Oi3urtier.' THURSDAY. MAY 9rzi. 1867 LEW" The most Largely circulated newspaper in .N W. Pennsylvania, and the lest Adverti- sing medium. "Cal." John W. Forney last week sailed for Europa on a pleasure trip of a couple months. The country would be none the worse off if he should : conclude to stay. ONWARD 41AUCI1 OF DEJTOCUAOY. Al the municipal election bald in Lan caster City, on Friday last; the Democrats achieved a very decided triumph. That stern old Spartan. Mayor Sanderson, was re-elected for the sixth , time, by 511 ma jority, a gain of 350 over lest spring. The Democrats also elected the three city Au ditors, 7 out of 9 members of Select Coun cil, and 19 out of 27 members of Common Council. The last Legislature ,passed a bill re-districting tine city, changing the 7 - man-per of voting, and prescribing new qualifications for electors, but, as in ev , sry inst4nce where an attempt has been made to prrpett-te party power by unfairmeans, 017E:Inure has rebounded upon its origi nabars and lettsthem in a larger minority thrill ever. The unflinching fidelity and ateadfast zeal of the Laficaster city Dernoc• icy is deserving of all praise. The election for Governor, LiNitenant Governor, other State officers and Can gossmen in Kentucky was held on Sat urday. Notwithstanding a third ticket had been placed in • the field to distract the Democratic vote; it does not appear to have effected the result to any materi al extent` The vote was lighter than usual, but the Democracy made a clean sweep, carrying not only the State ticket by a large: proportionate majority than ever before, but all of the Congressmen. The Congressional delegation from Ken tucky in the lust House consisted of five Democrats and four Republicans,—an im pottant gain. When the . Republican Congressmen were chosen, a portion of the State was intimidated by the military, but now that a free ballot has been re stored * to her people, Kentucky again sends a united delegation. The home of Henry Clay remains true to the principles of her favorite Eon. - Mr. Scott, the Democratic candidate for Judge of the Baltiedore City Court, was elected on the Ist,, over the Conservative Republican and Radical candidates. The vote was as fellows ; Scott, Democrat, 11,31; Kenly, Radical, 4,887 ; Johnson, Conservative, 1,960. The Democratic poll was light, because Scott had a "sure thing of it," and would have been 5,000 more had a full vote been cast. During the war, when the Republican Administration kept an army of soldiers in Baltimore to over. awe the citizens, that party had full sway in the city, but since the clays of free speech and a free press have been revived. Radicalism has been driven into. the help less minority it would always have remain• ed, bad it not been for the aid of bayonets and martial law.- At the election for city officers in the city of New Albany, Indians, the whole Democratic ticket was successful by un precedented majorities. Mr. Sanderson, Our candidate for Mayor, had. over oto more votes than his competitor, and of the large number of councilmen chosen only one is a Radical. . The "Democratic element," as our daily cotemporary takes pleasure in styling it, seems to be rising in the West. Our friends .thre have carried many of the large towns in] the municipal elections, which they have not before carried for years. The Radical papers there, as well as here, have even up the business of writing obituaries df the Democratic party. finding it is too lively a corpse for their purpose. To their minds it seems to have more lives than are popularly attributed to a cat. At any-rate, -though killed and buried so often, it seems goodfor a long life yet. 46 THE F FELEEsT GoVERMENT ON TOE ACE OF TUE EARTH: , The time was when . this was the corn Mon expression of every person who spoke or wrote about the United States. It was the siaple boast, of American citizens that while despotism or anarchy reigned supreme elsewhere, here, on the Western Continent, we had established a Govern ment based upon the affections of the people, where every Man had a guarantee for the most perfect freedom consistent with the public order and interests. How strangely events have changed us in that respect, let a few instances in the system whieh las been adopted for the govern ment of the South answer. Gen. Pope has ordered all those persons in Georgia who are still styled by courtesy officers of the State Government, to refrain from attempting to.exercise any influence upon - the people either for the purpose of persuading them to reject any_proposition of Congress or of dissuading them from taking any active steps to do whatever that body desires. These officials are prohibit ed from discussing the important political questions now at istue, and he favors them with the tellowi , g, interpretation of his order: 'The words 'shall not use any influence whatever,' shall• be k interpreted in their widest PCII 4 P, and held to mean advice, verbal and written, given to individuals. committees or the public." Gen. Schetield.in Riehmond,has turned his attention to the Passenger Railwsy, and has directed that two street cars shall he ruti for ladies and four for promiscuous cargoes of ,black and white men. He has further sent word to a free born Americin citizen who conducts the Times in that city that he does not approve of his edito rial articles acid that a different style must be adopted. This is a Napoleonic illus tration Qf the freedom of the press in that district. Gen. Sickles in Charleston bag taken the firemen's procession in hand,and arranged them according 'to his peculiar notions. He will allow none to move without a flag, And in an order to one of his subordinates. says : "I desire that you will at once send for the Chief of the Fire Departmept and ins form him that the national standard must be home in front of the column ; that an escort of honor, to consist of two mem bers of each cotnpany present, will be de tailed by himself to march with the colors:. that the colors be placed opposite the re viewing personages on the ground desig .nated for the revtew, and that every per- Bon in the column shall salute tbe colors by lifting his cap or hat on arriving at a point three paces distant from the colors, and, carrying the cap uplifted, march past the colors to a! point three paces distant from the same." In Tennessee an order was_ issued •pro- - hibiting Women from casting flowers on the graves of their kinsmen. It is there pronounced to be a criminal offense M I mourn for relations who lost their lives in' the civil war. Gen. Sheridan, in New 04 leans, has threatened to remove the Got.`-. ernora _of Louisiana and Texas, because they have not promptly agreed to do the . , work which the Radical party has deter mined to have done. Is it not enough to make one's cheek! tingle with shame to think - 6f events like these occurring upon American soil, and under- direetion of the very Government established by our forefathers to perpetu ate the boon of liberty for their descend ants? In reading them, it is hard to avoid being reminded of the struggle for free dom in SwitLerland, when Gessler's hat , was set up in the market place , of Actor% and the people "were compelled to bow down before it as a test of "loyalty 1" Who that has a particle of good sense believes that such orders as we have recited, and such a mode of Government as has been adopted for the Simthern States, will have the slightest tendency towards increasing 'their devotion to the Union ? The mere fact of being obliged to perform any duty, be it ever so much. in consonance with his feelings, by compulsion, is contrary to the instincts of every true born American. If the South were as "disloyal" at heart as we believe it te be sincerely 'loyal," if it hated the flag of our common country as warmly as it has resolved to adore it,there could be, no more certain plan adopted to perpetuate the sentiment of - dislike and revenge than ouch as we have enumerated. A species of political insanity seems to have seized possession of those in authori ty, and every day brings to our notice some act of incipient despotism which ten years ago would have oxcited a thrill of indignation throughout the laud, and swept their perpetrators into a gulf of ev erlasting obloquy. Nothing is more eer. tamp under the Heavens, than that, if this system of nthi-Republican misrule con tinues, it will &este a reaction which will he . more calamitous in its results then the most ardent lover of liberty dares to pre dict at present. A CIJAPTEIt OF I:4IFAMF The notorious Sanford Conver, alias Charles A. Dunham,. who was convicted over two months nun, in the Criminal Clint of the District of Columbia, on the charge of perjury in connection with the testimony before the House Committee on the'Judiciary, relative to the assassination Of President Lincoln' and implicating Jef ferson Davis in the crime, many of our readers will probably have seen, before this, has been sentenced to ten years in the Albany Poniteritiary..The conviction of Conover and his sent ence to imprison ment are eminently just; but justice is not satisfied with this act, alone Of course, it sounds well that this poor scamp should be punished for his crime ; but', why should his master, Joseph Thilt,.go free? There are grave suspicions in the public mind that, as compared with Holt, Cone ver was more sinned against than sinning, since he was a tool of the former. By all means, then, let there be a public trial of Joseph Holt; not a whitewashing affair with a packed jury and a 'pliant. judge, but an honest investivatioo,untrammelled by the influences which tho War Depart ment knows so well how to bring to bear upon cohrts within its reach. Were, this felldw, Holt, anything. of a man, he would demand a thorough investigation of his conduct ; his failure to .do so, together with his efforts to thwart every such pro-, ceeding, strengthen the suspicion which exists against him. The public will remember that when Lincoln was assassinated Holt and Stan ton took especial pains to impress upon the mind of the President that there was. evidence in possession of the Bureau of Military Justice which implicated Jetler son Davis in the assassination. The •Pres-i ident wag then induced to offer a reward( of $lOO,OOO for the capture of Davis. Af ter he was taken, Holt and Stanton, knowing their statements to the President were wholly without foundation, Set to work to manufacture evidence upon which Davis could he hung and the peo ple's treasury robbed of one hundred thousand dollars: How that work was clone can be ascertained from the state ment of Wm. Campbell, before the Judi ciary Committee of the House. He got up a false affidavit,in company with Cono ver and Snevel, which strongly implica ted Davis in a Ea em e to assassinate the President ; but when brought before the Judiciary Committee of the House he, as well as Conover, repudiated the whole thing. "Why," asked the Judiciary Com: mittee-of Wm. Campbell, "did you make thus false affidavit?" • "That," replied Campbell, "will require a littigt explana tion. I was informed by Mr. Conover that Judge Holt bad offered a reward of $lOO,OOO for the capture of Jefferson Da vis; that now Davis was taken they had not enough against him to justify them,in what they had done; that Judge Holt wanted to get witnessoo to prove that Da vis was interested in the assassination of Lincoln, so as to justify hint' in paying the reward." Here is a tine record for the Radical head'of the "Bureau of Military Justice." Campbell was paid six hundred and forty dollars for his services in the premises. Conover, his Associate, was tried and con victed of subordination of perjury, though not half so guilty as 'Holt. Snevel was' also another .affidavit man whom Holt had looked up. He was a witne.s against Conover, whom Holt 'cruelly victimized in violation of all those rules of honor known among thieves. Snevel, according to 'his evidence in the Conover ca-e, was some time in the -employ of the Bureau of Mili tary Justice. in making affidavits, some where from November, 1835, to May, LitiG. Here is his evidence upon this point: Q. low did you get your living during that time? - . A. I received it fronithe•Government. Q. Who furnished you with the most of it ? A. Judo• bolt. --.. Q. How much did you get from Judge bolt? A. I do not know exactly---not ex ceedine $4OO. Q. What eervicf a did you render to the Government during that time for which you received this money? A. Nothing, only tusking false testinao Is there any ea-e or. record, anywhere, presenting a more infamous showing than this? If there is, we should like to have it pointed out. To think that the Judge- Advocate General of the United states should be a man so low and malicious as to have a gang of hired purjurers hanging about him for months and drawing the pay for their perjury outot the money of the people! Is there any lower depth? CASE OF JEFFERSON DAVIS-This- case is at last, and properly, brottlht to a point on which a decided action will be insisted on. It is ascertained that the prisoner's counsel having determined to apply once more for a writ of habeas corpus itt his be half, one of them, (Mr. George Shea, of this city,) made, on Wednesday of tail' week, the application to Judge Under wood, at Alexandria, Va. Judge Under wood had, on a former application, denied the motion on the ground, as we remens; ber, that Mr. Davis was held as a prisoner of, war, and that the Government had not yet delivered bim up to the civil authori ty. Nearly a year has passed since that decision; and, inasmuch as the Govern ment maintains the same -apparent indis position to take any step toward bringing the prisoner to, trial, or releasing him on parole, as it has all his fellow captives, we mast heartily WelcoMe the news that the Judge has this time allowed the writ of habeas corpus. It is returnable before the Curt at Richmond, on Monday. the I.lth inst. The G s , 'ernment shoulii, surely be ready to proceed with the trial at this term of the Court. if there be any purpose to try him at all ; and, if not, the prisoner should, as a matter of course, be admitted to bail, or otherwise set at liberty. Two ' years have sped since he was captured ; and, on the.l9th of this month, two years will, have passed since he was immured in Fortress Monroe. In view of these facts, his longer detention in close confinement while the prosecution refuses him a trial, would be a glaring defiance of the settled principles of civilized jurisprudence, and a deep stnin upon the honor- of our court try.—N. Y. 2ri&une. - Advices from Washington pay the Gov. ernmen t has sent directions to General Burton, commanding at Fortress Monroe, to obey the writ of habeas corpus granted by Judge Underwood, in the case of Da vis The writ is returnable at Richmond on Monday, May, 13th. Mr. Davis will , probably he taken to Richmond on Sat urday, and then held by the civil authori ties till the trial. The Government has retained Wm. M. Evora, of New York as one of its attorneys. Tun Impeachment Committee is again in session at Washington, and we have. the stereotyped announcsment that sev- - eral important witnesses have been call. ed." They have been "called" very often, but to very little purpose. This whole impeachment movement is an outrage and a scandal. It has been Set on foot in u , ter contempt of every principle of justice. and is prosecuted without the slightest regard to personal - rights or common decency. Usually an impeachment or an indictment of any sort proceeds upon &finite allega tions of crime; but here it is set on foot to see if possibly some charge of crime may not be made. 'Usually no testimony is admitted but that which is pertinent to the case and from actual witnesses of the acts alleged to have been committed ;—but here the wildest and most absurd' hearsay is taken as evidence, and no regard what ever is paid to the legal maxims which hold all men innocent until they are proved guilty. The whole affair is an un scruputous, malevolent crusade against the President, having its origin in politi. cal and personal disappointment, Ana for its object . the accomplishment of party purposes, attainable in no other way. It is destined to re-act seriously on :those who have made themselves responsible for it. INGO/SASE OF; TAXATION. Indiana, with a p . oputation of about a. million and a half, is encumbered with an annual taxation to the amount of forty millions of dollars. It is doubtful, says the Indianapolis Herald, whOher the en tire surplus products of the State--last year were sufficient to nay its taxation— national, State, county and municipal. In Connecticut, under Democratic rule, it only cost one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars to run the State govern ment. Under Radical rule it cost one mil lion dollars. In New York the State tax es have been increased from four mills to one per cent-on the property of the Strte. It is estimated that the State, with four million inhabitants, will have to pay an aggregate this year of one hundred million dollars in taxes. against sixty-seven million last year. • In Ohio, Illinois and other States, a similar condition of affairs exists. Under Radical rule the burden of taxation is steadily augmenting. Radicalism is a costly luxury. But it is for , the people to ray whether they will indulge in it. RADICAL. PRESII;RNTIAL ASPIRANTS —The Washington correspondent of the D'troit Post indulges in Presidential speculations, which, we may cnnclude,will soon iwome plenty as blackberries. Among the Sens tors, Wade's chances are considered the best, after which may be mentioned Fes senden, Yates ; Morton and Trumbull. ,Pomeroy thinks his chances good for the Vice Presidency. Senators sherman and Sprague are looking after the ('hale inter= eat. Gen. Grant is not talked of : now, be ing regarded as too conservative, although it is conceded that he would be elected if nominated by either party. Among the generals, Gen. George H. Thomas is the most pobular with the Radicals. In the House of Representatives, Colfax, Butler and Logan are the only candidates. The latter is also spoken of as the soldiers' candidate on the Republican ticket for the Vice Presidency. A ticket with Colfax for President and Gen. 0. 0. Howard, of the Freedmen's Bureau, for Vice Presi dent, is also spoken of. It is seriously re ported that Horace Greeley thinks his chances for the Presidential office good. .Titen Enoticn.—The Naw York Times says.: When the Democrats were in pow er-"it damaged, a matt's character to be suspected of selling - his vote, Now it makes no difference." lTrue enough. The Democrats elected men to office for their intelli,•encs and integrity, not for their professed love of the negro. Honesty, integrity and capability being the touch stone to success, it, is important that men should maintain untifetnished reputations in order to' secure position. The rule under the Radical diiretniation has been (I;fleront.. Honesly and capability have. been left out of view, and devotion to "our party" substituted. The more vil lainous the means resorted to to servelhe party the greater claim the person has to political advancement. Parson Brownlow.has a concise and ef fective.way of -doing things. ' When be wanted his Legislature to adopt the amendment of the United States Consti tution and could not get a quorum pre sent for the purpose, be sent a posse to capture a recusant member, which they did and 'imprisoned him in the State House ; then the Governor declared a quorum present, although the prisoner was not in the Legislative ball, and thus effected his object. Now the registration of voters is going on, but in counties whisre the lista indicate a majority of his oppo nents, he- - declares. the - registration null and void ! nre Brownlow. Tun-elections of the year 18G7, so far, how that there is a redeeming spirit abroad among the people. The public mind is open to receive the truth: While there is no political excitement the peo ple will read carefully and judge dispas sionately. The time for action in this di rection is now. A correct understanding of the issues upon which the people are to decide, insures a Democratic victory. It is supineness alone that has cost the Democ racy of the nation its prestige and taken from its hands the wand •of victory: The spring fashions for 1867 are very attractive—particularly the elections. The Radical party i 3 like the female bon net—''growing small by . dogrees and beau tifully less." Ovraeors tq Gronota.—A correspondent of the New York Times, writing from Mitchell' county, Georgia, the centre of the outrages upon freedmen and "loyal ists" which Harper's Weekly so- vividly portrays, gives the following picture of the fearful condition of affairs in that locsli tr. It is in this section/If Georgia where the scene of the most of the alleged"atrocious outrages to Union men, persecutions of Northern citizens," and "revolting cruel ties to freedmen" has been laid in the graphic accounts illustrated by wood. cuts ' which have appeared in Northern papers. Here secret organizations of - "regulators" and "night owls" were said to exist and frros a species of vehmli-rieht, as ruthless And arbitrary as that which was once::The terror of Getmany. I had read so much of the negroes hung in the woods, drown ed in the rivers, and otherwise desPite• fully used in "Ike piney woods," that sometimes whftri I found myself in the foiest after sunset, my 'imagination made me mistake a pine -knot upon a big stick fora suspended freedman, and start at any sudden noise, fearing that it might be some regulator who was pronouncing the doom of a poor freedman, or committing an outrage on a Union man all the' time. Beyond these optical and auricular dein sione,l found no corroboration of the illus. trate(' tales of the Ji-urnal of Civi'ization, I have not semor heard bf a single freed man either hanged, drawn or quartered, have-not found a Union man who com plained of any outrage, and though I have met numbers of Northern men, not one spoke in my hearing of having 'met say persecution or wrong at the hands of even the most red-handed of rebels- - - Gmas.t. GRAN'r.-='lt is becoming mote, and more evident that the Radicals; jeal ous of the well-eatabhshed fame of Gener al Grant. nee doing their best to under rnine.hia reputation.. The particular in centive of these attacks, at the present time, is the possibility of the nomination .of the General for the Presidency in 1808. Until recently, these assaults were coy. c-rt. Within a few weeks, however, the Tribune has admitted Into its - columns a number of undisguised flings at his mili tary reputation, white the last number of the Anti Slavery Standard nrinta most conspicuous place an article from an obscure paper in Missouri, which contains an open charge against General Grant's private character, too grosl, in fact, to be yrinted in any decent newspaper. It is plain, therefore, that the Radicals are de termined that the __present General-in- Chief shall not be the next President, and will stop at no means, however dishonora ble, to accomplish their purpose s .- The telegraph brings the information that General Sickles, now in command at Charleston, 8- C., has issued, among oth ers, the following order: "Post commanders will exercise super- Vision over mshistrates, sh4riffs, deputy a 4 .ariffs and police within their commands, and will, when neceisary,for the preserva tion of order an - 1 the discharee of their duties. assume ,command of the police force." Is the .war over or not.? Is this a repub lican or a despotic form of government? Is there any civil law in thejandf Is mar. tial law still supposed to extend over the South two years after the cessation of hos tilities? 'lf so, will civil law ever be re. stored ? The Republican party can best answer these questions. They are clues 4ions, too, that will occur to the Southern • people in their choice of party. B. F. Butler:L. L. D., has set the Radi cal press .at loggerheads by raising the question of the responsibility of the exe cution of Mrs. Surratt, Thus . the Boston Commonwealth says: "Perhaps it would have . Wien , well if General Butler bad not said what he did. \ of Mrs Su att. But therh are thousands of thought il people whit think he was. richt. Mr. Ingham didAnnisue her-`.lke a. blood hon n " 1 To which the- SPringfleld, (Mass.,) Re publican responds : - ' . . _i "Nnt at all. If there were any blond hounds in the hunt, theyi were Stanton . and Holt : set on, too, wet fear, by many Northern people and papers, of which lat. ter, too. We suspect the !Commonwealth was one."! This ; -is not the tiro - time that WI) equally - 'guilty have turned State'D od denee against each other. . The Washington corresponcterits in form us that the President is about to pair a visit to the South, and that on the.way he will probably address the people. We sincerely trust be will do nothing of the kind. Let him play baseball or euchre, or dance the polka, or the tightrope, or tell smutty strim-‘. a la the "lamented martyr," but lot him not make speeches. Lat his aspirations take any shape but that. - • Tat falling tacit' incomes in New York city is remarkable. Many who last year returned incomes ranging from $15;000 to $600,000. this year return almost nothing. Mr. Claflin', whose lucerne last year was Something over half a million. this year returned twenty-five dollarel Mr. Stewart, the dry goods man, who generally passes, for a wealthy man. is still worse off, having no income at all ! Where is the;Govern naent revenue to comefrom if things goon in this way? COUNT Blast/atm officially announced in the Prussian Diet, last week, that the Prussian Government has agreed to the propositions for the neutralizatiOn of Lux emburg. Thus but little will will be left to the Peace Conference of London, and its tai4k will be Comparatively ettiy. In the French Chamber, Baron /Imager stated that the basis - which bad been aerreed upon , assures the peace of Europe. TAE active competition about to open for the control of the negro vote in the Southern States, recalls the definition of politics given not many years since - by a retirea Judge of one of our State Courts. "Politics," he said, "is a contest between the knaves to see which shall have the fools ; '-' Both the contestants, in the pres ent VW, seem confident of success. Senator Morton, of Indiana, in his ad= dress to the negroea in Washington, said : 'The gireat example of Congress in 'mak-. lag universal suffrage the„rule in all the Southern States must now be followed in all the 'Northern States.'" Senator,Sum ner has announced the same doctrine. DoINCS or Vie asDICA.G Cl. CONNrfril Thu ItWiest Co. Committee, of which Hon. I. 13. Gars is Chairmen, met in this city, on Saturday, and elected John H. Walker as Sen atorial, and-S. E. Woodruffend L. E. Guynon as Representative delegates to the State Con vention, which meets at Williamsport, on the 26th of June, for the nomination of a candi date for Supreme Judge. It does not seem that there was much of a contest over these positions, and all the delegates were selected by a unanimous• vote. The Lawry men si cured the two Representative delegates, and the anti- . Lowry element the Senatorial. The following preamble/Ltd resolution were adopt ed: Wilasamk, This Senatorial District is corn- Posed of the Counties of 'Erie and Crawford, end the Republicans of. Crawford county in making their nominations, vote directly for their candidates at their primary meetings, and in order that the entire Senatorial Dis trict may give an expression of their choice for Senator; therefore be it •Reeoieed, 'that, the Republican County Com mittee of Erie actual recdmmsnd to 'the Re ' vinblicans initit'sereral election - districts in said eeunlY, Wt.:they Sots directly for candi dates foi Seto at the coming primary meet— ings:And report the result to the County Con venticle. • - On this resolution some' difference of opin ion arose. the opponents of 1 51 r. Lowry argu ing that the leomm'pee had no' power to change the mode of ettlecitingcandidsies, and his friends con , endhig in, favor of the right. A vote befog taken, reaulted In a ties when the Chairman, Mr. Glare, gave hie ballot in its -favor, sod it was carried. The enemies of Lowry allege that the resolution will not be accepted throughout the county as binding, but we suspect that the great majority of the party will acquiesce in it without hesitation. Its adoption is generally looked upon ne substantial verdict in favor of Lowryle re nomtnation; there being no other promirient Radical on whom it is likely that his antagon ists can concentrate, who possesses sufficient popularity to enable him to contel. the held with any prospect of success In case of a verdict in his favor, which we now look upon os certain, the courage and independence of the anti- Lowry element will be put to a deci sive test. They- have said so many bitter things against .hies, and profess to be so thoroughly determined upon hi's defeat, that. if they are sincere in their convictions, and bold enough to carry them to their legitimate .conclusion, they will not hesitate to enter into any honorable combination that is likely to accomplish the _object of their desire. The absence- of any exciling general issue will• leave the 'door open for such a movement -with a better prospect of success than on any -pre vious occasion within the last lea years. and it will depend wholly upon the anti-Lowry Republicafis whether it shall be soccessful or not., The Committee adjourned after hi ing upon Saturday, September 7th, as the day for holding delegate elections and- voting up on the Senatorial nomination, and -Monday , the 9th of the earns month, as the day for holding the County Convention. "Ora Murrar. 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Wall contributes a paper on "Prussia and her Capital ;" Dr. Van Evrie one *on '1 he Problem of the Races," while the Editor discourses of the "DeCline in the Popular Knowledge of Liberty " Hon. Wm. F. S - amford. of - Alabama, contributos some interest:mg reminiscenges of the late Bishop Soule.. Paul N. flavne. one of the most,popular poets of the South,pdds his name to the list of •,contributom The number is rich iti poetry i one piece, entitled °Virginia Fuit," and another, "Whither Away," will attract general attention Add to these fea tures the Book and Editor'e Tables, and the present number Will Compare favorably with arix yo.isa4ed. Single copies sera, poet-paid, for 25 cents ; $3.00 per year ; .ten conies S2SMO. Van Eyrie. Horton &Co.. Publishers, 162 Nassau street, N. T. BEA 'Meg MOSTLlLl.—•eadie's Nlonituy lJr Moy ban been received. Tee contents and contributors are as tolows fhe Vreacent city—itt strayed: . From Post to Pillar— t'-Vi I—Mary N. 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Pleas and orieeltirstion• eat be a.,.0 at the City Viler:leer's tin COM. , 111:1 Ponoell room. S , NvoN, - - HA LtTl, l, F: EN A iitURTfiN rov ii-f; sr. 4 trOnt Crit.ntlittas, p itorosALs vottr.whets. • Rested proposals will he ree'le'd be the nodertdro.d Committee, vow Ifiry;D SY, SfAV 27th. 1g67. for the building of Seers In th^ follnsrlar named streete: Peach strset. from Reenlist to Fiftsenthatreett Free , h street, from Front to F.l2hth stleett F.lfehth street from 'tate street to Csn.l; and the etreets surroolvtiag 'be Plas• and epeetn2atinue can be seen at the City Engineer's odire, Common-C.6,i; more r 9^ANNoN R , RTLEB JOR A. BUiti , N, d374-3 , r. • Street Co - rmittee. covrits , AND SlPleli MILL. • The undersigned has igtsi liAlled a manufactory _for ROASTING & GRINDING OF COFFEE ind Vie GRINDING 'OF SPICES Cad will ftanal,h to r,rcenil nod others both at WHOLES.Ii:,F. R E L At lowsr prices than map he ilbiainad at •ri."ntbor tablt.hm.ot 1n Erie. and ei