CURRENT NEWS.
Franklin Pierce is now the only man liv
ing who was ever elected to the office of Pres
ident of the United States.
A young fellow of one hundred and sev
enteen years is on ajoarney from Florence
to Paris.
The Rev. Gilbert Haven—a clerical Jen*
kins—speaking of Schuyler Colfax, says :
' Ilia face is a banqueting house." Next
fall it will be a " banquet hall deserted."
The difference between procrastination
and Butler is that tho common proverb
makes one the thief of time, while common
scandal makes tho other the thief of ready
money.
There is a man in Delaware who has had
fifty.one children and three wive 3 One of
the latter and thirty of the former are still \
living.
An exchange says that the girls In some
parts of Pennsylvania are so hard up for bus
bands that they sometimes marry editors
and lawyers.
A Babylon (LI.) fa-mer caught in one
day, by hook and lines, 1,300 pound of blue*
flsb, which he 6old for 13 cents a pound.
Many of the young male nigs in the contra
band camps, at Arlington, are named Ben
Butbr for want of a better.
I
Tfcete is trouble in Louisiana, because the
darkies refuse to attend their own schools
but insist on mixing with tho whites. The !
weather i 6 too warm for " equal rights " ,
there.
Brick Pomeroy says Ben Butler's father
hung for piracy, off the coast of Spain. The
family has degenerated in courage—Ben has !
not pluck enough to be a pira'e—though the
hereditary fondness for robbery is quite per
ceptible. What nice leaders the Radicals
have for a '• God-and-morality " party !
The Radicals met with a terrible
in Mississippi, and, it is said, through the
vote of the colored men. This, if true, is the
41 unkindcst cut of all."
The first Lightning Rod put up in this
country by Dr. Benjamin Franklin, is now to 1
seen on the old house, 52 Daniel street,
Portsmouth, N. 11,
Two men committed suicide in Philadel-•
phia, recently, by shooting. One was a pris
oner in the county jail.
Ileenan would like to fight McCoole for
SIO,OOO.
Canada has recovered from its Fenian
fright.
Prentice says Ben Wade is no civilian.—
There is nothing civil about him.
Mrs. Lincoln is fulfilling her threat of leav
ing the country if Grant was put up for Pres
ident. She can come back safely in the fall.
Senator Spraguo, from Rhode Island, is
said to be the richest man in Congress.
A clerk in an Ohio pnat office has invented
an adding machine. Subtracting, unfortun
ately, needs no machine.
About half of the newly appointed cadets
at West Point failed to pass the cxamina
tion.
One of Mr. Rreckinridge's <rtd slaves is
stumping Virginia for the conservative tick
et.
A forthcoming lecture by Annie Dickinson
is entitled, "Children and Marriage."—
Shame. Annie, Why don't you say, " Mar
riage and Children ? "
The Radical party is about to undergo
■peedy dissolution from the fact of its affih*
ation with the niggers. Epitaph—'• Died in
the Wool."
41 The good die young " —hence the longev
ity of Thad. Stevens, Beast Butler, Parson
Bfowalow & Co., show that they are not
prepared.
A speaking machine is now on exhibition
in Perth, which imitates the voice with great
ecu racy.
At Honesdale, Penn., two children, aged
respectively seventeen and fifieeD years, hav
irg first obtained the written consent o'
their parents and guardians, were recently
united in wedlock.
A Mulattto girl from Savannah now lives
in a house of her own in Paris, with fur
servants, a carriage, and a box at the Italiens-
The Viscount de Guezol is her patron.
The first locomotive engine ever made in
this country was run on the South Carolina
railroad ; and this road was the first to carry
the United States mail by contract.
Misery and famine are raging in the Cas
tilhan provinces of Spain, and many poor
families are driven to the most cruel priva*
tions, such as living on roots, Lzards and
other reptiles. Ail the farmers have dis
missed their servants and are killing the cat
tle in order to 6ave the expenses of keepiug
them.
A girl in Chicago died lately, from swal
lowing the point of a needle, which broke off
while she was picking her teeth with it.
A large number of Israelites in St Louis*
over two thousand it is said, have pledged
themselves to vote against General Grant.—
This action is mainly, if not wholly based
upon an order issued by Grant during the
war banishing all Jews from one of the South
ern military departments.
If Grant gets aa many voles as he sacri
ficed Federal lives in his military career, he
Will not run so very far behind his Demo
cratic competitor at the coming election.
"Has the railroad got in ?" at-ked a gentle
man of an Irishman, standing at a depot,
thinking to quiz him. "One ind has, air,*' was
Pat's reply.
Our circulation is increasing.
®|e ikmocrat.
HARVEY TICKLER, Editor.
TUNKHANNOCK, PA.
Wednesday. July 15, 1868.
FOR PRESIDENT,
HON. HORATIO SEYMOUR.
CF SKW YOKK.
FUR VICE PRESIDENT,
GEN. FRANCIS P. BLAIR.
OF MISSOURI.
DEMOCRATIC STATE TOM
Auditor General,
CHARLES E. BOYLE, of Fayette.
Surveyor General,
Gen. WELLINGTON ENT, of Columbia
idgr A press of new advertisements and
other matter, with the space devoted to
the proceedings of the Democratic Con
vention, prevents us from giving our usual
variety of matter.
63T The nomination of Seymour and
Blair has pretty nearly thrown the nigger
ites iuto fits. They are dreadfully afraiJ
of a civil war. Blair, say they, is blood
thirsty. If they continue their infamous,
tteasonable practices, they may create a
necessity for "blood letting," "The wick
ed flee when no man pursueth."
Our Candidates
It is with pleasure, resulting from an
assurance of the success of our cause, and
the triumph of constitutional government
over despotism and wrong, that we place
at the head of our columns the names of
Seymour and Blair. Horatio Seymour is
the first choice of every fair-minded and
intelligent man of the country for Presi
dent. Ilis repeatedly expressed determi
nation to refuse the nomination, created a
diversity of opinion as to the merits and
fitness of other men for the position. All
concurred in acknowledging his eminent
fitness in every respect for the position,—
It was only when the united voice of the
people demanded of him. that he consent
ed to lead them on to victoiy ; and when
to have done otherwise would have been
regarded as a shrinking from duty in a
conflict near and dear to every patriotic
heart.
With Gen. Blair who is imbued with
the Jacksouia spirit of his father, to lead
forth the legions of the young Democracy
or the West, we shall march on to victory.
His is no untried blade, lie bears no un-
deserved nor empty title. He has met
and opposed secession as he will meet
and oppose puritan oppression .
With Seymour and Blair, wo repeat,
our success is assured.
The Most Corrupt Party that Ever Exist
ed.
Donn Piatt, one of the leading and most
active Republican politicians of Southern
Ohio, in writing of the attempt to impeach
the Prisident, says the unpleasant fact is
developed, 'that not Andrew Johnson, but
the Republican party has been on trial, and
the sentence is a sentence of death "'Piatt
says:
"We would have survived a blunder
great as this is, had it come alone,but it
is the concluding act of a long series.
Through the unsettled condition of a
country suffering from civil wars, we have
developed more rascality that>any organi
zation ever called into existence. We
have tilled the offices with thieves and
their Dockets wnh stealings. We have or
ganized lings that in turn create office-hol
ders and control the government. Men go
in poor and come out millionaires. For
one dollar paid to the government from
hard earned taxes, hundreds stick to the
diity fingers of official scoundrels. We
have wiskey rings, Indian Bureau rings,
land-fobbing rings and internal improve
ment tings. From the lowest official, up to
Senator and Cabinet officers the taint of cor
ruptien runs until the people, dazzled and
confuse, confound the right and listen with
indifference to the threats of exposure."
Here is a photograph of the Radical
party by a good artist.
The Amnesty Proclamation.
No more fitting time could have been
selected by tbe President for the promul
gation of his general Annesty Proclama
tion, than the day chosen by him—the
anniversary of the birth-day of our nation.
It came to the people while they were ob
serving and enjoying the greatest National
Holiday known in the civilized world, and
we cannot be mistaken in supposing that
there were but few indeed of our many
millions of citizens who did not feel new
zeal added to their patriotic rejoicings by
the knowledge tbat one oi the last, and
the greatest, barriers to a full lestoration
of the Union, had been swept away for
ever. The general pardon includes every
body who is not undet indictment in the
U. S. Courts for offences against the Na
tion, and relieves them of all disabilities,
as American citizen*, at least eo far as the
President has power to relieve them. It
is one most memorable official acts of
President Johnson, and will always con
stitute a bright page in the history of his
Administration.
SPEECH of HORATIO SEYMOUR.
The statesman and the nation's favorite,
—Horatio Seymour—of New York recent
ly delivered a speech, in New York city,
to a large enthusiastic meeting. We
give the following synopsis from his ad
dress which is well worth a perusal:
He said in every part of our land are
proofs of a wide-spread change in political
feeling, while the ablest Republicans refuse
to go on with a party which tramples on
the Judiciary, usurps power, and is unset
tling all ideas of political morality, and un
hinging all the business machinery of the
land. We are laboring under some em
barrassments from the great volume of the
change in our favor. Those who are rally
ing around the standard of Constitutional
rights have hit bet fore held conflicting
views with regard to the events of the
the past eight years, and the question now
is, how can we set this great majority in
the field so arrayed that they can drive
out ot place the disciplined and desperates
hords of office holders who now misgovern
our country ? This is the only problem
to be settled. The American people are
disgusted with the conduct of the Congres
sional party. Can we mark out a policy
which will unite the majority to our stun
dard ? This can onlv be done by a thought
ful, forbearing, unselfish course. At the
same time we must be out-spoken and
must confront all the questions which per
plex us. Men look forward with hope
and fear to the action of the National Con
vention on the Fourth of July. It shall
not speak of candidates. Let the claims
of each one be considered in a kind* and
courteous spirit, and let us take care that
no personal partisanship shall draw us
aside from our duty to our country. We
should support with hearty zeal every up
holder of Constitutional rights. It is upon
discord in our ranks that our opponents
build their hopes. Let this hope be
crushed by our action. It will in the pres
ent state of our country be an unholy
thing to go into the July Convention with
any purpose which will not have in view
the rescue of our Government from the
men which now have it iu their hand.
Mr. Seymour then proceeded to reiter
ate bis views formerly expressed on the
financial question, opposing both contrac
tion and unwise issues, and urging the res
toration of the National credit tainted
by the wastefulness and profligacy of the
party in power Lie contended that five
hundred millions of money of • the
thousand millions of money spent by the
Government since the surrender of Lee
could have been devoted to the payment
of the rational debt, carrying by the proof
of good faith the national credit to the
highest point, while new bonds at a lower
rate of interest, would have reduced our
taxes and brought our currency to the
value of specie.
Gov. Seymour said that the Republican
party at Chicago pledged itself to keep up
its negro policy and said it is impossible
to give untutored Africans at the South,
uncontrolled power over the government,
the property, and laws of the people of
ten States, by excluding white votes, with
out military despotism. You cannot give
three millions of negroes more Senators
than arc allowed to fifteen millions of
white men living in New York, Penn.,
Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, lowa,
Kentucky, Missouri, and Michigan, with
out keeping up great standing armies.—
Without a general annesty and the restor
ation of suffrage to all the whites in the
South, a great standing army must be a
permam' nt institution. He ptoceeded to
argue in favor of a general annesty, and
the restoration of suffrage to all whites in
the South, which would obviate the neces
sity of keeping up military despotism to
feed idle negtoes, to bieak down the Judi
ciary to shackle the Executive, and to de
stroy all Constitutional rights.
lie closed as follows : I have said noth
ing in behalf of or against the views of any
one who is spoken of as a candidate for
the Presidency on the Democratic side.—
I have only said that each one agrees to
and is in favor of. No man has been
named who is not in favor of reducing the
expenses ar:d then uiakiug our paper as
good as gold. No man has been named
who 19 not in favor of using the* money
drawn from the tax payers to pay the
public debt. No man bas been named
who is not in favor of a general amnesty
to the people of the South. No man has
been named who is not an up holder of
Constitutional rights. No mau has been
named by the Democratic party whose
election would not help the lax payer, the
laborer, and the bond-holder.
On the other hand the candidates of
the Republican paity are pledged to their
policy, which has sunk the value of our
currency more than eight per cent, in the
past two years. The discount upon our
paper money was twenty per cent, in
April, 18G8. It is about twenty-nine at
present. It will continue to go down un
der the same policy. As it sinks it will
increase taxes, it will curse all labor and
busines, it will endanger still more the
public credit—for the greater the premium
on gold, the harder it becomes to pav
specie to the bond-holder and his claims
becomes more odious. What claim have
the Republicans upon our soldiers/
They take ..way from him one-quarter
of his pension by paying him in false mon
ey, which is worth less than 75 cents on
the dollar. A wise and honest adminis
tration would have made it worth its face
in gold. What right have they to call on
the mechanic and laborer? They have
lengthened out the hours of their toil to
feed swarms of office holders at the North,
and to support armies and holders oT ne
groes at the South. How can they look
the tax payetsin the face, when they have
wrung from them as many millions upon
the pretext that the debt compelled them
to do so while they were using the money
thus collected to supply standing armies
and to trample upon the rights and liber
ties of the American people. Can they
with decency appeal to the bond-holders
after tainting the national credit and sink
ing to the level of the negro and endan
gering their securities by throwing upon
them the whole odium of taxation.
Then let the East, the West, the North
and the South, the soldior and the sailor,
in shins or in fields, the tax-payer and the
bond holder by one united etfort drive
from power the common enemies of liber
ty, honor, rights, and CoabtitotioDal laws,
THE CONVENTION.
(Continued from first page.)
BALLOTING FOR CANDIDATES,
After some preliminary motions, the
Convention proceeded to ballot for a candi
date for the Presidency.
FIRST BALLOT.
The roll was then called on the first bal
lot, with the follwing result:
Pendleton 105
Hancock 33 J
Andrew Johnson 65"
English 16
Hendricks 2 h
lieverdy Johnson 8j
Doolittle 13
Parker 13
Packer 26
F. P. Blair
Chnrch 33
Whole vote cast, 317; necessary to a
choice, 212. No choice.
The third day of the Convntion closed
with the sixth ballot as follows
SIXTH BALLOT.
The roll was called, with the following
result:
Pendleton 122J
Hancock 47
English 6
Church 33
Andrew Jobnsen 21
Hendricks 30
Parker 13
Packer 27
Doolittle 12
Blair 5
On the fourth day ballots were taken up
to the 18th, no candidate having received
the required two-thirds, no choice was
made. The 18th ballot at the close of the
fourth day was as follows:
EIGHTEENTH BALLOT.
Hancock 144$
Hendricks 87
Pendleton 59j
Andrew Johnson 10
Doolittle 12
Hoffman , 3
On the meeting of the Convention on
the morning of the fifth day, Mr. Yalan
digharn of Ohio, read a letter from Mr.
Pendleton withdrawing his name from the
list of candidates, and on the 19th ballot
cast the vote of that State solid for A*a
Packer whose name had been previously
withdrawn —the Pennsylvania delegation
casting her vote for Hancock.
Horatio ScytnCUr having at the beginning
peremptorily declined to allow his name to
go before the Convention, no voles were
cast for him until the 21st ballot.
When Ohio was called, Mr. M Cook, by
unanimos direction of bis delegation, and
with the assent approval of every public
man of that State, including Mr. Pendleton,
put in nomination against his inclination,
but no longer agaiust bis power, the name
of Hon. Horatio Seymour. Let us vote
for a man whom the Presidency has
sought, and who has not sought the Prei
dency. This he believe would drive from
power the Radical cabal at Washington.
He believe this nomination would com
mand the unanimous approval of I)emo
crats and conservative men of all sections.
He asked, on behalf of the country, that
Seymour should yield to this wish of the
Convention, 4
Mr. M'Cook cast 21 votes for Iloratio
Seymour.
Mr. Seymour roe and said—The mo
tion just made excited most mingled emo
tions He had no language in which to
thank the Convention, and to express his
regret that his name had been presented,
but in a question affecting bis duty and
honor, he must stand by his opinion against
the world.
lie could not be nominated without
putting himself and the Democratic party
in peril. When he declined the nomina
tion he meant it. He paid an eloquent
tribut to Mr. Pendleton, atd bis magna
nimity, and in closing said: Thanking the
Convention, your candidate I cannot be.
Mr: Vallandigham said—ln times of
great exigence and calamity, every person
al consideration should be cast asiJe. lie
insisted that iloratio Seymour must yield
to the demoustrat.on in his behalf. Ohio's
vote must and shold stand for Iloratio Sey
mour. He called upon the several dele
gallons to follow that lead.
Mr. Kierman, of New York, said: To re
lieve everybody in regard to the New
York delegation, he would say they have
no lot or part in the movement of Ohio;
they had heard something of it, but declin
ed to take any part in it, out of regard for
the proper sensitiveness of the President of
the Convention, until other States should
show by their action that Seymour was
demanded by the party in Convention.
He urged the necessity of success in the
campaign, and expressed his opiuion that
Mr. Seymour could now accept the judg
ment of the convention with honor, and
that he should yield as a matter of duty to
its wishes, With him as the candidate, New
York was good for 100,UuO majority.
The call of the roll was then proceeded
with, when amidst the greatest enthusiasm
every State voted for Horatio Seymour.
Those States which had previously Vuted
otherwise asked permission to change
their votes, for that purpose. The acting
chairman Mr. Price announced the entire
vote 317 for Horatio Seymour. Upon
this announcement the whole convention
and audience rose en Masse waving hand
kercheifs, hat, fans, & with such shouts of
exlutation as rendered it iinpo-sible to re
store order and proceed with business.
After a recesS of an hour, the Convention
pioceeded to the nomination of Vice Pres
ident
Kentucky named Major General Frauk
, P. Ulair, of Missouri.
Kansas named General Thomas 11.
Ewing, jr., of that State.
i lowa named General A. C. Dodge, of
New Yoik.
Before a ballot was taken Generals
Ewing and Dodge were withdrawn, and
General iilair was nominated by aeclama
; tion.
Great applause succeeded the result,
and for many minntea the Convention was
wild with enthusiasm. The nominations
were announced from the steps of Tam
many Hall and was reeieved with shouts
of approval, firing of cannon, and the para
ding of Democratic clubs through the
slteaU, with flags flying and music play
ing.
The Convention adjourned in excellent
spirits and with feelings of complete assur
ance of success before the people,
Proclamation by the President Grant
ing Amnesty to All Confederates Except
those Indicted for Treason.
By the President of the United States.
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas , in the month of July, Anno
Domino 1861, in accepting the condition of
civil war in several of the States which
constitute the United States, the two
houses of Congress did soolemnly declare
that the. war was not waged on the part of
the government in any spirit or oppression
nor for any purpose of conquest or subju
gation; nor for of overthrow
ing or interfering with the rights or estab
lished institutions of the States, hut only
to defend and maintain tho supremacy of
the Constitution of tho United State, and
to preserve the Union with all the dignity,
equality and rights of the several Stales
unimpaired, and that so soon .as those ob
jects should be accomplished the war on the
part of the Government should cease.
And whereas , The President of the Uni
ted States has, heretofore, in the spirit of
that declaration, and with the view of se
curing for it ultimate and complete effect,
set forth several proclamations offering am
nesty and pardon to persons who had been
or were concerned in the aforenamed re
bellion, which proclamations, however,
were altended with prudential reservations
and exceptions then deemed necessary and,
proper, and which proclamtions were re
spectively issued on the eighth day of De
cember, 1863, on the twenty-sixth day ol
March, 1864, on the 29th day of May,1865;
and on the 7th day of September, 1867;
and
Whereat, The said lamentable civil war
has lons since altogether ceased, w'fh a "
acknowledgment by all the States of l ' le
supremacy of the Federal Constitution, ai 'd
of the Government ttfere under; and ther c
no longer exists any reasonable ground to
apprehend a renewal said civil war.
or any foreign interference, or any unlaw
ful resistence by any portion of the people
of any of the States to the Constitution and
laws of the I niled States, and
Whereat, It is desirable to reduce the
standing armv and to bring to a speedy
termination, militaiy occupation, martial
law, military tribunals, abridgment of the
freedom of speech and of the press, and sus
pension of the privilege of habeas corpus.
and ot the right of trial by jury, such en
croachments upon onr free institutions in
time of peace being dingerous to the pub
lic liberty, incompatible withlhe individual
rights of the citizen, contrary to the genius
and spirit of our republican form of gov
ernment, and exhaustive of the national re
sources;
And whereas, It is. believed that amnes
ty and pardon will teud to secure a com
plete and universal establishment and pre
valence of municipal law and order, in con
formity with the Constitution of the Unf
ted States, and to remove all appearauces
and presumptions of retaliatory or vindica
tive policy on the part of the Government,
attended by any unnecessary disqualifica
tions, pains, penalities, confiscations, and
disfranchisements, and on the contrary, to
promote arid procure complete fraternal
reconciliation among the whole people with
due submission to the constitution and laws; j
Aw, therefore: Be it known, That I An
drew Johnson, President of the United
States, do by virtue of the constitution, and j
in the name of the people of the United !
States hereby proclaim and declare uncon
ditionally and without reservation to all
and. every person who directly or indirect- j
ly partic pated in the late insurrection or
rebellion, excepting such person or per
sons as may be under presentment or indic
inent in any court of the United States, hav- ]
ing competent jurisdiction upon a charge
of treason or other felony, a full pardon and
amnesty for the offence of treason against
the United States, or of adhering to their
enemies during th civil war, with restora
tion of all rights of property except as to
slaves, and except, also, as to any property
of which any person may have been legally
divested under the laws of the United
Slates.
In testimony whereof I have signed these
presents with my hand, and have caused
the seal of the I'nited States to be hereun
to affixed.
Done at the City of Washington, the
4th day of July, in the year of Our Lord,
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight,
and of the independence of the United
States, of America the ninty-third.
(Signed,) Andrew Johnson.
By the President:
William H. Seward, Secretary of State
Washington, July 3.
" The Strictest Economy."
One of the resolutions of the Chicago
Convention professes to advocate " the
strictest economy" in the administration
of the Government. The party has at
least had a chance to prove the sincerity
of itsjjprofession. It has had" control of
the Government for nearly eight years.—
How has it exemplified what is here pledg
ed by the Convention ? The Boston Post
gives the answer, as follows : " Hundreds
of millions are voted to railway schemes.
Military government is maintained need
lessly in the Southern States, at a cost to
the people of from one hundred to one
hundred and fifty millions a year. Milli
ons on millions more are lavished on that
party machine, the Freed men Bureau, in
which dirty partisans get the places, and
deserving soldiers are allowed ro consider
able share- The revenues arc reduced as
if ingenuity were taxed to the utmost to
bring it about. The pay of Congress is
increased by those who arc to havo the
advantage in their own pockets. A few
millions are denied to the consummation
of certain grand commercial projects of a
truly national and enduring character,
while half a million is spent in a vain par
tisan attempt to depose the President;
and deficiency after deficiency is made up
in the treasury of the Freedmen's Bureau.
•' Strictest economy, " forsooth ! To de
lude the people, taxes are cut down on in
dustry to the amount of certainly eighty
five millions ; but the current expenses
are not rednced correspondingly, and a
huge financial gap will have to be filled
betore the end of the fiscal year. There
never was such a recklessly, wasteful, ex
travagant and corrupt political party in the
country ; and its resolution for economy $t
Chicago is tolerable only as it might be
interpreted in the interests of repeatance
of which we detect pot the faintest sym
toras.''
The Decision of the Supreme Court.
The recent decision of the Supreme
Court of this State by which that infamous
act of a Radical legislature, known as the
Registry Law, has been declared unconsti
tutional, will be hailed all over this great
Commonwealth as an important victory
for the friends of Constitutional Liberty.—
The Radical majority at Ilarrisburg, not
having the true welfare of the people at
heart and filled with chagrin and rage at
their defeat at the State election last fall,
concocted and passed this law, which they
fondly hoped would prevent a large por
tion of the laboring men of the State from
obtaining a vote at future elections.
The Radical leaders well knew that the
coming Presidential contest would be one
of the people against a corrupt and reck
less body of desperate politicians ; a con
test of white men educated to think for
themselves and vote intelligently against
the irresponsible adventurers and ignorant
mob of mi-guided niggers who now seek
to have the controlling power in onr Na
tional elections. It is important, there
fore, for them, that the electorial vote of
Pennsylvania, the second State in the
Union, should be secured for the Radical
candidate. Conscious of the unpopularity
of the iniquitous measures they advocated,
and driven to desperation by their love of
plunder, the Radical legislature at Harris
burg sought to so impede the right of the
white laboring men to vote so as insure at
all hazards a majority in Penn
sylvania at future elections. But this
odious Registry Law, enacted for party
purposes, and in its character so destruc
tive to all that is most conducive to the pu
rity of the ballot-box, was in due time
brought before the Supreme Court of the
Slate, and has met with that condemnation
which ever awaits an oppressive and un
constitutional law at the hands of a just
an ! wise judiciary.
The following extract from the opinion
of the Court, as delivered by Chief Justice
Thompson, will enable the people to form
some idea of the manner in which Radical
representatives enact laws affeting the J
dearest rights of their constituents:
"In the casein hand, which is an act of
the greatest public consequence, the Daily
Legislative Rerortl, and official publication
of the legislative proceedings, gives no ac
count of petitions of the people for the
great change of law attempted or so far
as the city is concerned, that the act was
the work of any committee : but it doe*
.show th >t the provisions of it were virtually
the work of a single member, and presented
to the House in manuscript, ani without
ha vino been printed, passed the House with
out debate. In this shape it went to the Sen
ate, where it was almost immediately anted
to without the allowance of debute or jirint
ing. This may w#ll account for the in
congruous and unconstitutional features of
the act. These facts however, have bad
no weight whatever in producing the re
sult at which we have arrived. They
might well stimulate the activity and the
scrutiny exercised in examining the pro
visions of the act, but they had no other
effect.''— Jetfersoninn.
A Great Curiosity.
The editor of the Griffin Star, after
paying a vi?it to Upson County, gives thr
following account of a great natural curios
ity of Georgia:
The first grand point of interest was the
famous Thundering Springs, located in the
northern part of the countv, about twelve
miles from Thompson. We expected to
find quite a curiosity, but were completely
amazed to find so reinaikable a freak ol
mother nature as this spring. It is located
in the wildest part of the mountains exten
ding through the country, and there in the
solitude of the wilderness, presents a re
markable phenomenon!. The dimensions
of the spring proper are about five feet in
diameter, and of an unknown depth, ex
perimenters have repeatedly sounded its
depth in vain, and n bottom can be reach
ed. The water boils up with gr eat force;
bubbles of gas constantly rise up through
the water, and explodes at the surface.
This gas is highly combustible, and is fre
quently set 011 fire as it makes its escape.
Such is the force with which the water
rises that a human body cannot sink, hut
ia buoyed up in a standing position. It is
a famous bathing place *nd we took the
first opportunity to pluni into the bottom
less well. There we could stand upright
for hours, with nothing to support us but
waiei. The earth around the spring is a
beautiful white san 1, of \erv fine grain,
giving away readily.at the touch of the foot,
but immediately reforming as before The
temperature is delightful and the waters
are invaluable, especially for diseases of
the skiu and blood. The spring constantly
makes a low, rumbling noise, from which
it derives its name.
Tae NEW TAMMANY IIALI.. —This mag
nificent Hall, built by the Democracy of
New York, and which was built for the
Democratic National Convention which as
sembled in that city, on the Fourth of July,
cost 5300,000, and has the following pro
portions: It is 115 feet front by 122 feet
deep, and three stories high; but the sto
ries are so high that the building towers far
above its neighbors, and dwarfs the Acad
emy of Music almost to insignificance. Ii
contains a large club room, which is splen
didly furnished; a coiumiiteo room. 35 by
70 feet; a library and reading-room, 32 by
40 feet; a concert room, 52 by 74 feet; a
laige dressing-room for ladies, another for
gentlemen, and several smaller rooms, for
various uses. All of these are below the
third floor, which is the crowning glory of
t/ie building. On this floor is the grand
Hall, 102 byllO feet, with a ceiling 50
feet high, and capacity for seating over
3,000 pet sons. Here the delegates to the
N itional C invention assembled on thu
Fourth of July, and here will be held the
great mass meetings of the Democracy
during the campaign. The Hall is the lar
gest of its kind in the world, and when fin
ished, with its commodious galleries and
grand dome, decorated with appropriate
designs of first-class artists, it w ill certain
y be one of the most beautiful.
Many years ago Colonel Weatherwax, pro
prietor of the Eagle hotel in- , kept an
ass in bis stable, near which stood a puinp.
A lady lived acros* ibe street, having fre
quenily heard I he animal bray, losing all pa
tience, and mistaking the origiu of the discor
dant sounds, exclaimed :
"I do wish Colonel w Weatherwax would
grease his pump-handle, it makes such a
dreadful poise."
mm & IMPS am.
THE IMPEACHMENT
OF THE
President
Has been an exciting topic for some week*
past, but greater interest is now
manifested in the
fact that
SHERMAN & LATHROP.
Have received and opened their
SPRING STOCK
or
Dry Goods
Of all descriptions, and are prepared
to exhibit to their customers aa
fine an assortment as cau be
found in any inland town
in the State. We are
aware that competi
tion in our trade iu
Tunkhannock is
to be unusu
ally brisk
and de-
ter
mined,
and have
selected our
6tock 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 be permitted to show
our stock whether there is a de
sire to purchase or not. The
following comprises a
part of our variety:
SHAWLS, of all kinds,
SACK GOODS, of all kinds,
GINGHAMS,
GLOVES,
MOZAMBIQUE,
LAWNS.
"PERCALE,
MERINOES,
SILKS, all colors,
HOSIERY,
MARSEILLES,
STEEL PONGEE SILK,
ORGANDIES,
CIIAMBRAS,
ALPACCAS,
all ihads
WRITS ALPACCA,
SWISS MUSLIN,
DELAINES from 12* to 25 U
BOOK MUSLIN,
NANSOOKS,
CARPETS,
MATTINGS,
OIL CLOTH,
PARASOLS,
CLOTHS,
CLOTHING,
CASSIMERE?
Gents' Furnishing Goods,
LADIES' GAITERS, 51.25 to A3 pr pair
Balmoral Skirts
for summer,
HOOP SKIRTS,
j CALICO from 10 to 16 eta.
LADIES" BASKETS,
LADIES' RETICULES,
TRUNKS, of all kind*,
Ar., Ac., Ac., Ac-
We invite all to call and see us.
know that our friends and acquaintance*
will do so, and we do not hesitate to say
! that we shall at all times be pleased to see
strangers, and are satisfied that they will
not go awav cross or dissatisfied.
SHERMAN A LATHROP.
Mwy 11, 16<$8,