She s3attit.' Friday Morolng Wvtobor 5. IWld. Democratic and National Union Nominations. STATE TICKET. FOR GOVERNOR, Hou. HIESTER CLYMER, OF BERKS COI'NTV. — + DISTRICT TICKET. I FOR CONGRESS, J. Mel). SHARPE, of Franklin co'y. FOR SENATOR, j;. F. MEYERS, of Bedford county. FOR ASSEMBLY, HIRAM FJNDLAY, of Somerset co. COUNTY 'I ICKET. PRoTHoNOTAUT, <). E. SHANNON, of Bedford Bor. SHERIFF, ItOBT.STECKMAN, of Bloody Run. ASSOCIATE jrlKSBv GEORGE W. Gl"Ml% of Napier. COMMISSIONER, DA VI 1> ll< >\VSA RE, of Southampton POOR DIRECTOR, MICIIAEL DIKHL, of Colerair. AUDITOR, JOHN D. LUCAS, of Bloody Run. ELECTION. TUESDAY. Oct. 9. FOR ABSESIBI.V. We are authorized to announce Col. John 11. Filler of Bedford county as an independent can didate for Assembly, subject to the decision of the people on the second Tuesday of October next. THE DEVIL UNCHAINED! The nethermost hell must have spew ed out its vilest tiend; the toughest devil of all the damned that are roast ing in purgatorial tires, must have re visited t-arth; nay, the prince of Pan demonium himself must be unchained; for no human heart could conceive so malignant, so wicked and so diabolical a trick as that attempted to be palmed otr upon the public in a telegram sent from this place, the tenor of which is that Mr. Meyers, the Democratic can didate for Senator, in a late speech eu logized J. Wilkes Booth. The miser able, unanointed, unwashed scoundrel who sent that telegram dares riot face Mr. Meyers and acknowledge its au thorship. He is a liar, a villain and a coward! His stabs in the dark are those of an assassin whose heart is blacker than that of Booth, but unlike Booth's, his blows, though nerved with a malicious and deadly intent, are per fectly harmless and only recoil upon those whom he would serve* A vaunt, thou cowardly devil! "Get thee back into the tempest, and the Night's Plu tonian shore!" In other words, go to the Devil who has a mortgage upon you for a hundred times the value oi your petty three cent soul ! What for Bedford County? Shall Bedford county have represen- ; tat ion in the next Legislature? That is ! theijuestion. TlieConstitution of Penn sylvania gave Bedford county separate representation and under it one John Cessna once obtained a -eat in the House of Representatives, though largely de feated in the distriet, Somerset and Bedford, if Bedford county was then entitled to separaterepresentution, why should she not be now? If Bedford is to be represented in the next Legisla ture, by her own citizens, she must be represented by Col. Filler and 11. F. Meyers. There are no other candidates for either branch of the Legislature, in Bedford county. Hence Bedford coun ty must be unrepresented in the legis lature, <>r represented by Somerset and Fulton men, if Filler and Meyers are not elected. A CALCULATION. The Radical papers of this Congres sional district have been flattering their readers with calculations on the vote of the district, which are about a-near the truth as Munchausen's story almut climbing to the moon on a beau-stalk. Now, we will give some figures: Democratic. Disunion. Adams, .W inaj. Bedford, -Hut " Franklin, " Fulton, 2so " Somerset, 'AN' 1,2:50 1100 I)em. nay. 3:10 We Can Do It Again. In is<; I, Bedford county gave Met 'lel lan majority. She can do it again, if her full Democratic vote he polled. There are ;i,OOO Democratic voters in Bedford county. them a// be got to the polls and our majority cannot fall below 000. Now let us see whether the full vote cannot be polled. Wrong End Foremost! The Radicals won't agree that the Southern States shall come back to the Union, unless they come in Mack end foremost. We object to that! We want the white end foremost. To the Polls. Forward, the whole Line! From left to right, from Woodberry to Cen trevilie, from Ray's Hill to Buena Vis ta, charge! You are fighting for a glo rious cause! Democracy, the bright est jewel in the historian's pen, the sub limest theme on the [toot's page, the grandest theory that ever came from the statesman's brain ; Democracy, the corner-stone of liberty, the life-blood of the nation, the very breath in the nostrils of the people; Democracy, the gift of heaven to a free and virtuous people, the blood-bought legacy of our Revolutionary fathers, the gentle bap tism, sprinkled upon the greatest peo ple that ever lived; O, will you not all rally, rally asone man for Democra cy? Come, old men, who would see peace and re-union ere you close your eyes in everlasting sleep! Come, ye middle-aged, who would do a good work for yourselves and posterity ! Come, youth, with your heart of fire and your visions of a glorious future! Gather around that banner which has never been trailed in the dust, which bears upon it thirty-six stars, the em blem of an unbroken Union, come and do battle under its bright and glorious folds. "Strike ! till the last dark foe expires, Strike! for your altars anil your fires. Strike ! for the green graves of your sires, (toil anil your native lanil Another Draft! Quotas for Bedford County! Democrats of Bedford county! <>n Tuesday next you can and must poll 3,000 votes! If you getout every Dem ocrat to tlie polls, you can and will do it. Geary cannot get over 2400, to do his host. This would leave Clymer Ouo majority. In order that the men in each township may know what they will have to do in order to poll this number of votes, we give the following quotas. Let every district strive to come up to and if possible to exceed these figures. Now, men, till your quota-! Now, good and true and faith ful working-men, strive as you have never striven before! Roll up your sleeves and let's give them thunder! The several districts will please give us the following Democratic vote: Bedford bor., 140 Bedford tp., 2*o Broad Top, 75 Bloody Run, ; V> Coaldale, 15 C. Valley, 200 Colerain, I*o Harrison, *5 Hopewell, 70 Juniata, I'-G Londonderry, 110 Liberty, > Saxton, > Monroe, 1 -•> Napier, l' wl Prov. E. 40 Prov. W. 50 Schellsburg, 50 Southampton, 275 ; Snake Spring, s: St. Clair, 210 Union, 100 \Voodl>erry M., 150 \Voodl>erry S., 1 ; 10 Wagons! Wagons! Southampton township is very ex- j tended in territory and many of its voters must travel a great distance to get to the polls. But old ton must poll every Jlenwraf if role j within its border* ut this election. The same may be said of Cumberland Val- ' ley and several other townships. la*t : wagons be prepared in every nook and corner of these townships and let the voters ride out to the polls. Let the Disunionists hear thunder from these j districts. Attend to the wagons, boys! Front Face! Eyes right! Flankers, advance! Now, boys,CHARGE! Hurrah! Hur rah! Hurrah! CLYMER leads the van! Follow the white plume of your gallant leader! The black feather will he doffed before your irresistible onset! j Here we go over the enemy's breast works! Geary's ditch is on the wrong side! Bresson! Now they fly! Dis union surrenders! The flag of thirty six stars floats in triumph over the Keystone State! Hip, Hip. Hurrah! Justice! We appeal to our "Republican'' friends who know, that instead of eu logizing the assassin Booth, we de nounced the crime he committed and condemned any thing that might be said in its favor, to say whether it is not an outrage to attempt to blacken our good name by representing us as saying the very opposite of what we did say ? We are proud to say that we have many personal friends among the "Republicans" who cannot fail to see the foul attempt to injure us in this un fair and contemptible manner. We a-k for justice at their hands —will they accord it? THE GREAT ISSUE AT THE I COMING ELECTION ISTIIEQIES ITION OF NEGRO SUFFRAGE.— I Thad. Stevens (see Bedford Inquirer). Now for Clymer! Honest Iliester Clymer, of Berks County! Who would not vote for him in preference to the renegade Geary who has changed his politics half a doz en times for the sake of getting office ; who hid himself in a ditch at Chepul- I tepee, and who ran and left his brave I soldiers in the lurch at Snickersville! Why, even the Franklin Repository, so late as last week, spoke of Clymer as a man of "BLAMELESS PERSONAL CHARACTER"—the Franklin Repos itory, edited by Col. MeClure who ad dressed the Radical Mass Meeting, in Bedford, on Tuesday evening of Court week Now, for Clymer and the Union! The Union forever, hurrah boys, hurrah, Down with Thad. Stevens And up with the law. For we'll rally 'round the flag, boys, We'll rally once again, Shouting the battle-cry of Freedom ! Hon. J. McD. Sharpe. One of the noblest men in this Con gressional district, is Hon. J. McD. Sharpe, of Chambersburg. He is an honorable,talented,educated gentleman and will reflect credit upon the district if elected. We commend him to the support of the people and bespeak for him the united support of the Democ racy of Betlford county. 0. E. Shannon. Now, what Democrat can refuse to vote for O.K. Shannon, a man who has done as much for the party as any man in Bedford county, a man who has always been true, a man who is re s pee ted and loved by all who know him? Wesny, cling to Shannon! You cannot find it in yourheartsto "scratch" him! What! Would you strike down a true man like Shannon? Impossi ble! If Esq. Lingenfelter had remain ed in the Democratic party, he would have received your votes; he could have asked them with a good grace. But, clever fellow as he is, he has done the Democratic party too much harm by his course, to ask a reward for what he has done. We are sorry, and we know many others are sorry that he acted as he did, hut he chose to do so, and he cannot blame us now for refu sing to vote for him. Stick to Shan non audgivehiin an old-fashioned ma jority. Robert Steckman. Democrats, you have an excellent man for Sheriff. Robert Steckman is widely known as one of the best busi ness men in theeounty. Ileis a straight forward, honest, fair-minded man. Stand by him and elect him by an o verwhelniing majority. David Howsare, Esq. There is no better man in Bedford county, morally speaking, than David How-arc. Besides, he is a man of good business qualifications, writes a good hand, is a man of excellent judgment and will do justice in all matters per taining to the office for which he is a candidate. lie will make a first-rate Commissioner. We refer all who doubt thisstatemcnt to 1 lon. Job Mann, who has had many business transac tion- with him. Honest Mike Diehl. Every body in this neighborhood knows honest old Michael Diehl. He will make a first rate Director < f the Poor. No man can say a word against him. Stand up for him, Democrats! He is a good ami true man and deserves your supper. Geo. W. Gump, Esq. For Associate Judge, our ticket bears the name of G. W. Gump. Mr. Gump is a gentleman eminently ipialified for the position for which he is a candi date. He gave a son to the service of the Fnion, a noble boy, who sleeps the quiet slumber of death on tin* banks of the Juniata. Mr. Gump has always been a patriot and a good Union man. Terribly Scared! The great uprising of the people a gainst Disunion and Negro Ivpialky, thunders its terrors from the political Sinai, in the ears of the Radical lead ers. They are frightened to death! They are depressed, dispirited, almost broken-hearted! Poor fellows! They whistle like a hoy going through a grave-yard after night, to keep up their courage! it's all over with them! They shall return "To the vile dust from whence they sprung, Unwept, unhonored mid unsung' Lying Handbills! The Radical Disunionists are flood ing the county with hand-bills con taining the most malicious and outra geous lies. Beware of theiu! They are gotten up to decieve! Colonizing. Look out for imported voters. We have information that the enemy have imported into Broad Top and otherdis triets a'ong the railroad, a large num ber of men from Maryland and other States, for the purpose of voting them at the coming election. We caution the the Democrats of these districts and par ticularly of Broad Top tp., against this scheme. Let a challenger be at the polls and let every stranger be sworn as to his residence in the State and district. Also, let his papers be examined, if a foreigner. Numbers of these men vote annually at the Broad Top polls 011 their first papers , or fraudulent ones. This must be prevented. Look out, men of Broad Top! And let the election board also look out, for such frauds shall not go unpunished. Buying Voters. Last year the Abolitionists used mon ey to keep Democratic voters at homo in this county. We have spatted the man dio furnished it, and the men who were bought. This game is being tried on again, and we'know the men engaged in it. If they attempt to carry out their nefarious design, we shall see that the Court of Quarter Sessions lias some business with them. Stick a pin right there! ___________ Defaming the Dead. The Radical leaders have fixed up a list of so-called "deserters," whom they propose todisfranchi-e, and among this list are the names of numbers of sol diers who laid down their lives for .their country. In the list for Bloody Run borough, appears the name of Herman Klahre, who died whilst in the ser vice. Isn't this a shame ? Last Cards. Beware of eleventh hour roor-backs, such as the hand-bills circulated by the Radicals about Gen. Grant, and others of a similar character. They are all false, from beginning to end, and in tended to gull the unwary. Beware of them! _____________ Voting Minors. The enemy will undertake to vote per sons under age by having them assessed and their taxes paid. This is an old trick of theirs and our friends should object to and examine every voter whose beard looks rather downy.— Watch this game! We're all a-climbing. We G'lymer boys are all a-climbing! 'climb! climb! climbing! We're all a-elimbing over Geary's works! And we'll climb to the citadel and plant our i banner, in victory, upon its highest pinnacle! For we're all a-climbing, | Ac. Tie Your Tickets! Our friends in every election district should have their tickets ready cd and tied before election-day Have your ammunition well prepared! Let it bt; to the enemy as the needle-gun of the Prussians was to the Austrians ! Ready, AIM, FIIMS! Early to the Polls. (lo to the polls EARLY ! Vote at once and then see that your neighbors turn out and vote. Get out every man! GLORIOUS OLD ALD3TADT! If ever there wasafriendof the rights ofthe white man, it is .Sheriff Ald stailt. Ile has always stood by the lib erties of the people. When the ballot box was surrounded by armed men sent to intimidate voters in 18(54, he stood between them and the people. So now when a set of political despera does are trying to disfranchise white men for the purpose of enfranchising negroes, he refuses to yield to them one inch. Hurrah for Aldstadt! What does he care for your scare-crow of an Abolition prosecution! lie knows the right and dares maintain it, and he will be sustained. WHITE END FOREMOST! The difference between Clyn.er and Geary is just this; Clymer is in favor of bringing the Southern States into the Union while cud foremost; Geary is in favor of bringing them in black cud foremost or not at all. Which end are yeru in favor of? General Grant. General Grant has again rebuked the Radicals in their attempt to manufac ture political opinions for him. In a letter to a Brigadier General who had attributed certain political sentiments to Grant, the latter makes use of the following language: " You nor no man lirim/ is authorized to so. iil\, or me in jtoiitt -ut nrittesr. / ward cr> r< >S. To the Peace People. There is a large body of religionists, who are among our best citizens, and whom we respect very highly, whose creed is adverse to war, and to partici pation in battle. These men profess to love peace and to desire harmony among men. Hence, we are induced to appeal to them to aid us in restoring peace and fraternal relations between the people of the North and the South. Do you not seethat the Radical partyis striving to keep up bitterness and bad blood be tween the people of the two sections? l)o they not appeal to the passions ofthe Northern people by denouncing and vil lifying the people of the South? Do they not scatter broad-cast prints of scenes during the late horrible war in order to excite hatred in the hearts of the Northern people as against those of the South? How then, if you are for peace and good will among men, can you approve of such conduct and how can you vote with such a party? We speak plainly. We address you as Dunkers, and Friends and as Peace Christians. Will you practice what you profess ? Some of you will, we know. But even now the Radical leaders in this town boast that they have you in their leading strings and that they will have you vote contrary to the tenets of your own religious creed. Are they lying a bout you, or not? We shall see. The Great Scare-crow! The Radical Disunionists hang all their hopes upon scaring those persons whom they have branded as "deser ters" from attending theelection. This is their great scare-crow. Let no man be frightened thereat. Let every citi zen goto the polls and DEMAND HIS VOTE. Ilecannot be hurt for it. Not a hair of his head will be touched. Go and vote—aye, VOTE AT THE RISK OF BULLETS! Beware of Corruption. The Radicals, here, are using every corrupt agency that can possibly be re sorted to, to make a vote. Efforts of flu- inn i infamous character are lieing made all over the county. Fellow Democrat , good men and true, beware of theui. The Law of the Land. DECISION OF THE SIPRE.Hty COI'RT,' ON THE KIOHT OF MM'HX£D DESERTERS TO VOTE! Election Officers, Read! The following is the opinion of the Supreme Court in regard to the right of so-called "deserters" to vote. It de clares the Act of Congress void and of i course the act of the Legislature based upon the void Act of Congress is also void. A MAN MUST FIRST BE j TRIED, CONVICTED AND SEN- | TENCED as a deserter before he can be i deprived of his right to vote. So say the Supreme Court. Read for yourselves: The act of 1806 provided for general courts martial, and made minute and careful regulations for their orgauiza- ; tion, for the conduct of their proceed- j ings, and for the approval or disappro val of their sentences. Subsequent acts made some changes, but they have not | restrained the jurisdiction or diminish- j etl the powers of such courts. It is to • such a code of laws, forming a system j devised for the punishment of desertion, that the twenty-first section of the act of March 3,was added. It refers plainly to pre-existing laws. It has the single object of increasing the penalties, ! but it does not undertake to change or ; dispense with the machinery provided | for punishing the crime. The common rules of construction demand that it be read as if it had been incorporated into former acts. And if it had been, if the j act of lsoGand its supplements had pre-; j scribed that the penalty for desert ion or failure to report within a designated time after notice or draft (which the act of declares desertion) should be ! punished, on conviction of the same, ! with forfeitureof citizenship and death, I or in lieu of the latter, such other pun j ishment as bv the sentence of a court ; martial may be inflicted, would anyone ; contend that any portion of this pun ■ ishment could he inflicted without con j viction and sentence? Assuredly not. : And if not, so must the act of 186- r > be con strued now. It means that the forfeit ! ure which it prescribes, likeallotherpen ! allies for desertion, must be adjudged to the convict d person after trial by a j court martial and sentence approved. For the conviction and sentence of such I a court there can be no substitute. They ! alone establish the guilt of the accused | and fasten upon him the legal conse quences. Such, we think, is the true meaning of the act, a construction that : cannot be denied to it without losing 1 sight of all the previous legislation re | specting the same subject matter, no part j of which does this act profess to alter. It may be added that this construc tion is not only required by the univer sally admitted rules of statutory inter pretation, but it is in harmony with the i personal rights secured by the Consti tution, and which Congress must he pre sumed to have kept in view. 11 gives to : the accused a trial before sworn judges, : a right to challenge, an opportunity of j defense, the privilege of hearing the witnesses against him, and of calling witnesses in his behalf. It preserves to j him the common-law presumption of ■ innocence until he has been adjudged guilty, according to the forms of law. | It gives finality toasingle trial. If tried by a court martial and acquitted, his in nocence van never again be called in question, and he can be made to suffer i no part of the penalties prescribed lor . guilt. On the other hand, if a record of ; conviction by a lawful court be not a pre ; requisite to suffering the penalty of the law, the act of Congress may work intol j erable hardships. The accused will then I be obliged to prove his innocence wlien : ever the registry of the provost marshal ! is adduced against him. No decision of a board of election office; s will protect him against the necessity of renewing liis defense at every subsequent election, and each time with increased difficulty 1 arising from the possible death or ab ; senee of witnesses. In many eases this j may prove a gross wrong. It cannot be doubted that in some instances there were causes that prevented a return to service, or a report by persons register ed as deserters by provost marshals, i that would have been held justifying ! reasons by a court martial, or at least would have prevented an approval of the court's sentence. It is well known, also, that some who were registered des erters were, at the time, actually in the military service as volunteers, and hon orably discharging their duties to the government. To hold that the act of : Congress imposes upon such the neccssi i tv of proving their innocence, without any conviction of guilt, would be an unreasonable construction of the act, ! and would be attributing to the Nation j al Legislaterejan intention not waran- I ted by the language and connection of i the enactment. It follows that the judgment of the ; Court below, upon the case stated, was | right. The plaintiff not having been eon i victed of desertion and failure to return to I the service, or to report to a provost mar j shed, and not having been sentenced to the ' penalties and forfeiture of the law, was i entitled to rote. Election Officers, BEWARE Look Out For Prosecutions! The Supremo Court of Pennsylvania have decided that no so-called deserter can be deprived of hi- right to vote by an election-board. A man must have been fried ami convicted'of desertion, and a copy of his conviction must he laid be fore the election-board before he can be de prived of his vote. Such is the decision of the Supreme Court and any Judge or Inspector of election, who will refuse any so-called "deserter" the right to vote, W1 Lli BE PR< ISECUTED AXI) PUNISHED! A few days ago, an e lection-hoard was tried in Bellefonte, Centre county, for refusing a so-called "deserter" the right to vote. Judge Linn (a "Republican" Judge) presided at the trial. The "Republican" Judge and Inspector who rejected the com plainants vote wereconvicted, whilst the Democratic Inspector, who protested a gainst their action, was acquitted. The following account of this trial is from the Bellefonte Watchman: CONVICTION OF AN ELECTION BOARD COR ItKI CSINFLTO RECEIVE THE VOTE OK AN A 1.1. EE EL) " PKSKKTKK."—The trial of Josiah 11. Drown, D. M. Betts and D. 11. Veager, Election Board of Snow Shoe township, for illegally refus- , ing the vote of John Dayton, at the < )e- 1 tober election in 1865, resulted in the conviction of Brown and Bette and the acquittal of Yeager, the Court having instructed the jury that they could not convict the latter under the evidence. The facts of the case, as given in evi dence on the trial, an; about as follows; John Dayton, a man of foreign birth, presented himself at the window at the October election in ISO"), offering his ballot in one hand and his naturaliza tion paper and a receipt for taxes in the other. Jle was challenged by one of the Board as a deserter, as he had been ab sent from the township during one of the drafts. They refused to allow him to vote unless he would take an oath ; that he had not left the township to a void thcdraft. Mr. Dayton refused to | do this and his vote was rejected, Mr. Veager protesting against the action of ! the Board and being over-ruled by his i companions. Mr.'Or vis assisted the District Attorney in the prosecution and Mr. Mclllister conducted the de fence. The jury were out but a short time when they returned with a ver dict of guilty asto Brown and Bettsand not guilty as to Yeager. We hope theeifect of this trial may be | to prevent all such illegal attempts to deprive qualitied voters of Uieir rights I in the future. HOW Til E TI) IiETS ARE TO HE VOTED. this Carflulij'. The Legislature,last winter, passed a law which changes the manner of vo ting. All State officers voted for will be voted on one slip, labeled "State;" all county officers and members of Con gress, Senators, and members of the Legislature voted for, will be voted on another slip, labeled "Countyand all Judges of Courts vbted for, will be vo ted on still another slip, labeled "Judi ciary;" which divides the ticket, at the present election into three slips. AU tickets should he ready cut, folded and lied, hi fori eh el ion-day. Let Democrats attend to this everywhere,and see that all flu lirki l is included in their ballot. The iickct will be printed as follows: STATE. (jovernor, i I jester Clymer. COUNTY. < bngress, J. McDowell Sharpe. Senator, B. F. Meyers. Assembly, Iliram Findlav, John 11. Filler. Protlumotarij, Reyixler and Recorder, Cleric of the Court#, O. E. Shannon. Sheriff, llobert Steekman. < 'om mixsioner, David Howsare. Poor Director, Michael Diehl. A nditor, John D. Lucas. JUDICIARY. Associate Judge, G. \V. Gump. The ticket must he cut apart at each of the wide spaces, with the words "State," "County," and "Judiciary" folded out. THE GREAT ISSUE AT THE COMING ELECTION IS THE QUES TION OF NEGRO RIGHTS."— Thud Stevens (see Bedford Inquirer.) NEW PARIS, PA., I Oct. l, 18t>6.) MESSRS. MEYERS A- MEXGEL:—It is rumored that I have forsaken the ranks of the old renowned Democratic par ty, which gave me political birth, sim ply because I discontinued the paper (I done so for my own private reasons, at this time) and for not attending Mass Meetings. I deem it imprudent and incompatible with the teachings of the Bible to occupy the stump and the pulpit; neither do I feel disposed to carry politics into the sanctuary of the Ruler of the Universe, nor to pro mulgate the truths of the Gospel from the stump, but to "render to C:esar the the things that are Casar's." I wish it understood that I will cease to sup port the principles of the Democratic party when God dethrones my reason to that degree that I can not distinguish right from wrong, and when my nerves are unstrung to c'isable me from carry ing a ballot to its legal deposit. Then and not till then will I cease to exert my humble influence in behalf of true Democracy. Yours, A*e., \V. J. STATLEIL TIIE BEDFORD DEMOCRATIC BRASS BAND.— This excellent band, under the lead of Prof. G. B. Heffley and L De fibaugh, has done splendid service in the present campaign. The hoys de serve great credit for their rapid profi ciency in learning to play and for the sacrifices they have made for the party. Mr. 8. McFerran, a "Republican," who belongs to the band, and as clever a fel low as you find any where, also deserves the thanks of the Democracy for the service he has rendered in the band. Jn fact the boys are all clever fellows and we would like to travel with them a whole year. "A VIET,AGE CAMP MEETING" will commence in the Methodist Church, in Bedford, on Friday evening, 12th inst., and continue during the ensuing week. Public services will be held three times a day, at the hours of 10.'. A. M. and :j and