollars by their opera
tions this winter.
The Rocky Mountain. Herald heads its
column of humorous and other paragraphs
"Noodle Soup," #
There is said to be a bookkeeper in
Norwich, Ct., who writes equally well with
both hands at the same time.
The Litest from Paris is about a l>eautifnl
youug lady without arms or log* who sews
MTIII embroiders with her month.
The public debt Statement for February
shows a decrease of 310,838,753, compared
with the January exhibit. "Small favors
thankfully received."
A little scliool-girl in Norwich (Ct.) gave
as the definition of tlie word happy—|*To
feel as if you wanted to give all your things
to your little sister."
The growls of the disappointed factions
in the Radical party are load and deep.
Grant is no longer, in their eves, the "savior
of the nation."
Grant's cabinet begins and ends with an
F.. B. Some radicals think this is because
it is an Egregious Blunder, others because
it is on Everlasting Bore.
The following rides are posted in a New
Jersey school-house: "No kissing the girls
in school hours; no licking the master dur
ing holidays."
The name of Miss Annit; Surratt appears
on the liot of applicants who passed ex
amination fur teachers in the public schools
of Baltimore a few days ago.
A curious statistician, has figured out
that the amount of money now in circul
ation in Illinois L- just three dollars to each
inhabitant.
If no untoward accident befalls a cotton
catc rpillar tly to-day, or her children, she
will be the mother of sixty-five thousand
million worms by the middio of October.
An Illinois clergyman on the way to ful
fill an "exchange" appointment, made an
exchange of carpet bags with some one,
and instead of two sermons found SBO,OOO.
Rochester, formerly the centre of the
wheat region, now pays twenty thousand
dollars annually for flour made from Wete
tern wheat.
The price of sugar having fallen two cents
at wholesale from the high prices they had
reached, consumers are correspondingly
glad.
The Chinese iu California number sixty
tw o thousand. Here will be a fine field for
the politicians to work upon when the fif
teenth amendment passes.
Reports from Washington announce that
the State Department is "literally besieged"
by office-seekers, desirous of concilating
the "man Washbume."
On the 4th inst., Hon. James G. Blaine,
(if Maine, was elected Speaker of the House
of Representatives for the Forty-first Con
gress, by a vote of 136.
Among the new post-roads in California,
we observe one "from Chico to Humbug
Valley." There ought to bo a large mail on
that route.
FACE THE MUSIC. —The radical Congress
and the radical President Grant have de
clared for Negro Suffrage. The sneaks in
Pennsylvania will have to face the music
on this question at last.
The municipal election in Georgetown,
D. C., has resulted in a Democrat victory,
the Democrats earring the city by 37 major
ity. Last year tlie negro vote gave the city
to the Radicals by a large majority.
The Friend, a Quaker paper published in
Philadelplun, complains that member* of
the Beet are served with notices to pay the
State militia tax. It advises them to resist
tlie demand as long as possible.
The largest man on record in modern
timet- was miles Dardena a native of North
Carolina, bora in 1798. He was seven feet
and six inches high. At his death, in 1857,
he weighed a little yver 1000 pounds.
As a flock of sheep were being driven
across the bridge at Danville a few days
ago, one of them jumped out of the window,
and, sheep like, the rest of them quickly
followed. The result was that eight of them
became food for tifih.
J. W. Frilling, who was elected chief
burgee • o? the borough ofSunburyin Feb
ruary, declines the honor, and P. M. Shin
die and A. N. Bnce are applicants for the
appointment to the vacancy by tho Govern
or
Kansas City lias a citizen of doubtful
sobriety, who being arrested, told the justice
that he* wasn't drunk by any means—he
had only been made dizzv by watching the
movements of a velocipede. He was let off
on the payment of costs.
The election in Now Hampshire on Tues
dav resulted in the success of the Republi
can candidates for State officers ana Re
presentative in Congress, as was to be
expected, but bv a majority barely exceed
ing half that which the State gave for
Grant and Colfax last November.
An lowa exchange vouches for the truth
of a statement that a lady in that village,
when quite a child, accidentlv run a splinter
in the thumb of her left hand, and was
astounded the other day by having a saw
_log, ten feet long and twenty-three inches
in circumference, jump from her heel.
Tlie trial of James Grant for the alleged
murder of 11. Rivee Pollard, the Richmond
editor, who hud published a scurrilous
article written by James Marshall Hann,
and full of false and slanderous accusations
against n young sister ol the accused, result
ed last Mot unlay in a verdict of "not guilty.
Ely Democrat.
HARVEY HICKL.ER. Editor.
' TUNK.HA.TfNOCK, PA.
Wednesday, Mar. 17, 1869*
DEMOCRATIC STATE COMMITTEE.
In obedience to tho desire of a majority thereof,the
Demoeratle State Committee are requested to meet
at Bolton's Hotel, Harrlsbnrg, on Tuesday, the 30th
day of March, 1886, at T% o'clock, p. u„ to tlx the
Ume of holding the Democratic State Convention.
WILLIAM A. WALLACE,
Chairman.
DAVID CALDWELL, Secretary,
Feb. 12,1888. '
Sympathy with Rebels.
The distinguished rebel, General James
Longstreet, has received from General
Grant the apointment to tho lucrative office
of surveyor of the port of New Orleans. In
this place he will not be long in recovering
j some of the loss his private fortune suf
fered in the war. If no negro
| nor Northern carpet-bagger conmbe found
qualified for this position it might he imag
ined that Grant conld have selected some
wounded Union soldier instead of this reb
el chieftain. It seems that Grant fully un
derstood what Longstreet meant when he
supported tho infamous reconstruction pol
icy, and has acted accordingly. Longstreet
has his reward. But this handsome recog
nition of the party services of the rebel
general has been made so suddenly as to
take the truly loil slightly aback. With
the exemption of General Lee, the I nion
cause no more Able enemy than Longstreet.
In the persistency and malignancy of bis
hostility, no rebel, not even Jefferson Da
vis, surpassed him. His treason to his
eountry ia made ingnlarlv odious by this
appointment.
When Wale Hampton and Forrest took
a modest and becoming part in the Nation
al Democratic Convention iu New York
last July what a howl all the truly loil did
set up over them 1 How thev will receive
this appointment of Longstreet remains to
be seen. If ho be fit to take an office un
der "a loyal administration, would it be
wrong to let a battered Union soldier like
Joe. Knipo, keep the place which he holds?
Sublimated loyalty will doubtless repudi
ate General Joseph F. Knipe, whose body
is covered with wounds received in the ser
vice of his country, and take to its bosom
General Longstreet, who is guilty of the
blood of thousands of Union men slain in
the war. Of such stuff is loyalty made !
General Breckenridge u little while ago a
fugitive under indictment for treason, and
General Longstreet courted and appointed
to lucrative office! Would there be any
harm now in Breckenridge becoming the
democratic governor of Kentucky, since
Longstreet has been made surveyor of the
port of New Orleans ? Can no one but
Grant take the stain of treason away ?
Patriot.
Forney Abroad.
This gentleman, of "my two papers,
both daily," Is trying to turn an honest
penny in North Carolina. He has bought
land in the rebel State, and wants North
ern men to come down and buy it at en
hanced prices. He writes letters to North
ern papers that even make old Greeley glad.
He has not seen a drunken man since he
has been in North Carolina, and has not
heard the slightest disturbance of any kind.
Of coarse not. We have no idea that there
ever was a drunken man in the State, or
that any Ku-Klux or rebel outrage was ever
parpetrated there from the beginning of
time. Forney, in "my two papers," lias
very often published accounts of very dia
bolical transactions in the Old North State,
perpetrated invariably by long-bearded reb
els upon saintly negroes, but this was be
fore he bought land down there. It is all
right now, and Northern men can just
corns along and buy the Forney lands and
sit down literally beneath their own fig
trees and Schuppernong vines, with none
to molest or make them afraid. Oh ! For
ney, Forney, yeu are a dirty creature, to.
be-*ure, but we can't say that you are any
worse than any of your brother Radical ed
itor*. for hire they, have all represented
the South as a land accursed of God, a
home of devils, and for hire, they will rep
resent it as a paradise.— Lexington Kentucky
Reporter.
J MRS. G RANT. —The Washington corres
pondent of a western journal has this to
| say of Mrs. General Grant:
"Few women ever bore the perilous test
of suddeiFfame and fortune with a more
'nearly happiness or more unassuming
grace. Is she pretty ? No. She is a roly
poly of a little woman, with beautiful neck,
hands and feet. Her features are well cut,
but her eyes were crossed. Some of her
friends wished to have them straightened.
"No," she said, "Mr. Grant hid loved her
ever since she was a little girl with her eyes
crossed. He said that she would not be
herself to him if they were straight. Crook
ed they should remain. If he was satisfied,
what mattered it to other people ?"
Judge Sharswood rendered a
dieision in the Boris vs. Trott case, to the
effect that coin contracts were valid, there
was a tremendous howl from Radical jour
nals. Now that the Supreme Court of the
United States has confirmed the views of
this distinguished Judge, these same jour
nals accept it as sound law, and see no lur
king treason in the decision.—Thus does
time vindicate, one nfter another, the great
principles laid down by the Democracv.
The time is coming when the people will
confess the superiority and wisdom of
Democratic statesmen, and entrust power
to Mr hands.
Suffrage Constitutional Amendment.
SPEECH OF
IiON. GEORGE W. WOODWARD,
OF PENNSYLVANIA, *
In the House of Representatives,
February 20, 18C'J.
On the joint resolution (S. It. No. 8) pro
posing an amendment to the institu
tion of the United States.
Mi:. WOODWARD. I wish to say a few
words to-day in behalf of tho people of
Pennsylvania. The Constitution of the
State of Pennsylvania of 1700 was silent on
the subject of negro suffrage. A diversity
of opinion and practice to a limited extent
grew up under that Constitution. In some
sporadic instances colored men were allow
ed to vote ; but at length the question came
before the highest judicial tribunal of the
State, and it was decided that the constitu
tion of 1790 rightly understood, never per
mitted negro suffrage.
That decision was based upon this ground,,
that the negro race never had become a part
of the social compact of this country, a
conclusion that was deduced from tho his
tory of the negro race, and their introduc
tion into this country as slaves. It result
ed very logically out of the great principle
of the Declaration of Independence, that
all just Governments should be founded in
the* consent of the governed. A subject,
inferior, ignorant, and idolatrous race, in
troduced into a country against their will
to be slaves, would be greatly wronged in
being treated as Laving consented to the
government, of that eountry. The African
race has never consented to the government
of this country. They are exotic, they are
alien, they are strangers to the Common
wealth. They were brought here in viola
tion of the laws-of nature ; they were thrust
upon us without their consent and without
ours ; and according to Pennsylvania law
they never became parties to the social com
pact upon which all our political institu
tions ale founded.
The people of Pennsylvania, penetrated
with these truths, which their judiciary
had thus recognized, amended in 1*37 their
constitution of 1790, and in defining the
qualifications of electors inserted the word
"white" before the word "freeman." This
was not only agreed to in llieir constitu
tional convention after greet deliberation,
but amendment was submitted, with other
amendments, to a vote of the people of
Pennsylvania. And, sir it is a part of the
history of the times that those who were
opposed to the reform of tin- constitution
were especially opposed to this amendment ,
because of the popularity which it gave to
the other amendments. I point the House
to the fact that the people of Pennsylvania,
thus through their judicial tribunals and
by their own popular elections, decided as
solemnly as it is possible for freemen to
decide that the negro race was no party to
the social compact and should not be ad
mitted to the suffrage.
Now, Mr. Speaker, that decree has never
been reversed. On the contrary, all politi
cal parties have recognized it and submit
ted to it. The republican party, as often
as they have been charged with intending
to take out of ttie foundations of our State
Government that corner-stone, have assert
ed that they were slandered ; that they in
tended nothing of tho sort. They have
pointed to the Chicago platform in confir
mation of their assertions. In consequence
of this disavowal they enjoyed in the last
election, and in alf*the late elections in our
State, a very large Welsh vote, which, I
tell them, they will lose from the day that
they force negro suffrage upon the people.
They hare enjoyed that Welsh vote by rea
son of their persistent and apparently con
sistent denial that they were for negro suf
frage. The Welsh do not like the Irish ;
there is a lack of congeniality between the
two classes on account of religion and other
causes. The republican party, while they
cannot carry the great body of the Irish
population, can carry a large proportion of
Welsh so long as, and only so long as, they
can persuade that people they are honest in
their professions against negro suffrage.
The effeet of the proposition now before
us is to" change the fundamental law of
Pennsylvania, to reverse the historic and
traditional policy of the .State, to introduce
into the politics of that great Common
wealth this alien, foreign, unnatural ele
ment, which down to the present time the
republican party have told the people nev
er was to be a part of their policy. I ask
of the gentleman from Massachusetts and
of this House that before this change of
policy be adopted the whole people of
Pennsylvania be allowed to pass upon the
question. What answer does the gentle
man give to this request ? He has answer
ed, sir, in your hearing, that ho cannot al
low the offering of an amendment looking
to that end because the Constitution for
bids him. I stand here asking the gentle
man from Massachusetts to do an uncon
stitutional thing, when I beg him to sub
mit his amendment to a vote of the peo
ple ! Well, sir, if the gentleman from
Massachusetts had never done any uncon
stitutional thing it would undoubtedly be
a very great sin in me to tempt him into
transgression. But, Mr. Speaker, let me
tell the gentleman from Massachusetts that
I asked him to violate no constitutional
provisions when I asked him to submit this
nmendment to the people of Pennsylvania.
And, sir, within live minutes after here
fused to entertain my proposition, he stood
in his pkee and declared, as the report in
the Globe will show to-morrow, that thi9
constitutional amendment was to be sub
mitted to the people of this country. I
' deny that.
j Its submission to the people, in the fair
! sense of the term, isexoctly what I demand.
The present legislature of Pennsylvania was
I elected last October. It was elected while
; the republicans were complaining that the
| democrats were slandering them in charg
ing them with intending to introduce ne
gro suffrage. That charge was declared to
} be a defamation upon the fair fame of the
republican party. And yet it is ko this
present legislature the gentleman . insists
submitting tho amendment A legislature l '
not only not elected to consider any such
subject, but elected in the midst of pro
fuse denials that such a subject was to come
before theni. On this question they do not
represent the people—were never chosen to
represent them. If the gentleman will say
that this legislature was elected to consider
this or any similar amendment I will give
up the discussion. Nay, I will give him any
thing I have to give if he will hazar d that
statement. But he will not, and the fact
must remain unchallenged that you are
about to call upon a body of representatives
to ratify your amendment who do not rep
resent the people upon this question. The
ratification might ju3t as well be submitted
to any other body of men—it might just as
well not be submitted at all.
What I proposo is, that tho amendment
shall be submitted to a legislature, tho most
popular branch of which shall be chosen
after this date, with tliis question before
the eyes of the people.
The gentleman from Massachusetts says
that is unconstitutional. Why ? Because
we cannot select the legislature to which to
submit our amendment. I deny his prem
ises. I say that the Constitution devolves
upon us the duty of selecting the represen
tative body to which we shall submit amend
ments. When I read the words of thoCon
stitution you will see lam right. It is as
follows:
"The Congress, whenever two-thirds of
both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall
propose amendments to this Constitution,
or on application of the legislatures of two
thirds of the several States shall call a con
vention for proposing amendments, whioh,
in either ease shall be valid to all intents
and purposes as part of this constitution
when ratified by the legislatures of three
fourths of the several States, or by conven
tions in three-fourths thereof, as the one
or the other mode of ratification may le
proposed by Congress."
There, sir, is the constitutional devolu
tion of tlio duty to exercise our discretion
as between the legislature and a convention
to pass upon amendments. The duty in
volves the power. If we must choose be
tween the legislature and a convention, we
may choose a legislature or a convention
elected last year, or to be elected this year.
The constitution does not shut us up to
legislatures now in session. We may take
any legislature that shall fairly and reason
ably represent the people. And the ground
'i n which I maintain that our discretion
should be exercised in favor of a future in
stead of the existing legislature is, that the
people may have a chance to choose repre
sentatives with a view to this question.—
What right laid the gentleman to say that
the amendment was to bo submitted to the
people ? It cannot be submitted to the
people by being submitted to the present
legislature. Nobody knows that better
than the gentleman from Massachusetts.
When you have matured the form of your
proposition, throw it before the legislature
■to be chosen next fall, and let the people
understand that when we democrats charged
you republicans with plotting for negro
suffrage we did not slander you, but spoke
oidy the truth. Put your amendment be
fore the representatives of the people
chosen after you have shown your hands,
and if they ratify it I will agree never to
raise my voice again in opposition to ne
gro suffrage.
Having said this much in behalf of an
amendment which the gentleman from
Massachusetts will not let me offer, I im
prove the opportunity to add a few more
thoughts on the general subject of negro
suffrage. I have shown the House what
has been the fixed petition of Pennsylva
nia in all times on this subject. For more
than thirty years all parties have acqui
esced in the rule of white suffrage. So far
as I remember no public man in Pennsyl
vania has proposed a repeal of the rule.—
Even the late Mr, Stevens, whose opinions
were extreme on all subjects, never brought
1 forward any measure to alter our constitu
tion in this regard. Ho would not sign the
constitution, us a member of the conven
tion. and no doubt he would have voted to
his dying breath to expunge the word
"white." So also, had he been spared;
would he have lifted up his eloquent voice
to perftuade the people of Pennsylvania to
change their fundamental law and give tht*
ballot to the negro; but, sir, I persuade
myself that ho would not have been guilty
of the insincerity and duplicity that have
characterized the conduct of the republican
party on this question. Having denied
again and again that this issue was in last
fall's election, Mr. Stevens would have said
with characteristic candor, the representa
tives then chosen do not necessarily repre
sent the people on this question, let it go
to the next representatives they may|choose.
Not only have all white men in Pennsylva
nia acquiesced for thirty-two years in the
rule of white suffrage, but so also have the
black men. I cannot recall a single instance
in which any representatives of that class
of our citizens have asked for a change.—
The colored people of Pennsylvania area
quiet, orderly, and respectable population.
They enjoy full protection of all civil rights.
Pennsylvania abolished slavery in 1780 by
an act whose preamble is often quoted to
attest her abhorrence of the institution,
but whose substantive provisions show that
she was no more unmindful of the rights
of sister States than she was of the rights
of the negro race. With us the negro is es
teemed according to his individual merits.
If he is industrious, sober and honest, he
is respected and patronized. I have many
friends among them, and cherishing only
the kindest feelings for them. lam inca
pable of doing anything in my representa- j
tive capacity to their prejudice.
But, sir, the ballot will be no boon to
them. The assertion that it is necessary to
the protection of their civil rights is false,
and, so far as Peunsylvania isconcerned, is
slanderous. The negro no more needs the
ballot in Pennsylvania for his security than
the woman do for theirs. The whoje kit
| tory of that grand old Commonwealth shows
tint the weak, the ignorant, the poor, the
| dependent have been eared for by her with
j a maternal Holieitnde. Look at her coui
'• mon schools, her colleges, her asylum* for
the blind, the deaf and dumb, the insane ;
! her hospitals for the sick, her houses of
correction for tho erring, her prisons for
the guilty, her laws for the poor, for mar
ried women, her system of intestacy.—
What can Christianity or civilization do for
tho lowly, the poor and the distressed that
Pennsylvania lias not done ? Who dares
to stand up and accuse her of robbing the
negro of his rights V Vho has the uudaei
ty to assert that tho ballot is essential to
the negro's safety and welfare ? Found
ed by deeds of peace, Pennsylvania has
been just to all men, whether red or black
or white, and he wrongs her grievously
who would undermine her institutions up
on the poor and false pretense that her
citizens of African descent are oppressed.
It is not so.
For though this amendment is uncalled
for eveu by the negroes of Pennsylvania,
and is subversive of our fundamental law,
it is supposed it will be a step toward uni
versal suffrage which gentlemen speak of
as a great and beneficient reform. I can
not help thinking, sir, that ach opinions
arc founded in a misapprehension' of the
nature of suffrage. Having 011 the former
occasion stated my views somewhat at
length on this head, 1 will not enter again
into the subject, but will content nivself
with saying that suffrage Is not a natural
right any more than any other municipal
regulation whi<-h exierience has shown to
be expedient. It does not belong to man
hood in the sense in which the rights of
life and lilierty do ; but it is a political
trust which the majority may bestow where
it will boat subserve the general welfare. —
It is a conventional as contradistinguished
from u natural right. Its bestowal, limita
tions, and exercise art; regalatetfny the
laws of convenience or expediency. The
question always ought to be, will a propos
ed extension of suffrage promote the peace
and welfare of the laxly-politic ? When
Louis Napoleon, in the roup'eh it that made
liiin a despot, decreed universality of suf
j (rage, he demonstrated how this benefi
! cient reform of which we hear so much,
could be made the instrument of an inex
j orable tyranny ; and the same reformer who
extended the basis of suffrage at Anthens
brought in with it the odious ostracism by
which tho greatest and best flfci of the
city are banished. These and many other
examples that might lx l cited ought to
reach us that when suffrage is hastened or
extended by force or fraud, instead of
growing up out of the experience of the
people, it is a curse and not a blessingr
Our written constitutions ure the out
cropping of our national life. Until lately
they were formed, not on the wild dreams
of theorists, but to rbeord the conclusions
of experience. What the common masses
have found to be good for themselves, they
have secured iu their constitutions. State
and Federal. Suffrage has been left to
each Stute to bestow or withhold according
to its discretion. Nowhere has it been ex
tended to women or minors or unnatnrid
ized foreigners. Why? If a natural
right, a God-given inheritance to manhood,
as it is Homctimes called, why should it be
withheld from these classes ? It is with
held from them on the same reason it is in
Pennsylvania withheld from negroes —ex-
pediency. Human experience has proved
that the trust could be best executed by ex
cluding these classes, and, as in all other
trusts, the selection of a trustee <>n the
ground of expediency is no affront to those
who are not selected. Everybody except
those strong-minded women, not just
representatives of their sex and "most ig
norant of what they are most assured,"
clamor for "women's rights," would prob
ably agree that it would be a degradation to
the female sex to involve them in the re
sponsibilities of the ballot. Universal ex
perience attests that they are not suitable
trustees ; and, therefore, by an almost uni
versal consent, they are set aside. The
reasons for setting aside tin* negro are
stronger and better than those which apply
to females. Between him and the white
man there is an ineradicable distinction that
must forever prevent that free, aocial inter
cenrso on which alone popular suffrage can
be based.
This distinction, if it bo not inflamed in
to hostility by bail legislation, does not
prevent the two races from dwelling to
gether harmoniously in the same commu
nity, assisting each other in the labors and
the charities of life, and contributing to
their mutual welfare. But when yon at
tempt to force then, social and politi
cal equality you inflame the passions of
! both parties and destroy the harmony of
their relations. Out of these conflicts the
weaker must inevitably come most dam
aged. It is impossible to provoke a con
flict between the African and tho_ Anglo-
Saxon races iu which finally the African
will not be worsted, For a while you can
force a sort of equality upon him by a
standing army and the Freedmen's Bu
reau : you can oppress your own fellow
countryman in the hope that the African
will keep you at the public crib, but as
surely as God has made intellect superior
to matter and the white man to tho black,
the country in which they dwell together
must be governed by white men. They
will not, they cannot, maintain a peaceful
partnership in this matter. Call it preju
dice or what you will, philosophize and
moralize upon it as you may, tho fact re
mains that one is black and the other is
white, and therefore they cannot co-oper
ate in exercising political trusts. Ido not
say that one may enslave the other— the su
perior may be compelled to respect the civ
il rights of the inferior race—but they can
not long be co-trustees of suffrage without
riots and blood-shedding- If the time ev
er comes that the political destinies of this
country, even for one presidential term,
are controlled bv negroes, it will be darkest
day that ever dwwared upon that unfortu
nuto race. May in hi* mercy to tliem |
and ns avert that (lay !
Now, sir, it is from considerations <>f *x
p.-dioncy that 1 oppose negro suffuse. It
is the good of the negro aa well tis of the ;
wliite muu that prompts my opposition. It !
is my desire tliat they may live together in
peace and happiness, as always heretofore
in Pennsylvania, that leads me to deprecate
this amendment. And eaj>eeially have, we j
in Pennsylvania a right to conplain when,
in violation of all precedent, of all coustitn_
tional law, of your own pftrty platform,
and of the peace of our Commonwealth,
you repeal our constitution without giving
mh a right to vote against your amendment.
If such a higli-handed wrong does not wake
up the people of Pennsylvania to the revo
lutionary schemes of the republican party ;
if they can be beguiled by fair tqw'ticlies in
to the support of such a measure as this ; if
they are ready to have the negro thrust in
to political partnership in contempt of their
solemnly recorded will, why then, sir, a sp-d
and siokenirfg degeneracy has come upon,
my native Stab', and, for the first time in
life, I shall blush to own herself my son.
Africa never so demeaned herself. The
hardly savages of the mountain slopes in
the interior of that continent never debased
themselves to the level of the Bushmen and
Hottentots of the Caj>e of Good Hoj>e.
No, no, sir, they could be torn from kind
red and homes by the cruel slave trader,
aud borne away to distant lands to be
slaves, but they never would, and never
did, voluntarily surrender to an inferior
tribe of their own race, much less to an iu
ferior race. And have we, proud Ameri
cans, so lost our ancestral tradictions that
we can no longer be inspired even by Afri
can example ?
We have seen in history the proud Bo
mans rofuaing citizenship to the most illus
trious aliens ; we havo seen the Goth and
Hun and Vandal trample Roman grandeui
in the dust ; we have glowed over the strug
glen between the Norman and the Saxon,
the Cavalier and the Roundhead, the Bri
ton aud the Scot, all of them jealous ot
their nationalities and ready to shed their
blood in defence of what they had inherited
from their ancestors. But uow, in this
nineteeth century, we are to be held up as
the first example in the world's history of a
great people surrounding political trusts to
one of the lowest and feeblest races of the
world's population, The Auglo-Saxou ot
American descent giving up the inheritance
whiufe has made him great to the African r
Not to the African in the wild freedom of
his native jungles, but to the enfeebled,
timid, ignorant descendant of a ce of
slaves ! And these are to be made voters
and law-givers, to be our judges and repre
sentatives. la there any profounder depth
of self-degradation than this ? If there be
I have not courage to explore it.
Sound on the Goose.
Josh Billings says the goose is a grass an
imal, but don't chew her cud. Tha II good
livers ; about 1 aker to a goose is cnufF. al
tho' there iz some folks who thinks 1 goose
to 175 akers iz nearer right. These two
calculations It so far apart, it iz difficult to
tell uow which will finally win. But i don't
think if i had a farm of 175 akers, awl paid
for, that i would sell it for half what it was
worth just becaze it didn't have but one
gooso on it. Geese sta well, some of our
l>est biographers sez seventy years, and
grow tuff to the last. Tha la one egg at
once, about the size of a goose egg, in
which the goslents lies hidd. The goslen iz
the goose's babe. The goose don't suckle
his young, but turns him out to pasture on
somebody's vacant lot. Tha seem to lack
wisdom, but R generally considered sound
on the goose. Tha R good eating, but not
good chawing ; the rezon of this remains a
profound secret to this da. When the fe
inail goose is at work hateliin, she is a hard
burd to pleze ; she riles clear up from the
bottom in a minnit, and will fite a yoke of
oxen if tha sho her the least bit of their
sass. The goose is excellent for feathers,
which shod every year by the handful.
Tha R infiibicuss Istsiiles several other
kinds of cuss. But tha II mostly curious
about one thing—tha can haul up one leg
injo thare body and stand on tuther aw 1 da,
and not tneh anything with thare hands. I
take take notis thar ain't but fu men that
can dew this.
PKorKoTioN Illustrated. The Wash
ington correspondent of the Cineinnatti
Commercial (Republican) publishes the fol
lowing piquant sketch of the protection
and its dupes :
Let me illustrate. I go, like an ass, in
to the axe-handle business. I find that it
won't pay. Axe-haudles can be bought
| cheaper in Canada than I can make them,
so I hasten up to Congress and state my
grievance. It Is a great interest, says the
depnlchral Kelley, and must be protected.
It is a great interest, echoes Moorhead,
Wdson, Sherman, Wade A Co. It is a
great interest, shrieks the Tribune el al ;
and forthwith a law is passed forcing every
man purchasing an axe-handle to pay mg
fifty-cents instead of twenty-five. This is
called a protection to American industry.
That is, it protects my industry at tko ex
pense of the wood-chopper. But theu he
hud no business to be a wood-chopper.
Why don't ho make axe-handles ? Serves
him right.
—i
PRODUCE MARKET!
Wholesale Price of Country Produce, Corrected Week
ly by BILLINGS • PIfILLIPS, Dealer, tft Dry
Goodt, Groceries. 4 c., 4 c., on Turnpike St (near
the Canal), Tunkhannock, Pa.
Apples, green,per barbel •1.00 13 • 1 .*25
Apples, dried 1 ft 0,10 •' 0,12
Besns, " .. 2,50 " 3,00
Beeswax, per ft 30 " 35
Batter, " " 40 " 42
Buckwhe&t, " bash 85 " 85
Corn, " " 9C " 80
Cggs, " do* 25" 25
i llay " ton 16,00 " 18,00
j Honey ' ft 12J" 16
Hides, " " 07 • 03
' Hard, " •' 18 • 20
! Pork, " • 12|" 13
i Potatoes, " bush 60 " 70
: Oate, "32ft 65" 70
| Oniottt, " " 1,25 " 150
" " 1.20 " 1.20
I Wheat, " '• l 2 ,00
I Poultry, per ft 10 ••••10
ipttial JJoticf.
THE LAHT CAM..
, All persons indebted to the undersigned are htri
| notidod that accounts unpaid on Ist day o[ A,.. '
, 18(10, will be lett In other hands for collection
Tunk. March 9, lseo. PALI, im.u.v is
C. PETUICK
3 CENTS REWARD.
1 Is offered for the return of a bound servant rr
! named Elizabeth Jones, she is about 12 year, old •
' away about the first of March. All person*
| hereby cautioned against harboring or trusting ne
on my account, as I shall pay no debts of her
trading. S. B. HULBERT "
Lovelton, Wyoming Co, Mar. 5, '69—n3l.
IN BANKRUPTCY.— In the matter of Andrews
Coiium, Bankrupt. In the District Court o! t-
United States for the Western District of Pennn
vania, ss.
To whom It may concern ; The undersigned hen
hy gives notice of his appointment as Assignee
Andrew S. Uollum. oi Falls, Wyominv ('ounty,
State of Pennsylvania within said District, who hi.
heen adjudged a Bankrupt upon his own petition t
the District Court of said District.
Dated at Towanda. this 10th day of March, A Ii
1869. J. N.CALIFF, Assigne.
VBn3l.
A HALL'S
&£b, J VEGETABLE SICILIAN
HAIR
BsaUba !R£NEW£R.
Is tbe only infallible Hair Preparation for
RESTORING GRAY IIAIK TO ITS ORIGINAL
COLOR AND PROMOTING ITS GROW TH
It is the cheapest preparation ever offered to tbs
public, as one bottle will last longer and accom
plish more than three bottles of any other prepara
tion.
Our renewer is not a Dye ; it will not slain the
jxin as others.
IT WILL Kf.r.V TBK HAIR FHOU KALLUici Ot'T
It cleanses the Scalp, and makes tbe Hair.soft.
Lustrous, and bilker.
Our Treatise on tide Hair sent free by mail.
R. P. HALL A CO. Nashua, N. 11. Proprietors.
For sale by all druggists.
For Sale !
Id NORTHMORELAND TP. Wyoming Co, P.
A SArf MILL, nearly new,with one MT'LAYSAW,
MILL, and a STONE TO GRIND CHOP.
is run by two WATER WHEELS—one over
-bot,
Also a DWELDING IIOCSK. nearly new, with
FIVE ACRES OF LAND, more or less
JACKSON KRESGE.
Nortbmorelaud, M tr. 2. '69. r3n3o-lin.
SUBPOENA IN DIVORCE.
Vary A. Ifotchkitf. by hor } In Common Pleat of
next friend Nelson Doolittle > Wyoming County, No.
rs Albert B. Hotcbkiss. Nov. Term, 1-6-
LIBEL FOR DIVORCE FfcOM THE BONDS OP
MATRIMONY.
I, Mows W. Dewitt, High Sheriff of the County '
Wyoming, hereby make known unto the aiote
named Albert B. Hotcbkiss, that he be and ppar
it a Court of Common Pleas, to be held at Tuuk
hanmck, in tbe County of Wyoming, on Mundiv
(he 19th day ol April. A. D. 1969, then and thirs
to answer the said rompiaiut, and show cau-e, if soy
he bath, whvtho bonis ot tnstrim.ny between 1
■ lf ••• ' Mary A Hotchkiss, his wife shall no! he
dicolred,
M. W. DEWITT, Sheriff
Sheriffs Office, Tunkhannoca, Mar. Ist '.'9-u3^ai
TEACHERS' INSTITUTE.
The Wyoming Connty Tcochors' Institu'e will
he heltl at Mehoopany. Tt will commence on M in
lay, March 29th, and" continue five days. The Leo
tslature, at its Session of 1867, made provision tar
holding annua! Institutes, to be devoted to the im
provement of Teachers in the science aaf art of ed
ucation . requiring tbe Treasure- of the proper Cour.
ty, to pay money out of tbe I ounty Treasury to the
County Superintendent—such money to be expended
in procuring the services of Lecturers, and Instruc
tors for the Institute. I hope that all Teachers,and
these intending to teach will attend, and -so profit
by the Institute as to fully justify the action of the
Legislature in making such provision.
J. B. RHODES,
Tuuk., Mar 1,'69 —n3O-w3. Co s up t
SELECT SCHOOL.
A Spring Term ol Select School,at MEIIOOPANV
will commenoe on Tuesday, the 30, of March, aid
continue Twelve weeks.
TERMS:
Common English Branches, $} (
Higher " " 5iX
French and Latin, each, 2,06
NANCY LYON
Mehoopany, Pa n3ow3
zurene.
[COSCBNTRATKD INDIOO]
FOR THE LAUNDRY.
It is warranted not to streak, or ia any manner
injure the fine-t fabrics.
"FOR FAMILY USE Sold in FIVE cent, TEN
cent, and TWENTY" cent boxes.
Each Twenty cent box, besides having Five time
as aiucb blue as the Five cent box, contains a picket
pin cushion or emery bag.
For Hotel and large Laundry u->e, it is put un ; n
S2 00 boxe.
See that each Box has the proper Trade Mirk.
For Sale by BILLINGS A PHILLIPS on Bridga
St. near tbe Canal, Tunkhanoock. Pa. vSn'dli*-
A VALUABLE
HO USjf AND LOT FOR SALE.
The undersigned offers for sale a HOUSE A LOT.
situate on Second St., Tunkhannock, Pa. adjoining
residence, formeily of Harvey Siekler, now owned
Ibv Benj. P. Carver. The property will be disp -vl
of
ON REASONABLE TERMS.
The home is a
Two Story Frame Building,
24 bv 32 feet, WITH WtNQ ATTACHED, 15 Iff
22 feet, 14 Stories high. A good WELL of
NEVER FAILING WATER !
and a LARGE CISTERN FOR SOFT WATER, tr
on the premises ; together with fruit trees eros
mental trees, Ac. There is a fine Cellar under tbe
building, The property constitutes a must desirsb -
home and will be
SOLD AT A BARGAIN'!
EW For further particulars, appl vto
THOS. OSTKRHOUr.
Tunkhannock, Pa., Jan. 13, 1359—n23-3in
DISSOLUTION.
Notice is hereby given, thai ihe firm of Fist:;. 1
Bros, has been dissolved by mutual consent .
nooks and accounts of said firm heae been left wi &
G. H. Eastman for collection and to whom all
counts against the firm should be presented tcr set
tlement The business will he continued by ' I'
Eastman, at the old stand Tho-e indebted 't ' f
partnership books, will please call and wil -'
out delay G II EASTM AN.
Tunk. Feb. 23d '69 n29. M. J. EASTMAN".
TO THE PUBLIC !
j The Subscriber proposes to keep, attar M> ' •
A PUBLIC TEMPERANCE
11 0 USE!
I
| for the accommodation of strangers and
at tbe house formerly occupied by John D, n- i-
CENTREMORELAXD.
ly The patronage of the traveling pub'
solicited.
WM SHARPS
vßn2Bmos3.
AUDITOR'S NOTICE.
The undersigned having been appointed Iff u
Orphans' Co Art of WyomiDg County, an audiU-r,
distribute the funds, in the hands of the Kie 'Ut" r
the estate of Solomon Brown, ilec'd , will "'i'p'y
tbe duties of bis appointment, at tbe office f r- •
Osterbout, Esq., ii Tunkhannock BOM., on batur:
April 10th, A D. 1869, at 1 o'clock, P
time and place, all persons interested in s-n-l ai
bution are requested to present their el \
debarred from coming in foru. share ot said
J. B. RHODES.
Tuuk. Kir. 13,1889-n32. AodlW-