NEWS FROM ALL NATIONS,
—Details of the recent fire in Shreveport,
La., state that the newest, most substantial and
finest portion of the city was destroyed, including
all the largest and finest business houses and
stores in the town. The amount of damage is not
stated.
—Concerning the recent purchase of
property in St. Louis by Gen. Sherman, with funds
presented to hiui there, it is stated that in the cor
respondence between Gen. Sherman and the com
mittee, at the time of the presentation, he expres
sed his determination to make St. Louis his home,
and the residence purchased with the fund, the
permanent dwelling of his family.
—Mies Ann Farrell, a young lady of Col
umbus, Bartholomew County, Indiana, was riding
in a buggy, with a gentleman, 011 Saturday hist,
when the horse ran away. The young lady tried
to jump out, but her hoops caught on the buggy,
and she was dragged about half a mile. The horse
then ran into a mill race, and the young lady was
drowned.
—Gentlemen who left Little Rock, Ark.,
a week ago, report that profound peace reigns
throughout that State. Private citizens and sold
iers can travel anywhere without molestation. The
guerrillas have settled down quietly and gone to
work.
—Cyrus Rutterfi' Id, City Clerk of Indi
anapolis, was assaulted and severely beaten on
Tennessee-st., in that city on Sunday night, by a
man named Howard Stretcher. Mr. Bntterfield's
injuries are so serious as to confine him .to his
bed.
—The Democrats of Springfield, 111., met
011 Monday evening to indorse the action of the
President with reference to Gov. Sharkey of Mis
sissippi. But few were present. Maj.-Gen. Mc-
Clernand presided.
—Among the large number of Southern
ers who arrived in Washington, Thursday, is Her
schel V. Johnson of Georgia. The President is
again overwhelmed with applications for pardon.
—The officers of the Richmond banks
have preferred a claim for the specie recently cap
tured in the South and brought to Washington.
—According to the official reports, Mis
souri furnished 104,758 soldiers for the war. St.
Louis sent more than one-third of this number.
—The new steamer Twilight sunk on
Monday morning in the Mississippi liiver, near
Napoleon. She is a total loss.
—Davenport, lowa, was a good deal ag
itated over the attempt of a man to cut his throat
and pull out the tongue of liis wife at a hotel on
Saturday. They were strangers aud claimed to be
from lowa City. He had been a lieutenant in the
3d Cavalry.
—At a Commissary's sale on Tuesday at
Alexandria, Ya., of stores no longer required for
the military, one lot of pork was sold as high as
811 25 per barrel, hams 12 cents a pound, and salt
beef from 82 30 to 82 85 per barrel.
—The walls of a bowling alley in Cairo
fell 011 Saturday, injuring some 15 or 20 persons
among the crowd gathered to witness a matched
game. Several had limbs broken, and it is feared
that three or four sustained bodily injuries.
Danial A. Frenchman, who keeps a
semi-Copperhead restaurant at Springfield, lib,
was cleaned out by the soldiers 011 Saturday last.
The saloon was shut up by the Provost-guard,who
arrested the soldiers.
—lt is reported that Gen. Sherman has
purchased the beautiful three-story brick mansion
recently erected by David Nicholson, esq., 011 Gar
rison-eve., between Franklin and Earteru-avi s.,St.
Louis.
—At the Indian Council at Fort Smith
011 Tuesday, communications were received from
the Seininolcs and Cr<. ks. Gov. Pitelileyni, the
llebel Chief of the Cherokees, had arrived.
—A new Democratic paper is to he es
tablished at Madison, Wis., during the present
month. George Hyer, lute of Tin [TTseo/isin Pnt
rlol, is to be chief editor.
—The Government recently captured
830,000 in gold, 88,000 in silver, and 82,000 in sil
uer bullion belonging to the late .Southern Confed
eracy.
.—The Ist Maine Artillery Regiment,now
at Washington, has cast 900 votes out of 1,000 for
the I'nion Candidate for Governor of that State.
—A wood train on the North-Western
load collided with u freight train going north, on
Tuesday, between Sliopiero and Clinton, Wis.,ldli
ng one man. and smashing both engines consider
ably, 'J lie debris was not cleared away from the
truck sufficiently to allow trains to pass the place
of accident until 9 p. 111.
—Doremus Atawater, charged with the
larceny of the Andersonvilie Prison records, which
were sold bv him to the War Department, has
been tried and convicted by one of the Military
Commissions now sitting in Washington. His sen
tance has not yet been promulgated.
—II. M. S. Urgent recently passed over
the locality where the Great Eastern left the buoys
of the Atlantic Cable, but could find nothing of
thetn. The conclusion is that they have parted
,<\nd gone adrift.
—By arrivals at Honolulu, from the Arc
tic Ocean, we learn , that the pirate Shenandoah
captured 30 whalers in that locality, burning 26
and landing four. Ten vessels made tljeir escape.
—('apt. Griffin, commander of the post
at Andersonville, who has just arrived in Washing
ton, says that the bodies of our dead soldiers can
be disinterred after the first of November.
—There was a riot among the freedmen
at Hampton, .Va., on Monday last, which was
quelled by a detachment of cavalry. Twenty-one
arne d negroes were captured.
lhe statement that all troops will
soon be withdraw from the Southern States by or
der of the President, is, says a Washington cor
respondent, entirely groundless.
—The President has pardoned Menzel
Reed, who was recently arrested in Pennsylvania
011 a charge of treason, lie was formerly in the
Rebel army.
1 lie fire at Liverpool, N. S., 011 Thurs- :
day. destroyed fourteen houses, and the baptist,
and Methodiet churches. The loss is about forty |
thousand dollars.
—Major R. 11. Whitney, of Illinois, has
been appointed Paymaster General of the Depart
ment of the Clrio, with headquarters at Detroit.
—Detroit has been discontinued as a I
.State rendezvous for returning troops. All Michi
gan troops will hereafter rendezvous at Jackson.
—The prevalence of fog on Lake Michi
gan lias been greater this year than ever pefore,
and more disasters have resulted in consequence.
—llarry Leslie, the rope-walker, while
at bay field, C. W., a few days since, was assailed
by such remarks us 'Tie's the devil!" " Cut the
rope" Ac. The rope was cut, and the performer
fell a distance of twenty-five feet. He was then
pursued, and escaped by flying to the woods.
G. \ oloney Horsey, State Treasurer of
Ohio, lias been arrested for breach of trust and
z inla zzlement in loaning $50,000 to a banking firm
in Columbus. Governor Anderson has issued a
proclamation declaring the office of State Treas
jrer vacant.
—An army officer, who b ftH recently
travelled from Atlanta toH.avannah, reports that in j
every directum Lc saw teams ha.,fid vvith cotton
on their way to market,
§m\fm\ Hqiottn*.
Towanda, Thursday, September 21,1865.
ITiion State Ticket.
EOB AUDITOR GENERAL,
JOHN F. IIARTRANFT, MONTG'RY CO.
FOR SURVEYOR GENERAL,
JOHN M. CAMPBELL, CAMBRIA CO.
County Ticket.
FOR STATE SENATOR,
HON. GEO. L YNDON, OF BRADFORD CO.,
FOB PRESIDENT JUDGE,
HON. F. B. STREETELT, OF SLSQ. CO.
FOB BEl' B KSENTATIVES,
LORENZO GRINNEL, OF WELLS,
G. WAYNE KINNEY, OF SHESHEQVIN.
FOR TREASURER,
J. PERRY VAN FLEET, OF LEROY.
FOR COMMISSIONER,
STERN McKEE, OF FUANKLIN.
FOR DLSTRICT ATTORNEY,
WILLIAM T. I) A VIES, OF TOWANDA.
FOR AUDITOR,
GEORGE W. ELLIOTT, OF IIERRICK.
FOR COUNTY SURVEYOR,
JAMES J. NEWELL, OF ORWELL.
GEORGE UXDOX—TONNAGE TAX.
Before undertaking to correct the errone
ous impressions which prevail in regard to
Mr. LAXDON, and his vote on the Tonnage
Tax question, it is proper to say a few
words in regard to our own position and
action respecting it.
Before and after the election of Mr. L.
to the Senate,we entertained the belief that
this was an improper measure, and ought
not to receive the support of our Senator.
We advised him accordingly ; but lie voted
for it, alleging, that upon investigation, he
lound it to be right, and challenged us to
an examination to the subject. This we
had not done before, our impressions hav
ing been made up, as had been previously,
those of Mr. LANDON, and our community
generally, from the rumors circulated by
enemies of the measure ; and now, after
weighing the testimony, for and against it,
carefully, we are not prepaied to say that
we should have done as our Senator did in
the premises—for we do not know that we
should have been willing to meet the oppo
sition such a course would invoke—hut we
are prepared to declare that the facts of
the ease do well sustain Mr. LANDON in the
averment ho makes, that he did right—and
if our opponents have any flings to make
at us about inconsistency on this question,
we can only reply, in the words of the old
adage—"that wise men change, fools nev
er."
As a further introduction a good deal
could be properly said here in exposition of
the scandalous means resorted to by dema
gogues to array an acrimonious enmity
against Mr. L.vxnox, merely for the purpose
of getting political advantage ; hut this
would make our article too long, and we
may avail ourselves of another opportunity
to ventilate the plot entered into to run
down our candidate for Senator.
Then, how is it with regard to the Ton
nage Tax question ? Did GEOROE LAX DON*
vote away this revenue of the State, ov did
he vote to ratify a former contract the
State authorities had made, to discontinue
this Tax ?
When the Ponn'a K. R. Co. asked for a
charter to construct aR. R. from Ilarris
burg to Pittsburg, along the line of the ca
nal and its connections,which the State had
built at a heavy expense, the objection,that
it would interfere with and diminish the
business of the canal, and hence impair the
revenue of the State, was raised. To make
up for this supposed loss of reveyue, it was
proposed that a duty be laid on the busi
ness of the K. P. for the benefit of the State
—it was properly called a Tonnage Tax.
The Penn'a It. It. Co. accepted this onerous
provision with great reluctance, alleging
that no other road in or out of the State
was so burdened,that it would compel them
to charge higher for freight, than was
charged 011 other roads competing for west
ern trade, and that this would be ruinous
to them. The Company, however, made
the local trade, the business men along the
line of the road, who had grain, flour, iron
and merchandize to carry, bear this burden,
and by this means the Penn'a R. R. Co.was
enabled tc compete successfully with the
Baltimore & Ohio, and the New York State
roads, for the cotton, cattle and other pro
ducts coming east from the southern and
western States,
Much fault had always been found with
the management of the public improve
ments of the State, and not without cause.
They had been constructed at a cost of
nearly forty millions of dollars, al' borrow
ed money, and 011 which the people bad to
pay interest in the shape of taxes. From
these enormous expenditures little or no rev
enue accrued. It was alleged, until the
people believed it, that the revenue arising
from tolls on the State improvements, were
squandered in elections, and in enriching
partisan favorites. These corruptions in
creased, and with them, the complaints of
the people, until it became a necessity to
sell the public works. Accordingly acts
were passed by the legislature offering them
for sale, but being held above their suppos
ed value, no bids could be had. Finally,
the Penn'a R. R. Co. intimated a willing
ness to purchase the main line, running
from Philadelphia to Pittsburg, provided, it
could be relieved of the Tonnage Tax,
which was laid on the road, in consequence
of this line. The income to the State from
this tax was heavy, and to yield it up was
viewed as a serious question ; but it was
also a question of justice whether it should
be continued, after the improvements were
sold, in whose behalf it was levied ; and ,
especially was this a question of justice to
those tax-payers, along the line of the IT
II wiio had the whole of the Tonnage Tax
to pay. They insisted that it was an out
rage in the first pi .fee, to saddle the great
and leading artery for trade, in the State,
with such a tax, and that it mud be taken
oil', whether the main line of the State's
works was sold or not. The reasoning from
this quarter was strong, add the physical
pressure stronger still, and the State au
thorities, after considering the subject
carefully, concluded to sell the main line to
the Penn'a 11. R. Co. for seven and a half
millions, the minimum valuation,provided,
the Company would pay one and a half
millions of dollars more to get rid of the
Tonnage Tax. After much quarreling
among themselves, the offer was finally ac
cepted, and the contrai l was accordingly
ratified between the Governor, who was by
the law authorized to act 011 behalf of the
State, and the Penn'a 11. R. Company.
The Canal Commissioners, however, who
did not like to give up the places to which
they had been elected, aud the ernolu le-uKi
arising therefrom, sued in the Supreme
Court of the State, for an injunction to hin
der the consummation of this contract be
tween the State and the R. It Co. alleging
that it was unconstitutional. The Court
decided very properly, that portion of the
contract which bargained away the right of
the State to tax in future the tonnage, or
any other property of this R. R. Company,
was illegal, and, accordingly it ordered an
injunction on this part of the agreement.
The act authorizing the sale of the main
line to the Penn'a 11. R. Co. passed in 1857.
The injunction of the Supreme Court was
ordered in the January Term of 1858 ; and
in 1801 the bill came before the legislature
requiring the Penn'a R. R. Co. to pay nine
millions of dollars for the main line of the
State works, repealing the Tonnage Tax,
and saying nothing about the future tax
ation of any railroad. This was in all re
spects a simple confirmation of the old bar
gain, the price and considerations being
the same, but the tax was repealed and
not sold, and this was to meet the objection
; of the Court, it having declared that the
; State had a perfect right to sell her public
' improvements, and to repeal the Tonnage
Tax. This was the bill for which Mr. LAN
j DON voted, and about which such a hue
and cry has been raised. The amount
of his offending, was simply, that he voted
to fulfill a bargain the State had fairly
made with the Penn'a R. R. Co. in 1857.
The State had bargained away the Tonnage
Tax long before LANDON was elected to the
legislature, and if there was any wrong in
this, it was committed by the legislature of
1857, and not by that of 18G1. The State
could not honorably withdraw from the con
tract she made in 1857, if she had been so
disposed, and the people did not wish her
do so, for they wanted the public improve
ments sold, and there was no other bidder
for them. So what could Mr. LANDON do
but vote for the bill ? If A sells B a farm,
and there is a flaw in the stipulated con
tract, does that release either of the parties
from the agreement? No honest, or hon
orable man holds such a view.
But further. Betweeu the time of the
sale of the main' line of the State
improvements, to the Penn'a R. It. Co. in
1857, and the passage of the bill for which
Mr. LANDON voted in 1801 , the Penn'a It. It.
Company had paid no Tonnage Tax into
the State Treasury, claiming very properly,
that this tax ceased at the time of
its purchase of the canal. To this the Ca
nal Commissioners demurred ; and they
sued the company, obtaining judgment—
-1 we believe through default—for the whole
amount of the accruing Tonnage Tax. The
question now arises should the company
have paid this tax ? The Company has rat
ified her part of the contract, by paying
into the State Treasury the purchase mon
ey, and her bonds for the residue on which
she was paying interest. By her contract
the company gives one aud a half million
of dollais more for the canal she buys than
its owner valued it at, for the sake of being
relieved of the Tonnage Tax, and she
agrees to pay interest annually on her whole
indebtedness ; but owing to a flaw in the
bargain, the property she buys is withheld
from her, so she loses the revenue from it.
Then she is sued for the Tonnage Tax be
sides. Here the State sells her works, ex
acts pay and bonds—and interest on the
latter—then for three or more years collects
the revenue from the property sold, and
strives besides to collect a Tonnage Tax
she had bartered away ! thus taking pay
three times over for property which she had
parted with, and which therefore, could not
belong to her. Is this fair? What Com
pany, or individual would submit to it?
Yet Mr. LANDON is censured for not insist
ing upon such an outrage.
Take as further illustration, the case of
A and B already cited. A has sold his
farm to B, but a defect is found in the con
tract, difficulties are thrown in the way of
the consummation of the bargain, and time
elapses. Meantime B holds A's bonds and
the purchase money, and the farm into the
bargain. He uses the purchase money, ex
acts interest on the bonds, and collects the
income from the farm. Is all this right ?
Has B all the rights, and A none ? Could
B sustain such swindling operations before
the court of justice ? None but a fool, or
a knave will pretend it; and none other
will insist that the state should perpetrate
such wrongs on even a rail road company,
for which we have no sympathy at best.
Such is the true history of the Tonnage
Tax question, and GEORGE LANDON'S action
thereon ; and we ask candid Union men—
not copperheads—to examine the matter
fairly, and do our much abused candidate
for State Senator justice by voting for him.
LOOK OLT FOR DESERTERS. —Union men in
every township should be on the lookout
for deserters and skedaddlers from the
draft. They are not entitled to vote, but
are liable to be arrested, and punished as
deserters, and made to serve out their time
in the army. Those who left the country
after havintj been enrolled, and did not re
turn, are forever prohibited from voting in
the United States Of these two classes
our county has its share, and committees
should be appointed in every township to
make a list of these men, and attend the
polls to prevent their voting, and have
them promptly arrested. Do not fail to at
tend to this.
THE PEOPLE'S PARTY NOMINATION.
Our confidence in the patriotism, honesty
and good sense of Dr. S. 11. Shepard says
the Troy Times will not allow us to believe
that he will, for a moment, entertain the
idea of accepting the nomination of the
copperheads, under the disguise of 'People's
men,' which we are informed they have
recently tendered to him He will say to
them, as a certain gentlemen did, who was
previously offered the nomination : 'gen
tlemen, I am not as big a fool, as all that
comes to. You man make your beds with
traitors and lie in it, if you choose, I shall
not." We are well aware that many true
men were opposed to the repeal of the 'ton
nage tax,' Imt we take it that this opposi
tion is based upon principle, and does not
consist in ill feeling against any individual.
That issue was long since disposed of.
Greater questions are now for you to de
cide. The immense issues of the war are
to be settled, and surely, no true Union
man will allow himself to be used for the
purpose of distracting or dividing the party
w Inch, during the war, has been battling
for right and helping to overpower the
men who declare themselves openly for re
pudiation of our national debt now, and
whose whole aim during the past four
years, has been, how best to weaken our
armies, discourage enlistments, encourage
desertions, incite riots, resist tin- draft,
depreciate government bonds, in s!i >rt, how
must effectually to assist the rebels in arms
against the government. Upon all these
great living issues, Mr. Landon is sound.
\\ liy should not Union men, Republicans,
accept him ? When 'the farmer of Ashland'
was charged by his constituents with hav
ing on one occasion voted contrary to their
views, he replied to one of them—a hunter
—in this way : taking the man's rifle, he
said : 'Does your gun always go off, first
time V The answer was in the negative
'Well,' said Mr. Clay, 'what do you do>
throw your gun away I'—'No,' said the
man, 'I peck the flint and try it again.'
No one doubts the capacity or the integ
rity of Mr. Landon for the post of Senator.
If he is right on the living issues, shall we
thrust him aside at the bidding of Copper
heads, or will you 'peck the flint and try
him again !'
(From the Leßaysvile Union.)
HON. GEORGE LANDON-
It is with pleasure that we announce the
nomination of Hon. GEORGE LANDON, by the
Senatorial Conference held at Camptown,on
the 11th inst.
The nomination of Mr. LANDON was but
an act of Justice to the people of Bradford,
and that he will receive the undivided sup
port of the Union party of the District, there
can be no question. Mr. LANDON has been
a faithful public servant—the assertion of
the disorganizes to the contrary notwith
standing—and the Union party has always
found him shoulder to shoulder with them
in their efforts to maintain a position among
the nations of the ea. th. From the fust
moment the war began, Mr. LANDON has al
ways stood firm in the support of the Gov
ernment in all its efforts to put down the
Rebellion. Not only has lie labored with
his eloquence and influence, hut financially
has contributed as much as any man in the
State, according to his means.
We wish our readers to look at the class
of men who oppose Mr. LANDON 's election.
Take for example the Bradford Argus, whose
editor in 1862, then professing 1 to act with
the Union party ( but who for years had
been considered a doubtful customer,) bolt
ed, and with what little influence lie had,
went over, body and breeches, to the oppo
sition party. Still later, that paper hoist
ed the name of McC'lellanfor the Presidency
and paper seemed to change hands. The
ostensible editor was a man of known hos
tility to the war policy of the Govern
ment—the real editor—the sneaking rene
gade, who sold his birth-right for less than
a mess of pottage—professed great love for
the Union—for the Government—for Presi
dent Lincoln and his war measures,but was
most bitterly opposed to Mr. LANDON —one
of the ablest vindicators of the war, simply
because he cast a vote one time that did
not harmonize with the desires of this Ju
das, and he has been saying naughty things
about him ever since. We have no fears of
him nor his proselytes doing any injury to
Mr. LANDON, for he and his clique are as
far beneath his notice as the insignificant
cur that howls at the pathless course of the
moon.
We believe no intelligent man questions
the integrity of Mr. LANDON. His legisla
tive career presents & bold front, and stands
open for investigation and criticism. It
has been criticised, and a few disappointed
broken down political hacks have called
him a rascal but they have never been able
to prove it. We hold that every man is in
nocent until he is proved guilty—Mr. LAN
DON never has been, and as an honest and
injured man, he appears before the people
for redress. Let every Union man stand
by him, as well as by the rest of the ticket,
and success will crown our efforts.
FOREIGN NEWS. —The Cunard steamer
Asia from Liverpool on Sept.2, via Queens
town Sept. 3, arrived at Halifax Saturday
bringing two days later news from Eu
rope.
The offer of the Atlantic Cable Construc
tion Company to manufacture a new Cable
has been accepted by the Directors of the
Atlantic Telegraph Company, and the manu
facture of the new Cable has consequently
begun. Capt Anderson has accepted the
offered command of the Great Eastern
which has been engaged for live years for
cable purposes,
England is alarmed at the spreading of
Feniauism in Ireland, and it is reported
that the English troops in the south of Ire
land are to be re-enforced.
The reception of the French fleet at
Portsmouth was very warm and enthusias
tic, and at the banquet given in honor of
the French an earnest desire was express
ed that the two nations might ever live in
peace.
ASSESS THE SOLDIER.—One of the most im
portant duties devolving upon the different
ward, township and county committees,
throughout the State, says the
Telegrajili, is of properly and fully assessing
the soldiers in each of the election districts.
The absence of the soldier from his home
and his acquired right in the meantime to
vote in the field, rendered it unnecessary
to embrace his name in the assessment
made during the war. In addition to this
many of the soldiers have changed their
residences, by which re-assessment becomes
necessary. The 2'Jth of September, ensu
ing, is the limit of the time appointed lor
these assessments. This is a very short
period for the performance of such an im
portant duty, and we therefore earnestly
urge our friends in the various election dis
tricts at once to collect a list of all unas
sessed soldiers as well as citizens,and have
their names placed on the proper duplicates.
Every returned soldier must he assessed, or
lie will forfeit hit cote !
BE NOT DECEIVED.—Let no soldier be de
ceived by the negro equality cry of the
rebel home organs. It is a deception, a
cheat, a lie, and only intended to deter sol
diers from voting the Union ticket. These
copperheads tried to prevent all soldiers
from voting, and thus reduce them to a lev
el with the negro slaves of the south
Now they want soldiers" votes, and they
pretend Union men are advocates of ne
gro equality. They, like thieves, are tin
loudest to cry " stop thief" in order that
their crimes may not be detected.
HOW 00L. DAVIS WENT IN TOR PUTTING
DOWN RHE REBELLION-
The following choice extracts from the
JJoylestown Democrat, of which Col Davis,
the present Democratic candidate for Audi
tor General of this State, was ami is the
the editor and proprietor, are given for the
purpose of showing the sentiments which
were disseminated by that paper while he
held an official position under the Govern
ment which was so bitterly assailed in its
pages. As Col. Davis is now before tin
people as a candidate for public office, and
is desirous of receiving their votes, and
since he was undoubtedly nominated on ac
count, of his having been engaged in the
war, and therefore likely to be more avail
able before the public on that account, it is
but just that the kind of aid his newspaper
rendered the Government, and the sympa
thy it extended to its noble, illustrious chief
in his effort to crush out treason and rebel
lion, should again be given to the commu
nity.
An editorial article in the Democrat of
August 23d, 1804, when Col. Davis was
still an officer in the army, reads as ful
lows :
" With an immense army, a good navy,
and the ports of the Confederacy blockaded
we have gained virtually gained nothing
and will have gained nothing until we de
feat the two main armies of the South.—
The reasons why we have been so unfortu
nate are plain and understandable. Mr.
Lincoln committed himself to an emancipa
tion policy, lie hereby abandoned the war
for re-union, and made it a war absolutely
and unequivocally for the negro. " Slave
ry shall not live" was his motto. Beyond
this was an object dearer to his heart—his
own re-election—which lie esteemed more
than a hundred tin usaud lives. These were
his two motives for abandoning the princi
ples of our government and perverting the
war. For these purposes, and these only,
has the war been prolonged ; for these pur
poses were the soldiers massacred at Ouls
tee, and the army of General Grant defeat
ed ami toiled ; for these purposes lias anoth
er draft been ordered ; for these purposes
have elections been carried by force of arms,
and "bogus .States " declared in the Union ;
for these purposes have thousands been bu
ried under Confederate sod ; for these pur
poses have the torts and bastiles of the
country been filled with fearless patriots
who dare expose the profligacy of Abolition
and the corruption and despotism of Abra
ham Lincoln
" The people are now to decide between
this state of affairs and peace—between
the old Government and a new despotism
between the protections of our liberties and
the surrender of them to an arbitrary and
perfidious ruler. Peace ended with the ad
ministration of James Buchanan, and war,
i bloody, remorseless war, began with the in
auguration of Abraham Lincoln. We have
tried war for three years ; let us now try
to effect what the war has failed to do.—
There is no doubt that Mr. Lincoln has done
more to cement the States of the Confedera
cy together than any man on the continent.
He has pursued a policy calculated to di
vide the sentiment of the North and harmo
nize that of the South. Yet he has now the
presumption to ask a re-election. The ques
tion will be : Lincoln and his war, or the
Chicago nomination and peace for re-union.
" It is a mistaken idea that peace means
slavish submission to the Confederacy. It
means nothing of the kind. No Democrat
ever expressed his willingness to concede
to dishonorable compromise. We have tried
war and found by a sad experience that it
is supremely profitless, and that Lincoln
and his hirelings are incapable of manag
ing a campaign successfully if they wished.
Something must be done. The Democrat
ic party proposes, if we judge aright, to re
store the Union under the Constitution by
peaceable means. Mr. Lincoln has put the
prolongation of the war out of the question.
Our nation is almost bankrupt, and every
branch of industry is suffering for want of
men ; therefore are men called upon to join
the standard of peace tor re-union, and de
feat the party in power which is no more
nor less than a thoroughly disunion party."
Again, from a leading editorial of Aug.
30, the week after, we quote the following:
" The Confederates contend that they
have made an agreement with the Federals
for the proper and speedy exchange of pris
oners ; that they have faithful!v' observed
the provisions of it, and have* froqucntly
proposed exchange on its basis But Mr.
Lincoln says no. lie will permit the white
soldiers of the North to rot in the scorch
ing sun, and the Federal army to become a
skeleton, before he will agree to an ex- \
change which does not recognize his tyran-1
ny and court his despotic will.
"What is the consequence of Mr. Lin
coln's refusal ? The suffering of our ttrace {
and gallant soldiers. They are left to die
on Southern soil rather than relinquish the
policy of negr<> equality. The Confederates
are accused of inordinate barbarity, in or
der to conceal the despotism and criminal
fanaticism of our President. Let the sol-!
diers remember that Abraham Lincoln
made a solemn agreement for the exchange |
of prisoners ol war, and broke it, because |
it did not include negro soldiers, many of!
whom are runaway slaves of the South.
Lot them remember that all their sufferings
and privations while in captivity were:
neccessitated by the contracted policy of!
Mr. Lincoln. Let tliern remember that
their l ights, honor, and their liberty are
outraged on account of the negro ; and
done by a President of the United States.
"The negro is the idol of Abolitionism.
The whites may die in forts and prisoii
cainps, because the negro is not recognized
as his equal by the Confederates. This
fact proves that our present warfare is a
weak fight for negro equality, and negro
liberty. No evidence can be found that
we are fighting for re-union and the Con
stitution. The war is perverted and the
man guilty of the act presumptuously asks
the sulTVages of the people and <>f the sol
ers in the army. Let the people remem
ber him. Let the wives and children ol
the prisoners ol war recollect that he is the
fountain head of their sufferings ; and il
they become widows and orphans, that he
is the murderer. Let the prisoners remem
ber him when they eat their last scanty
morsel; and if the people of this country
are true to themselves and to our suiluring
soldiers, they will pronounce him a man
"Hated, despised, scourged by a twu-lold rod,
The scorn of millions and the curse of God.
The above is only a sample of the num -
ous productions of a like character that
have apoeared in that paper, during the
war, more of which may appear in our
columns hereafter.
COL- CAMPBELL AS A SOLDIER-
Referring to the efforts of the copper
head organs to destroy the md.tuiy and
manly character of the lai'di cuiid. itt<- 1 1
Surveyor General, the Johnstown Tribune
says the leopard does not change his spots
nor the Democratic party its tactics. Down
right lying has always been one of the main
instrumentalities relied upon by tin: leaders
of that par ty to secure success, and those
leaders will not now, in the day of their ex
tremity, forego their ancient prerogative.
To magnify the merits of their own candi
date for Surveyor Genera!, they have sim
ultaneously and by evident preconcert com
mended to falsify the military record of that
candidate's superior officer, Col. JACOB M.
CAMPBELL, one of the best officers that Penn
sylvania gave to the Union army for the
suppression ola Democratic rebellion \\ e
will not now reply to these fellows, but that
a tissue of vile falsliood may not go uncon
tradicted, we will state briefly the following
facts :
IT IS NOT TRUE, as alleged, that Col. CAMP
BELL resigned his commission in the army.
He was mustered out under a general order
from the War Department, his term of ser
vice having expired, precisely as hundreds
of other good officers have been honorably
discharged from the service. He could not
hade long or continued in the service as a Colo
nel had he so elected, the regimental organiz
ation being broken.
IT IS .NOT TRUE, as alleged, that Lieutenant-
Colonel LINTON led the Fifty-Fourth in the
battles of Newmarket and Piedmont, Col.
CAMPBELL himself gallantly and well led his
own regiment in both the battles-named,
and in every other engagement—with the
single exception of the affair at Snicker's
Gap—in which that regiment participated,
during the whole period of his three years'
service. After the battle of Newmarket,
Gen. SBKJKL personally complimented Col.
CAMPBELL, and in sight of the whole regi
ment.
IT IS NOT TIITE, as alleged, that Lieutenant
Colonel LINTON was ever one day in com
mand of the Fifty-Fourth before Petersburg,
or anywhere in thai neighborhood, lie was
not in one of the many brilliant engagements
which followed the inauguration of Grant's
splendid campaign against Richmond.
DEMOCRACY ARID THE SOLDIERS.
In the strong democratic counties of this
state, such as Berks, Schuylkill, York, &0.,
the democracy are careful not to nominate
soldiers for office. Their sympathy for the
soldier is shown only in counties and states
where they have little or no chance of suc
cess. lu New .Jersey tiiey have indeed,
put up a "General for Governor ; but he
turns out to have been a "General" only in
the three months service, and a stay-at
home daring the war.
As to the kind ot soldiers nominated by
them, they invariably try to find such as
were not remarkable for their loyality.—
Thus in Ohio a they are running Gen. Geo
M. Morg an lor Govenor, whose military
achievements may be summed up in his
surrender of and retreat from Cumberland
(Lap in 18fi2. As the government did not
want any other important points given up
to the rebels without the use of gunpowder,
Gen. Morgan was not called again to the
field, and he naturally drifted into the
Vallandigham Democracy and stumped the
State last year to prove that the war was
a "failure."
We are reminded of this more particular
ly by the nomination of Gen. Patrick on
the democratic state ticket in New York.
If we are not mistaken, this is the same
Gen. Patrick who distinguished himself in
Richmond, not many months since, by re
viving the old pro-slavery rule over the ne
groes, oppressing them in every possible
way and subjecting them to imprisonment
and torture under the old and extinct laws
of Virginia. His cruelty to the negroes
was so great that the government was com
pelled to remove him, and now he finds
his proper place upon the democratic state
ticket of New York.
THE ATLANTIC CABLE.
We have now the official announcement
that the attempt to lay the Atlantic Cable
will be renewed next year. Both the Cable
Company and the Cable Construction Com
pany feel sanguine as to the ultimate suc
cess of the enterprise, The Cable Con
struction Company have offered to com
mence at once .lie manufacture of a new
cable, and the Directors of the Cable Com
pany have unanimously accepted this pro
posal. The old cable is at the same time
to be completed, so as to have next suui
mer two perfect cables. The manufacture
of the new cable has already begun.
C'apt. Anderson of the Great Eastern has
received an offer from the Cable Construc
tion Coiupnay to command the Great Eastr
crn for five years in laying cables, and he
lias accepted the offer. Capt. Anderson
leels very bopctul as to the complete suc
cess of the next attempt. lie regards the
cable as perfect, with the only exception of
penetration of the gutta percha core by j
pieces of wire, and this fault will be care- ■
fully guarded against in the manufacture i
of the new cable. He, moreover, expects
to sail next year with a more efficient grap- i
pling gear, which in case of any defect be- ;
iug discovered will not expose the cable, i
while being hauled in, to the same accident !
which this year proved fatal.
The unshaken hope and courage which 5
the Telegraph Company have evinced in the
great trial through which they have passed
will challenge universal admiration ami
raise the warmest sympathy everywhere
for the success of their new attempt.
M.v.i. GEN. HANCOCK is sojourning i
with his family at Norristown. The hero i
expresses himself in favor of the election
of llartranft and Campbell.
Heal (Folate.
Farm for sale.--this im.a<
well known ss tlie Warner Farra, lies U
■ twp.. on tlie Susquehanna river, opj n," ■ "'a
jol Towanda anil adjoins landsot 11. i.. ' ' *-b
! Morgan, K. Cool Laugh, 11. Brown and ob:-',-. -
larm contains aunre 200 acres, of which atrial
ca-arcd. There is a dwelling bouse, two , a
house, and a large orchard of grafted fruit.
watered with never-tailing springs ol water I,'.
which is brought to the house, and is well ; [
a dairy farm. The dwelling house is les-, th Li 1
from Towanda Bridge. Persons desirous ol pu,, -" •'
' a cheap Farm near to a County towu, and pui,." c'S
lute, would do well to view this place, as it V
j positively sold at a very low figure.
bb\v. Ovthrov
j Towanda, Sept. 4, 1865.
N. B. The person who bought this pl ic- l 4 > ,
was unable to comply with;!he terms byrea on *
tiy the high freshet in the river. K , '
LWRM FOB SALE.—Fhe undct
X oilers for talc a valuable larm in fcuiithi, /h
Wood buildings, fences, (ruit &c. P
JOHN S. CALlpc
Towanda, July 10, lstio. Office over p ,
HOTEL IN TOWANDA,
FOB SALE.
Location, ori the south side of the Square, hy u le p.,
terian Oiiurch. Apply to W. A. l'ECk, office, p
Block, north side ol Square. May j-,;.
DSSIBABLB farm FOR SALE
Farm nes iu Wyalusing twp., one mile h. >la .
: lown, containing a bout 130 acres ; 'Jo acres ,m;.:
j with superior buildings, fences and improvemeuv
all kiud.-s. It has a Uue liui orchard, c insisting , .
pics, peaches, pears, plumbs, cherries, 4c.,
grapes, gooseberries, currants, Ac., in large quantitr..
ibUALS—>4O per acre, SJOOO down, the ut-sace
time.
For further information apply or adress
J. N. CALIFr,
Ollice over i'uaL oliice, Towama.i^.
Sept, 6, 18G5.—2m
: L'ARM FOR SALE.—THE SUBSf KU
: A otlers ins larm lor.saie iu the borougu ol lam.
vibe, and contains bJ acres, about oh acres im:, ~i
Willi a large Hweilillg House—a g.aid spring o t, .
near the uoor, a wagon-house, ham and shed I -
' Itrqt made easy lor the purchaser.
L. M. BTEVhij
Leftaysviile, Aug. 26, lstia.—lt
If Alt M S FOR SALE!
The subscriber oilers two Farms for sale, one ol i
acres with buildings, Jh acres improved, anil ,-pv
trull I all kinds. One of 50 acres,with log
improveiand splendid limber, all within three-ioi
ola uiiie oi Loioy. For lurther iuloriiiati in consul;
Leroy, July 24, lsGo. L. B. HARpj
miscellaneous.
TTNITED STATES INTERNAL BEY&
V.; NUE.— Notice is hereby given, that the A..
list of Excise luxes tor 1-vjj has ueen tiau
by the Assessor, and the same has Income due
a i,le, an i that the Collector will attend m in- i.
! Bradiord (in person or hy deputy,) at th.-
places hereiualter mentioned lor the purpose „ ... "
. tog the same :
In i'owauda, lruiu this hale till Oct. 2. AUe
' day, Oci 7, and Friday, Oct. 2u, at his office.
Iu Wyalusing, aouday, Oct. 2, couiuieii. uig |
p. m., and till noon on Tuesday, Oct. J, at •
' Andrew Terry.
In Lellaysvilie, Wednesday,® Oct. a , at J.
, ers".
In Orwell, Thursday. Oct. 5, till noon a-
Steveus'.
In Windham, Thursday, Oct. a, cow men. a- a
m.. at Hiram Sherrys'.
ID Home, Friday, Oct. 6, till 2 p. m., at f. -j ,
Winkles'.
In Athens, Wednesday, Oct. 11, commei •
m., and Tuursday, the 12tU,Ull 2 p.m.. at the Li
Hotel.
in braithlield, Friday, Oct. 1.1, till 2 p. u. at L -
A molds'.
In Troy, Monday, Oct. id, coiniiiehcingat i
Tuesday, the 17th, at V M. Longs'.
11l Canton, Wednesday, Oct. ic. at A...in.... ■
In Burlington, Thiusuay, Oct. IS, beta
of 12 and ii p. m.
Notice is also given, thai all persons who
pay the duties and tuxes asse.-.-cd u,
the time specifier, will be liable to pay lu ; :
dition upou the aniuuut tuereof. i'ayuieut L.. *
made at any ol the times and places mem. ... i '..
meats must be made in government funds. t• ■'
National Banks. 11. L. FLU IT, L ..c ;
13th District I'tr:,
Collector's Office, Towanda. Sept. j, lsuj.
rjOWANDA INSURANCE AGEY
H. B. M'KEAN,
Agent for the following well known and reliati-L
anec Companies :
NEW ENUI.AND INSUKAMCK CO.— Hartford. Com
ASETTS ut :-
KENSINGTON INSURANCE CO. - Phila 'i
WYOMING INSURANCE CO.MF.W.
Wilke-Barre, I'enn'a.
Capital and Surplus ... }i
ASSETS.
Stuck not called in ----.Si
Bids receivabl
U. S. 5-2U Bonus - - - .
Temporary and call Loans ....
103 shares Wyoming Bank fltock
•>o shares i'irst Nat. Bank at Wi.ke-B. *. .
70 '• Sec. " " *" - -
4ii shares Wilks-Barre Bridge Stock
Ileal Estate
Judgments
Hue from Agents and others - ■ 7...
Cash in hand and iu Bank - - ..is.
DIRECTOR?.
<!. M. Hollenback, . L. I). Shoemaker,
B. L>. Lacoe, John Richards.
U. M. Hoyt. Charles A. M'.ntt.
Samuel Wadharas, - O. Collins.
Stewart Pierce, Chas. Dorraace-
Wm. S. Boss, G.M Harding
<4. M. HOLLENBACK. PtuHß!
L. !>. SUOEMAKkK, I'lCi l'ltUC .
It. C- SMITH , Sec'y.
H. 1!. M'IVEAN. Agent, Towanda, Pa.
I.UZEItNE INSURANCE AGKXCV
.ETNA IXSLKANCK CO — Hartford,
ASSBTS IS
KELTON INSI-KANCK CO. —-Veto York,
CASH CAPITLA F : '
■MUTROFOLITAN IXSVHANCE CO.,
CAPITAL F
KOVAL IN'SC KANO'E CO.,
CAPITAL f lo.C'. •
LIVERPOOL & LOXDOX INS. CO.,
CAPITAL ...£">.<■
LIFE IXSL'II tNCE—CO.NNECTICI I JIVTVAL.
ASSETS 10.0 1 '
M* Policies issued for the .Etna, Fulton and '!
politan, and orders received tor Insurance upon :•
bie terms. B.C. NMITH. ASK;
Wiikes-B.aie.i
H. B. M'KEAN, Agent, for the above Conip."-'
Towanda. Pa. Sept 4
I AN ELLEGANT STOCK OF CLOTH
AT THE
READY MADE CLOTHING EMFOo
OF
GEORGE \V. COO N & <
We have now in our Store an elegant s• ■ \ ''
Boy's Clothing, manufactured by ourselves.
not be beaten in style, quality aud prices. V -
assortment of Furnishing Goods than can lw '
where. Call and see and examine before ! ' '
will be to your advantage, vou will liiui better -
at lower prices than anywhere else. Store N
ton s Block, one door south of Barstow A 'e re -
Store.
_ Aug. 8,1565. GEO. W.COOS S
mI S S II . c HU N T
Contemplates opening a School tor a limited ;
girls, on Second St., on Wednesdey, Sept. ti. I"
TERMS PER QCARTKIt.
Common Euglish Branches : -
Higher " " i. it'
French (extra) .! -
No extra charge for Latin.
School year of 42 weeks,divided into four efl' * '
Much experience, and considerable oppertinnw
observation iu diflerent methods o. tc.. YM- ■
Miss HUNT to offer her services to those interest'
a certain degree of confidence. Unexceptional !c re
ccs given it required.
Towanda, Aug. 29, 1865.
MOST IMPORTANT DISCOVK!^
INTERESTING TO AGENTS, KAHMKKK. AM' L ll '
We are making a single machine which "
best and cheapest portable Wine and Cider
dry est Clothes Wringer, and the most
Ja.k in the world. It is the only preaa lj
iug Apple Champaign, which is'now regaiakd
the must important discoverle-- ol he Ji'-
agent wanted in every county, to whom we
out such iuducements as to ensure FIiHHI More
mas. The lirst one making application iron: n>' T
shall have the exclusive agency. Full paitieiwu
etc.. by Circular.
Address HALL, KEE1 1 & Ut'n ,
Aug. 1!. 18S5. N0.55 Liberty St-J
p ENSIO N a -PENSION C ERW l' irA 1 &
X Cashed ou and after Sept. Ith.
J. N. CALIFF,
To wand. Aug. 24, lnjy. Office over"FoSt