gcmocrat, HARVEY SICKLGR, Editor. TUNKHANNOCK, PA Wednesday, May 31.1865. jp3C We publish on ' this page a letter from James Buchanan, to the New York Evening Post, in reply'to an article published in that paper, reflecting by the use of false hoods upon Mr. Buchanan. As usual he aaea up the base slanderers of his fair fame, in a very decent but very damaging manner. Bead it. JP2JT The Pennsylvania State Agricultur al' Society have at length decided upon hold ing their next exhibition at Williamsport, commencing on Tuesday, September 2Glh, •nd continuing as usual, four days. A plot of the negro soldiers at Memphis to murder every Conlederate paroled prisoner there, was discovered and thwarted last week Thursday night was the time fixed for the massacre, but while troops had been placed on guard, and when the negroes attempted to rally from their quarters, they met a de termined resistance. In the fight which took place twenty of the negroes were killed aDd wounded. WELL PUT A western cotemporary bits far and wide when he says: "The most despicable men are those vile demagogues who are engaged in making po litical capital out of the mutilated body of the dead President. It is not hard to be I ieve that such men secretly rejoice over the foul deed. The eagerness with which thay seize upon it, and the disreputab'e use they make of it, are wholly inconsistent with sacred sorrow for the dead. The grand jury at Washington have found a bill of indictment for treason against Jefferson Davis, who will shortly be con veyed to Washington for trial on that charge. Ex Governor Letcher, of Virginia, has been committed to the Old Capitol prison. James A. Sedden, iate Confederate Secretary of War ; R. M. T. Ilunter.and Judge Camp ball have been arrested. It was reported in Richmond on Wednesday that General Lee would also be placed under arrest. C3C" have been at some pains to as certain what instrument of the many now so liciting the public favor combines the great est amount of real excellence. We have pros eeuted this inquiry entirely independently of aid or direction from interested parties. The opinions of some of the best musical critics composers and performers have been obtained! reports of experiments mado in the ordinary use of various instruments in churches, ichools, and familes, have been compared, all of which, with singular unanimity, concur in assigning the first place to the Cabi net Or gan of Mason & Hamlin—a decision that correapoods with our previously formed con victions received from personal observations. —JVete Yor/c Christian Adcocate. STANTOMAN, OR THE REPCBLIICAN FORM or GOVERNMENT, —The New York Tribune Mjs that the people prefer the Republican to the Stsntonian form of government : "We venture to assure our new President that the American people, having now given • fair trial to the Stsntonian and the Repub lican forms of government respectively, do greatly prefer the latter, and desire a return to it at the earliest possible day—which they baliave to be this day. If we are still at war and our government in peril, then, such or ders as have recently been issued reopening trade and reducing armaments ought to be countermanded or forborne ; but if the war u virtually ended, the rebel lion discomfited and the nation saved, then we insist that the regime under which a District Provost Mar tha I ranks the Governor of a S'ate ought at once to pass away, the privilege of habeas corpus be restored, aßd the reign of law and liberty be again re established, How much loqgermust we wait for it The yesterday's Age saya : President Johnson has issued a proc'&ma tion of amnesty to all persons in the South who bare tiken part in the rebellion, with certain exceptions. The exceptions are, all who have held civil office under the Confed erate Government; all who have left judicial stations in the United States to aid there hellion ; all who have been officers in the Confederate military service above the rank of colonel, and in the naval service above the raak of lieutenant; all who have left seats in Congress to participate in the rebellion ; all who have resigned from the United Slates army or navy to avoid resisting the rebellion all who have unlawfully treated Federal prisoners of war; all military and naval offi cers of the Confederacy who were educated •t West Point or the United States Naval Academy ; all State Governors of the Con federacy , all who left the United States to assist the rebellion ; all privateers, and all those who have been engaged in frontier taids on commerce; all who have voluntarily taken part with the rebellion, whose taxable JMWperty is over twenty thousand dollars, and all who have taken and violated the oath of amnesty prescribed in the proclama tion of December 8, 1863. Those to whom the amnesty is granted are secured in all their rights of property, except.ng slaves— The oath of ahegience must be taken by all Who would obtain the amnesty. Letter from General Sherman. CAMP NEAR ALEXANDRIA, Ya May 19. DEAR BOWMAN.— I am just arrived. All my army will be in to-dat. I have been lost tu the world in the woods for some time. Yet on arriving at the "settlements" found I have made quiie a stir among the people at home, and that the most sintster motives have been ascribed to me. I have made Ireqm-tti official reports of my official action in all public matters, and all ' of tkeui have been carefully suppressed, whilst the most ridiculous ronsense has been industriously spread abroad through ail the newspapers. Well you kuow what import ance I attach to such matters, and that I have been to long fighting with real rebels with muskets in their hands te be scared by mere uon combatants, uo matter how high their civil rank or station. It is amusing to observe how brave and firm some men become when all danger is past. I have noticed on fields of battle biav men never insult the captured or mutilate the dead ; but cowards and laggards always do. Icaunolnow recall the act, but Shaks peare records how poor Fallstafl, the prince of cowards and wits, rising from a figured death, stabbed Hgain the dead Percy and carried the carcass aloft iu triumph to prove his valor. So now when the rebellion in our laud is dead many Famstafis appear to brandish the evidence of their valor aud seek to win applause, and to appropriate honors for deeds that never were done. As to myself, 1 ask no p-pularity, no re ward; but I dure the War Department to publish my official letters and reports. I assert that my official reports have been pur posely suppressed, while all the power of the press has been malignantly turned against me. Ido want peace and security, and the re turn to law and justice from Maine to the Rio Grande ; and if it does ol exist now substantially, it is for state reasons beyond 'my comprehension. It may be though" s'range that one who las no fame but as a soldier should have been so careful to try ro restore the civil power of the government and the peaceful jurisdiction of the Federal courts; but is difficult to discover in thai fact any just cause of offense to an enlighten ed and free people. But when meu choose to slander and injure others, they can easily invent the facts for the purpose when the proposed victim is far away, engaged iu pub lic service of their own bidding. But there . consolation in knowing that, though truth lies in the bottom of a well, the Yankees have perseverance enough to get to that bottom. Yours truly, W. T. SHERMAN. <•> We clip the folio wing editorial from the New York Wuild of yesterday. It is based on a statement in a Washington despatch 1 which, it true, augurs well with President Johnson's course in the future: President Johnson on Negro Suffrage. President Johnson gave yesterday a prool of the sincerity and circurospcctness with which, in his frequent addresses during the first few days after his accession, he declared that his past record was a key to his future course. In reply to a delegation who called on him, yesterday, the President said that the question of negro sullrago ought to be left to the decision of the loyal wfiite popu lation of the States interested. This is Con aonant both with his record as a State rights Democrat and his action as Military Govern or of Tennessee. The new Constitution of Tennessee, formed under his auspices, and in the adoption of which be had the rights of a citizen of the State, excludes negroes not only from the suffrage but from testifying in c uris of justice. Out of Tennessee, and as President of Cnited States, he can speak on ly in the character of a Federal officer ; aud as a Federal officer, bound by the Const it u tution, he had no choice but to dispose of the general question of negro suffrage precisely as his speech yesterday shows that he has decided to do. It is a matter not within the jurisdiction of the Federal Government, and President Johnson remits it to the Slates. The only argument which seems even plausible in favor of the Federal Government transcending its authority and conferring tke elective franchise upon the nevroes, is, that lheir votes are needed as a counterpoise to the disloyal proclivities of the Southern whites. We deem it fortunate that we hHve a loyal Southern man, thoroughly acquainted with his section, for President. Ho is com petent to judge what will do in the South, and what will not. But his sound judgmeut and resolute patriotism are a still better guarantee that the South will not be surren dered to disloyal rule, Negro suffrage is not needed as a counterpoise to white die I' f (,r the entirely sufficient reason that disloyal whites are to be allowed no access to the ballot box. If the loyal whites ad mit negroes to the suffrage it will probably be for some other reason than as a check upon their own dangerous pmcliritie*. JEFFERSON DAVIS, Jefferson Davis, and his family, Alexan der 11. Stephens, ex-Senator Clement C. Clay and his wife, Col. Wm. Preston John s- ur p. per the enclosed letter from the Depart ment of Major General DiX, which will Set.at naugt certain malicious statements that ap peared in var.ous newspapers a few week* since. I will take this occasion to say 1 was not present at the lime the outrage referred to was committee, as stated, and there were no visitor* in the house, as represented, but Borne friends.ot my children. Veiy respectfully yours, MRS. TYLER. Caßtleton Ildl, Staton Island, May 24. '65 (CoPT.) HEADQUAR DEP'T. or TAE EAST, ) NEW YOKE CITY. May 23. '65. $ MRS. TTLEK— I am directed by M*j Gen. D>x to return the flag trken Iron*your house on Staten Mund by a party ol young men, several weeks ago, and to say that he is sat isfied, from the testimony before him, that it was made eight years ago for a child's flag, and was used as such long before the rebel lion. He also direcis me to say that no one could possibly mistake it for a rebel flag, ani that, in the examination he has made, noth ing has been disclosed to warrant the intru sion of the young men referred to on your premises. I aui, madam, very respec'jully yours, WILSON BARSTOW, Capt. and Aid-de Camp. The alleged secession flag was seized a ni'l 'or two after the assassination of the late i President, by a party of young men who were moved by Qua great outrage, to commit an offense upon law and private rights. We hope the result of their mistaken zeal will teach them, as it ought to teach all young : persons, and indeed all others, that the first j duty of a good citizen is to respect the laws ! of the land, and the rights of his fellow-men. A man's house, still more a woman's, ia like a castle, and no one should dare enter it for violence unless aimed with an authority, at least as sacred as the law.- .Repress. G3£" The Harriiburg Telegr Justice." John Brown waa the first to. tire on the. American flag at Har pers' Ferry, and has been made a Saint of by tbe T legraph, that John Brown's blood de maods that ail who have tired oo tbe fltg and stole United States property must be canoni- i ted 1 U. *. Seeimtci ' The various nation®! loan® authorized da ring the past four roar® are thus succinctly described bj the New York Timet: 1. The i Seven Tkirdet " represent a cur rency loan, having three years to run, then convertible into a gold interest 6 per cent stock having 20 years to run, but with the right reserved to the government of paying off the loan, in gold, at any time after 5 years The term ' Seven Thirties " is derived from the rate of interest which these three-yeara convertable notes bear, to wit: two cents per day oo each SIOO, or for 365 days seven dollars and thirty cents on each SIOO. 2. The' term twenties " is applied to the 6 pec cent, gold bearing bonds of the United States, to which .wenty years Lad yearly coupons are attached, but which may be paid off, in gold, by the government, on | due notice to the holders, at any time after : five years, in the event the government should i be offered the money on a new loan at a cheaper rate than 6 per cent. 3. The term 44 Ten-forties " ia applied to the 5 per cent, gold bearing bond* of the United States, to which half yearly coupons are attached for forty year*, but which may be paid off in gold, on notice to the bolder*, at any time after ten yeara, in the possible event the government should be offered the money on a new loan at a leas tate of inter est ( h®n 5 per cent. 4* The long or unconditional 6 per cent, gold bearing loan, known as the 6 per centa of 1881, cannot be redeemed by the govern ment at all, except by purchase, until sfter the yesr 1881, msking this the most deairs ble of all the United States loan as a perma nent investment. The present outstanding totals of each of the above loans are as follows : I—Seven-Thirtie S6OO 000 000 2 Fire-Twenties 596 545 9CO 3—Ten Forties 172 770 100 4—Sixes of Eighty-one 281 561 400 Total $1,650,877,400 Interest in Currency on $600,000,000 Interest in Gold on- -1 050 877 100—51.*50,877,400 In addition to the gold interest stocks here classified, there is outstanding $45,868,891 of the old funded 5 and 6 per cents of the United States, upon which the interest is paid in gold, and the principal of which will b,- redeemed in gold when doe. 6. The term* ' greenbacks" and 4< lega! tender" are convertible. AH the green backs are legal-tender; but $433,160,569 art of the ordinary circulation, free of interest, and $226 000.000 bear simple or compound in terest, payable on the maturity of the notes, asoat of them, six per cents, payable three years sfter 1864, the Interest compounded in a table on the back of the note every six months. ESTIMATING WEIGHT or CATTLE BY Mr AS UREMNKT. — The Canada Farmer , in reply to a correspondent, says: "Many experiments hare been made by graziers and safe?men to ascertain the net weight of cattle by measurement, and mum ber of rules and tables hare been formed ot the results obtained. None, however, can be regarded as absolutely correct. With tin most accurate measuring, ia required a prac tical acquaintance with the pointa and forms of animal*, and allowance must be mado ac cording to ago, size, breed, mode and length ottimei-f fattening, Ac; conditions which require a practical eye, aud long experience to correctly appreciate. We have found the following method to lead generally to trust worthy results: "Measure carefully with a tape line from the top of the shoulder to Where the tail ia attached to the back; this will give the length, For the girth measure immediately behind the shoulder and for# lega. Multiply half th- girth by itself in feet, and the sum by :he length in feet, and the product will give the net weignt in stones of eight pounds each. For example, with an ox or cow five feet in length and seven feet in girth, the calculation will be as follows ; Multiply half the girth by itself in feet 3 5 36 12 25 Multiplied by length in fret 5 ! Weight in stones 61 26 LUCAL AND PERSONAL. Wet Weather,—We have had very wet weath er in these pasts for a week or two part, interfering much with planting, and labor in general. Lumber lias fallen considerably in price this Spring—the lumbermen first feeling tbe depression which is inevitably coming upon all business. The flue Weather of the past two or three days begins to give signs of approaching summer.—- Let 'er come i we can stand it better than we could another draft The Oil Fever still continues to rage in Colom bia County—numerous companies have been formed to bore for the "yal ler liqui l" along the line of . Fishing Creek. The papers from that County say I that there is no longer any doubt of its existtnoe* The Grand Review,—Tbe grand review so I much talked of. came off in Washington on the 22d. I There was about 75,000 veterans in the procession. — : No colored troops wore engaged in the review. A number of cititens from this place, went on to Washington to witness it. Hon. William Hopkins—Col. Hopkins, of Washington county, Is prominently spoken of, as a candidate for Auditor General, before the Democrat ic State Convention which aseemb ee in the city of Harrisbn rg, on the 21st of June. Col. Hopkins, is n staunch democrat, and very popular throuough >ut the State. A Good Move.—A general meeting of the Bar of New York city is about to be held, to memorialise tbe War Department in favor of the immediate res toration of the functions of civil law. Is it not time that this blistering stigma of mock military trials in this country was brought to an rnd. Local Item* this w'eek are as scarce as "hens tjeth" or honut "nigger woishippers." If any cf our readers feel that this department of our paper is growing small and provokingly less, they eeuld rem edy the defect by getting up an oil spring, n runa way mate h, a free fight burglary, theft, robbery, five babiesjat one birth er something of the sort - suppose you try it, 1865 1865 4 18 established in N. T, CH.' "Only infallible remedies knew*.' ~Fr*e irom Psiaons.'' "Not dng*rous to tit* Humaa iMtUt,** "Rat* com* oat of tkir kdN to 4k." ' Cost tr's" Rat. Roach, rtm*nt * Spring and Summer MillinerYi at her rooms opposite Wm. Piatts-office, where oas tt found in great variety, all the LATEST STYLES* - OF-- BONNETS, IIATS, CAPS, HBAD DRESS ES, RIBBONS, FLOWERS, f RIMMING HOOP SKIRTS, CORSETS, ; and everything ia the line of Milli*M7 Goods, which she will sell at th* lowest eaoh prkw I3T REPAIRING promptly aqff aoutly 4m•• v4nl4 v - ~ tf uak. Mo/ 10, IMS