NEWS FROM ALL NATIONS.
—A number of the leading citizens of
New York, among whom are Moses Taylor, August
Belmont, Thurlow Weed, Marshall O. Roberts,and
others, have made up the handsome purse of sl,-
600 for the brave soldier, Robinson, who, while ac
ting as nurse saved Secretary Seward's life.
—Extensive preparations are being made
by the shipping interest for the reopening of trade
with the South. There are now three lines of
steamers running between New York and New-Or
leans—one connecting with Charleston, S. C., one
with Alexandria, Va., and independent steamers
are advertised to sail for Charleston and Rich
mond.
—Col. Alexander has been appointed a
supervising special agent of the Treasury Depart
ment, and will proceed to Pensacola. Col. Alex
ander's station is understood to be Mobile, where
he will act until more permanent arrangements are
made.
—The trustees of the East Windsor
(Conn.) Theological Seminary have voted to re
move that institution to Hartford, and to make an
effort to raise $200,000 further for its permanent
endowment, $50,000 of which are already pledged
bv friends.
—There was a heavy lall in cattle at
Bull's Head Thursday, and those of the drovers j
who had bought at high figures lost heavily. The I
average for good steers was below 17c.—a fall of j
over five per cent from opening prices.
—Tlio President has ordered that ex-Gov
ernor Aiken of South Carolina shall no longer be ;
considered as under arrest. It is understood that j
there was no just cause for his arrest by the mili- j
tary authorities at Charleston.
—The Secretary of the Treasury has is- '
sued an order allowing such vessels to clear from '
New York for Richmond as may be designated by
the French Consul to remove the French tobacco i
from that city.
—Last Wednesday a barrel found float-!
ing in the river at Cincinnati was found to contain !
the body of a negro in a decomposing state. The
head had been severed from the trunk, which had |
been cut in two ; the feet were separated at the j
ankles, and the legs divided at the knees, whilst !
the arms had been disjointed at the shoulders and
elbows.
—A watchman in the Lacouia Mills, Bid
deford, Maine, while oiling up, Monday morning,
was caught on a shaft revolving one hundred and
sixty times a minute, and was carried ronnd with
it many times, hiclothes torn off, one arm bro
ken, and severely injured internally; yet, singular
to say, he was not killed, and may recover.
—The statue of Senator Benton, which
was ordered six years ago by the citizens ot St.
Louis, from Miss Harriet Hosmer, arrived in that
city on the 2d inst. It is of bronze, ten feet high,
and was cast at the Royal foundry in Munich.—
Its weight is over 5, (MX) pounds.
—Among the new fashions iu New York,
at present, is this, that no lady goes to the grave
with a husband, child, orfriend. Women are com
pelled to sit solitary in the house, while the gen
tlemen attend the burial. Many lament the heart
less custom, but fashion is inexorable.
—The Washington correspondent of the
Boston Journal says that copies of the full confes
sion of Ham >ld, and of the equally important evi
dence reported to have been found on the person
of Booth, were sent to London by the steamer
which sailed on Saturday last.
—A merchant at .San Francisco, having
the misfortune to lose his wife, invited his clerks
to attend the funeral. He is said afterwards to
have charged each of them for the day as lost time,
and made them pay for the carriages.
—A peddler recently lost a box, while
riding in a horse-ear in Boston, and the court in
which he brought the suit gave him SIOO damages,
holding that, as the peddler paid transportation on
the box, the company was responsible for it.
—On the site selected for the " Aritietam
National Cemetery " is a spot called "Lee's Rock,"
the place where Gen. Lee stood during the battle
of Antietam.
—A new weekly paper, the Colored Ten
nesseean, a journal edited wholly by members of
the Anglo-African persuasion, bus made its appear
ance at Nashville.
—The city Council of Bath will place
neat blue casks in the differeut parts of the city,
and keep them constantly filled with cool water
during the hot weather.
—A farmer at Bridgeport, Conn., is about
to set a mile and a half of living fence of white
willow. He claims that it will, within two years,
keep out swine, sheep, and poultry.
—The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany has begun the survey of the Metropolitan
Railroad, for which a charter was given at the last
session of the Maryland Legislature.
—Mr. Roscoe C. Green, formerly a refu
gee from Richmond, but for three years past a
clerk in the Treasury Department, has been ap
pointed post-master at Petersburg.
—The Alexandria papers are calling up
on the Government to have the stockades around
the city removed.
—We understand that the caterpillars
are doing incalculable mischief to fruit trees in the
vicinity of Boston.
—Gov. Seymour, of New York, duriug
the year 1864, pardoned one hundred and twenty
convicts and commuted the sentence of ninety-two
others.
—A new breech-loading musket, on au
original principle, '.as been invented by two work
men in the American Machine Works at Spring
field, Conn.
—Strawberries and green peas are plen
ty at Washington. At New York strawberries are
rathar scarce at $1,50 per quart.
—The provost marshals of Indiana are
to be mustered out of the service at once, orders
to that effect have already been issued.
—Gen. Lee is said by a cotemporary to
wear his old gray uniform, because his poverty
will not permit him to buy other clothes.
—The crews of the Rebel rams and other
steamers which escaped up the Tomhigbee River,
have all deserted. News from Demopolis says
that Maury's rebel cavalry are perpetrating horri
ble cruelties among the people there, hanging and
shooting theni for expressing the slightest sym
pathy with Union sentiment.
—Gen. Grant was before the Committee
on the Conduct of the War on Wednesday, to give
evidence in relation to the negotiations between ;
Gen. Sherman and Johnston, (ten. Sherman will
appear before the same Committee on Saturday.
—The Rebels imprisoned on Johnson's
Island have become tired of imprisonment, and
lost all faith in their ability to carry on the war
longer. Out of the 2,800 confined, all but about
25 have asked permission to take the umnesty
oath.
—Gen. Sherman is now in Richmond.
He rode at the head of the line of his troops on
Wednesday, as the Fonrteenth Army Corps passed
through the streets of that city.
—Gen. Ijee, who remains very quiet in
li.ii hm.>nd, is said to be engaged in writing up a
history of his closing campaigns.
—Caroline Miller, a girl of Louisville,
Ky., thirteen years of age, killed her father the
other day by giving him arsenic. Her excuse was
that she thought she could get a better home with
less work, if her father was dead.
fStatlfortl
Towanda, Thursday, May 18,1865.
THE ASSASSINATION OK THE PRESIDENT.
From our way of judging, from habits ot
thought, impulse and education, we are
forced to the conviction that the assassina
tion of President LINCOLN, was the most
fiendish and damnable crime, we have ever
known of, and one we did not believe would
be committed. It is well for society that
there are but few capable of committing
such atrocious outrages. People in the
free States, where obedience to, and respect
for law, where shame and fear of punish
ment, where religion and God's threatened
denunciations are strictly inculcated, and
have a prevailing influence, such a deed
can not be perpetrated. There can not be
found in this country, nor in this district or
State, no not in any of the free States —
out of the larger cities—a man so hard
ened, so bold, so fierce, so despicable, as to '
work up to its full measure such an act ;
and nothing amazes us more than the details
of the commission of this crime. That the
villian who had undertaken it, could, un
moved, undisturbed in body or mind—not
only so—but who could, with all conceiv
able coolness, calculate, plan, take advan
tage of every little turn, to carry out his
purpose, just as if he was performing a
proper duty, or pleasant act, surprises us.
But when he has committed the foulest
deed on record, without emotion, without
excitement, without nervous twitchings,
but with a steady hand, and purpose, and
then, with circumstantial deliberation, step
in front of his victim, with dagger drawn
!te see whether his work was well done,
| ready if not, to follow it up with poniard,
i no fears of man, no fears of hell, no fears
1 of God, in the least disturbing his equini
inity, confounds us. The blasting thun
i ders of Almighty, the smoking flumes, the
tortured groans of the damned, can create
no terrors for such an one ; and we repeat,
' we are astounded at the perfection of his
j villauy.
We can imagine how a man overcome by
impetuous anger, can shoot another down ;
i or how want, avarice, and revenge, may
nerve a man for the commission of murder;
but how a man can, with such matchless
! self-possession, shoot down the President
of the United States, to whom half the na
tion cannot say a word without trembling,
i and the other half could not say a word
from sheer fright, is more than we can
i comprehend ; and it indicates a personal
; condition equal only in its abhorance by its
frightfulness. Nor is it possible to edu
j cate such a criminal, save in the system of
i slavery abounding in the Southern States
of this Union.
No other place could give birth to such
K monstrosities. Where the hireling is rob
bed of his wages by law, where a man can
make concubines of his children, where the
1 cock-pit, the race-course, and prize fights,
are Sunday amusements. Where revolvers
and bowie-knives are as muchiu requsition
for dressing men's flesh, as the axe and the
| butclier-knife, for dressing oxen and sheep,
! such men as murdered President LINCOLN,
and slashed the Seward's, will come up. —
They are indigenous to the soil ; but only
in such places ; and the sooner all such con
ditions of society, and the causes which be
| get them, are wiped out of our land, the
! better. We do not mean washed out, or
pardoned over, or glossed over, so that the
stain remains in the cloth, or the board.
No, it must be cut, or planed out, so that it
can neither be seen or smelled again. But
if we pardon rebels, and let tlieni sneak
back to their kennels, the cause of slavery
will revive Northern dough-faces and
i copperheads, will strike hands with slave
I propagandists, for new leases of power.
1 Then, under States Right theories, the mu
nicipal regulations of the States will secure
1 enlarged constructions, and new guaran
tees, and then will follow the master's lash,
his corruption of black women, Presiden
' tial murders.
Perhaps it is well that President LINCOLN,
the best public man we have had since the
days of Washington, should be murdered
by tlic slave and rebel interests. He, of
all others, could best afford to die, as lie
had attained fame's pinnacle, and his name
was in danger of losing some of its lus
| ter; but more than all, because his death
| alone could stir the American heart to its
lowest depths, and bring the government
and the people up to the necessities of the
times. The weak, insinuating, and fatal
delusion of mercy and pardon to the rebels
was rapidly stealing upon both, and was
unfitting the nation for the stern duty of
punishing crime according to its deserts.
Now LINCOLN is gone, we grieve his depar
ture, and yet more the maimer of his de
parture ; we hoped for him a better fate,
lie deserved a long, quiet, happy decline in
the sun's full effulgence, and we did what
we could to this end; but he has gone home,
and justice demands, and will execute ven
geance on his, and the murderers of our
other people.
toy Forney's Press has obtained impor
tant information regarding the recent plot
to burn Philadelphia. It discloses the fact
that on Wednesday night previous to the
night when the city was to be burned, a
large barn located within 50 yards of the
State magazine situated near Point Breeze
was tired by au incendiary, but the flames
were fortunately extinguished. The maga
zine contains nearly 100 tons of powder,
part belonging to the United States. The
Legislature had passed a law for the re
moval of the magazine, but the new build
ing has not been erected, and the magazine :
remains within two miles of the city with
out a guard to protect it.
to?* The Second and Fifth Army Corps
have reached Washington. They are to be
paid off, and a portion, at least, mustered
out of service.
Gold on Saturday, at New York, sold
down to 1,39 J.
The rebel ram Stonewall lias at last
make her appearance iii American waters.
She arrived at Nassau, in the Bahamas, on i
the 6th inst., from Tenerifi'e, whence she
sailed on the Ist of April. The Herald, cor
respondent at Nassau visited her incog
nito, and furnishes a most interesting de
scription of what he saw on board. She
is a formidable vessel, strongly iron-plated,
with two stationary turrets, three heavy
guns, and a solid steel pointed beak of
twenty feet in length, for ramming, projec- i
ting from her bow. Altogether she is con
sidered a very staunch and dangerous an
tagonist. Her entire crew, officers and
men, numbers about seventy, and every
thing about her presented the appearance 1
of the best man-of-war order, neatness and
rigid discipline. The Stonewall's officers,
many of whom were on shore, sporting
their rebel uniforms in the streets of Nas
sau, acknowledged that they were too late
in getting afloat to be of any service to the
Jeff. Davis cause, and admitted that the
war is ended. They said she was origi
nally intended to break the Wilmington
blockade, but that now, as she could be of
no use to the rebels here, she would prob
ably be taken back to Europe and sold.
She was to leave Nassau on the evening of
the 7th inst., having obtained a supply ol
coal. One report said she was bound for
Galveston ; but others gave her a different
destination. It was understood that our
Consul at Nassau, immediately after the
arrival of the Stonewall at that place, des
patched a fast vessel for Kej West, Fla.,
with the information.
THE ATTACK ON MR. SEWARD.—A corres
pondent of the N. Y. Ere, Post, writing
from Washington under date of May 2d,
says:—
Mr. Seward is so well that he is expected
to take his place in Cabinet meetings in a
few days. The newspaper accounts of the
attempt to assassinate him were generally
incorrect Payne, the assassin, only had an
opportunity to strike one blow at Mr Sew
ard, who was at that moment sitting up in
bed. The knife struck the swelling over
the fractured jaw and did not touch the
throat. At that instant Robinson, the
nurse, clutched Payne from behind, and did
not for a moment let go his hold, though
stabbed four times. Mr. Seward rolled off
upon the floor, feigning death. To Mr.
Robinson he owes his life. This heroic sol
dier is in hospital here and is doing well,
though very badly wounded. Mr. Seward
now dictates the foreign dispatches to Mr.
Hunter.
to?" On the arrival of the Sixth corps at
Danville, Va., the negroes were so rejoiced
that they commenced to desert the planta
tions in all the surrounding country, and
flock into the town. This so seriously in
terfered with the prosecution of agricul
tural labor that General Wright deemed it
necessary to issue an order instituting reg
ulations to put a stop to this hegira ol the
negroes, and requiring thern to remain at
home and attend to their usual work. Gen.
Wright has also warned all guerillas and
paroled rebel soldiers who break their pa
roles that they will be immediately hung
when caught.
The glory has entirely departed from that
little pesthole of the Bahamas, Nassau,
since the close of the blockade running
business. Everybody who can get away
is leaving, goods intended to run the block
ade are daily being auctioned off at merely
nominal prices, and the principal hotel of
the place has closed for want of business.
Eight former blockade running steamers
were laid up there on the 7th inst., entirely
out of employment.
toT" Gov. Curtin has issued his proclama
tion lixing the Ist of June—the same des
ignated by the President—for "humiliation
and mourning for the death by assassina-
I tion of our late beloved President, Abra-
I ham Lincoln, and for humbling ourselves
before Almighty God, in order that the be
reavement may be sanctioned to the na
tion."
THE NATIONAL LOAN. —For the week end
ing May 13, the subscriptions to the Na
tional Loan amounted to the stupendous
amount of $89,384,660. On Saturday over
thirty millions were subscribed.
to?" The trial of the Conspirators is pro
gressing at Washington. Reporters are
now admitted, and a portion of the testi
mony is published.
le testimony at the trials in Wash
ington, leaves no doubt of the fact that the
: life of President Johnson was to have beeu
taken by Atzerot, but the courage of the
j wretch deserted him.
The Centerville (Md.) Citizen of the
I 3d has the following :
I We learn from a gentleman of Denton,
Caroline county, that on Wednesday night
last some fiends opened the tomb of ex-
Governor Hicks, in Dorchester county, ami
stole his coffin and body therefrom, and
broke the tombstone to pieces. The body
and coffin had not been found at last re
ports, and it is believed they have been
sunk in the Choptank river. Governor,
afterwards Senator Hicks, was the loyal,
energetic Governor of Maryland who pre
served that State from the toils of the se
; cession conspiracy, when it was in the i
greatest danger of being enveloped in them. 1
He died last February, in Washington.—
This brutal, disgusting act ; this dishonor
ing of a patriot's dust is but a natural out- 1
cropping from the same foul treason that
has bred assassination and wholesale mur
| der of captives.
to?* About fifteen hundred of the Union
soldiers formerly imprisoned at Anderson
ville, Ga., having been transferred to Flor
ida, were, on the morning of the 28th ult., j
transported by the rebels down the Florida
Central Railroad to within ten miles of Jack
sonville, where they were unconditionally
released and left to make their way into j
the Union lines which several hundred of
them reached before night. All presented j
a pitiful appearance aad many were barely
able to walk ; but their joy was great on
finding themselves once again under the i
protection of the old flag.
CAPTURE OF JEFF DAVIS.
The Rebel Post Master General Taken !
./#•//' Tries to Escape in Women '* Clothes!
WAK DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, May 13.
Major-Gen. I)ix : The following dispatch,
just received from Gen. Wilson, announces
the surprise and capture of Jefferson Davis
ami his staff, by Go!. Pritchard and the
Michigan Cavalry, on the morning of the
10th inst., at Trwinsville, in Irwin County.
Georgia.
EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War.
MACON, Ga., May 12, 1805—11 a. m.
Lieut.-(fen. U. S. GRANT AND Hon. Seeretnri/ of War, '
Washington. I). V. :
1 have the honor to report that at day-!
light of the 10th inst., Col Pritchard, com- j
inaiidiiig 4th Michigan Cavalry , capture d
Jeff. Davis and family, with Reagan, Post
master-General ; Col. Harrison, Private j
Secretary ; Col. Johnson, A. I). C.; Col.
Morris, Col. Lubbock, Lieut. Hathway and i
others. Col Pritchard surprised their caiup '
at Irwinsville, in Irwin County, Ga., 15
miles south-east of this place. They will
| be here to-morrow night, and will he for j
warded under strong guard without delay.
1 will send further particulars at once.
J. H. WILSON, Brevet Major-General.
MACON, Ga., Friday, May 13, —9:30 a. ui.
; HON. E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War:
Lieut.-Col. Harden, commanding the Ist
Wisconsin, has just arrived from Irwinville.
He struck the trail of Davis at Dublin, Lau
rens County, on the evening of the 7th, and
followed him closely night and day through
the pine wilderness of Alligator Creek and
. Green Swamp, via Cumberiandville to Ir
winville.
At Cumberiandville, Cul. Harden met
| Col. Pritchard with 160 picked men and
horses of the 4th Michigan.
Harden followed the trail directly south,
while Pritchard, having fresher horses,
pushed down the Ocmulgee toward Hope
well, and thence by House Creek to Irwins
ville, arriving there at midnight of the oth.
Jeff. Davis had not arrived.
From a citizen Pritchard learned that his
j party were encamped two miles out of
the town. He made dispositions of his
j men, and surrounded the camp before day.
Harden had camped, at 9 p. m., within
| two miles, as he afterward learned, from
I Davis.
The trail being too indistinct to follow,
he pushed on at 3 a. in., and had gone but
little more than one mile when his advance
| was fired upon by men of the 4th Michi
i £ iin - .
A tight ensued, both parties exhibiting
the greatest determination. Fifteen min
utes elapsed before the mistake was dis
covered.
The tiring in this skirmish was the first
: warning that Davis received.
The captors report that lie hastily put on
jone of his wife's dresses and started for
i the woods, closely followed by our men,
i who at first thought him a woman, but
! seeing his boots while he was running,
I they suspected his sex at once.
The race was a short one, and the Rebel
President was soon brought to bay. He
brandished a bowie-knife and showed
' signs of battle, but yielded promptly to the
persuasions ol Colt's revolvers, without
j compelling the men to lire.
He expressed great indignation at the
energy with which he was pursued, saying
that he had believed our Government more
magnanimous than to hunt down women
and children.
Mrs. Davis remarked to Col. Harden
after the excitement was over that the men
i had better not provoke the President, or
j "he might hurt some of 'em."
Reagan behaves himself with dignity
; and resignation.
The party, evidently, were making for
j the coast.
J. H. WILSON, Brevet Major-General.
WASHINGTON, May 14, 1865.
The public here manifest the utmost en
thusiasm over the capture of Jeff. Davis,
j Some timid politicians, however, express a
wish that he had been shot as Booth was,
; for fear his possession may be embarrassing
to the Government. If lie is placed in the
prisoner's dock at the court, by the side of
Ilarrold and Payne lie will certainly be
convicted of complicity in the assassination
of Mr. Lincoln.
It is urged strenuously, however, by some
in high position, that the dignity of the na
tion demands that on his arrival here the
assassination charge ought to be waived,
and he be arraigned and tried for treason,
the highest crime known to our laws, and,
on conviction, hanged. Secretary Stanton
will order Jeff.Davis to be put on a gun
boat and forwarded direct to Washington.
ASSASSINATION OK A WELL-KNOWN CITIZEN
IN SYRACUSE. —The oity of Syracuse was
thrown into great excitement, on Friday
morning last, by a report that the Hon.
Burr Burton, a prominent citizen, had been
assassinated. Mrs. Burton was awakened
at an early hour on Friday morning, by the
noise of some person rattling the front
doorknob. While endeavoring to awaken
Mr. Burton, something hard was thrown
against a pane of glass, smashing it to at
oms. Mr. Burton then became thorough
ly aroused, and stepped from his bed-room
into his private office, which communicated
by a door. The Syracuse Journal contin
ues :
The upper half of this door was of glass,
I and a curtain was hanging on the inside.
I Mr. Burton asked, "Who is there? What do
! you want?" But, receiving no answer, he
called out to them to go away, supposing
them t lie burglars. As he finished speak
ing, a pistol was discharged from the door,
j and the ball struck Mr. Burton in the right
j breast, one and a half inches above the nip
: ' >l( \
l'he assassin, or assassins, immediately
fled. The ball was found to have penetra
; ted the right lung, passing through it and
i falling down behind it it. At ten o'clock
this morning, Mr. B. was in a very preca
i lions condition, with very few hopes of his
j life.
Rumors as to who committed this daring
j assassination (for assassination, not rob-:
I bery, was the intent of the perpetrator,) i
j are rife, and several parties are looked up
lon with suspicion. Chief-of-Police Otis
I this morning arrested Mr Fred. Granier,
of the First ward, on suspicion of being the I
! assassin, as he was heard to make threats
| at different times.
t>a? One I)r. Blackburn, a prominent and
particularly vindictive traitor, has been un
dergoing an examination at Bermuda on
charges of an attempt to introduce yellow
fever in New York and Philadelphia. It
appears that he gathered a quantity of cloth
ing from infected persons, which he packed
in trunks, with orders to have it forwarded
this Spring, of course as soou as the weath
er was warm enough to spread the con
tagion. The trunks were thus pi*epared,
three of which have been found and the con
tents buried by the Board of Health of Ber
muda.
FIVE-THOUSAND DOLLARS REWARD FOR
ISHAM G. HARRIS.
The Legislature of Tennessee having
adopted resolutions authorizing the gover-1
H<ir to offer a reward of $5,000 for the ap
[irehensi.m of Isham G. Harris, and his de- ;
ivery to the civil authorities, Governor
Brownlow has accordingly published a pro
clamation setting forth that he was the I
chief instrument in thrusting upon Tennes
see the innumerable evils of the rebellion— i
a rebellion that "lias stouncd every citadel :
of order, every sanctuary of right, and every !
abode of decency," and that the said Harris I
has been periodically visiting the border i
j counties of the State, issuing bogus procla
mations, and collecting revenue, falsely i
i pretending to be Governor of Tennessee, i
1 The Governor graphically sketches the'
: fugitive from justice, in a style that will
make him wince if he has any sensitiveness.
It certainly is a unique official production,
and characteristic of Brownlow :
| This culprit Harris, is about live feet ten
i inches high, weighs about one hundred and |
forty-five pounds, and is about fifty-five
j years of age. His complexion is sallow—j
! Ins eyes are dark and penetrating—a per
fect index to the heart of a traitor—with i
he scowl and frown of a demon resting |
I upon his brow. The study of mischief,
and the practice of crime, have brought
upon him premature baldness and a grey
j beard. With brazen-faced impudence, he
! talks loudly and boastingly about the over-,
throw of the Yankee army, and entertains
no doubt but the South will achieve her in
! dependence. He chows tobacco rapidly,
and is inordinately fond of liquor. In his
moral structure, he is an unscrupulous
man—steeped to the nose and chin in per
sonal and political profligacy—now about
! lost to all sense of honor and shamo—with
a heart reckless of social duty, and fatally
bent on mischief. If captured, he will be
found lurking in the rebel strongholds of
! Mississippi, Alabama, or Georgia, and in
i female society, alleging with the sheep
faced modesty of a virtuous man, that it is
| not a wholesome state of public sentiment,
| or of taste, that forbids an indiscriminate
mixing together of married men and wo
men. If captured, the fugitive must be de
livered to me alive, to the end that justice
may be done him here, upon the theatre of
; his former villainous deeds.
MEXICAN EMIGRATION.
Oftic.es have been opened in Washington
| and New York, where persons desirous of
I emigration to Mexico can.be enrolled. It
| is said that these places of enrollment are
crowded from morning till night, and that
those who offer themselves at such places
are veteran soldiers, and men recently dis
| charged from the Army and Navy.
What is unusual in this emigration
i scheme is, that each "emigrant'' is to have
| a thousand dollars in money and a large
tract of land in the new country to which
! they go.
These are what we would call surface
indications of a very general movement,
looking to the rescue of Mexico from the
French and Austrian usurper, Maximilian.
There are thousands of brave and restless
men who will be soon discharged from the
i I'nion army, of martial instincts and who
j joy in war, and to whom these "piping
; times of peace" are irksome and unpleasant,
j Some of them will go to Mexico to honestly
help their Republican neighbors, others
for the love of adventure, and many for
promotion, reward and plunder. What
ever may be the motive, they will be very
troublesome to tin- Mexican usurpers, and
would be very glad to give the French
; regiments there a taste of the style and
I pluck of the I'nion soldier's lighting qual
! 'ty.
I The I nited States Government never
! having recognized the present government
ide facto of Mexico, we are not bound to
; restrain incursions of our citizens upon its
! soil whether fur lawful or improper pur
| poses.
Yet it is not to be overlooked that such
! movements if sanctioned by our govern
; ineut, may seriously complicate our rela
tions with France and other European
; powers. Perhaps we shall make them feel
the full force of the "neutralty policy,"
which they have applied to us during the
| last four years. We are confident that
| President Johnson and Secretary Seward
| will guide the foreign policy of the nation
I in so wise and skillful a manner as to leave
i our honor untrammeled, while at the same
time tlies will prevent any unnecessary hos
i tilities. In the meantime the "emigrants"
; will continue to emigrate, and if Louis
Napoleon and his puppet, Maximilian de
sire the good of Mexico and the peace of
the world, the Emperor Max and the French
troops had better emigrate back to France.
EXTENSIVE UOXKLAGRATIOX IN JERSEY CITY
! —THE ERIE RAILWAY CAR SHOPS DESTROYER
—ONE MAX BIRNED. —About 2 o'clock on
Saturday morning the extensive car build
ings belonging to the Erie Railway Compa
ny, situated near the eastern terminus of
the Bergen tunnel, were discovered to be
on fire.
Owing to a strong wind, the flames
spread very rapidly, and notwithstanding
! the fire departments of Jersey City and
I lloboken were early at the scene, the build
ings were entirely destroyed, involving a
loss of about $150,000. The manufactory
comprised three wooden buildings, one a
car shop 450 feet long and 80 feet wide,
where the wood-work of the cars was fin
ished; another 350 feet long 75 feet wide,
known as the machine-shop, in which the
running-gear of the cars was manufactur
ed, and the third building of smaller dimen
sions, used as a blacksmith-shop. The fire
was discovered by an engineer of an in
coming train on the Erie road, who at once
gave the alarm, but before assistance could
arrive the buildings were enveloped in
flames. The loss of the company will prob
ably amount to $120,000, in addition to
which the workmen—some 200 in all—
lost their tools. The loss of the company
is covered by covered by insurance by a
general floating policy. The origin of the
fire is not known. A man named Garres
ton, who was in the employ of the compauv,
left his home when the alarm was given
and repaired to the tire. Nothing further
of his movements are known, but subse
quently his charred body was extricated
from one ol the burning buildings, where it
supposed he went to recover a portion of
his tools and was suffocated.
THE CHRISTIAN* COMMISSION* AN* GEN*. LEE.
—George H. Stuart, Esq., President of the
Christian Commission, in a card to the New
York Tribune, disclaims all responsibility
on the Commission for the late visit of some
of its delegates to Gen, Lee to pay their re
xpectx. lie says, "No officer or agent of
this commission, or any authorized person,
has ever called upon General Lee." The
Dr. Parker, who figured in that shameful
affair, was not even a delegate of the Com
mission, but was a representative of what
is called the Union Commission. Some del
egotes of the Christian Commission, how
ever, accompanied him to the " august
presence." They, individually, and not the
commission, are responsible.
DAHIM; GUERRILLA OUTRAGE. — Th>' Oim iitatli
Commercial of May (> states that 011 tin*
previous evcniug the Cairo express train
on tie Ohio and Mississippi Railroad was
stopped, throwp from the track and robls-d
near North Bend, not more than fourteen
miles from the city tirst named by a party
of twenty guerrillas from Boon Co., Ky.—
Tlie account says:
The robbers had torn up eleven rails, and j
the locomotive and four cars were thrown
from the track. The first point of attrac
tion was the Adams Express car. The iron j
safes were blown open with gunpowder,
and their contents taken. The sum of mon
ey in the safes was much smaller than is j
usually carried by the company over that
road. The passengers were all relieved of)
their watches and money. After complet
ing the job, the robbers crossed the river,
in skiffs. Several shots were fired. No
one was seriously hurt. A party of of cav
alry started out last night to try to entrap
the scoundrels.
The Cincinnati press call upon Gen. Cal
mer for the most vigorous efforts on the
part of the United States authorities for
the prevention of any more such outrages.
Mi "STKM .vo our OK I'KNNSYI.VANIA REGIMENTS.
-—Arrangements have been made with the
War Department by which Pennsylvania
regiments will be mustered out in the lo
calities where they were organized. This
will necessarily brine - a large number of
; troops to this city for muster out at Camp
! Curtin.
It is also hoped that arrangements will
be completed with the War Department, by
which paymasters will be detailed to pay
these troops in the localities of their dis
i bandmcnt, taking care that the men are
: paid at the time of being mustered out.
If these arrangements can be effected,
i (and Gov. Curtin has made a great effort
| to accomplish such a purpose,) the result
! will be to send the brave fellows, alio have
'justcrushed treason, home satisfied with
the service and the authorities. It is to be
; hoped, whatever the arrangements may be,
that the dissatisfaction and delays here
tofore attending such proceedings, wib be
avoided in the future. — IfarrLsburg T'b
| graph.
New Slboertisfincnts.
/M)OD NEWS. REBELLION ENDED!
THE I'lt ICE OF CLOTH ISO
G O N E D 0 W X W I T II G OLD!
The best stock of good, well made Clothing ever '
brought to this market is now open for inspection at the
STORE OF R. W. EDDY,
Bought since the fall of Gold and the Rebellion, which
will enable biiu to give bis customers the benefit ot very
low figures, and the decline in prices. My go-ids as u*u
al are stylish, and n la mode. No second rate shoddy
goods, every article guaranteed as represented or no
I sale. My gimdr are ail
THE LATEST FASHIONS,
And equal to the best city custom made, and tit to a T.
As usual the best quality all wool
Business Suits,
Black Frock Coats,
Black Doe Pants and Vests,
Linen Coats, Dusters, acd Pants,
The Latest Style Fine Silk Hats, Soft,
Straw. Panama and Cloth Hats, White and
i Negligee Shirts, Cotton Neck Ties, Gloves, Sus
penders, Under Shirts and Drawers, Best quality
1 English Hab Hose, Over Alls, Over Shirts, Linen Hand
i kerchiefs, Ladies Fine Mcrocco Travelling Bags.
In fact everything usually found ill a First Class
; Gentleman's Furnishing Store. My motto is good
| Goods at a fair price are cheaper than poor goods at any
I price. All goods sold at one price, no bantering nor
teasing to make an otter, but every one gets the
same goods at the same price, which is the
bottom of the market. All old goods
marked down to the gold base, and
will be sold regardless of sacri
fice. If yon want good
goods at a fair price,
go to EDDY'S,
where you will find
him ready to show his goods
and sell them too at the lowest fig
ure to correspond with Gold. Bear in
mind the place to buy good, well made, reliable
Clothing is at B. W. EDDY "S, next door to Powell A Co.
11. W. EDDY.
Towanda, May 17, Is;.',.
> PIRST NATIONAL BANK OF ATHENS
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, )
OFFICE OK COMPTKOI.LKR OF THE CURRENCY V
WASHINGTON, May 1,1*65. )
WHEREAS, by satisfactory evidence presented to the
| undersigned, it has been made to appeal that the "First
| National Bank ot Athens,"' in the borough ot Athens,
in the county ol Bradford and State of Pennsylvania,
has been duly organized under and according to the re
quirements of the Act of Congress, entitled an " Act to
provide a National Currency, secured by a pledge of
United States Bonds, and to provide for the circulation
and redempt ion thereof," approved June 3,18t!4, and
has complied with all the provisions ol said Act, re
quired to be complied with, before commencing the bu
siness of hanking under said Act.
Now. therefore, I, FREEMAN CLARKE, Comptroller
of the Currency, do hereby certify that •• The First Na
tional Batik of Athens," in the borough of Athens, in
the county ol Bradford, iu the State of Pennsylvania, is
authorized to commence the business of Banking under
the Act aforesaid.
In testimony whereof, witness my band and seal ol of
[i,. s.] lice, this first day of May, 1865.
FREEMAN CLARKE,
Comptroller of the Currency.
J?AGLE HOTEL IN TOWANDA,
FOR SALE.
Location, on the south side of tlie Square, by the Presby
terian Chinch. Apply to W. A. PECK, office, Union
Block, north side of Square. May 18,18G5.
TRAVELLERS IRSURANCE COMPANY
Hartford, Conn. Capital. 500.000. Insures against
Accidents of every description. General Accident Poli
cies tor five liui dred dollars, with $3 per week compen
sation. can be bad tor $3 per annum, or any other sum
between SSOO and slo.oooat proportionate rites.
Ten Dollars Premium secures a policy for $2,000 or,
$lO per week compensation tor all and every description
of accident—traveling or otherwise—nuder a General
Accident Policy,at the Ordinary Rate,
i Thirty Dollars Premium secures a lull Policy lor
i $3 000 or, $23 per week compensation, as above, at the
I Special rate.
j FOREIGN RlSKS. —Policies issued tor Foreign. West In-
J dies, and California Travel. Rates can be learned by
1 application to tlie Office or agencies.
; SHORT TIME TlCKETS.— Arrangements are in course of I
I completion by which the traveler will be able to pur-
I chase, at any RaTway Ticket Olfice. Insurance Tickets,
I lor one or thirty days' travel. Ten ceuts will buy a tick
let lor one day's travel, insuring $2,000, or sl3 weekly
i compensation. Ticket Policies may be had lor 3, 6 and ;
; 12 mouths in the same manner.
Hazardous Risks taken at Hazardous Rates. No Med
I ical Examination required. Policies written by the
; Companies' Agents.
Policies for SIO,OOO. and lor 3 years can be bad by ap
plication to the Home Office,
I DIRECTORS.— Gustavus F. Davis, W. H. D. Cullender,
j .las. L. Howard. Thomas Belknap, Jr., Charles White,
. Cornelius B. Erwin. Hugh Harrison, George S. Oilman,
i Jonathan B. Bunce, Geo. W. Moore. Marshall Jewell.
Ehenezer Roberts.
J. G. BATTERSON, President.
RODNEY DENNIS, Secretary.
G. P. DAVIS, Vice President.
HENRY A. DYER, General Agent.
*#-C. S. RUSSELL, Agent, Towanda. Pa.
May 17,1865.
AUDITOR'S NOTICE.— wiii. J.
t'. Joseph Kingsbui y. In the Conrt of Common
Pleas of Bradford County, No. 144, May Term 1865.
The undersigned, an auditor appointed to distribute
the proceeds of the Sheriff's sale of defendant's real es
tate, will attend to the duties ot his appoiutmeut at
his office in the borough of Towanda, on SATURDAY,
the "24th day ot JUNE. 1863, at 10 o'clock, a.m.,
and all persons having claims upon said funds must
present them or else be forever debarred from the same.
W. A. PECK,
May 11. 1865. Auditor.
PLANTS, GRAP E VINES,EVER-BLOOM
ROSES. Fine variety of VERBENAS, DAHLAS,
Ac., for sale at the Garden ot
HARRY MIX.
Early Wimiingstadt. do Ox Heart, do Sugar Loaf, do
Large Y'ork Cabbage Plants, 8 cents per dozen ; Early
and late Cauliflowers 8 cents perjdozen ; Smooth, Fejee,
Perfected, Red and Yellow Tomato Plants, 10 cents pet
dozen : Egg Plants and Sweet and Bell shaped Pepper
Pluuts , 10 cents per dozen ; Melon and Cucumber Plants
in pots 25 cents, including pots ; Celery Plants 35 ccuts
per 100 ; all kinds' late Cabbage 35 cents per 100. To
insure safety all plants are put up nicely in moss.
Towanda, April 13, 1865.
BOUNTY, BACK PAY AND PENSIONS.
The undersigned Agent for collecting Pensions,
Bounty Money, Arrears of Pay of all kinds due Officers,
Privates, Sutlers, Officers' Accounts settled and Certifi
cates of nun indebtedness procured. No charge unless
successful. W. T. DA VIES. ,
Towanda. March 16,1865,
&~n 3bocrtiscmcnt6.
RPUE EMPORIUM OF FASHION.
J. W. TAYLOR.
Is now receiving one of the finest JS-ortmoiit- ~R
nery and Fancy Goods ever brought in THE market
slating ot all the newest styles of Bonnets || al .
Caps the new Function Bonnet, the Faust
and Coburg Hats. Misses and Infants Hats AND SR,,
Caps. All the new colors of Bonnet Ribbon
the Lake,the new shades of Green. Purple AND JJ
A large stock ol Ribbons, Trimmings and I)re q,
tilings All styles of Hoop Skirts. Duplex . Miiltij,,,
and Corset Skirt. Silk Umbre las and Parasol-,
Linen, Hem Stitched and Embroidered Handkeri-),;..
Chenelle Head Presses and Silk Nets. A Fine ash-
MEN! of Kid Gloves, French Corsets, Plain Limn.}
broidered a:id Valencia Collars, Linen Thread*
Smyrna Edging, Dimity Bands and Ruffling, Embn„.\
ing and Tucked Edgings. A good assortment ot 1;.....
and Hosiery. Blai k Silk Mitts. Yankee Notion- v.
Bells and Belt Buckles, Hair and Clothe- Brush*- R,
and Fancy Combs. ALL colors Zephyrs.
Bonnets and Hats trimmed in the very latest S'.
York styles. Millinery Work done on short notice .
warranted to please. Bonnets and Hats shaped in
New Style, AC.
N. B.—l have added to my stock aniec lint „
Goods. Prints. Delaines, Challis. Black and (Y,.
Alapuccas. All Wool Delaines, Gingham Bleached M
liu, Plain and Plaid Nansook, Jaconets. A full | m ,
Swiss, Mull, Bobinett Laces, Black and White j l ..
Lace, Black, Black and White Dolled Lace, and a .
many other tliiags too numerous to mention, out,
north ot Cowles A Co. A Book Store, and op|j,j.;;.- a
Court House, Towanda. May 1,1-
SPRING ! SPRING! SPFI!\.
1 8 (i 5 .
Plt/ CE 8 N O IF WIT H/ X
THE REACH <> E ALL
1
T R A C Y & M 0 0 R K.
Are now opening a
FINE STOCK OF SPRING GOOII
Including a handsome variety ot
DRESS GOODS, SPRING STIAWIi
FANCY GOODS A NOT 10N -
A Good Stock ol
PRINTS, DOMESTICS, CARPETING- I
LADIES' AND GENT'S HATS
GROCERIES, BOOTS AND SHOE.*,
April 10. CROCKERY, HARDWARE, it
Ucal (Estate,
j PROPERTY FOR "ALE
The subscriber offers for sale his house and l it.-:tt
ted on the corner of Second and Elizabeth strw:-
I boiough of Towanda. The House is a large tv.
| house, with basement, near lv new and in com! G- -
| pair. It would answer admirably lor two famiiir.-. I
| lot is a corner one, well fenced, hiving a lap.-
of thrifty fruit trees upon it. There is ui>"n ti
ises a tine well of soft water. This property i
the inost eligible in the borough. Terms tn.'.Jc u-
March 25,1865. PHILIP SEEBII
R OR R K N T :
A good Country Tavern stand, with about -
live acres ot land attached, is being tit'ED up
ol der and will be ready to occupy by the tirst >
the improvements will be so lai advanced a- TO ■-
; parties to live in the house by the first ol April
j is two orchards, and two barns on the place, TIE
J for the rent required.
For terras apply to the subscriber, box 1 *lo . Fiiii
pbia. or P. D. Morrow, Esq., Towanda. Brad lord
I Penn'a.
j March 20, 1865. E. REED ITS
FARM FOR SALE!
The undersigned offers his Farm tor sale, coots
about 110 acres; about 70 acres improved : UNC-.'
good state of cultivation ; large Dwelling HOI.-C •
tenement houses : barns, and outhouses of A!. -
saw mill, wagon shop, tannery and tobacco (act- ry J
in good repair. Situate ill Wyalnsing township -
:Wy a losing creek, one mile from the river. G. ,
1 and schools close by. For terms, Ac., enqc
owner, J. T. STALFORD. on the farm, or to
H. B. M'KEAS.
March 27, 1865. Towanda. D__
POR SAL E !
A good Dwellin: House and Bam, situate ia
Boiough, enquire of
Towanda, March 20, '65. JOHN N. CALI
.financial.
CURST NATIONAL RANK OF TO
R ANDA!
OBSIGNATED DEPOSITOBY OF THE U. S.
Capital $1(10
DIRECTORS:
E. H. SMITH, I G. F. MASON, I JOSEPH IV', Tilt
;C. S. RUSSELL, E. T. FOX, 1 GEORGE ST/ V T V
E. W. HALE. IJ. I). MONTANYK, | O I>. BA TLEV
This Bank lieing a depository of tlie United
and in daily communication with the Treasury fie -
meut , affords to iLs dealers unusual facilities'"!
ing in Government Securities, or lor tlie PAYMENT
j tcrest Coupons as they become due.
A supply of U. S. Bonds and Treasury Note- arc
■ constantly on hand , and tlie officers of the Bank *:
ways be pleased to I Ornish any inlormation ICON;'
regard to the various Government Loans.
Deposits received and interest allowed a> usual.
Persons wishing to send money to any PARTY! ■/
own or the Old Country, will be furnished with T-L
i change at curreut rates.
E. 11. SMITH. PresiJ'B
N. N. BETTB JR . Cashier.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF TOWANDA
May 2,1865.
The Board of Directors have declared a seiiiis" ll '
dividend of live (5) per cent, on the old capita' -'; '
this Bank, and two (21 per cent, (earned since Ic -
on the new stock, tree from Government tax, PAY 1 *
and alter the 10th inst.
N. N. BETTS. Jr. G'-L: '
JF ©N K Y T 0 L 0 A N !
Money to loan, in large or small sums, tor •"-
short term of years, on good securities. , |E I
Money advauccd upon Claims again-T the T°' ! "
States. R
Persons having money to lend will find it to LFL
vantage to uotilv me ol the lact.
Sales of Real Estate negotiated and Couvey. '!"■•-
low charges.
Particular attention paid to matters iu the W
Court. ,
Those who have farms or dwellings to let. : 'UC , ,
des'ring to rent the same, will consult their urtere
calling on me. .
Abstracts of Title—without which no owner
estate should suffer himself to be— prepared witn
most carefulness. . IIMEI'-
Sales of property attended to, and responsible *®
found tor the transaction of business iu other . '
References when ro<|uired. oarOfficcone il'' o - .
of PATCH'S, up stairs, over the room formerly 0 '
by the Telegratili Office, Towaiida, Pa. IVR
EDWARD T. ELLIOT
Attorney and Counsellor A'
Towanda, March '2, 1865. -—'
IPOK SALE UHEAF.—A SHINGLE
chine of a very good kind. Apply 'TO WROS.
April 20, 1865. W. PAH"-