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BT 9. J. BOW.
CLEARFIELD, PA., JUNE 21, 1S65.
THE LATEST NEWS.
Jay Cooke, of Philadelphia, is out in a
pamphlet, advocating the utility of the Na
tional debt as a bond of Union, and as a
basis of National development. He thinks
it better that the debt should remain for
some time rather than to be paid off at once.
The following is the paragraph which gives
the spirit of the entire article : "Let us ac
cept public debt as public wealth, as a bond,
both political and National, of safe-guard to
our industry, and as a basis of cur banking
our orphans' and widows' fund, and our
National debt rightly managed will be a na
tional blessing."
Senator Doolittle, of Wisconsin, writes to
lion. James Harlan, Secretary of the Inte
rior, that there are apprehensions of an ex
tension Indian war in upper Arkansas 5,
000 warriors having banded together to
make war on exposed white settlements.
Senator Doolittle thinks war may be avoid
ed if justice is d3ne the chiefs, they having
lost confidence in the whites since the butch
ery of the Cheyennes, on Land Creek, an
affair in which the whites were to blame.
The Secretary of War will give the matter
his early attention.
John M. Botts has "defined his posi
tion." He is not opposed to the division of
the State, (Virginia), regards F. II. Pier
pont as the lawful Governor, accepts the
abolishon of slavery, doubts the validity of
the Alexandria constitution, and asserts
that Gen. Patrick has appointed disloyal
men to office in Richmond, and disapproves
his action.
The returns from Colorado to the General
Land office show a great rapidity in land op
erations in Denver, in that Territory, under
the preemption and homestead laws. Two
thousand and fifty-six acres at that place
have already bceu taken with bounty land
. -i i i -
warrants, ana a numoer oi saies nave aiso
been made at Saginaw, Michigan.
' Alex. II. Stephens' application for a spe
cial pardon covers about 72 pages of fools
cap paper. lie reiterates the old State
rights doctiine in justification of his course,
and upon this principle demands exemption
from the amnesty proclamation. Such ef
frontary needs a little "snubbing."
A delegation of prominent democrats wait
ed on the President, last wesk, and had a
pleasant interview. The President told them
that he intended to administer the Govern
ment for the good of the whole people, and
not for any party.
The Lulepewlent says it is reported that
& subscription paper for Gen. Lee is being
circulated in New York on which $00,000
tie already subscribed. e presume no
t.nly loyal man's name will be found there
cr.
Gen. Howard has a very satisfactory let
ter from the work of freedmen on the South
Carolina coast. Nine thousand colored
children attend school, and forty thousand
freedmen are at work cultivating the crops.
Ben Wood, editor oi the N. i'ork Daily
A'eics, it is said will be arrested on a charge
of treason. This, according to Copperhead
logic, will be an innovation on the freedom
of the press.
On the 1st of May there were one million
one hundred and forty thousand men on the
pay roll. Since then about one hundred
and fifty thousand have been mustered out
and discharged.
The official list of casualties of Gen.
Grants campaign, from the crossing of the
Itapidan in May 1SG4 to the surrender of
Lee's army, foots up nearly ninty thousand.
It is said that in a short time 25,000
Southerners from Texas will be in Mexico,
and that the sympathies of the leading men
of that party will not be with Maximilian.
The President's amnesty proclamation
created much excitement in New Orleans.
The classes excepted from pardon were more
numerous than had been expected.
Harry Gilmore, the rebel guerrilla chief
whoro Ted a train on the Baltimore and O
hlo railroad, about a year ago, is to be in
dicted and tried for treason.
It is still uncertain asto where Jeff Davis
will be tried, but the opinion is prevalent
that the trial will take place at Baltimore
before Judge Chase.
Large numbers of paroled rebels, officers
as well as soldiers, have recently arrived in
New Orleans, and settled down to the quiet
routine oi private me.
A very destructive fire occurred in De
troit on the uight of the 15th loss about
$140,000. The State prison was damaged
$40,000.
Extensive preperations are being made
lor the laying of the corner stone of the
Gettysburg monument on July 4th.
Robert E. Lee and Alex. II. Stephens,
lave petitioned the President, asking special
podoju to h granUd them.
War In South America.
South America, restless and excitable, has
another war upon its hands, which has been
commenced by Paraguay against the Argen
tine Republic, without previous notice it is
said, and in a summary way. Corrientes,
an Argentine Province, was invaded, and
two steamers of the Central Government
were captured in the River Parana. It is
further said that upon one of these vesels
some forty-four pers&ns were murdered in
cold blood. It is alleged that by treaty be
tween Paraguay and the Argentine Repub
lic it was agreed that war should not be
commenced except upon six months previ
ous notice, a provision which, in the pres
ent instance, wa3 altogether disregarded.
This bold movement cannot result in any
thing but active opposition. The Argen
tine Republic will be sustained by Brazil
and the Banda Oriental Governments,
which in combined population are more than
seven to one as compared with Paraguay.
They also have armies, fleets, and disposi
tion to fight, so that the problem so boldly
proposed by Paraguay may end in a solu
tion not expected by that aggressive power.
Bennett on Negro Suffrage.
The New York Herald makes the follow
ing suggestion, which smacks of originality
to say the least: "We would give the suf
frage at once to four classes of Southern ne
groes. First, and emphatically, to every
negro who has borne arms in the cause of
the United States ; second, to every negro
who owns real estate ; third, to every negro
who can read and write ; andfourth, to ev
er' negro who had belonged to any religious
organization or church for five years before
the war. These points would cover every
one that ought to vote, and they would in
sure in every negro voter a spirit of man
hood as well as dicipline; some practical
shrewdness, intellectual development, and
moral consciousness and culture. . It is well
worth the consideration of the President
whether something like this should not be
included in the scheme of reconstruction.
Prom Eio Janeiro.
By late dates from Rio Janeiro we have
the gratifying intelligence of the safe arrival
at that place of Professor Aoassiz, who
had had an agreeable interview with the
Emperor of Brazil. The Professor, with
his staff of servants, intends to remain a few
months to explore the neighborhood the
Brazilians looking upon the movement as
the prelude to the development of the resour
ces of the empire, which have for so long
lain dormant and then proceed to Peru by
way of the Amazon river. Rio was lively
with volunteers arriving from the interior
and departing for the Paraguayan expedi
tion. A meeting is to "be held for promot
ing the interests of the American line pack
ets. Agents have arrived from the United
States for the purpose of selecting lands for
the cultivation of cotton, sugar, Sec, and
two sites have already been secured.
"Talking Trade."
The proclamation by the President, res
toring trade with the south, is probably the
most important step yet taken in the work
of reconstruction. There was much sound
philosophy in the remark of an old mer
chant, when he advised that we should
"talk trade"' to the South. Not rclying-on
that wholly, we can safely assume that trade
will be an important instrumentality in re
storing the era of perfect good feeling and
sound policy. We almost see the end.
Within twenty days, trade, foreign and do
mestic, in all but articles contraband of war,
will, unrestricted, except by laws and regu
lations, apply to all parts of the country.
A resumption of the commercial intercourse
existing before the rebellion will speedily
follow, and with it, it is to be hoped, the re
vival of the arts of peace.
The United States and France.
Secretary Seward makes known that offi
cial information has been received that the
Imperial Government of France has with
drawn the restrictions on American vessels
of war in French ports, and also that the re
cognition of beligerent rights in rebels
has been wholly withdrawn. It it also sta
ted that this step has been taken by the im
perial Government, purely in the interest of
friendship and justice toward this country.
England, which should have been first, will,
it is presumed, follow in the wake of Napo
leon, as it has become her fashion to do on
most great questions.
Emigrants from Scotland.
We see it stated that several gentlemen
from Scotland have arrived in Washington,
representing a large Emigration Society in
that country, having a capital of seven hun
dred and fifty thousand pounds, which they
propose to invest in Southern lands if suffi
cient inducements are offered. The Society
is mainly composed of the industrial classes,
and on the reception of a favorable report
from their representatives here, will increase
their capital to one million pounds, and com
mence emigrating immediately.
The Progress of Eeconstrnction.
President Johnston has appointed An
drew J. Hamilton to be Provisional Govern
or of Texas, and James Johnston to be
Provisional Governor of Georgia. The terms
of the Proclamations appointing these gentle
men are indentical with that in the case of
Mississippi. But three of the seceeded
States, Alabama, Florida and South Caroli
na, remain to b provided with Governors.
Late from Texas.
The Herald's correspondent in the Gulf
Department, furnishes interesting accounts
of the incidents preceding, attending, and
following the occupation of Brownsville,
Texas, on the 31st ult., by the national
troops under General Brown.
The rebel troops previous to evacuating
the place, mutinied, pillaged the town, and
made prisoners of some of their officers un
til their demands for the payment of their
back dues were complied with. The rebels
left the day previous to Gen. Brown's arri
val, not waiting to be paroled or to comply
in any manner with the terms of Gen. Kir-
by Smith's surrender. Large numljers of
them moved across the Rio Grande into
Mexico, taking with them their arms.
Their artillery they sold to the Mexican
Imperialists at Matamoras. It is said that
the last of the rebels were driven from
Brownsville by the Mexican residents, who
organized a home guard for the preserva
tion of order, soon after the evacuation
commenced. After taking possession of
Brownsville, Gen. Brown wrote a letter to
Gen. Mejia, the Imperialist commander at
Matamoras, insuring him that neutrality
would be observed by the American force in
regard to the contest in Mexico between the
Republicans and Imperialists.
On the 2d inst. the rebel Generals Kirby
Smith and Magruder were received on board
the United States steamer Fort Jackson,
Captain Sands, off Galveston, when the ar
ticles of surrender of all the Trans-Mississippi
forces, were signed by General Smith.
The next morning the rebel officers were
conveyed back to Galveston, and on the 5th
instant Captain Sands, and other officers,
proceeded up to the town, landed arid- re
ceived its surrender from the Mayor, and
once "more unfurled the national flagover the
public buildings in the presence of a large
but undemonstrative and orderly assemblage
of the people.
The Pate of Sam. Houston.
A correspondent at Cleveland, signing
himself "A Texan Refugee," writes con
cerning the fate and whereabouts of Gen.
Sam. Houston; "Governor Houston is dead,
having deceased early in the year 1363, a
bout two years after the inauguration of the
rebellion. And I may add. he died of a
broken heart." The writer corroborates
the statements that have appeared in the
press, of Gen. Houston's resistance to the
last , of the schemes of the Secessionists.
He says, a short time before the death of
of Gen. II., "A party or mob proceeded to
his house for the purpose of hanging him
because his opposition to secession, and es
pecially on account of his Union sentiments,
promulgated, a short time previously, in a
speech delivered by hini at Houston. A
few of his neighlors banded together, and
succeeded in staying the hellish intentions of
the mob, by representing to them that he
was in bed, and not likely to survive long.
A few days after, he passed away, a mar
tyr to his beloved country." These threats
which did not shake the purpose of the fath
er, caused his son (an only son) to take up
arms with the rebels against the Union.
From Brazil.
The Rio Janeiro papers of May Tth, con
tain the speech of the Emperor of Brazil at
the opening of the National Congress. He
alludes to the difficulty with the United
States Government in conrequence cf the
seizure in the Brazilian waters of the rebel
steamer Florida, and of the interruption of
amicable relations with Great Britain, but
states that the justice of Brazil's protesting
against the former was admitted and hopes
that in the latter the proposed mediation
may result equally satisfactory. The termi
nation of the war with Araguary is announc
ed, and allusion to the pending hostilities
with Paraguy, which the Emperor had no
doubt, from the manner in which his appeal
for volunteers had been responded to, would
terminate with success to his Empire Don
Pedro also informs his Congress that he has
recognized Maxamilian as Emperor of Mex
ico. Of the present condition of his own Em
pire, politically, internationally and financi
ally, he gives altogether a very favorable
view.
North Carolina Credit.
The credit of the old North State, always
good, is likely to be maintained. Governor
Holden estimates the quantity of cotton,
turpentine and other property belonging to
the State will net from three to five millions
of dollars, which sum will pay off the inter
est on the State bonds issued before the
war, as well as a large margin for contingent
and emergent expenses until a system of
State taxation is adopted. This willingness
to pay the indeptedness, this manifest good
faith, will place those bonds at their old val
ue, and it is hoped enable the State Treasury
to raise money on the issue of new bonds.
The Atlantic. Cable Completed
The Atlantic telegraph cable, says an En
glish paper, was completed on the 29th.
The completion was witnessed by a numer
ous and distinguished paity, and as the end
was deposited in the tank hearty cheers were
given. The company then adjourned to the
Ship Tavern, where a sumptuous banquet
was given m honor of the event by the Tele
graph Construction and Maintenance Com
pany (late Glass, Elliot & Co.), the
makers of the cable.
The present valuation of property in Cin
cinati is $43,525,000 ; an increase of $14,
000,000, over last year.
A Plea for "White-washing.
She negroes are free. This is one of the
many unexpected consequences of the re
bellion, which was intended to make them
slaves for ever ami ever: They are not free
monkeys, but tree men. This brings them
within the range of political science. Hence
the negro question becomes a sequel of the
slave question. The war has made them
free. But they lack one thing yet. They
must be white-washed. Emancipation re
moves only its disabilities, if some chem
ist would invent a process for bleaching the
negro skin, he would be all right, and the
negro question would be settled for ever
like the slave question. The trouble about
the negro lies ma nly in hfs skin, just below
the epidermis. The difficulty in the laws
lies matn'y in two words, found in the nat
uralization laws and elsewhere wherever the
negro had no business to be, under the o!d
slavery, regime. The words "free white,"
shut him out, however free he was, and
however white he was, unless he had both
together. There were free uegroes.and there
were slaves, sio white as their masters, and
looking vastly like them. But these, not
being both free and white, were shut out
from the republican law provisions. One of
these disabilities has been removed. One
half of the door that shut out the negro has
been opened. This lets in those slaves who
are white. But still the white-washing or
bleeching is wanted for the black free man.
The flat nose and the thick lips are no hin
drance, but the second stratum of the hide
must be cleaned of its coloring matter. The
law of nature or the naturalization law must
give way. The black must be bleached out
of the skin, or the "white" expunged from
the law. We wait the decision of the mat
ter with great interest and patience. Pitts
burgh Commercial.
The Negroes of North Carolina.
It is represented that the negroes of North
Carolina are greatly disappointed because
they are not to be at once admitted to the bal
lot box. They had made themselves believe
that equality to this extent would immedi
ately follow emancipation. But the more
educated, it is represented, perceive the ne
cessity of proceeding with caution, and do
not deny the general lack of intelligence at
once to use the ballot understaudingly, and
that the tendency would be for "the field
hands" to be controlled measurably by t heir
old masters. There would appear to a dif
ference of opinion even among the negroes
themselves, the best conditioned and most
intelligent holding not to perfect epualitv,
but that they should be admitted first to the
ballot box, the rest as soon as they under
stand the duties and responssbilities of an
elector. It is a fortunate circumstance that
in North Carolina, under Governor Holden,
the policy of President Johnson will receive
a favorable interpretation and liberal sup
port in the interest of freedom and justice.
The ensuing convention to revise the State
constitution is likely, it is said, to be com
posed of fair men, disposed to deal honestly
and in a progressive spirit, with the great
questions growing out of the changed situa
tion of the South; and there is reason for
believing that the systematic oppression of
the treedmen. which has been reared and
predicted, will not be attempted, at least in
that State.
Our Fleet at Havana.
The part of our fleet which has recently
sailed to Cuba was received with the most
distinguished honors, not only by the Cap
tain General, but by officers at the port, and
by the citizens. Whatever partialities may
have been ascribed to the Spaniards in re
gard to our domestic controversies during the
progress of the war, there seems to Tbe no
mistake as to the present tendencies of their
sentiments. The honors they paid to the
officers of our fleet were hearty, emphatic,
demonstrative and honorable. Salutes, re
ceptions, balls, parades and banquets were
the order of the day ; the Captain-General
visited the fleet, dwelling with delight upon
the efficiency of our monitors and the beauty
of our war-ships; and the leeiproeation of
kindly feeling was in every respect worthy
of the representatives of two great nations.
Medal to Mrs. Lincoln.
The following information was received at
Washington a short time since :
A popular subscription of about two cents
er head was commenced at Nantes, in
Vance, for a gold medal for Mrs. Lincoln.
This medal was to have the following in
scription : "Liberty, equality, fraternity
twice chosen President of the Uuited States.
From the grateful democracy of France.
Lincoln honestly abolished slavery, re-established
the Union, and saved the Republic
without veiling the statue of liberty. He
was assassinated on the 14th of April,
18()5." About the 30th of April, when the
number of subscriptions had reached eleven
thousand one hundred and twenty, the sub
scriptions were seized by the police, who
stated that the scheme was to be stopped
everywhere in France.
Comment, on the above, is unnecessary.
"Unconstitutional."
The Supreme Court of Wisconsin have
decided that the law of Congress, requiring
stamps to legal processes, in the beginning
or other stages of a suit,is unconstitutional,
and therefore void, and the stamps on legal
papers not necessary. The ground of the
decision is that the imposition of a tax up
on any proceedings in a State Court is an in
vasion of the right of a State to regulate
proceedings i.i its own courts ; that if Con
gress can tax these proceedings at all, it can
lay a tax that will practically amout to a pro
hibition, and thus legislate the State Courts
out of existence !
A somewhat peculiar exhibition recently
closed at Canandaigua, in New York. It
was a display of sheep, embracing the rarest
stock and variety, and being designed to
show the imrrovements in wool growing
since the shepherd's care has become more
of an occupation than it was formerly in this
country. They had five classes of sheep on
exhibition, the point of perfection being
wool, notflesh. The varieties are American
merinoes, fine merinoes, de laine metfnoes,
long wooled heep, and- middle wooled
heep.
PROCLAMATION BY THE PEESIDENT
The Restoration of Mississippi, etc
A Proclamation by the President of the
United States :
Whereas,, By my proclamation of the 29th
of April, 1SG5, all restrictions upon internal,
domestic, and commercial intercourse, with
certain exceptions therein specified and set
forth, were resumed in such parts of the
States of Tennessee, Virginia, North Caro
lina, Suth Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Al
abama, Mississippi, and so much of Ixwisi
ana as lies east of the Mississippi river as
shall be embraced within the lines of the
national military occupation ; and whereas,
by my proclamation of t he 22d of May, 1 So5,
for reasons therein given, it was declared
that certain ports of the United States which
had been previously closed against foreign
commerce should, be reopened to such com
merce on and after the first day of July next,
subject to the laws of the United States,
and in pursuance of such regulations as
might be prescribed by the Secretary of the
Treasury ; and whereas, I am satisfatorily
informed that dangerous combinations a
gainst the laws of the United States no long
er exist within the State of Tennessee ;
that the insurrection heretofore existing
within the said State has been suppressed ;
that within the Iwnmdaries thereof the au
thority of the United States is undisputed,
and that such officers of the United States
as have been duly commissioned are in the
undisturbed exercise of their official func
tions. Now, therefore, be it known that I, An
drew Johnson, President of the United
States, do hereby declare that all restric
tions upon internal, domestic, andecastwise
intercourse and trade, and upon the removal
of products of States heretofore declared in
insurrection, reserving and excepting onhj
those.relating to contraband of war as here
inafter recited, and also those which relate to
the reservation of the rightsofthe U. States
to property purchased in the territory of
an enemy, heretofore imposed in the territory
of the United States east of the Mississippi
river, are annulled ; and I do hereby direct
that they be forthwith removed, and that
on and after the first day of July next all re
strictions upon foreign commerce with said
porjts, with ti e exception and reservation
aforesaid, be likewise removed, and that the
commerce of said States shall be conducted
under the supervision of the regularly ap
pointed officers of the customs provided by
law ; and such officers of the customs shall
receive any captured or abandoned property
that may be turned over to them, under the
law, by the military or naval forces of the
United btates, and dispose or such property
as shall be directed by the Secretary of the
.treasury.
The follow ing articles, contraband of war,
are excepted from the effects of this procla
mation : Arms, ammunition, all articles
from which ammunition is made, and gray
uniforms and cloths, and I hereby also pro
claim and declare that the insurrection, so
far as it relates to and within the State of
Tennessee, and the inhabitants of the said
State of Tennessee, are row recognized and
constituted under the recently adopted Con
stitution and reorganization, and accepted
by them, is suppressed ; and therelore, also,
that all the disabilities and disqualifications
attaching to said State, and the inhabitants
thereof, consequent upon any proclamation
issued by virtue of the fifth section of the
act entitled "an act further to provide for
the collection oi duties on imports, and tor
other purposes," approved the 13th day of
July, 1861, are removed; but nothing here
in contained shall by considered or construed
as in anywise changing or impairing the
penalties and forfeitures for treason hereto
fore incurred, under the laws of the United
States, or any of the provisions, restrictions,
or disabilities set forth in my proclamation
bearing date the 29th day of May, 1855, or
of impairing the existing regulations forthe
suspension of the habeas corpus and the ex
ercise of military Jaw in cases where it shall
be necessary for the general public safety
and welfare during the existing insurrection ;
nor shall this proclamation affect or in any
way impair any laws heretofore passed by
Congress, and duly approved by the Presi
dent, or any proclomation or orders issued
by him during the aforesaid insurrection a
bolishing slavery, or in any way affecting the
relations of slavery, whether of persons or
property, but, on the contrary, all such laws
and proclamations heretofore made or issued
are expressly saved and declared to be in full
force and virtue.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and caused the seal of the United
States to be affixed. Done at the city of
Washington, the 13th day of June, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hun
dred and sixty-five and of the independence
of the United States of America the eighty-
ninth Andrew Johnson.
By the President :
'Wat. II. Seward, Secretary of State.
A Proclamation by the President of
the United States:
- Whereas, the 4th section of the 4th arti
cle of the Constitution of the. United States
declares that the United Sta"tes shall guar
antee to every State in the Union a repub
lican form ot government, and shall pro
tect each of them against invasion and do
mestic violence ; and whereas, the Presi
dent of the United States is, by the Con
stitution made Commander-in-Chief of the
army and navy, as well as chief civil execu
tive officer ot the united States, and is
bound by solemn oath faithfully to execute
the office of President of the United States,
and to take care that the laws be faithfully
executed ; and whereas, the rebellion which
has been waged by a portion of the people
of the United States against the properly
constituted authorities of the Government
thereof, in the most violent and revolting
form, but whose organized and armed for
ces have now been almost entirely overcome,
has in its revolutionary progress deprived
the people of the State of Mississippi of all
civil government ; and whereas, it becomes
necessary and proper to carry out and en
force the obligations of the United States
to the people of Mississippi, in securing
them in the enjoyment oi a republican form
of Government.
Now, therefore, in obedience to the high
and solemn duties imposed upon me by the
Constitution of the United States, and for
the purpose of enabling the loyal people of
said State to organize a State government,
whereby justice may be established, do
mestic tranquility insured, and loyal citi
zens protected in all their rights of life, lib
erty, and property, I, Andrew JohnsoD,
President of the United States, and Commander-in-Chief
of the army and navy of
the United States, do hereby arnoint
liam L, Sharkey, of MississiPr iPn4;Il1;
Governor of the State of Mississffi IT1
duty it shall be, at the earlSffe
period, to prescribe such rules and rc.l
tionsasmay be necessary and proper
convening a convention composed of dol
gates to be chosen by that portion of the
people of said State who are loval to ill
United States, and no others, for the rD,
pose of altering or amending the co4
tion thereof, and with authority to exerc
within the limits of said State all the no
ers necessary or proper to enable such ovi
people of the State of Mississippi to restor.
said State to its constitutional relations m
the Federal Government, and to pro J,,
such a republican form of State Govern
ment as will entitle the State to the rdS
antee of the United States therefor, and it
people to protection by the United ta
against invasion, insurrection, and denied!
violence. .
lrovule,l, That in any election that ma
be hereafter held for choosing de-Wat
to any State Convention as aforT
said, no person shall be qualified as an tZ,
tor or shall be eligible as a member of u7h
convention, unless he has previous taUn
the oath of amnesty, as set forth 'jn the
President's proclamation of May 'j ce
and is a voter qualified as prescribed' by th
constitution and laws of the State of MiwJ.
sippi in force before the yth of January
D 1861, the date of the so-called ordinandi
of secession; and the said Convention when
convened, or the Legislature that mav be
thereafter assembled, will prescribe the qua'
ification of electors, and the eligibility V
ner.ons to hold office nnl.r tKa
anu laws vi me oiaie a power tbe peorja
of the several States composing the Federal
Union have rightfully exercised v,.m .i.
nririn rif ( .nrprnniinif ..a V .
time.
And I do hereby direct:
First. That the military commander of
the department, and all officers and versotu
in the military and naval service, aid and
assist the said provisional Governor in car
rying into effect this proclamation, audthej
are enjoined to abstain lr.,m in my war
hindering, impeding, or discourau : the
loyal people from the organization of a'iuu
government, as herein authorized.
Second. That the Secretary of Sut
proceed to put in force all law?of the United
States, the administration whereof llungi
to the State department, applicable tc
grapical limits aforesaid.
Third. That the Secretary of the Treai
ury proceed to nominate for appoiutuietit
assessors of taxes and collectors of custouu
and internal revenue, and such other officer!
ot the lriasury Department as are autLor
ized by law, and put in execution the reve
nue laws of the United States within the
geographical limits aforesaid. In making
appointments the preference shall 1 given
to qualified loyal persons residing within :hu
districts where their respective duties ara
to be performed. But if suitable resiJonu
of the Ji tricts shall not be found, then per
sons residing in other States or districu
shall be appointed.
Fourth. That the Poscmvtor General
proceed to establish post offices a;;i ot
routes, and to put into execution the putl
laws of the United States withiu the iaid
State, giving to loyal residents tba
preference of appointment, but if suitable
residents are not found, then to ajpoiut
agents, eta . from other States.
Fifth. The District Judge of the Judi
cial ditrict in which Mississippi is included,
shall proceed to hold courts within saiJ Statu
in accordance with the provisions of the act
of Congres. The Attorney General will
instruct the proper officer? to libel and bring
to judgment, confiscation, arvl sale, proper
ty subject to confiscation, and enforce ths
administration of justice within said State
in all matters within the cognizance and ju
risdiction of the Federal courts.
Sicth. That the Secretary of the Navy
take possession of all public property be
longing to the Navy Department within
said geograpical limits, and put in opera
tion all acts of Congress in relation to naal
affairs having application to said State.
Seventh. That the Secretary of the Inte
rior put in force the laws relating to the In
terior Department applicable to the geo
graphical limits aforesaid.
In testimony whereof 1 have hereunto set
my hand and caused the seal of the United
States to be affixed. Done at the City of
Wahington this thirteenth day of June, in
the year of our Lord one thousand cighl
hundred and sixty-five, and of the Inde
pendence of the Uuited States the eighty
ninth, Andrew Johnson.
By the President:
"Wat. II. Seward, Sec'r of State.
A Melancholy Titi'Tn. When a rakish
youth goes astra3 friends gather around him
in order to restore him to the path of virtue.
Gentleness and kindness are lav:hed upon
him to win him back again to innocence and
peace. No one would ever suspect that he
had ever sinned. But when a noor. confid
ing girl is betrayed, she receives the brand of
society, and is henceforth driven irom the
ways ot virtue. . J he betrayer is honored,
respected, esteemed ; but there is no peace
for her this side of the grave. Society has
but few loving, helping hands for her. no
smile of peace, no voice of forpivness. These
are earthly moralities unknown to heaven.
There is a deep wrong in them, and fear
ful are the consequences.
txc SWlratteonctttji.
Adverttxemeiitsttt i n larst ty-pt, rutf.urout of usual
stylwnll be eltargrd double prirt for sparroccupitd.
FARMEBS'
.MUTUAL FIRK I.NSl'KANCE COMPA
NY OF YORK, PA.
Insures against loss or damage by fire. It is t"
safest company in tbe State, and "has made no as
sessments since its establishment, and tieace it U
the most economical S. J. KOW, Agent.
June21, 1S65. Clearfield
CASTINGS! CASTINGS !! The under
signed baring refitted the Clearfield Foun
dry, respectfully informs the citizens of Clearfield
and adjoining counties that he is now prep1;'
to make to order, on short notice, Saw and rin
mill irons. Kettles, stoves. Plows, and Plow eaJt
t. AIbo. tnrninir nf all kinds done on
short notice. All orders promptlr attended to.
June 21 I860. EENJAjH-X
CCrt REWARD. A reward of S 1-0 wi"
tJ?lJU be paid for the apprehension and ce-
victionol to mcenamriet wno dh rcitu.y -practicing
their vocation in the the burning
the property of the citiiens of Knox DsDT
The above sum has been raised by roluntary "j
Mription among thecitiiensof said towntnip-"
is left in tbe hands of the District Attornev n
payment. 31AVX
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