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A Good Precedent.


A Good Precedent.
The published determination of the
Clerk, Mr.. MCPHERSON, not to place the
names of the members elect from the
Southern States on the roll Of the House of
Representatives in Congress, has brought
to light through the Cincinnati Commercial
similar incidentin Congressional history.
From this incident in the historical
records of the House, we learn that on the
I'd Of December, 1889, at tho opening of
the 26th Congress, Hugh Garland, clerk of
the 26th Congress, refused to call the names
of the members from New Jersey, because
the seats of all the members of that State
were contested. For three days there was
an excited and wild debate, the House be-
ing both unorganiZed and disorderly. On
the fourth day, the clerk was directed to
call the roll again, and commencing with
Maine, had proceeded according to the
geographical situation Of the States as far
as New Jersey, and was about to say that
he would not call the names of members
of that State, when John Quincy Adams,
who had not had any thing to say about
the controversy up to that moment, sud
denly took the floor and said = 81 rise to
interrupt the clerk" Instantly there was
profound silence in the hall and Mr.. Adams
said:
We degrade and disgrace our constitu-
cnts and the country because the clerk of
the House, the mere clerk whom we en-
ploy and whose existence depends upon
our will, usurps the throne and sets us,
the representatives and vicegerents of the
whole American people, at defiance and
holds them in contempt. And what is this
clerk OF yours? Is he to suspend by his
mere negative the functions of Government
and put an end to this Congress He re-
fuses to call the roll It is in your povc-
to compel him to call it, if he will not do it
voluntarily. (Here Mr.. Adams was inter-
rupted by a member, who said he was
authorized to say that compulsion could
not reach the clerk, who had ayowed that
he would resign rather than call the State
of New Jersey.) Well sir, let him resign
continued Mr.. Adams, ''and we may possi-
bly, discover some way by which we can get
along without the aid of his all-powerful
talents, learning and genius"
Mr.. Adams submitted a motion to require
OF the clerk to call the roll for the State of
New Jersey, and there was general out
cry OF How shall the question be put ?"
All knew the clerk would not put it. Mr..
Adams said: Il intend to put the question
myself" That solved the difficulty. Rich
ard Barnwcll Rhett, of South Carolina,
spranS upon desk and moved that the
Hon. John Quincy Adams, of Massachu-
setts, take the chair, as presiding officer
and ofiiciatc until the House be organized
by the election its constitutional officers
The motion was put and carried. Mr.
Adams was escorted to the chair. New
Jersey was called and the House orgaIiz-
ed.
We trust that if Mr.. Mcpherson should
prove to be refractory, and according to
his avowed purpose cndcavor 10 usurp the
throne, there will be manhood and patriot
Of the House to follow the precedent set by
Mr.. Adams.
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There was no quorum in either branch
G: ssii.o Legislature last night. The Senate
will meet tomorrow morning, at II o'clock
and the House at 10.
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SHIP NEWS.

PORT OF CHARLESTON, NOV. "a.
ARRIVED YESTERDAY.
Schr d. Talbot, Packard, Rockport, Me.
WENT TO SEA YESTERDAY
Steamship Granada, Baxter, Now York
Schr. Myrovcr, Hughes, Now York
BELOW.
Brig Dirigo, from New York, and a
schooner unknown.
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The crops being now generally all ga
thered, we see that most of our planters
who live within q reasonable distance of
the Edisto River, arc preparing to send
down the river fleets Of ranging timber,
for building purposes. Several steam saw
mills are now busy cutting timber, upon
the upper waters of our river, and i'm
short time we expect to see neatly made
RATS slowly winding down the stream to
their destination in the low country, thence
to be shipped to Northern ports, in e1-
change for the vast quantity of dry goods
and groceries that are daily pouring into
S uthorn markets.
The supply OF cotton which was saved
from the universal conflagrations of last
winters campaigns, will soon be exhausted,
As thousands OF bales we're forwarded
from this point last summer, whilst our
town was the terminus of the South Caro-
lima Railroad.
Our Northern manufacturing friends
must tender their thanks to their brother
Abolitionists, that no cotton has been
made anywhere in the South this season,
and very little is likely to be made for
several years. Under these circumstances,
the lumber business will furnish the chief
article OF exchange between the two Sec
tions Of this vast Republic, so lately tot
tering upon its foundation, but now re-
paired, with the cracks and crevices more
closely cemented together.
fOr the past IOur years, the NOrCnern
ship and house builders have been neces-
STATED to obtain an inferior article of
timber and lumber from Maine, South
America and the West India Islands. But
our ports being now open, the demand for
our solid and substantial pine is greater
than the supply has been-hence the high
prices paid upon its delivery in Charleston.
OrdngeJarg Times
Description OF COUNTERFEIT FIFTY
DOLLAR TREASURY NoTE.-A New York de-
spatch ct the 8th, gives the following de-
scriptiQn of a dangerous counterfeit:
Counterfeit fifty dollar legal tender notes
are in circulation in this city, very close
imitation of the genuine. Experts are be-
ing deceived. But two discrepancies be-
tween the notes are apparent to the public.
The last part of the engraving of the head
OF Hamiltons face represents an acute
angle formed by the shape Of the collar.
SO far as known it is perfect in the counter
felt, but in the genuine the flesh lines are
drawn by the engraver across the point Of
the collar at the junction with the waistcoat.
Another discrepancy is the shape Of the
ornaments in the border ot each end Of the
face of the bills, and whole border on the
back figures. The fifty in tho genuine is
in an octagonal frame, rather well defined.
though tho angles are not sharp. The
sides are easily discovered in the counter
felt. The border ornaments are octasonal
in only a slight degree and become perfect
circles. 1t is thought that the Treasury
Department will call in all fifty dollar ten
der notes in circulation.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-11-26

The old Knickerbocker Magazine is to be
revived under its old title. 1t will appear
in January.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-11-26

The South Carolina Railroad, which all
our citizens are anxiously concerned about,
is making, we understand, steady progress
towards completion. 1t is thought that
the Augusta branch will be completed to
Midway, twelve miles beyond Branchvlle,
about the first Of the coming month; and
il no unusual obstac' present itself, the
entire line will be open to Augusta on the
first of February next, or perhaps sooner.
The Savannah Railroad Company have
contracted for the rebuilding of their
bridges across the Edisto, Ashepoo and
Congarco Rivers, and this work will be
With energy, it may be expected that the
entire railroad system of the State, which,
f,w months since, was in a most dilapi-
dated condition, will be in working order.
Charleston Ne,os.
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THE BURNING OF CoLuMB1A.-An inter
esting account Of the ssSack and Destruc-
ton Of the City Of Columbia, S. c." has
just been issued, in pamphlet form, from
the Pheni1 steam power press. Orders
can be filed to any extent.
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1865-05-17

REMARKABLE.-We conversed with an
elderly gentleman of this county the other
day, whO informed us that he had recently
been on visit to his brothers and sisters in
distant part OF The country tha; there
were but four of them left out of a once
gether they commenc ced comparing ages,
when il appeared that the younges, of the
party was ~ and the oldest 92-all in Wig
o.ous health. He of course expressed a
doubt as 10 whether :hey would ever meet
again this side OF the graVe.-Luzerns Union.
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DI E d.

In Centre township, Columbia county, on
Sunday, the 7th inst Mr. John SIerner, ST.,
aged aboul 76 years.
In Henry County, on the 10th ult., Mrs
Sarah M. Knorr, wife of Elisha Knorr, for.
merly OF this county, aged 27 years.
In the Hospital near Carlisle, on The 4th
inst, William G.. Whlimire, of Pine town.
ship, this county, aged 10 years.
In Bloomsburg, on Tuesday the 9th inst,
Mrs. Jervis Dick, aged 80 years.
In Limestone twp, Montour CO, on the
2ls! uI,., George Washington, son OF w. D.
& Susan Weidenhamer, aged year, mos
and 1 day. Died of Scarlet Fever.
AT General Hospital, Hilton Head, South
Carolina, on Tuesday, the l7th of January
1865, jeremiah, son of Peter Miller, Co. G.
5 I'd Regt, P. w., aged about 80 years.
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1865-05-17

BLOWING OUT KEROSENE LANPs.-The dan-
ger of blowing out kerosene or carbon oil
lamps rom the top is greater than people
generally suppose. There are several in
stances on record where lives have been
lost BY the explosion of lamps from this
practice. The following OK planalion of the
causes that produce the explosions are
worth considering and heeding
First-The oil in the lamp is generally low
leaving more room for gas.
Second-Ths gas is very infamable, and
will always explode when igni,ed
Third-ln blowing the blaze down, il ig-
mites the gas.
The inference is, lamp should never be
blown out from the top. The wick may
not perfectly fill the tube, and the fame
may SO down, when The gas comes up.
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1865-05-17

FREED NEGRoEs In ARKAssAs.-A cores
pondeal OF the Chicago Tribune, speaking
OF affairs in Arkansas, says the negroes are
dying of. Never before so bountifuIIy pro-
vided for, they gorge and surfeii themselves.
Disease comes, and their number diminish
es. When possessed of money, like chill
dren they frequent stores and saloons with
that indefinite purpose of buying something
that may attract Few, indeed, have learn
ed, or will learn, the virtue Of economy
The officers of negro troops are not gener-
ally men of modesty and intelligence, and
are below par in this army.
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A DISTRICT ATTORNEY Who PERFORMED
HIS DUTY.-A Philadpelphia correspondent
OF the New York World, writing upon the
late rioleus demonstration in the former
city, in which the real Iaw-breakers we're
allowed TO go free and those they had as
sailed were placed under bonds, says
"Emboldened by the success of his H.
legal violence agains; the IngersoIls, few
of the over-loyal and terbalent spirits of
Germantown called meeting without sfTix
ing any signatures TO their call, with a view
of ridding The neigh borhood of some alIeg-
ed sympalhizers with secession. The meet.
ing, however, was convened on Tuesday
night no action being Immediately taken
Mr.. w. B. Mann, the district attorney,
took the floor and told the few persons that
they were conspiring at q breach of the
peace; in plain words he informed them
that if they proceeded any further in this in
famous and disorderly business he would
see that they were properly punished by
imprisonment for il. This is The more note
worthy as Mr. Mann is strong republican,
and very correctly. reasoned that the rioters
were two cowardly 10 let their names be
kn own in this business. This action bodies
we'll for the peace Of the city, as il is high
time that the citizens should have protec-
ton of the law, no matter what may be his
sentiments on any subject
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President Johnson said in speech in tht

President Johnson said in speech in the
Senate Feb. 4, 1851:
have sometimes lhought that it would
be a comfort If Massachusetts and South
Carolina could be chained together as The
Siamese twins, separat ed from the continent
aud taken out 10 some remote and secluded
part ofthe ocean and there anchored, 10 be
washed up by the waves and TO be cooled
by the winds /; and after they hal been kept
there sufficient length OF time, The people
of the United States nigh entertain The pro
position OF taking them back. They seem
10 have been the source o! dissatisfaction
pretty much ever since they were in The
Confed eracy.
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The Harrisburg Telegraph, intensely
"loyal," states that Rev. T. H. Robson OF
that place, preached sermon lately de-
bouncing IheairoicaI exhibitions as sinful
and of the most evil tendency. Tha, paper
says:
The character Of the performers, the i'm
moral nature of the plays, the indecent Ian
guage used, and the exhibitions of the vari
Gus evil passions, which for the time must
be portrayed by The actors, loge ther with
the low grades o. beings who in The main
make up the regular audiences, were descri-
bed in a manner that must have a good
effect.
We have heard equally as bitter denun-
Citations as MIR R. INDUCED in, aimed al thea
tres and those who attend Them, but wha:
does all such rhetorical fulminations from
the pulpit amount to when We are told al
most the next moment by popular divines
that even death in the theatre does not pre-
clude mortal soul from being Immediately
waited TO the realms of Paradise. The two
theories dont jingle in accord DanUiAc
Iateiigeneer. -
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SPECTATOR.

The LADY's FRIEND.-"Sommer days.
beautiful steel engraving is the appropri-
ate establishment Of the June number of
the Lady's Friend. This engraving will re =
mind many of
'The days they went gypsying,
long time ago."
1t is very finely engraved. The double
Fashion Plate is also excelIen:y engraved
aud the ladies no doubt will pronounces il
as.charming as it must be expensive. More
TO our masculine taste, however we confess,
is the simple woodcut of Lucy" with the
expressive lines beneath. Ah, these Lucyl
'fThere she stands, her morning dress aud
mantle
Making space between her and the world;
Shutting in her heart wiIhin its whiteness.
Like the sweets in midtown lilies furIej."
The literary matter of this number is
"Chry sails and Butterfly" By Eleanor c
DonneIly; "a True Story of the Oldsn
Time," by Julia Gill; Los; and Saved" by
Emma B. RipIey-a sad but true story OF
Temptation and Crime "My Sister Clara,
by Tracy. Towne; "Four Birthdays" by
Frances Lee; "Firsl Love-" by Ethel K;
Editors Department, sc. &c. sc.
Price 50 so year copies 81 90. To
those desirous of making up CLUBS, speci-
men numbers will be sent for Is cts
Wheeler & Wilson's celebrated Sescing machine,
are fiun ished as premiums. Address Deacon
& Peterson, 3I9 Walnutsireei, Philadelphia
NotO is the time to subscribe for 1865.
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No MoRE MOB LAw.-Mayor Briggs OF
Springfield, Massachusetts, gives official
notice that The practice of visiting individ-
uals, who are supposed TO entertain disloyal
sentiments. at their homes, and requiring
them TO "show their colors," must be dis
coutiLped. He considers all such proceed
ings as an encouragement Of mob law,
which now, more than ever, should be dis
couraged by every good and law>abiding
citizen.
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1865-05-17

The WOMEN of Mount Jackson, Indiana
waited upon one Of their sex last week with
a rope for the purpose of hanging her, for
using sundry improper words about the as
sassination OF President Lincoln. The Of
fender readily took back all she had said
and saved her neck.
About the same time another woman,
who was similarly indiscree, in Terre Haule,
was called upon by female delegation,
ard compelled 10 march al their head
through the streets of the town carrying a
national flag.
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1865-05-17

AMONG the strange incidents, not to say
profitable results, of the late extraordinary
freshet, is the fact that large quantities of
shad, old-fashiOned Susquehanna shad, are
being canght at various points on that
stream, ss we'll as up the Juniata. We
should like 10 revive our recollection of The
good old times when our farmers gathered
in their wagon loads oil shad as they now do
their potatoes We trust this hint will not
be lost upon some of our river subscribers.
-Pdirioi and Union.
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REVIEW OF THE MARKET,
CAREFULLY CORRECTED WEEKLY.
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May II, I865.-3m.

NEW MUSIC.-FUNERAL MARCH, to
The memory of Abraham Lincoln. the
Martyr President, By Mrs. E A. PARK-
HURST, Author of "Rlchmond is Ours"
''The Soldiers Dying FAREWELL" "Oh,
send me one Flower from his Grave" mo
Slave beneath that Starry Flag" etc, etc.
This March is very solemn and impressive.
Price 80 cents with Vigneue of the Presi-
dent, so dents Mailed Tree. Publisher,
HORACE WATERS, No. 4sI Broadway,
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Nav 8, IS65.--2w.
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AN OLD MuksTRR.

Old Gerrli Smith has written q letter 10 the
President, asking "mercy for The rebels, y
who, he thinks, will be sufficiently punish
sd BY the I" abolition of slavery" and the
overthrow of the State Rights Doctrine of
Jefferson, which, he says, musl now give
way 10 John Jay and Hamiltonian FedsraI-
ism. As Andrew Johnson is a white man.
and representative of the southern mass
es, and has baiiled all his life long against
John Jay Federalism, his letter of Gerrit's
il certainly refreshing but the "conserva-
tive" journals are quite enchanted with it,
and hold it up in honorable contrast with
the clamors Of the g Radicals" Ben. Butler,
Joe. Holt, Fred. Douglass, and others, who
demand ulier determination of the rebels at
once.
Well, We must beg 10 differ from these
mild and gentle Conservatives, who ask for
mercy, Cancellation and forgiveness instead
of scaffold and Immediate exiermination !;
indeed, we regard the latter az infinitely
preferable and consistent. Gerri: Smith is
about the most atrocious and diaholical old
Gaping Nena Sahib. The wild Hurons, AM
oiher savage tribes, were wont 10 torture
their prisoners by burning them at slow
fires, &c., thus proiracling their suffering
for days and weeks, instead of immediate
slaughter, and surely this was vastly more
cruel and diabolical than TO knock oul their
brains al once. And as il would be infinite
ly better for the rebels 10 be exierminaied
al once than subjected 10 the lingering tor
lures Of GerFil Smith and his philanthropic
iriends, We cannot endorse the spirit OF his
magnanimons leiier. He only asks that The
Stale of South Carolina be abolished and its
people submit 10 the rule Of Massachusetts /;
then that labor and production shall be abol-
ishsd from The Poiomsc to the Gulf, and
with that, Of course, all value in the land
and finally, that The white peopls of the
South "aboish" their natural superiority
and go down, or try TO go down, to level
with their negroes. In a word, he asks that
The people OF the South shall commit social
suicide, and he will forgive Them but Ben.
Butler & Co., in a spirit of mercy almost
divine, proposes TO save them from these
lingering and IoaIhsome tor;ures by knock
ing them on the head at once What a
horrible lunacy dominates the land Thirty
years ago this Gerrit Smith Yas beaten with
rotten eggs because be proposed, in some
abstract and far fetched way, to equaIize
whites and negroes, and now he is wise
and magnanimous in proposing to forgive
those who are 10 be forcibly degraded to
equality with negroes
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GEE. CHAs. ALBRIGHT is one of the mem
Gers Of the Court Martial which is lrying
Congressman Harris, from Maryland, for
persrading rebsi soldiers from taking the
oath OF allegiance, and furnishing them with
money 10 escape into Virginia. MIR. Harris
is the man who made himself notorious in
the Chicago Convention by calling General
Mcclellan traitor, and otherwise abusing
him. II guilty oil the crime for which he is
being tried, we hope he will receive his
jus, deserts Carbon Democrat.
Our citizens will remember that this Gen
Charles Albright is the very Identical chap
who harangued them, one Evening last
campaign. on Market street. He had just
returned from the upper end o: this county
where he had been spending some time, as
ne said, hunting evidence against The forty
four citizens Of this county, who were then
under arrest aud lying in Fort Mlfflin. The
statement made TO our citizens that evening,
concerning affairs as he found them ''up the
creek" contained no facts, as the evidence
eliciied before The Court Martial clearly
shows. he bosstingIy asserted that he had
abundance Of evidence to commit those peo-
pie of high treason. Such men as Albright
are fii subjects TO sit upon Cour Martial.
If prejudice is q necessary qualification to 6i
man 10 position on a Military Commis-
sion hen this man Albright enjoys that ac
quiremsni
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administrators Notice.
Estats Of Reuben Savage, late Of FiSkingcreek
township, deceased

NOTICE is hereby given that letters of
~ administration on the estate of Reuben
Savage, late OF FishiEgcreek towns ship, Co
lumbia county, have been granted by the
Register OF said county, to John Wenuer,
of the township and county aforesaid. All
Persons having claims agains. the said es-
tate of the deceden are requested 10 pre-
sent them for settlement 10 the admGisira-
tor, and those owing the estate will come
forward and make Immediate payment.
JOHN WENNER, Admr.
Nav 1868
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M NEW MILLINERY SHOP "a
ESeSE3 and -

MISS LIZZIE BARKLEY most res pect-
fully announces 10 The citizens of Blooms
burg and vicinity that she has opened a
NEW MILLINERY SHOP, in rooms for
meTIy occupied by Dr. Ramsey, deceased,
on Main ST, below Market. She has fine
assortment of Millinery goods, which has
been selected with care and taste. She is
prepared 10 do all work placed in her hands
in as neat and durable style as can be done
elsewhere. Give her call
MISS LIZZIE BARKLEY.
Bloomsbury April 26, 1865