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generous charity to suppose that Mr.. Wilson,
and they who follow his lead, honestly believe
in this saving at-the-spigOt economy. We con-
cede the necessity which lies upon them to
advance an argument that shall have the merit
of plausibility.
Mr.. Stevens, however, is much too intrepid
a legislator on finance TO allow himself to be
interrupted in the pursuit of his policy by
any such trivialites as arguments. Believing
in greenbacks as a national blessing, he natu-
rally thinks it impossible to have too many
blessings. A promise to pay that is repudiated
is, in his eyes, as good as a promise meant to
be kept; if anything, is a little better. The
highest stretch of financial virtue is to issue
a thousand millions of national promissory
notes, and the true policy to sustain the
national credit is to make it impossible to
pay the debts we have already incurred. Mr..
Stevens view of the country's future is like
that Of the bankrupt spendthrift who com
placently congratulated himself on his hope
less insolvency, and besought admiration for
his enormous debts as the evidence that he
had once enjoyed unlimited credit.
The House did not seem very certain whose
lead it would follow One-half hour it is half
conservative with Mr.. Hooper; the next it
adopts Mr.. Stevens amendment for 500, ,000,-
600 of legal-tender lies, by an even majority of
40. Then in a moment of dyspeptic remorse
it hesitates, and rejects the whole bill for the
sake of the second clause prohibiting the
paltry 81, 100000 of monthly contraction which
the law now permits. Soothing its conscience
by striking out the repeating section, it finally
passes the bill, and the country walked up on
Thursday morning to find the greenbacks of
considerably multiplied in number and reduced
in value. Gold on Thursday took Jump on the
rumor ofthis bill becoming law, of 2 per cent.
or thereabout, upwards. If the policy of indef-
s,1
west clamors is to be pursued steadily in Con-
gress, we see no reason why this most volatile
of metals may not again reach the highest
point it touched during the war. If it does
not, no thanks to Mr.. Stevens and his clients,
the national banks.
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THE NEW YORK PRESS.
EDITORIAL OPINIONS OF THE LEADING JOURNALS
UPON CURRENT TOPICs-COMPILED EVERY
DAY FOR THE EVENING TELEGRAPH.
Muscular senators.

From the Independent
We made a few remarks week or two
since on the singular statement of Mr.. Parton.
in the North american ReUiew, that human
nature in New England was undergoing a
process of diminution. We have seen a
tabular statement of the physical peculiarities
of the present Senate of the United States,
from which we extract the following facts in
relation to the members of the present Senate
who are of New England birth and education.
OF twenty-one New Englanders in the Senate
the average height is five feet eleven and a
half inches, their weight one hundred and
seventy-siX and half avoirdupois, the girth
around the chest thirty-eght and three
quarter inches These characteristics give
no indications of the diminishing pro-
cess spoken of by Mr.. Parton, when
compared with the average En-
ropean whose height is five feet girth
around the chest thirty-four inches, weight
one hundred and forty-fve pounds avordupois,
and size of head twenty-five inches. Senators
may be said, however, to be exceptional men--as
they are; but then in point of physical cha
racteristics they represent the classes who
are rather under than over the average
standard. The tallest member of the present
Senate is Cowan, of Pennsylvania; but after
the fourth of March that lofty honor will be-
long to Stewart, of Nevada, who overtops
Sumner by three-quarters of an inch. The
heaviest member is Van Wrinkle, of Western
Virginia while the broadest chest belongs to
POmerOy, of Kansas, that sturdy radical mea-
suring forty-four inches and at the same time
carrying upon his broad shoulders one of the
biggest heads in the Senate. Grimes, Nesmith,
POmeroy, and Van Winkle have heads which
measure twenty-four inches.
The smallest State in the Union sends as her
Senatorial representative the smallest man. he
is but five feet and nine-tenths of an inch in
altitude, and weighs but one hundred and
seventeen pounds all told. The Senatorial
heads have a remarkable uniformity of size,
the largest measuring but twenty -four inches
and the smallest but twenty-five. Lane, of
Kansas, carried the smallest head. 1t measured
only twenty-one inches. These statistics of the
personal characteristics of the Senate show us
very clearly, if we needed any,proof of the
fact, that there are no giants in that august
body at present; and we may congratulate our
selves that such is the case for giants, except
for the purpose of show, are anything but
serviceable creatures to have in house. 1t
may be interesting to the public to know that
the shortest member of the Senate, Davis, of
Kentucky, is also the noisiest-nature having
bountifully compensated lack of height by an
unnatural length of tongue.
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are impelled by ambition or personal piques,
rather than inspired by principle and a broad
patriotism. We assure the leaders of the out
going and the incoming Congress that the
country expects them to adopt policy, and
prove themselves competent to carry it into
successful operation. Robert Walpole guided
the affairs Of England with unparalleled skill
for quarter of century. Yet he was the
most corrupt minister that ever lived. But
when his hand relaxed, and he became feeble
as well as corrupt, the people of England drove
him from the helm, and summoned " the pilot
that weathered the Storm" Let us remind
Congress that evidence tending to show inca
pacity to govern a country is far more da-
maging to political party that positive proof
that it has plundered it. We entreat our
friends of the XXXIXth and the XLth Con-
gress to cease their chickering's, adopt wise
policy, and enforce it promptly and vigorously,
that the country may by and by have rest.
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CITY ORDINANCES.
iMoN COUNCIL OF PHILADELPHIA.

NOMMON COUNCIL OF PHILADELPHIA.
~ CLERKS OFFICE,
PHILADELPHIA, February %, 1867.
In pursuance of the annexed Resolution, the
following bill, entitled
IAN ORDINANCE
Creating a Loan TO pay certain deficiencies for
the Purchase of the Lansdowne Estate, and for
other purposes" is hereby published in accord
ance with the act of Assembly, for public iR-
formation.
JOHN ECKsTEIN,
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would have secured to the leading Rebels the
privilege now denied them, of assisting in re-
building their respective States. AS our fail
ures in the war in defense of slavery brought
about the extirpation of slavery, so all our
failures in halfway plans of restoration have
worked out full and decisive settlement OH
the basis of civil and political equality.
All these facts should incline President
Johnson to follow the example Of Senator
Johnson, especially as any further resistance
to Congress will be utterly futile and exceed
ingly dangerous to the Executive. The sooner
he recognizes the necessities of the case the
better it will be for himself, his Administra-
ton, the South, the North the Treasury, and
the general interests of the Union.
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INSTATE OF ANN NORTH, DECEASED
IL Letters testamentary having been granted the
undersigned, all persons indebted to the said estate
requested to mSke payment and those having claims,
to present them 10
FREDERICK WILHELM, Executor,
NO. 525 N 5tXTb Streets
Or to the Attorney, ROBERT ID. COKE.
No 528 WALNUT Street
Philadelphia January Is, 1857 ! l9s6t
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JOHN ECKSTEIN,
Clerk of Common Council.

Clerk of Common Council.
AN ORDINANCE CREATING A LOAN TO PAY GER
TAIN DEFICIENCIES FOR THE PURCHASE OF
THE LANsDoWNE ESTATE, AND FOR OTHER
Section l. The Select and Common Councils
of the City of Philadelphia do ordain, That tho
Mayor OF Philadelphia be and he is hereby
authorized to borrow, at not less than par, on
the credit of the city. from time to time, one
million eight hundred thousand dollars, to be
applied as follows, viz:-First. To pay defcien-
ctes, one million five hundred thousand dollars.
second. For the purchase of the Lansdowne
Estate, and Improvement of the same, one
hundred thousand dollars. Third. For a
House OF Correction, one hundred thou
sand dollars. Fourth. To pay the increase in
the School Teachers and House Cleaners
salaries, one hundred thousand dollars-for
which interest, not to exceed the rate of six per
cent per annum shall be paid half yearly, ON
the first days of January and July at the office
Of the City Treasurer. The principal of said loan
shall be payable and paid at the expiration OF
thirty years from the date of the same. and not
before without the consent of the holders
thereof; and the certificate therefor, in the usual
form OF the certificates of City Loan, shall be
issued in such amounts as the lenders may re-
quire, but not Tor any fractional part of one
hundred dollars, or, If required, in amounts OF
five hundred or one thousand dollars; and it
shall be expressed in said certificates that the
loan therein mentioned and the interest thereof
are payable free from all taxes.
Section 2 Whenever any loan shall be mad0
by virtue thereof there shall be, by force of this
ordinance, annually appropriated out of the
income OF the corporate estates, and from the
sum raised by taxation, a sum sufficient To
pay the interest on said certificates; and the
further sum of three-ten of one per centum
on The par value of such certificates so issued
shall be appropriated quarterly out of said In
come and taxes TO q sinking fund; which fund
and its aceumulations are hereby especially
pledged for the redemption and payment of
said certificates.
RESOLUTION TO PUBLISH LOAN BILL.
Resolved, That the Clerk be authorized to
publish, in two daily newspapers of this city
daily, 1or four weeks, the Ordinance presented
10 the Common Council on Thursday February
q, 1867, entitled IAN Ordinance Creating O Loan
10 pay certain deficiencies, for the purchase of
the Lansdowne Estate, and for o her purposesD
And the said Clerk, at the stated meeting of
Councils after the expiration of four weeks
from the first day of said publication shall pre-
sent to this Council one OF each of said news
papers for every day in which the same shall
have been made. 223 24t
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The maiorities to be overcome in the First
and Third Districts are so small that it will
not be surprising if the Democrats should
carry every district but the Fourth; and to
carry these districts and the whole State
ticket, requires change of but one vote in
two hundred in the State. When radical ma
jorites of more than eleven thousand are re-
duced to five hundred and forty-one i'll single
year, proper effort ought easily to reduce the
five hundred and forty-one to considerably
less than nothing
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LEGAL NOTICES.
IN THE ORPHANS, CurRT For THE q

I N THE ORPHANS COURT FOR THE CITY
L AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA -
Estate OF WILLIAM w. SMITH, Deceased.
lhe Auditor appointed by the Court audit SETTLE
ana bulust the account OF SAPIO SEWELI,, ExeCu-
Tor OF the last VIII and testament OF WILLIAM w.
SMl1 H, deceased and to report distribution of the
balar in the hands of the accountant Will meet the
parties interested for the purpose OF his appointment
on MONDAY, the ILh day of March, 1867 at 4 O'clock
r. NJ, al mis- office, No. 4O2 WALNUT Street, in the
city OF Phladelphla. AMOS j. KELLY,
p thstuN Auditor.
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the radical ticket in the Second District. In
the last Congressional election this district
gave the radical nominee IT'S majority; but
the year following, on the vote for Governor,
this large majority was wiped out, and the
Democrats carried the two counties composing
the district by 1887 majority. The changes in
the other districts, in single year. are sufi-
GENTLY striking to suggest the possibility that
still more marked changes may occur this
year. The following is the vote at the Con-
orneeioua1 p1actior IA, 1GEg.
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The Congregational Candidates In Con.
neCtlcuts
From the TYmeS.
From the World.

From The World.
The Congressional nominations on both
tickets in Connecticut have now been made,
and the campaign has commenced i'll earnest.
The nominees in the districts are as fol-
lows:
l. Richard d. Hubbard. l. Henry G. Deming.
.. Julius Hotchkiss. 2. Cyrus Northrop.
3. Earl Martin. j. II. II. Stark kweather
4. VIM. ii. Barnum. 4. L. I, Barnum.
The nomination of Richard D. Hubbard in
the First District is almost equivalent to an
election. He is one of the ablest lawyers and
one of the most popular men in the State. He
has been repeatedly urged to allow his name
to be used in nomination, and, until this year,
has steadily refused. During the Rebellion
he was what is callod ''war Democrat, "
and the Republican party even claimed him;
but, at any race, his record is a consistent
one, for he believed that the war was for "the
restoration of the Union" while his opponent,
Henry c. Demng, now rabid radical, wrote
a letter in 1861 denouncing the unwamanted
| ''invasiOn of States" and expressing other and
| similar sentiments which would have been
| satisfactory to JEFF. Davis himself. Mr.. julius
| Hotchkiss, the Democratic candidate in the
| Second District is an energetic and successful
business man, and the New Haven Journal and
Courier (radical) says 'his personal character
is excellent" and personal character goes a
| great way in Connecticut. Mr.. Earl Martin, OF
| Killingly, and Mr.. William II. Barnum-who
| is the candidate against Phineas Il. Barnum III
| the Fourth District--aFe strong nominations,
and will command full votes.
The only nomination on the other side
which is really strong one is that of Professor
= Cyrus Northrop, OF Yale College, who runs on
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The above table shows the majority over the
Democratic candidates; in the First and Second
Districts there were 3l4 scattering votes but
iority of II, 1853. A year later, 1866, the votes
in these districts for Governor were as
follows
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1867-10-31
Emigration to Virginia.

The Virginia papers publish accountsof pur-
chases Of land made in various parts of the
State by Northern citizens, as well as by some
from the extreme South, who are selecting
homes in the valleyand Piedmont region of Nir-
ginia, prompted by desire 10 avoid the politi-
cal troubles and insecurity which are appre-
hended in the more Southern States. Thus,
citizens of the North, and South are being
drawn together in Virginia, and as is this &C
cession of numbers capital, enterprise and in
telligenoe proceeds, we may expect the pros
perity of that State 20 be greatly increased
Men of all sections will meet together and as
they come 10 know each other better, mutual
preiudices will be efiaced and generous rival
~ spring up for the material prosperity OF a
State in which their common interests are en-
barked There can be no doubt that, with
reasonable prospect of the readjustment Of the
Union in It's old relations, there would be a
progressive and increasing emigration 70 tho
Southern States from the North and from Eu-
rope. Theimmenseand varied resources Of tho
South will one day attract to it a vast popula-
ton and there will be an accession 20 the ma
tional wealth, by the application Of this added
capital and energy 20 Southern development,
which few now dream Of All that keeps back
that most desirable result is the uncertainty Of
the future, caused by those insane political pas
siOns which are sacrificing the good Of the coun-
try for the sake Of retaining party power
BGlt Sun
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His eyes fell upon the newspaper which lay
spread out before him, and he read the sem
tence:-"A kind, cheerful word spoken in a
gloomy house is the little rift in the cloud that
lets the sunshine through"
Lee struggled with himself a while longer.
His own ill-nature had to be conquered first
his moody, accusing spirit had to be subdued.
lie thought of many things to say, yet he fear
ed to say them lest his wife should meet his
address with a cold rebuff. At last, leaning
toward her and taking hold of the shirt bosom
upon which she was at work, he said in a voice
carefully modulated with kindness:
" You are doing the work beautifully, Mary"
Mrs. Lee made no reply; but her husband
did not fail to notice that she lost almost in
stantly that rigid erectness with which she had
been sitting, nor that the motion Of her needle
had ceased
my shirts are better made and whittier
than those of any other maa in the shop" said
Lee, encouraged to so on.
Are they ?"
Mrs. Lees voice was low, and had in it a
slight huskiness. She did not turn her face,
but her husband saw she leaned little toward
him. He had broken the ice Of reserve and all
was easynow. His hand was among the clouds
and a feeble ray was already struggling through
the rift it had made.
Yes, Mary" he answered softly; and I've
heard it more than once, what good wife An
drew Lee must have"
NlSs Lee turnedher face toward her husband
There was light in it, and light in her eye
But there was something in the expression Of
the countenance that little puzzled him.
"Do you think so ?" she asked, quite sober
ly.
"What question" I" CALCULATED Andrew Lee,
startling up and going round to the side of the
table where his wife was sitting. What a
question, Mary" he repeated, as he stood be-
fore her.
"Do you?' 1t was all she said.
Yes, darling was his warmly spoken an
swer and he stopped down and kissed her
:" How strange that you should ark me such a
question !"
"If you would only tell me so now and then,
Andrew, it would do me good Mrs. Lee a.
rose, and leaning her face against the manly
breast Of her husband, stood and wept.
What strong light broke in upon the mind
OF Andrew Lee He had never given his wife
even the small reward of praise for the loving
interest she had manifested daily, until doubt
Of his love had entered her soul, and made the
light all around her thick darkness. Nowonder
that her face grew clouded, nor what he consid-
cred moodincss and ill-nature, took possession
Of her spirit.
You are good and true, Mary, myown dear
wife; am proud of you'll love you, and my
first desire is for your happiness. o, if l could
always SEQ your face in sunshine, my home
would be the dearest place on earth"
How precious to me are your words Of love
and praise, Andrew" said Mrs. Lee, smiling
up through her tears into his face. " With
them in my ears, my heart can never lie in
shadow"
How easy had been the work for Andrew
Lee. lie had swept hishand across the cloudy
horizon, and now the bright sunshine was
streaming down, and flooding that home with
iov and beauty.
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NO. IL.
sherman's Army.

The restoration by the Post Office Depart
ment of the paintings stolen by Sherman's
army from a family in Columbia, 5. c., has led
TO the expose Of transactions not very compl-
mentary to the character Of the American SOL
der Facts are brought TO light which con-
firm the charges made against General Sher-
mans army Of indiscriminately plundering
during their march through Georgia and the
Carolinas This plunder was first entrusted TO
the express companies, but under military or
ders these were prohibited from exporting any
goods northward, except by proper authority.
Then an effort was made 70 secure safe tran
sit through the United States mails but they
were again stopped, and the articles forwarded
to the Dead Letter Office here. Postmaster
General Dennison became indignant at the at
tempt to make his Department the receptacle
Of this vast collection Of stolen plumber, and
ordered the whole stock 20 be turned over to
the military authorities Before the transfer
was made however, an inventory was taken
and preserved by the Department, an lnvento-
~ covering more than one hundred pages OF
ioolscap, and embracing every description OF
property. from the richest Jewels down 20 the
smallest article of a baby's wardrobe. Ladies
dresses Of every description, costly silks and
laces, plate, knives and forks, paintings, &c,
&c, filed more than dozen large boxes, all Of
which were turned over to the Freedmen's Bu-
reau, except the one beautiful painting which
has just been restored TO its owner, and who.
in a letter of thanks TO the Department, says
be prizes it above all else he owns. Unfortu-
nately for the thousands Of others who were
robbed, the Bureau has sold the entire lot of
stolen plunder, and there is no possibility OF
their recovering their property. Into what
fund the proceeds passed, your correspondent
has otdeemed it mportantto inquire. Wash.
Or Boston Post, October 10.
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What Makes a Bushel.

For the benefit Of those who are not tho.
roughly posted in such matters, we publish a
statement showing what constitutes a bushel.
Corn, shelled, fifty six pounds.
Rye, tifty-six pounds.
irish potatoes. sixty pounds.
Barley f)rty-seven pounds.
Wheat, sixty pounds.
Corn, on the cob, seventy pounds.
Buckwheat, fifty-two pounds.
Oats. thirty-two pounds.
Sweet potatoes, ffty-fye pounds.
Onions, ffty-seven pounds.
Beans, sixty pounds.
Bran, twenty pounds.
Clover seed, sixty pounds.
Timothy seed. forty-fye pounds.
Flax seed, ffty-si1 pounds
Hemp seed, forty-six pounds
Blue grass. fourteen pounds.
Dried apples, twenty-four pounds.
Dried peaches, thirty-tbree pounds Of poaled
and thirty-six Of unpealed.
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Pretty Hard Ice.

Deacon johnson, Of Indiana, is a great tenn
perauce man, and sets good cxampcof total
abstinence, as far as he is seen Not long since
he employed a carpenter to make some altera-
tions in his parlor and in repairing the corner
near the fireplace, it was found necessary to
remove the wanscotng, when 10 a discovery
was made that astonished everybody. 4 de-
canter, tumbler, and pitcher were cozily re-
poing there, as if they had stood there from
the beginning. The Deacon was summoned,
and as he behcld the bIushing bottles be ex-
claimed;
" Wall declare, that is curious, sure enough,
It must been old Bains left them when he went
out of this house thirty years ago"
perhaps he did returned the CARPENTER,
" but Deacon; the ice in the pitcher must have
friz mighty hard to stay all this time"