VOL. 47.
The Huntingdon Journal,
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F. GEHRETT, M. D., ECLEC
• TIC PHYGICIAN 4ND SURGEON, hav
ing returned from Clearfield county and perma
nently located in Shirleyeburg, offers his profes
sional services to the people of that place and sur
rounding country. apr.3-1872.
DR. H. W. BUCHANAN,
DENTIST,
No. 228 Hill Street,
HUNTECGDON, PA
July 3,'i2.
DR. F. 0. ALLEMAN canbe eon
suited at his office, at all hours, Mapleton,
Pa. [march6,72.
CALDWELL, Attorney -at -Law,
D•No. 111, 3d street. Office formerly occupied
by Messrs. Woods t Williamson. [apl2,'7l.
DR. A. B. BRUMBAUGH,offers his
professional services to the community.
Office, No. 523 Washington street, one door cast
of the Catholio Parsonage. Dan. 4,11.
"fi -4 . J. GREENE, Dentist. Office re
-1-:4• moved to Leister'e new building, Rill street
JTvltingdon. Dan.4,'7l.
a_ L. BABE, Dentist, office in S. T.
A-A
• Brown's new building, No. 520, Hill St.,
Huntingdon, Pa. [spl2,'7l.
KGLAZIER, Notary Public, corner
• of Washington and Smith streets, Hun
tingdon, Pa. [jan.l2'7l.
AC. MADDEN, Attorney-ai r Law.
• Mee, No. —, Hill street, Huntingdon,
Pa. [ap.19,'71.
FRANKLIN SCHOCK, Attorney
r, • at-Law, HUNTINGDON, PA.
june26,'72-Gm,
JSYLVANUS BLAIR, Attorney-at
• Law, Huntingdon, Pa, Office, Hill street,
hive doors west of Smith. [jan.4'7l.
:1" R. PATTON, Druggist and Apoth
cfi • ecary, opposite the Exchange Hotel, Hun
ingdon, Pa. Prescriptions accurately compounded.
Pure Liquors for Medicinal purposes. [n0v.23,10.
T HALL MUSSER, Attorney-at-Law,
• No. 319 Hill et., Huntingdon, Pa. Dan. 4,11.
R. DIIRBORROW, Attorney-at
t., • Law, Huntingdon, Pa., will prentice in the
several Courts of Huntingdon county. Particular
attention given to the settlement of estates of deco
dents.
Offioe in he Tonnalt Building. Ifeb.l,'7l
W. MATTERN, Attorney-at-Law
J • and General Claim Agent, Huntingdon, Pa.,
Soldiers' claims against the Government for back
pay, bounty, widows' and invalid pensions attend
ed to with great care and promptness.
Office on Hill street. Lian.4,ll.
Tr ALLEN LOVELL, Attorney-at
. • Law, Huntingdon Pa. Special attention
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ment of Estates Le.; and all other Legal Business
prosecuted withfidelity and dispatch.
"Bs Office in room lately occupied by R. Milton
Spoor, Esq. [jan.4,ll.
APES ZENTMYER, Attorney-at-
Law, Huntingdon, Pa., vrill attend promptly
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building. [jan.4,'7l.
1010 M. & M. S. LYTLE, Attorneys
-A- • at-Law, Huntingdon, Pa., will attend to
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Office on the south side of Hill street, fourth door
west of Smith. Dan. 4,11.
RA. ORBISON, Attorney-at-Law,
• Office, 321 Hill street, Huntingdon. Pa.
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SCOTT, BROWN & BAILEY, At
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the Government will be promptly prosecuted.
Offioe on Hill street. Dan. 4,11.
TW. MYTON, Attorney-at-Law, Hun
• tingdon, Pa. Office with J. Sewell Stewart,
Esq. Dan.4;7l.
WI LIAM A. FLEMING, Attorney
-all-Law, Huntingdon, Pa. Special attention
given to collections, and all other I3gal business
attended to with care and promptness. Office, No.
229, Hill street. [ap19,71.
Hotels,
MORRISON HOUSE,
OPPOSITE PENNSYLVAEIA R. R. DEPOT
HUNTINGDON, PA
J. H. CLOVER, Prop.
April 5, 1871-Iy.
WASHINGTON HOTEL,
S. S. BOWDON, Prop'r.
Corner of Pitt & Juliana Sts.,Bedford, Pa. mayi.
EXCHANGE HOTEL, Huntingdon,
P. JOHN S. MILLER, Proprietor.
January 4, 1871.
Miscellaneous
COLYER & GRAHAM, PAINTERS•
Shop No. 750 Hill Street,
(2d dooi r
from S. H. Henry &
Huntingdon Pa.
will do all kind of painting cheaper than any
firm in town. Give them a call-before applying
elsewhere. lmay6m.
`ISAAC TAYLOR k CO., MANUFAC
TITRE. OP Hemlock, Pine: and Oak Bill Tim
ber and Shingles, Osceola, Clearfield county, Pa.
They make a specialty of furnishing to order all
kinds of
HEMLOCK AND BILL TIMBER.
Orders taken and any information given by
M. LOGAN, at his office, over the Union Bank,
Huntingdon, Pa.
Jan.24,1872-6mo.
A. BECK, Fashionable Barber
R• and Hairdresser, Hill street, opposite the
Franklin House. All kind. of Tonics as Pomades
kept on hand and for sale. [ap19,71-6m
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Miscellaneous
1872.
J. A. NASh,
CARPETS !! CARPETS !! CARPETS!!
SPRING STOCK.
AT LOWEST PRIG'ES !
• JAMES A. BROWN
4 constantly receiving at his 2u-te
CARPET STORE
HUNTINGDON, PA.,
5251 Hill Street.
3 i 2$ 36
1 00 65
1 65 80
00 100
Beautiful Patterns of Carpets, fresh from the
ooms of the manufacturers. His stock comprises
BRUSSELS, INGRAINS,
VENITIAN, WOOL DUTCH,
COTTAGE, HEMP,
LIST and RAG CARPETS
CARPET CHAIN,
COCOA AND CANTON MATTINGS,
FLOOR, STAIR AND TABLE
OIL CLOTHS,
and a large Block of
WALL PAPER,
Window Shades and Fixtures, Drugget, Velvet
Rugs, Door Mats, Extra Carpet Thread and Bind
ing. I make a specialty of furnishing Churches
and Lodges at City Prices, and invite Furnishing
Committees to call and see goods made expressly
for their purposes.
Buyers will save money and be better suited by
going to the regular Carpet and Oil Cloth Store,
far any of the above goods. I defy competition
in prices and variety of beautiful patterns.
I have also the Agency for the Orignal
HOWE SEWING MACHINE, IMPROVED,
so well known as the best Family Machine in the
world
Call at the CARPET STORE and eee them.
Feb. 14,1872.
W. BUCHANAN J. N. BUCHANAN.
BUCHANAN & SON.
509 HILL STREET,
HUNTINGDON, PA
We have the the largest, cheapest and best as.
sortment of
COOKING- STOVES
West of Philadelphia. We constantly keep on
Land
SPEARS',
CALORIFIC,
EXCELSIOR,
OLIVE BRANCH,
PENN,•
MORNING LIGHT,
COTTAGE,
STAR, and the
REGULATOR.
EVERY STOVE WARRANTED!
WOOD and WILLOW WARE,
JAPANESE WARE,
TIN AND PAINTED WARE,
TOLEDO PUMPS,
ETC., ETC., ETC. ETC.
Persons going to housekeeping can get every
thing they need, from a clothes pin to a cooking
stove.
ROOFING, SPOUTING JOB WORK
done at short notice. Give us a call and we feel
satisfied you cm* save money. I 0 april.
THE MERCHANT TAILORING
ESTABLISHMENT, at
.TIALL,
opposite First National 1 Is now fully prepared to
Bank Huntingdon, Pa., J make up suits which for
NEATNESS, D UIIABILIT Yawl CHEAPNESS
cannot be equaled in this county. Having just
received my
SPRING and SUMMER stock of
CLOTHS,
CASSIMERES,
VESTING,
ETC.,
I ask everybody to call and be convinced of the
fact that the most complete Merchant Tailoring
establishment is carried on at Oak Hall.
Also Ready-made clothing, for Men, Youths and
Boys. Gents Furnishing Goode,
NOTIONS,
GLOVES,
ETC., ETC.,
I invite all to call and examine my stock of
READY MADE GOODS;
they aro of the best qualities and of all grades
and patterns, and I will be able to please all with
ing anything in my line.
lmaytf. B. F. DOUGLASS.
GRAND DEPOT
FOR
NEW GOODS
D. P. GWIN
INFORMS THE PUBLIC THAT HE
HAS JUST OPENED A
SPLENDID STOOK OF NEW GOODS
CAN'T BE BEAT
IN CHEAPNESS AND QUALITY,
CALL AND SEE.
Jan. 4. '7l
FRESH ARRIVAL OF
SPRING AND SUMMER GOODS
at the Cheap Store of
BENJAMLN JACOBS,
Corner of the Diamond, in Saxton's Building
I have just received a large stook of Ladies' ele
gant Dress Goode, Gentlemene' Furnishing Goods,
Boots, Shoes, Hats and Caps of all kinds, in end
less variety, for ladies, gentlemen, misses and
children.
CARPETS,
OIL CLOTHS,
,
GROCERIES,
Coffee, Teas of all kinds, best and common Syrups,
Spices, de. Tobacco and Sugars, wholesale and
retail.
These goods will be sold as cheap, if not cheaper,
than any other house in town. "Quick sales and
small profits," is my motto.
,
Thankful for past patronage, I respectfully soli.
sit a continuance of the same.
LR. NORTON,
.1.4.
PIANOS,
For the celebrated
JEWETT & GOODMAN ORGAN,
118 Smithfield Street,
Opposite New City Hall,
(Send for Illustrated Catalogue.)
June 26, 1872-3 m.
1872.
No, I wont—thar, now so ! And it ain't nothin', no,
And thar's nary to tell that you folks yer don't
know '
And it's "Belle, tell us do?" and it's "Belle is it
•
true?
And "Wot's this yer yarn of the Major and you r
Tilt I'm sick of it all—so I am, but I s'pose
That is nothin' to you—Well, then listen ! yer
goes : •
It was after fight, and around us all night
There was poain' and shodtin' a powerful sight
And the niggers had fled, and Chlo' was abed,
And Pinky and :Billy were hid in the shed ;
And I ran out at daybreak and nothin' was nigh
But the growlin' of cannon low down in the sky.
And I saw not a thing tis I ran to the spring,
But a itplintered (eine rail and a broken-down
swing;
And a bird said "Kerebee!" as it sat on a tree,
As if it was lonesome and glad to ace ins ;
And I filled up my pail and was risin' to go,
When up comes its Major a canterin' slow.
When he raw ine he drew in his reins, and then
threw
On the gate-post his bridle, and—what does he do
But come down where I sat; and ho lifted his hat,
And he says—well thar ain't any need to tell that—
'Twas some foolishness, sure, but it 'mounted to
this,
That he asked for a drink, and he wanted—a kiss,
Then I said (I was mad.) "For the water, my lad,
You're too big and must stoop ; for a kiss, it's as
bad—
You
ain't near big enough." And I turned in a
huff,
When the Major he laid his white hand on my
•cub,
Ana he says, '•You're a trump! Take my pistol
don't fear !
Dot shoot the next man that insults you, my dear.
Then ho stooped to the pool, very quiet and cool,
Leaf in' me pith that pistol stuck there like a fool,
When thar flashed on my sight, a quick glimmer
JAMES A. DROWN.
of light
From the top of the little stone fence on the right,
And I knew it 'twos a rifle, and hack of it. all
Rosa the face of that bush-whacker, Cherokee Hail !
Then I felt in my dread that the moment the head
Of the Major was lifted, the Major was dead;
And I stood still and white, but Lord! gale, in
spite
Of my care, that darned pistol went off in my
fright!
Went off—true as gospel! and strangest of all
It actooally injured that Cherokee Ilall.
That's all—now go long. Yes, some folks thinks
it's wrong,
And thar's some wants to know to what site I be•
long:
But I says, '•Served him right!" and Igo all my
might,
In love or in war, for a fair, stand-up fight;
And as for the Major—sho! gals, don't you know
That—Lord!—thar's his step in the garden below.
I can see that day. White cumuli were
heaped over the wood tops, but the middle
sky was blue and clear. Though I was
dozing on a saloon step, this day of beauty
got even through my wavering sight. Per
haps I sat there an hour, perhaps an age,
in which the blinks I got wore the recur
ring days.
It suddenly occurred to me that such a
long continuance of fine weather ought to
be enjoyed more actively. But the world
whirls, as everybody knows. I mumbled
a number of jokes on nature as I staggered
abroad. After a tiresome journey, I came
upon an alley and a group of boys travel
ing through a game of marbles on their
knees like penitents stumping through
Jerusalem. And in their midst was Billy.
Billy was a noble looking boy. I paused
and tried to get into position to look at
him. I felt a maudlin pride in Billy. He
had Nora's blue eyes. (Blessed Nora !
She was gone where she couldn't be cursed
any more, poor little broken-hearted thing.)
As Billy photographed himself in my
eyes, his bright hair blowing, his lusty
fingers gouging a pit for his marble, the
contrast between what he and I were born
to be and what we were, struck me like a
bullet.
HOSIERY,
ETC., ETC.
_____
I had tried to reform. 0, yes. And
every failure was a link in my chain. I
was utterly given over to the snakes and
furies.
Now, here was Bill walking in my va
grant steps—a vicious Arab in beautiful
Cacansian guise.
"Say, Bill," begged one of the tribe,
casting a covetous eye on his industrious
jaws, "let me chew your wax awhile."
"There! you can take it and keep it; I
don't want it no more."
While I stood in drunken dolor against
the fence, the group whirled up suddenly
into a maelstrom, the centre to which they
were all sucked was a steadfast rock with
churning fists and a yellow top.
"Bill !" I shouted in fury; "come here,
you young scoundrel !"
Hearing my voice over the broil, he
dashed through the boys and came, crying,
bloody and ruffled.
"What are you fighting about ?" I ask
ed, standing in tremulous judgment over
him.
THAT
"I can't tell you,
father," he answered,
bravely. What ! Even the boy despised
and dared me, I lifted my hand and felt
that I could kill him.
"Take that, then, and that, you little
wretch ! I'll show you how to be a bully
and turn against your own father !"
My muscular hand brought a frightful
blood gush eut of his bruised face. I
thought he should feel that his father was
a solid man in one respect, if the rest of
my body was a mass of moist wretchedness.
The boy, the boy. I groan when I re
member it.
D. P. GWIN.
"Oh, don't, father," he begged, wring
ing his dirty little hands. "Oh, father,
please don't strike me, and I'll tell you all
about it. The boys said you was a drunk
en old bloat, and I'll fight anybody that
calls you that, father; I will if you killme
for it."
I sat prone down upon the ground. That
was the hardest blow I ever had.
"Get up," father," said Billy, casting a
look of bloody and warlike glance behind
him, "and I'll help you along."
I took hold of him, but a weakness not
born of rum kept ma at his cracked, stub
by little feet. There was no one in the
world who cared whether I rose or went
on down but him. He cared. I put my
arms around the boy and cried against him.
No more drunken, glazing repentance for
me. Every tear was bard as a pearl with
resolution. The good Christ appeared
that instant in His love and long suffering,
through the boy, as plainly as He appear
ed to the dying Sir Launfal through the
leper. When on earth He was always
going about picking. up the abominable,
and since He left the earth He sends for
them by messengers they cannot help
knowing.
Men should respect in me that spark
which the boy respected. I would show
him what a grand, overmastering thing is
that soul which the God of glory values.
"Don't cry, father," requested Billy,
while he ceased not to paint bloody sun
Dealer lit
AND STATE AGENT
PITTSBURGH, PA:
gitt cuoto' ~~►u~.
The Idyl Battle Hollow
(War of the rebellion, 1101.)
Ely *erg-Uglier,
THE BOY.
HUNTINGDON, PA., AUGUST 14, 1872.
rise on his face. Better than a sunrise
was that little face to me His eyes look
ed blue and snore heaven-like than thesky.
"Do you love your father ?" I asked,
holding to him like a woman.
"Yes,. sir ; I'll lick anybody that calls
you names," the bright, tender firmaments
in his face gushing with another shower.
A horizontal hail of mud and pebbles
hit us while he was speaking. Billy rear
ed up like a charger snuffing the battle
.afar off. But I made him retreat from the
enemy's lines.
When the boy and I:were laid at night
in a low tavern, which was our only home,
I asked with my face turned from him:
"Billy, will you help your father to try
once more?" 1.1/son which he jumped up
and pumped my arm with all the vigor
and familiarity that the street had put in
him.
"Yes, sir-ce ! I will that, you bet !"
vowed Billy.
A few minutes after he subsided I heard
his soft breath going in and, out the doors
of his lips in regular cadences. While he
slept and started up to fight his skirmishes
over, I flogged my weak brain to work and
plan.
When I •look back at that wretch in
soiled tavern sheets •glaring into the dark
ness with watery eyes my legs tremble un
der me, though they have One stoutly
these many years. It was such a very
straight path up from that place, and•l
come so near falling time after time.
The next day I got work on the railroad.
From thegutter I could not go directly
back to the bar, since drunkenness is one
of the vices which is not tolerated in law
yers. It was hard to shovel dirt in the
hot sun. I sat down half fainting. A
good natured Patrick came e slowly with a
bottle and bade me "whist at it," which I
put forth the will to do—like a wild beast
—when Billy swooped down from a pass
ing freight and squared himself before that
Irishman, while the very tatters at his
elbow bristled with wrath.
"Look here, now," threatened he, send
ing the bottle over the track, "if you get
my father to driakin' again I'll kick you."
After I had delved awhile Billy had a
new suit, a set of books and school privil
eges. Then a situation as copyist was
opened to me. The boy and I fell into
the habit of striking hands and going to
church on a Sunday. Some of my old
friends began to notice me. Oh, I tell
you, it makes a man's heart swell like a
green bulb to have an honest hand come
seekino. his.
Finally I got into practice. Sometimes
the thirst came on me, and I stormed up
and down in my office, and twisted little
locks of hair as if the curse hung to the
roots of that. Once I locked•the door and
threw out the key and was a prisoner till
my associates came.
Passing a saloon, one evil time, the
clinking of glasses and the breath of mine
enemy penetrated my senses. That saloon
door sucked me just half way in, when I
was shocked through my coat-skirts and
quite knocked into the street.
"Here, father," pleaded Billy, charging
me with a second jerk, "come out of this,
come out of this; we're going to make men
Of ourselves, father."
"Yes, men, Billy," I subscribed. So
I did not run into the side track - because
I had such a faithful tender.
Coming up socially, often does much for
a man morally. Causes multiplied, and I
seemed to grow with my trust. The boy
and I had smart lodgings up town. He
rose in school. I was so proud orhim.
I've heard how women love their chil
dren with close, peculiar devotion. I think
I must have loved him with a mother's
love. There is no other way of expressing
how near the boy was to me.
When he came from school and met me
on the streets he was often carrying the
satchel of a smooth-haired, dark-eyed girl,
to ',whom he would exclaim, as he loyally
touched his cap, "That's my father !" with
such a proud accent that the blood leaped
in my veins.
Oh, my good fellow, it is a glorious day
for you when your child is proud of you
We live altogether now—Billy, his
dark-haired Nora, the little rowdies and I
—in a house with no end of verandas and
vines. The respectable handle of Judge
is set to my name, but Billy's children,
who give the echo to his former street
training, stand in no more awe of it than
they do of the venerable Roman handle to
my countenance. We tumble like wild
colts on the grass. But they have no idea
that their ancestor ever lay in a lower bed.
Blessed be enduring love !
I think often I may be in my dotage,
for quiet matron Nora often looks up from
her baby in surprise at my walking the
veranda and maundering in a sort of ec
stacy: "The boy ! the boy."
Bin Campaigu.
LETTER FROM SPEAKER BLAINE
Sumner Co-operating with Jeff. Davis
Greeley Leaguing with Tammany.
WASHINGTON, August 2.—The follow
ing letter was handed to Senator Sumner
to-day :
AUGUSTA, ME., July 31,1872.
Hon. Charles Sumner, United States
Senator—Dear Sir : Your letter, publish
ed in the papers of this morning, will
create profound pain and regret among
your former political friends throughout
New England. Your power to injure Gen.
Grant was exhausted in your remarkable
speech in the Senate. Your power to in
jure yourself was not fully exercised until
you announced open alliance with South
ern secessionists in their efforts to destroy
the Republican party of the nation.
I have bat recently read with much in
terest the circumstantial and minute ac
count given by you, in the fourth volume
of House works, of the manner in which
you were struck down in the Senate cham
ber, in 1856, for defending the rights of
the negro. The Democratic party through
out the South, and, according to your own
showing, to some extent in the North also,
approved of that assault upon you. Mr.
Toombs, of Georgia, openly announced his
approval of it in the Senate, and Jefferson
Davis, four months after its ocourrence,
wrote a letter to South Carolina in ful
-1 some eulogy of Brooks of having so nearly
taken your life. It is safe to say every
man in the South who rejoiced over the
attempt to murder you was afterward found
in the rebel conspiracy to murder the na
tion. It is still safer to say that every
one of them who survives is to-day your
fellow-laborer in support of Horace Greeley.
In 1856 he would indeed have been a rash
prophet who predicted your fast alliance
sixteen years after with Messrs. Toombs
and Davis in their efforts to reinstate their
own party in power. In all the startling
mutations of American politics nothing so
marvelous has ever occurred as the fellow
ship of Robert Toombs, Jefferson Davis
and Charles Sumner in a joint effort to
drive the Republican party from power
and hand over tha government to the prac
tical control of those who so recently sought
to destroy it,
It is of no avail fur you to take refuge
behind the Republican record of Horace
Greeley. Conceding, for the sake of ar
gument, as I do not in fact believe, that
Horace Greeley would remain firm in his
Republican principles, he would be pow
erless against the Congress that would come
into power with him in the event of his
election. We have had a recent and stri
king illustration, in the case of Andrew
Johnson, of the inability of the President
to enforce a policy, or even a measure,
against the will of Congress. What more
power would there be in Horace Greeley
to enforce.the Republican policy against a
Democratic Congress than there was in
Andrew Johnson to enforce the Democratic
policy against a Republican Congress ?
And besides, Horace Greeley has already,
in his letter of acceptance , taken ground
practically against the Republican doctrine,
so often enforced by yourself, of the duty
of the National Government to secure the
rights of every citizen to the protection of
life, person and property. In Mr. Greeley's
letter of accepting the Cincinnati nomina
tion he pleases every Ku-Klux villain in
the South by repeating the Democratic
cant about loyal self-government, and in
veighing in good rebel parlance against
centralization, and finally declaring that
there shall be no federal subversion of the
internal policy of the several Slates and
municipalities, but that each shall be left
free to enforce the rights and promote
the well-being of its inhabitants by such
mesas as the judgment of its own people
shall prescribe. The meaning of all this,
in plain English, is that no matter how
the colored citizens of the South may be
abused, wronged and oppressed, Congress
shall not interfere for their protection, but
leave them to tender mercies of local self
government administered by white rebels.
Do you, as a friend to the colored man, ap
prove this position of Mr. Greeley ?
You cannot forget, Mr. Sumner, how of
ten during the late session of Congress
you conferred with ma in regard to the
possibility of having your civil rights bill
passed by the House. It was introduced
by your personal friend, Mr. Hooper, and
nothing prevented its passage by the House
except the rancorous and factious hostility
of the Democratic members. If I have
correctly examined the Globe, Democratic
members on seventeen different occasions
resisted the passage of the civil rights bill
by the parliamentary process known as
"filibustering." They would not even al
low it to come to a vote. Two intelligent
colored members from South Carolina,
Elliot and Rainey, begged of the Demo
cratic side of the house to merely allow
the civil rigths bill to be voted on, and
they were answered with a denial so abso
lute that it amounted to a scornful jeer of
the rights of the colored man. And now
Y9,3And your voice and influence to the
re-election of these Democratic members,
who are co-oprating with you in support of
Mr. Greeley.
Do you nct know, Mr. Sumner, and
will you not, as a candid man, acknowl
edge that with these men in power in Con
gress the rights of the colored men are
absolutely sacrificed, so far as these rights
depend on federal legislation ? Still fur
ther, the rights of colored men in this
country are secured, if secured at all, by
the great constitutional amendments, the
Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth. To
give these amendments full scope and ef
fect legislation by Congress is imperative
ly required, as you have so often and so
eloquently demonstrated. But the Dem
ocratic party are on record in a most con
spicuous manner against any legislation on
the subject, and it was only in the month
of February last that my colleague, Mr.
Peters, offered a resolution in the House
of Representatives, affirming the validity
of the constitutional amendments, and of
such reasonable legislation of Congress as
may be necessary to make them in their
letter and spirit most effectual. This.res
elution, very mild and guarded as you
will see, was adopted by 124 yeas to 58
nays. Only eight of the yeas were Demo
crats. All the nays were Democrats. The
resolution of Mr. Peters was followed, a
week later, by one offered by Mr. Steven
son, of Ohio, as follows :
"Resolved, That we recognize as valid and binding all
existing laws passed by Congress for the enforcement of
the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments of
the Constitution of the United States, and for the protect
ion of citizens in their, rights under the Constitution as
amended."
On the vote upon this resolution there
were 107 yeas to G 5 nays. All the yeas
were Republicans, and they are unanimous
in support of General Grant. All the nays
were Democrats, who are note equally unan
imous in support of Mi.. Greeley.
. .
It is idle to affirm, as some Democrats
did in the resolution offered by Mr. Brooks,
of New York, that "these amendments are
valid parts of the Constitution," so long
as the same men, on the same day, voted
that the provisions of these amendments
should not be enforced by Congressional
legislation. The amendments are but.
sounding brass and tinkling cymbals to
the colored man until Congress makes
them effective and practical.
Nay, more. If the rights of the colored
man are to be left to the legislation of the
Southern States without congressional in
tervention, he would under a Democratic
administration be deprived of the right of
suffrage in less than two years, and he
would be very lucky if he escaped some
form of chattel slavery or peonage. And
in proof of this danger I might quote vol
umes of wisdom and warning from the
speeches of Charles Sumner. When,
therefore, you point out to a colored man
that their rights will be safe in the bands
of the Democratic party, you delude and
mislead them. Ido not say wilfully, but
none the less really. The small handful
of Republicans, compared with the whole
mass, who unite with yourself, and Mr.
Greeley, in going over to the Democratic
party, cannot leaven that lump of political
unsoundness, even if you preserve your
own original principles intact.
The administration of Mr. Greeley,
therefore, should he be elected, will be in
whole and in detail a Democratic adminis
tration, and you would be compelled to go
with the current, or repent and turn back,
when too late to amend the evil yon had
done.
Your argument that• Hoface Greeley
does not become a Democrat by receiving
Democratic votes,,illustrating it by an an
alogy of your own election to the Senate,
is hardly pertinent. The point is not
what Mr. Greeley will become personally,
but what will be the complexion of the
great legislative branch of the. Government,
with all its vast and controlling power.
You know very well, Mr. Sumner, that if
Mr. Greeley is elected President, Congress
is handed over to the control of the party
who have persistently denied the rights
of the black man. What course you will
pursue toward the colored man is of small
consequence, after you have transferred
the power of the government to his cue
_
'The colored men of this country are
not as a class enlightened, but they have
wonderful instincts, and when they read
your letter they will know that a great
crisis arises in their fate. You have de
serted them ! Charles Sumner, co-opera
ting with Jefferson Davis, is not the same
Charles Sumner they have hitherto idoli
zed, any more than Horace Greeley, cheer
ed to the echo in Tammany Hall, is the
same Horace Greeley whom Republicans
have hitherto trusted. The black men of
this country will never be ungrateful for
what you have done for theui in the past,
nor in the bitterness of their hearts will
they ever forget that, heated and blinded
by personal hatred of one man, you turn
ed your back on the millions before whom
in past years you have stood as a shield
and bulwark of defense.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant.
JAMES G. BLAINE.
GEN. DIX DECLARES FOR GRANT.
His Reasons for Opposing Greeley,
WESTHAMPTON, July 27, 1872.
DEAR SIR : Your letter of the 13th
inst., asking my aid to procure a speaker
for a Greeley meeting at Hancock, was sent
to me while I was in New England, and I
have been unable until now to acknowledge
its reception. Ido not understand on what
ground you considered yourself authorized
to address such a request to me. If you
had been familiar with the course of my
public life, and equally so with Mr.
Greeley's, you could not have supposed me
capable of 'advocating his election to the
office of President of the United States
without imputing to me an utter abandon
ment of all political principle. I am op
posed to Mr. Greeley :
1. Because I believe him to be as " unstable as
water," perpetually floundering (to carry out the
Scriptural figure) amid the surges of opinion,
and
deficient in all the requisites essential to a firm,
steady, and consistent administration of the Gov
ernment.
2. BCCallee he has usually been found amonge
the most extreme ultraists on the great questions of
political and social duty, which have been broaght
under public., discussion during the last quarter of
a century.
" '" ' ' " •
3. &Anse ho has been the advocate (and in this
instance persistently), of that most unjust and un
equal commercial system, which is destroying our
mercantile and shipping interests and heaping up
enormous accumulations of wealth in the hands of
the protected classes to the oppression and impov
erishment of all others.
4. Because he is associated, in relations more or
less intimate, with some of the chief plunderers of
the City of New York, justly warranting the appre
hension that through his complicity or his facile
disposition, the same system of fraud and corrup
tion which has disgraced the Municipal govern
ment of this city may be carried to more infamous
extremes in the admiuistration of the Federal
Government; and,
5. Because in the darkest hour of the country's
peril, when a traitorous combination had been form
ed to overthrow the Government, he openly coun
seled the cowardly policy of non-rosistance, and an
acquiescence in the dissolution of the Union when
ever the cotton States should make up their minds
to go.
- -
The coalition, which has been formed
to promote his election, is one of the most
extraordinary in the history of parties, in
respect both to the discordant elements it
embraces and the surrender of principles it
involves. The Cincinnati Convention,
called to bring before the people important
measures of reform, nominated him, greatly
to the surprise of the whole country, know
ing him, in regard to one of those measures,
to be an implacable opponent—nominated
him, too, against the wishes and judgment
of the chief promoters of the movement,
who accepted him either with an avowed
or an ill-concealed disgust, which would
be far more creditable to their feelings if
the act of acceptance were not latterly ir
reconcilable with their principles. The
Democratic Convention at Baltimore in
dorsed and commended him to the support
of their party—not as the exponent of any
principles they have professed or any
measures they have advocated, but as a
known and bitter opponent of both—the
man who, perhaps, of all others, has been
the most malignant assailant of the Democ
racy, impeaching its integrity, traducing its
motives and vilifying its character. The
adoption ofsuch a man as their candidate
for the chief Magistracy of the Union is
the most conspicuous abandonment of po
litical principles known to party contests.
It remains to be seen whether the greatbody
of the Democratic voters, and the true
friends of reform, can be made parties to
this unscrupulous coalition between political
leaders.
That Gen. Grant has committed mistakes
his most sincere friends admit. But if his
errors had peen four-fold more numerous,
he would, in my opinion, be a much safer
Chief Magistrate than Mr. Greeley. He
has, in that capacity, done much for which
he deserves the thanks of the country.
Above all, he has kept it at peace, notwith
standing the efforts of sensation journals
and popularity-seeking politicians to pro
voke hostilities with Spain on the question
of Cuba, and with Great Britain on the
Alabama Claims and the fisheries. If,
regardless of these titles to the approval of
his fellow citizens, and of his invaluable
services during the late civil war, they
should set him aside for Mr. Greeley; if the
latter, a mere erratic politician, untried in
any important public trust, should be ele
vated to the Chief Magistracy of the Union
—a Union which would not now exist if
his counsels had been followed—and if the
man who, of all others, has done the most
to preserve it should be discarded for a suc
cessor so ill qualified and so unscrupulously
nominated and sustained, the example
would be most deplorable in its influence
on all high motives to political action, and
justify the most painful forebodings as to
the future. lam respectfully yours,
JOHN. A. Dix..
A. B. Cornwell, Esq. Hancock, N. Y.
_
Voting for the Piebald Candidate,
The Fort Dodge 21essenger has been
looking over the list of backbone Greeley
men, and publishes it as follows :
"Jeff. Davis says vote for Greeley ; the
pirate Raphael Semmes says vote for Gree
ley; the butcher and cold-blooded mur
derer, N. B. Forrest, says vote for Gree
ley; the thieving rebel Beauregard says
vote for Greeley; the guerrilla Jeff. Thomp
son says vote for Greeley. Every rebel
General, Colonel. Major, Captain and
Lieutenant, with few - exceptions, says vote
for Greeley. Noyes, the free lover, says
vote for Greeley. Every cowardly, stay
at-home, fire-in-the-rear Copperhead of the
North says vote for Greeley. Every Mor
mon in Utah says vote for Greeley. Gree
ley Republicans, how do you like your
company Recollect you cannot train
with skunks without carrying . away more
or lass of the stench."
The Two Candidates
When General Hartranft was fighting.
the battles of his country and carrying ou?
starry banner victoriously forward over its
foes, Mr. Buckalew, seated in fat offices
and luxuriating on velvet cushions, was
busy hatching schemes, not only to prevent
the extension of suffrage, but to take it
away from those already qualified by the
laws of the land to vote. When troops
were to be mustered into service or when
their pay was to be increased, the aristo
cratic Buckalew lent no voice in their fa
vor. His vote was hostile to every war
Measure, and his counsel was uniformly
against the country. The activities of the
man seem only to have been stirred when
the anti-draft confederacy of Fishing Creek
called upon him as a counselor and adjutant.
While John F. Hartranft, as Auditor
General, was busy defending the honor of
the State from attacks by greedy swindlers,
while he was elevating our credit, and in
sisting upon economy in the expenditures
of public money, Mr. Buckalew was enga
ged as chairman of the committee in the
M'Clure-Gray contest, in hoisting into
power a corrupt Democratic Senator, at an
expense to the taxpayers of the State of
$26,066 11.
As chairman of that committee he had
a casting voice in all its deliberations, and
absolute control of its conclusions, so that
he is directly responsible for thisshameful
extravagance. Had the motive been wor
thy, there might have been some excuse
for him, bift the expenditure was wholly
in the interest of a Democratic c.ibal, which
had determined on securing a majority, at
whatever cost.
Honest men incline to the belief that
the above mentioned contest need not have
cost more than $6,000 or $8.009. Yet he
recommended the payment of nearly $20,-
000 above the amount actually needed to
carry on the investigation. If the three
Republicans on that committee gave sanc
tion to this swindle they were equally guil
ty with Mr. Buckalew and his three Dem
ocratic conspirators and deserve censure.—
But as in all such cases the majority must
assume the responsibility, we here arraign
the spokesman of that majority, and the
man who had it in his power to defeat all
extravagant outlays, for virtually filching
from th treasury the sum of $20,000.
This man is the candidate of the Demo
cratic party for the highest office in the
gift of the people of Pennsylvania, and his
admirers are continually prating about his
wonderful honesty, his unimpeachable in
tegrity, has abhorrence of political corrup
tion, and his desire to "inaugurate an
economical administration in political af
fairs" in the Commonwealth.
Has he shown himself to be such a
man ? On the contrary, has he not shown
himself to be unworthy of honest support ?
After understanding his action in this
committee business, the decision cannot be
withheld that he is not fit to be entrusted
with the highest interest in the State.—
Lancaster Daily Examiner.
Campaign Mottoes by Greeley
"Grant and his policy deserves the very
highest credit."—Horace Greeley.
"The people of the United States know
General Grant—have known all about him
since Donebon and Vicksburg ; they do not
know his slanderers and do not care to know
them."—Horace Greeley.
"While asserting the right of every Re
publican to his untrammeled choice 'of a
candidate for next President until a nomin
ation is made. I venture to suggest that
General Grant will be far better qualified
for that momentous trust in 1872 than he
was in 1868."—Horace Greeley.
"We are led by him who first taught
our enemies to conquer in the West, and
subsequently in the East also. Richmond
would not come to us until we sent Grant
after it, and then it had to come. He has
never yet been defeated and never will be.
Ht will be as great and successful on the
field of polities as oa that of arms."—Hor
ace Greeley.
"A Democratic national triumph means
a restoration to power of those who deserted
their seats in Congress and their places un
der the last Democratic President to plunge
the country into the Red sea of secession
and rebellion. Though yon paint an inch
thick, to this complexion you must come at
last. The brain, the heart, the soul of the
present Democratic party is the rebel ele
ment at the South, with its northern allies
and sympathizers."—llorace Greeley.
Yes; Gen. Grant has failed to gratify
some eager aspirations, and has thereby in
curred some intense hatreds. These do not
and will not fail, and his Administration
will prove at least equally vital. We shall
hear lamentation after lamentation over his
failures from those whose wish is father to
the thought; but the American people let
them pass unheeded. Their strong arm
bore him triumphantly through the war
and into the White House and they still
uphold and sustain him ; they never failed
and never will.—Horace Greeley.
Buokalew on Hartranft,
Shortly after the selection of General
Hartranft as the candidate for Governor,
by the Harrisburg Convention, a reliable
citizen of our own county met with Mr.
Buckalew when the conversation naturally
turned upon the nomination. In the
course of the brief interview • Mr. Bucka
lew, took occasion to speak in the highest
terms of Gen. Hartranft, saying that he
knew him well, both as a public officer and
as a man—that as Auditor General he had
showed himself a most faithful, upright,
efficient and accommodating officer, and
would make an excellent Governor. This
was said by Mr. Buckalew before he was
or even expected to be, nominated as the
opposing candidate, when he had no mo
tive to give any other than a candid opin
ion. For this reason, as an indorsement
of the honesty and capacity of Gen. Hart
ranft, it is all the stronger. Those Dem
ocrats, therefore, who charge our candi
date with dishonesty ought to bear in
mind that his integrity is vouched for by
Mr. Buckalew himself— Washington Re
porter.
That Bitter Pill.
The Atlanta Constitution thinks it is
about time for the Democratic supporters
of the Tammany candidate to cease the
statement that taking the piebald candi
date is a "bitter pill." and that he is the
"choice of evils." The Columbus, (Ga.)
Sun responds that the painful declarations
complained of are but the echo of many
Greeleyite papers at this time, and says :
"We give it to our readers to prove that
when we have taken the first step from
principle and entered the labyrinths of
crooked and rotten policy we are soon
hopelessly lost. We may struggle, but we
struggle in vain to recover the way from
which we have originally departed."
NO. 32
Emiglvo' ato.
Letter from Illinois.
PRINCETON, June 20, 1872,
EDITOR On THE JOURNAL.-We left New Ulna
on the morning of June 14th, and arrived here
on the evening of the next day. We came
through lowa on the Central Illinois Railroad,
by way of Dubuque and Mendota. Dubuque
is the largest, and most business town that
we passed on this route. It is a very pretty
town, is situated on the Mississippi river. The
main business part of the town is built. on a
level with the river, while the over-looking
bluffs are occupied by elegant residences with
tastefully arranged grounds and walks. Popu
lation 18,000.
Princeton is the capitol of Bureau county ;
has a population of 4,000. It was first settled
by a colony from New England. Blocks of
fine business houses, and large stores attest
the commercial prosperity of the town. There
are many beautiful private residences here
with yards and pleasure grounds attached,
decorated with flowers and ornamental trees
that certainly exhibit a great deal of taste and
refinement, while their churches and school
houses are a credit to the county, and might
be a subject of just pride to the citizens.
Their high school building cost $600,00; it is a
beautiful structure, with some ten acres of
pleasure grounds very tastefully enclosed,
and decorated with trees and flowers. The
court house is also a very fine building.. cost
ing $40,000 rith yard thickly set with silver
maple trees. They bare eleven churches, a
number of them fine buildings, all manifesting
the taste and refinement of the citizens. We
hope there are many good 'christians here as
well as churches.
Some years ago the old settlers of Bur :au
county formed a society called the "Old Set
tlers' Society." We had the pleasure to-eay,
attending one of these meetings. The object
of which, (as we learned), is to keep in mem
ory the difficulties of pioneer life, and to ren
der to those old veterans the respect due them
for the trials and dangers they had to endure
in first settling the country.
The meeting was attended by soma 800 poi
sons, a number of the old settlers were pres
ent, many of them with heads as white as
snow. Mr. John Dixon was introduced to the
meeting, as one of the oldest living, of the old
setlers, 88 years of age. The friends of Mr.
and Mrs. Charles S. Boyd, (the first settlers in
Bureau county), on this occasion presented
Mr. Boyd, with a gold beaded cane, and Mrs.
Boyd with a splendid silver service, through
respect, and in commemoration of the .58th
anniversary of their marriage.
The articles were presented in an able
speech by Gen. T. J. Henderson. Among
other things, ho said : "Venerable couple
What thoughts must agitate your minds on an
occasion like this. In looking back over your
long and eventful lives, how many memories
of the years that have fled since you were
united in marriage, must be to-day thrilling
your hearts with emotions too deep for utter
ance. You were both born in the very infan
cy of this now proud republic. At the time
of your marriage, fifty-eight years ago, we had
made but little progress as a nation. Fifty
two years ago when you landed in Illinois, it
had just been admitted as a State into the
Union, and in all that part df the State north
of Springfield, there was scarcely a white in
habitant, other than Indian traders or trap
pers," and again: "It is right and proper for .
us to honor these old pioneers, who have oc
cupied the outposts of civilization and prog
ress. They '.lvelsorne the heat and burden
of the day. They have 'subdued the wilder
ness and made it to bloom like a rose.' And
we must not, we cannot forget them." He
said, "he loved the memories of pioneer life,
the old-fashioned, simple ways and manners
of our fathers and mothers. It is a sweet
memory to me—the old sun-bonnet, the linsey
woolsey dress, the checkered apron, which our
mothers and sweethearts—God bless them—
used to wear. I love to think of the generous
hospitality, of the warm friendship, the old
fashioned visits of those early days, when our
mothers took their knitting along and stopped
all day." The old gentleman in return made
801310 interesting remarks. Spoke of his early
marriage, and said he had no coat to get mar
ried in, or money to pay the preacher,and had
to borrow a coat for the occasion, and the
money to pay the preacher his fee. Referring
to his wife, he said "he would not have mar
ried so soon, but Betsy was pretty good look
ing, and he feared if he didn't marry her, some
one would gobble her up." Said it just took
him seventy-two days to reach the Sangamon
river from New York. Another old gentleman
said when he came to Bureau county, there
were only two white families in Chicago, and
when lie commenced building his cabin, he
had to ride twenty miles without a saddle tc
borrow an axe. Several poems were compo
sed for the occasion and sung bythe choir, and
a number of pieces of music were discoursed
by the Princeton Cornet Band. This meeting
was very interesting to us, as we learned some
facts about pioneer life that we could not have
gotten in any other way. M.
Letter from Indiana ,
LOGANSPORT, Ind., Aug. 1, 1872.
EDITOR JOURNAL:—Upon a peninsula between
the Wabash and Eel rivers is located thefiour
ishing city of Logansport, numbering 12,000
inhabitants, the county seat of Cass, whose
soil is scarcely surpassed for fertility by any
county in the State, abounding in springs and
brooks, and furnished with an abundant sup
ply of hydraulic power. A very large portion
of the soil of this county is rich alluvial or
cotton lands. Eel riper unites with the Wa
bash at this place. It is one of the best mill
streams in the West. The once famous Wa
bash and Erie Canal, the great chain of com
munication uniting and commingling the wat
ers of Lake Erie and the Gulf of Mexico, passes
through this place. There are five different
railroads here—the Toledo, Wabash and West
ern ; Toledo, Louisville and Burlington ; Chi
cago, Cincinnati ; and the Columbus. The
three latter named aro owned, since last fall,
by the Pennsylvania Central. It is but a short
time since the entire Wabash Valley wag a
vast wilderness; since the Indian hunter
roamed through these primeval forests undis
turbed by the presence of the pale face. Now
that all-pervailing spirit of modern enterprise
has waived over the mighty forest her magic
wand, and beautiful villages, towns and cities
appear, with cultivated farms, teeming with as
industrious, intelligent population, enjoying
all the advantages of canals, railroads and turn
pikes, in the full tide of successful operation.
The earliest white settlement in Cass county
was in 1828. One hundred and twenty-four years
later Vincennes on the lower Wabash was
settled by French soldiers of Louis XIV,
who, in 1702, came here from Canada.—
In the peace concluded between France and
England in 1763, this region of country
came into the possession of the English, but
in the Revolutionary War the descendants of
France took part with the Americans. For
their loyalty, Congress confirmed them in their
titles to their homes. The Indian agency was
removed from Ft. Wayne. (which is 72 miles
east of Logansport,) to this place by General
Tipton, in 1826 or 1827, and settlements soon
followed. In 1830 the county contained 1,162
and in 1870, 24,193 inhabitants. Logansport
at this time contains more people than the
entire county contained in 1850, and the cause
of its prosperity is found in its manufactur
ing industries. Not to speak of others a sin
gle Railroad disburses here upwards of forty
thousand dollarsl month to its employees.
There are here large and commodious Cotton,
Tobacco, and Spoke Factories, Oil, Planing
and Flour mills, all of which do a flourishing
business, and thereby materially aid in build
ing up, and improving the city, which is des
tined, at no distant day, to rate second to but
one, if any, in the State. But, Mr. Editor, I
will not now go into detail about the pros
perity or natural advantages of our city or
State, but desire to inform the many readers
of your valuable paper in the romantic and
good old county of fluntingdp, what a sen
sation the nomination of "Honest Old Horace"
is creating in our midst. Cass county has
usually gone Democratic by about 300 major
ity, but judging from the enthusiasm at the
many large Grant and Wilson meetings I
have attended since here, and the want of it
at the Greeley and Brown meetings, it seems
evident that the Democrats find great difficul
ty in trying to swallow "Honest Greeley"
and many declare the pill is too bitter, and
to them too odious to digest, with all the
sugar coating that the advocats of the adora
ble can pile on. Yours, &C., BARTON'.