The Huntingdon Journal .1. R. DURBORROW, HUNTINGDON, PE NN'A. Wednesday Morning, Sept, 20, 1871 REPUBLICAN STAT 7, TICKET. FOR AUDITOR GENERAL COL. DAVID STANTON, of Beaver, FOR SURVEYOR GENERAL: COL. ROBERT B. BEATH, of Schuylkill, REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET. PRESIDENT JUDGE John Dean, of Blair county. FOR ASSEMBLY Franklin. H. Lane, of Shirleysburg FOR ASSOCIATE JUDGE David Clarkson, of Cassville. FOR SHERIFF Amon Houck, of Broad Top City FOR TREASURER Alfred W. Kenyon, of Barree -Township. FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER : Jonathan Evans, of Tod Township, FOR DIRECTOR OF TILE POOR : Harris Richardson, of Lincoln Township FOR COUNTY SURVEYOR: Remy Wilson, of Oneida Township, FOR COUNTY AUDITOR: Samuel P. Smith, of Union Township. FOR CORONER: James Bricker, of Huntingdon "NEW DEPARTURE." Republicans Squint on This Have you heat d the news from Colorado, Wyoming, California, Connecticut, North Car olina, New — Mexico, and last but not least, " Little Delaware," all Democratic States, have gone almost solidly for the Republicans. Maine, "all honest and true" increased her majority 3000 over her vote of last year, giv ing a Republican majority of ELEVEN THOUS AND. To keep the ball moving, public meetings, addressed by able speakers will be held at the following named times and places : Shade Gap—Fridiy evening, Sept. 22nd. Orbisonia—Saturday afternoon and evening, Sept =rd. Scott:oak- -Monday evening, Sept. 25th. Cas-rille—Tuesaay evening, Sept. 26th. Green's School House, (Tod tap.} -Wednesday eve. Sept. 27. Broad Top eity—Thureday evening, Sept. 29th. Marklabarg—Friday evening, Sept. 29th. Aferciadrfa. .Stiurday evening. Sept. :loth. Birtaingham—Mend4 evening, Sept 25th. Warrn..smark—Tueday evening, Sept. 26th. ...Spruce Creek—Wednesday evening. Sept. 27th. Shirkgsburg—Thursday evening, Sept. 2Sth. McAlery's Fort—Friday evening, Sept. 29th. The Green Tree. (Tippet West tap.)—Satorday eve. Sept. 30. Huntingdon—Thursday evening. October 7th. Mapleton—Saturday evening, Oct. 7th. Petersbing—Saturday evening, Oct. 72h. ITown's 7thoot House, (Juniuta tpd—Saturday eve. Oct. 7. Sheridan's School Pose, (Union twp.)—.Monday eve. Oct. 9. The above meetings will be addressed by two or more of the following named speakers: Hon. Walter S. Johnston, Washington, D. C. Prof. A. L. Gnss, i3l. S. Lytle, Esq. Theo. H. Cremer, Esq.l.John W. Matters, Esq. T. W. Myton, Esq. H. C. Madden, Esq. J. R. Simpson, Esq. Samuel T. Brown. Esq. G. B. Armitage, Esq. William Dorris, Esq. J. S. Blair, Esq. J. Hall Musser, Esq. David Blair, Esq. H. A. Orbison, Esq. W. H. Woods, Esq. ALLEN LOVELL, 1 County Committee. Chairman Ropublicl sdr REGISTER TO-DAY ! go_ Democratic roosters for sale, cheap, at the Monaca. office. Aprils , soon. re... Every vote for the temperance tick et is half a vote for the ruin-selling Demo- cracy. oft, In the event of a Democratic suc cess in 1872, we will be compelled to pay the South for their slaves. Da_ The reports from every section of this Judicial district indicate the election of John Dean, Esq., by a large majority. on. Is Mr. Africa a Protectionist or a Free Trader ? This is a matter of some consequence to our people. sir The New Departure has so effectu ally weighed down the Democratic party that it is as dead as a stone. te.s.. Are you REGISTERED ? ,Get out of the way, Mr. Banks, Mi. Speer must have a Democratic Congres sional district ! pa., The Democrats are the advocates of Free Trade, while every mill and man ufactory cries out against it. ss, Wanted ! Some Republican to as sume the authorship of the bribery story concocted by the Monitor. Apply to that office. tier While Gen. Lane was fighting the battles of his country Mr. Africa was char acterizing those battles as "slaughter pens." Vote for Lane! ves.. The Democrats want power with the record of Tammany staring them in the face ! How can they have the assu rance to ask it ? i But a year ago the Democrats said they did not want the negro vote, and if it were offered them they would not take it. How is it now ? M. Republicans, REGISTER ! air During the war the Democrats sympathized with the rebels; now, in peace, they apologize for the Ku Klux. How consistent ! 6ESY - True Republicans neither split their tickets nor compromise their principles. They vote as they fought--for the good of the country. Stand by the ticket. um., Mr. Scott's prompt demand for the protection of the ni.offending citizens of South Carolina has had a healthy effect upon those cowardly devils, the Ku Klux. is_ Somebody was wicked enough to tell us, the other day, that Mr. Africa was a "bloody Know Nothing" while that par ty flourished. How is this, Mr. Monitor ? le, The Patriot champions the cause of the Temperance voters. The Patriot in the Temperance business ! What an idea! What will you take, Colonel ? Sir The Democrats are running two tickets in this State—their own and the Temperance. To the former all Demo crats are expected to give their undivided support, and to the latter all one-idea Republicans. By this arrangement every Republican vote for the Temperance Party counts half a vote for the Democratic ticket. How do you like it ? J If you want to vote, REGISTER! geu Tammany is in trouble, and the Democracy of Philadelphia can not con n t on its repeaters. Dere's a go! Phila delphia will consequently : _give a Republi can majority Or at least 50011 EDITOR "Fr..nd ! Fraud !!- - Fratid:!' Slionts the Non i; or, but these significant words do not refer to the bribery story, the hugest of frauds, concocted by that sheet. Post thou see the beam in thy own eye ? Nay ! rEa_ The soft head who will be gulled into givinga complimentary vote to a Dem ocratic nominee will some day learn, when he asks for a return of the favor, that he has been playing the fool to no purpose. Par The Hollidaysburg Register perti nently asks : Mr.llanks ever declare that if the slaves were made free he would fight for the rebels?" We hope not. The Standard will rise and explain. Eel, It is presumed that Mr. Banks is as Orangeman since the Standard says he is of "Scotch Irish stock," and that this explains his course towards the lamented Col. Murray. How is it lig_ Republicans, we do not want you to listen to the man who asks you to cut. your ticket this Fall; he is the tool of the Democrats, who are driven to all manner of tricks to keep afloat their sinking ship. v If you want the Republican ticket elected, go to work ! S , ZE?" We find a large number of our short paragraphs copied by our exchanges without credit. This is all right, gentle men ; they are not worth crediting, and if they suit you, we are satisfied. Cut away as much as you phase. Is_ The JOURNAL urges the Republi can ticket simply because it is Republican ! We want it so understood 1 We are opposed to electing Democrats to office, and so is the Republican. party, or it would have nominated Democrats. The Republican press has almost universally condemned the Evans embez zlement case, but we have the first Demo cratic paper to see that has had the hardi hood to expose the Tammany frauds. But this is Democratic; they never go back on their pals. • rar Are the Republicans of this county organizing ? This is the question. Settle it among yourselves. If you don't intend to do anything, say so, but if you want to rout the Democrats out of their boots, go to work. In Now York city, where the ras calities and thefts a the Democracy are about to be exposed, they steal and destroy all the evidence of them. This is the easi est way of getting rid of trouble, but it may not be the most honorable. la_ Mr. Banks is to be shoved out of the way to make a Democratic Congres sional District fur Mr. Speer. This is the little game on hand. The supreme selfish ness of some wen is only equalled by the niagnauimity of other d laals—Listuxit of the latter ? See that every &publican is REG ISTERED ! gm. It is astonishing how very clever the Democratic nominees are. They are calling upon Republican voters all over the county and telling them that they know they have no chance for an election, but they only want a complimentary vote! Bah ! We will give them our compliments, after the election, if we have any to spare. ter The Monitor says that the Hon, Win. A. Wallace's speech, at Ebensburg, was "a regular blister-maker on the backs of the thieves and corruptionists of the State." How ungrateful ! After all Wal lace has done for the party it is a little rough to turn his own thunder upon him in this way. Wallace, it is understood, is one of them. g 47" When the Monitor speaks of Gen. Lane's "Radicalism" does it allude to his services in the army ? If not., why not say Republicanism Mr. Africa, we are told, was not in the army, yet he may not have been a Copperhead. It was a pretty hard matter, however, to be a Democrat, during the war, and not to be a Copper head. Will somebody please tell us how it was with Mr. Africa? The Philadelphia Post says "Here we will do our duty. There is no doubt of that. The Republicans throughout the State may depend upon Philadelphia for her very best. We shall poll at least five thousand majority for Stanton and Beath; we shall elect at least thirteen Republicans to the Legislature, and we shall tri umphantly place in office our whole city ticket.— Let the other counties do as well, and the State is safe to be Republican in October, and to give Grunt in 1872 one of the old-fashioned Lincoln majorities." • The interior of the State expects you to make this promise good. ts„ The Democrats in this vicinity are doing their level best to secure the with drawal of Banks on condition that the Re publican friends of Judge Taylor will vote ftw Mr. Africa in this c3unty and Mr. Baily in Blair. We presume. that Mr. Speer is at the bottom of this movement. He - wants a Democratic Congressional dis trict. Republica:l.F,, are you going to lend yourselves to this sort of work ? We hope not. • w 9,„ A converted Democrat, (at least we presume he is such, as the Nonitor does not say lie is a. Republican), has refunded $l3OO of conscience money to the United States Government. Ah, how natural ! The old fellow who run the machine so long are beginning to prepare for the grave, and they cannot die without disgorging.— We expect the treasury to realize hand somely from this source during the next ten years. ra.The Monitor, two weeks ago, charged that money had been paid to set up the Republican Convention for John Deau, Esq., alleging that this was asserted by "Many respectable Republicans." The Blair County Radical demanded the names of these slanderers, but the last Monitor backs square down. Come, we repeat, give us the names, or we will be compelled to say of the authorship of this slander as Jonathan said to David : "Thou art the man 1" e. REGISTER before you sleep ! um. "Figure Heads" are very popular with the Harrisburg Patriot. bar - Vote for Houck, the one-armed soldier ! urfA. If you. want a good, sober, honest business loan for Commissioner, vote for Jonathan Evans ! re,, Our candidate for Director of the Poor is popular wherever he goes. Vote for Richardson ! tim. Every Republican should be REG ISTERED ! re.. Are our politicians working for the ticket ? Go to work as if you were work ing to control a Convention. Thal. Keep your eye on the Republican who talks of cutting the ticket. He is, in all probability, paid to do so. Ear Can foreigners consistently vote for Mr. Africa with his Know Nothing re cord staring them in the face? Oar Soldiers, can you vote for a man who called your fields of valor "Lincoln's slaughter pens" ? Vote for Gen. Lane! ti br Was Mr. Africa, the Democratic nominee for Assembly, a Know Nothing during the existence of that party Will the Monitor please inform us? tat„. Messrs. Dean, Lane, Houck, Rich ardson, and Smith met the County Com mittee on last Friday, and they were en thusiastically received. oft„. The.members of the County Com mittee gave assurance that Old Hunting don will give such a majority at the coming election as she gave in the days of yore. Stir We are assured that Mr. Dean will run a very large vote in Blair county, and that his majority will not be less than 800 or 900. Republicans, what can you do for him in this county ? Vote for Dean ! - _ bar Judge Barnard has granted a per petual injunction against the Tammany plunderers, and Tammany is in the dust ! The great nucelus of the Democratic party has met its Waterloo. Hurrah! vis_ The meeting of the County Com mittee, on last Friday, was, it is said, the most harmonious meeting for years. This looks like business. Go to work, and leave by-gones be by-gones. nieL, The only city in America where the Democracy has had uninterruped sway for ten years is New York. Her bonds are excluded from one of the principal for eign markets, how would it be were they to control the Government with its great debt ? cm. We have been told that great ef forts are being made to induce Republi cans to vote for Mr. Mierly. Judge Clark son is an excellent man, and the Republi can who cuts him does not only wrong him but stabs the party, and it will be so re garded. 1,2- R.-.,, .” nli cious persons have cir culated damaging in regard to Mr: Kenyon's qualifications. Those who know him require no denial of these absurd sto ries, and to those who do not, we say they are the merest fabrications. Vote for Kenyon vei„, The Philadelphia Post says from present appearances the vote that will be polled in that city, a few weeks hence, will be one of the heaviest on record, and pre dicts that it 'will result in the election of the entire Republican ticket with large majorities.' Sir Some malicious persons have given circulation to a report that Amon Houck, the Republican candidate for Sheriff, is dissipated and in the liquor business. This is a malicious fabrication. All persons desiring information in regard to his habits are respectfully referred to the temperance organization of Broad Top City. es. From all parts of the county conies the cheering intelligence that the Repub lican tieket, from President Judge to Cor oner, will receive the full Republican vote, and that oue of the best votes will be poll ed that has been polled for years. The Republicans feel that all is right again and they go into the canvass with spirit. fl Judge Clarkson, we learn, is the object at which some men are thrusting their personal grievances. The Republican who will allow his personal difficulties to influence his political action, after a party nomination, acts unwise and is nothing more nor less than a disorganizer. There is always a day of reckoning for such peo ple. It comes generally much sooner than they expect.. as. The .Monitor queries : "Is Gen. Lane's Radicalism (?) his only qualifica tion for the office he seeks ?" To which the JOURNAL answers : NO ! NO ! ! But we want a Republican, in the next Legislature and you want a Democrat ! Gen Lane is a Republican, and we want all Republicans to vote for him ; Mr. Africa is a Demo crat and you, as a Democrat, should ask all his Democratic friends to vote for him, as a representative of their principles, but ew deny the right of Republicans, favor ing Republican principles, to vote for him ! Republicans should vote for Lane. Demo crats, for Africa ! CARD FROM REV. J. D. THOMAS. HUNTINGDON, Sept. 18, 1871. J. R. DURBORROW, ESQ.—.Dear Sir : I have been informed, in Huntingdon, that reports have been put in circulation that Mr. A. W. Kenyan, the Republican can didate for Tresurer, is addicted to intern temperate habits and not able to write his own name. I have no desire to make my self conspicuous, but out of due justice to Mr. Kenyan, to whom I have lived neigh bor for the last three years, I pronounce these reports unfounded in every respect. I have never known Mr. Kenyan to take a drink in all that time, and I am confi. dent he writes fully as good a hand as I do, if not better. In my judgment Mr. Kenyan is fully qualified for the position to which he aspires. Yours, respecfully, J. D. THOMAS. DUTY AND IMPORTANCE OF VOTING There is much wholesome truth in the remarks of the Tioga County Agitator on this subject, and we commend them to the attention of every Republican voter in the State. "By all means, and on all occa sions (says the Agitator), when you have a legal right to do so, VOTE The occa sion may be one of little interest to you; you may not care a penny which of two competing candidates is elected ; may not even know the men ;or the election may be one in which there is but one ticket, or one candidate. Such electiew may seem a poor reason to an industrious farmer for losing a day in a busy time. But it is not the importance of the franchise to every man in the land, that we insist ou. And only by using this privilege, can it be kept intact; only by exercising this great pow er, can the power be retained. The ballot box is just what makes America the most desirable country on the earth for the pro ducers of the earth—the toilers, who mine, farm, invent and fabricate; who, whatever share they have in this world's goods, real ly produce every dollar of its wealth. That such men should be so stupidly dull as to supinely let this privilege go by default on some trifling excuse, is incomprehensible to intelligent foreigners, who often see much more clearly than Americans the val ue and influence of the ballot. Even in the most trifling elections, it is the inter est of every voter to attend the polls ; while the man who stays away from an important election, simply deserves to have his franchise taken from him; or, what would be better, perhaps, to have a heavy fine imposed on him. "The utter stupidity which some other wise intelligent men exhibit on this point is most astonishing; and the trifling ex cuses which many born Americans make for absenting themselves from the polls on election day, are humiliating. "The man who desires an excuse for ig noring and neglecting his most valuable right runs very light for an American citi zen. "We had intended saying a word to the wise, conceited and politically self-right eous donkeys who refuse to attend any elec tion, because they think the entire concern is going to the bad; because, politics are degrading ; because successful candidates always "sell out ;" because, in short, they are so much wiser and see so much more clearly than their neighbors. We might suggest to these wise-acres that the true and only way to reform such abuses in this land is through and by the ballot box; that the man who assumes to ride his high horse in that silly manner is leaving the ballot box to tender mercies of the most cor rupt, when his first duty is to protect and use it for reforming the very abuses of which he complains. "But our suggestions would be vain. The dull, the indifferent, the ignorant, may be brightened, interested or instructed; and the drunkard may be sobered; but only Omnipotence can reform a fool " GREETING! IT.orniv MCOTTIII . in X/ CT An, C.NTTI LA PIERRE HOUSE. PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 12, 1871. To the Republicans of Pennsylvania : We tender you our hearty congratula tions over the glorious victories recently won by the Republicans of California and Maine. In the former a State has been won, after four years of Democratic mis rule, by an overwhelming majority, and in the latter the firm hold of the Republican party upon the people has been maintain ed with tenacity that cannot be shaken. The Victory in California has been gained after an arduous and exciting strug gle. It is the . result of systematic work, and it demonstrates the value of organiza tion and well directed labor. The victory in Maine has been won by keeping up the admirable organizations perfected in past years, under the operation of which the Republican vote has been thoroughly brought out. Both these victories show to us the val ue and the necessity of thorough organiza_ tion. They ought to inspirit us with the most ardent zeal and with a determination to imitate the example so worthily set us. We appeal to you, therefore, while rejoic ing over the victories of your brethren elsewhere, to do as they have done, and se cure by your systematic labors a victory as complete as theirs. The steady stream of Republican success which, setting in with Connecticut, has since flowed on without interruption, most not be checked in its onward flow by a Republican defeat in Pennsylvania. We owe it to our friends in the States which have so gallantly upheld our banner to stand by them, and keep Pennsylvania in the phalanx of Republican States. We can do this only by cultivating a spirit of union and harmony, keeping up our local organizations actively, and work ing steadily and with a will to bring out every Republican vote. Everything de pends upon organization and work. Our intelligence from all parts of the State is cheering and encouraging. All that is wanted now is a little close atten tion to the details of local organization. No political victory was ever won without attention to these details ; and we rely upon your spirit, energy, and zeal to carry them out systematically and render them effective. Let the Republicans of the State be true to themselves and to their cause, stand firmly by their State nominees and local tickets, and put their ward and township committees into vigilant activity, and we shall be able to send back to Maine and California, and their sister Republican States a response as cheerful and gladden ing as their messages of triumph have been to us. RUSSELL ERRETS, WM. ELLIOTT, Chairman. Eziu LUKENS, D. F. HOUSTON, P. M. LYTLE, Secretaries. es_ The credit which we have acquired in Europe, since General Grant has been President, is truly gratifying. Ocr bonds are sought after and preferred to those of governments with much less debt. This tells its own story. i Work for and vete the whole Re publican ticket! POST THE BOOKS ! Republicans of Pennsylvania Look at This ! Democratic States That Ilave Voted— And Given Republican Majorities! COLORADO! WYOMING!! CALIFORNIA ! ! • CONNECTICUT !! ! NORTH CAROLINA ! ! ! MEXlGO'r'rir NEW ELECTION IN REPUBLICAN STATES. MAINE, glorious Maine, is the only Republican State in which an election has been held this fall, and the Republican ticket has been elected by a majority of ELEVEN THOUSAND, a gain of three thousand since the election last year. ANOTHER DEMOCRATIC CITY REDEEMED ! WILMINGTON, in the dark State of Delaware, where a white man who takes a glass too much, is publicly whipped at the whipping post, has shaken off her Demo cratic shackles and redeemed herself by the election of the entire REPUBLICAN TICKET. ONLY ONE STATE DEMOCRATIC Kentucky ! Olt ! rebel Kentitek ! where Union soldiers were assassinated, is the only Democratic State that has elect ed a rebel Governor, and his majority has been reduced from 69,000 to about 38,000. This is the only Democratic victory in 1871. LOOK AT THE RESULT. Republican States for President in 1872, which were formerly Democratic : COLORADO ! WYOMING ! CALIFORNIA ! ! ! CONNECTICUT ! ! ! ! NORTH CAROLINA lII' , NEW MEXICO III , " And last, but not least, DELAWARE 'III , ' DEMOCRATIC STATES IN 1872 : KENTUCKY, of Rebel Notoriety. No Republican State has faltered, but all true and loyal to the cause. Republicans of Pennsylvania, remember this !—Har. Tel. Meeting of the Republican County Committee Pursuant to previous notice given, the Committee met at the Court House, in Hun tingdon, on Friday, Sept. 15th inst. Not withstanding the very inclement state of the weather, it was ascertained on calling the roll that quite a large proportion of the members froni different parts of the county were present. The meeting was called to order by the Chairman, when Dr. I. J. Meals, of Brady township, was elected Secretary. Reports were presented by members of the Committee from their respective local ities indicating a hearty endorsement of the party nominations, and showing very encouraging prospects for the election of the entire Republican ticket by a large majority. . . On motion, it was resolved, that as many public meetings be held throughout the county between this and October 10th, as is practicable. On motion, it was resolved, that there be a public meeting held at Huntingdon, OR THURSDAY EVENING, October sth. Quite a number of other important busi 13p_ss__ii_ems were attended to, and such -an interest tinnitesteet-ttwougketts-uma—en-. tire meeting as gives promise of most gratifying results. Adjourned to meet at call of the Chair man. K. ALLEN LOVEL, Chairman. I. J. MEALS, Secretary. " Judicial Districts." J. E. Dunnonnow, ESQ., Editor Iluntingdon Jenernal. Sir :.—I have read with no little inter est the very elaborate and carefully prepared com munication of Samuel T. Brown, Esq., in your last issue, upon the subject which heads this article.— Upon a topic of so much importance, although it may seem to common readers not a little difficult to imagine what is to be accomplished by the dis cussion of it now immediately before the election, since the Legislature only can change a district, and no vote cast at the election can, in any con ceivable way be an expression of what change, if any, should be made,-1 will be allowed, perhaps, to contribute one or two suggestions. "Our object," says Mr. 8., "is to call attention to the necessity of such legislation as will reduce the size of our district or increase the number of Judges, and we believe this to be the proper time to consider and canvass the subject,lest raising the question after the judicial election which is soon to take place, should be construed us referring to the presiding Judge who shall then be elected." Of course, there was no intention, although the gener ality of your readers would be likely to think so, to refer to him who hue teen the predding Judge of the district eine° it tea* formed. Mr. B. is a very candid man, who has too much regard for the truth to say one thing when he means another; and doubtless entertains for me, personally, no other than the kindest christian feeling. The historical and statistical portion of Mr. B.'s essay,—the body of it, presents, no doubt, in the main a correct statement of the case; and is inter esting and suggestive. Be shows very clearly, in one aspect of the subject, or as viewed from one stand-point, the relative size and importance of our district. Ile might have made the case much stronger by a reference to the relative amount and importance of the litigation within it. Since it was formed, its courts have tried, to say nothing of the almost countless criminal cases less grave in their character, over fifty persons indicted for ho micide; and, also, beside the usual proportion of civil issues of less importance, a large number of ejectments and other causes, involving property of very large value. Such, in a word, has been the amount and importance of its litigation, and the care and ability with which causes have been tried by the gentlemen of the Bar within it, (some idea of which may be formed by a glance at the report ed decisions of the Supreme Court in the Western and Middle districts,) that, although far from being the oldest, the XXIVth District has become famous among the Judicial Districts of the Commonwealth. The conclusion of Mr. B. that the Judge of this district has more than his share of onerous judicial duty to perform, cannot, therefore, be questioned; nor that "the subject vitally concerns every mem ber of the Bar, and the people of the district gen erally." His representation of the state of the bu siness is partial, because his own practice has been entirely confined to one county ; and, in some other respects, not very accurate. And, as to the mute of the business lagging, it may be interesting to inquire how far it is, or may be owing, in various ways, to the Wire of the gentlemen of the bar; which it is not exactly the province of the Legis lature, or voters at the pulls, or of Judges, to re form. If he will go to Cambria county, for instance, where there have been many heavy ejectments, and other causes of immense interest, trie?.,—usore than in any other county in the district,—he will find that the current lists are largely made up of causes brought within a year, and will hear no complaints of a denial of justice to suitors by delay. The reason is, that the gentlemen of the bar, as a general thing engaged in nothing else, and giving exclusive attention to the business of their profes sion, are always ready and anxious to try their causes, and, while so serving their clients, to get their FEES. If, on the other hand, he will go to Blair county, ho will find on file a handful of agreements signed by all the members of the bar, each continuing a trial list and postponing a court. But I may allude further to this incidentally, in one or two suggestions which I now propose to make respecting the remedy for the evil, so far as it exists. ...... Dlr. D. supposes the remedy is either to "reduce the size of our district, or increase the number of Judges." Let us inquire into the effect of these suggested expedients. The District, of course, would be reduced in size by taking from it, say one of the counties. Would that reduce, or have any tendency to reduce, the amount of business in either of the other counties ? How? The only effect would be to relieve the Judge of his labor in the county cut off. I have never complained of having to labor in three coun ties, although I have rarely had a full week I could call my own. The only effect that might follow the reduction of the size of a district upon the business of any one county, is, that it might admit of the terms being enlarged, say from tiro to three weeks; or of equivalent time being occupied in holding adjourned courts. To provide an addittonal Judge which does not seem to be regarded with much favor by Tour cor respondent, would be in its result a similar expe dient. The additional Judge might relieve the President Judge of some of his labor. They might take it "turn about", or "ride and tic"; but the only way it could reduce the business, or afford in creased facilities for its dispatch, would be by both sitting in different places, or holding two courts, at one time; which is amreely practicable in a coun try district. There is still another remedy whirls mo,t of your readers have probably supposed to he hinted, but which it may be repeated hero I have no thought was intended. that the evil might be ob viated by the election of another Judge. That might be ; although, it must be admitted, it would only be an experiment. How would he do it? Let us suppose that Mr. Dean or Mr. Banks, who are candidates, or your correspondent who seas a candidaie, conmissioned the Judge. Neither of the candidates ever tried a cause in this county. But Mr. Brown:has ; and, to fancy him under taking the work of reform, will best serve to illus trate the point. We will now suppose we have on the bench Judge Brown, at January 9. Term, 1872. He as all must agree, a gentleman of highly respeeta ble talents and legal acquirements. Judge Brown opens his court. lie has six days to sit in each week of the term. Here let me say that in the good Providence of Uod, I have never failed since I have been upon the bench to be in my plate eith er from sickness or any other cause. I never failed, in any county in the District, to make full time. This ensue will dispute. What Judge Brown does, therefore, he must ,lo in the Name time I have work ed. lie may be, however, quicker in his perception and in forming his judgment, and might lose less time than I have don,. in hesitation. Be is also an industrious man, and might hear motions, take notes, and endorse papers more expertly than I do: although I am a phonographer and acknowl edged to be a pretty good penman. Still, all that he would gain upon me in all these particulars, in forcing ahead the business, would not be very appreciable. now, then, is he to bring up the business ? If it still lags, it is not his fault : but must be chargeable to the members of the Bar. lie can only gain time by driving them. That he may do. In that, perhaps. I may have been too indul gent, and in fault. But there arc two sides to this as to every question. Every suitor believes he is right and generally his counsel believes in the right and justice of his client's cause. They both claim for him, as his right, a deliberate hearing. If, through the impatience of the Judge, he fails to get it, they feel that justice has not been done ; and the public sympathize in their complaint. If, after being deliberately heard they fail, they are disposed to acquiesce, and no others are likely to murmur. Still, in this way, by forcing on, Judge Brown may keep business better ahead, and, although he might displease parties and their counsel, he would stand a fair chance, in some quarters, to be rewarded with the outside plaudit. But in this way only, as any one can see, can he force on more speedily, the business of the court. Would Judge Brown, or would any one who, on the ipse dixit of the politicians, may take the place of the present incumbent, be likely, to do so ? lle might. It will be agreed, however, that it would only be an experiment, which might ben success. or be a failure. And now, in conclusion, I have to suggest, as a remedy, what in my judgment is feasible, and would be effectual. The bench and the bar must act in concert. They must be on ternts of gentlemanly intercourse and professional courtesy. It is in vain and nonsense to talk of the Judge driving the lawyers. Counsel have their rights, and claim the rights of their clients; and no Judge can or should undertake un reasonably to coerce them. What is done to facil itate the transaction of business and save time, must be, in the reasonable nature of things, upon some agreed plan, and in concert. It is undoubtedly true that much time is worse than uselessly wasted in the trial of causes, par ticularly in eliciting testimony and note taking. It is a remark found in one of our reported cases, of the celebrated Chief Justice Gibson, than whom a greater Judge never sat upon the bench in this country or any other, that at one time the court disposed of a capital case at a single sitting, or without any adjournment; but that this was found impracticable when it became fashionable for coun sel to waste so much time in their "tedious and tiresome examination and cross-examination of witnesses, and their endless speeches :" and, all muse agree, that much time is:here, at least, thus unnecessarily spent. You, sir, who are a member of the profession, have not failed to notice the difference, in this respect, between the habits of the Bar in this and the Bedford district. The same number of witnesses are examined there in one half the time they would be in our courts. Indeed, I have often thought that they are quite on the other extreme. But all must agree that where, as here, a system of note-taking is adopted and employ ed in every case, even the most trivial, which stops a witness until every word is written down, all that he knows, and what he says he does not know, and written never to be again immense amount of precious time is_unnecessarily wasted. The same is true of tedious arguments. If, in our cities, every little case of misdemeanor was argued as in this district, their courts, sitting the whole year, would not try one-half of such issues. This is lIARIT ; and I have no doubt the Bar and the court, in free consultation on the sub ject, would be able to agree upon RULES which would so far faciliate the despatch of business, as to obviate in a great measure if not entirely, the evil of which your correspondent complains. It is my opinion, at least, that more could be done in this way than by eleciioneering essays addressed to the people on the eve of a Judicial election; or bo the Legislature. Very Respectfully, GEO. TAYLOR. j . . . European Correspondence SWANSEA, August 25, 1871, DEAR JOURNAL :—I wrote you last from Lon don. Before we left we visited Windsor, a spot favored by nature with the richest scenery, beautiful parks and noble forests, and selected for the residence of the sovereigns of England. It is here William the Conqueror, attracted by the beauty of the neighborhood, selected his residence. It is here in Windsor Castle Queen Victoria resides, the mightiest potentate on earth, and upon whose dominions the sun never sets. We visited the Royal Palace, State Departments, the Royal Gardens, and the Park. This Park contains about 1800 acres, and is stocked with several thousand deer and other game ; we saw 500 deer in one flock.— We drove through the long avenue, three miles in length, some three hundred feet wide, straight as a line, with two rows of large elm trees on each side. This avenue leads directly out from the Queen's residence. Her Majesty's stables are grand, and her horses are classified, one stable of blacks, one of bays, one of grays and one of duns. She has seventy-five horses and four ponies. The ponies are driven by one of her daughters in a small carriage built for the purpose. The horses, trappings, and carriages are the finest the country can pro duce. We drove over her model farm ; she raises her own grain, vegetables, fruit and butter. We also saw the former residence, near the town of Windsor, of William Penn, of whom Philadelphia boasts so much also the residence of Gray, the author of the elogy of the church yard. We passed through the town of Slough, the residence and deathplace of Herschel, the great Astronomer. We returned to London and spent the second Sabbath there, and attended for the third time Spurgeon's Tabernacle in the morning. The church was filled to overflowing; his text was, "But Christ is all in all." In the evening we attended the Wesleyan Chapel founded and built by the Rev. John Wesley. We left London on the morning of the 21st inst., for Liverpool, distance 210 miles, by rail, and run it in less than four and a half hours. We passed through a rich agricultural coun- try. Arrived at Liverpool and put up at Rus sell's Temperance House. Liverpool is situated on t c river Mersy, six miles from where it empties into the Atlantic. The r ver is about the size of the Delaware. The city has a popu lation of 600,000; it has the largest and finest docks in the world ; the vessels enter the docks by large locks, and are entirely safe from storms; the docks are ah built of cut stone and cemented strong and permanently. The most prominent buildings are the Exchange, Custom House, City Hall, PostoHce, George's Hall and the great Railroad Hotel. Left on the morning of the 22d for Chester, twenty-two miles distant. Chester is situated on the river Dee, and noted for being one of the oldest cities in England. The principal objects of interest are the old walls, there be ing no means of determining the exact time at which they were built, though the fact is duly recorded of their being repaired A. D. 73. We visited the old house in which Lord Derry re sided, an I saw the secret place in which he secluded himself from the grasp of Charles I. The next building of interest is the Old Provi dence House, the only one in the city exempt ed from the great Plague which made such sad havoc in the sixteenth century. Above the door of this house is written, "God's Provi dence is my Inheritance." A very appropri ate motto indeed. We next visited the large Cathedral, SOO years old, with its cloisters or passages encircling one end and one side of the buildings, where the monks took their walks. The Phoenix Tower is a tall structure from which Charles I witnessed the defeat of his army on Rotors Hoer. Three miles from Chester, on the river Dec, is Eaton Hall, the residence of Marquis of Westminster, one of the wealthiest noblemen in Great Britain. The The Hall is 700 feet long, and looks more like the palace of a fairy than the home of an En glish nobleman. His parks and farms at this place embrace twenty-five miles circular; the parks are beautifully laid out and abound with deer and other game. We left Chester in the evening and went to Shrewsbury, a place of about 25,000 inhabitants, situated on the river Savorne, on the boundary between England and Wales, forty-two miles from Chester. It bears the mark of centuries. _ And here a word about railways. English railways are substantially built, and the brid ges are of the most endurable character. But the cars are to Americans anything but com fortable, very much resembling a series of stage coaches mounted upon car trucks, the seats are so arranged that passengers set lacing each other, and each coach will hold eight persons. Th , :re are three classes of cars. The first clam have cloth seats and carpets on the floors ; the second upholstered with leather and no carpets ; the third such as no American will want to ride in, having no cushions on the seats. The old maxim is here prevalent, that "fools and Englishmen ride in the first class." The rates are about as follows, four cents for first class, two and a half for second, and ens and a half for third. It is almost impossible to converse with any degree of satisfaction on the cars, owing much to their construction and poor ballast on th e road. From Shrewsburry we visited Trede gar, in South Wales, it is a large iron manu facturing town of 12,000 inhabitants and is also a great coal field. It lies on a mountain, a Broad Top, only ona'much more exceedingly larger scale. This coal field is one hundred and twenty-five miles long and twenty-five broad. We visited some twenty-five furnaces, forges and rolling mills, not covering over thirty acres of ground; the furnaces tern out, each on an average, 250 tons per week ; they far exceed your Johnstown iron works. From these we went to Dowling, a place of 50,000 inhabitants, and greatest and largest mannfac turing place in the world, and owned by Dowl ing lc Co. ' of London. Here they have over forty blast furnaces, and some twenty forges and rolling mills ; they employ some 20,000 laborers. We then visited the city of Mercier, it has a population of 200,000, and is the larg est city in Wales, being a great iron and coal city. From here we went to the city of Swan sey, on the Bay of Swsnsey—a large shipping point. . - Wales or South Wales is a very hilly coun try, and her wealth is in her iron and coal ; very little grain is raised here. The small valleys lying between the hills afford fine pasture, and there are a great number of cat tle, sheep, horses, ponies, and donkeys raised. The Welsh, like all the rest of Europe, have no barns, and miserably constructed houses in the small towns as well as in the country ; they are but one story high, very small, with one or two small rooms and a small kitchen ; they use all coal ; we saw no cooking stoves, but all grates ; the floors are laid with large square flat brick jointed and cemented. It must be a cool operation in the winter to land out on those floors in bare feet ; but they have not the conveniences we have in America. I found them an intelligent, kind-hearted and generous class of people. The city of Swansea is situated on a small bay, of the same name, just at its mouth where it empties into the ocean. They have fine shipping docks, and a pier head extending a half mile out in the bay with fine light houses. This city has a very old Castle, Museum, fine Cathedrals, and some very fine Protestant Churches. We leave this morning for Millford on the Irish Channel, and from there cross over to the city of Cork, in Ireland, and spend the Sabbath. From there we intend traveling through Ireland, north to Londonderry, where we will take a steamer for our native country. You shall hear from me again before I reach Londonderry. Yours truly, Pedagogagraphical M. EDITOR :—We lately attended a Teach ers' Examination. We were delighted ; so much so that we propose that the read ers of the Jonas. shall hear something about it. We wish they could all have been there. It would have caused them, per haps, to more fully appreciate the great boon conferred upon them by the founding of com mon schools. We have always been an earnest advocate of lengthened school terms, and of better sal aries for the teachers. The laborer is worthy of his higher salary. We often wondered that teachers did'nt form associations and strike for an advance of ten cents, as the miners do. Miners often strike. Their motto is "strike early, strike often." They always strike for ten cents. And if miners do so, how much more ought teachers to go and do likewise. Are not the knights of the rod and ferule as great as the knights of the pick and crowbar? But we digress. The examination was held in a school house. Teachers' examinations always are. This gives the teachers special advantages in the way of keeping books open for reference, without the knowledge of the Superintendent. Verbum Sat. Upwards of a dozen applicants were examined. Some others desired admission to the class, but they had breakfasted too late in the morning, and, like the foolish virgins, they could'nt be admitted. The members of the class were sitting apart from each other, to prevent "telling." Some of them wore long faces. All of them showed signs of trepidation, as if tearing that the ex aminer would ask them questions beyond their capacities. It is a momentous thing to be examined for tpaeher ocortificate. Your future happinece may depend entirely upon the result of that examination. It was but natural then that you should become confused and give a wrong answer to nearly every question asked you. Nearly all teachers do this; and we don't blame them. On the present occasion the class did nobly. They strove to have this particular examination to appear as natural as possible, and with this view they gave a wrong answer to nearly all the questions asked them. And the ones rightly answered, were so "mixed up," that, by the time they were through, it was generally hard to tell what the question had been in the first place. But no one would ascribe all this to the ignorance of the class, not at all. It was only to make the examination appear more "natural like." We knew it, and so did the examiner. The class was examined in orthography, reading, writing, written and mental arithme tic. We cared for none of those things. We slept. We awoke in time to hear some prob lems in mental arithmetic so terribly rendered as to become unrecognizable. But it seemed "natural like ;" and we slept again. We awoke in time to hear that Pennsylvania is bounded on the east by Vermont. Here was runied one of our childhood's happiest dreams •, for we always thought that Pennsylvania is bounded on the east by New Jersey. But we are always willing to be taught; and we stayed awake now in order to learn something more that would be new to us. We soon had a sufficiency. Pennsylvania is bounded on the west by Indi ana, Illinois and the Pan Handle It R. On the 21st of September, day and night are each twelve hours long all over the world except at the North Pole. It is always day or night somewhere over the earth. The sun only comes 23i degrees north of the equator because that is as far as it can come in three months ; and if it came any farther it would make the sea sons too long. In the sentence "I gave him what he asked," "him" is the object of the verb "gave," and "what" is a pronominal adjective. America was discovered by Columbus in 1492. No other discoveries of importance were made by Europeans in the New World, except the discovery of Labrador by Cabot in 1798, and the discovery of Florida by Ponce de Leon in 1812. Some discoveries also were made in Canada by Car-teer, probably about the year 1869. The War of the American Revollition began in the year 1812 ; and the first battle fought in this war was that of Waterloo! The battle of Lexington was brought on by Major Pit cairn sending General Gage to Concord with a detatchrnent of men, to destroy some stores gathered there. The battle (I) of Fort Ticon deroga was the first decided victory gained by the Americans in this war. The battle of Trenton was fought some time oiler the bat tle of Princeton. American Independence was declared in the year seventeen hundred and something. The information here given above, will compel Bancroft to re-write his History. . . But we are advised that our article is be coming too lengthy, and we must forbear to report further of the proceedings of this meet ing. In conclusion, let us vindicate the cause of the much abused teacher. We have been told that teachers, as a rule, don't know much. We hold that, upon an average, they know a great deal ; and our report of this examina tion will prove our assertion. Of course there are some exceptions to this, as there are to all rules. And why should there not be such exceptions ? If not one out of three of the col lege graduates, who come to us titled Art. Bacc., can do a gentle sum in Cube Root with out having an arithmetic at his elbow, "bound" correctly, three states, nor tell, with out referring to an Encyclopedia, who com manded the Republicans at the battle of Ho henlinden, why should an itinerant pedagogue who has never been farther than to a country normal school (term six weeks) do any better. Once, at a County Convention, we listened to a stirring address by a limb of the law, in which address he pommelled school teachers in general, most unmercifully, closing with a wager that none of them could address a letter to John Smith, 234 Broadway, N.Y., and prop erly punctuate it. We didn't believe him then. We thought he was only trying to make us understand that the profession had deteriora ted since he had taken himself out of it. Now we believe him less than ever. After having the original opinions given by some of the teachers at the examination which we have so imperfectly reported,we wouldn't be surprised at anything that a teacher should say, or any idea that he would advance. If any of our readers have any doubts as to the great learn. ing of the mass of our teachers, let them at tend an examination, as we did, and their doubts will be dispelled—without doubt. gm, Republicans, work for the whole ticket. "Everything is lovely and the goose hangs high." New Advertisement. STRAYS Came to the residence of the - under in Coles Volley, Tod township, in May t lest, three Yearling Calves, one Black Brit Red and White titt.er, cod one Red Ste white streaks oti Lack nail Tare, all marks slit iu the md of each cur. The owner is r ed to come torwartl, prove property, pay e and take tie-in away. Otherwise they will pe,d Gt* aveurclittg to Lew. 1111. AR CIIILCOTE. ANDREW CIIILCO'. Tod Township, Stpt. Rh 1871. 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