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Every Thursday Morning,] OL. X. «§ Weekly Sub, MqHßpvßzisiiirra co. J ’itOI'KIKToR.-?. BOR 'I - OF M iJSK/FJ IOA I Year, £2,00 Kg fcix Months 1,00 ’ r,< ■ in Advancn, <»nr <lul» liiifcij i JHSVro tlie e fforts of onr friends In ~r;' ! ' a ,n t,ir ‘ extension of flic cir the Si x ; and, in answer to the io and daily in regard to tlic matter, to onr Cluliing Hates below one ... Wm j “ ... 2d - - 30 r i Vom N. Y. He rald, j W ork of Congress. 'or'Ber rin IV.nrr-Ti;ir.i> Congress, J i i-• > r Session. 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 ■ ■llF -rt-rgrW" .... ■’*' ' 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, subscriptions from members to the general fund will have to 1* much larger than here to form 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 J»T« e rftans.-W Commercial Bulletin. NO. 2..