one of the inspectors thereof shall mark op posite to the name, "voted." It shall be lawful for anj qualified citizen of the divis ion, notwithstanding the name of the pro posed voter is contained in the said list and the right to vote has been passed on, by the ■aid canvassers, to challenge the vote of such person, whereupon the same proof of the : right of suffrage as is now required by law ■ball be publicly made tnd again acted on by the election board, and the vote admitted or rejected according to the evidence. Every person claiming to be a naturalized citizen shall be required to produce his naturaliza tion certificate at the election before voting, as required by existing laws, (except where his case comes within the fifth provision ot the sixty-fourth section of the act of eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, to which this is a supplement,) although the same may have been exhibited to the said canvassers before the completion of said list. Sxc. 16. On the close of the polls the said list on which the memoranda of the voting have been kept as before directed shall be sealed up with and deposited in one of the ballot boxes as now required by law. SEC. 17. On the tenth day preceding every election for electors for President and Vice President of the United States, and on the j tenth day preceding any special election within said city, the said canvassers shall meet at the place of holding the general elec tion in the election division at ten o'clock in the forenoon, and shall proceed to hear the application of all persons whose names are omitted from the said list who claim the right to vote and shall proceed to add the names of qualified persons opon their person-! il application and they shall perform the like I duties with regard to said claimant. The copies of lists and the affidav its of the claim ants and their witnesses as they are herein before directed to proceed previous to any general election, and tho assessors of each ward are hereby required to assess the tax against all persons so added and immediately return said list to the office of the city com missioners. SEC. 18. Before entering upon the duties of their offices, under this act, the canvassers and election officers of the elections shali take an oath before some competent authori ty iD addition to the oaths required by law to perform the several duties enjoined by this act with fidelity according to the re quirements thereof in every particular to the best of their ability. They shall each have the power to administer oaths to every per eon claiming the right to vote or in regard to any other matter or thing required to be done or inquired into by said officers under this act; and any wilful false swearing by any person in violation to any matter or thing concerning which they shall be lawful* ly Interrogated by any of said officers under this act, shall be punished as perjury. Said canvassers shall receive, for every day em ployed, the sum of five dollars each ; the said clerk of the board of Aldermen shall re ceive five dollars per day for every day em ployed ; cad the said messengers of said Board the sum of three dollars for every day employed, and warrants for the same shall be drawn by the city commissioners of said city and be paid by the city treasurer. SEC. 19. And it shall bo the duty of the councils of said city to make the necessary appropriations, from time to time, for pro viding such stationery as may be necessary for use under the provisions of this act. SEC. 20, That the county commissioners shall, at the proper expense of the county, procure and furnish all th 6 blanks madi necessary by this act. SEC. 21. All laws inconsistent with any of the provisions of this act be and the same arc hereby repealed. ELISHA W. DAVIS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JAMES L. GRAHAM, Speaker of the Senate. Approved the 4th day of April, 1868. CURRENT NEWS. Gov. Packer's health is improving. Brick Potneroy's paper has 150,000 sub scribers. Mr. Dickens is said to have sent home SBO,OOO in gold, as part of his profits. The dickens I Empress Eugenie used to be known as the best looking and the worst dressed woman in Europe. She is no longer the bestlooking, but she is known as the be'st-dressed. The Stale Senate has passed a bill for hold ing municipal elections on the same day as the State elections. The Philadelphia Iletald says Forney'*- reporters are "worked like jachasses and paid from the same stand-point." Confederate cotton bonds arc selling in England as lottery tickets. A young Indian girl, perfectly wild, was recently purchased, in Terra del Fuego, for a bag of biscuits. 2779 liquor stores have been opened in Massachusetts since November 5, 18G7. A full nigger ticket has been nominated in Lancaster, South Carolina, for the State Leg islature. A lady at Union Springs got her feet en tangled among her hoops, in jumping from a chair, and was thrown to the floor, fracturing her blp bone. There is a river in Illinois, known as the Cache, which pursues a meandering course of 180 miles, while the distance from its source to its mouth is only 36 miles. An old bachelor in New York offered a young lady a pony for a kiss. She gave him the kiss, he refused her the pony ; she sued him ; he pleaded "no consideration the court decided that a kiss was a legal consid eration, and made him "pony over." Anna Dickinson has abandoned her lectur ing engagements, her voice having failed* John A. Brown, E s q., of Philadelphia, has given $20,000 to Lalayette College, at Eas ton, Pa. Mr. Pardee, of Pensylvania, recent ly gave the same institution $220,000, and a number of other citizens of the same State have given sums ranging from $20,000 to $25,000. * The famous Straeburg clock la getting out of order, and part of it U to be removed. ®lDemocrat. HARVEY SICKLER," Editor. TUN KHAN HOCK., PA. Wednesday, Apr. 29, 1868. pemocratic State |ichct. Auditor General, CHARLES E. BOYLE, of Fayette. Surveyor General, Gen. WELLINGTON ENT, of Columbia. Keep it before the People—Prophecy Fulfilled. "If these infernal fanatics and Ab olitionists ever get power in their hands, they will override the Consti tution, set the Supreme Court ut de fiance, change and make laws to suit themselves, lay violent hands on those who differ with them in their opinion, or dare question their infallibility ; and finally they will BANKRUPT THE COUNTRY, AND DELUGE IT WITH BLOOD."— Daniel Webster. IMPEACHMENT. —The impeachment farce is " still dragging its slow length along."— The rules upon which the trial is conduct ed are changed nearly every day—so that to-morrow may require an entirely different practice from to day. It was first deter mined that only two of the counsel upon each side should argue the case before this august tribunal, but now the rule has beer, so clanged that all the Managers can ar gue the case or file speeches to become part of the proceedings in this grand impeach ment farce. And again it is ruled that all the Senators—the jurors before whom this trial is conducted shall have the privilege of making speeches before judgment is pro nounced. Was ever the like heard of be fore in a court of justice ! The trial, it is predicted, will close about Friday next, and we will probably know by our next is sue whether we have a government or not. Bogus Registry Bill. We publish this week what was sup posed to be a true copy of the Registry law; but since our outside forms were printed, it has become a matter of doubt whether this is the original or a bogus act. On the day before the adjournment, Mr. Chalfant, a vigilant member from Montour county, created some excitement in the llousc, by exposing a most infa mous outrage —nothing less than the al teration of the Registry law, after it had passed the Legislature and before it was sent to the Governor, lie stated that the bill which the Governor signed and which had been declared a law had never passed the Legislature —it was an entirely differ ent bill. He moved fur a committee to investigate the fraud, and what is still more unblushing, the Radical majority of the House refused to have the matter in vestigated. Are the people to obey a law that was never legally enacted ? Let ns have the opinion of the Supreme Court on this matter. Let us know now whether any scoundrel can place a bill in the transcrib ing room of either branch of the Legisla ture and have it sent to the Governor without legislative action thereon. If this thing can be done, it is a more con venient way of getting legislation than we ever dreamed of.— Montrose Democrat. CAMERON AFTER FORNET. —On motion of Senator CUmeron, in the Senate on Wednesday last, the Committee on contin gent expenses were directed to inquire into and report the condition of the accounts of the Secretary of the Senate, John W, Forney. It seems that there is a deficien j cy of forty thousand dollars which the ac- I counts of Forney's financial -clerk, Mr. 1 Wagner, of Pennsylvania presents. Mr. Cameron on the lloor stated " he knew Mr. Wagner to be an honest, upright man," and the investigation was quite necessary ,to relieve Mr. Wagner of any unjust charges made against him. We are not at all surprised that a deficit in Forney's accounts should occur. Within a few years he lias accumulated a large fortune, j and he is known to be a man of extrava gant habits. Asa politician he is in the | market, as his letter to President Johnson : soliciting the appointment of a New York 'Collector fully demonstrates. His recent ! course as a correspondent to his papers, in poisoning the public mind and using ' every means and perjudicial course to su i born a verdict agaiust the President un der impeachment, is alone sufficient, to ! have the demagogue kicked out of his ! official station and an honest man replaced. fW Judge Woodward has introduced a bill to provide a method of bringing be fore the Supreme Court any law that may be passed over the President's veto, in or dcrto afford that tribunal an opportunity of deciding on its constitutionality. The Radicals had Grant's portrait printed off the head of their tickets in Connecticut, with a view to carrying the State by the aid of his popularity. The result was a handsome Democratic gain ! Thousands of birds dead from star vation, Massachusett papers • report, have been picked up in the western part of that State. The McArdle Case. It is proper that the people should thor oughly understand all the points in the Mc* Ardle case. It is of especial importance to publishers of newspapers, as the case is founded on an article published in a jour nal edited by McArdle, and the decision will, in part, involve the rights of the press, what these rights are, and to what extent our free institutions are to be preserved. From the National Intelligencer we gath er the following summary of Judge Black's argument: Mr. Black, in the commencement of his argument, briefly and pointedly 6tated the facts of the case. The petitioner, McArdle, was the editor of a paper in Vicksburg, Miss. As such he published an article in which, according to Mr. Black, he denounced certain public men and measures in terms somewhat Coarse, but not worse than those in which the political writers of the country aTe in the habit of indulging, for which " General Ord caused him, without any warrant, to be imprisoned, and, after having kept him for some time in custody, sent him before a board of officers, selected by himself from among bis subordinates." Mr. Black considers then, the several forms in which the military specifications treat the case: 1. It is charged to be a libel. But a libel, Mr. Black.shows, is an offense against the laws of Miss, alone, and there is no pretence that Gen. Ord, or his military cburt, were in Mississippi on any pretence of executing the laws of Mississippi. On the contrary, they denied the very exis tence of the State government and the va lidity of the State laws. Mr. Black calls attention to the fact that a libel is no of fense against the laws of the United States since the secession act was repealed in '6l. 2. The publication is charged as a breach of the peace. Mr. Black disposes of this charge with a few contemptuous words. The only breach of the peace was committed, he says, by General Ord, when he broke into the house of the relator and dragged him to prison. 3. It is charged as an intimidation to voters. To this Mr. Black most felicitous ly replies, that an election is going on, and the army drives one set of people to the polls, and drives anothei set away, but the petitioner, for exerting only the moral pow er which he wields by his newspaper, the moment he speaks above the bonds men's key, is dragged to prison. Mr Black most pertinently asks then, which party is guilty of intimidation ? 4. It is charged as hindering recon struction. To this Mr. Black says Con gress professes to leave the political action of this State to the people. Yet, not ex ercising this privilege, the petitioner for expressing his views, is considered guilty of a crime. Mr. Black sbowa that military men are not proper materials out of which to con stitute couits. Their education is to wor ship force. Military tribunals, he says, quoting Mr. Webster, are "organized to convict." Mr. Black, with great force, states the enormity of the action of Congress in its legislation under which McArdle was ar rested, when he contrasts it with the con dition North. He says : "In the Northern States the meanest man in the country cannot be made to suf fer the mildest punishment for the most trifling otfence unless he has first had a fair, open trial, according to the mode of the common law ; down there—in all that country from the Potomac to the Gulf— the best man or purest woman in it may be fined,imprisoned or hung without judge or jury. Our system is the American sys tem, with all the modern improvements ; theirs is the old Asiatic system, without one artticle of improvement from the days of Nimrod." Mr. Black then refers to the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the celebrated case of Milligan,in which the entire Court held that military Courts could not try civilians in time of peace or, as the Chief Justice said, "in time of peace the laws of peace must prevail." Southern Elections. The Constitution is doubtless defeated in Georgia, and a Democratic Governor elected. The Democrats claim to have elected five out of the seven Congressmen. Good for Georgia. In Louisiana the Constitution has been ratified by about 20,000 majority. The Senate and House are strongly radicals.— New Orleans is strongly Democratic. Governor lirownlow has postponed the elections in Tennessee, until November. Returns received from North Carolina indicate a very close vote on the Constitu tion, making its adoption doubtful. The election of (lovernor is also close. The majority for the Constitution in South Carolina is about 40,0(J0. 'I he great majority of votes in the Slate are negroes, so we mav expect to have some of the co - ored "breilren" sent to Congress. EXPLAIN*.—Why don't the Committee appointed to investigate the alleged $40,- 000 defalcation in the accounts of Forney, the Secretary of the Senate,make a report f Has "hush money" added to the weight of the Committee's pocket ? Tax payers and the people generally are highly interested in this little affair. If Forney will give us some information on this subject, we will let him off from one of his daily editorials on "Rebel Atrocities in Texas." Being a matter nearer home, he might give us more reliable information about it, than he does on Texas affairs. Come, sjeak, "D. D.'' This "agonizing delay" is unbearable. THE BANKRUPT ACT. —An amendment to the Bankrupt Act has been offered in the House of Representatives deferring the time for the operation of the 50 per cent qualification until June 18G9. This bill passed-the House Tuesday of last week and will probably be adopted by the Sen ate. OF Frederick Douglass, it is reported, intends to settle at Vinelaod, N. J. Loyal League Muaders. Owtr a White Man ! —The following is an extract from a letter dated Plymouth, N. C., April 10, 1808 : m " Times are very hard, and but little prospect of better. We have just had an other mutder here, but they have become of such common occurrence that wc think but little of them. Mr. George Nicholls was brutally murdered by a negro named Prince Walker, along the road between Mr. John Johnston's house and that of J Mr. Wilson Ambers. Mrs. Benjamin Norcon and Miss Mollie Ausbnrn were with George when the negro killed him. Ilis skull was broken in three places with a huge stick. The ladies succeeded in getting him home, bnt he died during the night. He was the most awful looking objtci I ever beheld- The negro did not leave home until the next evening, but no one attempted to trouble him. In truth, the negroes are not troubled, no matter what they do. The negroes say that Prince did right in killing Mr. N., or any other white man that bothers them. Mr. N.'s offense was asking the negro how far he was going. The negro making no re ply, Mr. N. stepped up to him and repeat ed the question, whereupon the negro pick ed up a stick or billet, and commenced beating liirn over the head until he ftll. The murderer then walked off as uncon cerned as though he had butchered a dog. You see what we have come to. The ne groes say that if the lands arc not given to them soon that they will fight for them.— This is the common talk among them. If you see any hope of better times, do let us know it." Democratic Victory in Chicago. A Chicago dispatch, dated Aprd 21, says: The election to-day for Judge and Clerk of the Recorder's Court, and one alderman from each ward, passed off quietly. About twenty-three thousand votes were polled. The Democratic ticket for judge and clerk is elected by a majori ty of five hundred. At the election last November, Osborne, the Radical candi | date for County Treasurer, received over j four thousand majority. The Council j stands twenty Republicans to twelve Dem- I ocrats. This shows a grand Democratic j gain of nearly 5,000. Good (or Chicago. The Ku Klux. When we first heard of this tremendous bloody organization, wc set it down as an invention of the mongrels for political purposes. We are convinced, now, that our first impressions were correct. All that we have heard about it has been through the mongrel press, and so much of it has j been so excessively on the Blue Beard style that there leaves no room to doubt of the origin and the object,—to create excite ment, horror, and give seeming cause for further depredations by Loyal League ne gi 0 Linch or Luch George 16 00 400 Law William 16 00 430 Lenox Sarah 17 21 214 Landers George 8 57 310 Marshall Hetty 12 41 275 McLaughlin Jame* 15 04 300 McLaughlin John ig 00 406 Morris William 16 23 430 Muzzy Amos 17 21 439 Muzzy William. 17 53 439 McClurc Janes -..17 53 300 Miller Mary 12 00 406 Marshall Chester 16 23 406 Marshall Sarah 16 23 40g Marshall Charles lg 23 300 McLaughlin Alexander 12 00 410 Martin Isaac 16 29 40g Mire William lg 23 410 Musgrave Israel 16 29 410 Musgrave Mses 16 29 410 McClure Samuel 16 29 410 McClure Robert 16 29 I 40A Marshall Benjamin lg 23 400 OkerJohn ]§ 00 175 P.les Cornelia 7 04 435 Piles John 17 44 175 Piles Robert 7 04 8g Patton John 3 43 90 Patton James 4 39 gg Patton William 2 g5 400 Patton Charles 17 IK) | 410 Patton Isaac lg 29 i 40g Paine George 16 23 40g Paine Mariah R 16 23 40g Piles Sarah 16 23 437 Reed Cnllinson 17 53 • 201 Reushaw Richard S 00 i 2(K) Ryan John 8 00! 200 Riddle Reuben 8 00 j 80 Sullivan James 3 20 ! 400 Smith Richard 17 00 i 200 Sltphens Ann 8 00 | 439 Stiphens Simon 17 53 i 90 Siu.pson John 7 20 i 40g Stephens Perry 10 23 ! 40g Stephens Jonathan 16 23 11 410 Staples John 16 29 428 Sanders George 17 14 410 S'ewari George 16 29 299 Scull Peter 12 00 260 Todd James 10 40 ; 437 Todd John jr 17 53 ' 40g Trees Phebe 16 23 | 221 Scruff Ilenry 8 80 j 406 Stephens banc 16 23 ! 410 Wi.oley Thomas 16 70 ! 400 White Andrew 12 00 j 325 White Samuel 12 96 ! 200 Wilson James 8 00 45 Ward John. , 359 i 199 Ward James 6 91 j ( 400 White John 16 10 ' | 304 White Robert 8 16 11 400 White James 16 00 420 Yarrington John 16 80 MOMbOE. i 439 Betterton Jacob 14 67 !406 Bradley Hannah 13 60 200 Bailey Duah 6 "0 400 Campell James 11 40 i 400 Campbell Margaret 11 40 ! 393 Dunn William 13 20 j 393 Dougherty Richard 13 20 I 40a Downing Reuben 13 60 160 Davis Joseph 2 40 '4OO Davis Johalhan , 13 20 ' ; 400 Derbyshere Jjhn 11 40 40a Delany Margaret..., 13 20 400 Espy George. 11 40 • 429 Forsvth Tsaac 14 20 203 Gore Daniel 6 ~6 400 Gallup Eunice 13 40 408 Gridley Daniel 13 gO 401 Harminson Wallace 13 41 439 9 Hermans William 14 75 147 King William 4 95 444 King Aaron 14 86 20A Longhead Thomas 6 90 214. Landers George .* .. 847 400 McCoy Ephraim 13 40 381 McKnight David.. 12 73 410 Nash Phineas 13 75 434 Pierce Hannah 14 54 398 Pierce Alice 13 33 408 Pierce John 13 g5 400 Palmer William 13 40 439 Renshaw Ann 14 g7 201 Renshaw Richard 5 70 439 Renshaw John 14 g7 100 Simpson Nicholas 3 35 27A Simpson Michael 9 24 388 Stewart Mary 12 38 439 Stephens Simon 14 g7 40g Tripp John 13 gO 40A Todd J ohn 13 gO 126 Willis John 4 47 200 Rich Joseph A 70 100 Rich John 3 35 LEMON. 113 Ransey II & II Trumbull 1 7L NORTH BRANCH. 410 Barck'ey George lg 40 130 Bit tie Samuel 4 80 3g2 Covil Oralia 14 44 400 Covil Mathew lg 00 25 Crispin James 1 04 410 Davis Iluldah lg 40 300 Fish Jabez 12 OO 400 Fish Sarah 14 00- 410 Ilagerman John lg 40 410 Hall James lg 35 75 Ilibbard Ebenczer 3 04 410 Juhnson Jacob lg 40 410 McCray Samuel lg 40 50 McCray Ann 2 00 410 McCray Robert lg 40 100 Morris William . 4 00 410 Johnson Irhoida.P lg 40 410 Johnson Christian)* 1; 40 410 Kelly Joseph lg 40 4JO Kelly Daniel 16 40 225 Phippa Thomas 9 03 420 iVooley Thomas lg 80 NICHOLSON. 44$ Fritz Christopher gg 9g * Harvey George 144 33 Hoops Job 51 71 Fritz Peter 1 08 TL'XKHA NN'f CK. g3 Harvey Job 1 9g 150 Thompson William 2 25 145 Thompson Samuel 2 19 145 Peckham A. K. 2 19 50 Muhleiiburg Peter 1 50 WASHINGTON. 90 Hampton Samuel 1 35 JEREMIAH OSTERHOUT, Treasurer. Treas. Office, Tunfe , April 1, 1869.n34w8 MERCANTILE APPRAI9MEXT--1808. The undersigned having been appointed Meran tile Appraiser for the county of Wyoming, for tho year 1869. hereby certifies the following to be a cor rect list of assessment of R-tailers in foreign mer chandise. with their names, class, and rate in the several townships in said County, to wit: CLASS. Bf.AISTRIM. HATS 13 B Edwards A Son SlO 00 13 Stevens A Aeklev 10 Id 13 B Wakeman A Co. 10 00 13 Waltman A Vus burg 10 00 14 S.nnnel Neal 7 00 14 Abel Piatt 7 00 CI.INTON. 12 Frcar, Dean A Co. 12 SO 12 W Car-lner A Sons 12 50 13 W liriggs A Sons 10 00 13 Ingham A BroaJLent 10 00 13 W A Dean 10 00 14 II S ilowo 7 00 EATON. 14 Henry Dana 7 00 14 J V C'arpentsr 7 00 FALLS. 13 8 0 Miller 10 00 14 C Sherwood 7 0O 14 II Evi ns 7 UO 14 Montanye A Co. 14 AS Collum 7 00 EORiiSTON 14 A P Burgess 14 OH Burgess 7 lO 14 Hitchcock A Robinson 7 00 LEMON. 1 13 Henry Harris 10 00- M EtIOOPANY. 11 Kintncr A Vaughn 15 "0 13 W 11 Barnes 10 00 13 K W Sturdevant 10 00 i 14 Henry Love 7 00 14 Wm Jennings 7 00 MESIIOPPEN. | 10 Sterling A Son 20 00 1 12 D Hankinsoj 12 50 j 12 E Merritt 12 50 14 S II Jenkins 7 v 3 14 Roberts A Dunham 7 00 13 H Rosenberg A Co. 10 0" 14 Jacob Hall 7 00 1 14 K 0 Hallock 7 01) MoNROE. 14 E Montr iss " M ! 14 ADC Clark 7 10 I 14 A L Carey j 14 Reuben Parks . NICHOLSON. 12 Wilcox A Briggs 12 50 | 12 C C Birge 12 50 12 Taylor A Walker 1-5.' 12 Gardner A Harding 12 50 13 II it ley A Kellogg • It l W 14 ID Hewitt 14 Squire A Billings 14 Iff. BilMngs NORTH MOR EI.AND. 12 Carey Bros. '* 5' ' 13 Levi Winters 13 II Keeler 1" W NORTH BRANCH. 14 E S Bowen J ® 14 E W Spring TI'XKHANXOCK. | 12 Daniel Wright s'] 12 A 11 Molt 12 Sherman A I.athrop '• ?' i 12 Calvin Dctrick '* 1 | 13 George Leighton 13 I) Billings A Co. ,13 H Barbaui A Co. * 14 F L Sittser A Co. : ' r : ! 14 B M Stone ,14 J Redlieh C 14 Jacob Khoads 12 OS Mills A Co. 1; J 14 Lyman A Weils " ; 14 J W Khoads ; 14 F C A K P Ross 14 Burns A 13ro ' m ' I 14 C Henaingor WASHINGTON. 13 Firman A Arnst lj f* I 14 F W Zimmerman WINDHAM. I 14 II S Graves I An appeal will be hold at the Court ll' use is :t ' ' Borough of Tunkhannrpk on Saturday, June''' 1 ' | 1869, tor all who may feel agriered bv said '* |S ■ ment. 36w4 J AMES M KELLK'^ TEACH CHS' EXAMINATIONS Teachers' examinations will be held as folio* 1 ' i At School House in tho villago of Meshoppe non ~ j urday, May '2d. j At Moboopany on Tuesday, May sth. ! At 'funkhannock on Wednesday, May 6th. At Pierceville on Thursday, May "th | At Falls, iil School House near White's 1 crTji Friday, May Bth, s ' At Northmorcland on Monday, May 11th, Exercises will commence at 10 o'clock A- •" ] School Directors are lequested to be pry®" 1 ' Applicants for examination will come with *'■' mate rial. J. B. RHODES, Co, sir j April Mth, liOS, -I**