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VOLUME
EBENSBURG, PA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1869.
NUMBER 3G.
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LTOONA NOT YET IN RUINS!
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CLOTHING BAZAAR ! !
STILL RIGHT SiUZ UP !
811 U8 SIM CLOTHIIG!
1S IMMENSE PK0FUS10X!
IL WANTS SUPPLIED!
LL TASTES SUITED!
ALL KUYKltS PLEASED!
ct-iTS FOH OLD PKOI'LE!
" L'JJ'S FOU MIDDLE AGED !
" SL ITS FOR YOUNG AMERICA!
clotHingTclothimg!
TOFIl' KVKKV JUS AMi II O V I
CENT'S FURNISHING GOODS
t'F tVEUY 1ESCKIPTI0N.
OOTS & SHOES, HATS & CA?S,
OF ALL STYLES AND SIZKS.
Trunks, Valises, Traveling Bags,
STOCK THE LARGEST!
OUUDS THE VERY 15 EST !
STYLES THE NEATEST!
PRICES THE LOWEST!
t LOTH IX ft JIIDC TO ORDER
of any good or tt) Jc detut-u.
.' CALL Ind SHE ! j CALL axi SEE ! j
. ;axsuit
YOUix GOODS & PRICES
S:or.E us Annis Stkkkt. one
n'l mU'i'ke the pliire nii'-l tliere will l-e i:o
.istake tttwut you irettin-.' irooii brjin.
(UDVREY WOLFF,
ilnx.na, April 25, 1.1)0. -tt.
WHO M A S C A 11 L A N D ,
WH"LESAI."E Li:l.Ea IK
ynUjLMLd 5 UULLIJO YfnllLi
WOOD AND WILLOW WARE,
STATIONERY AND NOTIONS,
n.tco.v, FLOUR,
;tED AMD PROVISIONS,
SO. I3G VIRGINIA STREET,
Uu-un Julia and Caroline, - ALT 00 A' A.
i All such Oodd as Spices. Bruahcs, Wood
li W";i!ow U'are, Shoe lihickin nnd Statiin-
P' be sold from manufacturer's printed
P 'C lists . and all other too.lt in my line at
I :ladelibia, Baltimore. Cincinnati and Pitta
i'rh current prices. To dealers I presenttlie
f iiliar advantage of saving ttiom all freipht
l uruyiifie, s tley are not required to pay
i'lits Iroui the principal cilie and no liray-
fi- charges are made. Dealers uiny rest as
fed tiiat my good.- are of the boat -qualitr and
prices as moderate as city rates. lij 'loin;;
iir, upright business, and by promptly and
sfactorilv filling all orders, 1 hope to merit
8 patronage ot retail dealers and others in
mbria county and elsewhere. Orders re
ictfullv solicited am! satisfaction puamnteed
ill caies. THOMAS CARLAND.
.Itoona. Ju!r 2!. JSC.-tf.
1 A W SOX fSs liAKER,
FRAXKLIX STREET,
'heOld POST OFFICE Iil'ILDIXG,
JoLuvloun, 1' 1,
HOLESALE GROCERS
AXD DEALERS IK
Tester x i r o i u c i : i
n ntTTTin t,
yiUJH Wl iJaALll ft large wipply
;AKS. SYRUPS. MOLASSES. TEAS.
1 y EES, FLOD R. I? A COX. POTATOES ,
JED n.i GREEX FRUITS, TOUACCO
' VI S. &c. Ac.
' 'i"3 s jlicited frorn retail -dealers, and sat
''ion iu goods and pr'rres guaranteed.
' ;"ytown, April 2d, gG9.
Vs' D R E W MOSES.
MERCHANT TAILOR,
lFis Boilpinc, Clixto.v St., Johnsto-wk,
A jast received his fall and winter stock
; tiiie Fiendi, Lttndon and American
'U; CASSIMERE3 and VEST1NGS,
'l..1 arsortmeut of Geut'a Fcbnjsuino
has been for ei"ht years cutter at
7 'ue!l & Co.'s establishment, and now
' iiuorra his friends and the public gen
V 'ie 'lils commenced business in Sup-
".m ng. on Clinton sUeet, with a etock
u" adapted to th f .ll i.nrl u-intr. wbifll
prepared to mak nn in tint lit pat. isLvIm
t,nmeraJe prices for casli. hoping by at
,rjJ "Ueiiess to merit a share of public
Vretirn ma!nlain t'iat success which
1 s ' re amended his efforts in producing
I' 'ilu eots. Give him a call.
CHEAP CASH STORE
K S MILLS, Alleffhanv Townshin.
'c u&cr h w ,i J r
fnpmi . uld respecttully announce
oJLT the Pub,ic in genial that he
bi.f.M i reasonable merchandise, con-
tDS nT. of DUr GOODS, DRESS
WialU if V?WaRe. nd a othe- rti-
II ivin 1 a C0UntT 8tore-
ufd i paiJ cash 'or my goods I am de-
'f country Drodnn trt t
V'unty a i ? "g"4 from acy dealer in
fted. Ueral patranaue isrc spectfully
'UiIh, a , nn WM.J. BUCK.
April 22, le6a.-tf.
II SALT, mil CUB MEATS,
A NEW THING,
And a GOOD THING in" EBENSBURG.
ROYALTY SUPERCEDED !
The "House of Tudor" Surrendered
TO THE SMALL FRY !
NEW STORE! SEW GOODS!
New Inducements!
High Street ! j lcw Prices !
Han taken possession of the rooms on High
Street, (three doors from Centre Street,
recently occupied by R. II. Tudor,
into which he has just introduced
a mammoth assortment of
DRY DRESS GOODS,
Groceries, Hardware, &.C.,
consisting oi everything and much more than
any dealer in this "neck of timber" has
ever pretended to keep, and every
article of which will be
SOLD VERY CHEAP FOR CASH!
OH IX KXCUAXCK FOE COt.NTBY PBODUCE.
NO DEALER KEEPS BETTER GOODS 1
NO DEALER KEEPS MORE GOODS!
HO DEALER SELLS CHEATER !
NO DEALER SELLS MORE:
TRY FRY! THY FRY!! TRY FRY!!!
Buy from Fit! Buy from Fry ! !
TRY FRY IF YOU YSMNT TO IHTY
the finest Dress Goods at the fairest prices.
TRY FRY IF YOU WMNT TO IUJY
Muslin. Checks, Ginghnms, Tickinps, Shirt
ings, Denims, Drill. Jeans. Cloth's, Cas
eimereo, Satinetts, DcIhitos, Lawns,
Prints, kc, Ac, and wish to get
the full worth of jour money.
TRY ITIY IF YOU WJNT TO BUY
Boots and Shoes for Men's, Ladies' and Chil
dren's wear, unexcelled in quality and
nowhere undersold in prices.
TRY FRY IF YOU WjiNT TO BUY
Hardware, Quccnsware, Glassware, Caipcts,
Oil Clo'hs, kc , o!' the handsomest
styles at the lowest figures.
TRY FRY IF YOU WANT TO BUY
Hams, SiJes. Shoulders. Kess Turk. Fisb, Salt,
Lard, Fritter. Eggs, Cheese, Coffee, Su
gar, Tens, Soaps, Candles, Spices,
or anything else in that line.
TRY FRY IF YOU WANT' TO BUY
anything and everything worth buying, and be
sure that nt. all times vou will bo irarrplicd
at the LOWEST CASH RATES.
Oh my ! mr eye ! it is no lie
That ut the Dry Goods Store and Grocery
Just opened by A. G. Fry,
On the street called High,
More for your money you can buy
Thau from any one else, far or nigh.
I desigrn to keep a full line of
tXi,faa-a desirable styles and textures,
and as I am determined to sell as CHEAP A 3
THE CHEAPEST, I respectfully solicit a call
from nil the ladies, and especially from those
who have been in the habit of visiting other
places to make their purchases. Whatever
icu naut to buy, be sure first to trv the store
of A. G. FRY.
Ebensburg, May 27, 166U.
"OOD, MORRELL Ss CO.,
WASHINGTON STREET,
Near Pa. R. R. Depot, Johnstown, Pa.,
Wholesale and Rdcil Dealers in
FQRE1SN AND DOMESTIC DRY GliOBS.
MILLLVCRY GOODS,
HARDWARE.
QUE ENS WARE.
BOOTS AND SHOES.
HATS ANT) CAPS.
I EON AND NAILS.
CARPETS AND OIL O LOTUS.
RE A D Y-M A DR CLOTHING,
GLASS WARE. YELLOW WARE.
WOODEN AND WILLOW WARE,
PROVISIONS and FEED, ALL KINDS,
Together with all manner of We-tern Produce,
ouch as FLOUR. BACON, FISH, SALT,
CARBON OIL, &c, &c.
Wholesale and retail orders solicited
and promptly filled on the shortest notice and
most reasonable terms
WOOD, MORRELL & CO.
Johntown, April 28, lbOi). ly.
GEO. C. K. ZAIIM, JAS- Is. ZAHM.
ZAHM 8l SON,
DEALERS IN
DRY GOODS, GROCERIES,
HARDWARE, QUEENSWARE,
BOOTS AHD SHOES. HiTS AHD CAPS.
AND ALL OTHER ARTICLES
Usually Kept In a Country Store.
WOOL AND COUNTRY PRODUCE
TAKES IN EXCHANGE FOB GOODS !
STORE ON MAIN STREET,
Next Door to the Post Office,
June 10,1869. EBENSBURG, PA.
Original IJodrtT.
OXLY A Sl'A'BEAM.
BY O. L. 11., EBENSBURG.
Only a sunbeam! yet how bright
The daisy looks in its goldeu light;
And the tender grass lifts up its head,
As if by an UDseen fairy led.
Only a sunbeam ! melting the snow,
Supplying with mou-ture the earth below.
Yet how it makes the flowiets to bloom
And yield to us their sweetest perfume.
Only a sunbeam! a bright little thing
That ushers in the beautiful Spring,
All mantled in blossoms of every hue.
Which glitter like gems with evening dew.
Only a sunbeam ! how 'I thrills the heart
And bids every care from us depart :
And gladly we turn our thoughts above,
To a God full of mercy and love.
ales, Slutejjf s, nttbof fstf t.
A CENTURY OLD AND UPWARD.
Is there any person more than a hun
dred years oil ? The very statement of
such a question seetus absurd ; for we are
no more in the habit of doubting this fact
than that Daniel Lambert was very fat,
or General Tom Thumb very short. And
yet this question lias been propounded, in
connection with a doubt whether there is
any conclusive evidence of a person having
overlived one hundred years.
A book was published about the begin
ning of the present century, containing no
tices of more than seventeen hundred per
sons repuieI t have lived to the nge of a
hundred or upwards ; but the author was
so indisposed to cautious inquiry, that we
will dismiss him altogether. We will
gather a few instances from chronicles,
obituaries, and registers of various kinds,
sufficient to show the general nature of the
belief on this subject. Leaving untouched
(he decade between 100 and 110, we will
i-tart from the last named date, and eo
travel onwards.
Popular statements assign the age of
110 to John Locke, who was baptized in
171G, when three years old, and buried
at Lai ling, in Norfolk, in 1824; to an
old woman at Knniskillen, who was born
in 1754, and was alive in 1861, and to
Mary Ralphnon, who followed her soldier
husband to the wars in the time of George
II., fought by his side in the uniform of a
wounded dragoon who had fallen close to
her, and died in 1308, at Liverpool,
Then there was Hetty Roberts, who was
born at Northrop, in Flintshire, in 1719,
and was living at Liverpool in 1859, with
a brisk young fellew of 80 as her son.
The age of 1 1 1 has been claimed for John
Craig, who fought at Sheriffmuir in 1715,
and died at Kilmarnock in 1793 ; and for
Rev. Richard Lufkin, who died at Ufford,
in Suffolk, in lb76, and who preached a
sermon the very Sunday before his death.
Concerning the age of 112, there was
Toney Proctor, who was negro servant to
nn Enslish officer at Quebec so far back
as 1759, and yet lived to sec the year
18GI Hut a more curious instance was
that which was connected with a conviv
ial meeting held at a tavern in London, in
1788, to celebrate the centenary of the
Revolution of 1GS8. An old man said he
was 112 years old, and remembered the
Revolution as having occurred when he
was a lad. Of course Lis convives chair
ed l.im in triumph. The age of 113 is
claimed for Michael IJoyRC, who died at
Armagh, in 177G ; Mrs. Gillam, who
died in Aldersgate Street, in 17G1 ; a man
in whose memory a tombstone was put
up in Roche Abbey Church in 1734, and
whose son lived to be 109 ; and the Rev.
Patrick Machell Vivian, Vicar of Lesbury,
near A in wick, who was born in 154G,
and wrote a letter in 1G57 (when 111
years old), in which he said, 'l was never
of a fat, but a slender, mean habit of
boHy." If we want evidence of the age
of 114, we are referred to a tombstone in
Mucross Abbey, Killarney, which bears
the epitaph, 'Erected by Daniel Shine,
in memory of his father, Owen Shine,
who departed this life April 6th, 1847,
aaed 114 years."
Ve now go on to another group of five
years. What say the advocates of 115 f
Nothing that we need dwell upon here;
but among those for whom have been
claimed the age of 11G years, we find
Robert Pooles, who died at Tyross, in
Armagh, in 1742, and John Lyon, whose
death took place at Handon, in 1761.
David Kerrison, a soldier of the ArnerU
can Revolution, died at Albany, in 1852,
at the age of 117. John Riva, a stock
broker, died in 1771, at the age of 118,
having been accustomed to walk to his
office until within a few days of his death ;
and if the Parish register of Irthington,
in Northumberland, is to be relied upon,
of similar age was Robert Bowman, when
he died in 1829. In a hospital at Moss
cow. there was an old roan, who was wont
to say that he enlisted in the Russian
army in the time of Peter tho Great ; if
so, he could hardly been less than 119 at
the time when an American traveler vifci
ted him, a few years ago. Mr. Sneyd,
in 1853, saw a gaunt, large-limbed, ex
ceedingly wrinkled old woman at Lansle
bourg, in Savoy, who said 6he was born
in 1714, and remembered event3 that
took place in 1721.
When we como to- ages between 120
and 130, we must not expect the instances
to be Tcry numerous j but let us jot dow n J
a few from various authorities. The age
of 120 has been claimed far Ursula
Chicken (what a chicken), who died at
Ilolderness in 1722 ; William Jugall, a
frtitMul old servant of tho Webster fami
ly, at Battle Abbey, in Sussex, who died
1798, and to whom a monument was
erected in Battle Churchyard ; Mr. Cot
trell, who died at Philadelphia in 17G1,
leaving a wife aged 11G, to whom he had
been married ninety-eight years ; and a
Duchess of Buccleugh, who had lived
"twenly years a maiden, fifty tears a
wife, and fifty years a widow," and died
in 1728. Blackwood's Magazine spoke
in 1821 of a Mr. Leyne, who had just
then died at the age of 121, in the United
States, having lived there under four Brit
ish sovereigns before the rupture in 1774 ;
he left a widow 110 years old. A hoa-'-hcaded
negro, who was one of the lions
of New York at the International Exhi
bition of 1853, was said to be 124 years
old. An epitaph in All-Saints' Church
Northampton, celebrates the name of a
person who died in 170G, atthe age of 12G.
A History of Virginia which gives a tough
list of very aged persons in that State, in
cludes the name of Wonder Booker, a
slave, who received the first of these two
names because he was a wonder ; he
worked in his master's garden till 117
years old, and died in 1810, at the age of
126, having been born in the reign of
Queen Elizabeth.
Another decade, embracing age3 be
tween 130 and 140, is not without its re
cords. William Beatty, a soldier who
had fought at the battle of the Boyne, in
1690. died in 1774, at the age of 130.
Peter Garden figures in an engraving con
tained in the Perth Musuem, as having
died in 1775, at the age of 131. Mrs.
Keith, who died at Newnham, in 1772, at
the age of 133, left behind her three
daughters, one of whom was a fair dam
sel of 109. Louis Mutel. a free negro in
St. Lucia, was reputed tob-3 135 years old
when he died in 1851 ; although he mar
ried eo late in life as 55, he survived that
event eighty years. Silliman's Journal
mentions one Ilenry Francisco in a more
circumstantial manner than is usual in this
class of records. lie was born in 168G,
left France in 1691, witnessed the coro
nation of Queen Anne in 1702, fought
under Marlborough, then went to Ameri
ca, was wounded and taken prisoner dur
ing the Revolutionary War, and was liv
ing in Albany in 1822, at the ago of 136.
We may well suppose that lives of seven
Bcorc must be few and far between, even
when credulity comes to our aid. A par
ish register nt Everton, Bedfordshire, men
lions the Rev. Thomas Rudyard, vicar of
that parish, as having died at the age of
140, during the reign of Charles II. . But
the roost famous instance was that of the
Countess of Desmond, of whom the popu
lar account is, that she was born in the
second half of the fifteenth century ; that
she married the Earl of Desmond in Ed
ward IVs time; that she had three com
plete dentitions or sets of natural teeth
during her long career ; that she appeared
at the court of James I. in 1614, and
that sIkj was wont to go to market on foot
almost to the day of her death, at the age
of 140.
Bwt vce have now to Fpcak of venerable
persons who arc claimed to have exceeded
the longevity even of tho tough old Count
ess. A slab on the floor of Abbey Dore
Church, Herefordshire, records the death
of Elizabeth Iewis, in 1715, at the age
of 141 ; and the parish register of Frod
sham, in Cheshire, contains the name of
Thomas Hough, who died at the same
age-
During a celebrated heraldic contest, in
1385, between Iword Scrope and Sir Rob
ert Grosvenor, it became important to ob
tain the oldest available living testimony
concerning the holding of certain titles and
insignia j and among the witnesses bro't
forward were Sir John Sully, aged 105,
and especially John Thirlwall, an esquire
of Northumberland, aged 145. Whether
the judges had any doubt of the correct
ness of this age we are not told.
There are, considering the circumstan
ces, remarkably full details concerning
another veteran of 145, named Christian
Jacob Drachenberg. He was born in
Sweden, in 1626, lived chiefly as a sailor
till 1694, and was then made a captive
by Barbary corsairs. Being kept as a
slave till 1710, he made his escape, and
served once again as a seaman till 1717,
when he was 81 years old. At the age
of 106, being indignant at incredulity ex
pressed concerning his age, he walked a
long distance on purpose to procure a cer
tificate of the year of his birth. In 1735
he wa8 presented to the King of Denmark;
and in 1837 he was married, a brisk
bridegroom of 109 to a blooming widow
of 60 1 He walked about in the town of
Aarbuus in 1759, at the age of 133 ; but
thirteen more years were in store for him,
seeing that he did not die till 1772, when
he had completed his 145th year. The
case was considered sufficiently important
to deserve a place in the English Cyclo
paedia, which contains an article on Drach
enberg, attributed to one of the most
trustworthy of literary men.
The number 150 is rather a suspicious
one in these matters ; for, being what is
called a "round" number, persons are often
tempted to use it without much regard to
strict accuracy. Francis Consit, who had
been a burden to the Parish of Malton
during h great part uf his life, was said to
be 150 when be died in 1768. Sir Ralph
Vernon, who was born towards the end
of the thirteenth century, and lived nearly
to the middle of the fifteenth, had the same
age imputed to him. If the parish regis
ter of Mint-hull, in Cheshire, may be re
lied upon when it says that one Thomas
Damme lived to "ocvenscore and fourteen
years," this looks very much like 154.
Tue most celebrated personage,, how
ever, who exceeded 150 years was that
renowned old Parr, who always seems to
be making and taking "life pill?," and
whose portraits seem intended to show
how vigorous and venerable we shall all
become if we will only take the pills in
question. The testimony as to Thomas
Parr's age seems to be tolerably complete.
He was born in Shropshire, in 1483, re
mained a bachelor till 80 years old, mar
ried in 1563, lived with his first wife 32
years, became a widower in 1595, mar
ried again in 1G03, when he was 120
years old, and lived to see the year 1G35.
In that year the Earl of Arundel visited
him, and was so struck by his appear
ance as to invite him to come to his town
mansion. The old man was brought by
very easy stages in a litter to London, but
the fatigue, the crowds of visitors who
came to see him, and the luxuries which
were pressed upon him, carried him oil" at
the wonderful age of 152. He was bur
ied on November 15, 1635, at Westmin
ster Abbey, where a monumeut was erect
ed to his memory.
Shall we go beyond eight score Let
us see. There wasone John Ilovin, who
died in 1741, at the alleged age of 172,
and who left a widow destined to live to
her 164th year. There was Tairville,
who, according to Martin's "Description
of the Western Isles," died in tho Shet
land Islands at the age of 180. There
was Peter Torton, who gained renown in
1724 as having-survived till 185; and
there was Jane Brit ton, who, as we are
informed by the Parish register of Ever
crick, in Somerset, for J588, "was a
maiden, as she affirmed, of 200 years."
Leaving this blushing maiden and her
compeer.-, we must observe that the only
well-authenticated case (if it is au hintica
ted) of einht score and upward was that
of Henry Jenkins. lie was born in the
year 1501. When a boy, he curried a
horse-load of arrows to Northallerton, to
be employed by the English army in re
sisting the invasion f James IV., of
Scotland ; and he lived to see the year
1670, when he died at Eilerton-upon-Swale,
in Yorkshire, at the age of 1G9.
Now, w hat are we to think of all these
alleged cases of extreme old age 1 The
grounds on which skepticism has been
expressed concerning them ure numerous.
It has been pointed out that most of them
are among the humbler classes, where
registers and formal entries are but little
attended to. The middle and upper class
es, among whom authentic records are
more plentiful, take but small part in the
marvels of longevity. "Can actuaries,"
it is asked, "refer us to a single instance
of an assured person living to a hundred
and forty, thirty, twenty, ten, ay, to one
hundred and ten!" The legal evidence
is almost always deficient. Registers of
birth were not formally and legally estab
lished till after the year 1830 ; all such
registers before that date were voluntary,
and, therefore, uncertain. Even parish
registers are not always reliable, for many
of them, giving the year of death, mention
the are of the deceased, but do not name
the year of birth, so that there are not
two dates to correct each other.
Sometimes tombstones are rechiseled to
restore the half-decayed epitaphs ; and
then the village mason, puzzled nt some
of the partially-obliterated figures, makes
a guess at them, and puts in the date or
the age which seems to hiiu nearest like
the original. A tombstone in a church
yard at Conway, England, records tiie
fact that Lowry Owens Vaughan died in
17GG, at the age of 192, and that her
husband, William Vaughan, died in 1735,
at the age of 72. Now, a recent observer
of the tombstone has remarked that the
lady must (if this be true) have been nearly
ahundred years old when Wm. Vaughan
married her; and as the figures on the
stone have a rather freshly-cut appearance,
he prefers the supposition that 192 was an
incorrect recutting of an earlier incision.
The Worcester Chronicle, in 1852, drew
attention to a stone in Cleve Prior church
yard, which recorded the death of a per
son at the startling age of 809. Thi3 is
supposed to have been an ignorant mason's
way of expressing 39 that is, 30 and 9.
The Times noticed, in 1848, that the re
gister of Shoreditch Parish contained an
entry of Thomas Cam, who died in 1588,
at the age of 207, having lived in twelre
reigns. An investigator afterwards point
ed out that Sir Henry Ellis, in his "His
tory of Shoreditch,'' put down the age at
107 ; and an examination of the register
elicited the fact that "1" had been altered
to "2" quite recently, by pome mischiev
ous person who probably wished to poke
fun at the antiquaries.
There can be no question that this kind
of incredulity renders service, in so far as
it induces more careful examination into
the testimony for alleged facts of longevi
ty. Nevertheless, centenariani.m icsls n
too good a basis to be overthrown Ed
ucational Gist.tte.
A Lkaky Hou.sk. A couple of fellows
who were pretty thoroughly soaked with
bad whisky, got into the gutter. After
floundering about for a few minutes, one
of them said, "Jim, let's go to another
house this hotel. leaks."
AX ADDRLSS.
To the Voters of Western Pennsylvania :
The time is rapid'y approaching whoa
you mutt give expression, by ycur ballutx,
to the views you entertaiu of the manner in
which your servants, the public officers, have
discharged the trust reposed in them. Hav
ing full confidence in the virtue and integri
ty of tho masses of the people, aud trusting
that this campaign has been so couductod
as not to arouse partisan bitterness, we feci
authorized to make a calm appeal to your
better judgement. We invite your candid
and careful examination of a few matters dis
closed by the public, ifiijial records, in order
that you may determine whether the same
men shall continue iu cfucc, and perpetuate
the present practices, so waste-fully extrava
gant, if not shamefully corrupt.
THE 'PASTEUS AND FOI.DKKs" SWINDLE
is but a mild type of the corruption epidem
ic. In order to pension iulo partisans upon
the public Treasury, useless officers were cre
ated by the Legislature, and out of the peo
ple's money a swarm of loafers were sup
ported.
In l&GS the number of oflieials and
emploves, including '-pasters and
folders," of the two Houses was
O.VB UL'MED AND TWESTT, at A
cost of. $113,3G3 00
Iu lHil) the total Dumber employed
was tour, at a cost of 28,654 00
Making an increase of $S9,708 U0
Iu order that a fiir comparison may be
instituted, we have taken two years, when
there can be no pretext that tho war was
raging and iucreased expenditure was neces
sary. During the two years referred to the
number of Senators aud Representatives was
precisely the tsanie ; yet in 1868 it is pretend
ed that tliree times as many rtficers were
needed, and more than four times as much
money is taken from tho Treasury as sufficed
in 1800.
In 1SG3 the public printing cost $134 ,90;
In lbGU " " 30,041
Making an increase for ini benefit
of iuk king ot .$104,327
Any one having access to the public doc
uments can find a detailed statement of
THE EXPENSES OF TUE LEGISLATURE.
We present but the aggregate, which
shows that
Iu 1BG8 the expenses of the Legis
lature were 3 353 "24 5G
Iulbuu 177,264 65
Showing an increase (nearly dou
ble) of. $175,939 91
The same systematic squaudering of the
public funds has been practioed in all the
departments of Government.
EXECCT1VB EXTUAVAGANCK.
In 1868 the cost ot the Executive De
partment wis $59,114
In 18ti0 20,735
Showing that it requires each year ?Ctf,377
morefor Gov. Geary to administer the Gov
ernment thau Gov. Packer ueeded iu lfetiO.
THE TREASURY KINO
has become so bold and unscrupulous in its
operations and so far-reaching in its machi
nations as to startle a'.l reflecting men. A
Dill was passed iu the interest of these King
masters authorizing the boriOA'ing of $23,
000,000 upon Bonus bearing six per cent.
for the purpose of paying a debt of $20,000,
000 bearingj?tre per cent, interest.
Two facts stand out prominently in this
plain statement which should brand forever
all connected with the swindle.
First. Why borrow at fix per cent, when
the holders ot the Bonds were williug to con
tinue ths loan at five per cent.?
Second. Why4borrow 23.000,000 when
only $20,000,000 were ueeded ?
The reason is manifest upon a moment's
reflection.
First. The loan must be placed at a high
iuterest for the benefit of the operators.
Second. There must be a large surplus in
the Treasury for the same Ring to use.
The effect of this corrupt scheme may be
realized by the tax payers when they learn
that the btate was charged about $90,000
for negotiating the new loan ; and that the
annual interest paid in 18G8. after this wai
consummated, was $171,554 more than iu
1866.
In addition to this, the Ring have had tho
use of the surplus funds in the Treasury,
which amounted in 1867 to an average of
mure than three and a half millions of dol
lars, and in 1861 to an average of over $2,
300,000. Tins unexpended balance was not
iiile ; but was loaued to various Banks and
Bankers, and the iuterest received therefor
did not go into the treasury, but into the
pockets of tho King-masters.
Au attempt was made to compel the State
Treasurer to apply this surplus fund to the
payment of debts of the Commonwealth, or
to invest it for the public benefit. But the
measure was defeated by tho powerful com
bination which surrounds Governor Geary.
THE STATE DEBT.
The people hava heard considerable gas
conade from Governor Geary relative to the
reduction of the State debt. This, like the
rest of L.U capital, is a sham and cheat. Let
any voter turn to Purdon'u Digest, page 9 14,
aud he will find a law setting opart certain
revenues for a sinking fund with which to
pay the State debt. Then let, him turn to
the rtports cf the Auditor General for the
past eight years, aud he will find that the
receipts from the sources enumerated in said
act have amounted to $27,906,227.53. If
this fund had been applied to the purpose
for which it was sacredly set apart the debt
would have beun reduced to $10,063,619.92
and yet it amounU to over $33,000,000.
What has become of the laxej which Vie law
said shoull go into the sinking fund? and
what shall be thought of this b luster Gea
r who blusters about a leductiou of $4,
000.000, wheu, had he and his co-operators
pei formed their duty, the reduction Wculd
have beeu $27,00,000.
In addition to tins most glaring misman
agement of the finances, theie are mauy other
undisputed facts which clearly show
GKAKV's UNFITNESS.
No man evtr talked five minutes with
him w ithout being disgusted with his inordi
nate vanity, and amazed at the bhallowness
T bis nuu.l. Such tsieeches hs he makes
but sound his own fulsome adul.ition. like a
peacock spreading its plumage to excite is
own admiration. This might be harmless,
but that it indicates the weakness ofthtvmn.
He has no positive strength of character, but
is pliable and vacillating. His own party
friends denounce him as untruthful. lie has
become notorious throughout the Stale ai
the Great Fledge Breaker.
He belongs to tho Ring, and readily rp
proves all the infamous special legislation in
the iutere&t of the cliques. He has recently
visited the oil regions. D";d he satisfy his.
constituents as to the fairness nnd honesty
of the oil pipe monopoly swindle f Can ho
explain the Philadelphia "stock-yard" bill
satisfactorily ? What defence can he make
of the infamous attempt to abolish a Judicial
District becau.e the Judge wns obnoxioii
to a millionaire residing in Williamsport ?
a bill which was rushed through with in
decent haste, the Governor lemaining iu Li
chamber late at night to ign it before iu
abominations cou'd bi made known, and
which bill has since been declared unconsti
tutional by the unanimous opinion of the
Supreme Court.
HIS IITPlCaiSV ON THE TEMPERANCE QUES
TION very properly prevents any person from
placing confidence in him. Like a thorough
demagogue he drinks lager with tho German
of Erie, and then hurries east to becomo
Vice Piesidcnt of the National TemperancH
Society, and to declare that he never draLk
anything stronger than eider.
oeaky's indiscriminate PAUPOSINU Ob"
ROD3EUS A NO CUT-TIIKOATS
has excited the alarm of all who value tho
security of property or the safety of person.
Shortly after his inauguration he published
a series of Rules to be observed in applica
tion for pardons. But he has continuously,
persistently violated his own Itiiles in hi
eager haste to turn his partiz ir convict
loose - upon the community. In several
cases the public have scarcely heaved a
sigh of reliaf up-n tha incarceration of con
demned ruffian!., before Gov. Geary ha3
thrown open the pris-.n doors, nnd let these
desperadoes out to terrify, shoot aud stab
again in a very few weeks. These pardons
have been granted upon the lowest prompt
ings of petty politics. Geary's abuse of this
power has been so glaring as to cause an in
dignant protest from the same leading or
gans of his own party.
The Philadelphia Ecening TJegraph says:
The present Governor of Pennsylvania
has scarcely bepn behiud the "ureatest crim
inal of the age" iu this ree pect ; he has used
tho pardoning power, not for the purpose of
rectifying mistakes made by the courts, not
for doing justice when the law had been too
severe, but to make hiniscf popular with a
class that makes it a business to prey upon
the community.
The Pittsburgh Commercial demands :
Will Governor Geary give the public of
Alleghany county the reasons that induced
him to grant a recent pardon 1
Let us have the reasons ; whether they
were humrnitarian. political, social, sym
pathetic or otherwise.
Tho Pittsburgh Dispatch ironically an
nounced :
He has pardoned . who a
couple of weeks since was sent to the Peni
tentiary because of a little "unpleasantness"
with , and we suppose ha
considers himsali certaiu now r.f receiving
the "uudivided .support" of All"ghany
county in the coming State Convention ; for
after 6uch a use and judicious exercise of
the pardoning power, who will pretend to
say that he is not "the right man in th-j
right place." We pity the
party that must carry him in the coming
campaign.
No man will wonder at these open de
nunciations by ltspublican papers, after ex
amining a list of tu? pardons granted by
Governor Geary in a single year. In 186S
he pardoned tbirty-fivs who had been cou
victed of the various grades of felonious as
saults, manslaughter and murder in tho
socond degree, and most of whose sentences
ranged from three to twelve years in tho
Penitentiary.
Of thieves, robbers and burglars ffty on
received the executive warrant to commit
fiesh depredations.
The complete list embraces all grades of
crime. The reasons given by his Excellency
for granting some of these pardons would bo
amusing, if the subject was not so serious.
Of one sentenced ticelce years imprisonment,
he says "the offences charged against him
were of a tricial character;" another he say a
was. "a monomaniac on Vie subject of horse
stealing." Another who received a three
year st-ntence, the Governor says, was guilty
of indiscretion rather thau criminal iuteut.
The crime of auother 13 pronouueed "more
the result of error than criminality." Sev
eral are declared to have been "the dupes of
others;" several "sincerely penitent;" and in
quite a number of cases the Governor states
that the stupid courts and ignorant jurios
convicted the wrong man.
Surely a kuowledgo of tbe man. and of
the mauner iu which h has administered
the office, is enough to condemn this candi
date in the minds of all intelligent and pure
aieu! Ilisjopponent,
IIOS. ASA PACKEB,
Is a gentleman of unblemished private life
and spotless public record ; a man of keen
sigacity, of sound practical sense, of won
derful energy and decision of character, of
unflinching integrity, and of a humane, be
nevolent. Christian disposition. He is a man
of great wealth and great liberaMty, whose
fortune was gained in adding to the re
sources and prosperity of the State ; and
which is used to educate, elevate and make
happy those lesb fortunate. Never having
been associated with "rings," or engaged in
speculation, he is the very man to clean out
the Augean stables at Harrisburg ; to check
corruption, stop special legislation, honestly
apply the revenues of the State to the liqui
dation of its debt, enforce a rigid economy,
and thus restore our goo I old commonwealth
to her early days of purity end prosperity,
and so lessen the burdens of taxation which
t ppress the poorer c'a-ses, for whom the
waimest sympathies of Judge Tacker aro
always manifested. '
Without making a single disparaging re
mark about Judge Williams, whose integrity
and ability we cheerfu 1 co irede. we con.
fidently point to lion. C. L. Pershing u n
upright, incorruptible man; clear beaded
aud au ablelaW3er; one who has power
himself, worthy of public confidence, and
who wilLadorn the high ftatioD of the Su
preme bench.