VOL. 47
The Huntingdon Journal.
J. R. DIIRBORROW,
PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETORS.
Office oit the Corae, of Fifth and Traahinyton streets.
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Hand-bills. Blanks, Cards, Pamphlets, be., of every
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Professional Cards
R F. GEHRETT, N. D:, ECLEa
-I—r• TIC PHYCICIAN AND SURGEON, hav
ing returned from Clearfield county and perma
nently located in Shirleysburg, offers his profes
sional services to the people of that place and sur
rounding country. a.pr.3-1872.
DR. H. W. 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
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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