Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1865-10-21


The Next CONGRESS The Chicago
Republican publishes list OF the names
Of the members Of the next Congress. The
Senate is represented by 3s Republicans
and IL Democrats, with one seat vacant in
Iowa Four Southern States have elected
Union senators, but whether they will be
received or not is question yet to be de.
termined. In the House there exists three
vacancies 10 the delegations of loyal states,
one caused by the appointment OF Mr..
Gooch, Of Massachusetts, to the Office OF
surveyor oft port OF Boston, one by the
appointment Of Mr. Webster, of Mary.
land, as collector Of Baltimore, aud one
by the fact that the result of the election
in Nevada has not been heard Of but all
these vacancies will soon be filed by 10y.
al men Of socslled radical complexion,
most probably. According to the party
division that existed during the war, the
House now stands one hundred and forty
Republicans, to forty. one Democrats but
on the great question Of at once admitting
The representatives of the Southern States
or keeping them, or most of them, for q
longer period in probation, it is not prob
able that the same proportions will be pre-
served. From the present Indications all
the rebel States, except, perhaps, Texas,
will have goue through the forms Of re-
constructing their constitutions and elect-
ing members Of both Houses Of Congress
before the second Monday of December,
when the session opens. Should all the
States now without representatives,, whose
senators and representatives are yet to be
, elected, chose Democrats opposed to uni
versal suffrage, as it is to be expected they
will do, and should they all be admitted,
, the Senate will then contain forty seven
Republicans and twepty.seven Democrats,
! and the House Of Representatives would
Q contain one hundred aud fifty Republicans
to ninetytwo Dsmocrats.-Ledger.
REMINIsENcE OF 1s37-AN AMERICAN
EXILE Not long since an elderly mao
7 bent almost double with age and work,
and in garments tattered and torn, while
passing through Rome, New York, stop
J. ped at one of the stores and asked fo,
I. iood or money. He volunteered the re-
s mark that be was ashamed to beg, bu
stated as an explanation and iu extenua
ton, the following as the cause of The ne
= cessity. His home was Saratoga, and be
b chauced to be in Canada at the time o
the rebellion in that country 10 1887. HI
o was charged with being engaged in tina
outbreak, was tried and convicted for be
ing in completely with the " Patriots.
and sentenced 10 Van Dieman's Land fo,
r lie. He says he was not guilty but tha
is the feeling was 80 strong against th'
e g. Yankees" at the time of his trial, it re
!, qured but slight evidence to convict.
He was then some twenty.one or TWEEN
= ty.two years OF age he was taken to tha
- penal colony, and there subjected to the
q severest drudgery and the most inhumar
n treatment he, with other convicts, wa
= compelled to draw the pow and cant llk
:, oxen, and to labor early and late. aut
treated not much better, if any, than th
q dumb beast Thus were ,wenly-eig b
$ years ol life passed, never hearing iron
O friends or home, Dor allowed to communi-
!, cate herewith. He, with others, was e
- naly pardoued, and allowed to reacl
" home as best he might.
'' He left the countrya bale and heart!
}. youth, erect and lull Of life and vigor b.
n returns to it after nearly thirty years ab
sence, a decrepid old man, ben, over with
:, age and work, and with shattered healtl
II and broken couslitutoni The nara
= ton he gave Of his life there, and the de
= tails Of lis treatment, lslly impressed hi
hearers with The truth OF his statements
:. and that he was no imposter. He was OF
- bis way home, not knowing as he woult
IS find being who knew him when boy
= -thica (N ~ He'aM.