NEWS FROM ALL NATIONS. —Suit has been brought against Maj- Gen. Woods, commanding the department of Ala bama, by A. C. H. Dexter, for false imprisonment on the charge of stealing Government cotton.— Damages laid at $500,000. —Judge Stanbury, of Ohio, and E. E. Otis, of Nashville, are counsel for the Government: Benjamin F. Butler, Judge Campbell, and others, are counsel for the claimant. The case will be tried at Mobile. —At Crittenden, Ky., on Wednesday, a circus exhibition was very nnespectedly changed to a tragedy. A party of seven or eight men asked admittance, but for some reason were refused.— They then fired revolvers into the interior of the circus, killing James Robinson and wounding two other performers. Heveval of the audience were also wounded. The cowardly murderers made their escape. -■ —Along the line of the Nashville and Decatur Railroad, between Columbia and Pulaski, during a thunder-storm last week, a half mile of the telegraph wires was melted, and divided into small lragments, irregular in shape, and many ol theni no larger than a buckshot or a small rifle balL The glass insulators were fused,and the poles were shivered into fragments. —A letter from Detroit states that Gen. Cass is failing fast. The veteran statesman passes most of his time in sleep, undisturbed. At rare intervals he wakens up sufficiently to ask for some of bis old friends, who are sent for : but on arri ving, even within the hour, he is generelly asleep again. His disease is softening of the brain, ne is 5)7 years of age. —A case has been tried before a full jury of negroes at Murfreesboro', Tenn. A freedinan threw a stone at another l'rcedmen, who retaliated iu kind, striking his assailant in the head and in flicting a severe wound. The injured man died, and the matter was brought before the Freedmen's Bureau, and a trial was had, with twelve froedmen for jury. —James Glennau was executed at Eliz-; abeth, N. J., Thursday, in the presence of a large j concourse of spectators,for the murder of his wife. Glennan made a full confession of Lis guilt, which tallied with the evidence adduced on his trial. The murderer was a native of Brooklyn, Kings County, j and was 30 years of age. —A canvass of the difftrent departments j of the government has been instituted, to ascertain the number of employes who honorably served in i the Union army, with a view to the discharge of incompetent clerks and tho>ppointment of ex-sol- 1 diers and sailors. —Charles 11. Golden, in jail at Newbury port, Mass.. on the charge of burglary, states that [ be was cognizant of the murder of Dr. Burdell, iu New York City, some years ago, and was himself ! offered $20,000 by Mrs. Cunningham to commit the deed. —Gen. Fisk reports that all through Ten nessee his order of cleanliness among the freed- | men is being carried out in a very efficient manner, in anticipation of cholera. The negroes of Mem- j phis have subscribed SIO,OOO for building a hospit- ] al there for their own use. —A can of nitro glycerine was discover-1 ed the other day at St. Louis, on board a boat about to start for the Territories. It was inclosed ■ iu a box, aud marked "varnish, and directed to a mercantile firm iu Montana. The negro recently arrested at Bowling Green, Ky., on the charge of murder, was taken from the jail on the 21th inst., by a mob of two j hundred men, and liung. —The Pittsfcon Gazette- announces the fail-1 tire of A. N. Mevlest & Co., of Scranton. Liabili- 1 ties SIOO,OOO. —The officers of Pittston, l'a., announce that there i. not an unlicensed grogshop in that borough or township. —A maiden lady in Chester county recent ly died in apparently extreme poverty. Over a thousand dollars in coin was found hoarded up in the house. —The cattle disease in Montgomery coun ty is decided to be pleuro pneumonia, and not rin derpest. Pnsoy\Viekersham,of Coatesville, com mitted suicide by drowning herself on Saturday night last. Evans Lewis, of Chester county, died last week, of obesity, lie was 17 years obi and weigh ed 381) pounds. It required six men for pall-beav ers, and the gravo was three feet wide. —A young man named Joseph Faust,near Orwigsburg, Schuylkill county, while feeding cat tle iu the barn, fell from the lray-mow into the fod der-gang, and broke his neck. —lnformation is wanted of Orange P. Whitney, who was taken prisoner August 21st 1801, at the Weldon Railroad, and was taken to Belle Island, and was there until near October fol lowing. since then his friends have not beard any thing of him. Any one knowing anything con cerning him will confer a great favor by giving such information to his wife, Ellen L. Whitney, at Ilop bottom, Susquehanna Co., Pa. —The experiment of manufacturing paper from wood, has beeu entirely successful, near Phil adelphia. A poplar tree standing on the hill side, was converted into clear, white paper in five hours. —Ex-Governor Johnson has been appoin ted collector of Internal Revenue in Pittsburg.— He supports "my policy," or "Moses" in his rushes. --John Piper, an old citizen ofNewville, Cumberland county, fell dead ou Saturday last. —A pair of horses died a few days ago, in Greenville, from eating the bark of a locust tree to which they were tied. —A boy was scalded to death by steam near Pittsburg, on Saturday last, while inside of a boiler, for the purpose of cleaning it. —A Catholic Seminary is about to be erected iu Philadelphia for the education of Cath olic priests. Accommodations will be made for 300. —The Pittsburgers arc rejoicing over a sprinkling cart,, to paste down the black dust of their streets. —The Lehigh Canal Company has leased the Delaware Division Canal, and will consolidate the two lines, making a continuous water commu t ideation from Mauch Chunk to Philadelphia. —A man stricken with paralysis was burned to death on Dennis Run Inst week. His wife was absent, and his little daughter, on build ing a fire, poured a quantity of kerosene ojl into the stove, which of course, set tLe house on five. —The proceeds <>f two days' sale of works of art at auction, in Philadelphia, last week, were up wards of $40,000. A dry goods side in that city, of over $700,000 is also reported, being the lar fit single sale ever held in the United States. -Colonel James \\ orrel, of llarrisburg '•lns Is-eii appointed Commissioner to superintend the opening of tLe darns in the Susquehanna river and its tributaries, for the free passage of fish, in pn rsuanee of the act paused at the last session of the Legislature. -—Depositors iu tlie tank af Crawford 4 trmity arc being paiil off. The holders of nolea ' are advised not to part with them at too great a discount. ftolilfowl JgejWEtCl. Towanda, Thursday, May 8, 1866. TIIK ItEBELS A\D THE LOYAL BLACKS. In his speech justifying Congress for en franchising the hlackmeu of the District of Columbia, Senator Landon made some good points. In comparing the conduct during the war, and the present position of Robert E. IJOC with that of Robert Small, the slave, who took the vessel he pilotted for the reb els, at great personal risk, to our side, and managed it lor the government, doing us and our cause signal service, our Senator presents a marked contrast, strongly favor ing the blackuian ; yet he, with his heroic services, and the evidence he therein gives of manly intelligence, is denied the rights of citizenship, while the double-stained traitor and perjurer Lee, who received his military education from the government, and had sworn to defend it against inva sion and rebellion, joined hands with the enemies who would destroy it, and unmind ful of his obligations, disregarding his oath, he did the government and our peo ple more damage than any other mau in the Confederacy, and with this stain of bold, undeniable treason resting against him, he is again a citizen and voter in Vir ginia. He, and such as he, may again be law-makers ; and some of his villianous eoadjutators are now managing for admis sion, complaining bitterly of the injustice done them in the refusal given thus far by Congress. In all candor, is the idea of re warding these unpunished traitors with such high honors, not horrible ? What no tion of right can men have who favor such a step '( and what safety is there in the fu ture ? Col. White, the State Senator from ltidi auna, who was taken prisoner and confined in a dungeon in Libby prison for many weary months, and whoso absence'.froiu the Senate enabled Heister Clymer, and his copperhead allies, to hinder organization for half a winter at a heavy expense to the State, by a tie vote, lias still the marks of the teeth of the lilood-houuds, that were Bent after hint, oil his limbs. It is well known that the Col. burrowed his way out of Libby by a very tedious process, and when lie got out blackmen met him at mid night, gave him food, and carried him forty miles towards our lines, by bundling up in a load of straw. But the fiendish pursuers with their bloodhounds re-captured him, thrust candles into his face with the pleas ant announcement, " you damned yankee, you didn't succeed, did you ?" Now, the the scoundrels, who perpetrated these inhu man outrages White, are voters and helped to send rebel vidians as deeply stained with barbarity and treason as them selves, to make laws for our country, while the devoted, loyal blacks, who divided their crust of bread with our hero, and at great exposure carried liirn many miles on his way, have not only no privileges under the Gov. ernment they thus heroically served, have no acknowledgment even for their timely aid in the country's great peril ; but are, on the contrary, to be left to the mercy of their relentless, vicious masters and enemies, who are threatening them with summary ven geance for the very help they extended to us. In the name of all that is right, should this be allowed ? Nor is it alone for the true and dutiful that beirieiided Col, White, that we ask protection ; thousands upon thons ands of black men in the South did similar service during the whole war ; and the whole race seemed ever ready to aid our cause, and befriend our soldiers. But a misguided President, the enemies of the country, aud the enemies of the blacks, are i threatening to combine for the re-enslavc ment of the oi the one and the lasting dis | grace of the other. \V ill the loyal voters I of the land, the heroes who saved our na ! tion, allow such an infamous consumation? i W'e cannot believe it. LOYAL KENTUCKY AMI llKit LOYAL. FREEDXEII. j The following official report of the Spec i ial Inspector ol the i'reudmen's Bureau lor I Kentucky and Tennessee, has been trans ' rnitted to Congress by Gen. Howard. It I embodies facts with which every citizen | should be made familiar, because they l bear directly on the questions involved in i the passage of the vetoed Freednian's Bu ! rcau, and the Civil Rights bills, going far towards establishing the absolute necessity there exists for these measures, and 4 the ! great wrong that was inflicted on the coun ! try by their rejection by the President. CTENERAX :— ln compliance with instructions re ! caved from the Department, directing nie to pro i ceed to the city of Lexington, Ky., to examine into ! the condition of the freedmen in that part of the State, I have the honor to report that 1 visited Lexington and vicinity, and prosecuted my inves ! tigation for the period of about one month, adop ting the following method : In all cases of extreme j cruelty to the freedmen, I have relied upon the 1 best and most trustworthy evidence I could pro j cure, taken under oath. In regard to minor acts | of cruelty, either to persons or property, and in reference to the economical, social and moral con dition of the race, 1 have been controlled by per sonal observation, aided by information received from intelligent and trustworthy sources. From the depositions taken by me and herewith transmitted, I nave complied tlio facts in the more extreme cases of cruelty and outrage for reference, and make the same a part aud parcel of my report. An examination of the sworn evidence, or the ab stracts made therefrom, will reveal to you f>o cases of outrage, in a limited district and period, unpar- 1 alleled in their atrocity andfiendishnoss—cruelties for which, in no instance, as developed by the tes timony, is there the least shadow of excuse or pal liation. You will observe I have been able in most in stances to give you the names <>f the injured ; in many, the names of the offenders, with dates and localities. I have classified these outrages as follows : Twenty-three cases of most severe and inhuman beating and whipping of men, -JL of beating and shooting, 2 of robbing and shooting, 3 of robbing, 5 nun shot and killed, 2 shot and wounded, 4 beaten to death, 1 beaten and roasted, 3 women assaulted and ravished, 4 women beaten, 2 women tied up and whipped until insensible, 2 men and 3 families beaten and driven from their homes and their property destroyed, 2 instances of burning of dwellings and lof the inmates shot. Of these vic tims 12 men were Union Soldiers and 3 yopiepthe wives of Union soldiers. And yet I regret to say that tliese cases consti tute but a portion of the catalogue of cruelties. I heard of quite n number of additional cases, but did not succeed in obtaining the proof, for want of time and proper facilities. White men, however friendly to the freedinen, dislike to make deposi tions in these cases, for fear of personal violence. The same reason influence the black ; he is fear ful, timid and trembling. He knows that since he has been a freediuan he Jia. lint ill) to this time hail the prt -tectiou ot'either tti i ..AMI JX b' .4e rvuue ■ i :ties , that there is no wato enforce his rights or redress his Wrongs. T® eivil ,iv - lorities! will give him DO rcMef, and this depaitm- tnp to tfcis writing has been power less. Of the offenses reported there has been but one arrest by the civil authorities, ana that was a ease of murder, the murderer released on ligiit bail, and now at large, no effort having been., made to bring him to trial. The arm of civil law has, however, been brought in requisition quite recently to release d protect Senders. On the night of the 16th of February, 1806, a gang of white men, residents of Bath County, en tered the house of Jos. Balls, a person who has been a freedmen for several years—liumble ayd in offensive ami -much rApected— tho owner of 40 nuxo of land - and beat and most horribly wan gled him ; his body was Buret'"open, his in testifies protruding. He lingered two days in agony and died. At the same time they set upon another old colored man, named 'i'haeker, who was at the house of Bails boating him for sown time, putting out an eye, and then very deliberately placed him over tho fire, roasting him first upon one side and then upon the other. I T pou the same night, as is presumed, by a portion ol the same gang, an attack was made upon the house of Tate Burns, about four miles from the residence of Balls. Burns was a most exemplar}' man, and preached the gospel, and they robbed him of Iris bacon, money and clothing, shot him in the head, severely wounding him, vmd there in his presence ravished his wife. Two other colored persons, who were at the house of Burns at this time, Were severely beaten, and one of them shot in the head. Two of the offenders were arrested by the Agent of the Frc oilmen's Bureau of Bath County, uml whilo removing them for safe keeping to a military camp, a writ of habeas corpus was issued by Judge Hepperson of Montgomery County, and the men discharged and set at liberty, ho holding that the Freedmen's Bureau in is no le gal existence in Kentucky, and that the writ of habeas corpus is not suspended in this State. These views are sought to be impressed upon the people by the leading men, and are the source ol much difficulty. The fact should he impressed upon tho minds of the people; not only that the Bureau has a le gal existence in Kentucky, but that it has also a real one. It does me pleasure to report that the freedmen exhibit an earnest desire for education. One of the most humane and excellent gentle men of Lexington, long a resident of Kentucky, told me he was astonished to see such an intense desire for information, and that he thought tho lree.l children v.ere learning faster than the whites of the same age. Persons at tho age of 50 are learning to read and write. In Lexington they are well provided with schools but sadly deficient in country places. In some of the counties there are organized bands of men called "rangers," "moderators," "nigger killers," w'uo have driven the froedmen en tirely ont of certain sections, and begin, at least, to threaten and intimidate Union white men. In the City of Lexington the iicediueu receive fair wages, and this is the case, I think, in some other sections; but there are counties and portions of counties where they are forced or intimidated to work as low as $6 or -r i a month, and in other counties induced to work without a stipulated price. Iu Jessamine County alone are contracts to any extent brought under the supervision of the agents of the Bureau, and there rt3 beneficial ef fects is beginning to be t'elt by all interested. Until the system is fairly carried out, there will continue to be a great amount of oppression and iiijnsticc. A thorough organization of this department in the Lexington Sub-District of Kentucky is uiso necessary in man}- parts, to protect those truly loyal and humane citizens who would gladly do much to aid tho freedman in his present trying sit uation, but are now intimidated by local prejudices or the fear of personal injury. .Respectfully submitted. (Signed.) P. BOXESTED, Special Inspector for Kentucky and Tennessee. Lexington, March 5, 1806. A true copy, U. S. BISIOWN, C'apt. and Asst. Adj.-Gen. FR 031 WA SII INi r TON. WASHINGTON, D. O. April ' 26, 1806- It has became a well settled convic tion, that an uncompromising and irrecon cilable political difference, now exists be tween President Johnson and the Republi can Party as expressed through its repre sentatives in Congress, upon questions vi tally affecting the interests of the loyal masses who yielded a cordial and ungrudg ing support to the administration of Mr. Lincoln in the suppression of tho rebellion, in the permanent settlement of all the issues direct and collateral, which operated to plunge the Country into the terrible intes tine war through which we have just pas sed. The nucleus of a new party based upon tlic President's reconstruction theory, has boon made up here, to promote in all its ramifications throughout the Country,tlie organization of a general political move ment by the professed adherents of his pol icy. Before proceeding to build up a centre around which the friends of the new party doctrines are to rally, it. became necessary to call into council at the National Capitol, some of the chiefs in this grand scheme to capture a President from the party to whom he owes his election, and betray him with the interests of the Country into the hands of the enemy. The grand council after sev eral appointments and postponements,carne off a few weeks since, and sucli an exhibi tion of fossilized, defunct politicians as it brought together was never before witness ed here or elsewhere. As the head of the central organization, which they have named (or rather misnamed) "The Centra! Nation al Johnson Union Club," stands Montgomery Blair. Penn'a was represented at the first grand demonstration of the organization by Ex.-Gov. Wm, V. Johnson, and Senator Cowan, both of whom made speeches on the occasion. The avowed object "is to save the President from falling into the hands of the Copperheads." This new party though its machinery is to nominate candidates for state, district,, and county offices, to bo supported at the approaching election. In Pennsylvania it is understood that Col. Richard Coulter of Westmoreland county,has consented to offer himself up as a sacrifice, to be ground be tween the upper and nether millstones of Republicanism and Democracy, as a can didate for Governor, to van between Gen eral Geary and Hois:.' r Clyrqcr. it is the intention of the new party to place iu nom ination candidates f ,r Congress in every dis trict; without hope of election, they know the effect in every case where a republican is defeated, will be to confer success upon the Democratic parly. The President by the power of patronage is to manipulate the elections in every Congressional district,by demoralizing political sentiment, and divi ding the Republican ranks as far as possi ble, by the promise of official favor to all who support his policy, and by proscribing all who do nut. The Presidential guillo tine has been set actively at work Sev eral instances have come to my knowledge, where Republican members of Congress have asked tho appointment or continuance of their friends in office upon the expressed wishes of the people interested, and have ! been refused upon the ground, as asserted j by the President, that he would appoint no j man tvlio did not support his policy. I j might give the names of parties,and in one instance I will do so ; IlomOakes Aloes o Massachusetts a skied tjie appoint!))* >; of a returned soldier as Postmaster of t m (Sty of Taunton 'upon the petition of some eight hundred republican patrons of the office, it was refused upon the ground above stated, and a Mr. Ide was appointed upf the President's recommen- vl At ton by a special mandate to the heads of Departments, advising that returned union • c,o should iu all cases where found competent, be appointed to places in their gi't, and proves him a most dogmatic dern agogue. In several districts in Pennsyl vania, your own among the number, the people have already beeu made to feel that, to have been faithful to the Country in the hour of her peril, battling manfully against Reason and rebellion even unto death, was tiu merit in the mind of President John son. Removals from office for opinion's sake, because the incumbents do not sup support "my policy," is to be the order of the day, despite the wilt of the combined loyal masses at houie, and of their repre sentatives in Congress. But all this will not suffice to arrest the tide of popular opin i'ln, which is flowing on to a final consum mation of all the legitimate results and consequences of a triumph of human rights, over a system of human bondage which enchained both body and mind, and while riveting the shackles upon its slaves, con signed its vetories and the Country where it existed to a state of intolerant semi-bar barism, a burning disgrace and shame up on the American people. Never since the organization of the Government has there been manifested on the part of the repre sentrtivos of the people so united and firm a determination to stand by the popular will. The President co mbined with the few who cling to the footstool of powerwili be unable to turn back tho tide, and he with his new party adherents will find themselves and their party, a stranded wreck upon the granite rock of a sound public opinion ere the ides of November come. Principle* are to be pevmantly set tied in this conflict, by the light of the re bellion,which sprung out of a war of ideas, and the President and all his millions will be unable to prevent it. The people have the work in hand and well see to it that it is finished. It is generally known here that the Joint Committee on reconstruction have agreed to report, probably this week, a definite lmsis of reconstruction, by which tho loyal people of the States lately in rebellion may bring their States into harmonious action with the general government, by reorgan izing their State governments in accordance with the proposed basis, and when so re organized their representatives may be ad mitted into Congress. And the State of Tennessee having by act of her loyal leg islature disfranchised for the space of seven years, every man within hor borders who was in arms against the government, or in any manner aided the rebellion, her repre sentatives asking seats in Congress, who are competent to subscribe the test oath, will be admitted, itud those of other States will soon follow upon the same basis. In this connection it is proper to mention, that the President, preparatory to the ad mission of ex-rebels to seats in Congress, and to render them competent to hold of fice, has recommended a modification of the test oath. It has been said by the friends of the President in answer to the objection, that his policy would bring back the rebels into political power full fledged, with all their former arrogance and wickedness ; that such a result could not possibly be, as he insisted that tljey should all be able to take what iR termed the 'firon-clad oath." This Is a false position, well calculated to deceive. The President would so modify the tee! oath as to render nine out of every ten rebels eligible to office under the gov ernment ; lie has recommended its modifi cation, and the Judiciary Committee of the House have had the subject under eonsid. oration, upon the recommendation of the President communicated to Congress and properly referred to tliem, and have repor ted against any modification. The differ ence is in a nut shell,bet ween the people and the President, is whether the governments of the States lately in rebellion shall be re" organized under rebel dominion ; whether the representatives of a people imbued with ail the rankling bitterness and hate which instigated the rebellion, (now con quered and left powerless) by force of arms, shall be admitted into the National Congress ; or whether those State govern ments shall be thoroughly repyustructed upon a loyal basis, and the States brought back under the control of Union senti ments, and a Union people. These are the two antagonistic ideas, and these the ques tions for the people to settle. The amendatory revenue tax bill, has been reported this week from the finance Committee, and will no doqbt be passe;! without material alteration. It materially lessons the burthen of taxation, and will go into effect on the first of July next. The bills for the equalization of bounties to sol diers, has made little progress as yet, but I fool .confident that such a bill will be passed before the close of the session. Sev eral distinct propositions are pending. Yours, truly, COMBE. We print by request, in another cyhimn, % call for a Johnson meeting to be held at the Court House on Tuesday even ing next, May 8, IB6o—the Reporter, as we are infomred having declined to publish it. A call for a "Johnson Meeting" appear? in this weeks Argus, accompanied with the above editorial, which contains nn untruth. The advertising columns of the Reporter are open for its insertion, upon the usual terms, as they would be for the announce ment of any other farce. REPORT OF THE RBOOSBTRUOTION 00M MIISEE The Joint Cojnmittee on Reconstruction, after a session of some four hours on thi tin day, at which all the members of the Com mittee were present, agreed to report cm Monday the following propositions : A joint resolution proposing an amend ment to the Constitution of tho United States. Be it resolved by the Senate and lhuo of Representatives of the United Stub s of America, in Congress two-thirds of both Houses concurring, that the follow ing article be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States,which, when ratified by three-fourths of said Leg islatures, shall be valid as part of the Con stitution, namely : SECTION 1. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens or (lie Lnitcd States, nor shall any State deprive any per son of life, liberty or property without due process of law,nor to deny any person with in its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. SEC. 2. Representatives shall b<• :.q. r tioued among the several States which n, *y j be included within this Union according 'o their respective numbers,counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But whenever in any State the elective franchise shall be denied to any portion of its male citizens riot less than twenty-one years of age, or in any way abridged, except for participation in the rebellion or other crime, the basis of representation in such State shall be re duced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens not less than twen- j ty-one years of age. SKC. 3. Until the 4th day of July, I*7o, ( all persons who voluntarily adhered to the : late insurrection, giving it aid and comfort, ( shall be excluded from the right to vote for : Members of Congress, and for Electors fi>r President and Vice-President of the United ' States. SEC. 1. Neither the United States nor any State snail assume or pay any debt or obli gation already incurred, or which may here after be iucucred, in aid of the insurrection or war against the United States, or any claim for compensation for loss of involun tary service or labor. SEC. 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce by appropriate legislation the pre visions ol this article. A Bill to provide for the restoration of the States lately in rebellion to their full politi cal rights. as, It is expedient that the States lately in insurrection should at the earliest day consistent with the future peace and safety of the Union be restored to full par ticipation in all political rights. And whereas, The Congress did by joint resolution propose for ratification to ihe Legislatures of the several States as ai amendment to the Constitution of the Uni ted States,an article in the following words, to wit : "The constitutional article here in serted," — now, therefore, Be it enacted, Ac., That whenever the i above-recited amendment shall have become part of the Constitution, and any State late ly in insurrection shall have ratified trie same, and shall have modified its Constitu tion and laws in conformity therewith, the Senators and Representatives from such State, if found duly elected and qualified, may, after having taken the required oaths of office, be admitted into Congress. Second—And be it fur/her enacted, That when any State lately in insurrection shall have ratified the foregoing proposed amend ment to tho Constitution, any part of the j direct tax, under the act of Aug. 5, 1861 j which may remain due and unpaid in such | State, may be assumed and paid by sucli I State, and the payment thereof upon proper j assurances from such State, to be given to [ the Secretary of the Treasury of the United j States, may be postponed for a period not ; exceeding ten years from and after the pas ! sage of this act. The bill declaring certain persons ineligi ble to office under the Government of the i United States. j Be it enacted, dr., That no person shall be eligible to any office under the Govern ment of the United States who is includ d in any of the following classes, namely ; Fir.-it- -The President and Vice-President of the Confederate States of America, so called, and the Heads of Departments thore- I of. Second —Those who in other countries ac ted as agents of the Confederate States of America so called. Third —lli ads of departments of the Uni ted States, officers oi the Army and Navy of the United States, and all persons educa ted in the Military or Naval Academy of i the United States, Judges of the Courts of | the United States, and members of either J House of the Thirty-sixth Congress of the j United States, who gave aid or comfort to j the late rebellion. Fovrlh —Those who .acted as i fficors of I tiie Confederate States of America, so call • ed, above the grade of Colonel,in the army, | or Master, in the navy, or any one who, as j Governor or either of the so-called Confod | crate States, gave aid or comfort to the late I rebellion. i Fifth —Those vyho have treated officers I or soldiers or sudors of the Army or Navy ; of the United States, captured during the I late war, otherwise than lawfully as priso | ners of war. The Committee removed the injunctions : of secresy so far as the above propositions arc concerned, and permitted copies to be i furnished to the press. It is understood that the vote upom them i was 12 against 3. As it is known that ftenator Johnson and Representatives Grider and Rogers only voted in the negative,the affirmatives must be Senators Fessenden, Grimes, Harris- Howard and Williams,and Representatives Stevens, Washburnc, of Illinois, Morrill, J Bingham, Conklin, Boutwcll and Blow. EN no IF. AN NEWS.— The steamship Her mann, from Southampton April 17, arrived at New Turk at an early hour Saturday morning. j The German question was still unsettled, I and tLc state m affairs was (zritsidcrcd very serious). AH the intelligence is warlike, i and military preparations are continued i with unabated vigor. The Governments j of Bavaria and Saxony have officially set I forth their views in the existing cotnpliea | lions, in dispatches of great moderation, addressed to Prussia. The pretensions of that power are rejected with great firm ness, Bavaria demands that each of the antagonistic powers shall declare that it I will abstain absolutely from an attack on any other member of the Confederation. I An attempt was made at St. Petersburg 1 on the 16th iast. to assassinate the Empe ror of Russia. The Empejor was entering | h;s carriage to take his usual drive, when i an unknown individual fired a pistol at him. The ball providentially missed its 1 aim. The preparations on board the Great Eastern for receiving the new Atlantic I Cable have been completed, and the stow-1 ing away of the cable in the tanks Cum rncnccd oo>Salui'day. . At the end of June or t!u; begiunin* of July tin- Gnat Later n will oomaioiico laying the cable. The British lleet on the coast of North Aineritii consist* of 20 ships, aggregating a steam power equal to 0,080 horses, 113 guns, 32,269 tons, and manned by s,2* examine in court or hv deposition und'-r oath, the signers or any of them, to the pe tiii dof the applicant for any such licence <>r otiier persons, and if any t>uch court snail 1-e satisfied that Bitch hotel, inn or tavern, is unnecessary lor the acconinio-i tin lieu of strangers and travelers, or that the applicant for license to keep a hotel, j inn, or tavern, or eating-house, or restful- j rant, as the case may be, is an unfit or im- 1 proper person lo receive tii" same, tin n said court may refuse to grant such li- , cense, and the first section of the net of! fourteenth of April, Anno Domini,one thous and eight hundred and iifty-nine, is hereby repealed ; I'm aided, That persons pro- , duced in court for examination as provided j by this act, shall be entitled to the same fees as are now allowed witnesss attending l upon the courts of this Commonwealth, to i lie paid by the petitioner or remonstrants, i or some of them, as the court may direct. Sec. 2. That hereafter licenses to res-1 i taurants and eating-houses, shall not be j granted by the county treasurer of any j county, but such license, if granted, snail | lie issued from the court of quarter sessions i of the several counties, on the same terms | and under the same restrictions and r-gn j bilious as are applied to inns and taverns, j md and ail acts or parts of a bs inconsis- ; i lent with this section, are hereby repealed; | I'rocid'd, Tliis act shall not apply lo the I city of i'iladelphia. ..... _ AN IMPORTANT BOUNTY BILL. The following bounty bill lias passed U ;h branches of the legislature. This is no more i than an act of justice. A number of vulun- I teera re-enlisted in the Held and accredit .d I the missives to localities which were repor ted to be paying large bounties. The.- I<>- I calities received tiie advantage of the eri d ) its, but on the return of the volunteers they | refused to pay the sum which was honestly ! due them. There ire several instances of I the kind in this county : i \\ hkrkas, At the beginning of tin- late i Rebellion, certain volunteers entered iho i military service of the United Ftatos witii j out receiving local bounty ; And WJierca*, Many of said volunteers, while yet in said service, re-enlisted for (three years more, under General Orders j No. 191, current series. War Department, Washington, D. 0., dated June 25, lhG3,and j its supplements ; I And Whereon, Many of said veteran vol i nnteers, through a misunderstanding of an I Act of the Legislature entitled "An Act rc ' lading to the payment of bounties to volun- I leers." approved the 25th day of March, IS(>4, iiave not been able to secure local i bounties from the proper authorities of the ! places to which they have given their cre- I dit; therefore. Hki-tiox 1. it enacted, dr., That all ■ veteran volunteers belonging to organiza tions of this State, who have been regular ly re-enlisted and re-mustered under Gener al Orders No. 191 from the War Depart ment, dated June 55, 1803, and extending 1 to April 1 lii4, and who have not received I any iocal bounty, nor given their credit to ■ localities outside of the State, shall be paid ! a local bounty of three hundred dollars, j which shall be paid by tlie proper aut.hori j ties of such Counties, Cities, Wards, Bor oughs and townships as received the credit : of snob veteran volunteers, J'i\/vided, That | in case such credit be givt n to localities or I places included in the limits of any Tnvvn j ship, such Township, or the pruper autlr ri ! ties thereof, shall pay said bountv. I Sbcitok 2; Transcripts from ihe records 1 in the Adjutant General's ufliceof this State certified to by the Adjutant General,as well ! us General Orders from the War Depart i rnent shall be received in evidence,and the j place of residence named in the re-enlist ment and muster-in roils shall in the ab ! souce, be considered the place of credit. Suction* 3. That the school Directors of each and every township,Ward,or Borough in which each credits lor veteran voliinte-us ' was received and counted in tilling the ,-no | tas under tlie several calls of the 'President 1 of the Unit* d States far troops, are hereby i authorized to levy and collect a sufficient tax to pay said veteran volunters, or their ' heirs or legal representatives ; Provided, That said tax shall not be collected lroiu 1 nffic' rs and soldiers now in the service of the United States,or who have been in such ' service and have been honorably discliar- I gt d tlierefrotn, or widows and orphans or widowed mothers of such officers and .sol -1 dims who may have died from wounds re ! ceived or diseaso contracted while in said I service. i 2Cctw dimcrtisemcntG Kr M. C. A.—THE Ni:\T LECTUDE 1 • before the Y ntig Men's Christian Association | ot lowanda, will be delivered by R v. e. ir. cirap ix , 01 New York, On TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 15, 1866. Doors open at 7i o'clock, lecture to commence r.t R o'cluck. Admission 50 cents, V MFRI GA N 11 OTB L , TOWANDA, PA., Having purchased this well known Hotel on Bridge Street ,1 have refurnished and relitted it with every 1 | convenience lor the accommodation ol ail who may pat- i ronize me. No pains will be spared to make all picas-' ant and agreeable. J. S. PATTERSON, Prop. ' | May :t, "tiu.-tf. I*ARM FOR SALE.- -IX UNB fourth of a mile east of the Presbyterian Meeting' House, containing 120 acics, about 50 "under imp: -ve" went. There is a log bouse on it, and a fine young or chard; it is well watered, and good for grain or gra-s. There is aiso a good sugar hush on one side ol the farm. TICItMd— SSOO cash, balance in payments to suit the j purchaser. Possession given immediately. Apply near the church of JOHN iUMIANH. April li), loGij.—lt | \E\Y MJLLIXARY SHOP IX WYSOX, It PA. MRS. 11. VAX LRU XT, _ Respectfully aim >un as to the ladies of tVysox and j vi. itiity. that she has just received a selected assortment : ot new style Hats, Caps. Bonnets, Ac. Also a choice j vniiety oi Ribbons, Laces, Flowers, Silks, Crapes.: \ eils. and numerous other articles, at prices to suit all ' who favor her with a call. Cuatnui work ot all kiml doue, and sat.Uiljct;oji nivgii. Residence at tlie old York Homestead,near M. J. Coolbaugh'a. Wysox, May 1, '66 4w. 3llD£rtis ni ! Cn {, T)EADIX'G RAIL Rf M n^,. ( IV AHRANfiKMEXT. April 2! K,■! 1 Vjtj ORKAT 'I RI : K i-ltiK fUOM THB l\nrtti ' for Philidtlphia, New Yo k. 1;,., qua, Ashland. 1-ebanon, Allentow- V Y Trains have Hani-mug for x„'y,' 3.00. 7.10. and 0.05 a. m., an ! 2On , i . riccHng with similar Trains : . Ro.td. and arriving at New-York e , . v and 3.40 and 10.35 p. m. gleenin r Car. * the 3.00 a. m.. and 0.20 p. m.. T, ' Leave Harrisburg for Heading, p.,-. ,- iMintieV iile, Ashland, Pint '.i yd- , ' 6| -. adeiphia, at 7. 10 a. m., and 2.n0 ir .'" at Lebanon and all Way Stations • tl . L ® making no close conr.e- Lion ., r i •!"' .: pliia. For P"Usvi!h . S hm;;.::; ;; . Sehuylkiit and Sus'inehatimi l: p at 1.15 p. m. Returning : Reave New-Yoik „ and 8 30j. m : Pbilodetphia atkM ' in.: Pottsville at t.ay a . , u arj( j O. d: 6.00 and 11.15 a.m., 1.06 u. m.- t,.' ' s '- : A and 1.00 and 855 p. rn. ■ - ; Leave Potteville for Harriet uw v" i Sn.opiehatiua Kail Road, at 7.00 '* "* Reading accommodation Tr. ir i... 6.00 a. m., returning p. m Pbiiad.-',. T '*- Columbia Ito.il Road Trains leave 'it*'-" m and 6.15 p. nt. lor Epbrata 1 - , I bin, &c. ' ' Ol Sundays : Uavc New York at delpbia 8.00 a.m., and 3.15 p. m p.'Vr/ : running only to Reading. Pott-viiie I' ' ! 7 30a m Uer-hup > t ' c a ~ -, * a. in., lor Harrisburg, and 10.52 a ,%■ and 4-25 p. m., for Philadelpbiii. Colnuiulali'iu, Mileage. Seas,,a Tii kets to at.J f: .in all p.. : - *, Baggage cheeked through : si, ' j Passenger ' ' --- I „ ,- T1 . „ b aer.'; ■-* Reading, Pa., April 23. lw;r,. | L SI'RIN GGij o J- W. TAYLO ! Is just receiving a huge arid w-i : , Goods of the liest qualities, est • ! purchased them when goods ! tally confident that he can sell i. .uufirLinent ot Dress 'iesxi-, v , , A iiiie line of French p<,;. , ... ' j Come aud see them, u'l v,. , 11 ag < rtthent f i [ lII.ACK Ay I) COLORED Jii>„ ' and a very great variety of other < -• ! mcrous to mention. A e iiupiele';...'. ,j,V j Delaius, Prints, (jinghams'. - i Ii LACK A.Mi it'll II R.J/.y;,., Ifoop Skirts i large quantities fimaiw, three and a ii It "■ ' S GLOVES AND IIUSI:; ; I La die * :.;,U Cent., kid .. •> ' SPRfXG SIIA li*/, s Bleach.'l and T : r.b!ejchi Mi -m 5;,.,-.. j Scotch Diapns, i.io .-n ana w„ , * • : : :td .1 lull- !V. :,*•• ." v " *'* Mull. Vi i. :. . L. .. '( ; Muslin, a nice asst.:,-seatd: BLACK AND COLORLiJ A irge (juamii.v ot Ku. sides v i.llßx • - : best selected bTu- K OF MILLINERY (300: ever tit,/light i i ri.i::;-' and - , .*lyius uad IA-AV*..I i --M.- ./. to Embroidery, Hoods and Caps for in inte ' - ■ .etui t ■ -us t • lur-nti': . H.ivir.- e? MISS "OSIIKit. 1 fee! cou.ide:,: v, ::nd ail kind - MPinery v.-- -j •• •_ im ite the ; sip!- ! T. md.i ! ' evue'w t,.y ste-k of ginds . • P R ICE.-! | CAI.L A XT' s};i I Feb. 5, lfG'j. \ r Gll('!v—Tlie Aisiinai A . at their < Ifice 1 -4 S.utr!i , ' :'*. 1 : 7:: i. Is':,;, at 12 oVf. kr, - r a ■ held h>r u Prcaideni and s x Irii.- -. year. April 12,*6 I3IANO.S, AMEillt AN OR' 1 MELORIANS. The undersigned must . citizen-ot Towunta niei v' ' 'V . ' th- M -ic llLSitiess of G. I. c :r. •: .-apply any of the above artkl s, together ' VIOLINS", GUITARS A; , oi:: "A:- 'on as go. <1 term- a- the.v r.,:. :•!. ' w. a. ch vr:.: Ho i .ii-o Agent : *' CELEBRATED AMKIWWN 11 ' cud '.i.i- alway- rut hand ! Watches, with a general as- r;men'- J JEWELRY AND F.W- Y • Silver and Plated W., c .' : ... -1 j BBS. which will be a.ld at . !lj * * large variety ol I lock j. -lr ■- t : be fouiid the .sc:h l'uo.ua.-. u a..i. i-i-1 ' j rep Aini KG a. j done with neatness and dis. ; * • • those who can't see. we would say? ' ■ | and get a pair of gtasau- that wil as over. Don't 1 Court House. W A.t h.'k Towaada. Nov. •*. is,;-,. ! UTUER'6 Mil- I • BURLINGTi'N". PA j The proprietor, having: his f • Gington. and taken | in in •< rr.* i most improved nuch. 11- uow I ffir all kinds of Flout'i:, CUSTOM WORK I'ONE AT SHOi ■ v : with chix't-ful attend., t-. ••■*..'— • : I good order an I with g> a-.-ra! -- i-'- ' CS'Cash | aid t'-.-r <:r.-i::. ril 17. 1866. PRESFgoods": 111* MRU REV BBOTHEH-. Are vow , pasiiug at the St ... ! D. Humphrey A Co., a spleiah la*-' BOOTS AND SHOE ' Comprising all the latest stales of ! Men s. Boys' and Yout'. - . j Men'.-, lkiy ,' and Yo ith's Gait • Men's. Bovs* ami A '. - T j | Wcmon's.otisizn' & Children's I.i '/ " i : Women's, Misses' A Children'- R- •, • Woman's, Misses' A Children - ': --' * I j They would also invite the a ten' - 1 their stock ot Carriage and Team 1! / *" Ladies' and Gents" -- •' Kriench and Belgian Ir.:*-*-- Traveling, Bags, Beti •••• * Towanda, April 10. tscfi. —c Heal Estate QIIEAI' FARM FOR F U * K 1 Iu Pikfi township, Bi-adfo:-i. s'*'- ; - of Wyalusin:; Creek, about 1 m'/_ || i known as Ihe Titus Farm, ennt u ■ ' acrt-s improved, with a I barn,.and a lew peach an-i a,, ! timber land is o! Pine. Head-; /• ' i: „ , Emma i> weii sftaated for schools. n>> i!-e< an 1 is 1 elievcJ. t. be "I a - Will b( ! Possess kin ti, l,e delivered on t 1 diately on pur. hi-. • Term - nf sale a id full p.'iG , " l; .- ! agent Solon->n O. Steven- a , i owner at Towanda. j Towa da March 2f. 1- ii • _ FVR SALE —The owtersig sale his HOUSE and .ti ■; ..* ii the.- nth end of the k : .■ :j) . r made known bv e fling " the m-' ' k I j Towanda. March 38, 1A U U S A 1- h ' : X ... ..... timbeb ■ 35-j ACRES C'aK'lt 1.1 . 4 mil - tram T ' LAND UNSURPASSED FOR ! ' A - 2,1100,000, besides oak, maple, a'W '■' , j,,,, •! For particulars inquire of ' Ail ' 1 April 4,1866.