NEWS FROM ALL NATIONS.
—The long contemplated monumeut in
memory of David C. Broderick, in IjOne Mountain
Cemetery, San Francisco, is now complete, with
the exception of the bust of Broderick,to be inser
ted in a niche which is now being cut by P. J. Di
vine, the sculptor. The whole structure and sur
roundings will cost about $17,000 when completed,
-7,500 of which was contributed by the State.
—The work of laying a third rail the en
tire length of the Great Western Railway, Canada,
is progressing vigorously, and several sections
along the line are already completed. Within a
short time the transit of through freight by the
narrow gauge cars will be actomplished without
transhipment from the Western States to New-
York.
—The Mayor and City Council ot Nash- !
ville have obtained an injunction from Chancellor
Campbell, enjoining the Metropolitan Police Com
missioners from a further organization of the po
lice force until after hearing an account of the al
leged illegal proceedings of the Tennessee Legis- !
lature in the appointment of the force.
—There was a very bloody affray a few
days ago at Macon, Mo., growing out of political j
difficulties. Oue man was killed aud quite a num
ber were wounded, some seriously. Great excite
ment prevailed, and the business houses in the
place were generally closed.
—At a political barbecue at Iluutsville,
Mo., on Saturday last, the United States flag was
ordered to be pulled down, and it was accordingly
lowered and borne off in disgrace amidst yells of
derision from the crowd. The flag belonged to
the Ninth Missouri Militia.
—On the return of Hon. Schuyler Colfax
to his home, at South Bend, Ind., a large number
of citizens met him at the depot and conducted
him to the Court-house, where he addressed them
for nearly two hours, reviewing the action of Con
gress during the session just closed.
—Capt. Kholostoff, of the Royal School
of Mining Engineers connected with the Russian
Empire, is on a tour of scientific observation
through the United States, and is now visiting the
Iron Mountain in Missouri, and other points of in
terest in that region.
—Gold has beeu found in quartz in Cale
donia County, Yt. At Waterford an assayer found
the yield $45 53 of gold to the ton of Quartz. This
quartz was gray and white, combined with snl
phuret of iron, and was taken about 10 feet below
the surface.
—Attorney-Gen. Stauberry has given an
opinion that the nominations for public offices re
jected during the session of the Senate can be le
gally made by the President dunug the recess.
—The navy department has received in
formation that the headquarters of the Asiatic squa
dron, Rear Admiral Bell Commanding, have beeu
established at Hong Kong, China.
—The Portland Press says that last week
some men fishing for porgies oil' Segnin, with nets,
captured a huge turtle of the African species. It
is judged that he weighed more than 1,200 pounds.
Some twelve or fifteen years since a vessel was
wrecked in that vicinity with an African turtle on
board.
-Applications for the new bounty are
pouring in on the Mar Department, but they will
not be taken tip until the necessary rules aud reg
ulations prescribed by the Act of Congress are
completed and published, which will require sev
eral weeks. Nothing will be gained by hurrying
in these claims.
—Gen. Sherman, Thursday,received from
the President his commission as Lieutenant-Gen
eral. He was accompanied by Gen. Grant. In the
evening he was serenaded by the band of the baud
of the Twelfth Infantry, and on being called out
by the crowd that had assembled, he made a brief
speech.
—The annuiversavy exercises of the An
dover Theological Seminary took place Friday. At
their close, Rev. yharles M. Mead, was instal
led as Hitchcock Professor of the Hebrew language
and literature.
-The United States gunboat Samuel L.
Hermite, which was sunk during the war in the Ap
pomattox river, in an attack upon a rebel battery,
lias been raised and is now sit the Norfolk Navy
) ai d undergoing repairs.
—The Union Pacific Railroad, according
to a dispatch from Omaha, is completed for the
distance of oue hundred and sixty-three miles.—
Fort Kearney, thirty-one miles further, will be
reached, it is said, by Sept. 1.
—Rev. Dr. Woods, of Howdoin College,
Me., Las Kt-ut in his resignation as President of the
i 'ollege. ltev. Dr. Harris, of Bangor, will, it is re
ported, be chosen his successor.
—Gen. Eckert, assistant Secretary of
War, lias tendered his resignation, to accept the
position of Superintendent of the Eastern Division
of the American Union Telegraph Line.
--A colored soldiers' National League at
Louisville have passed a resolution to hold a Na
tional Convention at Nashville on the first of Janu
ary next.
-The United States Express office at
W yandotte, Kansas, was robbed of >5,700 011
Thursday last, during a few moments übseuee of
the agent.
Professor Woods, the botanist,who has
collected and classified about 1,500 varieties ot
plants in the State of California, is now in Oregon
making a collection. He designs publishing a
work descriptive of the trees, shrubs and plants of
the Pacific coast.
- In Indianapolis, a few days ago, a lady
commcuced tickling her daughter, a girl If years
old. She continned this amusement until the girl
became completely exhausted, and finally, in strug
gling to free herself, burst a blood-vessel, and
died.
-Colonel Withers advertises in the .lack
son (Mississippi) papers that he has an enormous
amount of European capital which he is ready to
advance upon the growing cotton crop, and pro
poses to buy in lots of from one hale to one thou
• alid bales.
There was a very severe thuuder-show
er in i hieago on the evening of the22d nit., during
which a hack-driver was struck by lightning while
driving his carrige through the street He was
hurled from his seat to the ground, bt an tiered
but little injury. The carriage was shivered to at
oms.and one of the horses killed.
-The fetters which restrained the free
dom of old John Brown's limbs are now on exhi
tion at Fitehbnrg. They are made ot inch iron,and
weigh ten and a half pounds.
--One hundred and twelve thousand del- 1
iars Wita realized at Savannah, Georgia, a few dry
ago, 011 a lot of shot and shell,broken cannon,field
slid siege pieces, collected from Georgia batttle
tields.
The Montreal Gazette, which during the
rebellion favored the South, coin plains because the
Union Congressmen express so much sympathy
lor the Fenians, and pronounces it utterly "dis
graceful."
—Hamill, the champion oarsman, who
was recently defeated iu I'nglii.'jd in a sculling
match agaiust Harry Kelly,arrived in Be*' York on
Tuesday, and wits warmly received by his profes
sional friends.
-—Mrs. Jacob Thompson, wife of Jake
Thompson, Buchanan's Secretary oi the Interior,
is here interceding for the pardon of her hnsbajfi, |
who. she claims, is devoted to the President's xfc- j
fonstrnction policy.
IJtadford Reporter.
Towanda, Thursday, August 9,1866.
Union State Tichet.
FOR GOVERNOR,
GEN. JOHN W. GEARY,
OF WESTMORELAND COUNTY.
TIIK HF,tV ORLEANS RIOT.
We have endeavored to sift the truth from j
tiie conflicting accounts which are furnished !
of the recent disturbance of the peace, and
murderous riots in the city of New Orleans,
and have come to the conclusion,that while
the white loyalists and the blacks,tuay have
beeu imprudent, and guided too much by
intemperate zeal, it is still very evident,
that they did not intend to disturb the pub
lic plan, or molest any one. No instance
is given where they made an assault upon
single individuals, or upon collections of
individuals, and only in a few instances did
they attempt to defend themselves,seeming
mostly to have submitted tj the brutality
and murderous purposes of their assailants,
the rebels who so lately fought against the
government. The details given of these
rioters demonstrations by the most det r
| mined and desperate rebels established
I these facts, aud perhaps one of the stron-
I gest incidental proofs of this version of the
i case, is found in the commanding fact, that
i but two of the rebels are reported killed,
I and about twenty wounded, while not less
than thirty freedmen were killed and over a
hundred wounded,besides killing and woun
ding of numbers of the white loyalists.—
! Now, if the union men, and their allies, the
; ireedmen, intended to disturb the peace,
how comes it, they were •nearly all unarm
j ed,and unprepared for such an engagement.
llf they, intended a riot,or an assault upon
their rebel enemies, they would have pre
pared themselves, and in that case the kil
| ling and wounding would uot have been
i nearly all on one side, for the unionists in
the melee were fully as numerous as the
| rebels. Then the notorious fact that the
j lower orders of the rebels, throughout all
| the rebel states, have shown a hellish dis
| position towards the freed negroes, injur
ing, wounding and killing tlient, at ail
| points, is another condemning circumstance
j against the New Orleans rioters, as are al
j so the facts as they have been developed
j by investigation, connected with the late
i riots in Memphis. Indeed, it is pretty
| clearly established that the more desperate
I of the rebel soldiers, since they have been
j disbanded,seek every occasion,and raise all
j kinds of pretexts to shoot free negroes, and
! get up mobs and riots to this end. The
j rebels and copperhead presses attempt to
j make it appear that blacks had prepared,
and commenced the riots, because since the
| fray,they have been armed,and leaces have
1 beeu found where arms were stored for
i their use ! but the truth is, that all these
arms have been secured by the freedmen
! since for self defence, having beeu threat
ened with their vengeance by the lawless
: robbers, who are in the ascendancy in New
S Orleans.
That our readers may have all the ma
terial facts and attending circumstances of
i these riots in New Orleans we will proceed
to detail them.
In 1804, a convention was held in Louis
| auia by the loyalists to frame a free con
stitution for that state. After this conven
! tion had accomplished this purpose, it ad
journed for an indefinite p riod, but not fi
j nally. Judge Howell,the President of that
j convention, lately issued a call for the re
! assembling of that c invention ; and the
1 i
I Governor of the Stat" issued a proclama
tion calling ou the districts that had no
delegates to elect such, in order that the
whole state might be represented in the
convention. The Proclamation runsin these
I words :
Wlterea.i, It. K. Howell, President pro tern, of
the Convention for the lie vis ion and amendment
of the Constitution of Louisiana, has issued an
order reconvoking the said Convention, to meet
in the City of New-Orleans on the 50th day of July
inst., and
H7iems, In the same document, and in conform
ity to a resolution of that body, he has called on
the Governor of the State to issue writs ot election
for delegates to said Convention in all parishes
not represented therein :
Now therefore I, J. Madison Wells, Governor
of the State of Louisiana, do issue this my procla
mation, commanding that an election be held on
Monday, the .'id day of September, 1800, by the
qualified voters, for delegates to the aforesaid Con
vention, as follows :
Then follows a list of the names of the
parishes(with us districts) which are toelect
delegates,and the number each shall choose.
The Proclamatioh closed as follows :
And, I do further command all Sheriffs, Com
missioners of Elections and other officers therein
concerned, to hold the said election as • herein or
dered. the proceedings to he conducted according
to law, and no person will have the right to vote,
unless he has restored his citizenship by having
taken the oath, before competent authority, as
prescribed in the \uinesty Proclamation of the
President of the United States, either of -January
1, 18(11, or May 2!), 180.1.
All persons excluded from general amnesty by
being embraced in any of the articles of exception
contained therein, will not be allowed to vote, un
less specially pardoned by the President.
Prompt returns will be made of said election to
the Secretary of State—for all of which thisjfc-ocla
rnation, without further notice, will serve as au
thority.
Given under my hand at the city of New-Orleans,
this 27th day of July, A. D. ISG6, and of the inde
pendence of the United States, the ninety-first,
J. MADISON WELLS,
Attest: N. C. SSETHEN,
4 true copy. Private Secretary.
Ry this proclamation, few, if any of the
rebels could vote, and this would keep the
loyalists in the majority in the Convention ;
and as it was clearly the object of the loy
alists to ratify the late congregessionai
amendment to the Federal Constitution, the
rebels, great and small, were intensely ag
gravated. rirst, because they were not al.
lowed to vote down the union men by the
proclamation, and second because the con
vention would, in all probability, further
disfranchise them. The whole proceedings
therefore, connected with the convention,
were pronounced illegal by the rebel press
in Louisania, and the biatant leading reb
els ; and the Mayor of tbe city, a notorious
rebel, gave public notice that be would
break up the Convention, and arrest its
members. Meantime. Wesijept Johnson
had been informed of these proceedings, by
telegraph, and he instantly demanded of
Gov. Wells "by what authority the Conven- j
tiou had been called, and also undt r
what authority it assumed to represent the
State of Louisiana ?" This was clearly
wrung on the part of the President. For
he had no authority to call in question the
act of the Governor in calling a Convention
The Governor had been elected by the peo
ple of the State, and if he had acted im
properly, or illegally, the authorities of the
State had ampie power to try him. But it
was intended tu intimidate, or frighten the
Governor from his purpose to favor the
meeting of the Convention, the President
being as much opposed to the lu iii i*i ti
of the constitutional amendment's •.* fl.c
rebels themselves. Governm W.-IL how
ever, did not regard this threat n the ff-'li
of July an officer of the federal government
telegraphed to the President, that it wis
feared a riot would result from the meeting
of the Convention, or the arrest oi its mem
bers, and whether he would intcrfer . lie
replies by placing the whole civil authority
of the Sstate in the hands of this officer,
who was a general in the rebel army, and
virtually deposing Governor Wells.
This was the state of affairs when tee
Constitutional Convention met at 12 o'clock
on the 31st of duly, only twenty six dele
gates being in attendance, Judge Howell
presiding. The hall when the Convention
met wa- densely crowded with whites and
blacks, but the proceedings were soon ar
rested, and the whole broken up by the at
tempt of rebel police to make arrests. The
account of the riot which followed we gave
j in our last.
j The general impression is, that if Pre-d
--! dent Johnson had not interfered, or if he
I had only ordered the military to preserve
j the peace, there would have been no mur
• derotts riot.
The New York Eoeniny Pod, which is
considered a Johnson paper, holds the fol
lowing - language in respect to his interfer
ence in New Orleans :
\VI,O niade the President the jiuhjs of the ehjolity of
j ' Stole convention TI hen did he hear evidence uu
|on the runtler? Where does he yet his authority for
I inlerferiny ? By the Constitution, "the United
States shall protect each State against invasion,
and 011 application of the Legislature, or of the
Executive (when the Legislatufe cannot be con
vened), against domestic violence." Where was
the "invasion?" where the "domestic violence?"
where the application of the Legislature, or of the
Executive? Where was even the danger to the
| public peace ? A convention numbering 2G men
| met in a hall in New-Orleans. Was it feared by
i the nmrdcrmts mob or by Mayor Monroe that these
| 26 would rise and put the whole order of finings
' to the sword ?
Suppose the convention was illegal; suppose it
I had passed an ordinamce, no matter to what in
! tent what then ? Its orders could have had no
| force. If there lutd been a doubt upon, their ieyidity,
| they ouejht to hare been talecn before tin■ State l'orris,
whose province it is to decide such vnestions. I f
civil government is restored in Louisiana, accord
ing to the Peace Proclamation, if Louisiana is a
State, with a constitution, laws, officers, courts
| and judges, then all such matters must be settled
• and decided in the State, by the State officers, and
I by the courts, not by a mob.
It does not escape the attention oi the Uniou
j loving people that every outrage lift the New-Or-
I leans riot, in the Southern States, is done in the
| interests of oppression, and against equal rights
i and impartial justice, by men who were but lately
| zealous aud flagrant Rebels, and who continue to
! boast of their crimes against the country and the
> flag. Whether at Memphis or New-Orleans, in
Richmond or in Georgia, wherever we hear of mob
j violence, it is the |violeuce, the brutal lawlessness
i of men lately engaged in an attempt to destroy
the l uion ; and their victims arc men,women and
children whose loyalty to the Union was so active
during the war that no history of the war can be
written without recording their courage, fidelity
and self-sacrifice. It is not pleasant to Union-lov
ing people to see the President of the United
States, no matter by what accident or inadvertence,
placed in the position of giving encouragement to
such lawlessness, and making less endurable the
sufficiently hard position ot men who, with him,
are hated and reviled by the late Rebels as "South
ern loyalists."
THREATS FROM SOUTHERN STATES.
We hear so lunch just now from copper
heads, and their Johnson allies, about with
holding representation from the southern
states, that it is well to observe, as we pass
along, what evidence the rebels give to en
title them to representation. Surely a peo
ple who have wrought so much damagt to
the nation, and made such fearful efforts to
destroy the Government, should give some
evidence, at least, that tiiey mean to re
spect the Government in future, and re
main at peace. It seems to us, that no
one having any regard for the public wel
fare, would exact, or expect any tiling less.
Common safety, common prudence, common
honesty, and common justice demaids this,
If u Fire Company, or any other social or
civil organization, should shoot the citizens,
burn their homes, torture and endanger all
around for weeks and months, it would be
expected that if these perpetrators were
not punished for their outrages, and if tak
en back into society, they would demean
themselves peaceably, orderly, and cheer
fully submit to just restraints. This would
be a general, and a fair expectation ; and
it would be universally held, that if these
murderers and rioters, did not behave them
selves well, refused to submit to just re
straints, and made threats of over-riding
the land again, they would, not only not
merit forgiveness, but show that punish
ment was improperly and unsafely with
held. Common law, and common sense,
would so adjust rights and wrongs between
men.
In view ol these well settled lines of
policy iti all communities, what are we to
think of the men who are urging the ad
mission of rebels to Congress to make laws
for us, and are heaping abuse without stint
upon the majority in Congress for with
holding this admission until the rebels cease
at least to fight us, when before their eyes
there are daily such threats of vengeance
and another rebellion, as are given in the
extract below from the Richmond Whig ?
While the blood of the loyal men of the
north is still dripping from the hands of
base traitors, the}' threaten that if they
cannot have their own way about manag
ing the Government, and can nut get a Su
preme Court that will carry out their be
hests, they shall bt' solved by some other meth
ods! This means another rebellion, and
these are the men who claim seats in Con
gress, and for whose admission copper
heads howl so piteously And can the
reader imagine why it is, that any set of!
men among us can so far forget, what is due
to the public safety, the public weal, and
to common right, as to insist upon clothing :
with civil rights and political power, such '
notorious traitors, defiant and open ene
mies ? It is simply t<> get themselves and j
the rebels again into power. Throughout
the whole war, democratic sympathizers
witli the rebellion, evinced more regard for
the democratic party, than for the country.
They all seemed willing to let the country
slide, if the democratic party could only ( be
saved, and so still. No matter what reb
els have done, or what they threaten to do
to the country, if through their assistance
their old rotten organization can only be
preserved. May we not earnestly invoke a
kind Providence to keep the Government
out of such hands ? But read the rebel's
talk about the rights of rebels, and rebel
states, and what they say about our niak
.ll ; skills, devices uud expedients," when
trying to preserve to preserve the Govern
uent from.their murderous assaults :
*• Should the radical policy of amending the
Constitution by irregular and unauthorized meth
ods of stripping the States of their just powers,
and building up a great central legislative depotisui
prevail, some future Supreme Court, if one not po
litical and not in the interests of radicalism can
be constituted, will be called to pronounce upon
the gravest and most momentous questions ever
submitted to a judicial tribunal. It cannot be
presumed by any reflecting mind that the make
shifts, devices and expedients resorted to by un
scrupulous politicians who happen to have tem
porary supremacy, to build up and perpetuate
then- power at the expense of the rights of States
and people, in defiance of the Constitution and in
disregard of the powers that appertain to the Ex
ecutive departmeut of the Government, will be
forever acquiesced in. It may take ten, fifteen or
twenty years to get a Supreme Court that will act
upon and adjudicate such questions without being
governed by partisan influences. But the time
will certainly come, and when it arrives, these
questions will be brought before it in some form
or other, if indeed they shall not be solved by
other method before that period."
COPPEUHEAO AND REBEL NATIONAL CON
VENTION.
The Johnson men, and the democrats, are
trying hard to make the public believe that
| the Philadelphia National Convention of
j rebels, Copperheads, democrats, and Jobn
: son office-holders, is to be composed ol con
| servative men of all shades of politics, yet
; Vallaiidighatn, Pendleton, Wood, the Vice-
President of the Southern Confederacy, and
i the whole copperhead and rebel elements
of the entire nation, have already been se
lccted as delegates to this assembly of pub
| lie enemies. Still, it is urged that it is to
! be a great conservative body of enlighten
ed and patriotic citizens. What an idea
| these fuglemen of rebels and sympathizers
must have of ihe intelligence of the people,
to set up such pretences, when the most
prominent rebels, and the open out-spoken
democrats of the north, who lead the par
ty, and made themselves notorious for their
opposition to the Government, are the men
| who are getting up this convention, and
are to control its action. But such, and
such like tricks, the democratic party has
ever played off on the country, and by them
kept themselves in power lor many years.
It is, however, to be hoped that loyal, coun
try-loving citizens, will no longer be cheat
ed by base tricks, and that the chariautism
j of democracy is played out.
We have been led to make the above re
marks from reading the following letter
from Richmond, the Capitol of the late
Confederacy, and situated within the patri
otic, peaceable, and law-abiding Virginia!
giving an account of the kind of material
required in that regiou for making dele
j gates to the Philadelphia Convention :
WASHINGTON, D. €., July 26, 1866.
I have just read the following letter from an in
fluential citizen of Richmond, who is ready, if his
statements is questioned, to fortify it by the high
est authority:
ItIC'HMOND, July 2d, 1860.
A meeting of the people of Hanover county, was
held at the court-house yesterday (court day) to
! appoint delegates to the distric; convention to se
| leet representatives of this congressional district
!in the Philadelphia convention. The four nieu
who had been the most active and prominent se
cessionists in the county were selected. A motion
was made to add General Wickliam to the delega
tion. General W. had been a member of the con
vention that passed the ordinance of secession
I and strongly opposed it. He subsequently served
\ in the Confederate army, but since the termination
: of the war, has been active and ardent for restora
tion. The motion was opposed on the gfouud that
General Wickliam "had written a letter denounc
| ing secession" and he was rejected.
a®- According to the provisions of the
j Army bill just passed, the military peace
establishment of the United States will con
sist of live rt giments of cavalry, and fifty
; regiments of infantry. To the six regi
; meats of cavalry now in the service there
; ore to be added four regiments, two of
| which shall be composed of colored men,
; having the same organization as is now
| provided by law for cavalry regiment. The
| infantry regiments are to consist of ten
oompauies each. Four regiments are to
be of colored troops, and four regiments of
the \ eterau Reserves. All vacancies in
the grades of first, and second lieutenants
shall be selected from among the officers
and soldiers, and one half of the vacancies
in grades above that of first lietenaut shall
be filled by selections from among the offi
cers of volunteers, and one half from the
officers and soldiers of the regular army
who have ssrved two years during the war,
and have been distinguised for capacity
and good conduct in the field. The act pro
vides Unit no person shall be appointed
j under it who has been in the rebel naval
| or civil service, but any such appoiutmant
j shall he illegal and void.
Congress has passed the bill regu
lating elections of U. 8. Senators. A more
necessary and unexceptionable measure
has seldom been adopted. The day whereon
elections of Senators must be made is now
fixed by law, and is uniform throughout
the 1 nion. The vote must be an open one.
A majority vote in either branch of the
Legislature is requisite to a choice, if the
two Houses are found to disagree in their
choice, then they must meet in joint ball.t:
and a majority of the whole number voting
is there required to choose. It is no lon
ger allowable to choose Senators two or
three terms ahead, as might hitherto have
been done. A choice canuot be prevented
by a minority. There can be no more elec
tions by a minority as the Senate set aside
in the case of Mr. Stockton of New .Jersey
In short, this is an excellent measure, with
no conceivable party bias ; an 1 we hearti
ly thank Mr. Clark of X. 11. for introducing
it.
tetir Yallandigham was accosted by Geo.
Francis Train, while both were in the lob
by of the White House, and coolly inform
ed that it would not do for him to come to
the Philadelphia Convention, as he was too
unpopular, and would only injure the Pres
ident. \ allandigham got excited, and de
clared that he was the representative man
of the President's policy, and where his
people directed him to go lie should cer
tainly comply, and would not take a back
seat. Blair says Traiu must keep quiet,
and Train says he will not, but if they try
to gag him lie will break up the show.
THE NEW ORLEANS MASSACRE. J
HISTORY OF THE ORIGIN AM) PRO
GRESS OF THE MASSACRE
ITS SUPPRESSION.
Telegraphic Correspondence of The Cincinnati
Commercial.
NEW-ORLEANS, July 30—7:30 p. m.
The massacre is over for tlio present.
The military, headed by Gen. Baird in per
son, at 41 o'clock, took possession of Cu
ual-st., and cleared the street from Dryades
to St. Charles, also the two latter streets
to Common. A regiment of infantry and
a battery, beaded by a band, aie while I
write, parading the city. Gen. Sheridan
has not yet arrived, while he is most anx
iously looked for There is general indig
nation among Union men—even the most
moderate—at Gen. Baird, whose dilatori
ness has sacrificed so much life.
It is now understood to have been a con
certed plan on the part of the Rebels,among
whom the President's dispatch was known
yesterday morning. At the tap of a lire
bell the rioters left their business, having
lately purchased revolvers, to meet and be
led by the police, who were also armed to '
the teeth. All rushed toward the Conven
tion, breaking down the fences on Bar
ronne-st, in the rear of the Capitol, which
was surrounded by a force of police.
They then ran into the building, and
while the crowd outside were tiring into
the windows,climbed the stairs inside, their
leader shouting "Rally, boys, rally," and
discharged their pistols into the Represen
tative llull, where there were at the time
but 15 Conventioners (it being during the
recess) within the railing, and ibout 75
negroes in the lobby, all of whom, in the
hall, prostracted themselves to escape the
shots. As soon as the pistols of the police
were emptied the besieged rose and drove
out the assailants with chairs, at the same
time barricading the doors. Then K. King
Cutler called upou all those who had arms
to leave the hall, and Capt. Burke, the gal
lant Chief of Police deposed by Monroe,
went out and fought his way back to Bar
ronne-st., escaping with a shot in the side.
The fury of the besiegers increased, the
barricade was broken, and pistols' were
again discharged. Then Rev. Mr. Horton,
ex-army Chaplain, who hud made the pray
er at the opening of the Convention, ad
vanced to the door, and showing a white
handkerchief, asked for himself and the
| rest to surrender. He was fired upon, hit
i by the shot in the forehead, then seized
I and beaten until he was insensible by the
| mob and police. One after another the
members of the Convention in the hall
waved their handkerchiefs, protesting that
they were unarmed, and wished to surrcn-
I dor Yet not a single am st was made in
j the hall, but each man, as he came out,
| hoping to escape the certain fate threaten
| ed him if he remained, was seized and bru
tally handled by the police.
Poor Dostie pleaded for his life. He
was a Union exile, but by his kind treat
ment to Rebel families in the absence of
their protectors, he had endeared himself
to many, even of his politic 1 enemies,
j Beside the sufferers I have named in a for-
I rner dispatch, Dr. Hine was shot in the
| head and stabbed in the side. I can, as
| yet, give you no estimate of the number
j killed and wounded, which, though the riot
| lasted scarce three hours, and seemed to
be confined to a few streets, must put the
Memphis affair far in the shade. The May
or lias issued a proclamation, declaring the
riots to have been precipitated by the revo
lutionary faction, and calling on the citi
zens to enrol themselves as extra police.
At 61, 500 had enrolled, and the counter
sign given out to them for the night is
General Hardee."
IMPORTANT DISPATCH FROM GEN.
SHERIDAN—THE MASSACRE CON
COCTED WEEKS AGO -REPORTS OF
GEN. SHERIDAN'S RESIGNATION.
Special Dispatch to The N. Y. Tribune.
WASHINGTON, Friday, Aug. 3, lisGG.
Gen. Sheridan telegraphs to-day to Gen.
Grant that the riot was not the result oi' a
mere mob, but a preconcerted and prear
ranged plan of weeks for the slaughter of
Union men. The dispatches of the Associ
ated Press are •tempered to suit the lati
tude from whence they are sent, and are
dictated by the disloyal State ollicials. At
torney-General Herron, who was an officer
in the Rebel service, virtually ranks Gen.
Sheridan, as by the order of the President
the military are subject to the call and dis
position of the civil authorities. Rumor
here to-night [says Gen. Sheridan will re
sign on account of the President's conduct
in this affair, aue the embarrassing posi
tion loyal officers are placed in.
A CONFIRMATORY DISPATCH.
PHILADELPHIA, Friday, Aug. 3, 186(1.
A special dispatch from Washington to
The Ledger says : Gen. Sheridan, in a
dispatch from New-Orleans to Gen. Grant,
received to-day, states that the late riot in
that city was not the effect of a hastily con
gregated mob, as has been represented,
but was the result of a preconcerted and
prearranged plot of the Rebels to slaught
er the leading Upon men of the State, and
that there is evidence that the plan was
concerted weeks ago. Sheridan also gives
it as his opinion that it is hut the com
mencement of the Rebel plan to rid Louisi
ana of Union men. Officers from the South-
West say there are only about 1,900 United
States troops serving in Louisiana.
JfcaT Gov. Murphy, of Arkansas, writes,
under date of July 20, that there is not a'
paper in Little Rock that will publish the
call for the Union State Convention, and
but one in the whole State in the interest
of loyal men. He adds : "At our election
in August the rebel element will have full
control, excepting, perhaps, in a few north
western counties. The feeling toward
Congress is more hostile than during the
war, and hatred of Union soldiers and Un
ion men is a matter of ambitious pride.
I would have called a session of the Ar
kansas Legislature, had it been possible to
have procured a quorum, but from deaths,
resignations, and removals to other States,
it could not have been had. i regret this ;
much, as the Legislature to be elected will j
be chosen from rebels who have done good I
service in the war."
UB- The Sullivan Free Prcaa has hoisted
the name of lion Ulysses Mercur for Con
gress. All right, neighbor, select from the
best material. It is always safe to take
the true and tried. \V e have no doubt
now, of Judge Mercur'.- nomination, and if
nominated, lie will be triumphantly re-elect
ed. \\ e know that a great hue and cry
will be raised and sternuous efforts made
by the Democracy and the copper-Johnsons
to defeat him. We know that this Dis
trict is one of tho.-e selected in this state
for a sharp contest but if Johnson, Tracy
& Co., with all the democratic party, de
funct copper-heads and deserters thrown
in combine they will meet with nothing
but defeat, aud they might as well a . the
trouble, expense and paraphernalia of an \
expensive pmppaign.— Wyqminy Rep. |
Mr. Harlan having resigned the J
Secretaryship of the Interior, and Orville
H. Browning-, of Illinois, having up
pointed in his place, the (JabinH, the
first of September, when Mr. Harlan re
tires, will stand as follows : Secretary of
War, Edwin M. Stanton ; Secretary of the
Navy, Gideon Welles ; Secretary "f tin-
Interior, Orville B.Browning; Postmaster
General, A. W. Randall; Attorney Gen
eral, Ilenry Stanbury.
- rvar a • -•mat oir utniM
DIED. *
SQUIRES—In Herrick, July 2D, 1SC", Charles
Squires, aged 77 years, and bis consort, Mary
Squires, July 20, 18Cfi, aged 70 years.
These parties were born and married in Connec
ticut, moved to Bradford county in 1811, and to
Herrick, their subsequent home, in 1820. They
leave a numerous and respected line of descend
ants nine children, twenty grand and two great
grand children, twelve grand children having pass
ed before them to the grave, one of them dying in
the service of his country. Mr. and Mrs. S. were
members of the Baptist church, christian and ex
emplary in their lives, illustrating the energy, in
telligence and morality of New England character.
Forty-six years ago, when they located in this
town, the surrounding region was a wild wilder
ness, and theirs was emphatically frontier life,
with its hardships, exposures and vicissitudes.
They bore mi active part in clearing the outlines of
what has since become a thrifty and populous
community. The highway on which now runs a
daily stage from Camptown to Smithboro", was lo
cated by Mr. Squires through this section, himself
blazing the trees from point to point. He assisted
extensively in the survey of the lauds, then cover
ed with primeval forests, now waving with lnxur-
I iant harvests.
No chapter of a country's history is more inter
esting than the personul experience of its early
settlers. Their pilgrimage through _thc woods on
fool or with ox teams, t'ue encampment by the
brookside, the first log house, going miles to mill,
backing the grist to and fro, children waiting for
father's return, their next meal necessarily deferred
until his arrival, the occasional gatherings ol dis
tant neighbors earnest in friendships and unso
phisticated in manners, the unwelcome call of the
panther from time to time, and the subsequent
bunt, the first wedding in the settlement and the
first grave en the hill-side, these, and the thousand
incidents of pioneer experience, form a volume
instructive s philosophy end more thrilling than
the pictures of fiction.
The deceased once said to a neighbor : '• My
first crop in Herrick was a patch of potatoes. 1
dropped them upon the surface of the ground,
among roots and stumps, scraped over them ashes
from the log heap and leaves from the surface,
covering them as best I could, trusting without
further culture, to the rains and sunshine of heav
en to do the balau-e. In the Fall! O, what Pota
toes! Such ones i never saw before nor since."
Adding significantly, " the mint of them made them
To true men, poverty is neither dishonor nor dis
comfiture, a. mere circumstance, a bubble upon
lilt 's stream. Their energy is their capital, their
perseverance the warrant of success. The amount
of difficulties met and overcome, is ever the true
test of character, both of mind and muscle.—
Facing trials and surmounting obstacles, whether
physical, mental or moral, beget within the soul
strength of will and self-reliance, qualities essen
tial to greatness in man. Penury and hardships
have ever been the educators of heroic characters.
As tallest trees grow near the stream, so the no
blest men in all lands and ages, have sprung up
where toils and privations were thickest. If he is
a benefactor who makes two blades of grass grow
where but one grew before, then great praise is due
the early settler who wars with the woods, smooths
down and beautifies a hundred acres of God's ere
atiou, and aids at the same time in laying deep
and broad the foundation of society's after growth
and expansion. The working producer, whether
of thoughts or things, in the city or upon the
world's outer verge, is really the deserving and
great man, while the opulent, inactive consumer,
is but a waste-pipe, a useless feeder upon other
men's creations.
Never will posterity be fully sensible of its in
debtedness to the pioneer laborers. The monu
ments of their toil are upon every side of us. We
travel the roads they carved out and reap the fields
they cleared. The fountain that bubbles at our
feet they searched out in the wilderness, and the
tree that drops fruit into our lap, was planted by
their hands. As these, our fathers and mothers,
venerable in years and experience, are fast passing
away to their celestial homes, be it the pride and
praise of the children, to honor their names, keep
green their memories and emulate their virtues.
miscellaneous.
/"^JALTIOX. — Whereas, my son Edgar
V/ \ roman, has left ray house without any just cause,
I therefore forbid any person trusting hire on my nc
couut, as I shall pay no debts of his contracting after
thiedatc. BARXA V ROM AN.
Granville July 14,1566.
SALE.—Threshing Machine and
Horse Power complete, for $125 cash. Enquire of
W. Bramhall. one mile from Franklin on larm formerly
owned by C. E. White. July 21, IMS.
ATOTJCE TO BUILDERS^—SeaIed pro^
-L v post,ls will be received by the under-igned, up to
the first day of September next, for furnishing the ma
terial and building a Universalist Cnurch in iowanda.
Plans and specifications can be seen at the office of Dr.
E. 11. Mason. Bids may be made for Stone. Brick or
Wood. Church to be finished by the first day of Au
gust. ISO7. By order of the Trustees.
, G. F. MASON, President,
iowanda. July 19, 1866.
HHEAS of very fine quality, by the chest
J- or at retail, bought before the recent advance, and
| tor .-ale cheap at FOX'S.
June 13.1866.
IVI Jll 11Ll.L S EXTRACTS.-—The finest
| -WL extracts tor flavoring in use. For sale wholesale
| and retail at FOX'S.
j " UTKATTON'rf YEAST COMPOUND"
is the best yeast ever sold. 1 aiu agent tor the
| manufacturer. For sale at wholesale or retail.
| E. T. FOX.
I GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL,
.1 011 X IM ERII) ET H ,
Main st., first door south of Rail Road House, Towanda
Ins just received a large addition to his stock of
GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS
Which will be sold at wholesale and retail, at the very I
lowest rates. " i
Farmer's Produce of all kinds bought and sold.
The public attention is respectfully invited to my j
stock, which will be found to be Fresh, bought at low !
prices and will be sold at correspondingly low rates. i
Towaud .July 17,1866.
YA L U SING ACADE MY . i
fVYAUSIXC, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA.
WM. H. BPOWN, Principal.
Miss MARY E BROWN, Preceptress.
The Fall Term will commence on Monday, August 20,
iB6O, and continue 14 weeks. Rate of tuition as fol
lows :
Reading, Spelling, Primary Arithmetic and Geogra
phy $4 ny. English Grammar, Geography, Writing and
Arithmetic to Cube Root, $5,00. Siugle-Entry Book
Keeping. Botany, Rhetoric. Anatomy and Physiology,
Astronomy, Latin, Greek, Higher Arithmetic and Alge- j
bra through Qadratic Equations $6,00. Natural Phi
losophy, Chemistry, Double Entry Book-Keeping, High
er Algebra, ueometry, Trignometry and Surveying
$7,00. Incidentals, 30 cts. Tuition invariably payable 1
by the middle of the term. No deductions on account
of absence except in eases of protracted illness.
Wyalusing, July 10; 1866.—5w.
w HOLES ALE MUSIC DEPOT.
L. B. POWELL, Scranton, Pa., Dealer in Chicker
ing's Pianos, Decker's Pianos, Mason & Hamlin's Cubi
Tel Organs, Treat Lii dsley A Co's Me'.odeons, and al
kinds ol Musical Instruments, Sheet Music and Music, j
Books. Orders (rem Dealers and Teachers especially
solicited. Address
L. B. POWELL,
116, Pennsylvania Avenue, Scranton, Pa.
June 11, 1866.—y1.
IpLOl R OF ALL GRADES.—Some very
choice brands for salo cheap. Flour by the load
or quantity t the lowest rates at FOX'S.
miscellaneous.
I I BAI/1 H IS THE GREAT NEE,
I 1 THK AUK. e ' l ' 01
A NEW SYSTEM OF THK HKAUXti iRT
N\ J. COGSWELL, M i>
HYOfKNIC PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
May be consulted in person or by letter #. i
dcece, East Spying Hill, Bradford county i>," le, i
An intelligent community rcqnire a medical
grounded upon right reason. in harmony .. T, tr,t "
avouched by the unerring laws of Nature and . < u a '" l
tal organism, and authenticated by succm-M vi
Hence we solicit an examination of our system
ing that all diseases can be successfully to-.., , '®
truiy Hygienic Agencies. ' 1 with
No Drug poisons will be given. As d irradnao. .
only College in the world where health is t.Jfi, **
shall take especial pains to explaiu to the niiT.'' * r
nature ol the disease. The laws of life and bealu lht
it it is unnecessary and dangerous to take drne' *
how to preserve health and long life. Will vi . a:;<l
tients, and give directions for home treatment
desired. ' w! "-u
Kant Springbill, .May 1, '66.—ly.p.
LWKM FOR SALE.—The undersign, i
X. having pnrehased a portion of the Thomn ?
ry farm, lying just outside of the borough 0 ( r
north and west of Crooked creek and Tioga ~ °~ a
sires to sell abont eighty acres of it, on teasonab'leV'
ft is some of the best land in Tioga valley ;~and, '
quality and proximity to the railroad .ar.d'a eor.d v lU
market, is one of the most desirable farms for aI, f
in the county of Tioga. The price will depend *
what upon the a mount of money the purchaser jT' 1 '
at time of sale ; yet If necessary time will he "yl'
a portion, secured by bond and mortgage.
Also for sale a number of pleasant building
cheap. C 11. Sl.VMorp
Jnly lit. IH*)o.—m. Tioga, p,
J J. \E W ELL,
COUNTY SURVEYOR,
Orwell, Bradford Co., Pa,, wiil promptly attend i
business in his line. Particular attention given to
ning and establishing old or disputed lines. v.'J'f
I surveying of all nnpattented lands as soon a-; war™-,
i are obtained.
May 17, Infib
I MPORTANT TO SUTTER MAK -
A The under signed are DOW fully prepared to n- c
j the public with an " Inclined Dog Power Ma. hie "**•
| a superior quality and pattern at the following rate.
Machine suitable far Dairies of from 3 to 10cow i,
I 10 to 15
" 15 to 20 i•'
'• 20 to 25 •• mb"
" " " 24 to So • }v
" •.< ■'_ •' 30 or mo: e••
Every maenme delivered aud put iri running
and warranted to give entire satisfaction „ r
funded. All orders by mail promptly attendedto"
LUXHEK & Ko'ss
Burlington boio', May 8, "CO.
\Ve. the undersigned, have each had in use it ,
the past season, one of Luther 4 Boss' • Inclined DM
i Power Machines," and cheerfully recommend item t
the public as the best Churn Power yet introduced"
K.M. Pruyue. L>. 8. Lather, David St rope, joer,b,-,
j Campbell,
j May 8, '66.—3 m.
I) 1 I,L 110 N. —The Co-partnership her. -
j A totore existing between C. L. Stewart A ( (
: Stewart, in the mercantile business, i.- this day dissolved
| by mutual consent. All accounts must he settled beLi"
j August 1, 1866. The books and accounts will he set
; tied by Stewart A Wicktzer, who will continue tlie
! siness at the old stand. ('. L. KTEWAKI"
Heiri kville, July 2, iS6k.—3l.p. C. U. sTh'.VAkl
FLOA BONDS.—THE MAY COUPON
ol the 5-20 Bonds purchased at the high-'
j market price by B. S. RUSSELL A CO.
Bankers.
j U.S. Securities of ail kinds bought and sold by
B. S. KUSSELL A CO., Bankers.
Petroleum, Venango and Craw lord Co. Bank Xutc
1 bought by B. 8. RUSSELLA ( 0., Bankers'
COLOUR : FLOUR! FLOUR!-In view
J. ol the high price of wheat we have been endear r
ing to produce an extra quality of Bye Flour let iLu*
; of our customers disposed to economise. We now make
i it so white as to he scarcely distinguishable (rota v-d
wheat flour. Try some.
Flour from White Winter Wheat, also Buckwheat
flour, Corn meal and different kinds of Feed: ,: -a ■
Cash paid for all kinds of grain.
H. B. INGHAM.
Cascade Mills, Camptowu, June 11, iB6O.
\| IOHIGAN PINE LANDS FOR SALI
; .i'-L Having the agency for the sale of severaltt u
] sand acres ot the choicest Pine Timber Lands in the
i State of Michigan, I am prepared to offer great iuT •
merits to those who wish to invest their money where it
j will pay. These lands are among the best pine tra.t
--| in the Saginaw and Muskegon Valleys, located on i" i
: floating streams, and are now needed f r lunvrriag
| purposes. Business men and capitalists will do wc. •
examine them before investing their means elsewhere.
For particulars inquire ol or address
HEM AX MORSE.
| June 22, 1866. Litchfield, Bradford County, Pa.
J EF F D A VIS ESC A PEC
How many hearts will burn with indignation on read
ing this announcement. But we counsel you to spare
l your feelings ot indignation for a future period .Era
: though this arch traitor has escaped being hun r :
the Public are requested to call at
WARNER S JEWELRY STORE.
And examine his splendid stock ot Watches ami dea
ry of the latest designs and elaborate finish. *.. e
being sold at
VERY LOW PRICES.
He also keeps the celebrated Seth Thotna- < -i> at.i
American and Swiss Watches. Other aiticits nsu- v
kept in a store of tills kind. Remember the pi* e. IV
ton's Bio k. N. B.— Watches, Clocks and Jewelry it
, paired and warranted.
A. M. WAIiXEI:
Towauda, June 20, ls66.—6in.p.
pU M P M A NU F A I'll RY !
SILAS BETTS A AO..
j t)f Burlington, Bradford County, Pa., are ntinuUetur
! ing the old and well known Wooden Pump win; all the
i latest improvements. Also laying Pump Log- from
| Springs, Ac., All orders promptly attended to.
July 10, 1806.—tf.
C CAUTION.—AII persons are hereby can
) tioued not to -hot birds ot any kind on tlieprem
isesof either of the undersigned, as the law against
such will he stiietly enforced
l)'A . Overton, E. H. Smith Wm. Dittrich, Jos. i'uw
ell, Francis Watts, B. S. Russell, M. C. Mer. ur. H.C
Porter, James M. Ward, A. H. Kingsbury, W. W
Kingsbury, Mrs. Lucy M. Adams, E R. DeLong.
July 26, 1866.
DR. PRATT lias removed to State street
(first above B. S. Russell A Co's Bank). IVr<eu>
from a diftance desirous ot consulting him, will be
likely to find him on Saturday of each week. Kspco.
attention will be given Jo surgical cases, and the ext.-
tiou of teeth, 'las or Ether auministered whendesireu
July is, 1866. 1). S. PRATT, M. D.
OrNT AI N LAK E !
The subscriber respectfully informs the public that the
Pleasure Grounds connected with Mountain Lake, usvr
been put in complete order, and that he is prepared r
the reception of parties.
His Buildings aud Boats have all undergone thow' l ?'-
repair, and parlies will and everything provided
their eomfort. A more delightful place of resort rau
not be found in the county than this lake and tbeauji
cent grounds, affording shady walks, good boating,
excellent fishing.
HARRISON DOdP
Burlington, July 2, 1860.
BOOK-RINDERY. -THE PUBLIC $
respectfully iuformed that the Rook-Bindery ha
i been removed to the Argus Building,3d story.
will he done
BOOK-BINDING!
In all its various branches, on terms as re usouaoie
j'• the times " will allow. The Bindery will benade
the chargo of
H. C. WHITAKER,
An experienced B'nder, and all work wi.'i f*
done, in a style aud manner which cannot be
Music, Magazines, Newspapers, Old Books. Ac..
in every variety of styie. Partioular attention
paid to the Ruling and Binding of
BLANK BOOKS.
To any desired pattern, which in quality and Jura >'d
wil he warranted. ,
All work will be ready tor delivery when pioun-' • .
The patronage of the public Is solicited, auJ P er "
satisfaction guarranteed.
Towanda, August 2, 1866.—ti.
WAVERLY INSTITUTE.—'The S:th U'i
of the Waverly Institute under charge of A- •
Lang, AM., will open August 21, 1*66. T w 'iu.v_
the first applicants to the Normal Class will re ' r '
iree instruction tor a term of 14 weeks.
Rates of tuition iu this school have not a,a\s\
with the prices of the times, hut are nearly the sa
ihey were eight years ago. , , n .
Those desiring board can receive information )
plying to Hie Principtl. ...rinK
Pupils can lessen expenses very much by pro<
roomsnud boarding themselves. ,i,toar
To our triends aud patrons we would say. , j-q
spacious and oommodions roous have accomoda
siudeuts during the past year, satisfactorily. j_o
structore have been secured for that numberthe '
vear ARTHUR kATf.
President of Board of Trust*"-
August. 2, 1866. —2f. ~--
lIFAS OF VERY SUPERIOR QUALIT*
. are selling at moderate prices t poX'S
Sngt. Id.