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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.
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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..
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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.
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new subscribers from this date until the
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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 !
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Its premiums are as low, and
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It issued, in 1870, 12,537 poli
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New Advertisements
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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,