CURRENT NEWS. Tom Thumb is high in Masonry, notwith standing his shortness. Two thousand Ilebrews in St. Louis protosl against Oram's election. The only point Grant has made aince bis comiaation—West Point. Kit Carson leaves fire penniless orphan children, all under sixteen. A Democratic wigwam has been opened la Philadelphia. It will seat one thousand peraoas. The Cleveland Democracy propose to send two car loads as their portion of the "Pen dleton escort" to the New York convention. Somebody having stated that Grant baa no will of his own, Prsntice thinks he had bet ter make one as sooo as possible, in view of his political death. Mrs. Cady Stanton scolds T. Tilton be cause he will not "follow a good man with the Democratic party, rather than help to place s drunken soldier in the White House,' 1 A Radical organ says that Grant and Col fax "have no strength to deliberately throw away." That is the reason why they stick so close to tho nigger. He is much strong,is Sambo. The friends of Pendleton who sre expected to be in attendance at the National conven tion are so numerous tbat it is proposed to build a wigwam for their special accommoda tion. The party which deliberately hands over the govemnient of the finest country in the world to niggers, traveling gamblers and es caped convicts, is not exactly the party for the people of this republic. The Seneca Adcerliser. of Ohio, ssys : "A dog fight would have made a better show than the Grant ratification meeting did in thta place - " We don't doubt it, for a dog fight might have brought out Grant himself. The daughter of a prominent Radical in Washington County, Ya., eloped a few days ago with a big buck nigger. Bad for her,but aerved the old man right, Only a few more practical illustrations of Radical doctrine are needed to set tho old folks a thiukin'. Butler says Bingham is a murderer Bing ham says But!fbr is a coward and a thief- Donnelly says Washburne is a scoundrel and a fool. Washburne says Donnelly is a crim inal and a liar. All these leaders of Radical ism are endorsed for truth and veracity, and in this instance none will question their re liability. A bey fifteen years of age has eloped from Lowell with a gushing creature ot fifty, the mother of five children, who was a servant Jin the household of his mother. When Donnelly said Washburne carried Gram in his breeches pocket, Gen. Butler remarked, ' It was the proper place for small change." A New Jersey farmer has pulled up a rad Uh seventy feet lung and walled up the hole for a well. Grant must be a better man for President than old Abe was, for while the latter could split rails good, Grant can lay out worm fence faster than a dozen men can put it up. Tbad. Steven says Judas betrayed only one individual while Johnson betrayed the whole radical party. Won't old Nick make his bones rattle one of these lacky days, Grant is a convicted liar by the mouth of tve disinterested witnesses. Until this hap* pened be was not considered by the Radicals fit for a candidate. Ben Wade by one little yes thought to take the oath of President of the United States, bat one little no made bin take several other oaths. A niggerhead exchange says "the Repub licans are gathering." So they are, and like like a boil, getting ready to "bust !" The Detroit Post saja "Colfax will make tbe opposition see * If the Ku Klux ever get after Colfax, he will see f f. The Rump Senate did not impeach An drew Johnson, to any alarming extent, but it did impeach Stanton, a murderer of infa mous renown ! A year ago the Republicans were uncer tain about Grant's politics. His tnany great dranks and ignorant displays, aince then, have confirmed bis Radicalism. An up-country exchange 6ays the "third party movement will end in smoke." Grant is tailing the Nationalunioorepublicanparty up in that manner now, very rapidly. Butter-bowl hats, or sundowns, are again in vogue almost everywhere. A lady can now-a-daya dress most any way she sees fit and she will be in style. "Let us have peace," says Grant Shall we look to the South where you are military dictator for a pattern of yoar peace ? Lately Stanton couldn't sleep unless his room was guarded. Now he can't sleep at til. Acquittal is t Macbeth that "doth mur der alecp.". Tbe San Francisco Examiner says that the three Pacific States, California, Oregon and Nevada may be set duWD as sure for the Democratic Dommees in the next Presiden tial election. California, It says, will roll up twenty thousand Democratic majority. The Carroll (La) Record says : "Sergeant Bates should undertake one more trip in or der to cap the climax of the service (lor it is a service) he has rendered to his counlyman. Lot him undertake to carry the same flag through Ntw England, unarmed and without money, and aaa bow lang it would he before ha starved to death on radical hospitality and patriotism in the prosperous North." Brick Pomsroy's La Crosse Democeat bss 900,000 regular subscriber#. A Philadelphia heiress has just eloped with bogus Count, from Paris. m ®jj* §emorrat. HARVEY SICKLER, Editor. TUNKHAirirOCK , PA. Wednesday, June 24, 1868. DEM OCR ATIC_STATE_ TICKET. Auditor General, CHARLES E. BOYLE, of Fayette. Surveyor General, Gen. WELLINGTON ENT, of Columbia Conservative Soldiers' and Sailors Na tional Convention. The Executive Committee appointed by the Sol diers' and Sailors Conventi n. held at Cleveland in IBG6, have called a national Convention of the Con servative Soldiers and Sailors of the Unite ! Slates, to meet at the city of New York, the 4th ot July next, to take action on the nomination of Converva ive candidates for President and Vice-President. As it is desirable that Pennsylvania should be Mis represented in said Convention, we request our late comrades in arms to take the necessary action to have delegates elected or appointed from every Congressional district in the State. As the time is rapidly approitcbiug when the Convention will meet, tbvro should be no delay in tho matter. EDWARD L DANA Brigadier General WELLINGTON II ENT, Brevet Major General. JACOB SWEITZER. Late Colonel and Brevet Brigadier General. JOSEPH K. KN'IPE, Major General. W. W. 11. DAVIS, Late Colonel and Brevet Briga dier General. WILLIAM MtCANDLESS, Late Colonel. JOHN P LINTON, Late Colonel. LEVI MARSH, Late Colonel. All Democrat ic and Conservative editors through out the State are requested to publish this notice and call attention to it. Senator Grimes is said by the pa pets to be in a dying condition. JC3T The Senate passed the Arkansas in iquity over the veto of the President. It therefore becomes one of the law 9 of this most infamous of infamous* Congresses. An other State has been turned over to niggers and barbarism. ihn H. Surratt has been discharged from the indictment for murder, and has been indicted for conspiracy to murder, and re leased from imprisonment on §20,000 bail. It is said that old Thad. StevcDS is preparing new charges on which to impeach the President, as soon as enough carpet-bag Senators shall be admitted to make convic tion cure. fIV Representative Young from Ken tucky, who was elected over his radical com petitor by over 1400, has been misled from his seat and the carpet-bagger McKee put in,on the ground that those who voted for Young were not io the opinion of the Rump, trooly loil." Light Wanted. To the Editor of the Tribune. SIR: A few d iva since, wanting light upon the subject of impeachment, T addressed a note to one of your cotetnporarios, but I bare not been enlight ened, and I fear the p over to enlighten has been Chased away and the Sun is about to pet in that teriible national scourge, Democracy. I appeal to you. I take this grouud : 1 That the saeen Sena tor! were and are pure, incorruptible, conscientious. 2 That twelve Senators were known to be in favor of acquittal ; that conscience was never mentioned in connection with these twelve Senators, nor a doubt ever expressed as to how they would vote, and that they were notoriously in sympathy with trai tors. Now I want light as follows: Are Senators whose consciences accord so completely with traitor sympathisers fit or safe custodians of a nation's lib erty 1 I grant Senator Fessenden, for instance, to be oonscientioos, but I am in doubt whether such a conscience .-an represent a tree people, or is a safe depositor of their liberties. To my mind it presents the darkness of despotism- POLITICAL DARKNESS, New York, June, 1868, We clip the above from tbe A 7 . T. Tribune of recent date. In the name of Liberty let the Democratic Press try to enlighten such Political Darkness. Art* the acknowledged "pure and conscientious" ones of our nation more to be trusted, or those whose consciences accord with "Po lit'cal Dai kness" only? —a Darkness be side which that ol Danton and Robespierre was Light for they allowed some latitude to their political conferees TW MN. SCHUYLER COLFAX has a platform of his own quite as distinctive and charming as that of General Grant. — In 1834 he took the following oaths at South Bend, Indiana, " FIRST DEGREE " AS A KNOW NOTHING u ln the presence of Almighty God and these witnesses Ido solemnly prom ise and swear that I will not vote, nor give my influence, for any man fur any uffitce in the gift of tbe people, unless he be an American born citizen, in favor of Americans ruling Amerca, nor if he be u Roman Catholic." " SECOND DEGREE." " In the presence of Almighty God and these witnesses I do solemnly and sincerely swear, if it may be iegally done, I will, when elected or appointed to any official station conferring on me the power to do so, remove all foreigners, aliens or Roman Catholics fiom office or place, and that 1 will in no case appoint such to any ojficeor place in my g>Jl." Mr. Colfax has undertaken to flitter the foreign element since his nomination for \ ice President, but the oaths he took in the Know-Nothing lodge are the best evidence of his real position. Grant, it is announced, is going to Col orado, not on business, but lor bis health, which Washington water, etc, etc., has somewhat seriously impaiied. Perhaps, he will extend his trip to Oregon, where the people have recently responded un mistakably to his nomination on the Chi cago ticket. No doubt Grant would be accorded a lilting reception in Oregou.— 4 * The colored troops fought nobly." English of the Republican Platform.-. Read and Compare. Ist. We congratulate the country on the assured success of the Reconstruction policy of Congress, as evinced in the striking down, in the southern states of every privilege, right and hope for life of the descendants of the sires of' 76, and the lifting of the negro in his high and noble intellectuality to a ruling place beside the southern Tory ; and it is the duty of the Government to sustain those institution, and to prevent the people of such states from being remitted where the Now Eng land, British puritanical, monied hypocrite can rob then no more. 2nd. The guarantee by Congress of equal suffrage to all Loyal men—i e : To ties—supporters of a Government, in striking down the lights ofa great people; and the rights of the negro to carry the 1 a'lot we fix for him to the polls, was de manded by every consideration of safety to the Republican part}*, from white folks ; and of gratitude to the colored troops— fought—bravely—beautifully—and—nice ; and of spite to the southern people ; and must be maintained; while the negro must not vote in the North to the opening of the eyes of the people—and the injure of our dear Republican party. 3. We denounce the restitution to the laborer of the country of his right to secu rity from the bond-holding robber of Eng land and America; and the National hon or requires that the labor of the country be held in slavery to the bondholder for ever. 4tli. It is due to the labor of the Nation to say we would like to tax the bonds far we want your votes—but the National faith requires that workiug men pay all the taxes. oth. The National debt contracted as it has been for the subjugation of the Amer ican people must be extended over an in definite period of time to make the work sure and old England call us honest. Gth. We must conciliate the capitalist— he is getting afraid of the people -and we cau't get a good chance at Uncle Sam's treasury without him. 7th. Now just see how cunning we are— That old southern Tory Andy Johnson, says he's no longer any Tory—and we'll pack all our robberies on him. Won't that sweep the States. Bth. We profoundly regret the untime ly death of A. Lincoln ; and we regret the accession of A. Johnson to tho Prcsiden cy, for though we thought and declared it the providence of God to our party, An dy wasn't half so mean as we thought he was. lie made a pretty good tool for a while, though. 9:h. We of the Republican party hate the Irishman, we never have interfered in his behalf and we never mean to —but just before election it sounds nice to talk of protecting naturalized citizens and of in terfeting ia behalf of those imprisoned in England—but mind you we don't mean it. 10th. \on soldiers and Seaman are as honest as a bond holder ; but the Nation al honor says ; gold for him—paper for you— WKJOWS and orphans rags, too—but you are a sacred legacy bequeathed to a nation's protective care, llth. Emigrants come over across the water. We republicans have fixed it so the Washington*, Jt-ffeisons and Madiaons don't vote down South—but we area great asylum. 12th. The convention declares itself in sympathy with all the oppressed people who arc struggling for their fights— inside we hate a rebel the worse. 13th. That wo lfghly commend the magnanimity and forbearance with which men who have served in the Southern ar my four years, even, forgive the butcher Grant and the vandall Sherman and coop erate with the loyal thieves who in the high and holy cause of the puritan bum mer, rob the people of the south. 14th. Just for fun we recognize the Dec laration of American Independence and hope its principles may be a living reality on every inch of American soil, but don't read: "Governments are instituted among men deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed"—Don't read that part. E L. YV. The Money Changers In The Capitol. The zeal which is manifested in the Sen ate of the United States to pass John Sherman's bill to add $20,000,000 more national bank notes to our already redun dant currency, need occasion no surprise, when it is known how strong is the per sonal interest of many Senators in this scheme of finance. Cattell, who, by a figure of speech, is called the u Senator fiom New Jersey, 1 ' is President of the Corn Exchange of Philadelphia, and has already made a very good thing out of the system, and is of course, quite anxious to perpetuate it. Sherman himself, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Mor gan of New York, and Zach. Chandler, of Michigan, are all said to be heavily inter ested in national banking concerns. This accounts for the sudden change of base from contracting the currency of the gov ernment at $4,000,000 a month to the is sue of $20,000,000 in national bank notes. Unless this scheme is arrested, it will in evitably end in establishing national bank money as the currency of the country, and put off to the distant future the return to specie payments. The banks, already ex ercising through their money a dangerous influence in the legislation of the country, will then be in complete mastery, and will dictate every measure of government*.— Tliey will resist every effort to return to specie payments, as long as they draw in terest on their bonds in coin, ar.d make loans to the ciiizen in depreciated curren cy at heavy rates of discount. Since we must have paper money, let it be the na tional currency, and if more must be issu ed, lot the bonds be retired, and stop the interest, and thereby lower the taxes.— Ilarrisburg Patriot. Napoleon paid over 540.000.000 in gold to have Maximilian killed off and Carioita sent to the mad-house. — Evening Bulle tin. We can beat that considerably in this country, Thad. Stevens, Ben. Butler, and company, paid $40,000,000 of other peoples money and sacrificed a million of lives to have our constitution destroyed and nigger equality established.— Daily Xevt, VETO MESSAGE BY PRESIDENT JOHNSOfc OF THE ARKANSAS BILL. To the House of Representatives: I return without my signature a bill entitled, An act to admit the State of Arkansas to representation in Congress. The approval of this bill would be an ad mission on the part of the Executive that the Act for the more efficient government of the rebel States passed March 2d, 1867, and the acts supplementary thereto were proper and constitutional. My opinion, however, in reference to those measures has undergone no change, but on the con trary has been strengthened by the results which have attended their execu'ion.— Even were this not the case I could not consent to a bill which is based upon the assumption cither that by an act of rebel lion of a portion of its people the State of Arkansas seceded from the Union, or in terrupt its relations with the government by arbitrarily deptiving it of rep'denta tion in the Senate and House of Represen tatives. If Arkansas is a State not in th ■ Union, th.is bill does not admit it as a State into the Union. If, on the other hand, Arkansas is a State in the Union, no legislation is neces.sary to declare it en titled to representation in Congress as one of the States of the Union, The constitu tion already declares that each State shall have at least one representative ; that the Senate shall be composed of two Senators from each State, that no State without its consent shall be deprived of its equal suf frage in the Senate. That instrument also makes each House the judge of the elec tion returns and qualifications of its own members, and, therefore, all that is now necessary to restore Arkansas in a'l it* Constitutional relations to the Govern ment is a decision by each House upon the elligibilitv of those who presenting their credentials claim seats in the respec tive Houses of Congress. This is the plain and simple plan of the Constitution, and believing that had it been pursued when Congress assembled in the month of Dec -mber, 1865, the restoration of the States would loiig since have been com pleted. I onee again earnestly recommend that it be adopted by each House in pret ence to legislation which I respectfully submit, is not only of at least • doubtful i constitutionality, and therefore unwise and dangerous as a prec-dent, but is unneces sarily not so effective in its operation as the mode prescribed by the Constitution, as it involves additional delay, and may from its terms be taken as applicable to a territory about to be admitted as one of the United States, than to a State which has occupied a place in the Union for up wards a quarter of a century; The bill declares the State of Arkansas is entitled and admitted to representation in Congress as one of the States of the Union, upon the following fundamental conditions : that the Constitution of Ar kansas shall never be so amended or ehang cd as to deprive any citizen or class of citizens of the United States, of the right to vote who are entitled to vote by the Constitution herein recognized, except as a punishment for such crimes as are now felonies at common law whereof they shall have been duly convicted under laws equally applicable to all thu inhabitants of said States, provided any alteration of said Con->titutG, and is there fore 72 years of age. He is a lawyer of 53 years practice, and stands at the head of his profession in the country. He has held many otli vs among those of State Attorney, and State Senator of Maryland, Attorney General and United States Sen ator. lie also reported iu conjunction with Air. Thomas Harris, seven volumes of the decisions of the Maryland Court of Appeals. He is a ripe scholar, a finished lawyer, and a polished gentleman, who will worthily represent the United States abroad. His confirmation by the Senate was highly complimentary, being made unanimously and without the usual refer ence to committee. THIS IS TO GIVE NO VICT? ; THAT on the 2lstt day of May A I). 1569 a warrant in Bankruptcy was issued against the estate of Jerry A. Thomas of Nicholson, in the County of Wyoming and State of Pennsylvania, who has been adjudged Bankrupt on his own petition ; that the payment of any debts ami deliveiy of any property belonging to such Bankrupt, to his. or for his use, and tbe transfer of any property by him nre forbidden by law ; that a meeting of the Creditors of said Bankrupt, to prove their debts, and to choose one or more assignees of his estate, will be held at a Court of Bankruptcy, to bo holden at No. 303 Lack awanna Avenue, Scranton, Pa., before E Iward N. Willard, Register, on tbe 19th day of Juae, 1868, at 10 o'clock A. M. THOS. A. ROWLEY, U. S Marshal, 42w4 as Messenge, Western Dis. Pa. To the heirs of Solomon Whitcomh, late of Wind ham toirnship, Wyoming County, dec'd' TAKE NOTICE THAT in pursunnce of an order of the Orphan's Court of the County of Wyoming to me direct mi, an Inquest of Partition of the real estate of the said decedent hereinafter described to and among the heirs and legal representatives of said decedent will be held on the 16th day of July, A D. 1868, at ten o'clock A. M., at the premises aforesaid, to wit: all that certain tract or lot of land situate in said township of Windham, bounded on the North by lands of John Fassett, Charles Fassett, G: S. Faasett anJ Alvab Fassett. and by land of Ilarlow Fassett, on the Eastern end of said tract by the Susquehanna river ; on the East side of projections of said tract by land of Harlow Fassett, nnd land of John, G. S. and Alvah FeßSott j on the South by land of Juhn, Q. 3. and Alvah Fassett aforesaid, and land of G. L. Pal mer, nnd on the West by land of the heirs of (1, W. Grow, dec'd. and land of Wm. Burgess; containing about four hupdred acres, more or less. Said In quest will meet at the mansion house occupied by said decadent in his life time, for the purpose afore said, at the time above mentioned. M. W. DEW ITT, Sheriff. Sheriffs Office, Tunk. June 15, 1869,—45w4 SEEHHAI & LIMP'S COM, 1 THE IMPEACHMENT OF THE President I Has been an exciting topic for some weeki past, but greater interest is now manifested in the fact that SHERMAN & LATIIROP. Have received and opened their SPRING STOCK or Dry Goods Of all descriptions, and are prepared to exhibit to their customers as fine an assortment as can be found in any inland town in tbe State. We are aware that competi tion in our trade in Tunkhannock is to be unusu ally brisk and de ter- mined, and have selected our stock with es pecial care, in order that our pat rons may be fully satisfied that so far as prices, taste and elegance are concerned, they could not do better than to continue us their favors. 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