news" from all rations, - f —On the committee of one hundred ap pointed to receive the President at Memphis, are Galloway, of the Avalanche, and the ex-confeder ate Generals Forrest, Jordan and Pike. —A call has been issued for a State Con vontion of North Carolina Unionists, to assemble at Kaloigh on the 20th inst. Governor Holden in dorses it. —The Grand Jury of the United States District Court at Baltimore has made presentment of Justice Thomas Watkins, of Washington Coun ty, Maryland, for refusing to take the testimony or oath of Lnrmda Warner, colored, who charged a certain white man with committing an outrageous assault upon her. —Col. Woodward, late of the fourth reg iment, Hancock's Corps, and for a time Comman dant at Camp Chase, Ohio, has been appointed Major of the Forty-fifth Regular Infantry, V. R. C., one of the four Veteran Reserve Corps Regiments retained in service by Congress. —Mr. Baldwin, who died ill Philadelphia last Week, built the first model locomotive engine ever constructed in this country, about the year and at the time of his death had over 1,000 men employed in his locomotive works. —George V. Moodey, late Colonel in the rebel army, and a delegate from Mississippi to the Johnson-Philadelphia Convention, was shot dead in his office at Pert Gibson on the Bth inst. —The American Colonization Society have recently had applications from 600 colored persons to aid them in their purpose to emigrate to Liberia. —Gen. Hood, when in Austin, Texas,the other day, was waited on by a committee of ths j Legislature and escorted to a seat of honor in that body. All the members rose as he entered. —Dr. Winans, of Baltimore, the great Russian railway contractor, entertained Fox and the American party in princely style in St Peters burg. —Hon. Henry o rider, member of Con gress from the Third District of Kentucky, died at his residence in Warren county, in that State, on I Friday. —The Houston Telegraph has good au thority for stating that General Magruder will re turn to the United States shortly, and become a good loyal citizen thereof. —Mr. Collins, of Cincinnati, wrote a trea tise on the cure of cholera, and died of the disease. —Bishop Wittingham, of Maryland, has sailed for the sonth of France, hoping to restore his health. Joseph E. Davis, brother of the ex-con federate President, has been pardoned by Presi dent Johnson. —Tombs of Georgia, is going to Switzer land for his health. —The Republican vote in Vermont has increased 5,000, without the advantage of President Johnson's indecent exhibition. If he had taken Vermont in his tour, the increase would have been 10,000. —President Johnson, while denouncing the Union party at .Seneca Falls, said the "party might go to the devil." But we beg to be excused. We don't want to travel in the President's compa ny. —The Johnson Republicans say to the Democrats, "you get ready to vote while we eat our bread and butter!" Some of them "don't see it." lylor tried to buy a party and failed. So will Johnson. Political treachery may be ex cused by those who profit by it, but it is always condemned by the people. —lt is significant fact that most of the Government officers removed thus far have always been recognized as earnest "Seward men." Mont gomery Blair is having his revenge. —"We stoop to conquer" is the motto of the rebel politicians who are hurrahing for Andy Johnson. —The President is wont to boast of his ' 'economy in spending the people's money ; but he is the first President who makes a regular elec tioneering tour at the expense of the public treas ury. —A mysterious attempt to assassinate a young lady took place at Augusta, Ga., on Friday evening. The victim was asleep in her father's parlor when she was stabbed in the left breast, near the region of the heart, but a little below the vital part. No clue has been discovered either as to the motives or indentity of the assassin, who is believed to have escaped through an open window. —The labors of the United States Burial Corps in removing the bodies of Union soldiers from the battle fields in the Shenandoah Valley to the National Cemetery at Winchester are progres sing favorably. Twenty-six hundred have already been reintemd, and about the same number re main to lie removed. —At a crossing on the Cleveland and To ledo Railroad, the other day, the train ran into a carriage containing two men, shattering it into a thousand' pieces. When the train was stopped the men were found On the forward part of the engine, in neaily a sitting posture, and Loth dead. —Two men while attempting to cross the river just above Niagara Falls, on Wednesday afternoon,had their boat struck by a squall, forcing it into the Rapids and over the Falls. The men were Mr. Cooper (said to be Postmaster at Chip pewa) and a ferryman. —Bishop Timon, of Rochester, has an nounced that that city will soon become the seat of a new diocese of the Catholic Church. The se lection will be made by the approaching Council, to he held at Baltimore. —The annual convention of the National Carpenters' and Joiners' Union has just been held in Detroit. By a vote of the Convention it was re solved to keep the proceedings secret and accord ingly no reporters were present. —lntelligence has been received that Snrg.-Gen. Barnes, v.ho has been seriously ill of congestive chills at Chicago, is much butter, and considered out of danger. —A number of physicians of Philadel phia hare been prosecuted for not making returns of the cholera cases coming directly under their professional notice. 1 lie Now York Herald says : "We re gard the contests between the President and Con gross as \ irtu.dly decided by Maine. We bow to the judgment of the people of the mighty North, nud wc trust tin t the President will shape his course accordingly." —Secretary Seward, who was taken ill at Pittsburgh with cholera,lias arrived at his house in Washington. Though feeble, Lis symptoms are not deemed alarming, and his entire recovery is looked for in a few days. —The way of the transgressor is hard. Senator Doolfttle.on his return home to Wisconsin, vainly attempted to address his townsman, but they would not listen. —The Fredericksburg!) (Ya.) Herald an nounces that a steam sugar refinery is in opera tion in Richmond— the only establishment of the kind in the South, outside of New-Orleans. —A large fire occurred among the oil wells of Burning Spring, West Virginia, on the 10th nst. Five wells were destroyed and three lives lost. fMfottl llepfittet Towanda, Thursday, September 20,1866. Union State Ticket. FOB GOVERNOR, GEN. JOHN W. GEARY, OF WESTMORELAND COCNTT. FOR CONGRESS, IION. U. MERCUII, OF BRADFORD CO. Subject to the Congressional Conference, Union County Ticket. FOR REPRESENTATIVES, G. W. KINNEY, OF SIIESIIEQUIN, JAMES H. WEBB, OF SMITHFIELD. FOR ASSOCIATE JXJDOE, J. W. VAN DYKE, or CANTON BORO. FOB SHERIFF, WM. GRIFFIS, OF STANDING STONE. FOB TBOTHONOTABY, W. A. THOMAS, OF TROY TWP. FOB REGISTER AND RECORDER, GEN. 11. J. MADILL, OF WYSOX TWP. FOB COMMISSIONER, WM. B. DODGE, OF TOWANDA BORO. FOR AUDITOR, ISAAC D. SOPER, OF BURLINGTON TP. FOR CORONER, CATO. J. H. nURST, OF DERRICK. UNION BETUBLICAN MASS MEETING! HOX. JOIIN W. FOMEY, OF PHILADELPHIA, GOV. ANDREW G. CM, AND Hon. J. R.U. PITKIN, of New Orleans, WILL SPEAK AT Towanda, September 22, COMMENCING AT 1 F. M. THE MEETING ON THE S:tD. The Republican Union Mass Meeting at this place, on Saturday next, promises to be one of the largest gatherings held here since the days of 185 G. Should the weath er prove favorable, thousands will unques tionably be present to greet and hear the able and distinguished men who will be present. No man has fought the foul spirit of trea son with more unflinching courage, with more persistent energy than JOHN W. FOR NEY. He has made himself a reputation in tho conflict of the age, which will endear him forever to the friends of freedom and human rights in all ages to come. A grace ful and eloquent orator, to hear him discus traitors and treason will be a rare treat. The presence of Governor CUKTIN, the "soldiers friend," as he has been aptly named, will draw together all the "boys in blue," who remember with gratitude, the many favors they received from him while in the field, and his tender care for them while they were in the hospitals. We trust that he will be welcomed to Bradford by such a demonstration as shall prove that the soldiers and their friends are not un mindful of his services, nor ungrateful for his devotion to their interests. JUDGE PITKIN, of New Orleans, who will also be present and address the meeting, is an able speaker, and one of that band of loyalists which has upheld the flag of the country, in the crescent city. A spectator of the dreadful scenes of carnage recently occurring in that city, he is well qualified to speak of the disloyalty and intolerance of the "reconstructed." THE PRESIDENTIAL, TO IK ENDED. The President has swung round the en tire circle, and having deposited the Consti tution at several hundred places, in the hands of the people, has finally returned to the White House, to the great relief of his pavtizans. The Country, which has been thoroughly shocked and disgusted by bis insane and intemperate conduct, will be re lieved from daily accounts of the humiliat ing spectacle presented by the Great Ego tist, and the demented SEWARD. NO sadder incident has ever occurred in the history of the nation than this electioneering tour of President JOHNSON. Even that thorough lick-spittle RAYMOND has been obliged to apologize for the President's indecent con duct and intemperate language. The President can now settle down in the White House,and prepare for the thunders of popular disapprobation, which begun in Vermont and Maine, will sweep across the whole Continent, and would teach him how low he has fallen in the nation's esti mation, has he not become besotted in his own self-conceit and bad passions. SOLDIERS, LOOK OUT FOR THE ASSESSMENTS.— There are a large number of returned sol diers who,during the four years of the war, lost their assessments at their usual places of residence. Some of them secured the right to vote under the article of the Con stitution allowing soldiers to vote ; but many of them no doubt neglected to be properly qualified last Fall. To all such, we would suggest that it is their duty to watch the assessment lists which are re quired to be posted at various places in their township in a short time. If they should not find their names there, they should be particular to attend the extra as sessments and secure their rights. Once assessed, and having paid their taxes, they will be ready to vote in October, as it is their privilege and duty to do as faithful citizens. MONTGOMERY BLAIR'S SPEECH. WE listened, for a few moments, to the speech of Mr. MONTGOMERY BLAIR, late Post Master General of the United States, and like many others, were disappointed. Much has been said and written of that gentle man's ability, and of his tact to interest an audience, and it may all be true, neverthe less, but we failed to discover it. We think the Republican party may well afford to pay his expenses for the service he is un wittingly doing them. We happen to know that the Democracy of this Borough thor oughly regret his appearance ainpng tkqm, as a herald of their faith, although what that faith is, we believe they do no! know themselves; at least, we believe, it is rate to find two who agree about it. How can they agree when now standards are sought for as often as the moon changes ; when to-day it is orthodox to praise the Emanci pation Act, and will be orthodox to con demn it to morrow ; when to-day Mr. LIN COLN'S policy is regarded as patriotic, and is sure to be vituperated to-morrow ? Mr. BLAIR took especial pains to impress his au dience with the fact,that he had been in the Cabinet of the late President, and if we cor rectly remember, that he claimed to have bet*n his best, his very best friend, and the very man who originated the measuro of emancipating the slaves, and that he urged it upon the Administration long before it became the last, and only resort,to save the country. Whether this unsolicited avowal was politic, in the view that he had before him many who had, from the first official act of M. LINCOLN, cast contempt upon him as a statesman, in general, and opposed the Act of Emancipation, in particular, as the certain ruin of the country, and a flagi tious and wicked violation of the Constitu tion, we leave to be settled by the wire workers who imported the astute orator from his sunny South, to warm the blood in our frigid veins. Settle it as they may, dispose of it as they will, it fell from his lips like a wet blanket, smothering all their party enthusiasm, and henceforth, through that long three hours' declamation, a gloom was apparent upon the spirit of the gather ing boding a deeper gloom at another gath ering in October. But why should Democrats complain at this harmless egotism of Mr. BLAIR ? The success of Mr LINCOLN'S policy is known to all the world, and they cannot render it un availing to those who are struggling for the right ; neither can they prevent the success of those who still adhere to it. It has cast in its wake a brilliancy which mis construction cannot gloom—it is a safe conduct to all who love country, and free dom, and why denounce Mr. BLAIR for the part he bore in inaugurating it ? If he did pioneer the work of emancipation, as he says he did, his co-workers should be proud of him, and not meet him with averted fa ces. Is it possible that they fear his sta bility ; that even now they suspect him of a disposition to change his politics from what they seem, and return to his first love ? Is it not natural that they should wonder a little that one who gave the last Administration such a zealous support should support the present ono with the same, or even more devotion ? And, indeed, they have some reason to wonder. Not one of his present associates give him the mer it of consistency. Not one but saw the shallowness of his argument to prove he had not changed. Well might they ex claim, What ! what! Mr. BI.AIR, a radical Republican in your support of Mr. LINCOLN, and a radical Republican now in your sup port of Mr. JOHNSON ! It can not be. Mr. Blair has changed, or else we are radical Republicans, for we are acting together. The Republican party is, to-day, pursu ing the same policy it has pursued ever | since its earliest organization. It'has al i ways made a determined opposition to | class legislation, whether it be to favor the ! rich at the expense of the poor, or to per i petuate power in the possession of one race of uieD, at the expense of the freedom of another race. Equality before the law, is its motto, and it will take more than the eloquence of Mr. BLAIR to convict it, in a single instance, of a departure from the let ter and spirit of that sentiment. It is Mr. I BLAIR who has changed. By what method | of reasoning can he show that Mr. LINCOLN | would have stumbled on "My Policy" when | every act of his life was kindness and mer cy to the colored man, and "My Policy" is but a continuation of the old system of op pression, even to blood and death. Through the whole speech, the orator was evidently laboring under a strong feel ing of ill-will against Mr. LINCOLN'S Cabi net. We knew he resigned his place as one of its members, but we cared little for his private animosities. Mr. STANTON is no favorite of his, but as Mr. STANTON has en deared himself to the country by his servi ces during the war, the people will be loth to pronounce him unpatriotic, though he has incurred Mr. BLAIR'S displeasure. Even the Democracy did not seem to care much about the merits of a private quarrel be tween these two men, and they listened with the same indifference to the " charac ter " over the late President's hand and seal, they would have listened to Bridget's. But does Mr. BLAIR really fear that any thing unpleasant will follow an attempt to alter the Constitution ? Is there—can there be danger to the stability of our institu tions in changing, or amending, the organ ic law? How can it beget such fearful results as are pictured to the imaginations of some, and were implied in the Bpeech under review ? Mr. BLAIR need have no fears. An amendment by a convention is a peaceful resort to a method provided by the Constitution for the purpose. Better that, than a delay which inaugurates a revolution by blood. It is more than eighty years since our present Constitution was framed, and we were not then the great people we have since become. Then the organic law was made to avoid protection to slavery,—it only recognized it, letting it be a creature of state polity. Now, slave ry is abolished, and is not a recognition of that fact necessary in the Constitution? As conditions change, so ehould legislation change. A necessity of to-day may have had no existence eighty years ago. An im perious duty of our age might be destitute of fulfillment if the organic law made po provision for it. All progress would cease while the State confined the law-making power to past history only. Why, the old monarchies of Europe are, many of them, embodying in constitutions new bases of legislation, and why should we tie our-' selves to the past ? There is now an ex citing struggle in England to alter the British Constitution in the jqrfkjle Qf suf~. frage, and nearly ever} - year, by enact-' ments of Parliament, or by decisions of her highest courts, that instrument is amended and changed, enlarged to permit legisla tion of a more progressive character. Wo have outgrown the instrument of Eighty- Seven ; the American mind has expanded and risen to the level of higher duties. Ca pacity requires a theatre commensurate with its power of performance, but the Southern school of statesmen would limit its action to the exploded theories of the past. To make us more contented with our present Constitution in respect to repre sentation, or rather, we suppose, to show us that we never asked for an amendment of a feature still more repugnant than that of which we do, he brought to our atten tion the great wroug of permitting the lit tle States of Delaware and Rhode Island to have the same number of representatives in the United States Senate, that Pennsyl vania and New York have. He implied that representation in the Senate should be bas ed on population ; and if so, why, then the larger States have ever been cheated, inas much as they have each but two Senators, while the smaller have the same. " Here is an injustice of whicli you do not com plain, one of which you ask no abatement ; why clamor so loud in respect of a matter not half so bad ?" Now our respect for Mr. BLAIR, our estimate of bis intelligence, will not permit us to believe bim so ignorant as all this driveling implies. Ho knew— we know he knew—that he was attempt- ing to mislead, and that here was a wau- | ton perversion of the truth. What North-; ern statesman acquainted with Northern audiences would risk his reputation upon the succeas of such a ruse ? It was a poor attempt to deceive, such a one as his fath er, or Mr. CI.AY, or Mr. CALHOUN, or any statesman of character would have spurn- ! ed as dishonorable and infamous. Mr. BLAIR ! knew that representation in the Senate is one of States and not . of population—that it is a representation of State sovereignty, of a State as a State, of a body corporate ; and here is a peculiarity of our system, one j for which we look in vain to all other syfi-' terns of national polity under the sun. It is a check upon the exuberance of popular power, a vindication of State right, pre venting the absorption of the small States by the more populous, and giving them in the final passage of a bill or resolution, a veto upon each encroachment upon their le gitimate privileges. No, Mr. BLAIR, WC con sider this provision of the Constitution of immense value to the Union, and while we desire its preservation, shall oppose its ab rogation. In many respects this effort of Mr. BLAIR was worthy of commendation. The eulo gy and praise bestowal on Mr. LINCOLN was responded to by three-fourths of his audience, however distasteful it may have been to the remainder. The same may be said of that portion of it which had refer ence to emancipation. Very few dare, now, to lift their voices against it, and the " My Policy " politicians are sorely puzzled to avoid its inevitable logic. It embarasses every step they take in the field. It as sails them in front, Hank, and rear ; it van quishes them in battle, and slaughters them in retreat. Like the ghost of the ir repressible Banquo, it pushes them from their stools and will not " down at their bidding." Ah, the sooner they make peace with the " obstinate nigger " the speedier their admission to Uncle Sam's banquet of loaves and fishes. We must forego any allusions to many other topics presented in Mr. BLAIR'S speech. His style of oratory is altogether argumen tative, not glowing and impassioned, as we have always presumed characteristic of Southern eloquence. His whole effort, con sidered in all its parts, was not really dis creditable,his key-note being the worth and patriotism of Mr. LINCOLN, and the wisdom of emancipation. As Republicans agree in in these, and agree with him, we have not much to complain of and would be glad to have him repeat his whole speech in every school house in the State. He is, no doubt a high toned, gentlemanly, Southerner, maugre his unjust effort in behalf of a of a sinking cause. Mr. BLAIR'S observations upon tbe scope and designs of the Hartford Convention, were we think, very unjust. Either he is much mistaken, or we are. Its secret his tory has been published to the world, and in that history, supposing it correct, we see nothing to countenance the inferences of Mr. BLAIR. But our space does not permit further notice of his speech. The meeting was very orderly and peaceable, and there being more Republicans than Democrats on the ground, was respectable in point of numbers. ■ The Mass Meeting to hear MONTGOM ERY BLAIR, was a complete failure. Not more than two hundred and fifty persons were in attendance, including Republicans, women and children. The Democratic lea ders were thoroughly disgusted with his harangues, and more forcible than compli mentary in their comments. He was in troduced by the acting chairmau of the Democratic County Committee, but he be rated the Democracy and Mr. BUCHANAN very soundly. We trust the Democracy will keep him travelling. The his labors are so very apparant in Maine, that we should be rejoiced to hear that he had been engaged for the balance of the cam paign in Pennsylvania. ORGAXIZE AND WORK. That the defeat of the Copperheads, and their "bread and butter" allies is to be uni uersal and overwhelming is already cert ainly indicated by the results iuVermontaud Maine. But it should not be sufficient that they are defeated at the polls. The situa tion of the Country demands that the popu lar voice should be significantly expressed. Every thousand votes added to the majori ties against "my policy," is of the. greatest consequence. It is not enough that Gover nor and Congressmen are elected who are loyal aif true. A popular verdict is de manded against the usurpation aud domi-, neeriyg insolence of ANDREW JOHNSON, which will signify that the course of the peoples repeseutatives meet witht heir hearty appro bation. Vermont and Maine have already spoken, Pennsylvania but waits tho coming second Tuesday of October, to add ber re spouse. But the glorious voting in Maino was not achieved without systematic effort. The State was thoroughly canvassed, and the result is seen in an increased majority of 10,000. The Republicans of Bradford are expected to contribute largely to the Republican ma jority in Pennsylvania this fall. We can give GEARY 5,000 majority,if the unionjmen of the County will thoroughly organize and work with the day of election. The great effort to be made is for a full vote. Every thing depends upon having the voters at the polls. An organization should be imme diately effected in every election district. Committees should be formed in every school ! district to make a list of voters and arraug j ments for bringing every voter to the polls. . ORGANIZATION and LABOR should be the watch j words. THE MAINE ELECTION. The glorious result of the Maine election, is at the present time of unusual import ance and significance. That State has al ways been looked to to indicate by its elec tion in September, what the popular ver- diet was to be throughout the country at thelater elections. Tremendous efforts were made by the supporters of "My Policy", to secure a result which might be heralded as a triumph for ANDY JOHNSON. A gain of Congressmen was confidently expected.— But the doubtful districts have given ma jorities for the Radical candidates of from j 4000 to 0000. The confident expectations of the Copperheads have been terribly dis appointed. The people are aroused, and have turned out at the polls to manifest ; their detestation of ANDREW JOHNSON'S treachery, and their unalterable hostility to his scheme for bringing the rebelß back into power. As it was in Maine, so it will be in all tbe Northern States. The blandishments of office, the corruption of patronage, failed to seduce tbe people of that State, from their duty. The same influences that brought out the voters of Maine to sustain their faithful representatives will certainly operate in other States, and secure to the Republican party a victory more decided than lias been known for years. ARE YOU ASSESSED. —The law requires vo ters to be assessed at least ten days before election. Consequently Saturday, Sept. 29, will be the last day on which assessments can be made. We call upon every voter to 6ee that bis name is upon tbe assessor's books. We also call tbe attention of our Republican Committees to this' important matter. Have a thorough enquiry made in each town, that no votes shall be lost by non-assessments. There is danger that some of our return ed "boys iu blue," may lose their votes by not being assessed. This should also be attended to. Our brave soldiers would be but half performing their duty if, after hav ing fought the rebels on many a bloody field, they now neglected to put down the Copperheads at home. CHANGE IN THE MANNER OR VOTING. —At the last session of the Legislature an act ! was passed changing the manner of voting lin the several counties of this Common | wealth. Hereafter the voting will be done in the following manner: " One ticket shall embrace the names of all judges of the courts voted for, and to be labelled ' 'judiciary', one ticket 6hall embrace the | names of all State officers voted for, and labeled 'State ;' one ticket shall embrace the names of all county officers voted for, including office of Senator, Members of Congress, if voted for, and be labeled 'coun ty one ticket shall embrace the name of all township officers voted for, and be la belled 'borough' and each class shall be de posited in seperate ballot boxes." THE EXTRA TWO THOUSAND. —Mr. JOHNSON, while swinging round the circle, has taken pains to frequently repeat—and he repeats ad nauseam every idea which struggles to his brain or is suggested to him by others —that Congress has voted $2,000 addition al pay to each of its members. He has, however, ommitted to state that the.propo sition to increase the pay of Congress was moved in the House by tbe "bitter Copper head," Mr. NIBLACK, of Indiana, and in the Senate by tbe "four-thirds rebel," RIDDLE, of Delaware ; and that a majority of the Demo crats of tbe House voted for the increase, while a majority of the Republicans opposed it. A WET BLANKET FOR CLYMER. —The New York Tlerald t of Tuesday, one of Johnson's principal organs, says : "Tbe Democracy of Pennsylvania, iu nominating for Gover nor Hiester Clymer, a peaceman during the war, against Gen. Geary, one of the most distinguished Union soldiers, did for the Radicals the very best thing that could be done. For uobody supposes that there is a ghost of a chance for Clymer against Geary, and no political philosopher has yet risen to show that, while Clymer cannot save himself, he will strengthen the Conserva tive Congregressioual ticket in Pennsylva nia. In short, Clymer is a dead weight upon the party." THE PRESIDENT'S TOUR. We commend to the attention of the reader, the following article on the {'resi dent's Tonr, from the New \ ork hxamintr and Chronicle, a religious and an indepen dent journal, of great ability, moderate in its political views, and which has rather been inclined to look with favor on J'rcsi dent JOHNSON. That the accidental occu pant of the White House, is disgracing the nation by hif <*>reo harangues, and gen eral vulgarity of demeanor, is very plain, nis inordinate vanity, and self-conceit, are disgusting. The journey which President Johnson is now making, from the capital to the city of Chicago, is certainly an event of more than usual interest. Deis accompanied by Secretaries Seward and Welles, by Gener al Grant and Admiral Farragut, and also a large company of invited officials and friends. The object of the journey is to at tend the laying of the corner-stone of the inouument about to be erected in Chicago to the memory of the late Senator Douglas, and it is a distinguished compliment to the memory of a statesman whose most con spicuous public acts were so much con demned at the time, and certainly were not in harmony with the principles that are now triumphant. It is also understood to be the first time in which Mr. Johnson has j ever visited Philadelphia and New-York, or j had the opportunity of looking upon the 1 people of the Middle States in their own homes. The arrival of so distinguished a party of course awakens the utmost enthu siasm in every towu aud city through which it passes, and the spectacle which is thus presented, of whole populations turn ing out to utter their welcome, is one which cannot fail to bo very gratifying to the President. But what, after all, gives the greatest peculiarity to this journey, is the occasion which Mr.* Johnson continually fiuds in it to address the people on the unpleasant is sue, between the Administration and Con gress, respecting the restoration of the States. The visit of the Chief Mugi.-.trate of the Republic to the towns of the Middle and Western States is thus converted into a series of occasions for controversial, not to say partisan, harangues ; and the spon taneous civilities which all delight to pay to the President, seem to be interpreted by ; him as demonstrations in approval of the 1 peculiar course he has chosen to pursue re i specting the reconstruction of the Union. ; In other words, the President, as he ac | cepts the hospitalities of the States and | cities through which ho passes, prefers to lay aside his true character as the head of j the Government, and to present himself merely as the representative of a policy for | which he everywhere challenges the un \ popular approval. We cannot but think that in thus doing he makes a serious mis take. Nor are the speeches of Mr. Johnson in keeping with Lis high office, any more than the special purpose for which he makes them. It certainly is not in good judg ment for him everywhere thus freely to ar raign the Congress of the United States, and more than insinuate that it is animated by traitorous designs, which it is his special and peculiar mission to thwart and destroy. Besides all this, what can he mean by such language as the following, used by him in his address to the crowd from the balcony of Delmonico's hotel in this city ? " The rebellion has been completely crushed in the South. I intend now to fight (he enemies of the Union in the North. God willing, and u-ith your help, I intend to fight out the battle Northern traitors ." Who are these North ern traitors whom lie is about to fight and crush, as the rebels of the South have been crushed ? Are they the Northern sympa thizers with the rebellion, who during the war constantly gave aid and comfort to the enemy ? By no means ; for all these, with oue accord, profess to approve the Presi dent's policy, as affording the surest means of their own restoration to political inllu ence and importance. The " Northern trai tors " are the men who stood by the Gov ernment through all its terrible trials—in its days of deepest anxiety as well as in those of its final triumph—who poured out their treasure for the cause of the Union, and gave themselves and their sons to be its champions on all the battle-fields of the war. Citizens like these, in whose hearts and homes there is still the burden of a mighty sorrow for loved ones slain by reb el hands, are now held up in the cities where they live " as opposed to the resto ration of the States," and as " Northern traitors." The consequences of utterances such as these cannot fail to be bad, and that continually, and Mr. Johnson ought to know it. Because a portion of the people —many of them of the highest character and the purest patriotism—shrink from giv : ing their approval to his peculiar views, | they do not deserve to be stigmatized by I him as " Northern traitors," nor will they j tamely submit to it. Mr. Johnson's style of oratory, however it may be suited to the stump, especially in Tennessee, is singularly unbecoming the President of the United States. Official dignity and propriety always demand con ciseness in expression and carefulness in what is expressed. But he rambleS" on through a speech with endless verbosity, I not knowing what he is going to say, and j constantly repeating what he has said, and I what often were better if never uttered.— The crowd in the streets will vehemently applaud, and well-bred people generally will listen respectfully, because it is the President who speaks, but he must not therefore conclude that this amounts to an approval of his sentiments or his mode of presenting them. Coarse sentiments and offensive images cannot be employed by a person in so exalted a station, without re acting upon their author ; for, after all, there is an instinct of propriety in the pop ular mind, which is sure to be offended in such a case, by what is unworthy of a man of good breeding. The question of reconstruction turns mainly, after all, upon the security of the Freedinen. There are those who honestly believe that the rights of these people ought to be fully guaranteed, and their po litical status distinctly fixed among the rep resentative population of the country, be fore the States lately in rebellion are again admitted to participate in national legisla tion. Their opinion on this point has been strengthed by recent events, and by recent manifestations of the dominant sentiment in the Southern States ; and they do not like the antecedents of the men who are now the stoutest champions of the opposite policy. Now this opinion may be errone ous ; it may have its origin in an excessive distrust of the South ; but the President may not call it treason, nor may he impute evil motives to those who hold this opinion or place them on a level with traitors late ly in rebellion at the South, unless he is willing to forfeit the respect of all good men. He knows that these imputations are wholly groundless, and he would never utter them, were he not controlled by the ; impulses of passion instead of the dictates of reason. On the whole, wc think this excursion of President Johnson to Chicago, in the man ner in which it is conducted i . rogrottfd lie does not ™ ch } U t ige, and both the office which i 1 (. the government which he represent?!'' 4 dently part with their prestige is, t j cnce of such exhibitions as • making of himself. He should , :u veiled only is the President of tl„. p , States, and maintained the simole di!"'"' and comprehensive courtesy which he?/' 1 ' 1 to that unique station. He has p,'! .°, nr ' s unfortunately chosen to present V' '■'7' everywhere as the Champion ofagn* policy, in advocating which he app, !i'.' '! the passions of the people, and lnjlj" those who differ from him to the public probrinm. lie will return to Was}, wo greatly fear, with less of the Va'p " respect and confidence than he had bef THE JOHNSON NOMINEE FOE CONGEES? Judge Ehvell has been m.initiate,; t Congress by a conference that ch," venture to give itself a name. V ' however, that the conference nnaiiiu, ' adopted the resolutions and \ • National Union Convention held at pi delphia on the 14th of August last. ' The committee appointed to wait v Judge Elwell returned with that . man, "who in a few brief aim pertinent marks accepted the nomination." What those "few brief remarks" we are not informed. We do i,t p., , how Judge Elwell will feel with the I'M j bread and butter mantle thrust upon t, r | but his friends are quite jubilant in hope that they can coax over, i uv, steu borrow enough votes to elect" him this they are doomed to disapp intm-r There is nothing in the new cause, Uw 'i the man they have nominated, to win . ular favor. The Johnson cause is aim condemned by discriminating men j parties. The Cops give it only a tacit .v,.' port to earry personal ends this yen they intend to leave Johnson in hj<, mud, as soon as their wings, which badly scorched in the Rebelli , ," w iledged. Personally Judge Elw, 11j. spectable man, but has f.-w of thuM.- ,j iit . ties which make an influential man. Judge Elwell has been SIKY --J..; a lawyer ; his head i.-. full ~f report, d cases and legal technicalities, but h, . tics he has never risen above uieili jcrh\ Those who have known him well f>r iwuui, years know that he has failed in aim J every political step which he has tax He never rose to be a political leader t ve. of the few Democrats left in leadf- rj tor the Republican party was formed. Th, stronger mind of Piolet always led . way and Elwell followed. He has frequ'-Lt ly been a respectable tool for uuscrupu! ... men, and that is bis position now. H j will find that his pretended friends Im proved his worst enemies by thrusting into a position for which neither id- turn • I mind or habits of life have fitted him.-- j Sullivan Free Tress. HON. ULYSSES MERCUR. As all the counties in this Congn-ssi i. District instructed for Mercur, tin- r ! ence had nothing to put the uoimuatba L j due form. His first nomination was a !.j ; testimonial to his personal popularity. 1' did not seek the nomination; he rut:..; preferred the honorable and pleasant p tion which he then held on the Bench, l : ; he was regarded as the strongest mat in the District, and was unanimously call . 1 upon to accept the nominal ion for CJU- I gress. His services in Congress during the late session have been in a high degrv honorable to himself and satirfacti .y m his constituents. True to principle, active, and industrious, he devoted all his great talents to the interests of his constituents and his country. Eminently ijualifieil as an orator, he did not seek occasions v "show off," but rather chose to urge W ness forward than to hinder it with mc . speaking. When the President raised t:. grcat issue with Congress Mercur firm against the blandishments and threat! of the Autocrat at the White House— and for this alone, if for no other reason, hi- i serves to be reelected. Tne Copperheab hate him with intense hatred and a-?a.. him in every possible form. The campaign will be fierce and bitter. Money will b used by the Johnson men with a lavtsii hand, and promises dealt out to gin ;y office seekers with even greater libera.::. Against the tremendous assaults tL:- made upon us by those who wield the p v er and hold the purse we have nothing to oppose but the intelligence and iuteg. g of the people. "Upon this rok we bu • our hope and the hosts of hell shall i t prevail against it."— Sulivan tree l'r->- THE ACCIDENT AT JOH xsrov Y —T>: IKTKK S PERSONS KILLED AND MANY Woism-j terrible accident that occurred at .Ibus town, on Friday, vvss much more fatal a:. ; ! distressing than the reports <>u Saturuy j represented them to be. It seems ti.it • I less than thirteen persons were A;, n ' ■ fatally injured, and a very large numU-r | wounded. In expectation of the special tram c t taining the Presidential party, a la number of people, probably three thousa'i : in all, had gathered in and about the '• !at that place to tender the u.-ual saiuu i lions. Near the depot is an old canal, ever which was a double crossing with a sort : cover, fifty feet square between. Upon this structure or bridge some or nine hundred people had congregate! . large number of whom were urn a ay children. The centre part was dense} packed, and must have coutaimd at a a-, four hundred people, the train 1.-iu mri. .. stopped when the centre part gave w with a tremendous crash, precipitating entire party, in a headlong mass • m ' ty feet. Hardly had the noised thefui- ! -o timbers and the shrieks of the terrified p pie above ceased, when the groans my ; dying and the screams of >A omeu am!. " dren came from the awful wreck below. A DIPLOMATIC SCHEME. —The N. H. ll suggests that Mr. Seward deliberately ned the tour to Chicago, for the par;; y destroying Johnson as a rival I'ivsnlm ■ candidate iu 18p< l