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HUNTINGDON, PA.
Wednesday morning, June 26, 1867.
WM. LEWIS,
EDITORS
lIUGII LINDSAY,
" kniaa of no moela iri which a loyal viii
zen may 40 well demonstrate his devotion to
his country as by sustaining the Flag the
Com9litution and the Union, under all circum
stances, and UNDER EVERY ADMINISTRATION
REGARDLESS OF PARTY POLITICS, AGAINST ALT.
ASSAILANTS , AT noair AND ABROAD."
A. Pouot.As
rEA-Congress will re-assemble on the
sth of July, and thou, we will have
something else to disturb the country.
Tho Mon. Isaac Newton, Com
missioner of Agriculture, diod at his
residence in Washington, on the 19th.
Mr. Newton was the first Commission
er of the Department.
teNThere will boa strong feeling in
the Republican State Convention
which meets at Williamsport to-day,
in favor of indorsing General Grant for
the next Presidency.
IVe have no persons green
enough in this community to take us
up at our offer to pay five dollars for
1858 cents. Wo are still ready to live
up to our terms, if anybody is fool
enough not to see the sell.
pct .The New York Tribune says
"the moat shameful pages in history
are those which record the execution
ofrobelsagainst political governments."
Horace Greoloy must bo getting en
tirely over the fence from his party.
ro..Goneral Sickles has requested
the authorities at Washington that ho
may be relieved from command of the
military district, and also demanded a
court of inquiry on his action to vindi
cato himself.
SThe Republican State Conven
tions of lowa and Ohio hare both de
clared in favor of an amendment to the
State Constitution securing the right
of ballot and to hold office to all men,
irrespective of color or race. Since
the sister States have been heard from,
.what will the Republicans of Pennsyl
vania determine to do ? Old Thad.
will soon have the whole party North
and South, East and West, whipped in
to hisiraces; then,according to his ides,
the war will have accomplished its
purpose;
Se-The military commanders in the
South claim that the reconstruction act
gives them exclusive control of the sit
uation, the power to remove Gover
nors and all other officers, and to ap
point others. The President and Cab
inet say the Commanders go beyond
their powers and politely hints to thorn
the importance
. of understanding the
Reconstruction act to mean something
else. To settle the difference of opin
ion the Republican papers urge Con
gressmen to re-assemble for the purpose
of passing a supplementary explana
tory bill. The extra session will give
Congressmen a chance to ease their
boilers.
THIEVING AT THE CAPITAL.—SoveraI
arrests were made last week at Har
risburg of men connected with the De
partments, for appropriating to their
own use thousands of dollars worth of
valuable books, Records of the Legis
lature, etc., etc. All arrested are eith
er messengers and clerk; or in some
way connected with the powers that
be, and when the whole truth is known,
We have no doubt more prominent par
ties will bo implicated in the small
transactions which have been general
for years. The subordinates have only
been following in the footsteps of the
law-makers and others having author
ity about the capital buildings. It is
time honest men are sent there bold
enough to root out the thieves having
in charge the property of the people.
A full expose would show how some
things have been done, but we fear in
terested parties will smother evidence
that would make their guilt even more
prominent than the subordinates.
The books and papers stolen wore
sold as waste paper. Tons of thein
have been sent to the paper mill by a
dealer in Harrisburg who has also been
arrested.
INErIf the news from Mexico is reli
able, Santa Anna's career has come to
an end. It is reported that he arrived
off Vera Cruz on the 4th inst., but that
instead of being hailed as the deliverer
of Mexico, be was taken prisoner by
the Liberals, tried, and sentenced to
be executed. There can bo little
doubt that his death or permanent ex
ile was essential to peace in Mexico.—
When Maximilian first arrived, Santa
Anna offered him his support. Being
rebuffed, he tendered his services to
Juarez, to aid in "driving the invader
from Mexican soil." These being ro
jected, he repaired to this country, and
has been engaged for the past year in
concocting a new movement for the
overthrow of whichsoever party might
prove successful. The result seems to
have been fatal to himself.
nEk. The progress of intimate rela
tions between this country and Japan
is illustrated in the fact that "the Jap
anese Commissioners now at Washing
ton have purchased twenty thousand
volumes of school books for the in
struction of the Japanese. Among tho
books are two thousand three hundred
school dictionarios,four thousand read
ers and spellers, ten thousand copy
books, eight hundred English gram
mars, sewn hundred copies of Well's
scientific test-books; also botanies,
universal history, astronomy, drawing
books, geographies, otc."
I3EER BREWER'S CONGRESS.— The
seventh annual Congress of the Brew
ers of the United States, met in Chica
go on Wednesday, Juno 5, Mr. John A.
Huck, presiding. An election for now
officers for the ensuing year was held
in the afternoon. Frederick Lauer,Esq ,
of Reading, Pa., was unanimously cho
sen Honorary President, and Mr. Chas.
Stiofil, Acting President. Ono Vico
President was chosen from each State
represented. Mr. Bergner, of Phila
delphia, was elected ono of the Secre
taries.
The most important business trans
acted in the interest of the general
public, was the adoption of a series of
resolutions declaring war against tho
Temperance movement. The resolu
tions having reference to this matter
are as follows :
MEMZEI
WuEnEAs, The action and influence
of the temperance party is in direct op
position to the principles of individual
freedom and political equality upon
which our American Union is found
ed ; therefore,
Resolved, That wo will use all means
to stay the progress of this fanatical
party, and to secure our individual
rights as citizens, and that wo will
sustain no candidate of whatever party,
in any election, who is in any way dis
posed toward the total abstinence
CRUM
Resolved, That we will sustain all
political papers advocating the true
principles of liberty, and that we will
use all efforts to make known the true
social life of the Germans.
Resolved, That we find it necessary
in a business point of view to patron
ize only such business men as will
work hand in hand with us.
Resolved, That we will publish from
time to time in the papers the names
of officers of the various Temperance
Societies.
Breadstuffs--The Dying Kick.
In Now York, on Friday, the com
moner kinds of flour were quoted
(wholesale) at from $6 80 to $8 15 a
barrel ; higher grades at from $8 50 to
$9 30. A mouth ago, for the lower
grades the wholesale price was from
$lO 65 to $ll 80 .; for the next higher
grade, $l2 00 to $l3 15. On these kinds
of flour alone, then, the average do
cline, in thirty days, has boon $3 75 on
every barrel, or fully thirty-three per
cent.
There was a slight spasm in the
New York market on Saturday—a
sort of dying kick, which instead of
alarming the public, gives assurance
that all will soon bo over. The con
tinued sunshine and free breezes . of the
last few days have proved a settler.
From every quarter the most hopeful
Recounts reach us concerning the crops.
In southern Illinois the wheat harvest
has already commenced, and now
wheat is reaching the southern mar
kets. Corn is coining forward fine
ly,and,with no untoward circumstance,
the crop will be very largo. Truly
the skies aro bright.
Da. LIVINGSTONE. Considerable
doubts have existed in England as to
the truth of the reports cencerning the
death +of Dr. Livingstone, the eminent
African explorer, and strong hopes
are entertained that he may still be
alive. In order to settle this point
definitely, and expedition has boon or
ganiied for the purpose of proceeding
to the interior of Africa, over the route
which it, understood Dr. Livingstone
intended to travel. The expedition is
provided with.a complete outfit, one Elf
the meat important articles of which
is a boat of novel construction. It is
made of steel Plates ono sixteenth of
an inch thick, and it can be taken to
pieces with but little ditlieulty and
packed in a small space, so as to ho
easily transportable in eese it should
be necessary to leave the rivers and
make a portion of the journey on land.
This steel boat is said to be exceeding
ly light and buoyant, and it is fitted up
in a very complete mariner, with
masts, sails, and everything required
for navigation.
It will be a sincere gratification to
many on both sides of the Atlantic if
this expedition is able to discover Dr.
Livingstone still alive, or if his fate
can be evidently determined.
Der We learn that the 'people of
Danville, Pa., are upon the point of
starvation. They had a case of small
pox a few weeks ago and since thon it
has spread, and now there aro some
twolvo cases of the genuine and forty
of varioloid. The Councils passed
stringent ordinances, creating a panic,
and preventing citizens from without
coming to the village. The consequence
i,s they are an isolated race—without
food, succor, or aid from the outside
world. A. merchant on Saturday took
a team and went into the country to
purchase produce, but the farmers,
knowing ho was from the "infected
district," would not allow him to come
within talking distance, and he, like
Noah's dove, was compelled to return
with bad tiding to those who were
watching his corning. This is a bard
case, and something should bo done to
succor our neighbors from starvation.
In view of the evidence in the
case of Surratt, whose trial is progres
sing, it is probable that Gon. Butler,—
and all others, if any there be, who
agreed with him will reverse
their opinion, that an "innocent wo
man" was hung when Mrs. Surratt
was executed. The evidence fully jus
tifies the verdict and the sentence, not
only as to her but the others who suf
fered death with her.
Xle".11 is evident that tho people in
the Indian country—Colorado in par
tieular—aro not mildly disposed tow
ards the savages, and have little no
tion of dealing with them except ac
cording to their atrocities. To this
end they propose to give twenty dol
lars a scalp, including ears—the scalp
ers to baro their own way of killing
Indians. Governor Hunt, of Colora
do, promises this, but "no bacon, su
gar or coffee at any price:"
.C.PaThe lowa Republican State Con
vontion met at Des Moines on the 20th
and nominated Samuel Merrill for Go
vernor, and Colonel Scott for Lieuten
ant Governor. Resolutions wore pass
ed in favor of an amendment to the
State Constitution scouring tho right
of the ballot, protection of tho law, and
equal justice to all mon, irrespective of
color, race, or religion.
Oa ° We hear from several Callum(
that the rod rust, has struck the wheat.
It appears to he general in this neigh
borhood,
Proclamation by the President,
WASHINGTON ? Juno 20, 1807.
Whereas, A treaty between the Uni
ted States of America and his Majesty
the Emperor of all the Russias was
concluded and signed by their respect
ive plenipotentiaries, at the city of
Washington, on the thirtieth day of
March last, which treaty being in the
English and French languages is, word
for word, as follows.
This treaty has already boon pub
lished, and codes to the United States,
immediately upon the exchange of ra
tifications, all the Russian American
possessions, in consideration of which
the United States are to pay Russia,
within ton months, $7,200,0017 in gold;
and whereas, the said treaty has been
duly ratified on both parts and the re
spective ratifications of the same were
exchrtnged at Washington on this (the
20th) day of June, by William IL Sew
ard, Secretary of State of the United
States, and the PriYy Counsellor, Ed
ward do Stonelcl, the envoy Extraordi
nary of his Majesty the Emperor of all
the,Russias, on the part of their re
spective governments;
Now, therefore, be it known that I
Andrew Johnson, President of the
United States of America, have et/1180d
the said treaty to be made public to
the end that the same, and every clause
and article thereof, may be observed
and fulfilled with good faith by the
United States and the citizens thereof.
In witness thereof I have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal of the
United States to bo affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this
20th day of June, in the year of our
Lord, one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-seven, and of the independence
of the United States the ninety-first.
ANDREW JOHNSON.
By the President
Wm. IL SEWARD, Seey of State.
The Surratt Trial.
The jury having boon,empaneled on
Saturday, the 15th inst., the trial of
John 11. Surratt for the murder of Pres
ident Lincoln commenced in earnest
on last Monday morning. On this as
on every subsequent day of the trial
the court room was crowded bya largo
number of spectators, and the most in
tense interest in the case has boon ox.
cited in all parts of the country. Judge
Fisher, who was taken ill soon after
the commencement of the proceedings,
recovered sufficiently to take his place
on the bench on Monday, and the trial
has consequently boon conducted since
without interruption. The prisoner
is described as being very pale, al
though composed as a general rule.
But much of the testimony produced
by the prosecution was evidently un
expected by him and the statements
of some of tho witnesses agitated him
considerably at times.
On Monday tho case for the prosecu
tion was opened by Assistant District
Attorney Nathaniel Wilson, who re
viewed the circumstances attending
the murder of Mr. Lincoln, and said
that it would be proved that Surratt
was not only in Washington at the
time, but that he was the chief con
spirator, and that he was present, in
company with Booth, in front of the
theatre a few minutes before tho assas
sination took place. Mr. Wilson also
said that Surratt, after leaving the
country, admitted his connection with
the other conspirators, and on more
than ono occasion boasted of the part
ho took in the murder of Mr. Lincoln.
A number of witnesses were exam—
ined, who related particulars in regard '
to the assassination; but the most im
portant testimony olicdted was that of
Joseph Dyo, formerly a sergeant in
Battery C. Pennsylvania Artillery,
and at present a recruiting sergeant in
OM United States army. Sorgt. Dye
positively identified Surratt as the man
he had seen in company with Booth
and with another person on the side
walk in front of the theatre, on the
night of the murder. Surratt threa
times announced the hour to Booth,
and at ten minutes past ten the latter
entered the theatre. Dye and his com
panion went into an adjoining saloon
to got some oysters and in a few mo
ments they heard that Booth had shot
the President. This story about a man
calling the time to the assassin it will
be remembered, was at the time consid
ered as a mere sensation report, got
up in order to give a melo dramatic
coloring to the affair. Sergeant Dye's
testimony created a marked impres
sion upon the prisoner and his counsel,
as well as upon the spectators.
On Tuesday Sergeant Dyo was again
plaCed upon tho witness stand. The
only now testimony which ho.gavo in
dicated that Mrs. Surratt, on the night
of the murder, was aware of what was
I being done at the theatre. The prise-
I nor's counsel gave this witness a
searching cross-examination, but they
wore unable to shako any of his state
meas.
On Wednesday considerable time
was consumed bye discussion between
the counsel and the Court, in regard to
recalling witnesses.
Mr. Carroll Hobart, a conductor on
the Vermont Central Railroad thought
that Surratt strongly resembled one of
two men who got on the train some
time between tbo 10th and 20th of
April, 1805, to ride between St. Albans
and Rouse's Point. They were ex
tremely anxious to reach Canada but
as they professed themSelvos unable to
pay their faro, the conductor put them
out at a way station.
Charles 11. Blinn testified that the
same men arrived at St. Albans - from
Now York on the night of the 17th of
April. They wore permitted to sleep
in the depot, and after they left the wit
ness found a pookbt handkerchief on
the spot where ono of them had boon
lying. This handkerchief was marked
"J. H. Surratt." The prisoner became
very nervous when this evidence
against him was produced.
On Thursday a lengthy discussion
took place regarding the retention of
witnesses for the purpose of cross-ex
amination by the defence, and the ad
mission as evidence of a letter publish ,
ed in General Ti. C. Baker's retort
Work. The defence proposed - to stew
by means of this letter that Mr. Ho
bart had mado statements outside of
the court room differing fronz those
made on the witness stand.
The Court declined to Admit this let
ter as evidence, and refused to allow
the witnesses to bo recalled by the do.
fence.
Wm. H. Cloo.vor, proprietor of the
Stablott where Booth kept his horses,
stated that ho frequently saw Booth
ant ,
Surratt together ; and that Surratt
on the 26th of January remarked in
conversation that "they were going to
do some bloody work; thoy wore 'go
ing to kill Lincoln, the old scoundrel,
as ho had ruined Maryland and the
whole South." The witness also'tes
tified to seeing-Surratt in. Washington
on the day of the assassination.
On Friday, James W. Pumphroy,
keeper of a livery stable on Sixth
street, testified that Booth obtained a
saddle-horse from him about six weeks
previous to the assassination ' on the
recommendation of John H. Surratt,
who was well knolvn to the witness.
Booth after this frequently came to the
stable to get a horse, and on the 14th
of April, about 12 o'clock, he obtained
a bay mare, with saddle and bridle.
Mr. Pumplirey said that he has never
seen either Booth or the horse, saddle
or bridle, since that time. -
On Saturday the evidence of Hon.
Frederick Seward, was heard, who
related the facts of the attack upon his
father. Ho testified as follows : I was
in my own room, and my wife was.,
there also; my mother was in her room,
back of my father's; a little after 10
o'clock, on the night of the 11th of
April, I heard some one come up stairs;
I stepped into the passage, and I saw
a stout, heavy built man, who said ho
was a messenger from Dr. Verdi, and
that ho had some medicine to deliver
personally; I told him that we Were
trying to compose Mr. Seward to
sleep, but ho persisted and seemed to
be determined to obey orders; after
some further conversation I told him
he could not see him; and the man
turned to go away and I turned to
wards my room, when I heard a quick
step behind me, and turning, I saw the
man come back with a navy revolVer
in his hands. It passed through my
mind in a moment, and the pistol was
an additional reason why the man
should not sco my father. The man
then attacked me, and in the scuffle
wo fell into my father's room, and I
remember nothing distinctly, but have
a recollection of two persons picking
up my father who was bloody, and re
member hearing some ono say that be
was not dead, I was then taken to my
room, and knew nothing more until I
recovered consciousness; I never saw
the man afterwards. Others testified
that it was Lewis Payne who attack
ed the Secretary of State.
After some discussion among the
counsel in relation to re-calling a wit
ness, the Conn took a recess until 10
o'clock on Monday morning.
COLORADO.
Prospect of the Gold and Silver nines
Col. licOluro, writing from Donvor,
holds tho following views concerning
the mineral prospects of Colorado :
There is much I would like to say
about Colorado, hut time and space
compel mo to to brief. I have visited
her gold and sifter mines, and seen tho
fearful waste. Eastern speculation has
scattered in fatal profusion among
them. With countless wealth in the
mountains,; there is palpable decline
and distress in every mining region I
have seen.' Lot me entreat Eastern
companiesto learn at once the utter
hopelesseets of their enterprises as now
organized and managed. The mills
are almostWhofly worthless, because
they are rut adapted to the successful
reduction 0 the obstinate combinations
to be found everywhere in the Colora
do ores. Unity companies now on the
very verfA of bankruptcy, or actually
ci.
in its emtraces, have valuable mines,
and they fling to the hope that they
may yet ake their enterprises suc
cessful. It is folly, it is madness. It
would be a blessing to both Eastern
eapitalisti and to Colorado if ono vast
fire should sweep the mills of Clear
Creek fr4n existence. Iler charred
walls would not impede progress, as
do vast buildings with engines and
mills now unemployed,and never to be
employed, as .at present constituted.
Equally foolhh, wasteful and disas
trous must bo every effett of amateurs
to reduce theores by experiments with
the various pMeesses, flooding the mar
ket and tonpting the disappointed
stockholder
.10 mae another effort to
save his invetment. Lot every East
ern coriapan wait until the problem is
fully and practically solved hero among
the mines, and then they may hope to
get more lium. They could profita•
bly employ:mine capital, in the mean
Limo, by theoughly testing their lodes,
and bringil to the surface large gnaw
titics of ore When the time comes.for
the suceesiel reduction of these ores,
the work O reducing them will be as
distinct fret mining them as is milling
from farmig. Where there aro good
mines, thelfore, the companies which
early aecei the inevitable revolution
in the prodetion of the precious met
als will yehttain success; but lot them
understanPiatithese mills aro, as a
rule, valuelss, and their construction
an irrotrioi.ble paste. I firmly believe
that thisyer wit nearly,if notcntirely,
master thei3 orcti, so that every good
mine can wiliced profitably; but
stockholcinp mi la as wolLat.tsmpt, Icy:
change thillislii n of the Snowy flange
as to persit in ire effort to mine and
reduce tpse os with their patent
rnachiner. I lmow that this will be
unwele4i infoimation to thousands
of your rOers,latt its truth is fearful.
ly atteate by tle sacrifice of $20,000,
000 in fritless aorta to refute it.
BE INDIAN WAR.
JUNCON Cirt, KANsne, Juno 10.—
A letter,ated Part Wallaae,Ju no 12th,
reports {number of Indian outrages in
that vhaity. Do the 3d, Panel' and
Thomm of Thud Crook, were killed
and scaled bottveen Pond and Goose
Creeks On tle oth, two men from
the mil's*, names unknown, were kill
ed wit halfa mile of the samo place.
On the nth, the coach from the West,
having h head Lieutenant 8011, three
soldiers,l lady passenger, the driver
and guthl, vas attacked by twenty-
Ave or tfrty Indians, twon ty-fivo miles
from Pct Wallace. One soldier was
killed. The others dismounted and
fought o Indians four miles, and fi
nally replsed them, killing two. It is
reporteddiat on the 17th a Govern
riont tin was attacked eighteen
riles wet of Fort Harker, ono man
1, led anchis body horribly mutilated.
o Indiaas are so troublesome that
go drivers refuse to go out, and eight
, • them deserted their coaches. -It
H rumored at Pond crook that Gon
Castor had been repulsed by the
clians, who came down in force from
Platte Valley.
MAXIMILIAN'S FALL.
Surrender of Queretaro.---Imperial Side
of the Stery.---Starvation and Treach•
ery.
The Empire of Maximilian expired,
4 o'clock A. as., at Queretaro, a city one
hundred miles northeast of Mexico,and
the capital of the prince of that name.
Hero the Emperor had been besieged
by the Liberal forces, under Eseobedo,
for sixty-nine days. He had his head
quarters in the Convent La Cruz, which
was built by tho Spaniards, and with
its fortifications covers nearly fifteen
acres of ground. It is a place of groat
strength, and commands the pity and
road to Mexico. It is so impregnable
that any one who gets possession, with
a few hundred troops, can levy contri
butions and civil war. "The first bat
talion of the lino," Maximilian's best in
fantry, was stationed in the Convent.
Escobodo hold the mountain of Cerra
tae, just opposite, and his "supreme
power" battalion lay in the valley be
tween. Starvation in the garrison de
termined the Emperor to cut his way
out on the night of the 14th, with three
thousand infantry and six hundred
good cavalry, roach the mountains,
form a junction with Givers; who was
supposed to have two or three thou
sand Imperial troops, and get into
Vera Cruz, where ho could stand a long
siege, have the, sea to bring supplies,
and take him away when ho concluded
to leave. Everything was ready., The
enemy, unsuspicious, had detoireined
to give up the starving out plan., and
attack the garrison in force at sunrise.
Corn was scarce with the besiegers,
and the besieged had none; but had
for some time boon living on the flesh
of starved horses, mules and dogs.
Juarez was pressing Eseobedo to bring
the siege to a close. Corona taunted
him fiercely with want of energy, and
the order of assault had been given.
Knowing nothing of each other's plans,
M.aximilian, was to assault the Liberals
at midnight and escape; they to assault
himin the morning: , Treachery spoil
ed the arrangement. tiejia was to de
fend the city, with three thousand citi
zens, while4he Emperor and his force
fought their ; :way out. Two bouts be
fore ho wate'to . start, fifty - :fear pretend
ed desertorn from the Liberal lines,
wore brought in, who said Juarez was
besieged' Sttn Luis, by. Ortega ; and
Escobetlas to go at *once to his as
sistaneti. M.ejia asked him to organize
hie citizen garrison. Maximilian post.
poned his plan, and about the same
hour, Escobodo rode down in persen, to
countermand the order of assault. He
had tho city by the treason of Colonel
Lopez, Commander of the Con Vent.
Lopez is a Mexican, was high in the
confidence of 'the mperor, a portly,
handsome man, with no appearance of
Mexican; but rather the look of an
aristocratic Anglo-Saxon. He was ono
of the last men, in the train of Maximil
ian, to have been suspected of treason,
but just after Escobedo had given the
order of attack, he received a letter
from Lopez offering, for $BOO, to give
up the Cruz. At 4 o'clock A. at., of the
15th May, Escobedo's troops marched
in at ono gate, and those of Lopez out
at another, as prisoners.
With the first streak of day the Em
peror awoke and was the first to find
that something was wrong. He hastily
awoke Prince Salm-Salm, saying,
"Come along, 'quick," and opened his
door. Hero he met a file of Liberal
soldiers, commanded by Col. Rineon
Gallardo, to whom Lopez pointed out
his late friend and master, saying,
"That's he !" and urged Rincon to be
cure him. Rincon would have liked to
capture the Emperor in' a fight, but
scorned to take him thus. Going up
to his prisoner, ho pushed him out of
the convent into the street, saying,
"You are a citizen—you aro no soldier;
we don't want you—vainoz." He went
on foot to Cerro de In Campana, at the
other extremity of the city. His MB
gar4.n hussars, and such of his officers
as could break through the Liberal
guard, followed and collected there.
The Imperial troops, generally drop
ped their guns and shouted vice la Lib..
ertad, as the Liberals filed in, but Mira
mon rallied a portion of the regiment
of the Etnperatrix, on a broad street,
and gave battle. At the first fire, he
was wounded, his mon surrendered,
and ho was made prisoner.
Meanwhile Maximilian had been
joined at the Cerro de la Campana, or
Bell Height—e fortified hill command
ing the other extremity of the city—
by Generale Mejia, Castillo and Avolla
no, and Prince Salm-Salta and others
of his officers, hat it was quickly oVi
dent that, resistance or escape was
equally impossible. Four battalions of
infantry and nearly the whole of the
Liberal cavalry surrounded the hill.
A largo white flag was accordingly sent
down from the Cerro, nod the Empe
ror, with his principal officers, surren
dered unconditionally , to Gon.'Coriona.
They were allowed to retain their .hor
ses, arms and personal property, and
later in the day were marched round
by the outskirts of the city to the Cruz.
The hussars and the remaining forces
on the Cerro came down in detach.
- t ts - , --- anit - rrirrslnaf trein. su rr ti ered
to Corona'e American legion. ,
A Pleasant Reunion.
A few months after the breaking out
of the war in '6l, a party of• four la
dies and four gentlemen were dining
together at Delmonico's. During the
dinner, in talking over the national
affairs, the gentlemen one and all, soh
emnly agreed to volunteer and serve
during the war. The ladies were very
enthusiastic, and prom's& to do all
in their power to help the good cause.
They then signed a document, agree.
ing, it they lived through the struggle
to meet at the house of one of the ladies
on a certain day, hour and year, and
there relate their several experiences.
The day named for the reunion was
the 14th of June, 1867, when they all
assembled together once more. Two of
the gentlemen had boon promoted on
the field for bravery; one was a colon
el, and the other a major. The remain
ing two had both boon wounded, ono
having lost a leg, and the other an
arm. As for the ladies, one was mar
vied to the gallant soldier who lost his
leg, he having fallen in love with her
while she was nursing tho wounded in
the hospital; another was engaged td
the colonel, and the third to the gen
tleman who lost his arm. The fourth
young lady and the major assured the
rest that they had arranged to live
single the remainder of. their lives.
The evening was delightfully passed
in listening to the many thrilling and
a few amusing adventures each had
gone through,
THE WAR IN CRETE.
The 'Nature of the Strugglo—Turkish
Mod° of Warfara
A. letter in the Boston Advertiser, da
ted at Athens,' lb Greece, May 23d,
contains the following:
The proclamations of the Turkish
government, the bulletins of their com
manders, the dispatches of their embas
eadors, are couched in the language of
civilized and humane men; and theup
holders of Mohammedan domination,
the official and unofficial correspon
dents of the European governments
and presses assert, that Turkish ar
mies carry on war as the armies Of
civilized nations do; that is with as
much leniency as the inherent barbar
ism of war will permit. This is all
bitter mockery, or utter ignoranCe.
The Cretan exodus stamps the lie up
on all assertions that the Turks have
grown civilized. Then we have in
Greece more than twelve thousand liv
ing witm'sses of the infernal barbarism,
with which this wicked war upon a
Christian people is conducted by the
armies of Turkey. Being for the most
part women and children, they- have
fled for their lives from their native
land, and now stand upon the shores
of neighboring islands, on the main,
safe from their persecutors, under the
flag of free Greece, but utterly depen
dent upon,themharity'of the world for
food aucl.clothing. , .
Beeide's`th'es's many thousand have
taken refuge in the mountain fastness
es of Crete, where they strive to sup
press the pangs of hunger by eating
sorrel nets; enui.ls and Whatever may
be swallowed ; --one can hardly, say
eaten.
I have jdst been to see a company
of newly arrived refugees—three hun
dred and fifty-one persons, mostly wo
men and small children, with a priest,
and a few old men, who fled in haste
from their villages at the approach of
the Turkish army,
These were not, like some of the
refugees, lean
,and feeble, and ragged
and dirty, giving proof in their haggard
looks and wasted frames of long expo.
sure and protracted suffering, but they
were well clad,,and plump;and clean,
and showed in a remarkable degree
those characteristics whieh win for the
Cretans the praise of being the hand
somest of the Greeks.,
I have never seen , a. group of people
of equal culture displaying so much
personal beauty as did these refugees.
I shall at another time speak of the
physical peculiarities of the Cretans,
and show how the extraordinary ad•
vantages of soil and climate develop in
their beautiful. island (the Garden of
the Levant) a peculiar variety of the
Greek race.
Meantime this cruel oi-odus is going
on. The.whole power of the Turkish
government is exerted to devastate
and destroy the plains and open lands
of an island whose mountain fastneSss•
es it cannot penetrate; and to war up
on women and children -whose hus
bands and fathers it cannot subdue
Pen and Scissors.
It is reportel that every doctor of respect
able practice in Washington has under treat
meat from twentylo fifty ease's of typhoid fo
ver. The disease is unusually fatal.
The latest adviees from India report that a
famine ie feared in the district of Upper Bar
mah, but that•the district of Orissa, which
last year was visited by a most devastating
famine, ie rapidly recovering from its troubles
Arkansas wants three things—n hundred
thousand Irishmen to build railroads, a hun
dred thousand Germans to raise corn, and a
hundred thousand freedmen to raise cotton.
Co those might ho added twenty thousand
Yankees to direct the work. ' - '
The number of arrests for drunkenness in
London last year was 8,74. In New York,
with one-third the population, the yearly ar
rests for intoxication number 18,000. In
London onb-/m/f the arrests are of women, in
Now York one-fourth. -*
The returns of each succeeding week go to
show that the immigration this year will far
excomlthat of last season. Nearly two thou
sand emigrants from British and German
ports were landed at New York on Monday.
It is a curious illustration of the changes
which the world ie rapidly undergoing—that
at late: Mliices froin Aitstredia,'' the shippers
were working day and night to get their
wheat on board for. England! While in Cal
ifornia, the great complaint has been the lack
of shipping to transport their surplus grain
to the Atlantic States and to Europe!
The formal notice of the ratification of the
treaty with Russia having been received by
our Government, the Secretary of the Treasu
ry will at once prepare instructions regulat
ing trade and revenue in our recently acquir.
ed Russian possessions. Ai the matfer 'now
stands all our trade and ravenue:rogulations
are subject - to the approval or sufferance of
the Russian Government.
A desperate fight took place Meriday after
noon at Calvary Cemetery, New . York, be
tween a nuttibkof persons liad just
bu
ried. a friend;' The fight 'raged nearly an
hoitr.. Women and men engaged en 'either
side, and clubs, knives and stones were free
ly used. Secant persona were severely in
jured, and one child is reported killed.
Raphael Semmes in a recent fag present
ation speech spoke of restoring the Star-
Spangled Banner to the mast-head of the
merchant ship, from which, in times gone by,
I have so often caused it to descend." This,
says the New York Times, is a pretty brag
from a naval hero who for: many months.
dodged, every rirmod.antagenist make.wer
on the weak, the unarmed, the unresisting,
and who, when cornered at last, and forced
to fight, struck his colors in his first battle.
The Marquis of Hastings lost $lOO,OOO on
the last Derby day. He is the present repre
sentative of the Marquis who was Governor
General of India from 1812 to 1832, and who
was distinguished as a soldier as well 115 ad
ministrator. The present Marquis has prob
ably lost in one day, in betting, as much as
his grandfather saved in ten years, while
holding the most lucrative post in the gift of
the Crown.
At several newspaper offices on the Atlan
tic seaboard it has been noted that an over
land mail from California hag been received,
portions of which were covered with blood.—
The other day a stage coach was attacked
upon the plains by Indiana, and the driver
and two of the passengers murdered. The
lifeless body of the driver fell among the
mail bags, and much of the mail matter woe
saturated with blood• The newspapers bear
painful evidences of the sad tragedy,
General Grant excelled himself in the
speech-making line at West Point on Monday,
and delivered the lengthiest speech ever spo
ken by him, on the occasion of presenting
the first prize of the graduating class of 1867
to Cadet Ruffner. He said : "Cadet Ruffner,
I present to you this testimonial with great
pleasure, as having been won . by sutierior .
merit, placing you at the head of your elan ;
may it be the token of your future course; in
which I trust you may be foremost in the
paths of duty in which-your country calls."
The Pensacola (Fla.) Observer says that
the report that $340,000 had been dug up
from the graveyard of that city, where it had
been buried during the war, and removed to
parts unknown, came near
_terminating in a
tragedy. Some fifty or sixty negroes, who
claimed their share of the plunder, attacked
the negro drayman who is said to have spir
ited the treasure away, and would have
lynched him but for the interference of the
sheriff. The city, at last accounts, was filled
with gangs of idle negroes "discussing the
great issue."
A cow worth having is possessed , by a "far
mar of Westfield, Massachueetto, She is
said to be of the Ayrshire and Durham
breeds, weighs 16001 pounds, and gives on an
average over 60 'pounds:of milk per day.—
Her greatest yield this BOUM was 651 pounds
and the day following she gave 64 pounds.—
From November 1, 1865, to November
18fi6,• beside a supply of milk, cream and
butter for family use, the owner sold 4,150
worth of Milk from this single cow.
This is the way the Pacific railroad is laid
at the rate of more than a mile a day; Iron,
ties, &0., for ono' mile, are eent in, a train as
near the end of the track as- it can get, and
unloaded at the Side of the rails the ties are
.
scattered along by.teams, while gangs of men
place and'level thorn ; then. small, low oars
aro loaded with rails,,spilies, and chairs, and
pushed to the end o4he last rail, when two
rails are seized and run off at the end and
dropped in their. placea; as they , fall others
gunge them to keep them at , the proper
width, while another drops spikes at the
cross-ties; the little car goes on and the spike
drivers follow up nailing thita down. Then.
come the track straighteners and the ballast.
men, making in all a procession of a--mile
long, all trained to know their special duty,.
and to do it with a will and a promptness
that knows no failure or delay.
Burning of the. American Theatre,
PHILADELPHIA, hoe 19.—The Ame
rican Varieties Theatro,Tifalnut street
above Eighth, under the management
of Mr. Fox, was destroyed by fire, with
much surrounding property. The fire
commenced in a stable at the rear . of
the Theatre. ,The alarm was soon
communicated to the audience, which
fortunately was small, and succeeded
in escaping, though many were braised
in the rush to the front door. In a
short time the whole interior was in a
blaze. It is believed all the perform
ers escaped.
About 10:30 the front wall of the
building fell' with an awful crash, by
which thirteen men were killed and
thirty wounded.
,11.-Socretary Seward has received .
two highly important communications
from . Queen Victoria.and the Emperor
Napoleon, in which they hope that this
Government will do all that it deems
proper :in the way of *an intercession.
with the Liberal authorities in Mexico.
to savethe.life of Maximilian. The fact.
of this request has been communicated
to Juarez; together with• a repetition
of the hope forwarded some time sine.)
to Tearei by Secretary Seward that
Maximilian will
. not be treated other- ,
wise than as a prisoner of war;, It is
not true, as stated, that the Secretary
of State hits made a formal demand
that Maximilian's life be spared.
se-A despatch from Cincinnati this
morning says Hon, George H. Pen
dleton, Copperhead, entertained Hon.
Schuyler Colfax, radical, at his Clifton
residence, the Bowler mansion, on Sat
urday evening. Among the guests
present were Hon. R. B. Hayes, radi
cal candidate for Governor of Ohio,
and Col. Sones, Copperhead, of New
port, Kentucky. What a mix?
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
. .
WANTED- •
A GOOD 'TANNER.
Ono who underatatde Carry-In Preferred. Good wa
ges pall. 'None beta sober man need apply. -
0. G. MILLER a UN.
Jelld.tt Hantlagdom Pa.
AUDITOR'S NOTICE.
.[Estate of Matthim Sayler,:deed.]
The undersigncd Auditor, appointed to boar and &olds
upon the exceptions filed to the account of Mose. Green
land, administrator of lifattkiss Saylor, deed., and re
port distribution of the balance in the bands of the am
countant, 'rill attend to the duties of his appointment at
his Mlles In the borough of TXuntingdon, ou 'J EDNES•
DAT, the 24th day of JULY, next, at 10 o'clock, A. M.
R. BRUCE PERGIGIN,
June26* Auditor.
•
NTOTICE.—The books of the Into
1.1 firm of Naar A. Whittaker, publisher, of the Jour
nal &American, including the accounts for subscription,
advertising and job work, to December, i 865, have beau
trausferred to S. G. Whittaker, and by him placed in our
hands for prompt collection.
Costs will be added to all accounts not paid before the
let of August next.
SPEER.* MintaTTICI4.
fruntiogdon, Jane V,
By Canal & Railroad.
We are now receiving by Ca
nal and Railroad from the east.
ern and western cities,
DRY GOODS-& GROCERIES
Of every deseripiion,
CARPETS,OIL-CLOTHS,
FLOUR, FEED,
Ell
1 3 troz› - visi.c>ii r
Of all kinds
4ocD/Li_ll,
Anthracite, Pittsburgh, and
Broad Top Coal for pale by the
Cart or Boat load.
LUMBER.
Boards, Plank, Shingles, Plas
tering Lath, in large or small
quantities,
Nails and Bar Iron, at manu
acturers' prices.
HENRY & CO.,
Iluntingdon ) Pa
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