ewwiiw m MA&BmmW - - - - K ' b I MCPIKE, Editor and Publisher. BE 15 A FREEMAN WHOM THE TRUTH MAKES FREE, AKD ALL ARE SLAVES BESIDE." Terms, S2 per year. In advance. SAVE the COMMONWEALTH. I Uifi OFJOTUL ELECTION. I v, . ct of the General Awem- I :eV'..,., ..wealth of Pennsylvania, r,1I0C p ccti-tl. I, Herman haumkr, !f iheOuinty of Cambria, in the -md i've notice to the electors of i,".fn e"'-t't a General Election '".'T. Vmmty of Cambria on the niihfr. A. 1. 17, (the lf Tin ilay next following the ".';!'..?,iv oilictra will be elected as LUME X. EBENSBURG, PA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1S7G. 1 10 i -i to retriilate tne uenerKi tiec 'hl ,, ire public notice of said elec r3Btof Ii.i in Mid notice what of " t' r electors at large and twcnty- ""MWilutri"-! electors, from the Com- V!V; fp-m'vlvania. to act, as eiecrors oi -Vtv'irt President of the United in:.yv a prcVKied lor uy lug vousii- , i" (,ninniiiii with the counties of ,' ;, ,n,i s,.m.Tet. for Congress. I "n .nj.iiiTin with the eonnty of ,r tlie Commonwealth of Penn- ' r.r Metntwr" f t he Oeneral Assom- ' lr!.n.iu..n'-al' "f lnnfylTnl. ia-for A.'.-i-te Judges Tor Cambria.. fr hrritl for Cambria county. Imokt 1' rector or the Poor and House rer, .,tC;iml.rl: county. rt--)cj t. r Jury t'omiuiloners for Cam- . .hp MT ln.li.iilH w n . ... ii the feral words, boroughs, dis- .,ii..Kiisliits within said county arc as :n mt : , f tlie district composed of the ' ,f Atl'lifiiy. t'J meet at lirady'g school .it-wn-hij. . , Tir. -n Ailiim'tmrg. ,..m. tli' 'listrlct com poped of the jiuf' Kirr, li ui'-'ct at School House No. vvP- .. . ? "t tnp iii?ir".i cotih"j.u'i mo 7f Bl.i' Sli'.'R. meei i nm uuum vi iik a ilef'.l. in said township. uf tin; ilistrict composed of the , - .m'.ittv to meet at the Court House Hii, 511 ..t Ktenhurg. Vvr .fthe 1 if t rict composed of the Dor. . ,.. .r a. ti meet at School House No. 2, TOi'l- . ... v,.r "f tlie ili'trlct composed of the ? ! t'srp'il. t tnect at the school house .3 N.nMiiih. r' i-t the li'Tict composed of the Bor-ri-Til'.:wn, to meet at the school bouse - r -Uii ti. m".-r uf the i!i?trict composed of the j i i h' .-t.tu uieul at Schod House No. ift-.T' The ilitri.'t cimpsed of the Ilor-('titti-rrK. to meet at the house of fi-.-r.'T. :n -.il l t'opmh. v;.r of tlie ili.Mriet composed of the nit harlipl'l. to tnect at Wchmil House ,-'n-r.z the vill.izeuf JSt. Augustine. In r.-i. ji. "- ' f ths ilitrirt comiosel of the P ! n.-:i..i i.'li. to meet at school bouse .r'i. :n .ii. t..vti-.iip. ..tr'i! :l '.li.-trtrt cottiposeil of the llor i ri t.iiie!i. ! nuel as follows: First aht ii-.u-c ot 1't tcr Maltiie, In said First So n I v apt. it the houseof John Swari- sa.il M'Ci.n.l W'anl. -,mt-i tlie iti-trict c mposcil ol the Bor 0 iriaie, to un.-cr t the school bouse it n.'ti. wt.iT "f the ! i strict composed of the ;.i(i pyie. (..meet at the school house in ir if Sutiiinerliiil. in said township, rt .-.it the il i t rn-t composed of the Bor i.v i ii uiikii. to meet at the bouse of 'nitrT. ii.c.i.--I. in :iid Iwironsth. i : lit- ('.."'net r.iRpiswl of the Bor f Krr..iir. to im-et as follows: Fast iih'(.iurt I.'. H in. In said ward; West nimtnl Jury Koom, in the Ftst ward, fur. ( '.iie'ilistrict com nosed of the Uor- F-ir.klin, to meet at the school house in -'.11 lw;.ir nf thf district imposed of the t if'i ill.riin. to in ct at liawson' school tout ;.ir:i.ui.. "iif the -i. 'trie, composed of the Bor n in iih'i t at the school house in 'nil. itir uf the dltrict eomiiosed of the ? : Jai k-on. to meet at the house ol Hcn- T iQ l;u-l tnwiMliip. .r.i! l!ie iitrii-t composed of the Bor ! J i.n-t, tin. to meet as follows: First l'r.!. ,-v.H, K.ioiii No. 3. in said ward; fjr..attt,e.,;ii f.Io. S. Strayer, Ks., 't "tree:, in ward ; Third Ward, at :-if .!..' n Ur.i.ly. on Franklin street. In F unit Wur.t. i ti,e house of John "4 l.ir l: Fil'h Ward, at the house of "-z-ii-l. :n Mid ward; Sixth Ward, at Vinii l'l.tti'ry. in aid want, "tir.- i! Hi..- district composed of the Bor Lrr.t.i, t.; m,.,;l at ti,c gehotjl bouse In ' a.'!,. T Of tlie .liutr. i..,tnlv.Bn.l thfl f .Mutiner. to iniM-t at tlie warehouse ..ii Lurlnn. in I lie viiluKe of Munster, In r- " l ii e .liitr.ct comosed of the Bor M.i T u... ,.,., .,, tiws: First Ward, '-"U'. in su. w iir.l ; Second Ward, at "- irr i.-e l,,,,,.,. in i,a, ward, y '? ..! the I,M net eoui!Msed of the Bor- rr n , ! l0 ,,.,.( at tjle gt.looi house in h. r'fl ''' "'0 di!!,r''"t composed of the F"r n-iiiand. to meet at tlie house of f - m i,l t,,wn,hii. '"'"'rr ol the iiitrii-t composed of the P. N.ir.y.-n . -k. to meet at J acohy't school "iT'iM ,.i .... ... . r . . t .in"! in i roiiiwci o I ma " ' mi ' rhill. to in-et at the Summer--u-. in ii, IhtouvIi of Wilmore. f .f II, e distriet composed of the Bor- ""laitVl' i(. I ,. f n, II, ... Iw..l l..naa ""Alltl.. r i,r tic ,i:.i,.( ... . 'T,.?',-"t'J t...,ti.. to meet at the house , '.on lownpiup. the district composed of the I I.l'.li.P ........... - . I - ,-. in mini luiOIAIIlll, w"r""' district coniose of the Bor Bii'h '" lnc:l at the ''cno'J, houst in i,ri i EE f.UiC "fthe i!trict comprised of the Bor ;re. 'u tiiett at tlie Council chamber, f 1 1,1. .i.i.i-. U , .. " ii" I V,PIII INIHITII Ul lUC I " " -liiMr',n t.. J, .. ....,..1 .. - unci m vnv pi.ii"i ' ot I'liine No. , n naid townsliip. I' '.I tin. ,1, . , K to meet at tlie lions of John i-h. HI... 'J A t, tuni T-f Y. 1 l--L,l "Wl'I t nio d 'he district composed of the o r. to t I in r..tl.. Viral III. I'H'lir house ,,f Ja-oh Keain. la said fi.i..i i . .. . . 'nision, at lie am a scnooi "ti'lrp. 1-K I I. Am wim f Gotten to Artirlu VII I th of the new '""urn fcei tions of which read as '-iT''' rl,i"'n twenty-one years ef iti, T. i ' '""""inic tualiricatlii8, shall -H.,K,Vr. el'-etions; t " i Cen cttixen tne ' n- '-: inoni II. .i . r 'I,,,,, 1 ,"lve 'esi.led In the State one Utit, t. Vevimi.ljr l.een a oualltted elec M i'., ""'"n T the ftate. he ahall "uini-l. r ",n n,i returned, then aix 1 M 7 I'W'Ihik the election. ,l: f. her. . e rclilel I ,..". oiler toroi 'I'- t &t least two i - i . 'iiiik i c r era inn. 1 bv- i,?, i ,T':,'ttrs ' aire, or upward, lii. i i wi,,Mn two years a Stute or a""au l I' i'1 '",,re ,H:"n assessel at least l l'id at least one month before the tv'r'V,""5 "y the citizens shall be by r in ii,,:. . "hall be numbered In ih i,i..i "'.en min ie nur "".r. I.i V 11 "h" t,e receired ti.,, election office and the officers on the hail t ,nena,ne or the elector who 'I'Uhu, Ay elector may write his "r..l "r eause his name to tie wrlt- ''ii m . hy a cltnen of the district. 1ITI.. . " 'nail te sworn or ftfflrmeil r i!', "y e'eettir shall have voted B( a witness in a judicial r. 1 1... "J. n,i".r' 'n all eases except 3.' '" I in ' ,lur'nic their attendance henevp ' 'eturnlna: therefrom. 'Htnr,,-."' of the qualified electors treas. te rJ. " "n:l ne in actle military -i "'"'"ifin from the president of "'Kh ' V ""'horit from this Com n "lci.ra may )iercise the rljfht .LiT'eetT.MM U e,ect"' y ne cltlnens. trnder $ a7fnMv L".n,Sr?f ftro be prescribed b aw, as lu.ly as If they were uresent at their places or election. Skc 7 All laws reitnlatlnir the hold inn of elc. shall LthnVrUtn:!rT "e registration of elector snail tie uniform throughout the State, but no elector shall be deprived or the prlrllee of Toting by reason of his name not bclna: registere.l offelTiV. :idkny Person, who give or promise or offer to ulre fo any elector any money, reward, or o her valuable consideration, 'lor his Tote at a nj election, or lor withholding the same, or who shaft give or promise to give such consideration to anv other person or party for such elector's rote, or .. w,hholdlnpf thereof, and anv elector who shall receive or agree to receive, for himself or for another, any money, reward or other valuable eon. 'deration i for his vote at an election, or for with holding the same, shall thereby for ret t the rlirht 1? I?te at .ve ,etln; n n elector whose right to vote shall be challenged for snch cause berore the election officers, shall be required to swear or affirm that the matter of the cliallenKe is untrue before his vote shall be received. r AnT Peon who shall while a candidate lor office be nullty of bribery, fraud, or wilful vio lation or any election la, shall be forever dlsqual ifled from holding any office of trust or profit in this Commonwealth ; and any person convicted of wurul violation or the election laws shall, in addi tion to any penalties rrovlded by law, be deprived of the right of suffrage absolutely for a term of lour years. Sur. 13. For the purpose af votinir no person shall be (teeniest to have gained a residence by reason of his presence, or lost it by reason of his absence, while employed In the service, either civil or mili tary, or this State or the t'nited States, or on the Mifh seas, nor while a student or any Institution of learning, nor while kept in a poor house or other asylum at public expense, nor while confined in public prison. Skt. 14. iMstrict election boards shall consist of a Judge and two tnsectors, who shall be chosen annually by the citizens. Each elector shall have the rlirht to vote for the judge and one Inspector, and each inspector shall appoint one clerk. The first, election ooard of any new district shall be se lected, anl vacancies in election boards filled, as shall be provided by law. Election officers shall lie privileged from arrest upon days or election, and while engaged in making np and transmitting returns, except uin warrant of a court of record or judge thereof, for an election fraud, for relony, or for wanton breach ot the eace. In cities they may claim exemption from jury duty during their terms of service. Sao. 15. No person shall be qualified to serve as an election officer who shall hold or shall within two months have beld an office, or appointment, or employment In or under the government of the United States or of this State, or of any city or eonnty, or any municipal board, commission or trust in any city, save only justices of the peace and aldermen, notaries public and persons in the militia service of the State ; nor shall any election officer Im eligible to any civil officer to he filled at an election at which he shall serve, save only to such subordinate municipal or local office, below the grade or city or county officers, as t-hall be designated by law. And also to the following Acts ot Assembly cow in force In this State, viz: Act or January 30, 1875. Skc. 5. At all elections hereafter held under the laws of this Commonwealth, the polls shall I opened at seven o'clock, a. M., and close at six o'clock. P. M. Sec. 7. Whenever there 6hall be a vacancy In an election board on the morning of an elec tion. sfd vacancy shall be filled in conformity with existing laws. The said Act of Assembly, entitled "An Act relatinr to the Elections of this Common-' weultn." passed July -d, 1816, provides as fol lows, to wit : That the Inspectors and .Tudg-es shall meet at the respective places appointed for holding the election In thedistrict at which they respective ly belong, before seven o'clock in the morning of Tnesdny, November ?4, and each said in spector shall appoint one dork, who shall bo a qualified voter of such district. In case the person who shall have received the s-cond hiirht'st number of votes for in spector shall not attend on the day of any elec tion, then the person who shall have received the next highest nuintwr of votes for Judire at the next preceding election shall act as inspec tor In his place. And in case the person who shall have received the highest number of votes for Inspector shall not attend, the person elected Judge shall appoint an inspector in his place. And In case the person elected Judge shall not attend, then the Inspector who shall have re celved the highest number or votes shall ap point a Judire in hid place, and if any vacancy shall continue In the board for the space or one hour arter the time fixed by law for the open ing of the election, the qualified voters of the township, ward, or distrfi t for which such of ficers huva been elected, present at the place of el-ct Ion, shall elect some of their number to fill the vucuncy. Tub Mods or Voting. The attention of all qualified voters is direct ed to the following Act of Assembly regulating the mode of voting In this Commonwealth : Chakok in thb Mode or Voting. An Act to regulating the mode of voting at all the elections in tlie several conntles of this Common wealth approved March 30th, 1808: Sfttion 1. B it enacted by the Senate and Houte of Repretentativet of the Commonwealth of Penn sylvania General Annembly met. and it it hereby enacted by the authority of the tarn. That the qualified voters of the several counties of this commonwealth, at the general township, borough or special elections, are hereby hcreatter author Ir.ed and required to vote by tickets printed or written, or partly printed and partly written, sev erally elasnined as follows: One ticket shall em brace the names of all Judges of Courts voted for and be labelled outside "Judiciary"; one ticket shall embrace the names of all State or flcers voted for, and; be labelled State"; one ticket shall embrace the names of ail County of ficers voted ror, and be labelled "County" ; one ticket shall embrace the names of all Township officers voted for, and be labelled I ownshlp" ; one ticket shall embrace the names ofall Boronftn offlceis voted for. and be labelled -Boron-h" ; and each class shall be deposited In a separate ballot-box. G iv s:n under my hand, at my office in Ebens burr. this third day of October, In the year of our Ixird one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, and the independence of the L nited States of Ameriuyheon. Sheriff's Office, Ebetisburg, Oct. 8, 1876. XECUTOR'S NOTICE. Estat of Philip Schettio, tlecM. letters testlmentary on the estate of Philip Schettlg. late of Carroll "'"''."'flJ haJn been granien iu mo , - persons Indebted to said estate u0?td. make Immediate payment, and h claims will present them properly authenticated lor settlement. A I.AM KJT.W;f Executors. FKANClrfSUHLlTIO, J " Oct. 20. l7.-t. NUM15EK 40. TTTATCIIMAKINO. Having tak- W W e ti,e room lonneriy occnpled by H. Kinkead, Esq.. In Q tnerearoi ninum -.". """--and next door to M I Oatman s store, High street, the undersigned wonhl respecuuiiT iniin " .,,.. lie that be is prep.,rcl to repa r clocks, watches iewelrr. etc.. at short notice. In a workmanlike lnncyr, anu at the lowest living PTiees Please Klve me a call. CAKL. K1V1N1CS. Ebensburg, Oct. SO, 1876.-lm. EXECUTOR'S NOTICE. Katate of Thomas Adams, dec 1. Letters testamentary on the estate of Thomas Adams (of Joseph), late of Clearfield township, dVceaaeu, have lU'n granted to the undersigned, to whom all person indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment, and those having claims will presen: tbein properly amtben c.te3 for -"ioB hoOVEB, Executor. Sept. 29, l7.-Ot. TJOAIIDINQ SCHOOL for Yockq XJ La Dir.s. The 8rstra or Til. Jiatpn iito "i-. - . ng Rchol for young ' t9 St? Mary's Convent, ';tiJ' bT?a" f per annum, payable In advance. Music and Languages, ejrtra charge. -l.-am. FINE TIGS FOR SALE. 1" have for sale a choice lot of young POLAND CHINA PIOS, the best Hog that le raised for profit ; fattens at any age and will weirh W o 00 lbs. from months to a year old. For fur ther particulars address me at 5inklnr Valley, Blair Co., Pa. REUBEN FOX. Aug. 18. 187. 3m. nEO. M. RE APE. Attorney-at-Law, Vi P.hensburr. Pa. Office on Centre street. three doors Irom High meet. iaug., t-l ESCAPING THE GALLOWS. A Story of C'lremnatamtlal Evidence. BY LAWRENCE LESLIE. Many citizens of the State of New York will remember tbe excitement created dur ing the summer of 1867, by what was gen erally called the "Weatherwax Murder." The arrest, the lecal fiontrovflrsv rnnwrn. jog jurisdiction, the final tcial, and the howl of dissatisfaction which followed the partial acquittal, are matters not easily for gotten by those who then resided near the scene of the tragedy. The circumstances of the case were sub stantially as follows: Captain John O. Weatherwax resided in 1856 near the vil lage of Plattsburg, New York. He was a mau i of good character, one of a numerous family of the same name, the settlement being known for miles around as tbe Weatherwax settlement. Capt. Weather wax was, at the time of which we write, about thirty years of age, and the owner of a small craft which plied on Lake Cham plain trading with New York, Vermont, and Canada towns along the shorn of the Lake. The crew of his vessel consisted of him self, his cousin. Andrew Weatherwax, and a man named Walter Brown. In the latter part of June, 1856, he left Plattsburg with a cargo for Canada, and on the way back stopped at Pike River landing, on the Can ada shore, where he was to take a cargo of wood for Plattsburg. Duriug the day, while the wood was being taken on board, a sharp quarrel arose between Captain Weatherwax and his cousin Andrew, and mutual threats were indulged in. It was soon over, however, but as Andrew had become intoxicated, he was rather morose during the eutire day. So far, everything is plain and easily un derstood ; but here the mystery begins, and what follows is largely based upon the statements of the third party, Walter Drown. He states that after dark (tbe night was very cloudy and starless) be was standing on the rear of the boat and heard the captain and his cousin (who were at the bow) resume the quarrel of the day. It steadily increased in violence, threats were exchanged, and though he could see neith er of the parties, he could hear distinctly all that passed. The wordy war waxed hotter, and suddenly he heard a crash as of a blow ctusbiug through skull and brain, succeeded by a heavy fall, and as suddenly all was still. The man listened with bated breath and trembled ; his first impulse was to rush forward and offer assistance to the wounded man, but fear restrained bim, and ho waited the result. In a few minutes tbe captaim came aft, but he was alone. Brown noticed, or thought he did, that he was pale and excited. Nothing was said about the quarrel, and the two men soon retired. Brown, how ever, could not banish from bis mind the impression that a serious crime had been committed. He arose early and visited the spot where the altercation took place, and found Andrew's hat, and near it marks of blood. Still he did not mention his sus picion to any one, nor make any inquiries concerning the missing man. It appears that he was by nature exceedingly timid and shrank from the responsibility of charging a man with so serious a crime, and from the publicity which the position of a prosecutor would compel him to as sume. The boat proceeded to Plattsburg, and when Andrew's relatives made inquiries for him the captain professed total ignor ance of his whereabouts saying that be had left him at Pike River, without notification, and gone, he knew not whither. Matters rested in this condition until eight or ten days after the occurrence, when a body was takeu from the river at the identical place where Captain Weath erwax's boat had been moored on the fatal night. The body gave ample evidence of having met death by violence, as the skull was crushed as by a terrible blow from some heavy instrument. An investigation was beld, and a captain of a vessel lying near to Captain Weatherwax's, on the night in question, recognized the body as that of a man he had seen employed on Weather wax's boat. He further testified to hav ing heard a quarrel on that night, ending with a scuffle and a blow, after which all was silent. The altei cation, he thought, proceeded from Weatherwax's voice in the quarrel. Of course suspicion was at once directed to Weatherwax, and as be could give no satisfactory explanation of his cousin's div appearance, he was arrested, me pre liminary examination lasted for nine days, and produced great excitement, but re sulted in bis being remanded to jail to take his trial at the next term of court for tbe crime of murder. The Weatherwaxes then became alarm ed. Few of them doubted his guilt in deed nothing seemed more certain but they were not willing that the name should be disgraced by one of them dying at tbe hands of th hangman, so they contributed funds, employed able counsel, and made the best defense possible. Mr. McMastera then and now, we believe, A leading lawyer of that city, was engaged to defend him. Mr. McMasters examined the cas, and though be had no doubt of his guilt, he, like a true lawyer, did his best for bim. Not daring to take his trial on the merits of the case, he succeeded in establishing the non-jurisdiction of the court, and locat ing the crime in Canada, The criminal, for such everybody now believed him to be, was therefore set at liberty, when he was threatened with violence if he did not leave the country. He refused, saying that be was innocent and would not stir until he was vindicated. While a movement was being organized to put the threats into execution, an officer arrived from Canada with a requisition, and he was taken across the line for trial. The trial was among the most remark able eer beld in Canada. The ablest counsel both of Canada and New York were engaged for the prisoner, and by postponing tbe trial for nearly a year, spiriting away some of the most important witnesses of tbe prosecution, and other in genious and questionable devices, they suc ceeded in producing a disagreement in one jury, and finally brought about an acquit tal, after eighteen months of imprison ment. Tbe commnnity felt greatly outraged by tbe result, and tbe press teemed with de nunciations of those who thus conspired to cheat justice. His own coansel, wishing to repair as much as possible the wrou they had done society by rescuing a crim inal irom a just Tate, advised him to flee tbe country, and under another name strive by a better life to repay society for its tol erance in suffering him to live. All such advice the wretched man un heeded, and returned to his oldhome, de claring bis put pose to remain there until the cloud was lifted from his former good name. But though saved from the gal lows, he did not escape punishment. The brand of Cain was upon him. Everybody believed him guilty, his old friends and neighbors avoided him, he was pointed out as a murderer, and bis supposed crime was hooted in his ears many times as be passed through crowds in tbe public streets. Thus the unhappy man passed eleven years of his life, submitting quietly and meekly to the aspersions cast upon him and i waiting patiently for his vindication. His loss of character had brought with it loss of property ; business men shunned him, tbe better avenues of trade and enterprise were closed agaiust him, and he became reduced almost to beggary. But amid all these misfortunes he was still hopeful. Thus mat ters stood until the early part of October, 18CT, when a man clothed in the garb of a sailor, made his appearance in the village of Plattsburg, aud inquired for Captain John Weatherwax. The latter was just then entering the post-office, where a considerable crowd had collected waiting the distribution of the mail, and was pointed out to the inquiring stranger, ne made his way toward him, laid his hand familiarly upon his shoulder and ex claimed : "How are you, John ?" John looked at him a moment in be wilderment, gave a suppressed scream and replied : "Great Heaven ! has it come at last?" Turning to the crowd in the post-office which by this time had become interested, he said : "Gentlemen, my vindication has at last come. For eleven years I have borne your reproaches in silence, hoping and praying for this hour. This is my cousin Andrew, Tor whose murder I have suffered a pun ishment many times worse than death." The men stared at each other and at the sailor, stupefied with wonder. Andrew was equally perplexed, for the actions of both parties were to him incomprehensi ble. For a short time there was a disposition to regard the new-comer as an im poster who had been brought forward to relieve Captain Weatherwax of the disgrace that bad attached to him ; but his identity was soon established beyond question, and the interest in the case deepened, thousands coming from all parts of the State to see the man who had apparently risen from the dead. The account which Andrew gave of him self was that he left the boat on that event ful evening, after the quarrel, wandered into a rum shop a short distance from the l.uidii g. became engaged in a fight and was arrested. In the morning he was brought before a magistrate aud fined, but having no money, and being still angry with his cousin, he would not go to him for aid, and was on the point of being taken to jail, when a stranger iu the audience came forward and offered to pay his fine if he would engage to sail with him, his vessel then lying at Montreal. He consented, and the next day they sailed for China; and for eleven years he followed the sea and never once communicated with his rel atives. He now heard for the first time what one of tbem had suffered on his ac count. The matter of the blood, and his hat, which, it. will bo remembered, was found on the deck, he explained by stating that he had had the nose-bleed during tbe day, and that some of the blood had probably fallen on the deck ; the bathe tossed upon the deck when he decided to go out in tbe evening, taking a better one in its stead. The identification of the body found, the quarrel, the blow, and the voice of Weath erwax heard during the altercation, are mysteries never explained. Perjury can hardly be alleged, but there was certainly criminal carelessness in judgment which embittered the best years of an innocent man's life, and nearly sent him to an un timely and dishonored grave. It is hardly necessary to say that there was a complete revolution in feeling to ward Mr. Weatherwax. Every one seemed anxious to compensate by kindness aud patronage for the wrongs so innocently in flicted before. This was not unappreciated. Business prospered, and three years ago both Audrew and John A. Weatherwax were among the most contented citizens of Clinton county, ISew lork. Thr Maiden Vote. There will go to the ballot boxes on the 7tb of November a great body of young men who will cast their maiden votes. It is a generation of 'voters who have reached maturity ten years after the civil war. Wheu in 1861 the shot fired at Sumter was the signal for the mustering of the hostile forces, these now first voters were but 6 years old, and when tbe contest ended they were ouly 10 years old. There fore, the remembrance of the events, which to us who passed through that period long after our beards were grown, Is fresh and clear, to them is misty and almost a thing of written history only. They have learned at school of the victories and defeats which alternately cheered and depressed us, and tbe war is to them simply a childish mem ory of armed men marching away with banners and with music. They lost tho education of that great conflict, which is one of the treasures of those who lived through it and shared in it as grown men. But perhaps better than we, they can con template it in perspective, aud view tbe war with no other than the prejudices which theopinions of their e?ders may have created in them. These fresh voters can decide this elec tion. It becomes them, therefore, to thoughtfully consider how tbey shall cast their ballots, and to earnestly and studious ly inform themselves as to the issues of the campaign. Tbey will find many of tbe current discussions valuable as mental as well as general political training. If tbey study these carefully we have little fear that their votes will be giveu on the wrong side. Let them take heed to so cast their ballots as to assist as in preserving the Re public, that when we shall have passed away they may receive intact that inherit ance which selfish partisan zeal would im pair or destroy, and which corruption and prodigality have already imperilled. We commend these thoughts to all those young men who, on tbe 7th of this month, will east tbelr first ballots, a most important event in their lives. V. T. Sun. TRUTH WILL 1'IiEVJLIL, SOUTH CAROLINA CRIES FOR HELP. As Appeal to the People r the United States A bole ma tail for Aid and hynpathy in Her Distress -A Terrible Arrairaraent ef Weveraer thanberlaia. Charleston, Oct. 25, 1876. The president of the Chamber of Com merce has united withjtbe Methodist, Cath olic and Episcopal bishops, and the leading Presbyterian, Lutherati, Bapist and Jewish ministers, and tbe presidents of all the na tional and other banks in Charleston, in the following address on the condition of South Carolina : To the People of the United Slates : Well founded apprehensions that the civilization of our State is in danger of being utterly overthrown, and an overruling sense of duty to ourselves and posterity, and the country at large, impel us to make an au thentic statement of our actual condition to the American people in the hope that it will induce them to extend to us their sympathy and aid in this distressing exi gency of our affairs. There is so much at stake that we caunot afford to be silent or to withhold any effort that may possibly be of avail. For ten long, weary years the white people of South Carolina have en dured a condition of things which any Northern State would have been tempted to throw off iu two years at the point of the bayonet if it could have been done in no other way. They bore and fore!ore in the hope that some returning sense of jus tice or happy stroke of fortune would bring relief but no such sense of justice or happy stroke came to their relief, and hope sick ened and died away in their hearts. At last they determined, as if by a common impulse and a natural and uncontrollable inspiration of freedom, to make one su preme effort for their redemption, but to make it under and within the law. Those who hold authority here having, through party affiliation, all access to the highest organs of political power in the country and to their equally powerful organs or the par tisan newspaper press, have subjected this people to the vilest misrepresentations and the most cruel slanders. Some of these we desire to correct. BRANDING A FEW LIES. It is not true that the white people of South Carolina are disloyal or disaffected towards the United States government. On the contrary, tbey are loyal and well affected towards it. They obey it at home and would defend it promptly from foreign aggression. It is not trne that South Car olina or any of its counties are in a state of insurrection and domestic violence against the government of the State or that law or process caunot be duly enforced within her territorial limits, and that there is any lawful cause or occasion whatever for the Federal government to interfere for the protection of the State government against the violence of her citizens. It is not true that the white people of the State are hostile to the colored people or have any design or disposition to abridge or infringe their political or civil rights. On the con trary, in their conventions and in tho speeches of their candidates, Tor six years or more, the most public and solemn pledges have been given that all the rights of the colored people shall be respected. The colored people should know that these pledges will be faithfully kept. It is not true, moreover, that the "Rifle Clubs" in the State are acting as men against the law, or that they are engaged in murdering some peaceable citizens and intimidating others, or that they cannot be controlled or suppressed by the ordinary course of justice. The President has been deceived. These clubs were raised with the knowledge and recognition of the Governor. Not one of them ever acted in defiance of law or against government or.constituted author ities. The hostility to them of Governor Chamberlain and his coadjutors is recent. It is political, and is designed to affect the coming election. It is not true that in the recent race collisions the white people have been the aggressors. Their forbearance, as in the Charleston riot, the unprovoked Cainhoy massacre and the still more recent assassination of a white citizen in Edgefield, has been wonderful. THE REAL FACTS. The truth is that the leaders of the col ored people, fearing that the day of their power is drawing to a close, have excited their ignoraut dupes, have supplied them with arms, have aroused their fears for the loss of their liberty, and have thus encour aged them to commit deeds of violence. We may also affirm some things that are true. It is true that there is in the State a most earnest and excited canvass to over throw corrupt rule and re-establish honest State government. This is a legitimate and lawful object, which should commune! the sympathy and support of every lover of his country. It is not treason to defeat Cbambeilaiti, nor is it insurrection or do mestic violence to elect Hampton. It is true that while tbe white rifle clubs are ordered by the Governor and the President to disband and disperse, the colored militia of the State are allowed to remain iu or ganization and in possession of their arms, and to attend political meetings in milicary order, with rifles and other arms. The object of this discrimination is as obvious as is the comparatively defenseless condi tion in which it places the white population. We simply ask what would tbe people of New York or Massachusetts think or do upon a like application of the bayonet pol icy to them under such circumstances. CIVILIZATION REALLT IN DANGER. Fellow Countrymen: We have sought to place before yon, briefly and in true colors, the condition of South Carolina, the wrongs of hei people, their patient forbearance and their new-born hopes. Not long ago Gov ernor Chamberlain, in a transport of tratb fol and genuine enthusiasm, proclaimed to the people of tbe country the startling fact that tbe civilization ef the Puritan and the cavalier, of the Roundhead and Huguenot, is in peril in South Carolina. lie spoke these words under tbe inspiration of his better angel, for truer words he never spoke and they are as true now as then; tbe peril is greater now than then, for wheu the worst and most degraded elemeuts of society en ter into control of a government, is there not much reason to apprehend some catas trophe which we hardly dare to contem plate? S. Y. Tttpper, President Charleston Cham. Commerce. Wm. Wightmaw, Bishop M. E. Church South. B. W. Hare, T. D., Bishop of Diocese of N. Carolina. P. N. Lynch, D. D., Bishop of Charleston ' John Forkest, D. D., Pastor First Pres byterian Chnrch. G. R. Bracket, Pastor Second Presbyte rian Church. J. L. Girardeau, Professor in Theological Seminary. J. A. Chamblkss, Pastor Citadel Square Baptist Church. L. Mcli.er, D. D., Pastor St. Matthew's Lutheran. W. S. Bowman, Pastor Wenworth Luther an Church. P. F. Stevens, Pastor Reformed Episcopal Church. W.'B. Yates, Chaplain to seamen. David Levi. Minister Congregational Beth Elohim. C. O. Witte, President People's National Bauk. A. S. Johsston, Presid't Bauk of Charles ton, N. B. A. L. D. Mowrey, President Union Bauk. Jacob Small, President German Savings Bank. E. n. Frost, President 3. C. Loan and Trust Co. Albert Leonick, President People's Bank of South Carolina. T. R. Roberston, Vice President Carolina SaviDgs Bank. Thrice Married and Thrice Di vorced. AGalesburg (111.) correspondent of the Chicago Times, writing under date of Oct. 22d, says that a remarkable case, in which the same parties have been three times married and three times divorced, occupied the court oti yesterday. The complainant, Helen M. Baker, is 23 years of age, fine-looking, aud the daughter of the late Dr. SpauldifTg. The defendant, Marion Teralbia Baker, is 32, and con nected with the best families in this city. The young couple were first married in Knoxvillc, 111., November 15, 18G5, and supported on both sides by wealthy and in fluential friends, their prospects of happi ness made them the envy of all. However, in April, 1SGG, only six months after mar riage, Helen filed a bill against Teralbia, asking for divorce on the grounds of ex treme cruelty. Divorce was granted the June following, and Helen rejoiced iu her maiden name for a few months only, when on January 8, 1807, she and Teralbia met by chance in Chicago, repeuted with tears and were married the second time, and took up their residence in Galesburg. A daugh ter was born in March, 1808. On the second day of December, 1872, Mrs. Baker strain filed a bill for divorce ou grounds of deter tion, asking for the custody of her child. The decree was granted in February, 1873, according to the prayer of the bill. On the 3d day of December following the same parties were again married, as the com plainant states, she hoping to spend tho remainder of her daj-s with the defeudaut. The couple received congratulations nnd presents from friends, who trusted they would bo able to keep all their good inten tions. August 4, 1876, Mrs. Baker again for a third time filed a bill for divorce on grounds of desertion and cruelty. The decree was granted yesterday, and the custody of the daughter, some seven years old, was given to the mother. HONESTY is the Best Policy. One day about three week ago a strange cus tomer came to a Gratiot avenue grocer. He wanted some goods, and he paid cash down. The next day he made another purchase aitd paid cash, and as the days went by his face aud his cash became familiar. One day he returned with the change given him and said : "I believe I am an honest man. You paid me twenty cents too much." The grocer received it and was pleased. Two days after that the stranger returned from the curbstone to say : "Another mistake on your part; you overpaid me by forty cents." The grocer was glad to have found an honest man, and puzzled to know how he should have counted so far out of the wav Three days more, aud the stranger picked up a dollar bill in the store and said : "This is not my dollar. 1 found it on the floor and you must take charge of it." The grocer's heart melted, aud he won dered if the world was not progressing backward to old-time honesty. A skip of one day, and then the honest man brought down a wneeioarrow, ordered eighteen dollars worth of groceries, and would have paid cash had he not forgotten his wallet. He would hand it iu at noon as he went past, he said, and it was all right witii tne grocer. That was the last of the honest man ; morning fades to noon, and noon molts away in darkness, but he cometh not. There are no more mistakes in change no more dollar bills on (he floor and the gro cer's eyes wear a way off expression as if yearning to see some one for about two minutes. Detroit free Press. A Singing Mouse. A lady residing in West Pitts ton, whose name we purposely withhold, while performing tuher piano a few weeks ago, heard what apeared to be the voice of a bird chirping merrily, and seemingly endeavoring to accompany the notes of the instrument. When she stop ped playing, the mysterions accompaniest also stopped. The sounds appeared to come from between the walls behind the piano. On the second day after the dis covery, the same thing occurred again, and the lady became very curious to know the cause of it, She made a search everywhere but could not see where, by any possibility, a bird for she thought it was a bird could have imprisoned itself iu the wall. On the third day she went to the piano several times, and as often as she played, the mnsical notes of the mysterious miu strel kept time and unison with what she performed. Two weeks passed, and oue day while at the instrument, as usual, her eye was suddenly attracted by the appear ance of a mouse sitting on one end of the piano. The lady also observed that her little visitor was making a noise, and while she listened she discovered that ti e mouse was actually singing. All was uow ex plained. She played different tunes, and the mouse changed as frequently. When she finished the mouse withdrew suddenly and eutered a small hole iu one corner of the apartment. The iady now determined upon securing the mouse, and bad pretty hard work to do so, but eventually suc ceeded. The mouse is now in her posses sion and is quitetame. It sings almost like a canary, and what is more, actually carries the airs of the pieces ei formed by its mistress upon the piano. Luzerne Lead.tr, October 19. JlAltl'HA rT'S FIZiEXDS. TnE CAMERON RING'S RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE REIGN OF TERROR IN THE COAL REGIONS WHO ENCOURAGED THE OUTRAGES AND MUKBCRS. rOTTSViLLE, Ta, October 25 The re cent disclosures of political rascality made by John J. Slattery at Matich Chunk, am still the all absorbing topics of cotivetun tion here, and the comments ire governed by the political proclivities of those you hear talkingon thesubicct. D. C Henniug and Geu. J. K. Sigfried, the disjiensei-s of the Republican corruption funds to the Molly Maguires, appear to feel the sting of the exposure keenly, but they still declare that it was perfectly honorable to buy up influential politicians. There is one phase of this story of cor ruption and bribery which is worthy of special notice, as it shows the eagerness with which the Republican leaders labored to secure the votes of banded murdereis. In this State the Jndges have control of a certaiu amount of patronage, iu the filling of vacancies in certain offices "uch ascou stable, school boards and the like. In all of his appointments Judge Pershing was very careful, and lv rfiiioo- teuance to the cutr-throats, he drew upon nusvii men- umer opposition. 1 bat alone as sufficient to cruise t ho mi l.tfltv s,f tli on. to vote against him for Governor. This, """"i was not satisfactory to the Ke publicau leaders. Tl,o mn.inrl ..... i. sure of every Molly Ma'guire vote in the Coal rep-ion's "anil f.o : - :..!.- O 3 . Vi..-., '1 1, in BIIIIV campaign, they spent npwaid of f lO.tKNj amftiis a Ka 1 -3 1 a . i,,uus icauens nere, wno in turn pocx eted the j r tu i j um,u lucn power over their dupes to keep them under IVItltl,ll n.nl. . . I . . . Dolan and Slattery wanted them to. A few of the "boys," when they discov ered that the leaden had got money, aud were disposed to keep it, began to kick the traces, and to quiet the obstreperous, some of the money had to be dealt out ; but in "" email sums were suiucieut U 'fix the bo VS." Slatterv rfiH iir.t rit- tl.o names of a 11 w ho received money : Barney Dolan and Reilly the Bum got money, aud the latter got an appointment on the Ceu tennial pohce force from Hartranft besides. Pat Hester, chief of the Mollies iu Nor thumberland countv. and tbe worst t.f them all, was also a very active Republican worker, as was every pardoned murderer in the coal regions. The 2finers' Journal, the organ of the Treasury and Cameron Rings in this coun ty, true to its party and mastets, is earnest ly engaged in throwing mud at respectable men who have helped to expose the cor rupt nractice nf its niiiv'. l,..i it- justifies those acts Ly saying that they have uuiversai practices oi an parties throughout the country, but it fails to vouchsafe the proofs. By this it will be seen that the Republican press aud leaders, instead of disow n ing or denouncing the v ile work, glory iu its success, although it gave an impetus to crime that for years held the Icople of the coal regions under a reign of tenor. The universal verdict is that the Republican leaders of Pennsylvania arc as much responsible for many of the inurdors and other crimes committed by the Molly Macuires as those ruffians w ho to-day stand sentenced to fourteen years' imprisonment fur conspiracy to murder. Those who were not in Schuylkill conrty during the reign of terror can scarcely con ceive how the iKjIitical backing the Mollies received from the Republican authorities encouraged the spirit of defiance iu them. It was this suptiort that caused Kehoe to suggest that the Major brothers should be shot do u like docs in broad daylight in the streets of Mahanoy City. It was this that caused Barney Dolau to say publicly that the woikiogmco were cow aids for not bmashitig the heads of more bosses, and not burning down more breakeis. It was this that caused them to pat ado defiantly, wearing the badges of their order, and to insult aud abue the clergymen of the Roman Catholic Church who had de nouced them. It was this that eticour aged Pat Hester to turn out his band and force the burial in the Catholic Cemetery at Shamokin of one of his Mollies, despite the order of (he Rev. Father Koch against it. It was this that made the same Pat Hester bold enough to brutally attack Father Reilly on the streets of Ashland. This list mijjht be lengthened indefinitely if it wrere necessary. The millions f readers of the Sun can aee that, there is no exaggeiation in saying that to the corrupt practices of the Republican leaders is due Kitb iiciii oi me crime mat lias made the Pennsylvania coal region a black i-pot iu our country. Mr. Gowen is by no means slacking off in his war upon the Molly Maguires. One by one they are even yet being gathered in. Yesterday Patrick Hughes, alias Fox, was lodged iu jail here, charged witu burning down the Philadelphia aud Read ing Railroad Company's deoot at Tusca rora, April 2, 1875. Michael Doolin, cu victed of conspiracy to murder, was his confederate in the job, and they will be tried together. About the time thia job was done a great mauy other depredatioim were committed ujhu railroad and other property, principally that belonging to the railroad company. For nust of these no arrests have yet been made. A'. V. Sun. The Jacksonville iFla.) Union has this iuteresting incident : "A few months since a handsome mocking bird flew into the residence of a lady in this city, and alighted at her fet exhibiting little or uo fear or suspicion of her, and permitting her to catch it iu her baud. She placed it in a cage, aud it seemed haj j and eon tented, and proved to be one of the finest singers of its species, filhug tbe house w iili its varied aud itielotlioua sliaioa, until after Some four mouths of ram ml it u . ft . v . sick and died, much to the borrow aud re- kici, oi us mistress. A klioit tune after its decease, the same lady wan sitting in her room, when another beautiful bird of the same family came in and took iu position, near her, apparently inviting her to capt uiu it, which she did without diflicultv. Sim placed it in the same cage, aud it seetue.i as contented as the other had Uoue, as if ic knew and coveted a life with so geutle a mistress." Whatever you wish your child to be, be it yourself. If you wih ittobehspp, sober, truthful, affectionate, htMiest, ami gooly, be yourself all these. If you wislt it to be lazy aud aulky, a liar and a thfiVf. a drunkard and a seaier, be yourself all these.
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