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HUNTINGDON, P.A.
Wednesday morning, Sept. 4, 1867.
General Augur states in a recent
report that to make a successful war
against the Indians it would require a
force of one hundred thousand soldiers,
and then it would take a long time to
wipe them out. Ue is in favor of ma
king peace with them, if possible, but
if not, of waging a war so vigorously
as to make them respect the power of
the Government for all time to come.
..The public will be pained to
learn of the escape of Duncan, tho
Com s raissary to the monster Wirz, of
Andorsonville prison. Ho succeded in
making his way out of Fort Pulaski,
where he was serving a term of fifteen.
years imprisonment, and has gone to
Europo. Justice is sorely cheated of
its dues in this instance.
bierA despatch from Nashville of
August 30th., says: In Washington,
Rhea county, East Tennessee, on Wed
nesday, the blacks and whites got into
a fight, When the nogroes were-driven
from the town. Getting assistance
from the Loyal League, the blacks re
turned to the town and renewed the
fight with varying suncess. A number
of persons were wounded.
. m.The Executive Committee of
the Ex-Moors' Soldiers', and Sailors'
Union, of Richmond, have issued a call
upon all ex-officers, soldiers, and sail
ors of the United States army and navy
now residing in Virginia to assemble
in Richmond, on the 25th of Septem
ber next, for the purpose of defining
the political position, and to take such
other steps as the exigency of the times
may seem to demand.
Mr-Two freedmen of the First and
Pourth districts of Georgia, aro out in
an address to their fellew-citizens, irre
spective of color, as candidates for Con
gress. They claim that the right to
vote gives the right to hold office, and,
as they are in the majority, whites
shall not be elected by their votes.
The candidates are Conservatives, and
in favor of universal amnesty. It is
the impression that many whites will
vote for blacks in preference to - whites
who can take the test oath.
)16-Registration has been completed
in Alabama. The returns show a total
of one hundred and eighty thousand
nine hundred and nine-five voters. The
blacks have fifteen thousand five
hundred and one majority over
the whites. The total vote of the
State in the Presidential election
of 1860, was ninety thousand three
hundred and fifty-seven, which com
pared with 'the registration returns
shows a falling off in the whites of
seventeen thousand six hundred and
ten, and an inerease of seventeen thou
sand six hundred and thirty-eight vo
ters.
WS,. Some of the Radical journals
are exceedingly wrothy at the course
of President Johnson. Worse hard
things have been said of him than was
said by the Copperhead journals
against Lincoln, during the war. What
the Radicals expect to gain by abusive
language, we can't see. The abuse of
Lincoln gained him the more friends,
and so it will be with Johnson.
An attempt at impeachment of the
President at the next session might
still further impede the progress of re-
construction, and add new evils to the
already extended catalogue. Presi
dent Johnson appears to be master of
the situation and knows what he is
about—doing what is not denied him
by the Reconstruction Act. A differ
ence in political feeling is not sufficient
ground for impeachment. The coun
try is now but a foot-ball in the hands
of politicians, and' they aro rushing it
to destruction with the desperation of
madmen.
WHO WILL HE NOMINATED ?—All the
counties in this Senatorial district have
held their eonventions. The Demo
crats have their twooandidates in nom.
ination, and the fact is conceded that
the nominees are good men—Mclntyre
of Perry, and Shugert of Centre.
The Republican Conference will bo
held at Lewistown on next Friday,
and a warm contest may be expected.
For the nominations Huntingdon of
fers MoVitty, Blair offers Halt, Centre
offers Wilson, Mifflin offers Woods, Ju
niata offers Robinson, Perry has jno
candidate. A week ago Mr. Hall's
chances for nomination seemed to be
bettor than any other, but Centre go
ing'against him loaves him with but
his" own county to . start with. Tho
defeat of.Ff . allinCeidre.may give Mo-
Vitty a good show for a nomination.
If Mr. Hall is defeated it will be be
cause he was not true to Gov. Curtin.
Haines was defeated in his own coun
ty (Perry) because he sold out to Cam
eron. The friends of Curtin are de
termined that Simon and his friends
shall not control the selection of the
next United States Senator. Mr. Wil
son of Centre is a brother in-law of
Gov. Curtin and his success in Centre
means something.
The year 1880 is set as the period
when one will bo able to ride in a "sil
ver palace" from New York to San
Francisco, without changing cars. It
is more probable that by that time
ono will Ily - there on a through canvass
back duck of mammoth proportions,
or go through in a puff by pneumatic
&i patch. •
The Changes, &c
Much fooling has been created by
the changes already made by the Pres•
ident. Gen. Sheridan has been remo
ved from the sth District and sent to
relieve Gen. Hancock of the command
of the Department of the Missouri.
Gen. Hancock is ordered to New Or
leans to take the place of Sheridan.
Gen. Canby is assigned to the com
mand of the 2d District embracing the
States of North and South Carolina—
relieving Gen. Sickles who has . boon
ordered to report at New York. Con:
Thomas on account of ill-health has
been continued in command of the De
partment of the Cumberland.
Rumors of changes in the Cabinet
reach us by every mail, but as yet no
changes have been made.
Gen. Grant has issued an order to
Military Commanders of the five Dis
tricts to make no appointments to civil
office of persons who have been remo
ved by themselves or their predeces
sors in command.
Returns from internal revenue to
the Department at Washington, show
that there is a falling off of fifteen mil
lions of dollars in the revenue for two
months - pant as compared-with-the - re=
turns for the corresponding period last
year.
Gen. Cameron was in Washington
on Saturday and was in consultation
with Gen. Grant. Ho made public his
desire to have the President impeached.
The President claims that the order
of Gen. Grant continuos to augment
one of the principal points of difference
between him and the General, name•
ly : That the supplemental law does
not give General Grant power to dis
approve, in advance, of any act suppo
sed to be contemplated by any District
Commander.
If we are to believe all the radical
press, the President has already made
several candidates for the Presidency
for them. They should remember that
but one can be elected.
The President is not yet impeached,
neither do we believe be over will be.
Impeaching a President is a big job,
one that will not likely bo undertaken
rashly. Tho President will make good
use of all advantages given him by the
mistakes in the Reconstruction Act.
The law-makers have themselves to
blame if they aro disappointed in the
progress of reconstruction.
TEE Journal & American editors don't
like to hear anything said of the extrav
aganaO of the last Legislature because
it was largely Republican. They dare
not denounce the ex.travagance and
corruption of their party—we dare.
They must do the bidding of their par.
ty leaders, or be "read oat" We are
"out" and have no masters. Democrats
in the I:sot:Legislature wore as extrav
agant as Republicans—bet the Repub
licans woro largely in the majority
and could 'have saved to the taxpayers
thousands of dollars they helped to
squander.
um.,lt may be worthy of note, as an
indication of the times, that the Galena
Gazette, the paper published in the
place where General Grant resided
before the war, which is moreover said
to be the only paper that the general
regularly reads, and which seems to
have always maintained very intimate
relations with him, is strongly urging
Grant as a candidate for the next pres
idency on the platform of peace, con
ciliation, and fraternity.
STEVENS ON THE SITUATION.—Thad.
Stevens, in a letter dated Aagnst 24,
to a friend, speaking of the removal of
the Military Commanders, says :
"Soon after the commencement of
the last session of Congress I reported
a bill from the committee of the
House of Representatives which con
tained a provision prohibiting the re
moval without the consent of the Sen
ate. It passed the House, and was sent
to the Senate ; the Senate stauck it out
and returned it to the House, who
refused to concur in the amendment.
The result was a committee of refer
ence,where an animated contest ensued.
There were several other questions in
controversy between the Houses,which
the House offered to yield if this could
be granted. The Senate persevering
ly refused, declaring that they would
sooner lose the bill. As that would
frustrate all our legislation it could
not be allowed. The Rouse yielded,
with a warning of the ovils it would
inflict upon the country. Some of the
members of the Senate seemed todoubt
their power under the Constitution
which they had just repudiated,and wholly
outside of which all agreed that we ware
acting, else our whole work of reconstruc
tion was usurpation."
Winnemoro, who was hung in Phil
adelphia on Thursday, in a speech
from the scaffold said : "I have only
to say that I am innocent in word and
deed of the crime for which I am to
suffer an ignominious death. I have
always tried tolive up to a knowledge
of the right and do my duty faithfully,
but how terrible it is to hang a man
who has not committed nny crime.
Death atself has no terrors for me, for
I know where my soul will go to, and
lalso knoW that my spirit will come
back to earth." It seems scarcely pos
sible that a human being, fully posess
ed of all his senses, if ho wore guilty,
would assort his innocence in this way,
and it is awful to think that an inno
cent mart should be hung.
Persons having correspondence with
California should mark on their letters
or newspaper the words "via Panama,"
and continue to do so until the the In
dian hostilities over the Plains are sup
pressed. According to the regulations
of the Post Office Department, all let.
tern not marked "via Panama" are
sent by the overland route, and the In
dian outrages render their safe trans-
mission doubtful.
[From tho Now Yolk Herald, Aug. 30.1
The Reiolutionary Muddle at Wash-
ington,
The reyolutior(-pressei rapidly to a
focus. At the mad pace we aro now
driving it -is evident that the people
may soon be called upon to determine
whether they will support the Presi
dent and uphold the republic, or merge
the three branches of power into a mil
itary dictatorship. The difficulties
which threaten to destroy harmony of
action in the Executive Department
are to be attributed not to Mr. John
son nor yet to General Graut—they
are the fault of neither The former
takes the Constitution of the United
States, which is placed in his hands as
his political guide, and roads :—"The
President shall be Commander-in-Chief
of the Army and Navy of the United
States." Under this ho issues his or
ders to his General-in-Chief; who has
been taught by Congress, in the Army
Appropriation act, that "all orders and
instructions relating to military ope.
rations, issued by the President or Sec
retary of War, shall be. issued through
the General of the army, and in ease
of his inability, through the next in
rank. The General of the army shall
not bo removed, suspended, or reliev
ed from command, er assigned to duty
elsewhere than at said headquarters,
except at his own request, without the
previous approval of the Senate; and
any orders orinstrnetions relating to mil
itary operations issued contrary to the
requirementsofthis section shall ho null
and void." The people demand that
the President execute one law. Con
gross in its enactment, evidently pla
ces a military censor over him, and
teaches our subordinate officer that to
disobey the orders of a superior is a
virtue, to obey them, a crime heavily
punished by the provisions of this act.
In the capital no one appears to under
stand the problem. The President
wavers in his assertion of the dignity
of his office and its fundamental power,
and slowly feels his way in the dark.
General Grant, uncertain where he
stands, makes protest as a Cabinet offi
cer, and reluctantly obeys. Far more
soldierly had it been had ho obeyed
without question; for the President is
responsible to the people through Con
gress—not through General Grant.
If we are to have a dictator, let us
have General Grant. We prefer him
to any other. lie is mild and gener
ous in his nature. He would appoint
the proconsuls who are to govern the
several districts from our best army
officers. These, perhaps, taught in
subordination, might 890 D free their
districts from the irksome authority of
the central power and give the people
an enlarged liberty. It took seventy
years of civil war in Rome to culmi
nate in a dictatorship. Wo may boast
that, with telegraph, railroad, and
steamboat, we can move faster. We
may bring ours to a focus in seven
years, or even less. This will prove
how rapidly we have advanced in civil
ization.
Rome wont on from step to stop un
til political necessity forced Cmsar to
the surface. The wars of England pro
duced a Cromwell before the mad pas
sloes resulting from civil turmoil could
be quieted. Tho French revolution
ran its race, and was only forced into
a regular orbit by the strong laud of
Bonaparte. In the United States we
have gone on in our republican theo
ries until we hare, North and South,
engrafted upon our political tree,
enough ignorance to uproot it in such
a gale as that which we are trying to
weather. Intelligence is no longer the
foundation principle of the republic;
for, with the engrafting of the element
upon the ignorance which already ex
isted, we have given ignorance the
power—the majority rules! Shall we
halt and try to correct our mistakes,
or march forward to a military dicta
torship? If Grant were to carry out
the orders of Congress in the spirit
which dictated them, he would imme
diately become 'the exponent of a usur
ping power. Fortunately, thus far
our great General obeys orders. Gen.
Sickles gives place to Canby, and Gen.
Sheridan reports, in accordance with
the orders of the Commander in Chief
(President Johnson), to relieve General
Hancock. The latter will assume com
mand immediately at New Orleans and
carry out the Reconstruction laws of
Congress.
It is impossible for Congress to strike
at the executive power without giving
a worse thrust at, the vitals of the Re
public. So long as we desire to up
hold the present form of government
we must sustain tho President in full
executive authority. If ho thwarts
the laws made by the people through
their Congress, then impeach the Pros.
ident. Do . not go behind him to tench
insubordination and overthrow prin
ciples instead of the man ; otherwise
we kill where we would cure. Andrew
Johnson, as a man. is of little conse
quence to our people. We may over.
turn and replace him; but how are we
to overturn and replace the principles
which we have voted that ho shall pro
tect? Therefore, lot it be understood
that ho who sustains the President at
this juncture sustains not tho man but
the executive principle. Ho who up
holds the opposition which Congress
would force upon General Grant sus
tains a military dictatorship, and must
prepare himself for its results.
ts,,Every man is the master of his
own business; but everybody else is
entitled to his own opinion concerning
whatever is extraordinary in conduc
ting it. Apropos Robert Bonner of the
/Yew York Ledger, and his horses.
That gentleman has not onlythe finest
and costliest stable of trotters in the
world, but ho owns the fastest trotting
horse, so far as known, ever produced
upon this planet—the famous Dexter.
The following is a list of his trotters,
with the prices he has paid for them :
Dexter, $50,000; Pocahontas; $35,000 ;
Auburn Horse, $13,000; Peerless, $5,-
000; Flatbush Maid, $5,000; Linter n,
$5,000; Lady Palmer, ss,ooo—total,
$llB,OOO.
Tho average yearly production of
distilled spirits in the United States
during the past fire years has been
fifty millions of gallons. The revenue
has been collected on about seventeen
millions. Loss to government, si:ty
six million dollars annually.
The first halo or new cotton, of the
crop of 1867, raised in Georgia, was on
the plantation of Mrs. Solomon Cohen,
in Clay county. It was sold at Fort
Gaines on the 12th, at 30 cents per
pound,
THE INDIAN WAR.
Particulars of the Reoent Fights.
The Fight Between Cheyennes and Paw..
nee Scouts
OMMIA, NEB., August 22.—An in
teresting report of the fight between
Pawnee scouts and the Cheyennes is
received and published hero to-day.
From this it seems that Colonel Dodge
of the Thirteenth Infantry, was sta
tioned with a body of troops at Willow
Island Station, on the Union Pacific
Railroad, having also under his con
trol a company of the Pawnees, at
Plum creek. On the South side of the
Platte, opposite Plum Creek Station,
is a telegraph station on the old Cali
fornia lino; which was guarded by a
party of soldiers from Fort McPher
son. During the morning of the day
of the fight, Colonel Dodge had infor
mation from Port McPherson that the
telegraph line on the south side of the
river had been interrupted by a party
of Indians near Plum creek. He at
once ordered Major North, command
ing the Pawnees, to send out a force to
look after the perpetrators of the act.
Major North started Lieut. Davis and
twenty men across the river, arid very
soon had information that he was driven
back by a largo body of Indians who
have already destroyed several miles
of the lino, and were apparently hav
ing things-their own way. In a few
minutes he ; had -Lis - urrtiro- command
across the river, and making for the
Indians, who in perfect confidence had
quietly gone into camp on the main
road near Plum Creek. Those last, on
discovering Major North's Pawnees,
only fifty strong, and supposing them
to bo white men, boldly and coolly ad
vanced to attack him. The Major im
mediately ordered the eharge, and the
Cheyennes soon discovering their mis
take fled with wild cries of "Pawnees I
Pawnees!" the latter in close pursuit.
The Pawnees pushed them so close that
they soon had to abandon all their led
animals, of which they had a number,
and all their extra weight of blankets,
saddles, &c., compelling them to stop
and fight. In this they were over
matched, in arms and fighting quali
ties, and a running fight was kept up
until darkness closed down and stop
pod it. The Pawnees, who, though in
the service of the Government, still re
tain their old customs and method of
fighting, returned about midnight with
sixteen scalps, between thirty and for
ty mules and an immense number of
blankets, and other impediments drop
ped by the Cheyennes in their hasty
flight, besides a squaw and a boy about
thirteen years old captured and brought
in unharmed, General Augur's rigid
orders forbidding them from harming
prisoners, as was formerly their Gus.
tom.
The Indians.who had attacked prov
ed to be a party of Cheyennes, about
a hundred strong, with some few Oga
lallah Sioux and Arapahoes, who,from
the statement of the boy and the
squaw, had comp over from "Turkey
Foot's" camp on the Republican, to
attack and plunder a passenger train,
ovidontly emboldened to this by their
success of a few weeks since, and temp
ted by the hope of more plunder, of
which they got a large amount on that
occasion. From the body of one of the
Cheyennes killed was - taken - a — pocket
book which was recognized as belong
ing to one of the train mon who had
boon killed in the previous attack
The whole affair was a signal and bril
liant success for the Pawnees, and a
very severe blow to the Cheyonuos,and
no doubt it will have a most salutary
effect in checking future attempts on
trains on the railroad.
The Fight at Fort Phil. Kearney
Mr. Porter, who has just reached
bore from Fort Phil. Kearney, brings
further details from the fight of the
2d of August near that post. He is a
man unaccustomed to exaggerate, and
thoroughly familiar with Indians, and
his statement puts oven a bettor face
on the matter than was given by tele
graph.
Mr. Porter's train, employed at the
fort in hauling wood, had gene out,
early in the - morning, to out and bring
in wood, under escort, of some thirty
or forty soldiers under Major Power,
of the Twenty-seventh Infantry, and
having beside some fifty citizens, team
sters, wood choppers, &c., all were
armed, and most of them old mountain
men. For several dais previous, In
dians in small bands had been hover
ing around the post, and committing
some small depredations. After reach
ing the forest the wagon bodies were
taken from the wagons (to use the lat
ter for hauling logs) and piled up in a
sort of circular corral, a species of de
fence well known to the frontiersman.
The men had hardly scattered to their
work when they found themselves sur
rounded and attacked by an immense
body of Indians, whose numbers could
only be guessed at, but may be
imagined when it is known that the
coolest and most experienced of the
men who saw them estimates them at
from Mem hundred to two thousand,
and say that for three hours and a half,
while the fight lasted,the woods swarm
ed with them on all sides. The whole
party, wood choppers, teamsters and
escorts retreated rapidly to their wag
on body corral, but the corral being
too small td hold them all, some had
to fight from the outside. The Indians
boldly charged upon them, but were
received with such a withering fire
that they retreated to reform and re
new the attack with more caution.
The little band were not to be the easy
prey they had counted on. The Indi•
ans now dismounted, and, stripping to
the breech clout, made another most
determined and persistent charge on
the corral. Again they got such a hot
reception from the breech-loading rifles
of the troops,' and the Spencers and
Henrys of the citizens, that they re
treated in confusion, somo of them hav
ing, been left dead within thirty or forty
feet of the corral. Taught by this se
vere experience, they now began the
attack in a different way. Entirely
surrounding the corral, and advanc
ing as dose as therdared, taking shel
ter behind trees, and advantages of
the ground, they poured in a heavy
and unremitting fire from rifles, shot
guns,and bows,until itseemed that noth
ing could live under its concentrated
fierceness. But the devoted little band
now just over the, nervous tremor and
excitement of the attack, and well and
skillfully handled by Mr. Powell, were
equal to their almost superhuman task
With a coolness equal to that of the
Indians, aud•a skill in the use of their
arose far 'superior to theirs, they buy
behind the shelter of the wagon bodies
and ox-yokes, making their breech
loaders tell fearfully on every Indian
who showed himself, and wasting no
ammunition in wild shots where they
would net count. Indian after Indian
fell under their accurate fire, only to be
replaced by others from the numbers
swarming around, and thus for three
hours and a half the fight continued des.
peratoly and against overwhelming
odds, until Colonel Smith, with two
more companies and a howitzer, arri
ved and gave welcome relief to the
bravo men who had so well fought in
this unequal contest.
Upon Colonel Smith's arrival the
Indians retreated, carrying with them
all their dead and wounded, except
five or six, who had fallen so close to
the corral that they could not get their
bodies. •
A Colored Candidate from Georgia for
Congress.
Mick a colored man, has
issued the following address to the vo
ters of the Fourth Georgia Congres
sional District :
CRAWFOrLD COUNTY, Ga., Aug. 22.
At the solicitation of many my
friends, both, colored and white, I have
determined to announce myself a can•
clidate for Congress in this District. In
soliciting your suffrages for the posi
tion to which I aspire, it may not be
amiss_for me to give you a short histo
ry of my life, and the principles which
will guide my official conduct in the
event I shall be honored by the suf
frages of my fallow-citizens. I was
born a slave on the plantation of Ben
jamin Loukett, Warren county, Missis
sippi. I remained with my old mas
ter until 1864, when I was brought to
Georgia and sold to Mr. Isaac Dennis.
My old master raised me as well as
slaves are usually raised, giving me
tho rudiments of common English edu
cation, and instilling into my youth
ful mind the principles of honesty and
virtue. And I will say here, that I
have never departed from them. In
tho event lam elected, I. shall use the
utmost of my feeble powers to bring
about a reconciliation between the two
sections. We have had war enough
and strife enough. While lam free to
confess that my greatest efforts 'will
be directed to the interest, and welfare
of my own race, I shall do all I can
to ameliorate the condition of the
whites, believing that the interests of
the two races are identical here in the
South. I shall do all in my power to
repeal the unjust discrimination against
the products of my section, to wit, the
tax on cotton and tobacco., I will give
one instance of the hardship of the tax
on cotton. Last year I rented a small
farm of Dr. Simmons, of this county.
After paying him the rent I had five
bales of cotton. On them I paid a tax
of $l5 a bale, making $75. It is need
loss for me to tell poor men how much
I have netitled the money this year. It
would have breaded my family the
whole year. I have felt its hardness. I
wish it repealed. You may wish to
know my position on reconstruction.
I am in favor of reconstruction under
the Millitery bills; though, if I am
elected, I shall use my influence to
have the disqualifications removed
from al!. _
Yours, very triiTy,
ELLICK MAFIALY.
Ex-Governor Graham, of North Caro
lina, on the Situation,
Hon. William A. Graham, of North
Carolina, in a letter to a resident of
Van Buren, Arkansas, writes as fol
lows respecting the political situation
of the South :
"The situation of the States of the
South, to which you allude, is indeed
melancholy. We are realizing the
truth of the declaration of Mr. Fox,
that "the most dangerous of all revo
lutions is a restoration." The idea of
distraining the States by Military do
mination into the adoption of Consti
tutions for local Governments, with the
right of suffrage extended to negroes,
without any qualification except being
of the male sex and over twenty one
years of age, and by the Howard
amendment to the Constitution of the
United States, at the same time dis
franchising all mon of experience and
influence among us, is the most sblemri
farce that has been enacted in all his
tory. It is to roll back the - tide of
civilization two centuries at least, and
place the ballot in the hands'of a con
stituency less qualified for the'offfce of
Government than has over before 'ex
ercised it in any republican Country.
The Board of Registers of voters has
just been announced here,and includes
one negro to two white .nien generally
throughout the State.- When the whole
series of steps in the' proem Of "recon
struction," as it is called, shall ha7e
been fully contempldtod, I think the
people, wherever they constitute ma
jorities, will-find it to their interest to
vote against Conventions for military
Government until another appeal can
be milde'to public opinion at the North,
and especially' in the Northwest."
A LIVELY PI:ACM—The people of Ja
va have rather a lively time of it. AC•
cording to the latest official statistics
contained in the TijaserVt vor ATetlet•
landsch Java, the tiger has in one sin
gle year consumed exactly ono hun•
dred and forty eight human beings,and
in another yoar ono hundred and thir
ty-one. The crocodiles cleared an av
erage of fifty people a year, while ser
pents accounted for between twenty
two and forty-three. But the Dutch
seem to accept their fate with charac
teristic equanimity. The Governor-
General a long• while ago offered as a
prize for every tiger that was killed
the munificent sum of twenty-two
guilders (510). His subjects apparently
prefer being oaten by the tiger.
The Lawrence, Kansas, Journal tells
what the farm of a man living near
that place has yielded this year. He
raised 80 acres of corn, 20 acres, of
wheat and 10 acres of potatoes. The
corn yielded 30 bushels, the wheat 30
bushels, and the potatoes 350 bushels
per acre. The value of the entire crop,
from 100 to 10 acres of land cultivated,
is $5,435—a handsome income for a
farmer. ]t should be borne in mind,
however,that the crops in Kansas are
unusually good this year, and that, in
probability,the owner of thefarm is
an exceptionably good farmer.
Fourteen cashmere goats have just
arrived in Wisconsin, imported at a
cost of 82,500. They are the only once
in the State,
NEWS ITEMS.
It takes 1,280,000 leaves of the thin
eat gold foil, to mako an:inch in thick
ness. . -
A. new printing press.••has been in
vented. at'N,orfolk, 'Connecticut, that
will print- fifty thousand papers an
liour.
An offo has bden-givei4 to tho -Uni
ted States for the purchase of bay of
Sarnana, and five miles circuit of adja
cent.land' on the island of Hayti, for
$5,000,000.
Professor J. C. Watson, of Ann -Har
bor, Michigan, announces the discov
ery of a new planet, hitherto unknown,
which was first seen by him on the 24th
August.
Lewis Downing, lately elected chief
of the Cherokees, solved during our
war as Lieutenant Colonel of a regi
ment of loyal Indians, and is an
:intel
ligent, educated, liberal minded man._
There are two ways of inviting, the
cholera at your doors. One is by be=
ing overeareless—the other by being
overcareful. One is to be, dirty—the
other to•bo frightened. Bo neither - if
you would be safe. •
A chemical process has boon discov:
eyed and perfected in Now York, by
which white lead can be made_in five
hours, instend of nearly four months.
The white lead oan be made either frOM
ore, pig letl4 .or litbarge, with equal
rapidity c and,h, very • superior quality
of color and covering is produced. -
The Austrian journals think they
have too many holidays there, and are
insisting on the necessity of reditetn
the number, of.rcligionsi holidays. One
of them states that, during the month
of Juno last, the population of ‘ Puster
thal, in the Tyrol, had fifteen days'
cessation from work.
An island that has long been station
ary in the middle of Goose Pond, at
Tyrington, Mass., has recently floated
to the upper end of the pond,about half
a mile from its original location. It is
an accumulation of about one quarter
acre, and has trees twenty feet high
and a heavy growth of smaller bushes
on it.
The trestle-work being used in the
erection of a bridge across the Susque
hanna river, at Harrisburg, gave way
on the morning of the 27th, precipita
ting seven workmen into the river,
killing one man and slightly injuring
the others.
The village of Sidloy, Fremont co.,
lowa, by a change of the channel- of
the Missouri river, has been transfer
red from that State into Otoe county,
Nebraska. By'this singular freak of
the river ROftle thousands of acres of
land and six to night hundred inhabi.
tants have been added to Nebraska.
The great Anti-slavery Congress
convened in Manchester. England, on
the 27th. Wm. Lloyd Garrison was
present and made a speech. Other
distinguished persons, including sever
al negroes, made speeches. Eulogiums
were passed on the governments of
the United States and Russia for their
recent abolition of slavery.
John S. Hopkins, Baltimore's richest
citizen, worth probably twenty mil
lions of dollars, has authorized the erec
tion in Baltimore of an institution to
e called the John S. Hopkins Hospital,
in which the sick and poor residents,
both white and black, are to be attend
ed, mach in separate apartments: The
building is to be ample and built re
gardless of cost and endowed with a
perpetual income
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
If)AINTS FOR FARMERS AND
OTIIERS.—The Grafton Mineral Paint Co. nro nosy
manufacturing the Rest, Cheapest and most Durable
Paint In use: two coats well put on, mixed with pure
homed Oil, still last to or 15 years; It is ol a light Mown
or beautiful chocolate color, and can bo changed to grace,
lead. atone, dtab, olive, or cream, to suit the taste of the
consumer. It is valuable for lioness, bat as, fences, car.
nags endear makers, pails and wooden-ware. agricultur
al Implements, canal boats, vessels and ships' bottoms,
canvas, metal and shingle roofs. (it being fire and water
proof), floor oil cloths, (ono manufacturer having used
5000 bbls. tho past year,) and as a point for any purpose
is unionpaaßed for body, tintabilitv, elaqiclty, and adhe
oirenes., Price $6 per bbl, of 300 ihs . .orlifelt will supply
a throtei for years to come. Warranted in all cases no
above. Send for a circular which gives full particuliirs.—
None genuine, unless branded in a trade mark Grafton
Mineral Paint. Address DANIti 11, BIDWELL,
sc4 Om 254 Pearl Street, New York.
THE CHEAPEST - AND BEST AR
IL TIOLII OUT.
A ARRPEC - T - TIME.P.T,ErE .V 0.?? ONE
L. t Crery Hotieekolier,Farn*r, Mochanic, and ulatal.
or buy our
SOLLA:R. 7AT.A.TOI-1,
or Perpetual Portable Sun-Dial.
Warranted to keep 'Vino limo for every. Day of the Year.
This valuable instrument, which is warranted by us to
give the true time of day throughout the year, is con
structed on strictly acientidu priuniPles, being based on
astronomical 'tables and calculations, and alTeriling the
truest measure of time which heman ingenuity and skill
can devise exceeding in accuracy and reliability the sleet
perfect cbrenometeru, whilst the low price at which we
offer it to the mitotic places it within the reach ofall. Its
portability makes it convenient for travelers, and to every
farther or householder it must prove invaluable to regu
late their clocks loud watches Icy the most Infallible test
recognized by science.
Ties m odo of using t"o "Solar SS'atch" is the simplest
that can ho desired. After screwing tho SO le or Gno
mon In t to place In tho moveable brass head and settinglt
directly over the sti eight lino corresponding to tho ditto,
or that nearest to it on the cylinder, the instrument Is
placed upright in Cm sunshino in ouch a position as will
throw the shadow of the Style directly upon the line nn.
der It. Alter placing the plumb lino, by means of Its
brass attachment, at a right angle with and to the left of
the Styli', in order to sot tho cylinder perfectly level, the
point whore the extremity of_ the shadow falls, and its
distance from any of tho wavy or cross lines exhibiting
the morning and corresponding afternoon hours, will in•
eicate the true time allay.
The whole apparatus, consisting of a Cylinder and Dia
gram, mereable Woes IVA, Style, Plunib lino, and Brass
attachment for:the gime, neatly pot up in compact boxes,
is sold by 110 at tho incredibly low price of ONE DOLLAR,.
I 131 anulactured and sold, wholesalo and retail, by
BEVENS, dA BM & CO.,
31 North Ninth Street, Pbilada.
irr-For rale, wholesalo and retail, at Wm. Lewis' Book
Store, Huntingdon, Pa. Agenta 'ranted to roll the articlo
—apply immediately. 193 f. LEWIS,
, _ . Agent for Huntlngdoneognty.
STATE FAIR.
TIIE PENNA. STATE PAIIt WILL
ho held at PITTSBURG, upon tliegroundsof the Iron
City Park,
SEPTE3IFER 24th, 25th, 26114 and 27111,1867.
For the Exhibition of Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Swine, &0.,
Am !cultural Implements, Machinery, Inventions, Farm
Products, Fl ults, Flowers. Household Goods, Lc.
PREMIUMS OVER $lO,OOO
COMPETITION OPEN TO ALL.
onto of tho Premiums in the abstract, Ore ns followq
CATTI.E.---For.mo3 Diromr.D.-10 premintris from Sra
to $2O; all other grad. of Cattle Co, from $3O to $lO, 42,
flow $lO to $3; hest herd, Se , , not less than 1$ head, $3O;
boot, $23; best 15 yoke of oxen, mondani to be paid
Agricultural Society of the County sending thou), $lOO
- best $5O.
HORSES.—Best lmpm tell, 0 pi endures from $5O to $2O
—thorough broils, 10, from $3O to slo—Speed, 1 of $lOO,
1 of $35, 4 of $OO.
ALA-TOILED HORSES.-1 of $5O, 1 of $5O; beet draught,
gelding, and single horses 12, from $3O to $lO. STA&
LIONS and MARES, IS, Boni $25 to $lO. JACKS and
MULES, 7, from $2O to $10; bent mule team of four $3O,
24 best $l5.
SIIEHP AND WOOL—For different breeds 123 premi
um; from $3O to $5. SWINE:I3, Dom $25 to $5. POUL
TRY, best collection $lO, and no premium loon than $4.
For Agricultural Iniplemento, Steam Engme, Sc.iles,
Sc., but few premiums are offered. The Judges however
may make complimentary notice, of Up particular mer
its of each 11/11Chino exhibited.
Fat Leather and ,:ts imuniftict me, flour and Indian meal,
grain nod seeds, vegetables, fruit',grapes, eider. flowers
an d designs, needle v.urk, millticlery, Sc., bread, cakes,
sec., preserves, jet I lee, nod air tight finite and vegetables,
mercantile displays, .t.e , (liberal pendulum are altered
tanning $lO to $l.
STEA3I PLOW.—Tho Mph ick demo plow trill be ex
hibited mitt operated (tilting the Fair.
EXCURSION TtoKETS wilt be hamed by nearly all
the railroads, and all pods exhibited and unsold will be
rut:m . llot' freight free.
Vor particulars, or pi emblem lists, address A. B. LONG-
A K ER, Secretary, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Single Admission Tickets, 25 Cents.
set-3t A. BOYD HAMILTON, President.
AUDITOR'S NOTICE.
The undareigued having boon appointed Auditor
to distribute the proceeds of the Sheriff's sale of the real
estate of Margaret Brotherline, he Will attend to the du
ties of his appointment at •the °Mee of Scott. Brown Sc
HaileY, ou SATURDAY, the 14th day of SRPTEMBEIR,
1867, at one o'clock. P. 31., of said day, at which time and
place ell persons Interested are regnirod to present their
claims, or'be debarred front coming in on said fund. .
SAM'L. T. BROWN.
ang2B•nd Auditor.
AUDITOR'S NOTICE.
(Estate of Isaac Portend, deed.)
undersigned being appointed by tho Orphans'
Court ofaluntingdon county, to distribute the balance in
the bands of Thomas Fisher as surviving administrator
with the will annexed of Isaac Harland, dcO'd, sod as
Trustee appointed by said Court to sell tho real estate of
said deceased, will attend to the duties of his appointment'
at h s office in Huntingdon, on THURSDAY, the 12th
day of SEPTESIBFR, MD, at 10 o'clock, A, at.. when and
where all persona interested are required to present their
claims, or be debarred from coming in for a share of said
fund. WM. P. °RBIs ON,
au2B Auditor.
LUMBER, SHINGLES LATHS.-
ITEM-LOCK, TINE BILL - STUFF,
Li Boards, Plank. Shingles, Plastering and Shingling
Lath; constantly on hand."
Worked Flooring, Sash, Blinds, Doors, Doer and Win
dow Frames, furnished nt maanfao urers' prices.
Grain and country product generally bought at market
rates. WAGONER & BRO.,
aug2fetf Philipsburg, Centre co, Pa. '
628. HOOP-SKIRTS. . 628.
WM. T. 11QPKINS,, "OUR Owjv MAKE"
After more than fire years experience and experiment
ing in tho manufacture of STRI 'CLY FIRST QUALITY
11001' SHIRTS, we offer our justly zolebrated goods to
merchante and the ptiblia in - full confidence of their en.
periority, over all others in the American market, - and
they aro so' acknowledged by all who wear or deal la
them, as theygive more satisfaction than any other"
Skirt and recommend themselves in every respect. Deal
ers in Hoop Skirts elsould mate a note of this fact. liv
ery lady Who has not given them - should do no
without - further delay
Oar assortment embraces .every stylo, length and Idea
for Ladies, Misses and Phildrln. Also, Skirts made to
order altered and repaired.
- Ask Mr "Ifopk in's Omr 3lake," and he not deceived.—
See that the letter 11" is woven on the Tapes between
each [loop, and that they are stamped T. HOPKINS,
MANTIPAGTUREN, 828 AROII- STRELT, PHIE,AD'A,"
upon each tape. No others aro genuitie.
Also. constantly oil' handa Rill line of good Now York
and Eastern made Skirts at vary low prince, Wholesale
and Retail at the Philadelphia Hoop Skirt Manufactory
and Emporium,
NO. 628 ARCH:STREET, PHILAVA.
. .
WM. T. HOPKINS.
aug23-5m _
HUNTIN4DON ADADEMY,
lIUNTINGDON, PA.
The duties of this School will be resumed
ON MONDAY, AUGUST 26th
For further information apply to
CM=
C. A. WYETII, Principal
BRIDGES TO BUILD.
PROPOSALS will be received up to ono o'clock on
the 6th SEPTEMBER, by the County COMtaisalooete, at
their office, for the rebuilding of the Pier and the repair
ingof the Abutments of the Bridge across Rayetown
Branch at or near Ilawn'e ; and also
For building abutments of a bridge acres, the sand
opposite the bridge across the Juniata river at Montgo
mery's Hollow.' -
Specifleatione and plan to be scan at the Commission
ere Moo. By order of the Commigsionere.
Avg. 21,'67-t
VALITAnLE FARM FOR SALE.
The, underaigned offers at private eato a Valuable.
Farm situate in WEST township, near Shaver's Creek.
The Papa contains
234 ACRES
of good Limestone Land, 150 acres of which are clewed
and in a good state orcultivation ; the balance being tim..
bar land.
THE IMPROVEMENTS
consist of a largo two-story STONE HOUSE, two Male
inEarns, Spring House, Carriage Homo, and other
outbuildings. Thero are two good ORCIIARDS
on the premises, ono old and the other young,
Just beginning to boar. A number of amt.-
failing streams of water run through the land, and pass
by the house. . •
'lbis is a desirable property, wick good earronndinga,
and emollient to churches, schools and market. It will
be sold at a reasonable figure.
aug2l.6t.
_BOOK AGENTS WANTED
TO SOLICIT ORDERS FOR A IMP ELLUSTRATITI
BOBLE DICTIONARY.
(Complete in One Volume.)
This Dictionary embodies therm . ' ts of the moat roconk
study, research and investigation, of nbout sixty-live of
the most eminent and advanced Biblical Scholars now
living. Clergymen of all the denominations approve It,
and regard it as the best work of its kind In the English
iangunge, and one which ought to be in the heeds °fere
ry Bible reader in the land.
In circulating this Mock, Agents will find a pleasant
and profitable employment. The numerous objectior.s
which are usually encountered in selling ordinary works
ell] not exist with this.
Mit. on the contrary, encouragement and friendly aid
will attend the Agent, making his labors agreeable, use
ful and lucrative.
Ladies, rethed Clergymen. School Teachers, Farmers,
Students, and all others who possess ourigy, are wanted.
to assist in canvassing every tone rind county in tba
country, to WllOlll the moot lib oral inducements will ho
offet oil.
For poi ticulars, npply to, or alressi
PA RM ELEE BROTIIHRS,
722 Stumm street, l'hiltelelphts, Po,
MEM
SP EAR'S PAT ENT
Fruit Preserving Solution,
FOR THE FRESERYKITON OP ALL EINDS OF
FRUITS, 'VEGETABLES, JELLIES, WINES, CIDER, AC!
Without Sugar, and without Exponsiva Sealing
or Air-tight Jars. ,
One I dlle will Preserve 12S Pounds of Fruit, or 43 Gal.
loos qj Dine pr Cider.
iIEALTLIFUL AND EFFECTUAL
This Solution, when properly used, effectually pro
vents fermentation or decay of Fruits, and, by the most
simple and inexPensivo process, every variety may be
kept in a fresh and perfectly. wholsome condition the
leer round, It in no now anti uncertain. experiment,
but has been,in practical uso.for, the post eight years,
yet has been: for the moot pirt; kept from the public for
the pm pose of ascertaining ,the result of a series of ex,
petit - mints, all of which have proved the validity aidl
that is now confldently, claimed for it. ,
Fruits Preserved by this Solution nro as good as the
best •'canned" fruits, while the use of the solution adoida
the trouble of sealing, costly Jeri or cams, keeping from
the air and light, frequent examinations, and the many
other troubles and annoyances well known to every
hou•owde. • _ • ,
.
Fresh with.° fruits the Yoaironnii have becomo almost
a bow - eland necessity, both on account of their healthful
ness and as a luxury; and by the ass of this solution this
great,luxury is within the reach of every ; family, rich or,
poor, in the land, as all kinds of fruit marks preserved:
during pleasure at less than ono-half thy expense of any
other method.
• Thu solution id perfectly free. from objection on the
scorn of health. ' Professor Bache, under date eII. S. Na
val Laboratory, New York, September, 14, 1804," says t
••By direction oftho Chief of the Bureau of Medicine and
Surgery, I hare examined your Preserving Solution, and
meats and fruits preserved by it. I have a high opinion
of its value, and believe it -can be used in the preserva
tion of those articles in a fresh mate for the army and
navy very advantageously . . The Solution is perfectly
freo front objection on the score or healthfulnou."
Other certificates from distinguishsd chemists, confirm
ing the above, can ho seen and had where the solution is
sold. It is claimed: . ,
1. That Spear's Solution preserves the Sailor of all
kinds of native fruits more perfectly, and•durably than
can Ito done in any other way, and at much loss trouble
and expense;
2,That the two of the Solution renders it unnecessary,
to - use air tight or expulsive fora or cans, and - also avoids,
the inconvenience - 01 hermetically sealing and beeping
from the,uir, hint, titc.;_
3. That the use of the Solution admits of the keeping
of the fruit to Tassels °Pony size, oven in kegs or barrels
if desirable;
4. That the use of the Solution allows the shipment of
the Dalt by salt or fresh water, in the hottest weather,
without Bangor of loss or injury;
„O. Teat it is Invaluable in the preserving of Tomato,
Poach, Pear, Apple, Quince and other Sauces, Winos and
Cider; Mee for all kinds of Spiced Fruits; that tp,rso along.
recommend Q to every Slimily, and to nio
guarantee their approval.
L. 11. SPEAR, Proprietor.
For Bale at LEWIS' FAIIILY GROCERY, Hunt:
%gam, Pa. tate23.4l
IVOTIOE. •
1,1 'Whereas my wife Elizai oti, Shank, has left top.
bed and board without any just cause of provocation,.
hereby caution alt persons against harboring hor or trust
ing, WI I will not pay dobte of her contracting.
Aug. 14,1867-* N. Su
DORDENTOWN FEMALE. QQI
LEGE, BORDENTOWN. N. J.
An institution for the careful ono thorough instruction
of Young Ladies in all tho branches of a complete educa
tion. Borrd and tuition in the Prop tratory and Collegf
me departments, $2OB per year. Washing, Ancient sr./4
.Thalsrn Languag , s, and ornamental brand:vet, extra—
Winter session opens September 10th. Fey catalogue%
address Rev. JOtrel H. BLA*BLEY,
ang7-1m President
IDAPER I PAPER !! •
Note,Post, 'Commercial, Foolscap mid Flatcsp—,
good asso ii
uient for sale by the ream, half ream, quire oz .
sheet, at
LEWIS' BOOK & STATIONERY STOKE
QOUR PICKLES ready for the table,
by the 7 ,.;1' d0z.,,10z., or ih doz., for sale at
LEWIS' Family Cirocory,
Af oNT F ELy or a t
TIME BOOKS,
Bala LE)l'lS' BOOK AND STATIONERY STOP R.
BLANK BOOKS,
LI CT VARIOUS BIZEB, for salo a
LEWIS , BOOK .AND STAVONERY großp
fiLIOIOE Teas, COEFee, Sugtii's . auc
k_ploWses, fur sale at Lewis' Family Grosser?.
IF YOU WANT the BEST SYRUP,
• ' cuNNlN•qq4m 4 CATOION'S.
GEORGE WILSON.