THE JOURN A Coudersport. Thursday, April 18; 18 , M. W. 3fcALARY,EY, Emtr:oi. SW - GARDEN SEEDS A Choke variety, fur sale at the corner store of P.A. Stebbins & Co. • ,STATE CONVENTION.-A! , a meeting of the State Central Committee, held at Elar risburg•on the 9th inst., the 26th 'day of June was fixed as the day f,r holding the Union State. Convention. It will meet on that day at Williamiport. Ifir The Pennsylvania LegiSlature has passed a bill making eight holrs a day's 'wink. It declares. that period in be a le gal day's labor in 411 cotton, woolen, silk, paper, br.gging and. flax facioriiA and the same shall be the case in all contracts for mechanics and day laborers. -The Provern or has nqt yet . approved the bO'although there is no doubt of his approval of it. JO" The Legislature bas Passed a bill abolishing the former State :taxes upon money and other personal ,prOperty, and substituting in their place a of $300,- 000 upon the county authorities. This sum is to be apportioned am o ng the re spective counties according to the assessed value of property therein, and":will be paid out of the county mit The State tax upon real estate was removed a yearor two ago, and now the whole system of direct taxa tion for State purposes is a thing of the. past. Sufficient 'revenue .to: limy 'current expenses and interest is ohtaini from banks, railroad cdrnpanies, and othermouey-mak ingassociations. • jar The resolution beforOhe Legisla tureproviding for the detection and' arrest of the murderers of -Nomr and Ann Am ZOOK, two citizens of this Sttite who were foully dealt with last October, in Mississip pi, has failed to pas•, a DemOciatic mem ber, at;the . last moment, objecting it off. It would seem that the Was if the Penn- sylvania Democracy on 'reconstruction co incide with those of the Idissoini brigands. --Phila. Press. * The LegiNlature of Ohio. have not 'only 'passed the resolution subMitting to the People the question whether: the word !'white" shall be stricken from the Con,li -1 tution, but they 'have done mere,lhey amended ihe iesolution so as) to make the I newt constitutional amendment - digfrancbise f desertersi 'This is,. perhaps, la natter : of more practical moment to Most!of the North em .States than the question of colored suffrage. More than this, it indicates the resolute determination of the free people of I this country ' to hunt down and exterminate - this most cowardly class_ oft all traitors. They_ have no right, i to live; in this land, and they are not wantrl. : We call .the , • I attention of tue.Democr, Li and deserters of Pennsylvania to this a / ction, Of the Legisla ture of Ohio. It is a pregnant warning, a promise of what is to come. Ara' The Democracy haye not yet re-- covered from the shock given .to, their nerves by their little eight hundred Note victory in Connecticut. The' rural Demo cratic press . is ‘bOdti itself. ; Our country exchanges come to us covered all over with rain; ant roosteq.l and excited .chickens iii every shape andl condition.! Cocks that Lever crowed when the 01;i of Gettys burg went down ton a country saved, and . our Commonwealth was made illustrious i forever in history- 1 ,-- ; cocks thiti.never crowed When Atlanta was blazing and Richmond - was falling—cockst.hat never crowed when the gates of Libby Sie - re . OPened and the prison dcs.rs of A ndersonville unbarred,noty flap theirdisloyal iv'ngsinevery little disloyal sheet. And why I 3ecause JOSEPH R.HAw-'1 LEY, a veteran soldier of the Yolunteer army, I who, for four. lotig, year stood in . the trenches of Richmond between Penusylv,a- ' nia and - danger, has been tiefe.ate.l in his' own State:--P Aida, Press. . . - Mr. Greeley has presented-an ele gantly bound copy of his 4imerican Con flict to Governor Geary, who one of the conspicuous . characters the n -scenes it go faithfully describes. tar Mr Sumner, a few days ago, made a motion to expel Mr.. Saulsbury from the &nate. A correspondent' tells how this movement was. received • its ; miserable subject: ' • • "During the Executive se sion Saulsbury, who had becoine very dr ink. came over k•-towards Sumner,` and assumed a threaten 'fug attitude, gekticn . lating and announcing! his intention of having satisfaction out of t t l i Samner for introducing till resolution for his expulsion. ! The•Assis nt Serg..ant.at- Arms. promptly interferes ; and with the assistance' f one of the S natUrs, got him into,the coat-room, :where attu nearly di vesting iiiinelf of his clot} ing, he lay down upon the floor and remai .1 until the close of- , '' , -4 , -; , in, when, the. , oorkeeper took iiin:l borne' . JUT A Union State , C ! nvention for Arkansas was held at zlo Little !Rock on the ) 3d instant. Radical r lutiOnS approving the Congressional pl i n of reconst r uction were adopted. A Sta l l? Central Commit.: tee was., appointed• and 'directed to estab lish Union -organizations thro 1 bout the Committee State. °The. Com4esz:t Appoi ed to wait 6.13 Gen. Ord reported dug, be artily ap proved ibe object . off !.he Con • ration and desired to co-operate with then! 1 ' SEMI sex. The negroes Richmond by a Para' on the 3d instant e throug he Rich • , quirer says: "'Mei • i small, of numerous I [( gingerbread and olivf i • ‘tneaniwhite' cletben,•formed, paraded in the squads of thei respective societies they rePres i e l i nted." 71his fling at the "gingerbrerld an olive" fOiks iscli•ei i dedly personal. AV y shouldn't the F. F. V.'s be represented 1:f they want .to be/ They have been tlia 'ruting d a . ' •s too long 1 .to be turned out of the parade now. negroes, ilors---bl' with a rif" The Lindall libtel at St. Louis, the • largest building of its kind on this conti nent if not is the worhl Wl:stolidly destroy ed by fire last Saturday; niAt. There is much mystery about the origiii of the fire. But it is supposed to hale orighiated in 'the fifth story 'and seems to 1 0 ., r , obtained siderable headway befoiidiscorered. L hotel originally cost sooo,oooland ilie I tat loss in building furniture Jle.. is esti ted at $1,600,000. lila The sprospecti.iof die! Democr, party South are snout as good as chances of the redemlition l of rebel s plasters "six months afterthe atificati.)l . I peace between. the Confederate Stott ' the 'United States of America:" I i • ivr The Democratic press all - over the laud have been pretentiously calling On the colored, population to note the fact thug the Ohio Legislature refused.t l o submit to the people a vote on striking out the word , 'white" from their Conktitution, ' 11 - fill these man pipers inforMl their coior'ed readers that the Ohio Leislature has fe cinded their action, and seiitt.hequestrn to 'the people? Will this l e papers. note, too, for their own consideration, that t cis • .. step was taken • &fore the l I ~ r esult of the Connect;cut eleclic;n had p roved ifs 'ie. i res. , ity and' ensured the 'passage of the . • amendment before the people? ( ---- , ----1--- . _, , rm. Thdireturns i !ofthe New Yofic c n- i sits of '1865 have recently been pnblished.' They indicate a slight decline in the pop ulation,' of the entirci . State, as well as of the leading city, as compared with. he returns of 1860. This unexpected result is t.rnb-' ably owing in part' to the fact that while , . the compensation 'of the United States marshals and assistant marshals : was egu hated by the number, of persons returned, .. 1 the State census-takers were paid by the day. It is also .Probable that i in 1866, after tho terrors of draft and' ' they ipress ure of qle internal revenue taxation had ' I been felt, there was ar greater ispOsition . 1— li among heads of families to ma false or incomplete statements.l t •' 1. -.. i, 4 • tar A great war in Euro e Teems to 1 , , . . .I he quite probable, although it may be .' •. :. . . postponed by neotiation, the : difficulties aPpear to b 9 entirOy, too deeP-seated to be overcome in this Wilk viithout l oirie mate real change of policy on; the part of one or more of the great Powers. Prussia has, resumed the old tasSian alliance, and Aus tria is •raVitating in the same direction - through the irregular i plan of a strong friendship for Prussia. llf thosethreegreat ~ Powers reconstruct their alliance in conti , nental Matters, Franceand Eriglatdi must either anticipate a greater wai : than ever . , lor else they must abandon all . innbition to control European laffairs to their Own in terests. England professes to have done the latter, and hits thus far Managed to keep out of the Italian, Danish and Ger man wars. BUt I a great co mplication is I. once more threatened, from which her own . , people will not let her keep aloof; for the I - . obvious reason that it concerns the fate pt Turkey and the road to Inditi.i • , i 1 ser Immigration to this county' from Europe is very large this spring, thO..gli it may be impeded by a late!order of pros sia withholding passports to young :men until they. shall serve twelve years in the army. Very few of the immigrants arriv ing golSbuth, notwithstanding the effort made to influence, them in that direction . A large proportion,l mainly Mechanics. manufacturers and li l borers, remain near the coast, because the, feel the need of lin mediate employthent, This is one of the causes ; cheapens labor in all that sec tion, enabling proprietors Of mills and shop-. to compete sucti•ssfully with those farther{ inland. Must of they immigrants who an.' farmers proceed directly to the west, mans of then, expecting td m setae near friends ,It i acquuiaences who ipve preceded the. Par The rebel GeneralnJohnson pub lishes a long letter defending himself and Stonewall Jackson againSt imputations con tained in Cook's life of the latter. Among oth-r things speaking of the first Bull Rim battle, he says: Most of the rebel troops regarded it deciding the• Whole question and ending the war. 'and thousands of ihern left . the army and went home. The Union army, he says iras "less disor4anized by, defeat than the Confederate army by its triumph." th 4 fall of irr It is announced that . President Johnson has resolved to:appoint none but Democrats ... since the cimnecticut'electi+. 1 y The Democratic party has a pretty hea load to carry since tlui .rebellion; but it hardly deserVed the sad fate of Johnson's friendship. (This last straw would break the the back of any camel that had aback•lto break. • I 1 that city Eir ond - I great' and cic, brown, , 'pub of the qi Nile and Where is! Our Northern Boundary'? If the Huse of ll&Presentatives Makes the necessary appropriation to consummate the purchase of territorY from . RUtisifi, con. templated in the treaty between the Czar and the Unite 4 States, the people of Ore gon and vfat;hington Territory, now u garded as Veing on our extreme northern boundaries, will become - Sontherners. That portion of.our country*Which we haVe been accustomed' to speak of with so much j re spect. "the great Northwest," is t'ae'gi i ;eat. Northwest ,no longer. Stopping at :the line of 49rdeg. north 14tittale; its relative position upon the Pacific coast will hereaf ter he central. We haVe added a very lex tensiye coast hue north 'of' it, which would have . been continuous hid the Polk adrnin istration adhered-to the original programme of "54 deg. 40 min. or fight." As it is we quit the Pacific at 49 (lea, and resume again again at 54 deg.4o l min., the inter. mediate space beirg filed by British pos.. sessions. Commenting on these facts, the- Washington Chr onic(e says our people have faith in the manifest destiny of our nation. They look to? the eventual ab sorption of the whose NOrth American con tinent, and the Senate has undonbtedl) gratified a national instinct by ratifying .the treaty for the cession by Russia• of her Arnerh an possessions to the United States. 1 p of kind . , ANOTHER BID FOR COLORED 'VOTES.- The Dernoctacy held a Convention. at Nashville, Tennemee, on April Ist, at which Judge Grnt presided. Judge Whitworth and •Mr. Williams, a colored man, were the principal speakers, the former enforcing the views he recently put :forth in a letter re cpecting the policy' of accepting the situa tion, fully recognizing the negro as a ciii zen and voter, and inviOng• him to partici pate in political meetings. and Mr. Williams taking. ground that the owners of the soil and the laborers are identified in interest, and should co-operate for thegood of each other and the country lie believed the Southern men were idle nearoes' best 0 • friends. Williams is ifrom Pennsylvania, and has served iu the,ederal army. The I convention adopted a resolution reque.steng colored voters to hold a meeting and ap point delegates to the State 'Convention, which assembles at Igashville.,on the 16th, to nominate a candidate for Governor. It seems the Democrats faro after the negro in all parts of the country. • EXPULSION" OF SAIULSBURY.—A resolu tion bas'been presented in the U. S. Sen ate to expel Mr. Saulsbury for habitual drunkenness The poor diTraded wretch is totaliy unfitted to perform the duties of a Senator, though !lei manages to niake a speech occasionally iti l favor of the Demo-1 cratic party. The Democracy have but a very few Senators, t hut the character of these few is such as to disgrace the country tom,. Senate' . Wiieon , .of Massachusetts. visited Richmond and Petersburg last week. At Peteisbuie he was waitq.d on by deputations of citizens, black and white, and by the !peal authorities, and invited to make a speech. He complied — with the request and delivered,an excellent address to an immense conciurse of people The 'Republican party shpuld make a point of sending prominent representative Men, to hold meetings in all parts of the Soath• It' would remote the erroneous impression u'tder which the niajoiity. 'Of , the white , people in that section, are; suffering. fririgo less a person than Caleb Cush ing is the eulogist oflCharles Sumner. In his published arguMent on the Meade case, Mr. Pierce's Attorriey General begs lea‘T to read from a recent:, report of the chair man of the Senate committee on Foreign Relations: "Not only because of the emi nent ability displaye:d in the report itself, and of the all compri,ehensive.knowledtve of public law possessed by Mr. Sumner, and his great. experience in public aifairs, but because of the force and truth with which he enunciated the doctrine; I 'ilia I pre , Pntly propose to prove by citations froth law books." , Sig - At last a Collector for the 18th dis triet has been appointed in place of George Bubb, and as he appears from , all reports to benworthless sort of fellow be will no doubt please Andy Johnson if he dOn't . any pne else, He 'somes-.frorri Tiegi 'and of him the• -Agitator, rys : "The strife for the Collectorship of this. district !las result ed. in the nomination and conftrmation of Mr. H. A. Guernsey, formerly I Sheriff of this county. The news lashed the Tioga public into such a storm of indignation as we-have seldom witnessed. The -•dissatis faction is universal, without distinction of party. ' • "A brief history . of the matter may not. be out of place.- After the rejection of R. Campbell, _Col. N. A. Elliott, of Tioga county was nominated to the Senate. His confirmation would have given as much (pr!obabli more) satisfaction to . the people of this county, as:that of any men in it of the ranks of the Detnocratic party. He was rejected.. Mr. 'Hepburn McClure, of LYcoming was also nominated arid rejected. Ail:, mountains.McClure was as unobjectionable as any ' ra, n of his party south of the mountains. Tlien came the nomination and confirms tioln of Mr. Guernsey, and folloWing it the in hlnatiun of the people without distinc , ti nof party. We but repeat the popular ve diet when we say that it was an appoint mnt not fit to be made. We' shall not'. 'say more than that his fellow partisans are as greatly outraged by it as Anybody; and . , what stronger language of censure than this• can We employ ! ."The question now is what was our Con gressman, Mr. Wilson, about that this con firrmation was permitted? The nomination he could not control . It was not possible to get a radical.republican nominated. But unless affairs are entirely changed in the !, Senate, he could have controlled the con firmation.. .The people lay the responsibil ity at his door; and there it must lie until he oan show that he did his utmost to com pass the rejection of the nomination. We confess to an afflictive 'disappointment in the result. It was too sudden to be believ ed. When the - ne xs of the nomination reached us we could but laugh at the 'ab surdity-of the thing. -being- reasonably pgs itive that it would be rejected. The pub lic now await Mr. Wilson's explanation. As to justification, that is hardly possible. No man can justify the appointment of an open and boaiting traitor to the government during the war: but add to this the charges freely preferred against the. appointee in every community where he is known and the matter is inexplicable." IM - A correspondent of the German town Telegraph has prepared the follow ing comparative table, showing the politi cal revolution in the northern tier counties of this State during the last twenty-five years. It gives ehe majorities in the coun ties named for Shunk and Markle in 1844 and for Geary 411'1866: • Markle. Geary. Clymer Bradford • '568 . 3858 _- Crawford 510 • 1745 Erie • 1294 3189' Jefferson Jefferson • 110 103 / M'Kean 109 163 / Potter 305 729 / Susquehanna 767 1448 Tioga •• 956 3161/ Venango 3543 91A/ Wart en 364 1115 / 3955 1294 / 16425 rio 1294 aildShunk266l niaj. 2661 Gain, 19,036 Deduct Spunk's gal° polls a larger vote than Chi e thousand / men are idle in Pitts- —Bu cago. —Fig burg. -Fu tory. 'ton, Ohio, is to bare a woolen fac - /. Zion eliapel, l at Saratoga is to be re built: —Base / ball arpusesNew England just now. / gives $lO,OOO foi relief of the South. I The machin!e moulders oti Albany are on is strike. • • —Deaths in Boston during the year'66 numbered 4,379 J --The tower cif the abien g o water-works building if tobel4o feet high and 24 feet square. —At Denver Colorado, the mercury de scended to shirt degrees below zero last month. - . . tivo irds the usual number of logs will be cut in Maine, during this sea son. • ' —A Virginia paper tells a new way to pay old debts--4natnely, stop drinking and go to work. —Nigh four millions of dollars are em ployed in trade at Hartford. —Thefiumers of Iliiuois leave all their farm Implements and their cattle out iu the snow and thaw of winter and spring. —Clean wheat straw is selling. for $2O a tun, do gret is the demand for it among paper rn.nufacturera shoals in, the Kettehec river at.= to tie' at once cutaway, and. a chaucier p redged seven feet more in depth. tide :to be sold Very Low on thel eady-Pay ystem • ' • ' • 1 4 i f LaM 6 031a INPalk)l43l . f Has added ! and will 'cpntinue toaddto lids stock, complete -asbortml in; 1;0041s: re New. Go .MADE CLOTHING, 'BOOTS& SHOES, H :iRIES, PROVISIONS, SUCA R S, , FLOUR SALT, ; FISH, PORK, T CANDIES, NUTS, FIG, RAISINS,' &c., ! GIVE, HIM' A - CALL pill be sold LoW for READY-PAY—CAsz: READY. CRIDC TEAS Goods '.1417 - te,:alitl:lie.t•,Livot Firm j Tviiith. New Good Ne WEI 3 NELsoN . . . • ', Having opened 2 1)1. 3 - Goo,ls and General Country Store in the iui , linp• ifo rm ,.6. 7 occupied as a Pust Offiee, ou the cornor•of Main ankt Thad Stteets,.iu ilutnier port,Pa.;\ i - 7 an: now' prepared to furniA purchasers with Dry \I Goods, Dres s .lGoods, Boots itk,Skoes, - 1 • Cloth'', b 0., Hats ~: $ . 3 Caps . , - Hardware, I-1- • • •-- . . •-/ !, Trooden-ware, Cutlery,- Xotitins, CO tiz. Sec , arS )Teas, Fish y Pork ~ 1 , , Flour of alt.kilidsy&c. . . INTRTPRODUCE TAKEN IN EXCHANGE. Call and see if nur prices are not as I t /v as those of any otter establishment 1 i y.-- 7 -April! 1, 1867. - • / . R. WEBB . 2 . HALL T. NELSON. f =I Tobcic -CO Give us a in the ;omit ORRIN ciTvincici / at the / General Merchandise Store Founoly kept by D. E. Olmsted. noNs Jones A' Co 4, A 1 I i I 1 We take pleasure in annonncing to the former patrons of theLhouse and the public in geneial, that we have taken possession of this Store, and having added a large assortment of - -I SUMMER, GOODS.. From New York and Philadelphia, selected with t (Treat care With a view fr to .suitin the -, wants of the com r muntty. We are detelpin ed to give all om: attention to keeping up a Full. Line of Dry Goods, Rea,dyntade Clothing, Hats and Ca e, Groceries, 4tre• r 40c So that customers can be supplied at all times. We extend a cordial 'invitation to alb to call • i and examine our exteittive assortment, as we take pleasure, in showi'pg o w _Goodsd and of fering them at such a lk)w price that they can not fail but give satisfalction to the buyer, and defy all cOmpetition.--ilit pit .1, '1867.! JOSEPH MANN. A. F. ONES, - Sole PrOprietors., Srte` UNG AND Crockery, itts of the follow, TS &CAPS OFFEES OBA CCO &c., or PRODIIC \ Salt, M:t=l. C. A.
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