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From Mexico.

HAVANA, Jan. 1.-The Steamer Impera.
ture, from Vera Cruz, brings still later dates
from Mexico. There were many rumors,
some OF them Ginning to come from reliable
sources, that Mexico is on the eve of reyo.
luton. II is asserted that the people are
disgusted with the administration of Juarez;
that the President is controlled by Terdo
de Tejada; that the government officials do
as they please, and there is no protection for
American residents.
An American was murdered outside the
walls of Vera Cruz shortly before the sailing
OF the French steamer. The assassin, al
though known to the authorities, was suffer
ed to escape, and arrived at Havana yester.
day. The United States Consul at Vera
Cruz is powerless to obtain justice. The
Mexicans are much inccnsed against the
United States, and some of them clamor for
another war 1t was reported that General
Alatorree would head revolution against
Juarez for the purpose of placing Porfrio
Diaz ut the head of the Government.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1869-01-16
The Tenure of OAicc Act.

On Monday, General Butler, who is gen.
orally equal to any emergency, finding there
was no probability of getting his bill to re-
peal the Tenure of Office act out of the
hands of the Judiciary Committee, had a
copy made, and, under the call of States for
resolutions, Mr. Washburne, of Indiana, in
troduced it, called the previous question,
and put it upon its passage without any de-
bate, and, to the surprise of many, it
passed by vote Of ll9 to AZ. The mino-
rity are all Republicans and every Demo,
crat present, to maintain his consistency,
voted for its repeal, they having voted solid
against its original passage.
Among those voting no" on the repeal
were Messrs. Schenk, Churchill, Farnsworth,
Delano, Ames, Jenckes, Garfield, Latin,
Kelsey, Mercur, Ferris, Pomeroy, Ward,
Shellabarger, Mccarthy, Morrel, Pettis and
Moorhead. OF one hundred and nineteen
yeas there were thrty.six Democrats and
eighty three Republicans or, excluding the
Democratic votes entirely, it would have
been repealed by the Republicans them
selves by vote of eighty-three to forty.
seven. Its fate in the Senate is doubtful,
with the chances against its absolute repeal
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1869-01-16
Notice in Bankruptcy.

FTNHIS is to give notice, that on tho Sth day Of
l. January, A. ID. 1869, warrant in Bankruptcy
was issued against the estate ofJohn l.. Hammer, Of
Shamokin, in tho county of Northumberland and
State of Penusylvania, who has been adjudged a
Bankrupt on his own petition that the payment of
any debts and delivery OF any property belonging to
such Bankrupt ~ him or for his use and tho trans
fer of any property by him are forbidden by Law !;
that meeting of the creditors of the said Bank
rupt TO prove thoir debts, and to choose
Assignees of his estate, will be held at a Court of
Bankruptcy, to be holden at Sunbury, Northumber-
land county, Pennsylvania, before John 5. Detwe-
ler Register, the 9th day of February, AID 1869,
at IL o'clock A. NJ.
7. D. GREENAWALT,
Deputy United States Marshal, (as MessengerD
Western District of Pennsy lyania.
January 49, lSG9.-It
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1869-01-16
Washington Ufems.

Il ia now said on high authority that tho
Supreme Court will affirm the Censtitutloh'
ality of the Legal Tender iaw
The report OF our General Land Office is
TO be printed In several languages, and DIS
tributed in England TO induce emigration;
johnson, who is within seven weeks OF
the end of his term, continues to rush upon
the Senate his wretched nominations as
though Ae had just entered upon his duties.
President johnson is expected to very
soon pardon the assassination conspirators,
Mudd, Spangler and Arnold. 1t only needs
this act to crown his career of infamy.
Gen. Rousseau, commanding the military
district of Louisiana and Texas, died OF dys-
entery, on Friday last. lie is succeeded by
Gen. Buchanan, as next in command.
Private advices from the city OF Mexico
represent the condition of affairs in the re-
public as most discouraging. There is no
respect for law, and the civil authorities are
both corrupt and powerless.
1t is not believed that johnson will remain
in the white house to welcome bis successor.
but will absquatulate day or two before
the law will call "time up" as some Of his
predecessors have done.
The southerners are steadily coming out
in favor of universal suffrage and universal
pardon. Macy see it is useless, since the
election of Grant, to hold out any longer,
but to make the best that their late treason
will admit of.
The Rosenburg fraudulent naturalization
case, which has been certified from tie
Circuit Court of New York to the Supreme
Court of the United States, will soon be
argued. The select committee to examine
into alleged frauds in the State of New York
have already taken testimony enough TO
make 800 printed octave pages.
Another attempt has been made to fnG a
bill against Surratt Ivy Washington grand
jury, which failed on account of the amnesty
proclamation of the President. 1t is now
said that Surratt has in course Of preparation
for the press a complete history of his wan.
derings during his efforts to avoid the Gov.
eminent detectives and to escape arrest, and
that he will divulge everything he knows
bearing in any way upon the parties con,
cerned in the assassination of President
Lincoln.
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eREELEY's HISTORY OF THE WAR.

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Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1869-01-16

TIE PRESIDENT ELEcT.--The Washing
ton correspondents of journals, in almost
every quarter of the country, are retailing
conversations of General Grant, as to his
policy-his likes and dislikes, &c. Some of
them are so circumstantial that it is amaz-
ing how correspondents can, knowing them
to be wholly without foandation, send such
stuff as having actually occurred. Grant can
scarcely light cigar without being watch
ed and reported as to the quality of the
weed, on which they found an idea as to
whether or not he is in favor of economy
and retrenchment! lie is obliged just now
to be even more reticent than ever, and to
keep himself out of the way of these news
cormorsnts, in order to avoid being misrc-
presented, by having conversations and
opinions put in his mouth that he never ut
tered, however much he may entertain them.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1869-01-16

THE COMMON SCHOOL REroRT.--We have
received the Annual Report of the State
Superintendent of Common Schools for 1868.
From it we learn there are in the State /,
9ls School Districts, 1906 Schools and
1911 Teachers. The whole number of pu.
pills attending the public Schools is 800, sis.
The entire cost of the system in the State
was $4,6lI056. Nearly 100000 were
paid out for building purposes. The School
property in the State is reported to be worth
Sl0,555,765. There are still ten districts in
the State that have not accepted the School
system, four Of which are in Northumberland
county, one in Beaver, one in Mexican, one
in Somerset, two in Wyoming, and one in
York. The Superintendent expresses him
self we'll satisfied with the progress our sys-
tenn of education has made during the year,
and has strong hopes of still greater progress
and improvement for the future.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1869-01-16

A promising deposit of iron Gre has been
discovered in Maiden Creek township, Berks
county.
The new bridge across the Susquehanna
at Columbia was thrown open for travel on
the 4th instant.
An iron company has been started at Erie
with capital of one hundred and twenty
thousand dollars.
General Grant has no. sold his private
residence to Mayor Brown, as reported. He
was offered $50, 900 for it, but refused.
The engineer corps of the Reading Rail.
road Company are now engaged in survey
ing and locating the route OF the proposed
Pickering Valley Railroad.
Minnesota has school fund of over two
millions.
An Iowa parson lately married a couple
in sleigh before his door.
Twenty nine women desire to leave India
napolis and reform, and have petitioned
the Councils of that city to assist them in
getting away.
Coal in abundance, of excellent quality,
has been discovered near Argenta, on the
Central Pacific Railroad, 400 miles from
Sacramento.
The Pittsburg Gazette says at is highly
probable that the Grand Army Of the Poto.
mac will arrange for reunion in New York
or Philadelphia during the present year"
Numerous depredations, including frequent
cases of horse stealing, in the southern part
of Lancaster county, have led to the suspi-
cion that an organized band of thieves exists
there.
1t is al awful fact that iu England, since
the beginning of tho year 1866, more than
si1 hundred men and boys have been killed
by explosions in the colicries. And even
the smallest catastrophies of that kind num-
Der more victims than the most terrible
railway accidents And yet this is in the
face o! extraordinary care in the constant
application of scientific principles for venti
lation. The accumulation of fire damp can
be prevented only 10y the counterbalancing
weight of column of air.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1869-01-16
Notice in Bankruptcy.

VNIIIS is to give notice, that on the llth day Of
i January, A. NJ 1869, warrant in Bankruptcy
was issued against the Estate Of William A. Shafer,
Of uerndon, IN the county Of Northumberland and
State of Pennsylvania, who has been ndjudged a
Bankrupt on his own petition that the payment of
any debts and delivery Of any property belonging
to such Bankrupt, to him or for his use and the
transfer of any property by him arc forbidden by
Law; that meeting Of the Creditors Of the said
Bankrupt to prove their debts, and TO chose one or
more Assignees of his estate will be held at Court
of Bankruptcy, to be holden at snnbury, Northum-
beIland county, Pennsylvania, before John 5. Det-
weller, Register the 9th day Of February, A. d,
1869, at 10. o'clock A. M "
I'd. GREENAWALT,
Deputy United States Marshal, (as Messenger
Western District Of Pennsyl lvania.
January l6, l569.-4t
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1869-01-16
FROM TESNEssEss.


NAsuviLLE. Jan. 1t..-A band Of the Ku-
Klux.Kan made a raid into Livingston
county, Tennessee, on the night of Decem.
Der 80. What particular object they had is
not known, but they left after a sharp con.
6ict with party of colored men, forgetting
to carry away with them half dozen horses
and their sbrouds. The negroes claimed
the horses and trophies, and sent them away
for safe keeping.
The Ku.Klux returned on the night of
January 2, largely reinforced, and demanded
of Mr.. Lewis, United States Attorney, that
he should inform them the disposition of
the horses. Mr.. Lewis did not know, and
so informed them. They then exacted a
promise from him to ascertain, stating that
they would return. Some of them visited
the town next day, and were very threaten.
ing to Mr.. Lewis, who brought the news of
the raid to this city. He is trying to get
the State authorities to take action on the
subject. The Sheriff of Overton has armed
a posse of fifty citizens, who await further
demonstrations of the Klan.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1869-01-16

THE Hon. Edwin NJ. Stanton takes a view
of the foreign policy which should be adopt.
ed by our Government that will be heartily
approved by every genuine American. Ac.
cording to the Washington correspondent
of the Cincinnati Commercial, he has ex-
pressed himself in the following manner:
"The fact is, the time has come when the
interests and dignity of our Government call
for some other foreign policy that of COW.
ardice. While non,intervention is our bet
ter course, it ought 10 be an armed non
intervention, ready to strike and not beg
when our interests are touched. We have
been too long regarded as a nation of shop
keepers, willing to suffer wrong and put up
with insult rather than be at the expense of
war. This is paying premium on ag-
grcssion, and we cannot get our rights or
command respect as long as it continues.
1T is time TO run up the American flag
and not keep il locked away in legations as
u precious relic, sacred 10 the eyes of the
initiated. Nor should it be flourished as it
was over the barricades in Cadz the other
day, for which the press here is so loud in
its praise. What that fellow was doing
there as an American Consul, with the
American flag, is more than can make out
am willing to bet that at the moment he
appeared, the republicans were giving the
royalists sound thrashing. I'll venture to
say that, ii the truth could be known, it is
the old story.
"The moment diplomatic agent of ours
reaches the shore of Europe, he softens into
an humble sdmirer of despotic governments,
and If he brings out our flag it is in behalf
of our enemies. While the utmost prudence
and cautious wisdom should be exercised in
treating these complicated questions con.
nected with our foreign affairs, it is our in.
terest, and will prove good economy in time,
to make these governments realize that we
are as ready to strike for our rights as we
were willing to stake our existence on the
suppression of domestic Instruction.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1869-01-16

A CHANGE IN GEoReIA.-The Georgia
Legislature has discovered that circum-
stances alter cases. The negroes were ex.
PEELED from the Legislature At time when
it was believed to be safe to do 30. Now
that such expulsion promises to work the
overturning of their whole reconstruction,
the Georgia legislators are very anxious to
get out of it, and wonderfully willing to
abide by decision of the court in the pre-.
mises. This eager humility is sufficiently
amusing, but even more gratifying. At last
southerners are capable of learning the will
of the nation without having 1t thrust into
them at the point of the bayonet These
Georgians have heard of the election OF
Grant, and they have found out precisely
what it means.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1869-01-16

THE UNITED STATES CENsUs-Duriug
the coming summer the regular ten year
census of the United States is to be taken.
Congress will probably make special proyi.
sions for the great work. Statisticans cal
culate upon a population of forty millions.
1t was thirty-one millions in 1860, and
twenty one millions in 1850. One effect of
the new census will no doubt be to alter
the present Congressional representation of
those States which deny to the colored men
the right of suffrage. Kentucky and Mary
land will certainly have to lose a few Con-
gressmcu or else enfranchise their colored
population.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1869-01-16

JoHN MINoR Boris died at his residence
in Virginia, on Friday last, in the sixty
seventh year of his age. Until within few
Years MIR. Bolts was well known as an active
politician, having served in the Legislature
of Virginia, and in Congress, for number
o! years. lie was Wing until the disper-
fion Of that party, when he attached him.
self to the American organization. He was
opposed to the late rebellion, and at one
time was thrown into prison by the rebel
authorities. lie attended the Southern 10y
LISTS Convention, held in Philadelphia, in
1866, aud was an able man, and his death ii
much regretted.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1869-01-16

OCR neighbors of the Guard, in their
discussing the "Decline and Fall" of the
Democratic party in this county. The Guard
says: This paper Qhe Gua1d) has the
sublime satisfaction of knowing, that it
defeat. r AS it was, our opponents cut
down our majority so terribly that it ought
to be a fearful lesson to the party for all
time to come" These remarks are evident
ly anything but complimentary to our neigh
bors Of the DtmOcrat, who represent tho
other wing Of the party. Whether the left
or right wing, we are not prepared to say.
Which is the true exponent of the princi-
Piles of the present Democratic party, we
shall not attempt to decide. II the doctrines
Of Jefferson and Jackson were not ignored
oy the present party leaders, and their disci'
Piles were still living, they would, unques'
tionably, recognize the Republican papers
of this county as the only true exponents
Of their principles.
The Guard seems to think the great be-
setting sin of the party has been self, or in
other words, greed for office. This fact is,
perhaps, true. But without this motive
power-this potent remedy, what vitality
would the party have this day 1t was
nearly dead and buried, several years ago
when DR.. Johnson resuscitated it by resort
ing to this infallble remedy, administering
doses that absolutely nauseated the public
bat ell 20 TO purpose. Our neighbor, how
ever docs not fairly state the case, and docs
yyeat-injustice to our foreign population
vho alone have kept up the party, in this
county, by adding several hundred new re
cruits, annually, for number Of years. Be
sides, in an emergency, the party could
always rely for aid from their friends, the
ropeaters of Schuylkill county, along the
border. In this "free fight" of the Demo
cracy Of this county, We do not, Of course
intend to interfere, but our love of justice
and fair play impels US to give credit where
ths credit belongs
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GEN ROUSSEAU, commander of the de.
partment of Louisiana, died at New Orleans,
on Friday last, after an illness of two or
three days. He was Brigadier General in
the regular army, and Brevet Major General
OF VOLUNTEERS. During the late war he did
good service in the battles of Pittsburg
Landing, Stone River, Perryville, Chica
mauga, Chattanooga, and others, and in
every respect has left an excellent war record
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1869-01-16

Predictions that next spring will witness
the largest trade done for many years are
being freely made. Several companies, in.
corporated in the beginning of the war, and
whose charters have since lain idle, will at
once begin active operations with the capi-
tai at command, That the election of Gen.
eral Grant is godsend to the country, very
many once ardent seymourites are beginning
TO believe -AineYs Journal.