~ ifljc jpraocrat, HARVEY SICKLER, Editor. TUNKHANNOCK, PA Wednesday, May 23, 1866. FORGOVERNOR^ 181. IEISIEH CEYHES, OF .BERKS. TH El DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM. Tha Democracy of Pennsylvania in Convention met, recognizing a crisis in the affairs of the Re public, and esteeming the immediate restoration of th Union paramount to all other issues, do re solve : 1. Thnt the States, whereof the people were late ly in rebellion, are cntegral parts of the Union, and are entitled to representation in Congress by men duly elected who benr true faith to the Constitution and Laws, and in o.der to vindicate the uiaxtin that taxation without representation is tyranny, such representatives should be forthwith admitted. 2. That the faith of the Republic is pledged to r the payment of the National debt, and Congress should pass all laws necessary tor that purpose. !!. That we owe obedience to the Constitution of the United States (including the amendment prohib iting s'avery,) and under its provisions will aceoM to those emancipated all their rights of person and propert-y. 4 . That each State has the exclusive right to regulate the qualifications of its own electors. 5. That the white race alone is entitled to the con trol of the tiovemment of the Republic, and we are unwilling to grant to negroes the right t vote g. That fho bold enunciation of the principles of the Conslitution and the policy of restoration con tained in the recent annual message and freeduien's barcau veto message of President Johnson entitle biui to the confidence and all who respect the Constitution and love their country. 7 - Toat the nation owes to the brave men of ur aru.ies and navy a debt of lasting gratitude for their heroic service, in defence of the Constitution and the Union ; and that while we cherish with tender affection the memories of tho fallen, we pledge to widows and orphans the nation's eare and protection. S. That wo urge upon Congress the duty of equal isin r the bounties of our soldiers and sailors. Tbad. Stevens, who is now so bit ter against 4i rebels," was, not many years since, equally bitter agains Freemasons. At one time he was as demoniacally deter mined on the annihilation of the Masonic Order as he is at present to wipe out the Southern people, lie then struck as furi ously at the Masonic Temple of Liberty. He failed in putting down the superstruc ture of Masonry, and he will fail in making a wreck of the Union. The House Committee on Elections hnvc taken such action as is believed will result in their reporting against thr seat of that sterling Democrat, John L. Dawson, of the Sixteenth Pennsylvania District. The Committee will report in favor of De land, of Ohio, but then the latter is a Re publican, and that makes ail the difference. —. . Mr. Miller, a radical member of the Harrisburg District of Pennsylvania, in his recent speech in the House, urged his co laborers to hurry up their business as this might be the last Republican Congress that would meet for some time, if ever. THE Cusr.—The hospital records, which have just been footed up, shows the ener iu>uis aggregate of 250,000 Union soldiers to have died on battle fields and in hospit nis during the war to suppress the rebellion. This does not include those who died at their homes of lingering diseases contract ed in the service. DEMOCRATIC VICTURT. —On Friday last the municipal election took place in Scran ton, Ponn , and resulted in a brilliant l)-m ocratic victory. Last year the Disunion i>!s carried that borough bv a majority of about -one hundred and fifty, showing a gain for the Democracy in twelve months of seven hundred votes. JC3T The Post office Department has issued orders to discontinue the delivery of the mails at an early day at all offices in .South Carolina,and perhaps in other States where there are no regularly appointed and commissioned postmasters. The Gov error of South Carolina recommends the selection at those places of such as can take the oath. t Jen Hanks, Representative in the Rump from Massachusetts, declared, the other day, that it is the intention of the Republican party to impose negro suffrage upon the whole crvtintrv. He said the or.ly reason the matter is deferred is because the people are not sufficiently Republicanized yot. Twelve boys, most of them of re spectable parents, have recently been ar rested in Binghampton, charged with set ting fire to buildings iu that place for the past several months. Troops are being sent from Canada to tlie West Indies. The thirteenth regi ment. now in garrison at Montreal, will soon depart for Jamaica. No less than seven different Com missioners are now,or soon wil\ be,engaged in investigating the lacts relative to the re pent riots in Memphis. A convention is to be held in Bos ton, on the sth of June, to consider the pioblem of ths training and reformation of vagrant children and juvenile criminals. Jeffereon Davis has been indicted by the Grand Jury, in session at Norfolk, ot treason. llis trial, it is now supposed w ill take place ia June. The Democraey, and Johnson Re publicans of Indiana have made a fashion against th* Disunionists. The Directory of Fifteen, [From tho Nw York Time* of the Ist instant.) The Joint Committee on Reconstruction, so called, has finally ventured to promul gate a plan tor the settlement of sectional difficulties and the restoration of hairaony to the ?7nion. It is in the shape of a con stitutional amendment, with a couple of bills which Congress is asked to enact : The scheme would seem sweeping enougli to satisfy the most exacting Radical. It could hardly be much more sweeping, in deed, unless it provided for wholesale con fiscation and the extermination or banish ment of the Southern people. It requires the State to affirm the equality of whites and blacks in the eye of the law, in all that pertains to life, liberty, and property. As a plan of pacification and reconstruc tion, the whole thing is worse than a bur lesque, It might be styled a farce, were the couutry not in the midst of a very serious drama. Its proper disignation would be 44 A plan to prolong indefinitely the excltisiou of the South fiom Congress, by inposirg conditions to which the South ern peopfc never will submit." This being the obvious scope and tendency of the proposition, we are bound to assume that it clearly reflects the settled purpose of the Committee. So that the Joint Committee appointed nearly five months? ago to take exclusive chaige of the question of recon stiuction now otter as the result of all their labors what would in fact render reconstruc tion forever impossible. There is an anomalous feature in the affair as it stands which of itself reveals the monstrous nature of the pretentions set up by the Committee, All the provisions of the proposed amendment imply the adop tion of the extreme view in regard to the relation of the South to the Union. We must begin by assuming that what were States before the war are mere Territories now ; or this attempt to dictate terms as the condition of recognition becomes undis guised usurpation. We must assume, in fact, that the South is at this moment nei ther more nor less than an aggregate of Territories, waiting for admission as States, and from whose people Congress may there fore require compliance with certatn pro posals. And vet the amendment, on its face, declares the existence, as Srates, of all the States recently in rebellion, and presupposes the exercises by their several Legislatures of the highest constitutional attribute of State sovereignty. They have no right to representation in Congress, forsooth. They may not say yea or nay on the most trival question that come before Congress Thev are not permitted to enjoy a particle of influence in matters affecting the finance, the trade, the industry, the foreign relations of the country, or any of its concerns, great or small. I hese privi leges they are denied on the pretence that they me not within the Union, and there for have no right to recognition as parts of the Union. Nevertheless, under the contenqvated araendmvi.t, they are treated as sovereign States, whose ratification of the amendment is essential to its constitu tional validity. They are to vote for or against a change in the Constitution of the Union, of which, on the Kadieal hypothe sis, they are riot at present members! — Could atanrdity go further ? Could the folly of this fanaticism be made more man ifest ? From the dilemma into which the Com mittee have thus plunged there is no logi cal escape. If the Southern States are in a condition by their Legislature to ratify or reject a Constitutional Amendment, they must of necessity be qualified to send Sen ators and Representatives to Co igr*ss, subject only to the judgment of either House as to the eligibility of the persons sent. A State which may assist in the sovereign task of moulding the Constitu tion under which Congress acts.tnay surely demand a voice in what the Constitution creates. The greater right covers the lesser right, in this as in othpr ea*s. On the other hand, if the' Southern States are not entitled to admission to Congress —if the point be established, as the Radical doctors say it is, that these are States no longer, but Territories only, subject to the will of the conqueror—then it follows that they are not entitled to any lot or part in the business of amending the Con stitution. Upon, which horn shall the "Central Directory"'be impaled ? Shall we take it that this prodigious amendment— this mighty mouse brought forth bv a mountain after five months parturition does not mean what it savs when it spe ur or five years, the country has been as-tired by the organs of the Republican party, that any one who opposed the measures of the Administra tion was a traitor, and worthy a traitor's doom. To " support the Government" was declared to he trie duty of the citizen ; and this support of the Government nmant a blind acquiescence in even thing the Pres ident might choose to do. No matter what new proclamation President Lincoln might issue, or what course he took it into his head to pursue, everylrody must approve it, or he consigned to some military prison. We always considered the doctiine as only fit for cowards and slaves, but it was the creed, of the Radicals. Now, however, we have a right to hold them to their ovn principles ; and unless they wore hypo crites and liars during Lincoln's adminis tration, they ought, every mau of them, to go to the Penitentiary. Opposition to the Administration is treason to the Govern ment. So the fanatics have declared. 44 1 thank thee, Jew. for teaching me that word." MORE AMENDMENTS, —In view of the fact that the Abolitionists in Congress have proposed some fdghty add amendments to the Constitution, a facetous fellow, in Ken tnekv, offers the annexed amendments for the consideration of the Constitution tink ers : 1. Every 'freedman shall hav a bureau for bimseif, with a looking glass on the top of it, it he hkes. 2. Every freedman shall have a secreta- Ty 3. Every freed boy or girl shall have a wardrobe. A. Every freed child shall have every thing it cries for 5. White people, whether free or not, must behave themselves. 6. All people of every color, except red, must vote. —i>. A Blasphemous Old Scoundrel. When ihe Disunion patch for the Con stitution was being ranted upon in the. Kmnp House, on the 10th inst.. by Thad Stevens. Mr. Thayer, or Pehnsylvania, a-ked him '* whethe" he thought lie could build a penitentiary big enough to hold e glit mdlions of people ?" Stevens imme diately replied : "Yes sir. That penitentiary which is guarded bv bayonets down below and if ' they undertake to come back we will shoot them. The penitentiary of kr/l is the pen itentiary that they deserve to have till 1 then V " That penitentiary down below" has certainly had more bars, bolts, bayonets and sulphurous dungeons added to it bv the old rcp.-obate from Lancaster (we beg pardon—trom Yeim<>nt)than by any Aboli tion traitor who ever disgraced the old Keystone. He :s about fit to build peni tentiaries for the devil, and nothing else. The remainder of Thad s "speech" was largely made up of the same kind of dirty stuff, which passes curient among the weal thy, talented, and respectable" people of th "grand moral idea party in the interest of God and humanity," as "patriot 'c elo quence." Oh, shame ! Alas, tor the days of decency, of he nest v, of patriotism, of states manship, of m >desty, of virtue, of sobriety, j and of godliness. — Put. -curing information useful to the Southern eau-e. He mad- trips thro' all the Northern and Eastern States, to Cu ba, Panada, and even to Europe. He several times had business in this ci ty, and one occasion occupied a small office near the Soldiers'-Ilorae, on 3d street, where, under the guise of a claim agent, he occupied himself, during siveral week:-, in collecting from the inmates of the House statistics as to the strength and location of all the regiments represented by those in hospital. He was folly acquain.ed with all the business of the rebel mail service, ami was at one time employed in selecting men and routes for that business. A couple of years since he was captured here, arid imprison ed as a spy He was promised a release if he would reveal the whereabouts of cer tain rebel agents, but lie refused and said he intended to escape with his own bands and di I effect it. Coming to this city about 3 months aoth, who assassinated Lin coln. He hoped, by telling this story, to induce the authorities to take him to Wash ington, where he would be libei ated, and so escape both changes. In this he failed, and then he attempted to commit suieide bv severing an artery in the right arm (already published in the Mo NITOR) in which he also failed. But the resolution to die wis not to be thus conquered. He ceased to eat of any thing that would feed th- fire ol life, which soon began to wane ; and tiler, day after dav. grew more feeble. In forty days tins man taste# food but five times, and all that he ate in that entire time did not amount to one full dinn -r for a hungry man. Kapidlv his fiesli h- gan to disappear, and the bones of limbs that coM b<* easily spanned with the hand, grew hor ribly prominent. He Ceased to walk or to stand ; be only reclined, breathed, and refused to eat. He was tol I that the requisition from the Gov. of Ohio could leach him at a ecitain time. He wanted to die—not in :he ja.l at Louis ville, but out somewhere where he could breathe the pu'e air and see nature once more. And so this living skeleton coo Jv calculated the length of time he had vt to live, and finding that if he did not eat lie would die too soon, he took some soup.b end and preserves —five times, as already men tioned. Day before yesterday Detective Haz n reached bis prison, produced the requisition took King up as though he were a child, and conveyed lum to the carriage, and thence to a berth on the mail boat. H* then endeavored ft) induce him to fat; but Kiriir. in a voice scare Jv audible, said : " Mr. llaxcn, if you will promise me to make such arrangement as willliable me to compromise this matter, I will commence eating to-day, Mr. Ilazen could not prom ise this, and the dying man shook ),j s | iea ,| and refused the food. He calculated that he had three days to iiv", which would enable him to get to Cin cinnati and settle up his little affairs; but at about 2 o'clock yesterday morning, a lit tle after the boat reached the lauding here, the death-rattle sounded in his throat, and the detective found him dead. The jury called by Coroner Carey yes terday, rendered a verdict of suicide by starvation. We understand that deceased lias friends and relatives m Bowling Green Ky. The Memphis Riot. We gave, last week, a short account of the second days riots in Memphis, between the negroes and the white citizens. Accord ing to the best information we have, these terrible riots, resulting in loss of life and property, were begun bv the negroes wear ing United States uniforms. The radical disunion press, however, attempt to throw the responsibility solely upon the white cit izens, claiming fur them a hitter hatred to the negroes. If the dianiiioni>tß>' storv be correct, it but adds to the deplorable condi tion of affairs, resulting from the abolition war for the benefit of the negro. No such hatred as that represented existed before the war ; no such scenes were enacted.— The negroes and the whites got along very well then Now, if the negroes are the in stigators or beginners of these riots, it is in consequence of the encouragement and teachings ot the mongrelists of the North. If the white citizens are the leaders, it. is for causes arising out of the same devilish spirit that urged on th* ward of John Brown. In either ease, the real blame at taches to the Northern Infernals, and only proves that so far from benefitting the ne gro, injury is the only result to both white and black. tW Judge A bell, of the First District Court of New Orleans, has declared the fjvil Rights bill to be unconstitutional. The Care aud Condition of Jefferson Davis, Fortress Monroe, May 14 It is understood, as tlie result of Mr. McCnlloch's visit, that President Jolmson has directed the suigeon of the Fort to j raakr a special report of the health of Mr. ! Davis, it is said that, during the past y*ar, 1 the tramping of the guards atound his cell , has prevented him from enjoying, at any ; one time, more than two hours' unbroken ! sle-'p, and that his health is tailing. He ! expressed extreme pleasure when the news of his indictment reached .him. confident that speedy action in his case woul l s d*d ducks - Po-tmasiers. R' venue Colic.- Os and As ses-ors, and Federal office holders, genet ally. Fort Goodwin, Arizona, lias Veen taken ly the. Indans, and the garrison! numheiing 124 men massacred, and the j fort burnt. Will 'hose who are in control ! of the affairs of Government a.low such j outrages to be continually perp-trat d.while ! their entire attention is occupied with ; worse than useless legislation ? tW The property of Ex-Governor Ai- ' ken, of South Carolina, lias been restored 1 to him upon the recommendation of Gen. ! Sickles. It is believed that two-thirds of the staff! officers now in the Federal service will be-1 discharged ia the course of a few eUys. A large meeting of th friends of Pt esi I d. Nt Johnson was liedd at • cmle rland.Md.. on .Saturday evening. Addre-ses were d- ! livcred be lion. M ontgoinerv R'air and Capt. Frank Gallagher of Baltimore. Special Nfitice^. CAUTION Mv wife Emetine having left mv bed and hoard j without just c 'use or provocation this i? to fnrbi 1 all persons h .rb..rin< or tru'tine her on my account, as I pay no debts of her contracting. EMERY HINKLEY. Nicholsox, May lgfh, lSgg vsn4l2w. ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. Notice is hereby siven that letters of A im'nistra tion on the estate if Joseph S. Vnow. late of Eork ston Township der'd , hiving been granted to the | undersigned j all irs"ns indebted to -aid estate. j are rquested fV make immediate pavmen'. and j those hiving elmins against the same will present them duty authenticate i for seUlemont without de- Jay. JOHN G. BPAULDIXG. Adin'r. Forkston, Pa , May 16, 1866. Orphans' Court Sale. Noti.-eJs hereby given that, in pursuance of mo order of the Orphans' Court of Wyoming Ciuntv.all the right, title an i iii'er-st of Ja.-oh Flu mm rfelt in his life time, la'e f Men township dee'd, in an I to all that certain farm or lot of Intel situate in ' Meshoppen township afo-esaid, bounded N 'rth by | lan lot George Felkir and Jaeoh Aril's, Rast by land of James Jennings ; tvm'h by tan t of Andrew Bush an t Jacob Dockor' and Wesr'by lan I of Roiier Clayton and George A ruts ; containing abou on hundred and seven acres, more or less, wilt be sol to the highest biiter at pubti-i vendue.st the prem ises above described, on the 9th day of June, IBq Executrix. v5n356w. STRANGE. BUT TRUE Every young lady and gentleman jn the United States can hear something very mu. h to their advan- j tage by return mail (free of charge), by addressing j the uadersigoed. Those having feats of being hum- j bugged will obiign by not noticing ihis card. 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Bra Iford of Bailey Hollow to Carrie M. Proper Of Factoryvilie. Died. SHUPP— On the lgth inst. of Abraham Shupp, aged 73 years and 26 days. ' WELCH In Tuokbonnork on Sunday 20th inst Ricbard Welch, aged 83 years, g mon'hs and 20 days. The deceased was born in Penbury, Kent County, England, where he grew up to oianb iod and mar ried. In lb 17. haviug lost his wife, he, with two ,, onfl —jbe e!i;esi lets iban five years old— emigr tied to this country. I.miing at or near Philadelphia, I where ho lived for two years. In 1819 he pasted i through this regi m— then almost an unbroken Wil | -ieniess—on toot, to Silver Lake, in Susquehanna ;Co He returned to the city, as he came, and rn : moved with his two hoys, to this place—at that r:Mi . mpls'ng but four dwellings-where, or in v ;y, aa haew-r sines lived — loved, honored and ies{iected as an iudustrious honest and upright man. His two sons, of which Richard J. i< the blest, survive him. Ilis remains wsre deposited in the Ma ivy lamily burying ground, where rests the dust of those noble pioneers —those stern men of trying times, with whom he associated nearly fifty years ago two genoMtious of whom he had followsa with tearful eyes to their last resting place. BILLINGS -Mrs Huldah E. Billimgs,' wife ef Paul Billings, died April 30, ißjjg, aged 32 jean, j g months and 3 days I No better obituary of the deceased ia needed ita this community ibau to say, here she lived anJ here i she died, respected nod luvea by all who knew her, ' Religiously she was converted in 1854, and became a member of the M. E. Church soon after. In that oouimumoti she lived nad died, a consistent and. worthy christian Her last moments were peaceful, yeu. triumphant. She was married to Paul Billings in January 1855. with whom she lived happily uotil | death u**h>osed the silver cords For a few months previous to her death, this excellent women was a g eat sufferer, but she bore all with christian forti tude, and g'oriously triumphed in the death strug gle. She bis left a kind husband, and two little < cherub children to mourn her loss. Jf. F. WILIPK. HEWITT — Mrs Arn A. Hewitt, wtfr of Decatur Hewitt, uied May Ist, 1866, Aged 19 y*r, 10 months, and 22 days The deceased bid fair for a Log '•. hut her prospects were suddenly blasted. Disease accom plished its work speedily, but death did not find her unprepared for his col l embraoe. She experienced religion in the Fall of 1861 j but like many otkef persons of her tender age, was lured from the path of strict religious reotitude, although she never lost her relish for (he duties of a religious life. In No* i vernber 18g5, she was marrietf and lived n happy bride lor the few months intervening between that pe riod ind her death. She loaves a very kind hus band to mourn her loss, and very many friends *UO will teel the sadness of spirit incident to the loss ef suck an amiable friend. J. F. Wiuum