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'•HEAR BOTH SIDES—THEN
JUDGE."
We have undoubtedly worked up the
week, ' mild-mannered," christian-like edit
or of the nigger or s an, of this place, into a
pious passion. In Irs last issue, he devotes
nearly three mortal columns of that organ to,
what be may call, a defense of himself against
what lie charges, as "base, unfounded and
calumnious stuff," published by us. From
the length of his articles, it might bo sup
posed that lie had succeeded in honorably
acquitting himself, were it not true of hitn, I
th.it "'Ho speaks an infinite deal of nothing.
IBs reasons are as two grains of wheat, hid
in two bushels of chaff; you may seen, all
da}', ere y< u find them ; and when you have
them they are not arcrth the search. '
To pick out and exhibit to public in*
spcction, these hidden "grams, ' and their .
depositor, is now our purpose.
Though he declares our article—which he
copies—(for this wo thank yon, Ire) to be
"calumnious ;" he fails, after spreading out j
columns of details, to disprove a single fact, ;
asserted in it. lie docs not even deny any
p> rtiou of it, except, that he was "vindictive j
and violent," on the occasion of the murder 1
of Holmes—the uigg- 5 r deserter. This, he :
boldly challenges us to prove. Whether he' t
was, or was not a "violent and vindictive" ,
i pursuer of the criminals, has but little to do
with the imp. rtai.t question : Lid or did
not Ira Avery—in violation of his own oc
clared
judge"'— make a rash oath, charging inno
j • cent men villi murder ? That he did, he
does not and date not deny. As to the
feelings that moved his gentle spirit, if any
proofs were needed, we would cite the fact
that he has been a life long, avowed advu-*
cate of the cause of the nigger—a follower
and defender of abolition preachers and
preaching frcm the very inception of their
base plotjto destroy tbe Union, and elevate
their idol to political and social equality with
white men. And again ; the fact, that, in
the case in question, he first appeared as
prosecutor—was willing, even (as lie falsely
allcdges, under persuasion) to swear to any
thing contained in the information, in viola
tion of his mild motto, "Iloir both sides,
then judge." Are other proofs needed as to
vindictiveness and violence ? If so, we will
adduce in evidence, his own pious paper and
these precious articles.
He, very cunningly, attempts o befog the
question, avoid the i ue, and divert atten
tion from himself, by a dating his part in
the matter with what was done by Judge
Filwell. Judge Beckham and a half dozen
other gentlemen. This won't do, Ire ! Be
cause you violated your mild "motto" ar.d
under oath, charged two innocent men with
the crime of murder (even, being over per
suaded, by us) does not prove that these
men who took part in the trial of the guilty
ones, are particeps criminis with you.—
This looks like an attempt, by you, to wrig
gle yourself into good company. As well,
might a pickpocket, after having relieved his
victim of his purse, sneak into a crowd of
honest men, (a common expedient of such
villains) aDd insist, that if he was a .thief,
his companions were the same. "We give
it as our opinion, without fee," that in mak
ing that oath, you will have to stand before
tho public, upon your own bottom ! and—we
warn you—at the "great day" before the
"Ruler of tho Universe." Even w.th your
great experience in the wool business, you
can't pull that atticlo over the eyes of the
public; nor deceive Ilim, who will one day,
"lUar both sides, then judge."
Tho g rave charge that ho was over per
suaded by us, to swear to what he did in ref
erecce to tbe nigger killers, we'most emphat
ically deny, Wo never su burned a witness
in our life ! If true, as lie plainly intimates
we did, in his case, we can hardly see how
he will be held guiltless, before the great
*'Judge of the quick and the dead"—unless
by r easor.s of mental imbecility, he may es
cape with impunity for acts committed un
der the direction of a sane and responsible
being.
This model of christian excellence, this
cautious oath-taker, this man of the mild
motto, very graciously admits that "there is
one person, in the shape of a human being
meaner than we are. lie dues not, except
by inuendo, tell us who it is. "Birds of a
feather"—l e, you know the rest. For the
sake of companionship, please tell us who
this meaner fellow is. If it should be abn i
from your own nest, we waive the inquiry and
the company. You need not tell us, for it
is 6aid to be *'a dirty bird that befouls its
own nest." By the way,—speaking of nests,
ain't yours getting a little foul, lie. to require
such vigorous scratching—we mean with
the quill—on your part, to keep it clean ? If
from this time , henceforth, you devote qiull
claw, and talon to the task, you will still, i g
nominiously, sink deeper and deeper into the
pit of filth, filled with the poisonous offal of a
depraved mind, and the putrid exhalations of
a bow-legged deformed body !
L Having searched out, dragged out, exhib
ited to the public, turned our thumbnail
upon—and snapped this fellow—is wo would
any other vermin ; we will new look after
his egg.
We quote from the hist Republican :
"When we hoard that a man had been shot in Ex
eter Township we looked upon it as a shocking affair
but when we heard that it was a Sickler who h'ad
been taken away, supposing him likely to havo been
in possession of traits of character resembling bis
illustrsous relative and namesake here, and a politi
cal disciple of his, we eamo to the cone-lust >n that
more than likely the story had, like most other
other stories, two sides to it ; and we concluded to
make a vigorous effort at the exercise of fortitnde )
hoping by so doing to survive the shock. We are
free to confess, Mr. Sickler, that our sympathies, as
ysu intimate, aro with a well disposed negro in
prefforeneo to a rascally white man. And now to
conclude, we feel quite sure and we think a large
majority of the readers of the Democrat and Re
publican will agree with us when we say, that un
less Is i.ac Sickler was a much li/clier mail than any
of his natno of tUtS rtraseuline persuasion, old enough
to have acquired a reputation, in Bradford, Wyo
ming or Luzerne Counties, the tears shed over his
grave will be few an I far betwaen and ra'her dry at
that."
As will be seen this week christian like
man substantially justifies the murder of
Isaac Sickler, supposing him to be like our
ourselfand others of the namt.
Ho frankly declared his greater sympathy
for the nigger. As to his prejudices and af
fections we have nothing to say, at present.
"Every one to his liking." But ho docs not
stop at this ; he goes farther and makes an
attack,through Isaac Sickbr and u<, upon ev
ery one of tho name, in three counties. VV e i
will not answer in kind anu vilify those bear- '
ing the name of Avery. We know many of the j
name who are worthy citizens and highly re
spected in community. Most of them, we are '
glad to say, in no way related to Ire.
While we feel that it is beneath the digni
ty of respectable journalism—or,of a man,in a
street brawl to attenipe to cast rej roach upon
another for what,those of his name may have
done, or are,we have nothing to fear in com
parison, with Ira Avery nor his egg —the
"fruit of his loins." If he will point out the
meanest act ever done by one of our name,
we will engage to find,!'* counterpart in this
erg, f r whose incubation and youthful train
ing ha it directly responsible to Lis G;d and
to his fellow man. On this =core, Ire, allow
us to hint, that the outer walls, of the hous e
in which you have perched yourself, are of
rlass and exceeding!': thin, at that. And to
intimate "without fee." or reward our candid
opinion, that yon have furnished to Commun
Hi/, a specimen oj the human race, the mast
depraved and base of his kind—without
degeneration.
Of this specimen and his worthy progeni
tor, more. anon.
We repeat what we said in a former article
with the addition of a single clause : when
we wish to "appear to advantage," we shall
not follow the precept' not* example, of this
nigger worshipping editor ; nor those of h,s
progeny.
Reduction cf our Ciuotas,
The editor of the Columbia County Re
publican, with Col. Freeze, of Bloomsburg,
and J udge Mercer, of Towawda, lately paid a
personal visit to Provost Marshal General
Fry, for the purpose of getting, a reduction
of our quota to something near what it
should he.
As it now stands, there are not enough
men liable to enrollment and duty, to fill the
quota assigned to the dislrict; allowing tlie
one hundred per cent, for cases of exemption.
These gentlemen were informed by Geo.
Fry, that he could not grant the rebel sought
for; and referred them to the President.
He—good matured old soul—told them a
story or two, but did not agree to reduce the
quota. They were by hitn sent back to
Fry. Fry seems to have had "other fish to
fry." So their mission was bootless. Messrs.
Buckalew and Tracy aided the committee in
their efforts but to no purpose. Hopes are
entertained l>y some of the more sanguine,
that the quota will be so far reduced, as not
to draft any more men than there are men
to be drafted ! This, certainly, will be mag
nanimous on the part of our rulers, We
can hardly see where the men are to come
from, for subsequent, and supplemental drafts;
unless the old boys, young boys, cripples and
j busle cds are called aptn to lay aside their
1 disabilities and infirmities, for the musket
! and knapsack-.
The following report of facts was submit
ted by the committee for the considcra'ion
of Ge:i Fry and the President.
TROY, I'ENXA, 13 DISTRICT,
February 27, 1865. $
To Gen JAMES B. FRY, P M. G.
Dear Sir: Tha enrollment in said Districts upon
: 31st Dec. 1964. was 11,236. I'nler tho recent call
[ for 300.000 men, a Draft ia said District was or
dered for 2301.
By'the enrollment a? sines corrected the whole
j X'o. enrolled in said District is only 4093, as appears
i by official pnper, certified to by the Provost Mar
| shal of the Distiic-t, and herewith presented.
This great change is partially produced by the
fact, that so many attracted by the largo loca 1
bounties offered in tha State of New York, have en
tered the military servi-e, accronitel to that State.
As many as 6." having gone from one Township
in Bradford oounty.. In many townships in tho
D'strict there is no man left subject to military
duty.
The appears to have boon designed to draw
r.' out onc-Jifth of the number enrolls 1. Observing
th'. ratio, instead of 2301, the District Quota should
j about SOO.
Wo, therefore respectfully ask that a reduction,
corresponding v.ih the reduced enrollment, be made
in the Quota of raid 13th District.
ULYSSES MERCUR, )
JOHN U FREEZE, r Committee.
P. JOHN, )
Below we give the figures relating to the
enrollment and the quotas of this district
under the late call of the President for 300-
000 men.
Number of persons enrolled, and number
in service, to Dec. 31st 18G4.
No. ENROLLED. IN SERVICE
Bradford, 4,982 4,£10
Wyoming 1,330 600
Sullivan 550 200
Columbia 2,915 800
Montour 1,433 700
11.230 6,510
The number of persons put down, as in
the service, by the above table—with the
exception of Bradford—being in even hun
dreds, we presume, is not exact, but, preba
ably, an aproximate estimate.
The following is the last corrected enroll
ment ; also the quotas assigned to each
county under the last call.
NEW ENROLLMENT QUOTA
Bradford 1,253 832 ,
Wyoming 450 252
Sullivan 15*1 103
Columbia 1,048 843 j
Montour 548 20 <
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4,053 2.297 j
These quotas do net seem to bear any very j
exact propertious tc either of the enroll
ments.
The Army of the Potomac.
A Correspndeat of the N. Y. News, speak
ing of the Army of the Potomac says :
The Army of the Potomac is not what it
was three years ago. It may still possess
the 6amc spirit as of old, but the body has
changed. It is the Army of the Potomac on- 1
ly in name. Of the sixty-five or seventy
thousand men in its ranks, not one in twen
ty marched from York-town to the Chicka. !
hominy with McCleltan. Of its old comman
ders, scarcely one in thirty remain. Many
have been killed, many have been wounded
almost to death, many have resigned, many ■
have been transferred to other fields and
many have been dismissed the service. When
its fame was greatest, the general who now 1
commands it and all other Federal armies
was almost unknown. Its present command
er was then general of a brigade under Mc-
Clellan. Its glory then circled the brows of
Sumner, and Kearney, and Porter,and Hook- 1
er, and Heintzelman ; but these are all gone
the bravest to their last reward—and
strange faces and strange voices are seen and
heard in its camps. The men who sprang i
to its ranks in the wild fever that raged in
the summer of 'Ol are now at their homes or ;
in their graves.
It is no hmger regarded as an honor to be j
long to the army of the Potmac. Its ranks
are now made up in great part of men who
sold themselves to their country, and would
sell their country, if they dared; men who 1
carry muskets because they ate well paid for
it, and measure patriotism by dollars. They
are men who have no heart for the cause
which tl ey baigained to fight for. Some
have been cheated and smuggled into it; these
desert whenever they can. Some others were
drawn to it by offers of laige bounties ; these
have no stomachs lor a bat tie,and will slit ink
it when they can. Some have bad their
manhood crushed by the tyranny of officers . j
these aie mere machines, and would as soor. j
die on the gallows as on the battle field. Iji j
short, the army now commanded by General ,
Meade, although brave enough when bravery :
is compelled, bears no no re resemblance to
the army whose name if inherits, than the
present gene rati* n of sham patriots and won- i
ey worshipers bears to the past generation of
true patriots and honest promoters of human I
liberty.
On this array will devolve the work of
closing the war. It is now the custom to
turn all eyes to the Carolina*, and there seek
the hero on whose shoulders rests the man
tie ofall military glory. But although Sher
man has done a great deal toward the attain
ment of the Northern purpose, and deserves*
all the praise accorded to him. yet the heavi
est part of the labor w ill fall to the lot of the
army now before Petersburg. Sherman may
be left to dispose of Johnston as best be can,
but Grant must grapple with the strongest
army and ablest general in the service of the
Confedracy. It is the fashion to'say that the
approaching contest will be a death grapple;
that General Lee's army cannot possibly sur
vive the terrible blows in store for it, and
that when Autumn comes, there will no long
er be an obstacle to the march of Northern
soldiers through the territory of the South.
Whether this prediction shall be fulfilled is a
question that must be left to events. Grant
has struck many blows as powerful and crush
ing as any he is capab'e of striking now, -and
the array that received them is still alive and
full of vigor. llis army will never again he
as strong as when it crossed the Rapidan in
May last, and the best l>fe it then had has
left it forever. It may win fresh laurels, and
dig more gtaves, but it must pay in blood,
for every leaf of laurel, and for every South
ern grave a triple pall shall rest upon the
homesteads of the North.
THE WAK.
Gen. Sherman's exact position is not
known. He is endeavoring to open commu
nications with Wilmington, N. C.
Bragg and Sellofield have had a battle
near Kingston, N. C., in which the confeder
ates were worsted.
Richrn nd papers say that Gen. Hampton's
cavalry fought and drove Gen. Kilpatrick
from his camp with a loss of hundreds of
Prisoners, and a large amount <f amunitiou
and stores.
The army of the Potomac is stuck in the
Virginia mud.
Sheridan's Cavalry force, are burning and
destroying everything in the ' vicinity of
Lynchburg.
— —
Josh Billings in the Troy News, gives us
weekly scintillations of the ripest wisdom.—
The last is in the form of advice to a young
lady as to how she shall receive a proposal:
"You awt tew take it kind. lot.kin down hill,
with an expression about half tickled and half
scart. After the pop is over, if yure luvyer
wants to tew kiss yew, I dont think 1 would
Sky yes or no, but lot the thing kind ov take
its own course. There is one thing I have
always stuck tew, and that iz long courtships
and short engagements."
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Three cent pieces of copper and
nickel ha/c been authorized by last act of
Congtess, and tho issue of fractional currency
under five cents is to be prohibited.
Mr. Liincolu on Providence and the War
The New York World of Monday has a
clever editorial, from which we tnke the fcj-
lowing:
Things have turned out differently from
what Mr. Lincoln expected when he was in
angur&ted before, that lie is "astounded."— j
Paralyzed by amazement, he has no confi i
dene? to predict any end 'o the war. No-
body, he says, "expected for the war the j
magnitude or the duration it has already at- !
tained." Already .' This is the language ol ■
an "astounded" statesman who, having lust :
all hold of any stable principles of judging
apprehends that the war may, for aught he
can tell, swell to proportions still more fear- |
fill than it has yet attained. And so, aban
doning all pretence of statesmanship of which :
there is no vestige or semblauce in this
strange inaugural—Mr. Lincoln takes refuge
in piety. II this hideous calamity of intes
tine war is not the fruit of human passion,
folly, infatuation, and incapacity, but the;
Work of God. then may Mr. Lincoln stand
excused for the feebleness of his statesman- j
ship: and oven Mr. Davis ought to be for
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given fur his pre-ordained persistence in re- ,
beliion Ii we are to believe the "astounded"
statesman who is to take another turn at the
helm, this gigantic crime is the Lord's doings j
and it is marvelous in Mr, Lincoln's eyes ; as
it must, indeed, be in the eyes of everybody
who adopts his pious theory !
And so our puzzled, "astounded," and
pious President, giving over all attempt to
solve the problem offered to his statesman- j
ship, falls to speculating on the comparative j
efficacy of opposite prayers'offered to the;
same God. This point, as well as the gov- j
ernmental questions which Mr. Lincoln ab
stains from touching, seems too difficult for
his powers ; and although he does not ex
actly see how* slaveholders can have the ef- |
frontery to pray to G>d at all he will form i
no judgment, he says on the su'ject, lest he
should he judged h mself. But without j
quite disputirg the right of any class of j
sinnero to pray. Mr. Lincoln ventures to h pe
that his pray ers have a better chance to be I
heard than the counter praying of the rebels
in calling down slaughter upon us. But on!
this point he speaks with the modest indv- i
ci-ion characteristic of tiie man. "The
prayers of both should not be answered
which is as near as he can come to commit
ting himself to the opinion that one party or
tl c other must fail. But he finds in the i
experienced fruits of four years' praying no i
certain indication of which will bo the suc
cessful party in what he with curious rever- i
ence, is pleased to represent as a praying 1
match : That of neither," he says, "has been i
fully answered. God ha> his own purposes.,' I
Mr. Lincoln rises in his devotional fervor in
to a sort of rymthambic, sliding into rhyme i
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as unconsciously as Monsieur Jourdain had j
spoken prose all his iife without suspecting j
himslf ot that accomplishment. llis poetry I
will compare favorably with his piety ; we j
merely break it into lines, which the copyist
for the telegraph omitted to do. Says Mr
Lincoln, verbatim et literatim:
"Fondly do ivo hope,
Fervently do v 2 pray
That this mb.ty scourge of war
May speedily pass nv.ay "
Amen ! say we ; and let all the je >p!e say, i
Amer. ! We join in the prayer ; but have no ,
expectation that God will hear it in any oth- t
er way than by sancti lying the means which j
he leaves human statesmanship to devise.— j
We have np faith 111 staying the cholca by
marching in a procession with a b!.ck image
of the Virgin ; or the u> re terrible scourge !
of war by calling God's attention to the con- j
diti.'ii of the black race.
The supcrabminding piety of Mr. Lincoln's |
inaugural is as admirably reasoned as it is |
appropriate in a state paper of this kind,
where a simple recognition of the power and
pruvidencce of the Supreme Being, is all that j
was ever before thought becoming. If it be
doubtful whether God will listen to the pray
ers of slaveholders, may it not also be a littie
| uncertain whether he is pleased with the i
I pktr of a l.belcr ? Mr. Lincoln doubts,
j whether Divine Justice may not have dcciJ- ;
I ed to continue this war until the whole am- i
j ount of blood sh'al I equal that drawn from
the Southern slaus by the lash ! With 1
what face can a statesman stand up in the
face (if the world with the language of piety
in his mouth, and put forth this deliberate
calumny on a part of his countrymen ?
This has been the bloodiest war in history,
and Mr. Lincoln charges on the Southern peo
i pie the monstrous cruelty of having drawn
1 so much blood lrotn their slaves by the un
j merciful use of the lash, that, counting drop
| against drop, all that has been shed in this
j most sanguinary war docs not yet equal what
: has trickled from the lacerated hacks of the
negroes. Does he think this odious libel
:
I has any tendency to hasten the fulfillment
! of his prayer for peace ? .
1 This representation of the purposes of the
j Deity in the prolongation of the war gives
an elevated idea of the Divine character. For
I whose blood is it that flows in this terrible
war as an offset to that whipped out of (lie
negroes? Is it only that of brutal miscre
ants who have practiced cruelty upon slaves?
Would to Heaven it were so. According to
Mr. Lincoln,the youth torn from their hands
by conscriptions, to he slain or mangled on
the battle field, are expiatory victims to
atone for the cruelties of heartless slave
drivers. Is there justice in that ? fh e
President of the United States says that if
God continues the war for the purpose of ap
peasing the negro blood that cries for ven- j
geance. it must he said "that the judgments
of the Lord arc true and righteous altogether.
Instead of regarding God as the author of
the abettor of this horrible war, it would
seem more consistent with humility, at least,
to[ascribe it to the unhallowed sectional pas
sions and the accnred personal ambition
which were the visible agencies in bringing
it on. Instead of supposing tha* He ordains
| its continuance as a means of balancing a
great ledger of blood, it accords better with
our actual knowledge to say that 'the war
has been protracted by the joint influence of
administrative incapacity on one side, and
stiff necked obstinacy in rebellion on the
other. The Bible in answering the question,
"whence come wars and fightings among j
you traces them to quite another source (
than that discovered by the marvelous piety
of our grotesque President. if the sin of
slavery calK for this particular form of Ven
geance, how does it happen that though sla
very has, til! quite a recent period, been uni
versal, this is die only great war, in ail the
records of desolation, in which slavery has
made such a figure ? It is but a few centu
ries since slavery was universal, throughout
Christendom ; tut the mode of its abolition
in most European countries were so quet,
obscure, and giadual that the diligence of
historians is scarcely able to trace it. Dues
not Mr. Lincoln think that the Being whose
character he so piously depicts is also the
God (f the Eastern Hemisphere ?
The barrenaessjof this inaugural in all ideas j
that belong to the province of statesmanship,
and-the substitution therefore of a type of
piety about as rational and enlightened as
that which ascribes the melancholy caused by
a fit of indigestion to "the hiding of the Di
vine countenance," or that which makes
children believe blisters wiil come on their
tongues if they tell lies, will give* to foreign |
nations an exalted idea of the abilities of the
President we have re-elected to grapple with
such a crisis as is now upon us.
Our Maudlin Vice President.
[From the Philadelphia Ledger]
The saddest spectacle attending the inau
guratiun at Washington, on Saturday, was j
the Vice President of the country standing j
before an assembled multitude of his fellow I
citizens endeavoring particulate a maudlin .
speech but unable to do so intelligibly. * j
There beve been shameful exhibitions in ;
public before by men occupying positions j
and places of honor, but on no period of our ,
political history can there be found one so
which so degraded the high office the people
had assembled to honor. The Senate, blush
ing fr the scene, immediately ordered the
bar for the sale of liquors t > be removed ;
but this does not rem >ve the public disgrace
of the spectacle. It is painful to have to re
lied in terms of censure upon persons exalt
ed to the highest favors of the republic ; but
the only way .to correct a bid example in
such positions is for the people to condemn
the open improprieties of their public ser* j
vants and held them to a just accountability
for their public c reluct. To slur over such 1
instances is to have more feeling for the in- |
vidual than respect for the position he occu
pies.
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[From The Boston Post.]
Vice President Johnson must have made
an unfortunate exhibition of himself on the
4ch inst. Those who have thus humiliated
the nation by placing him in its second of
tice, wiil have much, we fear, to regret. To I
have the highest officer of the American
Senate present himself before the represen
tatives of his own country and of the civil
ize 1 world in the manner Mr. Johnson did
on Inauguration day, and to deliver the rain
bling, incoherent and slovenly harangue he
pronounced on that occasion, is a fact unpre
cedented in our history, and, it is hoped,
will remain without a parallel case.
[From the Now York Commercial Advertiser.]
When Mr. Seward announced.a year ago,
tin t Lincoln must be re-elected in order
that be might be President of the whole
country, it seemed at least 1 >gical that Mr.
Hamlin should be included in the category.
The Baltimore Convention thought different
ly however, and so summoned Andrew
Johnson of Tcunessee, to the second office in
the Government. On Saturday he made his
maiden speech as me President. V hen we
f.ay that fhis was the most disgraceful ut
-1 terance ever made by a public man in this
. country, we used the mildest terra that can
be applied to it. There can he but one
excuse for this shameful speech, and that, is
more shameful than the speech itself. It is
1 charity to suppose that the spirit of "Old
IT urbon" had apothesis in the Vice Prcsi
; dent's chair, Mr. Johns n insulted and
i outraged all who stool around hi.n—the
; thief Justice, the Cabinet, the foreign uiinis
i ters and the Senate. Most of all he insulted
I the people of the United States, and de
! graded the high place where the worthiest
in the land have sat. Himself he did not
degrade. He fell to his natural level there to
remain four mortal years. We will not ana
lyze this spech ; we leave it to the judg
| ment of our readers, who must redden with
shame at the thought that leadership in this
land is intrust ;d to such hands as these*
j
How to Judge the Weather by the Sky.
I The colors <fti e sky at particular times
! afiord wonderful good guidance. Not only
; sunset presages fair weather, but there are
other tints which speak with equal clearness
and accuracy. A bnght yellow sky in the
even ng indicates wind ; a pale yellow, wet ;
a neutral gray color constitutes an unfavora
ble one in the morning. Tluy me full of
meaning in themselves. If their forms are
soft, undefined and feathery, the weather
will be fine ; if the edges are hard, sharp an 1
definite it will be foul.' Generally speaking,
anv deep, unusurl hues betoken wind ;r
rain ; when more quiet and delicate tints
bespeak fair weather. Simple as these max
ims are, the British Board of Trade has
thought fit to publish them for the use of
seafaring men.
COMING DOWN. —Consumers will be glad to
know on the authority of the New York
Commercial Advertiser, that there has been
a very heavy fall in the price of cotton goods
in that market. Standard sheeting which
two weeks ago were held at sixty cents, were
sold last week for forty cents, Let them
tumble—wc can stand it.
THE "LEVELING" PROCESS.— Among the
results of the adoption, by congress, of the
amendment to the constitution abolishing
slavery, we have the admission of a negro to
practice in the Supreme Court of the United
States, a negro to preach ir the Federal Hall
of Representative, of making it a penal off
ence to exclude a negro from tho streetcars
ol the District of Columbia, and of numerous
other ItCts and measures of a similar charac*~
ter, it has been proposed to elect a negro to
the Mayoralty of Georgetown, a city within
sight of the Capital of the United State".
The "colored gentleman" proposed is "Al
fred Lee, Esq , an extensive dealer In horse
feed on Bridge street." The "loyalty" of
the candidate is considered unimpeachable,
and his color is of the deepest, darkest and
most beautifully black.
REMOVAL OF MAJ. J. R.
Dodge, Provost Marshal General of Pennsyl
vania, whose presence and official conduct
recently seemed to so terribly shock some of
Gov. Curtin's especial friends in the State
Senate, at Ilarrisburg, and over whose acts
so much breath was spent in tho Senate,
at Ilarrisburg, lately, was relieved
of duty last week and oidered to
report at Washington. He is succeeded by
Brig. Gen. E. W. Hinks, late in command
at New Turk. It was alleged by the friends
of the Governor that Maj. Dodge, was hos
tile to the State Administration, and that he
had been sent to Ilarrisburg at the request
of the Governor's enemies for the purpose of
harrassing him.
CORRUPTION AT THE VERY DOOR OF THE
WHITE HOUSE The Hon. Emerson Eth
ridge. publishes a letter showing that the
President's private doorkeeper—O'Leary—
has been in the habit of receiving money to
admit visitors, and has procured the pardon
of rebel prisoners for $lO each. Ethcridge
says that he refuses to admit persons whose
business he knows to be that of asking re
lease of prisoners, and then proposes to take
the papers and have the release granted f>r a
money consideration. He gives the history
of one transaction of this kind, in which he
gives the dale and the names of the par'y.—
What an hnnc.it administration of affairs we
are having under honest Old Abe !
IW.V JERSEY AGAINST THE CONSTITUTION
AL AMENDMENT.— On Wednesday LAST tho
: resolutions endorsing the amendment made
i by Congress to the Constitution, abolishing
slavery, was called up in the House of Rep
resentatives of the New Jersey Llgi-dature,
and. after a lengthy discussion, were rejected
|by a vote of 30 yeas to 30 nays. '1 his de
: fiats the pr iposition, unless -ome more bogus
States can be manufactured, for counting all
the States that have uot yet vot"d upon tha
I proposition, with those that have already vo
ted, including Louisiana and Arkansas, and
there is still one lacking of three fourths of
the whole number of S'atcs. The Constitu
tional number is 27 and 2G on'y can be ob
i tained.
Six HUNDRED MILLIONS MORE. —The new
■ Loan Bill passed the Senate on Wednesday
! precisely as it came from the House, and has
become a I rw, by the Presi ' it's signature
i authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to
j borrow $000,000,000 in addition to the sums
, already borrowed,and to issue therefor bonds
or Treasury notes redeemable in not less than
| five or more than forty years from their date.
| The rate of interest on the same is to be 7 3-
i 10 per cent, in currency.
DEATH OF THE GOVERNOR OF DELAWARE.—
Hon. William Cannon, Governor of the State
of Delaware, died at Dover, on the Ist inst.,
after a short illness. By tho death o f Mr.
Cannon, the lion. G. Saulsbury, Speaker of
the Senate of that State, is called to fill the
gubernatorial chair of gallant little Delaware.
Mr. Saulsbury is a man of decided ability, of
high social standing, of unimpeachable integ
rity, and his assumption at this tune of tho
duties oonnected with the highest civil office
m his native State, is an event full of interest
and hope to the people.
jSiS" Toe Monmouth Democrat says : A
robust cob red man of the Railroad Depot in
Freehold, last week, declines fo volunteer on
the ground as he expressed it—"that he
didn't believe in kilfin' five million ob free
white and black folks to set free one million
ob slaves, to be freczed to def.
T. 'fr* A modest young man, at a dinner
party, the other .evening, put the following
conundrum* "Why are most people who
eat turkey, like babies ?" No reply. The
modest young man blushed and would have
backed out, but finally gave the reason :
"Because they are fond of the breast." Two
middle aged ladies here fainted, and the re
mains of the young man were carried out by
the coronei on a shutter.
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NEW SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY. —On
M nday last (he President sent into the seu
! ate the name of Hugh McColloueh, late
: Comptroller of the Currency, as Secretary of
Treasury, in place of Fessenden resigned.—
j The nomination was immediately comfirm--
I ed.
Chas. II Dyer, the rubber of the
r • i County Bank at Mead villi?, Ml court
j last week plead guilty to the charge, and
i was sentenced to four years and three mouths
j solitary confinement iu the Western Pemten-i
i tiary.
A minister took lor his text, "Tb 0
flesh, the world, and the dovil." He inform
ed his astonished audience that he would
dwell drietly in the flesh, pass rapidly over
the world, and hasten as fast as he could to
the devil.
Dr. Franklin said "A good kick out
of doors is better than all the rich uncles in
the world."