VOL. 47 The Huntingdon Journal. J. R. DIIRBORROW, PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETORS. Office oit the Corae, of Fifth and Traahinyton streets. THE HUNTINGDON JOURNAL is published every Wednesday, by J. R. DURBORROW and J. A. /cent, under the firm name of J. R. DURBORROW do Co., at $2,00 per annum, Ix ADVANCE, or $2,50 if not paid for in six months from date of subscription, and $3 if not paid within the year. No paper discontinued, unless at the option of the publishers, until all arrearages are paid. Regular monthly and yearly advertisements will be inserted at the following rates : I 316 10 nil \rrZ l 2 9 418 $27 " 310060 00 65 1.1 30 60 00 801 3m 1 Inch 2101 400 5001 000' 2 " 400 8001000 12 00 3 " 600 10 00 14 00,18 00 4 " 800 14 00.20 00,24 00 5 " 950 18 00125 00130 00 6mlomlly Special' notices will be inserted at TWELVE AND A HALF CENTS per line, and local and editorial no tices at FIFTEEN CENTS per line. 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BUCHANAN, DENTIST, No. 228 Hill Street, HUNTINGDON, PA, July 3, '72. TIE. F. 0. ALLEMAN can be con eulted at hie offiee, at all hours, Mapleton, Pa. [marello,72. 71 CALDWELL, Attorney -at -Law, •No. 111, 3d street. Office formerly occupied by Messrs. Woods & Williamson. [apl2,'7l. DR. A. B. BRUMBAUGH, offers his professional services to the community. Office, No. 523 Washington street, one door east of the Catholic Parsonage. pan.4;7l. J. GREENE, Dentist. Office re -LA • moved to Lester's new building, Rill street Youtingdoa. [jan.4,'7l. Cl_ L. ROBB, Dentist, office in S. T. • Brawn's new building, No. 520, Hill St., Huntingdon, Pa. [apl2,ll. HGLAZIER, Notary Public, corner • of Washington r.nd Smith streets, Hun tingdon, Pa. [jan.l2'7l. W C. MADDEN, Attorney-at-Law - S • Office, No. —, Hill street, Huntingdon, Pa. Dip. 19,11. FRANKLIN SCHOCK, Attorney to • at-Law, HUNTINGDON, PA. jane26,'72-6m, JSYLVANUS BLAIR, Attorney-at • Law, Huntingdon, Pa. Office, Hill street, hree doors west of Smith. [jan.4'7l. It. PATTON, Druggist and Apoth r, • miry, opposite the Exchange Motel, Sian iugdon, Pa. Prescriptions accurately compounded. Pure Liquors fur Medicinal purposes. [n0v.23;70. HALL MUSSER, Attorney-at-Law, r.-P • No. 319 31111 st., Huntingdon, Pa. [jan.4,7l. R. DURBORROW, Attorney-at • Law, Huntingdon, Pa., will practice in the several Courts of Huntingdon county. Particular attention given to the settlement of estates of dece dents. Office in he JOURNAL Building. [feb.l,ql, j W. ISIATTERN, Attorney-at-Law rfi • and General Claim Agent, Huntingdon, Pa., Soldiers' claims against the Government for back pay, bounty, widows' and invalid pensions attend ed to with great care and promptness. Office on Hill street. [jan.4,ll. ALLEN LOVELL, Attorney-at . • Law, Huntingdon, Pa. Special attention given to COLLECTIONS of all kinds; to the settle ment of Estates, dm.; and all other Legal Business prosecuted with fidelity aud dispatch. 'gr. Office in room lately occupied by It. Milton Speer, Esq. [jan.4,'7l. MILES ZENTIVIYER, Attorney-at- Law, Huntingdon, Pa., will attendpromptly to all legal business. Office in Cunningham's now building. an. 4171. I have just received a large stock of Ladies' ele gant Dress Goode, Gentlemens' Furnishing Goods, Boots, Shoes, Mats and Caps of all kinds, in end less variety, for ladies, gentlemen, misses and Office on the children. south side of Hill street, fourth door I CARPETS west of Smith. (jan.4,'7l. TO M. & M. S. LYTLE, Attorneys at-Law, Huntingdon, Pa., will attend to all kinds of legal business entrusted to their care. RA. ORBISON, Attorneylat-Law, . Office, 321 Hill street, Huntingdon, Pa. [maY3l,7l. JOHN SCOTT. S. T. MOWN. J. H. BAILEY SCOTT, BROWN & BAILEY, At torneys-at-Law, Huntingdon, Pa. Pensions, and all claims of soldiers and soldiers' heirs against the Government will be promptly prosecuted. Office on Hill street. Dan.4/71. W. MYTON, Attorney-at-Law, Han -A- • tingdon, Pa. Office with J. Sewell Stewart, Eq. [jan.4,'7l. WiLIAM A. FLEMING, Attorney sfAt-Law, Huntingdon, Pa. Special attention given to cohections, and all other legal business attended to with care and promptness. Office, No. 229, Hill street. [apl9,'7l. Hotels, MORRISON HOUSE, OPPOSITE PENNSYLVANIA R. R. DEPOT HUNTINGDON, PA J. H. CLOVER, Prop. Apnl 5, 1871-17. WASHINGTON HOTEL, S. S. Sown., Prop'r. Corner of Pitt & Juliana Sts.,Bodford, Pa. mayl. VXCHANGE HOTEL, Huntingdon, -LA Pa. JOHN S. MILLER, Proprietor. January 4, 1871. Miscellaneous E. BARTOL. I A. inacany. I J. Ream DAVID 11130 U BARTOL, KENNEDY & CO. [Latcly Franklin Manufacturing Company.] Manufactures Flooring, Siding, Doors, Sash, Shutters, Blinds, Moulding, Scroll Work, Counters, Shelving, Wood Turnings, Hobbs, Spokes, Bent Work, Forks, Rakes, Brooms, Pick, and Hammer Handles, all kinds of Furniture, &c. Our Machinery the very best quality and giving our entire being of attention to the business we are able to manufacture all of the shoved named articles, as well as many others, in the best style and always promptly. All orders addressed to BARTOL, KENNEDY & CO., Huntingdon, Pa., will receive our immediate attention. Price list furnished when desired. Lumber taken in exchange for all kinds of work, Jan. 31. 1871. 14 A. BECK, Fashionable Barber • and Hairdresser, Hill street, opposite the Franklin House. All kinds of Tonics and Pomades kept onhand and for sale. [apl9/71-6m -- I n --„:--; ...tt. . I ki P.. • r. 7 , , ' 4 ... ..f. 4: • --: - - r• 11 ' ;.': eN - . t 'lO , -; 0 ,--4, q 1-. , :_.• 4 . r , ' _... Miscellaneous 1872 J. A. NASII, CARPETS !! CARPETS !! CARPETS ! SPRING STOCK. • A T LOWEST PRICES ! JAMES A. BROWN 1. constantly receiving at Isis new CARPET STORE, HUNTINGDON, PA., 525 Hill Street. Beautiful Patterns of Carpets, fresh from the OODIS of the manufacturers. His stock comprises BRUSSELS, INGRAINS, VENITIAN, WOOL DUTCH, COTTAGE, HEMP, . LIST and RAG CARPETS CARPET CHAIN, COCOA AND CANTON MATTINGS, FLOOR, STAIR AND TABLE OIL CLOTHS, and a large stock. ef WALL PAPER, Window Shades and Fixtures, Drugget, Velvet Rugs, Door Mats, Extra Carpet Thread and Bind ing. I make a specialty of furnishing Churches and Lodges at City Prices, and invite Furnishing Committees to call and see goods made expressly for their purposes. Buyers will sore money and be better suited by going to the regular Carpet and Oil Cloth Store, for any of the above goods. I defy competition in prices and variety of beautiful patterns. I have also the Agency for the Orignal HOWE SEWING MACHINE, IMPROVED, so well known as the best Family Machine in the world Call at the CARPET STORE and see them. Feb. 14,1872. V. BUCHANAN BUCHANAN & SON. 509 HILL STREET, HUNTINGDON, PA. We have the the largest, cheapest and best as. sortment of COOKING STOVES West of Philadelphia. We constantly keep on hand SPEARS', CALORIFIC, EXCELSIOR, OLIVE BRANCH, PENN, MORNING LIGHT, COTTAGE, _ _ STAR, REGULATOR. EVERY STOVE WARRANTED WOOD and WILLOW WARE, JAPANESE WARE, TIN AND PAINTED WARE, TOLEDO PUMPS, ETC., ETC., ETC. ETC. Persons going to housekeeping can get every- Ming they need, from a clothes pin to a cooking stove. ROOFING, SPOUTING & JOB WORK done at short notice. Give us a call and we feel satisfied you can save money. I Oopril. GRAND DEPOT FOR NEW GOODS D. P. GWIN INFORMS THE PUBLIC THAT HE HAb JUST OPENED A SPLENDID STOCK OF NEW GOODS THAT CAN'T BE BEAT IN CHEAPNESS AND QUALITY. GAIL AND SEE. D. P. GWIN. J.. 4, '7l, FRESH ARRIVAL OF SPRING AND SUMMER GOODS at the Cheap Store of BENJAMIN JACOBS, Corner of the Diamond, in Saxton's Building OIL CLOTHS, • • GROCERIES, Coffee, Teas of all kinds, best and common Syrups, Spices, &c. Tobacco and Segars, wholesale and retail. These goods will be sold as cheap, if not cheaper, than any other house in town. "Quick sales and small profits;" is my motto. Thankful for past patronage, I respectfully soli sit a continuance of the same. POLITICAL CAMPAIGN OF 1872. GRANT AND WILSON, GREELEY AND BROWN CAMPAIGN CAPS, CAPES AND TORCHES, TRANSPARENCIES AND BANNERS, with Portraits or any device for 411 parties Silk, Bunting and Muslin Flags of all sizes on hand or made to order. Chinese Lanterns of all sizes and styles; Paper Balloons, Fire Works, &c. Campaign Clubs fitted out at the Lowest Rates at WM. F. SCHEIBLE'S, CAMPAIGN DEPOT, No. 49 South Third Street, Philadelphia. jly3-3m. (Send for Circulars.) GOOD FITS ! SHOEMAKING ! We manufacture to order all kinds of Ladies' and Gents' Boots, Shoes, Gaiters, &c., of the beet material the market produces, and at the shortest possible notice. Persons from the country can be accommodated with our own manufacturing by giving a few hours notice. AB kinds of repairing neatly done. For past favors accept our sincere thanks. D. HERTZLER & BRO., 403 Allegheny St., Opposite B. T. Depot jnue2ttf Huntingdon, Pa, G AS 'LOAN. The managers of the Huntingdon Gas Company propose to effect a loan for the purpose of enlarging and extending their works. Bonds, secured by a first mortgage upon the works and real estate of the Company, will be issued in sums of from _ ,oo o , bearing interest ut the rate of EIGHT PER CENT. per annum, payable in January and July. The bonds will be payable on the Ist day of July, 1880, with the right of redemption after five years. By order of the Board of Managers- T. SIMPSON AFRICA, President. J. W. GREENLAND, Secretary and Treasurer. Huntingdon, May 1, 1872-tf. 1872, UNITED STATES PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION OF TUE FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS. [GENERAL NATURE-NO. SO.] AN ACT making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eigh teen hundred and seventy-three. Be it enacted by the 'Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the sane are here by, appropriated, out of 'any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the Military Academy for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, viz : For additional pay of officers, and for pay of instructors, cadets, and musicians, two hundred and twenty-two thousand nine hundred and thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents. For repairs and improvements, timber, plank, boards, joists, wall-strips, laths, shin gles, slate, tin, sheet-lead, nails, screws, locks, butts, hinges, glass, paint, turpen tine, oils, bricks, lime, cement, plaster, hair, blasting powder, fuses, iron, steel, tools, mantels, and other similar materials, fourteen thousand five hundred dollars. For pay of citizen mechanics employed upon repairs that cannot be done by en listed men, eight thousand dollars. For fuel and apparatus, coal, wood, stoves, grates, furnaces, ranges, fire-bricks, and repairs, fourteen thousand dollars. For gas pipes, gasometers, and retorts, and annual repairs of the same, six hun dred dollars. JAISIES A. BROWN. For fuel for cadets' mess hall, shops and laundry, three thousand five hundred dol lars. For postage and telegrams, two hundred dollars. For stationery, blank books, paper, en velopes, quills, steel pens, wax, and ink, five hundred dollars. For transportation of materials, dischar ged cadets, and ferriages, one thousand two hundred dollars. For printing type, materials for office, diplomas • for graduates, registers, and blanks, seven hundred dollars. For compensation of lithographer, one Hundred dollars. For clerk to disbursing officer and quar termaster, one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars. For clerk to adjutant, one thousand five hundred dollars. and the For clerk to treasurer, one thousand five hundred dollars. For department of instruction in math ematics, viz : For plane table, one hundred and seventy-five dollars; repairs of instru ments; thirty dollars; text books and sta tionery for instructors, twenty dollars. For department of artillery, cavalry, and infantry tactics, viz : For tan bark for ri ding ball and gymnasium, one hundred and fifty dollars; stationery for assistant instructors, one hundred dollars; guidons, marker flags, camp colors, and embroider ing colors for caps of cadets, fifty dollars; repairing camp stools, tents, and furniture, five hundred dollars; foils, masks, gloves, and repairs for fencing, two hundred dol lars. For department of civil and military en giheering : For. models, maps, repairs of instruments, and text books and stationery for use of instructors, five hundred dollars. For department of natural and experi mental philosophy : For chronograph for observatory, one thousand dollars; two sextants, three hundred dollars ; surveyor's transit, two•hundred and fifty dollars; bar ometer, fifty dollars; repairs and contin gencies, five hundred dollars; compensation to attendant, fifty dollars. For department of drawing: For Tur ner's Liber-studiorum for the use of the second class, one hundred and twenty dol lars; topographical models, architectural models and ornaments, and models of ma chines, for the use of tho, third class, one hundred dollars; colors, brushes, pencils, and papers, for the use of instructors, ten dollars. For department of law - and ethics : For books of reference, text books, and station ery, for the use of instructors, one hun dred dollars. For department of French : For text books and stationery, for the use of instruc tors, fifty dollars. For department of Spanish : For text books and stationery, for the use of instruc tors, fifty dollars. For department of chemistry, mineralo gy, and geology : For chemicals, including chemical apparatus, glass and porcelain ware, paper, wire, aril sheet metal, five hundred and fifty dollars; material for practical instruction in photography, two hundred dollars; rough specimens, files, alcohol, lamps, blow pipes, pencils, and agate mortars, for practical instruction in mineralogy and geology, one hundred and seventy-five dollars; fossils illustrating the different rock formations, for daily use in section rooms, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; gradual increase of the cabinet, five hundred dollars; repairs and improve ments in electric, galvanic, magnetic, elec tro-magnetic, and magneto-electric appara tus, four hundred and fifty dollars; repairs and additions to pneumatic and thermic apparatus, one hundred and fifty dollars ; improved adjustable electric lamp, one hundred and fifty dollars; carpenters' and metal work, and materials for the same, sixty-five dollars; improved binocular mi croscope, complete, three hundred dollars; diagrams illustrating chemical and geolog ical phenomena, one hundred and twenty five lollars; mechanics' tools, twenty dol lars; pay of mechanics, to be employed in chemical and.geological section rooms, and in the lecture room, one thousand and fifty dollars; for bringing steam directly to chemical rooms, and for chemical and me chanical-operations, two hundred and sev enty dollars; steam cylinder and piston, five hundred dollars; setting up Ludd's dynamo-magnetic electric machine, one hundred dollars; replastering and repaint, ing section rooms, one hundred and twen ty dollars; reflooring lecture room, eighty dollars; covering floor of mineralogical sec tion room, one hundred and ten dollars; compensation to attendant, fifty dollars. For department of practical engineer ing : For ten box-compasses, fifty dollars ; repairs of instruments, twenty-five dollars; lumber for profiling, tracting-tapes, and turpentine, one hundred and twenty-five dollars. For department of ordnance and gun nery : For building sink, repairing and pointing walls, and for new doors, five hundred dollars. For the expenses of the board of visi tors, five thousand dollars. [oFFicIAL.] LAWS OF TILE For contingencies for superintendent of the academy, one thousand dollars. For repairing and opening roads and paths, two thousand five hundred dollars. For ice house and an additional store room and servants' room, seven thousand five hundred dollars. For re-covering south wharf, two thous and five hundreedollars. AN ACT to authorize the sale of certain Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to sell, in whole or in such subdivisions as shall, in his opin ion, secure the greatest amount of money either by public auction or by inviting pro posals for the purchase thereof, and in either case to the highest bidder, all the lands and tenements belonging to the United States, at Rome, New York; Ver gennes, Vermont; Fayetteville, North Carolina ; Mount Vernon, Alabama ; and Chattahoochee, Florida, now or heretofore used for arsenal purposes, and known, re spectively, as Rome arsenal, Champlain ar senal, North Carolina arsenal, Mount Ver non arsenal, and Apalachicola arsenal; al so the captured lands and tenements be longing to the United States at Shreveport, Louisiana ; Marshall and Jefferson, Texas ; and in Marion and Davis counties, Texas; and a tract of forty acres of land, more or less, situated about two and one-half miles from the present United States arsenal at Augusta, Georgia, which comprises the site of the old United States arsenal and any adjoininc , land purchased by the so called "confederate States," which fell to the United States as captured property, and which has not hitherto been sold, and all the material and buildings of the pow der-works erected by the so-called "con federate" government thereon : Provided, That no sale shall be made under this act until the time, terms, place, and mode thereof shall have been published in one of the principal newspapers in the city of Washington, in two of the principal papers printed at the capital of the State, and one paper printed in the county in which the arsenal or lands to be sold are situated, for the space of sixty days prior to the sale. If no newspaper is printed in the county where the property to be sold is situated, then the notice shall be published in a newspaper printed in any adjoining county. SEc. 2. That the terms of payment for the property above directed to be sold shall be in all cases not less than one-fourth cash and the remainder on credit of one, two, and three years, with interest at six per centum per annum, secured by land and surety from the purchaser or purchas ers; and the Secretary of War is empow ered and required, on receiving the pur chase money in full, to execute all neces sary deeds of said property to the pur chaser or purchasers thereof on behalf of the United States. Sec. 3. That the proceeds of said sales, after paying the necessary expenses there of, shall, upon receipt of the same, bepaid by the Secretary of War intQ the treas ury. Approved, June 10, 1572. Another Story—The Narrative of the Or iginal Discoverer—Gems Abounding in Bushels. The Laramie Sentinel has the following: We have the honor of first placing be fore the country the only authentic histo ry and circumstances connected with the great diamond discovery, which we gath ered from the original discoverer, Mr. T. Edward Arnold. The main facts were in our possession some days ago, but at the request of parties most interested it was not published at that time. Oar readers will remember that on the 14th inst., there appeared in the Sentinel an article on this subject. The next morning, we were waited on by Mr. Arnold, when the following conversation ensued : Mr. Ar nold—"lt is no use for me to misrepresent matters to you regarding your article in last evening's issue, for you have got us down to a bole. I came here for the pur pose of fitting out an expedition, as you state, supposing that it could be, done without our intention or destination being discovered. The San Francisco papers have been working in the dark, publishing all sorts of nonsense regarding this im portant discovery, but you are the only one who has yet bit us hard. We will compromise, if agreeable to you, as we are not ready to have the facts made pub lic. If you will let up on us for a few deys, we will give you the facts in full, and you shall publish the first authentic account a the affair." Satisfied that we would remain quiet until such time as he was ready to have the matter made public, Mr. Arnold Proceeded : "I am the origi nal. discoverer of the diamond district. My first visit to the fields was in July, 1869. I was prospecting in the Pimas Indian country for gold. One day an Indian came to me bringing about a pint of bright and peculiar shaped stones. The Indian assured me that they were diamonds, and that the locality where they were to be found had been known to his tribe for HUNTINGDON, PA., SEPTEMBER 11, 1872 For miscellaneous and contingent ex penses: For gas, coal oil, for lighting the academy, cadet barracks, mess hall, hospi tal offices, stable, and inside walks, four thousand dollars; water pipes, plumbing, and repairs, two thousand dollars; clean ing public buildings, (not quarters,) five hundred and .sixty dollars; brooms, brushes, pails, tubs, and cloths, two hun dred dollars; chalk, crayons, sponge, and slates for recitation rooms, one hundred dollars; compensation of chapel organist, two hundred dollars ; compensation of li brarian, one hundred and twenty dollars; compensation of non-commissioned officer in charge of mechanics, fifty dollars; com-. pensation of soldier writina. ' in adjutant's office, fifty dollars; pay of engineer of heating and ventilating apparatus. cadet barracks, chapel, and philosophical aca demy, including the library, one thousand five hundred dollars; pay of assistant of same, seven hundred and twenty dollars; pay of five fireman, two thousand two hun dred dollars; increase and expense of the library, books, magazines, periodicals, and binding, two thousand dollars. . For reimbursingcadedts for losses in curred by their efforts in extinguishing a fire in their barracks, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-one, six thousand eight hundred and . eighteen dollars and eighty-two cents. For pay of librarian's assistant, one thousand dollars. For coal-house, five thousand dollars. Approved, May 23, 1872. [GENERAL NATURE-NO. 141.] public property. aitaaiug for the ill: The Diamond Fields, many years. After making him some presents, with a heap of persuasion, he consented to accompany me to the ground. It was a three days' journey, and we start ed immediately. I found the fields loca ted on the slope of a mountain, of sand stone formation; and so plenty were the gems to be found that I picked up a quart or more in a few minutes. I started next day, with fear and hope, for San Francis. co. On my arrival there I carried the stones to J. A. Tucker, jeweler, on Mont gomery 'street, who pronounced them worthless. I was not satisfied. I heard of a French lapidary in the city who had worked at Amsterdam, Holland, the great diamond cutting mart of the world, and to him I repaired for his opinion. He pro nounced them diamonds of the first wa ter. My friends in some manner got hold of the matter, and it was creating some ex citement. When questioned, I referred to Tucker. This satisfied them, and threw them off. To make assurance doubly sure, I sent one of the stones to Fossa, Morris & Co. ' Boston, and had it cut. This re lieved my mind of all doubt. I went back that season and brought out with me about $200,000 worth. I made two trips in 1870, two in 1871, and one - this year, in company with Dodge, RewbOry and Henry Janin, who were sent to verify my state ments to the company I was then forming. On this occasion, in washing about a ton and a half of dirt, we found $BO,OOO worth of brilliants. The publishing of this re port of Janin's was the greatest mistake we have made, for it set all the old miners upon us. These diamonds were discover ed before the two pretenders were even in that country. I know them both well. They are "frauds." Here he showed us a beautiful brilliant of about seven karate, saying : "This is one that I brought out with me on my last trip. Dodge, who accompanied us on that occasion, is a very poor miner. He is too well fixed to mine. After being on the grounds for a few hours, he positively refused to pick up the diamonds when they were under his very , nose. Janin's report was more than satis factory, and the company was formed, with a capital of $10,000,000. It was still thought necessary to keep the locality a secret. I started South and secured twen ty negroes, thinking that I could move them out to the location to get about six months' work out of them, when I would have been willing that the world should know the location. I got them here, and had them equipped, and was ready, when I lost confidence in the colored troops and concluded to send them home. They had been here only about three weeks, and I gave them $l5O each, and they were well satisfied. General M'Clellan has come on, and matters are satisfactorily arranged. I go to Canon City, Colorado, from which place I shall start with one undred pick ed men and experienced men. Our claim is all right. We are protected by the government, and we have concluded to go ahead in the matter boldly. Miner and Fox, of Colorado, claim to have discovered the spot where our gems are found, but do not 'Speak of Seeing the men which wo have on the ground working and holding possession. From Canon City our route lies southwest, through St. Louis valley three hundred miles. and South of the Moquis village near Flax river. About $2,800,000 worth of brilliants have been gathered up to this date, figured at a low estimate. 1 took out one weighing 405 on my first visit. I could pick them up on the slope of the mountain without trouble. The rains had washed the sur face dirt off and exposed them to view. I have denied, upon all occasions, any knowl edge of the location of the diamond dis trict, except to my company. I have been obliged to do so to protect the interests of my friends and myself. You are the first outsider who has obtained any accurate account of this affair. Humboldt speaks of this country as a region where diamonds should be found, and Lieut. Ives, who passed through that section in 1857 with a surveying party, describes the rubies and emeralds found there, and speaks of find ing stones resembling diamonds, none of which were tested by competent judges. We believe that the gravel in which the gems are found occupies an area of some three hundred thousand acres. The tract is on government land, and the govern ment has issued its patent for the entire area. The present owners have, therefore, the power of the United States to protect them in the possession and enjoyment of their property." The company of which Mr. Arnold is the founder is incorporated as the California and New York Mining and Commercial Company, with the fol lowing named Trustees : Hon. M. S. Lath am, President of the London and San Francisdo Bank • Albert Gansal, of B. Davidson & Co., liothschilds' agents ; Hon. Thos. A. Selby, Wm. M. Lent, Wm. F. Babcock, Louis Sloss, and Maurice Dore of San Francisco, and Gen. George B. M'Clellan, and S. L. M. Barlow, of New York city. The capital stock isslo,ooo,- 000. Mr. Janin, the engineer and miner alogist of the company, estimates the cash value of the jewels alfeady secured at $l,- 000,000, and says there cnn be no esti mate of the wealth embodied in the com pany's tract. Mr. T. Edwards Arnold is a Kentucky man by birth, and is forty years of age. He came into the Western country at the age of eighteen, and has, therefore, the experience of twenty-two years mining, and was at one time the partner of old Bill Bridger, and is said to know the Western countrytetter than any man now living. He has acquired a for tune through his diamond discoveries, and after getting the company into working order, he proposes to retire and no longer lead the life of a hardy miner. The Stray Mule, At a meeting in a frontier Western set tlement several present were stoutly oppos ed to the organization of a Sunday school. Not being able to agree, the meeting was 'breaking up' when the chairman said he had a very important notice to read to them. Quiet was soon restored to hear this rather novel 'religious notice.' 'Strayed—A large black mule. He had on a halter when he left, and isbranded on the left hip with the letter S. Any one returning said mule will be liberally re warded.' The keen Sunday School Union mission ary quickly announced that he also had a very important notice to give out. Glraied—A number of boys from their homes, near this place, Sunday morning. They had guns and fishing poles on their shoulders when they left. They are brand ed, by a holy God, as Sabbath breakers. Any one returning said boys, and placing them in a Sunday school, will be liberally rewaded at the day of judgment.' The tact of that missionary carried the vote in favor of a Sunday school, and those stray boys were duly returned to it. Zile Ca ',pulp. [From the Warren (Pa.) Mail.] The Philadelphia Press and Gen, Allen The Press opposes Hartranft ostensibly because he was nominated by Cameron's influence—in fact, because he exposed the Evans affair with which Forney was unfor tunately connected. It opposes Allen, as a blind—to make people believe that its opposition is general and not personal to Hartranft alone because of that exposure. The Press of August 17th says : "He (Allen) is a sound Republican, and gives evidence that he is willing to make a personal sacrifice for the success of his party. But he cannot forget and dare not deny the affidavit. of G. W. Ellis, of War ren county, who, being interested with a number of other gentlemen in securing cer tain legislation, went to Harrisburg to se cure a charter." Ellis made no affidavit, and would make none. He made a statement in 1869, which the Press first published in 1872. It may think such changing of dates hon est, but plain people don't. We desire to inform the Press and all others that Allen did then and does now deny that state ment. Ellis himself considered it a mis take before be left the county three years ago, and always exonerated Allen from blame. It was like all "last cards" before election, and had no more effect. Allen was then a candidate for Senator. This statement was circulated everywhere by his personal enemies, and the whole trans action alleged to have occurred in 1867 was thoroughly canvassed and understood by the people of this county and Senatori al district. Yet he carried the County Convention largely, was nominated by ac clamation, and triumphantly elected. This was the people's verdict then. It will be the same now. The only man whom Ellis connected with the transaction at Harrisburg was Mr. Chase. He very promptly made the following affidavit, which was never de nied : WARREN, June 28, 1869.—1 hereby certify that the statement published in a circular, dated Warren, June 24, 1869, over the name of C. W. Ellis, in relation to his visiting Harrisburg for the purpose of buying legislation, two years ago last winter, is not true. Mr. Ellis knows more of the transaction than he has stated, which he will not deny under oath. I act ed entirely under the instructions form Mr. Ellis, which were different from the statement published. I never had any in structions from General Allen in the mat ter, and understood from Mr. Ellis that General Allen would have nothing to do with the matter, and I believe he did not. THEO. CHASE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA, WARREN GOUTY, ss.—Personally appeared before me a Notary Public in and for the county of Warren, Theodore Chase, who, being by me duly sworn according to law, deposeth and says that the above statement, signed by him, is correct and true. In witness whereof I hereto set my hand and official seal, this 29th day of June, A. D. 1869. FRANK D. REEVES. Notary Public When the statement first appeared it made some feeling, and a regular exami nation of Ellis and others, at Allen's re quest, took place in Warren before a crowd of spectator. Allen and his accusers met face to face. They were not sworn, but otherwise the examination had all the force of a trial "at Court. The result no wise criminated Allen, as the following will show : WARREN, PA., June 26, 1872.—We, the undersigned citizens of Warren, hav ing listened to the examination of Mr. Ellis on Tuesday, June 18th, at this place, do declare that the statement of Mr. Ellis, dated at Erie, June 21st, does not con tain all the facts which he gave here, and which conveyed a different idea from the last statement. Mr. Ellis expressly declar ed that he does not now believe and never has believed that General Allen ever re ceived any of the money or appropriated it to •his own usc. He said he exonerated General Allen from all blame in the mat ter. J. R. CAPRON, A.GEr MILD DAVID DINSMOOR, D. I. BALL, D. M. WILLIAMS, RUFUS B. SMITH. In addition to this the editor of the Democratic paper (the Warren Ledger), no wise partial to Allen, was present and made a long and impartial article on the subject, under date•of June 24, 1869. We extract such parts of it as refer directly to the result without censuring the opponents of Allen, as he did. After complimenting Allen for his zeal as a Republican, saying that— "He has organized all the mass meet ings, and brought out the speakers—has spoken himself—is always active and effi cient. He is 'Young America' Radical, and Radical Young America goes for him"— He alludes to the Ellis scandal, and says : "These stories coming to Allen's knowl edge naturally aroused his temper, and he charged the story to be false and challeng ed investigation. Last week the investi gation was had in this town. * "Now, this revelation is as true, in the main, as could be elicited from a judicial investigation. It is not our business to surmise who did finally obtain the money. It was not to shown that General Allen ever had or saw a dollar of it. That it was raised for corrupt purposes is clearly proven. If they attended to make capital from this to injure Gen. Allen they are lacking in judgment. * * * * * "This investigation then, has not injur ed the General's chances for a nomination, or should not. He always asserted he would not have the money, and they failed to show that he ever did have it. He has been tried, and we find in favor of the de fendant and against the plaintiffs. * * This Court claims to be an impartial one, and we think the decision is according to the evidence. If then Gen. Allen's chances were dubious a few days ago, this triumph al acquittal should make him the nominee by a unanimous vote of the Convention, if it seeks to do justice." The next week the Ledger alluded to strictures on its article by Allen's oppo nents, and added : . The circular, which most of our readers have probably seen, was intended to cor rect the Ledger in some particulars, but we failed, as most other did, to discover any material difference, except that the ' circular was all on one side, while our ar ticle was made up from the testimony of the two sides, and was correct in all its ma terial parts. Coming down to the present time, we have evidence still more positive. Even his political opponents tire of this sort of per secretion and speak out in his behalf. Only last Saturday, August 24th, at a Demo cratic meeting in his own township of Glade, fair-minded men advocated his elec tion. David Beatty was President of the meeting in Glade, Matthew Shipman Vice President, and Jacob Offerlee and Theo dore Hull Secretaries. The following resolutions were passed unanimously Resolved, That we, life-long Democrats of Warren county and neighbors of Gen. Allen, do most cheerfully bear testimony to his excellence as a citizen, and most de cidedly dissent from and disapprobate the slanders being hurled against him by the partisan Press. Knowing him from his boyhood, we do not credit the charges made against him, but believe them the offspring of political malice and disappointed am bition. Resolved, That while entirely differing from him in politics, and being in favor of Greeley and Buckalew, we do not feel that political success should be obtained at the price of the fair fame of any candidate, and we therefore expsess our sentiments most fully, and, as we think, in the most democratic manner, when we say that trumped-np charges, unsubstantiated by any evidence, are not and ought not to be considered as of any value whatever against any candidate, but in the case of• Gen. Al len it is most especially unjust, as, with out money or influential position, he has risen to distinction, and his whole life has proven his energy, his ability, and his fi delity to every trust or business which has been placed upon him or in which lie has been engaged. He is almost the first in every charitable enterprise, and is emphat ically the poor man's friend. Resolved, That in giving expression to our sentiments, we believe there are hund reds of our neighbors who will agree with us, and who, while repudiating the calum nies heaped on Gen. Allen, will vote the balance of the Democratic and Liberal Ticket from President down to County Auditor. This independent action sustains what we have before predicted—that he will not only any his own Democratic township, but run ahead of his party in this county and district. If a man's neighbors don't know him who should ? If they trust him and support him, why shouldn't the Press We have given the above to show to peo ple abroad what was and is the general judgment on this affair at home. That the Press is insincere as well as unjust and unfair in its opposition to Allen especially, is shown not only by its effort to revive an old scandal long ago exploded, but by its own honestly expressed opinion of our nominee when it had no occasion for a factious opposition Here is what it said no loner ago than May 19, 1871: "Gen Harrison Allen, State Senator from Warren county, who was largely vo ted for in'the Republican State Convention for the office of Auditor-General, is one of the truest and best men in our Common wealth. Had he received the nomination he would have received a cordial and en thusiastic support. Let him contentedly bide his time. Higher honors await him." Ger. Allen did "contentedly bide his time," He served his constituents faithfully and ably, two years in the House and three years in the Senate. As a Republican at home, at Harrisburg, in the Chicago Nat ional Convention, and on the stump, and every where, he has been and still is true as. steel while others have deserted to the enemy and betrayed their trust. That "higher honors await him," will be the verdict of not only the Press but of the people at the polls in October next. Lost Opportunities. There was a time when Mr. Buckalew might have pushed his claim to statesman like grasp of mind into the sphere of pop ular recognition. That was on the Bth of April, 1864, when the Senate of the Uni ted States adopted, by a vote of 38 to 6, the constitutional amendment abolishing slavery throughout the United States. On turning to the record we find that Mr. Buckalew was dumb on this extraordinary occasion. While debating with himself whether fealty to the Democratic party was compatible with an act of justice and reparation, applauded by every enlighten ed nation on the globe, the grand opportu nity passed away forever. NoW, though it may well bo true that not every Senator who voted to do away with chattel slavery forever was a states man, we hold that no statesman, in the enlarged sense of the term, neglected to vote for it, or voted against it, when the opportunity was presented. A statesman is one who can, when occasion requires, rise superior to party trammels and de clare for even-handed justice. A states man always acts in the present for the fu ture. The stupidest of men who, favored by accident, sometimes attain to seats in legislative bodies, are generally found equal to any party demand made upon them.— Such men can follow the orthodox fashion of voting with -their colleagues, or they can manage to dodge a vote which they deem inimical to their individual interests. Such men, however, are never ranked with statesmen. Carefully looking over Mr. Buckalew's record as a public man, we find no marked instance in which he has risen above the level of partisan politics. Ho seems to have been born with a mor bid veneration for the Democratic party— always, in its pretensions, an enormous fraud upon the people. Such men make tolerable leaders—never statesmen. There was another occasion when Mr. Buckalew might have earned a reputation for patriotism which would have lived af ter him. Indeed, his _entire Senatorial term was fruitful in occasions for the ex- ercise of a high-toned patriotism. But we more particularly allude to the summer of 1564, when General Grant, General Hart ranft and many others were at the front, hammering away at Mr. Buckalew's rebel lious friends—his Democratic friends.— That was a time in which to strengthen the hands of the government was markedly a patriotic duty. But upon examination of Senator Buckalew's record we nowhere find that he thought it any part of his du ty to befriend the power that fed him. It may be relevant here to allude to a coin cidence in history, because history in structs as often by coincidence as other wise. The coincidence relates to the whereabouts of four individuals now rath er prominent in the public mind. In the summer of 1864, General Grant was obey ing the war-cry shouted by Horace Gree ley in 1861—that is, he was beating his way "on to Richmond." While General Grant was thus engaged, Mr. Greeley was trying to induce Mr. Lincoln to call off his dogs of war, and furnishing the key note of the Chicago Democratic platform. That key-note was—"the war is a failure." The key-riote of Mr. Greeley's letter to the President was—"we have failed; let us try L I to settle." By this singular coincidence NO. 36 it will be seen that the Democracy did not, even so early as 1864, scorn to be led by Horace Greeley. Ho was afraid of a north ern insurrection then, and he is now the tool of those who then threatened to revolt. And in that dark hour where was Sena tor Buckalew ? He, too, was sustaining , Mr. Greeley ; secretly of course; for De mocratic traditions do not admit of open handed treason—in the north, that is to say. He, too, either regarded the war a failure, or that its further prosecution would ruin the Democratic party. So all through that fateful summer he was con spiring with Thompson, Holcombe, Saun ders and company, not, we may admit, on the soil of the United States, but in Cana da. Mr. Greeley was his leader in surren der then, and Mr. Greeley is his captain in surrender to-day. But Grant. Sherman, Farragut, Hartranft and others, kept pounding away at Mr. Buckalew's friends at Petersburg, Atlanta and Mobile, and the people went to the polls and indorsed, not Messrs. Greeley and Buckalew, but Grant and Hartranft, and the rest of the brave men who could not be honeyfugled by Jacob Thompson & Co. And now the manwho tried to frighten Mr. Lincoln with a northern insurrection in posse, in 1864, is the candidate of the Democracy for the seat Mr. Lincoln so much honored. And the man who, per haps, did more than any one other man to make a northern insurrection of Mr. Gree ley's supporters impossible, is the candi date of the Republican party. The man who, as a Senator of the United States from Pennsylvania, dragged the Common wealth into the mire of treason in 1864, is (what more fitting ?) the Democratic can didate for Governor of this Commonwealth to-day! Really he has not changed his politics nor his position. As he was in 1864 the associate conspirator of Jacob Thompson & Co., so is he now, all rave the overt act, the associate of men who are hostile to order. Really it is not fair to institute a comparison between such a man and General Hartranft ; because the latter has been often tried and found true, while the former has been tried and found want ing in patriotism, even when patriotism commanded the respect of all civilized mankind. The people must choose between these men with their eyes open.—Phila. North American, Some of Greeley's Friends. The reader can form a very correct idea of the class of people whom "Radical usur pations" still exclude from all the privile ges of citizenship, in tho rebel States, if he remembers that the atrocious scoundrel, Winder, who is gibbeted in the statement hereto annexed, is one of them. We quote from an account of Andersonville, written by a surgeon in the rebel army : To complete his precautions for the safe keeping of his charge, or t) quell any dis position to revolt, he had placed, through Gen. Winder's orders, a battery of six pieces of artillery, which commanded the whole interior of the prison, and which was kept charged with grape and canister, ready for instant service. The orders to the officer in command were to "sweep the stockade" if thero was any appearance of mutiny, or any unusual crowding together of its inmates. The artillerists were on duty at night as well as in the day, and were relieved at their guns as regularly as were the custom ary sentinels on guard. The position of the battery upon a hill and overlooking the prison, while it commanded its whole interior, was such that, if the order had ever been given to fire, its hurling grape would have borne death and desolation to many thousands. When General Kilpatrick, of the Union army, was expected to advance in his ride as far as Andersonville, the following order was issued HEADQUARTERS ICSNPEDERATE STATES MILITARY PRISON, 5 ANDERSONVILLE, July 27, 1864. ORDERS NO. 13. The officer on duty and in charge of the battery of "Florida Artillery" at the time will, upon receiving notice that the enemy have approached within seven miles of this post, open fire upon the stockade with grapeshot, without reference to the situa- 4 , tion beyond these lines of defense. It is better that the last Federal be ex terminated than be permitted to burn and pillage the property of loyal citizens, as they will do if allowed to make their escape from the prison. By order of John H. Winder, Brigadier General. W. S. Winder, Assistant Adjutant General Upon the promulgation of this sanguin ary and barbarous order, a citizen of Sump ter county and an arch secessionist, who happened to be with the militia force called out by the Governor of Georgia for the defence of Andersonville, remonstrated wite General Winder against its inhuman ity. The reply was: "Sir, I will kill the last d—d Yankee in that stockade before Sherman or Kilpatrick shall release them God d—n my soul if I would not rather see those twenty thousand scoundrels blown to hell than go to Heaven myself!" ser Buekalew voted to pay our soldiers in gold in 1864. Our expenses then were $2,500,000 per day. Gold was 2.40. The nation was staggering from the tremendous tax upon our people to put down the Re bellion of the Democratic party. No na tion ever made such sacrifices, even in self defense. Ours could do no more. If this vast expenditure would not win the nation was lost, AND THE REBELLION WAS SUC CESSFUL ! No soldier demanded payment in gold. No patriot dreamt we could raise any more money to carry on the war. Any proposition to increase our expenses was a direct aid to the rebellion, and this whole transaction shows that the proposal to pay our soldiers in gold WAS INTENDED to DE STROY THIS NATION, AND AID THE RE BELLION! _ _ Powell of Kentucky—an open rebel— made the motion. It received ONLY the votes of Senators well known to be in sym pathy with Treason ! Powell, Saulsbury, Wright, lIUCKALEW and Garret Davis voted for this rebel villainy ! And so we clearly see that Mr. Buckalew's record, on which he relies for his defense to THE CHARGE OF TREASON, furnishes the fullest proof of his disloyalty. His company in this case—As IN CANADA—is conclusive against him ! Only one way remained to destroy his- country ! Increasing our ex penses ruined us! AND BUCKALEW HAS TENED TO AVAIL HIMSELF OF THE ONLY REMAINING TRICK TO RUIN HIS COUNTRY! If Buckalew had succeeded in "paying our soldiers in gold" they did not want, Grant would have surrendered to Lee, and Buckalew would have the reward from rebels commensurate with the service he had done them, by increasing our war ex penses to $3,000,000 a day !! Taxpayers, what do yon think 'of this?—ilar. Tel
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