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Remarks of Hon. C. M'Candless,
Senator from the Jhitlcr District, on the
Bill Providing for the. Payment of In
terest in Legal Tender Notes.
Mr. M'CANDLESS. Mr. Speaker, in
the course of this discussion, it has seem
ed tome most extraordinary that Senators
on the other side of the floor, instead of
discussing this question fairly and proper
ly, have made it the occasion for a tirade
of abuse against their own Government.
We have heard nothing from that side of
the chamber, since this discussion com
menced, but abuse of the Federal Gov
ernment —anything to weaken the Feder
al power and give strength to the enemy.
Senators on the other side begin by foot
ing up figures in reference to the national
debt, and they come to the conclusion that
the national debt is great! Hut, sir, if
the national debt is great, do they desire
that the interest on the State debt shall
be made larger than it now is, by the fool
ish mode of legislation that they propose.
They tell us that the debt of the Federal
Government is enormous. The Senator
who has just spoken tells us that, in addi
tion to the State, national and other debts,
the amount his district would have to pay
of it. would be six millions of dollars, and
that their entire assessed valuation is sev
en millions. Thus leaving only one mil
lion unmortgaged ; and yet that Senator,
and all the Senators on the othcrside.with
one or two exceptions, vote against this
bill. Notwithstanding that they cry out
that the property of the State is mortgag
ed, they desire to mortgage still further
the State of Pennsylvania, and to throw
upon her an additional million of dollars,
front which wo have it in our power to re
lieve her. The tax payers of this Com
monwealth will bold us to a strict account
ability for our action here. We have it
in our power to pay the interest on the
State debt in the legal currency of our
country, made such by a power that can
not be doubted—a power which has been
tested in the highest legal tribunals in the
land, and determined to be constitutional.
Yet, when we propose to pay the State debt
in this currency.*they tell us, no—the
Federal debt is too great. Why, sir, that
is the reason the State debt should bo less;
and, instead of making it less, they arc
Attempting to heap on us more than a
million of dollars in the coming and every
.succeeding year. Strange and fallacious
argument! They do care about the
debt of the National Government; their
•desire is to sink Tier in a hopeless debt.—
If they saw their Government robbed be
fore their eyes, they would say amen to it!
It has been alleged that the payment
•of the interest of the State debt in the
currency of the country would be noth
ing short of repudiation. Now, sir, why
is it repudiation'! The legislative power of
the United States under the Constitution
has the right to make a legal currency,
and change that currency when they
•choose. They have given us a legal cur
rency which wc arc bound to consider as
good as that which it took the place of;
and yet they refuse to allow us to pay our
creditors in that currency, because the
Legislature of 1840 passed a resolution
that the indebtedness of the Government
should be paid in coin. How could the
Legislature of 1840 bind the action of
this Legislature here today? What pre
vents us from repealing the act of the for
mer legislature ? Nothing. Are there
any vested rights under lliat act bcyoud
which we cannot go? After this debt of
the State was created, provision was made
for the payment of the interest on it, and
that Legislature for sonic reasons best
known to themselves, declared that the in
terest falling due on Pennsylvania stocks
■sfrall always be paid in-specicor its equiv
alent. They also declared that the credi
tors of this Commonwealth should be paid
in specie or its equivalent; yet all the cred
itors of this Commonwealth to-day are
rightfully and justly paid in the legal cur
rency of the country —the United States
treasury notes. Why is it, sir, that we
receive our compensation as meuibers.and
all the public servants of this Common
wealth receive their compensation in this
currency, while these capitalists or bond
holders should be preferred above all oth
er creditors, and, in additiouto their oth
er privileges, have their notes paid in gold ?
And here I may jugtsaytfcatl believe that
if the State treasurer had acted wisely and
judiciously, he had the- power, under the"
Federal law making United States trcasu-
AMERICAN CITIZEN.
ry notes a legal tender in payment of all
debts, when our friends on thatsideof the
chamber prevented our passing this bill
into a law before the first of February
last, to hand over United States treasury
notes to those capitalists, and thus have
saved the taxpayers of thisCommonwealth
about 1600,000.
It was also said by another Senator on
that side of the floor that it was an inva
sion of constitutional rights for the State
of Pennsylvania to make this currency a
legal tender. The Legislature of Penn
sylvania does not make this a legal tender.
The legislative power of the United States
has made it the legal currency of thu
country, and we do nothing but adopt the
legalized currency of the United States
when we propose to pay the interest of
our State debt in it. If they believe that
the faith and credit of the State could be
pledged by the Legislatureof 1840—hav
ing some most supereminent qualities pos
sessed by no Legislature since—why do
they not inaugurate some financial system
by which these bonds will be redeemed,
and create a new loan on an original ba
sis, with a contract to pay the interest as
it accrues in the legal currency of the
country ? Why, sir, because they wish
to find fault with the State and National
Government. If they can find fault,that
is all the part they desire to take in this
great struggle. Since the commence
ment of the war, until the present time,
they have supinely folded their arms and
allowed the Republican party to bear the
brunt of this struggle; and all they have
found to do has been to carp at the acts
of the Federal Government, and keep an
account of what the war costs, and since
the State Government has got entirely in
to the hands of the Republican party. to
find fault with their acts. This appears
to boMie peculiar sphere of Senators on
the side oi the floor, and the party
tKey represent All the denunciations
which should have been hurled against (
the rebels and traitoi's, are reserved for
Salmon P. Chase and Abraham Lincoln, I
and those on whose shoulders the Govern- |
mailt of the United States has devolved
at this fearful crisis.
Now, the question is merely, will the
State of Pennsylvania pay their creditors
in the legal currdicy of this country ' —
And I say that if the Legislature does nr t
pass this law. and pay her creditors in le
gal currency, involving a saving of more
than a million of.dollars annually, the peo
ple will hold them to an accountability,
and the party in power will be hurled j
from their position. That great party |
which in 1861, under the leadership of
their great commander, James,Buchanan
handed to us two governments instead of
one—tho rebel Government and the Gov
ernment of the United States—wants to get
back into power again. They desire to
crush us finally, in order that their breth
ren in the South may succeed. Senators
have made threats that they will bring us j
back to Constitution and laws. We refer
them to the 4th of April, 1861, and ask |
them in what condition they left their j
country when they handed it over to Mr. j
Lincoln and the present administration.— J
Buchanan came into power with peace and :
plenty all over the land, and through his
imbecility handed over to his successor
two governments with a fearful revolution
inaugurated. They said that they had no
power to coerce seceded States, and to-day
when this Administration has taken a vig
orous hold of the reins of Government,
and is crushing out this vile rebel confed
eracy which was the creation of theirpar
ty, they sit down and wail over it, and
count the cost. When a man of honor
sees his house consumed and his family
dishonored, docs he sit down and count
the cost of punishing the fiend who ho s
thus violated his peaceful hearthstone ?
Yet these gentlemen, leaving the Repub
lican party to carry on the war, sit down
and count how many dollars and cents.it
is going to take in order that this Govern
ment may be successful in crushing out
the rebellion. If it only costs them six
ty-six dollars, to a man, I suppose, they will
agree to have the rebellion crushed ; but
if it should cost seventy dollars, they will
all allow the rebellion to succeed and our
great and glorious Government to be de
stroyed? 1 think, sir, when the life of
the nation is at stake, when the question
lies between liberty and slavery, for our
selves and our posterity, it is too nice a
calculation —too nice a question for the
calculation as to how much it will cost to
maintain the glorious liberties of oureoun
try. It is too close a calculation, sir, and
I think it insults manhood to make it.—
Every loyal heart says to the Federal Gov
ernment, " If it mortgages every acre we
have, we will give all our acres, all our
houses, all our lands ; yea, all our lives, to
hand down to our posterity a free Govern
ment; and our posterity will thank God
that they had such nobie ancestors."—
Bat if they had an ancestry that wold
"Let us have Faith that Right makes Migtrt; and in that Faith let us, to to do our duty as we understand it"-A. Lwcour
BUTLER, BUTLER COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1864.
sit down and figure up that it would cost
eventy dollars for freedom and only sixty
six dollars for slavery, and then choose
slavery because it costs the least money,
would curse their mean and penurious an
cestry. I say, sir, that this matter in re
lation to the policy of the National Gov
ernment is only dragged into this ques
tion. It is only an attempt, on the part
of these Senators, to. assail their Govern
ment, that protects their firesides and their
families, and will guarantee for them and
their posterity freedom now and forever.
Now, sir, the only question here is, it is
the policy of this State to pay her public
servants and all her creditors in the legal
currency of the country, or to pay gold
instead of that legal currency to a ki id of
aristocracy holding the State debt? I
think, when the constituency of those gen
tlemen examine this question, they will
tell them that they consider themselves
misrepresented on this floor. When we
hate a clear right to do it, it is certainly
the policy of the State to pay one dollar
instead of paying something like one dol
lar and sixty-four cents. I say, sir, that
it would be madness—it would be folly—
for us to fail to pass a law which gives the
right to pay this interest in the legal cur
rency of the country. If the Senators
are in earnest, and willget upsome finan
cial scheme by which these bonds might
be redeemed in legal currency, and new
contracts made, I will suggest to them a
scheme by which it maybe done at a low
er rate of interest than that which they
pay in gold to-day—one that would relieve
them from the necessity of what they call
repudiation. We can change the system
if our conscience smites us; we can re
deem the bonds in the ljjgal currency of
the United States, issuing new bonds
bearing, perhaps, a lower rate of interest.
Believing, sir, that the party in power
will not foolishly and recklessly lay an
additional amount of debt of over a mil
lion of dollars upon the taxpayers, toplease
the bond holders, or any one else, I know,
that the bill before the Senate '-v ill and
ought to pass ; and we can say to Senators
on the other side, when we meet them
again at the polls, if you had the power in
1804, on the floor of the Legislature, you
would have put an additional debt of one
million of dollars annually upon the peo
ple of this Commonwealth : but you fail
ed because you had pot the power.
81-TLEK'S NARROW ESCAPE. — A
Washington letter to the New York
Time «, dated Monday, contains the fol
lowing item of interest.
"A bearer of dispatches from Maj.
Gen. Butler to the President arriv
ed this afternoon, and he subsequent
ly made a statement in presence of
the Joint Committee on the Conduct
of the War and the Senate Military
Committee. lie stated that on Sat
urday last, Beauregard, with 7,000
men, made a surprise attack upon
Gen. Butler about ten miles from
Richmond. So . sudden and unex
pected was the encounter that Gen.
Butler himself narrowly escaped cap
ture. Indeed his own orderly was cap
tured within sixty yards of him. The
command being in readiness, it quick
ly passed t froni thejdefensive to the of
fensive position, and the enemy were
most signally defeated. The bear
er of dispatches gives it as opinion
that Gen. Butler having already cut
off" Beauregard, will be in Richmond
at an early day, and before either
Lee or Grant can reach here.
ANECDOTE OF GEN. MCCLELLAN. —
Col Metcalfe, of Kentucky, made a
radical Union speech at a public meet
ing a few days since, .at which he re
lated an anecdote of Gen. McClel
lan, showing how he regarded the reb
el leaders. He says:
I got my eyes opened on that
young Napoleon in the spring of 1861.
i went to see Gen. McClellan, and
in the course of the conversation I
said to him that Jeff. Davis was a
scoundrel and repudiator. He (Mc-
Clellan) straightened himself up
quickly and said: "I do assure you,
sir, that you are mistaken. Jeff.
Davis is a perfict gentleman, and
will not do anything unbecoming a
gentleman." Well, if a traitor, con
spirator, thief, repudiator, and .civ
il devil, who is instigating all this
murder is his beau ideal of a per
fect gentleman, I hope our coun
try may never be cursed with his
standard of morality and virtue at the
head of affairs.
WAR SOUVENIRS. —The famous oak
tree under wihch Generals Grant and
Pcmberton met and agreed upon the terms
for the surrender of Vicksburg on the 3d
of July last, has been cut to peices by sol
diers who wish to obtain souvenirs of the
memorable event. Not satis-fied with ap
propriating the trunk and branches, they
have burrowed into the earth and seised
every root which could he secured, as rel
ics. Persons who have in their possession
even a small piece of this wood priie it
highly.
A FACT— next month is June
For the Citizen.
PASSING AWAY.
We're pawing rapidly away !
B<-hold, that beauteous rose, —
Tho' " Queen of flow'in," seems to say,
" My life is near Its close."
It lifts its bo<om, pure»nd tilr,
Emitting fragrance nweet,
And smiles to feel the morning air—
The morning ray to greet;—
K'ut soon the winds begin to roar
O'er mountain, field,and lawn;
The frost descends with Angers hoar—
Tho lovely rose is gone!
Thus childhood's sunny hours flit by,
And, on their dazzling wing,
Their Joyous smilei and feelings fly
Away, like flow'rs of spring;
And in their morning witchery,
Departs youth's golden dream;
While Pleasure, in her treachery,
Vails e*'ry glitt'ring beam.
The best affections of the heart
Must feel the fatal blight;
And from our fond embrace must part
What gave us most delight;—
And then the sorr'wing heart will leave
To ponder mournfully,
And o'er the urn to brood and grieve
Of hallowed memory.
We're passing rapidly away I
And each successive hour
Will ultimately bring the day
Of Death'B relentless pow'r.
The loved aud loving ones we see
Born to the silent tomb ;
Our dearest idols fall, and wm
Are wrapped in cheerless gloom. •
We, in the dim and death-glazed eye,
See the cold, parting tear;
We catch the latest, feeble sigh,—
The trembling " Farewell, dear!"
We, for the last time, fundly kiss
• The pallid, icy brow ;
But there is no return for this,
And all is silent now !
All that remains of them to us
Is but a little mound,
Where they, at last, in silent dust
A resting-place have found.
All earthly bsppiness, alas!
Is fleeting, poor, and rain;
And mortal pleasures, when they pass,
Leave naught behind but pain:
Our loved ones, like the transient dew,
But for a momeut g!'-nm ;
And then forever leave our view,
Like to a cherished dream:
fbrever, did I say ? O, no!—
Hope |ix>ks beyond tho tomb, —
A glorious Immortality
Dispels the sullen gloom. fl. M.
~WIT AUD WIBDOM.
Gratitude —the memory of the heart.
GREAT opportunities are generally the
wise improvement of stfcill ones.
PROMISING MEN. —Those who promise
and forgets to pay.
DR. FRANKLIN used to say that rich
widows are the only pieces of second-hand
goods that sell at prime cost.
IT is not difficult to account for the
courage of the rebels. Being reduced to
skin and bone, they can shrink at nothing.
" MY Lord," said the foreman of a Welsh
jury, when givi-ng in their verdict, "we
find the man that stole the marc not guil
ty."
"1 think I now see a new /ee-ture in
this case," as the lawyer said when his
client informed him that he had plenty
of money.
GEN. GEO. W. BICKLEY claims in his
diary to have been the father of the re
bellion. We hear nothing about its moth
er. In truth it never was worth a dam.—
Prentice.
A PATLANDER, angling in the rain,
was observed to keep bis line under the
arch of a bridge. Upon being asked the
reason, lie replied,—" Buro an' won't the
fishes be crowdin' to keep out uv the wet?"
AN impudent anonymous correspond
ent, signing himself "Nod Bucket," ex
presses the wish that we were dead. Very
well—let him show himself in person,
and we pledge ourselves to " kick the
Bucket."
ARTFUI, DODGER. —There is a lady in
Cincinnati who amuses herself, when so
inclined, by throwing tumblers, tea-cups,
shovel and tongs, and the boot-jack at her
husband's head.
The husband has become a proficient
dodger, and he doesn't mind it much.
A IIIBERtNIAN sergeant was drillingan
awkward squad of volunteers, and spite
of his efforts failed to bri.ig them into n
straight line. At last, outof all patience,
he cried out, —
"Oh, what a bent row! Just come
out. lads, and look at yourselves!"
" Woi J.nyou like to look at the moon?"
asked a " professor" who had stationed
his spy-glass at the street corner, of an
Emcralder.
"To the divil wid ye ; would I be af
tlier givin' ye a dime to look at the moon
wid one eye, whin I kin see it wid my
two and not costin' me a sint ?
ON one occasion of a magic-lantern exhi
bition the scene of the children of Israel
crossing the Bed Sea was given, and the
small children were asked if they could
tell what it represented. One little fel
low immediately sang out, " Burnside
crossing the Bappahannock!"
AN old Yankee, who, when he was told
by and English tourist in this country
that the celebration of the 4th of July
would soon become extinct, quickly an
swered :
" See here, stranger, dtfn't talk tliat
way. I tell you, when the Besnrrection
Day -comes round, the first thing done in
the morning will be to read the Declara
tion of Independence."
A SOLDIER gaining his knowledge of
military phrases entirely from his own ex
perience, gives the following definition of
pickets:—
" Pickets —These are chaps that are
cent out to bony terbacker of the enema,
and to see if the rebels has got a pas."
Too SUBLIME. —Written io tke visi
tor's book at Niagra:
Next to tba joyc of Moiag fiarab
I lt lt leelng tfi-a-fa reb
National Convention.
The crowded conditiou of our columns
yesterday morning prevented us from giv
ing to our readers the following call for a
convention of dissatisfied members of the
Union party, to be held at Cleveland on
Tuesday, the 31st of May next:
TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES.
After having labored ineffectually to
defer as far as was in our power the criti
cal moment when the attention of ths
people must inevitably be fixed upon the
election of a candidate for the chief
magistracy of the country; after having
interrogated our conscience and consul
ted our duty as citizens, obeying at once
the sentiment of a mature conviction and
a profound affection for the common
country, we feel ourselves impelled on our
own responsibility, to declare to the peo
ple that the time has come for all indepen
dent men, jealous of their liberties and of
the national greatness, to confer together
and unite to resist the swelling invasion of
an open, shameless, and unrestrained pa
tronage which threatens to engulf under
its destructive wave the rights of the peo
ple, the liberty and dignity of the na
tion.
Deeply impressed with the conviction
that in a.time of revolution, when the
public attention is turned exclusively to
tile success of armies, and is consequent-
Jy less vigilant of the public liberties, the
patronage derived from the organization of
a million of men, and an administration of
affairs which seeks to control the remotest
parts of the country in favor of its su
preme chief, constitute a danger seriously
threatening to the stability of republican
institutions, we declare that the principle
of one term, which has now acquired near
ly tho force of law by the consecration of
time, ought to bo inflexibly adhered to
in the approaching election. We further
declare that we do not recognize in the
Baltimore Convention the essential con
ditions of a truly national convention.—
Its proximity to tho center of all the in
terested influences of administration, its
distance jjom the center of tho country,
its mode of convocation, the corrupting
practice to which it has bee'n and inevita
bly will be subjected, do not permit tho
people to assemble there with any expec
tation of being able to deliberate at full
liberty. Convinced, as we are, that in
presence of the critical circumstances in
which the nation is placed, it is only in
the energy and good sense of the people
that tho general safety can be found—
satisfied that the only way to consult
as to indicate a central position to
which every one may go without too much
expenditure Of means and time, and where
the assembled people, far from all admin
istative influence may consult freely
and deliberate peaceably with the pres
ence of the greatest possible number of
men whose known principle guarantee
their sincere and enlightened devotion to
the rights of the people and to the pre
servation of the true basis of republican
government—we earnestly invite our fel
low citizens to unite at Cleveland, Ohio,
on Tuesday the 31st of May next, for con
sultation and concert.of action in respect
to the approaohing Presidential election.
; Frederick Kapp, N. Y.
{Charles E. M'»ss, Mo.
| K. ii. Parker, Me.
> Ernest I'ruessing, 111.
iWui. I> Bobinsin, Me.
! John 8. Savery, N. Y.
! E. Cluseret.
jEmil Pretorions, Mo.
|Nath. P. Sawyer, Pa.
, Ernest Schmidt, 111.
| James Hedpath, Mam.
u .iii. t ii Bhnpa. (itn",
i Wm. 11. Smith, Me.
IP. W. Kenyon, N.Y.
I James Taussig, Mo.
j Ph. Stopplebein, N. Y.
Wm. 11. Dwindle, N. Y.
'Samuel Taylor.
James S.Thotuaft, Mo.
F. Munch, Mo.
! J. Q. Westbrook, Me.
|J. F. Whipple, N. V.
B (Jratx Brown, Mo.
Stephen 8. F<niter, Mass.
A. Van Antwerp, N. Y.
Bird B. Chapman, Ohio.
Exra C. Andrews, Me.
Henry A. Clover, Miss,
ivter Eugleman, Wis.
Casper Bntx, 111.
Oeor*e Field, N. Y.
Kdwarrl Gilbert, N. Y.
Pstsr OOtso. N v.
Isaac W. Ilaff. N. Y.
Wm. ilerries, N\ Y.
James Hill, Me.
K. Ilez/en, Mass.
J*. I'. liinsmore, Hist. Col.
And. Humbert, Pa.
J. W. Aldan, N. Y.
I, Hiebold. lowa.
Wm. Morris Davis, Pa.
K. M. Datis, Pa.
Wm. F. Johnston, Pa.
Theo. Olshauscn, Mo., of the Peopled Committee.
This is what we have been looking for.
It is plainly an attempt by a few dissatis
fied men, aided by a few others whose po
litical aspifSTions have not been realized at
the hands of the present Administration,
to prevent the nomination at Baltimoreof
Abraham Lincoln for a second term. We
are not sure that these men do not now in
tend to go farther and prevent if possible
the re-election of Mr. Lincoln if he it nom
inated. Butnomatter what their ultimate
purpose may be, this initial movement is
and would result, if it had any strength,
in dividing and distracting a party which
every patriotic consideration demands shall,
be united and harmonious. But the men
who are engaged in this mischievous busi
ness are without a party, and can do but
little harm to the only true Union party of
the country, try they ever so much. Most
of the men whose names are attached to
the call—indeed, a large majority of them
—are entirely without personal influence
or political prestige, and, do their utmost,
can carry but few votes with them. The
signers from this State are not recognized
as leaders in the ÜBIOB party, and, with
the exception of ex-Governor Johnston,
are entirely unknown. We feel sure no
body ever heard of the others.
Bmt let these dissatisfied and disappoint-
Ed politicians go ahead and "consult."—
Their assembling at Cleveland will do
good; it will give them an opportunity to
expose the weakness of their "party,"
which the Copperhoad papers are just
now intent on magnifying into a thing of
formidable proportions; and it will show
to these gentlemen themselves that for
them to attempt to stay the verdict of the
people in favor of the retention of HONEST
OI.D ABE in tho Presidential Chair,would
be as foolish as to attempt to dam Niaga
ra with asmoothing-iron.— Pitttburgh Ga
zette.
State Central Committee.
The following is a list of the State Cen
tral Committee, appointed by tho Union
State Convention, held on the 28fh of
April, 1864, with their post office ad
dress :
Ist dist't. Phil'a. Jeremiah Nichols,
Charles Humphreys.
2d " David Kramer, Wm.
A Kemble.
3d " Chas. M. Neal, Eg
bert 11. Nicholas.
4th " Geo. W. Hammers
ly, B. H. Brown.
Adams—David A. Buehler, Gettys
burg.
Allegheny—John M. Kirkpatrick, J.
J. Seibenick, Pittsburgh.
Armstrong —John Ralston, Averton.
Beaver—D. L. Imbrie, Beaver.
Bedford—George W. Roop, Bedford.
Berks—A. B. TuttonfZ. T. Gait, Rea
ding.
Blair—Sam'l. M'Camant, Sabbath Rest.
Bucks—Jas. B. Lambert, Doylestown.
Bradford—Stephen Aland, Towanda.
Butler—Chas. McCandless, Butler.
Cambria—A. A. Barker, Ebensburg.
Carbon—Chas Albright, Mauch Chunk.
Cameron—F. P. Ilackett, Shippen.
Centre—Edmond Blanchard.Bcllefonte.
Chester—Wm. B. Waddle, West Che
ster.
Clarion —B. J. Reed, Clarion.
Clearfield—S. B. Row, Clearfield.
Clinton—Chas. W. Wingard, Lock Ha
ven.
Columbia—Robert F. Clarke, Blooms
burg. .
Crawford—Henry C. Johnson, Mead
ville.
Cumberland—John B. Parker, Carl
isle.
Dauphin—Geo. Bergncr, Jno. L. Shoe
maker, Harrisburpf.
Delaware—Ketchly Morton, Oakdale.
Elk—Albert Willis, Ridgway.
Erie—Samuel C. Stanford, Watterford.
Fayette—Benjamin F. Hellen, Union
town.
Franklin—F. S. .Staumbaugh, Cham
bersburg.
Fulton—M. Edgar King, M'Connells
burg.
Greene —Ceorgo E. Minor, Waynes
burg.
Huntingdon—G. W. Johnson, Hunt
ingdon.
Indiana—F. M. Kinter, Indiana.
Juniata—John J. Patterson, Mifflin
town,
Lancaster—O. J. Dickey, Lancaster
city; Peter Martin, Lincoln Post Office.
Lebanon—T. T. Worth, Lebanon.
Lehigh—R. Clay Hatnmersley, Catas
auqua.
Luzerne—S. P. Longstreet, Wilkes
barre.
Lycoming—Peter Herdic, Williams
port.
M'Kean—Lucius Rogers, Smithport.
Mercer —Jas. H. Robinson, Mercer.
Mifflin—Alfred Marks, Lewistown.
Lawrence—Oliver G. Hazen, New Cas
tle.
Monroe—.Jno. R. Stakes, Stroud.'burg.
Montgomery—Charles Kugler,Cabinet.
Montour—David Roberts, Danville.
Northampton—W. 11. Armstrong, Las
ton .
Northumberland—Frank. Bound, Mil
ton. ®
Perry—Benj. F. Juukcn, New Bloom
field.
Pike—A B. Sherman, Milford.
Potter—l). C. Larabee, Coudersport.
Schuylkill—Seth W. Greer, Miners
ville.
•Snyder—Moses Specht, Bcavertown.
Somerset —Eli K. Haines, Somerset.
Susquehanna —D. R. Lathrop, Mon
trose.
Sullivan —Thomas J. Ingraham, La
porte.
Tioga—M. H. Cobb, Wellsboro.
Union —Samuel 11. Orwig, Lewisburg.
Venango—Peter McGough, Frankliu.
Warren—William D. Brown, Warren.
Washington—Jos. D. Ruple, Washing
ton.
Wayne—Henry M. Seeley, Ilonesdale.
Westmoreland—John C.Rankin, Har
rison City.
Wyoming—Alfred Hine, Tunkhan
nock.
York—Silas Ferry, York.
IT IS announced with what truth we
cannot say, but with every probability of
it being correct, that at the storming of
the works at Plymouth, the rebels reen
acted, to some extent, the butchery of tt.
Pillow. Should these cases be well au
thenticated—and there is not the least
possible doubt as to the Fort Pillow mas
sacre, the retribution will be terrible.—
The country demands' it. The New York
World, Chicago Enquirer, Boston Cour
ier, all the rebel sympathizers, attempt to
palliate the conduct of the bloodthirsty
rebels in their hellish conduct.
Gov. MORTON, O? Indiana, takes the
field at the bead of the Indiana Legion,
recently tendered to-tho, government for
special service. His immense popularity
in Indiana will induce almost universal en
listment in that State.
NUMBER 22.
The General Tax Bill.*
The opposition press of the country has,
since the beginning of the war, clamored
for an efficient general tax law, by which
the amount of currency was to be. kept
down to a reasonable line, and the prico
of gold reduced to such a rate as not
to effect, too sensibly, the foreign com
merce of the country. Every measurj,
in the judgment of the Opposition,
which the Secretary of the Treasury
adopted, and Congress had authorized,
was lame, impotent, and not meeting
the requirements of the Government.
They cried tax ! tax I and no mora
paper money aud no more loans.—
The Opposition members of Congress cri
ed lustily for the same thing. Well, a
tax bill, in accordance with their views,
was at last introduced into the House of
Representatives. It was prepared with
every care ; it was considered, and amen
ded with great deliberation, and with every
desire to equalize its operation. Well,
again, after full opportunity had been al
lowed to every member to offer proposi
tions and express his opinion, the follow
ing persons voted against the bill on its
final passage:
Nays—Messrs. J. C. Allen, Wm. J.
Allen, Ancona, Brooks, Chanler, Cox,
Dawson, Dennison, Eden, Finck, Har
rington, Herrick, Johnson of Pennsylva
nia, Johnson of Ohio, Law, Leßlond,
Marcy, McDowell, McKinney, Morris of
Ohio, Morrison, Noble, O'Neill of Ohio,
Pendleton, Perry, Ross, Stiles, Strouse,
Stuart, Ward, Chilton A. White, Joseph
W. White, F. Wood.
Every one of these Nays belongs to the
Opposition, and nearly if not every one
of them was among the very loudest in
condemning tho policy of the Adminis
tration, charging it with being afraid to
meet the issue as it ought to be met.—
Here are thirty-three members, profess
ing t6 be loyal and desirous to see tho re
bellion put down and the country saved,
who have refused to vote for the only
measure by which the Government could
accomplish the object. The simple truth
however, is, that they would hpve voted
against any bill and any measuro looking
to the strengthening the hands of the Gov
ernment in tliesnppresion of the rebellion
and protecting the people from the calami
ty which usually atteuds a gigantic war,
a calamity from which wo have, by the
wisdom of the Government, thus far been
preserved; and from which, it is to be
hoped, the measures of Congress are like
ly to preserve us in the future.
Let it be borne in mind that of these
thirty-three rebel sympathizers—we can
not call them W any milder or juster
name—five of them are from Pennsylva
nia, viz : Ancona, of Berks; Dawson, of
Fayette; Johnson,of Northumberland;
Stiles of Lehigh; and Strouse, of Schuyl
kill. Let their names bo recorded and
remembered.— Germantown Telrgrnph.
RE-CONHTRLCTION. —In the Pajaro
Timet, published at Watsonville, Califor
nia, we find the following extract* from a
private letter written by Senator Conneas
to a friend in Sacramento City, from which
it, will be geen that the California Sena
tor is in earnest, and states his convictions
ond policy-in language that cannot be
misunderstood. His standard for office
holders is not far from the old Jefl'erso
nian one. It might be improved, how
ever, by abding that no able bodied man,
| liable to military duty, shall bo employed
in any civil position under tlTe National
Government for which an equally eligible
disabled soldier shall be an applicant.
"As to 're-construction, I aui for keep
ing out every rebel State until it comes
with a Constitution prohibiting slavery ;
and, in States where there are not enough
JJnion men to make a Constitution, lam
for letting the army help.them a little;
and as to confiscation, I am for the extre--
mest Constitutional remedy that wc have
power to adopt.
"Concerning changes in office, I have
but one concern —nor shall it be lost sight
of—and that is, to establish a higher stan
dard of political morality in State or na
tion, or to contribute to that end. No
man shall remain in public station by my
consent who is a traitor, or who sympathi
zes with slavery, or who steals from the,
public, or who gets drunk, or who neg
lects his duties, or who is incompetent;
and no other man shall leave public life
through me, save those who stand in the
way of carrying out this policy."
ARKANSAS. —Arkansas now sits
clothed and in her right mind among
her free and loyal sisters. Gov. Mur
phy has been formally inaugurated
at Little Rock, with imposing ceremo
nies. A proclamation from Gover
nor Murphy declares that at the late
electiort'the constitution and ordinan
ces prepared by the State Conven
tion, were ratified by 12,177 votes in
favor, to 229 against them; and T.
M. Jacks, A. G. Rogers, and J. M.
Johnson were elected to Congress.
A call appears for a state Conven
tion to meet at Little Rock, May 2d,
to appoint delegates to the Nation
al Republican Convention, which
meets in Baltimore on the 7th of
June next. Things are looking
well in Arkansas. The Little Rock
Union of the • 16th says: The mili
tia is to be organized, a revenue to
! be raised, measures to be adopted,
' such as will render it forever impos
sible for traitors and Copperheads
to grasp the reiac of State G&vera
ment.