The Huntingdon Journal, .1. R. DURBORROW, HUNTINGDON, PENN'A. Wednesday Morning, Sept. 4, 1872 REPUBLICAN NATIONAL TICKET. FOR PRESIDENT, General ULYSSES S. GRANT, OF ILLINOIS. FOIL VICE-PRESIDENT, Honorable HENRY WILSON, OF MASSACHUSETTS. ELECTORS. SENATORIAL. . - Adolph E. Borie, Phila. I J. M. Thompson, Butler. W. D. Porten, Philadelphia. REPRESENTATIVE. 1. Joseph A. Bonham. 14. John Passmoro. 2. Marcus A. Davis. 15. W. J. Colegrove. 3. G. Morrison Coates. 16. Jesse Merrill. 4. Henry Bumm. 17. Henry Orlady. 5. Theo. M. Wilson. IS. Robert Bell. 6. John M. Woman. 19. J. 31, Thompson. 7. Francis Shroeder. 20. Isaac Frazier. 8, Mark H. Richards. 21. Geo. W. Andrews. U. Edward H. Green. 22. Henry Lloyd. 11. D. K. Shoemaker. 23. John J. Gillepsie. 11. Daniel R. Miller. 24. Jones Patterson. 12. Leander M. Milton. 25. John W. Wallace. 13. Theodore Strong. 26. Charles C. Boyle. REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET. FOR GOVERNOR, Cen. JOHN F. HARTRANFT, OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY. FOR' SUPREME JUDGE, Judge ULYSSES MERCUR, OF BRADFORD COUNTY. FOR AUDITOR GENERAL, General HARRISON ALLEN, OF WAUREN COUNTY. FOE. CONGRESSMEN AT LARGE, Gen. LEMUEL TODD, of Cumberland. Hon. GLENN' W. SCOFIELD, Warren, Gen CHARLES A. ALBRIGHT, Carbon. Mr Delegates at Large to the Wm. M. Meredith, Philadelphia; J. Gillingham Fell, Philadelphia; Harry White, Indiana; William Lilly, Carbon; Linn Bartholomew, Schuylkill ; H. N. M'Allis ter, Centre; William H. Armstrong, Lycoming ; William Davie, Luzon.; James L Reynolds, Lancaster; Samuel E. Dimmick, Wayne; George V. Lawrence, Washington ; David N. White, Allegheny; W. H. Arney, Lehigh; John H. Walker, Erie. REPUBLICAN DISTRICT TICKET. For Congress : A. L. Gass, of Huntingdon county. [Subject to the decision of the District Conference.] For Delegate to Constitutional Convention : Dr. John hrOulloch, 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 Banco township Republican County Committee. Alexandria Bor.—D. 8. Henderson, Dr. Geo. W. Hewitt. Barree—James Stewart, Henry Conpropot. Brady-11. H. Meteor, Dr. Samuel M'Carthy. Broad Top City—Henry Cook, C. K. Horton. Birmingham—Joseph:Madsen, Capt. T. 8. M'Cahan. Carbon—A. R. M'Carthy, Samuel Done!son. Cass—Jacob Chilcote, George Smith. Cassouk Bor—Amon W. Brown, James G. Corbin. Clay—S. L. Glasgow, Adam Fleeter. Cromwdl—twin M. Harvey, John Kelly. Coointent Bar—Richard Owens, George A. Ileaton. Dublin—Wm. Clymans, David Peterson. Franklin --David enured, D. M. Thompeon. Henderson—David Grove, George W. Miller. Hopewell—Jackson Enyeart, Wm. Heeter. Huntingdon, East Ward—K. A. Lovell, Robert King. West Ward—Alex. Elliott. S. T. Brown. Jackson—Thomas F. Shipton, George M'Alevy. Juniata—Wm. E. Corbin, Isaac Heiffner. Lincoln—Joseph Detwiler, George W. Shontz. Mapleton—A. W. Swoope, Samuel Park. Norris—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 bi'Divitt, James Green. Orbisonia Bar.—Thomas M. Kelley, Th.s. E. Orbison. Peon—Wm. J. Geissinger, Jacob liaMey. Petersburg—John Ross. Dr. Geo. B. Orlady. Porter—Beni. Isenberg, H. G. Neff. b'hirley Tap—Robert Bigam, David Long. Shirley Bar—John A. Kerr, D. P. Hawker. Shade Cap Bar— Dr. Wm. M. nay, W. P. Shade. Springfield—Morris fintahall, Elihn Brown. Tell--J. A. Blair, James Bolinger. Three Springs Bar—B. T. Stevens, Wm. J. Hampson. Tod—John Horton, Theo. Houck. Union—D. F. Glasgow, S. P. Smith. Walker—John Brewster, J. P. Watson. Warriortmark—Dr. J. W. Dunwiddie, Jesse Fetterhoof.. West (Upper)—Henry Neff. Henry Davis, sr. West (Lower)—Wm. M'Clure, J. C. Hamilton. A. TYFIIIRST, 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. GRAND RALLY! REPUBLICANS, AROUSE ! HEAR GENERAL CHARLES ALBRIGHT! A GRAND MASS MEETING of the REPUB LICANS of Huntingdon county will be held in the COURT HOUSE, Thursday evening, Septem ber 5, 1872. GEN. CHARLES ALBRIGHT, one of the Candidates for Congressman at Large, and other able speakers will address the meeting. Let there be an oat-pouring of the people that will sauce each a quaking among the dry bones of the Greeleyites as will overwhelm them. "Come as the winds come, When forests are rended, Come as the waves come, When nnvies are stranded." - A. TYIIIIRST, Ch. Rep. Co. Com. le_ The little bill which the Globe pre sents against Messrs. Myton and Hare was squared when Mr. Morrell was defeated. Aar Henry R. Shearer, we are told, is the anti-Cameron candidate for the Legis lature. We are glad to hear it. One Shearer, at least, will be Shorn. v e s_ The Labor Reform ticket, in this county, is dubbed a "side-show" by Speer, Lewis & Co. Laboring men are not want ed by that firm. Remember this when Mr. Speer asks you to vote for him. ie., The Globe endeavors to answer our articles in favor of sustaining the party by copying some indigestible stuff from a small Voice on the opposite side of the hill, which tries to eke out an existence by tendering cold victuals and blarney to ev erybody that will buy. The Globe under stands this kind of living—it has tried it. Democrats are beginning to com plain fearfully of Mr. Speer. They say that the•mails have been roaded down, for months, with his franked documents and garden seeds, principally addressed to Re publicans. They think they might just as well have a Republican member of Con gress. THE BEGINNING OF THE END After the Cincinnati, the Philadelphia and the Baltimore Conventions completed their work of nominating candidates for the Presidency, there was a feeling of un shaken confidence on the part of the Re publican party that General Grant would be , triumphantly elected. Occasionally among those who took but a superficial view of the situation doubts as to the result were expressed. But among close obser vers there was from the first an unshaken conviction that General Grant would be re-elected by a larger vote than that given to him in 1868. This conclusion was based upon two important facts, which were, 1. The success of his present Administra tion, and 2. The intelligence of the Peo ple. The opposition have admitted all along in their campaign - speeches and doe uments, and in their newspapers ,that as a General of the armies Grant was a success. But they denied to him similar results as a Statesman and Chief Executive officer of the Government. His Administration was attacked and misrepresented at every point. Says Schnrz, he is "a tyrant, who has managed, in three short years, to over come the House of Representatives, reduce the Senate to a mere instrument of his will, corrupt the Judiciary, remove all guards from the Treasury, and extend the usurped authority of the Executive into every election district of the Union." All this and much more was published to the world by the opposition, against Grant and his Cabinet, and the Congress that sup ported him. And in view of the energy with which those charges were spread be fore the people, one of the first duties of the Republican party was to meet them quickly, promptly, and prove to the people that they were without foundation in fact. They entered upon the work with spirit and determina ion. Everything was at stake. The reputation of the party, its representatives. in Congress; the Cabinet and the president himself were alike in volved in charges of dishonesty, corruption and incapacity, and impeached before the people. They are now on trial. Evidence of the facts in the case is abundant. The committees of investigation called for by the opposition in and outside of Congress have done their work and have pronounced the charges brought respectively before them groundless, and in nearly every case "frivolous and vexations." The reports of the respective committees have been laid before the people, and on examination they have endorsed them under the fall conviction that the charges against the Administration were without foundation and originated in personal spite against the President and members of his Cabinet. EDITOR a Convention. But these charges were not dnough. A thousand others were made by Sumner and Schurz, and Trumbull in the Senate, and by a score of others out of the Senate, down to poor pauper Dennison, who has just now arraigned the President for in temperance. But TRUTH is still powerful and will prevail. Denison has been dis posed of, and his charge of intemperance his been satisfactorily met by Senator Wilson and a dozen other reliable witness es who have convinced every candid, hon est mind that the habits of the President are strictly temperate. And so of the other charges : One • after another has been proved to be false or the facts dis torted. The New York Tribune has been prolific of falsehoods against the Adminis tration. Greeley announced that he had retired from the management of that pa .per; but he is still,upon the stage, behind the scenes, where he directs Whitelaw Reed, and Reed dictates to his correspond ents at Washington and in other parts of the country, and they all misrepresent the facts according to his bidding. His Wash ington correspondent announced, a few daysago, that Blanton Duncan had a claim for $52,000 before the Government which had been rejected two years ago; but which was now ordered to be paid in con sideration of his energy in working up the Louisville Democratic Convention. This is only one out of half-a-dozen similar false hoods fabricated against Grant personally, or others connected with the Government. Now what are the facts in reference to the $52,000 ? Mr. Duncan announces in a card that he never had a claim against the Government, and that it never owed him anything. The Quartermaster's and the Treasury Department has been searched and no claim is on file there. Nothing approaching it excepting an old claim of a relative of Mr. Duncan, a woman, for nine hundred and odd dollars, which has long since been laid aside as worthless, and never since called up. So one after another of these charges against Gen. • Grant and his Administra tion have been met and disposed of as false and malicious, and the People have become satisfied of their slanderous nature. With this conviction comes also, through public addresses, pamphlets, and docu ments, full and complete statements of what the present Administration has ac complished in the reduction of taxes, pay ment of the public debt, internal improve ments, and the general and unparalleled prosperity of every department of industry. With speakers everywhere in the field no one need go uninformed; and it is safe to conclude that the masses are pretty thor oughly posted on all that affects the Gov ernment and its bearing upon their own individual interests. Well, having the facts before them, the PEOPLE will not be slow to come to a de cision. Already the verdict has been pro nounced, and no one knows the sentence better than Horace Greeley himself. In his Tribune, a few days ago, it was announ ced in the editorial columns that the Lib erals are defective in organization, and the following significant admission is made : "Our campaign is to be short and sharp, and we are likely to be beaten unless we do more than we arc doing now to get our men into the field and secure recruits from among the wavering and dis satisfied." The New York World also points signi ficantly to the re-action of sentiment and the decline of enthusiasm for Greeley. The New York Herald remarked, a few days ago, in an editorial headed "The Decline in the Greeley Enthusiasm," that "what ever the causes, it is apparent on all sides that since the late North Carolina election, there has been a reaction in the tide of public opinion on the Presidential ques tion," and concludes that "From the present outlook, the prospect from every point of view is growing somewhat gloomy for Greeley, cud unless in the results of the com ing state elections he shall make a break in the apparently compact lines of the administration party, the Philosopher of Chappaqua, as a pilgrim for the White House, may Lay down de shovel and de hoe, And hang up de fiddle and de bow." This is the beginning of the end, and those who conceded at the commencement of the campaign a larger majority for Grant on his second than he bad on his first election will find their judgment con firmed by the result in November. WILL BUCKALEW EXPLAIN ? The further we get into BUCKALEW'S record the uglieritbecomes, says the Pitts burgh Gazette. Now that he is making personal appeals to the people of Pennsyl vania begging for their votes, it is proper to remind them of sonic of his own votes while a Senator of the United States, and during the most trying period in the his tory of the Union. On the passage of the bill to equalize the pay of soldiers, Mx. BUCKALEW voted NAY. This on the 10th of March, 1864. On the resolution of GARRETT DAVIS to discharge all the colored soldiers at a time when every musket was needed in the field and on the eve of important movements, BucKALzw voted YEA. This on the 23d of February, 1864. On the passage of an act to increase temporarily the duties on imports, Mr BUCKALEW voted NAY in the interests of the free-traders, and the rebellion since it was a vote to prevent the raising of means for prosecuting the war. This on the 28th of April, 1864. On the passage of the act to repeal the Fugitive Slave law, Mr. BUCKALEW voted NAY with GARRETT DAVIS, POWELL, SAULSBURY and other rebel sympathizers. This on the 23d of June, 1864. On the passage of the "Civil Rights bill" true to his natural objections to Re form, as shown in the National Legisla ture, and the State Senate, Mr. BUCKA LEW voted NAY. This on the 2d of Feb ruary, 1866. On the bill to increase the salaries of United states Senators, he found a meas ure which suited him precisely, and Mr. BUCKALEW voted a loud YEA. This on the 25th of July, 1866. Now while Mr. BUCKALEW iS trying his hand at "explanations," suppose that he i takes these votes up, and give the people of Pennsylvania his reasons for their re cord of the journal of the Senate. He cannot however, he dare not undertake to explain them away. They have passed into history and cannot be abstracted from the national archives where they will forever remain unefaceable blots upon his character. Pennsylvania was disgraced and humiliated by Mr. BUCKALEW in the United States Senate, and she does not propose that as Governor he shall have another opportunity to lower her in the estimation of her own people and those of her sister States. go_ The Republican Congressional Con ference, of this district, met at Altoona, on last Wednesday morning, at 10 o'clock.— The following Conferees were in attend ance : Cambria—C. T. Roberts, Thomas Davis, David Hamilton; Blair—William Gardner, J. A. Lemon, Dr. M. S. Bitner ; Huntingdon—Dr. J. A. Shade, Samuel P. Smith, Dr. J. F. Thompson; Mifflin—Geo. Frysinger, Dr. A. Rothrock, David Milli ken. Geo- Frysinger, Esq., of Lewistown, was elected Prerident, and C. T. Roberts, Esq., of Ebensburg, Secretary. The bal loting started with three each for Prof. A. L. Guss, of Huntingdon ; T. Taylor, of Mifflin ; Hon. S. S. Blair, of Blair ; and Hon. A. A. Barker, of Cambria. They balloted through Wednesday and Thurs day at Altoona, and then adjourned to meet, at Lewistown, on Friday, at 10 o'clock, and continued to ballot until Sat urday afternoon, when they adjourned to meet to-day at the same place. After the first few ballots Mr. Taylor was dropped, and Mr. Blair received six votes to three each for Guss and Barker. There is no telling what will be the up-shot of the matter. Bea,, "Stop the Monitor and take the Globe 1" urge the friends of Mr. Speer.— The Monitor is to be crushed out. Old Democrats, you who have stood by the Mo'nitor 4nd assisted it into position, what do you think of it ? The Globe that has done all it could, for the last ten years to destroy your party, is now to crush out the paper that stood by you through thick and thin. Will yon stand by and permit it ? gel,. Mr. Speer has heretofore neglected his own party to attend to the affairs of the Republicans. We are glad to know that he has just about as much as he can do now to manage the outraged element in his own party. Grasping at shadows and losing the little substance in store is ex tremely foolish. VW" The Globe has hung out its shift gle : "NO LABOR REFORMERS NEED APPLY AT THIS OFFICE 1"• It signi fies thus: Democrats and Monopolists go hand in hand to crush out the Working People. Laboring men, remember this when you come to vote!' m. It is a pity indeed that a Wash ington mill, or some other mill, does not furnish the Globe with some readable mat ter now and then. It would be such a treat to find something refreshing—brist ling with fine points and overflowing with hightoned sentiments—in its columns. m. McNeil, if we understand him, takes the ground that the Republicans, who elected him three years ago, ought now to be defeated by his re-election. This is Democratic logic and Democratic grati tude ! vegk. The Globe alleges that Mr. Myton voted for McNeil three years ago. If this be so, and we have no evidence that it is, Mr. McNeil should have the manliness to vote for Mr. Myton. One good turn deserves another. Da. Democrata, if you want to hear the wrongs, and grief, and chagrins, and sorrows of an oppressed young man. call at Mr. Speer's office, No. 229, Hill street, Huntingdon, Pa . . No charge. gm_ The Speer-McNeil ring, in the Democratic party, has a heavy load to car ry. Down with the Monitor ! THE PAST AND FUTURE OF THE AMERICAN UNION, D'Aubigne says of Gibbon, that, seated on the ancient Capit d of Rome, and con templating its noble ruins, he acknowledged the intervention of a superior destiny. He saw and felt its presence; wherever his eye turned it met him ; that shadow of a mys terious power re-appeared from behind every ruin ; and he conceived the power of depicting its operation in the dioorgani zation, the decline and cwruption of that power of Rome which enslaved the nations. Shall not that mighty hand which this man of admirable genius discovered among the scattered monummts of Romulus and of Marcus Aurelius, the busts of Cicero and Virgil, Trojan's trophies and Pompey's horses, be confessed by us as that which guided the little barques of Columbus to the New World, and after him the feeble bands of pioneers from which has grown a nation of forty millions of people ? Is this all the result of accident ? If there is a Providence in revolutions which pulls down and levels empires in the dust, how much more in the events that lay the foun dations and build up nations with nobler inspirations, purer purposes and higher aspirations than governed those which have gone down into oblivion ? Was the late great American war,con ceived, begun, and carried on to its close without a purpose higher than that of mere human ambition? Are not the nobler purposes of Providence manifest in the re sults, and presented in striking contrast with the meaner conceptions of man ? The leading object of the war, humanely speaking, was a Southern empire on the basis of human slavery; but its fruits are perpetual freedom for every human being in the Union. The Northern power that resisted the rebellion went into the strug gle without a thought of breaking the chains that bound the slave. They met the enemy. Defeat followed defeat, and in despair the President proposed tq the South that if they would lay down their their arms their slaves should all be resto red. But while man proposes God dispo ses. We are but the instruments in the bands' of the Supreme Architect of our destiny. Thu offer was declined. The war continued. The South was almost in variably the victor. Driven to it the Pre sident issued his proclamation of emanci pation. This wastreated as a burlesque by the South, but it was the first oat owl edgment and annunciation of a great prin ciple in human progress and civilization' it was a partial recognition of the hand of destiny under forced circumstances. It checked the success of the South, and from that day victory alternated between the contending forces. Congress met. The emancipation pro clamation was reoognized, approved, and established by Act as the law of the United States, by which all must henceforth be governed. The heart of the South trem bled. Its strong arm was weakened. From that day the fortunes of the war were all on one side. Victory followed victory until the slave power surrendered, and four millions of human being,s, hitherto in bond age and bought and sold as so many cattle, were acknowledged and recognized as,free men by their former owners ! How widely different the original purposes and the fi nal results of the war ! But the noble achievement of universal freedom is only one of the grand results of a war in which, so far as heroic valor is concerned, the rewards of both armies are alike creditable. One of the purposes of the rebellion was to disintegrate the Uni on; but it was made the immediate and direct instrument in removing forever the leading motive for separation, and in fitting all the parts for a firmer and more thor ough union of States and individual inter ests, while the Government, instead of being weakened and reduced down to that of a third or fourth-class Power, is made stronger, and now ranks among the, most powerful of the nations of either hemis phere. Not only this : freedom from slavery and freedom of body and of mind for all ; a united people—(for the discontent of a few restless spirits, is in history, but for a day)—a stronger and more powerful gov ernment, are shpplemented with great gen eral prosperity and unparalleled thrift in all the land from the Atlantic to the Paci fic, and from the Gulf to the 39th parallel. So much for the past and the present,. But what of the future That the Gov ernment of the United States, its public institutions, regard for the maternal pros perity and general welfare of the people, and attractions for immigration, are supe rior to those of any other power, is now conceded, generally, by all classes in every part of the world. Then why may not these advantages, and the blessings that grow oat of them, be extended so as to embrace the contiguous territories and the people inhabiting them ? Mexico, one of the most valuable agri: cultural and mineral corners of the globe, is without efficient laws, incapable of pro tecting its people, and in a state of perpet ual anarchy. Annexation would remove these curses and secure to the inhabitants all the comforts and enjoyments of good government, public schools, internal devel opment and general prosperity. The bet ter portion of the Mexican communities, and especially the thinking classe=, desire this union; and if the subject should be presented in a cordial and friendly manner, even in their normal condition of ignorance and inexperience, they would soon rise to an appreciation and cordial approval of the measure. And while a union under our Government would result in untold bless ings to Mexico, it would at the same time stimulate the American border States— especially Texas—and add largely to the commerce of the,Union. Border raids and robberies and murders would cease, civili zation would advance, and its blessings be felt and appreciated by millions beyond the Rio Grande now in ignorance and semi barbarism. Cuba has been appealing in blood to our Government for aid. So far those appeals have, for all practical purposes, fallen upon deaf ears. Still the struggle for liberty and human rights goes on. Judicious statesmanship on the part of the United States Congress and the Administration could have long since stayed the flow of blood, and secured to that oppressed peo pie the blessings found under the Ameri can fia7. It is not too late. A chanze of policy must sooner or later give us Cuba, and give at the same time to her people liberty, peace, security and the blessings of maternal prosperity. The London Trines has written and British statesmen have spoken in approval of the union of Cabe with the United States, and all believe that Spain, Cuba, the Republic and the commerce of the world would be benefitted by the change. The Dominion of Canada contains be tween three and four millions of inhabi tants, fifty per cent. of whom, speaking certainly within bounds, openlyapprove of a union with the United States, while all, l i without exception, fully believe in the great commercial advantages of such a measure, advantages in which both inter ests would share alike, while the nefarious and degrading system of smuggling now so extensively practiced along four or five thousand miles of contiguous territory would be forever abandoned. It will come; and the time, sooner or later, will be gov erned wholly by the action of statesmen on either side of the St. Lawrence, the great lakes, and the nth parallel. Is it too much to predict the union of all those great territories to the east, the west, the north and to the south of us, with the United States, under one govern ment, Ono system of laws, internal free trade and foreign commerce ? Before the introduction of steamships, railroads and the telegraph such a policy would have been chimerical. Now it is not only prac ticable, but manifestly necessary for the best interests of all the peoples interested in and affected by the movement. So much so that its importance grows rapidly in magnitude before every candid mind that'. gives the subject a careful investigation. It is in the spirit of the Monroe doctrine, and more, it is "Manifest Destiny," con trolled by a Providence that not only-pulls down empires and scatters nations in the dust, but builds up in the advance of civ ilization, stronger, and purer, and happier powers and peoples upon their ruins. It is reasonable to predict that this great measure of andinental Unffication will become one of the mat prominent of the new issues in the pear future, and the par ty that enters most fully into the spirit of the movement will be the party of progress and of popular power. SUPPORT THE PARTY, We sometimes hear men say that they are no 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 for 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 ihe 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 bat Republicans; very frequent ly men do it who have filled office and who 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 ! Several Republicans have allowed themselves to be persuaded, by Messrs. Speer and Lewis, to run• as independent candidates, for the purpose of defeating the regular Republican ticket, of which there is about as much prospect as there is of the re-election of Andrew Johnson to the. Presidency. Are these gentlemen, who have heretofore received some credit for in telligence, willing to be made dupes of in this way ? Do they want to commit poli tical hari kari to gratify Mr. Speer ? 116%. The Globe thinks that McNeil "will go over the course ahead, easily."— Of Greenland we have no doubt, but he will not be able to "hold a candle" for our man. He (McNeil) will be so badly heal,- en that be will never be heard of after the second Tuesday of October. A one-armed soldier to be beaten by , an able-bodied dyed-in-the-wool-proslavery-Demoerat du ring the war, is not to be• thought of in Huntingdon county! Water will run up hill when this comes to pass ! Mr. Speer, we hear it reported about the streets has concluded to take the post-office into the family. It's to be lo cated opposite Broad Top corner. The Monitor and the Globe can hang up their fiddles. There are, of course, two contin gencies which are expected to happen before this can cone to pass: in the first place Greeley must be elected, and in the second place, Speer. Both are extremely doubtful, you know AE:r The Globe assaults Mr. Hare for his vote three years ago, but says nothing of the vote and efforts of the editor ofthat paper, a year later, to defeat Mr. Morrell to balance the account it now charges Mr. Hare with. Come, old fellow, that little bill was settled ! WY" The JOURNAL will be furnished to new subscribers front this date until the 10th of November, (close of campaign,) for 50 cents. tf. GEN. JOHN F. HARTRANFT. The Calumnies Against Him Reacting Testimony of an Independent Journal. If persistent, unmitigated, unwarranted abuse will suffice to beat the Republican l i ticket in the State at the October election, then our ingenious Democratic friends can confidently count on victory. Gen. Hart ranft enjoys the distinction of being the best abused man in the Commonwealth fur the time being. If the multitude of charges which has been brought against him could be proven, he would certainly be a most unfit person to be trusted with the chief magistracy of the State. But to tell the truth our Democratic friends have gone a little too far; they have overreached themselves, and forced candid readers and voters to believe that the persistent defama tion of the Republican candidate fur Gov ernor is merely a desperate device to insure his defeat. From the . serious charges which have been brought against Gen. Hartranft since the opening of the cam paign, he has been fully vindicated. In telligent people might very readily be persuaded that neither he nor any other candidate for office presented an embodi ment of all the public and private virtues. Nowadays it is not customary to find men of such commanding respectability enga, g. ing in the struggle for office of any kind. If we desire to put our finger upon a man who is beyond the breath of suspicion, we must go outside of the political world to find him. But when we are told that Gen. Hartranft is not only as bad as the general run of office-holders and office-seekers, but a thousand times worse than any man who ever had the audacity to aspire to any offi cial station, we naturally reserve to our_ selves the privilege of doubting until the positive and tangible proof is brought to our attention and forced upon our convic tions. Gen. Hartranft has, in fact, been so belabored with unscrupulous partisan abuse as to be almost invested with a halo of martyrdom, and it is questionable if the desperate endeavors made by his political enemies to insure his defeat have not tend ed to strengthen, rather than weaken him before the puplic. Pennsylvania, as every sensible person knows, is a strongly Republican State, and on the square issue is bound to go Repub lican by a very large majority. The only possible chance of success for the Demo crats, therefore, is to create a diversion by transforming the struggle over She Govern orship into a mere personal issue. If, by the persistent blackening of General Hart ranft's character, they can succeed in sink ing out of sight the issues at stake, they stand a slim chance of getting hold of the State government for the next three years. It is an old trick—one that has been tried over and over again, and over and over again exposed and brought to naught, as will, to all appearance, be the result in this case. The Republican ticket presented in the State at large, and, in this city, for the verdict of intelligent voters at the October election, is unusually strong, and unusually unexceptionable, and we can see no sub stantial reason why any sincere Republican should sacrifice his convictions by scratch ing the whole, or any considerable portion of it. In regard to the candidates for legislative honors in this city, we regret that we cannot speak in terms of unquali fied praise. Among the list are some men who aro worthy of the trust, and who will undoubtedly prove themselves trustworthy if elected. Bat there is an unwholesome admixture of the old "rooster" element, which in due time we shall endeavor to discern and expose. Aside from the legis lature, however, the Republican party of the city and State presents a ticket that is unexceptionally good , , and in every case worthy the support of all good Republicans. The Democracy being in a decided minori ty in both the city and the State, it is necessary for them to create a diversion in the ranks of the Republicans on the question of personal fitness; but, as we have already intimated, their zeal has got the better of their discretion, and they have overreached themselves. If they do not discover their mistake sooner, they will be fully convinced of it on the day after the election.—Philadelphia Telegraph. ca,.. It is very evident to the most or dinary mind that the man who runs, as an independent candidate, must be very anx ious for office. But doe's he not over shoot the mark ? To secure an election he must receive all the Democratic and at least five hundred Republican votes ; but he will not receive all the Democratic votes, because the Democrats are under no obligations to vote for him and are just as likely to vote for one Republican asanoth er. No independent candidate, we are confident., can take away- three hundred votes from the regular nominee at an im portant election, let alone five hundred. If he is beaten he is dead in the Republi can party foir years to come,ltnd with the Democrats he is equally bad off. Inde pendent Republicans, reflect before you, commit suicide? Die - That paragon of virtue, the Globe, says: "We want it to be distinctly under stood that the contest, in this county, on the Assembly, is Cameron and anti-Cam eron." Indeed ! Who makes it so ? Is Mr. Shearer a Cameron man ? We are quite sure that Gen. Lane is as little com mitted to Gen. Cameron as the editor of the Globe. Gen. Lane is running for the Legislature fbr the purpose of electing a Republican United States Senator and passing a fair Congressional Apportionment Bill. Mr. Shearer ain't. These are the issues. The Globe cannot make them otherwise. gel. John F. Hartranft is the first Aud itor General of Pennsylvania who busied himself sufficiently in the interest of the people as to recommend the repeal of a spe cific tax levy. Every owner of a farm and of a house owes the repeal of the State tax on real estate to Hartranft's direct influ ence, because lie recommended and person ally urged its repeal in the Legislature. M.. Gov. A. G. Curtin was nominated, by acclamation, as the choice of Centre county for Congress, on last Wednesday, and it is currently reported that he has ac cepted. We hope this is so. New Advertisements. HUNTINGDON ACADEMY WILL AGAIN OPEN SEPT. 2, 1372. Tuition ; $lO, .512.50, and $1.5 per Eleven Weeks. JAS. A. STEPHENS, Principal. Huntingdon, Pa., August 28, 1872-21. L R. NORTON, Dealer in PIANOS, AND STATE AGENT For the . ce:ebra ted JEWETT & GOODMAN ORGAN, 118 Smithfield Street., Opposite New City Hall,' PITTSBURGII, PA (Send for Illustrated Catalogue.) Aug 28, 1872-Im. Election Proclamation. POD SAYE TUE COMMONVSALTH4 PROCLAMATION. -NOTICE OF GENERAL ELECTION TUESDAY, OCTOBER Bth, 1872. Pursuant to an Act of the General Assembly of the Com monwealth of Pennsylvania, entitled "An Act relating to the elections of this Commonwealth," approved the second day of July, Anno Domini, 1830, I, AMON lIOUCK, 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 hold in the la id county of Huntingdon, on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of October, (being the Bth day of OCTOBER, ) at which time the following officers will be elected: One Person for the office of Governor of the Common— wealth of Pennsylvania One Person fo; the office of Supreme Judge of the Com monwealth of Penn sylvan if... One Person for:the office of A oilitor General of the COM mon wealth of Pennsylvania _ _ Three Persona for the offices of Congressmen-at-Large to represent the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania In the Con gress of the United States. Twenty-eight Persons for the offices of Delegates-at Large to the Constitutional Convention of the Common wealth of Pennsylvania. One Person for the office of Congress to represent Cam bria, Blair, Ifuntingdon and Mifflin countiel in the Con gress of the United Stites._ • o Three Persons for the offices of Delegates to the Consti tutional Convention, to represent the counties of Centre, llnntingdon, Mifflin and Juniata, of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. One'Person for the office of Assembly, to represent the county of Huntingdon in the llonee of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Penneylvnna, . _ One Perm for the office of Prothonotary of Huntingdon one Person for the office of Register and Recorder of Huntingdon county. . . _ One forson for the office of District Attorney of Hunt ingdon county. One Person for tho offico of County Commissioner of Hunhnicdon county. One Person for the office of Directorof the Poor of Hunt ingdon county._ One Person for the office of Auditor of Iluntingdon Tu Pursuance of said Act, Tabm hereby make known and give notice, that the places of holding the aforesaid general election in the several election districts within the said county of flnntiegdco, are as follows, to wit: let district, composed of the township of Ilendenson, at the Union School House. 2d district. composed of Dublin township, at Pleasant MU School louse, near Joseph Nelson's in said township. 3.1 district, composed of so much of Warriorsmark town ship, as is not included in the 19th district, at the School Douse, adjoining the town of Warriorsmark. . . 4tb district, composed of the township of Ilopewell, at the house of Levi llonpt, in said township. fith district, composed ,f the township of Barren, at the home ofJames Livingston, in the town of Saulsburg, in 'aid township. . . . Bth 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 hoots of David ' , raker, deed., in _ . ith district, 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 corned 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 mid line to Little Juniata River, thence down the same to the place of beginning, at the Public School House opposite the Ger man Reformed Church, in the borough of Alexandria. Bth district, composed of the township of Franklin, at the house of George W.Mattern, in said township. flth distnct, composed of Tell 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 s, in said township. 11th district, composed or Union township, at Grant School house, in the borough of Mapleton, in said town ship. 19th durtrict, composed of Brady township, at the Centre school how, in said topnship. 13th district, composed of Morris township, at public school house in said township. 14th district, composed of that Part of West township not included in ith and 26th districts, at the public school house on the farm 110 W owned by Miles Lewis, [formerly owned by James Ennis,] in sold township. 15th district, composed of Walker township, at the house of Benjamin 11.1egahy, in 11'counellstotyu. tath'district, composed of the township of Tod, at Green school house, in (add township. 17th district, composed of Oneida township, at the house of WI Ram Long, Warm Springs. 19th district, composed of Cromwell township, at the Rock 11111 School House, in mid township. .„.. . . 19th district, composed the borough .- of Birmingham, with the several tracts of land near to and attached to the same, now owned and occupied by Thomas M. Owens, Juo R. M'Cahan, Andrew Robeson. John Geroimer, and Wm. (lensimer, and the tract of land now owned by George and John Shoenberger, known as the Porter tract, situate in township of Warriorsmark, at the public school house in said borough. - 20tlidKrriCt, composed of the township of Cass, at the public school house to Camille, in said township. 21st district, composed of the township of Jackson, at the public house of Edward Littles, at M'Alavy's Fort, in said township. 224 district", composed of the township of Clay, at the public school house, in Scottville. 224 district, composed of the township of Penn, at the public school hosue in Marklesburg, in said township. 24th district, composed and created as follows, to wit : That all that part of Shirley township, Huntingdon coun ty, lying and being within the fallowing described bounda ries, (except the borough of Mt. Union,) namely: Beginning at the intersection of Union anti Shirley township line with the Juniata river, on the smith side thereof; thence along said Union township line for the cite once of 3 miles from said river; thence eastwardly, by a straight line, to the point where the main from Eby's mill to Germany val ley, crosses the summit of Sandy Ridge to iheJuniata riv er, and thence up said river to the place of beginning, shall hereafter form a separate election district: that the quali fied voters of said election district shall hereafter hold their general and township elections In the public school house in Mt. Union, in said township. 25th district, composed of all that part of the borough of fluntin4don, 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 House, 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 Court House. 27111di;trij,cMnposed of the borough of Petersburg and that part of West township, west and north of a line be tween enderson and West townships, at and near the Warm Springs, to the Franklin township line on the top of Tussey's Mountain, so as to include is the new district the houses of David Waldsmitle, Jacob Longencker. Thos. Ramer, James Porter, and John Wall, at the school house in the borough of Petersburg. 28th district, composed of the township of Juniata, at the hour of John Peightal, on the land of Henry henberg . . . 29th district, comiaed of Carbon township, recently erected oat of a part of the territory of rod township. to wit. commencing at a chestnut oak, on the summit of Ter race mountain, at the Hopewell township line opposite the dividing ridge, in the Little Valley; thence south 52 deg. east 369 perch., 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 math 31% deg., east 294 perches to a chestnut oak, on the summit of a epur of Broad Top, on the western side of John Terral's fada; smith 65 deg., east 934 perches to a stone heap on the Clay township line, at the public school house in the Tillage of Dadley. . . . 30th district, comp reed of tte borough of Coalmont, at the public school house, in said borough. • 314 distnct, composed of Lincoln tp., beginning at a pine on the summitofTussey mountain on the line between Blair and Hnntinguon counties, thence by the division line south, 58 deg., east 798 perches to a black oak in middle of township; thence 4234 deg., east 802 perches to a pine on summit of Terrace; thence by the line of Tod towaship to corner of Penn tp.; thence 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 Ran School House. 3fM district, comp reed or the borough of Mapleton, at the Grant School House, in Raid borough. . 33d district, composed of the borough of Mount Union, at the school house, in said borough. 34th district, composed of the borough 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. 37th district, composed of the borough of Orbisonia, at the public school house, in Orbisonia. I also make known and give notice, as in and by the 13th section of the aforesaid act, I am directed, that "every per eon, excepting justices of the peace. who shall hold any of fice or appointment of profit or trust under the govern ment of the United Stites, or of this State, or of any city or or corphrated district, whether a commissioned officer or agent, who is or shall be employed under the legislative, executive or judiciary department of this :tate or of the United States, or of any city or incorporated district, and also, that e: err member of Congress, and of the State Leg islature, and of the select and common council of any city commissioner of any incorporated district, is by law in capable of holding er exercising at 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 such 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," approved April 16th, 1840, it is enacted that the aforesaid 13th 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." mi;TheLTOI/jOnbly of 1889, known as the Registry Law, itis provided as follows: 1. ' , Elea - ion racers are to open the polls between the • hours of six and seven, a. m., ou 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 Registered List of Voters and all necessary election blanks, .d they are to permit no man to vote whose name is not on mid last, unless he shall make proof of his right to vote, as follows: . . . . 2. The person whose name is not on the list, claiming the light to vote must produce a qualified voterof the dis trict to swear in a written or printed affidavit to the resi dence of the claimant in the district for at least ten days next preceding said election, defining clearly where the residence of the person was. 3. The party claiming the right to vote shall aloe make au affidavit, statingto 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 Lt Lae lorded in the State one year, or, if formerly a citizen therein and temoved therefrom, that he has resided therein six months next weeding said election, that ho 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 !messed at least ten days before the election, and the affi davit shall state when and where the tax was aasevsed and paid, and the tax receipt must be produced unleas the RM. ant shall state that it has been bolt or destroyed, or that he received none. 4...iiiiceapPliCant be a naturalised citizen, he must, in addition to the foregoiogproofS, state in his affidavit when where, and by what court he was naturalized and produce his certificate of naturalization. 5. Every claiming to be a naturalized citizen, whether on the registry list, or producing affidavits as aforesaid, shall be required to produce his naturalization certificate at the election before voting, except where be Election Proclamation has been for ten years consecutively a voter in the diotrict where he offers to vote. and on the vote of secb persons be ing received, the election officers are to write or stamp the word ••voted" on his certificate with the month and year, and no other vote can be hod that thy in Tines of said certificate except where sons are entitled to vote Upos the naturalization of their father. 6. If the person claiming to vote who is not registered, shall makenn affidavit that be is a native born citizen of the United States, nr if born elsewhere, shall produce evi denre of his natursilzation.or that he is entitled to citi zenship by reason of bis father's naturalization, and furth er' tbUt he is between 21 and 22 years ofage. and has rand ea in the State one year, and in the election district 16 days next preceding the election, he shall be entitled to vote though be shall not have paid taxes." In accordance wi , h the provisionor the Sib section of an Act entitled "A further supplement to the Election 1.0.11,1 of this Commonwealth," I publieh the following: WHEREAS, By the Act of the Congress of the United Stu., entitled "An Act to amend the several acts hereto fore passed to provide fur the enrolling andcalling maths, national forces, and for other purposes," and approved March 3d, IS6.i, 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 prodded, are deemed and taken to have volunta rily relinquished and forfeited their rights of citizenship and their rights to become citizens, anti are deprived of ex ercyiing apy rights of citizens therecf ;, AndlohireaZ Persons not citizens of tho United r•LSIPS are not, under the Constitution and laws of Pennsylvania , qualitittdisioc!ors of this Commonwealth.. . . . _ Sec. 1. Ile ft enacted, cEc „That in all elections hereafter to be held in this Commonwealth, It shall be unlawful for the judge or inspectorsof any such elections to receive any ballot orb allots from any person or persons embraced in the provisions and subject to the disability imposed by said act of Cougress,approved March 3d, 1865, and it shall be unlawful for any such pelsou Wolfer to vote any ballot or ballots. Ssc:Y.That it any such Judge or inspectors of election, or any one of them shall receive or consent to receive any such unlawful ballot or ballots from any such disqualified penrm, he or they so offending shall be guilty of a inhale theanor, and on conviction thereof in any court of quarter session of this Commonwealth; he shall for each offense, be sentenced to pays fine not less than one hundred dollars, and to undergo an imprisonment in the jail of the proper county for not less than sixty days. . . _ Ssa'..3. That if any persoit, deprived of citizenship, and disqualified as aforesaid, shall, at any election heresfl er he held in this Commonwealth, vote, or tender to the officers thereof, and oiler to vote a ballot or ballots,any person so offending shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof in any court of quarter session of this Commonwchlth, shall for each offence be punished in like manner at is provided in the preceding section of this act in case of officers of election receiving any such unlawlul ballot or ballots. tne.4. That if any person shall hereafter persuade or ad vise any person or persons, deprived of citizenship or dis qualified as aforesaid, to offer any ballot or ballots lo 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, freer any person deprived of citizenship, and disqualified as aforesaid, each person so offending Oral' be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon con viction thereof any court of quarter sessions of this Commonwealth, shall be punished in like manner as pro vided in the second section of this act in the race of officers of such election receiving such unlawful ballot or ballots. Particular attention is directed to the first section of the Act of Assembly,passed the 30th day of March, a. d. ISCC, entitled "An Act regulating the manner of Voting at all Elections, in the several counties of this Commonwealth. 'That the qualified voter. of the several counties of this Commonwealth, et all general, township, borough and special elections, are hereby, hereafter authorized and re quired to vote, by ticket, printed or written, or partly printed and partly written, severally classified as follows. One ti ket shall embrace the names of all judges of coons voted for, and be labelled outside ludiciary;" one ticket shall embrace all the nom. of State officers voted for and be labelled "State;" one ticket shall embrace the nemesia all musty officers voted for, including office of Senate. member and member. of Assembly, if voted for, and mein hers it 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 re.pective driatricts, and produce them at a meeting of one of the judges from each district at the Court House, in the borough of fluntingdon, on the third day after the day of election, being for the present year on FRIDAY, the 11th 01 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 ty one of the inspectors or clerks of the e ection of said dis trict, and shall do and perform the duties required ofsald judge noodle to attend. CONSTI'fIITION AL CONTENTION. A t the same time and places, aleo, an election will be 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.titntion." approved April 11, 1072. As prescrib ed by said 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 S ate: the said convention shall omelet of one hundred and thirty-three members, to be elected in the manner following: Twenty-eight members thereof shall be elects. ed in the State at large, as follows: Each voter of the State shall vote for not more than fourteen candidates. and the tigenty-eight different Senatorial dietricts of the State, three delegates to be elected for each Senator therefrom; and in choosing all district delegates, each voter shall be entitled to a vote for not more than two of the members to be chosen from tale district, and the three candidates highest in vote shall be declared, elec ted, except in the conuty of Allegheny, forming the Twenty-third Senatorial District, where no voter shall vote for more than tin candidates, and the nine highest in vote shall be elected, and in the counties of Lurarne, Monroe and Pike, forming the Thirteenth Senatorial District, where no voter shall vote for more than four candidates. and the six nighest In vote shall be elected, and six additioad delegates :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 nix highest in vote shall be declared elected. Second. The Judges and Inspectors for each election district shall provide two suitable boxes for each poll, one in which to deposite the tickets voted for Delegates at large, and tho other in which to deposite the tickets voted for District Delegates; which boxee shall be 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 far each poll in which to deposit the tickets voted for "City Delegates;" and said Met mentioned boxes must each be labelled "C ity Delegates. ' " Third. The maid o.ection shaH be held 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 far as the same shall be applicable thereto, and not inconsistent with the pro visions of said not. Fourth. The tickets to be voted for members at largo of the convention shall have on the outside the tin rds "Delegates-at-Large" and on the inside the names of the candidst. to be voted for, not exceeding fourteen in number. Fifth. The tickets to be voted for district members of the convention shall have on the outside the words "District I) legates," and on the inside the name or names of the candidates voted for, not exceeding the proper number limited as aforesaid; bet soy ticket which shall contain a greater number of names than the number for which the voter ehall be entitled to vote, shall be rejected; and in case of the delegates to be chosen et huge in Philadelphia. the words, "City Delegates," shall be on the outside of the ticket. Sixth. 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, tobe members of the convention; the return judges of the of the several election districts within rack aunty 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 corny, 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 the same as those pre scribed for return judges in the case of an election for Governor, except that returns transmitted to the Secre tary of the Commonwealth, shall be addressed to that officer alone and not to the Speaker of the Senate.., F. JORDAN, Secretary of the Conintonwealth. EXECUTIVE CHAMBER, HARM /M.O, PA., August 27, IHO. To the County Comminioners and Sheriff of the County of Huntingdon: Wintnras, the 1 ifteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States is as follows: "Sac. 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote tall not be denied or abridged by the United Staten, or by ay State, on account of race, color, or previous condition r servitude." Sze. 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce thta article by appropriate legislation." And whereas, the Congress of the United States, on the 31st day of Ilarch,lB7o, passed an act, entitled “./in Act to enforce Use rights of citizens of the United Slates to rote in the !evens] States of this Union, and for other purposes," the first and second eections of which are as follows: "Sec. 1. Bo it enacted by the Senate and House and ReT resentatires of the roiled States of Americo in Congress assembled, That all citizens of the United States, who are, or shell be otherwise qualified by law to vote at auy elec tion by the people, in coy State, Territory, district, coun ty, city, parish, township, school district municipality or other territorial sub-division, shall be entitled and allowed to vote at all such elections, without distinction to race, color, or previous condition of servitude; nny Constitution law, custom, usage or regulation of any Territory, or by or under its authority, to the contrary notwithstanding." 'lee. 2. And be alio - Vier enacted, That if, by, or under the authority of the Constitution or laws of auy State, or the laws of any Territory, any act is or shall be required to be done as a prerequisite or qualification for voting, and by such Constitution or law, persons or officers are er shall be charged with the performance of duties in furnishing to citizens on opportunity to perform such prerequisite, or to become qualified to rote, it shall be the duty of every uncle person and officer to give to all citizens of the United States the saws and equal opportunity to perform such prerequi site, and 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 full effect to this section, he shall, for every such of fence, forfeit and pay the sum of five hundred dollars to the person aggrieved thereby, to be recovered by an action ou the case, with full costs and such allowance for counsel fees as the court shall deem just, and shall oleo, for every such offence, be deemed guility of a misdemeanor, and shall on conviction thereof, be fined not less than floe hundred dollar, or be imprisoned not less than one month and not more than one year, or both, at the discretion of the court. And whereas, It us declared by the second section of the Vlth article of the Constitution of the United States, that "This Coned ration, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof, shall be the supreme law of the lend • • • • anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary not withstanding." ..1 ad trlttieus, The Legislature of this Commonwealth.en the 6th day of April, a. d. 1670, passed au act en hied, '•A further supplement to the Act relating to elections in thin Cottunonwealth," the tenth section of which pro gdoe as follows: . . "Stu. 10. That to much of every act of Assembly as pro vides that only white freemen shall he entitled to vote or be registered as voters, or as claiming to vale at any gen eral or specill election of this Commonwealth, be and the mmo is hereby repealed; and that hereafter all freemen, wi hout distinction of color, shall be enrolled and register ed according to the provision of the first eection of the act approved 17th April, entitled •An Act further sup plemental to the act relating to the elections of this C4nn monirmilth," and when otherwise qualified under existi..g laws, be entitled to vote at all general and special election in this Commonwealth.v And scherces, It is my constitutional and official duty to 'take care that the laws be faithfkilly excreted ;' and it has come to my knowledge that sundry assessors and reg isters of Totem hare refused, and are refusing to ass et s. and register dicers colored male citizens of lawful age, and oth erwise qualified as electors . . . Now inEnzrows, In consideration of the premises, the county commissioners of said county are hereby notified and directed to instruct the seveial assessors and regieters of voters therein, to obey and conform to the requirements of said constitutional amendment and laws; and the sheriff of said county it hereby authorized and required to pub lish in his election proclamation for tic 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 voters, election officers and others; and that tl.e rights and privileges guaranteed thereby may be secured to all the citizens of this Commonwealth entitled to the SAM e. al;e'; under my hand And the mat seal of the State at Harrisburg, the itiy and year first above written. JOILN W. GEARY. i:JORDAN, Secretary of the Commonwealth. Given under my hand, at Huntingdon, the 28th day of Au - gnat, gnat, a. d. 1872, and of the independence of the United States, the ninety-sixth AMON HOUCK, Smarr, Huntingdon, August 29tk, 11,72.
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