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NEAR THE RAILROAD DEPOT, COR. WAYNE and JUNIATA STREETT UNITED STATES HOTEL, HOLLLDAYSBURG, PA M'CLAIN A CO, PROPRIETORS ROBT. KING, Merchant Tailor, 412 Waaltington street, Huntingdon, Pa., a lib eral share of patronage respectfully solicited. A prill2, 1871. LEWISTOWN BOILER WORKS. GEORGE PAWLING & CO., Mannfac nrers of Locomotive and Stationary Boilers, Tanks, Pipes,. Filling-Barrows for Furnaces, and Sheet Iron Work of every description. Works on Logan 'trust, Lewistown, Pa. - - AR orders prittotly attended to. Repairing done at short nouee. [Apr 5,11,1 y.. ABMIC, Fashionable Barber • and hairdresser, Hill street, opposite the Franklin house. All kinds of Tonics sad Pomades kept on hand and for sale. rap19,71-6m The Huntingdon Journal. gepartmtid. J. A. NASH, Walking Walking briskly, with an exciting object of pleasant interest ahead, is the most healthful of all forms of exercise except that of encourag ingly remunerative, steady labor in the open air ; and yet multitudes in the city, whose health urgently requires exercise, seldom walk when they can ride if the distance is a mile or more. It is worse in the country, especially with the well-to-do ; a horse or carraige must be brought to the door even if less distances have to be passed. Under the conditions first named, walking is a bliss ; It gives animation to the mind, it vivifies the circulation, it paints the cheek and sparkles the eye, and wakes up the whole being, physical, mental, and moral. We know a family of children in this city who, from the age of seven, had to walk near ly two miles to school, winter and summer ; whether sleet or storm, or rain or burning sun, they made it an ambition never to stay away from school on account of the weather, and never to be "late ;" and one of them was heard to boast that in seven years it had nev er been necessary to give an "excuse" for' being one minute behind the time, even al though in winter it was necessary to dress by gaslight. They did not average two day's sickness in a year, and later they thought, nothing of walking twelve miles at a time in the Swiss mountains. Sometimes they would be caught in drenching rains, and wet to the skin ; on such occasions they made it a point to do one thing—let it rain,—and trudg ed on snore vigorously until every thread was dry before they reached home. There is no unmedicinal remedy known to men of more value in the prevention of con stipation than a few miles' joyous walking ; let one follow it up a week—a wtlk of two or three miles in the forenoon, and as much is the afternoon—and, except in rare cases, when a longer continuance may be made, the result wil, be triumphant ; and yet nine persona out of ten would rather give a dollar a bottle for some nauseous drops or poisonous pills than take the trouble to put in practice the natural remedy of walking. Nor is there an anodyne among all the drugs in the world which is the hundreth part so efficacious, in securing refreshing, healthful, delicious, glori ous sleep, as ajudiciouswalk.—Hall' s Journal of Beaten. Importance of Perspiration A chemical journal, speaking of the import ance of perspiration as a means of proth_cing health, says that the amount of liquid matter which passes through the microscopical tubes of the skin in twenty-four hours, in an adult person of sound health, is about sixteen fluid ounces or one pint. One ounce of the sixteen is solid matter, made up of organic and inor gamic substances which if allowed to remain in the system for a brief space of time would cause death. The rest. is water. Besides the water and solid matter, a large amount of car bonic acid, a gaseous body, passes through the tubes, so we cannot fail to understand that they are active workers, and also we can • not fail to see the importance of keeping them in perfect working order, removing obstruc tions by frequent application of water, or by some other means. In view of this, if the functions of the skin be obstructed with a coat of varnish or other substance impervious to moisture, the person would not live over six hours. The experiment was once tried on a child at Florence. Pope Leo X., on the oc casion of his ascention to the papal chair, wished to have a living figure to represent the Golden Age and so he gilded a poor child all over with varnish and .gold leaf. The child died in a few hours. If the fur of a rabbit or the sink of a pig be covered with a solution of India rubber in naptha, the animal ceases to breathe in two hours. These facts show the importance of keeping the pores open by cleanliness, How Long Shall We Sleep? The fact is, that. as lifebecomes concentra ted, and its pursuits more eager, short sleep and early rising become impossible. We take more sleep than onr ancestors, and we take more because we want more. Six hours sleep a day will do very well for a ploughman or a brick layer, or any other man who has no exhaustion but that produced by manual la bor, and the sooner be takes it after his labor is over the better. But for a man whose la bor is mental, the stress of work is on his brain and nervous system, and for him, who is tired in the evening with a day of mental ap plication, neither early to bed or early to rise is altogether wholesome. He needs letting down to the level of repose. The longer in terval between the active use of the brain and his retirement to bed, the better his chance of sleep and refreshment. To him an hour after midnight is probably as good as two be fore it, and even then his sleep will not so completely and quickly restore him as it will his neighbor who is physically tired. He must not only go to bed latter, but lie longer. His best sleep probably lies in the early morn ing hours, when all the nervous excitement has passed away, and be is in absolute rest. Poisonous Effects of Zinc Utensils, The Union Medical calls attention to a new source of danger, caused by the substitution of ;inn for tin in the manufacture of pots and pans by travelling tintnen. Zinc sheet can be had at seventy centimes the kilogramme, while tin costs three or four frances, so that it is often substituted in the making of kitchen utensils. The fraud cannot be detected by the eye, but a little vinegar boiled in the vessel will immediately corrode the surface, and, if done in the process of cookery, will give rise to symptoms of poison. Medical Crumbs Never go to bed with cold or damp feet. Never begin a journey until breakfast is over. Small-Pox can be prevented by burning sulphur in houses. The. Elixir of Macrotys is highly serviceable in nervous affections. Salt fish should not be used as a diet by those afflicted with eruptive diseases. Catarrh in the bead can frequently be reliev ed by inhaling the fumes of burning sugar. Beef's gall and vinegar applied hot to the neck, will arrest the development of quinsy. Five drops of Mecca oil taken on sugar every half hour, will cure hoarseness and sore throat. Never stand still a moment out of doors, especially at street corners, after having walk ed even a short distance. Croup, catarrh and colds in children, can be cured by giving equal parts of the syrup of sangninari and cod liver oil. Ten drops of the tincture of lobelia added to one half pint of water, and a teaspoonful taken every hour, will cure lung fever and catarrh. One ounce of sulphite of soda added to six ounces of water, and one tablespoonful taken four times a day, will improve the complexion and remove constipation of the bowels. Never ride near the open window of a ve hicle for a single half minute, especially if it has been preceded by a walk ; valuable lives have thus been lost, or good health perma nently destroyed. While sleeping with the head bolstered up, the vessels through which the blood passes from the heart to the head, are lessened in their cavities; therefore, in all diseases at tended with fever, the head should be nearly level with the body. It is asserted that sun-stroke, commonly attributed to an elevation of temperature, is the result of the action of light on the brain, exerted through the eye, and that if this organ be properly protected from the glare of the sun, other precautions are not needed. To prevent chills and fever, have your cel lars thoroughly ventilated and free from dampness. Fires should be built in the house at night, and the windows and doors kept closed. Persons of delicate constitutons should wear flannel as early as the first of October, and observe great regularity in diet and exercise. Mehls-tf New England Then and Now--Pro- tbaion 'and Free Trade We are indebted to the publishers of the American Working People for the fine engraving, and description of same, which appears in this issue of the JOURNAL. This popular workingman's journal has attained a circulation of 30,000 copies, and is ac knowledged to be the ablest tariff publica tion in the United States. It min be ob- tained of all news dealers, or from the publishers. Address, Iron World Pub lishing Co., Pittsburgh, Pa. There is presented in the accompanying cut a scene which occurred sixteen years ago in Massachusetts and upon the left the same place as it is to be seen to•day.— We quote from an old file of an eastern paper as follows : A POPULAR OUTBREAK Yesterday afternoon the crowds which had been hanging around Market street, by force of instinct perhaps, congregated in the vicinity of the lower docks. The fact that several thousand barrels of flour were stored iu the large warehouses near, New England to-day there was well known and has given rise to consid erable smothered indignation among the idle class es, of which we are sorry io say the number is daily increasing. Flour has been held at $l2 per barrel for two months past, and two days ago when J. & R. Pease, the well knowh grocers, went to make a purchase of three hundred barrels the owners refu sed to sell at lees than $l3. Mr. Pease informed us personally that he would sell the flour at $l2, its coat wrisiz' he get it, and we so seated yeatm but he refused to accede to this immoderate exac tion and the consequence is that many families are helpless to supply their immediate wants. This was the subject yesterday of discussion on Market street among the idlers and they gathered about the store-houses where the flour was kept. The owner of most of it, Mr. had just returned from New York and was about driving to his mansion with his family when he was met by a portion of the crowd, who on recognizing him and remeinbering that he was the cause in a measure of their suffering, began to hoot at him. The noise soon attracted others and in a few moments the street was almost impassable because of the crowd, including many women and children. The carriage was stopped and the crowd boisterously demanded the keys of the warehouses and threatened, if refu sed, to break them open. Mr. —, to pacify the crowd. offered to give them ten barrels, and left his carriage to do so, fearing danger to himself and family if he refused some concession. The crowd allowed the carriage to pass on. and being rapidly augmented by members who did not know that Mr. proposed giving a few barrels, began yelling madly, "bread—bread." It pushed on and he began to run to escape being trodden under foot. This created the wildest excitement and sticks and stones were hurled after him. Two or three gentlemen passing were met by the orowd Aterg-Zelltr. ONLY A FARMER'S WIFE. Two women sat together at sunset in the porch door of a white cottage that stood under the "old ancestral tree," and among its fields of wheat and corn, like a poet's vision of a quiet resting place for some weary, sufferiag soul. And one of these two women had eyes to see, ears to hear, and a heart to feel and appreciate it all. She was a tall and stately lady, apparently some thirty years of age—not exactly handsome, but with a grace of air and manner peculiarly their own. The careful toilet, the nameless air of elegance and luxury, the pale cheek and soft white hands, betriyed the city dame. While the weary glance in her large, dark eyes, which even the pleasant quiet of that sunset hour could not drive away, showed that Time had not dealt gently with her and her heart's idol's, but had thrown them, shattered and ruined, at her feet. Her companion was somewhat five years her junior, and many times prettier—a lit tle round-faced, apple-checked woman, with dark blue eyes and dark brown hair, and a rounded figure was set off, to the best advantage by the afternoon dress of tinted muslin that she wore. At present the pretty face was almost spoiled by a querulous, discontented ex pression. She was contrasting her own hand, plump and small. but certainly rather brown, with the slender white fingers of her city friend, all glittering with rings. "Just look at the two," she ex claimed. "That comes of making butter and cheese, and sweeping and dusting, and washing dishes, and making beds all the time. That man told the truth that said woman's work is never done. I know mine never is. Oh. dear, dear! to think that you, Margaret, should have married a rich merchant, and be as rich as a princess in a fairy tale; and here I am planted for life, plain Mrs. Hiram Parke, and nothing in the world to compare with you. I am sick of being a farmer's wife." Margaret Von Ilowth looked down at her grumbling little friend with a sad smile. "Jennie, it seems to me as we sit here in this quiet place, and look out over all these pleasant fields that are your own —it seems to me that you are very wicked to talk like that,", "I dare say," replied Jennie; but, you would not like it, Margaret. You would never wiFh to change places with me." "Perhaps not. Would you like to change places with me ?" 'T e e, "And be Mrs. Von Howth, instead of Mrs. Hiram Parke?" HUNTINGDON, PA., MAY 8, 1872 and forced to fly before it, and one of them was struck by a missile and felled to the ground and severely injured, near the Infirmary. The police were soon in pursuit and succeeded in rescuing Mr. - from the fury of the populace. A strong guard was placed over his property. Flour at $l3 per barrel and no work— men idle—women sick—homes empty— works in ruins—these were the results of free trade during these dark days. Nor were such scenes confined to eastern cities, but they were realities throughout the west. Great mills and factories which af forded employment to thousands of men, women and children were forced to stop. Lecture balls and libraries were turned into Infirmaries and soup houses as seen in the cut. Hale, hearty men, reduced by starvation to a bed of sickness, were forced into charity hospitals for care and support and when they died they were buried at the public expense. In the picture before us a coffin is being thrust by a policeman and attendent into a rough wagon. It will be hurried to the graveyard and its for gotten occupant, without tears of friends, thrust into a hole. On the other corner we see a billiard saloon where "Free Trade and Sailors' Rights and whisky three cents a glass," are to be had in abundance. The works in the distance are in ruins. A Under the Present Tariff. ragged mother and child'leave their cheer less home and wander out in quest of work or food but find neither. The enraged people look on warehouses filled with flour and corn which they dare not touch and cannot buy. These are facts—facts. We know these things to be true. We have men euvl imincase buildings full of flow' burn to the ground. We have seen floor after floor call in with their weight of burning flour while a hungry people stood by. That was sixteen years ago, and as though Providence had cursed the spot, there is not to this day a building upon it. Look at this picture more closely. It is a picture-3 truthful picture of what we were under free trade. Let us think about it. This picture may be a reality to us some day and it will be it we do not rise up and stop the progress of the sentiment growing in favor of it. Is it not strange people want to bring such a state of things upon them ? Free traders tell us that duties are a tax on consumers, that if we take duties off, we get imports that much cheaper. This looks fair and plausible. They show us that iron and steel and hardware and woolen and cotton goods are cheaper in England than here, and that if we let Jennie hesitated. She dearly loved her handsome husband. "Well, I don't mean to give up Hiram," she said at last. "I only mean that I wish he was a city merchant, instead of a far mer, and as rich as your husband is, that is all." "And that is a great deal," said Mrs. Von Howth, coldly. "Jennie, if your wish could be gratified, do you know what your life would be ?" "What yours is, I suppose. What any lady's is in position." "Exactly. But what is that life. Do you know?" "How should I ?" "It is a weary one, Jennie, with more genuine hard work in it than all your ma king of butter and cheese can bring." "Oh, Margaret !" . . "And oh, Jennie I Believe me, my dear, there are no people on earth who work harder than the bishionable who have only their own amusement to provide for. A life of amusement is a dog's life, Jennie, at the best," should like to be convinced of it by actual experience," said Jennie, donbting ly. _ . _ "So I said and thought once. I have been so convinced. And it is all vanity and vexation of spirit, my dear." "But how ?" persisted Jennie. "How ?in ten thousand ways. If you live in the fashionable world, you must do as the fashionable world does. You must rise and dress, and shop, and lunch, and dress again, and drive, and dress again and appear at certain balls, parties, con certs, exactly as your friends do, or be voted bizarre, and out of the world alto gether. You, my poor Jennie, who are by no means fond of dress, what would you do at a fashionable watering-place in the hottest days of August, with five changes of toilet from morning till night, and a French maid to tyrranize over you all the time, into the bargain ?" "Horrors! ejaculated Jennie. "Balls that you must go to in spite of fatigue, parties that you must grace in spite of the heat, calls that you must make on people whom you detest ! Oh, Jennie, I should far rather be at home with the butter and cheese, if I were you." Jennie was silent. Here was the dark aide of the picture which she had never seen or dreamed of before. "You love your husband, Jennie ?" said her friend after a time. Jennie opened her eyes widely. "Love him ! Why, isn't hemy husband?" was her native reply. Mrs. Von Howth laughed. "Some women 'in society' might think that a reason why you should not love him," she said drily. And he loves you also!" '•I should die to morrow if I thought he did not. !" England send to us them free of duty we can have them cheap as they are in that country. We believe—let them send all we want. Their iron, their steel, their hardware, their woolen and cotton goods are sent over in ship loads and they fill our store shelves and warehouses. Oar own mills and factories make little or nothing for there is no need that they should. What then ? Do the owners of these goods sell them at cheap English prices ? They do not. They have shut down our mills, they have driven our working people into idleness and they then ask the highest price they can exact. They sell their imported goods for more than we could make them for at home. The people have no money and cannot buy. They cannot sell their labor for bread because the English shippers want only money and they go on and draw the last dollar from our pockets. During the last free trade epoch, banks were attacked, stores, in many places, broken open and the spirit of lawlessness greatly increased. People thought it was the fault of capital ists, but it was not, they only took advan tage of the necessities of the people. If men cannot get work they cannot buy and Result of Free Trade in New England in 1856-57. mean to do it if money will accomplish it. Do the workingmen remember upon what a slender thread their safety hangs? Do the men who work in our mills be• fore hot furnaces, thundering rolls, flying wheels, the men who work in our busy factories, the men who toil in our thou sands of smaller workshops, the men everywhere who toil, do they know that the vote of a body of men sent by them to Washington, can turn them out of their mills and shops and factories, from their cultivated fields, from their comfortable, happy homes, to wander idle, helpless, poverty stricken in search of food ? They can, and unless workingmen aro true to their interests they will do it. Protection during the past twelve years has peopled the prairies of the west. It has built the railroads which cobweb the land. It has built the elegant cities and towns which sprinkle the broad laud. Men cannot study this truthful picture too closely, We love to gaze on beautiful paintings in our galleries of art, but this picture has deeper meaning and deserves greater study than any works of art. The people themselves can determine—must determine which life they shall live— POVERTY Or PLENTY. if we have free trade they can have no work. England could ruin the United States sooner by selling her iron at a cent a pound than she could by over-running it with an army of a million men. We are tired of this picture; let us look on the next. It needs no description. Every industrious workingman in the land can personate those here represented. In stead of a soup house and infirmary we have a library. Instead of a billiard saloon and free trade and sailors' rights and whisky three cents a glass, we have a dry goods store. Instead of deserted mills we have mills crowded with life and prosperi ty. Instead of an idle, hungry, enraged mob filling the streets we have what we see before us. Is this not truth itself? Is there exaggeration here ? Men in high places are willing to return to free trade again. Thousands of men are voting to return to it. British manu facturers are expending large sums of money in teaching people to believe free trade will bring cheapness. They know they are deceiving the people. If the farmer pays five cents more for getting his horse shod on account of the advance of iron, he thinks he will be ruined and forthwith he votes to reduce the tariff He "Tut, child ! People leave this world when God wills it, not before. I dare say you would survive his infidelity. Many women before you have lived through such things," 'Don't talk of it, Margaret! I could not bear it ! Why, his love is all the world to me ! How could I bear to lose it ?" "Then don't wish him to be a city mer chant, my dear. I dare say there are a great many good men in the city—men who love their wives ; but on the other hand, there are so many temptations, es pecially in society, that I sometimes won der, not that so many go estray, but that so many remain true to themselves and their duty." She spoke absently, and her eyes had a far-away glance, as if they dwelt on other things. Jennie ventured a question. "Margaret, is yours a happy marriage? Do you love your husband? And does he love you ?" Mrs. Von Howth impulsively started, and turned crimson. "Jennie, I would have loved him—l would have been a good wife to him; but he never loved me. He brought me to place me at the head of his house, because he thought me lady like and interesting; that was all. He told me so once, though not quite so plainly as this. And since then we have each taken our own way, independent of each other. I seldom see him at our house in town. I have my carriage, my diamonds, my opera-box. In the season, I go to Saratoga, or Newport while he favors Long Branch with his presence. We are perfectly polite to each other; we never quarrel; and I suppose were I to die to-morrow, he'd be the most inconsolable of widowers—for a week ! Jennie, you will not wish to change places with me again. Your husband might change as mine has done exposed to the same temptations. Thank Heaven that you have him as he is, a good true man who loves you; and never mind the but ter and cheese, Jennie, so long as your own and his happiness is made up with them." She rose from her seat as she spoke, and strolled down the garden path alone. Jennie did not follow her. She sat on the step, lost in thought. The riddle of her friend's life was at last made clear to her. She had often wondered why Mar garet, in the midst of all her wealth and luxury, should seem so sad and ill at ease. She wondered no longer now. To be the wife of a man who has no love for you ! 1 What "lower deep" can there be for a proud and sensitive woman than this? Jennie turned with tears in her eyes to meet her handsome husband, as he came from the field. "Well, little woman," he cried, and then she got the rough embrace, and the hearty kiss for which she was looking. does not stop to think that he is getting $1 60 per bushel for all the wheat he can raise. Workingmen of America, you will never be safe until you teach your public servants that a protective tariff shall be the perma nent policy of this country. It is 271 lie that manufacturers are monopolists. It is a lie that duties on pro ducts which can be manufactured in America are a tax on consumers. It is a lie that a reduction of duties cheapens pro ducts. There are a class of men who, hate to see workingmen surround themselves with comforts. They call themselves revenue reformers. The reforms they would make would fill every city in the land with ex cited, hungry mobs, idle every mill and factory, send poverty on to the table of every man in the laud. There is danger of it because the enemies of the people are working hard to create a sentiment against protection. There is danger of it because workingmen are not united. There is danger of it because British manufacturers would gladly give a hundred millions of dollars to prostrate American industries. They could afford it. They could soon make us pay them for all they lost. They Yes, Margaret was right. The butter and cheese were of very little consequence, while love like this made her tasks easy to endure. And the rosy-cheeked little wo man bent fondly down over her Hiram, as he flung himself on the porch-seat, and fanned him, talked to him, brought him cool lemonade, and mode him thoroughly happy, while he enjoyed his rest. Poor Margaret ! Happy Jennie ! Never again would she wish to be anything more, only a farmer's wife. gfentling for the on. Our Candidates , GEN. JOHN F. HARTRANFT. John Frederick Hartranft was born in New Hanover township, Montgomery county, Pa., on the 16th of December, 1830. He received his education at Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., where he graduated in 1853. For some time there after he was employed as a civil engineer. In 1854 he became deputy sheriff of Mont gomery county, holding that position, un der two successive incumbents of the sher iffalty, until 1858. He then turned his attention to the study of law, and was ad mitted to the bar in 1860. The outbreak of the Rebellion found him just entering upon the practice of his profession. He had early become interested in mili tary affairs, and after serving successively as captain and lieutenant colonel, was elect ed a colonel of the Montgomery county militia in 1859. Previous to the war he bad been an active Democrat, but upon the first call for volunteers he proffered his services to Governor Curtin. His en tire regiment followed his lead, and was at once equipped and armed, and mustered into the service as the Fourth Pennsylva nia Volunteers. The regiment rendez voused at Harrisburg on the 20th of April, 1861, and when ready for service entered the field, moving forward to Perryville, Annapolis and Washington in succession. The three months' term of his regiment had expired and it was on the homeward march when the disastrous battle of Bull Run occurred. Col. Hartranft, on receiv ing tidings of the forward movement of our army, tendered his services to General McDowell, and was by him assigned to duty on the staff of Colonel, afterward General William B. Franklin, who then commanded a brigade. In this capacity he was engaged in the first struggle of the war. . Previous to the battle of Bull Run, Col. Hartranft had applied for and obtained permission to recruit a regiment for three years' service. This regiment was promptly filled up, and, on November 16, 1861, was mustered into service at Harrisburg, as the Fifty-first Pennsylvania Volunteers, with Hartranft as Colonel. His new re- giment was ordered to duty under General Burnside, and joined the latter's expedi tion to North Carolina. At the head of the regiment. Hartranft took part in the battle of Roanoke Island, in February, 1862, and also in the brilliant charge by which the town of Newbern was carried, in March following. This achievement of the Fifty-first was highly praised by the general in command. When the Ninth Army Corps was recalled to Virginia in August, 1862, Colonel Hartranft and his regiment fought gallantly at the second battle of Bull Run and at Chantilly, and also in the battles of South Mountain and Antietam. In March, 1863, the Ninth Corps was transferred to General Grant's army, then operating against Vicksburg. The regi ment re-enlisting in March, 1864, Colonel Hartranft was detailed to take command of the rendezvous at Annapolis for the Ninth Corps, then in progress of reorgan ization for the May campaign. Soon ater he was assigned to the command of the First Brigade of the Third Division of the corps. He was subsequently appointed Brigadier General, to date from May 12, 1864, "for gallant and meritorious servi ces during the war," While the country was, late in March, 1865, anticipating news of the fall of Rich mond, it was startled by the report that Lee had suddenly assumed the offensive and attacked our lines. But this assault wt ,s gallantly and brilliantly repulsed af ter one of the severest struggles, for its duration, of the war. General Hartranft at the time was in command of the Third Division of the Ninth Corps, which was made up of Pennsylvania regiments, rais ed for one year and just sent into the field. At the head of this fresh force, Hartranft, on the 25th of March, made an attack up on the Rebel lines and drove the enemy headlong from Fort Steadman, a position which they had fancied to be securely in their grasp. For this brillant acheivement Hartranft was breveted Major General of Volunteers, and became popularly known as "The Hero of Fort Steadman.' Sub sequently his skirmishers were the first Union soldiers to enter Petetsburg, and one of the brigades was also the first body of loyal troops to enter the city. Hie command saw no more fighting during the war, but his military career was not yet ended. During the trial of the assassins of President Lincoln he was specially de tailed to take charge of the arrangments for guarding the military commission and executing its mandates. . . Returning to civil life at the close of the struggle, General Hartranft, having abandoned is Democratic allegiance, in 1865 received the Republican nomination for Auditor General of Pennsylvania, and was in that year elected by a majority of 22,600 over W. H. 11. Davis, the Demo cratic nominee. In 1868 he was renomi nated for the same position, and was again successful by a majority of 9,493, his Democratic competitor being Charles E. Boyle. In 1871 he was not a candidate for renomination, but on the death of Colonel Stanton, who bad been elected his successor, he was continued in his office until the close of the present year by spe cial act of the Legislature. HON. ULYSSES MEILCUR. Ulysses Mercur, of Bradford county, the candidate for Supreme Court Judge, was born at Towanda, Pa., August 12, 1818, and is in the 54th year of his age.• He graduated at Jefferson College, of this State, and practiced law. He was elected in 1860 as Presidential elector for the la mented Lincoln, and in March, 1861, was appointed president judge of the thirteenth judicial district, and soon after elected by the people to that position for a term of ten years, from December, 1861, but re signed on being elected a member of the Thirty-ninth Congress to represent the thirteenth district, composed of the coun ties of Bradford, Columbia, Montour and Wyoming. He was re-elected to the For tieth and Forty-first Congresses, and again to the Forty-second Congress, receiving 11,117 against 10.993 for C. B. Brockway, Democrat. Judge Mercur has taken a very promi nent position in Congress, serving upon the Judicial Committee, and by his large experience contributing much in framing wise and wholesome measures. GENERAL HARRISON ALLEN. General Harrison Allen, the candidate. for Auditor-General, is a native of Warren county, and is in the thirty-eighth year of his age. With the limited opportunities that farmers' sons usually enjoy, when he was a boy he acquired a good education, and studied law. He lost no time in en tering the service when the rebellion com menced, and, beginning as captain, was promoted to major of the 10th Reserves, colonel of the 151st Pennsylvania Volun teers, and breveted brigadier general for meritorious services. General Allen rep resented his county in the Legislature during the sessions of 1866 and 1867, and took a prominent and creditable part in legislation. His speeches on the thirteenth amendment, soldiers' orphans' schools, an d other measures, were highly commended. At the Chicago Convention, in 1868, that nominated General Grant, General Allen was both a delegate at large in the sol diers' convention and a delegate in the nominating convention. He took a lead ing part in the successful canvass that fol lowed. He was elected in 1869 to repre sent his district (Twenty-eight) in the State Senate, and in that body gained con siderable prominence and influence. AMONG the astonishing modern devel opments in the industrial sphere, none are more remarkable than the sewing machine business. Comparatively a few years since its first introduction, it has already assu med immense proportions. From returns. made under the licenses granted, it appears that for the year 1871, the sales of the Singer Company alone amounted to 181,- 260 machines. It is noticeable that while the Singer is one of the oldest, its sales lead the list of all the others for the past year, in the ag gregate returns, as also in the current report of the Special Relief Committee of Chicago, where every applicant designated the kind of machine desired, and where of 2,944 which the Committee had provided, 2,427 were Singer machines ! One indi cation of the prosperity of the Singer Com pany is the recent opening, at No. 34 Union Square, corner of 16th street, of a new building of fine proportions and splen did finish, for their city salesrooms and offices. It is one of the finest buildings, as it is one of the most eligible business sites in the city. The extent and prosperity of the sewing machine business extends doubtless to-day far beyond the bounds of the most san guine expectations of its original project ors. And the end is not yet.—Neto York National Standard. NO. 19. A Pathetic Scene. The first sense of sorrow I ever knew was upon the death of my father, at which time 1 was not quite five years of age ; but was rather amazed at what all the house meant, than posseessed with a real under standing why nobody was willing to play with me. I remember I went into the room where his body lay, and my mother sat weeping alone by it. I had my battledoor in my hand, and fell a beating the coffin and calling papa; for, I know not how, I had some slight idea that he was locked up there. My mother catched me in ber arms, and, transported beyond all patience of the si lent grief she was before in, she almost smothered me in her embrace, and told me, in a flood of tears, 'papa could not hear me, and would play with me no more, for they were going to put him under ground, whence he could never come to see us again." She was a very beautiful woman, of a noble spirit, and there was a dignity in her grief amid all the wildness of her transport; which, methought struck me with an instinct of sorrow, which before I was sensible of what it was to grieve, seized my very soul, and has made pity the weak ness of my heart ever since. The mind in infancy is methinks, like the body in em bryo; and receives impressions so forcible, that they are as hard to be removed by reason as any mark, with which a child is born, is to be taken away by any future application. Hence it is, that good-nature in me is no merit; bat, having been so frequently overwhelmed with her tears be fore I knew the cause of any affliction, or could draw defenses from my own judg ment, I imbibed commiseration, remorse, and an unmanly gentleness of mind, which has since ensnared me into ten thousand calamities; and from whence I can reap no advantage, except it be, that in such a humor as I am now in, I can the better in dulge myself in the softness of humanity, and enjoy that sweet anxiety which arises from the memory of past afflictions.—Sir Richard Steele. Payment of Small Bills, The payment of small bills is a matter of I much more importance than is generally attached to it. There are not a few who, in times when business is a little depressed and the prospect for the future seems more than usually unsettled, will hold on to their cash in hand and tell all the collec tors who wait on them with overdue bills to "call again," while the payment would not give them any serious inconvenience and would accommodate a large and de serving class of creditors. Indeed, we know of nothing that in a quiet way would go so far to give animation to the markets throughout the country as the universal fulfillment of obligations at the first oppor tunity. If all the little debts for the dis charge of which the debtors now have the cash actually on hand were paid at once, the wheels of business would be lubricated and a "general jollity" soon prevail throughout the land. The first serious effect on trade of any public excitement comes from the sudden check of those lit tle streams. It is true the large transac tions are arrested, but if everybody went to paying these little debts the check would be momentary, as business would be forced along the current thus continually renewed. Let every man whose eyes fall on these lines pay out his ready money for bills he knows to be due, and not stop until his pockets are emptied. Probably before this is realized the return current will reach his pocket, too, and he be liable to fill his obligations. There is as much money as ever; as much currency as ever. Who stops its flow ? Let it move on for a prompt payment of bills now due, and new busi ness will catch the inspiration and start off upon afresh gallop.—New York Journal of Commerce. _ _ Don't Advertise , The following bit of advice from the Redwood City (Cal.,) Gazette seems to be pretty sensible : "Don't do it. Don't advertise your bu siness; it's paying out money to accommo date other people; if they want to buy your goods let them hunt you up. "Don't advertise, for it gets your name abroad, and you. are too apt. to be flooded with circulars from business houses, and to be bored with drummers from the wholesale establishments, all of which also results in soliciting your order for new goods, and money to pay for them, which is very provoking to one of a dyspeptic temperment. . . . . . "Don't advertise, for it brings people in from the country, (country folks, you know are of an inquiring turn of mind), and they will ask you many astonishing questions about prices, try your temper with show ing them goods, and even vex with a re quest to tie them up, which puts you to an additional trouble of buying more. "Don't advertise, it gives people abroad a knowledge of our town, and they come and settle in it; it will grow, and other business will be induced to come in and thus increase your competition. "In short, if you would have a quiet town, not too large; if you would not be harrassed by multitudinous cares and per plexities of business; if you would avoid being bothered with paying for and losing time to read a great cumbersome newspa per, just remain quiet; don't let them know, five miles away, where you are, nor what you are doing, and you will be se verely let alone to enjoy the bliss of undis turbed repose." _ _ _ Woman's Inhumanity A contemporary remarks : "There is much food for reflection in the following questions and answers : "Who hits a woman when she is down ? Why another woman. That's so. If woven were as severe upon men who transgress the bounds of morality as they are upon transgressions of their own sex, we should have speedily inaugurated a reform in so ciety that would be worth a thousand mid night missions of associations. Women are like crows—we hope the ladies will pardon us for this comparison—but it is a truthful one if not tasteful. We say women are like crows. One of their number falls wounded by sin, and she is immediately torn to pieces. The doors of respectable associations are closed against her. The virtuous female turns from her with loath ing and disgust. even the common sym pathy of human nature is denied her. No help for the woman. No help 1" "Mors," said little Ned , one morning after having fallen out of bed, "I think I know why I fell out of bed last night. It was because I slept too near where I got in." Musing a little while, as if in doubt whether be bad given the right explana tion, added : "No, that wasn't the reason; but because I slept too near where I fell out.
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