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Priem du E Tribune, March 5
Ike Last Night,
CONGRESS HAS ADJOVRIIHDI Thank
the Constitution for that I, The XXXYth
Congress expired by law on the 34 of
March, but the breath of life was kept in
its Fexn - parcass until noon of Friday,
.;lareit 4th, when not even impudenee
ruuld pretend that it had a right - longer
to exist, so it malodoriously expired. It
seems a pity that its most popular act—
Pdiourtiment without day—should be one
for whieb it can claim no credit whatever.
Its last•hours were marked by a most
-4tioniinious surrender—or rather, betray
al--of those who stood °for the Right.—
The I louse bad early and properly deter
mined not to lend its countenance to any
Afore borrowing or shinnirm for the sup-1
port of the Government, at to insist on
having the Damping toad° to balanoc the
Expenditures. In this
_determination,
nearly every:Republican, nearly every
American, and the Democrats from Penn
oylvania (with perhaps a few others) pro
fessed to be heartily agreed. But the
Senate, utterly controlled by the Pro-,
liinvery interest, resolved that the Tariff
should cot be increased, and that, while
the Expenditures were kept at a high fig
ure, the Treasury should be replenished
VDU' by an augmentation of the Rates of
Postage and by the re-issue of Twenty
Millions of Treasury Notes.. Meantime,
the House Committee of Ways and,Means
kept shilly-shallying for weeks—to-day
Phillips of Pa. would vote with the Op
position Members to report a Tariff bill,
and Maclay of N. Y. wouldn't—while
Phelps of Missouri, (Chairman), whO
wants to be. Speaker of the next House; .
(and will be—when he gets votes enough)l
Rcpt speaking smoothly and taking care
that nothing decisive should be done, un
til it was too late for the Committee to
report a bill in order, when Phillips and
Mashy both voted to report a fair bill,
and Phelps declined to vote at all, saying
the Committee had decided to report with
out him. But now a voto of two-thirds
iq the affiruiative was required to give
leave to report a bill; and, though the
motion for leave received 128 Yeas to 88
Nays, it could not be carried. Thus per
iberl the sanguine hopes of a Tariff Re
vision at this session.
Still, .a majority of the House professed
to be immovable in their hostility to any
more borrowing, ana we cherished hopes
that no Loan bill could pass. Even dur
ing. the last night's sitting, the House
three times voted, in defiance of a major
ity of - the Senate, that it would not au
thorize a reissue of Treasury Notes. But
the President and most of his Secretaries
were in the Capitol, and they successive
ly mantpulate.d and mesmerized the Penn
sylvania and other stiff-necked Democrats
until, they constrained them to eat the
leek; so at 7 o'clock yesterday (Friday)
morning, the House—that is to say, the
Pennsylvania Democrats—backed square
down, and the Senate's Treasury Note at
tachment to the Miscellaneous Appropri
ation bill was concurred in—Yeas, 94;
Nays, 83. Our correspondent telegraphs
that the reconsideration was moved by
Florence, (who titter ) and that Gillis,
Dimmiek, Laudy, Leidy, and White, vot
ed witn him for the loan ; while Phillips
and Montgomery dodged. Owen Jones,
Dewart and Reilly stood their ground 'to
x4e last. There was still a sharp and (fnt.
a time) doubtful struggle in the Senate,.
where Mr. Broderick revolted at the sic.
ritice of the Pacific Mail Steamer Appro.
viation and evinced a determination to
mat the bill to death by talking nut the
Session, but he was finally induced to re
lent; and the Senate voted ('3T to 2) to
Jet the Mail Steamers go and hold on to
the Treasury Notes. So the bill asw wor
ried through, about - half-past 11\o'cleek
yesterday; and the President swallowed
his vaunted determination not to sign any
tills that be was not allowed time to read
and. carefully consider, and affixed his
name instanter. So the Treasury Notes
'were carried-and Tariff Revision lost.
—This is in effect a proclamation by
the Slave Power that the Forty Millions
borrowed under Mr. Buchanan shall be
carried over to'the next Admiuistration
for payment. The President urged and
reiirged the Revision; Secretary Cobb . asJ
sented to it; Pennsylvania begged for it;
most of the Northern Democrats desired
it. But the Southrons have the ordeal
of their Elections just before them, and
they !dreaded, or professed to dread, to
meet it on the back oleo increased Tariff,-
recommended by a Deuaociatie President
S and enacted by a Democratic Congress.
At all events, they resolved that the bor
rowing, shinning : policy should be main
tained and the paying postponed, and they
bad their, way, as usual. -
-On another point, however,' they
were baffled by the firmness of the House.
The pro -Slavery interest had determined
that the Sates of Postage should be rais
ed, tua the &pate registered its edict, of
course. But the House had a Fill of its
own on that subject, and, pp medico of
Dlr. Grow, resolved, by 117 to 76, that,
a. 9 this. wash measure to raise Ivenue,
which the Senate was forbidden by the
Constitution to originate, the bill should
be returned to the Seoateunacted op. The
Sezerte Oared up, of course, and stood ou
its dignity but, findin g the- task about
as pleasant as *standing on one foot. it was
obliged to come dowb, not very graeions
iy. Toombs, bulky .on account of this
surrender, objected to a second reading of
the new coniproruise Post-Office Appro
priation bill, (which was simply the orig
inal bill, as it first passed the Senate, with
out the provision which raises the Rates
of Po:man and pretends to'abolish Frank-
,) and struck it dead, Ala
banked Toombs. Be no
propriation bill at all has
Extra Session would seem
ing, but donne
Bon and Pc.
Past-Office A;
passed, and air
inevitable,
! !
And hem, in closing, let us pay a trib
rite of gratitude to two Members of this
Congress ',for their Services at, the late Ses . -
sion.! Where! so ;twiny did well, it may
seen invidious to specify ; but we feel that
no true Repubican will dispute the jus
tice of our aw!trd to Senator WADE of
Ohio and Mr. IGEOw of Pennsylvania of
the highest lionorsl Mr. Wade has hith- I
erto evinced an intrepidity, an energy
and a devotedness rarely equaled and nev
er excelled; in our judgment, in his ef
forts for the homestead bill, for the Ag
ricultural College bill, for Retrenchment,
for Human Frecdom--in short, for every
good word and work— r he this Session ha's
excelled even his own former services
The rights and interests of Free Labor
have, seldom had a more cleaysighted and '
effective,,and never a more whole-souled,
champion' in !Congress than old Ben
And !Mr. Grow, Whom we have ,
seldom praised', and never greatly admir
ed,, has this Session evinced a fertility of
resource, riot:a:inland of parliamentary tac
tics, a promptitude in seizing an opportu
nity, a wisdoni in act and! a brevity of
speech, such as have rarely been exhibit
ed on that 134.. w. The passage of the
Homestead bill under Mr. Grow's leader
ship would of itselt by-elsufced to con
for honorable distinction ; a single mistak
en motion. a Moment's hesitation, would
have enabled its adversaries to interpose
d'ebateiand delay, and*ua have endan
gered itq Pass,e, if not ensured its defeat . ,
So the Senate 's attempt to force the House
to raiAe the Bates of. Postage was met by
Mr. Grow in a manner and spirit that at
once decided the coutest--doeided it in
such a way that, should an Extra Session
be required, the responsibili y will clearly
rest
,on Tomb's, , Mason and Pearce=ull
' Administration men—who, on a point of
mere will, insisted on defeating the Post
Office Appropriation bill and thus sub
jecting
the public service to serious cm,
barrissment. IWe rejoice that Mr. Grow
is a member of the next House, where
Pennsylvania will make quite another fig-
I ure than in thb last, especially at its close.
I XXXVtIi Congress!
The correspondent of tho Evening!
Post s under date of the 6th, also pays Mr. I
Gro* a handso l me compliment, as folldws:
Mr. Gro's success as a parliament
arian, iu preventing the Senate's attempt
to raise the rates of postage on letters
from three to five cents, is universally
commended, except by the*organs of his I
bankrupt Buchanan administration. The
Unido of thisimorning pays Mr. Grow a ,
very! high compliment for the vast service
he has remiered to the country. What
ever! may be `tile opinion of the Unicn,
there will be but one deliberate and set
tled 'verdict of the Itmerican people, name-
that Mr. grow has not only given the'
Senate to undOrstand that it must not in
fringe upon the congtitutiOnal rights of
the Rouse, but that be has prevented a
groat crong from being con - mated upon
the Vpople at large, for the benefit of an
extravagant save oligarchical administra
tion, Mr. Gllew hastened' from here on
the afternoon !of Friday for New Ilamp
shire, in order to' speak in that state. two
or three timc before the election which
takes place on Tuesday next. He will
speak in Proiidence, li. I„ and perhaps
iu Connecticut on his return. H."
From the 21't I ry York Tribube, MI TA 4(1,.
The New Senate.
new U. S. Senate convenes in Wash.
ington to-day) by special summons of the
Presidetit. The session will of course be
a short 'one, devoted to the consideration
of 'Treaties, 4ppOir.tments and purely ex
ecutive business. The ten following Sen.
aturs, h'aring, been reelected for a further
term or 'six years, will qualify afresh, but
retain the seats hitherto filled by them :
*dee,. Wm. -Pitt Fessenden.
Arew irampshirc, John P: Hale.
Jks.Rahmizlti, Henry Wilson.
I Stephen A. Douglas.
11 Robert-M. T. Hunter.
South Carolina, James ph es tn ut, jr.
Georgia, Robert Toombs.
Albert (I Brown.
Alnhaina, Clement C. Clay.
Louisiana, Judah P. Benjamin.
Arkanfsas
- 31 illiam K.: Sebastian.
Senators for the ensuing term have
thus far- failed to be chosen as follows :
-
New Jrrsey,— , --in place of William Wright.
1 Niantiota, 4A . James Shields.
Oregon, Delazon Smith.
Eight new Senators have been chosen
in place of th se whose terms expired yes
terday, Its follews
R.hode:/sla.nd i —Henr,y B. Anthony, T. Phillip
Allen: I
Delaware-1 1
Bates. ;I
E. Stuart:
roica-4amel
Nortk:Caroli
Reid. ;i
Kentuilcy--L
Thompipn.
Tennessee-21
TecaST. vg
- -The mei
table Will incl
now pr4ceedii
try. From
tucky, Tenn
crate, Onset]
go oarijand
Slavery, Deal
Suirlsbu
ware, is - also
Bates, 'who, -
convictions r
ence, of his ix
haya been
while-on the
iliiaiu Saulsbury, v. Martin W
•
Insley S. Bing i tiain, v. Charles
s W. Grimes, r. Geo. W. Jones
a—Thomas Bragg, v. David S
azarus W. Powell, v. J. B
0. P. Nicholson, v. John Hell
Hemphill, v. Sani llonspon.
i§t casual glance at the above
iicate the radical revolution
tig in the politics of our coati
ithe Southern States. ken
ssee and Texas, three mod
6gye Whigs or Atuerican
air places are taken by Pro-I
[rats of the 'extreme school i i
.. ,G
yr, who' comes in from Delk,
Pro-Slavery, replacibg Mr.l l
if he had acted on his own!
^ t ather than under the info -j
ascrupulous colleague , wouhk
I' pretty good rce-Soiler;
other hand-the three Deml
ocrats from Free States ',hose terms haie
just expired, have all been replaced by
Republicans, and it is highly probable
that New Jersey and Minnesota will
choose two more such. At all , events, if
their last chosen Legislatures were now
to elect Senators, they would cheese two
Republicans.
It is noticeable that Messrs. Anthony,
BinAtatn, Grimes, Bragg and Powell—
five of the eight new &eaters—have been
Governors of their respective States :
Messrs, Bingham, Grimes and Bragg hav
ing scarcely ceased to be su ch when cho
sen Senators. Mr. Anthony has won
wider and inore honorable distinction as
Editor of The Providence Journal than
has been or well could be achieved by
either of the five in their official capacity.
Mr. Bing,hant served six years in the
House as a Democrat of Free-Soil pro
clivities, and was among the first to hail
the Republican movement, and was cho
sen Governor of his State in 1654 by 4,-
'977 majority. He, too, will prove an ac- .
quisition to the Senate. He is by birth
a Vermonter; by vocation a farmer. Mr.
Grimes is a native of New Hampshire—
'a lawyer—went early to loin, where he
edited (we believe) the first Agricultural
paper puolished in the State, has made
one of the largest and best Ithths in
In 1854, when the Republican partrwas
first organized in lowa, he took the stump
as its candidate for Governor; canvassed
the Stale pretty thoroughly, • and - was
elected by 2,486 majority—the first time
the Democratic party was beaten in the
popular vote of that State. He now su
persedes its -last representative of Sham
,Democracy in Congress.
Mr. Brag is the son of a noted Dem
ocratic politician at NVarrenton, wit (we
believe) was formerly himself . Governor
i of North Carolina. The son was chosen
I Governor, in 1854, by 2,085 majority,
and reelected, in '56, by 12,594.
Mr. Powell was chosen Governor of Ken
tucky in 1851, beating Arch. Dixon (the
wan who first in Congress suggested the
repeal of the Missouri Compact) by 850
majority. (Powell, 54,613 ; 'Dixon, 53,-
763-) - As the Whigs oarried everything
else at that election, Mr. Powell's triumph
was the more emphatic. He is a fluent
and effective stump speaker, -never at a
loss for facts, and not at all tender of op
ponents, He has never been in Congress
till now, though we seem to remember
his running once or twice for the House,
years ago,: '
Mr. Nicholson is a veteran politician,
has already been in the Senate (by Exec
utive appointment, we believe), has edit-'
ed The Union at Washington, and is the
person to whom Grm. Cass addressed his
famous "Nicholson letter," wherein - the
-Popular Sovereignty" dodge was first ex
hibited. He - (Nicholson, not Cass) has
considerable talent, and is a devotee of
Slavery because he esteems Slavery the
mainstay of Sham Democracy—unlike the
South Car,,linians, who stomach Democ
racy (of the Sham - order) because they
esteem it the chief bulwark of Slavery.
Mr. Hemphill is new to the National
I arena. We believe he has been a Judge
in Texas. His politics are understood . to
be of the extreme Fire-eating sort, but
it whether he is one who really believes in
Slavery, like Hammond, or values it for
its use to Sham Democracy, like Nichol-
I son, time must show. His . colleague,
I Matt. Ward, is understood to actually be
lieve in it.
Kansas Newts.
ST. Louts. March 3.—Mess . rs. Harri
son, Campbell and Jeffries, the parties to
the recent kidnapping ease, and who were
before Judge Leekmipte on a writ of ha •
bums carpus, were discharged yes crday.
611 E Vafter Purrtat.
COUDERSPORT. P 4.,
:I . l)tir3hg blifeci) 10, 18,59,
T. S. CHASE. EDITOR AND PUBLISHER
A. week ago last Saturday, the
President vetoed the Agricultural College
Bill, thus Styiking a blow at white free
labor because black slave-labor required it.
The veto message is a document which is
not a whit more statesmanlike -than his
far-famed Kiinsas message.
The Senate sti•angled the-Homestead
Bill to save the President the necessity
of vetoing that also.
DEir The Court calender of Erie county
the last term has been a bloody one:
George Riddle, whose victim was Bottin
elli, was conicted of wur - dar in the first
degree, atter a twenty-four hours' discus
sion by the jury. Jacob 'Foust, charged
with killing Matthew Dinsmore, was 174-
victett" of manslaughter. The triol of
these causes occupied five days of !the
week. Judgellerrickson specially nom
-
plimented the District Attorney, (our( tal
ented young friend, Jawes Sill, Esqi, of
Erie, and his associate, (Mr. .Craigt„ of
Lawrence county,) and also the counsel
for the defence, (Messrs, Lyon and gin
cent,) for their able conduct of the-cases.
They are all, wo believe young men, And
have thus wade a creditable public debut,
securing to theuiselves brilliant prospects
for the future,
Da. BAILEY, the editor of the National
Era, who has been seriously ill for some
time, will probably sail for Europe early
in the spring. An entire release from his
professional labors for a few mouths Will,
it is hoped, wurk his cure.
Correspondents of the Pittsburg
Opposition papers, we see, are speculating
upon the next Repnblienn candidate , for
the Governorship; and urge Dr. E. D.
,Grosaam, one of ate. State- Senators from
'Allegheny county. r Fhe Dr. is a talented
and.energetic man, and withal_aßepubli
can to the backbone;' but we . suggest that
if his friends desire him to get the norni
nation. they are bringing him on the course
too soon- - --they- will ' " blot , " him with
praetiee." Aside from this fact,.yre do
not- believe the Doetdr is the man to carry
the State so sweepingly as we would have
it done in the face of a Presidential con-
•
test. The Pittsburg,Journat very wisely
cries t‘tiine"-,to the propition, while the
Gazette give lit no editorial notice what
ever. Our advice to! all 'Obernatorial as
pirants is, don't be in al hurry, and you
will gain time.,
-.We are in receipt of a speech of
Hon. Ralph eete, of Lawrence county, a
member of the Ohio House of Represen
tatives, on "the Rights of the State and
the Sovereignty of the People." The
speech is an able one, and supports a prop
ositicin of its author 'lto so amend.the Con
stitution -of the United States as to secure
to the people of each judicial circuit the
election of the Judge of the Supreme
Court of the United ,States therefor, and
to the people of each , judicial district, the
United States -District Judge therefor,
and that said Judges be elected for a
term - not exceeding nine years." This
proposition is ably supported in • a brief
speech by. Mr. Leete, in which the mon.
archical tendency of the U. S. Supreme
Court as now oonst7ieted is portrayed in
living colors, and the rights and sove
reignty of the Slides and People is ably
discussed. Mr. Leete formerly resided in .
this county, we believe, and is widely and
favorably ;known to. our citizens. His
speech indicates him to be a statesman of
no • ordinary ability. The suggestion
which is its main subject, is one which
lawyers as well as people should give
much candid consideration. •
Par The Hon. John Minor Botts, old
line Whig,
.American, etc.-, of Virginia,
recently opened the Presidential campaign
Of 1860 by a long-winded but able speech
in New YOrk in favor of a Union of the
Opposition, North and South, to beat the
sham-democracy. We bare no- faith in
any such attempts at "Union," because
we believe that- we lose, wore strength in
the Northi than we gain support at the•
South. We are in favor of resting our
party on its own basis in 1860, preferring
a defeat which will add to the strength of
the Republican party, rather than success
by means of a "Union" of elements which.
are inconsistent and which must result in
schisms in their working character. Mr.
Butts may or may not be sincere in his
desire' to defeat Slavery and its allies, and
his northern friends may be sincerely ex
ultant at the hopes he holds up to them ;
but we cannot withhold the expression of
our misgivings as to the result of the plan
by which he proposes to accomplish his
object.
The Y. Tribune, we fear, will dis
cover too late that, nationally, its "Union"
bobby will not work. It evinces but lit
tle confidence in the integrity of our par
ty's principles when it proposeS to bolster
them up to battle with autagoni-m: which,
however great a, present success they
would produce, would eventuate in humil
iatiug defeat. We say let the Republi
can party, like their Revolutionary ex
emplars, confide their hopes to the God
and the integrity of their cause ; let our
battle-cry be for Free-Territory, Free-La
bor and Free Opinion, and the victory will
be ours.
Irhanks.
To Hon. Simon Cameron U. S. S., for
papet of valuable seeds, Sand a copy of
the Patent. Office Report (Agriculture)
fur 1852. This and the preceding vol
ume contains a vast amount of well -pre
pared information, arranged in a manner
to be read as ordinary matter—a great
improvement on the former tabular ar
rangement, which ponebut staticians could
understand. The reports are now of some
practical use as private or public library
books. We sincerely thank our able Sen
ator for these books, and for other docu
mentary favors.
To Hon. Lewis Mann, of State Legisla.
ture, for a copy of the Annual Report of
the Trustees and Superintendent of the
State Lunatic Hospital, Wet we propose
to notice more at length hereafter. Also,-
for a copy-of the ,‘ Twenty-Sixth Annual
Report-of the Managers of the Pennsyl
vania Institution for the InstructioP of
the Blind."
To Hon. L. P.-Williston '
of the Leis
latnre, for regular . copies of the Recol7l.
To Dr. Rhea, Clerk of the House, fora
copy. of Washington's. Farewell Address,
printed by' the State printer in a neat
pamphlet. •
The Sehl ins Of Demoergey• -
,
We hope Northern , ilemoutats Will
reflect upon their position !with rOgard to
the . Southern platform upon whi r ch they
ipast rest the. cab:Taiga 1860—the
South wild not recede - from it. one inch.
, •
ThOy have always manage d to haie retain
ers enough at the North; (like! Allison
White, J. L. Gillis, J. Glancy Jones that
was, and, to come titan? home, Timothy
Ives,) to carry through any line of policy
they ehooie to adopt. We desire to di
rect the attention of DeUtocrata to the
followiug extract from a , Washington let
ter, as indicating what tht T South intends
to obtain from the North in this cam
paign. • The position of Brown, Davis &
Co.; has one merit—its riarinm and tin
r'
scrupulous boldness--which northern men
should adopt.. We are glad to 'see this
firmness of actitin findingiso much prac
tice among our Republican leaders. But
of this, more anon—now for the Southern
i•
platform :
" Messrs. Brown and Davis of Miss..
Clay of Ala., Hunter of Va., Green of Mo.,
Gwin of Cal., and Benjaniiin of La., have
given notice to the country that they not
only repudiate the Squatter Sovereignty
platform With which they cheated the peo
plc and elected Buchanar, but they shall
in future deny the right of the Territoriei
to Legislate Slavery out !of their limits,
and demand Congressioncl intervention to
keep it there. 1 hev have constructed the
tollowing new plank in the Democratic
platform, that, under the Constitu.ion and
the Dred Scott derision, property in slaves
in the Territories muss have adequate and
' positive protection by Congress, if such
protection is denied by Territorial legis
lation or unfriendly action. , A l a to the
Stat as, only the right of reclaiming fugi
tive slaves and the right transit are
claimed at prZsent.
" Douglas, Broderick, Stuart and Pugh
repudiated the doctrine, the former de
claring that no party embracing it can
carry a single State north of Mason and
Dixon's line.
"Mason and Jeff. Davis informed Doug
las that no man with his Squatter Sove
reignty platform can obtain either an
electoral or any other voto south of that
line."
The Power and Duties of Grand
Jurors.
The relation of a Grand Jury to the
People is not so well understood, general
ty, as it ought to be, and in this fact alone !
we find the genuine cause Of so .much re
missness in them, as they are judged by
their acts. .If 7 mien who are chosen' to
occupy seats in ne Grand Jury of a coun
ty are aware Of. the importance and influ
ence of their actions; they are apt to trust
too much to the opinions of their col!eagnes
who may have the reputation Of being
better versed in the formulas of their 1
office,:—unconscious. as t were, that their
intleptmdem judgment and impartial de
cision is what justice seeks at their hands.
Grand Jurors are chosen by ballot, which
is the only correct mode of selecting with
out fear or favor; and to this cause also
are we compelled to look for some of tivir,
short-comings—such, for instance, as in
' capacity, partiality and indifferent moral
standing. Yet, were we to abandon this
mode of selecting them we would at once
surrender their utility and. do away with
sovereign justice. • Grand Jurors are the
arbiters whose duty it is to harmonize the
sovereignty of the people with that of the
law—to qualify crime in accordance with
t he:requirements. of justice and the rights,
of maim ; their power is derived froina
combined confidence of those relative soy- I
ereigrities—in other words their judg cent
is the hair upon which the sword of jus
tice is suspended over the heads of the
people.
.But our object in this article is not to
make a long disquisition upon the duties
of the Juror or the rights of the people.
We desire now to bring to notice the fol
lowing definition of the lesser duties and
powers, (not that they are less important,
but
_because public opinion so regards
them), as Judge Derrickson recently ex
pressed them in a charge to the Grand
Jury of Erie county. That judicial dis
trict may wels be proud of such : a judge,
—a judge who takes so much pains to
instruct the people in their rights, through
their represenatives before the law. The
entire isharge'is published in a column of
the Gazette, and is so full of good com
mon sense and legal erudition, and withal
so vulval in its applicability,: that we
sinocrelY regret our lack of, room for it
entire. We, however, find room for the
following extract, the soundness and plain
ness of which will at once commend it to
the mind b the intelligent and impartial
reader. It puts forth one of the most
just, sensible and feeling appeals for an
arrest of .the vice of Intemperance, which
it has been our good fortune to read in
along time. We would that all the Judges
in the country were as fearless and ',pro
gressive as Judge :Pearson, of !Dauphin,
- and Judge Derrickson, of CrasrfUrd—then
could we hope fOr an abatement of the
fearful tendency of the people to crime
aud - det af e t n h t e — p t ra he e,
t o i - ce..oßfuer:hrulhnaor..,,
could
reversion4.lvllgences from the Bench, for Web t i,
coat :regards of -our. etmmon•
so pro . 4fte - of examples .
e c x ha t t rti ,rTg oi 4 ;
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presentable.
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to perfOrm, as-it may exPOse tho - s e •
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faults would be gladly kept concealed, b
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painfut as it may be, it is oue that
to be slighted or left - und0ne...N 0 .4 4 •
favor, affection, . reward or iiopellerto'
will excuse its omission, while no ma l e s
hatred or ill will should, ever 'indife43
presentment which is not founded b 1 .,, e) :
ity . and truth. -
There are offensesbrm, •
and hourlyhourly perpetration of which no
propriate notice is taken by the pri nt ,'
citizen* or the public otfieial,'and it it
much to be regretted that this is so. 11 0 . ;
much ',suffering. and misery and area,
could be-avoide d - but their causes - wi re ° .
checked or-removed betiire they b een ,
so ch 'onic as to be incurable! • { at ,
havock is constantly-making in our nif4i.
by the Ikuld and unblushing-violation of
.our laws regulating the iiale and traffic in
liquor; while those who - witness it, ands
that too, to the rending of ,many h earts,.
are afraid to call its authors to a pr o p e i•
reckoning for .y
it, and why ? h •
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cause the name of the offenders is legion.
Their Very numbers inspire terror. Bug
while it is the privilege-of the citizens 0.?
become informer or not at his pleasure, it
is not so with the Grand Jury, or any one
of their number. When it is known to
them that there is or ht 4 been_ an abuse
of the law, in sellieg . liquor withota license,
or furnishing it to miners or . persons of
intemperate habits or ton the Sabbath day - ,
they have lint one. discretion and that is
to make known the fact by a presentment
of the offenders: . Gentlemeu, Limite
your serious atteutiou to this subject, that,
you may by every legitimate means in
your power aid in- bringing to - justice'
those who are unlawfully sowing the seeds
of demoralizatiOn' and of death iu your
midst. &steep no one whom you know
to have offended and fear not the conse•
quences. as far as your official&
ties as Grand Jurors will allow it, to save
the young' men of your day and country
from the tommations to which they are•
exposed by the hundred and one grog
shops with Which community is infested.
Some may speak_ evil of you for the notice
you may take of offenders, but - conscience
and the voice of every good citizen will
prociaiM its approval. I speak thus of
this open notorious evil, in which there
is not one redeeming quality, because it
is more wide spread than all the evils with,
whielv our laud is cursed. It is the Pe._
out of nearly all the diseases, poverty.andl
crime with which we are afflicted. It is.
emphatically the sin and bane of the coup.,
try. We are fast becoming-- a nation of;
inebriates, and if retinal, by some means
or another is not brought about, another
generation will 'be too impotent or imbe•
cile to protect its liberties. There .are
other offenses, offshoots Of the one we have
been noticiug—less pernicious perhaps, In.
their effects and consequences, but which
merit 'consideration, because of their neg..
leer by those who suffer from, or are an•
uoycd by them, without having the car
age to suppress them. Thoughtless son,
and boys assemble• together after - night,
and by their shrieks and yellings, their
blasphemous and.vuigar ejaculations, the
peaceful citizens reignt think- that the,
spirits of Pandemonium had been let loose
upon them, and fears are created for the:
safety of property and of life. Such per•
sow: are Violators Of the peace and liable,
ito be indicted for their offensiveness. In,
our larger villages and towns, police reg
ulations appear to be too inefficient to sup•
press the evil,. and a notice of it from the
Pui rand Jury might not be without it! sal.
utary effect. Vagrants, in the guise of
paupers and tAitidicauts, are a class of
persons the lard , : does nut tolerate. Many
of them are seen g.oing, from house to
house asking for . alms, but only to find
opportunities - to pilfer and take Whatever
they can get their hands on. Bence in
our cities and towns, • the front rooms of
dwellin g s have to be kept constantly lock
ed or the loss becomes too severe andun•
endurable. Your citizens, 'constables and
Crates would but have a few of these
characters arrested and wholesomely dealt
with, it would defer otbers.from the pur
suit of those indolent and vicious practice!,
and thus cave community from a wide
spread and growing moral gangrene.'
- - -
Ca - Thank Heaven ! there is a Reuse
of Representatives ! It is no mockery--
no mere varnished deception—but a sub ,
st.antial fact. The House yesterday, 00
motion of Mr. Grow, voted that the at
tempt of the Senate (by 29' to 2.8--evel
Republican vote in the negative) to raise
the rate of Letter' Postage from three to
five cents per single
: letter, and that of
Newspapers to quadruple
Its present
charge, was of the nature of a revenue
measure ) : which the Senate - is forbidden
by the Constitution to originate—whe re,
fore, the Post. Office Appropriation bill,
thus encumbered, should be: returned to.
the Senate without further'action thereon..
The vote on Mr. Grow's -motion stood -n
Yeas 117 ; Nays 76 —iik-jority.4l for the
Constitution against 'Senatorial usurPa:
tion ; whereupon the bill was reterniN
accordingly. We trust we nay to•morrow
congratulate our readers that the untiring
and desperate .efforts to undo Postage Re
form .and go back to higher rates and ea'
sequently diminished sor.iee have beei 2
resisted and 'debated to the
Tribune, 4th •
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