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lh. founts gimlorjj.
COUNTY OFF ICE US.
President Judge S. I'. Jolinsnn.
Additional Lav J udge llou. Jho. P.
Vincent.
Associate Judge K. C. Scliultze,
Jesse Kyler.
District Attorney J. K. P. Hull.
Sheriff .James A. Matono.
Prothonottiry, &c U. A. Ruthbun.
Treasurer Claudius V. (iillis.
Co. Superintendent Unfits liucore.
Commissioners H. Warner, J.
Taylor. Louis VolltllT.
Auditors Clark Wileos, Byron
Jones, Jacob McCauley.
County Surveyor Geo. Wnlinsley.
TIME OF IlOLDlXn C'OUKT.
Second Monday in January,
Lust Monday in A pril.
First Monday in August.
First Miiidav in November.
W.
J.
fa VJ Oi.Shll OF I Ni'Al'h'M'f. U l.ANlib
fl tlTKYOU (iUSF.HAI.'s (VfH'K,
Harrisliurk, l'eniin. Nov. Wli 1S0O. )
In olieditoice to an Act of Asseiuldy approv
ed t ho Ki o day of April, one thousand eight
bundled nuil sixty nine, yon are hereby noti
fied that the ' County Land l.iru linckcl,' con
tr.ining the list of mipotented lauds for Elk
cj.inly, priqiared under the Act of Assembly nl
t ie twentieth of May. one thoii-and eight liiiu
ured and sixty four, slid the supplement thcre
iii, has this day been for war led to the 1'j'iitlinn
i-lury of i he eoiint v, at ivIioac oilice it may be
examined. Tiie liens t in only be liquidated
ly tiie payiueo rfl me purchase money, inter,
est and f .a, and receiving patents tlirougb
'...p .rtuient.
JACOB M. CAMPIV-'LL,
Nov. 13, lKt'ift. Surveyor (iiuieral.
0V IS THE TIME '
liargaius in
O l'KOCl'KE CHEAP
1
HARNESS. SADDLES, VALISES,
trunks, whips, &o.
J. M. HEA1111, liavingjust returned from Phil
adelphia, where he has purchased a bilge as
sortment of the above goods, along with nearly
everything in his line, would respect fully iu
ritethv tilleinioii of the public to them.
He is at all limes prepared to manufacture to
order all kinds of harness, or anything else iu
bis line.
BOSTON TEAM COLLARS,
I'ho best collar for lumbering purposes, are
KEPT CONSTANTLY ON HAND.
T CHALLENGE COMPETITION AS
TO PltlOK, STYLE Oil O.UALIV.
ft(Q,Give men call at try establishment,
ABOVE THE CORNER. OK MAIN
AND DEPOT STREETS,
11IIXS WAY, PA.
YiovC.'OO.ly
J. M. IIPAHD.
T EKSEY HOUSE,
Centuivilie, Elk Co., Fa
II, B. Leach, Proprietor.
Thankful for the patronage lierctotor so
liberally bestowed upon him, the new pro
prietor, hopes, by paying strict Attention to
llie comfort. cd convenience of guests, to
merit a continuance of tiie same.
vlnl'Oly.
JOB WORK of all kiuds and desori
doiio kt litis office.
4 11 orders for Stoves and Hardware
h will be promptly attended to H soon
as received, at the
12 07 St. MAHY'S HARDWARE STORE.
CARDS, Hill-Heads, Letter-Heads, Tugs,
Handbills, &o., done in a neat manner,
utid at the lowkst ruicit, FOR CASH, at
the Elk Advocate Printing office.
I
OU1S H. OAUNEU,
PRACTICAL MACHINIST.
Can be found at his Foundry at St. Mary's
where be is ready to have all shop. work iu
his line done ou short notice. St. Mary's,
Heuiinger P. O , Elk co , Pa. niyl otS'ly
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"V rtrintfti k L the Advocate Office.
1VVKr.filM T. A HV.I.S Jk TAftS nutl
II
ENRY SOUTHER,
Attorney-at-Law
(febJ'J'CS), .
Kidgwajr, T.
For the Advocate.
A POLITICAL REVIEW.
All political parties and organizations
have a present and a future. Their pres
ent is the time of their usefulness and ao
tion. Their future is the name they estab-
lish in history for good or evil and their
memory is cherished or repudiated in ac
cordance with the measure of their useful
ness or injury to the great common inter
ests of mankind.
Ileuce it is apparent that political parties
in a Republic are only the exponents of tho
sentiment and will of the people, at a
particular time and tor a special object, as
they may be divided in their interests and
desires, and swerved by a common party
unity under those whom for the time they
constitute leaders.
The history of all parties in this country
illustrates this tact from the days of the
revolution to the present.
The early Whig party of 1770 was
organized for the purpose of revolution.
The Federal republican aud Democratic
republican parties that folluwed the accom
plishmcut of seperation from the mother
country, were organizations for determining
the character of the institutions that should
follow the displacement of the power of
England.
The Democratic and Federal divisions of
pat ties that existed duriug and for some
time alter tho second war with England
from 1812 to 1815, represented tho differ.
Lent interests and views entertained by the
people upon the questions of policy aud
duty that arose at that period, and their
probable results.
Audrew Jackson headed the party that
made win upon monopoly, aud the contest
was maiuly in reference to a National mou
icd institution, with concentrated power
sufficient to coutrol, for good or evil, the
finances of the Nation, called a United
States Haiti; while Messrs. Adams, Clay,
Webster, and Seward headed the opposing
contestants of that great con diet under the
various titles of party aeeordiug to circum
stances utid locality as then operated to
determine the name of the organizations,
viz ; National republican in the South and
West, Ami Masonic iu New York and Ver
mont and Whig in other Eastern and North,
eru States. All of which finally culminated
iu that ul the Whig Party, and under which,
the National Bunk, Sub-Treasury ami
furiffwere variously agitated and deter
uiiiiea ine ituiiiinistratu.iis ot Van liuren,
Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Filmore, and
oil and to the period of contest between the
Ius and Outs that charcterized the conflict
between tho candidates of both the Demo
ctatic party and tho Whig, when General
Scott aud Ftunkliu Pierce were their bear
ers, and when each party despoiled itself ol
all the difference of principle, aud fell down
aud worshipped ut the tttit common shrine
of political Slu ovrj, caring not whether it
was "voted up or dowu," if it only brought
t hem power.
During all of this period that is from
Jacksou to Pierce the party claiming the
name of Democratic had mainly been in the
ascendant, and many of the questions, both
State aud National had been settled aud
established in Accordance with their policy.
Hence the uame became popular and was
adhered to, for it potency while the defeat
ed parties changed or assumed new names,
and such as represented iu come d eg re 3 the
subjects of controversy.
A Jxiriod, however, was reached when
old issues would serve no longer for party
covers, acd new questions must be met.
Ileuce, meu came out from both of the old
parties and stood aloof, or acted only parti
tially or incideutly until a new organization
could be formed and pkuted ou a platform
corresponding with the great principles of
our free institutions, kid down by ''the
fathers," and on which all loyal to freedom,
as against Slavery could stind, When the
two interests, must of anecestity, come in
couflict.
Thus the Free soil party ofI847-8 was
formed oi both Whig and Democrat, and
there stood facing a common enemy, and
ultimately culminated in the preseut Na
tional Republican party that wrested the
insatiable clutch of the Slave power, brought
back the nation to her original intent with
obstacles cleared from her path that gives
us now in act aa well as name, a republican
system as bjoad as the area of the Union.
Ia all these conflicts men and parties
have served a purpose aud filled a sphere
of usefulness, Dot alone the successful ;
but each has aided in the development of
that which was for the common good and
the establishment of such principles ' as de
come the rule and common interest of all
to maintain, and thus divisons cease an
issues arise which bring with their disem
sion, a new array of men from both parties
and as in tho organization and progress of
the republican party which from the nature
of its principles absorbed the truly loyal to
freedom and equal rights; under whatever
name or party they had previously acted
(at least in desire, if not in party name)
and they come to canvass together, for the
future best method aud means of carry in
out the new rule.
Circumstances, then, growing out of the
results of the last grcut organized contest
for tho ascendancy between the advocates
of slavery and free government has planted
the standerd of the latter all over the. land,
and, as a consequence, wiped out the for
mer; and, however, reluctantly assented to
it is nevertheless now tho rule and must
become tho common interests of all, mus
and will bo confirmed and fully established
by all future parlies that may hope for the
soufiuence and support of the people. Kveu
the name of a party however poteut once,
when arrayed against tho success of this
contef t must loose its attractions and pies
tige, aud re-arrange itself loyally both in
name and platform for the future for main
ruining the broad principle of republican
freedom aud democrutis equality, before
the law j and also au honest and faithful
discharge of the governmental responsibil
ities incurred in spreadiug and fixing this
great and now uuiversal real democratic
creed of the Nation.
Put docs it follow that because the party
organized under the name of Eipnl,uiii,
and for the time faithfully bearing and dis.
barging its responsibilities to the com di n
country, has earned a title to always con
trol and dispense its future det-tinies tmd
favours through its organized partiens
only ?
The very askin-g. at once presents the
answer. jSo parly in a repit ti is entitlid
to administer the government longer than
it can do so through sources, coiniiieudiiijr
the lull confidence and trust of the loyal
masses. Aud as power draws to Its support,
by a common law in nature, the mercenary,
disengaging and corrupt, of all parlies it is
morally certain that such will, in time, seek
and find place and potency therein, from
their elTivutiiry utid irrcsistable perseve
rencc and coirupt coit.bi nations. Thus it
follows that change ol leaders, and tidtniu- 1
istrations becomes absotitely liecssnry to
preserve principle aud maintain uu houest
rule.
Were it possible for party to continue
itself in power, how long, think you, would
it take to establish a party aristocracy that
would crush out every feature of tho peo
ple's rights und liberties.
Take for illustration the immaculate
Democratic puny (as many even now deem
it), when ils power had culminated in the
administration of James Buchanan, and the
leaders of the rebellion ; suppose that all
those who had for many previous years at
tuctiea tncmscives to tnat organization in
the faith that its piinciplca coricsponded
with the name had remained tied to its pol
icies and measures, as developed by the
Southern leaders in 18G0 aud 1861, aud
who, be it remembered had long dictated
its platforms and policy iu tho interest of
slavery what but odiaus sluve oligarchy
would have now boen the rule of this gov
ernment.
Thus to my mind the evidence is iiro
sistuble that party in' a republican govern
ment is and should be but a eynoym of the
people upon any given question that arises
for discussion and disposal, and where men
and tuiuds array themselves tor or against,
as their honest convictious in most cases
dictate ; which' with the fact that all are
free to act under these influences, and that
men do see and act alike upon one and as
opponents upon another question, with equal
honesty aud of interest, until fully devel.
oped and demonstrated ; it is equally certain
that such issues and contests must cease
when they are no longer open questions, or
have become the common interest of all.
What then is the present condition of
parties as they stand arrayed apparently
for political combat ? Really, is there any
great question or cardinal principle upon
which parties dare organise a division and
go before the people on platforms of oppos.
ing systems. To my mind this, just now
is not the fact ; and therefore, like that pe.
riod in the history of all preceding great
political divisions where a settled policy of
the government became a conceded fact,
and nil political divisions aim at one end,
vis : that of furnishing the best adminis
tration of that policy, baaed on the princi
ples ol our system of equality and justice.
-" Thus it seems to me that tho Republican
party has filled its sphere of usefulness in
tho contest for principle. It has borne the
nation through a great contest triumphant
ly established the true policy for conduct
ing aud directing the new elements which
the war made inevitable, as well as neces
sary, viz : the extension ol tho privilege of
citizenship to all loyal persons, aud to main.
tain the faith aud credit of the government
by a faithful discharge of all tho pecuniary
obligations created iu its defeuce aud main
tenance. At the end of the present administration,
the Rcpublicau party will have been twelve
years in power, a period as long as any par.
ty organization has as yet existed uubroken
iu tiie history of our republic, and within
that time var nrcesxiiies have created avast
patronage beyond that of any other since
the existence of the nation.
These fasts, with its successes, have
drawn to its folds so large a ehaie of the
sinister and corrupt aspirauts for place and
emolument that they have overloaded and
crippled its capacity for usefulness, dis- I
gusted a large portion of its early at.d true
friends ; aud 1 hold and believe that no
prrty thns situated in a republic has the
power within itself to throw oft' the incubus
and retrieve its original standing.
Tho Democratic party by name has
throughout all the existence and rule of the
Republican, resisted the principles and
measures on winch it (the Republican)
based its aetiou. They stuked all of their
party hopes aud consequently the potency
of its name in that conflict, aud like the
rebellious South have teen most signally
delea'.ed aud overwhelmed, aud brought
uot only to concede their defeat, but to sub
scribe to ihe policy of the future, as tho
only one of hope, viz : That of a hearty
conformity to the uew order of things.
It is therefore, us a political party, play.
ed out und iu reality non-exiataut except iu
uana, and that only until tune and circum
stances shall favor suoh a merg ence as will
secure a better policy and more promising
luttre.
J ins exact coudiliru lavorablc, if not
b.-olutely necessary to the existence of the
government, will. I believe, be found to
omi' round and lead to an organized urrav
o J
f the people, as the ol'TS ou one side, and
that ot the officeholders of the party in
power and their siuister adherents, which I
shall denominate the ins ou tho other.
(after the elections of 1SGU aud 1870) for
the administration of the uew older of
things that t's und must lie carried out by
the tuition.
In such a contest, who can doubt the re
sult ? Nor cuu there be a questiou of its
necessity or ot its moral certainty, if the
political world moves iu its normal orbit.
The great good which must come of suoh
a change is ol itself enough to render it de.
sir-able us well as certain, for true republi.
cuuism will liud relief from the responsibil
ities of rings aud lactious of sinister wire
pullers ull over tho land, having their com
mon center at Washington, aud thus a con
trolling power. While tho so-called de
mocracy will Cud a convenient avenue
through which they can slide from under
the rotteu fabric of a defeated aud demoral
ized organization, ouce more into a sphere
of usefulness, ubsolved from those tyranni
cal ties of patty vassalage to which many
minds bow iu submission, long after the
judgment has become convinced.
Having thus reasoned, my conclusion is
irresistible that the ours will take the
reins of power and an entire new deal in
tho sphere of patronage will have been de
creed by the people, while the principles
and inevitable policy of tho nation will be
carried out aud permanently established
the corrupt regenerated, aud good grow up
where now only exists effete organizations.
Here, then, if my conclusious are well
fouuded, is to be found a broad field for
real democratic equality aud rcpublicau
unity, aud 1 submit whether it is not likely
and in due time to be occupied.
R. II. Williams,
215 East 15th St., N. Y.
The great idea this season in Paris is
a plain cloth suit, olive green being prefer
red, no triramiug, but r. faultless cut. This
is iutended to contrast with the rich Re
gence styles for full dress, and to be a line
of demarkation or landmark between the
elegant comfort of wealthj aristocracy aud
the flashy .display ot ladies who show their
wealth ou ther backs in the street.
These two lines, which look so solemn
Are placed iu here to fill out this column.
For the Advocate.
LIFE J XI) EE A TIL
Reader, I am about to give you a brief
history of Reuben Carr, one of the oldest
citizens of Freehold, Warren county, Pa.
Perhaps thero are but few citizens of Elk
connty who were particularly acquainted
with the late deceased, yet tho writer hopes
to make this sketch interesting to many
readers of the Advocate.
Reubeu Carr was born in Rhodo Island
on the 20th day of June, 1779. Ilia fa
ther, Caleb Carr, moved with his family to
Pennsylvania during Reuben's youth, fie
was of a largo family, his futher's consist
ing of tweuty.two children.
Reuben was married to Lydia Tarner,
daughter ot Josiuh Tanner, in Mt. Pleasant,
Wayne county, Pa., in 1801. His wife
died in 1811, leaving him with three
motherless children to stern life's tempestu
ous sea. He was married again in 1813 to
Sarah Lakin, aud in 1815 he moved from
Blount Pleasant and settled in the then
town of Middlesex, (about a mile from
where is now Potter Center). This journey
of about two hundred miles occupied eleven
days of constant and persistent toil, as the
journey was made with an ox'tcam, he en
gineering the routo, while an adopted son,
Gilbert Sherer, drove the team. Here'he
bought about three hundred acres of land,
and toiled hard to sustain himself aud fam
ily until I80I, when ho emigrated to Free
hold, where he bought a large tract of land,
and as his children married they each were
given a piece ot tho laud, aud settled
around him. I think hi3 second witc died
in 1842. In 1845 be married Mrs. Phoebe
Trasker, of Rusti, Chatauqua county, N.r.,
and with be lived the remainder r f his life;
In 1803 he put his property iutc his son
hands, where he aud his wife lived a peace
ful und happy life. In March, I8G4 he
gave his heart to God at tho extreme age
of seventy. five, Rev. AViu. Cadman official
ing, and baptized him into the Church of
the United Rrethren in Christ, in which
he lived a consistent member until he was
called from labor to reward. His last ill
ness was of only three weeks' duration, but
his disease was of such a nature that he
suffered extremely, but he bore it patiently.
Ou the morning on the morniug of the
l'Jth of August, the grim messenger of
Death culled for him, aud found him calmly
sitting in his chair, ready and waiting to
go. When he was dying his son Joel asked
him how the future looked to him, when
he auswered "my trust is in Jesus." His
funeral sermon was preached by the Rev.
Wm. Cadman, at the residence of the de
ceased, to a large and weeping congrega
tion. . He left nine children to mourn his
loss, eight having gone before. He left
forty-five grand children and forty-two
great grandchildren. He supposed at the
lime of his death that he had three sis'e m
living who were each over eighty years ol
age. His own age was ninety years last
June. S. M. II
Bear Lake, Warren Co., Pa.
San Francisco, Nov. 14. A i w ruin
ates past !i o'clock this morning, the easteiu
bound train ou the Western Pacific railroad,
composed of eight cars including one sleep
ing, collided with tho Alemeda ferry train
near San Leundro. Roth trains were going
at the rate of twenty miles an hour. The
engines are a perfect wreck and the cars
smashed and driveu through one another.
The Western Pacific train left on prompt
time, but tho morning was so foggy that
the engineer had difficulty to see uiiy dis
tance ahead
Upou arriving at the switch where the
Western Pacific eouneets with the Alemeda
road, the trotu slowed und the switch. ten,
dcr being questioned as to whether the
Alemeda train had passed auswered " All
right go ahead." Soon alter, the wo trains
came together with a terrific crash. The
Cist passenger car on the Western Pacific
was driven through, smashing the car. The
other cars are badly damage
The number of killed and wounded is va
iously estimated at from 10 to 15 aud from
30 to 50. I.t is impossible to obtuiu the
correct number at preseut.
The killed and Mounded were mostlr ou
the W estern Pacific traiu. When the caia
collided the pa?sengers were driven together
aud crublieu amoug the ruius. There was
great difficulty iu. getting the passengers
out of the ruins, aud nuny could uot be ex
tricated. The legs ol one mail were amput
ated before being released from the cars.
None of the passengers in the sleeping car
were hurt. The badly wounded were seat
to Alemeda. Great excitement prevailed
duriug the day. The catastrophe has oast
a ploom over the entire city. The au
uouueemrnt of the accident was read from
the pulpits ot the churches duriug the
morning service.
Kuitting machines have been very much
improved of late. Tho number has also
been increased. Keverthelessthoold style
having two bands aud a pair of sweet lips
is still very popular
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.
Throe persons of one family died last
week in Northumberland county of that
tcrriblo disease, consumption of the hings.
1 ' -I-
There is a negro Justice of the Peace
in Jefferson county, Florida,, named Pem
broke, who grants divorces for the very
reasonable sum of five dollars.
SV'Hfnl detectives on Saturday arrested
in Albany and Troy parties implicated in
the late extensive express robbery on the
New York Central Railroad.
Judge Brewster, the new Attorney Gen
eral oi the State, has appoiuted Joseph M.
MoClnre, Esq., Deputy Attorney General.
Mr. McC. is a young and promising attor
ney of llarrisburg, aud the appointment
is said to give general satisfaction.
"Oh whero do you get the rod for your
cheeks ?" said a pale, wau young lady to a,
bright laughiug minx.
"Whero tho roses get thcir's in the air
aud sunlight," was the reply.
m 1 1
Mr. George Rennott, the Bostou ' lawyer
who defended John Brown at Charlestown,
Vn., pubii-hes a translation of the first odo
of Horace in the Boston Post, and challen,
ges comparison with original, and especially
i.oru Jiytton s translation, which Mr. Seu-
uott considers defective.
Occasionally when the train arrives at a
certuih stition on tho Erie Railway, a nico
young man jumps off and kisses the host
looking girl at I lie depot suppo'ing it to be
his sister. He apoligizes so nice that the
girls are getting so they look for him reg.
ulaily. Seme big brother will jam his nose
yet.
m '
Vinnie Ream bus gone froai Paris to
Rome. While iu Paris she modified a bust
of Mrs. Fremont. She has mmlc a life-sizo
bust ot Gustave Dore. This celebrated
artist has taken great interest in Miss Harm,
offering her room in his studio, and
extending to her many cuurtesies aud
kiud attentions.
The hand of ono of the richest American
heiresses in Paris, whoso wealth is valued
at ten million francs, has been asked by a
Spanish count, ou condition ol her disposing
of her property in excess of his own, which
amounts to 1,500,000 francs, in favor of
the poor; but at last accounts the American
beauty declined to see tho matter iu that
light.
Tin
ho nobility of Prest. Grant's character,
the Buffalo Erim-sn was Dover more
.jo ,o uuuaiu jjyims was Dover moro
strtkiugly illustrated than in his declaration
in a letter to his brother-in law Judgo
Dent, in these giand words: "In pubfio
matters personal feeling will not influence
1110." Nobler or braver words were never
uttered by any man iu tho high places of
the earth. They raise even the hero of,
Appomatox in the regard and cun!ideu;e of
his ever grateful couutrymeu.
Dutchman "Goot uiorrer, Put; how
you tuz y "
Irishman "The top o' the morning till
ye, Suiittjd'ye think we'll get rain the day?"
Dutchmau "Kcss no; ve -never bash
mooch raiu in der dry dime."
Irishman-"Faith, iU' ye'r right there
Smitt, an' thin whiniver it gits iu the way
o' dhry wither will we as long as the wet
spell iioylds."
A Virginia patent ntcdieiuo dealer hns
gone far beyond the wooden nutmeg trick.
He went to St Jo., Missouri, with a lini
ment which ho claimed would euro Ul
earthly ills. He hired on old man to crawl
upon crutches, declaring that he had been
a cripple for ten years. The quack pnten.
ded to bathe the limb of tho hired cripple
who then threw away his crutches and ran
across the street. The "Doctor" soon had
not a bottle of his stuff left.
A current caricature in New York is
described as follows : In an iron . cage the
bulls aud bears are engaged in a deadly
struggle, while James Fisfc, dressed in his
Admiral uniform, the epaulettes represent
ed by the steamers Bristol ' and Provi
dence,' tho sailor's knot held by a pin
shaped and marked Opera House,' and an
Erie engine snorting from his pocket,
goads the poor beast with a sharp pointed
sticic, lubelled, 1G0 for a milliou." In tho
distance ia seen the White House, and
down a hill, on the keen jump, comes Gen.
Grant, staggering uuder the weight of'o.
bag maaked $5,000,000 gold coin.
A colored woman named
Nancy
Rllftltn A rOMldnnf At rtKA. II. , 1
.. , . ,Tcr r roviuenco,
where she has lived for a long time, died
on November 6, at the advauced age, as
near as can be ascertained, of one hundred
aud fifteen years. She basleen living with
her daughter, who is knowu to be between
seveuty und eighty, aud to day ia active as
most persons at fifty, beiug able to jump
over a four-railed fence by placing her
hands, upon the topmost bar. Our
oldest citizens, who have known V.n.
say she Las been a very old woman as long
as 'hev can reniernhcr :
- .uu fiaMiaa wuq
have taken the trouble to inquire beliee
that she waeven more aged than atafel
above. While she was young si e was a
slave, and asserted that she had of ten seen '
General Washington. Nancy's neighbors
took quite an iowresl In her welfare supply,
ing her while she lived with many com
lorts and seeing that she was decently '
buried. '
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