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BY S. J. ROW.
CLEARFIELD, PA., AUG. 9, 1S65.
TJinON STATE CONVENTION.
A State Convention will be held at Har
risburgon TnmsDAT, the 17th August,
1865, at 12 o'clock m., for the purpose of
putting in nomination a State Ticket, to be
supported by the friends of the Union at
the coming October election.
The earnest and zealous labor of a loyal
people secured the great victory in 1864, and
made the war, which our enemies denounced
as a failure, a glorious success in 1865.
Our flag has been maintained our ene
mies destroyed our Government preserved,
and peace re-established. Let every friend,
who aided in this result, take measures to be
represented in that Convention. We must
gee to it that the fruits of our success are
not lost to the Nation.
Business of vast importance will be pre
sented for its consideration, and every dis
trict in the State should be represented. By
i -1 tt- di.- i n
oraer oi me union oiate venirui uuuiiuii
tee, Simon Casieron, Chairman.,
W. A. Benedict, e . .
WlEN FORNEY, J Secretaries.
THE SEWS.
Every Pardoned Rebel who accepts the
oath of the amnesty proclamation, is a sworn
emancipationist sworn to be eternally and
implacably the foe of slavery. If they did
not solemnly swear to be all this if ev
ery traitor who desires to re-possess him
self of the franchises and the privileges of
American citizenship, did not thus pledge
his honor by his oath forever to resist the
re-establishment of slavery they covld not be
pardoned TIIEY COULD NEVER BECOME
CITIZENS OP THE UNITED STATES. The
oath is explicit, yet some at least of those
who have taken this oath manifest a bitter
hatred and open hostility to emancipation.
This is perjury ? If they cannot comply with
the conditions of pardon, in good faith, they
ought to abide the consequences of their o
riginal crime of treason. Ilonorable men
would do this ; and those who do -not, are,
and should be held, a3 doubly guilty. If a
few examples were made of this class of
traitors, it would have a good effect upon
the mass of them.
The Carlisle (Venwx.) Herald learns that
the family of Judge Ould, late rebel Com
missioner of Exchange, who have been for
some time bearding at the Carlisle Springs,
left the other day in o.uite a huff. The
cause of offence was that on the 4th ult. Mr.
"Woods, the proprietor of the Springs, had
Us house decorated with quite a display of
national flags.
Some of the citizens of Ebensburg, Cam
bria county, have been the victims of a
"Jeremy Didler," named Charles Day, to
of about 1,500. Day represented himselfTas
a Canadian stock dealer, and in various
ways ingratiated himself into the good opin
ion of his victims.
The story that Gen. Kirby Smith was tak
en prisoner, with his 40 companions, by the
Mexican Government, turns out to be un
true. The General arrived safely at Mon
terey, and, after resting a few days, pushed
on for the City of Mexico.
Advices from the Red River of the North
distinctly reiterate the former charge, that
British traders in British sentiments openly
supply hostile bands of Indians with arms
and ammunition to prey on our frontiers.
The United States Military school in
Philadelphia has been closed in consequence
of the cessation of the War. The school
has furnished 500 officers for colored troops,
free of expense to the Government.
A man named Fuller, from Indiana, has
been arrested in Washington for represent
ing himself as an agent of the Republican
Executive Committee, and collecting about
$44,000 from various officeholders.
Mr. Benjamin Everett, aged 101 years, 2
months, and 29 days, died at Fishkill, July
29th. He was a soldier in the war of the
Revolution, and tlirough his long life main
tained an exemplary character.
By the will of the late Marchioness of
Londonderry, which places all her property
at compound interest for the next twenty
one years, the then Earl Yanoe will be the
richest man in England.
The formation of a new county out "of por
tions of Venango, Crawford and Warren
counties is still being agitated, and it will
probably be accomplished.
. Chang arid Eng, the Siamese twins, now
old North Carolina farmers, are soon coming
North to exhibit in public They are 6aid
to be strong Union men.
The oldest inhabitant of Harrisburg is
Mrs. Stone, residing on Ridge road, at the
age of one hundred and seven years, and in
active health. .
A young man named Irwin brutally mur
dered his father and mother at Dqertown,
near Hamilton, Ohio, on Saturday last.
The total appropriation of the last Con
gress will amount to $820,000,000 in round
numbers.
The increase of population in Boston since
1860 is 14,302. : !
Contradiction of a foolish Eumor.
Gen. Iloward has authorized the denial
of the silly and mischievous rumor that he
threatened to appropriate certain lands in
Maryland to the use of superanuated ne
groes, in case their former masters refused
to care for them. The General, as chief
of the Freedman's Bureau, has don? much
toward alleviating the sufferings of the e
mancipated slaves, and preparing them for
a life of honest toil as paid laboring free
men, and he is too wise and moderate to re
sort to the rash and arbitrary measure
charged upon him. But we are glad he has
so promptly authorized this denial, if only
for the reason that it will forestall a vast a
mount of splurgy opposition rhetoric
The Clearfield Republican, last week, pa
raded this rumor, with large heading, be
fore its readers. Will the editor have the
fairness to correct it now, that Gen. How
ard has contradicted it? "Ws will see what
we icdl see f"
The Indian Question.
It is known that on the First of September,
a great council of the Indian tribes will be
held at Fort Gibson to settle their future re
lations with this government. Thirty tribes
will be represented, and it is believed that
more than seventy-five thousand savages
will be present, incuding Creeks, Choctaws,
Chickasaws, Seminoes.Camanches, Osages,
Senccas, Shawnees, Pawpaws and Chero
kees. Gen. F. B. Herron, of Pittsburg, is
one of the Commissioners on the part of the
United States Government. There will
doubtless be much deliberative discussion.
The Indians will smoke solemnly, talk
sententiously, promise earnestly, and in due
course of time resume their favorite diver
sion of the scalping knife, and be gradually
exterminated as they deserve to be. This
is our view of the Indian question. Chron
icle. '
Eichmond Eebellious.
The serpent is scotched, but not slain.
Treason in Richmond is crippled in the'flesh,
but strong and active in the spirit. There
is not enough genuine loyalty in the city to
give it a remote flavor of the Union senti
ment. All the municipal elections prove
this. The indirect menaces of the press
show it. The manners of the people evince
it. It matters very little what these obdu
rate people feel, so that they are not per
mitted to make their malice efficient. The
Government has yet the power to prevent
subdued but unrepentant traitors from af
fecting the policy of the country or shaping
its legislation. A time will come when it
will be debarred from interfering, unless
there is downright revolution. So much
the greater reason that it should note act
with becoming sagacity, firmness and vigor.
Prepayment of Postage.
Previous to March, 1863, all letters were
required to be prepaid, and the people had
become so accustomed to the law that not
more than 50,000 unpaid letters were annu
ally returned to the Dead Letter Office. But
at that date Congress passed a law permit
ting all unpaid letters to pass through the
mails, the receivers of them paying double
rates. This arrangement resulted disas
trously to the postal revenues, and so at the
late Congress the law absolutely requiring
prepayment was restored. The people gen
erally, however, are not aware of this tact,
for the number of unpaid letters returned
to the Dead Letter office averages 14,000
per day.
A Significant occurrence in Mississippi is
described in a letter from Yicksburg. A
rebel planter murdered a freedmanon a very
slight provocation. The military arrested
the assassin, when the newly made Union
officials of the vicinity tried to get him re
leased on habeas, corpus. This has not been
done, General Iloward having ordered Col
onel Thomas to keep his prisoner in custody
at all hazards. If he had been surrendered
on the writ, the assassin would have been
acquitted, as the deed was seen only by
negro witnesses, who are not competent to
testify against a white person by the oldlaws
of Misissippi. '
They have had so much rain lately in Il
linois that the papers are beginning to in
quire whether there is to be a repetition of
the shower which lasted for forty days and
nights. Railroads are being gullied, bridg
es washed away, travel delayed, and busi
ness deranged, and The, Illinois State Jour
nal says that the whole crop of the State is
badly damaged, the wheat is sprouting in
the shock and thereby rendered worthless,
while the millers have improved the oppor
tunity to advance flour $1 25 per barrel.
The Herald's Washington special has the
following: The object of General Butler's
recent visit to Washington proves to have
been to secure the pardon of Mrs. Slocum
and other ladies of New Orleans. The par
don was obtained on Friday, and General
Butler left for New York on the evening
train. He was nnableto obtain an interview
with the President during his stay.
Complaint having been made to President
Johnson of General Palmer's Kentucky
elec tion order, the President telegraphed to
the General, "I hope you will see the laws
faithfully executed;" to which the General
replied, "I will."
The cholera had almost entirely disappear
ed from Alexandria, Egypt, and was de
creasing in Constantinople.
Stand by the Administration.
During the perilous days of the Republic,
when the fortunes of war seemed full of
doubt and uncertainty, and dark clouds low
ered over the country, we were want to
make earnest appeals to the people of the
North to stand firm in the faith of ultimate
victory, and to raise up and strengthen the
hands of him who has since been martyred,
by a cordial sympathy and a practical co-operation
in the great business of putting
down the rebellion. Amid the dangers
and struggles of that time, it was almost
treason to hesitate or doubt. Necessity
seemed to demand an unquestioning sup
port to the Government de facto, regardless
of the political issues he was supposed to
represent.
In the presence of our great emergency
all considerations of political policy were
blotted out, and in the popular expressions
at the polls, during those years, was exhib
ited the solemn sense of the masses, of the
absorbing and controlling necessity of stand
ing by the government regardless of party.
Looking back upon those days upon the
overwhelming defeats which were registered
against the democratic party, and the bitter
odium which attached to those who evinced
a lack of sympathy to the government, we
can see the true secret of our national
strength and our national success. It rest
ed in the exalted loyalty of the masses,
which subordinated everything to an un
questioning loyalty, and cast aside, or at
least postponed, the old issues upon which
they had been arrayed in bitterly hostile fac
tions. It was a sublime spectacle, involving
as it did a demonstartion of reliable high
moral popular sentiment sufficient to pre
serve the nation in so great a crisis.
Now that we have emerged succesfully
from the terrible armed struggle, and have
reverted to a condition of quasi peace, there
are many among us who mistakenly imag
ine that the necessity for a steady and per
sistent support of the Government is at an
end. They forget that in everything ex
cept its armed array, the position of the
South toward the Union is unchanged, and
that in the silent struggle of reconstruction
which has intervened all the fruits
of our bloody sacrifices are involved.
They forget, somewhat too easily, we think,
the unscrupulous nature ot the foes with
whom we have contended, and the unchang
ed bitterness which has animated and will
continue to animate them, until the last de
tail of rehabilitation shall have been irre
vocably settled. They seem to forget that
under the promptings of humiliating defeat
the rebels are still full of that "unconquer
able hate and study of revenge" which ani
mated Milton's Lucifer v and that so far as
results are concerned, the present is a crisis
equally, if not more important, than that
which existed in the darkest hour of the
war.
We deem, it to be now, as much as ever,
the duty of true patriotism to rally around
the national administration, and to sustain
the President by a pronounced and co-operative
popular sentiment in the difficult and
critical task to which he Las fallen heir
through the assassination of his predeces
sor. We believe him to be actuated by the
purest and best of motives, and impelled by
a wise regard for the law, in the enuncia
tions of his po!ic3r. We believe that he has
hit upon the best and most feasible method
of harvesting the fruits our of recent struggle,
and that it differs in no essential from the
policy which would have been adopted and
carried out by Abraham Lincoln had he
lived.
With regard to the great and substan
tial accomplishment of the war the aboli
tion of slavery the President is as firm as
adamant. In that direction he has showed
no shadow of turning, no infirmity of pur
pose. He has laid it down as the corner
stone of his policy that every rebel State
shall harmonize its organic law to that end ;
that it shall return to the Union only
through that gate, and that it must come in
spirit and in truth, emancipated. With
him this is the Alpha and Omego of rehabil
itation, simply because his province extends
no further.
The question of suffrage is one with which
he has nothing to do as the Chief Execu
tive of the Nation. He leaves it where he
finds it with the States themselves under
the indirect coercion involved in the fact
that Congress is the final Judge of the ex
tent of organic preparation necessary to en
title rebel States to resume their Federal re
lations. In substance, President Johnson
has said to the States, "Clothe yourselves
with the altered status which has resulted
from your own acts, and then present your
selves to me. Primarily I will pass upon
the military question involved,and which be
longs to me to decide, as Commander-in
Chief. When I have done so, and have of
ficially recognized you as in a condition of
peaceful allegiance, then, and not till then,
can 3'ou incur the civil law for its judgment
upon your rights. ' '
This is practically what President JonN-
son has declared. It involves the gist of
the whole subject of restoration of the
States, so far as his authority extends. To
that extent it is the duty of every good and
loyal citizen to rally around and sustain him,
as much so as if it were a contest between
him and a foreign power. Buffalo Com
mercial. TnE Price op Gold. The New York
Herald says that there is at present a strong
feeling among the gold operators in Wall
street for a rise in the premium on coin.
The argument is this : That the disburse
ments of the national treasury will pletho
rize the money market, and, as there is no
national loan now to absorb the surplus, a
demand will be created for gold for the pur
pose of hoarding until such time as another
government loan may be authorized, which
cannot take place till Congress meets in De
cember. The increased importations have
also a tendency to raise the price under the
anticipation of a foreign demand. On the
other hand, it is held that the Government,
with a surplus of twenty-five millions, can
at any time prevent a rise by throwing from
two to five millions upon the market, or any
amount sufficient to break down the opera
tions and anticipations of the bulls.
Trophies op the War. The Rebel guns
and ordnance stores captured at Richmond,
great in numbers and quantity, are now in
course of shipment to Fortress Monroe 'and
I)oints further North. The guns comprise a
ot taken from Drury's Bluff, of the Arm
strong pattern, but made at Richmond. Al
so rude brass pieces of Southern make, and
quaint old French guns which were- stored
away in Government arsenals, and which
were brought forth to do service by the reb
el authorities in the hour of need.
EmmigTation From and To the South. ,
The evidence id apparent, in Southern
papers, that the leading families in many
localities of the" South, are resolved to
"leave their country's good." Havirg an
nounced to the world - that they were the
"superior class" in this country, having
vauntingly declared their purpose to rule
the entire Union or divide it to suit their
objects and their interests ; and having ut
erly failed, after tour years of bloody war,
backed by the tyrants of the world, in all
this work, the leading men of the rebellion
now announce their determination to leave
their several localities in the South, to seek
such homes in other lands as will best suit
their interests and meet their inclinations.
Brazil seems to be the locality most popular
as a home for the beaten and disgraced
traitors. There i3 nothing strange that
Brazil should be selected as a ref uge and a
home by the old aristocrats of the South
whose efforts to break up and destroy a free
Government have proven such a woful fail
ure. The ruling classes of Brazil are per
haps the most aristocratic and the most ig
norant and indolent in the world. Negro
slavery, in its worst brutalities, is maintain
ed by the Brazilians ; the slave trade flour
ishes along its coast, and in every respect,
the men who fought to become faithless to
freedom, and who are now preparing to leave
the Southern States, will find congenial
spirits and pleasant employment for their
whips in Brazil. Of course this emigration
from the South will prove beneficial to every
locality thus ridden of its idle material and
traitor inhabitants. The Southern man who
after having been fairly defeated in fiercely
contested battles, by the National authori
ties the man who, after having witnessed
the power and sublime energy of the Gov
ernment, i3 not inclined to swear allegiance
to it and accept its terms of peace, is better
out of than in the Union. The emigration
from the Southern States impelled by feel
ings of hostility thus to leave the country,
cannot affect the prosperity, the future de
velopment or the political glory of the
South. All this is established in the fact,
that a better class of men are taking and
will take the places of those thus leaving, so
that in the end, the South will be benefited
and the States and National government
strengthened by the change of citizens..
The southern journals which allude to
the emigration from the South, refer also
to the fact that Northern capital, capitu
lists, artizans, artists, and laborers are ex
hibiting their influence in the Southern
States, giving a wide scope to improvement,
imparting a great impetus to trade, and en
couraging enterprise in a manner not only
to astound, but actually to exasperate the
heretofore "ruling" and "superior class" of
the South. To the student of history there
is nothing strange in all this it is merely
history repeating herself. When, many
hundred years ago, the hardy Goth left the
cold and unproductive region of the Baltic,
and marched into Southern Europe, he e
vinced no diposition to abandon a country
he had conquered. The genial clime of It
aly wooed the Goth, and lie adopted it as
his home unwilling to leave her fertile
fields or quit a land of such beautiful promise.
In our own day, the men of the far North,
the conquerors of the South, thebardy, ro
bust mechanics and laborers who went forth
to battle with and crush treason, are now un
willing to leave the South. It is the pres
ence of these men which is driving off the
rotton aristocrats of the lately revolted
States to seek refuge in such lands as Bra
zil. It is the influence of Northern capital,
Northern genius, and the hardy stroke of
Northern laborers which will give new life
to the South, new power and glory to the
whole country.
Soldiers' Discharged.
J ust before the order for the disbandment
of the armies was issued, we are informed,
that it was the rule in the Quartermaster's
Department to dispose of army horses to
honorably discharged soldiers' at nominal
prices. When a soldier "presented his dis
charge, he was allowed to select a horse at
any of the corrals, at a price far below the
actual value of the animal. This course
was adopted, we learn, as a part of the sys
tem of rewards in operation to requite faith
ful private soldiers for services rendered to
the country. But like most plans to do jus
tice to the brave, it was soon corrupted by a
set of sharpers,' who organized a movement
to buy the discharge papers of soldiers, and
with these documents engage in a regular
business of buying and selling horses. By
this move the soldier was not benefitted to
the extent calculated. The horses which
the Government supposed would be distrib
uted over the country, in the hands of sol
diers, and by those men used in some legiti
mate business of acquiring a livelihood, fell
into the possession of speculators, to gratify
their sordid desires of making money. When
the practice, as we have described it, became
a nuisance, the system was broken up, and
therefore the discharges ot soldiers ceased
to be a mercantile article in the market.
We make this explanation in answer to the
inquiries of several soldiers who have writ
ten to us on the subjest of the sale of their
discharges. An honorable discharge in the
hands of a soldier who has fought in the
war to crush rebellion should be of a value
above all price, and should be preserved as
an heir loom to be handed down to the latest
generation. Telegraph.
Gold srilTsells aVabout 145.
. . Scenes at the English Elections.
The Parliruentary elections in England
were attended with an unusual amount of
disorder and rioting. We give a few in
stances, to show how they manage such
things in the mother country. Here is
what happened in the town called Chippen
ham, near Bristol :
"During the remainder of the afterneon
the polling booths were surrounded by in
furiate mobs. A farmer named Croaker,
residing at Ash Hill Farui, was seized, and
knocked down, and very much beaten, and
a policeman who wont to his assis ance
shared the same fate. At about 9 o'clock a
large crowd attacked the Great Western
Hotel, and smashed nearly all the windows.
One of the ringleaders was apprehended and
conveyed to the police station, where the
mob followed him,andafter smashing several
windows with stones, demanded his release,
and with a view to conciliate the irritated
mob, the man's name was taken and he was
set at liberty. Almost simultaneously with
this outbreak occurred two others. The
first took place in the Market place, in
which several hundred took part. They at
tacked the Angel Hotel, kept by Mr. Lawes
but that gentleman, assisted by some of the
waiters , adopted a rather judicious method
of keeping them at bay. From an upper
window they threw a large number of ginger
beer bottles, &c, at them; but this only ex
asperated them the more, and when Lawes
had discharged his whole stock of ginger
beer bottles at them, they renewed the at
tack, and did not cease until every pane of
glass (numbering 250) in front of the build
ing was destroyed. The window panes were
broken, and some slight damage done to the
furniture in the rooms. Having satisfied
themselves here, the mob proceeded to the
house of Mr. Jacob Philips, (late Mayor,)
which adjoins the Angel Hotel, and, after
breaking the windows and the window
frames, hurled large stones at the window
shutters, breaking them into splinters. Stones
were then showered into the front rooms
large chandeliers destroyed, and several val
uable paintings. It is estimated that the
damage done to Mr. Philips' property alone
will exceed 300. Mr. E. Spencer, who
occupied the adjoining house, fared no tet
ter. All the windows in his front rooms
were demolished, and a great quantity of
valuable furniture. His loss will be about
300. After smashing the windows of Mr. !
Rich, butcher, nearly opposite, the mob
broke into the place, and threw the whole
of the meat that could be found into the
street. The houe of Dr. Colborne was also
attacked, and the' doctor, who was said to
be in a dying state, was obliged to have the
assistance of his servants, who held boards
over the bedroom window in order to pre
vent the missiles striking him. All the
windows at the vicarage were broken, and
the wanton wickedness of the mob may be
gathered from the fact that the gravestones
were torn up from the churchyards, and, af
ter being shattercl into fragments thejpieces
were flung through the windows at the
vicarage. The borough only contains about
twelve police officers, who acted irost cour
ageously under the circumstances, but they
were utterly powerless, and some of them
received slight injuries from the stones. Up
wards of 200 of the inhabitants were sworn
in as special constables. Later in the day
orders w re issued to close all houses and
beer-houses at 6 o'clock. Telegrams were
sent to Bristol and the metropolis for the
assistance of the military. The total dam
age istimated at from 2,000 to 3,000."
Cattle Epidemic in the Mississippi Vail ey.
The Memphis Bulletin reports, concerning
the recently announced cattle distemper in
a part of the Mississippi Yalley, as follows :
We learn from a geutleman who has just
returned from a visit to Philips and Crifton
den Counties, Ark., that the planters in the
Mississippi bottom have been, and are still,
suffering severe loss by the death of their
horses, mules, cattle and hogs, by a most
singular disease, which is carrying them off
in great numbers.
In the early part of summer an incredible
number of black gnats made their appear
ance in the bottoms, and attacked not only
cattle and horses, but also birds, wild turk
eys, deer and other game, with such ferocity
as to kill, in a short time, quite a number of
animals. After the disappearance of the
gnats a disease broke out among the cattle,
horses and hogs, and has been raging for
some time,and is still prevailing, though the
indications are that the epidemic for such
it appears to be is abating. This disease
resembles very closely erysipelas, the attack
ed swelling up, sometimes under the breast,
at other times on ' the side, but more fre
quently under the throat, and dying gener
ally in from 24 to 43 hours after being at
tacked.
Our informant conversed with several in
telligent planters who have been great suf
ferers by this strange disease, among them a
physician eminent in his profession, and all ot
them concurred in the opinion that it was
closely allied to erysipelas, and also that the
visitation of the gnats in the early part of
the summer had some influence in produc
ing the disease. It is thought that the great
amount of poison which was necessarily ab
sorbed into the system by the bite of the
gnat which is a most poisonous insect is
developing itself in the disease which is now
ravaging the whole animal race in that re
gion. Some cases, when taken in time, are
cured by precisely the same treatment prac
ticed in cases of erysipelas, painting with
anodyne the effected parts have a fine effect.
The losses of stock, especially of hogs,
has been very great. One planter in Wal
nut Bend has lost over 200 hogs and seven
horses and mules, beside oxen and milk
cows. Another, living a short distance a
bove the one named, has lost 13 mules and
horses, and hogs and cattle in proportion.
This is only two of many similar instances
of losses sustained.
On Saturday morning it was reported that
two men, who had been treating their cat
tle for the prevailing disease, had been sim
ilarity attacked, their throats swelling in an
alarming manner.
At Randolph, Wis., on Monday, farmer
Windsor took a young girl with him to a
circus. Straightway his wife bought some
arsenic This she inserted into a pie, of
which her husband was fond. He ate it
next day at dinner, and that night was past
the region of flirtation.
At Quebec, Miss Eliza Smith saw a man
kill a duck, and the sight of the blood pro
duced such a nervous shock that she died in
a few minutes alterward.
The National Debt.
The offical statement of the public del
as appears from the books of the Treaurv'
Department on the 31st of July, shows tZ
amount oustanding to be $2,657,253,27; S5
divided thus, viz : '
The debt bearing interest in coin is
108,662,641 80, on which the interest is
$64,52137 50. '
The debt bearing interest in'awful money
is $1,2S8,156,545, on which the interest i
$74,740,630 78.
The debt on which interest has ceased is
$1,527,120.
The debt bearing no interest is $357 906
969. ' '"
The total interest both in coin and lawful
money is $138,262,46S 27.
The legal tender notes in circulation are
as follows :
One and two year 5 per cent.
notes, . $3C,954.2S0
United States Notes, old issue, 472.603
United States Notes,new issue, 432,6S7,9C6 '
Compound Interest Notes, Act
of June 30, 1864. 197.121,470
Total Legal Tenders in circu
lation, $685,236,209
The amount of fractional currency is $25 -
750,000.
The uncalled-for pay, requisitions and
miscell-meous items of the War and" Navy
Departments amount to $15,736,000.
The amount of coin in the Treasury is
$35,338,000; and of currency, $81,402.
000. Total amount in Treasury, $116,739 -632
59.
Gen. Pillow, in a speech at Columbia,
Tennessee, declared the franchise law of
that State a just one ; acknowledged him
self disfranchised, saying he would stay a
way from the polls, and advised all in like
condition to do the same. He considered
the new State Government legitimate;
though the South had fought gallantly, and
had been whipped gallantly, and now all
ought to submit to the laws. Pillow exhib
its more sense than his Northern Copper
head allies, who insist that the relels have
not been whipped, that the confederacy is
not a failure and that the rebellion must bo
resussitated at a fitting opportunity.
Bennet, of the New York Herald, is very
anxious just now to be regarded as a prophet,
in having predicted that the Government
would conquer a peace. But at" the out
break of the war,' the wily Scotchman de
posited $100,000jn gold as a capital to fall
back on, then relieving that the Govern
ment would go to pieces. How many more
are there like Bennet all over the land, wlio
at first believed in the power of the traitors,
but since the people have' conquered, have
rather suddenly become very patriotic.
It is said that President J ohnson has ex
pressed his intention of placing a frigate at
the disposal of John Bright, should that
English Statesman desire to visit this coun
try. John Bright would receive, should he
come here, a reception surpassing that ac
corded to any foreign visitor si'vjjLafav
ettc. We hope he will be indnSoto come,
but doubt his willingness to leave the in
terest of the English masses for a single
day.
A rebel soldier recently returned to his
home in Marshall county, Mississippi, and
found that during his absence his wife had
been married to an jther man. He killed
the interloper, and shot the woman in the
arm, and supposing that he had terminated
her existence, blew out his own brains. The
woman has recovered, and, it in maliciously
intimated, is looking out for another spouse.
The population of Newbern, N. C, is in
creasing at the rate of ten thousand a year.
The city before, the war. numbered about
6,000 ; it now numbers about 30,000, which
makes it the largest city in the State.
This rapid growth is owing to the enterr rise
and wealth of the Northern element. Two
new daily papers are to be started in New
bern this fall, which will make three.
gear gulvcrttenucttte.
Advertisement et in large type, tuts, or out of u.ruat
ttyle will be charged double price for tpaee occupied.
VALUABLE PROPERTY AT PRI
VATE SALE The undersigned offers for
sale, bis house and lot on Market street, in Clear
field a desirable residence for" a small family.
Also, 4 town lots, known as the '-Brick-yard lots,"
under good fence, and on which there is sufficient
clay to make from 400,000 to 500,000 brick. For
further particulars and terms apply to
Aug. 9, 1365-3in-pd. WM. JONES.
N . B. Two stoves are also for sale.
VALUABLE TIMBER LAND AT PRI
VATE SALE. The undersigned is desir
ous of selling at private sale a valuable tract of
timber land, situate on Little Anderson creek, in
Pike township, adjoining lands of A.Kratser's es
tate and Widemires Iimds The tract contains
209 aeres, more or less, covered wiih good white,
pine timber, which can easily be run to market as
the Little Anderson creek runs through the tract.
For further information oall on Mrs. K-atier
living near the land or on
J. ELLIOTT KRATZER.
Aug. 9, 1865. Cnrwensville, Pa.
SALE OF REAL ESTATE OF E. B.
SMEAL, DEC'D Notice is hereby given,
that by virtue of an order of the Orphan's Court
of Clearfield county. Pa., granted at June Term,
A. D. 1864. the undersigned will expose to sale at
publio vendue or outcry, on the preinisos at Cur
wensville, en Friday, the 1st dav of September.
A. D. 1865. at 2 o'clock p.m., the real estate of
E. B. Smeal, dec.d. being a lot of ground, form
erly with a shop thereon, situate in Curwensvine
Borough, bounded and described as follows, vi.
On the North by the Methodist Church lot, ontne
East by street running by said church .AD.?.e':
son creek, on the South by an al'.ey.on the west
by said church lot, being about 25 feet square,
more or less. . Z. McNaUL.
August 9th, 186f. Admr.