Ulontro.se Pemecra A; J. GERJUTSON, • • TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1806 FOR GOVERNOR:. HIESTER CLYMER, OF BERNS' COUNTT The Civil . Rights . BM: Leading Repnblicans—Congressmen and others—elaim that the civil rights bill, in declaring negroes citizens of the Uni ted States, confers upon them full politi cal equality, including the right to vote in all the states, to hold office and sit On ju ries. We always believed that it was the intention of the radicals to covertly force negro' suffrage and negro equality upon all the States under their construction of of this and other acts. Special Attention II called to articles on fourth page this week. The article on free railroads is from a leading radical journal ; and we regret that while most of the Democrats in last legislature were favorable to such an act, nearly all the Republicans were hostile to it, and favored the corrupt, vote-buying monopoly. Our Senator and Members opposed the public interest, and voted to give the monopoly arbitrary • power to cripple the people's privileges. Why they did so, we hope they will Busher. The article on. Congress and-President, shows the feelings of such Republicans as are fur the Union. We hope the rabids, before they call the writer a "traitor," will show wherein he is wrong—remem bering that ho is one of their party, and now writes, as fur four years as a soldier, he fought—FOß TirE UNION. The Philadelphia Age. We ask favorable attention to the ad vertisement of the Age, in this paper. It is an excellent journal—soundly Demo cratic, and a good newspaper. Published in our State, it keeps its readers:posted in matters relating to our interests in Penn sylvania ; and is therefore preferable to the New York journals, which not only ignore our state matters, but are organs of cliques and factions. Cabinet Meeting on Reconstruction. We copy the following dispatch to the Associated Press, Of May 2d. We are surprise& at Stautou's conversion to the right side ; but ask seems to be confirmed by later 'reports, we do not now qUestion it. Radicalism is not only backing down, but breaking• down, and- ,Grtary will go under lit iii emderstood that at the meeting to day the Presiclierss invitee/ an expression of opinion from the lirails of DPpartments respecting the propositions reported on Monday last by the Congressional Com mittee on Reconstruction. An interest ing and animated discussion is said to have ensued,"in the course of which, if rumor be true, Secretary Seward declared himself' in very decided and emphatic terms against the plan of the committee and in favor of the immediate admission of loyal representatives from the lately disloyal States. Secretary McCulloch was as positive as the Secretary of State in his opposition to the plan recommended by the committee, and expressed himself strongly in favor of au immediate consummation of the Presi dent's restoration policy, by the admission into Congress of loyal men from the Southern States. Secretary Stanton was equally decided, in his opposition to the committee's pro' positions, and was for adhering to the policy which had been agreed upon and consistently pursued by the Administra tion. He was gratified that the President had brought the subject to the constdera don of the Cabinet. Secretary Welter} was unequivocally against the committee's scheme, and was earnest in his support of the President's policy, comprehending the instant adrnis sign iutoCongress of loyal Representatives from the States lately in rebellion. Secretary Harlan was rather reticent, and expressed no opinion. Postmastev-General Dennison was in favor of carrying out the restoration policy of the President, but expressed his doubts as to the precise time at which loyal Representatives from the Southern States should be admitted to seats- in Congress. , • Attorney - General Speed was riot pres cot at the meeting, being on a. viskt to hisi home in Kentucky. The President was earnest in his oppc‘ 'lion to the report of the committee, and declared himself against all conditions . precedent to the admission of loyal repre sentatives from the Southern States in the shape of amendments to the Constitutiqu or the passage of laws. Re insisted that under the C7)1313t1E1/11i011 no State could be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate, and that Senators and Representatives ought to be at once admitted into their respective Houses, as prescribed by law and the Constitution. lie was for a rigid adherence to the Constitution, • as' it, is, and remarked that basing snstained-oPr selves underlie during a terrible rebellion, • ---- - he thought , that the fiovernment could be restored without a. resort to amend. t m ents. He remarked; in general terms, that if the orgatie law is to be changed at all, it should be at a time when the States.aud all the people can participate in the alteration. - Editor. More Reconstruction. On May Ist, Mr.-Bnutwell, of Massa chusetts, one of the (radical) members of the Joint Committee of fifteen, introduced s, substitute for the Committee's restora tion bill, which promises that after Ten nessee or Arkansas shall have ratified the constitutional amendirients reported by the Committee and adopted a uniform . system of suffrage for all males within their limits above the ale of twenty one their Senators and Representatives if found duly qualified, shall be admitted to seats in Congress upon taking the oath required by law. This contemp'ates com pulsory negro suffrage on these States be fore they are allowed representation in Congress, and looks a little like opposi tion to the majority plan ,of the commit tee. Mr. Bingham, (radical,) of Ohio, also introduced - an amendment to Mr. Stevens' bill, which he gave notice he would offer at the proper time. It strikes out the second section of the bill, which allows the Southern States ten years to pay their portion of the direct tax levied by act of Congress in 1861. It seems from these two propositions that the Radicals on the committee have not yet'agreed on any particular plan. May 2d, Mr. Williams, of Oregon, of fered an amendment to the bill reported by the Committee of fifteen for the admis sion of the Southern States. It provides flint, the States shall be admitted after the 4th of March, 1867, with, the exception of Tennessee and Arkansas, which shall be admitted immediately on the ratifica tion .of the proposed amendment. Mr. Dixon, (Rep.) of Connecticut,zave notice of his intention to offer an amend ment to the Ulla and resolutions reported by the Joint Committee on Reeenstrue• tion, and as a substitute therefor, as fol lows : Resolved, tte., That, the interest of peace : and the interests of the Union re quire the admission of every State to its share in pablic legislation whenever it presents itself, not only in an attitude of loyalty and harmony, but in the persons of representatives whose loyalty cannot ,be questioned under any constitutional or legal test. (So from day to day the radical recon struction theory crumbles in pieces.) The Reconstruction Plan as Seen Thro' the Eyes of an Honest Republican. The Philadelphia Daily. News, a consistent Republican newspaper, but one which cannot be induced to endorse all the Infamous schemes of the Radical Disunionista, tans speaks of the plan of reconstrattlon proposed by Thad. Stevens' Committee of. Fifteen. la says: •• lifter five months of severe labor the revolutionary faction in Congress has at last brought forth what is called by theirjounials a plan of reconstruction," the main part of which in a 'proposed amendment to the Constitution, which, when stripped of verbiage, is as Section' 1. Negroes shall be mode citizens. Sac. 2. States which do not - give negroes the privilege of voting shall nut count them as population in the ap portionment of representatives. Site. 3. Only negroes and white men who opposed the be,lion shall vote at the next presidential' election. Sec. 4. Slave owners shall not be paid for the loss of their Slaves by emancipation, end neither State. nor the Federal goventirient shall pay the rebel debt. SEC. fr Congress _shall have power to pass any law it may see fit to pass, without regard to the conati•ntional rights of the people and of the States, and without fear of an executive veto. It will be seen. that the first two sections give equality sun franchise to negroes. whether they , have been loyal or disloyal; and the third one deprives a large number of white men. who have not been con victed of any crime.. of the rights of eitizena. This is something more than negro equality,and it will require more than ordinary acuteness a vision to enable any one to. see the justice of instating that States shall give the right of citizenship to•uagsoes who have given - •att, and comfort " to' the rebels, atutdeprive wince men of It " - - - While we did not expect that tire de liberations of a council notorious?) , under the control of Thaddeus Stevens would result in any,good, we confess. the report of the Committee on Reconstruction, sub mitted to Congress on yesterday, took us by surprise. Statesmanship, magnanimi ty common justice, were not to be looked for at such hands, but the enemy of the Radicals who respects their wisdom least, never imputed to them ignorance of the demands of the people and of their tem per so gross as that betrayed by the prop ositions which they have spent. five weary months in perfecting. If we should re gard their work from a partisan stand point, and consider it only with reference ~o the bearing it will have on the coming elections; we could cheerfully cry out " well done," and cordially thank them for it in behalf of she. Democracy. But. we do not choose to so consider it. Meas ures upon which depend the peace of these States, the perpittuity of the Union, and the exemption of posterity from the woes which have fallen so heavily upon our generation, are of too grave consider ation to be fought or favored with any reference to the number of votes that they may win for one 'party or lose for another at. this year's election: or the next. Hence, / although we sincerely believe that, theue-. lion of the. Committee on Reconstruction will insure and probably hasten the ulti mate down-fall of. the vast and corrupt party against which .we have battled ever since it-lad'amarne, we cannot forget that it will.also postponelherestoration of We.' Union,. which is at this moment the object nearest to the hearts of the people and of highest consequence to their welfare. The constitutionafamendment reported by the committee eontains five sections which we will consider in their proper order. The first is simply iv re-enactment of the Civil. Rights bill o intended to save that onions measure from thedoom which awaits it at the hands A* judiciary. The second excludes .from the basis of repre sentation all citizens over the age of twenty-one years who are denied the eleetivelranchise under the laws of any State, "except-for participation in rebel lion or other crime." Commenting on -0A A1w...--- Reconstruction. this section, a Radical jonmat of this city remarks with shameless frankness: "The provision reaches the North as well as the South, but the effect upon the nave States will be to leave them with greatly abbre- viated power until they give suffrage to all their people." In other words, we must give up our own rights as the price of trampling on those of our neighbors. We must endure negro suffrage in Pennsylvania, that the Raicals may secure permanent control of the South through the agency of the blacks. But although the avowal which we haVe quoted is bold enotvzh to be startling, it, by no means expresses the full effect of the section under considera- tion, which, while it takes care that the Degrees in the South shall get votes be yond peradventure ► is quite as careful to provide for the disfranchisement of the white people. " Participation in the ro hellion " is made a lawful ground for de- priving men of votes, and those who are thus denied the ballot are nut to be ex- eluded from the basis of representation. As the Radical theory is that all the ne groes in the South were loyal through the war, and that all the white people were rebels, it will be seen at a glance that, under this section, while the whites can- not disfranchise the blacks, except under the penalty of a vast sacrifice of repro• sentation, the blacks can disfranchise the whites without any sacrifice at all. And this from the party of eqnal rights and moral ideas ! The next section provides that " until the 4th day of July, 1870, all persons who voluntarilyadhertdto the late insurrection, giving it aid and comfort, shall be exclu• ded from the right to vote for members of Congress and for electors for President and Vice-President of the United States." Although so worded as to appear to refer only to a class, this section practi cally disfranchises the whole white popu lation of the Southern States for the next four years. Mr. Thaddeus Stevens has declared more than once that there were not any loyal white people in the South during the rebellion, and 'his interpreta tion of the section would undoubtedly regulate the agents of his party who would be intrusted with the care of the ballot-box, if the amendment should be ratified. The next section provides that neither the United States nor the States engaged in rebellion shall ever pay the rebel war debt or claims for compensation for emancipated alaves. Considering that excessive zeal to pay debts which there is no legal method of recovering, is not, one of the infirmities of man, and especially not one o4' the vireo of this age and coun try, we must regard this provision as sini ply and ridiculonsly superfluous The fifth and last section provides that Qpngress shall have power to enforce the previous ones by " appropriate legislation." The "legislation " which the committee regarded as " appropriate," is embodied iu two bills which they submitted to Con gress with . their report. One of these provides that everybody in the South shall be ineligible to office who was thought worthy to hold it under the gen eral government before the war, or in the Confederate States during the rebellion, or who had merit enough to rise above the rank of colonel in the army or master in the navy of those States. The other, which prescribes the conditions upon which the commonwealths of the South shall be granted representation, completes the in famy of this "plan," and makes manifest the hypocti , y of the demagogues who conceived it. One of. these conditions, under the guise of a premium for the ac ceptance of the amendment, allows those States ten years within which to pay the national taxes which have been charged against them since 1861. But it is in an other that, we find the lurking serpent.— It is in these words: Be award, That whenever the above recited amendment, shall have become a part, of the Constitution, and any State lately in insurrection shall have ratified the same, and shall have modified its Con stitution and laws in conformity there with, the Senators and Representatives from such State, if found duly elected and qualified, may, after having taken the required oaths of office, be admitted into Congress as such. It will be seen that even if the South ern States should, every one of them, ac cept the abominable and unrighteous con ditions sought to be imposed upon them, they may still be excluded from repre sentation for an indefinite period. Their status cannot be re-established without the help of enough Northern Statei to make a three-fourths vote, because the fruition of their hopes and the restoration of their rights is postponed until the amendment "shall have become a part of the Constitution." There is craft in this —base, devilish craft. The great conser vative masses of the North who would give to the States of the South their equal rights without a moment's delay s. are com pelled either to leave them unrepresented for an indefinite period, or to purchase their admission by yielding assent to ne gro suffrage. Equality for the blacks in the North, and absolute dominion for them in the South, are now openly de manded by the Radicals as the price of representation for the whites. Can any one be credulous enough to believe that the men who make this atrocious demand have any object in view.other than that of perpetuating their party power? Can the Union ever be restored on such a basis as this ? And if it should be: restored on such a basis, *Mild it b 6 worth having or 'keeping ? Let the people ponder these questions,and sound a thundering answer to them in the ears of the demagogues who are seeking to pervert tbe Constitu tion of their fathers into an engine for the destruction of their liberties.—. Age, Afay 1, —A young man; who was at work on the dam, at To wanda, fell Into the river and was drowned. one day last week. Clymer and Geary. ' • The Philadelphia Age of the 23 in a leading article on the Gubernatorial canvass, draws the following stri king and truthful comparison between the candidates of the respective parties Mr. Clymer stands modestly In the gaze of the people of Pennsylvania, and appealing to the pure record of his private and his public life, asks their suffrages. Shall that appeal be vain 1 We feel Confident that It will not be, and that long before Oitober Cornea, there will be developed, within this really Democraticcommonvvealth that sort of feeling. a mingled anxiety and trustfulness in honest men, which will - make a large majority cling to such a one as 111 ester Clymer, pure, untainted. incot rept, when all or most around him are stained with corruption, and place him at the helm of local govern ment in the rure faith that he u 111 guide the ship of state safely. Mr-Clymer haa a distinction in tiles, dreary times of mica which is ntidisputed, That a cloud of darkr,ltapi don rests dpon the local legislatures of the Sorth, and thattutineuces other than pare have from time to time been operative, will hardly be denied, The conscious ness of it la the great element of the despondency with which thoughtful men look into the Mare of our popu lar institutions. But for each men as Mester Clymer and a few others like him, this despondency might be come despair. But let tut hopefully and proudly remem ber that ?dr. Clymer is conceded to be a Man private and public life, of Unhlemleherl Integrity. and that the records of both may be searched in vain for even the slightest inculpation of him. Ile is no jobber, no cor poration pensioner. no veteran Incumbent of small office like Geary, and ifelected Governor wilt be Governor In every sense. It will be like going back to good old fashioned times—to what may he described as the prc- Po Hock era of Pennsylvania. That he will be elected triumphantly, we do not permit ourselves to doubt. Every element Is In his favor. The Democratic organi zation is etTectire and well directed. The abolition par ty Is rent In twain, and the great army of office holders, once so compact. la quite likely to become the great ar my of martyrs. Geary awakens no enthusiasm, and has no friends. There is nothing -either sterling or attrac- I five about him. Ills military fame is pinchbeck. It don't shine brightly, and won't bear handling. In short everything, to course dependent on activity aid zeal. is In our favor. Let that activity and zeal not be wanting. Circulate Democratic Newspapers. One of the most vitally essential steps to secure dem ocratic Success in the coming campaign is the circula tion of Democratic newspapers among the people and with a vii w toaceumplieb this much desired result, we call upon the leading Democrats In the county to see that every Democrat in the several townships Is supplied with a Democratic newspaper. irony one appears to be unwilling to subecribe, convince him that It le a du ty he owes to himself, to his family and the party tom-ta t:tin ite.preset. Übe is unable to pay for it fora year urge him to take it for six months. We have no doubt but that there are hundreds of voters in this county who do not receive any local paper, and some of them no paper at all. If each one of them would get a good Democratic paper in his house it would have a great in fluence. It sl Impnrtatit, therefore, that every Demo cratic family should have a good Democratic newspaper In his booed. The seeds of correct principles thus sown silently will be sum In the end to spring up and produce and harvest. We submit these facts to our Iferno cratgoic friends. Hared. mocratic papers on your bibles. and when your republican neighbors come to visit you they will pick them up and read them, and the troth will li t this way be presented to many and produce convic t bn, whereas. otherwise they would through prejudice. a Ways stand in their own light and never get their eyes open. A good democrat should feel like supporting a county organ, and thus help to spread the truth. Maw , persons do not think so far. Besides if papers are well supported, their publishers will be encouraged to make them more interesting and efficient. Causes of Crime. Dr. Blanchard Fosgate, for many yearn physician to the State Prism nt Auburn. and one of the most emi nent medical men of New York. has recently Issued a pamphlet entitled Crime and Punishment," which is worthy of a good, dent more attention than It in likely to get. Dr. Fusgate, who has made the causes of crime a study. has found that besides rum and ignorance there are others quite as potent and prevalent. Many honest people will be startled to find abolition preaching. test ont*s. and Maine liquor laws, classed along with ardent spirits and obscene books, as causes of crime. Bat it does not tetract from the value of the truths stated by Dr. Fosgatr that a great part of his fellow-citizens arc yet in ignorance of them. An Important Bounty Bill. An Important bill equalizing the local bounties of this State, passed the Legislature. It provider not all vete ran volunteers who have not received any local bounty, nor given their credit to localities outside the State, shall be paid $3 by such city. county, ward or borongh as received credit for their re-enlistment. School Direc tors. or other proper officers, are required to levy taxes fortho payment of these bounties. It the veteran has vino died. his legal representatives are entitled to col lect the money. ADSIDUROIS OF COLORA DO-WASIRNOTON, MAT 3.—The Semite bill for the admission of Colorado came up in the House quite unexpectedly this afternoon, and was pressed to a final ♦ute, which resulted in its passage by yeas to lir) nays. All the Democrats. and about bittern or twenty Republicans, voted against it. Mr. Wash burne's provisos that the bill should not tato effect un- UI the constimlion of Colorado shall have been amended by striking out the word white "as a quali fication Inc voters, was lost. FRAIMDLAIII.—The reason Achy General Frnnk Blair was rejected by the Senate ■n COneetOr f Inter nal Bayonne for the bi,trict of St. 1,0116, has not trans pired. Much tgirprire is expressed at the result, and among others by Lieutenant-General Grant, who says that to him the country is indebted more than to any other man that Missouri was prevented from seceding. He spoke with earnestness of the important milizary services of General, then Colonel Blair at that time and has since tendered the country. RADICAL FRAUDS INT MOSITANA.—At a recent election In Montana. It el re hundred and forty-two votes were polled In Chuuteng county, where therp are not over one hundred and filly voters all told. Major Gad. ,E. Upson, a brother of Representative Upson of Michigan, and the Republican candidate for congress front that Territory, received eleven hundred and ei,, ,, hty-nine 01 these votes ! Acting Governor Meagher, however, or dered this vote to be rejected, as an infamous attempt to defraud dm people of Montana out of a Representa tive of their choice. I=l PlT'The Bradford Itiporter, a disunion sheet, has an artiere which opens by saying that - it has became a uell settled conviction, that an uncomprumisit g and irre concilable political difference, now exisis between President Johnson and the Republican Party as ex pressed through Its representatives in Congress." ['The venerable Rev. Dr. Breckinridge, of Ken. tacky, who was President of the Convention In 1864, , which nominated Abraham Lincoln and Andrew John• sou for President and Vice President, has written a strong letter in support of President Johnson's vetoes and his general policy for a speedy restoration of the Union, —Governor Curtin has expressed hie approval of the sentence of the Court in the case of Probst. the murderer or the Dearing family, and will unhesitatingly sign the death warrant. —Twenty-two out of the forty-six Repnplican papers in California support the President's policy, as do all the Democratic papers. —By reeenttadvices It appears that Austria, notwith standing, the warning given by our minister not to dis patch troops to Mexico, has embarked the first install ment to that country. —General Thomas states that the people of Louisiana accept the Vituation,mrc anxious (or the restoration of the Union. and disposed to treat the blacks well. —The total loss by the recent 'great kerosene Are in Detroit Mover $1,000,000. The loss of Ilfo Is lessened s little. although several.persons a e still missing. —This is the latest Prenticiuna " Sir, did ion ever see a dead duck 1" " Yes, an • Occasional' one." —Gen John A. Dlx has written n strong letter In ta• tor of President Johnson's policy for an immediate and full restoration of the Southern States by admitting at once their Representatives and Senators to their mita in Congress. —Ths rules of matrimony in Michigan are not exactly as they ought to be. A broken-down play actor recently was permitted to marry a child of eleven years, at De twit. In another town, two men recently exchanged wives, and at another place a fellow sold his wife for live pounds of maple sugar. No wonder they let negroes vote in dist State. —Parson lirownlow says, "f am not afraid to Indorse Sumner and Stevens on my dung hill." A dung bill is the only place where they should be Indorsed, —The Southern Methodist Conference at New Orleans has voted to change the name of the Church from Methodist Episcopal Church to simply the Methodist Church. --A criminal; confined in the jail at Ravenna. Ohio, recently becoming, unmanageable, was effectually quieted by the injection Into his cell of two pounds of chloroform. —A simple minded Republican office-seeker from Connecticut closed a recentlapplitation tothn Primident with the Inquiry whether the breach between the Pres'. dent and Congress could be repaired. The President, on the spur of the moment, replied by mail 'bat ho was not now repairing breeches b 0 much as ho was. —The Convention called to consider the propriety of organizing a separate State government for East Ten nessee, met at Knoxville on Thnrsday. —Among the jnrymen of the Supremo Court, of Rhode Island, impannelled on Monday, wits a negro. —A. case of cholera. resulting in death, has occurred ID the city of New York. —A young man died suddenly in Albany on Tnesday afternoon of what is supposed to be cholera. Ile was well up to a late hoer Monday evening, when he was suddenly attacked with diarrhea, followed bY th Proud' sent symptoms of cholera. —The Secretary of War announces. in general court. martial orders; that the sentence of death In the case of one hundred and sevent}three Santee Sioux Indian prisoners has been remitted by the President. New Licensi raw. The following Act relative to the licensing of notels, Inns, Taverns sod Iteetsuranut, in thief:tutu, Was passed by the Legislature ut Its late session, and is now a law. is more restrictive in its provisions than the former license laws : •AN ACT further to regulate the licensing of Hotels. In is, Taverns and hating Houses, lu this Common- wealth : Sec. I. Belt enacted by the Senate and Uprise of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania In kicurral Assemnly suet, and It Is hereby enacted by tho authority of the same, That It shall be btraW for the several courts of quarter sessions of this Commonwealt h. to hear petitions in addition to that of the appli cant, lu favor of and remonstrances against the ap- . . plicatlon of any person applyh.g to either of 'nem for licenre to keep a hotel, tun, tavern, eating house or restaurant. and also to examine In court or by &pool- Don under oath. the eittnere or any of them, to the peti t.on of the applicant for any such license or other per sons, and if any such court shall be satisfied that such hotel, tun or tavern, or restaurant, as the case may be. Is an unlit or Improper pereou to rt ceive the same, then raid court may ranee to grant such &license. And the pre,- section of the act of fourteenth of April, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, Is hereby repealed: Provided. That persons produced in court for examination as provided by this act, shall be entitled to the sank fees as are now allowed wltnesses attending upon the courts of this Commonwealth, to be poi i d by the petitioner or remonstrauts, or some of them, as the court may direct. Sec, 2, That hereafter licenses to restaurant,- and eating-hi:testa., shall not be gmnted.bytlhe county trea surer of any county, but such !terrine, If granted, shall be issued from the court of quarter sessions of the several conutit 5. on the same terms and under the same restrictions and regulations as are applied to Inns and taverns, and all acts or pans of acts it.consistent with this section, are Lereby repealed: Provided, That this act shall not apply to the city of Philadelphia. Tuts AXE.—The removal of the Postmasters at Aar. risburg. Pittsburgh and Allegheny thy In this State Is annoanceff —radicals, to be succeeded by republicans that sutiport the administration. We had hoped that the President would continue to sct upon thouttspel injunction "Love your enemies, bless them that Mime you, and pray for them that despitefully use you and prosecute y ou ." Carbondale .4 draftee. Put the President can Love, bless and pray for those who curse him n Mout giving them an office. —Confl,eatlon proceedings In the United States Dis trict Coutt nt Florida, have been stopped by au order from President Johnson, Stud all the property now in poesessioa of the government authorities will be immediately-restored. The Bombardment of Valparaiso. The days when Drake roved the waters and ravaged the coasts of the Southern portion of this continent seem to have re turned. The bombardment of Valparai so on the 31st of March by the Spanish fleet Ander Admiral Nunez, is an act wor thy of the darkest period of the world's history. There is not one feature to re deem it from the execration of the civiliz ed world. It will stand, as do the sack ing and plundering of towns by the for e aof those ruffians who lived in open outlawry with all mankind, a deed not to be excused, much less defended or just i , fied. No good could arise from this in famous act of wanton barbarity. Spain commenced hostilities against Chili on :l pretext which is not received its sufficient by a single Christian power. In this war she has been overmatched by the bravery and patriotism of the Chilians and their allies. The old spirit which animated the people of the South American provinces when they threw off the bated yoke of Spain, and assumed a separate and inde pendent nationality, reanimated the sons of those who fought in the war of inde pendence, and they made good the decla ration that Spain should not insult or trample npon the South American repub lics without receiving blow for blow. Baffled in her design to crush Chili and her allies, Spain resolved upon an exhibi tion of vengeance upon the defenseless city of Valparaiso. The Chi ian govern- i rent having no fleet to a ithstaed that t I Spain, there was nothing-in the wax of a WI and entire execution of the imperial order, and on the 31st if larch the show er of shot and shell cot Menced upon the Boon e I city, ai.d con inued for ne irly three hours. The larger Spanish vessels were anchored son e distance from the town, but the small,r ones ran close in and directed their tire upon "dwering houses," in order to destroy life as well as property. During the bombardment, men, women and children, who had escap ed front the city, crowded the wirroun ding hills, and gazed upon the Conflagra tions which were raging in many pars of the town. The cry was vengeance upon Valparaiso, and the tiring continued un til the Admiral signaled a cessation of the bombardment. The destruct ion of prop erty is estimated at twet.ty millions of dollars. The loss of life is not given, but it, must have been considerable, as a por tion of the fleet directed its fire especially against " d welling houst s," . and all the inhabitants of the doomed portions of the city could not have escaped before the fir ing began. As large quantities of proper ty belonging to neutrals were iri the Cus tom House, and therefore destroyed by the action of the Spanish fleet, the Span ish government may have to account to other nations for work performed on the 31st of March. Unless some action is taken by other nations, it is expected that Caldera, Co quimbo, and other ports on the Pacific will share the fate of Valparaiso. What, Spain cannot subdue she will destroy. Nor will she be careful that her blows fall only upon the property of enemies. They did not at Valparaiso, and what ()mum d at the bombardment of that town will be repeated, unless prevented by remon strance or through more potential agrn dies. The Joint Committee of Fifteen. The -almost unanimous opposition of the Cabinet to the report of the Joint Committee of fifteen rather surprised the Radicals at the Capitol to day. It seems to be conceded that Stanton has worked himself over to the support of the Presi dent's policy, although heretofore regar ded as its bitter opponent. ?Jr. Harlan, the Secretary of the Interior, is lett solita ry, and alone, as the only anti-adrninistra -1 ion man in he Cabinet, unless Speed, the Attorney General, may be classed iu the same category. Our Ex-Governors. All but one of the living ex-Governors of the State—Democrats, Whigs, and Re publicans—namely, Govs. Porter, Bigler, Packer, Johnson and Ritner, nre also in favor of Mr. Johnson's policy and against ` - the revolutionary course of the radical Disunionists of the Romp Congress. Banks are . Pitilini, But the people should not fail to see the new adv. of Stone da Warner, and call on them at Judge Tyler's old stand. Religions Notice. The Susquehanna Association of UM versalists will hold a Conference in Mont -rose, May leth and 17th. All aro invited to attend. Several clergymen from abroad are expected. Per Order. succEssois TO TIIE OLD FIRS! OF GEO Mg AVE removed their business to the Store formerly rl owned and occnpled by M. C. Tyler. one door south of J. S. Terhetre Hotel, where they arc reccirin: en entire new stock of Family Groceries, Washington May 2. THE LAST MOVE! STONE & WARNER, L. STONE 4 CO., Ready Made CloUling, MS, COS, BOOTS &SIN Which we propose to sell for very smaiLproilts. FOR READY PAY. N. S.—Particular attention paid to slatpplag /arm. et's Produce, Sutter, etc. to New York, arm prompt rt.. twits made. 0. L. STONE. - - Montrose, May 8, 1886. SHERIFF'S SALE. BY virtue ors writ teemed by the Court of Common ilia Pleas of Susquehanna County, and to me directed, 1 will expooe to sale, by public vendue, at the Court Mouse, in Montrose. on Saturday. June dd. 16f6.al I o'clocL.p.m., the following described piece or parcel of laud, to wit : All that certain piece or parcel of land situate In the township of Bridgewater, Susquehanna county, tmanded and described as follows, to wit: ta r north by lands of William Chamberlin and lands late of Samuel :Thamberiln, on the east by lands of Daniel hit- Cidlum and lands formerly of Harvey Gritin.on the south by lands now or late of Ilichard Slay and John Wood. and on the west by lauds of John Trumbull, con. coining one hundred and slaty acres of land, be the same more or less, withthe appurtenances, one framed house, one carriage house, two name one stied, two orchards, and about one hundred and twenty event:reit improved. (Taken in execution at the suit of David Morgan rs. Gardner. DAVID SUMMERS, Sr!.hea Sheila's Mee, Montrose, May 7,. Wilk Administrator's Notice. L' STATE of JOKY MORAN. deceased , late et Bridgewatertownship. SoN's county, Pa. 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