NEWS FROM ALL NATIONS,
—Horace B. Pratt, formerly of Bingham
ton, N. Y., died in Oil City a faw days since under
peculiar circumstances. Mr. Pratt, in swallowing
a lump of sugar, felt something stick in his throat,
which was ascertained afterward to be a beard
from a wheat staik. An abscess soon formed in
bis throat, which finally burst, and be was suffo- i
cated before medical aid could reach him.
—Fifty Thousand Dollars has been sub
scribed toward the Johnson electioneering fund,
by one hundred men in New York, the majority of
whom are engaged in trade with the South. What
could be more significant ?
Dean Richmond, one of the leading |
politicians of the country, Chairman of the New |
York State Democratic Committee and Presiden of
the New York Central Kail road, died at about '2
o'clock Monday morning, at the residence of Sam
nel J. Tilden, in New York city.
—As Justice Catlett, of Evansville, In- i
(liana, was returning home from a gathering in the j
country a few days ago, he met a couple in the
woods who insisted upon being married then and
tlicrc. The justice complied, and the cermony !
was performed.
—During a violent thunder storm, which ;
prevailed at St. Louis a few nights ago, the bells 1
and gongs of the hook and ladder house and all 1
the other engine houses were violently rung by
the electric lluid which passed along the telegraph
wires.
—An important arrest of several coun
terfeiters of United States currency has just been
made at Matoon, 111. Large quantities of spurious
notes, presses and other material were captured.
— G. YY. Cu6tis Lee, son of Gen. Robert
E. Lee, who was the chief of President Davis'
stall) has been elected the Professor of Civil En
gineering in the University of Georgia, in place of
Gen. Smith, deceased.
—The first bale of cotton from the Arkan
sas river arrived at Memphis on Monday. It was
raised by Colonel Moore, who formerly comman
ded a regiment from Ohio.
—Twenty or thirty ladies are now on
trial at Indianola, lowa, for compelling a woman
of strong southern proclivities to carry an Ameri
can liag in a public procession.
—Malony, who was arrested for robbing
Paymaster Emerson, at Nashville of SIO,OOO, has
pleaded guilty,and goes ten years to the Tennessee
Penitentiary.
—A capitol of £20,000 has been invested
by a company in Camden and Atlantic counties,
New Jersey, for the purpose of manufacturing to
mato vinegar.
—The Chicago lake tunnel will be com
pleted by tlie Ist of November. Nine thousand
feet are already completed, and only fifteen hun
dred more are required to finish the work
—The Imperial Government of China has
appointed a commissioner to visit the United States
and the other great nations of the west for purpos
es of observation.
—ln England and Wales last year there
were 135 murders,s4 attempts to murder, 270 man
slaughters, the latter figure an increase of 30 per
cent, over the previous year.
--The total number of deaths in New
York city and count from cholera since its first ap
pearance on the Ist of May, is 82G.
—The body of a soldier exhumed at Mo
bile was found to have become a solid rock, with
all the features of the man perfectly preserved.
—A National Spiritual Colleg'e is a pro
posed institution.
—All of the late Gordon Cumming's tro
phies have arrived in New York for llamum's Mu
seum.
The capitalists of Europe, frightened
at the war there, re heavily investing in this coun
try.
—Two thousand gambling bells are said
to adorn New York.
—Laplanders are emigrating to Minne
sota bringing their dcers with them.
—The survey <fa canal across the Isth
mus of Darien is about being renewe d.
—Mr. Montfort, of Springfield, 111., know
ing tLat a young lady was going to a party, the
other night, loitere din a yard adjoining her resi
de nee to see who ateudcel her home, and was shot
for a burglar. He may recover, but bis curiosity
is lfighted.
—A terrible cuttle plague has broken
out in the vicinity of Lynchburg, Vn. The ani
mals are taken with a swelling in the throat which
prevents theiu lroin eating, and they die of stnrva
tion.
—The plague of locusts at Algeria still
continues, and the troops are ordered out every
few days and slay 3000 cwt. of the pestilent in
sects .
—The cholera is disappearing from Mar
seilles, but still rages at Antwerp, where the mor
tality is 130 a day. The whole number e>f cases in
three months in Antwerp is reported at 4000.
—Three hoys were poisoned last week
at Louisville, by eating what they supposed to be
nmshroons. One has died and the others are in
a very precarious situation.
— A dispatch from Montreal status that
three transports laden with ammunitioiUand siege
guns are expected to airive soon from England.
—Clias. O. Feck, of Fittsfield, Coiui., sou
of a much respected citizen of that place, has been
held in $24,000 bail for trial for forgery.
—lt is estimated that the government
loss is at least sßoo,oooper annum by the non-pay
ment or evasion of the internal revenue tax.
- One hundred and eighty-seven new
patents will l.e issued by the Commissioner for the
week ending the 4th proximo.
--Gen. Forrest presided over a meeting
to organize a Johnson party, held in Memphis on
Friday night.
—A general removal of the United States
district attorneys and United States marshals is
expected within a few days.
—Forty thousand persons are said to
have emigrated to Montana this summer from Cali
fornia and Oregon alone.
—Parties from the plains confirm pre
vious l tporls that Mrs. Ciuringion, v ife of Colonel
Carrington, commanding sit Fort lie-no, w;u> cap
tured am 1 carried off by the-
peated that the gouison at Fort lie uo is closely
besieged by the savages.
—Two discharged soldiers in Richmond,
Ya., arc now undergoing a term of one year's im
prisonment for attempting to excite a riot among
negroes by urging them to resist the punishment
of shapes awarded for larceny. They were fined
five hundred dollars.
—The St. Joseph (Mo.) Union says that
farmers residing a few miles south of that plae e
represent the frost, on the morning of Aug. 21, so
thick on the fences that they could write their
names legibly in it. Not a week previously the
thermometer in that region indicated a temperature
ol 100, eleg. and even higher.
—Frovidence had three fatal cases of
c olera on lhursday, signed and certified to by
the city physician. He judges the disease, how
ever, not to be ol the epidemic kind.
ifradM Reporter.
Towanda, Thursday, September 6,1866.
Union State Ticket.
FOR GOVERNOR, 6^
GEN. JOHN YV. GEARY,
OF WESTMORELAND COUNTY.
FOR CONGRESS,
TTON. TJ. MERCUR, OF BRADFORD CO.
Subject to the Congressional Conference.
, — f
Z'nlon County Ticket.
FOR ASSOCIATE JUDGE,
J. YY. VAN DYKE, or CANTON BORO.
FOR REPRESENTATIVES,
G. YY. KINNEY, OF SHESHEQUIN,
JAMES 11. YVEBB, OF SMITHFIELD.
FOR SHERIFF,
YVM. GRIFFIS, OF STANDING STONE.
FOR RROT HON OTA RV,
YV. A. TIIOMAS, OF TROY BORO.
FOR REGISTER AND RECORDER,
GEN. 11. J. MADILL, OF WYSOX TWP.
FOR COMMISSIONER,
YY T M. B. DODGE, OF TOWANDA BORO.
FOR AUDITOR,
ISAAC D. SOBER, or BURLINGTON IT.
FOR CORONER,
CAPT. J. 11. IIURST, OF HERRICK.
THE NOMINATIONS.
The length of the proceedings of the Con
vention, and the want of time, precludes
the possibility of extoueied comment upon
the action of the Convention and the merits
of the nominees. The unanimity and good
feeling which characterized its delibera
tions, and the worth of the candidates, are
a guarantee of united and vigorous action
on the part of the Union party of the Coun
ty, and the sure precourser of victory at
the polls.
We shall next week present in detail the
qualifications of our candidates and their
claims upon the suffrage of the voters.
THE JOHNSON REPUBLICANS.
There is at times a strange fatality at
tending the political action of politicians,
and uo amount of experience, or judicious
advice, seems able to draw them from the
delusion which is leading them cstray. This
appears to be very clearly the case at pres
ent with tsertain Johnson-republicans, as
they call themselves, in this county. When
leaving the republican party several years
ago, they fondly hoped to draw enough of
the rank and file of that party after them,
to give them, with the aid of the demo
crats, the ascendancy in the county ; but
this turned up a sad delusion, since which
time, their numbers have grown beautiful
ly less, until there is hardly a corporal's
guard left, although all the while beating
the bnsb in the hope of starting up some
thing that might create a diversion in their
favor, still nothing turned up until the
great Johnson-Doolitlle-copperhead-and-reb
el convention which came oil' recently in
Philadelphia. This was to swing them all,
with cue great swoop in the majority, into
power, and into oflice, the end of all their
machinations and aspirations ; but here
too, signs of failure are becoming manifest,
even before the hurrahs of the bread-and
butter brigade over the convention, cease
vibrating through the land. Perhaps no
political gathering was ever convened in
this country, from which so much was
promised, and so little of substantial profit
secured, as this one. For it is doubtful
whether it will draw fifty voters after it,
throughout the whole land, that were not
with it before, and not Interested in getting
it up. So that the finely written address
of Mr. RAYMOND, with its plausible logic,
attractive patriotism,and affected sincerity,
and the crafty, oily, and grasplcss resolu.
tions of Mr. COWAN, which were to be the
veni villi vici of the office-hunting legions,
come to the ground together at the feet of
the people, to be laughed at for the thin
ness of the guise under which their gross
deformity was hid. All see plainly, except
the Johnson-republicans, who is to be sold,
and who is the buyer, but the bought and
the sold don't sen? it; and this because they
wanted to go somewhere, they did not
care much where. It is singular how des
picable men can become in principle, after
they have sacrifiexd a noble faith on petty
and mercenary motives. Some of these
Johnson-republicans . fought lustily for a
national backing system from 1832 to 1840;
and from thence to Is4o, with equal ardor
and sincerity for the tariff act of 1842 ; and
when the annexation scheme was project
ed, boldly did they resist the encroach
ments of slavery. Yet now, when the loy
al, union republican party is standing
squarely, broadly, on these throe great, na
tion-saving, time-honored, nay, hallowed
j doctrines, and which gave vitality to as
I great a party, as noble and patriotic, as
ever fought for right in any country, the
remnant of the Peoples' party cannot see
where right belongs,and where duty points.
The high and virtuous impulses of younger
| and purer years, have been crowded out by
the mercenary promptings of a degraded
passion. The nation seeks in vain among
i these for virtuous patriotism, lofty, sclf
saorificing devotion to our country's good
and glory. Yet there was a time, and not
far hack either, when the proudest aspira
tions of these men, was to battle for right,
for tiuth, for country, in a hopeless minori
, ty ; and now, they seem only to be influ
, enccd in their political action, by the pros
pect of office. Y\ r hat a change !
But the strangest part 0 f the delusion
i which is keeping up these Johnson follow
i era, is the fact, that Johnson is absolvtely,
1 positively repeating over, Btep by step, the
j egrecious folly of JOHN TYT.ER. He, and his
I few followers, were lionized, patted on the
back, coaxed and cajoled, by the demo
I crats, just as is n<>w done by that party by
JOHNSON. TYLER was promised the nornina
| tion for the Presidency, the democrats
, agreed to a new name for a great national
I party, and the accidental President, and his
| followers, swallowed the whole bait, and
were caught up by the raw hook of misera
ble disappointment. For just so soon a-'
TYLER became powerless to serve them by
dividing the party which had elected him,
the democrats dropped their weak tool and
he sank despised ; and now this piece of
history is repeating itself in this man that
God made a tailor of, and WILKES BOOTH a
President ; and the perjured scamp, be
cause he has some oflices to bestow, and is
doling them out to whining sycophants, he
has some followers. If to be a follower un
der such circumstances, is not degrading,
and humiliating to a man's self esteem, we
fail to know what is.
THE NEW ORLEANS MASSACRE.
We published in a conspicuous place, in
our last paper, the account General SHERI
DAN givoß of the murder of the Union men
in the late so called riots of New Orleans,
and we desire now to call the reader's at
tention to that account again, not having
had the leisure to comment on it as it de
served at that time ; and that we may do
no injustice to any one, and that the full
enormity of that villanous massacre at
New Orleaus may be fully appreciated, we
publish again Gen. SHERIDAN'S first letter
dated 2nd of August ultimo. It is as fol
lows :
MA J.-GEN. SHERIDAN TO GEN. GRANT.
OFFICE U. S. MILITARY TELEGRAPH, )
HEADQUARTERS WAR DEPARTMENT, j
[Cypher.]
The following telegram received G V. M„ Aug.
2, 18GG, from New-Orleans, La., Aug. 2, 186G:
U. .8. Grant, General, Washington, D. :
The more information I obtain of the riot in this
city the more revolting it becomes. It was no riot.
It was an absolute massacre by the police, which
was not excelled in murderous cruelty by that of
Fort Pillow. It was a murder which the Mayor
and Police of the city perpetrated without "the
shadow of a necessity. Furthermore, I believe it
was premeditated, and every, indication points to
tbis. I recommend the removing of this bad man,
I believe it would be hailed with the sincerest
gratification by two-tbirds of the population of the
city. There has been a feeling of insecurity on
the part of the people here in account of this iuan,
which is now so much increased that the (safety of
life and property does not rest with the civil
authorities but the military.
(Signed) P. H. SHERIDAN,
Major-tieneral Commanding.
Thus, while President JOHNSON is urging
with precipitate haste to bring back into
the government unrepentent, despicable
rebels, and to this end, has broken all his
party obligations, forfeited all his pledges
to the country, and is using all his patron
age and influence, the Mayor and Polico of
New Orleans, notorious traitors, and known
as thugs and murderers, with "premedita
tion," and " without a shadow of necessity,"
murder at least thirty, and perhaps more
Union men on the streets of Xew Orleans,
and at the same time maiming and wound
ing one hundred and thirty or forty. What
a commentary this is upon "my policy."—
What too, which adds to the enormity of
JOHNSON'S crime in trying to force on the
government without conditions or restric
tions, such blood-thirsty rebels, is the fact,
that Xew Orleans fitly represents the in
ternal condition of all the late rebel States.
Mayor MONROE is known to be the meanest,
and most outrageously outspoken rebel in
Xew Orleans, and holds his office as May
or for this reason, while Judge ABEL of the
Criminal Courts in that city, is not surpass
ed in the whole South for vindictive hostili
ty to the United States government and
the Xorthern people, and was too, made
Judge for this reason. So it is all over the
rebel States. Whenever a rebel of intensi
fied hatred to the United States, could be
found, and who had any qualifications, he
was put into authority by the rebels, and
in travelling over the South this is the
class of men who give tone at present, to
public sentiment there, and who hold the
i offices. Many of this class have been sent
to Congress, and President JOHNSON insists
upon their admission. The impudence of
the unhung scoundrels who claim admis
sion to the Congress of the United States,
is only surpassed by the villiany of the
Pre ident who favors it, after he has sworn
to defend the government from its enemies.
We were shocked, the world was shocked,
at the criminal boldness, and despicable
cruel villiany of WILKES BOOTH, when he
took the life of ABRAHAM LINCOLN, and how
much better to day is ANDREW JOHNSON
than WILKES BOOTH. The former is made
President by the crime of the latter, and an
open enemy, that has fought the govern
ment during four long years, has hardly
left the battle field, and whi e its soldiery's
bands are still dripping with the blood of
the country's defenders, this President by
the crime of another, and who has sworn
to defend and protect the government,bare
ly turns himself in his position, before he
invites into power under the government
he has taken his oath to protect, the very
enemy which fought it so long and desper
ately, without any conditions or restric
I tion, and this too, in the face of the fact,
that this enemy's purpose to destroy the
j government has abated none by his own
! admission, by defeat, but rather increased,
| and that he seeks the control of the coun-
I try that he may destroy its government.—
! Such treachery and baseness was never
surpassed, if ever equalled ; and this mon-
I strous wickedness and perfidv is justified
: on the ground that it is humanity to this
! South, .this enemy, so to treat him, and
that we must conquer him by kindness, for
i.getting that humanity has its plea on the
! other side also, that no law human or di
vine requires us to hug the serpent whose
| fangs arc exposed for our destruction, that
! humanity for ourselves is as grave a virtue
;as humanity for others, and that self-pres
i ervation is the dictate of humanity itself,
j and a divine as well as a human impulse ;
j but this maddened monster in the White
House forgets the common instincts of our
( nature as he does his duty and his oath to
I his country.
Chairman of the National Sol
diers' and Sailors' Union Executive Com
, inittee, since the issue of the call for a Con
vention of Union soldiers at Pittsburgh,has
i received over 10,000 letters from prominent
soldiers in the different loyal States, all of
I which radically indorse the object of the
I meeting, and emphatically declare in favor
| of making treason odious.
REPUBLICAN CO. CONVENTION.
At a Convention of Delegates from the
several election districts of Bradford Coun
ty, convened at the Court House in Towan
da borough, in pursuance of the call of the
County Committee, on Monday evening,
Sept. 4. for the purpose of placing in
nominationja County Ticket, C. F. SAY'LES,
of Troy boro, was elected President, and
H. N. WILUAMS, Canton Boro, P. H. BUCK,
of Pike, elected Secretaries.
The list of election district®- was then
called over, and the following delegates
appeared and presented their credentials :
ARMENIA —Nathan Sherman, James Mason.
ALMA BORO—C. G. Manley, L. J. Andrns.
ATHENS Tr—J. F. Ovenshire, H. W. Thomas.
ATHENS BORO—D. F. Park, C. M. Stanley.
ALBANY— James Terry, Amasa Heverly.
ASYLUM —Myron Kellogg, It. W. Coolbaugli.
BURLINGTON FAST F. S. Ayres, Alexander Lane. ;
BURLINGTON Bono—Mason Long, 11. It. Hill.
BURLINGTON WEST —Charles Taylor, F,. E. Loomis. |
CANTON TP —James A. Rogers, J. L. Bothwell.
CANTON BOKO— 11. N. Williams, W. Vandyke.
COLUMBIA. —B. F. Knapp, C. E. Gladding.
FRANKLIN —F. F. Fairchild, F. S. ltice.
GRANVILLE —John Sayles, Ward Warren.
HEBRICK— J. 11. Hnrst, W. A. Wetmore.
LEROX- —Robert MeKee, Andrew ltoyse.
LITCHFIELD —A. J. Lay ton, J. H. McKiiiuev.
LEHAYSVILLE —J. H. Marsh, Asa Nichols.
MONROE TP —Clark Cummins, Samuel Lyons.
MONROE BORO— H. W. Rockwell, 11. C. Tracy.
ORWELL— II. J. Pickering, Wnj. Howe.
OVERTON —Josiah lthinebolt, James Molyneux.
PIKE—P. H. Buck, Eugene lveelcr.
RIDGBURY—O.E. Chambcrlin, Geo. S. Lowman. !
ROME TP.—J. A. Moody, L. W. Towner.
ROME RORO— L. L. Moody. Daniel Vought.
SMITHEIELD— UIysses Moody, A. R. Button.
SPRINGFIELD—S. D. Harkness, J. E. Yerkes.
SOUTH Cr.EEK—P. J. Dean, Ira Crane.
SYLVANIA BORO —A. B. Stevens, G. P. Monro.
SHESHEQULN —Win. Snyder, Benj. Forbes.
STANDING STONE —John M. Farman, John Eshy.
TERRY —John FT Dodge, J. 11. Horton.
TOWANDA TP— G. F. Mason, E. W. Hale.
TOWANDA BORO —M. C. Mercnr, G. D. Montanye. I
TOWANDA NORTH— David Rutty, Geo. B. Mills."
TROY TP— James Taylor, Milton Loomis.
TROY BORO —C. F. Sayles, W. 11. Carnachan.
TUSCABORA —Lorenzo Ackley, A. P.. Culver.
ULSTER —C. W. llolcomb, S. R. Hill.
WARREN— G. W. Corben, R. L. Reardslee.
WINDHAM —Asa MeKee, S. A. Kimball.
WYALUSING— Edward Hornet, James I'ee.
WYSOX —Geylord Wood, J. B. Smith.
WELLS —Morris Shepherd, Walter Bowman.
WILMOT —J. G. Brown, A. J. Stair.
On motion, the following resolution was
unanimously adopted :
lit solved, That 11. L. Scott, W. 11. Carnachan, i
E. M. Farrar, C. F. Sayles, H. N. Williams, and
C. F. Nichols, he and are hereby appointed Con- j
gressional Conferees, with power of substitution,
and are instructed to support Hon. Ulysses Mer- i
cur for Congress.
On motion, Col. VV. 11. 11. Gore, S. D. j
Harkness, X. C. Elsbree, Win. Snyder, and
Col. Joseph Horton, were appointed Repre
sentative Conferees, with power of substi
tution, and instructed to support G. A T .
Kinney and J. 11. Webb, for Representa
tives.
On motio i the Convention then proceed
ed to the nomination of a candidate for As
sociate Judge. The following named gen
tlemen were presented as candid ates for
nomination : J. W. VAN DYKE, Canton Boro
IRAD WILSON, Alba Boro., and V. M. LONG,
of Troy Boro. The Convention then pro
ceeded to ballot with the following result : j
Van Dyke, .55 ,
Wilson, 11
Long, 22
Whereupon J. W. VAN DYKE, having a
majority of all the votes cast, was declared
duly nominated, and on motion, the uorni- j
nation was made unanimous.
On motion, the Convention then proceed
ed to the nomination of a candidate for
Sheriff. The names of WILLIAM GP.IEFIS, :
of Standing Stone, and C. M. MANVILI.E, of
Towanda Borough, were presented. The
Convention then ballotted as follows :
Griffis, 75
Manville 18
Mr. GRIFFIS, having a majority of all the
votes, was delared nominated, and on mo
tion the nomination was made unanimous.
On motion, Gen. 11. J. MADILL, of Wysox,
was nominated for Register and Recorder
by acclamation.
On motion, VV. A. THOMAS, of Troy, was
nominated by acclamation for Prothonotary.
For County Commissioner the following
names were presented : JOHN F. DODGE,
Terry ; E. R. DELOKG, Asylum ; VV. VV.
DODGE, Towanda Borough : MASON LONG,
Burlington Boro ; J. B. M. ILL N.MAN, Monroe ;
VV. W. EASTERBROOKS, North Towanda, and
the Convention ballotted as follows :
Ist Ballot. 2d Ballot.
John F. Dodge, 11 withdrawn
E.DeLong, 12 "
W.B.Dodge, 52 47
Mason Long, 24 PI
J. B. M. Ilinnian, 11 withdrawn
W. W. Easterbrooks 2 "
On the second ballot, VV". B. DODGE, hav
ing received a majority of all the votes
cast, was declared duly nominated.
For Auditor, ISAAC I). SOBER, of Burling
ton twp., was nominated by acclamation.
On motion, Capt. J. 11. HURST, of Uerrick,
was nominated for Coroner by acclamation.
On motion, the chair appointed the fol
lowing named gentlemen as a Standing
County Committee for the ensuing year :
G. D. MONTANYE, Towanda ; Capt. MASON
LONG, Burlington boro.; C. E. GLADDING,
Columbia ; A. C. BRINK, Wells ; J. F. OVEN
SHIRE, Athens twp.; P. n BUCK, Pike :
GEORGE ACROYD, Wyalusing ; CHARLES IIOL
LON, Monroe twp.; A. G. MATUEWS, Orwell.
On motion, G. I). MONTANYE, VV. H. CAR
NACHAN, and EUGENE KF.EI.ER, were appoint
ed a Committee on Resolutions. The Com
mittee, after a short conference, reported,
through their chairman, the following reso
lutions, which were unanimously adopted
by the Convention :
Resolved, That in our support of ANDREW JOHN
SON for the Vice-l'residency, we were actuated by
confidence in his sincerity when avowing sympa
thy for loyalists and hostility to traitors. Ilis sub
sequent cold indifference to the former, and mani
fest encouragement to the latter, awakens in all
patriots' hearts, unmingled disgust and indigna
tion. Having conquered a peace it belongs to the
loyal victors to take amplo security for the future
quiet of the country, and to perpetuate the rights
of all classes. In assuming to readjust the gov
ernment of the late seceding States, not only with
out the concurrence of Congress, but in opposition
to the vie A S of an overwhelming majority OF that
body, ANDREW JOHNSON claims prerogatives, un
warranted in character and dangerous in tenden
cy ; prerogatives only equalled in audacity by his
denunciations of the peoples' representatives as
traitors, at the other extreme of the circle—that
for his body-guard—the bread-and-butter brigade,
we have the utmost contempt.
Resolved, That we pledge our undivided and
earnest support to General JOHN W. GEARY, our
candidate for Governor, recognizing in him the
brave soldier, devoted patriot, and the representa
tive man of the "Boys in bine," by whose cour
age and daring, trial and suffering's, under the
providence of God, we are indebted for a gaveru
inent to protect us.
Resolved, That we approve the firm and consist
ent course of the Republican majority in Congress,
and most heartily commend our own member from
the 13th District—Hon. ULYSSES ALEKCUB —for ad
hering to that majority, and pledge our united and
earnest support for his re-election, believing that
in the future as in the past, he will be found co
operating with those we regard as tlio country's
best friends.
Resolved. Inasmuch as it will devolve upon the
next Legislature of this State to elect a U. S. Sen
ator, to succeed EDGAR A. COWAN, who for six years
has mis-represented those who elevated him to po
sition and it is our settled conviction that
no man should be. chosen to that high trust who
Las not made a clean record of sympathy with the
patriotic masses against both treasonable and
l'residoniial assumptions.
sesoipetf,That we recognize our deepest gratitude
as And to the brave boys in blue, who, upon land
and sea have so proudly sustained the emblem of
Union —the stars and stripes. That their heroic
bravery and nntiring patriotism deserve at our
hands, upon every occasion, their just reward—ac
cording to tlieia ail honor that the scenes of New
Orleans and Memphis are not enacted among us
—hailing them as the protectors and saviours of
our free form of government—remembering Lihby
and Andersonville, they can not support a party
that has for its leaders and champions, the com
manders and keepers of those prisons.
Jiesolved, Tnat we cordially approvo of the ad
ministration of onr State Government, and accord
to Gov. ANDREW G. CCUTIS', and our members of
the State Legislature our approbation of their
stewardship.
During the absence of the Committee 01. ;
Resolutions, Hon. U. MEKOUR, and Hon.
GEO. LANDUN, being loudly called for, ad- J
dressed the meeting The remarks of the
gentlemen were truthful and eloquent, and
the frequent bursts of applause which
greeted the speakers, told the story of a
united Union Republican Party, which, j
having defeated treason on the field of bat
tle, was amply strong to rebuke it at the
ballot-box.
After giving three cheers for Gen. JOHN
VV. GEARY —the next Governor of Pennsyl
vania—the Convention, on motion,
Adjourned, nine dir.
C. F. SAYLES, I'resident.
o w Y' lIXIAMS ' !' Secretaries.
r. H. LUCK, |
REPRESENTATIVE CONFERENCE.
At a meeting of the Representative Con- j
ferees composed of the Counties of Bradford
and Sullivan held at the Court House in To- j
wanda Sept. 4, rSOO, the following named
gentlemen presented credenti Js and were
admitted to seats in the conference :
Bradford County.- S. D. lIABKNESs,Wm. !
SNYDER, J. 11. HORTON, N C. ELSBREE, W. H. j
H. GORE.
Sullivan County. — LEWlS ZAXF.H, B. L. J
CIIEEXEY.
LEWIS ZANEU, was elected chairman
and J. 11. HORTON, Secy.
W. 11. H. Gore, nominated G. W. KIN- j
NEY and J. If. WEBB of Bradford.
B. L. Cheeuev nominated AUGUSTUS LIR-
I'ENCorr of Sullivan Go.
Upon the lirst baIIot, KENNEY had 7 votes,
WEBB 5, LTPPKNCOTT 2.
On motion of B. L. CITEENEY the nomina
tions of G. W. KINNEY and J. if. WEBB
were made unanimous.
On motion the time and place of holding
the next meeting of tin- Representation cor.-
frees was lixed at Tuvvanda upon the first
Tuesday after the first Monday of Sept.
1807.
On motion adjourned tine die.
LEWES ZANER, Chairman.
J. 11. HORTON, Secy.
TIIE MUTILATION OF SIIEUIUAX'S IMS
PATCHES.
Our readers know all about the manner
1 in which Sheridan's dispatch, announcing
the breaking out of a riot in New Orleans,
j was mutilated after Gen. Grant had placed
it in the hands of the President. Sheridan
put the facts of that riot in a shape to make
the authorities of Yew Orleans responsible
for its bloody results. He clearly proved
that the Mayor and the police were the ag-
I gressors. But it conflicted with my jiolicy
to have the men at the North, who put
down rebellion, become acquainted with
j such a condition of affairs, and therefore
j Andrew Johnson deliberately tampered
witli a communication setting forth these
facts ! It now appears that still other dis
patches were suppressed by the Secretary
of State, and that the whole plan of Seward
and Johnson has been to keep the nation
unadvised on the subject of the New Or
leans massacre.
There is no longer any necessity to with
hold the direct charge that Andrew John
son and William H. Seward encouraged
the proceedings which led to the murder
of Union men at New Orleans, by ex-rebel
officers and privates. Sheridan's dispatch
es, and the manner in which Seward and
the President sought to suppress these dis
patches, prove their guilt, and thus the
country has the elegant spectacle before
them of a President and a Premier absent
from their posts on a carouse, after they
had imbrued their hands in the blood of
those who bared their bosoms to preserve
tlio Government. God save the Republic!
TEE DIFFERENCE STATED.
The cool impudence of the late rebels is
well exhibited in the following extract
from the speech of Governor Orr, of South
Carolina, to the Johnson-C'lymer Club of
Philadelphia:
" We, of the South, believed we had a
ri<jht to secede from the Union. You
thought not, for we were brought up iu dif
ferent schools. An appeal to arras was made
—a long and bloody one. It ended in your
triumph, and in our subjugation."
Governor Uru was a delegate to the
Philadelphia Convention, and headed the
pantomimical procession which made such
a sensation in that august body, and trans
muted some "old rye" or "red-eye" into
tears at the White House. In his opinion
loyalty and treason are only differences of
opinion. To take up arms against the gov
ernment and flag of the nation merely an
assertion of a fancied political right ; and
a resuitant war of four years merely a very
proper mode ol' determining the question.
In his opinion no more odium attaches to
their huge crime than does to a party who
are beaten at a lawful election. Such are
the loose ideas with which these men seek
to coiuo back into the Union, and with
which the President and his abettors are
trying to get back. They " believed they
had a right to secede from the Union." Is
there any evidence that they don't believe
so still'( There is solid verity in the old
distich :
" A man, convinced against his will,
Is of the same opinion still."
Gen. Forrest, of Fort Pillow fame,
presided at a Johuon meeting, to ratify
the Philadelphia Convention, at Memphis
on the finth, and made a speech warmly
sustaining the President. Alter the Presi
dent's approval of the New Orleans mur
ders, he was just the rnau for Gen. For
rest to tie to. He should be a delegate to
the Johnson Soldier's Convention at Cleve
land I |
OFFICIAL INVESTIGATION OF THE NEW
ORLEANS MASSACRE.
A New Orleans dispatch to the New
York Time# is as fellows :
The Military Commission appointed by ;
; General Baird to investigate the riot in
i this city on the 30th ult., have completed
this duty bo far as taking evidence is con
cerned, and are now preparing their report.
It will probably be sent to General Sheri
dan lor his review the latter part of this
week, when he will forward it to Washing
ton. Nearly two thousand foolscap pages
of testimony have been taken, the witness
es comprising policemen, white citizens and
freedtnen, and including the statements ot
representative men on both sides. Ino liist
testimony elicited was from Colonel Ad
ams, Chief of Police, and his aids, besides
, a number of the sergeants and privates ot
: the force. The wounded whiles and ne
groes were next sworn, and were followed
by white and black ; otherwise the report
will be classified in such a manner as to
give all of the evidence regarding the
cause and origin of the riot under one head,
I and the behavior of the police, with the
j cruel murders by the rioters, under anoth
er. It will show that the first shot fired
was from a revolver in the hands of a white
man at the procession of ftvedmen which
was passing Canal street, en rout*' for the
Capitol, where the Convention was in ses
sion.
After this shot about twenty minutes
passed without further disturbance, and
the procession reached the Institute, when
a squad of police opposed, and in attempt
ing to make arrests fired on the iicedmen,
| who returned the lire. A mob of citizens j
then joined trie ponce, ana me great mas- j
sacre commenced. It also shows that sev-:
eral policemen had reversed the bands on j
their hats in such a manner that the mini- j
her cotild not be seen, and that alter they S
forced their way into the hall where the j
Convention was held they disregarded tin
display of a white flag, and tired indis 1
criminately on the unarmed members and i
a large number of spectators,some of whom
were not in sympathy with the political
proclivities of the Convention. Some of the
citizens wore badges indicating the exist
ence of the organization.
After this gross breach of faith, the testi
mony says that the members and specta
tors rose en mouse and drove the police out
of the chamber with chairs, and then barri
caded the doors. A few of the members
and spectators succeeded in making their
escape from the building during the confu
sion which followed. After the barricade
had been established not a single person
in the building escaped unharmed, and
about thirty men were murdered. The par
ticulars ot the murder of Dr. Dostie while a
prisoner in the hands of the police, and the
wounding of other members in the same
c mdition is also included. The attempt to
lynch W. R. Fish, a member, is positively
sworn to, and while credit is given to the
police for saving the lives of all who were
in the building, and are not now dead, the
[ force is found guilty of nearly all the mur
ders that were committed. Evidence was
elicited showing that in mary cases the
police killed freedmen when they could
have arrested them without trouble, and
that wounded negroes were thrown in a
cart and killed while struggling to free
themselves from the dead bodies which' hud
been placed on the top of them.
As to the origin of the riot, the Commis
sion will undoubtedly report that it was
caused by bitter feelings on the part of the
citizens and police toward the radical Un
ionists and the freedmen. They will also
be probably of the opinion that tiie affair
was preconcerted, inasmuch as the evi
dence shows that it was talked of by the
citizens lor days previous to its occurrence.
Altogether, the police and the rioters made
four separate attacks on the barricades he
fore arresting all the members and specta
tors, and the rioters did not cease until
then When the military appeared the Con
vention had been dispersed, but it will be
the opinion of the Commission that if the
troops bad not arrived just as they did, the
riot would have progressed to the exter
mination of all the Unionists and the freed
m- n in the city.
The investigation includes the proceed
ings and speeches of the universal suffrage
meeting, which was held on the Friday
night previous to the riot, and the exact
words of the speeches will be given in Un
report. General Sheridan has imposed
strict secrecy on the Commission, and no
authentic reports were obtained of the evi
dence during its session. This statement,
however, is reliable, although brief. The
entire city press having received the offi
cial dispatches of Sheridan icgarding the
riot, it is pitching into him hot and heavy,
some of the papers going so far as to
charge him with untruthfulness.
WHAT THE REPUBLICANS DEMAND
1. That untrammelled freedom of legisla
tion by the national congress, upon all sub
jects confided to its care by the Constitu
tion, without dictation or compulsion.
2. No interference or tampering with the
rights guaranteed to each house of congress
by the Constitution to judge and decide in
reference to the qualifications of its own
members
3. Liberty of free investigation by Con
gress into all governmental abuses within
the scope of the national authority.
4. Entire immunity of the people's repre
sentatives iu Congress from all intimida
tion, intervention or compulsion in discuss
ing the state of the country or the meas
ures pending before them.
5. That the powers of Congres shall not
be restricted by any other authority than
the National Constitution, subject to re
view and interpretation only by the Su
premo Court of the United States in suits
arising under its action.
6. Sufficient guarantees against the as
sumption or payment of rebel debts, claims
or obligations, by constitutional amend
ments.
7. That in the same manner the national
war debt shall be defended against all
efforts at repudiation, no matter whence
proceeding.
8. Equality before the law for all the
inhabitants of the United States recognized
by the national laws as citizens.
9. Security for the civil rights of person
and property for every citizen, however
humble, or of whatever race or color, by
constitutional amendment.
10. Impartial representation of ail sec
tions of the republic by a change in the
section of the Constitution under which
the slaves, though having no votes, were
represented in Congress.
11. The indisputable right of the majori
ty to govern.
1± The alteration of all State constitu
tions based on the rule of a minority.
13. Suppression of the odious distinctions
of caste now restored to at the south as a
substitute for slavery.
11. General tree public education in all
sections of the Union, subject to no excep
tions of race or condition.
15. I'rotcction tor the lives and property
of all citizens of the republic ot every race,
color and section, aud of whatever opinions
on public matters, against outrage, robbery
and persecution, whether done under cover
of unjust and oppressive State r r
pal laws or authority, or by secret •
izoil bands, or in pursuance of I .at.'i? a: '
I'd reign of terror.
10. I'erieot freedom of discuss!
Htical or social questions in pni ! ■
or in the periodical press, w m . K r r ]:
any other way than by the -o-„| ar ' '."V®
of just laws
toy- The following despot, I,
from Washington to the New Yoik,
The personal friends of Gen. Or!,
indignantly deny the charge in v '
York Times of 10-day, that their \V a i
ton correspondent sent to the j'ur, I ' l '
garbled dispatch of Gen. Sheridan t. i
Grant just as he, the correspondent'!,,,!'
ed it from Gen. Grant. The aforcsL ,] V v
patch was not received from (ten r ''
by the Times correspondent.
alter receiving the dispatch iron, <; ( ' J
Sheridan, took it, immediately i , i, M . '
dent, and that is the lust he . iw „| ,
Times correspondent got the dispat, •
the President, lie being the only coin'.," "
dent here who is admitted into' i|.,
the White House. All her agree
dispatch was garbled at the \\
When the dispatch in its garbl,,.! <
appeared in the Times, Gen. cij ai ,
hgard to say by persons he.. •
portaut sentence had been lefr nut
dispatch as printed in the Tim.
together with the dispatch of i: . ,
dan to Gen. Grant, dated \, v.- o r i
August 13, 1886, and which w,s o; .
by the President in the regular |.v '
of the official correspondence,
President in a still worse prcd,,-, . ,
On Thursday night a i :
near Baltimore was the sc-i-i.e of s,
outrages on the colored port!,:,
camp. The meeting was mid. •;
tiou of the Methodist Episcopal (
the North Baltimore District, of wh.,-.
Mr. Lanahan is the presiding elder. \\
the colored people were cond ictm
religious exerci.- s, they Were vi< ~V :.
upon by a gang of men, tin- aum-k'
meueiug with the beating oi a negio i
while on his knees. Several n.-gi
badly beaten and wounded and a v.- v
man named Milton Benson, while at jam,,
was shot in the back of the i.i <1 a.; •* '
tally wounded. The conflict euii.-ii tin -
the persuasion of the white inmUn a "
others, by the eoh red people s . .ai. <- \
homes, leaving their camp to tar
does.
riLsprrtiscmrnts.
I /Wl 'HON.—AII pern his are hi r! ,
I\J bkt harboriag oi empl jlng a I and . ' .
.EWES BAILEV, who lias it*. >ndil u ..
i shall not be responsible iosa.,j charges i
Warren, Sept I,lßa<. ELIA
ij®STKA Y.—C ime into the encin.- <
J the subscriber in Smithiield i.. j...
two small two oldi cue steei .
Jeep red. The owner is ie<[oeM.ed to come
prove property, pay charges and take ..
they w ill be disposed ot aee ruing t
sept3,3t. J. o II;..
"VTOiiGE.—Notice is hereby ei.ei.
It Sarah E.lcn W'v.-cier a . i
children Iroru Terrylowu twp„ hive
j art cause or provocation, I l.erthy ia
harboring or trusting t!i m n:i m;,- ~ :r 1 v
pay no debts oi their contracting ait • odic.
•i. •■ . < Oliiil.V
Albany, Aug. 24, 000.
QTRAYED—From the pi mi
I? s ibs triber, in Asyl ..a twp., t (he 10 h Art
August, IStiij, a lied Cow, about six years old. witii
while spots on the lorebcuJ. Any per a giviiy a...
information as to her whereabouts will e>ulvrag
favor ou the owner,
CO UN' ELI U S JOHNSON.
August 23 , lsoO. - 3t.
U" S. INTERNAL K EVE Nil
• Notice is hereby given that the Annual
Exc i.-e Taxes lor l&co, has been Inui^mitte' ' i..
the A.-e-fs-or, nd the same has bee me due ami pay
ble. Ail persons Assessed in the County ai liu
ill make payment to the uadersigiic: uc
Saturday, September S, ISIIG.
Notice is also given that ail persons wan cglee :
pay the duties aud tax - as.-< -cil upon lie .. v.. ..a '
time .-pccilied will! - liable to pay t-> j.i-i .• •
al upon the amount thereof. li. 1.. Nv'nl
C'oUtrtw lli./i iaulncl, i'i ■
Collector's Office,'l wanda, Pa. Aug. 2; i
I*o SOLDIERS AND ALL OTHEI
.Persons i&teiertedin Claims for Peosi us .• •
Fusions,AddiliuUtil nonitii;S,C i i .
Union Soldiers held as Prisoners oi
derailed, a Clerk in the House ot Uej .* . -ii
has prepared from the re-o .
lished iu pamphlet lorm with ex..... , .0.
the laws passed by the lust session .i. ••••_
an iucrease oi Pensions, AuditiuLu. Uoutiii- ...
tation ol iCali 'U? t S idier? he.u .
of War, Tiiree Months Pay Proper io r f i l
&c., ihtsa laws will not nc puol . d oytnt-ho.
eroment in -iiatcite lorm ior ui<niia : l ''-
and the puhiicaiion of a portion ot . .
papers has lieen very erronetjus and ;d ••upD iV
iug at con sidembit ■ rouble, La.ii.. u\ -
vauce oi ollieiai puhiieati Gt, they wi
the nndersigned upon application to hip., ut t
It, W. Noble, or by mail ou ae
price at cents each.
From an examination of this pampliM. tveiy
ant can nuders a'.d their own ease.
J. UOlAdXih
Towanda, Aug. 11, lsiio.
IT S. BONDS.
• 7.; ill Ti'.EASUUV NOie>
COML'OUN'D INTEIiESf Noi.>
Bought and sold by
B IiVSSEI.I. i IT>.
The Treasurer ot the L'nittii States - :ow 1
the first Series >| 7 3-10 Treasury No.t- iu
Bonds ut 150... Holders in this \.o. ..-j "■■
have their Notes inverted, e.oi do s i liv . .il: n.-
B. S. BUsTKLi. X U).
Aug. 20, lbbti. iiU'ihC!'.-. row ■ ■ •
Jg L 0 0 D k CO.,
Htill Manufacture the best
II O K S E L' O \Y E 11 s,
'ihe Best
THRESHEIIS AND t I.EANKII-,
Also,
THRESHERS AND SEi'AKA'D'ID
BANNING MILES, Ac.. A •
Alio! which we furnish at the Lowe- I'r -
CALL axb SEE, AT THE N'*-" Suor.
Athens, P a., Aug. 10,156 G. —tt.
| "YFEVV AND FRESH GOOltfl
Ax Just received,
A FULL STOCK OF (iliOi Kltl.
?Bought for Cash,
WHICH WILL BE SOLD AT A SMALL A |iVAV '
Thankful tor past tavors, I won'.! lespt :■■■■•)
my old triends that 1 hope by st :. t auiaiiii".
prices to merit a coutinnauec of ihc.i lav. is. ,
Towanda Feb. 2. 1 '
I rpEAS ol very flue quality, : }' "
JL or at retail, bought be! me the r-.t:- ,
for sale cheap at
June Id, Ihdw.
MItOHELL'S EXTRACTS. The
extracts lor fix Voting in u-v. ' 1 ' ' u ' | ( ,\ -
I and retail at
, VJTRATTON'S YEAST CDMIA'J
O Is the bekt yeast ever sold
I matmiacturer. For sale at w nles-ilvo: _•-- ,
'■ '
AND PROVISION-"-
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
.1 011 N MERID ET H -
j Main st., fust door south ol Bail Boa 1 H '' |
j hits just received a large addition to lor
GBOCEBIES AND BilOVlsIuNS
j Which will bo sold at wholesale and uu.i . '
| Farmer's I'liHluee of all kinds hom.'i' ami ' ( , „ .
, The public aiteul.ou is respe toilly "j ,
, stork, which will be louud t >
I prices and will be sold at corresponding e
j Tovrandi, July 17,i5d<>.