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'ft')d:ture of money."
C:r-'3?JA COUMTYBOKDS. The
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'i'iVii- ,',f U")S'' desiring the same, the
v ' h '".'!l!,y, in suin of tliKj. tu'Ui and
: ' 't'.'r are issued by authority of
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1 J- A. I'.D'.vaiV. Clerk. unr.lS
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(apr.15.-tf.)
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I4EAL INSTATE FOIl
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undersigned Kxeeutovsof M.
- I,', ''" !il'e of Loictto
Jiorouirh, dee'd.
..v., ,n uv-oiij ni'uuLiiig terms,
A HNff TRACT OF LAND
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oiutnooutiiig terms.
. '3 in. ti.. - - uiiunia cuuuiy, blLUtt'
' ut ., , teadintr to tit. Autruetine and
trP, , ' Loretto, eontaininc- 71
!. M-...1 . v' " Acres beinir cleared, well
tivi,:,n , yaten-dami in a good state of cul-
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k.'.U'.n , ,' "' r- ror terms and other lufor
u nj.jny ll( (.tj.(.r . r th.. ,lr.,lf.,iu-,io,l
i , ,A ,KT Ioretto,
Teh p :iL(j-'ALTI-:us, CarrolUown,
'l:1, L J try tort of M. Lcclvu, dcc'd.
Valuable farm near loretto
FOR SALE.
a''deH-yVv,1,V,,'p'ffVrR fur sale on fair terms
eUciit j. j ? v s' ,Ul" nost desirable and cr
Joininir ti.V i!."..... V.1''.""1'' occupied by him, P..1-
Atren-1,,1 "Vndt Loretto, containing 14
if
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in
well timbered,
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good llarn, uud
remises; also, an
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LORETTO MARBLE VORKS.
PRICES REDUCED!
Anl AVorU Uarranlvd!
i
fVr!-rMr:XT8' ToM Stokes, Tic-V,k
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"'tinest Italian Marble and in style b-.'a!r
"l nanan Marble and in Ptyle
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ir kew heic. JAMhS WlLKlKSnv.
r- ueeidinu' unon nn rchiiKimr r.
fetto, Aiuil 22, 1871.-tf.
TDITOR'S NOTICE In tho mat.
fc...., . " ACOO"nt or Joseph S. MardK
ltorof Uiiz-abeth Patterson, dee'd. The
m V""1' "ii Auaitor appointed by the
U UL ""iport dutribution of the funds in the
liamu i rii'ft dUtribution of the funds ii
1 1 ,.., i t11"1 ac-ountnnt, will pit at his oil!
"l.JT' on Wkdnksday, July a;th.
'li'-.l.,ti. l' SL -, Tor ,ho Purpose of attendii
!,1 it.i. .1 ."'li'npi'ointinent ; when and w
I t iITwa In I
at 2 '
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LOVE IN THS OIL DISTRICT.
A ETORY OF MWOLKD AFFECTION AMD NITKO
GLTCKIilXE.
Pennsylvania has been the cona of
other loves and woei beside those record
ed in ''Gertrude of Wyoming." The
latest tale of affection is thus tuld by a
TitusviUe correspondent :
Tn Clarion county, near the celebrated
oil producing district known as l'arker's
Landing, and not a great distance from
where toe Clarion river mingles its pellu
cid waters with the swifter rolling tide of
the Allegheny, has lived for years a man
named Howitt, who came to this country
in its early history, erected a cabin, and
maintained an humble existence by fol
lowing his profession of horee-ehoeing.
"Years glided along, and nothing oc
curred to vary the monotony of his hum
ble and happy life eav an occasional fra
cas with an unruly horBe, or now and
then being confined to his bed for a few
weeks from the effects of a mule kick on
the cranium, or a dig in the ribs from
the hind foot of a rebellious ox ; for
Ilowitt used to pursue his trade in all its
branches, and furnish shoes for every thing
that came along whereby an honest pen
ny could be made. Meanwhile a daugh
ter was born to him, who grew up in her
mountain home like the pines that sur
rounded his dwelling, and was as grace
ful and beautiful as the wild flowers amid
which Ehe played. Laura, for that is her
uame, obtained a fair education at the
district school, aided by her mother, who
was an accomplished graduate trom an
Eastern academy, ond her natural beauty
was increased by an occasional visit to
Pittsburgh jnd Eastern cities, where,
amid higher social scenes than those which
surrounded her birth place, the rapidly
acquired the numerous little graces and
coquetries of fashion which go to make
up the "girl cf the period." It is no
wonder, then, that to the old man she
was as the apple of his eye as a bushel
of anples, in fact, of the oldfashioued.
rosy-cheeked "non such" kind and that,
as fche attained woman's age and stature,
the father looked with a jealous eye upon
the native admirers who surrounded her,
and sternly frowned upon the forward
young cultivators ot buckwheat, who, by
the slightest action, eought to win her
young nearl s aucctions and transplant
his little flower to another sou and home.
"About this time the oil excitement
which for ecveral years previously had
been confined to Oil Creek and its tribu
taries, opened up in the vicinity of Par
ker's Landing, an influx of Btrangers,
operators and speculators began, and short
ly after u portion of Mr. llowitfs farm
was discovered to be on the belt, and
leased for a round sum to wealthy opera
tors. Though now comparatively wealthy
Ilowitt still followed his original trade,
though with a light heart as he thought
of the bank account which would enable
him to bring up and educate his family in
superior Etjlc, and place his daughter in a
poeition socially to which her attractions
and attainments entitled her.
"Uut at this juncture a cloud appeared
upon the old blacksmith's korizon ; at
first it was about the size of a man's
hand, but it speedily grew to the full size
of a man himself, who proved to be a
workman upon a well at a short distance
from the Ilowitt cottago, and who fell
head over heels into that delicious pool cf
affection, in which most of mankind have
paddled blindly during their young days.
At fust Laura resisted her suitors ad
vances, but as weeks passed and there
was a lack cf Eociety, which at other
times might have served as an antidote to
the growing admiration, she began to feel
for ths youug driller, who was comely,
young and strong, and posseesed the not
unpleasing name of Henry llichardson.
She gradually sought bis Eociety (her
father had long since forbidden his com
ing to the house,) and hardly a day passed
but that sho was seen near his derrick,
watching the pulsations of the walking
beam and her heart at the same time, and
listening to his stories of adventure by
Hood and oiil field.
" 'Sba loved bim for the danger be had
passed,' and he loved her because she be
lieved his yarns, and no one else would ;
and finally one bright day, as he had jnst
finished a terrible recital of escape from
death by a falling sand pump pully, she
shrieked and said she 'wished that heaven
had made her such a man,' when Henry
abandoned the temper-screw rope, aud
caught the fair Laura to his petroleum
stained bosom, wiped the benzine from
bis brow and lips, kissed her, and said,
'I am the man.'
"While enjoying the few momenta suc
ceeding their betrothal blissful moments
that only come twice in a man's lifetime,
once wheu he finds his mother's preserves,
and the other as mentioned tho lovers
were startled by the sudden entrance of
the 'village blacksmith,' who seized his
daughter, and witnout a word to the dis
consolate Harry, carried Laura home and
locked Iter up. Days passed without
communication between the lovers, and
while Laura grew thin, Henry also ex
perienced bad lack. Ilia tools got fast,
the sand pump bursted, and his heart
promised soon to follow Euit. But just
here a happy thought struck him. Out-
eide of the derrick was several hundred
leet ot eas nine : he could not lav a tf a-
D
graph wire, but he might lay a pipe line
to bis Lnura's bouse, through which, per
chance, two hearts could 'beat as one,'
HE 13 A FREEMAN WHOM
EBENSBURG,
and hold communication sweet in spite
of the defeated free pipe bill. No sooner
sup-gented than acted upon ; that night he
laid six hundred and eighty-one feet of
half inch gas pipe underground between
his derrick and the prison of his betroth
ed; a happy junction with the eave spout
was effected during the next night and
shortly after messages were sent and re
ceived between the lovere Laura having
brought the end of the water pipa close to
the window, and Henry had his end of
the line directly beneath his pillow,
where, after he was 'otl tower' he would
whisper words of undying affection that
only ended when he fell asleep and the
pipe fclipp3d out of his mouth.
"Liut while love giggled at the 'Ior-k-smith,'
the blacksmith was prepariug t
piiort right out at love ; for one day while
Laura was at dihuer her father had, while
looking around the room, discovered the
misplaced pipe, and while gazing with a
critic's eye at the strange spectacle, was
more than startled by the soft words com
ing apparently from the cistern, 'Laura,
dear, is the old man round ?' Mr. Ilowitt
smelt a mouse ; he did more than that; he
inhaled the odor of a genuine wharf rat ;
but saying nothing, ho merely descended
the stairs and returned with a pint of
oily looking liquid, which he handled
withex reme care. Maki ig a cartridge
of paper that would hold nearly all of the
mixture, he inserted it in the pipe several
feet, and then placing a bar of iron upon
that, called out loudly enough to bo heard
through cartridge, pipe and all, 'Henry
my dear, are you there?' Quickly there
came the faint reply, 'Yes, Laura '
'Place your ear at the hole, Henry '
Here the parent raised u sledge hammer
and struck the iron rod ; an earthquake
followed, before the echoes of which had
rolled away could be seen the disappear
ance of an engine house, in mid-air, fol
lowed by the gable end of the Ilowitt
mansn.
"And now for the Eequel. In his
anxiety to soe 'how it was, himself,' old
Ilowitt remained too near the pipe, and
when the glycerine went off, he did, also,
and was picked up in Armstrong county
a few days later. Uut where was Henry"?
Instead of applying his ear to the hole,
he had stepped to the derrick for a mo
ment, during which the explosion occur
red, lie was only stunned, aud a few
moments later met his betrothed running
to see if he was hurt. They fL'd at onco
to a neighboring justice of the peace and
were married. They have patched up
the old house and are happy, though the
mysterious diapp:arance of their futl.or
was a subject of conversation for months
after. TbiB is the story as told us bv au
old man w ho lives near Henry and Laura,
who beard the noise, and also saw where
the grouud had been torn up by the father's
vengeful experiment. If any one doubts
the story, tho derrick is still to be seen."
onderfcl Race. Some clover
unknown in England, catching an idea
from "Skitzland," has managed, by creep
ing through a crack in the shaft of a
mine, to find out that the heart of the
earth is filled, not with fire, but with a
race called the Yril-ya, among whom
civilization has reached ite highest limit.
Each man carries a stick about with him,
which is a condensation of heat, liht.
electricity and magnetism, by means of
which he accomplishes by a touch all work
tediously wrought out here by machinery.
The government of the tribe, among
whom our discoverer landed, is more re
markable. "This single community elect
ed a eingla supremo magistrate styled Tur;
ho held bin office nominally for life, but he
could seldom be induced to retain it after
the first approach of old age. There was
indeed in this society nothing to induce
any of its members to covet tho cares of
office. No honors no insignia of higher
rauk, were assigned to it. The supreme
magistrate was not distinguished from the
rest by superior habitation or revenue.
There being no apprehensions of war,
there were no armies to maintain ; being
no government of forcej there was no
police to appoint and direct. What we
call crime was utterly unknown to the
Vril-ya ; and there were no courts of
criminal justice. There are ho lawyers
in this blissful state, all laws being pro
mulgated under the formula "It is request
ed not to do so and so." The women
share in the superior beauty of their sex
here and also have larger muscles than
tho men, which hardly seems fair. This
people are shortly, it appears, to make
their way above ground through land
slides and earthquakes, and we are
heartily &Iad to hear it, although our own
less civilized race would disappear before
them as the Indians before the whites.
A traveler, who Baw a pretty little
girl in the same car with himself, says :
"In a few years, thought I, that infant
will be an ornament to society ; but bad
she not better die ! Very soon they will
tie some dead man's hair to tho back of
her head, fasten her ribs with a corset,
and hang a bird-cage around her lower
limbs. Worse than that, when she ar
rives at maturity, sho will be compelled
to determine whether she is for protection
or free trade, to understand the intricacies
of pig iron and go to the polls and vote."
Why are fashionable young ladies like
letters ? Because, unless they have stamps
the males reject them:
THE TRUTH MAKES FREE, AKD ALL
PA., THURSDAY,
DIVORCED I1Y DEAT1I.
The people residing in the vicinity of St.
Francis Station have for several days past
been agitated by what many of them
deem a remarkable dispensation of Provi
dence. A farmer named Niesson, an old
resident of that section, had until quite
receutly lived in the enjoyment of a hap
py home, gladdened with the presence of
a loving wife, and a family of eight in
teresting children. Trifling circumstances
led him to suspect his wife of aa evil
design to rid herself of his presence. And
stop by step an unkind fate led the wife
into a position of teeming enmity to t!:a
partner of her life. While kneading dough
for bread, two pins disengaged themselves
from her dress and were not noticed until
breakfast on Saturday morning, when the
husband found them in his slice of bread.
Blinded with suspicion, he immediately
accused her of an attempt upon his life.
She indignantly denied the imputation,
and wept to see her husband leave the
threshold of the once happy home for tha
avowed purpose of instituting proceedings
for a divorce.
While the husband was wending hta
way to the convent of St. Francis, to seek
advice as to his course under the unfortu
nate circumstancep, the wife went sorrow
ingly out into the meadow to perform her
usual task of milking the cows. While so
employed, one of the cows, a vicious ani
mal, set cpon her and gored Ltr bo terri
bly that death ensued in a short time after
she was carried iuto the house. A neigh
bor witnessed the horrible occurrence, and,
having learned of Mr. Niessen's mission
to St. Francis, bitched up his team and
hurried after him. He was not long in
reaching him, and told the story of how
a cruel fate had relieved him of the trials
of a divorce by calling his wife from the
bosom of her family to the grave
It may very well be imagined that the
information startled the husband, who
but a few hours before left his wife in the
enjoyment of good health, and his sor
rowing circle of motherless children caused
the strong man to bow in anguish of soul.
The occurrence has given rise to many an
idle tale, and Dame Rumor, ever busy
on occasions of this kind will have it that
Mr. Niesscn was shot during an alterca
tion with a "neighbor, seen after the death
of his wife. Milwaukee Sntml June 20.
Raptizino the Babt. In an Eastern
town theie is a woman who is extremely
deaf, and her aflliction has caused an ex
tremely urpleaeant mistake of which her
infant child is tho victim. She took this
babe to church to have him baptized.
While she was waiting in the vestibule
she thought she would keep him quiet by
feeding him from a bottle of milk. Wrhile
the child was still taking hi3 sustenance
the mother was summoned to the church
with tho announcement that the minister
was ready. In her agitation she drew the
Lottie from the baby's mouth hurriedly,
when the gum nozzle came off, and a
part of the milk was spilled on the child's
new clothes. When the clergyman took
the child in hia arms, he looked down at
it, and asked tho mother what name
should be given it. Sho, with her mind
trdubled about the accident, thought he
was asking how tho clothes became soiled,
so she answered :
"Nozzle came off."
Rather surprisod; he asked again, for
the name, and she thinking ho did not
understand her, brawled out :
"Nozzle came off, I say 1"
'Whereupon the astonished divine poured
water on the child's head, and 6aid :
"Nozzle came off Furguson, 1 baptize
thee," etc., etc.
What this woman wants to know is,
whether the legislature or something can't
have that child's name changod to Henry,
or Lucullus, or William, or some other
euphonious appellation.
Fun in CocrT3. Courts sometimes
have their momenta of fun and amuse
merit, aa "will be seen from the subjoined
items. One bears upon the gentleman of
color and the other squints towards the
lawyers pretty hard.
A colored man was arraigned before
one of the Camden, N. J., courts a short
time since, charged with the larceny of
some wood. When called on to plead to
the indictment, he said : "I bought de
wood and dat I knows I did ; but to save
my soul from dc pallia I cannot tell de
man I bought it of, kase I bought it in de
dark. Guess I'll plead guilty."
The other anecdote is more in the na
ture of repartee. During the pause in
the examination of a witness who had
been testifying about some bank bills hid
in a Bible, Justice Cassady was mechan
ically thumbing the leaves of the official
copy of the Scriptures, just used for
swearing the witness, when Mr. Pancoast,
counsel for the defence, jocularily asked,
"Arc you looking for money, too ?"
"Looking for raonay" promptly answered
the justice; "I should not expect to find
any after the book had passed through
the lawyers' hands."
Ir '20 grains make a scruple, jhow
many will make a doubt T If 7 days
make one week, how many will make
one strong? If 5 yards make a pole,
how many will make a turk ? If three
miles make a league, how many will
make a confederacy ? If four quarters
make a yard, how many will make a
garden 1
ARB SLATES BESIDE
JULY 13, 1871.
The President Judgeship.
Correspondence between certain Citi
zens or lilair County and the
lien. Ueo. Taylor.
Published by request see editorial rotnarks.j
Altoona, Pa., February, 1871.
Dos. Oeouoe Taylob: Sir As the time
is rapidly approaching for another election
of President Judge of this district, and so
near that some interest is already manifested
on the subject, the unJersigned, without re
spect to party, not regarding the t,ffic an a
political office, and fseling satisfied that the
citizens of the dietrict of all parties have the
moat astured confidence in your capacity, in
tegrity and strict impartiality as a Judge, re
jpctful!y ak you to allow yourself to be an
rt in. ai. L.ioyu,
A. Roush.
ii -m r t i v. .
Johu Shoemaker,
B. T. Pat ton,
M. Runyen,
Wm, O'Neil,
Jacob Snyder,
Edward Ilodnott,
Cbas. J. Stahl,
John F. Bowman,
C'emont Jaggard,
John Lloyd,
T. McUauley,
John H. Bjwman,
H. O. Bern,
Clias. C. Shannon,
E. B. McCrum,
Lewis I'lack.
E. J. llutChifiSOD,
li. A. O. Kerr.
J acne a Clabaugu
To Wm. M. Lloyd, John Shoemaker, Ea js., and
others, Altoona, I'a. :
Gentlemen Your communication has been
before tne, and the subj ct of sriou consid
eration, for several weeks.
I had heard of such a letter before I saw
it, or taw the signatures to it, and had heard
alao cf similar letters which I have not yet
seen, and know not who have signed, thro
certaiu neicsjapcrs In your county. I scarce
ly know, therefore, gentlemen, whether this
ib to be regarded as ouit personal correpon
dence. I have not becu accuetoaied to hav
ing my letters opened, aud, in a distorted
and garbled form, Pcblished, before I re
ceived them. It occurs to me, as it has
doubtless occurred to you, gentlemen, that
it would have bewo decorous iu othbbs, who,
upon rumor or surmioe, have seeu fit to un
dertake tj step ia between us, to have waited
Until they knew what communication you
had made to me, aud my rtjn.-e to it, be
fore they undertook to make your conduct
or mine the subject of public animadversion.
But it was thought, perhaps, that you might
be doing something, and did not know or
understand what you were doing, and might
need thefiiendly aid of soma disintere.tud
monitor ; or might be induced to follow and
recall a surmised letter to me ; or that others
LniLt be deterred from like act of indiscre
tion ; or, at least, that 1 might be intirttidated
Into hesitancy in complying with your invi
tation to be an independent candidate. Waiv
ing, however, all questions of etiquette or
good mauneis, (of little significance among
mere politicians,) let me here at onc-j relieve
this part of the Bubjcct of all difficulty by
saying explicitly, in answer to your kiud
letter, that I am, and if God shall spare my
life until the day of the next general elec
tion, J will then be, an independent candidate
for the iflL-e of President Judge of the
XXIVth Judicial District.
My &IQHT, at least, to be a candidate,
whether on my own volition, or at the sug
gestion or invitation of you, geutletnen, and
other, even without the permission of seme
other aspirant and his friends, will cot, if
course, be questioned. No oue, certainly,
will question the riyht of any other geutie
man to be a candidate on any platform he
may chooso. I will say further, lu relief
of those who kindly volunteer to be our mou
itors or guardians, that I do not hold any
one of you, gentlemen, or any one else who
has addressed me on this subject, either in
writing or orally, committed io tny sujyport
beyond his conscientious sense of duty w Leu
he sitall come to cast his ballot, with all the
candidates that may be in the field before
him. And 1 will here say further, gentle
men, that if I bo found doing or eaying any
thing uujustly to disparage or injure any
gontlemau who mSy desire to be & candidate,
in order to ptomote my own success or cause
his defeat, I am willing that yon (should re
gard it as evidence that I am unfit for a high
judicial cCkc, and unworthy of it, and cast
your votes againat me.
Uavicg thus placed myself before the peo
ple as a candidate for the high and respon
sible c.ffioe I now hold, it is due alike to my
self and tho public, that I should mke, and
I know you will excuse, a frank staiement
of the reasons which have brought me to this
conclusion, and for assumiug the attituJe I
now occupy before the people.
My duty to those dependent upon trie will
not permit me to cease from laboring at
something; and. so long accustomed to look
iug at both sides of questions, I feel It would
ba awhward for me to go back to the bar ;
and I have, besides, a strong distasto for en
gaging agaiu in the practice of the law;
while my long training upon the bench ren
ders my labors there lighter than in my ear
lier judicial life. Besides, I have been, and
am, so identified with this Judicial District,
that It will not be thought strange that I am
warinly attached ta It. When it was first
fcruied, I was called.Sto be Us first President
Judge ; aud, through the indulgent partiality
and confidence of the people, I have contin
ued to preside in its courts ever since. The
changes and reminiscences of over twent3
years have served to strengthen that attach
ment. What I say will be readily apprect
tacd, therefore, when I declare frankly that
there is no field of labor, while I must toil at
something, that I would prefer, a'though the
work in It is onerous to a degree that no one
who has not felt the labor and responsibili
ty involved in the discharge of all tha judi
cial duties in a heavy district like this can
know or appreciate. I would still prefer it
to any political office that could be named or
offered rae.
I have, at the same time, gentlemen, with
the estimate I place upon the office of Judge,
and particularly in view of prospective toil
beyond that period of lile when years of rest,
should they come, are to be desired, no anx
iety for sute'ess that would induce me to seek
or accept the office npon any terms. I would
rather not be a candidate, or, if a candidate,
be defeated, than descend to the degrading
appliances ofBalfish political partisanship to
attain it. I have carried with me from my
earliest manhood-a strong impression of the
almost sacred value of the purity and imlts
peadeuce of the Judiciary as a branch of the
government ; and I glory now in the fact
that, while other departments have of:en
cenrf through the corrupting tendencies of
b therto stood, and sull etands. high above j eat.ona from gentlemen iu '.Vilmore w ,
suspicion, lu this earne.tlv cherished eenti- I Cambria countv. and in the city of Altoona'
ment, I opposed with my peu and vote the i nnxiced my6e!l aa an iNt.rr-Lsnr.NT candid t
call for a convention to amend the constitu : 0'r oCl0e of P'e'l'ent Jud-e of the XXIVth
tton of 1790. and opposed the amendment" ! JudiciaI Dintriut. My letters to those gentle
sabmitted in 1858. which were carried onlv I men-wll;cb dsc!o explicitly nnd IranklV ,;.T
by a few hundred totes, and rarri..,l . i J00'"'.. 'or Hum;iii: the ntiitcde 1 now occupy
have never doubted l,v . . i
j viiii..-u ui your
county, long since dactastd, aud who after
wards sat with me upon the bench. Upon
kiouuus i voted with a maturity
voters of
amendment
electiv
' Bjzree with vou. ri,tl
that you do not regard the cilice of a Jud-e
"as a political office. "
lo say that it is kot "pm mn, r . r. .,
Ii only to er.uaclate a tuuism. as every one !
feels. It ta a t-imj le. self-evident truth which
no proexss cf reaiuniug could wake more i
piam. in the practical working of our t o
htical system, Political Pakties. or-an;rcd
to carry out in matters of government the
measures which constitute their political
creeds, fiud it necessary to select ti.o.sias can
didates for that purpose, who wi'l reore-ent
their views. It is a rcctsary and proper
qualification fjr a candidate that hs be of
aud true bo his party and carry cut its trea
sures. This is plain enough. But how it i
or can or should be. a or ai mm t .
iubos, who should know uomao or party !
i i l . , . jj'ij
whose only business it is to h.ld the scale of
juauLo wun a sceaay nand, and unsuspected, i Ju ttter a teuism, as every i aellient and
between men cf all parties and crcedn, polit- j eu-i'rjl man feels, and which co process of
leal or rcli-icus, and mete out "equal and ' rfUSOI:i'ig could elucidate; and when you fur
exact justice to all" to Sb a pauisan or ' ther 8 IV that JOU ' lhu k lbe roass of llie peo
that he should be chosen upon nartv minoi- ple Ul;re" M Jou do u this matter, you state
.! . .1 t. f ' y punci a FACT, which no one t,.l-r.Kl .
V corrupt party arm lances in
healed and demoralizing political contests, is '
what common n.m! a ra ,,.,t.i 1
Lend what common jtnp intmtivoiw r,;...
1 ui-oi'io 10 coin pie
as absurd and what all judicious and re
flecting minds tnn.t deprecate. According
ly, we find it to be the prevailing sentiment
of the masses the common sense of the pub
lic that judicial efficca should be kept above
the sphere of party politics; and no intelli
gent man cf any party regards himself, or
regards any one eise, as compromising his
political principle or Lis party s!a(i:s, by
casting oil all party trammels and following
out, in thu most important exercise of tho
elective franchise, his conscientious convic
t!ons of duty.
These views are felt to have peculiar force
applied to me. in vi, w of my pttst record and
present attitude. Ten years ago, when mere
partisanism was for a time lost iu a higher
and holler sentiment, upou the written iuvi
t ition of the members of the B.ir of the whole
district, I was an independent candidate.
There was no other candidate, and I was of
course elected w ithout opposition. It was a
high aud more than merited testimonial a
compliment which I shall remember with
... , .
1 : ! 1 t v. y l "y' arui ul
"ii.v-u x n p-rservtj ma evidence as the 1 do so, and be succesaful, after such a success,
most valued relic I can leave to my chlldreu. i it is posMble that I miht discharge judicial
Sinco then, though my political sentiments ! functions with integrity and impartiality ; but
have been unconcealed, and as will known ' il '3 impossible, in the very nature of ibices,
as those of any man in the district. I have j t5lA.t ' cou!tl dv it without suspicion, and next;
not been a Politician. I have felt it mv i at il rc?rcts the evil of it, to corruption ou
duty to avoid phonal arguments on polities 1 '4? "'v'."5 l'l uaI'!ei"" il " there
-have attended or participated lu L dele- j Idli
gate or olber political meeting. but have ; eminent, is greatly weakened, at least, wW
felt It my duty to abstain entirely from j it ceases to be not only pure but unsuspected,
mingling in the details of partisan politics. "When I was last elected." as you suggest,
To this; no doubt, is largely to le ascribed ! ti ere was no "elfish partisanism ; and I waa a
that freedom from bias, or suspicion cf bias. I candidate upon independent crounds; at the
which I believe has been universally accord-
1 , . . . -
ed to me on the bench. To te a candidate
now upon any other than independent grounds
would Jbe, I feel, to come down from p.n e!e- 1
vation which I have hitherto occupied. I
I leave here then, gantltmen, this sulj- ct j
with the citizens of the district, who are
the most deeply Interested in it. They will
make a choice, I have no doubt, in entire
independence of thought and action, as they
should do, with a single view to what is best,
not for me, or f r any other caudidate. or for
any party, but for tho interests of the pub
lic. They have known me as long and have
had the means of knowing me as well as any
who might undertake to instruct them upon
my merits or deficiencies, or the merits or de
ficiencies of any ether candidate; and, a
jury of the vicinage. I. for one, w ill approve
and acquiesce in their verdict, whatever it
Liay be. I am, gentlemen.
Very resppotfully,
Uej. Taylor.
. BiAia Col-.ntt. February, lt-7l.
IIos Geo. Tatlou As the time in approach
ing for another election of President Judce,
and the subject already discussed in some quar
ters, the underslgt.ed, believing, as wo think
the mass of the people believe, that the ofiko
is not and thould not be regarded as a political
office, and believing, also, that the people of
the district, of all parties, febl the most assured
confidence in your capacity, integrity and im
pirtia'ity as a Judg, ropect!ul!y aik you to
allow yourseif to be, as when last elected, an
iNDiPENaisT candidate for said flice.
Crawford Irwin, Fred. Hyle,
Jame3 M. Cooper, 11. C. Nieodemusr
Jacob Snyder, A. J. Anderson,
ieriinari uoidman, .1. li. tkyles.
James H. Cramer,
F. 11. Kloorn,
J . C. Shoemaker,
John 13reneman,
E. Hammond,
a. SI. R oyer,
Joseph Kyltr,
David Klepser,
Tho. King,
Levi Miller,
John G. Rhodes,
Robert Taylor,
Paul Mauk".
G. W. Mauk.
S:imuel Shock,
II. K. IlamtnOtiti,
Joseph I'lackbutn,
Stephen Hammond,
Samuel E. Honstein,
Robert S. Ctfnniug,
A bra in Burket,
Samuel L. Hare,
Frederick Shaler,
James W. Jieely,
Adam Shater,
David .Stewart,
Fred. IS'. Berry,
Thomas Cunning,
Adam L. Hare,
J ohn Hamster.
John II. Law,
JerctnUh Ri z,
J. C. IIcKee,
Henry Learner,
James Bingham.
Joseph Uutchiscn,
H. II. Stciner,
Daniel K. Kearney,
Christian Uauser,
It. R. Hamilton,
Theodure Sicklei,
O E. Ciismian,
Jo. S. T. Harris,
E. D. Yise,
Samuol Moore,
E S. Eberrnac,
David Uobeson,
A. L. Holliday,
F. McCoy.
P. McXally,
.lohn O. McGraw,
Wm. L. Ake,
Theophibi Snyder,
Jerome Clad Jo,
J. C. Snyder,
James Funk,
H. II. Crisssman,"
F. McGravr.
Peter Stroup
Milton Ililoman,
Samuel Fox.
llu.NTiNor.ox, 23d April, I S7 1 .
To M'-srs. Pr. Crawford Trwin. Jacob Snyder.
.Litiu-s II. Cramer. dHniea M. Cooper, and
others, citizens of lilair couutr.
Teruis, per year lu advance.
NUMBER 23.
?. LT. llje pu,J';o' 5,HVfc bClU r-uWlsbed in v.etwlv
- - i . i ,1 . , ,
a. I the newtpipors iu the Distiict ouUide of
jour county, ai d in one at lest of your count v
paper, at d lmve doubt ess come to jour no
tice. A forma! retilr. iherf.-.ra in A.- .
mui.ir.uion mipr.i seem unnecessary ; and ye:.
. . I ' ' 1 W V . I CVilil-
j known ine if I failed to make tome proper
j public acknowledgment of tLe bich. thou"h 1
.... u.wt.v-u, .uuij..iieiii uica you Liwbtow
upon me.
You iihk me, gentleman, t3 be an isDVTtxa
eT candidate lor the high and responsible
olhce which I have 6o long held, and the da
ties of which I have coiifccientiouelv endeav
ored to di.-char-e, "as when I was'last elect
ed' ; and. tor the reasons which tou state :
rcabOLB which, so lar as they relate to the
nutute and character of the ofBce, are in entire
consonance yrith tny own convictions: and of
which, so far as thev relate to me personally
I am quite illii g tUat the people of the dis
trict wlio Laye known me as a piactiiioLer ia
their courts, or as the presiding Judge, foe
thirty-five veirs, vi raj iscord ia view, shall
judco.
ufn you Eay "mat tne ollice ia not and
' should uot be regarded as . An " office '
U L.en you say "that the ofiic is not and
' -1 , : . 4 .... un
el with the nonubir nenLimenr .1 .nkn ti,...
I .----..j . i 11,
nsore than a hundred intelligent gentlemen, of
both parties, in tliia district, avow this v'ievr
publ c!y to me, is good evidence that it is the
popular sentiment ; while those ho have
mingled and conversed with the people on this
subject, well know that the number of such
wit' e.-iiea mij;bt be many times multijlieJ. Iu
truth, it is the common sense of the public,
that jud'e-Ul cSues shouM be kept above the
S- hcre of arty politics, aud I venture t j affirm
that there is scarcely a candid, iuteiligeat and
d siuteregted man of any party, to be fouud,
who will acknowledge in the presence of iu
te;iiei:t men, that he ; regards himself, or re
gards anybody else, as bound by hi political
principles, or parly affiliations, in casting his
vote for a Judge whose duty it is to hold the
scales of justice with a tteady band, and un-suspecte-l,
between mau ot all parties and
needs, political or religious. 1 miht add, iu
corroboration of the fact, that a majority not
very much ghort of two thousand of the citi
zens ol the distiict, voted against the conatitu
tional amendment making the judiciary elect
ive. A contrary seutirneut is only auvocated
by interested 1"olit:ciass.
With the viewt 1 l.avo ever entertained, and
still entertain, of the Judicial office 1 would uot
aree lo dc-acend to tLe urena and appliance
ci modern political p
cr modern political partizan:sm, to attain it.
, .. ...
' 1 ouId rather a candidate. Should I
i request cf the raeoibe.-s of the bar of the entire
I ili.lrit T 1 . .. . . , .... .- ... . . . . , 1
district, without mvnirt to r,nrt.
1 nave oc
cupieu that ground ever n.ce ; and, in view
of auy result, I cleire ta occupy no o.her. To
tea candidato now, upon any other than lu
detendent grounds, I feel wculd be to descend
from an elevation which I have hitherta occu
pied, ai.1 to tDdaner my pah; record and uiy
future ur.efuh.ess. I am unwilling, geiitla"
ruen, to do either.
For ihe strong torms in which you if oik of
me as a Judge, net dohb'.ing your tincerity, I
return my in. at hearty acknowledgment ; al
though 1 feel that ihe plaudit scarcely mer
ited. I have never claimed any qual fk-ation
lor a judge, except a firm rcaross to do right,
according to my best judgment and ability;
and tlio power to ho'J up a question nud view
it iu all its aspects, without feeling tho tetupt
utiou to think or c re who are the p.-.rt c before
the o urt, or how t'.iey m;ght be affected by the
decision ; or w hat might ba their circum-tances
in life, tl.eir politics, or their religion. Smi t
ing out alone ou the j urcey of life, in eurlv
you; h, and never having been iu a school iii
the capacity cf a learner since I was thirteen
year of age, the literary acquircmei ti which
I was enabled to tiring to the bar and upon
the bench, were but tt.c scanty gleanings by
the way bide ; anJ, it is only surprising to my
self, in every re:roFpect cf my professional and
judicial life, that 1 Lave tustaiued myself aa I
will have. I fel that 1 have been borne along
and borne through, by a purpose to Jo ri;ht,
and the sustsir.ii.g cor.Cdcnce of the br and ti e
people, iti my common sense, integrity, and
i:nr rtrtt.ility.
1 am. gentlemen.
Very respectfully and truly,
Geo. TAyi.oa.
, ( - - , a . . J ui;.
Twenty years ago a farm eight miles
square, iu Livingston county, Illinois, was
entered by its piesenl ov.-ner at $1.25 per
acre. It is now subdivided into thirty-twcf
farms of 1,220 acres each, every farm beicg
run by separate tcts of hands, and the h"!e
under direction of tho owner, M. L. Sulli
van. Theie are 15,000 acres under tha
plough ; 1 50 miles of ditch for draining.-
One hundred men and lour hundred wcik
horses and mules are employed cr? thVfarraa
beside two book-keepers, four blacksmiths"
and eight carpenters. An acchrar 3 account
is kept with each sub-farm, and w ith each
man, horse and mule, the ninrals lein all
named, or numbered, and cha rged with the
amount paid fr them shd. thtir food, ami
credited with thtir labor. Yi'he entire farm;,
with improvements and personal property
on it is uow valuad at a uut 52,000. 000.
A 11 E M A K Iv A E L E C SE.Mi Cfauton of
Winterset Iowa fcul.j,,ct to
spasms, which set every muscle in her bolv
iu motion with a quickness that cannot La
roach J by any pe.s.u in j, J
y;rT w aud rolls fo and fro
with f.ightful rapidr- Accompany ir,g the
thatel-.ps can heard a half ruilo.
hlia is wtectly conscious, and snflo.s much,
ihe spasms last j'sst two hi urs, and leave
her very weafc. Thev have now ..r
- . rf Illitt
J t..Ci-f -.-: i'-T for many months,