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THE REBEL RAID BILL.
Q Harrisburg Topic.

FTC1h INC HuTTt8UUFH TOPIC.
The bill commonly known throughout the
State as the ''Rebel Raid"-an appropriate
name-was killed in the House. Only
sixteen men could be induced to cast
their votes for the measure, and the seventy
three who voted against it did so because
they believed the almost universal feeling
of the people was decidedly against it. The
bill is dead, we hope, beyond resurrection,
and it is WELL If it had passed the House it
ought to have been defeated in the Senate.
And if it had passed both houses it would
have put the Executive to the painful necos-
sity of vetoing it. There is nothing like
putting down Rebel raid on its first appear
ance. 1t discourages further efforts, and
gives the people some assurance that they
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We are left TO imagine how grateful constitu-
ents, overcome by their feelings, falling
upon the neck of Tweed, surreptitiously in
sert checks for vast amounts in his waistcoat
pockets. We are driven to hypothecate de-
putations of the taxpayers of New York wait
ing upon Mr.. Tweed with the title-deeds of
mansions and pedigrees of horses, and the
shrinking violet Tweed begging them to par
don his rosy bushes, and for his sake to
forbear making public mention of their act.
Upon no other supposition is it possible to ac-
count for the rapid and astonishing growth Of
Tweed.
There is another pretended explanation of
the phenomenon of Tweed, but we mention
it only to spurn it with horror and disgust.
1t is that Mr.. Tweed has prostituted his pub
lie employments to his private ends. In fact,
some envlous persons have gone so far as to
say that Mr.. Tweed has, by various more or
less circuitous processes, swindled the city
which his political eminence in it disgraces
out of the whole of his fortune. In confuta-
tion of such sneers, it is only necessary to
point out that Mr.. Tweeds course has met
the unqualified approval of his constituency,
to which alone he is responsible. He has
been chosen and chosen again to every one
of the comparatively humble public functions
to which he has aspired. We are asked to
accept the incredible assumption that the
voters and taxpayers of the city of New York
are so stupidly vicious that they insist upon
renewing the reposal of betrayed trusts, and
granting Office to a man whose whole incum-
bency of it has been spent in the successful
effort of devising new modes for swindling
them.
No! Mr. Tweed's wealth is honorable
wealth, and it proves that republics are not
ungrateful- When foreign royalists point us
to the Wellingtons and the Marlboroughs on
whom
'Lavish honor showered all her stars,
And aflluent fortune empted all her horn,"
with the stale old sneer, we can hereafter
briefly confute them by proudly pointing to
our Tweed.
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WE GIVE II UP.

From the Cleveland Leader.
For the past month we have studied the
daily Associated Press reports, we have pore3
over the World, the Citizen, the Tribune,
the Brooklyn Eagle, and the Albany Journal
to keep pace with the political situation of
New YoIk. We have heard of rings being
smashed of Tweed being sent to his country
seat to rusticate, we have seen the World and
the Citizen strike hands, and declare that all
rings must, should be, and in fact had been
eternally crushed. Dictionaries had been
searched and letters of inquiry written to
find out precisely what was implied by ''silk-
stocking Democracy, 'cheese-press and hay
loft Democracy" ''rough-and-ready Demo-
cracy," and all the other varieties. just as it
appeared that the rings were valiantly
smashed, and everything was lovely, there
comes the news that the hay loft and cheese
press faction uniting with the dastardly Re-
publicans have given the rest of them a
Waterloo defeat, but upon what question, or
with what result, we doubt if any sane man
west of Albany can explain.
To add to the confusion, New York is now
running on her seventh charter within three
weeks. Every man in the Albany Assembly
seems frantic to immortalize himself by
giving the great metropolis charter from his
own pen. Three new charters in one day is
a light yield, and the crop often reaches a
dozen. The only parallel to this legislative
Kilkenny fight is to be at present found in
Cincinnati, where five newspapers are strug-
Cling through daily columns of BREWER to de-
monstrate which has the largest circulation,
who gets the sheriff's printing, who wrote the
''Red Haired Maiden of the Big Miami, and
whether the Republicans, the Democrats, the
Independents, the Reformers, the Indepen-
dent Reformers, or the ''ring" should be
allowed to elect members of the Board OF
Education and control the city printing and
paving contracts. All this may be very fine
for Cincinnati and New York. but for the
outside barbarians who read newspapers from
those cities it is too much-much too much.
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WINES AND LIQUORS.
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SHIPS IN DISTRESS

From the ". Y. Times.
Some recent incidents which have occurred
at sea are far too important to the travelling
portion of the public to be passed over with
out reflection. If captains employed on we'll
known lines have lost all sense of humanity
and deliberately made up their minds never
to go an inch out of their way to help ship
in distress, the sooner we know it the better.
We shall then be the better able to calculate
the risks of going to sea at a time when every
consideration is sacrificed for the sake of
making quick passage, or of leaving some
rival steamer Sin the lurch." The British
commercial marine is rapidly gaining a noto-
riety which true seamen of any country would
be the very last to covet, and there are many
han diminish.
II was stated week or two ago that while
the disabled steamship Samaria was endeavor-
ing to make her way back to port she met the
Manhattan, belonging to the Williams and
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LIS PHILADELPHIA, RICHMOND.
&ShtEFs AM AAnB N0RFoLK STEAMSHIP LINE
sNeffskg 49, IHROUGH FREIGHT AIR LIME M
Ns,4, ~ sTys go THE SQUTa AND WEST " ~
INOhhASED FAOIIL TIES AND RFDIJcIED u ATua
FOR 1870. A mo
AZ 10 ocIoIe iIeave every WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY
KE1 Street. A "iANoA Wharf, above MAR
rI RET TURNING, leave RICHMOND MoNpAvs 49,,
TnRBSy4SsfS' TTnRRBbSSy4SsfS' and NORFOLK TUESDAYS and SX. SSlX
DAYS. '-eHo~ oieer Ii O'CLOCK on sailing
THROUGH RATES to all points in North 49,, g
carolina via seaboaTd Air Line Railroad noutn
and 10 lynohburg, Va, Tenpessea AND ae
wsst S and Line and RicSno5ss sns
Freight HANDLED BUT oNoE and tsto, =. rour,
RATES THAN ANY OTHER LINE ~ ~ AO Nh
No charge for commission, drayaRe or anv .xro,. -,
transfer. my expense OK
Steamships insure at lowest rates
Freight received daily.
State Room accommodations for passenrers
WILLIAM p, OI,YDE A IN
w No; p9S;rw 9S; rWHARvEs and Pier N. WHARVRs,
T. T. OROWELL CO., Agents at Norfolk RE
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will not again he placed on the anxious stool
nervousy waiting to see themselves robbed.
The bill was radically wrong. 1t paid GER
tain individuals for personal losses ut the
hands of public enemy, while millions who
lost more than these people on the border
were to be left in the cold with scarcely
word of sympathy. We say there were mil
lions of good and loyal men and women in
this nation-and thousands in Pennsylvania
who suffered far more than our llow-citizens
along the southern borders. They were
faith ers and mothers, and sisters and brothers.
and sons and daughters whose tears of grief
for the losses of those near and dear to them
on the sunny but bloody battle-felds of the
South and in the filthy prison pens of
barbarous and inhuman enemy, have
been allowed quietly to trickle down
the cheeks of living, agonizing lovers
of their country, whose only consolation is
that all they had, all they loved most dearly,
all that was given them by a good God for
companionship, support and sympathy, they
sacrificed for their own great nation. The
losses on the border are paltry, mean and
ridiculously insignificant compared to these
heart-losses which can never never, never be
repaired. What is the loss of horse to the
loss of human life? What is the loss of a
hen-coop to the loss of q brother? What
is the burning of house to the killing
of a father How ridiculous these
border claims appear when you COM
pare them to the souls of gallant
men gone to eternity in protecting and de-
Tending these peoples habitations and per-
sonal property! When we review the ques-
ton in the true aspect in which it should
present itself, we feel certain that the sensible
people on our Southern borders will them
selves Indignantly repudiate the idea of
claiming indemnity from the people of Penn
sylvania for losses and mishaps which they
know to be the common losses and mishaps
of the whole nation from the lakes to the
gulf.
The bill is dead and God be praised. Re
O2tieScdt in q,dcei
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THE CONNECTICUT ELECTION AMI
THE FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT.

THE FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT.
From the NJ Y. Sun.
The Secretary of State has issued his pro-
clamation, and the fifteenth amendment is a
part of the Constitution. Negroes can now
vote everywhere on the same terms as whites.
The first State in which the amendment will
be put into practical operation is Connecticut.
This opens a glorious field for the display of
strategy on the part of the Democracy. The
contest in that State is sharp, and probably
thousand votes will turn the scale. There are
about fifteen hundred colored electors in the
land of steady habits. The Democracy are
hard pressed from Rye Neck to Stonington
Point. Let them make bold stroke for the
negro vote, and carry it, or even half of it,
and their victory is sure.
President Grant, contrary to all precedent,
and without the slightest authority from the
Constitution, has issued a congratulatory pro-
clamation over the event of the ratification.
This is intended to help Governor Jewell.
Now, let Governor English, in his own behalf,
countercheck this movement of the Republi-
cans by issuing proclamation congratulating
the negroes of Connecticut upon their admis-
sion to the ballot-box. 1t will secure his cleo
ton, and make him prominent candidate
for the Presidency. He may thus take the
wind out of Senator Hendricks sails, who, in
his New Orleans speech, showed that he is
trimming his canvas to catch 900, 900 nigger
votes.
There is no time for delay. If Governor
English hesitates, let Messrs. Eaton and
Burr of Hartford, Mr.. Walker of New Lon
don, the eloquent Democratic candidate for
Secretary of State, and Mr.. Il. L. Parmelee of
New Haven, a man of frst-rate common
sense, bring him to the scratch at once. If
Governor English will do this, his congratu-
lations of the great Tweed, at Albany, on
Monday, will be returned by Big Six in per-
son on Tuesday next.
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sible because foreign powers would not allow
it, because italian local jealousies would for
ever prevent it; becausethe geographical OBJ
stacles to such unity we're insuperable. The
first Napoleon whose penetrating mind per-
ceived the futility of the first two reasons,
yielded to the force Of the third. In very
remarkable chapter of his Remains he explains
why Italy, from her oonfguration and posi-
ton, cannot become one. But it was not
given even to his sagacity to foresee the
operation of steam and the telegraph. As
soon as the time arrived, the apparently hope
less problem was solved at once. One man
of genius set himself to accomplish it
by force of craftsmanship Two or
three dreamers of dreams, mathematical
by the ruling classes of society, prepared
the way for him by sowing the seed of Italian
patriotism far and wide on soil hitherto oc-
cupied by the rank growth of provincial pas
sions and intrigues. And the work was
achieved, and an Italy created, almost before
old fashioned diplomacy had had time to turn
round in its bed and prepare to greet the new
phenomenon in official costume. One more
chapter in history remains to be completed.
German nationality has to be added to Eng
lish, French, Spanish, italian. The map of
Western Europe will then be filled up.
Whether that great union, first announced by
German cannon at Wessenburg, is to be pro.
claimed by the same stern heralds at Paris
or whether its formal accomplishment is
again to be delayed by defeat, the event, i'm
mediate or not, is on all human calculation
certain. And it is equally certain that, when
ever it takes place, it will be almost as great
q blessing to Europe in general, and to
jealous France herself, as to the future Ger
many.
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THE TAXPAYERS AND THE REPUBLI
CAN PARTY.
From the n. Y. Times.

From the n. Y. Times.
Democratic journals pay poor compli-
ment to the intelligence of the country
when they deny or depreciate the economi-
cal excellence of the administration, and the
extent to which the Republican party has
afforded relief to the taxpayers. Facts con-
stitute a record which the most ingenious
Democrat cannot shake.
Whatever its faults, the administration has
doae its duty in the collection of revenue and
the disbursement Of appropriations. Every
branch Oh the fiscal service has exhibited a
marked increase. A certain degree of growth
we look for as the result of national recupe-
ration from the embarrassment produced by
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SHIPRINQ.

<fEF4 FOR TEXAS PORTS.-THE STEAM
sSAlkAtE ship ACHILLES viii sail for New Orean
dirt CT on TUESDAY, September 6, at A. M.
Through bills OF lading given, In connection vita
Morgan's Lines from New Orleans to Mobile, Gal
weston, Indianola, Lavacca and Brazos, at as low
rates as by any other route.
Through bills OF ladng also given to all points on
the Mississippi river between New Orleans and st
Louis in connection with the st. Louis and New
Orleans Packet Company.
For further information apply to
VIM. L. JAMES,
General Agent,
81 st No. 120 $. THIRD Street
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events that may occur in Europe If we
have been able to accomplish so much in
raising money for a gigantic war and in
rapidly paying off the debt in the past, what
can we not do in the near future when our
population will be doubled and the wealth Of
the country quadrupled
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FSFs> LoRuLARD STEAMSHIP CoMPAN1
EOER NEW WORK.

SAILING EVERY TUESDAY. THURSDAY, ANr
SATURDAY,
are now receiving freight at
FIVE CENTS PER 100 POUNDS, TWO CENTS
PER FOOT, OR HALF CENT PER GALLON,
SHIPS OPTION.
INSURANCE ONE-EIGHTH OF ONE PER CENT
Extra rates on small packages iron metals etc.
No receipt or bill Of lading signed for less tnan
TOTiyE-on and after September is rates bv This
Company VIII be 10 cents per 100 pounds or cents
per foot ships option; aud regular shippers by this
line Will only be charged the above rate all winter
Winter rates commencing December To- For further
pGgsSOlaFS apply PIER 10 NosTH sPN wHARVhs Fl AGHh
THE REGULAR STEAMSHIPS ON THE PHI.
i LADELPHIA AND CHARLESTON STEAM.
SHIP LINE are ALoNE authorized to issue through
bills Of lsdil TO interior points South and West In
connection with South Carolina Railroad Company.
ALFRED L. TYLER
Nice-Presdent So. G. RR. Co.
fTEa. PHILADELPHIA AND CHARLESTON
sS4A4sE STEAMSHIP LINE.
1his line is now composed OF the following nrst.
class Steamships, sailing from PIER H. below
Spruce street, on FRIDAY OF each week ,at }
IA ASHLAND, 800 tons, Captain Crowel.
w. EyERMAN, 692 tons, Captain II,nckey.
sALvoR, coo tons Captain Ashcroft.
SEPTEMBER, 1870.
J. W. Everman, Friday, Sept g
Savor, Friday, Sept. O.
j. w. EvermaD, Friday, Sept. Is.
Salvor, Friday, Sept 20.
J. w. Everman, Friday. Sept. So
Dls Ol ldulug given TO Columbia, s.. G.
the interior OF Georgia, and all points South and
Southwest
Freights forwarded with promptness and despatob
Rates as low as by any other route.
Insurance one-haf per cent. Effected at the ofica
In 1rst-cl8ss companies.
No freight received nor bills Of lading signed on
day OF sailing.
SOUDER 4 ADAMS, Agents,
NO. DOCK Street,
Or WILLIAM. p. CLYDE & co,
,.,,,,, No. ~ S. WHARvES.
WILLIAM A. 0oURTENAY, Agent in Charles.
Ton. GA
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WEEKLY LINE TO SAVANNAH GA
Tho WYOMING will sail for Savannah on Satur.
day, September 8, at A. Nj.
The TONAWANDA will sail from Savannah on Satu-.
day, Septemi er g. -
ThH0UGH BILLS OF LADING given to all the prn
cpal towns in Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Missssippi
Louisiana, Arkansas and Tennessee in connection witt
the Central Railroad OF Georgia, Atlantic and Gulf Rail
road and Florida steamers, at low By compens
lin
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UsISo THE BAYoNEr on A Jupas.-Wash-

UsINa THE BAyoNEr on A JrpdR.-W Wash
angton, Dec. ia document showino
some Of the phases Of military reconstrnc.
ton In Georgia is about to be presented 10
Congress by Hon. Henry S. Wetmore. who
states that he was elected by the Renubl;-
cans Judge of the Court of Ordinary. and
on the 10Th Of April. 1870, released a man
on hdbens corpus, because of informaIjty in
the warrant. On the Goth of the same
month General Terry issued an order re-
moving him from office, but assigning no
cause. l his order the judge refused to
obey. and was put off the bench at the
point of the bayonet. The reason for
"thi< exhibition Of brute force. and the
spectacle of civic judge driven from his
bench by soldiery, was because General
Terry differed in opinion on the law govern
Ing the hd6eds corpus case" AS proof of
this. he cites the fact that Gcneral Terry
wrote to Gen. Sherman giving that as the
reason. he cites the acts of Congress to
show that Gen. Terry's action was illegal.
and adds that he fs confirmed In that opin.
ion by Representatives Bingham. Logan,
and Farnsworth, and yet he declares that
he Is still deprived of his office, which Is
filled by military appontee, who was a
prisoner held BY the United States Govern
ment in Fort Lafayette as the President of
blockadc-running company. He con-
cludes his statement as follows: 81 re-
specially ask Congress to investigate this
matter, and substantiated, to request that
the Secretary of War order General Terry
before a court martial to answer for his
despotic and illegal conduct, as disgrace
to the uniform he wears, an insult to the
judiciary Of the country, an invasion ofthe
rights and property Of a citizen, and re-
proach to our republican form Of govern
ment.N
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PuaT OF RICHAOND. DEC. IL. 1870,
ARRIVED,

ARRIVED,
Steamer George 3. Upton, Roberts, New York.
merchandise and passengers, Virginia steamship
and Packet Company.
steamer T. lbelnarie, BlackWood, New YORK
merchandise end pas selge S. w. II. WITT.
ste, mer states Nary land, Iraysrs, baltimcre,
merchandise AID passengers, W, p. Brett.
Brig johanna t.. 81 J, -, New York, ballast,
ltaX al. G. enshaw 4 Go.
cch"oncr Jacob kenz5ll, Steelman, Philadel-
phla, coal. c. h. Page & Co.
schooner Sarah Lavlnia, Anderson, Albany,
lumber, =. X. NhitoSk.
schnonsrA L. einyrk. Applegarth, Alexandria,
coal, ). z. hawes.
Schooner GEO. Is Smoot, Sullivan, Alexandria,
wheat, II Kali. IrenShaw & 20.
Scupuu Bdratio ~ ,bolS. Dupuy, Now \ Or K.
merchandise, Curtis & Parker.
Scnyoncr Nel,e Brown, higgins, Boston, ice,
4. q. Ok, and merchandise, Currie & Go.
SAILED,
Steamer John Sylvester, Clifford, Norfolk mer-
cnaG0tsc and passengers l.. b. Tatnln.
Steamer james {. Green, philadelphia, mer-
chaudise and passengers. w. 2. Porter.
Steamer State of Maryland Trnvers, baltimore.
ercbaudlse and passengers, W. 7. Brett
Schooner Flying Scud, Owen, Baltimore, lum-
Der, Curtis & Parker.
aEMORAEDA.
WEST POINT Dec. l:.-Arriyed steamer Admi.
ral, keybold, Baltimore, merchandise and pa5seu-
gers, ork River Railroad Company, and sailed
18th on return.
AQUA CREEK. Dec. u. ARRIVED, steamer Geor'
gpalua Colmary, merchandise and passengers
Richmond Fredericksburg and Potomac RaNroac
Comp my. and sailed 18th on return.
NORFOLK, VA, Dec. l2.--The steamer Callfor-
MIA, from Mobile for Liverpool, put In lot coal To-
day .---- ,--
new YORK, Dc. le-Arrived, steamers scsn'
danava Barnes, aud Georgia. Arrived out,
steamer Vile de i'ayis.
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Buffers Book ON GRAST.-Just now
General Butler is growing uneasy lest he
he brought into similar relations to the
President as those sustained by Admiral
Porter. Within few days the real char
actcr Of Buffers book on General Grant,
prepared soon after the close Of the war
with view Of defeating the latter for the
Presidency. has been coming out through
parties now in the city, who at the time
had access to the sheets. The work reached
the stage where CRITICISMS were prepared
tor several journals, and the whole thing
was ready to appear when Butler, for some
reason, changed his purpose, adroitly man.
aged to get the reviews already written
back into his hands again, and from that
time 10 this the book has disappeared from
sight. There is now said to be danger that
one Of these reviews. prepared under But
ler's own eye and directions, has passed
beyond his control. and is likely to be pub
lie property before long. There is no doubt
but that the book, as a whole, was very
bitter attack upon Grant, gotten up in
Buffers most malignant Style Washing
ton telegram, Pittsburg Commercial
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THE TROUBLE WITH CAHADA.-Toronto,
Dee. lC.-rhe following special from the
seat of government ppears In the Telegraph
This morning:
"ln view OF the threatened adoption by
President Grant Of Buffers non-interc0m-
mercial policy toward Canada, including
the Withdrawing of the bonding system. 1t
is Interesting TO know the immense accom-
mediation which Canada has afforded to the
United States by permitting that country
the free use of the Wellaud canal. III the
wear ending June so, 1870, no less than
1854 American steam and sailing vessels.
with tonnage OF 765,742 tons, passed
through the canal. TIE withdrawing of
Tue bonded privilege would, 1t is currently
believed, neces- ariv entail like withdrawal
of the use of the Weuand canal to Ameri-
can vessels, which, OF course. would affect
most disastrously the cities Of Chicago, o.
Iego, and Ogdensburg."
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AFFAIRS IN New YoRK-THE SHoEMAK-

AFFAIRS IN New YoRK-THE SHoEMAK.
ERs' sTRIKE-F RAGUT ASSOCIATION
TURF ITEMS, &c.-Ne,o York, Dec. H.
There is no prospect of an adjustment 81
the Crispin difficulty, and lodges claim that
they have ample funds to maintain the
strike. Last night 162 heads of families re.
ceived eight dollars per week for man and
wife and one dollar for each child under
twelve years.
a Farragut Monument Association, Of
which General John A. Dix is president
and John J. Cisco treasurer, has been
formed in this city.
Jno. Martin, the driver of the well-knowr
trotter Johnny Reb," was ruled off the
Fleetwood course forever yesterday for fou
driving.
"Abdallah Chief" the famous stallion
j.. died last night from an unknown disease
Valued al $4,000.