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tall i'ur a convention in Nashvi.Io Tennee, to restore that State to i s j.i affC5(fal'f elat: 0 3s to the Union after shtr had fione very possible act uf hostility to theUnired States. Thar Convention met iu 1805, and recogniz ing the old Constitution as binding, they added amendments and voted upqj3i"by virtue of the sovereignty of the' people over their Constitution. What then did Congress do? July 21, 18CC, Tennessee was admitted, and the reason then'- given in the act of admission came up to condemn their present course. It recognised the old Constitution and its amendments Jsowylt was' claimed that Congress only had this power, and yet Senators were on the floor elected under that Constitution. Teanessee has therefore a legal constitutional government. But they, said 6ueh States might ratify Constitutional amendments, but could not elect Senators That would not do. After defending the consistency of Democratic Senators in former votes, assailed in course of debate he quoted the description of the promising condition of affairs iu the South by Gen. Grant, as seen in the 'impeachment testimony, and again from Mr. Morton's speech, before quoted, to the Bame effect. He would characterize, if it were Senatorial uud courteous, the sentiment just made by Mr. Crag'n in regard to the condition of the South, an utter misrepresentation. Mr. Johnson proceeded to his legitimate work of restoration by the proclamation of May 29, 1803, claiming the right 'o form State governments, but recognizing the old State governments as Concress had recognized Tennessee, and he had taken Btc pa to allow the people to restore those practical relations, appointing Provisional Governors until that could be accomplished. He defended the President only when he thought him right,-because he (Hendricks) claimed to be a just man. Mr. Lincoln's proclamations of 1863 and 1864 had enunciated this poliey, and they re-elected . him. - If it was right for Mr. Lincoln, was it wrong for Mr. Johnson? ; i Why, then, condemn him for adopting Mr. Lincoln's poliey, as Mr. Morton . had admitted he did? He read .from Governor Morton's message of 1866, characterizing Mr. Johnson's measures for restoration as just and beneficent, and from Gen. Grant's testimony the opinion that that policy was identical with Mr. Lincoln's. It was settled that constitutional conventions could form valid constitutions, and therefore the present State Conventions were valid. They had done some of the most solemn acts of a State: they had abolished slavery, repudiated secession, and declared the rebel debt should never be paid. What good had come from the persistence, for two years, in keeping the South out of these chambers? Why keep the country distracted? No disloyal man could come here, for they had passed a 'law pro hibiting it. What had they deue but to disfranchise whites and enfranchise blacks? Moralize as they might, with all their political ambition and J)ower, they could not take the garands from the white soldiers and put them on the brows of negroes.!; They won no battle, carried no point. The white soldiers carried victory from the Potomac to the Gulf. The object was to perpetuate their pirty power. He denned a Republican form of government as coming from the people, and - said such a form existed before Congress "deposed ten Governors and subjected them to military authority, abolishing juries and the habeas corpus, empowering commanders to take the judge from the bench and - put a lieutenant in bis stead, authorizing conventions to fix their salaries and levy a tax on the people . to pay them. He read, as a parrallel, the original recital of the grievances of the Colonies at the hands of the King of England. Life, liberty and property, placed in the power of military rule, was called reconstruction and restoration, and a republican form of government. He envied the honorable Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Doolittle) in being so often answered. ' Each answer was a concession that bad not been made before. There are not . many, of us here, he said, but few as we are we feel that wo are standing in the Ther mopylae of our country's' liberties. He allude to the expression of regret by Republican Senators that so many had. been disfranshised,! and said it was an admission that it was wrong. . ' : Mr. Conness(Cal.) Perhaps we do not all regret it. 1 Mr. Hendricks said perhaps that Senator would like to see all the white people stricken down and the power put in the hands of the negro. Subdued applause in the galleries. He went on to discuss negro supremacy, characterizing the registration as a disgusting fraud, and citing instances of outraees by tho blacks of the South, lie referred to Mr. Morton's

claim ot tne power ot congress to raise up a new class of voters. He read a message of that gentleman while Governor of Indiana, sayiDg that such a policy would provoke a war ofraces. Mr. Hendricks, alluding to the opinion of the Reconstruction Committee, as shown by the declaration of the Chairman of the House Committee, (Mr.Stevens.) that the reconstruction measures were ex-'. tra-cpnstitutionaL t , Mr. Fesseoden (Me.) said Mr. Ste-; vena spoke without authority from the Chairman of -that committee, oa the part of the Senate, and he made an observation in an undertone about men who werptto think when they had formed an opinion that everybody else agreed with them, which being understood by Mr. Hendricks as an

alln-ion t.) himself. Mr. Fesi-enden disavowed any intention to make any such application Mr. Heodricks-r'-Then : the purpose of the Senator could only have beeD to interrupt the line of argument; 5 Mr. Fessenden No, sir. v .; Mr. Hendricks went on to say that the Senator; had a right vto make the disclaimer J for wh;ch he (Mr, Hendricks) had yielded the floor.-) i Mr. Fessenden The gestleman 'ia too skillful a debater tor be troubled by a single remark. I beg to disdaim any such purpose, and had mo refers ence to him in the remark I ! made My object ia ; rising ; was ' simply to say for myself; nd so far as I know, for the other members ot the Reconstruction Committee,- that ro such idea was intended by them. I never heard it mentioned. Mr. Fessenden again disclaimed any intention to apply his remark to the Senator.- .. . ; ; Mr. - Hendricks accepted the d?i elaitner. ? : . . s - ! Mr. Howard, another member of that committee, corroborated ' Mr. Fessenden's statement, and said theremark abqut the committee, " was therefore gratuitous. ; : ..j si. Mr. Conkling said, as a member of the House branch of the committee, that there never had been any foundation, to his knowledge, for the assertion that in their opinion they were acting outside the Constitution. Mr. Hendricks recollected the attack upon the Senator from Massa-. chusetts, (Sumner) by the Senators from 3Iaine (Fessenden) and Ohio, (Wade), in his endeavor to Lave the Southern States- made Territories, charging that he stood alone; but he stood then just;where hisj party stood now on this legislation. Mr. Sumner(Mass.) Will the Senator allow me co interrupt him? , - Mr. Hendricks No, , sir, I know just where, that will run to. fLaughterJ ' ": . v ... ' Mr. Henkrfcks proceeded to comment upon the Stevens letter. '' Mr. Sumner I never disagree with that distinguished authority on that point. I have always insisted that all reconstruction measures were positively within the Constitution of the United States: .. j . - Mr. Hendricks did hot claim that the Senator logically stood with him two years ago, but he stood upon that guarantee clause. Mr. Sumner So, I did. r, . ;; a Mr. Hendricks said the resolution offered by the Senator the first day of last Congress declared thaJthoseJ States had ceased to be such, and had become Territories. He stood alone then, but now the party had all come to that doctrine. Mr. Fessenden repelled the idea, so far as he was concerned. Mr. Hendricks made an allusion to the sensitiveness of Senators on the other side. Mr. Fessenden said there was no. sensitiveness so far as the Senator confinad himself to facts. 1 Mr. Hendricks was not stating the position of the Senator from; Maine, out of the Senator from Massachusetts'. . ' Mr. Sumner proceeded to say he had founded his position on the guar antee clause, but Mr. Hendricks refused to be further . interrupted, saying there could be a separate Republican caucus held to settle this question, and if Mr. Stevens had placed any of his breth ren in the wrong he could Bettle with them. 1 He (Mr. Hendricks) believed that gentleman was right in calling it outside ol the Constitution. In regard to the remarks during the debate, the leader of ; the rebellion having been allowed to go free, he said, let them pass a law that Jeff. Davis can be hung; there was no difficulty about it; they could find the power under the clause guaranteeing a republican form of government one of the powers that are clearly defined. Laughter. The bill in regard to the majority of the Supreme Court he characterized as giving an unconstitutional law & two-thirds majority over the Constitution. It was an admission before the world that their legislation was vicious. He repudiated the charge that the Democratic party favored the payment of masters tor the loss of slaves. He read a proposition as offered by Mr. Conkling id the House of Rerjresentatives during the war to compensate loval owners for the loss of slaves." That had been denounced by a Representative from Indiana. He then met, on the part of the Democracy, the charge now made by his colleague, (Mr. Morton.) from .Indiana. He closed by saying he agreed with Mr. Morton that " the Reconstruction column was composite;", .it was composed ot solid block's from" the quarries of Austrian despotism, above that a large mass fron Africa, .finished off with fragments of our Constitution. But it would soon lie in ruins, and in its stead the American people would i ulaee thirtv-seven columns of Dure

white Parian marble. . . i. Indiana Items. ' " Time's up " for killing quails. . The fruit, trade of Richmond amounted to $30,493 last year. r ... ....... ! The Republicans of Rush Coun,ty have adopted the Convention -isystem in the nomination of candidates. The Vincennes . Tithes' says extra for $10,petbarrjLc,, That beats us 3. Phillips.. f the ( ;iIoward; TriVm&, 'is stirring up the Democracy lively in his part of the State. ' x ' Books of subscription to the Mount Vernon and Grayville Railroad were opened at Mount Vernon yesterday.

The Republicans of Posey County hold their Convention on Saturday uext, February 8th, at Mt.'VernOfl. '. The' disturbers of church" congregations' are being made to pay for their fun in Nw Albany. The Fort Wayne Democrat is opposed to holding the Democratic National Convention at Indianapolis. ; -The wholesale trade of Lafayette, for December, amounted to three hundred .,' and ixtyrthree thousand dollarSj. , . y ,. ,,: ; The Indianapolis and ' Cincinnati Railroad Company are' now running trains to Gosport, on ' the Vincennes Road, by way of Martinsville. 1 General Tom Thumb and his wife, Commodore Nutt and Miss Minnie Warren, his wife that is to be, have been exhibiting themselves at Indianapolis. . . ; r Collector Brown, at Indianapolis, hereafter designs seizing all spirits passing through that city and holding them until positive proof is furnished that the Government tax has been paid. There are already one hundred and fifty-6even cases on the docket of the Wabash County Common Pleas Court, for the February term, 1868, The citizens of South Bend, Indiana, claim that they have the biggest bell on the continent, while the people of Ann Arbor, Michigan, contend that they have the loudest.' A. C. Mellett, of Muncietown, denies that his wife's scholars ducked him for interfering with their sport. He says his wife.never had a ly scholars. . . The Madison Courier reports the death of a negro woman, in that city, at the advanced age of one hundred and sixteen years. ' Like all ancient ' Africans, she remembered Washington well, and often talked about him. ' The New Albany Ledger says Senator Morton's speech is creditable to the Senator's ingenuity. It might, with equal truth, have added, and damaging to the Democrat party. The New Albany Ledger says a German in that town recently quarreled with his wife, and theu attempted to stab himself with a bar of soap without success.' '.-'" Dr. Anderson, pastor of the First

Presbyterian Church, at New Albany,-! was visited -by his members, on Thursday last, and enjoyed a supper Srepared by the ladies of the Church. To other " substantial tokens of regard" were presented. Joseph M. Dair, the proprietor of a distillery in .the Fourth District, is charged with . defrauding the revenue to the extent of $18,000. . We don't see how- he could dare to do it. A petitijm asking the city authorities to appropriate $10Q0pOy tcf jidffeq constructing the Mt. Vernon and4 Grayville Railroad has been circulated in the former town, and very generally signed by the citizens. Some daring thief stole a fine mare in Mt. Vernon on Tuesday last. She was hitched in front of a' grocery store where her owner was making some purchases. No clue to the thief was obtained. The Warrick Herald says ' there is a Democratic school director in Greer Township in that County, who forbids the teachers introducing the Bible into their schools'. We presume that director has no objection to good whisky. The Cincinnati Gazette says the consolidation of the Baltimore & Ohio, Marietta & Cincinnati, and Indianapolis, Cincinnati & Lafayette R.R. Companies, by which these lines, so far as working arrangements are concerned, are to be one, : will operate largely in favor of Cincinnati. ; Sarah McNees, living eight miles west of Winchester, in the eightyfourth year of her age, is the mother ol twelve children, nine of whom reared families. These nine ' have eighty two children, and the eightytwo grandchildren have eighty-five children, making in all one hundred and eighty-nine of the family. Sixtyeight, of them have died. Five died in the late rebellion, " , Jared Jocelyn, Esq.,: of New Albany, is probably the oldest Justice of the Peace in Indiana. lie was first elected to that office in 1839, and has, we believe, served continually ever since being a period of twenty-eight years. ., ,1 Kentucky Item. . The Frankfort Commonwealth says the Union men of Kentucky are almost a unit for Gen. Grant. Rev. E. H. Camp has been called to the pastorate of the Second Presbyterian Church at Lexington, Ky. . .. The Legislature has passed a bill appropriating $40,000 to the Eastern Lunatic Asylum at Lexington. The Paris True Kentuchian states that a large otter was captured on the ice near Millersburg, Kentucky, last week. It',, measured three feet, nine inches in length..,. i:- ., - , , i Gefj.--Leslie-"' Combs has been appeinted Marshal o the State of Kentucky by President Johnson, in the place of Win: A. Meriwether; j Th'e !DWcfite'i,,:Cfllfe;& '.at I rodsb'urg, Ky.,,as (ttq bc re.-ope.ped again on ine nrss iuoouiy iu marcu next, under the supervision of the able President John Au Williams, i late of Kentucky Universty.

The Hepdsrsoa Reporter says it don't make any, difference whether a man wore the blue or grey during the war, so that he is a Democrat now. James S' Payne, President of the Republic of Liberia; was born withia four miles of Lexington. He is represented to be an individual of marked intelligence and ability. At a. Democratic meeting held in Henderson, on the 27th, resolutions were adopted recommending the reelection .of John Young Brown tor Congress, Stevenson for Governor, and the nomination of Pendleton for President. Mr. J. D Osborne, for thirteen years the business manager and part Eroprietor in the Louisville Journal, as disposed of his interest in the establishment and severed his connection with it. ; Oscar H. Burbridge, charged with shooting A. J. Morey, editor of the" Cynthiana News, with intent to kill, a d recently tried in Covington, was discharged on a verdict of' not guilty being rendered by the jury. The firsf number of the Kentucky Free Mason, will be issued in a few days, and continue its publication regularly. Those that desire to commence with the first number should send in their subscriptions at once to Col. Hodges, Frankfort. A writer' in the Lexington Gazette advocates the election of Gen. John S. Williams, of Confederate fame, to the office of Commonwealth's Attorney of the Lexington District, on the ground, among other things, of his

servicea to tne Contederacy during the war. The writer says his victory over the Federal troops at Saltville should elect him to any office in the State. The Henderson -Reporter insists that Noble, of the Paducah Herald is an "incubus on the Democratic party; that he is 80urcd; by nature, like an old maid unreasonable as a pickled herring vindictive and without the political sagacity of a XX oyster while endowed with an indomitable energy and that he has exercised considerable influence in distracting the councils of the wellmeaning Democracy of the State." Noble is tdohig more' good than we have been disposed ttgive him credit for. . .- -:' : . , Missing. If is. VeDorted that a. number of the-Legislators who went to Lexington on yesterday to visit the Eastern Lunatic Asylum are missing and, 6trangely enough, those missing are all Democrats. It is shrewdly suspected by knowing ones that the manager of the Asylum mistaking them tor a part of his charge has put them in limbo. We hope a committee will a't once be appointed by both Houses to investigate the matter, and, if incarcerated, to at once demand the release of the unfortunate mem bers to liberty and daylight. Com, raoJtalth. Illinois Items. A lynx was killed one day last week about four miles southwest of Mt. Carmel. ; .. v-; A new paper has been started at Mt. Carmel, called the Register. It ia Republican in its politics. A Grant Club has just been formed )?.t Rockford, with R. P. Lane for President. - There are three men confined in, the Alexander County jail charged with murder. The Democrat says that Cairo is the soberest place .in the United States. t i . The Freeport News is hereafter to be published monthly, : instead of weekly, as heretofore. , " A man named Geo. M. Garliek, was thrown from his wagon, near Bloomington, the other day, . and died from the effects of his injuries. ' The receipts of moneys for freights and passengers at the Galena depot last year, amounted to more than two hundred and sixty five thousand dollars. . McLean County is out of debt, or will be very soon, having, in the last three or four years, paid off a war debt of $350,000, besides other county expenses, and not felt oppressed in doing it. ; : , , The infant child of Mary E. Rodgers, aged three weeks, was smothered to death in Urbana, recently. The child was in bed with its mother, and it is supposed was covered too closeiy. A few days ago Mr. Granville Turner shot a gray eagle near the dam, two miles northeast of 3Ir. Carmel. It measured six feet ten inches from tip to tip. ' The residence of Mr. Wm. Kavanaugh. situate about one and a half miles from Mt. Carmel, was consumed by fire Sunday evening last, while the family were at church. There was nothing saved trom tne building. General Leib," lite of the Illinois Post, has connected himself with the Tribune, the German Republican organ of Quincy. The General is an able writer and a wide awake editor,' and we congratulate the Tribune upon 6uch ail accession. ' " ';."' :' Uncle Sams mail ., arrangements must be bad, Our letters and papers reach , us well, . when ; some , of them are not qaite so, old as;3Iethusaleh is represented to have been We don't like to complain; but somebody is to blame, that's certain. Mt. Carmel Democrat.

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which JJr. Hall, a Democratic editor, and a iuli-blooded negro, address ed tne meeting. JJemocratic negro equality is. not at all objectionable. One day last week a .man. while at work upon the cage ot the main shaft at Rutherford & Hush s coal mines, near feona, was; caught and drawn twenty feet through a small space, and was badly bruised and cut. He ia recovering. . The Chicago .Post learns ,that Mr. Halter lrunibull, of Helena, Mon. a i O 1 a. ' tana, son oi cenator i ruroouil, ia a miner with a highry -prod active claim and a banker with ample capital, is rapidly rising to distinction and influence in tne anairs ot tne new com munity. - . The boats, barges warehouses and other property beloneintr to the Illi nois River Packet Company, were sold at fct. Liouis, on 1 hninday. Ire total amount realized was $70,851 46. An election will be held on the first Mon day in February, to elect a Board of Directors and other officers for the new company, after which, as soon as navigation opens in the Illinois, oper ations will commence. The railroads running into Peoria must be in a bad condition. The Transcript is responsible for the following: A stranger on one of the railroads leading into this city asked one ot tne railroad oracials, t. lew days ago: "Have you got any steel rails on your road?" "No." answered the railroad man, "but will have to steal some pretty soon, or' we won t have any to run over. , CARPETS. CARPET WAREHOUSE. Who Tf ants a Cheap Carpet t Prices Reduced. TS CONFORMITY TO THE MAT. .A. racturer' new Kcale of Prices lor 1868. we have marked our ooodt down so as mill to oiler them at aa low Oku ren wt they ara retailed by any boane in the United Mtatea tast or west. (. ' CARPETS, ' OIL-CLOTHS, : MATTINGS, RUGS, WALL-PAPERS, WINDOW-SHADES, LACE CURTAINS And a fall line of cheap and elegant Furnishing Goods Generally, - FOR Families, Steamboats, and Hotels, ' WM. E. FRENCH & CO., IN o". XO iir-st JanlO ' ' ' ' NEW ORLEANS. Alexander McGregor. . Win. McUreifOi ; McGregor Brothers, COMMJSSJO N MER CHANT. NO. S3 TCIIOVPITOCiIaN NT 0; New Okleaks La. Liberal advance! made on Prorlmoni and Western Produce consigned to our ad ureHH. lapz aim. Speed, Summers & Co., Cotton and Tobacco Factor , GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHAN1I and COMMERCIAL AGENTS. Offloe No. 59 Poydras street,; Nbw Oklkans, La. Carleton, Poute A Co., New York. Speed, Donoho Co., Memphin, Tenn. Cazart, Stockard A Co., Mobile, Ala. dec30-'65-tf. E. H. FAIBCHILB. . J. W. BlMOHAM. FAIRCHILD & BINGHAM, CommiNHlon MerchuntH 8i Magazine Street, nov20 dly NEW OltLEANt 8. M. BAKTOS..2f. Jt. POOU...W, U. AIKK4 S. M. BART0S & CO., Commission Xoclinnt 17 Magazine Street, NJW ORLEANS. L NATIONAL HOTEL, CorneE of Main and Fifth Street. V INC EWES, AT?.. M. S. DtSSI.XI ... ..Prrlet. mw Bushcw rr.n o from the House to Depots on time or every train, 'iiug wlU carry passeuices f ny Prt ol the city.; neldlf . - Buil&rs. and Painters. .... TEIIAVE iif STORE, , J,fl00 pounrt strlctfy pare White Lead. ' i 50,000 pout! pure Star White Lead. , ' 50,ouo poivds Bay State Wnite Lead. ' 1,000 gallas Linseed Oil. Tr. "' ' "' 5,0iJ0 poivd" No-1 Putty, in Bladders and Can. ., ' . , 1 r Wln(Io0's,.a" slMS- , Glaie' Points and Putty Knives -; COLO of every rariety 1RY .or in OIIj. Aof which we are Keliing as cheap a can Kpurchaeed In the West. KELLER WHITE, Whohzte Druggists, Evansville, Ind. nxK tr

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