NEWS FROM ALL NATIONS. —lt is estimated that one thousand per sons have arrived at Galveston and Houston, Tex as. to escape the persecutions of guerillas in the interior, who rob and murder on both sides indis criminately, for plunder. Affairs throughout the State are daily becoming worse instead of better, and innumerable outrages are hourly recorded. —Gen. Graut is expected in Galena in October, to witness the marriage of Col. Babcock, of his staff, to a charming young lady of that little city. The General's house is kept in excellent order, and ready for occupation at any time. Vis itors are always admitted. —The Belleville (Ark.) News says that lastweek four Union men accepted a challenge from four late rebels to fight a duel with rifles, distance one hundred yards. All being sharpshooters, each ball took effect, three being killed outright, and the other five more or less wounded. --The great lake tunnel at Chicago will, in all probability, be completed next month, and 1 reparations are now making for its formal open ing. Ceremonies appropriate to the completion of so stupendous a work will he gotten up on a scale of great magnificence. jj A board of officers of the Engineer Corps of which Gen. Q. A. Gilmore is President,has been convened at Fortress Monroe to report upon a se ries of experiments with heavy artilleries. Several new varieties of shot and shell for rifled cannon are also being tested. —The cholera has beeu declared epidem ic in Memphis, though its ravages are mainly con fined to a section near a bayou. ,Out of 171 deaths l ast week 107 were from cholera. The largest num ber of deaths was on Friday, 47 fatal cases being reported. —The Boston Collectorship of Customs, vacated by the resignation of Hon. Hannibal Ham lin, has it is understood has been tendered to Geo. Ashmun, of Springfield, Mass. —By the last valuation of real and per sonal estate of the City of Boston, the former is put down at $225,707,215, the latter at $189,595,- 130, an increase of $43,400,570 on the previous year. —On Sunday evening a lady residing in Cincinnati,was accidentally killed by a young man, who jokingly pointed an old musket at her and pulled the trigger, not knowing that it was loaded. —The first bale of Sea Island cotton was received at Savannah on Wednesday last. It was raised on the Kilkenny plantation, which is in charge of Capt. Dutcher. —The ostrich Bent from Brazil to the City of Boston, and cared for on the Common by a most attentive Committee, died last week. —Hon. Aaron 11. Cragin, of Lebanon, X. H., I nited States Senator, has nearly recovered his health, and has been able to make a visit to Concord. Ex-Gov. Gilmore, of Concord, N. 11., continues very low, and his family entertain little or no hope of his recovery. —John French, of Bath, was killed while walking on the track a few rods East of Painted Post. lie was struck by the pilot of the engine attached to the Day Express and hurled some dis tance on the other track. —ln the Twenty-first Congressional Dis trict Mr. John Covode, the Republican candidate, seems to be ahead. The appearances indicate his election by a majority of three hundred. He is working up the district with great energy. —ln the Twenty-fourth Congressional District the prospects of Mr. George V. Lawrence, the Republican candidate, are decidedly bright.— He will be re-elected by at least fifteen hundred majority. —The organization of the "Grand Army of the Republic" in Illinois now numbers 80,000, all ollicers and men who served in the army daring the war. —1 ho returns so far show the Union Re publican majority in Maine to be 29,076. It will probably exceed 20,000. —The trial of the I'eabody rifle by the Canadian Government has resulted satisfactory,and a large order has been given. It is understood that tbv Government accepts the offer of the Uni ted States Company to send machinery and men to convert the Enfield lilies into breech-loaders. —At a recent meeting held in .Sprit,g field, Mass., the Fenian organization in that city voted to disband. Whatever funds they have left they donate to one of the Catholic charitable soci eties. —The bulk of grain at the ruiim of the Sturges Elevator, Buffalo, is still burning,although the fire occurred seven weeks ago. On Tuesday the flames burst forth as vigorously as on the day of the fire. —The steamship Meteor, which cleared from Boston on Wednesday for the East Indies, has been again seized by the Government. —The American Express Company ship ped from Lockport,N. Y., during the week ending Sept. 15, 293 tons of peaches. —lliester Clytner'a canvass for Governor of Pennsylvania bears a very curious relation to Valhindigham's efforts, three years ago, to get to be Chief Magistrate of Ohio ; and there is very good reason for believing that if he continues it,he will finally attain the vote thrown for that original Copperhead. —Clymer's platform is intended to secure the rebel soldier of South Carolinia a political pow er equivalent to two votes for every single vote thrown by the Union "Boy in Blue." Geary only asks that the patriot and the traitor should be equals in the new reconstruction. —The New York Herald announces that General Grant fully endorses the constitutional amendment. —ln Urbane a day or two since,the Dem ocrats called u soldiers' convention to send dele gates to Cleveland. The soldiers came en nuus.it, elected delegates to the Pittsburg Convention, and passed strong Radical resolutions. —•The ridicule heap.d upon .Mr. Raymond by the press of both parties continues unabated. - Copperheads vie with Radicals in discharging sharp pellets of wit at the unfortunate man on the fence with a leg on either side. —Gen. C. C. Washburn,of Minnesota, was severely injured at the Falls of St. Anthony on the 17th inst., by a workman who tipped a load ol bro ken rock upon him. His head and right foot were very badly injured, and his body was bruised in several places. 1 iie Grand Lodge of Good Templars of Illinois commenced their thirteenth nnuual session at Aurora on Tuesday last, with 253 delegates in attendance. The number or members in good stan ding in the State is 36,000 ; number of working Lodges, 593. —The Troy Press states that during the severe thunder-storm oil Friday last, a burning mass of meteoric substance fell in Broad-street, Waterford, creating quite an excitement among those residing on either side of the street. —The damage by the late rains in South ern Indiana is very great. The entire country in the lowlands is under water. Crops are almost ruined, nnd the destruction to fences and bridges is very great. —A woman named Churchill was fatally <c aided in Detroit, on Friday by the explosion of a ' in of tomato* whi. L she carelessly placed upon It./ while sealed. gkadfoitl Jtcportc*. Towanda, Thursday, September 27,1866. Union State Ticket- FOB GOVERNOR, GEN. JOHN W. GEARY, OF WESTMORELAND COUNTY. FOB CONGRESS, HON. U. MERGER, OF BRADFORD CO. Subject to the Congressional Conference. Union County Ticket. FOR REPRESENTATIVES, G. W. KINNEY, OF SHKSIIKQUIN, JAMES 11. WEBB, OF SMITHFIELD. FOB ASSOCIATE JUDGE, J. W. VAN DYKE, OF CANTON BORO. FOR SHERIFF, WM. GRIFFIS, OF STANDING STONE. FOR PROTIIONOTARY, W. A. THOMAS, OF TROY TWP. FOB REGLSTEB AND RECORDER, GEN. 11. J. MADILL, OF WYSOX TWP. FOR COMMISSIONER, WM. B. DODGE, OF TOWANDA BORO. FOR AUDITOR, ISAAC D. SOPER, OF BURLINGTON TP. FOB CORONER, CAPT. J. 11. HURST, OF DERRICK. Union liejmbJiettn Meetings ! At SIONROETON, Saturday, Sept. 20, at 7p. m. Speakers—Gen. H. J. Madill, Henry Peet Esq. At FEENCHTOWN, Friday. Sept. 28, at 7 p. m. Speakers—Henry Peet and W. A. Peck. At ATHENS, Thursday, Sept. 27, at 7p.m. Speak ers—U. Mercur and Gen. H. J. Madill. At ULSTER, Friday, Sept. 28 at 7. p. m. Speak ers—U. Mercur and Gen. H. J. Madill. At LEEAYSVILLE, Monday, Oct. 1, at 2p. m. Speakers—U. Mercur and Gen. 11. J. Madill. At ORWELL HILL, Monday, Oct. 1, at 7p. m. Speakers—U. Mercur and Gen. H. J. Madill. At BURLINGTON, Tuesday, Oct. 2, at 7p. m. Speakers—U. Mercur and W. H. Carnachan. At CANTON, Wednesday, Oct. 3, at 2 p.m.— Speakers—U. Mercur, Clinton Lloyd aud W. H. Carnachan. At BENTLF.Y CREEK, Friday, Oct. 5, at 2 p. m. Speakers—U. Mercur and Geo. Landon. At SPRINGFIELD CENTRE, Friday, Oct. 5, at 7 p. m. Speakers—U. Mercur and W. H. Carna chan. At ALBANY, in Bahr's School House, Monday, Oct. 1, at 7 p. m. Speakers—Heury Peet and W. T. Da vies. At TERRY, in the School House near Jason P. Horton's, Tuesday, Oct. 2. at 7 p. m. Speakers— lienry Peet and W. T. Davies. At WEST GRANVILLE, Tuesday, Oct. 2, at 7 p. m. Speakers—Col. E. Overton, Jr. and J Hol comb. At NICHOL'S SCHOOL HOUSE, in Burlington, Wednesday, Oct. 3, at 7p. m. Speakers—Col. E. Overton, Jr. and J. Holcomb. At CAMPTOWN, Monday, Oct. 1, at 7 p. ni.— Speakers—P. D. Morrow and C. 51. Manville. At EAST SPRING HILL, Tuesday, Oct. 2, at 7 p. m. Speakers—P. D. Morrow and C. M. Man ville . At MACEDONIA, Saturday, Sept. 29, at 7. p. m. Speakers—W. T. Davies, J. Holcomb and E. W. Hale. At SUGAR RUN, Wednesday, Oct. 2, at 7 p. m.— Speakers—P. D. Morrow and C. 51. slanville. At DECKER S SCHOOL HOUSE, Friday, Sept. 28, at 7p. m. Speakers—C. 51. slanville and O. D Bartlett. At MOORE'S SCHOOL HOUSE, Saturday, Sept. 29, at 7p. m. Speakers—C. M. slanville and 0. D. Bartlett. At STANDING STONE, in the School House near Asa Stevens, Thursday Oct. 4, at 7 p. in. Speak ers—O. D. Bartlett and J, Holcomb. At STANDING STONE, in School House near Hugh I'ark's, Saturday, Oct. 4. Speakers—P. D. Morrow aud C. 51. Manville. At MYERSBURG, Saturday, Oct. 6, at 7 p. w.— Speakers—W. A. Peck and Henry PeeL At STEVENSVILLE, Thursday, Oct. 1, at 2 p. m. Speakers—W. A. Peck and Henry Peet. At HERRICKVILLE SCHOOL HOUSE, Wednes day, Oct. 3, at 7 p.m. Speakers—W. A. Peck and Henry Peet. At HORNBROOK, Friday, Oct. 5, at 7p. m.— Speakers—W. A. Peck and Henry Peet. At WINDHAM. Thursday, Oct. 4, iu Union Church at 7p. m. Speakers- P. D. Morrow, W. T. Da vies and N. C. Elsbree. At SIECCA SCHOOL HOUSE, near Miles in Warren, Friday, Oct. 5, at 7p. m, Speakers —P. D. Morrow,W. T. Davies andN. C. Elsbree. At WEST WARREN SCHOOL HOUSE, near Man son Elshree's Saturday Oct. C, at 7 p. in. Speak ers—P. D. Morrow, W. T. Davies and N. C. Elsbree. At THE RED SCHOOL HOUSE, in North Ghent, Sheshequin, slouday, Oct. 8, at 7p. in. Speak ers—W. T. Davies and G. W. Kinney. ARE YOU ASSESSED? The election takes place on Tuesday, the 9th of October. 1 'ersons not assessed should see that their names are placed on the list before Saturday, September 29th. JL'DGE MEILTT'K'S I.F.TTEH OF ACCEPT ANCE. The following is Judge MERCCR'S letter of acceptance, iu reply to the committee appointed by the Conference to inform him of his unanimous re-nomination as the Un ion Republican candidate for Congress in the XIII th District: TOWANDA, Pa., September 17th, 18(!C. slessrs. D. 11. B. P ROWER and 51. WHITMOYEK— | Gentlemen:- Yours of the 12tli instant, informing me of my unanimous re-nomination as the Union , Rt publican candidate for Congress, in the XII Ith District of Pennsylvania, has been received. I accept the nomination, nor will I attempt to conceal the fact of my high appreciation of the I confidence again reposed in me by the Republican i masses of the District, It gives renewed assurance that n.v course in Congress meets the approval of | my loyal constituents. I.nynl men must rule U,e Xation, and all the power and influence of our Government must be so exer cised as to preserve the Union, secure the just fruits of our victory over rebels in arms, and the protection of mail's equality before the law. Accept my thanks for the kind manner in which you have communicated to me the action of the Conference. I remain yours truly, ULYSSES MERCUR. W iu, MR. EI.WEI.L RESIGN ?—For years we have beeu accustomed to hear the Demo cratic leaders and organs rail against the interference of the Judiciary with political affairs, and earnestly appeal for the preser vation of the judicial ermine from all con tamination with politics. When Judge MER CUR was a candidate two years ago, lie was called upon to resign, by these same immac ulate gentlemen, who are now supporting Judge EI. WELL. Will they be consistent now, and advise him to resign his Judgeship? We have no idea that they condemn in him what they so loudly denounced in Judge MERCCR'S case. And if they did, we do not believe Judge ELWEI.I. will resign his posi tion upon (he bench, for tho empty honor of being the Copperhead candidate for Con gress, only to be badly beaten. I.ET NO SOLDIER BE DECEIVED. TIIE Copperheads are industriously cir culating the report, through their papers, aud by the distribution of placards, "that Congress, in 1806, voted the Black soldier S3OO for extra bounty, and appropriated the money to pay it," while " the White veteran gets SIOO, extra bounty, and Con gress appropriated no money to pay it." This is a base appeal to the passions and prejudices of the people, and no one, must especially a soldier, should thereby be de ceived ; it is maliciously false. Every White soldier who enlisted into the service of the United States prior to June 25, 1803, for a period of three years, received a bounty of SIOO. Those who re enlisted as veterans, prior to April Ist, 1804, received an additional bounty of S4OO, thus giving to the re-enlisted " White veteran,"ssoo bounty ; while those who did not re-enlist, received but SIOO. By subse quent Acts of Congress every soldier, with out resjxct to color, who enlisted for one year and served his time, received a boun ty of SIOO ; for two years, S2OO ; and for three years, S3OO dollars. The last session of Congress passed a law giving to every soldier who enlisted for three years, and served the time of his enlistment, and was at the time thereof, "entitled to receive a bounty of SIOO, and no mure," an additional bounty of SIOO, and to those who i erved two years of the time, an additional bounty of SSO. This provi sion as will be Been, is intended to benefit a class of early enlisted veterans, who did not re-enlist as before stated ; and so far from the assertion being true, that " Con gress appropriated no money to pay it the provision is contained in a section of the Appropriation Bill for the " payment of sundry civil expenses of the Govern ment," approved July 28, iB6O, and the proper officers are directed to provide the details for the payment of the money, and the Secretary of War has issued an order directing the Paymaster General to pay it. Prior to January Ist, 18G4, the Negro sol dier served in the army doing battle against the rebellion, for $2,00 less pay per month, than the White soldier, and receiv ed no Government bounty, when Congress i by the Act of June 15, 1804, (see Statutes at Large, Ist session 38 Congress, Page 135,) had the magnanimity to allow him, from Ist of January, 1804, the same pay per month, aud from the passage of the Act, they were to receive "such sums in bounty as the President shall order, not ex ceeding one hundred dollars." The charge therefore, so glibly handed around by the Copperheads, that " Congress in 1806, voted the Black soldier S3OO, for extra bounty," is a fabrication ; on the contrary, "Congress in 1.800 " has not changed the condition of the Black soldier as to bounty, except in so far as he may by construction come under the provisions of the Act of July 28, ISGO, providing for the payment of the extra bounties above men tioned. Much difficulty arose in th pay ment of bounties under the law, to the wid ows and children of Black soldiers, for want of proof of marriage, and the Second Auditor of the Treasury was compelled to reject many claims for this reason. Con gress therefore passed the following law to obviate this difficulty : '' Tliat in determining who was the wife, widow, or heirs of an}- colored soldier, evidence that lie and the woman claimed to be his wife or widow were joined in marriage by some ceremony deemed by them obligatory, followed by their living togeth er as husband and wife up to the time of enlist ment, shall be deemed sufficient proof of such marriage for the purpose of securing any arrears of pay, pension, or other allowances due any col ored soldier at the time of his death; and the children horn of any such marriage shall be held and taken to be the lawful children and heirs of such soldier." The justice and propriety of which will be at once acknowledged by every person having any knowledge of the marriage re lations of the Blacks while in a state of slavery. THE REAL ISSUE between the President and Congress was recently very briefly stated by Horace Maynard. He declared Congress desired so to legislate that loyal men might be empowered to reconstruct the rebels tates while the President and Mr. Seward were plotting for the power to confer the privi lege on the rebels of reconstructing the loy al States. There is no question as to the justness of this definition. The whole force of the Copperhead faction is now wielded to accomplish this purpose. When Wood ward was a candidate for Governor he made no concealment of his design, in the event of his election, to withdraw all Pennsylva nia troops from the support of what he cal led "Lincoln's Government," asserting that the people of the South were right in their "revolution," and should have what they demand. Hiester Clyrner is actuated by the same spirit. He believes that the peo ple of the South were right in their "revo lution,'' and that it is the Northern and not the Southern States which need reconstruc tion to prevent another uprising of the peo ple of the South. He believes in Andrew Johnson's policy of reconstructing the North. He believes that the South was and is right, and that is the people who fought iu the war and saved the Government, who need legislation for their future control.— Horace Maynard is right. Let all who have a vote remembers that as they cast it in the Pennsylvania election approaching,they will decide whether those who died for the Union gave their lives for a right or a wrong, and whether those who fought for the Union and survived the war arejworthy of controlling the Government, or whether it should bo controlled by traitors ! This is the issue, pure and simple, of the contest in Pennsylvania. TEC?' WE understand, says the Tribune, that Gen. Sheridan has forwarded a report of the situation in Louisiana and Texas, showing that the society of tlioso States is in a condition of anarchy. We trust this report will not be withheld till after the election. tea?" The Union party endorse Congress "as it is," and Andy Johnson "as lie was" in 1861. IKIOH REPUBLICAN MASS MEETING. Notwithstanding the extremely unfavor able weather of last wsek, the equinoctial sturm raging until Friday night, a large assemblage gathered at this place on Sat urday to hear the eloquent and distinguish ed gentlemen who had been announced to speak. The meeting was organized upon the Public Square by the election of the following officers : PRESIDENT. EMANUEL GUYER, of Burlington. VICE-PRESIDENTS. BURR RIDGWAY, of Franklin. FRANKLIN BLACKMAN, of Sheshequin. WILLIAM HOWELL, of Warren. THOMAS T. SMILEY, of Monroe. ROBERT M'KEE, of Leßoy. ROSVELL LUTHER, of Burlington, O. F. YOUNG, of Rome. G. 11. WELLES, of Wyalusing, A.B. SMITH, of Ulster. RICHARD GILBERT, of Asylum. G. W. BRINK, of Leßaysville. N. N. BETTS, of Towanda. SECRETARIES. JOHN 11. HIKES, of Wysox. W. H. THOMPSON, of Herrick. The meeting having been called to order GOT. ANDREW G. OLUTIN was introduced by the President, and welcomed in the most enthusiastic manner. The " boys in blue " who were present in large numbers, recog nized in the Executive of the State, the "soldiers' friend," whose best energies have been devoted during the late rebellion to their interests and welfare. Gov. CUR TIN spoke about an hour, reviewing the great questions of the day in an able man ner, and at bis close, three hearty cheers were given for him. .fudge J. R. G. PITKIN, of New Orleans, then spoke, giving an account of the late dreadful Bcenes in that city, of which he was an eye-witness, and was followed by Judge MERCLR, at the close of whose ad dress the meeting adjourned. In the evening, the Court House was fill ed with an attentive audience who listened with marked attention to addresses from Judge PITKIN, and Col. VAN VEEET, two Southern loyalists, delegates to the South ern Loyalists' Convention at Philadelphia. The presence of such large numbers un der such unfavourable circumstances and the enthusiasm manifested, are sure indi. cations that the freemen of Bradford are fully awakened to the importance of the coining election, and will express at the polls their detestation of Southern traitors and Northern allies. The presence and music of the Smithfield Band, the Leßaysville Band, and the Ulster Band, added much to the occasion. SHALL DESERTERS VOTE ! TIIE official list of deserters from the Pennsylvania regiments and from the draft has been received, and is now on lile at the office of the Clerk of the Quarter Ses sions, for the inspection of the public. We notice an attempt ia being made by the Copperheads to intimidate the officers of the election, to prevent the execution of the law passed laat winter. They are threatened with prosecution, if they reject the offcrred votes of deserters, and it is proclaimed that lawyers have been engag ed to carry ou such prosecutions. This is all idle talk, and not worthy of notice. It is also asserted that the law has been pro nounced unconstitutional. This is also false. The law was passed last winter,and has never been tested. It is a law of the Commonwealth, and as such all officers of election are bound to respect it. All threats of prosecution for observing a law of the land, which the officers, by their oaths, are required to carry out, are but attempts on the part of the Copperheads to deter elec tion officers from their plain duties. RESIGNATION OF MR. MYER. The following letter from E. REED MYER, Surveyor of the Port, at Philadelphia, will be read with pleasure by bis many friends in Bradford. Mr. MYER, it will he seen, re fuses to submit to the dictation of Ilis Ac eidency, and takes occasion to define his position in regard to the issues of the day iu explicit terms : CUSTOM HOUSE, PHILADELPHIA, ( SURVEYOR'S OFFICE, Sept. 21 st, 18GG. j kir :—l have the honor to acknowledge the re ceipt of your communication of the 18th inst., di recting me to lill the position of Deputy Surveyor at this Port, with a gentleman, who, by direction of the President, you have named for the place. The relations sustained by this office to the head of this Department of "the Customs, are of such a character as at least to justify the expecta tion that the person making the appointment, and who alone is resprons'Mt for the conduct of his Dep uty, should hrve been consulted in regard to it.— Such, however, has not been considered the prop er course in the present instance, but on the con trary, the demand is peremptory, and I am ordered to make the appointment. 1 respectfully, hut earnestly protest against this demand, and therefore decline to comply with the President's orders. Permit me to say in conclusion, that I do not propose to abandon the political principles that 1 have maintained and defended for th? last twenty years, nor to part with my old political friends. 1 n fact, I earnestly and honestly approve of the poli cy of Congress in regard to the settlement of our present difficulties, as the wisest, best and safest tor the country, and of course, do not approve that of the Administration. I have therefore to inform you that I have ten dered to the President my resignation as Surveyor of the Port. I am very respectfully, your ob't Serv't, E. REED MYER, Surveyor. Hon. H. MCCULLOCH, Secretary of the Treasury. fl®" No reader should overlook the able "Address of the National Union Committee to the American people," which appears on the first page of the REIMRTER. This repre sentative body of the Republican or Union party has brielly stated the principles and purposes of the great loyal element of the country, North and South ; and the South ern people may learn from it what they have to expect from the continued ascend ency of the party which carried the nation safely through the storms of rebellion and civil war. They will learn from it that they have nothing worse to fear than the adop tion of the constitutional amendment, with its consequent reduction of Southern rep resentation to the voting basis, the exclu sion from office of all who have departed from their oaths of allegiance to the Con stitution, and the protection of all men equally in the courts of law. The address disclaims auy purpose to carry out Mr. Johnson's whilom policy, which was to hang the leaders and confiscate and impov erish the whole slaveholding class. The Southern people will breathe freer when they learn that the sanguinary policy of Mr. Johnson will meet with no general fa vor with the dominant party in the land. THE ISSUE PLAINLY STATED. The Conservatives labor to create the impression that the radicals are opposed to the speedy restoration of the revolted States to their old places in the circle of the Union. President JOIINSON, Secretary SEWARD and a good many newspapers ex pend a vast amount of tnrgid rhetoric to this end. The facts so obviously point in the opposite direction that we are Con strained to conclude these distinguished gentlemen, and those newspapers do not believe what they affirm on this head. Congress has laid down the conditions on which it will consent to the restoration of the rebel States. These conditions are embodied in a formal proposition to amend the Constitution in f>ertain particulars. Not one of these conclusions look to exclusion, for any period, long or short, of the revolt ed States, from full and equal participation with the loyal States iu the control of the government. The understanding is, that so soon as any one of the eleven seceding States shall ratify this amendment its dele gations shall be promptly admitted to seats in the Senate and House of Representa tives. One of the eleven, Tennessee, did ratify this amendment, and its Senators and Representatives were promptly sworn in. No reason exists for believing the same rule will not be applied to the re maining ten. These ten States, or any of j them, can take places in Congress at the opening of the next session, if they desire to, by following the example of Tennessee; and this is certainly as early as the adop tion of the President's Policy can possibly get them in. The actual point in controversy, then, is not the precise or relative time when the other States shall be restored, but the con ditions exacted as precedent to restoration. Congress insists on the incorporation of four new stipulations into the organic law —l. That all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, shall be accounted cit izens, and that no State shall make laws to abridge the privileges or immunities of any citizen in respect to life, liberty or property. 2. That representation shall be apportioned, not according to population, but according to the number of voters. 3. That no person shall be a member ot either branch of Congress, or a presidential elec tor, or hold any office whatever under the United States, who had previously, as an office-holder under the general or any state government, taken an oath to bear.? true al legiance to the Union, and then violated it, by embarking in the rebellion ; and, 4. That the public debt of the United States, i including debts incurred for payment of j bounties and pensions fur services in sup ; pressing the rebellion, shall not be impair ed ; and that neither the United States nor any one of the States shall assume to pay I any debt contracted in support of the re t rebellion, or to indemnify for the loss of slaves emancipated. The President's policy declares each and all of these stipulations to be wrong, and maintains that the revolted States shall come back without conditions, and without any changes whatever in the Constitution designed to operate as guarantees for the future. When, therefore, the President, or any body else, charges that Congress or the Republican party are disuuionists, in any sense as implying opposition to the com plete and prompt restoration of all the States, and to equal authority, he or they deliderately falsify. The question at issue is—shall the Union be restored ? All are agreed on that head. The only open ques tion relates to conditions. Ou that ques tion the President has gone squarely over to the rebels and sympathises with them, and declares that no condition whatever shall be prescribed or enforced. The Re publicans, having fought the war to a suc cessful conclusion, are resolved that such terms shall be assented to as will guard against trouble in time to come, as will protect the just rights of the emancipated bondmen, and secure beyond ail peradven ture the national credit. This is the length and breadth of the case. NEGRO SUFFRAGE is the theme of all the Copperhead speech's now made. It will be remembered that for four years the Cop perhead leaders at every election have in sisted that the same question was an issue. At the election of two Congressional Dele gations from this State the issue of negro suffrage was lugged in, the Copperheads insisting that it was the question. The Copperheads were whipped by large major ities on the popular vote at both those elec tions. At the last Presidential and Guber natorial elections the same issue was made by the same men. Again they were over whelmingly defeated. The Republican par ty at all these elections paid no attention to this question. The Copperheads were allowed to have the field to themselves, and it is of course fair to suppose that they got every vote in the State opposed to negro suffrage. Taken on the merits of their own defeats, what does the result prove ? We leave the Cops to answer ? In the contest now waging for Governor, the Cops are again CryiDg nigger. They insist that ne gro ouffrage is the only issue-. As in the contest of the last four years, these miser able demagogues will again be defeated.— And what will their defeat prove ? We leave them to answer for themselves. jfcaU' MR. FORNEY was unavoidably com pelled to forsgo his appointments to speak at Troy and Towanda. His labors in the western part of the State brought on a se vere illness, which detained liim at Couder port, until he could recover sufficient strength to return home. The disapopint meut was great to our people, as Mr. FOR NF.Y is held in high estimation by the loyal people of Bradford. Hon. A. G. Cattell has been elect ed United States Senator from New Jer sey. Mr. C. is an able man, aiul a staunch Republican. RKMKMIIEH. That Hiester Clyuier is flie caiididaD* f>r I Governor in Pennsylvania,for whom J<*(I• 1 - son Davis, Gen. Dick Taylor, Gen. It. L. Lee, Gen. Early, Gen. Longstrcet, John Breckinridge, and every other traitor and rebel in the whole South would voir if they had a vote in Pennsylvania. REMEMBER, Loyal men, that every traitor in the State who was opposed to the war, who gloried in rebel success,and cried over Union victories will vote for Clyiner. REMEMBER, that Clymer's success will be rejoiced in by every red-banded traitor everywhere. REMEMBER, That J. C. Breckinridge who is across the borders, in Canada,is just wait ing the result of the elections in this and other States to return to Kentucky to be elected to the United States Senate from that State. REMEMBER, that Hiester Clynier said that the defeat of Vallandigharn for Governor of Ohio, was the greatest calamity that befel the country during the war. REMEMBER, that Vallandigharn was during our whole struggle with the South, Hiester Clymer's model of a Patriot and Statesman, and that on all occasions Clyiner defended him as the true representative of Democ racy. REMEMBER, soldiers, that if Hiester Cly iner could have defeated the amendment to the constitution allowing soldiers to vote,he and his party would gladly have dtine so. But Republican vote carried it through the Legislature and the people adopted it at the polls, all Copperheads voting against it. _ RESTORATION. THE POLICY OF THE U NION PARTY TO EESTOEE THE NATIONAL UNION ! Resolved, by Ihe Senate and House of Re]>- resentalives of the. United States of America, in Congress assembled, two-thirds of both Houses concurring, That the following ar ticle he proposed to the Legislatures of the several States as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which, when ratified by three-fourths of said Leg islatures, shall he valid as ft part of the | Constitution, namely : "ARTICLE—, Section 1. All persons horn 'or naturalized in the United States, and ! subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citi -1 zens of the United States, and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make ; or enforce any law which shall abridge the I privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States. Nor shall any State de prive any person of life, liberty, or prop erty without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. " Section 2. Representatives shall he apportioned among the several States ac -1 cording to their respective numbers, cuunt ' ing the whole number of persons in eaeli State, excluding Indians not tax. d : hut whenever the right to vote at any election for electors of President and Vice Presi dent, or for United States Representatives in Congress, executive and judical officers, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged except for participation in 1 rebellion or other crime, the basis of rep : resentation therein shall he reduced in the ! proportion which the number of such male ' citizens shall bear to the whole number of 1 male citizens twenty-one years of age in I that State. " Section 3. No person shall he a Sena | tor or Representative in Congress, elector I of President and Vice President, or hold any j office, civil or military, under the U. S, or | under ary State, who, having previously ! taken an oath as a member of Congress,or ! as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State Legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof : but Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability. Section 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States authorized by law, including debts incurred for the pay ment of pensions and bounties for service in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned, but neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave, but all such debts, obligations, and claims shall be held illegal and void. SOME OF MY POLICY.—WE find the follow ing in the New Orleans Tribune, in regard to the condition of the loyalists in ihe South. When a teacher goes to some village and opens a school for colored children, he is turned out, and not seldom beaten, stabbed or killed. When a man of liberal principles speaks of liberty and hu man rights in our country parishes, he is at once threatened with assassination. There is no polit ical liberty in the South,outside of a few cities,and even in these cities, under the "protection" of our flag, the incendiaries of Mobile and the assassins of New Orleans and Memphis tell the tales of the liberties we enjoy. It is not necessary,however,to look merely to "Radical" journals to prove tluit the old hatred of all that is Northern is reviving throughout Rebeldom. Almost every South ern Copperhead sheet now spits out its de testation of everything pertaining to the old "Free States," with a virulence which is well nigh venomous. One Lynchburg (Va.) journal, under our hand, contains j sweeping slanders on our northern women, j while nearly all are manifestly in favor of I keeping \ ankces from their sacred soil.— i And yet these are the men who are now bla tant in professing Unionism, and who, while crying aloud that the coming battle shall be, if anywhere, ou Northern soil, still re pose all their hopes on the aid of those Nor thern Copperheads who are, of all men, the eery ones who would suffer most if such a war begun. Q.DN SIIOP! GUNS, RIFLES AND PISTOLS. J. V. GEIGSR, would respectfully inform the public that he has opened his GUN SIIOP On the north side of the Public Square, near the Court House, where may be found Double and Single Barreled Guns, Kifles, Revolvers, Pistols, Cartridges, Ac. Keys fitted to Doors. Trunks and Padlocks. Particular attention given to repairing, and all work warranted. J. V. GEIGEIt. Towauda, Aug. 26, 1866 6m. AMERICAN HOTEL, TO W A N D A , P A . , Having purchased this well known Hotel on Bridge Street, 1 have refurnished and refitted it with every convenience for the accommodation of all who may pat ronize me. No pains will be spared to make all pleas ant and agreeable. J. S. PATTERSON, Prop. May 3, 'C6.-tf. Books anil Stationer)], N' * A * * A N 0 M I\ , AT TUB NEWS ROOM ANI) BOOK stoj-J The undersigned having purchased the nr.r.e AND NEWS ROOM of J. J. Griffith £ M ' K vitc the old patrons of the eatahLdu . generally, to call and examine our st.„ k " ! ' ACVoltl> ek iJAt'k ! i 8. W. ALVOBD. y * "•'I Kr.l;, A LARGE ASSORTMENT OT \(n r XA and instrumental music constantly „„ , news ROOM''* A BEAUTIFUL ASSORTM!AT XI. Family and Pocket Bibles, cheauer iU„ ' fore offered in this market, at the \, v j' PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS 0 A Hizes and styles, at the • NTtts |, f)l '■ /TAMES FOR THE FAMILY DON'T FAIL TO CALL AT Till; Vt, ROOM , and it you dou't whit \< . '' for it. ALVOJii) ,i BAzSL** k MUSIC, OR ANY OTHER A-TX iu our line, ordered at short i, t , ' u /JHINESE FANS FOR SALE AT p NJ HAVING AND TOILET SOAIG~ kA sale cheap at the NEW ' POCKET BOOKS, A LARGE v<st A MEN fat the NEWS FINE ASSORTMENT OF i Books at the NKV,'- ' SUBSCRIPTIONS TO ALL THE -i O DAKI) Daily and Weekly Papers . tec. .. . .... /100DS OF EVERY DK.SCKII'] lo\ VA redot ed prices at A LARGE ASSORTMENT 01 BE? quality Perfumery at the NhU - COMMERCIAL NOTE PAPER \z Beam or quite, very cheap at the ,\EWS ROOJJ } ARGE VARIETY OF FAN( y t ; i n JU CLES at the Nut's I;' MISCELLANEOUS BOOK.- AT cik, at the NEWS : OM POCKET CUTTLERY LOWER THA> A at any other establishment in towu, at the XKit's r: n*M insurance. riUIE -ETNA AND THE i'oUil \\ 1 FIRE. JSTNA INSURANCE COMPANY UAItTFOBD, CONN. ASSE TS , JU L Y 1 , j > ,■ Cash on hand in hank and with Agent -.. £ ; United States Stock Heal estate, unencumbered State Stocks 4 New York Bank S'o: as Hartford Bank Stocks 7 Miscellaneous Bank Stocks >'• Railroad Stocks, etc j Mortgage Bonds, City County & It. H ] ,■. Total S f ,073.0.;'- LIABIL I T I E S . Losses unadjusted and not due i.ii:. Net, $3,854,594 20, Income for last year (net) $2. • -J.: •< Or a daily income of say f'.t.iiuO. Losses and Expenses for same time. l:,5410 Total Losses paid in 47 years $!:• !_7 ;; Viz: Fire, 17,243,<>0u Inland, ii.'-i ;■ ■ ■ 7 Government and State Taxes paid {l7 -.IT LOSS BV PORTLAND FIRE, Jn.v 4;ii The total amount coveied by .Ftna Policies 11 ] perty destroyed or damaged is $.0(.,.-54, on alii - vage will he about 5 per cent. Our total 10-- vri.l r vary much from 1900,000, and is being promptly adja ed and paid. This sum is 5 per cent. u;. :: figure hut slightly exceeding our g ~ taxes paid last year, or a proponion i . .' 1 loss for a company of SIOO,OOO a-.-ets. The necessity for insurance and ihe value 0: wealthy, strong corporations, is toi. illustr-' this fire Several weak lnsuiance Companies trcyed. Portland has a population o! 35.001; . handsomely built, mostly fine lir.ck or stun • •; —protected and screened with upward .t trees—hounded ou three sides by wator ally,almost rising from the ocean and - steam tire depai trnent—yet it has {lo,(.i> erty consumed in a few hours—up. :: a fn-i:., •>' people are least occupied—from the vert cause ot a contemptible firecracker. Remember the triffling origin of li:, ■ .i t: away in a tew hours tiie earnings of yc.-..-. 1 your best interests and give the -Etna a you need proper Insurance security. I'U.KU-S fair terms. H. B. Mr RE AN. At Towanda, Aug. 11, 1860. fHisctllcmeons. /J.ROCERIES AND PROVISIONS, WHOLESALE AND 11ETAIL, JOHN MERIDETII, Main st., first door south of Rail Road Ih-.i ■■ T has just received a large addition to hi-.-: . GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS Which will be sold at wholesale and re:., i at the > lowest rates. Farmer's Produce of all kinds bought and sulJ. The public attention is respectfully invite,.: stock, which will be found to beFre-i. prices and will be sold at correspondingly low rates Towand I,July 17,1*66. ITIHE OLD BAKERY REVIVED! PETTES & IIOVEY, Arc now receiving a iresh supply ol Nu - <■': - Candies, at the old Stand ou Main stivit l : • Court House. Also an assortment ot FAM IL V GROG E 111 ES, Such as Teas. Sugars, Coffee. -. Syrup, Spices, Ac., Ac., which will he sold - cau be bought in the borough ot Toivauda . r el.-fi- r GOOD GREEN TEA FOR 11. PER roL'V Kept eoustautly on hand. BREAD, BUSCUIT, PIES,CAKES, AC. At At the Towauda Bakery. Crackers by the barrel or pound, at the Bakery PEI'TBSA HOltl . May 7, 'CG.—tf. Ty HOLES ALE MUSIC DEPOT. L. B. POWELL, Scrantou. Pa., Dealer in ' ing's Pianos, Decker's Pianos. Mason V IF' Tet Organs, Treat Lii dsley A Co s M. i <i<. kinds ot Musical Instruments, Sheet M Books. Orders from Dealers and T- .1 -'' solicited. Address L. B. POWEIa., 116, Pennsylvania Avenue. 8 rsuto: June 11,1SGG.—yl. pIANOS, AMERICAN ORG A Nr 5 -' >N A MELODIANS. The undersigned most respectfully anu, citizens of Towauda and vicinity, that he has I the Music business of G. T. COLK, and supply any ot the above articles, together with VIOLINS, GUITARS, ACCOBDIANS. SiGING-S. on as go. KI terms as they can be li id e.-w .. W. A.CHAMBKIO -'^ He is also Agent for the CELEBRATED AMERICAN WAT' ' 1 and has always ou hand, a good a- ••rtmeto Watches, with a general assortment ol JEWELRY AND FANCY GOOI'-S Silver and Plated Ware of the BEST M AN 1 1 ERS. which will he sold at unusually low v. large variety of Clocks just received, am" be found the Sotii Thomas, which has 11 j REPAIRING AN D JOBIO X<■ ■ done with neat iess and dispatch, and • ' Hi ;,. those who can't see, we would sav g' ' 1 • and get a pair of that will mi v as ever. Don't toiget the shop. ;I ,A|S. Comt House. W. A.LHAM."- Towauda, Nov. C, 1805.
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