The Huntingdon Journal. E. R. DURBORROW, HUNTINGDON, PENN'A. Wednesday Morning, April 3, 1872 - Republ;ean State Convention lISIDQUAITRES REPCDLICAN OTATE CEA TEAL I . CONNITTEP DP PENNSYLVANIA. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 5, 1572. In pursuance of the resolution of the Republican State Central Committee, adopted at Harrisburg.Jantuiry 18th, 1872, a Republican State Convention, composed of dele gates from each Senatorial and Representative district,in the number to which such district is entitled in the Leg islature, will meet in the Hall of the House of Represen tatives, at Harrisburg, at 12 o'elock, noon, on Wednesday, the 10th day of April, A. 11.1872, to nominate candidates for Governor, Judge of the Supreme Court, Auditor Gen eral (should the Legislature provide for the choice of one by the people), and an Electoral Ticket; and also to elect Senatorial and Representative delegates to repret.ent the State in the Republican National Convention, to be held at Philadelphia, June 5,1872. RUSSELL ERRETT, Wm. Emory, Chairman. D. F. HOUSTON, / Erma Limmts, P. M. lan; J sm. It is stated that Hon. A. G. Cur tin, our Minister at St. Petersburg, has asked, and obtained, leave to come home, during the Summer. He will be a valua ble acquisition in the campaign. ne Printers' Circular, printed by R. S. Menamen, Esq., of Philadelphia, came to us as clean as a new pin. It has just donned a new dress and added otter improvements. It is a very valuable month ly to the members of the craft. Mir Dawes and Garfield repudiate the charge that they are in sympathy with the Cincinnati Convention. Not a single Republican member of the House can be found to join the movement. Sumner de nies that he has consented - to become chair man of the Convention. ler We learn that Congress only al lowed Hon. John Cessna, $4,480 expen ses for conducting a contest to satisfy the people of his district how badly he was beaten. With this little "grab" the poor dear soul ought to be ready to go into an other contest. The idea of Congress paying a premium for this kind of thing is an outrage. /kir Judge Davis, the labor reform can didate for President, denies the anthenti city of the correspondence, extensively published throughout the country, purport ing to be a letter sent by the executive committee of the National labor reform party to him, and his reply. He says he never saw the correspondence until he saw it in print. rm. The Democrats, in a few of the western counties, talk of nominating Chief Justice Thompson for the Supreme Bench. The Judge was "sound on the goose" during the war and, therefore, stands fair with the Democratic party. Wonder whether the Judge was any relation of old Jake Thompson, who figured conspicuously early in the rebellion ? Jake, it will be remembered, was also "sound on the goose." um. The Bill allowing the citizens of counties and cities to vote on the third Friday, in March, 1873, and every third year thereafter, on the question of "li cense" or "uo license" has become a law. It is a long time until it goes into effect. In the meantime temperance men, if they desire to succeed, roust thoroughly organ ize. Go to work, and for once in your lives determine to spend a few rusty dimes for the accomplishment of your object. le_ The Committee in the McClure- Gray contested election case, by a vote of four Democrats to three Republicans, last week, reported in favor of the admission of Reform McClure and he was immediately sworn in. The general impression is that McClure found a means of converting Gray, and those whom he relied upon, to his own purposes. How much money the whole transaction, from the nomination to the close of the farce, has cost tho Penn sylvania railroad we have no means of knowing, but it has not been a trifle. When it elects McClure to the United States Senate it will please let us know. aiir We notice that Geo. P. Rowell & Co. advertise, in the Philadelphia Press, of the 29th of March last, a list of news papers, in the Middle States, in which ad vertisements of ten lines will be inserted at forty-two cents for FOUR inser tions ! We are pleased to see that a number of leading country and city papers have not been duped or bullied into accepting a mere song for their space. All the papers in these States, with very small circulations, are mixed in with a few that ought to be ashamed of the company in which they are placed. This feature is a downright swin dle upon the advertisers. It is very little, if any credit, we think, tea newspaper to be paraded before the public in such a connection. We would be very sorry, in deed, to let our home advertisers know that our space was purchased by Gee. P. Rowell & Co. or any body else. for such a trifle. There has been considerable flurry, at Harrisburg, within the last ten days or two weeks, in regard to a proposition to remove the capital to Philadelphia. The Harrisburg papers have been furious over the matter. If it will have the effect of stirring the stolid old fogies of that mo notuous old town into action it may work some good. For the advantages that Har risburg has it ought to be one of the lar gest, most flourishing and enterprising places in the interior, and yet it seems to us that it is as dead as a stone. In fact its highest ambition is to do odd jobs, at big prices, for the state, board and wash for members of the Legislature and those who are obliged to visit its sessions, and even then the hotel accofumodations are none of the best. They have very eleva ted notions, it is true, and consequently the poor visitor is mighty fortunate if he steps short of a fourth or fifth story. We are under the impression that a new loca tion, for the capital, must be found sooner or later. It is only a question of time. Harrisburg must turn her attention to some more worthy pursuits then those of depending upon the crumbs which fall from the Legislative table. She has been weighed in the balance and found wanting. Come, wake up, old Rip Van Winkles ! the people are bound to write Ichabod on your -"outer walls I" FACTS FOR FREE TRADERS . From the day, ur Washington, and Franklin, and Hamilton, down to our own time, all the leading luminaries in public life, compared with whom our most prom inent free traders and revenue reformers are but as farthing candles, have advocated the policy of protection to home manufac tures and agricultural industries. Here is the record, necessarily brief for present purposes but susceptible of amplification : EDITOR WASHINGTON in his first message to Congress said, "The safety and interest of the People require that they should pro mote such manufactures as tend to render them independent of others." In his sec ond message he said, "Congress have repeatedly, and not without success, di rected their attention to the encouragement of manufactures. The object is of too much consequence not to insure a cantin uance of their efforts in every way which shall appear eligible." BENJAMIN FRANKLIN said in 1771 : "It seems the interest of all our farmers and owners of land to encourage our young manufactures in preference to foreign ones." Franklin fully recognized the close and inseparable relation between the inter ests of the farmer and the manufacturer. ALEXANDER HAMILTON in his great report of 1791, urged upon Congress the policy of protection, supported by argu ments which free traders have never an swered and never can ; and be declares extraordinary aid and protection from the government "indispensable." THOMAS <TEL FERSON, in 1815, earnestly commended protection, and declared that "it established manufactur.s at home * * * and secured us against relapse and foreign dependency." HENRY CLAY, all through his political life, manifested a sublime devotion to the cause of protection, for which he has been called "the father of the American sys tem ;" but he modestly ascribed its pater nity to "our Franklin, Madison, Jefferson, Hamilton." In his masterly speech in Congress on the 30th and 31st March, 1824, on the necessity of a protective tar iff, to retrieve the country from threatened ruin, Mr. Clay said : "The superidrity of the home market results, let, from its steadiness and comparative certainty at all times; 2d, from the creation of recip rocal interests; 3d, from its greater secu rity ; and, lastly, from an ultimate and not distant augmentation of consumption (and consequently of comfort•) from increased quantity and reduced prices. But this home market, desirable as it is, can only be created and cherished by the PROTEC TION of our own legislation against the inevitable prostration of our industry, which must ensue from the action of FOREIGN policy, and legislation." Again in the same speech he says : "The cause is the cause of the country, and it must and will prevail. It is founded on the inter ests and affections of the people. It is as native as the granite deeply embosomed in in our mountains." JAMES MADISON wrote the preamble of the first act ever passed by Congress, in which are these words : "Whereas, it is accessary for the support of the govern ment, the discharge of the debt of the United States, and the encouragement and prormetoo of manujactures, that duties be laid on goods, wares and merchandise im ported." In 1828 near the close of his useful life, Mr. Madison said "A further evidence of the constitutional power of Congress to protect and foster manufftc tures by regulations of trade (an evidence that ought of itself settle the question) is the uniform and practical sanction given that power for near forty years." GENERAL JACKSON, in 1824, in a letter to Dr. Coleman,.wrote : "We have too long been subject to the policy of British merchants. It is time that we should become a little more Americanized, and instead of feeding the paupers and laborers of England, feed our own. By continuing our present policy We shall be rendered paupers ourselves. It is therefore my opin ion that a careful and judicious tariff is much wanted to pay our National debt, and afford us the means of defense within our- Iselves." JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, who was next to Hamilton in statesmanship, said in a re port to Congress in 1833: "To provide for the general toelfitre, * * * the power to levy taxes, duties, imports, and excises is in express words given in the constitution as a means, and it is an irre missible duty of Congress." Again Mr. Adams says: "The protection of high duties is founded upon the principle of shielding the domestic manufacturer front the ruinous competition of foreigners, producers of the same article. This principle is founded, not upon the nature or uses of the article, but upon the EIGHT of the citizen to pro tection, pledged to him by the social com pact, the correlative obligation of his coun try to hint, for his duty and obligation of allegiance to her." DANIEL WEBSTER, in 1833, said : The protection of American labor against the injurious campetion of foreign labor is known historically to have been one end designed to be obtained by establishing the constitution, and this object, and the con stitutional rower to accomplish it, ought never to be surrendered or compromised in any degree." In these significant declarations we have the views of the authors and the expoun ders of the constitution, in which the fact is demonstrated that the protective policy has always been one of the fundamental principles of the American Government. At different periods in our history the advocates of free trade prevailed in the Federal counsels of the Nation, and with these changes came changes in the tariff, when it was reduced to a free trade basis, or put upon a medium, or as it was called, a "compromise" footing. As an appropri, ate appendix to the present article, we propose to examine, very briefly, the effects produced upon the country by the changes made from a high to a low, and again to a high tariff, during the different periods in our National history. YEARS 1800 TO 1814. At the close of the war of Independence there were few or no manufacturing in dustries in the country. England, when peace was proclaimed, largely increased her exports to the new Republic. The first period of protection influences was in 1807 and 8, caused by "restrictions upon the importation of goods," aided by "the embarrassment of foreign commerce." Manufacturing establishments sprung into existanee in different ',arts of the country. Massachusetts and Rhode Island alone numbering' "about 70 cotton mills with 48,000 spindles. These in thirty months increased to 16 mills, with 119,000 spin dles. Woolen !sills also increased in num ber, and were in a flourishing condition. Farming was sure profitable than ever beflire, and manufacturie.4 and industries of every kind indicated industry and pros perity. 1814 To 1824 This was a remarkable decade. The war and prohibition of foreign goods, had stimulated our infant manufketories; but we had only a revenue tariff, averaging 24 per cent. on the aggregate of imported goods. After peace was proclaimed Eng land flooded our markets with her pro ducts, and British statesmen declared openly that their object was b stifle our infant manufactories "in the cradle," so that they could control our markets. That the British policy may not be mis understood we quote the language of Mr. Br)ugham in the House of Commons, April 9, 1816. Here are his words : "It is well worth while to inane a loss upon. the first exportation, in order, by the glut, to stifle in the cradle those infant manufactures in the United States, which the war had forced into existence, contrary to the natural order of things." They succeeded. Factories were shut up, and the nation was reduced almost to beggary. At the close of the war Pitts burgh, Pa., had 6,000 inhabitants, and according to the historian, Mr. Carey, "exhibited as exhilerating a scene of in dustry and prosperity as any place in the world." * "But also," he con tinues, "the immoderate influx of manu factures, poured in there shortly after the peace, produced a most calamitous reverse. The operations of the hammtir, the hatch et, the shuttle, the spindle, the loom, ceased in a great degree. Noble establish ments which reflected boner upon the na tion were closed ; the proprietors ruined ; the workmen discharged. A blight and a blast overspread the face of the city; and the circumjacent country, which had shared in its prosperity, now equally par took of its decline." As in Pittsburgh, so also throughout the several states, aid so it continued until the tariff was raised in 1824. It was then that Gen. Jackson, as quoted above, said that, "Instead of feeding the paupers and laborers of Europe we should feed our own; or else, in a short time, by continuing our present policy, we shall all be paupers our selves." This was the result of ten years expert• once of a revenue or free trade tariff. 1824 IV 1832. Henry Clay succeeded, in 1824, in se curing the enactment of a moderately pro tective tariff. Its benefits were immedi ately felt throughout the country. In 1828 a further increase was secured, which af forded an average of over•4o per cent. on dutiable goods. Business became prosper ous and profitable, the revenues were aug mented, the public debt reduced, and the people enjoyed a condition of general ac tivity in every branch of industry. Immi -gration increased. and the population went up from 9i millions in 1820 to over 13 millions in 1832. Clay in a speech in Congress in 1832, said: "If the term of seven years were to be selected of the greatest prosperity which this people have enjoyed since the establishment of their present constitution, it would be exactly that period of seven years which immedi ately followed the passage of the tariff of 1824." This was au important early ex perience under protection. 1833 TO 1840, This was the period of the "compromise" tariff, 'during which the average duty on dutiable articles amounted to 311 per cent.; but on the aggregate of imported goods to only 181 per cent., owing to the "free list" being largely increased. The revenues fell from $361 millions in 1831 to a fraction over $l5 millions in 1840. Many yet living remember the universal distress of this period. In 1837 the factories were all closed, the shipping lay dismantled at the wharves, the banks suspended and were nearly all broken or legally Closed, six cent "shin.plasters" took the place of specie, the latter commanding a premium of 17 to 22 per cent. In the cities the streets and parks, and public squares were crowded with paupers, without homes, and without a penny to buy a morsel to eat.— This was our second low tariff experience. 1841 TO 1846. Congress saw its error, and in 1842 largely increased the general tariff, and also placed a duty upon the main portion of the artcles previously transferred to the "free list." The new tariff was highly protective. Business revived. The man ufactories were again put in operation, and new ones were erected. England and France protested, and continued to force their goods upon our markets, hoping to undersell and close our manufactories.— The revenues rose from $l5l millions in 1840 to $3l millions in 1845. Eight mil lions of the public debt were paid off, and the country generally enjoyed great pros perity. So much for another experience in protection. 1847 To 1860. Free traders again ruled in Congress, and the tariff was reduced to an average of 23 per cent. on dutiable goods, and on the aggregate of all imported articles to 19 per cent. The European manufactures took advantage of the low tariff and filled the country with foreign products. The imports went up from 81171 millions in 1841 to $3621 in 1860 ! Then came the years of universal distress; but the country was saved from financial ruin, like that of 1837, by the relief afforded from the time ly discovery of gold in California. Busi_ ness all over the formerly prosperous great West was prostrated and bankruptcy pre vailed every Where. Trade and business were paralyzed. There was but little work, and ruinously low wages, and we have now among usmany men in prosperous business, who have not forgotten the distress experi enced by themselves and their families be fore the close of that free trade period of suffering. 1861 To 1871 The magnificent results of the decade just closed are yet fresh in our memories. Of its unparalleled achievements in sup pressing a gigantic rebellion; in wiping out Livery forever fl•t.um the U n i on; in quilting, feeding and sustaining an army in a manner that lies no parallel in history; in reducing the public debt and restoring the national credit, we are all living wit nesse:;. At the close of the we r, there was no commercial crisis, no financial panic.— Everybody was profitably employed, an t i the whole r..mttry expel ienced unparallel ed prosperity. Just here it will be proper to call cx-Spec•ial Commissioner Wells,,the great revenue refinmer to the stand. • lie has recently been swinging round among the great Western cities, and by a sericsof lectures. or rather the saute doleful tale often repeated, ho has labored to make the people believe that the country is fast go ing to ruin. Without waiting to continent upon his contradictions and inconsistencies, we here take his evidence upon the state of the country, as recorded in his annual report,. as Special Commissioner of Rem e nue, fur the year 1568. Ho says : "Within the last live years more cotton spindles have been put into operation, more iron furnaces erected, more iron smelted, more bars rolled, more steel made, more coal and copper mined, more lum ber sawed and hewn, more houses and shops con structed, more manufactories of different kinds started, and more petroleum collected, refined and exported than during any equal period in the histo ry qf the country." In his last report, that for 1869, he gave an equally glowing picture of "crops in excess of any recent average;" of acres" of wilderness reclaimed in the year, and more mile.; of railway construct ed than ever ; while "from the Atlantie•td the Pacific there are few who, except from physical ailment., need hunger for food or be idle for want of remunerative employ ; men t." Such is our unparalleled prosperity, as attested by Mr. Wells, under a protective tariff, and such will it continue to be while the Protective Policy is recognized and maintained by Congress and the Adminis tration. PENNSYLVANIA REPUBLICAN AS SOCIATION. At an adjourned meeting of the "Penn sylvania Republican Association" of Penn sylvanians, temporarily residing in Wash ington, D. C., held March 23d, 1872, for the purpose of instructing their delegates to the State Convention, the following res olutions were unanimously adopted, and a copy ordered to be sent to each Republi can paper in the State, with a request that the same be published : •", Resolved, That we have undiminished confi dence in the high character, unquestioned integ rity of PRESIDENT GRANT, and that, as mem bers of the Republican party, identified with'its onward march of progress and proud of its history we point with satisfaction to the fulfilment of his pledges, and the faithful discharge of the many .d responsible duties of his exhalted position as the surest evidence of his fidelity, and as the best assurance that can be given of the confidence with which the American people may rely upon him for an honest, fearless, independent, and upright ad ministration of the Government during the next Presidential term. Resolved, That, in the deliberate opinion of this Association, the Republican State Convention about to assemble in Harrisburg, should cordially unite in presenting the name of HON. JOHN SCOTT, to the Philadelphia National Republican Convention, as Pennsylvat.ia's favorite for the nomination of the Vice-Presidency. lilt record in the United States Senate for the last three years is without blemish. The soundness of his prinei plett, the integrity which marks his private char acter. and the ability with which he has discharg ed his Senatorial duties, have commended him to the respect of the Republican party of the nation. Resolved, That, the delegates chosen to repre sent this Association in the State Convention at Harrisburg, be instructed to use all honorable Lion, in ;aver of the ttoni"" "n " " 9 u' r "6"'"'"° J u tttion utf 0 Ir SCOTT, for the Vice-Presidency, and the adoption of a resolution, instructing the Penney: •anin. Del egates, in the National Convention, to urge, by every fair effort, his nomination for that office. Resolved, That, as it will soon become necessary to elect a United States Senator from the State of Pennsylvania, and recogt.ising in HON. SIMON CAMERON a wise, judicious and far-secing states loan, an eminent, thorough and active Republican, who, for many years, has done efficient service in defending the great principles of the party, and in guarding with jealous care the interests of the State he so ably represents, and who has, uniform ly, fully sustained his high reputation at home, while he has, by his ability and integrity, secur ed the confidence of the Adniinistration. and at tained in the Senate a position, honorable alike to the State and himself, which it would be impossi ble for any new member to reach, and now posses ses a knowledge, derived from a long legislative experienae and an intimate acquaintance with the wants of the people, of the highest importance in advancing the emcees of Republicanism, and in the solution of the grave questions arising in Con gress; Therefore, it is in the sense of this Associ ation that the best interests of the State and the future success of the Republican cause therein, de mand the re-election of HON. SIMON CAMER ON to the Senate of the United States, and he is; therefore, hereby earnestly requested to allow his name again to be used in that connection. WHICH SHALL IT BE? We admit, with the Cleveland Leader, that if the American people are tierd of a protective tariff, and want free trade, they should retire Grant from the Presidency and elect a Democrat or a Republican "revenue reformer." But if the sober sense of the people, confirmed by the wonderful development and activity of our deversi fied industries, demand adherence to the protective policy, there is no alternative but the re-election of President Grant. For no other Republican candidate is pos sible except as a cumpramise with the "Liberals" and "New Departure" Repub. limns of Missouri and Cincinnati, whose main paint of opposition to Grant's admin istration is that it is in favor of protection. Such a change in the succession would im ply the defeat of the protectional system of tariff laws, and on the vital question of free trade, would be equivalent to a Dam-, ocratic victory. IRON IN THE WEST. Twelve years ago our iron product was quite limited cud confined to the Middle States. Now, under the stimulating influ ence of our protective tariff, iron works are established all over the West. Illinois last year produced 65,000 tons of pig iron. In one county in Indiana six furnaces are now making 150 tons of iron daily. Mis souri, in 1871, produced 83,000 tons of pig iron, and mined 300,000 tons of ore. Michigan, in the same year, made 100,000 tons pig iron. These manufacturers all pay their workmen more than double the amount of wages paid for similar work iu England. So much for protection. ra,. Charles Nike has incurred the in dignation of the ultra-royal members of the British Parliament, by offering a reso lution to investigate the expenses of the Crown. Auberon Hubert seconded the resolution, and Eilke and he both spoke in its defence amid hisses and groans.— Gladstone replied. Nike is right and has many followers in England. Se' Charles A. Dana, editor of the N- Y. Sun, was arrested, in Philadelphia, on Saturday last, and held in $5,000 bail to answer the charge of libel against W. H. Kemble, ex-Treasurer of this Common wealth. ' OUR. WASHINGTON LETTER Irarr cv from Japan—P,-rweution of Chris,'ialu—The Ku Klux Plead Guil ty—The gencra Tritunal—Tlie New Treaty with Japan—Democratic Wig- WASItINGTON, D. C., April 1, 1872. THE PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS IN JAPAN Later dates have reached Washington from Japan, and a good deal of indigna tion and sorrow is felt and expressed at the continued ill treatment of christians in that country. Two of our missionaries, Mr. Gulick and Mr. Greene, write from Kobe, January 18, and both of these reli able writers confirm many of the state ments contained in The Overland China Mail, and Allan's Ilameward Mad that the violence of the persecution of native Christians in Japan, and in the face of the Japanese official paper read recently to a deputation at the London Foreign Office seems incomprehensible. The most bar barous persecutions are reported from Na_ gasaki. The Prince of Saga is the insti gator, and a high official from the Mikado's court named Iwakura (the same Iwakura who is at the head of the Embassy now in Washington) the superintending torturer, and 2,000 victims are said to be doomed. Iwakura is ordering the torture and sacri fice of these unhappy people in batches.— Usder the first order sixty-seven had per ished. Crucifixion and boiling alive, the original forms of execution for Christians in Japan, have given place to starvation, imprisonment without light or clothing, exposure, unclothed, on frozen ponds with hands and feet bound, or forcing coal into the mouth. The Nagasaki paper under stands that the foreign consuls have alrea dy apprised their respective Governments of these acts, and it trusts that the British Government will interfere. Mr. Gulick writes : '•lt will be remembered that immediately after the deportation of Christians two years since, the former Prime Minister of the Japanese Govern ment, Ewaukura, now spelled Iwakura, and who is at the head of the Embassy to Europe and Amer ica., stated in the presence of his fellow ministers to Sir Henry Parkes, Mr. DeLong, and all the repre sentatives or the treaty powers, that the Council of State had agreed 'to stop these proceedings against the Christians. and that an officer would leave on the morrow to suspend them.' It was afterwards claimed that this promise did not• apply to those who had already !.een arrested, and that it was only an agreement that no more Christians would bo arrested in future. Now what becomes of that promise, formally and solemnly made to the Chris tian powers, that those proceedings would be stop ped ?" The Washington papers have published extracts from the papers named above, and it is probable Iwakura will feel himself compelled to make an explanation in re ference to this inhuman treatment of the Catholic Christians of his country, and in which he figures as one of the main instru ments in these persecutions. The Christian churches in America should lose no time in appealing directly to the Secretary of State at Washington to insist upon an ar ticle being inserted in the new treaty guaranteeing full religious liberty and tol eration in Japan. THE DEMOCRATIC WIGWAM. August Belmont, of New York city, chairman of the National Democratic Com mittee, arrived in Washington on Wed nesday last, and called an informal politi cal caucus,,at which were present about forty of the principal politicians of both houses.. The question of holdingA Na tional Convention was fully and freely dis cussed by Ca.sserly, Frank Blair, Stockton, Bayard, and others. The feeling was un mistakable against calling a convention at this time, or indicating any positive policy until after the action of the Cincinnati convention is known. Any coalition with the republicans, it was admitted, must be made on the question of strength only; there must be no surrender of democratic principles. It was advised that no demo crats participate in the Cincinnati conven tion. There was less disposition to endorse Judge Davis than was expected. The names of Senator Trumbull and Charles Francis Adams were discussed, and also those of Gen. Logan and Gratz Brown. TUE KU KLUX PLEAD GUILTY. On Wednesday Attorney General Wil lianis received a telegram from the U. S. District Attorney for northern Mississippi to the effect that the twenty-nine Monroe county prisoners, charged with kukluxing, plead guilty to those indictments, and the sentence was suspended. TIIAT "CASE!' The second "note" from the English to the American Government, with reference to the "incidental damage" question, will probably be received this week; possibly in time to be read at the cabinet, meeting to-morrow. There is very little specula tion on the subject—the general opinion in all quarters being that it is a strong re petition of the grounds declared in the first note, though more argumentative in character than that document. THE NEW TREATY WITH JAPAN Although the present Japanese Embas sy were not especially empowered to make a treaty, there is nothing in their instruc tions which prevented them from framing a protocol. It is understood, therefore, that Governor Ito, who has just left here for Japan, has taken home to the Mikado a draft of au important and most liberal commercial' treaty as the basis for one to be agreed on in the future between the United States and Japan. The most im portant feature of it is that which enlar ges the clause of the old treaty admitting foreigners and importations into Japan.— Religious toleration is equally important, and the American Christian churches should EtEe that it is not omitted. There is no time to be lost. Our missionaries are helpless without our influence. gllar4ingto, THOMAS—ROBISON.—On the 27th ult., by Rev. 8.8. liamlin, Mr. Dolphin P. Thomas to Miss Darthula Robison, both of Ridillesbnrg, Bed ford county, Pa. New Advertisements, Ipt, F. GEHRETT, M. D., ECLEC -1--P• TIC NI YCICIAN AND SURGEON, har ing returned from Clearfield county and perma nently located in Shirleysburg, offers his profes sional services to the people of that place and sur rounding country. apr.3-1872. AGRICULTURAL MEETING. The Huntingdon County Agricultural So= viety will bold a regular meeting for the transac tion of business, on Tuesday evening of the first week of the coming court, (10th pros). A general attendance is desirable, as matters of importance will be attended to. By order of the Society. • R. M'DIVITT, Apr.372.] M. M. LOGAN, New Advertisements NEW HARDWARE CI TORE! No. 620. Hill st.. (Smith's BuildiiiEo HUNTINGDON, PA THE FRANCISCUS HARDWARE COMPANY Present their compliments to the citizens of Hun tingdon county, and invite them to call and examine an entire new stock of HARDWARE ; IRON, NAILS. OILS, VARNISHES. CUTLER Y, SADDLERY SHOE FINDINGS, SHOEMAKERS' TOOLS. CARPENTERS' TOOLS, HOUSEKEEPING HARDWARE. CEDAR WARE, OIL CAPITTS, WALL PAPER, WINDOW SHADES, CORDS, TASSELS, FIXTURES, Special attention of Farmers is invited to our stock of CHAINS, HORSE SHOES, HORSE SHOE NAILS, Which will be sold VERY LOW FOR CASH April 3, 1872- TIISSOLUTION OF CO-PARTNER -a—. SHIP.—The co-partnership heretofore ex isting between Henry -Chamberlain and Geo. A. Port, as hotel and boarding house kebpers, is this day dissolved by mutual consent. The books and accounts of said co-partnership aro left in the hands of John 0. Murray, Esq., for collection and settlement. All parties knowing themselves in debted to said Chamberlain & Port will make im mediate payment to John 0. Murray, Esq., and all parties having claims against the said firm will present the same, duly authorized by law, to the said John 0. Murray, Esq., fur payment. The said Henry Chamberlain will continue to keep the hotel and boarding house, known as the Franklin House, in the borough of Huntingdon. HENRY CHAMBERLAIN, GEO. A. PORT. CO -PARTNERSHIP. This day a Pratnersbip has been entered into between Samuel Hatfield, Benjamin R. Hat field and Brander P. Walker, under the name and firm of S. Hatfield A Co., to carry on a General Merchandise and Produce business in the borough of Alexandria, Huntingdon county, Penna. SAMUEL HATFIELD, BENJ. R. HATFIELD. Apr.3,72-3t.] EVANDER P. WALKER. SEED OATS. We offer for sale a few hundred bushels of a very superior article of WHITE OATS. We have cultivated it for several years, and recommend it. It grows strong, yields well, and weighs 411 b to the bushel. Price, G2l cents per bushel. O. do J. H. SHOENBERGER. Spruce Creek, March 27,1812-3 t T . IST OF LETTJ -KA in the Post Offle: April I, 1872. When c: and give date. Allen, Jacob Blake, Joseph Corbin, E. 0. Creveling, E. A. Delwate, Philip Garrett, Agness Hoover, Mary J. Ilarris, Alfred Johnson, W. D. Lewis,ary J. Kauenan, Kate Luiton, W. It. Loughlin, Ann 1 J. E. SHUCKS. I PHILIP SHOWN. - I J. 11. WISI:. SMUCKER. BROWN & CO., Manufacturers and dealers in all kinds of Furniture, beg leave to inform the TRADE and Public generally, that they have consolidated their Store on Hill street with the Steam Furniture Factory, lately owned by J. M. Wise k Son., and propose by their increased facilities to offer every advantage to the Trade, and all desiring FURNITURE They hare the Finest PARLOR AND CEARBER SUITS Ever brought to this county, in style and quality to suit the wants of all. Aiso BUREAUS, EXTENSION TABLES, MARBLE TOP AND DINING TA BLES, COMMON MAPLE' AND ASII BEDSTADS, FANCY WALNUT BEDSTEADS, SOFAS, CHAIRS AND ROCKERS, CANE SEATED CHAIRS, WOOD SEAT and SPLINT BOTTOM CHAIRS. N. 11. I' The above in all the varieties that may be wanted. Also HALL STANDS, LOOKING GLASSES, BRACKETS AND • WALL BRACKETS CALL AND EXAMINE OUR STOCK. They oleo keep on hand a large ii.urtmcnt of METALLIC C OFF I and aro prepared to attend funerals either in ti•trn o; eonn.y, at reasonable rates. Salesroom, N. 613 11111 street, Smith's new building; Factory, 613 and 615 Hifilin street, Huntingdon, Pa. war 20,72 q ? '-'' il ei ri !7,:. CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA REAL ESTATE AGENCY, The underAgned Imve Real Estate Agency, in. able term, and at skull to sell or bu) real estate PAINT BRUSHES, cilities for aavertising NO CHARGES WILL BE MADE ~aX TABLE & POCKET FOR ADVERTISING IF NO SALE -(sigt Lt-a- OR PURCHASE IS EFFECTED. -lagt If you hare a house awl lot, farm, LEATHER, 3EII or Wilt.C7 Or ore right for sale ; giro us a call. ttl3 - J. IL DURBORROW & CO. -Gg lILNTINGDON. PA. 5 j fiA' AHANDSOME MOUSTACHE ! Prof. St. Croix's French Compound, the MOESTACH E. I Crest HAIR GROWER, will produce WHISKERS. I a laxoeient MOUSTACHE or WElS uocsrecne.l KERS on the smoothest face. Pleas- IV RISK Ens. ! ant to use. Sent to any address on receipt of Fifty cents. 11. T. BOND, CHEMIST. . . N. E. Cor Tenth and Chestnut Sts., Phila. MarchG,72-Iy. BUCKETS, WAGON AND CARRIAGE MA KING.—Smnucl lamer & Son have en tered into a partnership,and will hereafter conduct the business of Wagon and Carriage Making, at the old stand, in Alexandria, where they will be prepared to do all kinds of light and heavy work. rho public are invited to give theta a trial. All work warranted. jan.24,'72-3m] _ SA3RTEL lIAMER SON. TUBS, WASHBOARDS, FOR SALE. A Fire-Horse Power Engine and Boiler, with machinery suitable f,r wagon making. cabi net snaking, chair making. or any kind of light wood work, will he sold at a bargain. To a good, energetic mechanic, desiring to locate in this place, a good opportunity is offered. For further infor mation inquire of J. A. I'OLLOCK, jitn.24,'72ttl . Ifunting,don, Pa. 2 THE LARGEST METAL PRICE e-P Current in the World is the Iron World and Maitbeturer. Accurate quotations and re ports of sales of Hardware and Metals in Pitts burgh, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Cincin nati, St. Louis, Cleveland, Baltimore and Chicago. Foreign metal markets reported. Acknowledged standard journal of themetal trades. Only $4,00 per year. No hardware dealer can afford to do without it. Every . machinist and metal worker should take it. Gives more illustrations or new machinery than the Scientific American. Sent four weeks on trial for 25 cents, postage paid, ad dress lIION WORLD PUBLISIIING CO., Iron Wort,' Building, Pittsburgh, Pa Feb.2B,72—tf. 25 SENT ON TRIAL FOR TIIREE months for 25 cents. The Anterienn Work ing People is one of the finest publications in the world. Contains 16 pages, or 61 columns of read ing matter, designed to interest, instruct and a:- vane° the best interests of workingmen. Illustra tions of prominent workingmen in each issue. Numbers its thousands of subscribers. Only $450 per year, or on trial three montha for ;5 cents. Write your name, Town, County and State plain -15., enclose the money, and address - - TM tit LlM=ij , ritteliiugh, Pa. fin , Agents wanted on Salary or Coramission, Feb.28,'72-tf. E ALT 11 ! STRENGTH!! VIGOR !!! • For Headache, Costivenese, Milkmen.. and Liver Complaint, one Dn. Mantua's Sager Coated Vegetable Pills, the best in use. For Lame Hack or Pain in the Side or 11hettmatiem use Da. lien- RICK'S Kidney Strengthening Plaster. For Ca tarrh or Cold in the Bead, use Dn. Punntses Fum igator. For all Live Stork. use InutvEL's Horse and Cattle Powders. The above articles are amongst the best in the market. Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded. Sold by John Read, S. S. Smith and James 11. Patton, AGENTS, Huntingdon, Pa., and the trade generaßy. I. W. WARNER .1‘ CO., 67 Murray Street, N.Y. _ _ _ Jan27,'72-3mo. NEW HARDWARE STORE: Have just opened out in their new room. in PE TERSBURG, a new and complete stock of Hard ware, Iron, Nails, Horso-shoes, Cutlery, House Trimmings, Carriage Makers' Good..', Glass, Oils, Paints, &c., &e., and in fact everything in this line of business. Also dealers in Coal and Conk. Stoves of al kinds. Our goods are tirst-elass, and ou PRICES AS LOW AS TEE LOWEST. Call and see us. Orders by mail promptly attend. ed to. Builders and Wagon-makers orders soilei. ted and filled at wholesale rates. Feb.14,1572-10mo. J. 111. OAKS .t. CO. A H. FRANCISCUS & CO., A 513 MARKET STREET, 'ERS REMAINING rit Iluntingdtm, Pa., Walled fursay "advertised" We have opened for the SPRING TRADE, the largest and hest assorted Stock of Philadelphia Carpets, Table, Stair and Flour Oil ClmSs, Window Shades and Paper. Carpet Chains, Cotton, Yarn, Batting, Wadding, Twines, Fancy Baskets, Brooms, Baskets, Buckets, • Brushes, Clothes Wringers, Wood en and Willow Ware in the United States. MeManigall, James Miller, Catharine Miller, Mary J. Mulholland, J. D. Powell, Milton Seasanger, J. 11. 'Snyder,S Mrs. Jane Snyder, Mary E. Smith. M. L. 'Shultz, Martha J. !Smith, Mary Ellen nompson, Our largo increase of business enables us to sell at low prices and furnish the hest quality of goods. CELEBRATED AMERICAN WAVIER, Price 55,50. Over 13,000 sold in six months. Tomas: Carpets, 60 days. All other goods, 30 days, Net. F0h.14,1872.-3m. BRICE X. BLAIR, Postmnstcr. G RAND EXHIBITION! SOMETHING NEW IN HUNTINGDON! A FIRST CLASS LADIES' SHOE STORE! D. lIERTZLER S BRO., N 0.403 Allegheny St., opposite Broad Top Depot, have just arrived from the East with a large and well selected stock of Ladies', Misses', and Children's Dress Boots, Gaiters, ,te., comprising all the latest styles of the day and acknowledged to be the best selected stock of hand-made work ever brought to Huntingdon. Since we make ladies' wear a specialty, we can not fail to please the most fastidious. For Style, Quality and Price we defy competition. Wo also manufacture to order all kinds of Ladies' and Gents' Boots, Shoes, Gaiters, &c., of the best material the market produces, and at the shortest possible notice. Persons from the country can be accommodated with our own manufacturing by giving a few hours notice. All kinds of repairing neatly dune. In a more mature age we hope to retain the friends who favored us in our infancy. Fur past favors accept our sincere thanke. D. lIRRTZLER Ac BRO., 403 Allegheny St., Opposite B. T. Depot ootl Huntingdon, Pa, ry AGE Y'S CHEAP .STORE. No. 421, Washington Street. Having recently enlarged my store room, and stocked it with a choice selection of goods, I am hcttet prepared than ever to accommodate the pub lic. My stock consists in part of DRY-GOODS. DRESS GOODS, NOTIONS SHOES. GROCERIES, PROVISIONS, and a general variety of HATS and CAPS. These goods hove been carefully bought, and will be sold for cash or country produce, as low as any house in the county. Come and see me. JOAN UAGEY. Marchl3,lB72. New Advertisements, .11UNTINGDUS, PA. for th:• purpo: .notise. Persons desiring find their superior fa. areal adrantage. IRON WORLD CO. J. IL OAKS dr CO., PHILADELPHIA, PA. SOLE AGENTS FOR TEE New Advertisements QuERIFFs SALES. By virtue of sundry writs of ri. Fa. and Vend is directed. I will expose to public PA,' llouse, in Huntingdon. on 2:OICDAY :72. at 1 0'c!f,..1:, the follerrin; , , ,a 1 Celt/\e. in :T:!: title on.: inbred of James Saxton, itt tltr• Cuu April 8. I de,ribed : :Wants, ot; in and to Lot No. 73, in Huntingdon. fronting fifty feet on usten.lin4 back, at right angles, . . the de: ruti:r4 11 Alleg;ieny efrect, wijoihi . ng lot ut Iteorge tichl , :er on the west, and lot of Thelma Carmon, on the east, having thereon erected a two story bri,k dttclbog hou-e, fronting on the said Hill street, forty reet and extending back forty feet, having on tlt.• eec: end and tit. a large store room, serentecti het be thirty-eight [eat, and a back warcrown, (the afore roots now being occu pied by Benj. Jacobs,) and necessary outbuildings. ALSO, a two-story log dwelling Louse, fronting, on the said Allegheny street, thirty feet, and ex- Lack to' my-lice feet, with a one-story kitchen. ft :s, a tune-:eery plank warchnuae, ' • ' teen feet by thirty-tn - a feet, t:nd a small stable awl tenni It 01... ALSO, all the right, title and interest of James Saxton, ono of the said defendants, of, in and to Lot No. 2UO, in the said borough of Huntingdon, fronting fifty feet on Mifflin street. and extending back at right angles, two hundred feet. to Church street, adjoining lot of Thomas Strickler on the west, and Bath street. having thereon erected a 2;1 - i-story log house, with a kitchen thereunto at tached,andother outbuildings. . . . _ ALSO, all the right, title and interest of James Saxton, one of the said defendants, • f, in and to a lot of ground, situate in the village of Smithfield, in the township of Walker, No - in the plan of the said village. fronting on the old turnpike road, Mailing from Huntingdon to Alexandria. eighty feet, and extending, hack at right angles one hun dred and sixty feet, adjoining on the west. and Alexander Port on the south and cast, having thereon erected a double two-story log dwelling house, and other improvements. ALSO, all the right, title and interest of James Saxton, one of the said defendants, of. in and to a lot of ground, situate in the said village at and township aforesaid, adjoining the Juni ata river on the north,lands of A. P. Kennedy un the west, and the said old turnpike road, leading from Huntingdon to Alexandria, on the south, hav ing thereon erected a frame stable and other im• provements.. ALSO, all the right, title and interest of James Saxton, one of the said ilufentlants, of, in vast to an uniturovoti tract of land, situate in the township of Tod, in the county of Huntingdon. warranted anti surveyed in the name of Francis kfowan, con taining three hundred and fifty acres, be the same more or Icss. Seized, taken in execution, and to be sold as the property of James Saxton one of the part ners, lately trading as J. ,t IV. A. Saxton, ALSO—AII the right, title and inter est of IL F. Coplin and John S. Johnston, in all that certain tract of land situatein Penn township. hounded by lands of Jesse Snare. John S. Iset,t, and ethers, containinr , * one acre and seventy-eight perches, and haeingthercon erected a two-story plunk house and outbnildinr. Seized. ta:;en in execution, and to be sold RS the property of It. F. Coplin and Jolts S. John ston. ALSO—AII that certain lot of ground, situat- in the village of M'Connellstown, bounded on north by 'lain street or public road, on the east by tot of John Johnston. and on the south and wost by other lands of the defendant, 0. 11. Lang, containing about one-half acre, having thereon a tannery building and bark house, rats, and stable, `•known as -Lang's Tannery." ALSO, all that certain tract of land, situate in Walk, township, Huntingdon county, adjoining the tannery above described, hounded on the north I,y the said tannery property, and lands of Joseph M'Cuy ; on the east by a tract of land bought by said Lang front Jos. M'Coy, by articles of agree ment, on the south and west by lauds of Thomas Hunter, containing twenty-one acres, more or less, being cleared and under fence, but having no buildings thereon, except a small ice house. ALSO. alt that certain tract of land, adjoining the village of 3l'Connellstown, bounded on the north by the Huntingdon and Bedford road, on the east nod south by lands of Mitten Sangre°, at.d on the west by lands of William States, containing about sixteen acres, being under fence hut having no buildings thereon, nod being the same lands bought by said Lang front A. B. Sangre° and wife by deed. Seized, taken in execution, and to be sold as the property of George 21.. Lang. ALSO—AII the malt, title and inter est of Lewis Smawley and Eliza Smawley, ot; iu and to a certain two-story dwelling house, having a front of sixteen feet and a depth of twenty feet. situated on Lot No. 55 in the recorded plan of the borough of Mount Union, within the said county of Huntingdon, fronting fifty feet oil, Pennsylvania Avenue, and extending back along Lafayette st., one hundred and thirty feet to Centre street, to gether with the ground covered by said building, and so much of the ground as belong to said build- ing. Seized, taiten in execution; and to be sold as the property of Lewis and Eliza Smawley. ALSO—AII that certain lot of ground situate in the village of Manor Hill, Barree town ship, fronting on Main street, or public road, sixty feet, and extending back to an alley one hundred and twenty feet, hav in, t hereon erected a two-story frame house and other outbuildings. Seized, taken in execution, and to I e sold as the property of Amanda M'Alister. ALSO—AII that certain lot of ground, situate in the borough of Coalmont, fronting on Schell street, fifty feet, and extending back at right angles one hundred and fifty feet to an alley, joined on the west by lot of Richard Owens, and on the east by an alley, having thereon erected a one and a half story plank house. Seized, taken in execution, and to to sold as the property of David and Ann Lewis. ALSO—AII the right, title and inter est of William Hatfield, of, in and to a certain bnilding,located on a lot or piece of ground, situate in Pottstown, Huntingdon county, Pa., bounded on the north by Allegheny street, in said town, on the oast by lot of Adam Hatfield, on the south by the Juniata river, on the west by the turnpike, and is a one and one-half storied block house. being about eighteen feet in front and fifteen in depth. Seized, taken in execution, and to be sold no the property of William Hatfield. ALSO—AII the right, title and inter est of, in and to a certain half lot of ground, situ ate in the borough of Huntingdon, fronting twen ty-five feet on the south side of Hill street, and running back at right angles two hundred feet to Washington street, adjoining lot of Nathan B. Corbin on the west, and John Read on the east; having thereon erected a two-story weatherboard ed log house, kitchen, ware room, store room, sta ble, and other improvements. Seized, taken in execution, and to be sold as the property of Bernard L. Silknitter. ALSO—AII that certain kit, situate in Huntingdon Borough, fronting on Moore street 50 feet and extending back at right angles 100 feet, No. 510 in Original plan of said borough, and ad joining lots of E. Bartol on the west, and C. Harry on the east, having thereon erected a 11 story frame house and other outbuildings. Seized, taken in exeeution, and to he fold as the property of John Meyers. RoMeo To PUtICIISSERS.—Twenty per cent. of the purchase money must be paid as soon as the property is knocked clown. AMI)N HOUCK, Sheriff. March:2o. PROCLAMATION—Whereas, by a pre cept to me directed, dated at Iluntiogdon, the Dtli day m Jan., A. D., 1872, under the hands and wet of the thin. John Dean, President Jude of the Conrt of Conininn Pleat, Oyer and Terminer, and general jail deli, ery of the county of 'fun tin gdfm, just Mos assignml, appoin ted to IseAr. Vey and determine all and every indictment made.. taken for ..concerning all crime, which by the laws or the State are made capital, or felonies of death and other offences, crimes and misdemeanors, which have . . I;;;;;O;WrillDert . .ktler to committed or peliketrated, for crimes Wore:mid-.4 no, commanded to make public 1.1 - 1,11- !nation 11...A.11011C my whole bailiwick, that a Court of Oyer and Terminer, of Common Pleas a• *. Quarter Sessions will be held at the Court Mouse, in the borough of Hunt ingdon, on tho second Monday (and Sib day) of dprtl, 1.72, and Mime who will prosecute the ea l d prisoners, be then and there to prosecnte them as it shall be lust, and that all .1 mtice. of the Peace, CoronerandOm.tables with in said county, be then and there in their proper person., at 10 o'clock, a. in., of said day. with their record., inquiai- Dons, examinations and rementbmirm, to do those things which to their offices respectively appertain. Dated at Huntingdon,*lke 13th day of March, in the year of onr.lionl one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two and the 96111 year of American Independence. AMON 110UCK, SlTmum PROCLAMATION—Whereas, by a prc cept to lire directed by the Judges of the Com mon PIKIN of the county of Huntingdon, bearing test the 211th day of Jan., A. D, 1872, I am commanded to niche public proclamation throughout my whole baihwick, thst a Court of Common Peas will be held at the Court HORSY, in the borough of llnntingMm, on the 3d Monday, (a 4i 15th day,) of April, A. D., 1572, for the trial of all ins •e• in said Court which remain undeterminerl before the ,11 Judges, when and where all Jurors, witnesses, and suit r , in the Cris!ls of all ismossar!liNuired., .._ • 13th day of March, in the ye of our Lent. one thonFand eight hundred end seventy-two unit the Nth year of A:aerieen Independence._ AMON aUCK,Snmur, TRIAL LIST FOR APRIL Bth 1872. FIRST WEEK. s. llaslete & Chamberlain ,ire vs. A. P. Wilson's a‘lmr. vs. Wm. Koper. vs. A. D. Sparks, vs. Tho Powelton C A I Co vs. Daniel Kurfman. SECOND WEEK. Union Bank of Bunting- Chas. Boyles John M'Cahan's Exrs v James Wang A. L. Janus, Ind. Andrew Johnston D. R. Miller T. E. A. Green & Co. re. John E. Seeds et al A.4lamlxpreEs don, Angnst Kohler Iward II Wm. Miller vs. Wm. Millure, et al J. Gleason, keg. vs. Win. C. Reamer. James M. Conrad vs. James Saxton et at Conrad Mathews vs. Fame. G. G. Tate vs. 11. E. Morrison, et al J. C. Conover ,t Cu vs. It. G. Morrison. MoNEIL, Prothonotary. Marchl3,lB72.] ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. Letters of Administration having beets granted to the undersigned, residing in Franklin township. on the estate - of Catharine Laporte, late of said township, deceased, all remns know ing themselves indebted to said estate will make payment without delay and those having chilies against the. 4 same will present them for settlement. JAMES 11. LAPORTE, Administrator. March6,-Gt.
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