Ely Obbe, HUNTINGDON, PA. W. Lewis, Editor and Proprietor Hugh Lindsay, Associate Editor. Wednesday morning, Mar. 28,1866. FOR GOVE RNOR, IVlaj. Gen. John W. Geary, OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY County Convention. At the last meeting; of the Union County Committee, the following reso• talon was adopted RESII..VED, That the Chairmen of this Committee be and he is hereby instritcted to call a convention of delegates front Ilia election districts in this county. to meethtcnt rentiou the first week in April court, to take into consid eration and determine the question of the adoption of the Crawford county system of nominating candidates for of. tee, In future; and that the Chairman publish in the county papers. with the call for the Convention, the manner of Making nominations under that system. In pursuance of tliis resolution the Union voters are requested to meet at the usual places and elect delegates the Saturday previous to a county conven tion, to assemble at . the Court House in Huntingdon, nt two o'clock, p. m. Tuesday, the 10th day of April next. The main features of the system above referred to aro as follows: At the usual time for holding dele gate meetings the voters assemble and hold an election for candidates for the different offices to be voted for at the ensuing election—voting being confined to those known to act with the party. The officers of these elections are usu• ally chosen by the voters present, and aro organized in the same manner as at a generalelection, except that they are not sworn. The judges of the several districts soon after assemble in Convention at the county seat, and cast up the returns, and the persons having the highest number of votes for the several offices are declared the candidates. These return judges when thus assembled in convention, appoint tbo County Committee and district conferees, and transact any other busi ness that would be proper for a colitis ty convention. Candidates are usually required to announce their names in the county papers before the primary elections. The Convention to c foo held in April is simply to determine whether this system will be adopted, and should it be adopted the convention will no doubt direct a further publication of rules and regulations prior to the first election under it in August nest. A. 11. BAUMAN, Chairman Co. Com WIIAT NEXT?—SLewart's reconstruc tion policy may suit the political, no tions of certain political leaders, but it must be remembered that the Limo is not far distant when the people will speak, and if we mistake not they will speak in thunder tones against "uni versal suffrage and universal mimes ty." What astonishes us most is the inconsistency of prominent men who wish to be sustained as the leaders of the Union party. If President John son was wrong in pardoning a few thousand rebels, what will be said of a party, or leaders of a party, who at tempt to pardon by wholesale, every rebel in the land. Will the giving the negro the right to vote make the reb• els any more loyal than they uro. And "universal amnesty" would certainly bring back into the halls of Congress the most prominent of rebels. But as thinemeasure is urged and endorsed by Sumner, Wilson, Greely, Forney, & Co., we should not intimate an op position by the people. gs When the bill to incorporate tbo Contiellsville and South Pennsylvania Railroad was introduced in the Senate, alter it had passed the House, Sena tor Householder discovered that no definite period was mentioned in the act for the completion of the road. He therefore moved au amendment provi ding that the construction of the road shall commence one year from the pas sage of the act authorizing said road, and that it must be completed in eight years. !limb vexation and pecuniary loss, perhaps, is thus saved to stock holders by the foresight and sagacity of Senator Householder. tm, The bill providing fur the res toration of the fisheries in the Susque hanna river and its tributaries, and which passed the House by a decided vote is now before the Senate. The majority if not all the people interes ted are desirous that the hill should become a law, and it is hoped that the Senate will vote with this understand• XfOrCol. Frank Jordan, of Bedford, has been appointed Chairman of the Union State Central Committee. The appointment was made by Gen. Geary and the President of the late Union State Convention. There could not have been a better selection made. THE STATE COMMITTEE.—We reply to the Journal & American editors in the language of Colon :—" We are in." Pegs delight to bark and bite—but we have no fears of being bitten by those barking at us, as they are too slow naming: up. `BE editor of the Journal &Amen. can in his last issue says we entered into a bargain with the "Copperheads" by which- a soldier was defeated for justice of the Peace. Our reply is siva. ,ply this the editor of the Bslo iB 4 pne.%king /iar . Slandering the President. The industrious and totally unscru pulous circulation of false reports, pre judicial to the personal and political fi delity of the President, has caused no— tieo to bo taken of some-of them, and an exposure of the motives, which, in certain cases have actuated the au• thors. In the case of Mr. Dana, of the Chicago Republican, whose letter to the President direct, applying for the offico of Collector at New York, has been published, we must be permitted to say, - whilo wo think his strictures on the President aro unreasonable and oven reckless, wo cannot believe that he is actuated by the feeling of person• al resentment. But the extent to which the Republican has carried its assaults on the •President, has very naturally laid Mr. Dana under this -suspicion. And so long as he keeps up the war he . eannot complain if those who do not know that he is incapable of acting front motives so entirely nn• worthy, continue to believe that had ho received the appointment which he sought, the Republican would have pursued quite another course towards President JOHNSON. The Washington Republican, - acting on superior information, in giving Mr. Dana's letter to the public, takes oc• erasion to correct a mis statement which has been widely circulated. The Chicago Republican embodied it in the following language: In the speech of February 22 he manifested a strong tendency to go over to the Democrats, as his friend Montogomery Blair did last fall, and as ho was then inclined to do himself.— This was not surprising, considering intimacy with the . Florinces, Covles, Aikens, and Ciampitts, of Washington subterranean Democracy, To which the Washington Republi can replies by declaring "on its high. est authority" that"the Presidentdoes not know "Aiken and Clampitt, the council of Mrs. "Surratt," and that if they ever wore in the White House he does not know it. Another falsehood which has been retailed throughout the country, is taken notice of. It originally appeared in the Chicago Republican and was copied into the sanctimonious New York Independent. Hero it is: "Thu other day President Johnson by special appointment, gave an audi ence to the members of the American Iron and Steel Association including about seventy gentlemen, permanent. ly engaged in these important branch. es of manufacture. They were punctual at the time specified, and bad to wait only about half an hour when the interview took place. But while they were waiting in the ante—room, they saw Mr. Thomas B. Florence. the no torious editor of the The Constitutional Union, a more treasonable and rebel.' lions journal, if possible, than The Chicago Times, go several times in and out of the President's private of_ flee, as if very intimate there. The truth is, that Florence is a regular companion of Mr. Johnson, and is just as cordially liked by him as if he was a loyal citizen, instead of an out-and out friend of treason and rebellion?' The Washington Republican states the facts as following "The Iron and Steel Association' vis ited the President on the Ist inst. "While they d•ere waiting in the ante room.' the Maryland delegation was with the President. A public interview was going on, and correspondents, re porters and editors were present. "Thomas B. Plorence was there, not holding a private interview with Presi• dent Johnson,. but, like other repre• sentatives of the press, listening to a public interview. 'Members of the Iron and Steel Association knew these filets. This is not all. We have the best authority for asserting a fact, which seems to us to be of very little im portance, that Mr. Johnson, since he has been President, has never seen Thomas B. Florence privately. Like many others he has often seen the President by going in with a crowd and taking his chances for an inter view. "Tho correspondent of the Republi— can can do the same if ho chooses. The statement that Mr. Florence is a regular companion of Mr. Johnson, is without tho slightest foundation in truth." Wo have no doubt that all the re ports of a prejudicial character, about the President, if pursued to the ond, would be found to have no better foundation than those which have been exposed above. A RADICAL In:DEAKB.—Mrs. Swiss helm, editress of the Reconstructionist published at Washington, a radioal antis Johnson paper, dor.% like Senator Stewart's resolutions, resolutiofis en.. doreed by Sumner, Wilson, Forney & Co. She publishes the first, second, third and fourth resolutions, and then Says: "All of which appears woll and would 1)0 quite satisfactory if it were not for what follows, viz: • PRoVIDED, That those who were qualified to vote iu the year 1860 by the laws of their respective States shall not be disfranchised by reason of any new tests or conditions which have been ur may be prescribed einco that year. Which is a plain proposition that all the rebels, Jeff. Davis included, shalt be released from all pains and penal ties for their crimes—that the Repub• lican party will repudiate the pledge of is nominee for the Vice Presiden cy to make treason odious and punish it as a crime. It (the proviso) totally ignores the claims of the negre - seldier, and leaves him to be legislated for by the men we induced him to fight against. How can it be possible that, 'Radical men are found to endorse this cruel, cowardly, cunning devise Davis himself must have drawn, or at least revised those resolutions, for they bear the mark of his shrewd in, tellect. Mr. Lincoln's magnanimity could only extend universal amnesty for ?In& versal suffrage. Shull we give a bonus for his murder, by giving the amnesty fur such suffrage ns the proviso indi cates? May (lied defand' oar Repre sentatives from such madness." Washington Topios and Gossip. THE CALUMNIES REGARDING THE PRESI DENT The villainous character of the per sonal allusions to President Johnson published in certain journals and re peated from mouth to mouth by his radical enemies, should be known and understood.• He is charged with the grossest favoritism in receiving copperhead visitors and pardon bro kers, and the assertion is gravely made that loyal delegations and mem bers of both houses of Congress have been denied admissions, while Tom Florence flitted in and out repeatedly before their faces. Mr. Curtin and Simon Cameron aro charged with say ing they knew these reports to be true. All such stories aro unmitigated falsehoods, from whatever source they emanate. Toni- Florence has never been admitted to a private interview with Andrew Johnson since the latter became President. Florence is :tenor ded the privilege of all editors and newspapers, and reporters of newspas pens, and permitted to accompany delegations to the President's resi dence whenever resolutions aro to be presented or speeches made. THE ADJOURNMENT Tho joint resolution of' Mr. Ancona, providing for the adjournment adds session of Congress on tho last Thurs day in May, which passed the House this morning by a vote of eighty to sixty-four, it is regarded by, outsiders as a very laudable - token of returning reason to the representative branch, besides being most unexpected, after the continued protestations of the Radicals that they would sooner sit throughout the entire summer than leave President Johnson free to work out, unchecked, his policy of recon struction. It is believed that the Sen• ate will very readily concur in this movement for, an early adjournment. It is more than probable that Congres• sional apprehensions of the approach of the cholera had much to do with this acquieseence in the above resolution. Such fears aro not all unfounded, fur if ever a city was in a condition to Court pestilence, Washington is in that reprehensible plight. PRESIDENT JOHNSON The President evidently feels that ho is master of the situation, and ho is terribly in earnest in his opposition to Congress, especially when he finds himself attacked as ho was on Satur. day by Mr. Stevens. Ho told a New England Congressman yesterday that Louisiana is now more loyal than she ever was, her large foreign population never having transferred tho allegi ance which they bore to Franco before the treaty of transfer ; and that South Carolina is more loyal than she has been since the nullification fever began to break out. But he grimly intima ted that other sections of the Union are not displaying much loyalty, and the next rebellion may be commenced in Massachusetts. There aro those hero who believe that wo aro yet to have a coup a' etat, which will admit Southern members into Congress, and elect tho most radical of the Northern Senators and Representatives. Senon e vero, e ben trovato. TII E EIV POLICY The more radical Republicans, find ding that they cannot make any pro gress in opposing the President's poli cy; are now endeavoring to organize a new policy of their own, based upon universal suffrage. They propose to have mass meetings in every Southern State, which are to organize territorial governments, and send delegates here, on the style of "Judge" Wurinoutb, of Louisiana. Meanwhile sensible men in Congress are endeavoring to draft a constitu— tional amendmont'whicli can be car vied by the requisite two thirds vote, and which will not be objectionable to President john'son. Indeed, no amend• went cam be passed which the Presi dent decidedly disapproves. The President and Hiester Clymer. The followlng paragraph we find go ing the rounds of the papers that have been denouncing the President as a traitor to the Union party. The para graph was first published in the New York Tribune : "It will be remembered that the late Copperhead Convention of Pennsylva nia, after nominating Mr. Clymer for Governor, passed a resolution indors ing the President's policy. A sub.com mittee was appointed to come on here and present the resolution in person. Tine graceful mission was essayed a few evenings since. The committee were admitted to an audience with the Presi dent, and were proceeding, after the most approved fashion, to assure him that the Democracy of Pennsylvania had designed no empty compliment ; that they had watched his recent acs Lion with no ordinary gratification; and that they should stand by him and his administration so long as ho so nobly adhered to the sacred Constitution. Before the peroration was reachod,the President broke in upon thorn with the suggestion that "the wisest thin. , they could do was to go home and change their ticket." lie believed that they had made a fatal mistake in nom• iniating such a man, especially at this particular time, with much other re• marks of a similarly encouragingehar utter. The last seen of the Pennsyk vauia committeemen they were making for the Baltimore depot, in a fearfay demoralized frame of mind." INTzumENcz was conveyed to the President on the 15th, of the election of John T. Monroe as Mayor of the city of New Orleans. It will be recolleu. ted that Monroe was the Rebel Mayor of New Orleans when that city was taken by our forces in April, 1862. lle refused to submit to the Federal au thority and was confined in a fort. lic was afterwards released, and has con. tinned outspoken in his disloyalty to the Government. The President this evening authorized a telegram to be sent to Gov. Nl+ ells, requesting the lat ter to withhold the credentials of elec tion from Monroe, and thus prevent his assumption of the office of Mayor. . :En- The National Rouse last week passed a bill granting the State of Pennsylvania $800,000; to reimburse it for money expended for payment of militia in the service of the Mait.94 States NEWS SUMMARY. A WAR it is thought will soon occur between Prussia and Austria. A strug gle is also apprnaehing.butween Spain and Chili and Peru. A monumentie . proi)osed to be erec ted in memovy'of ',Vidor General Rey— nolds on the spot whOe ho fell on the battle field of Gottyelfu'rg,. PRESIDENT JOIINSON 110 S determined to have forty thousand nogro troops, now stationed at the South, mustered out within the coming month. IN England there are 5,900 miles of railroad; in Scotland 2,105; in Ireland 1,794, making a total in the United Kingdom of 12,799. Ir is estimated that the whole oil territory or Pennsylvania might have been purchased a few years ago for $200,000, and now it is held to be worth more than $250,000,000. THIRTY years ago there were not one hundred miles of railroad in ope• ration in Pennsylvania, except those in connection with the canals ' • now there arc about three thousand, five hundred miles in operation. NEARLY all the civilian agents of the freedmen's bureau have been removed. Their places are being filled with ofli OCP3 of the Veteran Reserve Corps. DE3fOCRA.T3 !laVdt 119 room to glory over• the election reilvne from Now Hampshire. Gov. Suiy:th's majJrity is about 5,000, which is more than twice the majority received by Presi dent Lincoln. Snip owners and others say that the emigration to the United States will be enormous, and the indications are that it will be greater this year than at any other time since wo have been a nation. THE latest news from Mexico states that small numbers of troops are con— stantly arriving from Europe, and not many leaving; only those whose terms of service are up. About 30,000 (French troops - aro in Mexico. •Geu. Mejia is the most highly trusted. CONGRESS has passed a joint resolu tion :appropriating 825.000 to the col ored poor of Washington. Are there not soldiers' widows and orphans in the North just as needy and better en titled to the Government bounty 7 Gov. CURTIN has - signed' the now Itevenue bill, and it is now a law. Henceforth there will be. no taxes whatever imposed upon real estate fint State purposes; but such taxes as are now levied and unpaid must be collected Two negro children were sold at Staunton, Ga., on the 9th of April, '65, fur 5000 cabbage plants. This was the last sale of the "peculiar instito tion" in the valley of Virginia. ' GOLD is now down to 127 i, the low• est point it has reached since 1863. Its highest point was 290. The steady and continued appreciation of green hacks toward their par value ,is the; sarest 000 surest return to specie pay ments. A VERY thstructive fire occurred on the 22d, at an oil well near Petroleum Centro, Pit, which spread to other property, involving considerable loss. One man was so terribly burned that he died in a few minutes, and others RIO so badly injured that but slight hopes are entertained of thL'i r recovery. Tur. American Missionary Associa tion have .organized 11 colored schools with 1800 pupils in the valley of the Shenandoah. The moist difficulty was found in Lexicon where the students of Mr. Lee's college combined with the populace against IL In Richmond there are now 1100 blacks attending school. TUF, speech of President Johnson, at the mcetin , in Washington on the 22 , 1 or February, attracted much at in England, and met with very gontiral approbation. The London Times warmly applauds it and says it would not, have been unworthy of the great founder or the-American Repub• lie. Mo. Meenlloch's February state• ment shows that the funding process has been carried, nu quietly, bat suc cessfully, during. the previous month, by the increase or $10,673.700 in the five-twenties. • The kind of liabilities fundi‘d is shown . by the reduction of $11,950,000 in the seven thirties; $6, 000,000 In the compound interest notes, and 5466,850 in the greenbacks. IN settling up the account of an army Pay Master-, a few days since, there was a balance due him from the General Pay Department at Washing ton of three cents. The papers for the settlement of the claim through the !muds of about a dozen different offi cers, each endorsing or eountersigning them, each formality - being as strictly adhered to,as if the amount was three millions. THE number of pardons that have been granted by the President to per sons iu the States below mooed, under the thirteenth exception of the amnes ty proclamation, is as follows : Ken tucky, 12 ; West Virginia, 48; Arkan sas, 31; itlissouri, 10 ; Virginia, 2,070; North Carolina: 482'; South Carolina, 638; Florida, 38; Louisiana, 142; Georgia, 1,228; Alabama, 1,301; Alia -70. Total, 6,835. -C,% — The following is a copy of an act regulating the mode of voting at all elections in the several counties of this Commonwealth, which has been passed by both the Senate and House: Sac. L Be it enacted etc., That the qualified voters of the several counties of this Commonwealth, at all general, township, borough and special elec tions, me hereby hereafter authorized and required to vote by tickets printed Or Written, or partly printed and part ly written, severally classified as fol lows : One ticket shall embrace the names of all judges of courts voted for, and to be labelled out side "judiciary; , ' one ticket shall embrace the names of all State officers voted for, and be la belled "State;" one ticket shall cm brace the names of all county officers voted for, i nc l u ding office of Senator and member or Members of Assembly, it voted for, anti 'numbers of Congress, if voted for, and be labelled "country;" One ticket shall embrace the names of township officers voted for, and be la belled " township;"' one ticket shall embrace names or borough officers vo ted for, and be labelled " borough ;" and each class shall be desposited in seperato ballot boxes. See. 2. That it shall bo the duty of the sheriffs in the several counties of this Commonwealth to insert, in their election proclamation hereafter issued, the first section of this act Letter from the West. WESTFORD, WIS., Mandl 19, '66 March 3. Took the "buss" at Chicas go station for Milwaukie depot. While awaiting the departure of the train I strolled around and viewed the sights. If Pittsburg has its smoke and coal dust,; Chicago has its mud; mud to the horses' knees. Overloaded teams, wagons sticking in the mire, and sons of "Penianism," were among the prin cipal things to be seen. In my stroll I saw Lake Michigan. The weather being somewhat cool, I assure you the breezes therefrom were cooler—pierc ing, extremely. Left, the city at nine o'clock, a. in., and arrived at. Milwan. kie about 1 o'clock, p. m. Left here about two o'clock, p. m., and reached Westford about seven in the evening. This is a town of about- 3,000 or 4.000 inhabitants. It contains every thing required to promote business, such as hotels, stores of every variety, confectioneries restaurants, billiard saloons, &c. IVhile attending to the things of this world, the things of the future are not forgotten ; churches are raised up, in which the children of God can assemble and praise Wm to whom praise is due. The principal churches are Methodist Episcopal and Universa. list. The I. 0. of G. T's. is one of the grand institutions of the town, and be ye not surprised when 1. toll you it sar• passes Standing Stone Lodge, No. 85, both in numbers and literary advance ment—•l woutsay literary attainments, because it would not be correct. S. S. Lodge should be proud of the intellect embodied in the principal members, and should devise some means to bring out inure in temperance papers, tem— perance lectures, and such like. The number of this Lodge is 106. Old grey headed men, middle aged men, married men and their wives, manifest as great an interest—if not greater— than the younger folks. Why should it not prosper? .Since my arrival at this place I am indebted to my follow classmate and friend, John S. Lightner, druggist, son of Adam Lightner, near Cottage, Spruce Creek valley. John is a shrewd, energetic business man. His course ' through life has been just such a one as was predicted by many who knew him at the Collegiate Institute in Mooresville. He being somewhat pre. judiced to the "profession" cf farming, concluded to make his life easier by seeking the fortunes of the far off west. In the latterpartof 1860 ho left home. In the former part of 1801 he was in Illinois engaged in instructing the "young idea how to shoot." In the latter part he traveled through the dif ferent western States lecturing on dif ferent, topics of the day. The former part of 1862 he was in Minnesota tract. log with the Indians, and the latter part in 'Westford devoting his atten tion to the branch of medieme,in which he proved so successful that his em ployer soon left him in charge. Finally John became proprietor, gained the confidence of the people, and is now doing a thriving business. Success has crowned his effects; caused by his own perseverance. When ayoung man es tablishes himself' as John Juts, he de. serves credit, and the better way to give it is to notice him in the HOME papers. More anon. WILLIAM 11. FLENNER So many Federal appointees at the South are swallowing the iron-chid oath with such easy avidity, that a bill will be prepared and probably passed by Congress, requiring District Attor neys and Grand Jurors in the Rebel lious States to return all eases of known perjury- for indictment before their re spective District Courts. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS