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The penitential season OF the Christian
Church commenced on Wednesday last To
day is, therefore, the first Sunday in Lent. Ash
Wednesday inaugurated the period of annual
penance as Easter Sunday will conclude It
with hymns of joy and all such brilliant dev0-
tonal exercises as become the time when, ao-
cording to the ecclesiastical calendar univer.
sally accepted in all Christian communities.
the Saviour of the world rose miraculously
from the dead to vindicate his claim to df-
vnity and to fulfil the words OF the prophets.
The season of Lent is q reminiscence of tho
forty days. fast in the desert which preceded
the sacrifice Of Calvary, and, as historis
event, has found place in the memory and y
still regarded as something worth preserving.
It is, therefore, faithfully preserved by the two
Christian Churches which are governed ~
discipline and codes, and canons and tradi-
ti0n-the Catholic and the Episcopalian. Tho
former, holding with more tenasity to tradition
than its more modern and more material rival
has, in its councils and ordinances, recognized
the season Of Lent as q solemn time, when
peace between man and his Maker can be best
prayer, contrition for sin and abstinence from
carnal enjoyments. In these matters the
ancient Catholic Church is rigid and innexible
in its doctrines. The Episcopalian Church.
while recognizing all that is set down in Bible
history concerning the forty days fast and tho
necessity of doing penance, is much more easy
withits disciples; but both Churches hold firmly
b. 4l,o ll,ot ~, Il Of Tor
is but the prelude of "good time coming"
if it is properly observed. These are, perhaps
the only two branches of the Christian family
that pay any heed to the formula which long
custom has established, or insist upon its OBJ
servance.
Originally, even as far back as the domi-
nancy of the Jewish law, seasons of fasting
were prescribed for sanitary purposes as were
also many rites and rules which were strin-
gently enforced. With the establishment OF
the Christian faith many of the ideas which
prevailed under the code Of Moses were pre-
served, and among them that of fasting. In
the early centuries of Christianity the rules
which applied with most benefit to the people
were exercised in the southern countries OF
Europe, where they were not only virtue Dus
necessity. 1t is from this source that we
receive the rules of the Lenten season but tho
wisdom of modern times has led to consid-
erable relaxation Of the penitential laws in
northern climates-like our own, for instance;
and hence the consciences Of good Christians
are not overtaxed in fulfilling the Lenten obli-
cations But, looking at Lent even in sani-
tary and purely material point of view, with
out taking into account any Of that religious
sacredness with which so many millions Of the
human race regard it, it is no harm that forty
days in the year should be devoted to q little
abstemiousness. If the custom was good in
olden times it cannot do any harm to follow It
now. This is the acceptable hour for Congress.
the Legislature and the Common Council to
reform their manners and morals.
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New York would have much better chance
Of reaching democratic posterity with cor
rect spelling than would the great Rasrdteur
and statesman. Mr.. Disraeli just now, with
the Red Box of the treasury of England under
his right arm, the Cap OF Maintenance OF the
crown in his left hand, and the Great Seal OF
State dangling from his watch chain, and
with all Lombard street looking on, stands
peer above peers, selfreliant, erect, untram-
melled and alone
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thoroughfare OF the great metropolis. inc
fault lies with the party entrusted with the
duty of keeping the streets clean, and there
no excuse for not having them in such COM
paratively decent order that at least crossing
here and there would be possible.
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elevation aud importance tho future extsns on OF the
metropolis northwsrd.
In the Supreme Court Chambers, yesterday, judg
ments rendered frivolous In the cases
OF Ben Wood Va The Mayor and Commonalty, claim
OF 900 for corporation advertising and Hdgh OBrien
VS.. the same defendants TO recover 81, 5Oo years
salary as member OF the Common Council.
The stock market Was dun but nearly steady yeser-
day. Government securities were heavy. Gold closed
at l4lh a 141a.
In most departments Of trade in commercial circles
yesterday the amount Of businoss coosummated was
light and prices Of the leading commodities generally
favored the purchaser Groceries were quiet but quite
steady In value Cotton opened quiet and weak, but
subsequently, became in active demand from specuatos
and exporters and closed cent higher. On Change
-four was duh and heavy. Wheat was almost inactive
and shade lower while corn and oats were lower ana
only moderately active Pork, though IN fair demand
was O shade easier. Beef was steady, arc lara quiet
but steady. .Whiskey dull and nominal. Freights
were quiet at unchanged rates Petroleum was spar
ingly dealt in but firmly hold.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Our Washington dispatches state that business OF an
Official character will probably be suspended between
the President and the Senate until the conclusion OF his
trial
BY q telegram from Havana We have late news from
Hayti the French Admiral was at Port au Prince.
salnave had lost heavily in his campaign against the
Cacos rebels
BY way of China ana Paris We have very interesting
mail reports from Japan, embracng details Of the revo.
lutonary change the government and some exceed.
ngly important facts relative the trade OF the west
coast Of the empire aud the commercial value Of the
opening Of the ports OF Hoga and Osaka TO for
egners The latter facts In official form from che
pen Of Mr. Locock the representative Of the Queen OF
Great Britain. who states that there already an I'M
mcnsc demand for foreign imports there.
The Conservative Executive Committee OF Alabama
met yesterday at Montgomery, aud adopted resolutions
calling for State Convention, to moet in Montgomery,
tue first Monday OF Juno, for the appointment OF
committee to proceed to Washington to represent the
interests Of Alabama and ailiaDg with tho Northern
democracy.
The Georgia Convention yesterday passed resolution
asking Congress for appropriation for tho
or air line railroad from Atlanta TO Charleston S. c.
The Convention will probably adjourn on March II.
Ihc chem cal mandatory of Powers & Weghtman,
in Philadelphia IA, tho largest in the United States,
destroyed by fire yesterday
General Giilem, commanding the Fourth Military De-
partmen has appointed L. G. Peyton. Thomas Shack
ford and T. Jeords to be judges OF the High Court Of
Errors and Appeals for the State OF Mississippi to fill
existing vacancies.
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democratic Presidential candidate. From West
Virginia to W.sconsia, including Kentucky and
Tennessee, Pendieton has absolute possession
He will doubtless have q majority Of
the National Convention on tho first ballot !;
but this does not secure him, because the
democratic rule of two-thirds vote to make
nomination is still in force. Martin Van
Buren,, In the Baltimore Convention of 1874,
had majority OF the delegates but The South
ern pro-slavery oligarchy, on the Texas issue,
had resolved TO shelve him, and they therefore
insisted upon tho adoption OF the two-thirds
rule, and 1t was adopted. and SO they shelved
him. Now, Mr.. Pendls:on may have ma
jority of tho Convention; but the East is
against him on the question of those bonds !;
and MIR. Belmont, anti-Pendleton, has gained
the advantages, first, Of New York as the place,
and next, Of the Fourth of July as the time
ior the meeting Of the Convention. In the
interval he may perfect plan Of operations
which will throw out Pendleton and secure
the nomination Of gold paying democratic
candidate, or plan which will break the
party into two sections, divided by the line of
the Allegheny Mountains Both parties West
are for gpeenbaclks to the bondholders, and
both parties East are mainly the other way.
The republicans may evade the difficulty in
this fight; but the Western democrats will
have nothing but greenbacks, and so, after all,
with the failure OF the impeachment the New
York Convention may be compelled to fall
back upon Andrew Johnson and diversion
of the main battle to the negro question.
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CHURCH OF TIE HOLY APosTLEs.-RKv. s.
WESTON d. d. Evening.
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CATHOLIC APOSTOLIC CHURCH.-Rxv. WV. H.
CUTHBHRr. "THs CLOSING EVENTS CHRISTIAN
DsPxNsArioS" Evening.
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CHURCH or THE RESURRECTION. Rutgers @
lege.-REv. E. o. FLAGG, ID. d. Morning and afternoon
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RELIGIOUS SERVICES TO-DAY
CHURCH OF OUR sAvloUR.-Rsu c. a. FAY
Morning.
CHURCH o. THE rual1ASSs-Rr; cs.n..' p
ShyTH, ON "REcoNsrRUcrIoN IN CHURCH AND STATE Al
tsrnoon and evening.
CHURCH OF THE srRANGERs.-Rrv. DR. DEExs.
Morning and evening.
CHURCH OF THE REFoRMATIoN.-Rrv. Amor,
BROWN Morning and evening"
CATHOLIC APOSTOLIC oHURoH-Rrv. WV. H.
Gurns.ar. on "Ins CLOSING EvEsrs oY THE cHRIsriAH
DnPxNsArIoS" Evening
CHURCH OF TIE HOLY AposTLEs.-Rrv s. H.
CHURCH OF THE THE REsUREEcTIoN Ra.ssr. sr.oC Col.
CANAL STREET PRESBYTERIAN cnuEcMimnsyi ,Si
evening.
CHRISTIAN CHURcH-ELDER J. s. LAMAR. Morning
and evening
CHURCH OF THE REDEEMER. Brooklyn.-REv. GEO.
Il. HxPwoRrn OF Boston Morning and evening
DODWORTH HALL.-SociErY sPRiruALIsrs Morn
ng-wARRns CHASE. Evoaing-DR HALLrcK.
FORTY. SECOND STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
REV. W. A. scorr, D. d. Morning and evening
NORTH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.-REv. e. F. HAT
FIELD ID. ID. Evening.
NEW JERUSALEM HOUSE OF woRsHIP.-Rsv
CuAUNcEY GILES Morning aud evening.
ST. MATTHEW'S CHUECH.-Morning and evening.
ST. ANN's FREE CnuRCH.-Morning, afternoon and
evening.
ST. MARK's CHURCH-AppRrisEs Evening
TRINITY cHAPEL-MUsIcAL SERVICE SERMON.
Evening
UNIVERSITY, Washington square-Rrv. JouH s. LONG,
"ETucS AND History y Yening.
UPPER CHURCH OF 1AG ASCENSION Morning
and evening
UNIVERSITY Wash ngton square -BrsHor Snow
s'TnK GREAT HAfLsToRM DAY Gop." Afternoon.
UNIvERSALlsr CHURCH. Beecser strcct.--REv. DAY
X. LEE, ions OIL WORKS" Morning and evening
ZION EPISCOPAL FREE CHAPEL. Third avenue
Morning and evening"
TRIPL E SH T. EFT.
New York, sunday. March I, 1858.
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CHURCH OF THE REFoRMATIoN.-REv. AsBo
BROWN. Morn lng and evening.
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CHURCH OF THE PURITANs.-REv CHARLES B.
sAYrH, ON "REcossrRUcrIoS IN CHURCH AND STATE A.
tsrno0n aud evening
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RELIGIOUS SERVICES TO-DAY.

CHURCH OF OUR sAvloUR.-Rsr c. a. FAr
Morning.
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CANAL STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.-REv
DAVID Mitchell, ON CRUELTY TO ANNALS" Morning Al
evening.
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..oHURCH. OF THE srRANGERs.-Rrv. DIR. DEsxs.
Morning and evening.
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CHURCH OF THE REDEEMER. Brooklyn-REv Gx
H. HKPwoRrn, OF Boston. Morning and evening.
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CHRISTIAN CHURcH-ELDER J. s. LAMAR. Mornin
and evening
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DODWORTH HALL.-SocErY SPRiruALIsrs, Morn
ing-WARRES CHASE Evcning-DR HALLfcK.
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FORTY SECOND STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
REV W. A. SCOTT ID. d. Morning and evening
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1868-01-31
CONGRESSIONAL.

al
dav. the Sunplementary Reconstruc-
ton bill, as passed by the House, was
called for a second reading, when Mr..
Doolittle took the floor in opposition to
it. AT the expiration of the morning
hour Il motion prevailed permitting
him to conclude his remarks. Mr.. Nyc
replied at some length, no definite ac-
ton was taken on the bill, and the SEN
ate adjourned.
A discussion arose in the House upon
the Senate amendments to the House
Bounty bill, providing for the pay
ment of bounty to the heirs of deceased
soldiers. Some slight verbal amend
ments were made and the bill passed.
The Committee on Military Affairs re-
ported adversely upon petition of
i koiuli'.ei t1'n uiiiueie w. ho ueai,n " 'o az
'oWc' 'i''co n'oh'i.s CAV" p"s
JANUARY Zo.-lWo messages from
the Iresiueht We're presented 10 the
senate Yesterday. Inc frst, III answer
10 Il resolution relatlNe 10 the paruon-
ing OF James a. Seddon, formerly reDei
secretary OF war, was referred 10 the
Military NJ committee without deDale'
me secona, Replying 10 lhe resolution
RIGHTS in the District Of Columbia had
become n law. was brieav debated and
then referred to the Judiciary Commit
tee. A resolution relative TO the busi-
moss and the number of emnloves of the
New-York Custom. .house WAS adopted.
The consideration oftho Sunnlementarv
Reconstruction bill was resumed. when
Mr., Morton made a LENGTHY speech in
sunnort of tbe hill. Unconfended that
the state Governme nts of the south
were neither legal nor Republican in
form. and that eonscnuentlv If was the
duty of the General Government to re-
construct them. If This could not be
done hv the aid of white men. Congress
had the right 70 bestow suffrage 9pon
the neproes. Mr., Nye folIowed upon
the same side of the uIestion. Nothing
ofimportance was done in the house.
JANrAny- o7 .Tbnro vos M session
of the senate on saturday
In tbe Iionse the Iow was devoted to
General debate In Ccmmittee Of the
Whole Mr. Sitore.vcs discussed the
.tate of the Irni1n from n ssChristian
stnTdnoinf - and holdin~ that the re.
bellinn and its fruits we've dircctlv
rhnrgnabIe to the snirit of Radicolism
Viii ,'o' 49, adj thdP lava
"'''0'' p0' ''''e'' '''''''
JANUARY 2S.--ln the Senate, yestcr-
day, the bill to relieve Gov. Patton. of
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To the already published works of j.
w. Forney-the Jameison letter, and
letters from Europe, without which no
radical l)gentleman' S library l. complete
must be added an interesting volume
of eighty-seven pages, edited by 81.
w. Forney, Secretary of the Senate" F"
who certiiies to the entire correctness of
certain payments from the contingent
fund of the Senate for single year,
amounting in the aggregate to the tri-
fling sum of 1854, ,S92.04. This money
was laid out in penknives, for which
two thousand dollars were paid to a sin
gle dealer. 1t required seventeen hun
dred pairs of scissors to merely cut at
the Gordian knot Of Reconstruction"
in the Senate. Another lot of pen
knives cost $67.G6; two and one half
dozen more were procured at an ex-
pense of S9S, and still more knives
brought the second bill of cutlery up to
SiS7. OF whole pages Of individual
bills the following is fair sample -
For B. f. Wade, Harper's Mdgazinc,
"s4; Eclectic, So; Westminster 50; lie
Bon Ton, indispensable to Wade),
80" Five dollars for "scrap-booll"
was undoubtedly for Senator Sum ner's
benefit. The frequently occurring item
zone gallon of alcohol, $3.50" can best
be explained in connection with such
other items as "Corkscrews, $2l :"
Lemon squeezers, So" -Four boxes
of lemons, $40 )" "16S lbs, of sugar,
$780," These items for substantials !;
lesser luxuries appear in the charges. of
S5l2.50 for seventeen and half dozen
kid gloves; 1928 for gallon of bay
rum; - for a half gallon of cologne,
and 81 for toilet powder. What sump-
tuous thing it is to be Senator, to be
sure, with such Secretary as Forney,
and such contingent fund as Radical
recklessness draws from the public
treasury and the peoples pockets.-N.
y. Horhd.
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The Radicals finding the war paid
them so well in fat Offices AMI otherwise,
are not disposed to give them upat Har-
risburg. The Auditor Generals report
shows that n number of the offices ii
brought into existence around the Capt..
tai, were continued last year yet, at a
cost of about $4,000.
The war has been over for nearly three
years, and can any one tell what use
there was Of a Commissary General and
for Il transportation Department, &C.,
with host of clerks, messengers, &c. ?
Some Of these offices have been mere
sinecures since the Reserve Corps was
mustered into the U. S. service in 1862.
Will not the Democratic members of
the Legislature look into this matter
and rout these loyal leeches?
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LOCAL BOUNTY DEBTS. THE follow
ing important resolution, looking to the
relief Of the people of the several cities,
counties, townships, etc., from the
debts contracted by them for the pay
ment of bounties during the war, passed
the House Of Congress unanimously on
Tuesday last:
BE IL ResOlred, That the subject of re-
leving as far as practicable the people
of the different cities, counties, and
townships from the burden of a direct
tax Of their bounty war debt is deserv-
ing of our immediate and serious con-
sideration, and that the Committee of
Ways and Means be requested to in
quire into the expediency of adopting
such measures rs will be proper and
suited to answer the demands of justice
and relieve the necessities of the peo-
pie.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1868-01-31

THERE are two or three little eight
By tens published between Maine and
Mexico, claiming to be Democratic,
whose editors are in very great distress,
for fear the Democratic party will be
governed by good sense and sound judg-
ment in the coming presidential con-
test. They seem to desire, vehemcntly,
that the party shall mako rs great fool
of itself rs possible, and thereby insure
its defeat; that it shall be governed by
narrow and dcontracted ideas, rather than
by broad and expanded craftsmanship.
Unable to originate line of political
action, or TO comprehend one, they can
not lead, and will not follow. Nor can
they see, as Mr.. Breckenridge once
said, when II question is settled by" the
nexorablc logic of events"
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murdcrcr> of Capt. Godfrey lieh-
rcr, whose sudden and mysterious dis
appearance from his home IN fremont,
SChuylkill county, on the 18th of No
vcmber, we noticed some weeks ago,
have been discovered. The son of one
OF his partners in business, has divulged
the terrible crime, and all the parties
implicated have been arrested. The
motive for the murder is supposed TO
have been to secure II certain valuable
coal lease, and his partners, or one of
them induced them to commit the muir
der. Thomas Smith and the Albright
Ons were his partners.
1t seems the body was thrown into
the Marshficld coal slope, which is about
five hundred feet deep, and filled with
water. 1t is being now pumped out.
Thus has this fearful crime come to
light, but it docs not restore to his aged
father worthy son, to his wife an af-
fectiunutc husband, nor to his sisters a
beloved brother.
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AMONG the stupid laws passed last
winter, was one giving the Auditor
General authority to oappointan unlimi-
ted number OF Assessors of National
Bank Stocks, aud they were to receive
Il certain percentage for their services.
1t seems fifteen such officers were APP
pointed and paid, up to the lst Of De-
cember, Sl3, ,S3G, ,3l-the tax paid into
the State treasury to the same time, was
$S, 202 ,43.
Gov. Geary could not vet such a
bill, Of course, because it throws money
in the pockets of his political friends,
but the law should be repealed. Any
legal tax can be collected from the
Banks, by the regular officer at Harris.
burg without dollar of extra expense
to the state.
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COUNTY CONVENTION.

TuE democratic voters OF the several Districts
In Columbia county are requested to meet ut the
usual place OF holding the general, special, ana
township elections. ON saturday the lIth ulS oi
February 1868 between the hours OF tstrec O'Clock
in the afternoon, and seven O'Clock IN the alter
noon Of that day, and elect by ballot two persons
10 represent the District in II County tonSentlon
To be held at the Court House in Bloomshufg on
Monday, February II, at l2o'clock, noon 10 Sc
iect WI Senatorial Conferees and two Represent
ntiVC Conferees omcet similar Conicrecs, nom
the other counties of the District To agree uLon
Senatorial Delegate and Representative Dclc-
gate 10 represent the County inu STATE Convention
10 be held nj Harrisburg March I. lSJS; 10 uoml-
nate state ticket and Delegates to the Nation
al Democratic Convention asrccablS TO the noiI'r
OF the state Centrnl Cumrtttec.
Nv order ofthe Committee. -. -
i. g. FREEZE, ChdirUG,i.
e. Is MCHESHY =. e. WENNER,
a. w lt1T, }. q. QUICK,
r. j. MfLLAnp; T.. J. ALnERrso*,
L L II HANNnn.
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"ELI SLIFER, late Secretary Of the
commonwealth, for expenses incurred
from 1851 to 1867 when absent on pub
lie business, 81 800"
We find the above in the miscellane-
Gus payments of the report of the Au-
ditor General, and would like to know
by what authority the State Treasurer
made such payment, Mr.. Slifer was
paid his full salary as allowed by law,
and he was ntitled to no more. There
is provision in the Constitution which
prohibits the Treasurer from paying out
money without authority Of law, and
very properly too, for if the State Treas
urer and Auditor General can pay Mr..
Sifer 81 800 without law, why not pay
out SIS, 600 or million, if they please I?
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SENATOR DooLITrLE tore the veil of
the miscreant Stanton's face on We'd
neslay last in the United States Senate,
and clearly showed that tho usurper in
the War Office was at one time in clos c
accord with the "rebels" and "scces-
sioniSts." "IVAen ALERT Ct. BrOUn
"withdreic from The Senate to join the
"redeNion," said Mr.. Doolittle. "Elrbl
" III Stanton met him outside QfMe door,
- md uyged him to go on in his course,
" loishing him 'G0d speed,' and sag ing
she waS right." Although publicly
stated before, Stanton has never denied
this, and yet he is now one of the puny
gods before whom the Radicals tall
down and worship!
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Take il Home to Yourselves.

Let II Pennsylvania farmer imagine
himself, and all his fellow farmers, &C.
prived of the right to vote, the right to
hold any ofiicc--even the most insignih-
cant, and the right to sit on juries. Let
him imagine, then, that the hands he
and they employ are ignorant negroes,
who have been taught to distrust and
hate him and them by Yankees from
Massachusetts, and to whom has been
given the right to vote, to hold Office
and to sit on .iurics. Let him imagine
all the offices of the State, county and
township filled by negroes Of this kind
and by Yankees. Let him imagine the
kind of laws such persons would make
for his government and for the taxation
of his property. Let him also imagine
the result of any appeal he might make
for Justice to courts where jurtcs are
composed of such persons exclusively
In a word, let him imagine himself and
all his neighbors denied every political
and civil right ; deprived of every
means of protecting their lives, persons
and property, from the rapacity of II
hostile, thriftless, ignorant and lustlul
horde of negroes and Yankee advcntu-
rers, and then answer, candidly and
truthfully, if he would feel inclined to
work and develop the resources of his
farm for the sole and only benefit of
those who have trampled him in the
dust. Would you, Pennsylvania far
mcrs? We think we have your an
swer in Il most emphatic and indig-
nant--" No! would die, first! !"
Well, this is just Il faint picture of the
deplorable condition of the farmers of
the South at this time. In addition to
this the Bureau officers and military
authorities regulate the amount OF
wages which the farmer must pay the
negroes, and no crops can be taken and
sold until the negroes are paid. Then
the Government claims one.fourth OF
the whole crop If of cotton) for taxes,
and if anything remains which has
not generally been the case for two
years-the farmer may claim and enjoy
it, providing he can succeed in keeping
it out Of the clutches of innumerable
thieves who invest the country. Un-
der these circumstances is it fair to de.
nounce the Southern people for not
going to work and building up the ne
gro governments Cor. PdfTiOt dl1C
Union.