NEWS FROM ALL NATIONS, —Preliminary measures are in prospect for the trial of Capt. Wirtz, formerly in charge of the Andersonville Military Prison. A large num ber of witnesses have already been summoned, and letters are constantly received from those who possess knowledge of the cruelties practiced on Union prisoners by this Rebel commander. —Returns of the elections in Virginia represent that in other portions of the State, as well as Richmond, the regular Secession candi dates have been generally successful. Encouraged by these results, it is said that the guerrilla chief, Moseby. designs being a candidate for Congress. —The Tredegar Iron Works, at Rich mond, have been leased by the United States to the owners, Joseph R. Anderson and his partners, who have commenced business again as iron manu facturers, these works being held by Government agents as confiscable property. —General Pleasantou is about to remove his headquarters from St Louis to Milwaukee. General Dodge will remove his headquarters from St. Louis to Leavenworth next week, and will take command of all the armies in the field operating against the Indians. The Memphis Argus 6ays: The pros pects for crops throughout Tipton County is ex ceedingly flattering. The growth of cotton is too rank, owing to heavy rains. Corn is lnxnrious, promising an abundant yield. Fruits of all kinds are plenty and of the best quality. G. St. Leger Grenfell, cue of the Ciiieug > conspirators, whose sentence has never been pro mulgated, though all his associates who were con victed have been pardoned, was last week sent to the Ohio Penitentiary at Colnmbus. —-The planters near the mouth of Red River have decided to let their lands out, to either blacks or whites, for such a percentage of the crops as is customary throughout the country. —The Huston Telegraph of the 20 th inst., savs that the report that 10,000 Missonriaus are on their way to Mexico is undoubtedly a piece of nonsense. The entire party is less than 100. —On tlio 13th ultimo two companies of the 78th lowa Cavalry fought 500 Sioux Indians and captured four of them. The Indian loss was unknown, but was thought to he heavy. —The terms upon which the War De partment has rented Ford's Theater are £1,500 per month until the Ist of February next, with privi lege of purchasing at SIOO,OOO. —An extensive and deadly cattle epi demic, wliieh has lately been raging in the Arkan sas and Mississippi bottoms, is reported to Lave been effectually broken up. —Bishop Andrews of Mobile has directed the Methodist Conferences to elect delegates to a General Conference to be held in April next. —A number of leading railroad men from the South, are in Washington on business connec ted with their respective companies. On Saturday night week Gen. 'Warren made a descent upon the faro banks in Richmond, under Gen. Grant's Late order. —Commissary Scott, at Slireveport, hav ing lost money ly gambling. recently absconded, SIO,OOO ill debt to Government. —Gen. Merritt's Cavalry Expedition was, at last accounts, progressing favorably on its way to San Antonio, Texas. —A Galveston letter of the lbth inst. says that tlie total amount of cotton in Texas does not exceed 50,000 bales. During the past month more than 2,- 000 army promotions by brevet Lave been made. They are chiefly in the volunteer service, and em brae.- all ranks, from Major-Grneral to Lieutenant. There are yet many more to be conferred. —A sad accident, from the use of kero sene oil occurred on Monday week, by which a young lady, living at Xo. 110 Madison-st., named Ann Shoot ts, was so badly burned that her life is despaired of. —Gen. 1 liomas has issued orders direct ing the arrest of Win. Galloway, and M. X. Faren son of Columbia, Tenn., and suspending Mayor Andrews and Justice Welch, for persecution and abuse of tlie freediuen. —Hudson, X. V., was visited Wednes day last I>y a gang of "roughs "from Albany, who ' inaugurated a reign of terror and enacted scenes I similar to those witnessed at the great boat race at I l'ongbkeepsie. Postmasters have been appointed for Columbia, S. Petersburg, Vn. Foster Hlod gett. a prominent citizen of Augusta, receives the appointment for that place. —The list of income returns, published in Chicago, shows that there are in that city 47 persons whose incomes exceed ?50,000, and 200 whose incomes exceed the sum of 520.000. During the last quarter the money or der post-offices issued orders to the amount of ?4x5,465 17. on which th < Government fees were si, 152 80. —Several ex-Congressmen from the South, arrived in asliiugton on V odnesday last on par doning missions. Among them is J. T. Harris of i Virginia. —The contest as to tlie Baltimore ap pointments was emled Wednesday last by the President, who appointed E. 11. Webster, Collec tor. —The Illinois Sanitary Commission has given notice that no more contributions to that or ganization are needed. —A million dollars, purchase money for ships, has been paid into the Navy Department since the close of the war. —The East Tennessee and Virginia Rail road has been restored to the Company by the military authorities. -—\\ hittlescy, the Treasury robber, was committed to prison at Washington Wednesday week. —The notorious Rebel General Dick Tay lor arrived at Washington Wednesday last. —Secretary Seward und family left Washington for Cape May Wednesday week. —Two young men were setting on a door-step in Springfield, Mass., the other day. j when a young woman, with an infant in her arms, j came up, and, laying it in the lap of one of them, bade him take good care of it, and left. 1 he States which elect- Governors this i fall are lowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, Minnesota, New.Jersey, Ohio. Wisconsin, and Vir ginia. —J. D. Putts, Esq., general manager of th>- Philadelphia and Eric Railroad, at Williams sport, has resigned his position. —The bearing of the deserters who pass through Washington is said to be very abject. The spirits of these poor fellows are broken by years of hunger and suffering. —General Richard Coulter, formerly col onel of the 11th Pa., Vol., is suffering from the breaking out of an old wound received in the Wil derness. The wife of T. E. Clark, of Pottstown, Pa., committed suicide last week. Cause mental derangement. —Mr. Pleasants, Pardon Clerk of the At torney-General, lias his desk piled with applica tions from the Southern States. ftoutfont Hqiortct. Towanda, Thursday, August 3, 1865. RAILROAD PROJECTS. The question of a railroad between Itha ca and Towanda, considered at a meeting iu Itliaea on the 19th ult., deserves further discussion. This is not a new project, but an old one newly revived, and entirely by the Ithaca people, though some of our | prominent men attended the meeting. That Towanda should take a lively interest in the matter is but natural and proper.— Should bliu urge lor ward the load with her money and energy it would only be an ef fort on her part to open up to her very large trade a rail avenue to the north, and (with further effort when that is completed) to the south. That the vast coal interests center ing at or passing through Towanda should feel a deep interest in any railway commu nication north to a market is self-evident, i That the Ithaca people should make a hold I effort to get a direct rail connection with : the coal fields of Bradford and Sullivan is ■ to them self-protection, as they cannot now | get this coal except byway of Elmira and ! Cayuga lake. The people between Ithaca j and Towanda arc all largely interested in | this road, as they never can have a rail i communication except by this route, lience its construction becomes a question of the ! utmost importance to them. Important as it is to the people along the proposed line, we may safely risk the opin ion that the road must have their active co operation to secure its completion within any reasonable time. They must not only assist it by giving the right of way, but it will be necessary to aid it promptly with money. The real estate owners along the road will be more benefited than any other class by its construction, and, unless they promptly render all the aid they can, the project will drag. To the Bradford Coal in terest the enterprise must look for the larg est amount of its aid to build the road to the State line at or near Waverly, and that interest in giving such aid as will secure the completion of the Pennsylvania portion of the road, should urge the New York in terests to extend the rail to Lake Ontario. The market at Ithaca alone will bo very small, and what our Coal Companies need J is to load their cars at the mines ami dump | them on Lake Ontario. Very little would | be gained over the canal route if the coal must be dumped into canal boats at Ithaca, | unless they have a ship canal from Cayuga | to Ontario, where they would meet the ves-! sols from Chicago, all the Canadas, the St. : Lawrence and Lake Superior, where an en- i urinous quantity oi coal must soon be used. Our Ithaca friends may n..t relish this s.. J well, but they must remember we now have j a canal route to all points east and west of I Montcy.uma on the Erie Canal, and that we - cannot sacrifice cur present route to secure one no better. The capacity of the canal north from To waml-i, we are assured by its managers, is halt a million tons in seven month's naviga tion, and this is a much larger amount than can he sent forward for the next few years. Though more may lie mined, a market at compensating prices must he created. There is no such market how and will not he fur some years unless the coal is sent to Xew ork city in large quantises. The ex pediency of doing this, in competition with other coals, is a doubtful problem yet to he solved. We can all readily see that the construction of the proposed road would work disastrously to the canal interests. Is it right to sacrifice those interests at all un til it is certain that a far cheaper routccan he secured It is said that the managers of the canal will not oppose the road, but they no doubt feel that it is prudent for all parties to consider the present necessity for its construction. i 1.-i there ami will there be sufficient ton- I nage to justify building the road ? Certain -1 ly not unless a much wider market is crea ted and demand for the coal found. About i sixty thousand tons is the largest quantity ! ever shipped from Towanda, and certainly the Barclay Company did all they could in i 1804. To say they did not, when theyprob j ably made a net profit of over two dollars j per toil, would be saying but little for their | business capacity ; for they could sell all they could get to market. To say that the four companies operating in that region can ship, in 1806, half a million tons does not i say that they can sell it ; and unless they \ can sell it they will not ship it. Our object in throwing out these ideas is ; to place the question of the road fairly be fore the people. With the active aid of all th' people along the line, and a reasonable I certainty of a sufficient market for coal to ! justify the expense, we are strongly of the opinion that the road will be built. II the Canal Managers could be induced to allow a rail track to be laid along their line south to \\ ilkes Barre—for which pur pose they obtained a most favorable char ter last winter, and which, we learn, could l>c done at small cost, and very little or no injury to their canal navigation—it would form a direct rail route to Philadelphia via the Lehigh and North Penn'a roads which are now in use up to Wilkes Barre. This would complete the great chain of road, from Philadelphia along the valleys of the Lehigh and Susquehanna to the Lakes,long since conceived by the hold mind of one of the best and most far-sighted railway men in the State. Trios. S. FERXOX, Esq., who planned the North Penn'a Road and pushed his Engineer corps into our valley, and after locating the road, by some management was supplanted by less hold directing minds who were content to stop when they reach ed the Lehigh. Then the building of the road to Lake Ontario from Towanda, would be only a question of time and that not long. The southern route would also give us a direct rail route to New York by the Lehigh Valley and Jersey Central Roads which would give us a much shorter route than in any other direction. No better or more valuable unoccupied rail route exists i>i the States than is the one from New York and Philadelphia up the Lehigh and Susquehanna via Ithaca to Lake Ontario. With this line of road the Lehigh coal would go east without opposing grades ; the Wyoming coal north to the Lake with no opposing grade of over thirty feet, and that only about twelve miles long. But we suppose the canal men would not consent at present to such au arrangement, there fore let us turn our whole attention to the road from this point north To Ithica, and thence to Lake Ontario. THE PKESIDEVT'S KK-( O V STRUCT IO .N COO ICY AS ILI.USTHATEU 111 THE WAJSH LVOTtM t llltUMl Ck. The Washington Chronicle fin article which we published in our issue of 29; h June) has undertaken au exposition of the President's re-construction policy, which, in our way of thinking, is not calculated to give a very exalted idea of the theory upon which the re-construction measures are based. That we may not misunder stand, or misrepresent what the Chronicle says on this subject,we give entire the sec | olid paragraph, which, among a multitude of words, sets forth in full the President's position on this subject. It runs as fol lows : As we understand his (the President's)theory on this subject, it is simply this : He holds that the treason and rebellion of a portion of the citizens of a State, even though constituting a large major ity, cannot destroy the political rights, under the Constitution, of those who remain loyal. He holds that ordinances of secession, and all State laws in violation of the Constitution, and hostile to the Federal Government, are simply void, and can af fect the rights of no one who has neither aided in their- enactment or maintenance, nor voluntarily assented thereto. He holds, with the early ex pounders of the Constitution—Hamilton, Madison, and Jay—that a State in its corporate capacity is incapable of committing treason, and hence can not be punished for that crime ; that those who have voluntarily participated in the rebellion are jiersonullg guilty of treason, and personally responsi ble therefor, but that the treason of A, B, and C cannot be imputed to D, who has not participated therein, and destroy any of his rights under the Constitution, simply because he may happen to be a citizen of the same State. The plain English of this, divested of verbosity is, that President Johnson be lieves that the treason of a rebel does not destroy a loyal man's political rights, nor that secession ordinances cau effect this, and that a State cannot commit treason, but its citizens may. That Jeff' Davis' treason does not now destroy Andrew John son's political rights, it was hardly neces sary to tell, and people may wonder how the President can believe any thing else.— But the reason why the secession ordinan ces of the rebellious States do not affect the rights of those in them who were loyal to the Union, is because the rebellion was a failure. For no other reason. Whilst the power which the ordinances of secession called into being was in force, it did affect seriously the rights of those living under them, as many can but too well attest, and so it would have continued had that power remained. The singular part however, of this exposition, is in the assertion that a State cannot commit treason, hut its citizens may. What does a State con sist of? It is made up of the peo ple. There can be no State without them. And to assume that a State in its corporate capacity can not be punished for treason, is calling up a dead spirit of legal fiction, to prove an absurdity. It is the old exploded theory that the "King can do no wrong." We know that the king has done wrong, and the American people will nut believe any thing else on that score. So of the rebel States. Xo one has assumed that these States in their corporate capacity could, or should he punishcd ( and why im ply such an absurdity? Nur has any one urged the general punishment of the peo ple of the rebel States, except the disfran chisement of those who bore arms against the government. Let us illustrate. Sup pose the Baltimore Ohio Railroad had conveyed Lee and his army from Harper's Ferry to Baltimore in one of that General's raids northward. This would have been clear treason, for which the managers could have been punished, and the road with its entire assets confiscated. This is a corpor ation, hut can have no being without stock holders and officers ; and in bar of judg ment suppose this company should plead that in its corporate capacity it can do no wrong and .can not he punished. If this be true, the legal consequence must he that the individuals who make up this company, can do no wrong, and can not be punished. And how would such a theory and such logic be received by the American people ? Xuw, we take President Johnson to be a man of good common sense, who cannot be led astray by such vagaries as the Chroni cle sets up for him, and is the last man to offer them as an apology for any public measure he may see proper to adopt. We are inclined to the opinion that the Presi dent started out on the rc-construction meas ures without any speculative theory on the subject. It was forced on him from outside pressure, and ho yielded to this more from necessity than any theoretical convictions. He was the President, the chief officer of the government, and to him appeals were made by interested men, who were seeking places and notoriety, from the subdued, re volted and now distracted States. These appeals,and the surrounding circumstances, combined to pursuade the President that it was his duty to do some tiling to lead the rebel States hack to their places in the Un ion. Upon this conviction lie acted, doing that which he believes to he best and right; and here it is where lie was led into error in his re-construction policy. We have the utmost confidence in hi* integrity to the Constitution, and believe lie will do only that which he conceives to he right. But he may err for all that,and we think lie has iii this instance, not from any volition of his own, hut as already indicated, from outside influence. At present, our government is in a tram sition state, and it behooves the administra tion to be especially circumspect. There is no past experience to which we can look, no light to iilume the path of duty in our present political condition ; and that which is done now is not only of great moment on account of becoming precedents for the fu ture, but because the safety and pcrmancn cv of the government ffiay depend upon this action. All men of experience have seen times when it would have been wiser to have done nothing, to have made no vis ible land-marks for coming time, because duty and action were not plain. This, we apprehend, is the executive's present situa tion with regard to the rebel States. It is not contended that the constitution has made any provision for the contingencies which now surround us, and we contend that it is not necessary it should. Suppose some other Providential calamity, had de populated the South as at present, and along with it had taken all their officers of tin- State governments, and then our Con gress a fid till the officers *of the Federal administration. What, in such an emergen cy, v\..n!d the remaining people do for a government. According to the Chronicle?* theory, There must be some recognized authority to or der elections, to appoint suitable persons to con duct them, to decide who are elected, to issne com missions,and to perform many other similar duties. There must he 'men temporarily clothed with au thority to conserve the peace, and protect the per sons and property of the people against violence and crime, until a regular government can he reor ganized. Home persons having authority must take initiative of these matters. Who shall it be ? No citizen or number of citizens of the State have the necessary authority. The old State Government is in abeyance, because every office under it has become vacant The Constitution has made no express provision on the subject. And yet where did this recognized author ity come frotu in the first place ? Where did the colonies get it after breaking away i from England ? Where do the people of the western wilds get authority for initiating territorial authority 1 Come, Mr. Chronicle, think. Is this power not inherent in the people'( And is not that where the consti tution leaves it ? That is the con stitution means our administration shall leave it, and that is where it ought to leave it. What is to hinder the citizens of Geor gia, South Carolina, and indeed all the reb el States, from calling township meetings and appointing, delegates to county con ventions, and from these delegates to State Conventions where candidates for State offices may be put up and voted in by the people 1 If the people of the Southern States are anxious for regular government this is the way to get it. It is the right, and it is the duty of the people of the States that went out of the Union, and thereby lost their State governments, thus to restore order, initiate a new government, and then make application for restoration to the Union. This application then comes with delegated authority, in which a major ity of the whole people have a voice, and not from a few interested aspirants for of fice, who slip to Washington to magnify the penitence and the anxiety of the rebels for the past, and for restoration to the Fed eral Union. This too, would obviate the necessity of exercising questionable power in appointing Provisional Governors ; and more than all, the interference with the elective franchise in the States, which the President clearly has no right to meddle with, would be avoided. If this course was pursued, when the rebel States made ap plication for admission to the Union, Con gress, in its enabling act could declare that no man who had borne arms against the government, could hereafter enjoy the fran chise of voting and holding office, just what all the loyal people of the country desire. Besides, while the rebel States were thus re-organizing themselves, the federal authorities could be learning the temper and intentions of its late euemies, and act in accordance. While all this would be in strict conformity with our system of civil polity, which holds that all govern mental power emanates from the people, it would save the administration much per plexity, and avoid much censure for the ex ercise of doubtful authority. A GROSS INJUSTICE REMOVED. —The Secre tary of War has ordered that "to secure equal justice and the same personal liberty to the freedmen as to other citizens and in habitants, all orders issued by post, dis trict, or other commanders, adopting any system of passes for, or subjecting them to any restraints or punishments not impos ed on other classes, are declared void. " Neither whites nor blacks will be re strained from seeking employment else where, when they cannot obtain it at a just compensation at their homes, and I when not bound by voluntary agreements; I nor will they be hindered from traveling ! from place to place on proper and legiti mate business." Ifcg- The Postmaster-General is gradual ly restoring the postal service all over tho South. Friday morning the mails left the \\ ashington Post-Office to be conveyed di rectly through to Richmond and Peters burg. Contracts have just been made for j service by railroad from New-Orleans to ! Canton, Miss., and from Canton to Jackson, | Tenn. Other heads of Departments are j engaged in restoring the civil machinery, | in accordance with the Proclamations of the President appointing Provisional Gov ernors. An exciting controversy is now pen- I ding at Chicago relative to the final dispo-! I sition of the funds of the recent Sanitary Fair. A strong feeling exists in the com munity in favor of the appropriation of all the money raised by the Fair to the erection of a permanent Soldier's Home, where all sick, crippled, or otherwise disabled veter ans of the war, from the Western States, may be properly taken care of. fta?" The last of the Rebel pirates—the Shenandoah—is reported as engaged in capturing our whalers in the Arctic Ocean. Eight have already been taken and burned, and it was expected that many more would fall her easy prey, I®-During a tempest at Hartford, Conn., on \Y eduesday week, the lightning split the yoke oft' the necks of a pair of oxen without injuring either of the cattle. A man standing near by was knocked down by the shock. COME TO GRIEF. A few weeks since, says the Washington Chronicle, nearly every Copperhead journ al in the country was busily engaged in extolling President Johnson as a Democrat, who was to unite the discordant fragments of that organization, and with it play havoc on the terrible " radicals," who were deter mined to rush the country into the jaws of ruin. The infatuated " Chairman of the National Democratic Executive Committee," one Mason, even weut BO far as to eulogize the President as the divinely-appointed agent of providence who should bring about tliis political millenium, whereof Ma son and his compeers would be, of. course, high priests. But Gov. Brownlow, of Ten nessee, has been making " abitrary arrests" again, and, is fully determined that both Copperheads and rebels shall obey, if not respect, the laws of the State. .Worse than that, President Johnson lias endorsed these arrests, and has directed that the whole military force be used, if necessary, to enforce order and obedience to the laws in the approaching State elections. What will Mason say now ? How will lie bear this rude destruction of his beautiful castle in the air ? As for the Copperhead journ als, they will howl, singly and in concert, most loudly and dismally for a week to come, over this new evidence of the despot ic usurpation which has destroyed free speech. Loyal men everywhere, however, will thank God and take courage. PERSONAL. —Gov. Curtin has returned from Sara toga, having been called home by the serious ill ness of one of his children. It will be pleasing to His Excellency's many friends to know that his short sojourn at the springs materially improved his health, and once more fitted him physically for the arduous duties of his official position. —Hon. DAVID REESE, died at Owego, on the 23d ult., of disease of the heart, aged 50 years. He represented Tioga County in the Legislature of New York, in the winter of 1857. —WM. M. BEETEM, Cashier of the Carlisle Deposit Bank, committed suicide last week by hanging himself. No cause is assigned for his self-destruction. —J. R. DRI M, General Ticket and Freight Agent of the P. & E. Itailroad, at Williamsport, was arrested last week, and held to bail in the sum of SIO,OOO for alleged deficiency in his cash ac count with the company. —Hilton R. Helper, of North Carolina, author of "The Impending Crisis of the South," has been appointed tax collector of the Third Dis trict of that State. - -Robert E. Lee, late Major-General in the Rebel army, is sojourning at the Clifton House, Niagara Falls. It is said that C. L. Vallandigham has also gone to the same place, probably to have a conference with the noted chieftain. —Gen. John F. Hartranft is talked of as likely to receive the Union nomination for Sur veyor-General in Pennsylvania. —lt iB said that Mr. Montgomery Blair proposes to succeed B. G. Harris as a Member of Congress from Maryland. —Gen. Sheuck and Senator Sherman are both reported as confident of success in the contest for the United States Senator in Ohio. —The lion. Schuyler Colfax and party were welcomed by the State authorities on their arrival at Salem, Oregon, on the 19th ult. —The appointment of Col. P. C. Ellmaker, ot Philadelphia, as U. S. Marshal for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, in place of Hon. William Milward, was officially announced on Saturday. —Gen. Butler forwarded his resignation to the War Department about the Ist inst., but was returned " not accepted." The Gen. is there fore still in the army. —The Right Rev. Alonzo Potter, Bishop of the Diocese of Pennsylvania, died in San Fran cisco on the 4th of July. Few particulars of his death have yet been received, but it is known that he was taken ill on the 26th nit., and in spite of the most unremitting care and skill he sank rap idly. —Captain Dean, who escaped from Har risburg while under eourt-iuartial a short time ago, was captured at Sunbury disguised as a uegro, and making his way to Canada. He is now in confine ment and securely guarded. —A. B. Slaymaker, formerly of Lancas ter, Pa., committed suicide at St. Louis on the 9th. He was thirty-two years of age, and com mitted the deed because of disappointment in love. —John Minor Botts is preparing an ad dress to his fellow-citizens of Virginia, urging ! them to vote for negro suffrage. —Lieut. Gen. Grant and family, accora ! panied by members of his staff, lefl Washington on I Monday evening week, on a brief tour through the north. The General and suite will spend a short time at Saratoga, after which he will proceed to the mountains of New England and to Halifax, re maining absent about three weeks. —Arthur Tappan, the venerable and well-known Abolitionist of former days, died at New-Haven on Sunday week, 80 years of age. The village of Bainbridge, Chenan go County, was the scene of quite a stirring little history on the afternoon of July if The dam of the large mill-pond up among the hills broke away, and the water in two largo currents, one along the bed of the stream, and another over the fields, rushed toward the village sweeping off in its course a house, a shop, sheds, carriages, furniture, fences; piling up lumber of all sorts against the bridge and residences. Mr. Packard's losses in wagons and livery are more than a thousand dollars. Mr. Van Zandt lost his house and furniture. Mr. Pettis and Mr. Phinney sufl'ered consider-1 bly. Beams, logs, broken furniture and boards were left in the midst of lawns and ornamental grounds ; several gardens were cleared out, aud admired velvet grass was enriched with unwelcome mud as by the overflowing of the Nile, but bereft of all its veidant beauty. Fortunately no person was injured. A LIVING DEATH. —Describing the Dry Tortugas, to which place it is understood : the government has sent Mudd, Spangler, i Arnold and O'Laughlin, a contemporary | says, in view of the magnitude of their crime, that a more suitable place of punish- J ment for these conspirators could not have been selected. The solemn roll of the waves of the Gulf; the silent and even ghostly air, or rather want of air, on these lifeless coral reefs j the absence of every living thing save the albatross and the | shark ; "the bine above and the blue be-1 low," in one unvarying monotony, save the ' infrequent visits of the hurricane, which | only adds terror to desolation—all these may faintly picture the far seaward homo of those to whom tho law aud the testimony have denied the boon of death. I Indian Troubles in the Far West Foot Lakamie, Thursday, July 27, 1860. One thousand Cheyennes, Sioux, Arrapa hoe, Blackfect and a few Uoniauclics at tacked Platte Bridge Station, on the tele graph road, on Tuesday This garrison numbered less than 250. The fight lasted two days and resulted in a heavy loss to the Indians. The loss on our side was Lt. Collins and one enlisted maji of the 11th Ohio Cavalry, killed, and 34 men wounded, 25 of whom belong to the 11th Ohio Caval ry and the 11th Kansas regiment. The Indians retreated to the west, tearing down telegraph poles and destroying the wire. A note was picked up on the battle-field, | written by a white prisoner recently cat turod on the South Platte, which says the Indians do not want peace, but are fighting for all time; that we had killed one of their chiefs in fight, and they are going to de stroy the telegraph, and that they expect reenforcements. The body of Lieut. Collins was horribly ' mutilated. His hands and feet were cut j off", his throat was cut, his heart was torn out, lie was scalped and had over 100 ar j rows in him. There seems to be not the slightest dis position on the part of the Indians for peace, 1 which can only be obtained by severely ; punishing them One of the Powder River columns is now j moving to join the force front Platte Bridge, which is following the Indians. It is stated that all the troops intended for the Indian expedition would have bee?, in the field long ago had not the contractors failed to deliver the supplies according to the terms of their contracts. The Freedinen in Missouri and Arkansas. A report from Gen. Sprague, Assistant Commissioner of the Frecdmen for the States of Missouri and Arkansas, arcompa ! nied by a number of other reports from ofli ! cers acting under his supervision, reached I Gen. Howard's Bureau Friday. The follow ing extract from Gen. Sprague's report shows the estimation in which he holds the loyalty of a large number of the people of the States mentioned : I regret to say that even now in Missouri and Arkansas wherever the power of the Government is not felt through its military arm, the negroes ~re still held and treated as slaves, and it is from these former slave owners, now violators of the law, from whom the cry constantly comes that "the negro won't work." The negro is frightened. He tears in some way he will be cheated out of his liberty, and it is my firm conviction that it is the settled policy of a large majority of former slave owners to accomplish by State legislation and by covert violation of the law what they have failed to ac complish by rebellion. In conclusion Gen. Sprague strongly ur ges the policy of leasing or selling the lands in small quantities to the frecdmen who have proved themselves capable of the charge, by their intelligence and indus try. He believes that if this course were pursued almost every freedman in the State would be sustained by his own labor and the Government thereby be rid of the expense it is now incurring by the issue of rations to the destitute. In Missouri up to June 30, 2,747 refugees drew 20,351) Government rations, while the frecdmen, numbering 249, drew but 2,379. The mon i ev value of the rations thus drawn amount ; ed to $4,871,36. Reduction of the Army. The reduction of our military forces is going on with a rapidity that would cause some uneasiness were not all the signs of the times so favorable. In the Army of the Potomac, the Provisional Corps, which ! was formed by the consolidation of tlie old I troops, had only a short-lived existence, I from the 28th of June to the 7th of July. ! That army, therefore, recently so powerful | and destined ever to be so memorial, no J longer exists. A week or ten days may be | consumed in the mustering out. Gen. | Auger's troops, emplycd in defense of the | works about Washington, are also being reduced to a mere garrison force. The cavalry in Virginia is to be materially re duced at the discretion of Gen. Terry. Slo cum's Army of Georgia is to be cut down to less than 10,000, and Logan's Army of the Tennessee is to be reduced to a few divisions. As organizations, the two great • Western armies will substatially disap pear within a week. But little more than one hundred thousand men will soon be left in arms throughout the country, nearly three-fourths of whom will be under the command of Gen. Sheridan in the South | west. The agents of the Quartermaster's Department, during the last week, sold over 10,000 mules and horses, and 2500 ambulances and army wagons, besides a vast amount of harness and other material. We may add, also, that Secretary Welles is reducing the Navy with corresponding vigor, and will ultimately bring it down from 65,000 men to 12,000 or 15,000. fifey" GEN. CAMERON, says the Lewistown Gazette, was one of the few men who saw clearly at the commencement of the war the right course to pursue to crush rebell ion. Had his views at the time been en tertained and acted upon—the raising of a million of men, and freeing and arming of the slaves—the contest would have been over much sooner. To Gen. Cameron, as j much as to any other statesman now living, I we are indebted for the final issue of the > slaveholders' rebellion. He has been al- j ways true to his country, and to the great interests of the Keystone State, and the people of that State will never forget his services. t&~ THE Supreme Court of Wisconsin has decided that the law of Congress re- j quiring stamps on legal process, in the be- 1 ginning or other stage of a suit, is uncon-j stitutional, and therefore void, and that the stamps on legal papers are not neces sary. The ground of the decision is that the imposition of a tax upon any proceed ings in a State Court is an invasion of the right of a State to regulate proceedings in i its own Court ; that if Congress can tax I these proceedings at all, it can lay a tax that will practically amount to prohibition, and thus legislate the State Courts out of j existence. ftwr STURTUVANT, who has just been elec ; ted Mayor of Richmond, was known to have been one of the fiercest traitors in that city, j I and takes no pains now to conceal his ha tred of the national Government. During the reign of the rebellion, he was a daily visitor at Libby Prison, where he encour aged the brutalities visited on Union Pris oners, and when the rebels fbd from the capital, Sturdivant, encouraged by Breck inridge, conoocted the proceedings for fir ing Richmond. He was elected by the votes of paroled rebel soldiers. AN IMMORAL POET.—AS an illustration of the result of a simple difference of opinion it may bo stated that the eccentric poet . hitman, was relieved from his posi tion in the Interior Department under the general order discharging immoral persons, his Leaves of Grass " being produced as evidenco of his immorality. Walt now oc cupies a desk in the Attorney-General's omce. fUmljanbije, & t . jJNTEK EST I X G T 0 A j j The *nb<crit>er would most respectfully tlie citiiceim ot Bradf< rfi County. *!,,] ■', g , i| kind," that he ha* recently purchased a,!,i . II ! ly refttUid the stand formerly ownerii,y r ■ ff and more recently by h. X. Krommn. and hi ' ' i ed an entire stock of new good*, pur ha-.-ri '' H * 1 the "caving in" of flic reliellion, whi h wii*'"' ••' I j to otter hi* *tock at mich price* a* will |, e 1 I entire *ati*farti ,11 to ail close buyer*. In 0*"" k, | : be found a well selected assortment of ' * *' '*■, 1 DRY GOODS, GROCERIES. * READY MADE CLOTHING HATS, BOOTS A SHOES CiIOCKRRy . I The motto will te "Small profit*, ~u j , o g ' nimble sixpence better ban the *1 w .|„j., , j? TERMS—Paytnentto he made on deliverin.' Please ramemiier the place, whi' h will j •• t known as the "Bee Hive Orwell, June li, lstia. 1,, jj _ BLA 0 K SI L K SIIA \y [ At the Bee Hive. B ROCHE LOVG A\l) Sl\ ( ,, [ At the Bee Hive. SUMMER SIIAWLs, Beautiful styles, at the Bee Hive. Mouli NI X G sIIA\\ L * I Finest qualities, at the Bee Hive. BLE (J A X T sIfAW [. 5 I All seasons of the year at the Bee Hive, PARASOLS AXI> SUN UMBKEf; | At the Bee Hive. LADIES' DRESS GOOM Splendid Styles, at the Bee Hive. LA D IKS' GLO TH , At the Bee Hive. LA D I E S' WA T E K PR OOF REPELLENT CLOTH, at the Bee lli ve . LAI)I ES ' CORSE TT * Be*t quality, at the Bee Hire. ('HILI)REXS' SHOES, GLOVES ■ I HOSIERY, at the Bee Hive. HATS OF THE LATEST STYLE* ' At the Bee Hive. 800 T S AX D SIIO E S Isirge assortment, at the Bee Hive. CKOCKER Y& GL ASS W\ i Latest Patterns, at the Bee Hive. TEA S ! TEA E T E E A J A E E TEAK T All kind-. Oolong. Japan. Young Hy*on. i, .r- . and Impelial Teas of all the finest tl'ivor- a ;i._ -. the la-t cr.>p, at the lowest prices, and warranno fkt a:- | DAIRY SALT, At the Bee Hive. . A GREAT MAXY GOODS THAT | WANTED IN EVERY FAMILY, at the Bee B COATS, VESTS AND PANTS. At the BEE HIVE, Orwell. Pa *S" Please call and see. L. H. BROSSCJ rrilE EMPORIUM OF FASHIONS J. W. TAYLOR, Is now receiving one of the finest assortment* ,:iL nery and Fancy Goods ever brought in the mark?: I sisting of all the newest styics ot Bonnet- Hake Caps the new Fauchon Bonnet, the Faust, r*.v: and Coburg Hats. Misses and Infants Hats an* * j Caps. All the new colors ot Bonnet Ribbon? Mas: the Lake, the new shades of Green, Purple •ni*-' A large stock of Ribbons, Trimmings and Drat 7" tilings. All styles of Hoop Skirts, Duplex. Mululen and Corset Skirt. Silk Umbrellas and Parasol?, 5- i Linen, Hem Stitched and Embroidered Handkeri'- Chenelle Head Dresses and Silk Nets. A Finei*" meat of Kid Gloves, French Corsets, Plain Lines.t I broidered and Valencia Collars, Linen Thread n | Smyrna Edging, Dimity Bands and Rnfflinj, Enbroiit ing and Tacked Edgings. A good assortment of Glue I and Hosiery. Black Silk Mitts. Yankee Notion?A* Belts and Belt Buckles, Hair and Clotues Brushe? ic I j and Fancy Combs. All color* Zephyrs. Bonnets and Hats trimmed in the j very latest Sr* : j \ ork styles. Millinery Work done on short not *■ ; warranted to please. Bonnets and Hats shaped - New Style, Ac. N. B.—l have added to my stock unite line : * Goods. Prints, Delaines, Challis, Black and C■ * i Alapaccas. All Wool Delaines, Gingham, Bleached Y' lin, Plain and Plaid Nausook, Jaconet*. Afu - * ' Swiss, Mull, Bobinett Laces, Black and Whiteie" ! Lace, Black, Black and White Dolled Lace, and many other things too numerous to mention, one d> north of Cowles A Co.'s Book Store, and opposite '•'* Court House, Towanda. May L gPIX XI X O wII E ELS! \v II OLE SA L E A X D R ETA IL To the citizens and farmers of Bradford and counties : The subscriber would respectfully iuno o * that he is prepared to furnish them with WOOL-WHEELS, FLAX-WHEELS, WHEEL-HEADS, SNAP-REELS, SWIVES, FLIERS, £C-> 41 In short everything connected with the Home facture ot Woolen and Linen (ioods. in Merchants wishing to purchase to sell ag*'"'*, please address by mail, when list of prices will l*'* *ll gooi}s packed in shipping order. bj N. B. Particular attention is called t the "O* 1 ;,,. Wheel-Head," an article far superior to any now u> ll All articles warranted to give entire satisfaction. C'.M. CBANDAhK Montrose, Pa., June 10,1805.
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