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Conservatism If tie 1rWy.

In the remarks which we made in our
issue of the 9Th inst, upon the uniform
conservative tendencies of the distin-
guished officers and gallant soldiers of
the Federal army, we had not the re-
hottest ailusion to the Northern organ
izatioH of parties. We are yet to learn
that in what IRE dcnominated conserva-
tive policy, the RepuJ{ican isless conser-
vative than the Democratic party. Both,
in their conventions, have endorsed the
measures Of President Johnson, and III
the late canvass the orators of both or
CARNATIONS Wed With each other in pro-
LESSONS of unbounded admiration Of his
concillatery policy.
What we specially mean BY eonsefya-
tism III West Virginia, is respect and
obedience 20 die constitution Il Tie SIDE
a restoration toall men Of their civil and
political rights-an abstinence from per-
sacution, insult, outrage and oppression,
and return TO all tire harmonious rela-
tons of civil ana social life. This is
what distinguishes a conservative policy
in West Virginia from the faaieai.
Upon these points we defy the produc-
ton of a single name, distinguished in
the Federal army, that eoneurs with the
radical policy of this state. Give us the
name of one single neritorious Federal
officer who advocates denial of the
right of suffrage to returned rebels, or
who would now, in a period of peace,
punish them by depriving them Of their
civil rights?
No such instance can be found. This
policy is alone advocated by those who
did NOT fight the battles Of the Union
by those whom General Blair has we'll
characterised as miserable sneoks, 1cho
neuer snaeH guupouele,. or heard the whis-
tie Of q bullet, y" stay-at-hon1es, 1e11o aa1-
dertake to prore their loya1ty IN peace, by
denounci,,g q rebellion which they neaer
dared to confront IN ,ear.''
AS to the Republican party of the
North, we would eheerfully submit
these questions to its decision. Happy,
indeed, if we could have such arbiters
as General Logan and General Kilpat-
rick, of the army, or Henry J. Raymond
or Horace Greeley, in civil life.
The ablest articles we have yet seen,
denunciatory Of the blind, short-sighted,
selfish and illiberal policy upon which
the Radical party of this State is now,
unhappily for the country, stalking its
existence, have proceeded frora those
able and influential organs of the Re-
publican party, the New York Times,
and the New York Tribune. God grant
that the counsels Of such men may lib
eralize and enlighten the editors and
politicians of West Virginia!
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GOts3'age.

The editor Of The BerAe1cg D,sion char
ges Us with cowardice on the late election
day. We were on that day greatly
wronsed BY being Illegally arrested,
at the point of the bayonet, under
the orders OF Sheriff Pitzer. At the
time of our arrest, and subsequent TO
our release, We We're grossly insuIted and
threatened with personal violence by
the hired DULLES of the Radical leaders.
and we avoided them as we would any
band OF bood-thirsty conspirators, infu-
RATED by passion and whiskey.
We are not a !" fighting man." bat the
editor of the onion is at liberty, person.
aHy, to subject our courage to any tass
he chooses.
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.Ja3NeS .lIHfiiSOli.

cdWeS 4Vd6ftS0R.
Chief Justice Marshall was often heard
to say that James Madison was the
lfisest mon that he had ever met with in
the public counsels of the country."-
With less original genius than Patrick
Henry or Thomas jefferson, and less
erudition than George Wythe, the mind
of Mr.. Madison was more calm, compre-
hensiye and statesnanlike than any of
his Virginia eotemporarles.
We give the following as a specimen
of his sound and prophetic reasoning,
in reference to the importance of preser-
wing in the constitution the qualifications
of voters:
Mr. Madison isee Madison Papers,
Vol. HI, page 1885, in discussing the
subject said" The qualifications ct cleo
tors and elected We're fundamental arti-
cles in a Republican Government, and
oHghk ia be tired by the constitution. #
the Legislature could regulate those OF
either, it can by degrees, subvert the
constitution. \ republic may be con-
serted into an aristoeraey or oligarehN,
as we'll by limiting the number capable
Of being elected, as the number author
lied to elect. In all eases where the
representatives of the people will have
a personal interest distinct from that of
their constituents there WAS the same
reason foI. being jealous of them rs there
Was for relying oh them with full conf
denee when they had common inter-
est. This was one Of the former cases.
1T was as improper as to allow them to
fix their own wages or their own priv
IT n u}e0 N mi
be made subserrieat TO the iie}rS Of one fae-
ton against another. Qualifications,
founded on artificial distinctions, may
be devised by the stronger, IN order 10
Keep ont pdrtiza,as Of Ct areaher .f5tction.'
How stril1ingly have these views been
illustrated, after the lapse Of seventy-six
years, in the act passed by the Legisla-
ture of West Virginia on the 18th of
February, 1868, prescribing q test oath !.
As late writer has we'll said
In the language of Mr.. Madison, it
tends to .subvert the constitution 1t
may be made subservient to the views
of one faction against another Quail
feations, founded on artificial distinc-
tons, may be devised by the stronger to
keep out partizans Of Il weaker faction
:" II we admit the power to prescribe
new qualifications of eligibility, where
are the limits of the power? five leave
the landmarks of the organic law, who
can tell where our Wanderings are to
end: If we forsake the solid ground of
the constitution, who will be sponsor
that we do not fail into commissions, an
archy and civil war?
"Concede the constitutional right as
claimed, and what is to prevent the DOM
inant party from perpetuating its power,
by DISTINGUISHING all opposed to it,
| They have only to devise artificial dis
tinctions (by test oaths1 to keep out par
tizans of a weaker faction
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,yudge Kenuedy.

We learn chat this gentleman is about
to take up his residence at Berkeley
Springs. II he is commissioned by Gov.
Foreman, this will be the most central
position in the Circuit.
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Protest 81 jefferson Cou,stu .sujt
3ss9fs 10 Cor. Eoreyt3uu

Wopublish to-day for the benefit Of our
readers the manly protest of Messrs. Ne
Curdy, johnson and Losie-members Of
the Board of Supervisors in Jefferson GO.
to the Governor of the State. ltspeaks
foritself, and evinees a perception Of the
law applicable to, and the duty Of the
Supervisors, in single sentence or two,
Which, for elearness Of expression and
brevity cannot beexcelled
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HpR0TIs.sr
eIIAREEsToWS, NEST w,
NONI.l. ISL.

To Ii k.rce'eHeR, Cot. Boreuaa:
We, the undersigned, Supervisors in
the County Of Jefferson, beg leave to ap-
prise you OF the action of the Board of
SupefNisors-at its session of Tuesday
last-in reference to the throwing out OF
the entire vote of the Gharlestown Town
ship.
This Township east 267 votes-a65
We're cast for Judge Kennedy, and for
Mr.. Hall.
On the day fixed by law for the Super
vlsors to meet and certify the returns,
the Supervisors of GharIestown and Os-
and repaired to ShepherdstoWn, to be
present at the said meeting
They found the Board in session
present, Supervisors Fossil, Cameron,
Turner and Potterfeld. They were
counting the tallies of the different
Townships. About this this time. DIR.
Logic, another Supervisor-and the only
one absent-arrived
The Board was asked if any thing had
been done with the CharlestoWn Town
ship, and the answer was :" No. They
We're asked not to pass upon it until Lo-
gle, johnson, and McCurdy could return,
and the Board stated that no action
should be taken with that Precinct until
absence, however, the remaining Super
visors took up that Township, and threw
out the entire Vote of the Township, and
when we returned and found what had
been done, a demand was made to have
the decision opened for review. which
was denied
We are informed that counsel present
stated that they would like to be heard
and met With a like refusal.
-. We consider that the law does not
authorize the Board Of Supervisors to
throw out any Township, but, on the
contrary, clearly prohibits it, They
them from the Inspectors of each Town
ship. Except for County and Township
officers, they are not the Judges of the
returns and qualifications of any parties
elected, and, even in these cases, they
can sit only as a Court having juris-
diction to try a question of contested
election in the form prescribed by the
law
We regard the action OF the Board as
an usurpation of power unWarranted by
the law, in direct violation of its COM
mands, and that its effects are to do
away altogether with the right of the
people to choose their own servants;
because it puts in the power Of the
Supervisors the absolute control of the
right OF suffrage, and they can say who
is and who is not elected.
We do not think il was the intention
Of the law 10 take away from the people
this right, and confer il upon the Board
of Supervisors. We. therefore, feel it
to be our duty to protest in the strongest
language against their action and ask
your ENcellency to order the returns to
be given to snch candidates as appeared
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The Governors Thanksgiving Pro
C(01,tUtiOu.

Our readers will find this ProeIama-
ton in another column Of to-day's issue
OF our journal. While we recognize the
FACTS set forth by the Governor, as eau
ses for profound gratitude and thanks
giving to Il kind and merciful Provi-
dence, we confess our inability to SYM
pathise With him in TIE following eS-
preston of his sentiments: az people
redeemed, regenerated and disenthrall-
ed with our priceless heritage of liberty
and law secured TO posterity, we indeed,
above all others owe thanks to the Great
Ruler and Preserver, who walked with
US through the valley OF gloom and de-
Preston How the people Of "a State,
one-half of whom are, by unjust and un-
constitutional legislation, and by the
corruption OF those in power, deprived of
every valuable right OF citizenship, and
treated as outlaws, can unite in nean5
Of praise to God, thatthey are redeemed,
regenerated and Disseminated, and have
Il pricefess herdage u {5ey1y end lar to
transmit to their posterity, we are una
bic to see. Those who, BY means Of such
legislation, and By the most fragrant
abuse Of official position and power, have
accomplished their venal purposes, feel
doubtless, a kind Of thankfulness for the
success OF their iniquity, and will be loud
and ostentatious in their expressions of
il on the day set apart by the Governor;
hut whether their offering will come up
before the Throne of divine purity as "a
sweet smelling savor," we seriously
question. TO our mind, a day Of fasting
and humiliation for them would be more
appropriate.
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JAMES IaoE1lE..
Supervisor AVerill TOWNSHIP

supervisor ANeflil 1oNil-lIi.
This paper, we understand, was sent
by mail some days since-probably ON
the day of lis date-to Gov. Boreman.
We hope he has given ii that careful
perusal which it justly deserves. We
had suspected that the action Of Fosset.
Taaner, Cameron, and Potterfield, was
not all right, from the fact that Cameron
had been, as we learned, 4 volunteer in
the Rebel army, and would be in favor
of any action his master, Mr.. Chapline.
might desire, upon the principle that
converts, like new Erooms, would make
clean sweep; and from the further
fact, that Potterield, who was directly
interested in this issue in order that he
might be retained by Mr.. Rush as his
deputy. But we did not expect this Of
fetal declaration by the Board, of such
bare-faced rascality and fraud. We begin
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NEGRO REBELLION URGED.
Brown, son Of the infamous old mur.
derer and robber Of Kansas and Ilar-
per's Ferry notoriety, in a recent spee,l,
GO q negro company in Ohio, uttered the
following 8" loyal" sentiments Wv
NY colored friends, you have now
the right to one box, and that Is the rar.
fridge box, but there are two Other hnv-
es you ought to claim, one of which i
The bailot-boa and the other the ;urv
ooN. II the White people fail 10 niv,.
you these, and if you cannot ret them
IN peaceful Way, | advise YOU to arm
yourselves and demand your full RIGHTS
from the Government 80
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This Township east 267 votes-a65
We're cast for Judge Kennedy, and | for
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To Ii k.rce'eaeg, Cot. Bore1saa:
We, the undersigned, Supervisors in
the County OF Jefferson, beg leave to APP
prise you OF the action of the Board of
Supervisors-at its session of Tuesday
last-in reference to the throwing out OF
the entire vote of the GharlestoWn Town
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On the day fixed by law for the Super
visors to meet and certify the returns,
the Supervisors of Gharlestown and Os-
borne TownshipsIeft heretogether. early.
and repaired to Shepherdstown, to be
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Concede the constitutional right as
claimed, and what is to prevent the DOM
inant party from perpetuating its power,
by DISTINGUISHING all opposed to it,
They have only to devise artificial dis
tiZans Of a weaker faetion.''
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When | entered the room The vote
was about being taken, and not knowing
the motion before the Board asked To
be excused
Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1865-12-19

RECONSTRUCTION.

Gov. PierPonfs message il quite lengthy,
giving a full account Of The condition Of
the State. lie concludes As iollows:
RECONSTRUCTION.
In 1860 the Governrsent OF the. United
States Represented tlfirty millions Of people,
with more educated minds, accustomed TO
Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1865-12-19
THEY BUY AND SELL

City. County aud State Bonds on commission, as
well ms every description of Government Securi-
ties
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THE UNDERSIGNED HAS JUST RETURN
l. Ell from the North, with the best stock TO be
had in the country. BUGGIES AND CAR
RIAGES ALL NEW, and horses superior 10 any
in this city.
NY facilities for BOARDING HORSES BY
THE DAY, WEEK OK MONTH, are unegualled
in the city. The services Of an experienced Host
Ter nave been secured. who win give his exclusive
attention 20 stock.
Constantly, hand, hne lot Of HORSES
AND MULES for sale at the Low EST MARKET
RATES.
Having had long experience in the business,
feel satisfied that can give satsaeticM in AZ cases
dec4-lm J. u. PENTEc0ST.
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The Changc 10 Reprr-entntIon.

The Washington correspondent Of the
ST. Louis Rep,tbiioaH, in speaking Of the
proposed change by the radicals in the Fed
eral Constitution, 30 that representation in
the House Of Representatives shall depend
upon the number Of voters, instead Of the
number Of people, says:
''This thing Of representation in Congress
will work beautifully in Maryland, for in
stance. There, less than one-fffh Of the
people are voters-their registry law ex-
Guides the other four-iifths--while in the
State Of Massachusetts no such registry ex-
ists. Hence Massachusetts, will retain her
representation in Congress, while Maryland
will lose four-fifths Of hers, thus giving 10
Massachusetts, an undue prepouderance in
Congress and further aid her in class legis-
lation, for her exclusive benefit Your own
State, if the Drake registry law passes, viii
probably reduce your present nine honor
ables 20 three" or less and your last cleo
ton in ST. Louis would indicate her in no
sense equal 10 Chicago, and compel the
linking Of the Empire City Of the West
with some ten or fifteen counties in the cleo
ton Of one member Of Congress. The bean
tiful project Is 80 popular that several seek
the honor Of it, paternity. Do You ask me
where are the conservative members while
all this Is going ONT Echo ansrers rhersF'
The only reason Of this pet scheme Is 10
drive the South into negro suffrage, or else
cause them to lose large portion Of their
Representatives in Congress. q is miser-
able abolition dodge 10 effect hateful
measure, that is worthy u general eontempt.
il holds out a bride ID the States 70 take ..
negroes, in one hand, and in the other Il
carries rod to punish them, If they refuse.
Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1865-12-19

PLACE on THE CUMBERLAND RIVER,
Of 400 acres. in Jackson county, Tenn, for sale.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-07-12
To Advertiser.

The WEEKLY TRIBUNE has circulation larger than tha'
of any other newspaper aud large proportion oil It's suoco
ers take no other journal The space in this sheet allotted 10
necessarily limited so that each has the
dyan.aye of being easily and all are generally read win
much interest newsmatter There is-ss 'no'e WIN
have tried know-no advertising medium in the country 20
rbeap because there profitable to the advertiser
Fhe paper crcuses among the industrial and thrifty classes
Che Farmers. Merchants and Mechanics oil the
rountryaud carefully read by their wives and daughters
1t is safe to say that each advertisement in it is read every
week by not than half million Of the most intelligent oil
fhe people He who makes his business his merchandise OF
his manufactures known this immense NUMBER scattered All
the loyal States cannot fail to do SO to ms own hae'
end great advantage.
Advertisements on the fifth page 81 So and on the
Eighth page ST. line. For this weeks issue they must De
handed in to-day.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-07-12

Dor arc not what they should be-are, in some
respects, vicious, and need reforming. Let us
discover and apply the means of making the re-
uuired changes. Capital (that is, the unex-
pended fruits Of Labor) and Labor itself are
naturally the best friends in the world, and must
be brought to respect and help each other ac'
cOrdingly.
On the whole, we incline to the belief that
Eight Hours per day will ultimately be the ruie'
but not yet. The end is to'be attained through
such Improvement in machinery and industrial
processes as will further, and largely, increase
the efficiency of the average day work. Every
man who invents or devses a means OF making
the average days work more productive helps
secure to Labor either more dollars for weeks
work or more of the comforts of life for a dollar
which is the same thing. And by-and-by, II
not soon, the Laboring Glass will say, ave
choose to work but eight hours per day and be
paid accordingly; if we shall be obliged, in con-
sequence to live more frugally, dress less cx-
pensively, drink less of liquors and smoke fewer
cigars very well: we are willing" 1t may
well be that they will receive more Tor elght
hours work then they do for ten now; but they
will never command more money (or products)
for less work. They cannot eat their cake and
save it; they cannot light their candle at both
ends without burning it out rapidly; they can'
not and never did, enrich themselves at the ex-
pense of Capital; though part OF them may
by temporarily exacting exorbitant wages
profit at the expense of other laborers. At
least, such are the present convictions OF one
who does not natter them, and is anxious that
they be not led astray.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-07-12

In asking Oh Saturday who was the First
General Clerk in the Street Commissioners
office we only referred to Alderman Ryers as
the last incumbent who discharged the special
duties of the Office, though the salary had, since
that time--three and a half years ago-been
paid to somebody. The Alderman there.
upon saw fit, with some heat and haste,
to assume and deny an imputation which
wo had not thought Of making. The in
formation We asked for, and which Mr.. Ryers
did not think proper to give in his indignant
card, we get from another quarter. The person
who has received the salary Of $4,000 as the
First General Clerk in the Street Commission.
er's Office for the last three years up to July
LIST is Mr.. George G. Coils, brother-in-law Of
Alderman Lewis r. Ryers. The question now
is-has Mr.. Coils ever discharged the duties Of
that position Did no ever spend oil hour in
the Commission er's Object And if not, why
mott There are good many such sinecure
clerkships under the City Government, and it is
about time they were inquired into. We have
some questions Of the same sort to ask when
these are answered
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CHURCH RECONsTRUCTIO IN
THE kOCTH.

The efforts of our Northern churches to ex-
tend their organizations into the former slave
States from which the slaveholding aristocracy
had kept them rgidly excluded until the col
lapse of the Federal States, are continued with
great energy, and in some instances with nota-
BILE results. In that portion of the Southern
population which is thus brought into an organic
communion with the Northern churches, We
must distinguish several different classes:
/. The Coored People. All the reports con-
corning them, however much they may differ
in other respects, are agreed that the colored
people unanimously spurn any further connec-
ton with the Southern Churches. They APP
peal to the Northern Churches and Church
Societies for preachers and schools. Much has
already been achieved among them. A Metho-
dist Missionary, who labors among the Freed
men Of Charleston, reports that the colored
MethOdists, who outnumber their white breth.
rem at the rate of 6 to ], have unanimously
either joined the Methodist Episcopal Church
or the African Methodist Church. The
latter body has reorganized, in South Carolina,
an Annual Conference which it had in that
State some thirty years ago, but which the
shareholders suppressed,as being too dangerous
to tho institution of Slavery. Similar reports We
receive from New-Orleans, Savannah, Newbern,
Nashville, Richmond and all the other large
cities of the South, and there can be no doubt
that if the negro churches are only
left free to worship God according
to the dictates Of. their consciences, they
will at once, and without exception, connect
themselves with the church organizations of the
NORTHERN States. Unfortunately. there are
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Tho Western Trade Convensisu-Organ.
iZatiOu.

DETROIT Tuesday, July II, FOB
The Hon. Hiram Walbridge of New-YOrk
was chosen President of the Trade Convention. Tho
Hon. Hannibal Hamlin, and Mr.. Walker OF Chicago.
were chosen Vice Presidents at large, and Vice
President appointed for each State and the British
Provinces. ..
The only committees announced are the following:
On Tyan.t-Messrs ID. W. c. Lttleohn, T.: $. Prosser
Duncan Stewart. 5. Elliott, j. C. Converse T. her'ey
Canadians who will confer with the above commit.
tee; Messrs Malcolm Cameron John Mcclellan, Will
liam McGoyern, and George ii. Perry.
ON Reciprocity Messrs j. q. Joy X. NJ. Waite. J. j.
Hatch j. W. Taylor, r. Trlley, and s. hewitt.
Canadians TO confer above: Messrs. JOSEPH
House Thomas Ryan, j. G. Worts. and Henry Fry.
Considerable exists among the Chicago
delegates at the action of the Convention in continuing
each delegate To vote. Several OF the Chicago
members have already left and II Is probable tna they
will all leave tomorrow
The Convention adjourned until tomorrow.