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Washington, .Tune 22, Ic7l.1 c 7l.
•» milling ..film Forty-third
B firit session, on the first
in December lust (which
| firrt day of the) month) the
hopes of the whole coun
'■P directed to 'Washington, and
I ions were entertained in all
1 early adoption of much
■s of relief to the people from
financial embarrassments
sand unequal burdens of
h.*r the leadership of Gen
tlieir Presidential standard
the republicans had suc
in turning an overwhelming
h branches in the elections
css; and, from the general
h was supposed to exist
iblicans of the two houses,
lem and the administration,
obstacles were apprehend
ment of our financial troub
nis difficulty in the inodifi
utional tax bills—internal
or the “general welfare.”
e expectations have been j
‘ f>r they ended in disap
ief review of the work of
■'•'ion of great promises and
H serve to show.
VIIIOII MARKED THU MEET-
<>!•' Tins CONOR ESS
Bdumrdinniy degree calculated
B ; d.-miuant party to earn
■ iiiea.'iires of legisla
■ sr heavy majority in each
k . the :a, uni <b)uu?sTj(''‘and
m a- proclaimed by their party
B. ..'htion nianil’e.'toes, the re-
B, lithe power to meet their
. ■ tli*-y knew that for their fasl
t’.e-y would lie IhTd before the
H > .. t are-i'.nitai’ilify. A fiyan-
B- : t'uMwn nil the monetary and
of the country into a state
8 11 vad stagnation, which called
V.. si practicable reiiof;our rela
■ ruba and Spain, from the Yir
had assumed a threatening
. for active preparations for
contingency of war; tho gen
of the increased salary bill
-back pay grab" of the last
B.ul thoroughly alarmed all par-
UegjiHk-ncd iu that **bill of nbomina-
State elections of October and
upon this question and upon
derangements of the country,
Hnllv in their results marked a
reaction against the party in
in the Northwest the inde
. . >n ul' the grangers had made
ids upon the republican camp.
general corruptions, inclu-
Mobilier, an increased sal-
k pay bill of the last Congress.
the opposition appeals
and reform into a gener-
hue and cry. though not
■upon the record of the first and
'ii of the Forty-third Congress
Blargelv depend the issue of this
for the Forty-fourth Cou
■io responsible party in Congress.
the beginning every motive and
extraordinary do
BL labor to secure on all the issues bc-
a good account ol their steuard
their masters, the sovereign peo-
■ Wl! vT. TIIF.X, IS TTIE RF.FORT
done and the work leit undone j
H long session, commencing on the
Hheeember, 1873, and ending with
of dune, 1874, a session ot seven
months, lacking only eight
I It may be brietly summed up as a
in which a vast amount ot labor
performed by both houses, by the
regular and special and by the
Huai members thereof. e have had
>:i of Congress since the war which
I|||Snet.ed sj much hard work as this
fthe members of their committee
itii amount of drudgery which can
ho appreciated even from the gener-
H;,nge of the many voluminous re-
Hnade on various subjects, and the
V, .-tod. drawn up and submitted iu
houses.
I Tin: 1U1.1.S AND RESOLUTIONS
Hu , and in the two houses since the Ist j
H. usbor are appalling to contemplate, j
H; g introduced in tlie House down to
inst. numbered 3,769, and 9CO w
|§. riate: the House joint resolutions ve-
B; number, 114, and those of the Sen-
Bp The bills passed by both houses
so far muuVKsr over 300,
lyugJK the great bulk of the measures re
amo>.g the unfinished business of
■Lion. Most important among the
Eres passed after the new currency
Kn,*.romised on account of their
feS in U.
i o«d nr the Indians, are tnc
and na\-y amt on too a.
Bar Appropriation and Dcucwnc,.
next are tho new Bankrupt law, tho act
creating anew government for tho Dis
trict of Columbia (a government of tlirco
commissioners or consuls) in lieu of the
Territorial failure, the repeal of the moiety
system in tho collection of customs duties
and of tho Sanborn contracts in the col
lection of internal revenue deficiencies. We
have given elsewhere in our columns tho
important bills passed.
THE BILLING IDEAS OF THE SESSION—THE
FIRST DAY’S DEVELOPMENTS.
On the first day of the session in tho
Senate, this body being already organized,
Mr. Summer introduced a bill (Senate bill
*o, 1) to protect all citizens of tho Unit
ed States in their civil rights, and to furn
ish the means for their vindication (tho
Fivil Plights bill). Also, a bill to secure
equal rights in tho schools of "Washington
and Georgetown. Also, a bill to authorize
compound interest notes. Also, a bill to
protect persons against inveigling from
abroad, kidnapping, forcible Constraint or
involuntary servitude (the Italian Chil
dii'iis bill). Also, a 1 >lll to satisfy claims
arising from French spoliations prior to
July 31, 1301 (a bill that has been running
in Congress for over fifty years, and fre
quently passed by one house but never by
both in tho sanio session. Original clai
mants are dead). Also, by Mr. Sumner,
a joint resolution for a Constitutional
amendment providing for tho election of
President and Vice President directly by
tho people, and another to limit tho Presi
dent to one term of six years. Mr. Conk
ling introduced a bill relating to certain
moneys appropriated by members of Con
gress (meaning the back pay outrage). Mr
Edmunds introduced a bill providing for
the distribution of the Geneva award. Mr.
Wright introduced a bill for the repeal of
tho Increased Salary act. A bill was also
submitted by Mr. Morton to repeal certain
sections of the bankrupt law; by Mr Fen
ton, to regulate tho service of the collec
tion of the customs; by Mr. Pratt, to es
tablish the compensation of Senators, mem
bers ol the House and delegates in Con
gress (repeal of Increased Salary act), and
several bills were introduced on freo bank
ing, the currency, <£c.
From these bills of the first day of the
sessiou in the Senate it will bo observed
that Mr. Stunner’s legacy of his Civil
llights bill, as bill No. 1, takes precedence
O) or everything else; that the Senate, nev
ertheless, was most impressed with the ne
cessity of the immediate repeal of the in
creased salary and back pay bill, and t hat
next in order of importance, in the estima
tion of Senators, was a bill for tho better
regulation of tho financial affairs of the
XTiAtao ,
day of tho session in the v'otwtwwgrrnfftT
tion, was not ready for legislative business
till the second, and from this point we pro
ceed to a brief report of tho general pro
gress of the work in each House lor each
month of tho session. Before entering up
pon this report, however, we may properly
mention tho intervening difficulty in tli 0
appointment of
THE CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE UMTED STATES
to fill tho vacancy on the Supreme Bench
resulting from the death of Chief Justice.
Chase. On the 2d of December tho Pres
ident sent iu the name of George 11. Tl il-
liaras, Attorney General for this important
position, and that ot Judge .Bristow (since
made Secretary of the Treasury) for At
torney General, in placo of Williams. The
Senate hesitated to give its consent to the
appointment of W illiams; but niter wait
ing a month it was relieved by the with
drawal of Williams, though only to be
again bewildered with the nomination of
Caleb Cushing, a few days before confirm
ed as Minister to Spain. Mr. Gushing’s
name was sent up on the 9th of January;
but owing to certain discoveries of his war
record his name nest withdrawn, and on
the 14th of January that of Judge Waite
was sent up for Chief Justice, and ho was
promptly confirmed. This affair was con
sidered at the time ns foreshadowing an ir-
repressible conflict"’ between the President
dout and the Senate, and as indicating a
purpose on the part of General Grant to
act upon his own judgment, regardless of
the suggestions, wishes or warnings ot the
Senate. Nor has this impression been en
tirely obliterated by subsequent eveets.
Returning to the legislative proceedings
of Congress, a brief outline thereof, month
by month, from the beginning, will serve
to indicate the numerous and multifarious
subjects coming before the two Houses
aud the extent of their constantly increas
ing labors and responsibilities with the
growth of country. In boiling these pro
ceedings down to the limits of a brief para
graph much is necessarily oinited and left
to the memory or perception of the intelli
gent reader.
DECEMBER.
This, the opening month, is largely oc
cupied in the bringing in, cutting out and :
distribution among the committees of the j
two houses of the regular work of the ses
sion. From the first day of the month in
the Senate, and on the second in the House,
to the 19th, numerous bills and joint reso
lutions were introduced and referred, in
cluding a great variety of bills on the cur
renev question, the banxs, bills on re, > out li
ment and reform, Louisiana, L tali, lor the
repeal of the increased salary and back
pay bill, a special naval appropriation bill
of *55,000,000, which was passed, in antici
pation of a possible rupture with Spain;
bills for the repeal of the bankrupt act, and
manv others. The most notable events of
this month were, first, the introduction in j
the Senate by .Charles Sumner of his Civil !
Rights bill (Senate bill No. 1), a bill which
has proved the legacy of au untamed
elephant to the' republican party-.second,the
speech in the House of that living skeleton
of a man, Alexander H. Stephens, of Geor
gia, on his crutches, in defence of the iu
j creased salary tmdbft&'pav act; third, the
j resolution from the House Committee ot
S Ways and Means asking for revised and
> ’ from all the Executive
' reuttcuu wig"
BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY == F == TstT
iaaßSMaag«Mwagaß«PMrj^ff fy;
j departments of their wants for the fiscal
| year, Mr. Dawes urging tho necessity of a
! general use of the pruning knife to save
tho Treasury from bankruptcy and tlie peo
ple as lar as possible from increased taxa
tion. From this point, in tho reaction
from “the back pay grab,” wo have the
controlling idea ol the session—retrench
ment, and it lias been followed out, at least,
in reference to tho army and navy, to the
extremity of “saving at the spigot though
wasting at tho bung hole ”
The two Houses adjourned over from
the 19th to January 4, a recess for the
Christmas and New Year holidays,
JANUARY.
The two houses reassembled pursuant to
adjournment and proceeded to business,
hammer and tongs., In the Senate the
currency question was resumed and dis
cussed from day to day, the most important
speeches of tho month being that of Mr.
Schurz, on the disasters cf inflation ; that
of Mr. Morton in reply, on the necessities
of the West for more currency; that of Mr.
Gordon, for more currency to the South ;
that of Mr. Sherman, on the financial con- j
dition of the Treasury and the country and I
the solemn pledges of the government, and j
that of Mr. Merrinion, for more greenbacks
and banknotes. Various currency schemes I
were submitted from both sides of the
Chamber. Among the other subjects dis
cussed or brought before the Senato were I
the F tali courts, civil rights, cheap trans
portation, the salary and back pay question,
Pincliback s case as Senator, ultimately
dismissed as no case. In the House the
finances, the naval appropriations, the Cen
tennial Exhibition, civil rights, the Army
bill and the West Virginia contested elec
tion were the leading questions of the
month. The most important events in j
Congress in January were, first, the repeal j
of the increased salary and back pay bill,
only excepting tho increased salary of $50,-
000, from $25,000 for tlie President of the
t inted States, and the increased salary of
Sio,ooo from SO,OOO of the Judges of the [
Supreme Court. Second, tho memorials
presented charging great irregularities, ex-
travagances and corruptions in the expen
ditures of the local government of the
District oi Columbia. Third, the famous
speech on civil rights in tho House of tho
colored member Elliott, in defenaq of the
claims of his race,, as provided for in Sum
ner’s bill. Fourth, the resolution for the
appointment of tho Howard investigating
Committee. And Fifth, Senator Carpen
tei s phillipic against the Kellogg usurpa
tion of Louisiana.
FEBRUARY.
The opening of February marked pn
estiniat.es to tlie extent of s2o,ff(;u.bV»/
made by the pruning knife. Several ol
these bills were discussed, and also tho
Bankrupt law, cheap transportation, the
currency question, the Indians, civil rights,
the Sanborn contracts and Jayne, moieties,
the franking of documents and a great
budget of private bills. In the Senate,
Louisiana, the Bankrupt bill, the Currency
bill, the District of Columbia and the Cen
tennial bill were the leading subjects; the
most of four or live days of every week of
the month being devoted to the Currency
bill. Among the important events of this
month wore the appointment of the How
ard investigating committee, the joint
committee for the investigation of the lo
cal affairs of the District of Columbia,
General Butler’s raid upon the New. York
city newspapers, the rejection by the Sen
ate of Cameron’s proposition for unlimited
free banking, 26 to 32; the adoption of
Merrimon’s proposition to fix the greenback
circulation at $400,000,000,23 to 25, and
the memorable Marco Polo speech ot
Schurz agaiust an irredeemable paper cur
rency.
March.
This month was opened in the Senate
with a debate on the Centennial Interna
tional Exhibition scheme,Sumner leading
the opposition to the project and to any
appropriation towards it from the national
Treasury. The Currency bill, the Louisiana
usurpation, the proposed statistical inquiry
into the liquor traffic and tho Louisville
canal were also debated in the Senate,
while in tho House the Homestead law,
the Indian bill, cheap transportation, the
distribution of “Public Documents,” the
General Civil Appropriation bill, taxation,
regulation of railways, the currency, tlio
Mining bill, the Louisville canal and nume
rous other subjects were discussed. In
this month the bill appropriating $3,000,000
to tho Philadelphia Centennial scheme
was rejected in the Senate —32 to 17 ; tho
resolution was passed—2G to 21—in the
Senate authorizing a commission of five
persons to inquire into the details and
effects of the liquor traffic; while in the
House the bill under a commission of nine
persons on the regulation of rail way freights
and fares was passed—l2l to 116. r Jhe
impressive events of this month were the
death of ex- President Filmore and of Sen
ator Charles Sumner. The death of Mr.
Sumner caused a suspension of legislation
in Congress for several days, and, from his
dying injunction, operated to bring into the
| foreground his legacy of the Civil Rights
i bill.
Anar,. ,
Senator Jones, of Nevada, on the Ist
delivered his maiden speech on the curren
cy question—a sensible, practical, convinc
ing, common sense view of the subject.
The currency debate was brongnt to a tem
porary conclusion iu the Senate iu the pas- j
sage of the Merrimon bill to 24) j
$41X1,000,000 of greenbacks and $400,000,- j
000 of national bank notes. Stewarts)
General Territorial Railroad bill of hand j
l grants, rights of way; &c. was passed in the
I Senate (20 to lb); and Sumner’s Civil
| Rights bill was taken up and referred to
I the Judiciary Committee. The Geneva
Award bill was debated. "Windom s special
! report was submitted, on cheap traneporta
-1 tion routes from the West to the East
THE CONSTITUTION AS AMENBE2-THB UNION AS BESTORED.
The 27th was devoted, in Senate and
House, to eulogies on Sumner; and the
29th and 30th mainly to liis Civil Rights
bill as reported from the Judiciary Com
mittee. In the House tlie Currency bill
was the prominent topic of debate. The
House Currency bill was passed, 133 to
121, and the Senate bill, 140 to 102. The
House was-also actively employed durino
the month on appropriation bills, transpor
tation, Utah, District o.f Columbia, the
Sutro Tunnel and other questions. The
great event of this month was the Presi
dent's veto of Merrimon’a Currency bill,
sent up to the Senato on tho 22d. Next!
on the 28th, after a desultory discussion,
the vote in the Senato wit** taken on tho
question, “Shall tho bill jmss notwithstand
ing tho President’s objections?” ahdit
resulted in yeas 34, nays 30, not two-tnirds
fur the bill, and so it was lost, and tiie
President’s objections were sustained. On
the lGth Mr. Carpenter introduced in the
Senate a resolution providing for the re
cognition of the independence of the island
of Cuba, which was referred to the Com
mittee on Foreign Relations, where it is
sleeping.
MAY.
May in both houses presents a heavy'
budget of business. In tho Senate the
Jayne Moieties, tiie Mississippi Floods, the
District of Columbia, Civil Rights, the
Geneva Award, tho Currency, Chcan
Transportatisn, Appropriation bills and
various and numerous other measures were
considered. The House was engaged upon
the same general subjects, and upon the
Indian, tne J ariff, Internal Revenue and
Territorial and other bills. Many bills
wore passed, including the Deficiency bill,
in tlie Senate; bill establishing civil rights
of blacks among the Choctaws in Indian
.territory, by tho House; the conference
report on Currency bill, No. 2, was adopt
ed in the Senate, and the Geneva Award,
bill, rejecting insurance companies, was
passed, and several appropriation bills. I
A Ho the C ivil Rights bill at half-past seven j
o’clock in the morning, after an all-night
session, passed by a party vote, excepting
Carpenter, republican, in the negative. In
| the House the bill for the admission of
Now Mexico as a State was passed—lGo
to .>o- and olio bill establishing - the rights
of colored citizens in Indian Territory” In
the Senate tho Pembina Territorial bill
was rejected. The melancholy death of
Mr. Hellish, a member of the House from
New York, occurred on tlie 24th. On the
20th the joint resolution fixing tlie 22d of
Juno as tlie day for the final adjournment
of the session was adopted. 29th, new joint
conference conimittco on currency mixmF ■
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■’*' ' jtgusiy' 1 from tlie orgat)f rr ‘jiol
tlie longWfr*ftwwaß-ii* urns Sake crowned
into the last month and the last week of
tlie session—-that is to say, the settlement
between the two houses ol their disagree
ments upon the various important bills still
undisposed of. As usual, too, in tho final
agreements between the two houses,through
their conference committees, many of the
retrenchments originally resolved upon
were knocked in the head, and the general
sum of the appropriations has been largely
increased. In the Senate (Turing this month
the unfinished regular appropriation bills
were the heavy Avork, though in looking
over the record of the proceedings of tho
two houses for trie last three weeks it
would appear that nearly all the important
bills and a large budget of secondary mea
sures wore delayed till June among the un
finished business. On tho 9th, in both
houses, tlie report of the District of Co
lumbia investigation committee was sub-
mitted, with a bill for anew government
of a commission of three persons, and with
a tax on property, including church prop
erty, of three per cent, In the Senate tho
moiety repeal was passed—39 to 3—and
the conference report on the Currency bill
was agreed to, and an adverse report on
the proposed Mississippi St. Philip Canal;
and a bill was passed for tho removal ol
certain causes from State to United States
courts (fitly styled tho Press Gag bill) ;
and a bill Avas passed appropriating $200,-
000 fortlie survey of four great proposed
freight Avater routes; and a bill for a com
mission of engineers for survey of Missis
sippi obstructions. In the House Butler s
bill affirming the right of Avomen to prac
tice law iu United States Courts was pass
ed and the Utah Judiciary bill and the bill
for admission of Colorado as a State 1(0
to 65:and the Civil Sendee Reform Avas
rejected—lsG to G 7, and the New Confer
ence Currency bill—loß to 146; and a neAV
committee asked of the Senate ana ap
pointed by the House; and the Chickasaw
and Choctaw claims,s2,ooo,ooo or $3,000,-
000 Avere thrown over for another investi
gation; and the Bankrupt bill was arranged
between the two houses, and tho bill for
the new government of the District of Co
lumbia ay as passed by both houses, and the
new Currency bill from tho conference
committee, $382,000,000 greenbacks, no
reserves,aud for a transferer of $55,000,000
banking circulation from the East to the
West aud South,was adopted by more than
a two-thirds vote in both houses.
A mere recapitulation by name of the
bills aud amendments considered in both
houses, aud acted upon favorably or adver
sely, since Saturday morning last would fill
several columns of the Herald. Day auu
night, the Senate and House, for the last
three or four days of the session, worked
as if their own salvation, as well as that of
the country, depended upon their final ad
journment for the session and their disper
sion on the appointment,when by a simple
i agreement between the two branches they
| could have lengthened the session a few
! days, in view of the great objeet of Asp**-
I i n rr Os the important unfinished matters
i Wore them decently, and with the cxaim-
I nation necessary to prevent frauds and
spoliations upon tho Treasury.
osN EitAi. acX* INO lr - i
1 la eumming the praetlealpu waul* ol
the. session it may be said that, under tho
circumstances, they have done as well as
could have been reasonably expected. If
they have not given the country the telieti
demanded and hoped for on the curreucy
question they have, from the President’s
veto of the Merrinion measure, been so far
checked as to save the country from a bold
adventure into the limitless sea of inflation.
If they have not given the country the
relief generally looked for in the matter of
our heavy taxations the people have,
through the irreconcilible party and sec
tional divisions of the two houses, escaped
the laying on of tho additional burdens
contemplated by the high protectionists.
If nothing definite has been accomplished
in behall of cheap transportation tho peo
ple of the Great West may couiolo them
seives upon the fact that Congress has at
least broken ground in favor of a system of
trans-Alleghany and seabord water-ways,
which will ultimately absorb some $200,-
000,000 from the national Treasury. If,
under their fit of retrenenment, the two
houses have cut down the bills for tho ar
my, the navy and tho Indians to the point
of starvation, far more liberal appropria
tions than were promised in the outset
have been made for unfinished public build
ings in Washington, New York and other
cities of the Union, and for commercial
purposes, including life stations along the
seabord, Jf nothing has been done to ad-
vance the cause of a postal telegraph sys
tem by land and sea we still know that tho
Postmaster General and Mr. Ramsay, of
the Senato I ostal Committee, have not
abandoned this grand idea. If many im
portant and desirable measures have failed
many corrupt jobs and vicious shemes of
legislation have also faded; so upon the
whole, tho merits of this session of Con
giOss will rest as much upon the pernicious
measures of legislation escaped as upon
tlie good and needful measures which have
been passed.
THE UNFINISHED BUSINESS
embraces first the Civil Rights bill, an
untimely and pernicious measure of senti-.
mental equality, which has been wisely
kept on the table in the House; next, tlie
bill for the refunding of tho cotton tax
collected during several years from the
Southern States, and amounting in the
aggregate to some $70,000,000. Also,
various steamship subsidy and ocean tele
graph cable schemes; and new pension bills
and a variety of Southern claims, amount
ing to many millions of dollars ; and tlie
general Territorial railway bill, cut down
m tlie Senate to a comparatively harmless
affair; but still let over in tllfl Hnngft mtmt
hglMWri
'subject of several tedious months,from day
to day and mght to night, are perhaps
without a parallel of patient and faithful
industry in any other investigating com
mittee ever ordered by Congress. The re
sults arc anew government for the District
the best, uuder the circumstances, that
could for the present be devised, to relieve
the District from the financial embarrass
ments, and to place it upon tho road of
economy, a rigid responsibility and solid
prosperity.
I'OUTIOAL ESTIMATES OF TIIF. SESSION.
The Republicans say they,will go confi
dently before tho people in the coining
elections for the next Congress, upon the
record of the late long session—that they
can point with satisfaction to the retrench
ments they have made in the annual ex
penditures, to the general resuscitation of
the business affairs of the country under a
Republican administration; that harmony
still prevails and will bo maintained be
tween the administration and the Repub
lican party, that whether General Grant is
or is not in the field for another Presiden
tial term i3 at this time a question of no
practical importance; that tho opposition
elements are hopelessly divided, while tho
Republican party is rallying and reorga
i nizing its forces, to recover the ground it
has lost, and that it will secure a working
I though perhaps a reduced majority in the
I elections of the coming fall for tho next
house of Representatives.
Per contra, the Democrats are hopeful
of a uenoral popular reaction against the
party in power. They hold that it has fail
ed to meet the expectations of the country
from this session of Congress, and that,
South and West particularly, it. lias be
come demoralized and will suffer serious
disasters; that really there is no longer
any confidence between the party and the
administration, and that General Grant
will not lift a finger to help the party in
these approaching elect'.ons; that the re
trenchments of this late session signify
nothing, while tho manifest, tendencies of |
the Republicans to a grand, despotic, and .
costly centralized government will tell hea
vily against the party, and that with all its
soft appliances to the Grangers they will
carry off the balance of power in the West
while the odious Civil Rights bill—still
hanging like the sword of Damocles over
the heads of the white race —will operate
to drive the Republican white balance of
power where it exists in the bouthem Sta
tes to the opposition side. j
At all events, we congratulate the
American people that tho long session oi
the Forty-third Congress is ended, and
that, although it might have mueli
better on the great issues of tne aay, it
might have done much worse; anu tL.tt
frciin the popular revolt against the mani
fold corruptions of the last Congress we
have from this Congress the eviuence m
many things of a wholesome fear oi an ad
verse public opinion and some things m the
way of repentance and reiorm.
Prominent Republican Congressmen
state that the new Executive Committee,
as soon as organized, will commence send
ing campaign documents into doubtlul
districts at once. As the franking-privi
cannot now be made available in trans
it ut tin nr these speeches and documents,
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An Address to Republicans of
the 2nd. Congressional Dis
trict.
The time to select a candidate to repre
sent the party in this district, is near at
hand, and the necessity for every true Re
publican to exert every effort iu His power
to save the party from threatened defeat
bj the opposition, aided as they aro to
some extent, by malcontents among onr
own ranks, is now manifestly beyond a
doubt. Tho fate of the party will be de
termined by the action of the approaching
Congressional Convention. That conven
tion should be composed of tho best, truest
and ablest men of your party from each
county, as there is safety in wise counsel.
\%ith such men, principal is a sinequanon,
and their deliberations will not bo controll
ed by Belfish and anibitious motives,neither
would their action bo warped or led by the
insideous craft and chicanery of sore hea
ded disorganizes, siiould there bo any such
at the convention, whose mania for office,
for themselves, and perhaps their relations;
ami their greed of lu.cro is paramount to
their desire for tho success of their party.
All parties are troubled with a class of
pockot politicians, vampires and vultures,
who prey upon the party, to rule to their
own interest, or ruin, and rnako their
strike at a time propitious for forcing
their own conditions, even at the jeopardy
or distraction of the party prospects of sue-
cess. Where tho political waters are
troubled most, they demand office, or a
better paying one than they already have,
as a precedent to thei'r acquiesence, and if
not supplied,they res ort to every artifice,
and complaint that will give aid and com
fort to tho opposition. Their fealty to
principle, depends on tho state of tho mar
ket, and is measured by tho amount of mo
ney, or public pap they euchre, or win by
the operation. Who tlsit to the balance
of mankind whether A. or B. or their fa
vorites, ever get an offi.ee or not, What
better right,or causo of. complaint have they
than every, or any o'ther member of tho
party, or why are the! r demands more su
perior and meritorions, than that of all the
rest of tho party! I 'artics aro formed to
carry out certain, qreat principles, of a
public character, lor tho good of all, and
pot merely to foster the pecuniary interest
of a hungry clasa of speculators in politics.
The people have no interest as to who hold
the office, neither Jo they care, so tho du
ties aro well per fo\med by men of their
own party, but tl’iey have a great interest
in the principl os and policies, which they
desire the gov ei.mmet to be administered
embodymen t the principles of his party
77* ’W. hi, f ’ or reiect hi3 sclfeL
vindictively f.or the araingnment of 7*ia—the
partys offer)' ler.
The wild Irant for plunder and the rule or
ruin policy, "it is to be hoped, will bo ignor
ed by all true party men hereafter. Tho
advantage of experence, and the light of
reason, demonstrates the fact, that tho
safest eriterian for success in elections, is
tho integrity of character and availability
of the candidate to be selected, and that
has been invariably the desideratum, and
ruloof action, of all former party conventions.
And your present member in congress, the
Hon- R. 11. AVhiteley, is not wanting in
either of those requisites. With him as
yo ur standard-bearer, you have gained two
victories, which is a fair indica
tor t-o the next, and establishes the fact
of his availability before the people, He
has served you in congress, up to the full
measure of a republican.
In his official record you will not fail to
find liim an able advocate ,and champion of
your principles. II e has guarded and de
fended your rights, beyond your most san
guine expectations, and it is not resonable
to suppose, that with the knowledge you
have of these facts, that you will desert
the man who has never betrayed your par
ty, or that you are prepared to lay him
aside, simply for the complaints of his tra
duce rs, who are actuated from sinister mo
tives, regardless of tho consequences their
course might produce, to perhaps a defeat
of the party. To take into consideration
the va st importance of the comiog struggle
and tho uncertainty of the results, at best,
under the most favorablo circumstances,
wo cannot escape tho conclusion, that to
lay aside one who has never failed of suc
cess, for any new and whose
strength had never been tested before the
public, would be a blunder, nothing short
of party suicide. Tho emergency of the
case will not justify a resort to new expe
riments at this crisis; for the safety of the
race, the renomination of 31ajor Whiteley
is an imperative necessity. Tho and ictatcs
of such reason admonish us, that unless
tho great body of the republican party will
rise above personal considerations, and
frown upon all attempts calculated to dis
organize and destroy the harmony of the
convention, should any such attempts be
made, the result would inevitably be the
loss to the party, of a member in Congress.
Republicans are yon prepared for such a
result? Harmony being a requisite to sue
j cess, a sense of propriety behooves us to
cultivate it among all oar members, by |
friendly interchange oi opinion as to the j
best policy to be pursued, and by refrain
ing from ambitious charges, criminations
and complaint, and abases agaiust each
other, in order to secure concert of actioD,
which is tho main essential to succces.
Meet as friends united in a common cause
for the sake of party and principle, and act
promptly upon the motto of tho great
founder of this republic, “measures,” not
men.
Randolph.
j>o you Suspect Anyboay.
The Uarrodsburg People is responsible
for the following anecdote:
"Om U Captain <**"*“£
the following anecdote of one ol the older
[Terms, Two Dollars a Year, in Advance.
Breckinridgea—now passed away—a lawyeii
and distinguished in his profession. A reg
ular frequenter at liis office was an oldgon
tleinan who never had any business, but
regarded Mr. Breckinridge us the greatest
man in the country, and would listen with
avidity whenever tho lawyer’s leisure al
lowed him to talk. This old gentlemen,by
tho way, was given to making queer and
sometimes startling remarks—-all iu the ut
most innocence of any evil intention or mis?
conduct whatever. One day the lawyer did
not open his office, and tho old gentloinaa
was deprived of liis daily occupation. Thq.
noxt day, however, Mr. Breckinridgo made,
his appearance, when tho old znto zui<\
somewhat testily. "A lawyer should tab
ways bo found in his office.” “Very
responded Mr. Brock iurklgo," “but a very
uuusual ooeuronce kopt mo at home. For.
the first time in fifteen years my wife gave
birth yesterday to a baby.” Fifteen
jears 1 ejaculated tho old gentleman,
looking ov o r tho rim of his
spectacles. Then lowering his vuico to a
mysterious whisper, ho said: ‘And do you
suspect anybody?’ Tho old geutlcinau’a
character, manner, &c., made tho joke too
good to keep, and Mr. Breckinridge laugh
ed as heartily as did his friends when ho
told it.”
ffhe Exile.
How Marshal Bazine ts Treated.
Marshal Bazaino, contrary to what is
generally thought,''id undergoing real amt
severe detention. Ho is confined within’
the fort, and has but the terrace on which
to tako his walks. The rest ot the island
is forbidden ground to him. Jto has no
garden at his disposal, as has becu report
ed, with the exception of a few trees and
flowers on the torraco. Madama Bazaino
is with him. She may leave the fort when
alio pleases, says the London so
may M. Bazainc’s aide-decamp, but they
need a special permission from tho Min
ister of tho Interior to re-enter the fort
Ilenco iUadamo Bazaino stays as long in
the prison as possiblo. The view is exten
sive only from the terrace, whence the open
sea may bo discovered. Thorp is not suffi
cient fresa water in the island, and a small
boat which serves to communicate with tho
coast brings over tho quantity necessary,
Tho ex-Marshal at first suffered a great deal
from this scarcity of water. Ho was ob
liged to reduce hia baths iu order to watqr
the flowers on tho terrace. JU'dnce tflJ
aide-decamp had to go to Baris to qskthat'
abundant | supply of fresh water'
groatjoy of tho prisoner. liazaffTHllßWP""
uniform life, and seems resigned to his lot.
Lla..rga_da ruueh, worka oil tho morning, is
Another Victim.
A young lady came from Troy. TAv, to
this city, one day last week, to marry a
very handsome, attractive, genteel young
gentleman, with, whom sho had becomo
acquainted by answering his advertisement
for a correspondent matrimonially inclined.
One letter followed another. Photographs
were exchanged. The young lady came on
to New York, meeting her lover at Jersey
City, and was by him escorted, as sho
to a lawyer's offico, where they weio mai*-
ried by “a judge,” after which they pat uft
at a hotel. Here sho remained as his wifo
from Tuesday afternoon until tho following
Saturday morning.
The clerk of the hotel, in accordance
with the usual custom, sent a bill to their
room, when her husband, taking in his hand
a small satchel containing a few toilet ar
ticles, left “for his office,” as tho woman
states, to obtain the money demanded bj
the landlord—since which tiwo ho ha* nqf
been heard from. _
Tho singular part of it i3 that the 530$
of her money ho took with him a <la/ of
two beforo to deposit in a bank to hes
credit along with S7OO already thore—thaf
sho might have SI,OOO in all—has myste
riously disappeared, and tho poor girl was
left with a small trunk fall of soiled clothes,
and not a dollar to help herself with. Con
vinced that she was not a swindler, but had
been cruelly imposed upon, tho landlord
gave her the bill and stated her case to a
few boarders, who raised money-enough
for her to return to her homo. At least
she has left the city for tho bracing air of
the country, a wiser womau than she was
when first she camo to New York to marry
the lover whoso letters were sweet and
whoso picture was so charming.—Pome
roy's Democrat.
Sho Signers of the Declaration
of Independence.
In looking over the immortal roll of the
signers of the Declaration of IndeY>endence,
curiosity ha3 led U3 to examine from what
stock they sprang, AVe find that three of
them were natives of Ireland, viz: Thorn
ton, Smith, and Taylor, and one, Rutledge,
of Irish ancestry; two natives of Scotland
—-AVilson and AVitherspoon; odo of AVales,
Lewis; and one of England, Robert Mor
ris.
There arc also three of direct AA r elsb or
igin, AVilliains, Floyu, (originally Lloyd,)
and Lewis Morris; three of Irish, Carroll,
Read, and McKean; two of Scotch, Jloop'
cr and Livingston; ono of Swedish, Mor
ton; one of Norman, Bartlett; and one -
Austrian, Lynch.
The others are of old English stock gen
erally; though there is AA T elsh blood in the
ancestry of John Adams, Jefferson, Cly
mer, Gwinnett, (Gwynnedd,) and probably
Ilewes, and perhaps Robert Morris. Mor
ris was born in Lancashire, near AV ales,
and from the iutme there cannot be much
doubt of his Welsh origin. Dlymer and
his wife, tho daughter of Reese Meredith,
(originally Meredyddjwero bolb ‘ >f
descendants
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