The Huntingdon Journal, J. R. DURBORROW, HUNTINGDON, PENN'S, Wednesday Morning, August 28,1872 , REPUBLICAN NATIONAL TICKET. FOR PRESIDENT, General ULYSSES S. GRANT, OF ILLINOIS, FOR VICE-PRESIDENT, Honorable HENRY WILSON, OF MASSACHUSETTS. ELECTORS. J. M. Thompson , Butler' Philadelphia. :ICTATIVE. 14. John Pasemore. 15. W. J. Colegrove. 16. Jesse Merrill. 11. Henry Orlady. IS. Robert Bell. 19. J. M, Thompson. 20. Isaac Frasier. 21. Gee. W. Andrews. 22. Henry Lloyd. 23. John J. Gillepsie. 24. Jones Patterson. 25. John W. Wallace. 26. Charles C. Boyle. SENATI Adolph E. Boric, Phila. I. Joseph A. Bonham. 2. Marcus A. Davis. 3. G. Morrison Coates. 4. Henryßninm. 5. Theo: M. Wilson. 6. John M. Bromall. 7. Francis Shroeder. 5, Mark H. Richards. 5. Edward H. Green. la. D. K. Shoemaker. 11. Daniel R. Miller. 12. Leander M. 13. Theodore Strong. REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET. FOR GOVERNOR, Cen. JOHN F. HARTRANFT, OP MONTGOMERY COUNTY. FOR SUPREME JUDGE, Judge ULYSSES MERCUR, OF B: IRD COUNTY. IWAUDITOR GENERAL, :ral HARRISON ALLEN, OF WARREN COUNTY. FOR CONGRESSMEN AT LARGE, Gen. LEMUEL TODD, of Cumberland. Hon. GLENNI W. SCOFIELD, Warren. Gen CHARLES A. ALBRIGHT, Carbon. F,r Delegates at Large to the Wm. 111. Meredith, Philadelphia; J. Gillingham Fell, Philadelphia; Harry White, Indiana; William Lilly, Carbon; Linn Bartholomew, Schuylkill; H. N. :WAWA ter, Centre; William IL Armstrong, Lycoming ; William Davis, Lucerne; James L Reynolds, Lancaster; Samuel E. Dimmick, Wayne; George V. Lawrence, Washington ; David N. White, Allegheny; W. H. Arney, Lehigh; John 11. Walker, Erie. REPUBLICAN DISTRICT TICKET. For Congress : A. L. Gass, of Huntingdon county. [Subjeet to the decision of theDietrict Conference.] For Delegate to Constitutional Convention : Dr. John IrCulloch, of Huntingdon. [Subject to the decision of the District Conference.] REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET. For Assembly Franklin H. Lane, of Shirleysburg. For Prothonotary : Thomas W. Myton, of Huntingdon. For Register and Recorder: William Lightner, of West township. For District Attorney : H. C. Madden, of Huntingdon. For County Commissioner David Hare, of Porter township_ For Director of the Poor : Michael H. Hyper, of Shirley township. For Auditor : Barton Green, of Barree township. Republican County . Ccmmittee. _4lexandria Bt r.—D. B. Henderson, Dr. Geo. W. Hewitt. Barret—James Stewart, Henry Conpropet. Brady—ll. H. Matcer, Dr. Samuel M'Carthey. Broad 21. p City—Henry Cook, C. K. Horton. Birmingham—Joseph Madsou, Capt. S. T. M'Cahan. Carbon—A. R. M'Carthy, Samuel Donelson. Cass—Jacob Chilcote, George Smith. 02.1sriUs Bor—Amon W. Brown, James G. Corbin. Clay—S. L. Glasgow, Adam Heeter. Cromwell—twin M. Hawey, John Kelly. ibalmont Bor—Richard Owens, George A. Heaton. Dublin—Wm. Clymans, David Peterson. Franklin—David Cunrod, D. M. Thompson. Henderson—David Grove, George W. Miller. Hopewell—Jackson Enyeart, Wm. Heater. Huntingdon, Bast Ward—R. A. Lovell, Robert King. •• West Ward—Alex. Elliott, S. T. Brown. Jackson—Th.)lms F. Shipton, George M'Alevy. Juniata—Wm. E. Corbin, Isaac Heffner. Lincoln—Joseph Detwiler, George W. Shouts. Mapleton—A. W. Swoope, Samuel Park. Morris—John K. Templeton, James H. Davis. Mt, Union Bor—John S. Bare, Elias K. Rodgers. Mt. Union, Dist—David Snyder, Wm. P. Patton. Oneida—Robert M'Divitt, James Green. Orbisonia Bor.—Thomas M. Kelley, Thos. E. Orblson. Tenn—Wm. J. Geissinger, Jacob Hanley. Petersburg—John Roes. Dr. Geo. B. Orlady. Porter—Benj. Isenberg, H. G. Neff. Shirley Top—Robert Bigam, David Long. Shirley Bor—John A. Kerr, D. P. Hawker. Shade Gap Bor— Dr. Wm. M. Ray, W. P. Shade. Springfield—Morris Cutshall, Elihu Brown. Tell—J. A. Blair James Bolinger. Three Springs Bee—B. T. Stevens, Wm. J. Hampton. ibd—John Horton, Theo. Houck. Union—B. F. Glasgow, S. P. Smith. Ira/Jar—John Brewster, J. P. Watson. W. -.--. Warrioremark—Dr. J. W. Dunwiddie, Jame Fetterhoof. Weil (Upper)—Henry Neff, Henry Davie, er. West (Lower)—Wm. If'Clure, J. C. Hamilton. A. TYHURST, Chairman. Republican Committee Meeting. The members of the Republican County Com mittee will meet at the Court House. in Hunting don, on FRIDAY, the 6th day of SEPTEMBER, 1872, at one o'clock, P. M. It is earnestly desired that every member be present, as business of much importance will be transacted.. ___ A. TYHURST, Chairman. se_ The official vote of North Carolina will give Caldwell, the Republican candi date for Governor, about 2200 majority. This will do. A®' The JOURNAL will be furnished to new subscribers from this date until the 10th of November, (close of campaign,) for 50 cents tf. se_ Riots have been in successful oper ation, in Belfast, Ireland, for ten days.— England appears to be unable to control her Irish subjects. Hor'ce Greeley and Horse Grant are the candi dates for President. It seems to be horse either way.— Watchman. The Watchman wants one "mare" as the Scotchman would say. vs. When a Republican strikes at a member of the same party, he ought to re member that he opens the way fora st;oke back, which is bound to come sooner or later. ge, The Congressional Conference, for this district, assembles to-day, (Wednes day,) at 10 o'clock, A. M., at Altoona, for the purpose of placing a candidate in the field for Congress. lA The proceedings of the Labor Re formers' Convention will be found in onr local columns. It was a very orderly and dignified body, and made up in earnestness what it lacked in numbers. Wonder whether Grant will go back to Galena afterthe 4th of March or to hie farm at St. Louie. We understand he has made up his mind to leave the White House.— Watchman. And the Watchman is not for Greeley, either. T ,10. Mr. Speer and Mr. Lewis having got 'rid of the Democratic County Conven tion, set themselves to work, in good earn est, to supply its delinquencies. Some of the old Democrats complain that Mr. Lew is has hardly got warm in the party until lie dictates its nominees. It does look so. PUBLIC CONFIDENCE Generally, in this country, young men, commencing business for themselves, hare but a limited cash capital as the basis of their operations. If prudent, they will not run round in search of credit, but will limit their purchases by the extent of their ability to pay on the receipt of the goods, always retaining a small cash reserve in bank to meet an emergency should it oc cur. After commencing the next object will be by each to economise in his expen ditures, so as to allow his profits to aug ment his capital. By punctuality and promptness in meeting all his engagements he will very soon secure the confidence of the public, and manufacturers and import ers will begin to seek his custom and ask him to receive goods on time. He has then controlled the elements of future suc cess. All the stock that he can dispose of is at his command, at the lowest market prices, and on the best terms offered by wholesale dealers. The foundation'of his future success is laid, and continued pru dence, judgment, application and prompt ness will lead directly to a realization, in due time, of all reasonable aspirations.— Making haste to be rich in a day, changing from one occupation to another, selling out, and buying out usually result in disap pointment, a loss of the confidence of the public, decrease of capital and ultimate insolvency. EDITOR As it is with individuals so is it with nations. A nation without stability of Government can never command the con fidence of the other great powers. What would Mexican bonds be worth to-day in the money markets of the world ? In 1857 our own Government, by a va cillating policy, a ruinously low tariff and stoppage of manufactories by a flood of foreign goods, was brought to a crisis by which not only the masses of the working people were thrown out of employment, but the national credit was seriously af fected. The United States Treasury was emptied and Congress authorized a loan on short-time U. S. Treasury notes, fixing the interest at 6 per cent. At the next ses sion of Congress the Secretary of the Treas ury reported that he could not raise money on the credit of the Government at 6 per cent. Ile was then authorized to obtain a loan on the best terms he could make. The result was that he paid eight, nine, ten, eleven, and for a considerable portion of the loan twelve per cent. per annum. (See the Annual Reports of the Treasury.) Sec retary Chase reduced those obligations in 1862, and stopped this enormous and ruin ous rate of interest, and that too when he was devising ways to meet the large and rapidly increasing daily cost of the current war. Cottrention. For some months after the Republican party came into power the interest on money for the Government was high, but never above eight per cent. From that it gradually fell, even while one and a half million of dollars per day were required for the war alone. The falling scale has continued. The last money hired by the Government—that authorized under the provisions of the funding bill—pays only 5 per cent. interest. And positive propo sitions have been received by Mr. Bout well, for the entire amount called for by the funding bill, at 5,4 i, and 4 per cent., according to its provisions. The offer is standing open for the Secretary's accept ance. The funds cannot be used yet, as the 5-20 and 7-30 bonds have not all ma tured, and cannot be called in until the limit provided by law has expired. But these facts demonstrate the results of Pub lic Confidence in Governments as well as in individuals. Now the question is : Shall we again shake that confidence—and very probably destroy it—by trying the experiment of a change of Administration, with Horace Greeley instead of U. S. Grant at its head? That is the problem which the PEOPLE are now called upon to solve : it is a plain one. There is nothing intricate about it. What are Greeley's ideas upon questions of finance ? Very extraordinary indeed, and more capricious than extraor dinary. In the Tribune of June 5, 1867, Horace himself said, editorially : "We believe in taxing so as to pay the debt in ten years." That is at the rate of $270,- 000,000 a year, commencing at that date! Well, Grant's Administration, by the gen erous liberality of the people has been pay ing at the rate of about $100,000,000 a year, and that is quite enough for the peo ple to bear. And now that the credit of the Government has been re-established with the other Great Powers, as well as among our own capitalists, the Adminis tration proposes to continue the reduction of the debt at the rate of only about half that amount, or $50,000,000 per annum, reducing taxes in the same proportion.— Greeley, before his last fit of eccentricity, had a good word for the Administration on this very point. In the Tribune, Aug. 5, 1871, not very long ago, he said this : "The fact that the debt•has been steadily and largely reduced has done more than anything else to make the Administration and the party strong and popular." No man could or need say more in favor of Grant and his Administration. But Gree ley in 1871 and Greeley in 1872 is quite a different person. Then ho nominated Grant for a second term, and said he could not be beaten ; now he has applied the flattering unction to his soul that Grant can be beaten, and that too by Horace Greeley. It was the editor of the Weekly Caucasian, Lexington, Mo., who first sug gested to Greeley to run for the Presiden cy. And now the names of Greeley and Brown stand at the head of its columns, while below it announces its platform in these significant words : "We believe in secession, in the rightfulness of slavery, in the illegality of all the Yankee nigger bayonet Amendment to the Constitution, and the total repudiation of all debts, Federal, State and Coun ty, contracted by Radical fraud, violence and mis rule." That is a pretty plain card, but it is nothing more than an expression of the sentiments entertained by a large propor tion of Horace Greeley's supporters; and when brought to bear upon the old man, as President, his characteristic instability would result in the most serious consequen ces to our national credit, and very possi bly to our national unity. No, this is not the time for experiment,. The present Administration have done more than well in all the departments of the Government. and the PEOPLE in their "sober second thought," and especially capitalists, protest against any change, es pecially such a change as would give us Greeley for Grant. Here are some echoes of the public voice. Gen. E. B. Ward, the millioiaire of Detroit, who covers the Upper Lakes with his magnificent steamboats, says in a public letter : "Keep General Grant at the head of the Gov ernment, keep Boutwell in his place, elect a wise Congress, and we may expect four years more of our present unequaled prosperity. "Desiring no office or favor from either party, having no wish but for the best possible Govern ment we are capable of making, and all my inter ests and hopes of comfort during the few years I may remain in active life being involved in the great question of Government, I can have but one motive in making this public reply to my numer ous and trusting friends, hoping, as I do, never to live to see a good and worthy administration over thrown for the simple purposes of gratifying the claims of office-seekers and constitutional fault finders. Whenever the people yield to those two vicious elements we may reasonably expect that our republic will die out long before the end of another century." There we have the whole story epitomi zed. Read it over again. It is from a man who has worked his way to immense wealth by stability of purpose and the con sequent enjoyment of the confidence of the public. Take another illustration. A manufac turer and wholesale dealer of New York city was asked the other day to join an organization for active work on behalf of Grant and Wilson. His answer was as follows: "I did not intend to take an active part in the campaign; but I and I cannot afford to be inactive. My business suffers through the fear entertained by dealers of the possible election of G reeley and of its disastrous consequences, and for the sake of my business I must work for the election of Grant." That New York, Greeley's own State, speaking; but speaking the sentiments of capitalists and manufacturers all over the country. One more illustration, and that from among the thousands at hand which might be quoted. We select from the West.— Says a dispatch to the New York Times: "A bombshell has exploded in the Democratic camp in the shape of the resignation of James W. Carson, Esq., a prominent merchant and politician of Cleveland, Ohio, of the chairmanship of the County Democratic Central Committee. The rea sons given by Mr. Carson for his course are that sound business policy requires him to vote for General Grant; that he has no confidence in Greeley's scatter-brain theory of immediate re sumption of specie payments; that he firmly be lieves that if Greeley is elected his administration will be marked by financial revulsions as sure as those of 1837 and 1857. Quite a number of other Democratic business men entertain the same views as Mr. Carson, and will vote for Grant and Wilson, preferring a certainty under a Republican admin istration to an experimental uncertainty under a would-be Greeley administration." But space to-day forbids further esi deuce of the popular feeling throughout the country. When the Globe meets the facts we have thrown together hastily in this article, we shall give him another of a similar nature to work out. Let us meet the question in its breadth and length, and with a square, honest purpose to reach the facts and publish the truth only. A STUPID DODGE. The last Globe comments upon the Re publican County Convention, and endeav ors, in a weak way, to stir up old factional feuds upon which the Statute of Limitations can clearly be pleaded. We will try to answer its follies : The Convention consisted of as good men as the county can produce, who were selected, in the main, by the friends of the rival candidates, and as is usual on such occasions, each endeavored to secure the nomination of his particular favorites. Was this not to be expected ? Has this not always been the case? One portion of the Convention expected to control the organ ization, but failed, and the portion which the Globe endeavors to disaffect and to incite to acts of insubordination controlled it by a vote of 46 to 36, a clear majority of ten votes. This decisive vote was immediately followed by a vote on the Congressional question. Here again the vote was a triumphant victory for those whom the Globe would have the people believe were outraged. There is nothing clearer than there was a small majority on all test questions which were fairly brought before the Convention, in favor of those who controlled the organization, which fact was fully demonstrated in the only two test questions which the Convention was called upon to decide. Beyond these two first and most important considerations, the Convention was made up of men who determined to do the best for the party, and were under the control of nobody.— There may have been strict factional lines drawn on both sides, but there was a con servative minority which voted for the best men without regard to either wing, if such a term is allowable, and these men voted with one portion on the organization and Congress and for those whom they individ ually preferred for the remainder of the offices. This was evident to all who attended the Convention. The Globe has consequently over-shot the mark. If the portion of the Con vention, which carried the organization and Congress, did not succeed in making more nominations than it did, it was be cause they could not control the men who assisted them in carrying the first two points, and this being the case they could not complain, and do not. The Convention was made up of the best Republicans in the county, a large portion of whom had no other object than to make a ticket that would be satisfactory to the largest num ber, and they conscientiously ' discharged their duty. There certainly could not have been a better ticket presented, and though it may not just be what everybody wanted, and what many of our readers would have made it—we cannot all be giv en what we want—yet the welfare of the Republican party demands that it be tri umphantly elected. ggi.. Three or four years ago there was some misunderstanding in the Republican party and the house was divided against itself and it fell. The year following the same little game was repeated, and great was the fall thereof. Last year all bands came to the conclusion that they had been playing fool 'long enough, and turned in and triumphantly elected the ticket and "buried the hatchet:: Here ends the matter. The stupids who desire to revive the old feuds do so for the purpose of advancing the interests of the Democratic • party. ler A Soldiers' and Sailors' National Mass Convention will be held at Pitts burgh, on September 17, 1872. A large delegation should attend from Huntingdon county. We will publish further particu lars next week. SUPPORT THE PARTY We sometimes hear men say that they are nu slaves to party; that they vote for whom they please and that they are under no obligations to any partizan. This would indicate that they have no fixed principles; that they are on all sides of questions; everything by times and nothing long.— Men of this class are not to be trusted. They are generally very fickle and govern ed entirely by self interest. When you think you have them, like Paddy's flea, they "are not there." A party, made up of this class of men, can never succeed. There is not persistence enough in it; not sufficient adhesiveness. Parties, to suc ceed, must be determined; must stand up for their organization; never halting or hesitating. This is the only road to success. Whenever men begin to straggle and say they vote fur whom they please and that they are under no obligations to support such and such a candidate, they are de moralized, and the sooner the party gets rid of them the better. Parties can only maintain themselves intact by keeping up a thorough organization. And the only way for an aspirant to office is to support the party. No party can ever support stragglers; better let the enemy pick them up at once and get rid of them. Republicans of Huntingdon county, you have too many stragglers in your organi zation ! Men who talk as if they were anything but Republicans; very frequent- ly men do it who have filled office andwho want office in the future. This is all wrong. No man who even talks in a way to indicate that he is dissatisfied should be tolerated as an aspirant. No man should be named for any office who does not talk and work for the . party. If men desire positions at the hands of the party they ought to stand up square for the organiza tion on all occasions. Our advice would be : Let the man be marked as a politician who does not stand by his party through thick and thin ! Dar The JOURNAL will be furnished to new subscribers from this date until the 10th of November, (close of campaign,) for 50 cents. • tf. ser "Only a choice between Grant and Greeley :" The Democracy have made it —not wholly(says the North. American); but so many as accept the results of the war and reconstruction and peace have al ready chosen Grant, while those destruct ives, who must rule at any cost and revive all the spirit of former times, wish to use his opponent as a bridge to that end. The Republicans, too, have made it; made:it in the official expression of their views and desires; in the language of all who caa claim to stand as leaders among them ; in the expressions of the majority who not only up held the nation in its critical pe riod of civil war, but were as staunch, wise and patriotic in the vicissitudes following, and are now laboring hopeful to achieve the greatest good at the least cost. If it is only a choice between men that is being and to be made, those whose decision is un formed can see on every side and every where that they whose interests are greatest, whose judgement issoundest, whose hones ty:is most unquestionable, have chOSen Grant, and are zealous to make their own and his election good. The fact is a lesson, a whole course of instruction, and a diploma for others to study and pattern. The Lancaster Examiner and says Hon. Lynn Bartholomew inihis address in Fulton hall said; " I have known John F. Hartranft intimately—man and boy— for nineteen years, and I hare kncnon hint to be an honest man." Vilified and slandered as our soldier candidate has been, by un scrupulous enemies, the undivided testi mony of all who know him—whatever their politics—is, that he is an honest man. Men who served with him in the army —neighbors who have sustained the most intimate relations with him for years all bear testimony to his unimpeachable integ rity, and refuse for a moment to give cre dence to the charges of his enemies. Even his political opponents—men who will vote against him—repel with indignation those charges. They knew him as a neigh bor, and with one voice proclaim him AN HONEST MAN !" DM, Gen. F. H. Lane is the successful Republican nominee of Huntingdon coun ty for the State Legislature. Right so, a better selection could not have been made. Ho filled his place well during the last session of that body, and if elected will fill his place again to the entire satisfaction of his constituents. Success to you, General Lane.—Tyrone Blade. NS. The Greeley people are very much put out witk the Straight-out ,Democrats. They do not like the idea of the nomina tion of Charles O'Conner for President.— They call the Louisville Convention "Grant's side-show," but it will be a full blooded circus before the first Tuesday in November. Oar Gee. John A. Dix, the map who said, at the breaking out of the rebellion, that "if any man attempts to pall down the American flag shoot him on the spot," has been nominated fur Governor of New York by the Republicans. The nomination didn't go begging so much afterall. Vide Tribune. BED.. John Dougherty, Esq., of Mount Union, Dr. John McCulloch and John M. Bailey, Esq., of this place, are nominated by the . Labor Reform, Democratic and Republican parties, in the order named, for Delegates to the Constitutional Con vention. They are all excellent men. Tho Globe endeavors to make a point against Mr. Myton on the ground that some three or four years ago he voted for a Democrat. The Globe ought to look upon this as a girt point in his qualifica tions, as it has been on all sides of all questions, and voted accordingly. ter Charles O'Conner, the great Irish barrister of New York, will, in all proba bility, be nominated for President by the Straight-out Democratic Convention which assembles in Louisville, Sy., on the 3d of September. Then the Democrats will have a candidate. CO - The JOURNAL will be furnished to new subscribers from this date until the 10th of November, (close of campaign,) for 50 cents. re" Do the Republicans, who have al lowed then:solve:: to he made cat's-paws of by Mr. Speer and Mr. Lewis, imagine that they eau do t6,,e things and remain Re publicans ? If they do, we assure them that those who arc not for us arc against us. Evr lion. R. M. Speer, the candidate of the Blair County Labor Reli , rmers for Congress, is a most ardent member of the W. B. A. He will vote for Schell for Governor and the whole Labor Reform ticket, in this county, of course? na, The West Virginia election has re sulted in a defeat of the Constitutional Amendment disqualifying negroes from holding office and the election of Jacobs, independent Democrat, fur Governor. The Republicans supported Jacobs. t,a . The last Globe presented to the unterrified Democracy what their County Convention had failed to do, a ticket. It appears that no Democratic ticket is good to the sight now unless it is sugared over with a lot of Republicans. A Ringing Appeal. ADDRESS OF THE REPUBLICAN STATE COMMITTEE. HEADQUARTERS REPUBLICAN STATE COMMITTEE, No. 716 WALNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA, August 14, 1872. The Rpublican State Committee desires to congratulate the Republicans of Penn sylvania upon the noble victory recently won by their brethren in North Carolina. It was a triumph over fearful odds, and was won in spite of the fraudulent practices imported into that State from New York by the Tammany ballot-box staffers, who lead the Greeley army. • It has demonstrated that the Republicans of the Southern States cannot be won from the support of their principles by the oily tongues of the Republican traitors who were sent among them. Schurz and Trum bull, Tipton and McClure may blazon their own treachery, but cannot win followers. it has demonstrated, also, that while the men with grievances, the soreheads and the disappointed demagogues, may be able to make a great din over their own aban donment of their professions, they carry no one with them. The treachery they rep resent is only on the surface; it does not reach down into the masses; the people are eat infected by it. These men went out from us because they were not of us. This inspiriting work in North Carolina was won by orga2zizahon and persistent work. It could not have been won with out essential adjuncts. It behooves Us, therefore, to profit by their example. Wherever the work of or ganization has begun in Pennsylvania, it has been attended by the best results. Wherever it has not yet been resorted to, apathy and indifference prevail. Friends 1 If this be the case in -your county, break the spell at once and begin the essential work of the campaign. Waste not a day in waiting. Every day that this work is deferred is an opportunity lost. We implore our people throughout the State, who have not yet entered into the spirit of this all-important contest, to re member the great interests at stake and how much may hang upon the consequence of their inaction. Our intelligence from all parts of the State is of the most encouraging s kind. In the few places where disaffection existed it is steadily disappearing, and the party is rapidly settling down into a compact and 'unbroken mass. The few men who have gone off to the enemy have made all that is possible out of their change of front, and henceforth must cease to have any influence in our ranks. These ranks are as solid and firm as ever, and nothing re mains but to march forward to the victory that awaits us. We are going to win this fight! Of that we have no doubt. The conclusive proofs of this are all about us. Pay no heed to the fables put forth as facts by our oppo nents. Regard all reports as false that point to any change in our State ticket No change will be made. Our leaders are chosen, and under them we go forth to battle. Organize and work.. Cast all fears and apprehensions to the winds. Put the croakers out of hearing; and with a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull all together, the work will be done to the satisfitetion of all. Even Greeley, in his private letters, does not claim Pennsylvania—be knows better. One word more. In carrying on this fight do not act on the defensive. The enemy is so vulnerable that our chief pur pose should be to attack him at every weak point. Buekalew's record while in the United States Senate proves him to have been a disloyal man, the companion and counselor not merely of traitors, but of incendiaries and murderers, who plotted with him at Niagara to burn and destroy the cities of his own State, no matter what cost to the helpless and defenceless. Hol comb's letter, in conjunction with Thomp son's, and his own Senatorial record, eully prove this. Charge it home on him, and give his defenders no rest from attack. Blank constitutions for Grant and Wil son clubs, and poll-books for enrolling voters, may be had on application to these headquarters. RUSSELL ERRETT, Chairman. BUCKALEW'S REBELLION Maj. Gen. Couch to C. R. Buckalew. Major General Couch, in a letter 'dated September 29th, 1865, replying to Charles It. Backalew, who was earnestly defending the Fishing Creek rebellion, said : "I fully agree with you that no fortifi cations were erected by the 'insurgents,' but General Cadwallader, who made a close examination of the country, is satisfi ed that they had ONE, probaly TWO PIECES OF ARTILLERY, that there was an ORGANI ZATION TO RESIST THE DRAFT, the mem bers of which were ARMED, and I have other information to the same effect." We think that most effectually disposes of the attempt made to deny the existence of an armed hostility to the government on the part of Mr. Buckalew's friends in this country. The truth is, when Major General Cadwallader's forces landed in Bloomsburg, persons in sympathy were im mediately sent to the "insurgents," and being frightened, they speedily set to work to obliterate all marks bywhich they might be detected. The fifteen hundred men, that had been drilling on Rantz farm, dis persed, and some concealed themselves in the foresti of Sullivan county, while others fled to Canada. For a time this was not denied nor is it now denied by any respect able journal. The only paper that has thus far attempted it is the Lycoming Standard, which has as little regard for the truth as he has for common courtesy. We are not surprised, that Mr. Bucka- Jew should be anxious to deny the existence l of this "foul blot," since he knows that the people of this State will hold him re sponsible; and justly too for this treason. His influence in the country at that time was almost absolute and yet he failed to use it for the suppression of this rebellion In addition to this when it is remembered that Holcombe, one of the men sent by Jeff Davis to Canada to spread treason in the North, to' burn our cities, and scatter disease and death among the women and children of the loyal Republic, says in a later to the southern Confederacy, among others whom he met frequently was Charles R. Buckalew, we think no sensible man need hesitate in deciding where Buck slew stood and where his sympathies and acts were during that period. Mr. Buckalew's interviews were never divulged until the rebellion was subdued, and the rebel archives fell into the bands of the government. If the meetings had been open it might be claimed that he went to Canada to meet the conspirators in the interest of peace, but his stealthy interviews with rebels and his own home confederacy make a bad record fur loyalty. —Bloomsburg Republican. Buckalew in Canada. Mr. Buckalew's criminal intercourse with rebel incendiaries and pirates in Can ada was so flagrant and horrible that none were capable of imagining anything more atrocious. And yet his partisans, by at tempting to defend his conduct, have deep ened his guilt. What answer is it to the chlrge,"that a Senator of the United States hastened to a foreign country, when his own was bleeding at every pore from a merciless rebellion, T 3 HOLD CRIMINAL CONFERENCE WITH THE AGENTS OF THAT REBELLION," to say that he was in Canada in his official capacity ? The public intelligence, and the horror this act awakens in every oyal, in every generous breast is insulted by the flippancy of the evasion. If Mr. Buck slew was sent to Canada to examine into the Indian Policy of that British depend. ency, his business was with the men sent from England to govern the province. No report of Buckalew's visit to these author ities has yet reached us. But we have a report from the bloodthirsty enemies of his country—MEN ENGAGED IN EMPLOYING INCENDIARIES TO BURN AND DESTROY THE PROPERTY OF HIS OWN CONSTITU ENTS—that he DID CALL ON THEM ! There is a ghastly sarcasm in the attempted de fense of the little Copperhead of Blooms burg. We naturally are led to suppose tat an examination of the Indian Policy of Canada was intended to work out a merciful change in our own Indian Policy. But we find our Senator engaged in counsel with men whose crimes against humanity are a deeper stain than the wildest tales of savage cruelty; men whose hellish concep tions for the destruction of innocent lives and of property in no way available for warlike use, not only violates the harshest rules of war, but would shame the cruelty of a nest of pirates. AND YET CHARLES R. BUCKALEW was the COMPANION in CANADA of these savage villains ! Not only were these confreres of Buck alew paying men TO INTRODUCE LOATH SOME INFECTIOUS DISEASES INTO THE CITIES OFPENNSYLYANIA, but they were employing prowling scoundrels to carry devastation to the homes of the ag ed, the sick, the babes, the cripples of our densest centres of population by the torch of the midnight incendiary! Money had been paid to one villain to burn steamboats at St. Louis and they had been burned ! An other had been paid to do this at Cincin nati, and good news was expected shortly from there !" There has not been a clay for thirty years when a fire at the wharves of either Cincinnati or St. Louis could burn a dozen steamboats without burning some owned by those constituents of .41r. Buck . alew who live in Brownsville and Pittsburg ! And if Mr. Buckalew does not know this the admission would do him some harm even yet. The conclusion is inevita ble. BUCKALEW KNEW TOO MUCH THEN TO MAKE A SAFE GOVERNOR NOW !—Har. Telegraph. New Advertisements, A good BEAMS-MAN at tile Mapleton Tannery. WM. R. REX. August 21, 1872-tr. OR RENT—Six Good Rooms on the F second floor of the brick corner, opposite the new Union Depot, in Huntingdon. Kitchen and cellar on ground floor—and basement. Suitable for dwelling and business. Aug. 14,1872. D. BLAIR. SPECIAL NOTICE—On and after this date, the undersigned will not furnish bags for the delivery of grain, but will sell bags to our customers at reduced prices. ETNIER A FOUST, FISHER A SONS, HENRY A CO. Huntingdon, Pa., August 14th, 1872.-3 m. STONE VALLEY ACADEMY.—The Fall Session of four months, of this School, will commence on the FIRST TUESDAY of SEP TEMBER. Prof. Garaway,aclassical scholar and teacher of large experience, has been employed.— This School is located near M'Alavy Fort, and has been in operation several years. Boarding can be bad in the village at reasonable rates. aug2l-2t. A LL PERSONS having Grain bags in 11 their possession, bearing the brands of any of the undersigned firms, are requested to return them to their respective owners with as little delay as possible. HENRY & CO.. FISHER h SONS, F.TNIEII lc FOUST. Huntingdon, Pa., August 14th, 1872.-3 m. ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. (Eat f o. of Joseph Cornelius, deceased.), Lettei's of adininidration on the estste Of Jo seph Cornelius, late of Cromwell tp., deceased, hay ing been granted to the undersigned, all persons indebted to the estate will make immediate pay ment, and those having claims will present them for settlement. ALVAII CHILCOTT, August 14, 1872* Adair. EXECUTOR'S NOTICE. (Estate of Mary Eckley, deec!.). Letters 'testamentary on the estate of Mary Eck ley, deceased, late of Barree township, Huntingdon county, having been granted the undersigned, all persons knowing themselves indebted to said es tate will make immediate payment, and those hav ing claims will present them duly authenticated for settlement. TIIADDEUS S. JACKSON, Barre° tp., Aug. 21, 1872. Executor. ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. (Estate of Greenberry Ramsey, deed.) Letters of administration on the estate of Green berry Ramsey, late of Springfield tp., deceased, having been granted to the undersigned, all per sons knowing themselves indebted to said estate will make immediate payment, and those having claims against the same will present them duly au thenticated for settlement. WILLIAM GIITSHALL, August 21, 1872. Adm'r. EXECUTOR'S NOTICE. [Estate of John Simpson, dec'd.] Letters testamentary baying been granted to the undersigned, on the estate of John Simpson, late of the borough of Huntingdon, deo'd. all persons knowing themselves indebted to said estate are re quested to make immediate payment, and those having claims will present them duly authenticat ed for settlement. J. MURRAY SIMPSON, J.RANDOLPH SIMPSON, Aug. 21,1272. Executers. CONTINENTAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW YORK. ASSETTS, $4,505,215 29. This company is altogether Mutual, and one of the most liberal and successful compa nies in the country. The surplus is divided annually amongst the policy-holders. Its premiums are as low, and its dividends as large, as those of any first-class company. It issued, in 1870, 12,537 poli cies, being more than that of any other company in the COUNTRY. Its great popu larity and unbounded success aro entirely duo to the liber ality of the Company towards its policy holders. For further information ap ply to JUSTUS LAWRENCE, Pres't., M. B. WYNKOOP, Vice Pres't. J. P. ROGERS, Sec'y. S. C. CRANDLER, Jr., Actuary, PENNSYLVANIA WESTERN . OFFICE, Leister's Building, HUNTINGDON, PA. A. B. KENNEDY, General Agent. D. P. MILLER, M. D. Medical Examiner. 42aplly. New Advertisements HUNTINGDON ACADEMY WILL AGAIN OPEN SEPT. 2, 1872. Tuition ; $lO, $12..10, and Eleven Week: JAS. A. STEP LIENS, Principal. Huntingdon, Pa.. August :28. 1572-2. t. It_ IL NORTON,* Defiler ia PIA N oS AND :;TATE AGENT Fur the ei:lvbrit JEWETT & GOODMAN ORGAN, 118 Smithfield Street, Opposite New City Hall, PITTSBURGH, PA. (Send for Illustrated Catalogue.) Aug 28, 1872-Im. Election Proclamation. [G. sAvE THZ ColawnrzALTH.] PROCLAMATION. --NOTICE OF GENERAL ELECTION TUESDAY, OCTOBER Bth, 1872. Pursuant W an Act of the General Assembly of the Com mouwealth of Pennsylvania, entitled "An Act relating to the elections of this Commonwealth," approved the second day of July, Anne Domini, IBA I, ANON HOUCK, High Sheriff of the county of Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, do hereby make known and give notice to the electors of the county aforesaid, that an election will be held in the said county of Huntingdon, on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of October, (being the Sth t'ay of OCTOBER,) at which time the hollowing officers will be elected: One Person for the of co of Governor of the Common wealth of Pennsylvania. One Person for the office of Supreme Judge of the Com monwealth of Pennsylvania. One Person fortthe office of Auditor General of the Com monwealth of Pennsylvania. Three Persons for the offices'of Congressmen-at-Large to represent the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the COll - of the United States. Twenty-eight Persons for the offices of Delegates-at Large to the ConstPutional Convention of tho Common wealth of Pennsylvaula. One Person for the office of Congress to represent Cam bria, Blair, Huntingdon and Mifflin countie i in the Con gressof the United States. Three Persons for the offices of Delegates to the Coned tutlonai Convention, to represent the counties of Centre, Huntingdon, Mifflin and Juniata, of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. One"ierson for the office of Assembly, to represent the county of Huntingdon in the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsilvanh, One Perei•n for tho office of Prothonotary of Huntingdon county. One Person for tha office of Register and Recorder of Huntingdon county. One Person for the office of District Attorney of Hunt ingdon county._ One Persoti . for the office of County Commissioner of Dunttugdon county. One Person for the office of Director of the Poor of Hunt ingdon county._ One Person for the office of Auditor of Iluntingdon In inrsnanco of said Act, I also hereby make known and give notice, that tho places of holding the aforesaid general election in the several election districts within tho said county of ifuntingdon, are as follows, to wit: let district, composed of the township of Henderson, the Union School House. 2d district, composed of Dublin township, at Pleasant Hill School House, near Joseph Nelson's In said township. 3d district, composed of so much of Warrioramark town ship, as is not included in the 19th district, at the School House, adjoining the town of Warriorsmark. 4th dist - rict, composed of the township of Hopewell, at the house of Levi lioupt, in said township. sth district, composed •if the township of Barree, at the house ofJames Livingston, in the town of Sualshnrs, in said township. 6th district, composed of the borough of Shirleysburg and all that part of the township of Shirley not included within the limits of district N 0.24, as hereinafter men tioned and described, at the house of David Fraker, deed., is Shirleysburg. itildiiiriciT'COmposed of Porter and part of Walker tp. and so much of West township as is included in following boundaries. to wit: Beginning at the southwest corner of Tobias Kauffman's farm on the bank of the Little Juniata Ricer, to the lower end of Jackson's Narrows, thence in a northwesterly direction to the most southerly part of the farm owned by Michael Maguire, thence north forty de grees west to the top of Tussey's Mountain to intersect the line of Franklin township, thence along the said line to Little Juniata Ricer, thence down the same to the place of beginning, at the Public School House opposite the Ger m. Reformed Church, in the borough of Alexandria. Bth district, composed of the township of Franklin, at the house of George W. Mnttern, in said township. 9th district, composed of Tel? township, at the Union School House, near the Union Meeting House, in said township. 10th district, composed of Springfield township, at the school house, near Hugh Madden a, in said township. 11th district, composed of UnMs township, at Grant School house, in the borough of Mapleton, in said town ship. 12th district, composed of Brady township, at the Centre school hones, in said township. 13th district, composed of Morris township, at public school house N 0.2, in said township. 14th district, composed of that part of West township not included in 7th and 26th districts, at the public school house on the farm now owned by Miles Lewis, [formerly owned by James Ennis.] in Paid township. 15th district, composed of Walker township, at the house of Benjamin Megalty, in M'Connellstown. 16th district, composed of the township of Tod, at Green school house, in said township. 17th district, composed of Oneida township, at the house -et 91411am-166.6. warm Springs. 18th district, composed of Cromwell township, at the Rock Hill School House, in said township. 19th district, composed the borough of Birmingham, with the several tracts of land near to and attached to the same, sow owned and occupied by Thomas M. Owens, Juo K. M'Cahan, Andrew Robeson, John Gensimer, and Wm. Gensimer, and the tract of land now owned by George and John Shoenberger, known as the Porter tract, situate in township of Warrloremark, at the public school house in mid borough. 20th district, composed of the township of Cass, at the public school house in Cascrille, Is said township. 21st district, composed of the township of Jackson, at the public house of Edward Littler, at M'Alavy's Fort, in said township. 22d district, composed of the township of Clay, at the public school bones, in Scottville. 23d district, composed of the township of Penn, at the public school hosue iu Marklesburg, in said township. 24th district, 'composed and created ae follows, to wit : That all that part of Shirley township, Huntingdon coun ty, lying and beingwithtn the following described bounds ries, (excopt the borough of Mt. Union,) namely: Beginning at the intersection of Union and Shirley township line with the Juniata river,on the south side thereof; thence along said Union township line for the distance of 3 miles front said river; thence eastwardly, by a straight line, to the point wham the main fromEby's mill to Germany val ley, croeses the summit of Sandy Ridge to theJuniata Hr. er, and [henna up said river to theplace of beginning, shall hereafter forma separate election district; that the quali fied voters of mid election district shall hereafter hold their general and township elections in the public school house in Mt. Union, in said township. 25th dietrict, composed of all that part of the borough of Huntingdon, lying east of Fifth street. and also all those parts of Walker and Porter townships, heretofore voting in the borough of Huntingdon. at the east window of the Court Hon.!, in said borough. . . 26th district, composed of all that part of the borough of Huntingdon ' lying west of Fifth street,at the west window of the Courtllonse. 27th district,composed of the borough of Petersburg and that port of West township, west and north of a line be tween II ender.n and West townships, at and near the Warm Spring, to the Franklin township line on the top of Tussey's Mountain, so as to include in the new district the home. of David Waldsmith, Jacob Longeneker, Thos. Hamer, James Porter, and John Wall, at tho school Muse in the borough of Petersburg. 26th district, composed of the township of Juniata, et the hon. of John Peightal, on the land of Henry Isenberg 29th district, composed of Carbon township, recently erected out of a part of the territory of Tod township, to wit. commencing at a chestnut oak, on the summit of Ter race mountain, at the Hopewell township tine opposite the dividing ridge, in the Little Valley; thence south 52 deg. east 368 perches, to a stone heap on the Western Summit of Broad Top Mountain; thence north 67 deg., east 312 per- ches to a yellow pine; thence south 52 deg., east 772 perch es to a chestnut oak; thence south 14 deg., east 351 perches to a chestnut at the east end of Henry S. Green's land; thence south 31% deg., east 294 perches to a chestnut oak, on the summit of a spur of Broad Top, on the western aide I of John Terral's farm; south 63 deg., aim 934 perches to a stone heap ou the Clay township line, at the public school home in the village of Dudley. 30th district, composed of the borough of Coalmont, at the public school house, in said borough. 31st district, comp.ed of Lincoln tp., beginning at a pine on the summit ofTussey mountain on the line between Blair and Huntingdon countieu, thence by the division line south, 68 deg., east 798 perches to a black oak in middle of township; thence 42% deg., east 802 perches to a pine en summit of Terrace; thence by the line of Tod township to corner of Penn tp.; theme by the lines of the township of Penn to the summit of Tussey mountain; thence along said summit with lino of Blair county, to place of beginning, at Coffee Rllll School House. . . 321 district, composed of tho borough of Mapleton, at the Grant School House, in said borough. 3.3 d district, composed of the borough of Mount Union, at the school house, in said borough. 34th district, composed of theborough of Broad Top City at the public school house, in said borough. 35th district, composed of the borough of Three Springs, at the public school, in said borough. 36th district, composed of Shade Gap borough, at the public school house, in said borough. . .• , . • district, COMPOsed of the Corough of Orbisonia, at the public school house, in Orbisan is. I also make known and give notice, as in and by thellth Section of the aforesaid act, I am directed, that "every per eon, excepting justices of the peace, who shell hold any of fice or appointment of profit or trust undor the govern ment of the United States, or of this State, orof any city or or corporated district, whether a commissioned officer or agent, who is or shall be employed under the legislative, executive or judiciary department of this State or of the United States, or of any city or incorporated district, and oleo, that every member of Congress, and of the State Le, ' islature, and of the select and common council of any city, commissioner of any incorporated district, is by law in capable of holding or exercisinrat the same time, the of fice or appointment of Judge, inspector, or clerk, of any election of this Commonwealth, and that no inspector or judge, or any officer of any tech election shall be eligible to any office to be then voted for." Also, that in the 4th section of the Act of Assembly, en titled "An Act relating to executions and for other pur poses," approval April 18th, 1840, it is enacted that the aforesaid lath section "shall not be so constructed as to prevent any militia or borough officer from serving as judge, or other inspector of any general or special election in this Commonwealth." By the Act of Assembly of 1569, known as the Registry Law, it is provided ea follows: 1. "Election officers aro to open the polls between the hours of six and seven, a. m., on the day of election. Be fore six o'clock in the morning of second Tuesday of Octo ber they are to receive from the County Commissioners the Regietereal List of Totem and all necessary election blanks, and they aro to permit no man to vote whose name is not on said lest, unless be shall make proof of his right to vote, as follows: . . . 2- The person whose name is not on the list, claiming the right to vote must produce a qualified voterof the dis trict to swear in a written or printed affidavit to the rest , dance of the claimant in the district for at least ten days neat preceding said election, defining clearly where the residence of the person was, 3. The party claiming the right to vote shall also make au affidavit, stating to the best of his knowledge and be lief where and when he was born, that he is a citizen of Pennsylvania and of the United States, that he has resided in the State one year, or, if formerly a citizen therein and removed therefrom, that be has resided therein six months neat prceding mid election, that be has not moved into the district for the purpose of voting therein, that he has paid a State or county tax within two years,, which was assessed at least ten days before the election, and the affi davit shall elate when and where the tax was assessed and paid, and the tax receipt meet be produced unless the affi ant shall state that it has been lost or destroyed, or that he received none. . . VirtioappliCant Mr a naturalized citizen, he must, in addition to the foregoing proofs, state in hie affidavit when where, end by what court he was naturalized and produce his certificate of naturalization. 5. Every person, claiming to be a naturalized citizen, whether on the registry list, or producing affidavits as aforesaid, shall be required to pralnce his naturalization certificate at the election before voting, except where he Election Proclamation has hero fur ton years consecutively a voter in the district where he offer, to vote. and au the vote of such periodos be ing received, the election officers are to write or stamp the word "voted' on his certificate with the month and yvar, and no other rote can be east that day in virtue of Pahl certificate except where scut are entitled to vote upon the naturalization of their father. 6. If the person claiming to vote who is not registered, shall ruakean affidavit that he is a native born unjust of the United States, or if born elcewhere, produce evi dence of his naturalization. or that ho is entitled to citi zenship by ren,un his father's nathralizatiou, and forth- that he is be:Ween 21 and 22 years ofage. and ban resid ea in the State one year, and in the election district Indays next preceding the election, he shall be entitled to vote though ho shall net hare paid Lazes." In accordance with the provision of the Sth section of an Act entitled "A further supplement to the Election Lewd of this Commonwealth," I publish the following: WHEREAS, Ey the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled "An Act to amend the several acts hereto fore passed to provide for the enrolling andcalling out the national forces, and for other purposes," and approved March 3d, 1365, all persons who have deserted the military or naval services of the United States, and who have not been discharged or relieved from the penalty or disability therein provided, are deemed nud taken to have volunta rily relinquished and forfeited their rights of citizenship and their rights to become citizens, and are deprived of ex ercising any rights of citizens thereof ,Inelloherea;', Persons not citizens of the United StuteA are not, tinder tho C,onstitutlon and laws or Pennsylvania , qualified electors of this Commonwealth. Sac. 1. Be it enacted, &a., That in all elections hereafter to be held in this Commonwealth, it shall be unlawful for thejudge or inspectors of any such elections to receive any ballot or ballots from any person or persons embraced in the provisions and subject to the disability imposed by mid act of Cangreas,approved March 3d, 1865, and it shall be unlawful for any such person tooffer to Tote any ballet or ballots. Sac. 2. That It any such judge or inspectors of election, or any ono of them shall receive or consent to receive any such unlawful ballot or ballots from any such disqualified person, ho or tbey so offending shall be guilty of a misde meanor, and on conviction thereof in any court of quarter session of this Commonwealth; he shall for each offence, be sentenced to pay a fine not less than one hundred dollar., and to undergo an imprisonment in the jail of the proper county for not less than sixty days. . Sse:3. That if any person, deprived of citizenship, 110(1 discinalified as aforesaid, shall. at any election hereafter be held in this Commonwealth, vote, or tender to the officers thereof, and offer to vote a ballot or ballots,any person to offending shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof In any court of quarter session of this Commonwealth, shall for each offence be punished in like manner as is provided in the preceding section of this act in case of officers of election receiving any such unlawful ballot or ballots._ Stc.4. That irony person shall hermit, persuade or ad vise any person or persons, deprived of citizenship or dis qualified as aforesaid, to offer .y ballot or ballots to the officers of any election hereafter, to be held in this Com monwealth, or shall persuade or advise,any such officer to receive any ballot or ballots, from any person deprived of citizenship, and disqualified as aforesaid, such person so offending shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon con viction thereof in any court of quarter sessions of this. Commonwealth, shall be punished in like Dimmer as pro vided in the second section of this act in the case (lancers of such election receiving such unlawful ballot or ballots.. • - ' • " • Particular attention is directed to the lint section oftia Act of Assembly,paseed the Moth day of March, a. d. 1803,. entitled •"An Act regulating the manner of Voting at all Elections, in the several counties of this Commonwealth!' ••That the qualified voters of the several counties of this. Commonwealth, at all general, township, borough and. epecial elections, are hereby, hereafter authorized and re quired to vote, by ticket; printed or written, or partly printed and partly written, severally classified as follow,: One ti ket shall embrace the names of all judges of courts voted for, and be labelled outside •'judiciary;" one ticket shall embrace all the names of State officere voted for sod be labelled "Stote;" one ticket shall embrace the names of all county officers voted for, including office of Senate, member and members of Assembly, if voted for, and mem bers of Congress, if voted for, and labelled "county." Pursuant to the provisionscontained In the 67th section of the act aforesaid, the judges of the aforesaid district shall respectively take charge of the certificates or return of the election of their respective dristricts, and produce them at a meeting of ono of the judges from each district at the Court House, in the borough of Iluntingdon, en the third day after the day of electi..n, being for the present year on FRIDAY, the 11th of OCTOBER, then and there to do and perform the duties required by law of mid judges _ Also, that where a judge by sickness or unavoidable acci dent, is unable to attend such meeting of judges, then the certificate or return aforesaid shall be taken in charge by one of the inspectors or clerks of the e , ection of said die trios, and shall do and perform the duties required of gald judge uncle to attend. CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION. At the same time and places, also, an election will he held for delegates to the convention to amend the Con stitution of the S ate. in conformity with the Act, entitl ed "An Act to provide for calling a convention to amend the Con.titution." approved April 11, 1572. As prescrib ed by mid act, the following rules and regulations shall apply to said election, and the returns of the same: . . - `First. At the general election to be held the second Tuesday of October next, there shall be elected by the. qualified electors of this Commonwealth, delegates to a convention to revise and amend the Constitution of this Sato: thesaid convention shall consist of one hundred and thirty-three members, to be elected in the manner following: Twenty-eight members thereof shall be elect ed in the State et large, as follows: Each voter of the State shall vote for not more than fourteen candidates, and the twenty-eight different Senatorial districts of the State, three delegates to be elected for each Senator therefrom; and in choosing all district delegates, each voter.all be entitled to a vote for not more than two of the membersto be chosen from his district, and the three candidates highest in vote shall be declared elec ted, except in the county of Allegheny, forming the Twenty-third Senatorial Distiict, where no voter shall vote for more than six candidates, and the nine hlgheet in vote shall be elected, and in the countiee of Lucerne, Monroe and Pike, forming the Thirteenth Senatorial District, where no voter shall vote for more than four candidates, and the six highest in vote shall be elected, and six additional delegate. shall be chosen from the city of Philadelphia, by a vote at , large in said city, and in their election no voter shall vote for more than three candidates, and the six highest in vote 'hall be declared elected. Second. The Judges and Inspectors for each election district shall provide two suitable bones for each poll, one in which to deposite the tickets voted for Delegates at large, antrae other in which to deposite the tickets voted for District Delegates; which bones shall he la belled respectively, “Delegates at large" and "District Delegates ;" and in each district in the city of Phila delphia an additional box shall be provided for each poll in which to deposit the tickets voted for "City Delegates;" and said last mentioned boxes must each be labelled "City Third. The - said election shall be hell and conducted by the proper election officers of the general election districts of the Commonwealth, and shall be governed and regulated in all respects by the general election laws of the Commonwealth, so Inc as the same shall be applicable thereto. and net Inconsistent with the pro visions of said act. Fourth. The tickets to be voted for members at large of the convention shall have on the outside the wi rds "Delegates-at-Large," and on the inside the names of the candidates to be voted for, not exceeding fourteen in number. MM. The tickets to be voted for district members of the convention shall have on the outside the words "District D legates," and on the inside the name or names of the candidates voted for, not exceeding the proper uumber limited as aforesaid ; but auy ticket which shall contain a greater number of names than the number for which the voter that' be entitled to vote, shall he rejected; and in case of the delegate. t« be chosen at huge in Philadelphia. the words, '•City Delegates," shall be on the outside of the ticket. Siith. In the city of Philadelphia the return judges shall meet in the State House, at ten o'clock on the Thursday next following the election, and make out the returns for said city, of the votes cast therein for delegates at large and city and district delegates, to be members of the convention; the return judges of the of the several election districts• within each county of the State, excluding Philadelphia, shall meet on Friday next following the election, at the usual place for the meeting of the return judges of their county, and make out full and accurate returns for the county, of the votes cast therein for members of the convention and for district members of the same; and the proceedings of the return judges of the said city of Philadelphia, and of the several counties of the Commonwealth, in the making of their returns, shall be mho name as those pre scribed for return judges in the case of au election for Oovernor, except that returns transmitted to the Secre tary• of the Commonwealth, shall be addressed to that °facer alone and not to the Speaker of the Senate._ F. JORDAN. Secretary of the Commonwealth. EXECUTIVE CHAMBER, I LARRISBURO, PA., August 27, 1870. f To the County Commissioners and Sherif of the County of Huntingdon: Wanness, the Fifteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United Slates is as follows "SEC. I. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall nut be denied or abridged by the United States, or by Illy State, on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." Sec. 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this rticle by appropriate legislation." . . And tOfteWas,‘the Congress of the United States, on the 31st day of Marela,lB7o, passed an act, entitled"An Act to enforce the rights of citizens of the United States to vote in the several States of this Union, and for other purpose.," the first and second sections of which are as follows: "Sze. 1. Be it retorted by the Senate and House and Rep ',vitalizes of the Coiled States of America in Congress assembled, Tint all citizens of the United States, who are, or shall be otherwise qualified by law to vote at any elm ! lion by the people, in aby State, Territory, district, conn ty, city, parish, township, school district. municipality or other territorial Bub-division, obeli be entitled and allowed to vote at all such elections, without distinction to race, color, or previous condition of servitude; any Constitution law, custom, usage or regulation of any Territory, or by or under its authority, to the contrary notwithstanding." "Sze. 2. And be it farther enacted, That if, by, or under the authority of the Constitution or laws of any State, or . the laws of any Territory, any act is or shall be required to be done am a prerequisite or qualification for voting, and by such Constitution or law, persons or officers are or shalt be charged with the performance of duties in barnishiug to citizens an opportunity to perform such prerequisite, or to become qualified to vote, it shall be the duty of every such person and officer to give to all citizens of the United States the same and equal opportunity to perform such prerequi site, nod become qualified to vote without distinction of race, color, or previous condition of servitude; and if any such person or officer shall refuse or knowingly omit to give lull effect to this section, he shall, for every such of forfeit and pay the earn of five hundred dollars to the person aggrieved thereby, to be recovered by an action on the case, with full costa and such allowance for counsel fees as the court shall deem just, and shall also, for every such offence, be deemed guility of a misdemeanor, and shall on conviction thereof; be tine! not less than five hundred dollars, or be imprisoned not less than one month and not more than ono year, or both, at the discretion of the court. And whereas, It is declared by the second section of the Vlth article of the Constitution of the United States, that "This Constitution, and the lave of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof, shall be the supreme law of the land • • • • anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary not withstanding." And whercaa , The Leghtlature of this Commonwealth,on the Gth day of April, a. d. 1870, passed an act emitted, .A further supplement to the Act relating to elections in this Commonwealth," the tenth section of which prorides as follows: "Sac. 10. That eo much of every act of Assembly as pro vides that only white freemen shall be entitled is vote or be registered as voters, ores claiming to vote at any gen eral or medial election of this Coinmenweed di, be and the same is hereby repealed; and that hereafter an freemen, wi'hout distinction of color, shall be enrolled and register not according to the precision of the first section of the act approved 17th April, 1869, entitled "An Act further sup plemental to the act relating to the elections of this Com monwealth," and when otherwise qualified under existirig laws, be entitled to vote at all general cud special election to this Commonwealth." And whereas ' It is my constitutional and official duty to "take care thatthe laws be faithfully executed ;"' and it ' has come to my knowledge that aundry assessors and reg isters of voters have refused, and are refusing to assess aud register divers colored male citizens of lawful age, and oth erwise qualified as electors. Now THEREFORE, In consideration of the premises, the county commissioners of said county are hereby notified and directed to instruct the several assessors awl registers of voters therein, to obey and conform to the requirements of said constitutional amendment and laws; and the sheriff of said county is hereby authorized and required to pub lish in his election proclamation for the next ensuing.elec tions, the herein recited constitutional amendment, act of Congress, and act of the Legislature, to the end that the same may be known,executed and obeyed by all assessors registers of voter., eection officers and others; and that the rights and privileges guaranteed thereby may be secured to all the citizens of this Commonwealth entitled to the same. Given under my hand and the great seal of the State at Ilarrisbtug, the day and year that above written. [asst..] JOHN W. GEARY. Attest : . F. JORDAN. Secretary of the Commonwealth. Given under my hand, at Huntingdon, the 28th day of Au gust, a. d. 1872, and of the Independence of the United States, the ninety-sixth. AMO s ' Huntingdon, August 28th, 1872. AMON HOUCK, F.nnwr,
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