News from all Nations.
—< leorge S. Jones, a colored man,
has been elected Constable, in Blaekstone,
MASS.
The Republicans have largely
increased their majoiities in Portland, Gar
dner and Lewiston, Me.
—Heavy failures are reported in
Boston and New York, including Bankers.
Brokers and Merchants.
—The election in Connecticut will
take place on the first of April.
—Five Magistrates have beeu ar
rested in Norfolk, by the U. S. Commission,
tor violating the civil rights bill in exclud
ing negro testimony.
—'fiie rebel "regulators" in Ken
tucky, threaten to assassinate Gov. Bram
lette if he resists the rebel gang.
— F. W. Parsons, Post Master at
Buffalo, has been arrested and held to bail
on a charge of robbing letters received at
his otliee.
—A policeman is on trial in New
York for refusing to aid in arresting the
"Keuo" players and other gamblers.
The Connecticut Adventists are
preparing their ascension robes, for a grand
upward movement in June next.
Auburn, N. V., don't go Seward
much. It has just elected radicals for ev
ery city ottice, by over 300 majority.
—The Christian Radical is the name
of a newspaper at Denver, Colorado. It is
edited by Rev. Daniel Schindel.
General Beauregard is laying
down the Nicholson pavement on two
blocks in New Orleans at his own expense.
A man of fifty-eight, in Napol
eon, Arkansas, said he would drink a gallon
f litptor in a day or die. He did both.
—The Excha ige Hotel, at Raleigh,
N. C.. was destroyed by fire on 2d inst.—
Loss $30,000. Insurance $22,000.
—lmmense frauds on the revenue,
in the cigar trade, have been discovered in
New York City. Counterfeit stamps have
been used extensively.
— A man was arrested at Vineland,
Cumberland county, N. J., on the 27th ult.,
who is charged with being implicated in the
tnurder of Mrs. Keys, at Stewartville. Warren
county, N. J.
—At the election which took place
in Alexandria, Va., on Tuesday last, the
new reconstruction law was wholly discard
ed, an 1 thus a test case will be raised.
—A.J. the editor of
the Sunday Despatch, and Chairman of the
Republican Central Committee, of New York
City, died at New Orleans, last week.
—The dead bodies discovered in
barrels at the depot in Buffalo, a few days
ago, were shipped by the Physician at the
Erie county (N. Y.) Aims-House. He had
sold them to a Medical College in Michi
gan.
—The office of the Carlisle Herald
was burned out on the sth inst.
—Steel rails are now being suc
cessfully rolled at the Cambria Iron Works.
Johnstown.
—Gipsies are infesting the eastern
counties of this State.
—Baltimore Shad are selling Col
umbia for $1 a pair. In Wiiliamsport dou
ble that price.
—The debt o! Northumberland Co.
- P oiiti, and the Borough of Sunbury
.(Wes $lO,OOO.
-Twenty-two head of cattle were
burned with the barn of Henry Augliey, in
Juniata county, last week.
—Suine of the heavest coal opera
tors in Schuylkill county threaten to aban
don their mines on account of the insecurity
to life and property.
—Capitalists talk of laying pipes
from Titusville to New Y'ork, for the pur
pose of transporting oil in competition to
railroads.
—Rats eat through a lead pipe in
the I 'Mage lter.ued office at West Chester, one
night last week, and flooded the office.
—The first soldier's orphan who
has died at the Lincoln Institute, was buried
last week in West Chester, with very im
pressive ceieutony.
—The new power press for the Vil
,"/c Jirconl, West Chester, was broken on
t amden Jt Amboy Railroad, and damaged
to the amount of $lOO, and delayed its put
ting np a month.
—The Conueautville Record says
that some boys in the neighborhood of
Greenville threw a live skunk into a church
during service, and then got away during
the confusion which ensued.
—The Grand Jury of Crawford Co.
have presented, the old Court House at
Meadville, as unfit for serviee. This is the
.second jury that has given the same notice.
—Robert Folger has been found
guilty of murder in the first degree, for kil
ling Robert W. Dinsmore, in Washington
county on the 11th of December last.
—A Welsh lad employed at a coal
shaft in Plains township. Luzerne county,
fell from top to bottom of the shaft, a dis
tance of 400 feet, and was instantly killed.
—A little girl, daughter of Michael
1 oung, of Scranton, took a lighted match
and applied it to a can of Kerosene oil,
which exploded, burning the mother badly,
and a sister so that she died the same day.
—Joseph Matthews, a desperate
character, has been arrested for setting fire
to and burning a barn in Huntingdon coun
ty, and shooting three horses out of malice.
The crimes were committed in October,and
he escaped at the time.
—John Scheide, who was arrested
in Pittston last summer, and lodged in jail
in \\ ilkes-Barre.but afterwards escaped,has
been captured in Wayne county, Ohio, and
returned to his old quarters, to be tried.
—All that the South needs now
once mure to pereipitate rebellion, are arms
and ammunition. The rebels have a leader
in Andrew Johnson. If they had arms they
would again take the field.
— W e hope the Senate will reject
Cowan a seecoad time, since the President
has had the impertinence to re-uominate
the renegade as Minister to Austria.
—The I'hiladelphia National Union
Club has already organized for the elections
in Pennsylvania this year. This looks both
like work and patriotism.
—The Attorney General of Mis
souri has decided that foreign insurance
companies cannot combine and do business
in Missouri under one license.
It was stated, in a recent debate
ih the Virginia Legislature, that but one
man in a hundred in that State takes or
reads a newspaper.
fl tadfod ftejiiittef.
Towanda, Thursday, March 14,1867.
THE RECOSSTRTCTLOS VETO.
The law passed by a very large
majority of the last Congress, recon
structing the late rebel States, has
been vetoed by President JOHNSON.
The message is a long one, having
occupied nearly an hour in the read
ing. As soon as it was read, the
House proceeded to the consideration
of the vetoed bill, and although the
Copperheads attempted to bailie the
majority, it was passed over the Pres
ident's objections by a vote of ONE
HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FIVE yeas to FORTY
EIGHT nays, nearly three votes for, to
every one against it.
When we consider the fact, that
this veto is in opposition to more
than two-thirds of the last and pres
ent Congress, and against the ex
presed will of the people of the I nit
ed States, as plainly indicated at the
last election, we can not but wonder
at the audacity of its author. Ho has
been told in unmistakable terms by
the people, that his policy towards
the late insurgent States, was not ap
proved, and Congress, many of the
members of which are his equals, at
least, in all that pertains to states
manship and morality, passes a law
by a two-thirds vote, ignoring his
policy, yet he has the hardihood and
vanity, to resist and argue, as if he
were wiser, and knew better than
all else.
This veto message, it is alleged,
was written by Judge BI.ACK, lately
one of the Judges of the Supreme
Court of our State ; and it is certain
ly very ingenious and specious, and
very like this Judge BLACK ; but law
yer-like, it is special in its bearings,
and the rankest sophistry from the
beginning to the end.
If we are to believe what this veto !
says of the reconstruction law, the
members of Congress who passed it, •
must be fools, traitors and knaves.— j
No other class ot men could frame, j
support, and pass such a law as |
Juddge BLACK makes out this to be. i
And have the people sent such men |
to represent them in the national j
councils? Th. se representatives are j
the very men who voted soldiers,
money and munitions of war to put
down the rebellion; and yet this lick
spittle of a traitor President, would j
have people believe that these men |
are now the most arrant traitors and !
fools living ! So that this tool, like •
others of his stripe, proves more than j
his master wants.
The same arguments which the j
Copperheads made against the sus- |
pension of the Habeas Corpus, when
they were laboring to bafile the Gov- i
eminent and aid the traitors, during
the war, are freshly rehashed by this :
Judge against the constitutionality j
of the power of Congress to pass
such a law. He take 6 the ground
that because there are no precedents,
and no express provision in the Con
stitution for the creation of such a
law, therefore Congress ;an not pass
it. Queer theory. There is no prece
dent, and no Constitutional provision
authorizing Congress to appropriate
money for the relief of the starving
people in the South, and yet, who
that has any sense and intelligence,
doubts the authority of Congress to
do this thing. And to argue, or as
! sume, that a military officer can not
j be sent into a district to protect the
lives and property of its people, with"
! out subverting the government, is
| simply absurd. Military men, as a
rule, are not worse than other men,
and if they cannot be trusted with a
plain administrative duty, no one
J can, and all law, and all government
iis at an end. So that this astute
Judge again proves more than is
i wanted.
Throughout this message,the ground
is takeu, that the Southern people
are a very inuocent, unoffending, but
horribly oppressed race That Con
gress, without cause or right, is sub
jugating them to the most cruel treat
ment, and abject servitude. In read
ing this production, one would never
suspect that there ever had been any
resistance to the laws or the general
government, or that any rebellion
had been in force in the Southern
States. No, they are only peaceable
citizens, who are oppressed by the
Northern people and Congress ; and
are defended by a ductile scavenger
of a patriotic President
The stale story, which JOHNSON
has so often repeated, that the rebels
had no hand in passing this law, is
revamped and rehearsed. Oh yes,
the rebels have a right to sit in judg
ment, as jurors, on their own crimes.
The rebels of the South have the nat
ural, the constitutional, the inaliena
ble right to say how much they shall
be punished. This would be, in the
eyes of Judge BLACK, law, equity, and
proper administration of justice.—
Ours is a republican government,and
the majority rules, but in all cases
affecting the rebels and their crimes,
the Government, though in the ma
jority, and largely so, has no right
to pass laws against the blackest
criminals and the most damnable
conspiracy that ever afflicted a na
tion ; and when these despicable vil
lains are reeking the vengeance for
their defeat, on those who defended
the government, this same govern
ment has no right to defend its
triends. But this is modern democ
racy. According to the creed of this
party, whenever the Government un
dertakes to defend itself against reb
els, it is violating the Constitution.
If it undertakes to punish or restrict
rebels, it is violating the Constitu
tion. The rebels have a right to do
as tbey please, and the only people
in this country, except Copperheads,
who have any rights. The Constitu
tion defends these in whatever they
choose to do ! A wonderful party
that.
THE TARIFF BILI..
We announce, with great regret,
the defeat of the Senate Tariff Bill, in
the Lower House of Congress, on the
28th nit. The result was brought
about by Northern Free-Traders (ali
as Copperheads), and members from
the Western States. Such men as
WASHBURN of Illinois, voting with
Copperheads, and some twenty-five or
six others. One hundred and five
members voted for the Tariff Bill, and
sixty-four against it, thus showing a
large majority in favor of the meas
ure. The reader will ask why it was
dofe .ted on such a vote ? Since the
bill came to the House it has been
before the Committee of the Whole,
and its enemies kept it there by
amendments and speeches. If once
through the Committee of the Whole,
the bill could be passed by a bare
majority, and hence the reason for
keeping it there. At last, seeing no
alternative, Mr. MORRILL moved to
take it out of the Committee of the
Whole, and as this required a sus
pension of a rule of the House, a two
thirds vote was necessary to carry it.
This it failed to receive,and was con
sequently defeated ; aud were it not
for the fact that the ucxt or present
Congress was organized on the 4th
iust., where another effort will be
made for a Tariff law, we would look
upon the defeat of the Senate Bill, as
most disastrous to the country.
A very large proportion of the rev
enue which now goes to sustain the
Government in its enormous expend
itures, and pay the interest on the
public debt, is paid by the manufac
turers of the country, and this tax,to
gether with the severe competition
from abroad, is rapidly destroying
the manufacturing interests of the
nation; and if they are crushed where
are we to get money to meet the in
terest and government expenses ?
We can not get it, and Government,
and Government credit will follow
the manufacturers to ruin. This is
the up-shot of the whole matter. We
do not wonder that Copperheads fight
the Tariff, for they fight the country,
and every interest connected with it,
but we do wonder at those Western
Republican members, and perhaps,
even they, are in a measure excusa
ble. The Western people are oppos
ed to Tariff, and their members vote
against them to secure re-elections ;
but it is not a flattering commenda
tion of these men that they vote to
secure their own return to Congress,
and at the same time to ruin the
country ; and such is the fact. It is
a great pity tLiat the members of
Congress, favoring a Tariff law, can
not be more united on a measure. A
great variety of heavy interests come
in collision whenever Tariff laws are
under revision by Congress, and it is,
therefore, very hard to get a bill that
will suit all; but concessions should,
and must be the order of the day
now, or no bill will be passed. We
hope all lovers of the Union will join
hands in a patriotic effort to save us.
Let the Republican members bear in
mind that the Government is in our
hands, that our party is responsible
for its credit, and that a financial cri
sis before the next Presidential elec
tion will materially effect its result ;
and that unless we have a judicious
Tariff law, bankruptcy of govern
ment and people must follow. We
are glad to know that our member
voted right, every time, on this ques
| tion.
THE FREfEDMAN'S BI'RKAI .
The Freedman's Bureau has been a
favorite theme with Copperhead ed
itors and orators. They have ex
hausted their stoie-houses of elo
quence and wit, to denounce and de
preciate its workings as only encour
aging the laziness of the nigger, and
| affording subsistence to the colored
man, at the expense of the laboring
whites. The reports of the Bureau
have always shown that the great
majority of those relieved by its op
erations were the poor and suffer
ing whites of the South.
On Thursday last, a communica
tion was laid before the Senate from
the Secretary of War, transmitting
the statement of Gen. Howard, Com
missioner of the Freedmen's Bureau,
in response to a resolution of the
Senate, calling for information in re
gard to the extreme want in the
Southern States, &c. The report
states that from official sources, and
confirmed by gentlemen from differ
ent sections of the South, he esti
mates that 32,622 whites and 24,238
colored people will need food from
some soure before the next crop can
relieve them. The number of ra
tions required for one month are
1,707,000 ; for five months, the prob
able time required, 8,535,000. At
25 cents per ration, the estimated
cost will be $2,133,750; of this,
$625,000 have already been appro
priated, leaving $1,508,750 to be pro
vided. The destitutes are apportion
ed as follows : Virginia, 2,500 whites
and 2,500 blacks ; North Carolina,
3,000 whites, 2,000 blacks; South
Carolina, 5,000 whites, 5,000 blacks;
Alabama, 10,000 whites, 500 blacks ;
Florida, 500 whites, 1,000 blacks ;
Georgia, 7,500 whites, 500 blacks ;
Tennessee, 1,000 whites, 1,000 blacks;
Mississippi, 1,802 whites, 2,038
blacks ; Arkansas, 1,000 whites,
500 blacks ; Louisiana, 300 whites,
200 black*. Since the report was
drawn up a statement has been re
ceived from the Assistant Commiss
ioner and Governor of Georgia great
ly exceeding the amount iu the table,
but a larger appropriation is not re
commended for Georgia before anoth
er estimate shall lie made, based on
thorough inspection.
.from fjavrislmrg.
Special Correspondence of THE BRADFORD
REPORTER.
HARRISBURG, Pa., March 11, 1867.
A bill has been passed giving the Courts
of Common Pleas power and authority to
grant charters of incorporation in all cases
wherein any number of persons, citizens of
this Commonwealth, are associated for the
purpose of insuring horses, cattle and other
live stock against loss by death, from dis
ease or accident, or from being stolen ; and
idso to grant charters of incorporation to
water anil hook and ladder companies, fire
insurance companies, skating park associa
tion--, building associations, musical associa
tions and teachers' institutes. The same
act also validates all charters of incorpora
tion which have heretofore been granted by
any of said Courts of Common Pleas in cases'
wherein the Supreme Court only had power
and authority to grant the issue.
The House has passed an act relating to
evidence in actions of ejectment, which pro
vides that "in all actions of ejectment
against two or more persons, any of the de
fendants shall be competent as a witness for
either plaintiff or defendant, as effectually
as if not made a party to the record ; provid
ed that it shall appear to the Court, upon
the trial, that the party so offered as a wit
ness has disclaimed, upon the record, all ti_
tie to the premises in controversy, and paid
into Court the costs already accrued, or giv
en security for the payment thereof, at the
discretion of the Court."
The Senate Committee on Public Build
ings having been instructed to examine into
the propriety of enlarging the Governor's
residence, has reported in favor of an en
largement of the mansion and presented
plans therefor. The building is too small
and inconvenient for the use of the Execu-
tive of the State, and should be enlarged with
out delay.
Tlie question of removing the Capitol of
Pennsylvania is again to be agitated in the
Legislature. A few days ago Mr. MEYERS
gave notice in the House that he would
shortly make a move for the appointment of
a special committee to inquire into the pro
priety of the Capitol to the city
above named. There seems to be a deter
mination on the par t of the people of Phlu
delphia to secure the location of the Capitol
in then midst, and year after year we find
the question of a removal thereof from Har
risburg to that city. Whether sufficient "in
liuence " can [ever be brought to bear upon
the Legislature to effect a removal, 1 do not
pretend to say, but there is no denying the
fact there is no real cause for such a move.
The Capitol buildings are now large enough
for all purposes and accommodate every
branch of the State government The Capi
tol extension, wnich cost the State several
hundred thousand dollars, is not yet entirely
completed, and if Mr. MEYERS should suc
ceed in his undertaking, this very costly and
magnificent building would he n dead loss t< >
the Commonwealth. An Executive Mansion
was purchased two or three years ago at
about ?4U,000. If this, and the extension,
and the old Capitol buildings, were put up
at sale, they would not bring one-third their
cost, for the reason that they would be use
less for private purposes. Were the Capitol
to be removed, new buildings in Philadel
phia would cost several millions of dollars,
which would have to be paid by additional
taxation. The people are not prepared to
submit to this. Besides, there is another
important matter to be considered : If, as
it is alleged, the Legislature is corrupted in
a city the size of Harrisburg, with a popula
tion of twenty-five thousand", what could be
expected from that body were it to hold its
sessions in Philadelphia,which boasts of sev
ral hundred thousand inhabitants'?
Joint resolutions have been passed by the
Legislature, for the revision of the civil
laws of the Commonwealth and providing
for the appointment of Commissioners for
that purpose.
A bill has been passed by the Senate for
the incorporation of the National Homestead
at Gettysburg.
The House has passed a supplement to
the Mechanic's Lien Law, authorizing liens
to be issued for the improvements upon build
ings, as well as upon the original construc
tion providing the repairs or improvements
amount in value to over twenty dollars.
The Senate has pass a Free Railroad Law.
It authorizes any number of citizens, not
less than nine, to ..construct and operate a
steam rail-way, with a capital stock of not
less than $lO,OOO per mile, and not less than
six nor more than twelve directors. The
preliminary arrangements must be acknowl
edged before an alderman and tiled with the
Secretary of the Commonwealth, but the
Secretary shall not file the same until $lO,-
000 of stock for each and every proposed
mile of road is subscribed, and ten per cent,
thereof paid in cash. The stockholders shall
be individually liable to the amount of their
stock for the payment of wages of labor, mate
rials, right of way, and damages. The direc tors
may keep open books to till up the capital
stock. The corporation shall be liable to
the provisions of the General Railroad Law
of 1819. No charge shall he made for trans
•porting coal, iron, metal, lumber or agricul
tural products, exceeUiug two cents per ton
per mile in private cars, or two and a half
cents in the cars of the Company. The
stoklioclders may increase the capital stock,
and may borrow not exceeding $2,000 per
mile and issue seven per cent, bends secur
ed by mortgage. They may also build any
branch roads deemed necessary.
The Governor has approved and signed a
supplement to an act incorporating the Brad
ford County liailroad Company, approved
May 'J tli, 180(1, making the capital stock to
consist of ten thousand shares, at $OO each,
instead of fifteen hundred shares.
Also, a further supplement to an act in
creasing the fees of tho several county offi
cers of this Commonwealth, except in the
city of Philadelphia and the counties of Alle
gheny, Bradford, .Sullivan and Susquehanna,
approved March 30, 18G6, continuing the in
crease of fees to March 30, 1808, and includ
ing all lite counties except Philadelphia and
Allegheny.
Also, an act incorporating the Sullivan and
Pocouo Summit Plank Koad or Turnpike
Company.
Also, an act extending to Bradford county
the act compelling manufacturers of butter
and lard firkins, kegs and tubs, in Erie,
Crawford and Warren counties, to mark the
weiglit thereon : provided..{that the mnnu '
facturers in Bradford county shall only be re- ]
quired to mark upon their work the number j
of pounds the same shall weigh.
Mr. WEBB presented iu the House, three
petitions from citizens of Bradford fur a
higher rate of interest. Referred t.> the Com
mittee on the Judiciary General.
Mr. K rxvfv presented a remonstrance
from citizens of Sheshcquin, Bradford coun
ty, against taxation of dogs and for the pro
tection of sheep.
Also, a remonstrance from citizens of
Rome, Bradford county, against the running
of cars on Sunday in the city of Philadel
phia. REX.
Personal anl Political.
—John H. M'Clerland, the recently
appointed Postmaster of Pittsburg, is a
thorough Radical.
—Joshua Soule, the senior Bishop
of the Methodist Church in the I'nited
States, died at Nashville, Tenn., Wednes
day.
—Charles F. Browne, bettor known
as "Artemas Ward," the American humor
ist, author of a series of popular comic pro
ductions, and a successful lecture, died at
Southampton, England, on Thursday last.
—General Scbenck has written a
letter decliuing to be a candidate for Gover
nor of Ohio.
—George Peabody is going to re
turn to London in May to remain three
years, when he will come back and make
his permanent residence at Salem.
—Daniel Brewster, appointed by
the President to the oflice of postmaster at
Montrose, is informed by the U. S. Senate
that his services are not needed.
—Andrew J. Gerritson,editor of the
Montrose Democrat, whose appointment as
Assessor of the 13th District, we noticed a
few days since, was amongst the rejected,
unfortunates.
—Official publication is made
through the Department of State, of the act
to provide for the more efficient government
of the Rebel States, and the act regulating
the tenure of certain civil offices, both ol
which, it will be recollected, were passed
over the President's veto.
— A thoroughly Radical daily news
paper, to be called The Htvc-Orleans Repul
li can, is to be started in that city on the 25th
iust., the prospectus of which has just been
issued. The projectors, and objects of the
enterprise are indorsed in this city by Gens.
Butler, Banks, Howard, and Logan, and
Messrs. Wade, Stevens, Shellabarger, and
Colfax. The paper will be represented in
Washington by experienced correspondents.
The amount of siock already subscribed is
said to reach $250,000.
—Thaddeus Stevens, the oldest
man in this House, remained during all the
long session from Saturday at twelve until
Sunday morning at nine o'clock, and was
active and blight to the last moment.
--Howell Cobb,before he left Wash
ington for Georgia, declared that the recon
struction bill of Congress would be accept
ed cheer ully by the Southern people.
—A formal call for the National
Democratic Convention at Louisville, pro
posed by the Democracy of Kentucky, and
favored by the Conventions of Ohio, Con
necticut and New-Hampshire, and the Na
tional Democratic Association of Washing
ton, has been issued.
—At the charter elections in Maine,
on Monday, the cities of_Portland, Gardi
ner, Lewiston and others, show a sweeping
victory and large gains for the liepublican
ticket. This shows the current which is to
carry the coming spring elections.
—Gov. Bullock, of Massachusetts,
with consent of Council, has appointed
George L. lluflin (colored) a Justice of the
Peace for the County of Suffolk.
—Petitions are being circulated by
the women in St. Louis, asking the Legisla
ture to strike the word mule from the State
Constitution. Preparations are also being
made for a mass meeting of women for the
purpose of bringing the question of female
suffrage prominently before the people.
—Governor \\ ells, of Louisiana,
has issued a proclamation declaring the act
of Congress for the more sufficient govern
ment of the rebel States in full force in that
State.
—Governor Brownlow,in the Knox
ville Wh'xj, reminds the people of Tennes
see that the enfranchisement of the colored
race will give the State three more repre
sentatives in the United States Congress,
and suggests to the Legislature the propri
ety of re-districting the State as soon as the
franchise bill shall become a law.
II,LI\OIS.
Illinois is a groat State. Her Leg
islature adjourned recently after a
two month's session, having during
the present sitting appropriated five
millions towards the erection of a
new State House, and with such a
beginning it must cost ten millions
before completed,and . ill,in all prob
ability, be the finest Capitol building
in the Union, the National Capitol
only excepted. Tire same Legisla
ture also made provision"for building
another Penitentiary, a Hume for
Disabled Soldiers, and a Soldiers' Or
phan's Home, also 88,000, the State's
quota, towards the completion of the
National Cemetery at Gettysburg,be
sides organizing a State Agricultu
ral College, giving to all liberal en
dowments. And to all this, made pro
vision for building a Ship Canal from
the Lakes to the Mississippi, at not
less than twenty millions ! If this is
not Young America making great
strides, we do not know what is; and
this young State can do all tLis, and
more too.
SENATE STANDING GOMMITTF.ES. —It
will be interesting to our readers to
know of which of the standing com
mittees in the United States Senate
Senator Gaineron is a member. He
is third on the Gommittee on Foreign
Relations ; chairman of the Ccinmit
the on Agriculture ; on the Commit
tee of Public Buildings and Grounds.
It is proposed to form a new Gommit
tee on Appropriations, to share the
enlarged labors of the Finance Com
mittee, and Senator Cameron will be
placed thereon. Very lew important
charges have been made in the Sen
ate committees, with the exception
that Fesseuden proposes to resign as
chairman of the Finance Committee,
and that John Sherman will be selec
ted to fill the vacancy.
IMPEAMIMEVT OK TIIK PRESIDENT
The Judiciary Committee of the
House of Representatives, which lias
had under consideration the resolu
tion of General Ashley, impeaching
the acting President of the United
States, made a partial report on the
subject. The committee has been ac
tively engaged in the matter, but
has {Jfaund itself tuta[ly unable to
bring the subject to a conclusion,
though sufficient testimony has beeu
taken and enough of documents col
lected to warrant a continuation of
the investigation by a committee of
the incoming Congress,into
of which the information already
gathered will be delivered. As the
facts remain, the committee does not
feel authorized to present the result
of its labors,as the charges have beeu
too well sustained to admit of any
thing else than a continuance of in
quiry.
in the House, on Thursday, the
question again came np, on a resolu
tion offered by Mr. ASHLEY that the
judiciary committee be forthwith ap
pointed, and that the investigation of
the charges against the President, as
left unfinished by the Committee
of last Congress, be continued by the
present one. After considerable de
bate, the resolution was passed, the
subject of Impeachment is agu :i in
keeping of the Judiciary Committee.
TO PENNSYLVANIA SOLDIERS.
The undersigned, appointed to pre
pare a History of the Pennsylvania
Volunteers and Military organiza
tions, having discovered many im
perfections in the muster-out rolls of
the companies, desires that each sol
dier,"who solved in any organization
Irom this State, would furnish infor
mation in Lis personal hist ry per
taining r> the following points :
1. Wounds. —If wounded, give
the date ; in what engagements re
ceived ; nature of wounds ; result of
the wounds ; nature of surgical oper
ations, if capital, and by whom per
formed.
2. Imprisonments. —11 a prisoner,
give the date and place of capture j
where imprisoned ; nature of treat
ment, and the date and manner of
escape or release.
lie also desires that the relatives
or Ci tupanion* in anus .if d ceased
soldiers would give the cause, date,
place of death and place of inter
ment of each, and any facts in his
history touching the subjects above
referred to.
Write at the head of the page the
name of the person to whom the in
formation pertains, the number (if
regiment and letter of company to
which he belonged. Write in con
t eiso terms, in a plain band, on letter
! paper, and on but one side of a leaf.
The undersigned also desires to
I make a c beetiou for present and for
future use of—
1. Complete files of all newspa
pers published in the State from the
beginning of 1801 to the close of
1805, to be bound and permanently
kept in the archives-of the State.
Will the publishers or any friend
possessing them furni h such files ?
2. Discourses coninu rnorative of
fallen soldiers ; pamphlets pertain
ing in any manner to the rebellion or
its causes ; articles published or in
manuscript containing historical
facts.
.*. Published histories or sketch
es of regiment/, batteries or com
panies : printed rolls and descript
ive matter.
4. Diaries of soldiers; letters
descriptive of military life, contain
ing information of permanent histor
ic value, or descriptions of interest
ing incidents : plains of battles,seig
cs, forts and of naval engagements.
5. Complete rolls of students arid
graduates of each college in the
State who were in tlie service.
0. Card photographs (vignette)
of each officer, of whatever grade,
who at any time acted as command
er of a regiment,battery or independ
ent company, inscribed • with his
name, number of regiment, &c., dates
of period during which he held com
mand, with his present post-office ad
dress. The relatives of deceased
officers are requested to forward the
photographs of such officers, inscrib
ed as above. No use will be made
of these photographs without the ex
press permission of the senders,
further than to arrange them in al
bums for preservation.
Much of the matter called for
under tin so several heads may not
be needed for immediate use, but the
day wi!! come when it will be inval
uable, and the present is regarded as
a favor: Me time for commencing the
collection.
Let every true son of Pennsylva
nia respond promptly to this call,and
thereby rescue from oblivion many
memorials of her pat: iotism and her
power.
SAMUEL P. BATES,
State Historian.
Department of Military History,
Harrisburg, February 22, 1867.
THE PRISONER SCRRATT. —The pris
oner John IT. Snrratt is confined dur
ingl the night in one of the three
cells opening on a corridor about 25
feet long, on which during a good
portion of the day he paces back
and forth. He seems to be in good
health, sleeps well and eats heartily,
but speaks little, and then only in
regard to his personal wants. The
door at the end of the corridor is
planked up, and consequently he can
not see or have any intercourse with
any of the other prisoners. He is
very closely watched by guards, and
while in the corridor he has a guard
with him. It is new staten that
Messrs. Bradley and Merrick have
been retained as his counsel, and
yesterday Mr. Beadle had a long in
terview with him. His sister was
last fall a governess in the lower
part of Prince George country, but
for several weeks has been stopping
with her relatives in Washington
city.
19* A late despatch by the cable
from London, says that advices from
the Gape of Good Hope, bring the sad
intelligence that Dr. Livingstone, the
colebrated African explorer, has been
killed by the Cafl'rss
Nero 3U>ufrtiofmento.
ANOTHER NEW STOCK J
OF GOODS:
JAMES O. FBOST, would cab attention T< U-
Urge and varied asaor taieut i
FURNIT U li K :
Now on exhibition at 1> s Ware Hoom, which j
he will he happy to how to auy and every one |
Iree of charge, or to sell at a very small ad- !
vauce front cost. Thankful lot the past liberal I
patronage of the public, I would say that 1 |
shall still endeavor to make it to their interest
t deal with me. not only by keepi ig a
LARGER STOCK
To select from than is kept in any other Furni I
ture Store in this region ; hut also by offering
them
AT A LESS PRICE
Thau the same quality of goods can be pur
chased elsewhere, i have now in store over (JO
DIFFERENT PATTERNS OF CHAIRS,
And more than
THIRTY DIFFERENT STYLES BEDSTEADS
Besides Bureaus, Stands, Tables, Book Hacks,
What Nots, Sofas Tete-a-Tcte's, Rockers,
and Easy Chairs, Piano Stools, Chil
dren's Carriages, Children's Cradles
and Cribbs, Looking Classes,
Looking Glass Plates, Pic
ture Frames, Photo
graph Ovals, Steel
Engravings,
Cords and
Tassels,
AC.,
In fact a full assortment
(JL EVERYTHING IN TIIE LINE,
All of which will be sold
CHEAP I Oli CASH.
The public are Invited to call and ex t mine
j my stock before purcha3 ing elsewhere. Store
|on Main Street, 2 doors south oi Montanyes. I
I also keep on Laud, a large assortment of
READY MADE COFFINS,
< From the most common to the finest Mahogany
i or Rosewood, which will be furnished with or
j without Attendance with Hearse, at us low a
j price as the sume quality can be pureeased else
where. Dec 1866. —yr.
JDIXE PARLOR SETS, at
j JC FROST'S.
VN A MELED CHAMBER SETS.—
J Also Fine Chesuut or Walnut chamber sets
I a FROST'S.
HAIR, 111.5 K., .MOSS,SEA-GKA>S
and Straw Matresses. Also Spring Mat-
I resses. cheap at FROST'S.
THE LARGEST ASSORTMENT
■ i Mirrors n town, at FROST'S,
rilllE CHEAPEST-PLACE TO BUY
J- Louuges and Couches, id at FROST'S.
BREAKFAST, DINING, EXTEN
SION,.and Parlor Tables, at FROST'S.
FJMIE UNDERSIGNED, HAVING
Purchased the entire interest ot
R. 11. PATCH,
!ii in the firm oi C- B. PATCH A CO., is now
prepared to offer to the citizen- of Biadford
County and vicinity, a large and well selected
stock of
GROCERIES,
j Which I have purchased for Cash and feel confi
dent tli.it can sell at as low figures as can be
purchased elsewhere. I now offer to the public
a splendid a tock of
I TEAS, COFFEES, SUGARS,
j STARCH , SAI.ERATUS, SPICES, AC.
Have on hand a large stock of
AKRON FLOUR, GRAHAM DO.
I
RYE DO. BUCKWHEAT DO.
I keep constantly on Laud, PORK, HAMS,
I.ARD and kinds of FISH. Would call the at
tention of the public to onr Can't Be Beat
STOCK OF TOBACCO,
In quality or pri-e. Jesse Oakley's Celebrated
Laundry, New York Chemical and Brown Soap.
Pie ase call and examiue our stock of
WOODEN WARE.
Large assortment ot YANKEE NOTIONS,
TOILET SOAPS, Ac., Ac. I will pay the high
est cash price for
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Farmers give us a call before selling elsewhere.
C. B. PATCH.
All persons indebted to the late firm will
please call and make immediate payment.
C. B. PATCH.
Towanda, March 12,18(17.
PROPOSALS.— PENNSYLVANIA
AGRICULTURAL LAND SCRIP FOR
SALE.—The Board ot Commissioners now offer
for sale 520,000 acres of Agricultural College
Land Scrip, being the balance of the Scrip
granted to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
lor the endowment of Agricultural Colleges in
this State.
Proposals for the purchase of this Laud Scrip,
addressed to " The Board of Commissions of
Agricultural Land Scrip," will be received at
the Surver General's office, at Harrisburg. until
II o'clock, M. on Wednesday, April 10. 18G7.
This land may be located in any State or
Territory, by the holders of the scrip, upon
any ol the unappropriated lands (except min
eral land ) of the United States, which may he
subject to sale at private eutry. Each piece of
scrip represents a qutrter section o one hun
dred and sixty acres, is issued in blank, and
will be transferable, without endorsement or
formal assignment. The blank need not be fill
ed until the scrip is preseu ed for location and
entr. .when the party holding it can fill the
blank and enter 'he land in his own name.—
Bids must he made as per acre, aad no bids
will be received for less than one quarter sec
tion.
The Scrip will be issued immediately on the
payme tot the money to the Surveyor Gener
al. On all bids lor a less quantity than 40,000
acres, one-third of the purchase money must
be paid within ten days, aud the remaining two
thirds within th rty days after notification of
the acceptance of the-bid or bids by the Board
of Commissioners.
JACOB M. CAMPBELL
Surveyor General.
For the Board of Commissioners.
Harrisburg, Feb. 27,1867. —ts.
CUAUTION. — Whereas, my wife Sa
/ rah Maria, has left my bed and board with
| out just cause or provocation, all persons are
I hereby forbid harboring or trusting him on my
I account as I shall pay no debts of hereon
i trading after this t* ate.
M. M. LEVERING.
: Franklin, March 1, 1865 —3t*
FOUND. —IU the road, ou the 19th
February, near the Christian Church in
1 Albany. Bradford co., Pa.,aGentlemen's Watch
[ The owner can have it by calling on the sub
| scriber, proving property, paying charges, Ac.
Feb. 23. 1867. -3t O, HIBBARD.
1 EXECUTOR'S NOTlCE.— Notice "IS
-J hereby given that all persons indebted to
the estate of JOHN TURNER, late of
; Canton twp., dee'd.. are requested to make im
! mediate payment, and those having claims
I against said estate must present them duly au
l thenticated for settlement.
W. S. NEWMAN,
CHAS. ROCKWELL,
| March 4, 1567. Executors.
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS OF ALL
Bies and styles, ut the NEWS ROOM.
miscellaneous.
A LU SI X G AC A DK M V.
Wyaluslng, Bradford County. Pa.
W. H. BROWN '. Paiscn an.
Miss MARY K. BROWN ASMSTAN,.
The Spring Term will commence on Monday
April 1.187, and continue 14 week a Rale of
tuition as follows :
Reading, Spelling, English Grammai, Geo
graphy, and Arithmetic, to Decimal Fraction.,
$4,00. Classics and the higher English hraenli
es, except as specified below, $6,00. High*-
Algebra and .Geometry, 17 00. Trigonoraetiy
and Surveying, $B,OO.
Tuition invariably payable by the middle of
the term. No deductions on account of a/,
M>ncc, except in cases of protracted illness
March 4, 1867 —4t{
rr OBA Cc O a OIOA Kg,
Wholesale and Retail at
RANDALL A COMPTON'S,
First door south of the First National Bank,
MAIN STREET, TOWANDA, PA.
BRANDS OF TOBACCO CHEWING.
Gold Leaf, Sunny Side, Pine Apple, Michigan
Fig, Rose Leaf and Star, which we oiier for sale
in quantities to suit customers Packages ,n
Barrels, halfiand quarters.
BRANDS OF CIGARS.
American Eagle. Gen. Grant, Leboquet, lm
perio, Tycoon and the very choicest loan,!.
Yaras.
' FANCY SMOKING.
The celebrated Lone Jack, F'ide ol the i n
j ted States, Vfrginistie .Gold Leaf, Navy and
kinds of Killickuick.
Landlords supplied with Cigars and Foil T
bacco on liberal terms.
All orders promptly tilled on short noiii e.
W. H. RANDALL. N M COM I'TON
March 7, 1867.
rjIAKE YOUR CHOICE !
We will send a ii'i Sewing Machine, either
Wheeler A Wilson, or Grover A Baker, to any
person sending us the Names of Eighteen New
Subscribers to the
NEW YORK OBSERVER,
With the money (s>,B) for one year iu advance.
We have sent away as Premiums more than
FIVE HUNDRED
Of these Machin.s, aud they give universal sat
isfaction. The new subscribers may he irom
one, or from various places.
ANOTHER OFFER.
Any person wi-hing t-> purchase a Wheel, r A
Wilson or a Grover A Baker Sewing Machine
ol any style by ordering through us and send
ing as the price of the Machine and $l2 add;
tional, will receive the Machine ordered, and
Receipt for Sixteen Years' subscription to til -
Observer. Send by check, draft, or Post Off >•
orders. Sample Copies and Circulars sent fret-
Terms 13,50 a year iu advance.
SIDNEY E. MORSE, Jr., & CO.,
37 Park Row, New York
Q ROCK ERY STO RE .
WICK HAM A BLACK
Have enlarged and re fitted their store and tb
ed up with a
VERY LARGE
And varied assortment of
CROCKERY,
GLASSWARE,
CHINA,
YELLOW,
ROCK,
LAVA,
AND
STONE WARE.
We propose to keep in eonuec'.ion with the
above a full stock of
SILVER PLATED,
WOOD,
WILLOW,
AND
JAPANNED GOODS.
TABLE CUTLERY.
In variety.
As we bay ail our goods from
FIRST HANDS,
We flatter ourselves, we can sell
GOOD GOODS
Lower than any other parties iu this ret ion
CLOTHS,
CASSIMERES,
AND
TAILOR'S TRIMMINGS,
Of the best quality.
CUTTING
And
MANUFACTURING
Done to order,
Agents lor
WHEELER \ WILSON'S
Aud
SINGER'S SEWING MACHINES.
Towanda, March 7, 1567.
BUIST'S PHILADELPHIA GAK
DEX SEEDS FOR SALE BY E. T. I'OX .
I have jvst received a very large stock ot Fresh
Garden Seeds from Robert Buist jr., ot Phila
delphia. This esta'lirhment has acquired a
high reputation for furnishiug fresh and relw
ble See la.
No seeds are commissioned and consequently
there can be uo accumulation of old seeds.
Those who are tired of buyiug worthies
trash that has been hawked about the con airy
for the past ten years, will find it to their ad
vantage to try these seeds, all who have
bought ol me for the past two years, will, 1 a" 1
certain, recommend them. I have a much
larger supply than usual
E. T. FOX.
Towamla, March 7.1867.