c fvanktin tpooitor4. Wednesday. November 16,1865 WE have a dispatch from' a reliable source, dated New York, on Monday, - which says that "Gov. Curtin . has had a "violent attack of Siclutess, but this morn ing 'feels that the disease is yielding to ~.reittetlies." lie has been very danger ously ill for some days, but we trust ROW soon to be able to kinounce his recovery and return to the 'capital. • TERMS-CASIT THE REPOSITORY ASSOCIATION i 6 now cligaged iii ereeting alarge building, which is rendered necessary for its large business operations mid which will be creditable alike to the Association and to regener ated Chambersbarg. , lu 'addition , to the hope ordinary expenses required, in the publication of the paper, we have very huge exrainditures for building, and , we are compelled to demand prompt settle menb4rom our patrons. Bills have been rendered to all in ar rears-many of them small it is true; but however unimportant the amounts may theyto each individual, in the aggregate they swell up to thousands of dollars. We must now and henceforth enforce CASH PAY3IthTS, and trust that our Ja • trOns will at once respond to our wants., Our expenditures are more than doubled in every- department, and in sonic they are trebled since the war, and protracted credits cannot be allowed. No reasonable expense is spared_ to make the REPOSI TORY the best rural Union journal in the State, and its steadily increasing patron age assures us that it is appreciated by the loyal men of Southern Pennsylvania. 'ferms—CAS2l ! • SIIALL TREASON REGAIN ITS POWER! We are within a few weeks of the meet ing of the 39th Congress. Memorable as is the history of many in the past, none !Las ever equalled in moment—whether regarded as effecting the present or the •fitfure—the Congress to convene on the first Monday of December next. Various complex questions will demand solution at its hands; but the gravest of all will meet it at the very threshold of the ses sion. and units determination will depend much for weal or Woe to a Nation just res cued from treason by the matchless he roism and countless sacrifices of a loyal. people. ' Wberithg roll of the new,Congress shall have been called by the Clerk - , the Repre sentatives from all the States lately in re bellion against the government will de mand that their names be added so that they may : participate,in the organization of the House. Mr. McPherson, the Clerk —who is the presiding officer of the House until a Speaker is chbsen—will refuse to recognize the members from the seceded States, and on the determination of the inevitable motion to have the rebel names added to the roll, he will call onlyr the members whose States have maintained „their. fidelity to the Union, and thus sub-' mit the queltion to the deliberate consul ration of Congress. In this he has no al ternative. The law defines his duty, and he can but obey it. Were he to dritoth erwise he would commit a most flagrant usurpation, and. would predeterminelhe moat important issue to be decided by the coming Congrem. If lie should once place their names on the roll and call them On all questions arising in the organization, - we should Witness the marvelous spectacle' of a band.of rgbeis, fresh from their inglo rious fields, and murderous prison-pens, voting thems'elves into Congress and into power in tire government they had ex hausted thetuselVes in a vain effort to de stroy. We do not overrate - either the magnitude or the danger of the issue. Encouraged by the lenftcy of the administration, the Southerq members will be clamorous for their admission, and there will not be wafting those who will bend before a ,united South as in olden times, and yield to the pressure for their success. We shall hear much of fraternity and harmony; of brotherly love; of the ties of race and language, and it is not improbable that even at this early day,, with the blood of the Five Forks still unwashed from the soil of the Old Dominion, we shall have threats of tarkulence, discord and it may be disintegratiokif they are denied a voice in our highest legislative tribunals. For all this loyal Congressmen must be pre pared, for thus will the conflict come, and whether it shall be mighty or but a ripple on the surface, depends upon the fidelity . with which it is met. If there shall be fear and trembling, then will the appli ances of power and the thunder of lordly traitors gain ground daily, and the admis sion of rebel delegations into our National legislature will be but a question of a few weeks at most. - —Should tbey be admitted 3 We are jiot insensible to the fact that they are to form a part, and no unimportant part, of our regenerated Nation, and we concede that the time Must come. and we hope at an early day, when they shall justly re gain their proper position in all depart ments of the government. Because they have rebelled is not, in itself, a reason for their exclusion. If it were, they should be forever excluded. Nor can they he placed on probation until they think, fed and act on all quL4ions }is do the people of the North. They will ever cherish their heroes,. mourn their bereavements of their friends, and will not soon learn to love the hated eons of the North whose sterner qualities they proved so fearfully . for themselves on many battle-fields. To ask that they should forget their convic tions and their affections, before restoring them to power, would be to doom them to lives of dependence. But we must not be unmindful that Nye have just emerged from a terrible war—a war that has left ~its hundreds of thousands of untimely graves; that has staggered the Nation with billions of debt—a war causeless, wanton, wicked and most cruel ; forced upon en un willing people without recourse to the constitutional tedress for teal or imaginary giievatices, and a war which has tangible, logical results now patent to the civilized world. If these results were alike acceptable to all, then would imme diate fraternity in our National legislature be the first duty of the vindicated govern ment. But the deadly, desolating civil war of America does not differ from other great wars in having victors and van quished ; and it but;repeats the history of the arbitrament of the sword in all times past, in making up its results at the cost of the discomfitted. The North has .lost nothing in the great issues of the war; the South has lost everything it staked on the conflict. The North Las deep wounds to heal in broken circles, and its fall share of war's inexorable exactions, but it has won , the great principles for which it gave its noblest blood. The. South has no less sorrows to sohtee and has lost the issues it staked in deadly struggle. It is de feated, subjugated and bows sullenly to, hopeless disaster. It yielded nothing while the sword could be drawn in wrath; while man could meet man in bloody strife. A common Government, a com mon Nationality and a common Inherit ance, weighed as nothing in giving us peace. It was a surrender to the direst I necessity, and theY now come with life, property,-honor, citizenship, everything forfeited by treason—with nothing more to lose and everything to gain, whether little or much, in the work of restoration, Oand yet w from their leaders the, their representatives have unquestitihed. right to seats in Congress to determine the penalty for their own offences, and . to direct the destiny of the government they failed to overthrow. The results of this war are far from de fined and settled in the policy of the, go vernment. Slavery has been abolished by the war we are told. How i If the - -States are in the Fnion, and ever were, then was Emancipation a monstrous usur patioe, unless accomplished by constitu tional amendment, and if they are sover eign States in the Uniom so that they are entitled to representation without ques tion, then are their provisional Governors usurpers, and the ?residential instructions that they must alxilish slavery, repudiate debt, &c., the work of a dictator and con fronting the very geniusof our institutions. We accept the destruction of slavery-as one of the logical, inevitable results of the war; but how arid upon what terms is it abolished ? Georgia demands compeusa- tion for slaves; so does Louisiana, and so would all if they sacrificed discretion to truth. It will be for Congress to deter mine whether slavery shall fall as alegit imate fruit of treason's war, or whether it shall be compensated and the Nation give still millions more to compromise with its crowning crime. -Who should determine this grave question ? The North whose valor fairly won the result ? or the South who made the war tbr slavery and lost it ? The South comes professing no surren der of principle. It justified the war on the plea of State rights, and yields not its 1 favorite fallacy in demanding admission. Shall this question remain, as heretofore, a stumbling block for honest men, and a stepping stone for future traitors to inau gurate fresh discord and probably future war I It' riot, who should, dud who must, adjust the question for the safety of the Nation ! Should the friends or the foes of the government devise the measures necessary to avert war and preserve the Nation's life by peaceful menus? It is confessedly wisdom to leave no important questions open to latitude of construction for present or future traitors, and who should judge the remedy'. Those who in their - richest blood and with boundless treasure maintained the right? or those who deluged a continent in gore to over throw its authority 1 Our debt is crushiug ; it weighs heavily upon the loyal millions who cheerfully incurred it-for government and law ; but it is an accepted law of war that its authors may be made to bear its fullest burden. Such was the policy of this government in the revolution as ap plied to traitors, and in the last war with England ; such was the policy of treason's go vernni ent,which relentlessly confiscated tire property of every loyal man North and South that it could reaeh, and such was the deliberate enactment of our own Con greis4. In the South every claim due the North, and the property of every loyal man was confiscated. Real estate may now be restored, but who is to restore the millions of dollars plundered from loyal citizens in the South which perished in its use ? Shall restitution to such be made from the property of those who inaugur ated the war I Shall it be done from our common treasure, or shall it not be done at all ? . These inquiries are yet to be'an swered by the, highest legislative power, and who shall , decide them ? Shall the men who made the war and the debt; and who Were instrumental in the spoliation of loyal citizens in the South, become judges in Congress in the adjudication of these momentous questions f Our Con gress has solemnly enacted, as a punish ment lor treason, that no traitor shall sit in our National legislature—that none but such as can affirm that they have not aid , ed or abetted the rebellion can be quali fied as members. The strict enforcement of this law would exclude every Southern member elect.. -Should they be admitted in violation of the law and aid iti the de termination of the issue whether this pen alty for treason should be revoked T If treason is thus to sit ill judgment upon treason, where will be the penalty' for crime I—where the reward for virtue? Our organic law may prive to be defec tive—unequal to the preservation of our great National compact; and to whom should be entrusted the responsible duty of adjusting it to heal a country's-woes? Surely not to those who have ever strug gled to weakea and subvert out great charter and ended their perfidy in revo lution. There are billions of rebel debt. Shall it be paid in part or in whole ? There are thousands upon thousands of rebel maimed and scarred, won with a heroism worthy of a better cause, and there are other thousands of bereaved mothers, who would have irresistable claims upon the generosity of a govern ment to which they had been faithful? Shall they be pensioners upon our common treasury ? These are issues which trea son does not flaunt upon its banner as CA Iranian' firpostiotp, 41.4ambersbuts; it thunders at the doors of Congress; but they must be met, and who shall meet the& If met by united delegations of rebels from the Southern States, with their concentrated power to appeal to ambition, well may the patriot ilespair of the Re public. —Let no Union roan from Penn'sylvania presume so much upon a faithful coptit uency as to hazard every issue of the war by the admission of the rebel delegations into Congress. They come in pursuance of no law; the offspring of a provisional organization that is but a petition to Con gress for acceptance; and we owe it to the - faithful people who have maintained the government; to the hundreds of thousands of our martyred heroes who were sacrifi ces upon the altars of our liberties; to the hopeful living who are stricken in their holiest affections by the madness of trea son; and above all do we owe it to the fu ture peace and harmony of a mighty Na tion,.that every issue of the war shall be definitely and irrevocably adjusted;• that its full fruition shall be fixed as-the stars in the spheres, before one faithless repre sentative of a faithless State shall sit in judgment on Freedom's noblest_struggle for mankind ! THE PARASITE'S EULOGY. The chief Editor of this journal has achieved the most enviable distinction of having been elaborately denounced by both the 'Harrisburg Tapers within the space of ten days, and he hopes that the credit he has thus won shall not soon be wrested from him by the fatal praise of either of the tlindicant journals which have so long disgraced our capital. If in an evil hour we should resolve upon polit ical suicide, their blistering commendation can be had at any time, in any degree of extravagance, and at rates within the reach of the humblest means. A few weeks ago the writer hereof call ed on President Johnson. He was not an obtrusive visitor. He did not go to make apologies. to seek honors, to beg for emol uments, to give unbidden counsehtTor did he go to plead that the wishes of his peo ple should be.defied to make him the re cipient of official favor. Just why lie went, or how he came to be there, is no matter. When there he discussed with the frankness of manhood such questions as were agreeable to his company. On some points there were differences of sen timent expressed with 'equal candor by„ both, and on others there was entire eon= cordance. The main features of that con versation were given in an Editorial letter in these columns, in which the same frank ness was maintained that characterized the conference. It was so given for truth's sake, mid also because it is ever a matter of public interest to know the views of an Executive when grave questions are agi tated and demand solution. Had we been the village post-master, with four-fifths of our citizens desiring our removal, pro bably we should not have said and pub lished what we did; but being a stranger to that_ measure of both greed and con tempt, this journal stated the simple truth at, the President means it shall be under stood This letter is made the pi (-text by the Telegraph for a gross perversion of its statements and tone and a column of scur rilous abuse of the writer. It assumes, that we have assailed the President's policy, when we have merely adhered to the opinions this journal has uniformly ex messed since the close of the war, as to the treatment of traitors, in which we have ever fallen far short of the vengeance de manded by the Telegraph. Hitherto it Ice. teemed with vengeance and only ven geance to the subjugated people of the - rebel States. It has demanded life, pro perty..honor and citizenship to be surren dereetts the penalty for treason; but now it learns from this journal that its persist ent demand for wholesale ostracism anti wide-spread slaughter are at variance with the views of the President, who has chang ed his convictions, and forthwith it reviles us for stating the truth and pleads the cause of treason with a mendacity only equalled by its former thirst for blood and confiscation.! It elaborates the privations and the virtues'of traitors. With mingled stupidity and cowardice it cries that the punishment of rebels " is already greater "than that suffered by a ny people for a sim "ilar offence!" and it bends the suple knee in the face of its low appeals to prejudice to swell the current of Northern hate in adjusting our difficulties, and would kiss , the'lash of the lordly traitors, whenbidden by its masters or its fears. We do not claim for this journal that it rivals the Telegraph in endorsing the President. We shall endorse his admin istration, as we endorse every other pub lic man or measure—when consistency and right depend it. We censured him months ago, as did every other- Union journal of diameter, and would do so again under similar circumstances. The Telegraph did not, lest its pursuit of plun der and precarious official honors should suffer thereby. It approves because it dare not do otherwise. If vengeance be demanded, it is for vengeance ; if concilia tion, it is for conciliation. It clings to of fice in defiance of the popular will, while a brave soldier with scars and stars hero ically won, although sustained by the people in overwhelming numbers, is thrust aside in obedience to,the impera tive demand of its masters. The-soldier who has aided to win his country's de liverance shivers at the outer door of fa vor, while the pampered parasite Weis within. We envy not the little success it gains by meanly reflecting others hatreds and jealousies, and in imbecile, contradic tory sentences weaving awkward false hoods against all who maintain their man hood. ,Its infamy is its own and fairly won, and as it is harmless only' in its as saults, we thank if for the tribute its groveling malice has paid us. One year . ago, when the Union candidate tbr the legislature, we encountered the impotent 'opposition of its proprietor„ who in that, as in all things, but obeyed the master's behest; but then as now its hostility was the surest precurser of success, and the highest vote cast for any one ou the tick et was given for the editor of this jour nal. When - the Telegraph's ostensible proprietor or those who use him for their meaner purposes, attain one position with the high seal of popular favor, instead of crawling or climbing to place in insolent defiance of the people, we shall join in awarding them all the credit 'they have achieved. Until then however, there would be fitness in persistent and obnox ious place-hangers and plunderers letting - those alone who seek no honors but at the hands of their constituents. LIVE THE REPUBLIC! The elections of the 7th inst. present one overwhelming wave of Union tri umph. - Not an Executive, not a legisla ture, not an important' officer of the op position-was chosen in any of the States which voted—the last elections of the year 1865 but consummating what all pre vious ones were _steadily effecting—the universal discomfiture of the so-called De mocracy-. In New York Gen. Slocum—a man who had been the recipient of polit, ical honors from the Republican party— was tempted to treachery to himself and his cause by the proffer of a Democrati nomination for Secretary of State—anom ination tendered him by the same "friends" who crimsoned New York with lawless ness to defeat the conscription of men to fill oar then sadly shattered armies fr in which Gen. Slocum held an important command. To delude the people more effectually, they placed the Republican Controller on their ticket also ; endorsed President Johnson, and their orators and journals from day to day declarediffin in syrupat4 with them and desiring, their success: but the people of New York; faithful in war have ,been no lesafaitlifid in peace, and they respondt*te the is sue by giving more ; than ,qUadruple the majority for the Union" ticket given for Mr. Lincoln last .yri►r. Thus have gone down in the.Empite State the weak and 'temporizing, the corrupt and faithless in a common grave. They made but two sites distinctly before the people—the sup port of President Johnson and the imme diate admission of the Southern represen tatives as his favorite policy. Will they accept the verdict as forced by them selves ? Massachusetts,' \Wisconsin, Nlinnesota and New Jersey all' elected Governors on the same day. In Massachtisetts A. 11. Bullock (Union) defeats Gen: Couch about three to one; in Minnesota .Wm. R. Mar shall (Union) defeats Rice by a large ma jority, and Lucius Fairchild (Union) is cho sen in Wistonsin by a decisive vote. In New Jersey, the only Northern State that has . hitherto adhered to the waning for tunes of the Democracy, the Union men have at last triumphed by the election of Ward (Union) as Governor by some 3,- 500 majority. and a Union majority iu botit branches of the legislature—thus securing the ratification of the constitu tional amendment abolishing slavery. It Illinois the vote was for local °deers only, but the Union men have made large gains, and in Maryland they elected a solidllniitm legislature and one Union member of Con greSS to:till a vacancy. —Such is the: verdict of the Nation ! Behold its tribute to Truth, to Union, to Law, to. declared from the opening of the year. with treason still in deadly array against the government, to its close, when it yielded the sword to win its way to power through Democratic success at the polls. Thus have the people, ever faith ful in the darkest days with which treason shadowed the Republic, vindicated their country's cause with the dawn of peace, and declared million-tongued that the dearly won and deeply crimsoned fruits of the war shall not be marred or blotted in our history. It is au admonition as grave as it is decisive to rulers and to people, to patriot and traitor, to the faith ful and perfidious/ that to loyal Men, and No them alone, shall the destiny of the Nation be comm tted until treason be comes powerless to reverse the verdict of the sword which it chose as its arbiter. Let all accept the verttict, for it cannot be disregarded with impunity. Let it be obeyed in the calm, determined, faithful spirit in which it has been given by a IoY-. al people, and the perils of peace will fade away as have faded the terrible clouds of war. Live the Republic! KOONTZ %S. COFFROTH Owing to the flagrant disregard of the law by certain Democratic return Judges in this Congressional district, General Koontz's name is omitted from the Gov ernor's proclamation certifying to the list of members of Congress elect from Penn sylvania. Gen. Coffroth is also without the formal 'recognition of the Executive proclamation, and the certificateOn which he relics to give him his scat entirely (units the vote of Somerset county. where a ma jority of over 600 was cast against him. llis friends, in insolent disregard