A. J. GERRITSON, Publisher. t The Radicals in the South. The Radicals are endeavoring to pre vent a reunion of the people of the coun try by falsely representing that the whole mass of the inhabitants of the Southern States are arrayed in bitter and unrelent imz hostility to Northern men and North ern interests. This is the theme upon which Radical members of Congress ad dress their constituents; and the Radical journals are crowded with letters harping upon the same text. A letter from Fer nandina, Florida, of Jnne Ist, published in the New York Times, gives the follow ing picture of how the warfare against the Union and the peace of the country is carried on by the Radicals and their agents : There is a terrible state of feeling in t hi s city between the whites and blacks, and between the original owners of prop erty here and the new corners, or those who have bought property at the direct tax sales. In all of my late travels south I have seen no such exclusiveness of bit ter feeling. And, from all I can learn, a large number of the Northern men are the most to blame. I shall not pretend to gii e you a detailed sketch of the state of society in this letter, for fear of making errors. Suffice it to say, there is a line drawn, and you must be eitUr clear on one side or the other. These Northern men who have been sent out here to buy property at the direct tax sales (which, by the way, are the most shocking med ley of fraud and rascality ever practiced upon our government) have got up a se cret society, have armed the negroes, and threatened to resist the law. They hold meetings at which they denounce the President and General Foster (command ing Florida) as traitors. The secret of all this is, that at fraudulent sales they have bought property at about five per cent. its assessed value, and are determined to 11041 on to it. For pastime they engage in writing to Northern newspapers, and to Senators and members of Congress, stereotyped falsehoods, in which they rep resent the entire Southern people as dis oyal and the like. All those who are - own and brought up here, and all of those Northern men who support or favor the a Iministration, according to these " Gid ,(leorrites," as they are called,' come under -the head of disloyal. A Mr. Friend, of 'Ohio, who was in the Federal army; a Mr. Funstan, a merchan from Dey street, ew York, and a Mr. thirst, another New York merchant; Judge Stickney, one of Ole Tax Commissioners. ' Marshal Magru der, and some others--who happen to sup pr., the policy of the President, are tic- Lonu-ed as copperheads and traitors. Of c the enure por - kion of the Southern people—good, bad, and indifferent, loyal disloyal—are denounced by these ‘a;orous sutlers' clerks as traitors par ex •cilcnce. It is no uncommon thing for ,a lies to be insulted by some of this gang, who are not associated with hardly at all by the Federal and ex Federal officers who are stationed or who are residing here." The policy of the destructionists who now rule the nation is here clearly set forth. They enact laws by the operations of wifieh they hope the property of South ern men will be forced into the market, is order that their agents, some of whom are how living at government expense, may become the purchasers at a mere'y nominal value. When the proceedings under these forced sales are stated, the persons are denounced as disloyal by the agents of Radical employers, and the ne groes armed and incited to attack them and destroy what little they may have saved from the general wreck. This is the practical working of one portion of the Radical programme. The same men who are thus engaged in despoiling the people of the South are also employed in furnishing political material for use in the North. They invent tales of Southern disloyalty, and stories of cruelty to ne groes, which are published in Northern newspapers, repeated in Congress, and adroitly managed by the Radical leaders to keep up the sectional feeling on which their political organization rests. The best men in the land, men who have per iled all for the Constitution and the Un ion, are denounced by sutlers' clerks as traitors, and their efforts to bring repose to the country opposed by means of secret organizations, composed of negroes and their white associates. It is time the people of the country should fully under stand the agencies by which the Radicals are disturbing the nation and preventing that restoration which alone can bring tranquility to the republic. Soldier Love. Over at Indianapolis, the radicals have been all along making believe an immense ardent love for the soldier—the. gallant boys in blue—the Union-savers, -4;e. The other day, in making up a ticket ofean didates for offices to be filled, thenonven. tion—probably regarding the - war as over, the rebellion.. suppressed, and all that—failed to Bee the merits and claims of four prominent soldier aspirants, Gen. Maginnis, Col. ,Kneffier, Major Wilson, and Capt. Wiley, and nominated stall-fed, stay - at-home•from-war patriots, who don't , know the difference between gunpowder and black sand !;—Dayton Empire. Why a People or a Nation Nay be ha- What the Fenians are doing—the amount of money they raise—the spirit and recklessness with which they expose their lives, and what is worse, their per sons to the peril of a terrible incarcera tion if caught in Canada,—puzzle many lookers on." Why is it ?" they ask. Whence comes this spirit, this utter reck lessness, this terrible hereditary hatred of the Irishman to the Englishman ? The answer is, that England conquered Ireland, and governs it as a conquered country,—not so severely now as twenty five years ago, and with a severity every year diminishing,--but, nevertheless, gov erns it as a conquered country, and in the most exciting of all excitements, its reli gion. Hence, from father to son, from mother to daughter, the Irishmen have been taught to hate England, and Eng land has supplied the fuel for the hate. Scotland was practically conquered as Ire land was, by England, but theoretically, Scotland shared Empire in partnership with England, and Scotland has been governed ever as the equal of England. The Scot, therefore, does not hate the Englishman. Now there is a moral in all this, for ns of the United States. We of the North have conquered the South. Two parties have arisen up among us,—one conscrip tive, punitory revengeful, some for more hanging, and imprisoning,—all or almost all, for governing that South as inferior, subject people,—while the other would re extend the right hand of fellowship, and renew back relations, and old friends, if, as an erring, yet as a free, self govern• ing people: These two parties now half govern,—Congress being on the proserip ti‘e, Conscriptiv.e side, and the executive on the pardoning side. If the Congress policy prevails, the South will hate the North, as Ireland hates England,—as Poland hates Russia, as the Italians hate Austria,—if the President's and the Liberal Policy pre vails, in 10 years, the South will be to us as Scotland is to England, an ally, an adjunct, a powerful friend. We then can enforce the Monroe doctrine in Mexico without firing a gun, and stand before the world an united, an invincible people, with no thorn nor sore in our side—and so powerful, that our very word, when just, will be the law of.nations. -.11.- AM -0.---- Secretary Seward on Reconstruction- The United States Senate have got the plan of the Directory of Fifteen for re constructing the Union under discussion. Mr. Sumner wanted to postpone the mat ter. Mr. Fessenden thought there had been too much delay already, and the ma jority agreeing with him, down went Mr. Sumner and on went the debate. But Mr. Seward, almost simultaneously, made a speech at Auburn, New York, in which he declarad the whole scheme unnecessa iy, for the simple reason that the Union is already restored and does not need to be mended any further. He said : " Between the Federal Governmentand these restored and recognized State gov ernments there exists now a more com plete and practical harmony than has ev er before prevailed between the Union and so many of its members since it was first established. What, then, does the country actually need ? Most persons say reconstruction. I think it needs no such thing; the country is reconstructed already. It was constructed in 1787. As then constructed it was a Union of thir teen—since multiplied to thirty six—free, equal, separate, selfacting, and, in regard to internal affairs, self governing States. We do not reconstruct that which has not been destroyed. There has, indeed been an attempt at destruction, but it has fail ed. The political system of 1787, con structed by our forefathers, stands now firm, compact, complete, and perfect, just as it came from the builders' hands." This rather knocks the pins from under the Radical party in Congress, and they must feel rather mortified to have one of the shining lights of their party blow away at a breath a measure of which the gestation has been so painful and pro tracted. A White iulan's Government. The celebrated remark of- Mr. Douglas that " this Government was framed by white men, for the benefit of white men and their posterity," has been often ridi. culed by the radicals, but the following extract from the speech of Mr. Lincoln, delivered at Columbus, Ohio, on the eve of his election, shows that, he entertained the same views " I am not `now, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of ne groes, nor of qualifying them to hold of fice, nor intermarrying them with the white people, and I will say, in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two ra ces living together on terms of social and political equality. And, inasmuch as they cannot so live while they do remain to gether, there must be the position of su periolF and inferior, and I, as much as any other=an, am in Favor of bating the =- pencir position assigned to the Oita race." MONTROSE, PA., TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 1866. Inclined to be Quarrelsome, There was once a little, slim built fel low, rich as a Jew, riding along a high way in the State of Georgia, when he overtook a man driving a drove of hogs, by the help of a big, raw boned, six foot two specimen of humanity. Stopping be fore the last named individual, be accos ted him : " I say, are those your hogs ?" " No, sir ; I am at work by the month." " What pay might you be getting, my friend ?" "Ten dollars a month and whiskey thrown in," was the reply. " Well, look here I I'm a weak, little, inoffensive man, and people are apt to im pose upon me, d'ye see ? Now, I'll give you twenty five dollars a month to ride along with me and protect me," said Mr. Gardner. "But," he added, "how might you he on a fight ?" " Never was licked in my life," rejoined the six footer. " Just the man I want. Is it a bar- gain ?" queried Gardner. Six footer ruminated. " Twenty five dollars; double wages; nothing to do but ride around and smash a fellow's mug occasionally when he is sassy." They rode along, till just at night they I..ached the village inn. Gardner imme diately singled out the biggest fellow in the room, and picked a fuss with him. After considerable promiscuous jawing. Gardner turned to his fighting friend and intimated that, the whipping of that man had become a sad necessity. Six footer peeled, went in, and come out first best. The second night at another hotel, the same scene was re enacted. Gardner get ting in a row with the biggest man in the place, and six footer doing the fighting. At last, on the third day, they came to a ferry kept by a huge, double fisted man, who had never been licked in his life. While crossing the river, Gardner, as usual, began to find fault and "blow." The ferryman naturally got mad, threw things around, and told his opinion of their kind. Gardner then turned to his friend and broke the intelligence to him " that he was sorry, but it was absolutely necessary to thrash the ferryman." Six footer nodded his head bat said nothing. It was plainly to be seen that he did not relish the job by the way. He shrugged his shoulders, but there was no help for it. So, when they reached the shore, both stripped and at it they went. Up and down the bank, over the sand in to the water, they fought, scratched, bit and rolled, till at the end of an hour the ferryman gave in. Sixfooter was trium phant, but it, had been rough work. Go ing up to his employer, he scratched his head for a moment, and then broke forth : " Look here, Mr. Gardner, your salary sets mighty well—but—Pm—of—the— opinion—that your inclined to be quarrel some. Here, I've only been with you three days, and I've licked the three big gest men in the country ! I think the firm had better dissolve; for yon see, Mr. Gardnar, I'm afraid you're inclined to be quarrelsome, and reckon I'll draw." Car The following, from a correspon dent at Brat-afield, Connecticut, is not a bad bit upon small organs in country churches: A lady from New York was up here, having been spending the summer in the country. As this was to be the last Sab bath of her visit she took her son a child of four years old, to church with her for the first time. As soon as the organ commenced its strains, the little fellow started up with delight; be looked back to the gallery, be stretched his neck; he got up on the cushions and raised himself to his very tallest; his mother remonstra ted with him and told him to sit down. But he refused, and continued gazing aloft with straining eyes. " Sit down," said the mother. " I won't," he cried, so as to be heard all around, " I want to see the monkey." There is quite a party in our church op posed to the organ, and they tell this sto ry with great gusto. A DANGEROUS CASE.—Some twenty five years ago, a farmer's barn in the vi cinity of Worcester was struck by light ning, and burned to the ground. Many of the citizens had gone to the fire, when a fop, well strapped and dickied, with his cap on one side of his head, met a cele brated doctor and accosted him in this wise : " Can yon, ah, tell me, doctah, how far they have succeded in extinguishing the conflagration of the ah, unfortunate yeo man's barn ?" The doctor eyed the individual atten tively, dropped his head as usual for a moment, and then, slipping his thumb in to his vest pocket, took out a couple of pills and handed them to him, saying : "Take these, air, and go to bed; and if you do not feel any better in the morning, call at my office!" —A White man's Bureau, it is rumor ed, has been thought of by home of the ".Copperheads" in Congress; but Thadde us Stevens thinks that it would cost too muoh, and benefit a very unworthy class of persons. That Battles the question. Sublime Spectacle A jet of lava of more stupendous pro portions than any ever conceived of is de scribed by Mr. Coan, in the Honolulu Friend, of February, in his account of the eruption of Mauna Loa, on the Island of The eruption commenced near the sum mit of the mountain, and only five or six miles southeast of the eruption of 1843. For two days its summit crater sent down its burning floods along the northwestern slope of the mountain, then suddenly the valve closed, and the great furnace apps- 1 rently ceased to blast. After 86 hours the fitsia was seen bursting out of the eastern side of the mountain, about mid way from the top. It would seem that the summit lava had found a subterranean tunnel, for half way down the mountain, when coming to a weak point, or meeting with some ob struction, it burst out vertically, sending a column of incandescent fusia, 1000 -feet high in the air. This fire jet was about 100 feet in diameter, and it was sustained for twenty days and nights, varying in height from 500 to 1,000 feet. The disgorgement, from the mountain side was often with terrific explosions, which shook the hills, and with detona tions which were heard for forty miles.— This column of liquid fire was of surpass ing brilliancy, of intense and awful gran deur. As the jet issued from the orifice it was at white heat. As it ascended higher and higher, it reddened like blood, deepening in its color, until, in its rapid descent, much of it assumed the color and density of clotted gore. In a few days it had raised a cone some 300 feet high around the burning orifice, and as the showers of burning minerals fell in living torrents upon the cone, it be came one vast heap of glowing coals, flashing and quivering with restless ac tion and sending ont the heat of ten thou sand furnaces in full blast. The struggles in disgorging the fiery masses, the upward rush of the column, the force which raised it 1,000 vertical teet, and the continuous falling back of thousands of tons of mineral farm into the throat of the crater and over a cone of glowing coals one mile in circumference, was a sight to inspire awe and terror, at tended with explosive shocks which seem ed to rend the mural ribs of the moun taind sounds to waken the dead and startle the spirits in Hades. From this fountain a river of fire went rushing and leaping down the mountain with amazing velocity, filling up basins and ravines, dashing over precipices, and exploding rocks, until it reached the for ests at the bottom of the mountain, where it burned its fiery way, consuming the jungle, evaporating the water of the streams and pools, cutting down the trees and sending up clouds of smoke in murky columns of fleecy wreaths to heaven. All eastern Hawaii was a sheet of light, and our night was turned into day. So great was the illumination at night, that one could read without a lamp, and trav elling and recreation might go on as in daytime. Mariners at sea saw the light at 200 miles distant. It was a pyrotechnic display more mag nificent and marvelous than was made by an early monarch. In the daytime the atmosphere for thousands of square miles would be filled with a murky haze, thro' winch the sunbeams shed a pale and sick ly light. Smoke, steam, gases, ashes, cinders—furnace or capilliary, or filamen tary, or vitrifications called Pelo's hair— floated in the air, sometimes spreading out like a fan, sometimes careering in swift currents upon the wind, or gyrating in every changing color in the fitful breezes. The point from which the fire fountain issued is 10,000 feet above the level olthe sea, thus making the igneous pillar a distinct object of observation along the whole eastern coast of Hawaii. The rivers of fire from the fountain flowed about thirty-five miles, and stopt within ten miles of Hilo. THE PRESSURE TOO STRONG.—No threats of violence, no warnings of assas sination have modified the unsparing boldness with which the editor of the Salt Lake City Vedette has denounced the leaders of the Mormon hierarchy. He has defied all shapes and forms of ven geance—but one. His timorous side has been discovered, and thus he confesses himself subdued : " Now" as the lark said to her young ones, it is time for us to leave !' We could stand the " bloody hand" and the ‘iikeddadle,' or the other warnings, but the following gets us. Just count us out : SALT LAKE CITY, April 9,1860 Mr. Editor Vedette—lf you don't quit abusing Stenhouse and the Mormons, we'll cpme and marry you. We don't 'mean blood,' but we won't stand to have Stenhouse maligned; so you look out. Egr 27 MORMON WOMEN. "We weaken on the turn. Will some one take our place ? '27 Mormon wo men !' P-h-e•w ! We apologize. We don't edit the Vedette—Stenhouse is a good fellow—a brave man—and he can look a dog in the face I Besides he nev er did borrow a pair of brass knuckles, '27 M—.' 0, Lord, have mercy upon us miserable sinners Don't shoot this way 1 We are not the man. vz wives I We'll go I," The Number of the Reconstruction Amendments. " Mack," of the Cincinnati Commercial tells urrtthe following : I called at the Senate document room yesterday morning and requested its su perintendent to furnish me with a copy of each amendment submitted so far to the reconstruction resolutions of the special committee. As nearly as I can recollect., I had a right to expect about ten or twelve, and thought they would be im mediately handed to me. The accommo dating gentleman to whom I had applied I immediately commenced the collection of I the requested documents. He got ten of them together in less time than it takes to record the fact, and as he was looking Ifor the eleventh, 1 suggested that there were no more. He looked at me in amaze ment, and smilingly remarked that he guessed I "hadn't been keeping track of this thing." Soon the twentieth number was reach ed, and still it appeared the work was not complete. I thought my documentary friend had certainly mistaken my request, and had construed it into a modest de mand for all the bills of the session from civil rights in December to the pension. ing of John Smith last Monday, and took the liberty of disabusing his mind by as suring him that I had only wanted the pending amendments to House joint reso lution 127. " That's what I supposed," said he, in creasing the pile to twenty-five, as be ut tered the words : " Twenty-five—thirty ; thirty-five—forty—" " Hold on, now. I'm in earnest about , this matter. No joking." For really, I I thought I was being made the victim of a • joke, and was beginning to lose my tem ' per. He of the document room, seeing this, began to lose his temper too, and sharply retorted that nobody was trying to fool me, and that be guessed that I didn't know what I wanted. I repeated, for the third or fourth time that I wanted the reconstruction amend ments, and only those now pending in the Senate. My eyes were damned in a good-na tured sort of way, and I was told to dry up—which I did. By this time I was hugging number fifty-five to my palpita ting breast, and the end seemed as far off as ever. Fifty-five, fifty-six, fifty-seven, fifty-eight, fifty-nine, sixty, and the cry was still they come. Presently there were signs that my mission had been accomplishd. The pi geon-holes had &l been ransacked. I had reached No. sixty-five. "That's all for the present," innocently remarked the superintendent to me, and then turning to a messenger, close by, .he said : "Go down to the printing office and tell them to send up all the amend ments to the House joint resolution 127, after No. sixty-five." I thought I couldn't wait for the defi ciency, satisfied that my stock in hand was already large enough to keep me sup plied with light literature and romance for the summer months. " A Dying Political Party." The development of the views of the Cabinet, it is noted, indicates the hope lessness of repairing the breach in the Re publican party, or as the New York Sun says, the temper in which the Cabinet speeches were commented upon in the House of Representatives on Saturday : "Is a sign that the rupture has been materially widened by those speeches,and there is now no probability that a recon ciliation can be effected. This condition of affairs in the ranks of the Republican party is as sure an omen of its downfall, as was the division in the Fenian ranks in respect to that organization. No politi cal party can long withstand external as saults after it has lost that cohesive pow er which gives it unity, and enables it to present a solid and compact front, to its political enemy. The decline will hence forth be steady—perhaps rapid. It will fall gradually but surely, and in propor tion to its decline the opposing party will strengthen and increase in power. It is a question as to how long it will take for this decadence to wrench the band of the Republican party from the control of the Government. That point may be reach ed in one year, or it may take five years to.reach it. The probability is that the former length of time will prove nearer correct, for a political party approaching disruption is like the current approaching the cataract—its velocity being increased in proportion to its nearness to the fall. The Republican party is now running out its sands of life. A little while longer and it will be laid upon the shelf with the de funct parties of other days, and history will write for it this epitaph : 'lt outlived its usefulness.' " The Freedmen's Bureau. The New York Commercial Advertiser (Rep.) speaks thus of this humbug: "The Freedmen's Bureau , is a wrong to the North and South alike, to , the white and to the black. It has., no right place in Government management , and is so man ifestly opposed to the laws which govern labor and capital, that it can only do harm. The sooner the burden of millidns of dollars is lifted from the country the better, i VOLUME XXIII, NUMBER 26. " I believe a woman •would do a great deal for a dance," said Dr. Growling; " they are immensely fond of salutatory motion. I remember once in my life I used to flirt with one who was a great fa vorite in a provincial town where I lived, and confided to me that she had no stock ings to appear in, and without them her presence at the ball was out of the ques tion." " That was a hint for you to buy the stockings," said Dick. " No, you're out," said Growling. Sliie knew that I was as poor as herself; but though she could not rely on my purse, she had every confidence in my taste and judgment, and consulted me on a plan she formed for going to the ball in proper twig. Now, pray, what do you think it was ?" " To go in cotton, I suppose," returned Dick. "Out again, sir—you'd never guess; and only a woman could have hit upon the expedient. It was the fashion in those days for ladies in full dress to wear pink stockings, and she proposed to paint her legs!" 1 ‘ Painting her legs !" they all exclaimed in surprise. " Fact, sir," said the doctor, " and she relied upon me for telling her if the cheat was successful." " And was it ?" asked Durfy. " Don't be in a burry, Tom. I com plied, on one condition, namely, that I should be the painter." " Oh, you old rascal," said Dick. . " A capital bargain," said Durfy. " But not a safe covenant," added the attorney. " Don't interrupt me, gentlemen," said the doctor. " I got some rose pink, ac cordingly, and I dafy all the hosiers in Nottiugham to make a tighter St than I did on little Jenny; a prettier pair of stockings I never saw. "And she went to the ball?" asked Dick. " She did." " And the trick succeded 1" inquried Durfy. " So completely," said the doctor,"that several ladies asked her to recommend her dyer to them. So you see what a wo man will do to go to a dance. Poor little Jenny ! She was a merry little minx. By the by, she boxed my ears that night foe a joke I made about the stockings." "Jenny," said I, " for fear your stock ings should fall down when yon are dan cing, hadn't you better let me paint a pair of garters on them." On the Fourth of July next Ole soldiers of Pennsylvania are to return to the State authorities the flags which they bore in the late war. Their tattered condition will plainly tell their history, and it will be a pleasant sight to many a battle scarred veteran to see the emblem of his devotion. It will not be without significance eith er, for while it will tell him that thirty six States are in the Union, his reading of the proceedings of Congress confronts him with the fact that the members of that body still refuse to recognize the ac complishment of that work for which ho toiled and won, and that, although he is discharged, that peace to which he looked forward with such hopefulness is some thing far in the future in their eyes. He sees on that flag each star of equal lustre, and the full number of States in the Union represented. Yet he is tokl by Congress that but twenty-five States ate members of the Union. What a contradiction nr The ticket nominated by the &- unionists of Allegheny county must be a hard oue. The Pittsburg Republic (Re publican) says: " The legislative ticket has not a man of culture or legal knowledge sufficient to draft a bill, and nearly all the other posi tions are filled with old political hacks, who have been too long about the Court House, and whoare too well schooled in its peculiar ethics, to expect an honest and faithful discharge of duty." The Republic expresses itself as hearti ly "tired of the miserable crew who do the politics for Allegheny county, unli t will hail with feelings of gratitude any movement which looks to the removal of the incubus which bas so long cursed and well nigh ruined the country." Scarcely any change that might be made in that , county could be for worse. The corrup tion of overgrowth has struck deep there. —The names, ages, birth place and re• ligious tenets of the Fenians captured at Fort Erie, Canada, are, published in the Canada papers. The total number is fifty eight ; fourteen aro Protedtants and forty four Catholics; one is a native of Germs. ny, seven of Canada, twenty five of Ire land, and the remainder of the United' States; nineteen are under twenty - one years of 'lige. —The assessed internal revenue tax Hon. Asa Packer, for the year 181151vae: $40,323.30. From this deduct. $11,415`:27.,' the amount of tax on bank and other stooks held by him, which tax is paid'• by , the different corporations; and ;there was actually paid by that lentleminS2B,9o4 03 internal revenue tax. Dancing Women. The National Emblem.