CTJHRENT NEWS.
George Musaer, who died recently at Lan
caster, aged 01 years wa* a life long Demo-
tho Democratic ticket aerenty one
time*.
Four countries are about to send oat Arctic
expeditions.
Old Ben Wade declares for "chesp food."
Would that all food were as cheap as he
kc Is.
Coraljewelry and coral ornaments are
again becoming fashionable.
What lot do politicians like the best ?
The ballot.
An Eoglish pedestrian ran forty miles in
five boars on a wager of $lOO.
The Democrat ie procession in New York
City on the third of July will, it is believed
be fully five miles long.
Grant will make no speeches this campaign.
Prentice jays ho will smoke his cigar and
Colfax can take the stump.
The appointment of negro cadets to the
West Point military academy is the next
move of the Radicals. Our nation is making
sapid progress,
The Radicals met with a terrible defeat in
Mississippi, and, it is said, through ttie vote
of the colored men. This, if true, is the "un
kindest cut of all."
A Radical paper announces that the cam
paign under Grant will be "offensive." That
it will —offensive to the great mass of the
white people of the country.
If the people honor General Grant with
the Presidency, what vast honor the Confed
erates should bestow on the memory of Gen.
p.ipe, who, with a greatly inferior force,
whipped Grant at Befcnont within an inch ol
his military lit.
The Baltimore American says that the
election ot Giant and Colfax is the "will ot
God." We are not authorized inteprcters of
the will of God ; but we think that we shall
be able to show in November what is the
will of man.
Gov. Humphreys, of Mississippi, elected
to his office by the people, was forcibly re
moved from it by the soldiers with fixed
bayonets. If anybody says this is not a
"free country" under radical rule, let him be
—anathema maranatha !.
Chief Justice Chase,in conversation recent
ly, expteased himself anxious for the with
drawal of troops from the Southern States
btfore the election, in order that the country
may see how the people will vote when un
awed by bayonets.
Grant stock is not advancing. On the
contrary, there is a marked depression. They
don't like to invest in a candidate who is
"unaccustomed to public speaking,' and who
has "no policy" ofhis own.
The battle of Bunker llill was fought
ninety-three years ago, on June 15th.
Santa Anna, who possessed so roach wealth
in his day' is now a beggar and dying. Ilis
life is an eventful one.
Grant and Colfax consider their chances to
slim, for election, to warrant their resignation
and they have concluded to hold on to what
they have.
Forney says, "the result of tte late elec
tion in Washington was another rebel vic
tory." So was that in Oregon, to say noth
ing of the one in Galena, the home of Grant-
Thc Clinton county (III.) Independent, for -
merly a Republican paper, is now published
in the faitb of the Democracy.
0
Gen. Butler said in a speech two or three
weeks ago that President Johnson was more
guilty than Judas Iscariot. It is very nat
ural that he should have a kindly "feeling to
wards Judas, for the latter, like himself was
a dealer in silver.
The Columbus (Ohio) Statesman says that
no les than 500 Democratic newspaper! sup
port Mr. Pendleton.
The Sultan of Turkey has just ordered to
be manufactured in Paris, a silver table, the
price of which will will not be less than four
million francs.
A "reliable" snake story comes from Ken
tucky, of a woman frightened by a snake and
the aubsequent birth of two creatures, human
from the waist downward,and above serpents.
The "trustworthy gentleman" adds that they
are kept in separate cages and fed with milk
from a spoon.
Thunder Springs, in Upsom county, Ga., is
a great curiosity. It is located in the wild
est part of the mountains. It is about five
feet in diameter, and so deep that no sound
ing has reached the bottom. Such is the
force with which the water rises in the Thun
der Springs that a human body cannot sink,
but is buoyed up io a standing petition.
Butler has let Wooley out of Prison. But
the question is, will Wooley let Butler out of
the dread of a sound whipping every time be
taeela him ? If all the parties outraged by
the Beast should agree to whip him where*
er and whenever they meet him, the public
sense of justice would be greatly relieved.
A man has just died in England, from ex
cessive bleeding of the gums, caused by a
blow receivedfn a quarrel. Surgeons tried
to atop the hemorrhage, but it continued for
four days, when death ensued.
A celebrated lawyer once said that the
three moat troublesome clients that he ever
bad were a yonng lady who wanted to bo
married, a married lady who wan'ed a di
vorce, and an old maid who did'at know
what the wanted.
Public debt statement of May will show
as increase of over seven millions. The Bad*-
iealxbold the reins.
Arkansas journals estimates 38 000 citi
sent of that state lost their Uvea during the
rebellion.
pmotrat
HARVEY TICKLER, Editor.
_____ TUNK.HANNOCK, PA.
Wednesday, July 1, 1868.
DEMOCRATIC 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
diet*' aDd Sailors Conventi n. held at Cleveland in
18G6, have called a national Convention of the Con
servative Soldiers and Sailors of the Unite i States,
to meet at the city of New York, the 4;h ot July
next, to take action on the nomination of Conserva
ive candidates for President and Vice-President.
As it is desirable that Pennsylvania should be fully
represented in sai.i Convention, we request our late
comrades in arms to take the necessary action to
have delegates elected or appointed from erery
Congressional district in the State. As the time is
rapidly approaching when the Convention will meet,
there should be no delay in the matter.
EDWARD I, DANA, Brigadier General
WELLINGTON H ENT, Brevet Major General.
JACOB SWEITZER. Late Colonel and Brevet
Brigadier General.
JOSEPH K. KNIPE, Major General.
W. W. 11. DAVIS, Late Colonel and Brevet Briga
dier General.
WILLIAM McCANDLESS, Late Colonel.
JOHN P LINTON, Late Colonel.
LEVI MARSH, Late Colonel.
All Democratic and Conservaiive editors through
out the State are requested to publish this notice
and call attention to it.
Organize 1 Organize I
Democrats in every town should forth
with organize for the campaign. We arc
confident that the convention now assem
bling at New York will give us a tried
and worthy leadar. Let us prepare, im
mediately to follow our standard bearer
into the hottest ot the fight. Let us make
one more vigorous and determined effort
to save our country and its cherished in
stitutions from the ruin and anarchy into
which the rcd-niouthed radicals are drag
ging them. Organize, and take your
place in the ranks. Now is the time to
commence the work, by disseminating
correct principles—by circulating sound
Democratic papers and documents among
the people. A day spent in this work
now, is worth a week of mass meetings,
just before election. Again we say: or
ganize! Form one or more Democratic
clubs in every township. Set the fires a
burning ! Gird on your armors ! Let the
word "Onward! right onward !" be shout
ed along the line—and the victory is ours
—as sure as there is a God that controls
the destinies of Nations.
No paper will be issued from this
office next week—for various reasons,
among which are the following: Our
whole type-setting force are "chock" full
of patriotism and wish to celebrate. Our
devil is loading up, from the crown of his
hat, to the heels of his boots, with fire
crackers, and if obliged to stay in the of
fice—somebody would get Llowcd up. It
is a custom now almost universal, among
publishers, to loosen up the strings of the
bow on the week of the 4th—to which
custom we defer. For some years past
we have found it worked well, to issue
just fifty papers each year. But the prin
cipal reason why no paper will be issued
from this office next week, is that none
will be printed and published; besides
we intend to go to New York on the 4th
to take a sly peep at the next President.
A Gumbo Government Wanted.)
RICHMOND, June 25. —The following
letter has been written by Senator Sum
ner to a citizen of Norfolk :
SENATE CHAMBER, June 22, 19g8.
DEAR SIR :—I have your letter of the 18th in ref
erence to the eligibility of a colored man to COD
gress. 1 know of no ground on which he could be
excluded from his seat if duly elected, and I should
welcome the election of u competent representative
of the colored race to either House of Congress, as
the final triumph of the cause of equal rights. Till
this step is taken our success is incomplete.
Yours, truly,
CHARLES SI MXER.
This black republican millennium is fast
approaching. Under the tvranous rule of
Grant and his satraps one half of this once
fair country is already turned over to the
control of ignorant negroes. The halls of
Congress where a Jefferson, a Madison, a
"Clay and a Webster, once made laws for
the government of a noble race of white
meo, and almost before the echoes of their
eloquent warrings Lave died away—are
soon to be desecrated by the gibberings of
a brainless and brutal race of negroes. —
Then indeed will the black republican tri
umph be complete. Then, indeed, will the
efforts of the Jacobins, to destroy the gov
ernment of the Fathers be a "success-"
Then will pandemonium resound with the
glad voices of old Thad, and his fellow
devils saying : u lt u finished !"
The "Johnny Smoker" Presiden
tial candidate of the rads is going out west,
ostensibly to look after Indian affairs. It
is pretty well understood that his bottle
holders want to confine him to the weak
corn whiskey of that region. From all
accounts "Old Rye" is too strong a bever
age for bis weak running gears.
A general proclamation of amnes
ty it is said will be issued by the Presi
dent on the 4th inst.
Why?
What makes all the necessaries of life
so expensive ? What makes rents so high ?
What makes taxes so onerous? Why is
everything the poor man eats, drinks and
wears, taxed and tariffed and stamped all
over at every stage of its production and
transit until it—taxes, tariffs, stamps and
all—lands upon the overburdened back of
the poor consumer? W by;
with all these burthens resting upon the
people, is the national debt increasing by
millions every month? Simply by reason
of the the ruinous policy of the Radical
paity. The Southern States, instead of
being a huge incubus upon the labor of the
North, might help to pay the national debt
and help bear the burdens of taxation, In
steaJ of producing, the South is consum
ing at least one hundred and thirty million
dollars yearly, wrung from the hard earn
ings of the North. She does not ask for a
standing army ; she does not require a
F eedman's Bureau ; these are quartered
upon her against the solemn protest of her
people. Both are useless, cumbersome,
expensive and full of corruption. Re
move them and the South would again
blossom like the rose. Keeping the Rad
ical party in power is keeping a huge
standing army, and a corrupt, enervating,
useless Frcedmen's Bureau, at a cost of one
hundred and thirty million dollars everv
year. So long as the reins of government
are in the hands of the extremities, just so
long will the necessaries of life continue
high, rents dear, and taxes continue to
wear out anil exhaust the energies of the
people.
•*•-
Radicals who Support General Grant.
Tilton—lie has called Grant a drunk
ar i.
Phillips—Tie lias called Grant a drunk
ard and as brainless a- his saddle.
Sumner—He says Grant is'not an "irre
versible guarantee," and "made a white
washing report to fortify Andrew Johnson.
Chase —"Giant is a man of xile habits
and of ore idea."
Anna Dickinson—"l am going to Eng
land to get out of advocating this bungler."
Mrs. Stanton —"Grant savs nothing, and
knows less than nothing."
Wilson—"l will never, so help me God,
support any but temperance men for
office."
Greely—"The Presidency requires a
man ot ideas and a statesman."
Colfax— i; I declare in advance no doubt
ful person shall have my ballot for Pres
ident "
Kelly—"l will die in mv tracks before
I will subscribe to this whitewash report of
this man (Grant) who has joined his testi
mony, and will join his fate, to that public
enemy, (A. Johnson.)
Old Thad.—"Never ask me to support a
twiddler an 1 trimmer for office."
Geary—"Drunkards, like pirates, are
public enemies."
Frelinghuyscn—"The nation owes to it
self respect to tolerate imbecility in poliiics
no longer."
Wade—"Grant knows nothing of poli
tics, * * lie can talk nothing but horse."
Yates—"l own I have been a drunkard :
I will be oqe no longer, nor will I longer
cast my lot with such men,"
GRANT AND THE MONKEY.
Gen. Grant's father is writing for the
X. Y. Ledger. His first piece appeared in
that paper a few weeks ago. It was about
his son, Ulysses, or Hiram, or whatever his
real name may be—now Gen. Grant. The
doting father says of his proraissng son:
"Once, when he was a boy, a show came
along, in which there was a mischievous
pony trained to go round the ring like light
ning, and he expected to throw any boy
who attempted to ride the pony, "Will
any boy come forward and ride this pony ?"
shouted the ring-master. I lyases stepped
forward and mounted the pony. The per
formance began Round and round
the ring went the pony, faster and faster,
making the grea e-t effort to dismount the
rider. But Ulysses sat as steady as if he
had grown to the pony's back Presently
otit'came a large monkey and sprang up
behind Ulysses. The people set up a great
shout of laughter, and on the pony ran, but
ail produced no effect on the rider. Then
the ring-master made the monkey jump on
Ulysses' shoulders, standing with his feet
on his shoulders, and with his hands hold
ing on to his hair. At this there was an
other and still louder shout, but not mus
cle in Ulysses' face moved. There was
not a tremor in his nerve. A few more
rouuds, and the ring master gave it up-he
had come across a boy that the pony and
the monkey both could not dismount."
All of which is very interesting, and
demonstrates, beyound controversy, Gen.
Grant's peculiar qualifications and fitness
for Presidency. But what has become of
the monkey ? Accoiding to this history,
the monkey rode better than I lysses, who
only rode the pony, while the monkey rode
both Ulysses and the pony. It the mon
key is still alive, let the Radicals nominate
him. for President and Ulysses for \ ice
President.
£5TThe Cincinnati Times, June 26,
gives utterance to the following:
The wisdom of admitting the only relia
bly loyal people of the South to the fran
chise will be seen some day not distant,
when their votes will be needed to promote
the subdivision of the immense plantations
of the South, which is a necessary prequi
site to the resuscitation of the prosperity
of that region.
Then it is really iutended to distribute
the lands of the owners among the negroes,
who are understood to be "the only reliable
loil people of the South and these ne
groes were enfranchaised so that their
votes could be used in this distribution ?
General Grant says that this story is a false
hood told to the negroes bv the Buieau
agents, and that it had been exceedingly
baleful in its effects upon the blacks. Whom
shall we believe, the 2imes or H, U. Grant ?
World.
Protest of Democratic Members of Con
gress Against the Admission of the
Carpet-baggers.
The following is the protest, in full, of
the Democratic members of Congress
against the admission of the "carpet-bag"
members from Arkansas:
The recognized presence of three persons
on the floor of this House from the State
of Arkansas, sent here by military force
acting under a Brigadier-General of the
aimy, but nevertheless claiming to be mem
bers of this Congress, and lo share with us.
the representatives from free States, in the
imposition of taxes, and customs and other
laws upon our people, makes it our imper
ative duty in this, the first case, to remon
strate most solemnly, and to protest as, sol
emnly against this perilous and destructive
innovation of our hitherto constitutional
self-government. The so called reeonstuc
tion acts, which created the military gov
ernment in Arkansas and like governments
in other Sonthcrn States, to share with us
the legislative power of the Northern and
Western free people, we have reason to
believe, have been held to be unconstitu
tional by tne Supreme Court of the Uni
ted States, the public declaration of which
fact was avoided only by the extraordinary
and strange device of this Congress in
snatching jurisdiction from the court m the
McArdlc case, when such a public decision
was about to be ma Ic of the three great
branches of the government. And it
seems then, that aftei the Executive ve
toed these acts as unconstitutional, the Ju
diciary adjudicated them to be so, whib
Congress, the creation of but twenty-seven
of the thirty seven States of the Union'
overii le these equal and co ordinate bran
ches of that government, first by voting
down the vetoes, noxt Jby nullifying the
judgment of the Constitution in an era of
profound peace, when not an armad man
rose against the government from the Po
tomac to the Rio Grande.
In ten St.ites our American historical
way of creating the organized law has been
utterly subverted by the Suayonet, Even
until the Declaration of Independence,
with scarcely an exception, and even amidst
the revolution, conventions have been con
voked through, and constitutions created h\
electors of the States, the only authorize I
depositors of the sovereign power of every
State, without exterior dictation, as under
the existing Federal Cons'.iution. The
hardest and harshest test oath required
fiom 17TG to the peace of 17So was an ab
juration oath of allegiance to George the
Ihird, while some of the new so-called
bayonet-made constitutions for the South
propose absurd and cruel tests, absurd as
iu Arkansas, where is interwoven in the
oiganic law a mere party test, between the
Radical reconstructionists and the Demo
cratic Conservatives, such as would ex
clude from voting, if living th ro, the
thousand and tens of thousands and hun
dreds of thousands of Democrats in the
free States (article 8 section 4, ) or cruel
as in Alabama, where no white man can
vote who will uot forever fore swear his
own race and color and perjure himself by
swearing in defiance of law and of God
that the negro is his equal and forever to
he his equal at the bal!dt-box, in the jury
box, with the cartoueh-box, in the school,
in the college, in house aud home, and by
the fireside ; in short in every way and ev
erywhere (art 7, sec 4.) Now in these and
other Southern Slates in the midst of the
war, I'reidsnt Lincoln in his proclamation
of December, 1863, offered amnesty and
pardon to rebels then in arms, if they
would lay down their arms and take the
oath of fidelity, while now no Union man
in Arkansas or Alabama can vote, unless
in the first place he swears allegiance to
the magesly of this Congress, and in the
next swears off his Americanism and Afri
canizes himself. Hitherto constitutions
with us have been the outgrowth of popu
lar will, springing from the exuberance of
our enterprise and energy in the settle
ment of the forests or prairies of our coun
try ; hut here, before us now, arc nine con
stitutions, with one, if not three more yet
to come from Texas' which have all been
imposed upon the people by lhe military
satrap or pentarch, in a manner never be
fore known under otir laws, but borrowed
at best from imperial Roman colonization,
or from the worse precedents of the Fiench
Revolution. France is then recorded to
have had live constitutions in three years;
so frequently made and so frequently chan
ged tiiat they were ironically classed by
the French people with the periodical lit
erature of the dav.
Louisiana, a colony of that France, has
had four constitutions in four years, and a
constitution there has now become peri
odical literature ir, France. In the ago
nies and throes of the great revolution,
laws were statute laws, and which can nev
er be created by constitutions, are appen
ded more or less to the constitutions, and
these bayonets created one of the
government which no Executive, no Sen
ate, no House of Representatives, no Judi
ciary, have ordained irrepealable aitd irre
versible laws in the very organism of that,
such as cannot thus he created by the Ex
ecutive, the Senate, and the House of Rep
resentatives of legitimate governments,
when acting in unison and all combined ;
all this has been done without regard to
preceding constitutions, to pieccdents, or
the common law of the States or laws of
nations. The military power, which un
der legitimate institutions can only be used
O i
In times of peace to conserve and preserve
the State, has here been used to destroy
States. The General of the Army, who
represents the sword and the only sword
of the Republic, has been exalted by acts
of Congress above the constitutional Com
mander-in Chief of the Army and Navy,
in order to execute these military decrees,
and as the surer way to root out every
vestige of constitutional law or liberty, the
same General of the Army, in order to
perpetuate bis military domination with
the North and West as well as the South,
has been selecied.in a party Convention at
Chicago, to head the electoral vote for the
the Presidency.
In ten of our States which are as much
under his feet as Turkey is under the Sul
tan, or Poland under the Czar of Russia ;
but as finally to add insult to the injury to
this military outrage upon the popular
government. In these ten States, either
by act of Congress, or these soldier-made
constitutions, at least two hundred and
fifty thousand whites have been disfran
chised, while seven hundred and fifty
' thousand negroes, inexperienced in all law
making, and more ignorant than our chil
dren, have been enfranchised in their
stead, and have been created absolute mas
ters to govern over the whole white
population of the South. J3ccaii.se of all
thisyand in opposition to all this, we, the
I representatives of ihe people from the free
States in behalf of our constituents and of
i thousands and tens of thousands of others
j who would be represented if the popular
! power without could now control and act
i here within, earnestly and solemnly pro
test against this violence upon our Con
stitution and upon our people, and db here
by counsel and advise all friends of popu
lar government to submit to this force and
fraud only until, at the ballot-box, opi ra-
I ting through the elections, this great
i wrong can be put right,
i There is no law in the land over the
I constitutional law ; there is no government
! hut constitutional government, and hence
I all bayonet made, all Congress imposed
constitutions are of no weight, authority
or sanction, saved that enforced by arms,
an element of power, unknown to Ameri
cans in practice, and never required, but
as it acts in and under the suprerau civil
! law, the Constitution, and the statutes en
acted in pursuance thereof. We protest,
then, in behalf of the free people and the
! West against the right of the military o!i
garchy established in Arkansas or else
where in the now re-enslaved States of the
South, to impose upon us, through Con
gress taxes or customs, or other laws to
maintain this oligarchy or its Freedmen's
Bureau. We protest against going into
the now proposed copartnership of inilita-
I ry dictators and negroes in the administra
tion ol this government. We demand,in
the name of the fathers of the Constitu
tion, and for the sake of posterity, not its
reconstruction, but the restoration of that
sacred instrument which has been to
us all a pillar of tire from 1787 on to its
present overthrow, and in all solemnity be
fore God and man, tinder a full sense of
the responsibility of all we. utter, we do
hereby tix our names to this protest against
the admission of these three persons claim
ing to be members of Congress from Ar
kansas.
J .mes Brooks, C. W. P. Ilaiglit,
W. Muiigen, Clias. Sitgreaves,
J. B. Beck, Lewis 11. Ross,
Stephen Tabor, 11. McCulloch,
I'. Van Trump, J. Proctor Knott,
; l'. Grover; J. S. Goladay,
I ('has: A. Eldridge, S. W. Humphrey,
1 L. A Trimble, Fernando Wood,
Sam!. Randall, J. L. (Jetz,
George M Adams, T. Shone MeKeen,
A. .J. Glossbrenncr, John Fox,
Stevenson Archer, Jos. A. Johnson,
'John A. Nicholson, John V. L, l'ruyn,
John Morrissey, W. E. Robinson,
Thomas L Jones, R. 51. Buyer.
W. E. NitJaek, G. W. Woodward
Julius llotehkiss, C. E. J'helps,
Wm. 11. Barnum, A. G. Barr,
John W. Chandler, J). M Van Auken,
S. B. Axtell, J R. McCormick,
S. S. Marshall, Detoas Barnes,
W. S. ilolman, J as. M. Cavenangb.
I
You Do Eh?
" I indorse the resolutions."
So says Ulysses Grant.
But will the people of the United States
endorse him ?
Yon " indorse the resolutions," Mr.
Grant. \ou " indorse " the vile tyranny
o! Congressional reconstruction, the cow
ardly forcing of' Negro Suffrage upon an
j unwilling people, the monstrous attempt
tO put eight millions of white people un
der the domination of four millions of ig
norant bl <cks, the atrocious wickedness of
| the disfranchisement of hundreds of thous
ands of free white American citizens, the
i bloodsucking policy of the Freedmen's
l Bureau, ( that National hoarding school
for worthless black luzaroni ,) and even the
j shameless shuffling on the great vital
i financial question which to day interests so
deeply every man and woman in the Uni
ted States. Y<>u " indorse " a'l this and
cooly add, " li t us have p< ace."
j Y'es, you would " make a desert and call
1 it peace ! "
You would put the white man in the
power of your black tools, you would put
j the nigger's torch to the white man's dwell
ing, the nigger's knife to the white man's
'■ throat.
\ou would muke another St. Domingo
of the Southern States, trample out what
the war has left of the arts of civilization
and leave in its stead the desolation, the
howling wilderness of African barbarism.
Or, as the only alternative, you would
keep yonr standing army of fifty battalions
quarter-d upon the people, to destroy their
liberties and eat " out their substance."
These things, Mr. Grant would he the
inevitable consequences of yonr enforc
ment of the resolutions which yon" in
dorse." If you were Ulvssess S. Grant,
multiplied, seventy times seven by your
multiple, the American people would not
sustain you upon such a platform. As it
is, Gen. Scott's fate is but a light forshaw
owing of what is ia store for you —Patri
ot.
CANDIDATES. —The following list em
braces the names which have been prom
inently mentioned as probable candidates
before the Convention on the 4th of July :
George 11. Pendleton, of Ohio; Salmon
P. Chase, of Ohio ; Thomas A. Hendricks,
of Indiana; Horatio Sevmour, of New
York; Joel Paiker, of New Jersey ; Sena
tor Buckalew, of Pennsylvania ; Asa Pack
er, of Pennsylvania; Henry Stanhery, of
Kentucky; Judge Field and Gov. Haight.
of California; Cen. W. S. Hancock, of
Pennsylvania ; Gen. George II McClellan,
of New Jersey ; Gen, W. T. Sherman, of
Ohio.
Just think of it!— Eighty colored
members in the House of representatives
of Sooth Carolina. Imagine the effect on
a hot day, (such as South Carolina often
has) with a "heated debate" and doors
closed.
JC*f"The "Pendleton Escort" 1,000
strong, uniformed and accompanied by a
Silver Cornet Band, will arrive in New
York on July 1. A wigwam for their es
pecial accomodation is to he erected in
Totrpkins square.
Reconstructed Arkansas.
Scene. A Union soldier, who has mov
ed to Arkansas, and bought a (arm there,
•wants to register under that provision of
: the reconstructed constitution which says :
" The General Assembly, at he first ses
sion, shall provide suitable laws for the
"registration of qualified electors. ' —(Art.
V., Sec 25.)
Registrar. What's your name ?
! Soldier. John Smith.
R Age ?
S. Twenty-five.
R Native or naturalized /
S. Born in New York.
R. Ever given aid or comfort to the
rebellion ?
S, -No ! I served in the Union army
from Bull liun to Appomattox.
R. Can you take aud subscribe to the
registration oath $
What is it?
R- "i, John Smith, do solemnly swear
"that I will support and maintain the Con
" stitulion and laws of the United States
" and the constitution and laws of the
"State of Arkansas ; that I am not exelu
-44 ded from registering or voting by any of
" the clauses in the first, second, third, or
" fourth subdivisions of article VIII. of the
"constitution of the State of Arkansas ; that
" I w:|| never cuntcnance or aid in the
" secession of this State from the United
" Stat, § ; that 1 accept the civil ai d politi
" cat equality of men. and agree not to at
" tempt to deprive any person or persons,
"on account of race, color, or previous
condition, of any political or civil right,
"priviledge, or immunity enjoyed by any
" other class of men ; and, furthermore,
'•that I wiil not in any way injure any
'• person or persons, on account of past or
'' present support of the G jvernment Uni
" ted States, the laws of the United Slates,
' or the principle of the polit'Cil or civil
" equality of all men, or for affiliation with
"any political party.'*
S. I can't take that oath. I don 't be
lieve in any such equality at all. I am
better than a nigger, and so were my fath
er and mother b fore me, I demand, sir.
to be registered here as a loyal citizen of
the United States and an ex-soldier iu the
Union Army.
R. Can't help it. That's the registra
tion oath, and if you don't take it you can't
vote, hold office, or sit on a jury in Arkan
sas. It's in the constitution and Congiess
has approved it.
S. I) n such a constitution ami
d n Congress too. If this is the tick
et Grant is runni: gon he can't have my
vote. — World.
[" Exit. disfranchised."]
ON* THIS LINE, ALL SUMMER. —Just for
the truth of history, a'd so as n M to mil 1
die the weak brains of future* Bancrofts,
we beg our Republican friends not to
quote Grant's sentiment, " I shall tight it
out if it takes all summer.'
How otherwise will the Ba
ncroft save his wits from diziug when he
discovers that Grant abandoned *' this line"
atter losing more than one and .a half
times as many men as Lee had and more
than six times as many men as L e lost ?
And what will save the poor fellow f;om ,
lunacy when in the midst of this hullaba
loo he discovers that Grant, having aban
doned " this line," found him- li' at the!
base of another line which could have
be c n reached without the loss of a man
the line from which the Army of the I'o
tom-ic was or.ee recalled.
And nothing hut suicide, surely, can
console hi in for the discovery, which our
Republican friends iuu:-t perceive that h •
will make, that Grant not only took all (
the summer, but the next fail, and the win
ter following, end the spring to, before i
his swoppii g off six Northern soldiers for
every Southern soldier had been " fought
out."— N. Y. World.
_*,.•* ; i
/* JT" Southern niggers are said to be
totally disgusted with the all promise and
no-performance policy of the Radicals. —
It is now stated that 715,000 Southern I
niggers intend to vote for repudiation of !
the national debt. How will the Radical
bondholding aristocracy feel if they should
be blown sky-high by their own infernal
machine ?
er The Radicals in Congress have vo
ted to continue the Freedmen's Bureau, at
a "cost oi >'7,000,000 a year. Work away,
men of the North, ton must make up all
the money you can, for you will pay for
the nigtrer bureau in an extra price on
everything yon eat, drink and wear for at
least another year, and if the Radicals re
main in power the chances are that you
will have to pay for the nigger in the same
manner for years to come. Work on, toil
on. never mind the heat; the blacks mu-t j
be fed, and as the bondholders pay no
taxes, and want their interest in gold, you
must pay all the bills. What a nice thing
is Radical government!
ADVERTISEMENT. —Who ever wrote the
following unquestionably uttered a truth
which many have learned to their cost :
" Discontinuing to advertise is like tak
ing down one's sign. It is a sort of inti
mation of retirement from business, and
(lie public treat it as an evidence that
something has gone wrong which requires
privacy from investigation Whatever
construction is put upon it, the result is
disastrous."
eiT The three Radical carp°t-b,aggers
from Arkansas, Roots, Hinds and Boles,
just admitted to scats in Congress, mod
estly claim pay from March 15th, ISG7,
to the commencement of the present Con
gress. Air. Speaker Colfax'decided that
their per diem pay should commence on
the 13th, of March, 18G8, the day ot their
election. They demand more, and the
case has been submitted to the Judiciary
Committee. They should be well paid
by the Radicals for the vile work they
have been engaged in,
6At a late dinner in North Carolina,
there sat down to table three ex-Govern
ors, an ex-Justice of the Supreme Court,
two ex-Members of Congress, and some
other men of honorable distinction in their
State, and the only person in the room
who could vote or hold office was the ne
gro who waited ou the tabic, Scch is re
constiuctiou.
! Mil Si LSTBEBP S 111.
THE IMPEACHMENT
OF THE
Pre ident
Has been an exciting topic for some weeks
past, but greater interest is now
manifested in the
fact that
j SHERMAN & LATHROP.
Have received and opened their
' SPRING STOCK
OF
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 the. State. We are
aware that competi
tion in our trade in
Tunkhannoclc 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. We shall at all
times and under all circumstances
be gratified to bo permitted to show
our stock whether there is a de
sire to purchase or not. The
following comprises a
part of our varietv :
1
SIIA WLB, of aM kin Is.
SACK GOODS, o( a'i kind*,
GINGIIAMS,
GLOVES,
MOZ \MPIQUE,
LA'.VXS,
* TEKCALE,
MERINOEB,
SILKS, all color?,
HOSIERY,
MARSEILLES,
STEEL PONGEE SILK,
ORGANDIES,
CHAM DRAS,
AI.PACCAS,
all shade
WIIITK ALPACCA,
SWISS MUSLIN,
DELAINES from 12J to '23 t's.)
BOOK MUSLIN,
NANS 00 KS,
CARPETS,
MATTINGS,
OIL CLOTH.
PARASOLS,
CLOTHS,
CLOTHING,
CASSIA! ERE 3
Gents' Furnishing Goods,
LADIES' GAITERS, 51.23 to SO per pair*
Balmoral Skirts *
for summer.
HOOP SKIRTS,
| CALICO from 10 to 10 ets.
LADIES' BASKETS,
LADIES' RETICULES,
TRUNKS, of all kiuJs,
I
&<*., Ac , Ac., Ac.
i We invite all to call and see us. c
know that our friends and acquaintances
will Jo so, and we do not hesitate to say
• that we shall at all times be pleased to see
j strangers, anJ are satisfied that they wid
not go away cross or dissatisfied.
SHERMAN & LATHROP.
Tunkbranocfc, Maw 11, l+*)6.