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Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-10-19
THE ELECTIONS.

The result of the October elections has
been the glorious triumph of the Republi-
can party. In this State, notwithstanding
the most adverse influences, the Union State
Ticket has nearly or quite 5000 majority.
Hon. JOHN CESSNA, Chairman of the Union
State Central Committee, announces that
the result of the late election in Pennsyl-
vania has not been correctly reported
Forty-two counties (oficial) overcome the
majority of 1862, and leave the Union can
didates clear majority of 1900. The
reported majorities in the balance of the
State, "a counties, gave from 5000 to 1000
Union majority. The majority on the home
vote will certainly exceed that of President
Lincoln on the home and army vote by sew
eral thousand The Union party will have
two-thirds of both branches of the Legisla-
ture. The Union party gains in SO of AZ
counties officially returned.
Perhaps the most gratifying and unex-
pected result in the State is the election of
! l.. d. SHOEMAKER, as Senator, in the Luzerne
district, over STANLEY WOODWARD, son of
Judge Woodward, by majority of 225
OHIo.--Returns from all the counties have
been received Cox's majority is 2S,2S7,
while the average majority on the State
ticket is about 10000.
The Legislature stands, Union, 25 Dem
ocratic II in the Senate, and Union, 70 {;
Democratic, 50 in the House. Majority on
joint ballot, 48.
The soldiers vote will not be counted
until next month
IowA.-The majority for Gov. STONE, who
boldly advocated negro suffrage, will be
$4,000. The balance of the Republican
ticket is elected by nearly 10000 majority.
INDIANA--An Election was held through
out Indiana last Tuesday, but for local and
county offices only The vote was gener-
ally light, but the result most overwhelm-
ing Union triumph Even Allen, long the
banner Democratic county, which last Fall
gave Mcclellan 1882 votes to 2,244 for
Lincoln, is now said to have gone Republ-
can, by an almost universal stampede of
the Germans, who constituted so large a
share ofits voting population. Fort Wayne,
its capital, which gave over 1000 Demo
cratic majority at either election last year,
has now given Union majority.
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-10-19

B9-The committee appointed by the South
| Carolina Convention to intercede for Execu-
tive clemency in behalf of Jefferson Davis
and other leading rebels Thursday had an
extended interview with President Johnson,
and an important and interesting conversa-
ton took place The President was very
frank, plain and straightforward in his re-
marks He assured them that no DISPOSE
tion for persecution or thirst for blood ex-
listed on the part of the government but
said that if treason was committed there
ought to be some test to determine the
power of the government to vindicate it.
self and to punish the crime, even if par
don were interpOsed afterwards. In the
pardoning business, be said, as in many
other human affairs, there can be no fixed
rule Discrimination must be exercised.
and the matter must be proceeded with
gradually and according as circumstances
will authorize The members of the delega-
ton said that the people of their State had
war, that the convention had emancipated
the negroes, and that they felt sure proper
laws for their protection would be passed,
but expressed great fears of the freedmen
becoming vagrants The President thought
| that there was not so much danger of this
as they apprehended if the colored man
was allowed the privileges of the civil
courts, and if laws were passed afording
him the same protection of person and pro-
perty as was secured to the whites. The
South Carolinians expressed the utmost
confidence in the President and qualification
with what he had said, but left without any
promise of a change in the treatment of
JEFF. Davis.
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-10-19

STRANGE SCENE IN HOUSE OF MOURNING
A DEAD MAN COMES TO LIFE-The St.
Louis Republican, of the 30th, has the fol-
lowing:
John Redman, colored man, died (as
was supposedly at an early hour yesterday
morning, at his residence over the grocery
store, on the northeast corner of Franklin
avenue and Twelfth street. A coffin and
shroud were procured, and the colorcd
corpse after being washed, shaved and
dressed in the burial clothes, was laid out
in the coffin While his bereaved wife was
ringing her tears out of bandanna hand
kerchief, and numerous friends, "mute with
grief" were sitting around the dead body.
talking about what a good man he was,
Mr. Redman suddenly raised himself bolt
upright in his coffin, with the majesty of
death in his cold face.
Moving his not entirely sightless orbs
around upon the company of mourners, his
clay lips began to chatter some unintelligi-
BILE stuff about the other world. The result
of this hideous performance was to upset
the whole assemblage with sudden horror,
the female friends fainting and tumbling
into each others arms at the sight of the
ghost, the men themselves caving in, and
with dilated eyes rushing huriedly out
of the room. Mrs. Redman, the distressed
widow, was among the number who faint
ed. When she came to she ran out of the
room and out of the house, and nothing
could induce her to return during the day,
notwithstanding she was assured that her
husband had come to be conscious, and that
the doctor thought he might recover. We
are not informed as to the nature of Red
mems disease, but are informed that he was
attended by an intelligent physician, who
regards the circumstance of his sudden
restoration, when, to all appearances, he
had beea lifeless man, as something al
most preternatUral,
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-10-19
TERRIBLE RAILROAD ACCIDENT.

PHILADELPHIA, Oct Is, 1865
Yesterday afternoon, as the day express
train going East ON the Pennsylvania Rail
road was within four miles of this city an
axle of the third passenger Car broke, part
of which struck the bottom of the Car near
the front end and tore out part of the bot
tom, precipitating the occupants of three
seats on each side to the ground, and they
were run over by the wheels of the rear
truck. Eight persons were killed outright,
and another died some hours afterward.
LANCASTER, Pa, Oct. Is, 1865.
The following is list of the killed by
the accident yesterday on the Pennsy ylvania
Railroad, near this place:
Mrs. Barr, wife of James p. Barr. of
Pittsburg Sarah Willet of New Cumber-
land. Pa, Col. Butler and wife, of Lewis
ton, Pa; w H. Butler, clerk in the Surveyor
Generals Office Of Pennsylvania, Mrs. Uretts
or Getta of Milwaukee one lady unknown; !;
two girls, 10 and l5 years old, unknown.
The bodies of those identified have been
sent home to their friends.
Mrs Ann d. Barr, killed. was the wife of
the Hon. James p. Barr of Pittsburgh,
Surveyor-General of Pennsylvania
Col William Butler, killed, was whisky
inspector at Philadelphia.
Three children who were with Mrs. Getta
state that their father died in the South,
and that they were to visit an aunt in Phila-
delphia, whose name they did not know.
Three females "a mother and two daugh-
ters), dead, supposed to be recently from
California, have not yet been recognized.
| One of the girls appears to be about 10
years old, the other about nine.
All the bodies except that Of Mrs. Gatta
and three children, which have not been
identified, have been sent to their relatives
The others have been temporarily deposl-
ted in a receiving vault
Capt Isaac Maffet of Philadelphia, it Is
supposed, was somewhat injured Internal
ly.
The train was on schedule time and run
ming at the usual rate of speed. The break
ing OF the axle, which appears to have been
an unavoidable occurrence, was the cause
of the accident.
Officers of the Company appear to have
been unremitting in their efforts to relieve
! the wounded and is endeavoring to identi-
/ fly the dead
The solicitor of the Company has also been
prominently active in helping to identify
| the unfortunate dead.
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-10-19
THE NEXT CONGRESS-.

The Chicago Republican publishes list
of the names of the members of the next
Congress. The ; nate is represented by
80 Republicans aiG. Ii Democrats, with one
seat vacant in Iowa. Four Southern States
have elected Union Senators, bnt whether
they will be received or not is question
yet to be determined. In the House there
exists three vacancies in the delegations of
ment of Mr. Gooch, of Massachusetts, to
the office of Surveyor of the port of Bos-
ton, one by the appointment of Mr. Web
ster of Maryland, as Collector of Balti-
more, and one by the fact that the result of
the election in Nevada has not been heard
of ; but all these vacancies will soon be
filled by loyal men of so-called radical
complexion, most probably. According to
the party division that existed during the
war, the House now stands one hundred
forty Republicans to forty one Democrats.
From the present indications all the rebel
States, except, perhaps, Texas, will have
gone through the forms of reconstructing
their Constitution and electing members of
both Houses of Congress before the second
Monday of December, when the session
opens. Should all the States now without
representatives, whose Senators and Repre-
sentatives, are yet to be elected, choose
Democrats, or those who will act with the
so-called Northern Democracy, as it is to
be expected they will do, and should they
all be admitted, the Senate will then con-
tain forty seven Republicans and twenty
seven Democrats, and the House of Repre-
sentatives would contain one hundred and
fifty Republicans to ninety-two Democrats.
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-10-19

aa- Alexander Fl. Stephens and Pohn II
Reagan, ex-Vice Pres;deet and ex-Postmas,
ter General, two of the five prominent reb,
els whe were liberated on parole by the
Presidents proclamation Of Wednesday
last, were released from Fort Warren, Bos-
ten harbor, on the following day, and imme-
diately after left for their respective States
Georgia and Texas-within the limits
Of which they are for the present to remain,
subject to any official calls which may be
made upon them.
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-10-19

Secretary cf the Treasury McCulloch, in
speech on national finance which he de-
livered at Fort Wayne, Indiana, on last
Wednesday, said that, while he regarded
an exclusively metallic currency as an i'm
practicable thing, he looked upon an ire
deemable paper currency as an evil which,
though circumstances may render it neces.
sary for time, should never be permanent
ly adhered to as a matter of policy. Our
present inconvertible currency, he said
which was a necessity Of the war, now
that peace has been restored, should be
brought up to the specie standard as soon
as practicable, and he saw no way of doing
this but by withdrawing a portion of it
from circulation. He regards the extreme
high prices now prevailing as indicative of
an unhealthy condition of the business of
the country, and believes that unless Con
gress, at the next session, shall authorize
the funding of the legal tender notes, we
shall ultimately be visited by widespread
bankruptcy
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-10-19

TERRIBLE RAILROAD ACCIDENT-TwO PER-
SONS KILLED AND SEVERAL WoUNDED-TwO
fatal accidents occurred on the Philadelphia
& Erie Railroad on Saturday last. No.
occurred near Watsontown, early on Sat
urday morning. We have been unable to
obtain full particulars.
The second accident occurred about three
miles below this place, in Armstrong town
ship. We haye made every effort to get at
the facts of this case, and have learned the
following particulars 1t seems that some
how the Erie express train, which was due
here at APO p NJ, and was some minutes
late, ran into freight train half mile
this side Of the switch. A tremendous crash
ensued, which piled freight, passengers and
wrecks of cars in one heap of ruins A
brakeman on the freight train was instant
iy killed, and Mr.. BECKER, Baggage Master
of the Express train, died the next morn
ing We have learned the names of the
following wounded persons, from a physi-
clan on the train who assisted in adjusting
some of the limbs and dressing the wounds
of others. Five or six were severely woun-
ded, besides the names given below Mrs.
C. Rhoades, of Lewisburg, had her thigh
broken-a very severe fracture. Her sis
ter and sister-in-law were severely injured,
but no bones broken. Mrs Walsh, of Pier
pont, n. Y, severely injured--her recovery
very doubtful Mrs. w Sneden. Red Bank
n. J., severe confusion of head and limbs :;
Rev DR.. James Watson, Milton, leg broken;
James Warren, Milton, sverely injured E;
w. II. Holstein, Norrietown, slightly );
c. Stancliii, Tenn, head badly cut and body
bruised ; brakesman of express Train, foot
cut The engineers and fireman Of both
trains escaped with slight injuries 10y jump
ing from their engines. The front passen-
ger car, in which the ladies were, being q
complete wreck, took fire, and it was with
difficulty the ladies were rescued The fire
was extinguished by some Of the passen-
gers and employees carrying water in their
hats, no buckets being at hand Williams
port Bulletin.
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-10-19
8radford geporter.
Towanda, Thursday, October 10, 1865.
THE RESULT I'm THIS COUNTY.

The result of the late election in this
County is most triumphant vindication of
correct principles, and of the integrity of
Republican organization. We have had to
contend not only with the vindictiveness of
Copperheadism but with the prejudices ex-
cited by recreant Republicans who sought
to crafty their personal feelings and break
down the Republican organization. The
result shows how true the voters are to
their principles, and to the men who boldly
assert and zealously advocate the truths
which the public acknowledge as correct.
The special object of assault was our
candidate for Senator, Hon. GEORGE LANDoN.
The malice of his enemies has procured for
him the most emphatic and gratifying en-
dorsement at the hands of the people. The
attempt to defeat him by an avowed friend
of the Administration has proved miser-
able failure. He will take his seat in the
! Senate of this State, endorsed and backed
by the overwhelming voice of his constitu-
ents, as an honest, able, true man. We
predict for him such a career of usefulness,
as will utterly sweep away every vestige
of the prejudice which has been raised by
the INSCRIPTIONS efforts of his enemies.
We are unable to give the official table
of votes. The following are the maiorities:
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-10-19

DIsINTERMENT OF SOLDIERS BODIES. 1t is
announced from Washington that persons
desiring the body of a deceased soldier
must be prepared to make an affidavit be-
fore Justice of the peace or notary pub
lie to the effect that he is duly authorized
to receive said body, and at the same time
state the company and regiment to which
he formerly belonged. All applications
should be made at the office of James NJ
Moore, Assistant Quartermaster, where
record is kept Of the deaths of large pro-
portion of those who have fallen during
the war, their company, regiment and rank,
together with their conjugal condition, resi-
dence Of widow or relative, cause of death,
and exact locality of their graves. The
affidavit must be left at Captain Moores
office, where he will receive an order for
exhuming the body. The Government
makes no charge for furnishing all infor-
nation relative to the interment of deceased
soldiers, but after it has granted the neces-
sary permission to exhume their bodies.
relinquishes all care and supervision, and
the corpse must be taken from the ceme-
terry by private conveyance, and prepared
for shipment to its destination by the same
means. 1t is essential that body be so
prepared as to prevent any unpleasant odor,
which can be done by means of disinfect-
ing powder, or by sealing it in metallic
or air-tght deOdoriZing case.
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-10-19

EMIGRATION TO THE SoUTH-A comprehen-
sive schemefor benefting the South by sup
plying it with labor has been devised in the
East, Governor Andrew, of Massachusetts,,
being at the head of it. The project CON
templates the establishment of a central
Office in New York, where the owners of
land in the slave States can become ac-
quainted with Northern purchasers, and
thus a stream of emigration be organized
which will fill certain sections of the South
with a population having Northern energy
and ideas Branch offices will be institn-
ted in all the former slave States. In this
way it is hoped to reconstruct" the SoutA-
ern States as socially as well as politically.
The Southern States themselves are doing
something Of the same kind, and to the
same end 1t is proposed in several of
them to appoint State Commissioner, with
power to ascertain and advertise all lands
for sale, to open information Offices, to dis
tribute descriptive pamphlets, and to sta
ton emigration agents in the chief ports of
Europe.
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-10-19

H@s A safe of the Erie Railway Gompa-
ny was broken open on the night Of the IL tn
inst. at Port Jervis, and $4,000 stolen
Most of the money has since been recover
ed
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-10-19

MARS SHALL BROT II E R S
Wish to call the attention of the public to their new
Stock of
HARDWARE,
FARMING IMPLEMENTS,
BLACK SMITHS TOOLS,
and CARPENTERS TOOLS.
Also, a large assortment of
Window Glass, Sash Paints, Oils,
Putty, Varnishes, and Paint
and Yarnish Brushes
of all kinds which will be sold for the lowest Cash price
Also, a fine assortment OF
ROSENE LAMPS
of every style and pattern to suit the public.
Lamps repaired and changed from Oil and Fluid %
Kerosene.
Particular attention paid to the manufacturing of all
kinds of
TIN WARE.
JoBBING PRoMPTLY ATTENDED TOi.
We have on hand fine article of
GLASS FRUIT JARS,
with improved self sealing corks, and
HERMETICAL SEALING CANS,
which is of the best cans used.
June 20, 1865.
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-10-19

FOREIGN NEws-The Nova Scotian, from
Liverpool, Oct 3, via Londonderry, Oct 6,
passed Father Point Sunday evening, bring
ing five days later news from Europe.
A meeting has been called at London of
persons interested in securities of several
of the Southern States The Daily NeUS
says the creditors would be willing to meet
the indebted States half way, if the latter
are willing to fund the arrears Of dividends.
The London Times Indignantly denies
the correctness of the list of Confederate
bondholders which has been published in
American papers. Mr.. Gladstone the edi-
tor of The Morning Post, Mr. Laird, and
others also deny that they ever held any OF
the bonds.
Important American torpedo experiments
took place at Chatham Oh Oct. 4, in the
presence of the Lords of the Admiralty
The total of the Fenian arrests was
about 200.
Count Bismark bas had an interview
with Louis Napoleon, to which great politi
cal significance was attributed.
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-10-19

In Susquehanna County, Mr.. LANDoN has
1888 majority. Wyoming gives about 200
majority for STRENGTHENING majority
in the district for LANDoN of about $500.
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-10-19

H9~A magnificent Firemen's parade tool
place in Philadelphia on Monday last.
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-10-19
NJ E W + A LII G 0 obs

~ II
]. W. TAYLOR
Has just received splendid stock of Fall Goods con
ssting OF all the late styles of DRESS GOODS, such AZ
Emperess cloth Poplins large assortment of all the
new shades of French Mernoes, Plain Alapaccas and
Wool Delains also patterns of new French goods
Black Silks plain ana rept complete atock'of Mourn.
ing goods and Delains ..
Cafcoes, Gingham5, Bamoras, Hoop Skirts, and a
complete stock of dress trimmings to match all colors
Broad Cloths, Ladies Cloths, and Ladies woolen
Shawls. Also Misses shawls, Bleached Musns and
Shirtings.
He wishes to say his Millinery is complete with .a
theI newest styles of Ribbons Bonnets and Flowers
also old Ladies Caps, infants Hoods and Scotch, Caps
Turbans and Hats of all kinds and in fact everything
belonging 70 the Millinery business.
He invites the attention of the people of Towanda
and vicinity to examine his stock of Goods, one door
north of the Post Office. Sept Is, 1865.
The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-07-18
South Carolina.

A Charleston correspondent Of the
New York Post, in alluding to the
Fourth, says the day was celebrated in
South Carolina as joyfully as in years
past. Speeches and fireworks were not
SO numerous asenthusiastic persons with
full pockets would demand; but good
feeling towards the government, towards
Providence and towards each other per-
vaded the people. The polite reception
given by President johnson to the dele
cation was source of great pleasure to
and the return of several Ofthe
delegation in fine spirits was appropri
ate. The samewriter says that in. ira
versing the State one discovers great ig-
norance among the white population
Many have not seen newspaper since
they saw Sherman. One white man de-
clared lately that he "did not know there
was such place as the State of ,Ohio.n
In the villages there is q great desire ex-
pressed by the inhabitants to go North
to educate their children. As informa-
ton spreads, public. opinion changes
wonderfully. The folly of the rebellion
is more than admitted; 1t is heartily con-
demned Curses on Sherman for taking
away all the live stock are uttered in the
same moment that smiles are excited by
the satisfaction of being once more UNI
der the protection Of kind government.
A few declare that they s.are two hum
dred years behind the age in agricul-
ture.n
The labor question still affords sub.
ject for conversation whenever gentle
men meet the Yankees" as they still
call all Northerners. The negroes spend
little time in talking. Iftheir masters
pay, them they refuse to leave theyplan-
tations.. If they are abused and have
an interest in the crop, they apply to the
Military Commission on Labor Cor.
tracts, and abide by the decision there
obtained. III Iess
The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-07-18
TERMS OF ADVERTISING,
North Carolina.
The following we COPY from the,l


leigh Standard. ~
The scarcity of money is felt by ALL, It
is a standing complaint" gold and sill
yer we have none,'t or its equivalent
either. This is o distressing condition,
Tor We need an hundred articles, CLOTH
ing Tor ourselves and children, farming
implements and stock, gear and wagons,
and good food. Besides, taxes are I'M
pending. Now the money must behad.
The winds will not watt it over the bor-
der, but we must go after it or send that
which will bring it to us. What have
you to sell, cotton, tobacco or anythingP
If so, dispose of what you can best spare,
| and bring the money home to US. sh5
Bnt perhaps you do not want the pa
per money. You have tried Confederate
trash too long. Well, be that as it may.
greenbacks are good, and have contihu-
ed to better. Every day the quotations
in the North indicate q decrease in the
price of gold in favor of greenbacks.
Do not wait for national banks to be
established here or there before you
make ar effort to getfederal money. One
or two banks cannot fling enough cur
rency abroad to answer the immediate
necessities of the State. In the end,
therefore, in any event, you will have
to sell your cotton and tobacco, or what
| ever surplusage you may have. Why
not now, when one doliarin hand may
effect as much good as twenty hereaf-
ter? f .a1t
Dallas and Daniel, (colored( convicted
by the Provost Court of stealing forty.
odd dollars in North Carolina bank
notes, from another colored man, were
sentenced ito be hung up by the thumbs
until they were tired-and may the
Id have mercy upon their poor
hands," The sentence OF the former
was, however, subsequently reunited
upon satisfactory evidence. Daniel
dangling at arms length, with the fol-
lowing placard on his back: .'Ig stole
| from a coloredman.n ssg