Zhe ntariettian, MARIETTA. PA : Saturday morning, March 9, 1867, TOE VETO MESSAGE.—President John son, as was anticipated, has vetoed the new Reconstruction bill, and dongress has passed it over the veto by an over. whelming majority in both branches. The message in its tone is far from what the public had a right to expect, assum ing the many apparently well-founded reports in advance to be correct. In stead of being respectful and conciliatory in its tone, it is decidedly the contrary. It is dsfiant, insomuch that he tells don grass the law contravenes the Constitu ton, will prove nugatory, and in his judg ment it ought to be disregarded. It appears that all the efforts of his friends in attempting to prevail upon him either to sign the bill or treat the question in his veto temperately, have not proved of the least avail, but if anything has etim. plated him to bo more arbitrary and reckless than he otherwise might have been. As soon 813 the veto was read, the Hon. Reverdy Johnson, hitherto one of the leading and most influential friends of the President, took the floor is opposi tion to it and in favor of passing the bill over the veto, which was immediate ly done. Tun Nnw CONGRESS.—Both houses of the Fortieth Congress assembled shortly after 12 o'clock on Monday. Mr. Wade was chosen Vice-President pro. tem- After qualifying the new Senators from the old States, John Thayer and T. W. Tipton, the Senators from the new State of Nebraska came forward, were quali fied and took their seats. After going through the usual forms the Senate ad jurned. In the House of Representatives Mr. Colfax was re-elected Speaker, who re ceived 127 votes to 36 cast for Samuel S. Marshall of Illinois. Mr. McPherson was re-elected Clerk by acclamation. N. G. Ordway has been re-elected Ser geant-at- arms ; Gen. Lippincott, of Il linois, for Doorkeeper; and Wm. S. Ring, for Postmaster. The President sent in no message to the new Oongress, in view of the recent date of his annual Message. It is not supposed that Congress will remain in session more than a week or two, but will adjourn over to June or July. Mr. J. Hetherington, of the To ronto City Chamberlain's office, a few days ago received a bank note, on the back of which the following was written This note ie the last of forty thousand pounds sterling, all gone in fun within four years. Hurrah! Hurrah 1 I'm a man again. Now for hard work, Hell's not far from here. Roll up your sleeves Tom. Breakers ahead ! All friends have disappeared like rats from an old ship. Never say die—buckle to—grin and bear it. Thank God for health and strength and good spirits—spirits of the right sort. No more old rye for. this boy. Keep up heart, old fellow, and go to work. Wbo wants a hired man, ready for anything that's honest. Si - The Hon. Benjamin Wade, one of the Senators of Ohio, has been elected Presiding Officer of the Senate, in the room of the Hon. Lafayette S. Foster, of Connecticut, whose term as Senator expired on the 4th inst. No man in the Senate is so well qualified as he. His long experience, high character, unswer ving loyalty, solid Republican principles and equable temperament, peculiarly fit him for the place, from which, in case of the death of the President he would be his successor. fir At the evening session the House resolution authorizing the erection of an equestrian statue, in bronze, of General Scott, was amended so as to read "In Franklin Square. Washington," or such other place as may be designated by the Secretary of War, instead of "over his grave at West Point," and was then passed. The President, at the last moment signed the Army bill, the Bankrupt bill and Bingham's bill, increasing the duty on wool and woolens. Everything was signed. A great pressure was brought to bear upon him not to sign the last bill. He hugely disliked the Army bill, but he disliked to veto it. Congress was honored with.-two Veto Messages on Saturday. One of the Mil itary Bill—the other the Tenure of Of fice Bill. Both bills were immediately passed by Congress by the.requisite ma jority of twcil.iiirds, and have become laws. • Reverdy Johnson tells the South to submit to their destiny. They would not accept of the Constitutional Amend ment, they must make .the best of the present law. Bon. Schnylet, Colfax was elected Speaker of the House ofßepresentatives of the Fortieth Congress without any formal arraagem eat. lir Governor Swann has sent a meg- sage to the Legislature of Maryland declining the United States Senatorship to which he was lately elected for six years from March 4, 1867. He says the honor had been conferred on him without solicitation or agency on his part. It was his purpose to accept it, but he has been visited by so many and urgent ap peals from representative men of the State that he did not feel at liberty to consult any individual preference of his own, and had no notion •off personal am. bition, if it could be supposed for a mo ment that it could influence him to dis regard hie paramount obligations to his State. With this brief explanation he declines the honor, and adheres to the gubernatorial chair of the State. illar The Superior Criminal Court, of Boston, was the scene of a tragedy on the let inet. A man named Wm. H. Orne, who was convicted last fall of set- tiog fire to a public building in Charles ton, and who had obtained a newt trial, had just been convicted a second time, and was about to be sentenced by Judge Russel, when his counsel went to him and spoke a few words to him, after which Orne declared his innocence of the crime of which he had been convict ed, and just as he made the assertion a second time, unbuttoned his vest, and, drawing an open jack-knife from hie pocket, stabbed himself three times be fore the weapon could be wrested from him. He will probably die. fiiir Two weeks ago we; announced the death of the "Immortal J. N. Free," a monomaniac who styled himself the "im mortal J. N. the greatest orator, states. man and philosopher of the age," and who was known to most all the editors and newspaper men in the United States, but we learn since, that it was a false rumor. He was in Cleveland, Ohio, at the time hie death was - announced, and is reported to have pronounced the ru mor of his own demise' as a "pressure" which he could scarcely stand. ifir There is a man, born and raised in Henry. county, Ky., . connected with whose history is a remarkable circum stance. He was married on the 24th of February, his birthday, and on every two years thereafter, on the 24th of Februa ry, he was blessed with an heir, until three children were born to him. Strange to tell, on the next 24th of Feb ruary his wife died, on February 24th 1866, the gentleman married. what will occur to him on the 24th of next Febru ary we have no means of knowing.- Gir The Williamsport, Pa., Bulletin says one of the curiosities of the season is that of numerous grasshoppers appear ing on the grass where the BELOW has melted off. 'Whether this phenomenon is general, or only confined to particu lar localities, we are not able to state. Mr. H. S. Morse, who resides on Center street, caged several and brought them to our office. They are as lively as in midsummer. Who has seen winter grasshoppers elsewhere, About 8,000 hogs, 2,000 sheep and 150 head of other cattle are now slaugh tered weekly at the Oommunipaw abat toir. The yards will hold 20,000 hogs, 15.000 sheep and 6,000 head of cattle. A new and more merciful mode adopted for slaughtering beeves, is to insert the point of a sharp lance in the back of the neck, at the base of the brain. The death of the animal is said to be instantaneous and is of mires free from terror. Gr The foreman of Lawahie, White & Co., Osceola, Pa., furnishes us with: the equipment of their mill, with which over 11,000,000 feet of lumber were cut in eight months, as follows : 1 slabbing gang.; 1 flat gang ; 1 molly saw ; 1 dou ble.edger. This mill, our informant says, having all the late improvements, can cut more lumber with the same number of saws than any mill within his know ledge. ar A. T. Stewart, of New York, the great merchant prince, has been in Washington for several days. His visit is in reference