The Huntingdon Journal. J. R. DURBORILOW, HUNTINGDON, PENN'A Wednesday Morning, June 5, 1872 REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS. FOR PRESIDENT, General ULYSSES S. GRANT. ELECTORS. MAL. J. M. Thompson, Butler. SENATC Adolph E. Boric, Phila. 114. John Passmore. 15. S. D. Freeman. 16. Jessee Merrill. 17. Henry Orlady. 18. Robert Bell. 1. Joseph A. Bonham. 2. Marcus A. Davis. 3. G. Morrison Coates. 4. Henry Broom. 5. Theo. M. Wilmer. 6. John M. Bromall. 7. Francis Shroder. •8, Mark H. Richards. 9. Edward H. Green. 10. D. K. Shoemaker. 11. Daniel R. Miller. 12. Leander M. Morton. 13. Theodore Strong. 119. J. M, Thompson. 20. Isaac Frazier. 21. Geo. W. Andrews. 22. Henry Floyd. 23. John J. Gillepsie. 24. James Patterson. 25. John W. Wallace. 26. Charles C. Boyle. FOR GOVERNOR, Gen. JOHN F. HARTRANFT, OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY. FOR SUPREME JUDGE, Judge ULYSSES MERCUR, OF BRADFORD COUNTY. FOR AUDITOR GENERAL, General HARRISON ALLEN, OF WARREN COUNTY FOR CONGRESSMEN AT LARGE, GEN. HARRY WHITE, of Indiana, GEN. LEMUEL TODD, of Cumbeiland, Ibr I legates at Large to the Constitutional Convention. Wm. M. Meredith, Philadelphia; J. Gillingham Fell, Philadelphia; Harry White, Indiana;,William L lip, Carbon; Linn Bartholomew, Schuylkill ; 11. N. M'Allis ter, Centre; William H. Armstrong, Lye ming ; William Luzerrie; James L Reynolis, Lancaster; Samuel E. Gimmick, Wayne; George V. Lawrence, Washington; Das-id N. White, Allegheny; W. 11. Arney, Lehigh; John H. Walker, Erie. IMPORTANT NOTICE TO SUB SCRIBF9S LIVING OUT OF THE COUNTY After the first of July the JOURNAL will not be mailed to subscribers residing out of the State, and only out of the coun ty at our option, UNLESS PREPAID. This course has been made necessary by a score or two of our subscribers, scatitred over the `Vest. to whom we have sent bills. failing to reep old. We give them until the 14 of July to come to time and if they do not pay by that date, we will make out their bills at die rate or TIII , EE DOLLARS per year, and forward them to the proper officers for collection. tf. 261" The weather in England is report ed very favorable for the crops. The Free Traders have held a mass inteting in New York, and repudiated the Cin,iumat; nominee for the Presidency. na,. Spain is in a state of intense poli tical exciteuient. The King's life is threat ened, and grave consequences are feared. re„ England and the United States e re still unable to come to terms on the indi rect claims question, and the Treaty itself is imperiled le.. The report that Dr. Livingstone bad been found is not generally credited. His own son says he does not believe he has been seen or heard from. The reduction of the public debt during the month of May amounted, omit ting fractions, to seven million dollars!— How about Grant's Administration ? Ser Congress has declined to extend the patent right on the Wheeler & Wilson and some other sewing machines. In conse quence of this the best machines will soon be sold for twenty-five or thirty dollars. a. Senator Sumner has been calling the President to account for indulging in fast horses, palace cars, and sea shore loit erings. Poor Sumner has put himself in a wrong position with the Administration, and is chafing sadly on account of his own imprudence. Nothing is going right with him. ler Wilmington, Del., is becoming re nowned for its iron ship building industry. Wilmington is also advancing rapidly in the construction of railroad cars and ma chinery. A large amount of capital and labor is employed in these and other rail road industries, and over a million of dol lars worth of goods is turned out yearly. Skir New York city has unveiled and dedicated a beautiful statue to the memory of the immortal Shakspeare. It is placed in the Central Park, and the group now includes Gothe, Schiller, Humboldt, Morse, and Skakspeare. There is wisdom in ap plying a portion at least of the public contributions in this way, not only in the parks of the larger cities, but in the pub lic squares of towns and villages. In the selection of subjects our own Presidents and Statesmen should not be overlooked. "THE NATIONAL GUARD." Shall we have a district organization of the "National Guard" in Huntingdon ? The objects of the organization are excel lent, namely, to educate its members up to the full measure of their political respon sibilities ; to attach them to their country and their government. In short, to make them good citizens, and zealous supporters of law and order, and thus of the govern ment itself. Cul. Fitzgerald, and others of Philadel phia, are authorized to carry into operation these organizations in Pennsylvania, or im part all information necessary for that purpose. JAPAN. It is stated in recent dispatches from Japan, that the Mikado has issued an or der granting religious toleration, and guar anteeing.protection to the Christian Mis sionaries in that country. This is no doubt one of the early fruits of the representa tions made to Iwakura and his associates at Washington, by christians, and by the newspaper press. It was stated in New York a few days ago, at the Anniversary Meeting of the Baptist Churches, that the Mikado himself had renounced his Pagan faith and given his adherence to the Christian religion. At all events the way seems clear for Christian effort in Japan. THE CHAPPAQUA SAGE. Sudden changes of opinion always excite distrust, unless they are accompanied by causes so adequate and apparent that the metamorphosis is at once explained. Where surrounding circumstances are unchanged, and where no logical or suffioient reason can be perceived for a revolution in life long action and sentiment, there naturally arises a suspicion of hidden, mercenary, selfish, or dishonorable motives. If the conversion, besides being sudden and inex plicable, was calculated to subserve ambi tious ends and aspirations, while a contin uance in the former sentiments would not, the doubt of honest conviction and high minded sincerity in all the premises would almost, or quite, amount to certainty. Such is the position which Horace Greeley now occupies in the minds of those who have hitherto been his political coadjutors. Like Saul of Tarsus he has suddenly betook himself to the companionship of those whom he has ever before denounced as base and dangerous. In the case of the saint there was a light in the heavens visi ble to those who stood round about; but in the case of the Chappaqua philosopher there is only the blackness of Cimmerian darkness, far from suggestive of any thing celestial. Horace Greeley has deserted the Republicans ; nay more, the censures and objurgations which for so many years he bestowed upon their opponents, he now pours out upon them, he well knowing that the Democrats make it their greatest boast 'that they are unchanged. Horace Greeley has not kept his "first estate ;" politically he is "Harl'd headlong flaming from th' etherial sky, With hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless perdition. Not only has he deserted the great and noble party to which he was attached, but his hatred towards it will hereafter be greater than that of a person who never belonged to it. During the old wars be tween the Mahometans and Christians, the latter were accustomed to say that "one renegade was worse than ten Turks."— There is a natural abhorrence in the hu man mind against treachery and selfish desertion. The renegade feels and knows it. He is sensible of the meed he deserves from faithful and honorable minds, and he hates those who award it to him. As the Northern doughfaces exceeded the very slave-mongers in their obsequiousness and devotion to the system of slavery, so Gree ley and the Tribune will now exceed Mar ble and the World in the spitefulness, malignancy and venom with which they will pursue the Republicans. Well, be it so. Let him do his worst, and that worst will not be found very portentious or dread ful. As individuals in the same family are chary in public criticisms of each other, so members of a political party are reluc tant to make attacks on an associate whose heart is right, and yet much of whose con duct is mischievous. This forbearance has long been exercised towards Greeley; but now his desertion renders it legitimate to examine the man as he is, and as he has been. He is now an enemy to the Repub lican party. He will either be the presi dential candidate of the so-called "Liber als," or that of the Democratic party, or an Ismaelitish bushwhacker, marauding on the outskirts of those he hates the most. But he need not be feared in either posi tion. If the Democrats do not take him up, he cannot get a single electoral vote. If they do, it will cause the stampede of hundreds of thousands of Democrats. All the soreheads, all the personal adherents, all the misguided Republicans Greeley could carry with him would not compen sate for such loss. The Cincinnati con glomeration of odds and ends which cul minated in the nomination of Greeley, is already dissolving into its original elements. Stanley Matthews, its first chairman, has publicly denounced it as being itself the most striking example he could adduce of chicanery and corruption.. The revenue reformers have openly seceded and called another Convention. The New York Evening Post has deserted the Convention. The movement is not supported by any Republican papers of ability. The Tribune, when challenged to name any Republican daily newspaper, except itself, that cast its lot with the Cincinnati mongrel party, could not do it, and could only designate four insignificant weekly (or weakly) pa pers in its own State, and one of them ha s since perished for want of support. The German Republican press throughout tke Union, remains true to its allegiance, and both Republican and Democratic Germans, as a rule, repudiate Greeley as a candidate or as a chief. They are not dice, to be shifted at will from one place to another by any political juggler however adroit.— The great body of American Republicans reject the Tribune sage with the disgust which his recreancy merits. Among the Democrats, so far from gain ing new strength, Greeley is constantly becoming more distasteful and unwelcome. The leading Democratic journals are oppo sed to his being nominated at Baltimore, as are the most prominent Democratic leading men. Where, then, is Greeley's strength ? It is certainly not portentous in the North, and will not be, unless the Blair family by the same manipulations, treacheries, and conspiracies which effected the nomination at Cincinnati, can force him upon the Baltimore Convention. In that case will any considerable number of Republicans follow him into the Demo cratic camp ? Only misguided, disappoint ed and recreant Republicans can do so.— , Their number, ve feel sure, will be small. The great Republican party itself is too devoted to its principles, too well acquaint ed with the needs and situation of the country, too much animated with intelli gence, too sensible that liberty and reform can only be maintained by its own success, too patriotic, and too progressive, to be led into any fool's chase after Horace Greeley. Ever since Mr. Greeley obtained repu_ tation and prominence as a partisan and pungent editor of the Log Cabin in 1840, it has been patent to all who knew, and to all who critically observed him, that he especially lacked the qualifications neces sary for an able and successful leader. The Harrison campaign was managed by shrewd and sagacious men like Seward and Weed. They made use of Greeley to great advan tage, and airs writer he did efficient exe cution. He was handled so adroitly that he fancied he was the directing and con- trolling mind, and wished to establish a triumvirate with Seward and Weed. They saw he was very well as a writer, but would be ruinous as a leader. Others saw it too, and greedy and anxious as Greeley has al ways been for office, neither the Whig nor Republican parties ever dared to trust him in prominent and executive positions. If now and then nominated to some office he invariably ran behind his party ticket, and all the circulation and popularity of the Tribune never could secure for him a res pectable currency as a candidate. The frequent disappointments he suffered _in i his aspirations for office led him to dissolve the firm of Seward, Weed & Greeley, and since then, like Barkis, he 'has always been willing, and always unsuccessful, except in serving out a month or two of somebo dy else's term in Congress, where in that short period he made himself thoroughly odious and obnoxious to men of all parties without exception or distinction. He has repeatedly shown himself a marplot, and notwithstanding his Chinese physiognomy, so "childlike and bland," he has exhibited stupid obstinacy fully equal to that of An drew Johnson or any other jackass. During Lincoln's celebrated canvass with Douglass, and during the legislative contest which followed it, Greeley was quite as much for the latter as the former. He electioneered for Lincoln about as he did for the Republicans in Connecticut last spring. Afterwards at the Conven tion in Chicago where Lincoln was first nominated, and where the competition was between such men as Lincoln, Seward and Chase, was our Chinese sage, running over with apparent simplicity, and he too, had his candidate. He pressed his favorites by "ways that were dark and tricks that were vain." He swore good mouth•filling oaths, and manifested his great knowledge of men, his exquisite discrimination of character, and his profound conception of statesmanship, by repudiating Lincoln andl Seward, and men of that calibre, and ex alting the brilliant lutnihary and intellec tual paragon, Edward Bates. During all the Administration of Mr. Lincoln he was perpetually annoyed and worried by this same Chinese politician.— At one time it would be his heedless "On to Richmond," at another his cowardly counsel to make degrading and suicidal concessions, and at another by prosecuting insane negotiations in Canada. As early as November 9, 1860, Mr. Greeley demonstrated how safe and judi cious it would have been to have entrusted the guidance of these United States to his sagacity and wisdom. In the Tribune of that date he says: " Now if the Cotton States consider the value A' the Union debatable,• we maintain the perfect right to discuss it . . . . And whenever a consid erable section of our Union shall deliberately re solve to go out, we shall resist all coercive meas ures designed to keep it in." On the 17th December 1860, the Chap paqua jurist, patriot and philanthropist evinced his legal acumen by telling what he knew about the Declaration of Indepen dence. He says "We have repeatedly asked those who dissent from our views of this matter to tell us frankly whether they do or do not assent to Mr. Jefferson's statement in the Declaration of Independence that Governments derive their just powers from the con sent of the Governed ; and that whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new government," lie. Further along in the same article we may see him invoking the incoming Ad ministration to precipitate itself against "FUGITIVE SLAVES ;" and now it is ex pected by some that he will receive the '.negro vote" with grateful acclamation. He says : We fully realize that the dilemma of the in coming Administration will be a critical on. It must endeavor to uphold and enforce the laws. as well against rebellious slaveholders as fugitive slaves. The new president must fulfil the obliga tions assumed in his inauguration oath, if ever seven or eight States send agents to Wash ington to say, We want to go out of thq Union, we feel constrained by our devotion to human lib erty to say, Let them go ! And we do not see how we could take the other side without coming in direct conflict with those rights of man which we hold paramount to all political arrangements, however convenient and advantageous." One week later, December 24, 1860, Mr. Greeley poured out his soul with a philanthropy at which Jeff. Davis and his yet unrepentent followers may clap their hands and hail a brother secessionist. He says : "Most certainly we believe that governments are made for peoples, not peoples for governments —that the latter derive theirjust power from the consent of the governed ; and whenever a portion of this Union, largo enough to form an indepen dent, self-subsisting nation, shall see St to say, authentically, to the residue, 'We wantto get away from you,' we shall say—and we trust self-respect, if not regard for the principles of self-goverment, will constrain the residue of the American people to say---.Elor " - Five days after the inauguration as Pres ident of the Confederate States, of that distinguished citizen who was subsequent ly bailed with such alacrity and enthusi asm by Mr. Greeley, the latter, in the Tri bune of February 23, 1861, spoke thus: "If the Slave States, the Cotton States, or the Gulf States only, choose to form an independent nation, they hare a clear moral right to do so." As men, and even philosophers, not un frequently persist in opinions which ap pear preposterous to the majority of man kind, su our wise statesman continued to respect his previous declarations. In the Tribune of September 26, 1862, in a letter to H. McChesney, of Troy, N. Y., Mr. Greeley says : " But I shall insist that, if it had been proved that the people of the Slave States—or even of the Cotton States alone—had really desired to dissolve the Union, and had peacefully, deliberately and au thoritatively expressed that wish, see should have assented to it. At all events I should." These extracts show that Greeley might be styled secessionist as well as auy South ern fire-eater of the rebellion. If we con trast him with Mr. Lincoln during this period, it is Hypericon to a Satyr. And yet when Mr. Lincoln had been renomi nated, when certain discontented Repub licans had held a convention at Cleveland and nominated Fremont and Cochrane, when the fortunes of the republic were in a most critical condition, and our patriotic President needed all possible aid and as sistance, this Tribune secessionist treach erously and secretly stabbed Mr. Lincoln by sending out the following letter to the Governors of States, as private and confi dential : 'New York, Sept. 2, 1864. Bon. - - Torn EXCELLENCY : The under signed have been requested by a body of influen tial Unionists to communicate with the loyal Gov ernors, for the purpose of eliciting replies to the following queries : 1. In your judgment is the re-election of Mr. Lincoln a probability 2. In your judgment, can your own State be car ried for Mr. Lincoln? 3. In your judgment do the interest of the Union party, and so of the country, require the substitu tion of another candidate in place of Mr. Lincoln ? In making these queries we give no opinion of our own, and request yours only for the most pri vate and confidential use. Yours truly, HORACE GREELEY. Editor of the Triton• (and two others). The people answered Mr. Greeley's in terrogatories as they will answer these of Cincinnati next November. We have other specimen's of this man's opinions and- consistency, but the length of this article admonishes us to postpone them to a future occasion, DEMOCRATIC STATE NOMINA TIONS. The Democratic State Convention as sembled at Reading, on the 30th ult., and nominated Hon. C. R. Buckalew, of Co lumbia county, for Governor; Hon. James P. Thompson, of Erie, (or the Pennsylva nia Railroad Company,) for Judge of the Supreme Court; William Hartley, of Bed ford county, for Auditor General; Hon. Richard Vaux, of Philadelphia, James H. Hopkins, Esq., of Allegheny, and Hon. H. B. Wright, of Luzerne, for Congress men-at-Large. The nomination for Gov ernor is the best that tha Democratic party could have made within its own ranks, and it behooves the Republican party to put its house in order. The candidate for Supreme Judge is - the stand-by of the Pennsylvania Central Railroad in all its contests with the people, and we will see how the people will treat him now that it is their turn once. Mr. Hartley, of Bed ford, if he were elected, would own the State and monopolize every dollar in it.— If we feel disposed we think we can#dis sect him in such a way that we can spoil his little game for him. We are intimate. ly acquainted with his record. The can didates for Congressmen-at-Large are all good men, but do not belong to the popu lar class. THE RAILWAY KING. Colonel Thomas A. Scott has just ob tained a victory over John W. Garrett, in Washington, where Congress has granted Col. Scott the right to build a large rail- road depot on an eligible site South of Pennsylvania Avenue, and within half a dozen squares of the capitol. It is said, and we believe with truth, that Col. Scott presides over twenty-six railroad corporations, from which he draws the hand some annual salary of $176,000. He now is asked by a large number of the stockhold ers to accept the presidency and under take the control of the great Erie road; but here again he finds his opponent in John W. Garrett, the president of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. The scene of the battle between these two gentlemen is transferred from the committee rooms of the capitol to Wall street, and instead of Senators and Representatives marshaled on opposing sides, we have immense rail road companies, millionaires and an army of bankers and brokers. The contest seems likely to be the greatest ever fought in the railroad world, and will command the attention not only of America but of Eu rope. The great American railway king has never yet surrendered nor been beaten ; nor will he in this battle if he personally desires a victory. THE JEWS In no country in the world, since their expulsion from Jerusalem, have the He brew race found a home or even an asylum, except in the United States. From time to time, they have been robbed, imprison ed and murdered, or expelled from every country in Europe in which they took up their residence. Coming from various European countries they have invariably received a welcome in the United States, and protection under the American flag.— Our census takes no account of them as a separate people; yet there are hundreds of thousands of them here, while the English census shows only eighty thousand Jews in that country. Liberty, protection, and freedom of thought in America, has modi fied the character of the Hebrew; but while his heart responds gratefully, he ig nores the Christian religion and adheres to his ancient delusion. OUR WOOL CLIP. The wool clip of the United States amounted in 1871 to 177,000,000 pounds, and is the largest of any country in the world. England produced 159,969,000 pounds; Australia, 152,500,000 pounds; La Plata, 138,070,000 pounds. Our clip of 1860 was only 60,264,913 pounds. This has been nearly trebled in eleven years. A large increase in the number of sheep in the United States has taken place during the last twelve months, and a corresponding increase of wool may be anticipated in the report for 1872. The wonderful progress made in this agricul tural industry during the last decade must be attributed mainly to the effects of a protective tariff which has shielded our sheep growers against undue importations from La Plata and other countries. THE DEMOCRATIC SPLIT, Never was a greater mistake made by any political organization than that of the democrats in the encouragement and aid they afforded in the development of the Cincinnati Convention. It was done under the grand idea of causing a split in the Republican party. But ails for human inventions: the snare set for others is the very one in which they have themselves been caught. The nomination at Cincin nati has rent the Democratic party in twain, and to-day they stand amazed at th• result of their own work. One portion of the party go it blind for Greeley; an other is violently opposed to him and will let the party sink into its grave before they will consent to endorse their life long political enemy. YOUNG J. Russell Young has, we are infbrmed, accepted the position of resident editor of the New York Herald in London, at a salary of $B,OOO per annum. Mr. Young commenced his newspaper experience as office or errand boy in the Philadelphia Press, and graduated from the chair of chief editor of that paper. He went from there to New York and accepted the situ ation of managing editor of the New York Tribune. Leaving that position he estab lished the New York Standard, one of the best dailies in the great metropolis. He leaves that paper in charge of a younger brother, equally brilliant as a newspaper writer. The Youngs are natives of Penn sylvania, and wY are proud of them. ne... James Gordon Bennett, of the New York Herald is dead. OUR WASHINGTON LETTER Closing Hours of Congress—Decoration Day—The Eight Hour Movement— Greeley—The Democratic Sentiment— The German Vote—The Philadelphia and Baltimore Conventions—Sumner on the President. WASHINGTON, D. C., June 3, 1972. CLOSING HOURS OF CONGRESS. By meeting earlier in the forenoon and holding evening, and frequently all-night Sessions, both Houses of Congress have done an immense amount of work during the past week. Very little unfinished work of importance will lie over. IN MEMORIAM, "Decoration Day" in Washington has be_ come a season of peculiar interest. The great city of the dead, at Arlington, Gen. R. E. Lee's former residence on the banks of the Potomac, on the opposite side of the river from Washington, was, on Thursday, the 30th of May, visited by seven to ten thousand of our citizens, who gathered there to listen to the ceremonies in hcnor of the brave soldiers who gave their lives to save their country; and after these cer emonies to lay fresh flowers upon the graves of the fallen. The services con sisted of prayer, music, and addresses, the principal one being delivered by General N. P. Banks, member of Congress. THE EIGHT HOUR MOVEMENT. The public sentiment here is in full sympathy with those who are laboring to legen the number of hours devoted to toil. All the workmen in the Navy Yards, and upon Government buildings and other Federal property in all parts of the Union are now required to give eight hours only for a day's work. The Strikes which commenced in New York for the eight-hour principle are ex tending to all the principal cities. There is no rioting or boisterous proceedings ; but those engaged are firm against all compromise and they will ultimately suc ceed after strong resistance by some of the employers. Many of the employers have already yielded ; and are now running their establishments under the new system. GREELEY. The Greeley faction is growing "smaller by degrees and beautifully less" every day. The Greeley club in Washington has John D. Defrees, former Congressional printer, for its chief manager. At the meeting for Organization a few evenings since, it was found that there were not as many members on the roll as they wanted for officers, a President and 22 Vice Presidents ; so the meeting adjourned to recruit. This is the more damaging to the prospects of the club, as they had proposed to make Washing ton a kind of headquarters from which to issue campaign documents to all parts of the country. THE DEMOCRATIC SENTIMENT The Washington Patriot for some few weeks after the Cincinnati convention, wrote up Greeley's qualifications and pros pects in glowing terms. It has however changed its tone and daily denounces the nominee of the convention as a vain and foolish old man, governed by an inordinate thirst for public office. Here in Washing ton all the leading democrats are opposed to endorsing Greeley. This sentiment as is known here, is extending rapidly through the southern states. GREELEY AND THE GERMANS. A very careful canvass has been made by parties in Washington to:ascertain how far Greeley will be supported by the Ger mans. If the outspoken sentiments of the German newspapq press can be taken as an indication of the German sentiment, Greeley will not draw votes enough from among that class of citizens to form a cor poral's guard. I have seen a collection of quotations including editorals cut from near ly every German paper printed in the United States, and all without exception opposed to the election of the Sage of Chappaqua. Senator Schurz is terribly grieved at the nomination and refuses to give Greeley his aid and support. THE PHILADELPHIA CONVENTION, There has been a very general impression among leading statesmen in \V ashington that all those names that have been pressed for the Vice Presidency will be dropped, and a compromise vote cast fur General N. P. Banks. There is certainly no man in the country better qualified to fill the office, and probably no one who hasstrong er claims upon the confidence and affec tions of all the people. THE BALTIMORE CONVENTION. It is now settled conviction of the leading statesmen in Washington, including Sena tors and Congressmen of both parties that the Baltimore convention will not recog nise Greeley in their nomination for Presi dent. A PUBLIC HOLIDAY, All the Governmeht Departments, and nearly every place of business was closed in Washington on "Decoration day." MARKET BUILDINGS. The new market houses just completed in Washington city, will form one of the finest markets in any part of the country, and there are few places where the mark ets are better filled or contain a greater variety than in Washington. PREPARING TO GO. Congressmen are packing their trunks and preparing for an immediate departure for home. They voted to adjourn to-day. but will hardly be able to do so. TAX AND TARIFF BILL, The Senate has passed the House tax and tariff bill, with a number of amend• ments, by a vote of 50 to 3. SUMNER ON THE PRESIDENT. In the Senate on Friday, Mr. Sumner made a motion to indefinitely postpone the sundry civil appropriation bill for the pur pose of making his speech on the French arms report, which he characterized as a whitewashing one, the committee having been improperly appointed, &c. He then proceeded to arraign the President in the most bitter terms, referring to him passing time in palace cars, with fast horses, and seaside loiterings. He denounced him for appointing relatives to office, &c. The Senate was not very full at the time, not more than one-half of the Senators being in their seats. It is generally supposed that the speech was intended for effect at Philadelphia and Baltimore. PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. Pennsylvania Avenue, leading from the Capitol to the White House, and extend ing on from the White House to George town, and from the Capitol on to the Navy Yard, is about three miles long and 160 feet wide. Between the Capitol and the President's residence it is paved in the most approved manner with wood pave ment, and in a few months the entire length of three miles will be paved. The same process is going on upon all the principal avenues and streets in the city Letter from the West, MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., May 25th, 1872. Dear Journal: We lei the city of Daven port on the 20th inst. for Minnesota, by a steamer of the same name, but after spending a day and night on the Mississippi, and being detained three hours by the boat running on a sand bar, concluded that this kind of speed did not suit us, in these days of telegraphs and railroads, and when we reached Dubuque, we transferred our baggage and ourselves on board a train running from Dubuque to St. Paul. Dubuque is a finely located city on the slope of the lowa Bluffs, with a population of 25,000. Here the lowa Division of the Illinois Central R. R. crosses the Mississippi river, which is spanned by a magnificent iron bridge. On our way up to this point, we passed through several other railroad bridges of similar con struction • one at Clinton, and one at Daven port. Th e latter is said to have the largest draw, for the passage of steamers, in the world. The drawed is work by a stationary engine. The route from Dubuque to St. Paul passes through a fine farming country, dotted all along with thriving towns. The principle ones being Waterloo, Charles City, Cedar Falls, and Aus tin, near the State line, averaging from three to five thousand of a population. The grain and grass all along the route is looking well. We reached St. Paul on the 22d, and stopped at the Metropolitan Hotel, which by the way compares favorably with the Girard and Con tinental Hotels in Philadelphia. . . St. Paul is the centre of business for the North-western States of lowa and Minnesota. The location is on the north-eastern side of the river, and has a population of 2,000. The principle public buildings are the new Custom House, Opera House, and the Capitol of the State. The hotels and business houses are fine structures, generally four and five stories high, and most by built of a fine quality of Min nesota granite. The number of railroads enter ing St. Paul and now in operation, is ten, and five in progress of building. We visited Lake Como, one of the most delightful places of re sort, which is reached by a splendid drive of three m lee along an avenue of one hundred feet in width. Fountain Cave, near the banks of the Mississippi, is a natural curiosity. It is said to have been explored for a quarter of a mile. We next visited Fort Snelling, with its massive looking walls, tower, and bastion, looking down upon you from the top of the precipitous bluffs, from the river's brink. It was built in 1828, as a protection from the In dians. It is now used a, a supply for the Iron tier forts. Minnelisha Falls, immortalized by Longfellow's celebrated poem, is a place of great resort, and on sunshiny days, beautiful rainbows add their glory to the scene. Our next drive was to Col. Wm. S. King's farm, three miles from Minneapolis ; it contains thir teen hundred acres, and adjoins Lake Harriet and Lake Calhoun. He has the reputation of being the most extensive raiser of blooded stock in the United States, and probably in the world. He has now some fifty bead of blooded horses, among the number some of the fastest in the west, and one hundred and eigh ty-five bulls, cows and calves, part of them Durham, Short Horn, Alderney and Ayershire. His largest bulls weigh 2500 pounds, and the cows 2200 pounds, and his prices for these range from $2,000 to $2,500. He also owns some two hundred Merino and Southdown sheep. He has three large barns, closely con nected, each one of the main buildings are fifty feet square and three stories high, having each two wings two stories high and one hun dred and eighty feet long. The stock is kept in separate rooms or str.lls, with doors open ing out into a wide passage way or entry. The buildings are all planed and painted outside, and planed and neatly finished inside. Col. King is now in Washington, and is post mas ter for the House of Representatives. He has Dna monaion on the prrenieme, in 'shish his agent resides. From here we left for Minne apolis. after a full day's work, and stopped at the First National Hotel. Minneapolis is situated on both banks of the Mississippi, adjacent to the falls of St. Antho ny. In 1870 the city occupied the west only. The two cities, St. Anthony and Minneapolis, have since coalesced under the general name of Minneapolis, having a population of 26,000. This city has the prettiest location of any that we have seen in our travels ; the streets are very wide and straight, and cross each other at right angles. The country around it is rolling and clear of bluffs. Many attractions center in this city. The Falls of St. Anthony, seventy five feet in heighth, are much admired by the visitor. These Falls afford immense water power, and here are in operation paper, woolen, grist, planing and other mills. Also several extensive saw mills, the two largest of which saw 100,000 feet each per day. We leave this to-morrow morning for Stillwater, Pine City, and into the interior to spend a few days. L. United States Laws, [OFFICIAL.] LAW S OF THE UNITED STATES PASSED AT TIIE FIRST SESSION OF THE FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS. [OENZRAL riATURE—No. 47.] AN ACT to extend the time for filing claim§ foi additional bounty, under the act of July twenty eight, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. - - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Bepre sentatires of the United States of America in (ion dress assembled, The the time for tiling claims for additional bounty, under the act of July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and which expired by limitation January thirteenth, eighteen hundred and sev enty-one, be, and the same is hereby, revived and extended until the thirtieth day ofJanuary, eighteen hundred and seventy-three ; and that all claims for such bounties filed in the proper department after the thirteenth day of Jan uary, eighteen hundred and iteventy-one, and befor the passage of this act, shall be deemed to have been filed time,and shall be considered and decided without fil ing. Approved, April 22, leis/ [GEMERAL NATURE.-NO. 48.1 AN ACT in relation to bounties. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Con gress assembled, That every volunteer, non-com missloned officer, private, =titian, and and artificer who enlisted into the military r ervice ot the United Statee prior to July twenty-eft:it'd, eighteen hundred and sixty one, under the proclamation of the President of the Uuitee States of May third, eighteen hundred and sixty one, and the orders of the War Department issued in pursuance thereof, and was actually mustered before Au gust sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, into any reg iment, company, or battery, which was accepted by the War Department under such proclamation and ordete, shall be paid the full bounty of one hundred dollars under and by virtue of the said proclamation and order., of the War Department, in force at the time of such enlist ment and prior to July twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty-one : Provtded, That the same has not already been paid. Approved, April 22, 1872. [GENERAL NATURE-NO. 49.] AN ACT to create the Linkton land district, in the State of Oregon. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America, in Con gress assembled, That all that portion of the State of Oregon lying south of the fourth standard par allel south of the base-line, between township's eighteen and nineteen south, and east of the meri dian line between ranges five and six in said State, shall constitute an additional land district, to be called the Linkton district ; and the office of said district shall be located at Linkville, subject to be changed by the President of the United States as the public interests may require. Sec. 2. That the President be, and he is hereby, authorized to appoint, in accordance with existing laws authorizing appointments to office, ®ister . and a receiver for the district hereby created, who shall each be required to reside at the site of the office for said district, have the same powers, re sponsibilities,sameacts a andn penalties einolum which are are or may b esubject to the be prescribed by law in relation to other land officers of the United States for the State of Oregon. Sec. 3. That all sales and locations made at the offices of the district in which the lands embraced in this district have hitherto been included, situate within the limits of this district, which shall be valid and right in other respects up to the day on which the new office shall go into operation, be, and the same are hereby, confirmed. Approved, April 24, 1872. [GENERAL NATURE—No. 50.] AN ACT relating to proposals and contracts fol transportation of the mails, and for other purposes. _ _ Be it enacted by the Senate and Home of Repre. sentatices of the United State. of America in Co. greet mumbled, That any person or persons bid. ding for the transportation of the mails upon any route which may be ad fertised to bo let, and re ceiving an award of the contract for such service, who shall wrongfully refuse or fail to enter into contract with the Postmaster General, in due form, and perform the service described in his or their bid or proposal, shall be deemed guilty of a misde meanor, and, on conviction thereof; be punished,by a fine not exceeding twelve month. a-Gac. 2. That each bid for carrying the mail shall hereafter have affixed to it the oath of the bidder, taken before an officer qualified to adminis ter oaths that he has the ability pecuniarily to ful fil his obligation and that the bid is made in good . . . aith and with the intention to enter into contract and perform the service, in ease his bid shall be ac ,epted ; and that the signatures of his guarantors ire genuine, and that he believes said guarantors ,ccuniarily responsible for and able to pay all images the United States shall suffer by reason if the bidder's failing to perform his obligations as inch bidder. N. H. P. Sec. 3. That any postmaster or other officer of the Post Office Department who shall affix his sig nature to the certificate of sufficiency of guarantors or sureties before the guaranty or contract is sign ed by the guarantors or sureties, or shall knowing ly make any false or illusory certificate, shall be forthwith dismissed from office and shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not exceed ing one year, or both. Sec. 4. That no bidder for carrying the mails shall be released from his obligation under his bid or proposal, notwithstanding an award made to a lower bidder, until a contract for the designated service shall have been duly executed by such low er bidder and his sureties, and accepted, and the service entered upon by the contractor to the satis faction of the Postmaster General. Sec. 5. That after any regular bidder or con tractor for the transportation of the mail upon any route shall have failed to enter into contract, and commence the performance thereof as herein pro vided, the Postmaster General shall proceed to contract with the next lowest bidder for such ser vice, who will enter into a contract and perform the same, anless the Postmaster General shall con sider such bid too high ; in which case he shall re advertise sorb service. And in all cases of regular contracts hereafter made, the contract may, in the discretion of the Postmaster tener 1, be continued in force beyond its express terms for a period not exceeding six months, until a new contract with the same or other contractors shall be made by the Postmaster General. Ssc. 6. That hereafter all bidders upon every mail route for the transportation of the mails upon the same, where the annual compensation for the service on such rout at the Uwe exceeds the sum of five thousand dollars, shall accompany their bids with a certified c:ieck or draft, payable to the or der of the Postmaster General, upon some solvent . . • . . . . . . . . national bank, which check or draft shall not be less than five per centum on the amount of the an nual pay on said route at the time wick bid is made, and in case of new service not less than five per centum of the amount of one year's pay pro posed in such bid if the bid exceed five thousand dollars per annum. In case any bidder, on being awarded any such contract, shall fail to execute the same with good and sufficient sureties, accorde ing to the terms on which such bid was made and accepted, and enter upon the performance of the service to the satisfaction of the Postmaster Gener al, such bidder shall forfeit the amount so deposit ed to the United States, and the same shall forth with be paid into the treasury for the use of the Poet Office Department ; but if such contract shall be duly executed and the service entered upon as aforesaid, such draft or check so deposited shall be returned to the bidder. Sec. 7. That in case of the sickness, or unavoid able absence from his office of the posmaster of any money-order post-office, he may, with the ap proval of the Postmaster General, authorize the chief clerk, or some other clerk employed therein, to act in his place; and to discharge all the duties required by law of such posmaster : Prorided, That the official bond given by the principal of the office shall be held cover and apply to the acts of the person appointed to act in his place in such cases : And provided farther, That such acting officer shall, for the time being, be suject to all the liabilities and penalties prescribed by law for the official misconduct, in like cases, of the postmas ter for whom he shall act. Sec. 8. That the Postmaster General. whenever he may deem it consistent with the public interest, may acoept new surety upon any contract existing, or hereafter made, for carrying the mails, in sub stitution for and release of any existing surety. Sec. 9. That the Postmaster General is hereby authorized to cause to be placed to the creditof the Treasurer of the United States, for the service of the Post Office Department, the net proceeds of the money-order business; and that the receipts of the Post Office Department, derived from this source, during each quarter, shall be entered by the Auditor of the Treasury for the Post Office De partment, in the accounts of said Department, under the head of "Revenue from money-order business." Approved, April 27, 1872. [CiExenAt. NATU.—No. 51.] AN ACT to amend section second. act of August thirteth, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, in rela tion to the transportation and exportation of imported goods, wares, and merchandise in bond through certain ports in the State of Texas. Ile it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre mmantitme of the United States of America in Con res. assembled, That section second of the act of August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-two entitled "An act authorizing imported goods, wares, and merchandise, entered and bonded for warehousing in pursuance of law, to be exported by certain routes to ports and places in Mexico," be so amended that imported merchandise, duly entered and bonded at a port of the United States, and withdrawn from warehouse in accordance with existing law, for exportation fur San Fernando, Paso del Norte, and Chihuahua, Mexico, shall pass through Indianola, the port of entry for the district of Saluria, in the State of Texas, under such regu lations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall pre scribe. as well as through the port of Lavaca, in said district, as required by said section. Approved, April 30, 1872. g exam Obituary notices 10 cents per line for all over four lines —cash to accompany the notice. This includes memorial tributes, resolutions of societies, etc. M'CABE.—In this borough, on Monday last, William S. M'Cabe, in the —th year of his age. New Advertisements. A GOOD CHANCE. NEW PIANOS AND ORGANS For rale on MONTHLY AND QUARTERLY PIANOS : $285, $3OO, $350, $4OO, up to $lOOO. ORGANS: $5O, $lOO, $125, $l4O, $l5O, $2OO, and up to $9OO. AGENCY FOR ALL of the BEST MAKES. EVERY INSTRUMENT GUARAN- Now is your time to buy a A GOOD INSTRUMENT ON EASY PAYMENTS, For prices and further information, write to or call on _ _ _---_. E. J. GREENE, Dealer in Pianos and Organs, No. 418 Hill Street, Huntingdon, Pa. June 5, 1872. UNITED STATES INTERNAL REV EN UE! Second Division, Seventeenth Dis trict of Pennsylvania, comprising Huntingdon and Mifflin counties. NOTICE.—The annual assess ment for the above-named Division of all persons liable to a tax on income, and also of all persons required to pay a special tax, as Brewers, Whole sale and Retail Liquor Dealers, Manufacturers and Dealers in Tobacco and Cigars, having been com pleted, notice is hereby given, that the taxes afore said have become due and payable, and will be received at the following places and time, to wit : Lewistown, Mifflin county, Wednesday and Thurs day, June 19th and 20th; and at my office in Hun tingdon, at any time prior to June 30th. PENALTIES.—AII persons who fail to pay their annual taxes prior to the 10th day of July 'Will be notified of their neglect, for which a fee of twenty cents, and four cents for each mile traveled in serv ing the notice, will be charged, and for all taxes remaining unpaid on the 20th of July the penalties will be added, and warrants tuned, without res pect to persons. Persons doing business without having paid a special tax therefor, are liable to a penalty of three times the amount of said tax, a fine of five hundred dollars, and'imprisonment for three years. FRANK W. STEWART, Deputy Collector 2nd Division XVIIth District Pennsylvania. Lllnnt.junes,l2-2t CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA REAL ESTATE AGENCY, The undersigned Real Estate Agents offer the following valuable real estate for sale, viz. A HOUSE AND LOT IN McCON— NELLSTOWN: No. 1. A lot of ground fronting on Main street, in the central portion of said town, fronting 93 feet and extenaing back 13C feet, having thereon erected a two-and a-half-story frame dwelling house, 65x30 feet, with a large and commodious store room and other outbuildings thereto attached. As a place of business it in as good as any in the town. Terms: One-third in hand and the balance in two equal annual payments, with inter est, to be secured by bonds and mortgagee. A HOUSE, WAGONMAKER SHOP, LOT OF GROUND IN HUNTINGDON. No. 2. A lot of ground fronting twenty-five feet on Hill street, No. 315, between 3d and 4th streets, extending back two hundred feet to Mifflin street, adjoining lots of J. W. Mattern, Esq., on the East and C. C. North on the West, with a two-story log dwelling house and frame IVagonmaker Shop there on erected. This is a very desirable location. Terms: Onc-half in hand and the balance in one year with interest. A HOUSE, BAKERY AND LOT OF GROUND IN HUNTINGDON. No. 3. A lot of ground fronting twenty-five feet on Mifflin street, no. 209, between 2nd and 3rd streets, extending back two hundred feet to Church Street, adjoining lots of Mrs. Schnt on the East and Rentj hazard on the West, with a two story log dwelling house. containing nine rooms, a com modious frame bakery, stable, carriage-shed and other out buildings thereon erected. The house and bakery are well supplied with gas and water. There being and excellent well of water upon the property. Terms One half in hand and the bal ance in one year with interest. THREE FENCED LOTS IN WEST HUNTINGDON. • Three lots under fence on Mifflin street in West Huntingdon numbered respectively 145, 140 and 133. These lots are most admirable building lots, and centrally located. Terms: One-half cash in hand and the balance in one year, or one third cash, one third in six months and the balance in one year, or will make satisfactory terms with in terest. ap.24,'72.] NOTICE OF INQUISITION.—In the matter of the partition of the real estate of David G. Corbin, late of the borough of Hunting don, Huntingdon county, deceased, on writ of par tition issued out of the Orphans' Court of said county, notice to the heirs and legal representa tives of said decased, to wit: Nancy Corbin and fourteen children to wit : William E., who is the Htitioner and who resides in Juniata township, e Huntingdon county, Pa.; Jane, intermarried witk Adam Rupert, whose postoffice is M'Veytown, Mif flin county, Pa.; John, who resides in Juniata tp. aforesaid; Abraham, who also resides in Juniata tp.; Sarah, intermarried with John Horuing,whoee postoffice is Marmaton, Bourbon co., Kansas; Mar garet, who was intermarried with Samuel roud foot, she and her husband both being deceased, leaving one mieor child to wit : Emma Proudfoot, who is living with her grandfather, Proud foot, whose postoffice is Fairfield, Iowa; Alexander whose postoffice is Arizona, Burt co., Nebraska; Sophia, intermarried with John Bolinger, whose postoffice is —, Bourbon county, Kansas; Martha, intermarried with Joseph Beck, whose postoffice is —, Bourbon county, Kansas; Da vid G. Corbin, junior, whose pootoffice is Granville Mifflin county, Pa., Ellen, intermarried with Ben jamin Shultz who resides in Juniata township, aforesaid; Ann, intermarried with Andrew Grove, who reside. at Pleasant Grove, Huntingdon county, Pa.; Emeline ' intermarried with Hiram Rhodes, who lives in Huntingdon borough aforesaid; and George H. Corbar who also resides in said bor ough. flue NOTICE that an Inquest will be held at the dwelling house of John Corbin, on the estate of David G. Corbin, deceased, in the township of Ju niata, in the county of Huntingdon, on the 22d day of June, A. D., 1872, at 10 o'clock in the fore noon of that day, for the purpose of making parti tion of the real estate of said deceased to and among the children and legal repreoentiveo, if the same can be done without prejudice to or spoiling of the whole, otherwise to value and appraise the same according to law—at which time and place you may attend if yen think proper. AMON HOUCK, Sheriff. Sheriff's Office, Huntingdon, May 29, 1872. t'l , Z4' o-6.1,;=.1 co w 9, X sT.'w F. ' 2 7, 4 7,1 X • rg g 7 .4 ~ R —mo ps PP 111..' g r. • I,' • ; 1.3 • ca. . cq 50 11HE GREAT DISCOVERY ! KUNKEL'S BITTER WINE OF IRON. Kunkel's Bitter Wine of Iron will effectually cure all diseases arising from a disordered liver and stomach, such as constipation, flatulence, in ward piles, fullness of blood to the head, acidity of the stomach, nausea, heartburn, disgust for food, fulness or weight in the stomach, sinking or flat. tering at the pit of the stomach, swimming at the head, hurried or difficuit breathing, fluttering at the heart, choking or suffocating sensations when in a lying posture, dimness of vision, &c. Price ..51 per bottle. E. F. Kunkel, proprietor. Depot No. 250 North 9th street, below \ ins, Philadel phia. Ask for Kunkel's Bitter Wine of Iron, and take no other. If your Druggist has it not, send $1 to my address, and the medicine, with free ad vice, will be sent to you at once; direct as above. Mayl-sw. PAYMENTS, FIRST-CLASS COMPANIES INSURANCE OFFICE, L EIS TER BUILDING, Queen of Liverpool Hanover, New York. Commercial German, of Erie, TEED. 10aprly ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. (Estate of Thomas Dean, deceased.) Letters of Administration having been granted to the undersigned on the estate of Thomas Dean, late of Juniata township, deceased, all persons knowing themselves indebted are requested to make immediate payment, and those having claims to present them duly authenticated for settlement. JOHN R. DEAN, Huntingdon, May 29, 1872.. Adm'r. EXECUTOR'S NOTICE.— ' [Estate of Wm. J. Householder, dec'd.] Letters testamentary having been granted to the subscriber, living io Huntingdon, on the estate of Wm. J. Householder, late of Huntingdon borough, dec.l., persons knowing themselves indebted to said estate will make payment immediately, aid those having claims against the same will present them for settlement. _ - . 15m.y. FOR' GO TO THE JOURNAL OFFICE MORRISON HOUSE, OPPOSITE PENNSYLVANIA R. R. DEPOT HUNTINGDON, PA April 5, 1871-Iy. New Advertisements, nUNINGDON, Pd. J. R. DURBORROW a CO., Huntingdon, Pa. Huntingdon, Pa. .$10,000,000 3,000,000 250,000 200,000 KENNEDY & CO. S. B. CHANEY, Executor. PLAIN PRINTING, FANCY PRINTING, J. H. CLOVER, Prop,