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i ' '-' PoMnVoaSnrS. HI' ritnasa SilftrS Mir .AukrtS land
wit letwrs enfttMntn itnsenpttoii manoyi
they
rtailto to Se thi BOrb Poet Offe Li.
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lelrtUd kJ, OFFICE,' wbIA will MiVW u to I
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L', i . '..HIXiXi 'toiWOLTEHTCJlr,,,,
'" lorlj-S A otiBIi lit lAW.
; sTnsr3TJR-sr. -cv'.';,:; '"
WILL attend to the, oollegiion of afl jkinu of
claimk, inolading flaojt f y( Bounty and Pon
' , JACOB BHIPMAIT,; ' ; 1 " "
; f ire and Life insuran cB agent
: - ,' BUNUUIfY TENN'A 1 ' ' ;
, nrnier Mutunl Fir Intiiranoa Vo., York Pa.j
jumberiand , Valtoy I MatJ I'roteotion I .Co.,
. ew Vork Mutual Life, U irard Life of hl. a. Uart
ord Cvaa. Uoncrnl Aoeidents. ! ! i ,tn I .-..! ...i
. i Sunbnry, April 7, ly. -: ' -i t.U ' . '
D7. CHAS. AKTHtllE;
lOomcfopatlitc.' 13I)ijfefciau.
iraJuatoof the HomaApiiflilo Medifcal 'College of ,j
Pennsylvania.
Ornti, Market Square opposite the Court House
st;xBURY,rA ' 1 ,v ;;' ', - "
t March 31, lHo.
, IOI1S LO W EH, 7. , WT1 8SBHB0J.TI.
Bowen & Seesholtz, ;: ,
WIIOLESALK & 11ETAIL t)teALEKS , ' !
in every variety of , i ; ....
' ANTHRACITE C O A L,
J, llaai Co Lower Wharf, Xunlmry,
' Orders solicited and filled With proniptnw nnl
dospatch. ' ,! " iI
Sunbury, June 2, ISfifl, ' "-"
SOLOMON MALICK, ; ;
ATTORNEY AT LAW, .
" BUNBXTItT, Northumberland County, Pa,
, OFFICE in East end of Weaver's. Tavern, Market
. Etrcet. : .'. . . .
- All business entrusted to him will be careful y and
punctually attended to. Consultation in the Jiog
linh and German languages.. .... . , , ,
Bunbury, April 3. 1865. , -, j i
AMBE0TYPE AND PH0T0GSAPII
Corner Market ft Fuwn Street, StTNBUTlY, Fa.
S. IJYEttLY, PltOPBIETOIt,
PhotoRraph, Auibrotypes and Mclainotypcs taken in
the best style of the art. ' apl. 7, ly
JTtr.. hilbush
SURVlsYOR AND CONVEYANCER
AND
JUSTICE OF THE PEA CE.
M'thvnoif, Northumberland County, l'enn'a
IBce in Jackson township. Engagements enn
J be mado by letter, directed to the nuoreaaurese.
All business entrusted to his care, will
bo promptly i
attended lo.
April 22, 18fl. ly
ffx. M. Kockefellbb. Llovd T. Roubbacu.
ROCKEFELLER & R0HRBACH.
Ml IH V, PRVVJ.'. ' i
OFFICE the same that has been heretofore occu
pied by Wm. M. Rockefeller, Ei.q., nearly op
lHwito tbe residence of Judge Jurduu.
Sunbury, July 1, ltoa.ly
C. tV. ZIKCil.EH. ' 1.. II. CASK
ZIEGLEPw fo'CASE,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
SUNBURY, PENNSYLVANIA. .
Collections and all Professional business promptly
al ten. led to in the Courts of Korthuuiberland and
adjoining Counties. .
tjtf.Also, special attention paid to the Collection
of Pensions, Bounties and Buck Pay for Widows
Orphans and Soldiers
Suubury, March IS, 18fl5,
If. II. MASSlCIt,
Alloi-iicy at Lnir, SUNBURY, PA.
Collections attendud to in tbe counties of Nor
thumberland, Union, Suydor, Montour, Columbia
and Lycoming.
beferrncbs.
Hon. John M. Reed, Philadelphia,
A. O. Oattoll A Co., "
Hon. Wm. A. Porter, "
Morton McMichacl, Esq., "
E. Korcham Co., 2S9 Pearl Street, tfow York.
John W. Ashnicod, Attorney at Law, "
Matthews A Cox, Attorneys at Law, "
Sunbury, March 29, 1862. ' 1
H0LESALE AND RETAIL DEALER
,i in every variety ot
ANTHRACITE C O A I,
Upper Wharf, BUNBURY, Penn'a.
Ordors solicited and filled wilu promptness aud
Ht'Spatch. ,., , . .... .. -. i '-
Sunbury, May 12, lSOS.y . ,
Attorney uiul Connsiollor nt I.iiav,
IiOONVILLE, CCOPER CO, MISSOURI.
WILL pay taxes on lands in any part of. the
State. Buy and Soli real EstaU, and alt other
matters entrusted to him wUl receive prompt attention-
'. .' , ,-.'()
. July 8, lS6-ietj S, '4 . ,
"-"." St. li. X. .iImI-.KV, '
PHYSICIAN Ai?i BURGEON
WtMtTHUMBEBIjAKD, PA S VJ
DR. LUMLEY hat opened an offiee in Northum
fcerland, aod otTora bii vertices -to tbo people of that
place and the ad joining townsLipi. . OBie next door
to Mr. Scott's Shoe Store, where he can found at all
hours. ; i ,.
Northumberland August 19, 1805.
ELOUR & FEED STORE
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
TJ1HE subscriber respeoifutly informs th public
that he koeps constantly on hand at his dw
WAREHOUSE, near tb Shamokia VoUey Railroad
.Depot, in SUNBUHY, Flour by tb boreal and sacks
.of all kinds of Feed by the ton
Tb abut' is all monnmetured at his own Mills,
.and will bo sold at the lowest ssh prices.
i M. CADWALLADER.
Bunbury, April 1, IrioO. .. .
' JEREMIAH SNYDER,
Attorney Ac ('ouukcllor at Irftw.
wi .iii kv, r. .
IIiitrIct Attorney lor !ui'lUuiot.
Iwiiand County. . i -. 1
Sunbury, March 31, 18M. ty
GS-. "W. HAUPT,"11
Attorney and Counsellor at law,
Office on south sid of Market street, four doors west
. .! of Kyitor'S Store,
BUNBURY, r-A..
Will attend promptly to all professional baslnea
rntrustod to bis care, th collection of clajins in
Northumberland and th adjoining counties.
Sunbury, April 7, lHoft. - V
CA'OOB-O, BUCK
MERCHANT TAILOR,
., ..... And DeaUr U i; x
CLOTHS, CA'SSIMEKEiV VESTING, &c.
1'ann ktreet, utu of Wearer'a
Hotel, ' '' ''
STT XT XI iEX . r A.
March 31, KiBB. , . ., ,. - : r(
Bricklayer and Builder,
Market tttreet, eoora ' "-t
. . -V H.-AII JobtolntT- nrwaWntly Jts
tenl so. ' i ' ' -
tninbury, Jun 2, 18011.
. rt.ra :-t-i7rr pi ytisiaiiu"
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n.a-vYv . Wl-IL.J.JI :J, ,iLir.lJ(T.!V'I
PUBLlStilib ' EVERY SATURDAy'JlOJlNpGjl'BY!;
,mmu '-t:t--r--Trr-Tr--T-ir.J-r7-r---T77-rr, TT
I NEW SERIES, VOL. 2, NO.;.'
GEO. C. WELKER & SON.
FIRE ft LIFE. INSURANCE AGENCT,
Offioe, Market Street, BUNBURY, PA.
Risks taken in First lasStok and Mutunl Compa
nies. Capital Represented 814,000,000.
; Sunbnry, May 12, I860. f , ; . i . -I,'
COAL! COAL!!. COAL!!!
. QKANX So bbotheh,. :
Ihippersj A Wlsolewnta Ac Itetoll
;. . I'l"i-i In 1 . '
: ' in I IT K Se. Itl:i A 11 COAI,
.,ui....i . in every variety. (
Bole Agents, westward, of the Celobrate Henry
CJajrtJoal. ; . v . . , , ' ,; ;
, , Low kb Wbabf, Stuatnr, Pa., ,. j,i'
Sunbury, Jan. 13, ltMI9. , . . . .,; .. . :.
Pensions Increased.
The late Act of Congress gives additional pay to
th following Pensions, vi : . . m..
'ist.' To those who have lost (he tlzht of both eves.
or both Rands, or totally disabled so oa to require con.
itant attendance, the sum of $2A 00 per month. '
2d To those who have lost both feet, or are totally
disabled In the same so as to require constant attend
ance, the sum of $20 00. ,
3d. To tlioso who bay; lost one hand or on foot,
or arc so disabled as to render them, unabre toper
fbrni manual labor ,$13 00 per month, and .other
earns In proportion!
The subscriber is duly prepared for the itamWiato
pTocureuionr oimese claims. , ,, ,
p. is. uui tn, ah y at Law.
Sunbury, June 16, 1800. , . '
THE VERY LATEST ARRIVAL! I
Spring & Summer Goods!
josepii eyster,' , .
i (Succetseimor to Johri Jiotten,)
i ' Curnor of Market and Fawn Street,
SUNBUHY, PENN'A.
Invites the publio to call and examine his eleeant
assortment of
survirviER gooos
which he will sell at greatly reduced prioos. II U
stock consists :n part of
CASSIMERE3
CLOTHS. &C
Silks, Bolnines, Lawns, Uinghams, Calicoes, Muslins,
Wheeling. Tickings, Jeans, and a full assortment of
Cotton and Woolen goods generally.
Hosiery, Gloves, lloop Skirts. Alio Handkerchiefs,
Brushes, Combs. ,
llatrt and Cnps, llootn nnd Mioch,
' His assortment of goods will not, lie is are sore
F, tl ,a nlnnm 4h. finn .ml mil lli. mita ftf .nw An
tirous of purchasing. His stock of '
. HARDWARE ASD QUEENSWARE,
and Uroccries is large in quantity and choice in'
quality, comprising generally everything needed in
the household either ibr use or ornament.
Ho is ulways ready and glad to see bis friends
and takes pleasure in showing them his goods even
though no sulcs ure made. He only asks a call, and
is euro that tbs stock will compare favorably in
price and quality with tbe cheapest.
JOSEPH EYSTER.
Sunbury, April 21, I860.
N E W GO ODS!!
J II EN GEL
HAS just returned from New York and Philadel
phia, aud is now receiving a New Stock of
Spring & Summer Goods,
at a great reduction in prices.
Ucntleiiien'si U'rnr, , . ,
Fine Black Cloth at $4.00 that used to sell at $3.00.
Cassimercs, Satinett, Cashmeretts, Kentucky Jeans,
Cottunado and Linen Panting, at redueod prices.
, Ladies' ; DresB ' Goods.
Silk, Wool Deluines, Mohair, Silk Stripe. Paul
Do Chain, Alpacoa, I'oplett, English and Scotch
Uinghaiiis, Cballies, Delaines, Lawn, Calico and
Muslius, very cheap.
White Goods.
Linen Dress Quods, Linen Skirting, White Toilet
Quilts, Brilliants, Swiss Stripe, Switi Caiubrie, Jao
oonctt, lri.h Liaon, Shirt Frontni do.
Ladies' Cloth and Flannel Sacking, and other
flannel at low prioes. , White Shetland Wool, Shawls,
Bulmo.nl Skirts, fto Skirting and the latest style
'f lloop Skirts, very handsome and oheap.
Yankee Notions in Great " Variety
Hosiery,' Gloves, Pocket innJkcrchiufs, Suspen
ders, Neckties, Paper Collars, Umbrellas, a good
assortment of Spectacles, Coats, Spool Cotton, fancy
Buttons, Trimming!, fte.
i Curpels, Floor and Table Oil Cloths, brown and
green Oil Cloths for windows, Gilt Shades, Fixtures
fur Window Blinds.
lints, C'u and Ladies' Shakers, Hardware, Kails,
Forks, Shovels, Spades, iron-tooth Garden Rakes.
GROCERIES,' SALT FISH.
Queensware, Glassware, Boots and Shoes,
Paints, Oils, Glass and Patty.
School Books, and a new Supply -ot WALL PA
PER, will be sold very cheap.
All persons desirousof getting good goods at low
prices, for cosh or country produce, will please giv
weaoall. - J. U. ENGKL.
Sunbury, April TUT,
WILLIAM
W. APSLEY 8;
llOll'MIile .:;'
Boot, Shoe and Trunk
WAREHOUSE; 1
Nmn:nY,' ia.
WM. W. APSLEY has just opened a NEW
STORE in the well-known bouse of Mrs. Boul-
ton, in Markot street, and offers to the oitiiuns of
and neighboring towns, BOOTS A SHOES
est quality ana workuiunship. tio Having
mad arrangements with first-class manufacturers
to supply the best quality of goods.
In the Wholesale Deportment he calls the atten
tion of Country Storekeepers to his fin stock, which
will be sold at the lowest wholesale prioes, thus ena
bling Retail Dealers to save axpens of visiting tb
cities to replenish, their stock. ", . .
In tb Retail Department can be found BOOTS,
SHOES, TRUNKS, VALISES, Ao., which, in prjoe,
at inese times, are wiinoui a parallel
a ps
Th stock of Ladies' Wear is superior in style and
workmanship than is nsuall found in country towns.
una in a
i. splen
embracing genu or llalmurals, splendid Congress
Gaiters, aud fancy shoes of every kind.
W. W. A. also sal Is attention to his large stock of
Men's wear, of latest styles, that, will fit any foot
with as ana eoiuiort.
C ome One t ; Cme , AM I
Sunbury, March 10 th, I Clio, . . , ,. .., .. I
NEW OPENING
OI C'lotblntr, Uenl'sj Fnrnltinr
tiosMlat, Hoof m V feiboe.
TIE undersigned takes pleasure in announcing to
th publio of Banbury, and vloiuity, that kshas
opened BU , , ,
CLOTHING, STORE,
with a well Selected stock of Mow .
J will sell at astonishing low prioes. , i t.
. I bar also still on hand isrg slock of '
;B oo tsifr Shoes,
fo Ladle. Oenis and CbJIdraa's war. whlob 1 am
saliiag of, M I luUod to giv n UisAbssjnuhaf Ktsi
, it will k to tk avnUg to Cau nu to
civ b ali. i 1-. ..ti'.- -i : ..i "'
8. KRONENBCRS. . if
S. Gaoss' ld stand, Marilat ffqnarsj.
Bunbury, AprU T, 18o0.
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1 p o l i a t o A ix n
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j From th Adantio Monthly lot September.
T1113 JOIliX")0.1f PAltTV;':
Tho PrcsiJiDt of the United tatc's uas to
singular a combinnl,ioti of defects fof the
ofiice of aConstitutional tnogistr'ate, that he
could have obtained the Opportunity to mis
rule the ballon, vulj.by a visitation of. Pro
vidence. ' I n si nee r, as well as Btubborn.
cunning as cll as HnrcOsonabcS, tfcin a well
as ill teinpored, greedy of popularit j ha welt
as arbitrary in disposition, Veering In bis
mind as well ha Gxud in his Will, he unites
in his character the seemingly opposite quali
ties of demagogue and autocrat, and converts
the Presidential chair into a stamp 'or a
throne, according as the impulse seizes him
.to oajole"or tr command. ' Uodbtless much
ot tuo evil developed in lum is due to his
misfortune in huving been lifted by events
to a position which tie lacked tho elevation
and. breadth of intelligence adequately to
fill. Ho was- cursed w ith the possession of
a power and authority which no man of
narrow wind, bitter prejudices, and inordi
nate self estimation can exerciso without
depraving himself as well as injuring the
nation. Egotistic to tho point of mental
disease, .Jie resented the direct and manly
opposition of statesmen to Ms opinions and
moods as a personal affirout, aud descended
to the last degree of littleness in a political
lcader--tbat of betraying his party, in order
to gratify his spite. He of course became
the prey of intriguers and sycophants ; of
persons who understand tli art of managing
minds which are at onoc arbitrary and weak,
by' allowing them to retain unity of will
amid the most' palpable, inconsistencies of
opinion, so that Inconstancy to principle
shall not weaken force of purpose, nor the
emphasis be at all abated with which they
may bless to-day what yesterday they cursed.
Thus the abhorror of traitors has now be
come their tool. Thus the denouncer of
Copperheads bns now sunk into dependence
on their support. Thus the iai poser of con
ditions of reconstruction has now become
the foremost friend of the nnconditioned re
turn of the rebel States. Thus the furious ;
Union Republican, whose harangues against
his political opponents almost scared his
political friends by their violence, has now
become the shameless betrayer of tho peo
ple who trusted him. And in all ' these
changes pf base he has appeared supremely
couscious, in his own niiud, of playing an
independent, a consistent and especially a
conscientious part.
Indeed, Mr. Johnson's character would bo
imperfectly described if boiiio attention were
not paid to his conscience, the purity of
which is a favorite subject of his own dis
course, and tho perversity of which is tbe
wonder of tho rest of mankind. As a public
man, his real position is similar to that f a
commander of an army, who should pass
over to the ranks of tho pnemy ho was coui
missior.cd to fight, and then plead his in
dividual convictions of duty as a justification
of his treachery. In truth. Mr. Johnson's
conscience is, like his understanding, a mere
lorni or expression ot Ins will. The willtiT
ordinary men is addressed . through their
understanding and conscience. Mr. John
son's understanding and conscience can be
addressed only through his will. ' He puts
intellectual principles and the moral law in
the possessive case, thinks ho pays ihem a
compliment and adds to their authority
wucn he makes them tho adjuncts of his
petted pronoun "my ;" and things to him are
reosonablo and right, not from any quality
iuhcrcnt in themselves, but because they are
mude so by his determinations. Indeed, he
sees liardly anything as it is, but almost
everything as colored by his own dominant
egotism. Thus he is never weary of assert-'
ing that the peoplo are on his side ; yet his
mciuou oi learning tlie wishes of tuo people
is to scrutinize his own, and, when acting
out his own passionate impulses, ho ever in
sists that he is obeying public .sentiment.
Of all the wilful men who, by s-trange chance,
have found themselves at the head of a con
stitutional government, he most resembles
the last Stuart king of England, James H.;
and. the likeness is increased from the cjr
cuuistunce that the Americsu James hat, in
his supple and plausible Secretary of State,
one fully competent to play the part ef Sun
derland. : ' .,' .,, ;.
The party which, under (ho ironical des
ignation of the Rational Uuion Party, now
proposes to tako the' policy and clmracler of
Mr. Johnson under its charge, is composed
chiefly of Democrats defeated at the polls,
and Democrats defeated on the field of bat
tle. The few apostate Republicans, who
have joined its ranks while seeming to load
its organization, axe of eiuull account. Its
great strength is in its Southern supporters,
and if it comes into power, it must obey a
rebel direction.' Uy tho treachery of the
President, it will have theExecutive patron
age, on its side, for Mr. Johnson's "con
science" is of that peculiar kind which finds
satisfaction in arraying the interest of others
against their convictions; and having thus
the power to purchase support, it will not
fail of those means of dividing tho North
which come from corrupting it' The party
under which the war for the Union was con
ducted is to be denounced and proscribed as
the purty of disunion, and we are to be edi
fied by addresses on the indissoluble unity nt
the nation by secessionists, who have hardly
yet had time tu wash from itheir bands the
stains of Union blood. Tbe leading propo
sition on which this conspiracy against the
country is to be conducted is the monstrous 1
absurdity that tbe Kubcl States have an in
herent "continuous," unconditioned, consti
tutional right to tonu a Part of the Federal
Government, when hey nave once acknowl
edged the fact of the defeat tf their inhabi
tants in au armed attempt to overthrow and
subvert it a proposition which implies that
victory paralyzes the powers of tho victors ;
that ruin Logins when success w assured ;
that the only eifoct of beating Houthern
rebel in the field is to exalt Uiiu into a maker
of laws for his antagonist. - ' 1
In tbe minority report of the Congressional
Joint Committee on . Reconstruction, which
is designed - to supply the new party with
constitutional law, this theory of State rights
is most elaborately presented. The ground
is taken, that during the rebellion the States
in which it prevailed were at "completely
competent States of the United State they
were before . the rebellion, and. were betted
y all theobligations which the Constitution
imposed, and entitled to slliti privileges;"
ana that the rebellion consisted merely in
series "of illegal acts of the citizens of such
Btatea." On this theory, it to difficult te (lad
where the guilt pf rebellion lie. The Stsvte
are innocent teeaose the rebellion was a
rising of individuals; the tttdividutl cannot
be very ortminal, for It is on their votes tllat
the committee chiefly, reply (to buiid up. the
Kttlontl :Ulo0 Pwtj Again , Vt'e are rh
farmed that, in respect to the admission of
representatives from "such States," Congret,
.(rMil.V)lt Jiiinn. oil J im
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fia
tnt
v"i " C!Ur" yky-i flaw 7-lft j
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7.
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:-t-r . . ir . 1 - .. . - - t T' , v it;; 1,7 1 " htmii sno 'M.w'i!
pOlNQrIgmi;; OLD
has no right or power to ask more than two
questions. These ere : "Hare these States
organized governments t Are these govern
rnents republican in form!" "The committee
proceed to say: "How they were formed.
tinder what auspices they wero formed, aro
inquiries Witn wiiicn Congress has nrt con-:
corn. ' The right Of the people to' form a
government lor thcrnse Vies has bevef been
questioned." 1 On this 1 principle,'- President
Johnson's labor in organizing State govern
meTilB 'were: works of supererogation." At
the close of active hostilities the Hobcl Btutes
bad organized, though disloyal, governments
as repuoncan in rorm 'as they were before
the war broke out. ' The only thing, there
fore, they were reqolred1 to do was to send
their Senators end Representatives to W ash
Ington. 1 Congress could hot have rightfully
refused to receive them, because all questions
as to their being loyal or disloyal, and as to
tue cuanges wtucn tne war Dad brought in
the relations of the States they represented
to the Union, Were inquiries with which
Congress bad no concern I And here again
we have the ever-recurring difficulty respec
ting the "individualsn who were alone guil
ty of the acts of rebellion. ' "The right of
the people," wo are assured, "to form a gdv
ernmcnt. for themselves has ; never ' been
qucstocd.,, But it happens that "the peo
ple'rhert indicated are the very individuals
who were before pointed ont as alone re
sponsible for tbe rebellion. In the exercise
of their right "to form a government for
themselves," they rebelled; and now, it
seems,' by the exercise of the same right,
they can unconditionally return. There is
no wrong anywhere ; it is all "right." The
people are first made criminals, in order to
exculpate the States, and then the innocence
of the States is used to exculpate the people.
wnen we see sucu outrages on common
sense gravely perpetrated by so eminent a
lawyer as the one who drew up the commit
tee's report, one is almost inclined to deline
minds as of two kinds, the legal mind and
tbe human mind, and to doubt if there is
any possible connection in reason between
the two.-To tho human mind it appears
that the Federal Government has spent
hirty-five hundred millions of dollars, and
sacrificed three hundred thonsand lives, in a
contest which the legal mind dissolves into
a mere mist of unsubstantial phrases; and
by skill in the trick of substituting words
for things, and definitions for events, the;
legal mind proceeds to show that these words
and definitions, though scrupulously shield
ed from any contact with realities, are suffi
cient to prevent the nation from taking or
dinary precaution against tbe recurrence of
calamities fresh in its bitter experience, The
phrase "State Rights," translated from legal
into human language, is found to mean the
power to commit wrongs on individuals
whom States may desiro to oppress, or the
power to protect the inhabitants of States
from tho consequences of their own crimes.
Tho minority cf the committee, iudecd,
seem to have forgotten that there has been
any real war, and bring to mind the conver
ted Australian savage whom the missionary
could not make penitent for a murder com
mitted the day 1 before, because tho trifling
occurrence had altogether passed from his
recollection. "
In fact, all attempts to discriminate be
tween rebels and rebel States, to the advan
tage of tlje latter, are done in defiance of
notorious facts. If the rebellion had been
merely a rising ot. individual citizens of
States, it would have been an insurrection
against the States, as well as against the
Federal' Government, and might have been
easily pnt down. In that case, there would
have been no withdrawal of Southern Sena
tors and Representatives from Congress, and
therefore no question as to their inherent
right to return. In Missouri and Kentucky,
for example, there was civil war, waged by
inhabitants of those States against their
local governments, as well as against the
United States ; and nobody contcuds that
the rights and privileges ot those States
were forfeited by the criminal acts of their
citizens: ' But the real strength of the rebel
lion consisted in this, that it was not a re
bellion AOATKST States, but a rebellion by
States.' No loose assemblage of individu
als, though numbering hundreds of thou
sands, eould long have resisted the pressure
of tbe Federal power and the power of the
State governments. They would have had
no means of subsistence except those de
rived by plunder and voluntary contribu
tions, aud they would have lacked that mili
tary organization by which mobs are trans
formed into formidable armies. Hut the
rebellion being one of States, being virtually
decreed by the people of States assembled
in convention, was sustained by the two
tremendous governmental powers of tuiatibn
and conscription. The willing nnd the un
willing were thus equally placed at the dis-
fiosition of a strung government. The popu
ation and wealth of the whole immense
region of country in which the rebellion
prevailed were at the service of this govern
ment. 1 8o completely was it a rebellion of
States, that the universal excuse of the
minority of original Union men for entering
heartily into the contest after it had once
begun was, that they thought it their duty
to abide by the decision, and share the for
tunes of their respective Statics. . Nobody
at the South believed at the time the war
commenced, or during its progress, that bis
State possessed any "continuous" right to
a participation in the privileges of the Fed
eral Conatitutiop, the obligations of which
it hau repudiated. When confident ot suc
cess, the Southerner scornfully scouted: the
mere suspicion of entertaining stiuu a de
grading noting ; when assureu of defeat, his
only thought was to "get bis fttate back
into tbe Union on the beat terms that could
be made." The idea of "conditions of re
admission' was as firmly fixed in the South
ern as in the Northern mind. If the politi
cians of the South now adopt the principlo
that the rebel Bute nave not, as Mates,
ever altorwi . their relations to the Union,
the do it from policy, finding that its adop
tion will give them "better terms" than they
ever dreamed of getting before tho President
of the United Stat taoght them that it
would be more politic to bully than to plead.
In the last analysis, , indeed, the theory of
the minority of tbe Reconstruction Commit
tee reduces tbe rebel States to mere abstrac
tions.'. It in plain that . a State, in tbe eon
erete, Is oosistituted by that portion of tbe
irdukitants who form ita legal people ( : and
that, In pasting beck of its government and
constitution, we roach a loonvssntion of the
legal people at itt ultimate expression. .. Uy
auch ooBvemtiene the acts of secession were
passed ; end, as for as lit people of the re
bel State mutt do jit they destroyed their
Rial MMiaiderad as r.cattized communities
taimins part ?T the iUftUed oUtei.. The
claim of tue JUtea owe hi eatuoruy vi
the taritory and inhehi tenta, .wm, of oourae,
oi' AffgcUd ly thb aeU ; but in what con
dition 4id they pin th peopl I Plainly in
th condition of rebel, engaged in an U
x fiT itt .!' jmit mo w.,11.. uo.t :u,r
;ici:t'lllll 11 . I, HI I . M. l. Iw' . II III. n.'l Hi, llll.r. i.
'"VU - .. -.,.1-.1- .n,
n nr
tempt to overturn ,lie Constitution . and
Qovernment' of the United States. As the
wholo force of the people in each of the rebel
communities, was, , engaged in this work, the
whole of tire people, were rebels and publio
enemies. .Nothing was left, in each case
but an abstract. State, without any external
oody, ana as destitute ot people having t
righo to enjoy the, privileges of tho Const",
tillion-as : it the territory bad been swept
.clean of population, ity a, pestilence.. It is,
then, only this abstract State which baa a
right to.nrepruseuta.gion' in. Congress.. - But
how can there;. bo a .right to representation
wheu there is nobody to be reptcacbtod f
au mis may appear puerile, but the puerility
is in tho premises as well a sin thu logical
deductions ; and tljo premises are laid down
as indisputable constitutional principles by
the eminent jurists who supply ideas for
the National Union party. : ' . r
; Tho doctrine of the unconditional right of
tue rtiuci Mates to representation being thus
a demonstrated absurdity, tho pnly question
relates, to the conditions which .'Congress
proposes to impose, . Certainly these condi
tions, as embodied in the . constitutional,
amendment which has passed both Houses
by . such overwhelming , majorities, are
the mildest ever, exacted of defeated
enemies by a victorious nation. There is
not a distinctly 'radical" idea in tho whole
amendment nothing that President John
son has not himself, within a comparatively
recent period, stamped with his high appro
bation. Does it ordain universal Suffrage?
No. Does it ordain impartial suiTrngcf No.
Does it proscribe, disfranchise or expatriate
the recent armed enemies of the country, or
confiscate their; property No. It simply
ordains that the national debt shall be paid
and the rebel debt repudiated; that the civil
rights of all persons shall be maintained;
that rebels who have added perjury to trea
son shall be disqualified for office; and that
the rebel States bIibII not have their political
power in the. Union increased by the pro
sense on their soil of persons to whom thev
deny political rights, but that representation
shall be bused throughout the Republic on
voters, and not on population. The pith
of the wholo amendment is in the list clause;
and is there anything in that to which rea
sonable objectiuu cau he made! Would it
not be a curious result of the war against
rebellion, that it should cud in conferring
on a rebel voter in South Carolina a power
equal, in national affairs, to: that of two
loyal voters iu New York) Can any Demo
crat have the face to assert that the South
should have, through its disfranchised negro
freemen alone, a power iu the Electoral
College and iu the national House of Rep
resentatives equal to that of, the States of
Ohio and Indiana combined ? f .. ; . .
i et these conditions, so conciliatory, mo
derate, lenient, almost timid, and which, by
the omission of impartial suffrage, full very
far below the requirements of the average
sentiment of the loyal nation, are still de
nounced by the new party of "Union" as
thu. work of furious Radicals, bent on de
stroying the rights. of the States. Thus
Gov. James L. Orr, of South Carolina, a
loading rebel, pardoned into a Johnsonian
Union man, iiuplorcB the people of that re
gion to send dull-gates to the Philadelphia
Convention, on the ground that its purpose
is to organize "conservative" tneu of all sec
tions and parties, "to drive from power that
Radical party who are daily trampling under
foot the Constitution, and fast converting a
constitutional Republic into a consolidated
despotism.'' . The terms to which South
Carolina is asked to submit, before she can
be made the equal of Ohio or New York in
the Union, are stated to be "too degrading
and humiliating to be entertained by a free
man for a Binglu instant." AY' lieu we . con
sider that this "Radical party" constitutes
nearly four fifths of the legal Legislature of
thu nation, thut it was the party which
saved tho country from dismemberment
while Air. Orr and his friends were notori
ously engaged in "trampling the Constitu
tion under foot,'! aud that the man who de
nounces it owes his forfeited life to its
clemency, the , astounding insolence of the
impeachment touches the sublime. Here is
confessed treason inveighing DRainst tried
loyalty, in the name of the Constitution it
has violated and tho Iuw.it has broken I
But why does Mr. Orr think the terms of
South Carolina', restored relations to the
Union "too degrading and humiliating to
be entertained by a freeman for a Bingle in
stant ?" Is it bccause.be wishes to have the
rebel debt paid ? . Is it because ho deairus to
have the Federal debt repudiated.? . Is it
because he thinks it intolerable that a ne
gro should have civil, rights! . Is it because
lie resents the idea that breakers of oaths,
like, himself, should bo disqualified Irom
Iiuvii g another opportunity of fpr swearing
themselves Is it because he considertthat
white rebel freeman ,of. South Carolina has
a natural right to exercjse double the politi
cal power of a white loyal freeman of Mas
sachusetts 1 He must return an affirmative
answer to all theso questions iu order to
make it out that his State will be degraded
and humiliated by ratifying tho amend
ment; and the necessity of the measure is
therefore proved by the inptive known to
prompt the attacks of its vi'.ifiers, . , ;
' The insolence of Mr. Orr Is not merely
individual but representative. It is the re
sult of Mr. Johnson's attempt "lo produce
harmony between the two sections," by lie
tray ing the section to which he owed his
election. Had it not bocn for bis treachery,
there would have been tittle difficulty in
settling the terms of ' peace, so as to avoid
all causes for future war; but, from the time
he quarrelled with Congress, be has been
the great stirrer-up of disaffection . at the
South, aud the virtual leader of the South
ern reactionary party. . Every . man at the
South who waa prominent in the rebellion,
every man in the North wbe was prominent
in aiding the rabellion, Is now openly or
covertly his partisan, and by fawning on him
earns tue right to dulunio tue representatives
of tho people by whom the rebellion ws put
down.' . Among traitors and Copperheads
tbe fear of punishment has been succeeded
by the hope of revenge ( elation is oa faces
which the dowufall of Richmond overcast;
aad a return to the Old upjea, wnen a united
South ruled the country by means of a
divided North, is , confidently expected by
the whole. crew of, political .. bullies end
political sycophants whose profit I in the
abasement of tho nation. It is even said
that, if the majority, of le "Rump" Con
gress cannot be overcome by fair - means it
will lie by foul ) and there 'ae noisy parti
mui of tbe President who assort that he has
in him a CroosweUian capacity for 'dealing
with legislative assemblies whose aotion of
tbe publio good clash witb his ewe. in
short, we are promised en tbe assembling of
tue next congress a owi d' etat. ' :,'
' Garrett Davis, ef Keotacky.'.was, We be
hove, the orst to aneouoc this eiecaiiv
remedy for he''radicuj" disease of the State,
end it hat tince been often prescribed by
'oTionrr'l ilT"T; I
! . -L'
SE1UKS, V()JJ. 20.. NO. 49.
Democratic politicians as, a , sovereign pana
cea.' Gen. McClcrpand,, indeed, proposed a
scheme, simpler even thniV thut of Executive
recognition, by which tho Southern Senators
and Represent 8148 might offeot a lodgment
in Congress. . Tlicy. should,, according to
him, have gono bxiVosUingtoc, entered tho
hnlls of legislation, and proceeded to occupy
their seats, "ncaveab'y jf they, could, forcibly
if they must ;" but .tlicrecorit of Gen. Mc-
viernnnn, as A military man, Wat not such
as to give to bis advice -on squmtion of
carrying positions by Assault a high degree
of authority, and, there being some natural
hesitation iu following ' his counsel, the
golden .opportunity, was lost. . Mr. Mont
gomery Blair, who professes his willingness
to act with any men. "rebel or nnv one oIsr. "
to put down the Radicals', Is never weary of
turning to conservative conventions of "two
Presidents and two ... Congresses." Thrn
can be uo doubt that tho project of a coup
uciai una ucuuiiiB uangcrousiy laminar to
the "conservative' mind, and that the immi
nent legal gentlemen of' the North who are
publishing opinions affirming tho right of
citiuuuu Douuicrn representatives to
their scats, are nlavino- into fhn lmnria
of the dtsperale gang of unscrupulous
politicians who are determined to have the
right established by force. It Is computed
that tbe train, in the nnnmnrliintr
of twenty five districts now represented by
Union Republicans, will give tho Johnson
pnrly, in the hext 'Congress,' a majority sjf
tho . House of Representative, should the
Southern delegations be counted ; and it is
proposed that tbe Johnson members leo-allir
entitled to seats should combine with the
Southern pretenders to seats, organize as the
House of Representatives of tho United
States, and apply to the President for recog
nition. Should the President comply, he
would be impeached by an unrecognized
House before an "Incomplete" Senate, and,
if convicted, would deny the validity of the
proceeding. The result would be civil war.
in winch the name of the Federal Govern
ment would be on the side of the revolu
tionists. Such is the programme which is
freely discussed bv partisans of the Presi
dent, considered to be high in his favor:
and tbe scheme, it is contended, is the
ogical result of the position he has assumed
as to the right of the excluded States to
representation. It is certain that the present
Congress is aa much the Congress of the I
Lnited States as ho is President of the
United Stutes; but it is Well known that ho
considers himself to represent the wholo
country, while he thinks that Congress only
represents a portion oi it ; and he bas in his
character just that combination of qualities,
and is placed in just .those auomalous cir
cumstances, which lead men to the commis
sion of irrcat political crimes.. The mere
hint of . the possibility of his attemntintr a
coup cT etat is received by some republicans
wun a iook ot incredulous surprise; yet
what has his administration been to such
persons but a succession of surprises t
lint whatever view may bo taken of the
President's designs, there can be no doubt
that tho Bafety, peace, interest And honor of
the country depend on the success of the
Union Kepublicans in tho approaching elec
tions. The loyal nation must see to it that
the Fortieth Congress shall be as competent
to overrido Executive vetoes as the Thirty
ninth, aud be equally removed from the
peril of being expelled for one more in har
mony with Executivo ideas. The same ear
nestness, energy, patribtisirnnnd intelligence
which gave success to the war, must now be
exerted to reap it fruits and prevent its re
currence. Tho only dancer is that iu some
representative districts the people mav be
swindled bv plausibilities nnd respectabili
ties ; for when, iu political contests, any vil
lainy is contemplated, there are always found
some eminently respectable men, with a fixed
capital of certain eminently conservative
phrases, innocently ready to. furnish the
wolves of politics with abundant supplies of
sheep's clothing. These dignified dupes are
more than usually uctive at the present time ;
aud the gravity of their speech is as edi
fying as its emptiness. :. Immersed in words,
aud with no clear perception of tilings, tbey
mistake conspiracy for conservatism. Their
pet horror is the term "radical j" their ideal
of heroic" patriotism, tho spectacle of
a great nation which allows itself to be ru
ined with decorum, and. dies rather than
commit the slightest breach of constitutional
etiquette. This insensibility to facts and
blindness to the tendency of events, thev
call w isdom and moderation! Behind these
political dummies are the real forces of the
Johnson party,- men of insolent spirit, rcso-
iuio win, einuuterea temper anil unscrupu
lous purpose, -who clearly know what they
are after, and will heaitate at no "informali
ty" in the attempt to obtain it. To give
these persons political power Will be to sur
render tbe results Of tbe war, by placing tho
Government practically in the hands of those
against whom the war was wneed. No
smooth words about "the equality of tbe
States," "the necessity of conciliation," "the
wickedness of sectional Conflicts," will alter
the fact that, in refusing ' to support Con
gress, the people would set a reward on
treachery and place a bounty on treason.
Ihe booth," buys a Mr. Hill, of Georgia, in
a letter favoring the Philadelphia Conven
tion, "sought to save th Constitution out or
the Union. Sho billed. Let her now bring
her diminished and shattered, but united
and earnest counsels aud energies to save
th Constitution in the Union."., Tho tort
of Constitution the South' sought to save
by warring aaainst the. Government is tho
Constitution which she now propose to save
uy auiuiuiaie.-iiig il i , is iuih me tone oi
pardoned aud peaiuaet treason I Ie this the
spirit to build up a ttNulioaal Union party t" '
No; but it is the tone and spirit now fash
ionable in the defeated rebel States, and will 1
not be changed uutii the. autoiuu elections
shall have proved that they have as little to
expect from the next Congress as from the '
present, and that they jnubt give securities
for their future conduct Wore they can be
relieved from the .penalties incurred by
their past. , ; ( . i ,,v
Twenty thousand Fenians, had a pic-nio
at Haircm, bear Chicago, .last week. They
were addressed by Governor 'Oglcsby, Hon.
Bobuler Colfux, and Oeeenil Cogan. J '
A wngle? establishment1 !h "Wateibury,
Connecticut, ;nsri lifteem hundred ton ef
copper annually in tho wanufaqture of pins,
hooks and eyes, atid., otUer similar articles.
i wo remeraaoie suanen (loams occurred
at Niagara 1'alrs, on Tuesday." A very cor
pulent colored 1 sjrasxi bttned Helsnea' died
very teddunlj, and about, three Lours after
ward, his w Jk, wbo .wa aiao of enormous
proportions, .calling; um" two grown ep
daughter e her, aid t ' Woll, girls, yeu
must do the beat pom can toe ypcxaelvea, ta
old man i gone, k4. I'm going too." Sh
then sat do a in a cbtsr, a4 Immediately
expired. Husband aad Jwtft were buried in
one grave on Thursday.
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IISOELLANEOIgS.
The Amazor Hboioh. Acei-rding; to re
cent announcement the Government ef Bra
zil bas opened the navigation of. the river
Amazon to tht teasels pf Peru, long kept
out of it, and in. reference to which rinht
there have been fierce and unpleasant diplo
matto controversies. To Pern, the' naviga
tion of this stream;" opening a rout to tho
At.antie nearly from tjuito, will be of the
utmost importance, as it will, to a consider
able extent, give to that nation routes for its
commerce by the great eastern oceans. But
Tern not having the shipping, could not
avail herself of tbe privilego of navigation
to as very grcnt an extent as the world would
require, and it is thereforo Of touch impor
tance in this connection to notice that tho
Brazilian Government bas announced a de
termination to shortly open tho river to tho
commerce of the world. Now; the Amazon
is the emperor of rivers, being four thousand
miles Icing, one hundred and eighty miles
wide at the mouth, and being nearly five
hundred yards wide at the distance ot thrco
thousand miles from the sea. With its tri -butarics,
which are tuanv nobla rivpra It nf.
fers water navigation for two thousand miles
for steamers anifvessels of from nna thnnu.
and to two thousand tons burden, and to
those of smaller capacity three thousand
miles more. Bolivia. Peru. Hendor: rvrw
Grand and Brazil may be opened to access
from the Atlantic by this river routs.. V..r
timbfci, th country adjoining its banks "
very valuable, furnishing codar-rid nn.l
holly wood, pine, and perhaps others more
valuable, the qualities of which are not now
known. Anions its fruits mav li mintinn-
ed cocoa, cinnamon, Vanilla, and many others
which grow wild, and coffee, sugar, rice
lemons, oranges, and many other produc
tions. There are buzo fortunoa to ba marln
by the judicious merchants who shall avail
themselves of tho opportunities which the
Brazilian Government will shortly afford,
and the liberality of Don Pedro in opening
tho doors "which he has so lomr kept locked
is an act for which ho deserves tho thnnb.
of the world.
Rathek Cool,. Hero is a srnrv of 11..
days when traveling on cnnal boats was con
sidered the most comfortable modo of wet
ting along on the journey out West:
"Hallo, there, cantiurjf ." said a Groon
Mountain Yankee to the captain of a packet
ou me i.rie cnnai, "wnat ao you charge for
passage ?". -
"Three cents per mile and boarded," said
tho captain. . . ., , , ;.
)Wull, I guess I'll take passage, capting,
seeing as how I am kinder gineout walking
so tarnashun far." ,
Accordingly be got on board just as tho
steward was ringing the bell for dinner.
Jonathan sat down and began to demolish
the "fixins" to the utter consternation of the
captain, until be cleared the table of all that
was eatable, when he got up and went on
deck picking his teeth very comfortably. '
"How far is it, coptiug, from hore to
where I came aboard ?"
"Nearly one and a half miles," said tho
csptaiu. . .
"Let's see," said Jonathan, "that would ba
just four sud a half cents ; but never mind,
capting, I won't be small ; here's five cents,
which pays my fure up to here ; I guess I'll
go ashore now ; I'm kinder rested out,"
Tho captain vamosed for the cabin, and
Jonathan went ashore.
Many of our readers will remember the
great meteoric shower of November, 1833,
which was visible through North America.
These meteoric showers are said by astrono
mers to be periodical, returning at intervals
of about thirty-three j cars. Professor New
ton, of Yale College, who has devoted much
time to the investigation of the subject,
states that a similar phenomenon will proba
bly ot cur about tho 13th or 14th of Novem
ber m xt, and so confident are astronomers
that it will then appear, that extensive pre
parations are being made., by scientific men
in Europe to observe it. But thirteen ap
pearances of meteoric showers are recorded
since the year 803. -
By the latest census.' the population of
Prussia numbered 19,304.803 persons, but in
consequence of tho annexation - of territory
which will result from her success iu tbe
war, Prussia will have her boundaries con
siderably extended. Thus Schleswig-Hol-stein
is added, with a population of 900,996;
Hanover, with l,U23,49si; Nassau, with 408,
311 ; Electoral Hesse, with 743,003; Frank
fort, with 01.180; Ilesse-Uomburg, with
20,817; and part of Bavaria, with 30,000.
These annexation add to Prussia over 4,
100,000 peoplo, and swell her population to
at least 25,000,000. ,
"Thaitohs must take back-seats," said
Audrcw Johnson when he was ionugerated,
and he waa praised on all sides by loyal
men. "Traitors mux tako back-seats," say
tp PretiJcnt now, and he ia lauded by all
rebels and Copperheads.
Gen. Pope has writlcn a letter to Judge
Smith, of Colorado, urging the removal of
the Indian tribes toward civilization, rather
than from it.
Gold in .Tnt Wnrrit Mountain. Th
Worcester (Mass.) GutetU says a gentleman,
on his annual tour to the White Mountains
a year ago, dicovered rocks containing gold
near Lisbon, N. II. He took specimens to
Boston, had them assayed, found them neb.
in the precious metal, and formed a company
of Hartford and Springfield merchants.
which purchased the property in which th
ore waa fouud. The stock, worth a year
ago S a share, now sells for $5,000. Some
of tbe quarts yioki sjph? of gold per top,
and $159 of silver. . , ,.
William Morrison, tho discoverer of th
source of the Mississippi, died . recently, at
one of his residences on Morrison's Island.
between Sorel and Berthior, in the eighty
second year of hi age. lis discovered Lak
Itasca iu 1803.
A plot has been discovered among Ute
President's reconstructed friends in New
Orleans to assassinate General Sheridan,
Commander of the Gulf Department. It
was designed to accomplish bis death by the
explosion of a shett made for tbe occasion.
1 ' The cholera- has' created a panic in Et
Leuia. Over 80,000 frightened portona hat
left th city within a fortnight. I.j 8 .
Tbe devoted parent of a Columbus, Ohio,
young lady, furnished her witb a splendid
wardrobe lor a trip to New York, iu order
to sar hex from tue addresses' o an objec
tionable young mat. Mis pecked ep the
dresses, and afterwards packed off 'with tho
young man Who baa .been- paying the - ad
dressee. . .! ... r.. t. .,.) J ,. ... t ..i
A atrange disease Ltt appeared, amongst
th hogs of Cayuga couuty. N. Y, i When
attacked, they whirl around violently, bloat
ing fearfully meanwhile ; this is couliuued
until they die.