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 up<m the pe
titon of 150 citizens, a man who' supported
Br.ckenridge for President, an editor and
publisher of a newspaper, because Ide with
his jiaper supports "my policy." This shows
tin- insincerity <>f 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*<S
officers and men. The fleet will
reinforced by the Jaron, 17 guns, 1,711
tons, and 275 men, and the Barracoota, 6
guns, 300 horse-power, 1,053 tons, and 175
men:
LICENSE ACT-
The following Act to further regulate the
licensing of hotels, inns, taverns and eat
ing houses, in this state, was passed by
the Legislature at its last cession :
Bee. 1. Be it enacted, Ac. iiiat it shall
be lawful fur the several courts of quarter
sessions of this Commonwealth, to hear
petitions in addition to that of the applicant,
iu favor of and remonstrances agaiunt the
application of any per,sun applying to cither
ot litem for a license to keep a hotel, inn,
tavern, eating-house or restaurant, and also
t-> 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.