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Currcit of Evc1nI4. CONUEItXSSIONAL Olt the 25th the Senate passed the bill for - the admIlision of Colorado, by a vote of 19 against 18, Several Senators wero absent or Ralred off. s T Tax 1ill was repotted In the House. S rOnVION. The Austro-0erman difilculty continues oritiohi. Austria is reported to havo refus ed compliance with Prussia's request to i withdraw her order for the mobilisation of is her corps d'armeo. t GAEA. 08 deaths from cholera, and 9 new cases *cri reported last week in New York. i Steel rails, Instead of iron ones, are to be 0 laid on the Hudson River Railroad. They C cost twice as naltch as iron, but last ten t times as long. Dr Siator, health officer of Halifax, who gave medical aid to the victins of cholera on a the England, died of that disease on the 6th instant. 5 1'oLITICAb. ti EGI,ABlTu-The city has elected Dr. Grier, Democrat, by about 400 majority eleven out of twelvo councilmon, and five otit of the sit freo-hbl'ders. LINDE-Ras formerly gono Republican, now elects both Democratic chosen freehold ors Si' a FiEoii.u--Elects both Democratic freeliolders. C Cr..itic-Elects both Democratib'freeliold- si ers by a majority of forty-fout. cl WKsTFIEL-There was no' opposition to the Democratic ticket. Uxiox-An increased Democratic majori ty, and both freeholders. C( The charter election in RahWay on Tues- S day, resulted in a victory for the D6n#ocra. ol cy. This is tho second time the city has gone Democracy, it having been carried et sonic years ago by a very small majority. ti The municipal elect ion in t his city (Spring. field Ill.) passed off very quietly on the 10tn s iastant, resulting in the election of Biad. t ford (Democrat) for mayor over Stuart Si (Conservative Republican) by a majority of '( from 25 to 30-a Democratic gain of about b, 200 since the last city election. The entire tf vote polled was 2,446, against 1,776 last spring, andI the largest vote ever polled in this city. ei b SCIENCE AND ART. A French observer finds the mean height e of waves to be about the .ianic in all oceans, that is about six feet. The neighborhood of land lessens tlie height one-half, and it 81 is different for different parts of the same ocean. In the Paeific the waves are three or four times higher near America than near Asia. The highest waves were found J between New Holland and Adelia, and were fi about fourteen feet. A wave six feet high oi was obierved to correspond to wind moving il fifteen feet in'a second. cl The Surgeon General has recently had constructed a very beautiful model of the Hicks general hospital, at Baltimore, Md., J' which Is designed to be sent to France for t! exhibition at the Paris exposition in 1867. The model is made of wood, and is in the C scale of one inch to twenty feet. Astronomy was first studied by the Moors. and by them introduced in Europe in 1201. The rapid progress of modern astronomy dates from the time of Copernicus. Dooks W of astronomy and geometry wore destroyed, a, as infected by magic, in England under .the reign of Edward VI., in 1552. I LATEs5T IrBMS. 1 Stevens and Sumner are at loggerheads (a about a reconstruction policy, a, There is a fearful mortality among the ir stock in Louisiana and Mississippi. Horses a and mules are pying by scores. Supposed cause-the buffalo gnat The Augusta Conutitutionali,L of the 28th instant, publishes ae tolegram from Presi d6nt Wa. Jbhaston;- which states that the ti bridge of the Charlot toe&S.C. Railroad, over ti the Catawba will.be completed by thie 15th t of. May. So-mota i6 be. t Th.e Demoerate of Kentucky want to put r. forth Alex. R- Stephens as the leader of r Democracy. So says tide New York corres pondent, of the Augusta Constiuionalst. The "Strikee" have attacked the laborers in varione-parts of the Neorth. Is the city r of New York isb4r has uumabed to capi- it tal in the maatter of the eliy railroads, it The residence, in Chatlotte, of Col. Wi'n. Johnston, President of the Charlotte & 8. Q. Railroad, woe destroyed by fiie ons the amorning of the 28th. Loss. $12,009. Only the furniture saved. i )lNtilfttomt..In the lorIh ftbv p Ratale,9 Saturday, bhfoue e.Ydg 1io04~4aq testitgd6y of negro *14e.sekin twro taul otadsaaIt and bat;ery ok wih~ the rights fift peresous . ses admfittekby tr(odet. iei ls spi ration of the Ibte not of Cob $'ka4u1, the "CivU Rilghts BIi ?j; WINSBORO. Tuesday 31orning, Ma 1 1866 m)" T. P. SIMIt, Esq., is the le agent for this pa-per in Charleston, C. Misconstrulng the Constitution, We fear that others high in official >sition besides the reckless revolution. ts in Congress, are luosely construing i Constitution. From the speech of resident Johnson to the soliiers and ilors, which we published last week, it evident that he too accepts the test th as of eqnal authority with the onstitution, and that he too construes o loosely the first clause of the fifth ction of that instrument. Let us ex line these points and see for'ourselves. re quote the first sentence of section first clause of the Constitution : "Each House shall ho - the judge of e elections, returns and'quidifications of i own members." "EAcH HOUSE." There is no mistaking the meaing of [louse" here. It means either the Sen. .e or the ionse of Representatives. That constitutes each House? Thie onatitution says "The Touse of Repre. ntatives shall be composed of members osen every second, year by the people TiE SEVERATL STATrs." Again "'he Inate of the 'United States shall be ,mposed of two Senators FROM RACH rA-rY, chosen by the Legislature there. -"P So says the Constitution. Now apply this measure to the pres. it' Congress, and see if it is a Constitu. nnl Congress. The present House composed of the representatives from fenty five States. There are thirty. I States in the Union. Is that House :omposed of members chosen * * * r the people of the several (individual irty six) States ?" The present Sen. e is composed of two Senators from ich one of twenty-five States. Is th'at >dy "composed of two Senators from ich State" in the thirty six ? "SHALT EM TIM' JUDOE." As far as its power goes each House iall have final decision. There is no )peal from it, in matters left with it * the Constitution, * to any higher idge. But then upon what must its ial decision be based ? It must not dy judge of something, but it must dge by something. Now what is the iterion by which each House must dge of whatever is entrusted to it for idgment ? Evidently the Constitu on. Now apply this rule to the present ongress, and see if it comes up to the 11 measure of a Constitutional one' lie present Congress says "no person all be a Representative or a Senator ho cannot take the oath." The Con it,ution says, "No person shall be a Rlepresenta ve who shall not have attained to the e of twenty-flve years, and b)een sev years a citizen of the IUnited States, d who shall not, when elected, be an habitant in that State, in which he iall he chosen." So the present Congress is preaching new gospel, but we protest in the ime of the Constitution, and declare iat, unless that body asserns and proves iat its test oathl is found in th1e Consti itioni as it was originally adopted, or in ie amnendlments since made and dluly stified, it stands to-day as rebeliously dated to that charter as it affirms these oven States to be. The test, oath then is a spurious crite. on, and 'every Congressman who takes s seat consistently with that rule, does inconsistently wit,h the one and only tie criterion--the.Constitution. "07 'HE EfL0'TIONS." Each House shall b~e the judge or the ections of ite own members. 'But is only to jiidke of such elections by the p(istatnd'ard'. If' elected according thre provisions of the 'Constitito~ ad# in tlie case, there is' :o as fo dge except to:recohnise they*ogularity, here be a douabt of etha,s eularit7 oh )aifl Igop Ih plae btiions. %ND QUAriFCAioNd." The qiilidationseof Congr6senen no 8PeciallY Iftn in the Constitution. Of a Representative, he is to havq tMe fol. lowiug: Ho is to be not under th, ageof I twenty.five ; to hnve been seven years a citizen of the United States, and, when elected, an inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen. O' a Senator, he is to be not.under the age of thirty ; to have been nine years a citizen of the. United. States, C and, when elected, an inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen. Now apply this standard to the pres. ont Congress, an(d what do we find. It I says the qualifications of Congressmen e shall be their ability to take the test dath, thus sweeping away the true crite. rion by which' qualifications are to be judged, and setting up a standard with. out a legal sanction. But it does more. The Constitution akes distinctions in the giialifications8 of Senators and Representatives. The existing Congress. by their test oath, makes none. From ali this then we learn that ther power given to each House to judge of the elections, returns an(] qualifications r oi its own members, is simply the power c to dec.de whether or not the require r tuents of the Constitution have been u fulfilled by each menb'er and his con. stituents. We learn too how great is the presumption inl the Congress, when it barricades the Constitiitiol with its e test oath against all nppeial from eleven States, and thus shuts thie1m out fromil a fair trial by the inly Court which has jurisdiction over them. We see moreover that they who re quire the test oath to be administered, ti anid they who take t,at oath, are both s eq-ially vio!ating the Const itii ion ir And worse than all, we know that every additional conclusion based upon & a falso premise is a' step farther and el farther from trinh. So every act of the " present Congress.hased upon its tnconst!. s tutional construction of the sit.nation, or of the relation of the eleven States to the twenty-five, which itself is false, is tl oly a deeper plunge into lawlessness. Prom all of which we draw the sad b conclusion that eleven States are gov, F erned. not according to justice, but Rc. cordit,g to the arbitrary will of self.ap. pointed judges, and those judges the b professed enemies of the eleven States. 0 Murders. Every mail brings intelligence to us of a murder committed iv some section of our broad land. Hum%n lif( became tl so cheap during the war, that it will be, we fear, a long time before its valne will be enhanced, and men realize the p awvful guilt, under law human and di. a vine, of taking away that most valuable p' element of liberty which they caniiot ~ restore. liel, ft. E. hee. C The Mobile Advertiser nominates c Gen. Lzt. for the next Presidency. ti This is not only premature, but impoli tie. One of the great abuses of Republi. ~ can principles is the disposition to make a the ballot-box the only expression of d high regard for genius, and of an appre.t ciation of its servionse. We are satisfied that Gen. Leo would accept no such nomination. B3ut outside of that, it is a unreasonable Ito conclude that because b a man is a great s.rniitary chieftain, ~ therefore lhe is qualifted for any civil of. flee. It would be' iluite tinreasonable for a sick man to send for the most eminent lawyer withist his reach to re lieve lisa bod.ily sufferings. It would be C quite as much so, to call ina the most skill q ful physician to write his will. General h b Taylor would have immortalised hin.d self, had it not been for President Ty. LO'R. k~~ The followln from 4dheNemphis e 84Zi.tin reveaehnvo tfie gst remark. h ble discoveris 4(UwspUoton of I ' hat he h& .ee rd~ he,opo cefindln n ej4ld d4b trying hotography, _nla l n_ ths Ay of. the murder,.ilh tt a o, A icroscope, imoges lo on 6 e, rtina o he eye.of the dead w ri'aa.ferrel t< rper, and curious facts developed. A istol, the hand, and part of the face o lan who committed the crime are per ectl delineated. PERCT.Y --oWr-An editor ir owa has been fined $200 for hugging i rirl in church.-Exchange. Rather expenive for a sinale tokeu if presswork.- Vateritwn Democrat. Wes nothing wrong in that cas hat it should be distributed through the ress.-Exchange. Neither do we, considering that prin ers pre used to handling such forms in hapels.-Bato Cpurier. That kimd of press-work in churcI iould be all right. ifi a friar or a moul cere present to lock-up the parties in thi hase of matrimony. Then it woul, at matter if they should have smal ditions of their work.--Alliance )Von i Correct. But break the matter of ore, and pick out no more sorts of sin n that poor editor's work. Somebody they do not keep in measure, may ge i a squabble from certain quarters, ard aceive a double brodsido that -wil nock their forms into pi.-&enm Rep We are opposed to abbreviating the Dcord of this editor's over.work i hurch. If lie failed in making his worl egister, he should be noticed at length nd the matter have an extensive circu Ltion.-Northioest. If the press continue to work ofil'the iatter looked up in the above*form,n the 1i.tor of the ECelesiastical PrCsure' wil ecline to strike ofi another issue. ..Personal Mns. J .FFEseT DAvib -Tho. Vur ng,on (Vermont.) Tinmes has the'follow ig notice of tho pasage of Mrs.iii trough that city. We are plepsd tc -o that she treated the effort in,Ao isult her with silent contempt: "Mrs. Jelferson Davis passed through Lre Saturday morning, on her-way to [fontreal, accompanied by several'SoOth rn gentlemen anil t4ree wititer. She ,us plainly dressed in black, with a fort looso? cloak or sacque,. and is n irge, handsome looking woman. W< !arn that while the train stopped al t. Albans site carme from the ear intc M depot, whero a large c.owd gather. I to look at her. She at once tnrned er back upon the assemblage, and ap eared to he lost in de-ep thought, pol aps thinking of the St Alban's raid. ono of the men asked each other if she -ore the same clothe Jeff. had on1 a right sunny morning hast May. She verheard the remark, but only looked pon it witli silent contempt. She told veral gentlemen that Jeff. wps soon to e released." Rrv. W. E. Booas.--We learn from m0 Southern Presbyterian, that Rev. V. E. Boggs, of Winnsboro, has accept. d t lie pastoral care of the Preahyteri burch in Colunibia. We wish Bro. loggs abundant success in his now field I' labor. Never shall we forget th< leasant hours we have spent together, nd onr heart.'s strongest emotions shatlI o breathed for his snecess. Mr. Boggy -as chaphaini oft.he 6th S. C. Regimuenit, tiring the late war. He was constant, nergetic and devoted in thes discharge f his ministerial duties.-Southern Bap t.9' SEN A'rn WiIt.SON8 rUNTrER AnioUl . C. CJ.A.-SeveraIl paragra)phs have ppearedl within a fe.w days in a Phnla elp~hia andl New York paper, stating tat the publisihed memorandum -of a atteor of senatu or Wilson, recommending 1e release of C. C. Clay, was a garbled L'port of the original. In order to put t rest all controversy about wvhat that ?tter conitained, I send a copy of the iime, verbJathn et literatirn. U. S. SENATIE CHIAMnWRa, Washington, March 3, 1866, " His Excellency the President of the U. S.: SIR--Mrs. Clay, the wife of' Clement .Clay, is now in the city, and lb'g. nested me to obtaitn permission for hier neband to go to is home ont perot~ hae father is said to be at the poi yfi rath, his mother, recently decea~s And 'there be no ob.jeetiotis,or rea nn-. nown to mre why. tb9~ reque fMrn lay should be tidnibo, I hav ho- h.eab ito nrecomintn ing ' vorable madrtosi nblves 01 tmnt, I eMr'. Clay 'Ilbe fortho6b ' 9'presence nL.V (46A P'HIU Ur PC, dates to the 15th i ve p r(ceived. Sales of. C oh t al ty fie thousand (5000) bales. Prices havo declined from one ( qnny-Ao thre kt a halt (31)' pence-Midd Iid& being quoted at 14d. U. S. Five-twenties, 67 to 67.ex Coupole. Consels, 85 t 8 The German dilen tv oontinues washington NeWS.. WAGIMINOTON, April have been granted in tbie Ctei o ityd* Monroe And Aldermai Niioh, of,Xd4 Orleans. The charges . which brouight agast these gefillu l ha*e been refuted to the satiatact'o. ofbl;k President.. Vietory of the Liberals I e of' WASIINGToN, April - 2..-tTijo Iat e Depnrtmen; hai receijud oc0)6iI intelli gonce of a decisive victo by Sober over the Imperial forces wige Chihuain, and the occupation of thai;place by thi former. Mra. Jefferson Davis Allowed to Visit her WAS1tINdT6N, Apti 27.-TItere is i no doubt. whatever tha.t.rs. Jefferson Davis hai received periission> to-visit her husband. FroM Witsliiigtol. WAstuxo-rx , April 25.-The PresW dent-bas apinitedI WV,- 1Ilmpton, u relative of the Confederate General, Post.ninster of Pittsburg, removinL. a S idieal uibeti Tin L.AT Vo.i.i-:.-Golonel John I. uby visitel Lceshitrg lust landay on. Prife-sionail business. lecuse lie happen ed to wear a cape in fihese piPing t imies o' peace which had on it. several brais buttons with the coat oarins or Massachusetts on them, the Federal Captain in comnandI there declarcd his purpose to 'arrest him nvid cut then off. leing unwilling to sith in t his treatm-it but disposed to do nny itng iii rea-oin to avoid a breach of t,he pence. tike Colonel, at the suggestion of a rrieul, consented to leave the burg. The Captain with four troopers and sixty infan try, ondoavored to intercept his retreat, but was too latt by several mniients to effect his object. % lieni t ie Colonel rode upon lie crost of a hill, he looked back and sa.r i (o doughy warriors Make a furious bayonet, charge upon a hay-stack which lie had served to conceal him from their view when he mIde his exit.. The spectacle wans s, Indicrous lie could not repress it inclina tion to whoop. lie did so, and at the sanme time raising his hat, he waived a parting a lienit The irato Captain acknowleidged tho cotmplinient by ordering a leaden volley fron sixty guns to be fired at the Colonel. The bullets whi4stled closely but, hartmlessly past him and mditde tunsic which remindedhin of by.gone years of strite. We believe the 'Massachusetts button iq tie symbol of treason, and are somewhat surpiiseil that the Co'onel was sodisloyal-s to retain one on hi.q cape at the risk 1of liburty and life.- 11' rrenion Index. Tu STATR wniKiti NeOnors VoT..-The Albany Argus. in a comprehensive stalre ment of the existing condition of this ques tion In ditferent States, denics the truth inia stateient lately made by a Worcester paper, thint negroes vote in Alassachiutsetts ont pay ing a poll tax : There nre only twvo St-utes in the Union where the negro is allowedl to vote wit hout property qualificationi. They are Vermiont. and New ifampshire, thie fortmer of which has eighty negro voters, and the latter one hundred and ninety. In Masnhusetts every v'oter niust, with in two years, have paid a 8tate or county tax, unless excused from ta.xation. In Rhode Island,' a +oter lAust own real estato of one hundred and thirty-four dol lars' value, or of the eIsar yeArl. value of seven dollars over any ground *ftt. A colored person hs not, allpied to-voto- in New York unless he has resided tn-he Stato three yearn,..and is a fholdein y4e of two hundred and ftfy l#,"and }es thereon.. Massachusetts, .whi9h does~ otn allow any man to; vot6 wh ' aid a Stat e orecourny ta: direoelt aI pay. it indirectly, is. y dI hat, tho Sout hern State~ shiall low, Ra a vote without attoh d1 orimintion. he goes in. for unfrelt-alt *g suag al the South, whi!k denrh tAdlib'oo' whites at homne. This is~b uisette philant,hropy,-or pror $Af hua ox, 9r Taxass--Gov'ernor. on,i aemaaing afairs in Tezsa pret9 uch ash Brownlow manages themin Tea, *ese. The Nashville Union and 4Mi am saye of him: Wk now Jack If amilton well. He 0 ed in Alabama as a faerohanit's ole*k j ward. went North and fmsmhaEed a *qs of goods on a oredit, sold, &4em.< pt, e s p1ey in ht oot,19 ~ apw 4b~ ~ tw days, aad neiire as ,?dW 'J'e as wherq itu~~~o~ he gaied wuc1t.sae me t$*I 1 uu~ prinsipled p. A ~is&. Int .eth led, wher. U to 1sas such.~ u' 'Ca . V or makeit a fel~