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ntou-n TAcrniv.
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r'--"auJ 'n Lawr'-iH-e Schroth. .
lr'!; An.lr l"!,;"'-r, Mis. Mary A. Uarbv,
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n'Jtrv'.i 111 1 ri rotnonotary.
S. rip-rvr...,
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' -loht-U1'-N. Jl'STTCE OF TI1K PEACE.
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atienaca to. 13-11.
s Z Vs. K1".2-- 1st ward ; John Bcnd-
: ( hai V8, u" ard Jolly, John Jordan,
'a"!fi' is,.,ntnilvV.1T,lniluVsr" J8Ph Holler,
n-J'!lm "G-e, IJ. V. Hiirshbsr.
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. mTIKC, Editor and Publisher. . . .
LE IS A FREEMAX WHO THE TRUTH MAKES FREE, AXD ALL ARB SLATE3 BESIDE
CHEUIFry SALES iiy vtrtue of
sundry writs of Vewl. K.r,nn. and Levari
Farias issued out of the Court of Common Pleua
of Cambria county, and to me directed, there
TV ,1, ? CP'W to Public Sale, at the Court
Jiovsr in Eitrnxhuty, on Monday, the 5th day
V(n .Vvw 'i0' at 1 O't-iot,k' the following
Keal Estate, to wit :
All the rifrht, title and interest of Alice Ila
a,,10l., 111 u"d toa Iot of Ground situate in
(otllitzin township, Cambria countv, rrontinir
j .?-10 perches on tho New Portage Hail lload, on
the south an alley, on the east lands of James
MH lskey. on the west Iby Eot No. 21, known
us Ix.t iN o. 22, huvmjr thereon erected a one-and-ivhalf
story Plank House, with shed roof at
tached now in theocc.tipancv of Andrew Ciitts
i ukemn execution and to be sold at the suit of
John Bradley.
Alwo. all the rtjrht, title and interest of A.
Humphreys, of, in and to a Tract of Earn! situ
ate in Chest township, :cambriaeountv,.adjoin
"itr lands warranted in the names of Samuel
Huth, Vi m. Parker, John Ashlev, and others,
eontainuijr 4o0 A r?f .. more or less, unimproved.
Jaken in execution and to be sold at the suit of
.Martin 1 ahuer; jr.
Also, all tho riht. title and interest of Martin
Seymore, of, in and to a piece or parcel of laud
situate in Carroll township, Cumbria county;
adjoining- lands of John Uennet, John Davis,
and others, containing WAnr., more or less,
about o0 Acres of which are cleared, having
thereon erec ted a one storv Eoir House and Eog
Barn now in the oerupancv of Martin bey
more. Taken in execution aud to beebld at the
suit of J. .Moore iV Son.
TA,so' n11 the riht, title and interest of David
W llhelm, of, in and to the followiug- described
Biiildinjj: and Lot of G rouud, to wit : A one-and-a-halt
story Frame House, about sixteen teet
by eighteen feet, and a Frame Stable about ten
teet by twenty (20) feet, situate in the village of
lleiuloek.JW asliinjrtou township, Cambria couu
ty, and in Tiley's block .f lots, bounded ou the
north by a lot of Wm. Tiiey. ou the soutuby a
Ptreet, on tho east by a street, and on the west
by an alley, fronting 50 feet and extending- back
150 teet. Taken in execution and to be sold at
the suit of Tate W. Allison, lor the use of James
a. Cooper and Samuel Milliken.
Also, all tho ri-fht, title and interest of Geo.
J.'.f.intjer, of, in and to a piece or parcel of land
t-ituatein Allegheny township, Cambria coun
ty, adioininjr lands of W. A. B. Eittle on tho
north. Joseph Null on the west anil the Philips
bur road on the south-east, containing-l'J 4rra,
more or less, all cleared, haviug- thereon erect
ed a two story Plank House now in the occu
pancy of George Eitziux-cr. Take in execution
an 1 to be sold at the suit of C. 1). M'Clties & Co.
Alo, all the rijfht, title and interest of Thoa.
Brannon, of, in and to a piece or parcel of land
situate iu Munster township, Cambria county,
adjoimug-lands of Mrs. Stisau Gaiiajjher, Joseph
O'Krien, aud others, eoiifainiiig- 7 Va Jcrcs, more
or less, all cleared, having thereon erected a
Eojr s-uible, not now occupied. Taken in exe
cution aud to tie sold at t he suit of John O'Brien.
Alo, all the ritfht, title and interest of Jos.
1 rexler, of, in and to a piece or parcel of land
situate. n Cleartield township, Cambria county,
ai joining lands of Mary Benuou. David T rex lor,
a:iu others, containing 75 Acit- more or less,
about 2-t Acresjof which are cleared, having
inereoii erected a two story Frame Jlouse and
iaiai Barn now in the occupancy of Joseph
1 rex lor. Taken in execution and to be sold at
the suit or Mary Bendou.
a, ali the riyht, title an interest of Benja
min t. 1,. ers, of, in and to all that certain tract
or iot of Jand situate in White township, Cam
bria c.iLi.tty, Pennsylvania, containing 5. Acre
and allowance, beijiiminiT at a stone heap, iu a
field, tii.-uce north Xt decrees to a post or dog
wood, t!,e:;.-o cast loo perches to a hemlock,
theuce perches to n post, thence west 100 per
ches to . iie place of bcrianiiii.r. making in ail 5J
xcree, with allowances. Takes iu five acres
which w,-.s formerly sold by Benjamin livers to
said Benjamin V. Byers. The above described
piece of land is a part of a larger tract of land
purc-liMsed by the said Benjamin Bvers of lid
ward bhoeiiiaker, deceased, bv deed dated 27th
September, A. D. l?;jo, recorded in the oltiee for
record mp- of deeds. Feb'y H, 40, iu Becord
.Sook. Volume 5, Pae 4;i2, together with the
heredita:ncnts and appurtenances. Taken in
execution and to be sold at tho suit of Benja
min Byers.
Teums of Sai.k One-third of the purchase
money on the day of sale, and the remaining
two-thirds at the confirmation of the deed.
It". Ii. BONACKKIi, Sheriff.
Sheriff's Office, Ebensburg-, May 15, le71.
"OEGISTEIl'S NOTICE ! Notice ia
hereby pivn that the following Accounts
have been passed and Hied in the Keg-ister'e Of
fice, at Ebeusbunr, and will be prescuted to the
Orphans' Court of Cambria county," for confirm
ation and allowance, on M'ednos. lay, the 1th day
fif June next, to wit :
First and partial account of Catharine Bloch.
Adm'x of the estate of Christian Bloch, late of
Conemauprh boroug-h, deceased.
Second account of George Conrfd, Guardian
of the minor children of Samuel Beam, late of
lticbland township, deceased.
Account of James Hose, one of the Executors
of Jos. Hose, late of Kichland township, dee'd.
Third and Qnal account of Samuel Douglass,
Guardian of the minor Lcirs cf Dauiel Huber,
jr., deceased.
The account of Jacob Kline, Guardian of Ad
am Kollis, a minor son of Nicholas Kollis, late
of Allejrheny township, deceased.
First account of Win. It. Geis, Administrator,
Ac., of Martin Obermyer, late of Cambria bor
ouirh, deceasel.
First account of Evan M. Davis, Executor of
David M. Davis, late of Sunimerhill t wp., dee'd.
First accoiint of Josiah Gochnour and Sto
pheu Gochnour, Administratorsof Don'l Goch
nour, late of Taylor township, deceased.
The account of Edward Hoherts, Executor of
Evan It. Morgan, who was Executor of David
W. Pryce. late of Cambria township, dee'd.
The account of Margaret Eeavy ftnd Augus
tine Walters. Exe-ut.,rsof the last will and tes
tament of Michael Lea vy, late of Loretto bor
ough, deceased.
First and partial occount of Margarot Mitchell,
Administratrix of James FI. Mitchell, lute of
Johnstown borough, deceased.
The partial account of A. H. Fiske, Esfj., Ex
ecutor of the Inst will and testament of Nancy
Krise, hite of the township of Clearfield, dee'd.
The second partial account of Cecilia McXeal,
(formerly Cecelia .McGough,) Administratrix of
the estate of Geo. McGOugh, late of the town
Fhin of Clearfield, deceased.
First account of W. W. Harris, Administra
tor, Aa, of Isauc I). Schuabley, late of Jackson
township, deceased.
First and final account of Cyrus E. Pershing,
Administrator of the estate of George G off, latu
of the township of Jackson, deceased.
The account of George Bostert, Guardian of
Geo.Doerr, minor child of August Doerr, dee'd.
The second and final account of Jas. Brown,
Executor of Charles Kennedy, late of Munstor
township, Cambria county, deceased.
The account of John Kennedy nnd James
Brown, Kxecutors of Ann" Kennedy, late of
Munster township, Cambria county, deceased.
The first and final account of Jos. Mardis,
Executor of Elizabeth Patterson, late of Black
lick township, deceased.
The fourth and-final account of Wm. Kittell,
Administrator, &c, of the estate ol Hob't Flinn,
late of Summerhill township, deceased.
GEO. W. O ATM AN, Hcgister.
Register's Office, Ebensburg, May 10, 1671.-4t.
T 1ST OF CAUSES set clown for trial
at June Term, 1871, commencing on Most
day, tuk 5Tn day of JfNF. next:
FIHSr WEEK.
Albion Oswald vs. John II. Kennedy.
Henry Glass' us r. Tate W. Allison.
it. H. Tudor tv. John J. Jones.
A. P. Fields' use ta. Jones 6c Co.
Solomon Wagoner. .-..fx. Fonna. K. It. Co.
Johnston Moore's user. Martin A. Miller.
J. Moore & Son vh. Martin Miller.
James liurk t. Vuleutine Maltzlri.-
Ihomas Burns v. The School District of
. . , , Clearfield Township.
Patrick Doran's use.. r. William Butler.
Michael A. Byrne r. Chest. Springs Boro.
Joseph Miller, Esq.,. . .rs. ;eorgo Gurley.
SECOND WKEK.
McGarrity..... ?. Hurgoon:
Cooper .vt,. Wike et al.
(.rossmau r. Patchin.
McConnell vg. Williams et al.
Hall, for use, ,. Kirlinsee.
r of A. E. Wike r. James It. Cooper. '
Kopp vs. McAleer.
Yost's Administrates. r. AV'illiams.
McKenna r. Sharbaugh.
Plutt..., vn. Convery.'
Ijouganecker r. Blaekliek Township.
Iebcli ru. L. ic J. Durbiu.
Fleming vs. Hauck, 'feigned issue.'
J. K. HITE, Prothonotary.
Prothonotary's Oflico, Ebensburg, May U, 1871.
n ountV COMMISSIONER ! TI.o
subscriber hereby announces himself asan
aspirant for the Democratic nomination for tho
position of County CoMMissioNKlt, and plcnlges
i'. 1? I? ,f ".""'ina-ed and letted, to discharge,
j it! .'w '.'"'L'vr- J!IN S. LOMEKEAUX.
BlackUck Twp., April 15, Isfl.-tc,
EBENSBURG,
rigimtl odrg.
"tlicro Is 5fo Love Like tuc Old Love.
neiScctfnUy Dedicated to IPm. Ellcr, Profe&or of
Music, JS'eury, Pa.
BY J. G. L.OXDEN.
There is no love like the old love,
That has stood the test of years:
Brightened now and then by pleasure
Clouded now and theu with tears;
From the virgin snows of winter
Back to autumn's swift decay,
It remains still pure and holy
Through many a cloudy day.
There is no love like the old love.
So pule so kind so true
That has folded up our sorrows
Like the flowers fold up the dew ;
It has beams when life Bcems darkest
And the wares of trouble roll,
That shine like stars of evening
Through the icinthncs of the soul.
There is no love like the old love,
That in our childhood grew
And blossom'd like the wild flowers
J ust kissed by drops of dew ;
Vet summer brings the wild rose
That autumn bears away,
But the leaves that fold our old low
God shields from all decay.
There is no love like the old love,
Beside the blazing hearth
That held i father's sympathy
Or a mother's love on earth ;
Where she clasped ua to her bosom,
Musing o'er the years to come
"Would they bring us joy or sorrow ?
"Would we always have a homo?
There is no love like the old love.
That was ours in years gone by,
Before our footsteps wandered
From beneath our native sky
Before we knew the meaning
Of its sweet, enchanting flowers,
But wandered in life's desert.
Reaping weeds instead of flowers.
There is no love like the old love:
It God help us to reclaim ;
The gift of such a tf etfsurb
Lies not only in its name,
But ia every hour of lifetime,
And the darkest hours of ill;
There is no love like the old love.
And its roico we cannot still.
Sales, Sluices, nttbitts,tft.
SPECTRE WITNESSES.
Much as the disembodied fpirits of the
dead Lave associated themselves with
men's actiuns, it ia a rarity to find the
intercourse between the world of life
and that of spirits forrmnp; an item in oili
cial and practical business, and holding a
place in the record of its transactions.
The conflict of intellects in the practical
business of life is a great exorciser of evil
spirits ; and while the strong-minded, the
educated, and the learned, in the solitude
of cloisters, in old graveyards, in caverns,
or on "blasted heaths," have every now
and then professed to be visited by appa
ritions, twelve of tho most superstitious
men in the world, empannelled as a jury,
would hardly bo found to attest a ghost
story by a verdict returned in open court.
Defoe, it is true, prtenta to Gs the history
of a murderer who, in .iving false evi
dence against an innocent man, is con
fronted by the ghost of the victim, with
which he carries on a dialogue iu open
court, ultimately fatal to his conspiracy.
But the ingetiioug writer leaves it unde
termmed whether the spectre was sup
posed to be present," or the diseased imag
ination of tho perjured murderer, working
"upon his organs of 6ight, had called up
the impression,- and made the suggestions
of Lis evil conscience, like thoso of Slac
beth, appear to be embodied before his
eyea. And here, by the way, let us just
note bow preposterously tho 6tage, in rep
reseating thid awful instance of the force
of conscience, outwits itself in the belief
that it is gratifying the tasles of the mul
titude. The truo impressiveness of the
guilty man's terror consists in hia seeing
what the onlookers see not. The table
is full," to him only not to tho wondcr
ing guests, or to his own iron-nerved wife.
Yef, at this moment, in the usual peiform
ance of the piece, some big stout man,
dressed in tartans, with his throat painted
to' represent its being cut, stalks in and
Beats himself right in front of the audi
euce, who should sea the ghost of lianquo
only in the horror that distorts the coun
tenance of Macbeth.
To return to our immediate subject.
Sir Walter Scott having discovered, in
the criminal records of Scotland, a trial
for murder, in which some information
received from the ghost of the murdered
man was a part of the evidence, thought
the record of sufficient interest to be print
ed for tho liannatyne Club, with the title,
'Trial of Duncan Terig aftut Clerk and
Alexander Bayne Macdonald for the mur
der of Arthur Davis, sargeant in Gen.
Guise's regiment of foot, June, 1734."
The sergeant was commander of a small
party,- employed in the obnoxious duty of
enforcing the act against the Highlanders"
carrying arms and wearing their native
dosturile. Ha was"Bt'ationed' at Braemer,
where the quantity of game on the sur
rounding hills tempted hira to make soli
tary sporting excursions. The spot
where he met his death was on the hill
of Christie, one of the range of mountains
which extends from the Dee in Aberdeen
shire towards the Fpital of Gienshee, in
tho Braes of Angus. It is at this day a
savage and solitary district, wher8 human
habitation or cultivated lands are hardly
to be met with, and a body might lie in
the deep heather till the flesh fell from
the bones ere tho usual course of chance
might bring a visitor to the ppot. We
PA., SATURDAY,
may have some idea of the
character from the testimony of his widow,
lie stem to have been a fearless, frank,
good natured man, fond of field sports,
and very well-to-do in the world. The
wealth he carried about hisi parson would
hot now bo often found wiih one of h:3
standing ; but from Fielding's novels, and
other sources, it is pretty clear that a ser
geant in the English' army occupied a
much higher social position in that ago
than in the present.
The body had lain for nearly a year
before it was discovered. Of the state in
which it was found, and the alleged ap
pearance of the sergeant's ghost to the wit
ness, - Alexander Macphersou alias Mac
gillas; tho following is an account in that
person's own word.cj us hia tvider.ee was
taken down in court.
"In the summer of i750, ho found,
lying in a moss-bank in the hill of Christie,
a human body al least the bones of a hu
man body, of which the flesh was mostly
consutiled, and he believed it to be the
bbJy of Sergeant Davies, because it. was
repotted in the country that he had beeii
murdered in that Li l the year before.
When he first found this body there was
a bit cf blue cloth upon it, pretty entire,
which he took to be what is called Eng
lish cloth ; he also found the hair of the
deceased, which was of a dark mouse
coicr, and tied about with a black ribbon ;
he also observed some pieces of a striped
stuff", and found also lying there a pair
of brogans, which had been made with
latches for buckles, which had been cut
away by a knifa. By the help of his
stall', he brought out the body, and laid
It upon plain grbnd ; in doing whereof;
some of the bones were separated one
from another. For some days he was in
doubt what to do, but meetirjg with John
Growar in the moss, he told John what
he had found, and John bade him tell
nothing of it, otherwise he would com
plain of the deponent to John Shaw of
Daldownie ; upon which the deponent
resolved to prevent Crowar's complaint
and go and tell Daldownia of it himself;
and which having accordingly done, Dal
downie desired him to conceal the matter,
and go and bury the body privately, as it
would not be carried to a kirk unkempt,
nnd ihat the Fame might hurt the country,
being under suspicion of being a rebel
country. Some few days thereafter he
acquainted Donald Furquharsan of his
having seen tho body of a dead man in
the hill which he took to be the body of
Sergeant Davies. FarquharEon at first
doubted tho truth of his information, till
the deponent told him that, a few nights
before, when he was in bed, a vision ap
peared to him as of a man clad in blue,
who told the deponent, "I am Sergeant
Davies ;" but before he told him so, the
deponent had taken the said visoin, at
first appearance, to be a real living man,
a brother of Donald Farquharson's.
The deponent rose from his Led and fol
lowed him to the door, and then it was.
as has been told, that ho said he was
Sergeant Davies; wh'ofchad been murdered
in the hill of Christie hear a year before,
and desired the deponent to go to the
place he had pointed out, where he would
find his bones, and that he might go to
Donald Faiquharson and take his assist
ance to the burying of him. Upon giv
ing Donald Faiquharson this information,
Donald went along with him aDd 'found
the bones as he had informed Donald,
and then buried them with the help of a
spade, which ho (the deponent) had along
with him ; and for putting what is above
deponed on out of doubt, depones that
tho above vision was the occasion of his
going by himself to see the dead body,
and which be did before he either spoke
to John Gowar, Daldownie, or any other
body. While he was in bed' another
night, after he had first seen the body by
himself, but had not buried it, the vision
again appeared naked,' and reminded him
to bury the body ; and after that he spoke
to the other folks above mentioned, and
at last complied, and buried the bones
aixtve-menlioned. Upon the vision's fust
appearance to the deponent in' hiB bed,
and after going out of the door, and be
ing told by it he was Sergeant Davies,
the deponent asked him who it was that
had murdered him, to which he made
this answer, that if the deponent had not
asked ho might have told him, but as he
had a eked him, he said be cither could
not, or would not ; but which of the two
expressions depunent can not eay. But
at the second time the vision made its ap
pearance to him, the deponent renewed
the Bame question ; and then the vision'
answered that it was the two men now
in the panel (at the bar) that had mur
dered him." And being further interroga
ted in what manner the vision disappeared
frorn him first and last, depones that, after
the short interviews above-mentioned, the
vision at both times disappeared and van
ished out of his sight in tbd twinkling of
ah eye ; and that,- id describing the panels
by the vision before-mentioned as his murderers,-
his words were, "Duncan Clark
and' Alexander MacDoaald,'' depones that
the conversation betwixt the deponent and
the vision was in Vie Irish language."
The idea of an English sergeant, even in
the exalted form cf a spirit, being able to
speak Gaelic, startled trie judge and jury,
although, as Sir Walter Scott remarks,
there is no greater stretch of imagination
in supposing a ghost to speak a language
which the living person did not under
stand, than in supposing it to speak at
all. Tho other evidence against tho pris
JUNE 3, 1871.
oners was very stronsr : but tUU oome?
dence as to Macpherson's deposition seems
to have thrown a discredit over the whole
cage, and a verdict of acquittal was the
consequence. A German would now sug
gest that phenomena of this kind was not
wholly objective or external to the be
holder, but partly subjective, and taking
a character from himself, so that the Eng
lish sergeant might really appear to the
seer to speak "as good Gaelic as ever
was heard at Lochaber." But such con
siderations were not likely to occur to a
Scotch criminal court in the middle of the
eighteenth century.
A book; privately printed under the
title of "Notices relative to the Banuatyne
Club," as appropriate to Sir Walter
Scott's volume, gives an account of a case
in Queen Anne's county, Maryland, where
the appearance of a spectre was attested
in an action as to a will.
"William Briggs said that Thoa. Harris
died in September, 1790. In the March
following he was riding near the place
where Thomas Harris was. buried, on a
horse fornerly belonging to Tho. Harris.
After crossing a small brook, his horro
began to walk on very fast ; it was bo
tvveen tho hours of eight arid nine o'clock
in the morning , he was alone ; it was a
e'ear day ; he entered a lane adjoining to
the field where Thos. Harris was buried ;
his horse suddenly wheeled in a panel of
the fenco, looked over the fence into the
field where Thomas Harris was buried,
towards the graveyard, and neighed very
loud. Wifncss then saw Thomas Harris
coming towards him in the same apparel
as he had last seen him in his lifetime ; he
had on a sky-.blue coat. Just before he
came to the fence, he varied to the right,
and vanished. Ilia horse took the road."
ioih Hillings en Whistling.
I hav spent a great deal of timo search
ing, and sum money, tew find out who
was the first whissler, but up to now 1
am just as much uncivilized on tho subject
as I was.
I kan tell who played on the first juico
harp, and who beat the fust tin pan, and
I know the year tho harp of a thousand
strings was discovered in, but when
whisslin was an infant, is as hard for me
to say as my prayers in low dutch.
Whissling is a wind instrument, and
is had by puckering up the mouth, and
blowing through the hole.
Thar aint no tune on the wholo earth
but than kan be played on this instrument,
and that celebrated old tune, Yankeedoo
dle, has been almost whissled to death.
Grate thinkers are not apt to be good
whisslers, in fakt, when a man can't
think of nothing he begins to whissle.
We seldom see a raskal who is a good
whissler. Tharo is a grate deal ov honor
bright in a sharp, puckered whissle.
Good whisslers are skarce, 75 years
ago they were plenty, but the desire to
get rich, of to hold olHs, has took the
pucker out of honest and cheerful amuse
ment. If i had a boy that couldn't whissel1, I
dont want to be understood that i should
be at liberty to give the boy up for lost,
but i would much rather lie would know
how to whissle fust rate than to play a
second rate game of cards.
1 wouldn't force a boy of mine to whis
sle against his natural inclinashuns.
Winimen, as kind, or in lump, aro poor
whisslers. I don't know how i found
this out, but i am glad ov it, it is a good
deal like krowing in a hen.
I hav often herd hens tri to crow, i
never new one to do herself justice.
A rooster can krow well, and a hen
cluck well, and i say let each of them
Btick to their trade.
Klucking is just as necessary in this
world as crowing, especially if it is well
done.
But i want it well understood that i
am the last man on rekord who would
refuse a woman a chance to whissel if she
is certain she has the right pucker for it.
Sum people always whissle whare thars
danger they do this to keep the fraid
out of tberal When i was a boy i al
ways Considered whissling the next brat
thing tu a candle to go down a cellar with
me at nite time.
I don't want any better evidence of
the general honesty thare is in a whissle
than the fakt that thar aint nothing that
a dog will answer quicker than the whis
sel ov his master, and dogs" are as" good
judges of honesty as enny critters that live.
It is hard work to pbool a dog once,
and next to impossible to phool him' the
second time.
I ain't afraid to trust any man for a
Small amount who is a good whissler.
I' wouldn't warii to sell him a farm on
kredit, fori should expect to have to take
the farm back after awhile and remove
the mortgage myself.
You can't whistle a mortgage oph from
a farm."
A" fust rate Whissler is like a middling
sized fiddler, good for nothing else, and
the whissling may keep a man from get
ting lonesome;' it wont keep him from
getting ragged.
I never knu a bee hunter but what
was a good whissler, and I don't know of
any bissinees" on tho breast of the earth
that will make a man so lazy and useless,
without aktually killing him, as Luntio
bees in tho wilderness.
Advice to fish caters deal gently with
tho hcrrinjr.
Pitorr.F.nixcis
DEMOCRATC STATE CONVENTION.
The Democratic State Nominating cn.
vention met at HarrisLurj; on Wednesday ef
last week. The various districts were fully
represented. Hon. C. E. Boyle was chosen
temporaiy Chairman, and Hon. Wm. Hop
kins acted as permanent President. Trie
following were the nominatioiis, with Erst
baliut, for Auditor General : A. D Mark
ley of Bucks, 3S; Wm. McCatidleM. of
Philadelphia, 21 ; H. D. Neiman. of North
ampton, 22; F.M.Crane, of Wayne, 10;
Geo. W. JSkinner, of Franklin, 25 ; S t'
Shngerl, of Centre, 21. Od first ballot Crans
wa withdrawn ; on second Neiman, and ou
third Skinner. Oa fourth ballot Markley
had 33 votes, Wm. McCandless 73, and Shu
gert lo. , McCandless was declared elected
and the nomination was made unanimous.
The following was tho result of the first
ballet for Survtyor General : Goo. (Sander
son; 10 ; Edward White. 3 ; J. J. Spicer, 5;
W. Donnelly, 27 j II. Stewart Wilson, 33
W.T.Pauley, 8; Johu A. Morrison, 16
Thomas S. Brooks, 9 ; Simuel Keterman, 1:
J. II. Cooper, 13 ; W. Serwel!, 3. On thitd
ballot the candidates were narrowed down
to Wilson. 27; Donuelly, 49; Cocpor 54.
Oa fourth ballot the vote stood Donueliy,
5G, Cooper 77. Caoper was thereupon da
claie.1 elected aud the nomination was ruaJe
unanimous.
The following resolutions were reported
and adopted unanimously, txeept tho niuth.
which, after discussion, vaa adopted by a
vote of yeas 7C ; nays L2 :
1. IlesoheJ, That the Democratic party is
in favor ot revising and amendiug tho Con
stitution of the State, and, recogciziog the
right cf the poop.e to be fully heard on a
subject 0 vital to their intercuts, they do
hereby en:l.,rse the course of Denncratic
members of the Legit-iature, In favor of ub
milting at the next general election the ques
tion whether or not a fe'tato conveatiou should
bo called for that purpote.
2. Ilewhcd, That the persistent refusal of
the Republican party ia tha Legislature to
conseut to a proper modification cf those
provisions of tho registry net relating to the
city of Philadelphia by which at Itatt one
half of the electors cf that city aro utterly
deprived of representation in the ek-ctiou
boards, and fraudulent election returns, for
gery and murder encouraged, must be con
demned by every jubt mau and ought to be
rebuked by tho ballot of every upright citi
zen. 3. Resolved, That the action of the Dsmo
cratic maj rity of the Senate of Penr.avlva
nia upon tha apporlionroeut bill aid" the
Philadelphia registry law meets our unqual
ified endorsement, and ought to receive the
approbation of every citizen who values fair
representation and pure elections.
4. Resolved, That the forte and bayonet
bills recently enacted by Congress pre grost?
attacks upon the reserved rights of the States,
destructive of the elemental principles of
civil liberty, intolerable to a free people,
centralizing in tendency, and should be forth
with repealed.
5. Resolved, That the language of Senator
Cail Shurz. in his St. Louis bpeech, wherein
he eays : T consider it one of the most press
ing needs of our day that we should return
to the sound practice of constitutional gov
ernment. The safeguards of our common
rights and liberties contained in tLe Consti
tution are toe sacred and valuable a boon to
be permanently jeopardized in providing for
a passing emergency. It is time that the
American people open their eyes to the dan
gerous character of this tendency, and that
neither a great name nor an object appealing
to our sympathies should be permitted to
disguise it. As for me, I have seen the
working of irresponsible power and person
al government in other countries, and I may
assure ciy constituents that while I atn &
citizen of this republic I shall struggle to the
last gasp against its introduction," was but
the utterance of a well known and frerjuent
ly announced Democratic doctrine.
6. Resolved, That tho public debt is bind
ing upon the nation, aud must be paid ; and
that we are unalterably opposed to any and
all movements looking towards repudiation
direct or indirect, but in justice to the labors
ing and producing classes the rate of interest,
thereon should be reduced at the earliest
practicable date.
7. Resolved, That the Democratic party
is opposed to the existing system of federal
taxation and finance, ruinous as it is in its
effects upon the laboring, producing, mining
and manufacturing interests of the people,
aud the fruitful source of "hard times." per
sonal indebtedness arid individual bankrupt
cy 8. Resolved, That labor and capital have
no juBt cause of antagonism, that we depre
cate strife between thess two great forces
and earnestly seek to place the laborer and
the capitalist ou such a platform as will en
able both to audcably adjust the:r differ
ences, and we are unaltsrably opposed to I o
importation of a servile race for the purpose
of degiading the standard acd lowering the
positiou cf tha laboring men of the nation.
9. Resolved, That we recognize the bind
ing obligation of all the provisions of the
Constitution of the United States as they
now exist, and we depie:ate the discission
of issues which have been settled in the man
ner aud by the authority constitutionally
eppoiuted.
10. Resolved, That we are for a govern
ment rigorously frugal and simple, applying
all the possible savings of the public revenue
to the discharge of the national debt aud op
posed to a multiplication of ifGcers and
salaries, merely to make place for partisans
and for the increasing by eTery device the
public debt.
11. Resolved, That the continuance by a
Republican Congres of the in:ome tax,
when the tame is at least of doubtful cou&ti
tutionality, and the necessity therefor has
long since ceased to exist, is an exercise of a
power oppressive t-j the people, aud a gross
violation of their rights and interests.
12. Resolved, That the present tarif is
in many of its features, oppressive and should
be revised, aud that we herewith request our
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Representatives in Congress, when the tariff
shall be the subject of readjustment, to see
that the immense products of the Stats and
Ler industries are properly cared for.
13." Resolved, That the soldiers and shilors
of Pennsylvania are entitled to and 'should
receive at the hands of the national govern-
rucut a prompt recognition of thuir claims to
Terms, S"4 per year In advance
NUMBER J8;
a proper and just equalization of the bono,
ties in land as well as money granted for
their patriotic servicea in the late war for
he supremacy of the Union and the GWi
tution. 14. Resolved, That we unanimously er.
dorse the nominal ions this day made, and
pledge ourselves to a cordial support of tho
candidates. .
The committee ou organization of the party
reported the following : . ,
First. The conduct of all campaigns shal'
be unucr the immediate chare of a State
executive committee to be composed of nin
members to be selected as follows :
Second. The chairman of said 'executive
commatee shall be chosen ly the State Con,
vention and his eight associates shall be se
lected by the said chairman- and the norni
nets of the Convention for State efficers. and
they shall. a, far as prreticab'.e, be chorea
three from the west, three from the central
and three fiom the eastern portions of the
State.
Third. That the chairman cf tho respect,
iv coULty committees of the State shall
compose a committee to ho trn .1 '
general State Committee, and .the said "en-
01816 t-ouituittee Bhall meet at uci"
times aud plases as may bo designated by
the State Executive Committee aud the '
Chairman of tho State Executive Committee
shall preside at all such meetings.
Fourth. All vacancies in the said State
Corniatttee shall bo filled by the chairman
and tho remaining members of tho -.;.
committee.
The foilowins nomination! v.a 1
( . " - tllTJIl lliiU.'J
for Chairman of the State Executive Cem-
muiee : W . A, U allace, W. M. Randall, J.
v. Davis, of Berks, and V .R P
B - . . iuivu, U I
radtord. Ihe last mentioned twa declined
and the first ballot stood Wallace 88. Ran
dall 30. Mr. Wallace receiving a majority
of the votes cast was declared ejected Chair
man oi the Mate Executive Committee.
Mr. M'Fadden moved that the election of
Mr. Wallace be made unanimous. Agreed
to.
Mr. Boyle moved that a committee cf
three bo appointed to wait ut cn the candi
dates and request thera to address the con
vention. Agreed to.
, The nominees were then brought into the
Convention and introduced amid great en
thusiasm. Capt. Cooper, the nominee for Surveyor
General, said that he had always recognized
the orders if his superior officer, and ag
General McCandless had aked him to speak
fiist he wuuld do the beet he cru'.d. lie wag'
no speech maker, and, therefore, would con
tent himself with the grateful duty of return
ing his sincere thanks to the convention for
the honor conferred upon him, nnd he was
now ready to go to wort and achieve a vic
tory at tho polls, which he had no doubt
would be the result in October next.
Geoeral McCandless said he j .j'ned hia
comrade, Captain Cooper, with all his heart,
in returning his sincere and heartfelt thanks'
for the honor tie convection had conferred
upon them both, by making them the stand
ard bearers of the great" Democratic party in
this commonwealth during the campaign
just inaugurated a contest for the saprema-,
cy of the great party to which he was proud
to belong. It is true that Capt. Cooper and
himself had gone through campaigns on'
quite another field of warfare. wh.r3 they
had poured out lheir blood, like water in'
defrcce cf the supremacy of the laws and
constitution of their common country, but'
even in thote trying times those -campaigns
were not as important, or so vital to the.
liberties of the people as the contest now
opened before thera, when by Federal en
croachments, through a profligate. Congress
they were threatening the very citadel of our
liberties.
He said : I see before me the representa-!-tivesof
at least a quarter cf a million of
freemen of this State. I see Ins fore me an'
army cf white freemen who are advancing to'
grapple with those living ijaues that, liW
principles, are eternal.
It is but a week ago since T stood in.theae'
halls and beard the annunciation from the
lips cf my opponent, Dr. Stanton, of a
charge which was a slander upon tie pure
and patriotic mtn who had perilled every-.-thing
to defend their country iu her hour of.
neeiK But such statements need; no other
refutation than the fact that both bis col-'
league, Capt. Cooper, and himself were here-
against whose character no tongue of slan
der dare wag, for their record is spotless in'
all the relations of citizens or soldiers., Ka
commended the action of Gov. Geary iis bw'
rebriko to the administration and to the
Radical party, when he (the General) tool:
ground against the Federal interference of
the General Government in tae elections cf
the peaceful citizens of Philadelphia last
fall, and said that these usurpations Lad be
come so glaring that even a Governor of the
great State of Pennsylvania had to adminis
ter a rebuke to them ia the hope of siayisg
the tendency of that party to centializution
of power and the establishment of a military
de?2tism in this country. After again'
thanking the Convention for the high honor"
conferred upon him. be retired arnid the p-'
piauee of the memb(-rs of the Convection,;
who were vociferons in their demonstration'
of approbation of the General's remarks.
After which the Convention oa mcti-oa'
adjourned sine tlis.
Not to be Fooled With. An exchange
saya: "The worst joke that was ever pe "
pet rated on Fc'entitic mo took place recen
tly at Louisiana, Mo. A man as s:ck with
rheumatism, or something," and a fellow
went around to the doctors and professors
and th'tDgs, and told tbem that it was the'
queerest case on record. He sa!d tho man
had no feeling. Yon could 6tick pins . in
his body all over, and he paid no attentu n'
to them at all. He was perfectly numb..
Sj the docters got together and called on tha'
sick man to experiment. All arrived with
pins and needles and bdkius. The man,
was asleep and they got around him. and.
each one stuck his piu in the patient. The
sick man rolled over ad looked at the
crowd, aud thought they had come to dis-'
sect him, so he took a chair iu one band
and a bed-po$tin the other, and drove the.
crowd thence. They are aronud with their
heads tied up, lookingl for the roan who said
that that sick man had no feeling."
Fiiozkn potatoes can be cured by soaking
m water three days before cooking.
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