many towns and populous districts of the State. I then called attention to the subject, and in the strongest terms at my command, urged the imper ative necessity of adopting such measures as would arrest the disease aud prevent its re-appearance. My suggestions . however, were utterly unheeded by the egislature. The dreadful scourge extended itself into the first half of the past year, and, in the absence of well known preventive:, it would be presumption not to expect its return. Neither the extent of its ravages, nor the fatal character of the disease, last year, is generally known to the public, or, I am confident, there would have been such an outcry as would have compelled immediate atten tion and relief. Among the unvaccinated, the or dinary proportion of deaths has been thirty-three per cent.; but the recentdenth-rate in Philadelphia amounted to nearly forty-seven per cent. This is fearful to contemplate, end yet, more fearful still —the fatal per centago has been nearly sixty-six in tfie country at large. This is mainly the result of an indifference, so reckless, as to be absolutely unaccountable. I am thoroughly convinced, that the deplorable results now alluded to, might have been prevented, by opportune legislation. The testimony of the most scientific schools is to the effect that vaccination, properly adminisiered, is a sovereign antidote. The highest medical author ities unqualifiedly affirm small pox to he a dis grace to nny civilised land: thatthere is no neees sity for its presence, and that if every person were properly v accinated every seven years, the disease might be utterly exterminated. I am assured of the correctness of this opinion by my personal ob servations .n the army, both in Mexico and the United States. Soon after our camps were pitched upon Mexican soil, the disease made its appear ance among our troops. By an order from then. Scott, the whole army was rmmediately vaccinated, and the small pox was at once driven from our lines. The same result followed the application of the same remedy in the army of Oen. Sherman, during his famous march "to the sea," and, more recently, in our very midst we have been favored with an illustration equally striking and conclu sive • Our schools of soldiers' orphans, in which there are upwards of thirty-fire hundred children, being, under the absolute control of the State au thorities, a regulation enforcing unirersal vaccina tion, could be, and was, adopted. The result is, that not o single case of small pox has occurred in them. it; object in submitting these remarks to you is not so much for the purpose of convincing you of the truth of a proposition which but few attempt to dispute, as to ask the immediate enactment of remedial measures. it remains, therefore, only to consider bow the object to be sought may he most speedily and effectually accomplished. In reply to this question, I earnestly recommend the pas sage of an act providing for compttlsory' vaccina tion, which should have such penalties annexed as would insure its undoubted enforcement. I also recommend an enactment establishing a State Board of Health, whose functions shall be discharged under the auspices of the Legislature. Fnch an organization would bo indispensable to the vigorous end comprehensive execution of a law making vaccination compulsory, and would he eminently serviceable in ei forcing au uh other san itary regulations as might be deemed essential to the protection of the public against small pox and other contagious diseases. The State Board might be constituted somewhat upon the model of the Board of Public Charities, with the addition of local boards for the counties. cities and larger towns, Tho expense of sues a system would not be worth a thought, when compared with the value ortho benefits that would be conferred by its ope ration. At all events, it would be far less than tho cost in human lives annually saerifloed by the dis eases it would be designed to prevent. It is not possible to estimate correctly such values. But for the purpose of illustration, the calculation of an eminent physician may be accepted. Dr. Ack land, of England, sets down every death by a pre ventable disease as a loss in money of £lOO, and £l2 for loss of time and maintenance during the period of aiekness. According to this standard Pennsylvania lost during the last two years by small pox alone snore than $5,000,000. From a joint roport made to me by the Health Officer and Port Physician of Philadelphia, I learn that the health laws of that city and port are in a very confused and unsatisfactory condition. These gentlemen. in effect, say that the first comprehen sive health law was passed in 1818; that continu ous additions have been made since that time ; that while coins of the laws hare been repealed, others have become inoperative and obsolete; that if certain of these were revived and enforced their execution would inflict positive injury, and, in short, that the whole system imperatively requires a thorough revision. I have good reason to en dorse the troth of these statements, and I earnest ly recommend the whole subject to your early nod considerate action, and that the amendments which you may make for the better protection of the health and general well-being of Philadelphia be extended as far as practicable to the whole State. The apartment in the Capitol building, familiar ly known es the "Office of the Historian, 'has been tastefully fitted op for the reception and display of the battle-flags carried by our soldiers in the war of the rebellion, in accordance with a resolu tion to that cfreet passed by lie Legislature at its text session. For tho purpose of irrigating and beautifying the Capitol grounds. I rceeommend that you au thorize the construction of at least two ornamen tal fountains. I renew my recommendation for the purchase of a few small lots at tbaeasterneorner of the grounds n.essary to the comyletion of the square, and that the iron fence enclosing them be completed. As no charge of selfishness can, at this juncture, attach to me, I frankly remind you that the com pensation of the Governor is entirely inadequate co enable him to live in style corresponding to his position, and the reasonable expectotione of the people of so great a Commonwealth. The truth of the assertion is so obvious that no argu ment is required for their confirmation. The Constitution declares in section VI, of article 11, '•The Governor shall, at stated times, .recoive for his services a compensation, whichshall be neither increased nor diminished during the period for which he shall have been elected." Should the Legislature eoneur with me as to the propriety of increasing the compensation of the Executive to ten thousand dollars per annum, I receemmeud that it be done prior to the twentieth of Januar., as on that day the period for which my successor has been elected will hegin. . . • It has heretofore been my sad duty to chronicle tke departure of dietinguished citizens froys epheres of usefulness to that realm of eternal silence, from which no traveler returns. , Among them may be enumerated, three ex-Governors, and now I am nailed upon to announce the decease of another who has occupied the Executive chair. William F. Johnston was born November 29, 1808, at Greensburg, Westmoreland county, and died at Pittsburgh, October 24, 1872, In the sixty fourth year of his age. He was admitted to the bar in 1829, and was subsequently a member of the House of Represen tatives, and of the Senate. As speaker of the lat ter, he became noting Governor upon the resigna tion of Francis R. Shuck. lie was afterwards nominated by the Whigs, and elected to the Chief Magistracy. He filled the office with honor and marked ability. After the expiration of his term he devoted his time to the construction and man agement of railroads and the development of the resources of the western portion of the State. He was endowed with etrong natural abilities, was genial in manners and faithful in friendship. His services to the Commonwealth will not soon be for gotten. I trust the Legislature will do justice to ills memory by appropriately noticing his death. It in with profound sorrow, also, that lannounee to you, officially, the death of Major General George Gordon Meade. He died in Philadelphia, November 6, 1872, in the fifty-sixth , year of his age. It is impossible, within-the brief space allowed, to give an extended notice of the services of one so eminently distinguished. He was a grandu ate of the Military Academy at West Point; and served with distinction in the Seminole and Mexi can wars, and as a Topographical Engineer in time of peace. At the commencement of the recent Civil war, his services was tendered to and accept ed by the Government. From the rank of Briga— dier General he rose thrpugh the grades of Division and Corps Commander, and was on the twenty eighth day of June, 1863. without solicitation, ap pointed, by President Lincoln, Commander-in- Chief of the Army of the Potomac; and although he leaves behind him an undying record of his Milliant and heroic deeds wherever he was called into antics, his name will be, particularly and for ever, associated with the glory of the great turn leg battle of the war—fought at Gettysburg, on the first, second and third days of July, 1863. General Made remained is the regular army iintil the time of Isis death. Ile was an accomplish ed gentleman, posseesing a highly cultivated in- Ace, sound judgment, and great integrity of j 1 eliaracter. But it is to distiagnished serviees upon ilia soil of Pennsylvania, which hits so intimately identified his memory with the defence of the na tion, in the hour of its extremest peril, that 1 in voke your special attention. Penneylvania cannot, will not be ungrateful fur such services. She will deeire, with appropriate honors, to perpetuate the fame of her departed chieftain. I recommend an appropriation for tbe erection era monument to hie memory upon the battle-field of Gettysburg ; and eueh other legislation as will be alike suitable to the occasion and honorable to the Common wealth. No department of the State government has im posed upon it such difficult and embarrassing du ties, or such weighty and disagreeable responsibil ities, as the pardoning power devolves upon the Executive. That a few pardons may have been unworthily granted, through the misrepresentations of relatives, neighbor., or other interested parties or even liy cffidossits afterwards discovered to have been de signedly false, may be frankly conceded ; and that some n ho, perhaps, were morn deserving, have been refused, from want of proper representations of facts, may be equally true; still, I feel assured thnt I have faithfully prformed my duty in such cases, and hate exercised the prerogative only when the facts and eirotonstanees seemed to imperatively demand the interposition of P•xecutirve clemency. In this, I have endeavored to adopt and enforce the views entertained by the framers of our Constitu tion, who never contemplated as indiscriminate nee of the pardoning power, but designed it for the correction of errors and oppressions ; cases of after discovered evidence; inequalities of sentences for identical offences ; the furtherance of justice by un covering crime, and other instances strongly ex ceptional Its their character, • • • • - .• .Soon after entering upon the duties of the Exe cutive office, I deemed it important that the public should be more fully informed upon the subject of pardons, than they had preciously been. I then introduced, for the first lime in this ;:tste, an an neal pardon report, containing the names of the petitioners, and an epitonte of the reasons adduced for each case of reliof rpm the sentence of law. Sines then, similar reports have been made in other Mates . , anlthe praotioe, divesting the exercise of the pardoning prerogative of att secrecy, seems to have received very general upprobation. The applieation" , fn• pardons, during the past year, numbered one thousand four hundred and thirty-seven—about five (hi- every working day in the year. Of these, sixty-nine were granted—less than five per cent. of the number applied for, and averaging about one to each county. Estimating our population at three million six hundred thou sand, the average is one pardon to every forty-two thousand three hundred. The system of commutation. under the net of May 21, ISO 9, continues to work well in all the prisons, and has produced a decidedly salutary et , ' feet upon the discipline of the prisons and the character of the prisoners. The death pen'alty has been twice carried into effect during the year, once in Cambria county and once in Chester. A report of pardons and executions for the year ending November 30, 1872, accompanies this com munication. The subject of the improvement of the Ohio river and its navigable tributaries has long engaged the attention of leading business men of oar own and other States, awl they have several times solicited Congressional action in its behalf. Or ganized effort we,s commenced during the present year. A convention met in Cincinnati on the twentieth of last February, in which a comparison of views led to the adoption of a resolution re questing the Governors of the States of Pennsylva nia, West Virginia, Indiana, Illinois ' Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee, to appoint each a com mittee of Eve members, who should act as a com missioner to take charge of, and promote by all legitimate means the desired improvement. I responded to the request, and appointed as com missioners for Pennsylvania, Jame. K. Moorhead, Thomas J. Powers, George H. Thurston, Joseph Walton and Edward Blanchard. The, Governors of the other States made similar appointments, and the commission met et Cincinnati on the eighteenth of September. It continued in ses sion two days, and its proceedings indicate that its member. were actuated by earnestness of spirit, and by just, comprehensive and statesmanlike views. The commission from its own body appointed committees on statistics, legislation, water supply and syllable reservoirs, plans ana manner of im provement, and an executive committee,with power to act in the intervals of its regular sessions. Resolutions were adopted asking the Governors of the several States represented, to present the sub ject upon which the eommission had been created in their forth-coming messages to their respective Legislatures—to advise them to instruct their Sen ators and request their Representatives in Congress to favor a liberal policy toward an interest of suoh magnitude, and to recommend them to make an appropriation sufficient to pay the expenses of the commission. From a memorial prepared and submitted to the commission by Mr. Thurston, it is manifest that the project is one of the very highest importance to the States immediately concerned, and indi rectly of great interest to the whole country. The claims of this subject to your prompt and favora ble cons iteration, and that of Congress will hardly be questioned, when it is remembered that it is presented by gentlemen who represent one-half of the population of the country; that the people, who would be directly or indirectly benefited by the contemplated improvement, possess one-half of its ealtivated lands, raise sixty per cent. of its agricultural products, breed sixty per cent. of its five stock, own fifty per cent. of its capital invest ed in fanning implements and machinery, and have, heretofore, paid thirty five per oent. of its internal taxation, and contributed a correspond ing share toward the payment of the National debt. The President of the United States, in his late message, invites the attention of Congress to this and similar enterprises, as being of groat moment to the varied producing interests and the internal oommnrce of the country in time of peace, "and of inestimable value in case of a foreign war." In the scheme for the improvement of the Ohio river and its navigable tributaries, Pennsylvania has an immediate and deep concern. The subject, es pre sented by Mr. Thurston, has awakened in my own mind an unreserved end ardent sympathy, and I refer you with pleasure to hie very eomprehen— sire and able report, and most cordially recom mend that the instructions requested, and an appropriation to moot the necessary expense. of our commissioners, be given. lam informed that the amount required by the commissioners of each State will not exceed three thousand dollars. It need scarcely be added that the character of the gentlemen composing the commission entitles them to your perfect confidence, and gives assurance that the appropriation would be judiciously and honestly expended, On the fourth of July, 187 E, the nation will have completed the first century of its existence. The design to celebrate that great event in a becoming manner doubtless commends itself alike to your intelligent appreciation of the blessings of liberty and independence and your highest sentiments of patriotic pride and gratitude. Already the pre liminary steps of the design have been taken, and towards its happy realization the people of the entire country aro looking with• profound interest and pleasure. By *combination of eircumstan ess, well known in history, in the metropolis of our State the Declaration of Independence was proclaimed, and the Constitution subsequently adopted. That city has, therefore, very naturally been selected as the scene of the proposed Centennial Celebration and International Exhibition. • _ _ _ A popular manifestation of this kind should cerrecpund to the character of the event to be oelebrated. It will be the first Centennial celebra tion of our national. existence—the greatest event that can possibly occur in the life-time of any living American; it will be the first international exhibition ever given in honor of Republican Ger ernment, and will exhibit the effect of our insti tutions in promoting wealth, intelligence and hap piness. The ceremonies of this unprecedented occasion should be noted fur spontaneous enthu siasm, universal enlistment of popular sentiment, and a more impressive grandeur than has ever heretofore been witnessed. _ The enterprise, which cannot fail to interest the whole country, must prove unusually attractive to Philadelphians, end scarcely less so to the whole people of the Commonwealth; end it is certainly to be expetced that they will be peculiarly dis tinguished for earnestness and zeal in its support. The city having thus far borne all the exppenses attending the organization and meetings of the United States Commissioners, and havingextended to them graceful courtesies andliberal hospitality. it may be well now to consider what the State may do to advance the cause, and what further action or aid in the premises may be expected from the General Government. Naturally disiring to have no financial trusts in this connection, and feeling the need of an execu tive arm capable of performing the many bueiness funotione essential to the success of the undertak ing, the National Commissioners asked Congress to authorize the organization of a eorporation, ender the title of the "Centennial Board of Fi nance," with a capital stook amounting to ten million dollars, divided into shares of ten dollars each, with the power of acquiring and beldinganoh real and personal estate as may be needed in oar rying into effect the act of Congress, approved March 3, MI. An act embodying these privileges was prompt ly passed by Congress, June 1, 1871, and under it books for the eubsoription of the stock have been opened in each State and Territory, and the organ ization of the Board of Finance will probably be completed before the adjournment of the Legisla ture. _ _ _ The quota of stock allotted to Pennsylvania will be promptly taken, and more than this its people eennot do, until the hundred days, priorto the organization of the Board of Finance, in which the subscription books are required to be kept open in each State and Territory, shall have elapsed; after which time, any stook not taken, should, if not called for by others, be promptly subsoribed by our citizens. Under the eleventh article of the Conslitntion, the State is prohibited from enbecribing for stook or lending its credit for any other object than the payment of its own debt, or for the purpose of military defence. But it can and ehould make such a spadel donation as would inepire popular confidence, excite the emulation of other States, and insure the prompt oommemeement of the work upon a scale commensurate with its importance. The eighth section of the original act of Congresa authorizing the exhibition, provides "that when ever the President shall be informed by the Gover nor of the State of Pennsylvania that provision has been made for the erection of suitable buil dingsfor the purpose, and for the exclusive eon trot by the commission herein provided for, of the proposed expiation, the President shall, through the Department of State, make proclamation of the same, setting forth the time at which the ex hibition will open and the place at which it ehall be held ; and he shall eommunicate to the diplo matic representatives of all nations copies of the same, together with such regulations as may be adopted by the commissioners, for publication in their respective countries." The provisions authorizing the organizaton of the Board of Finance, and the formal proclamation of the national and international character of the exhibition is deferred until the Governor of this Commonwealth ran make the required report to the President of the United Stae.. I would therefore, recommend to your honorable bodies to make • sufficient appropriation for the purpose of secur ing the erection of suitable buildings for holding , the exhibition, to be under the control of the Na tional Commission in accordance with the set of Congress. I would further reccommend that your" Commi ttee on Federal Relations" coneider the propriety of asking Congress to make en appropriation for end' neoessary expenses of the National Commie- SiOLle. as will enable them to tvor4 istlt efficiency. The members are national officers charged with a trust of great responsibility, and engaged in an enterprise in which the reputation of the country is directly involved, Our Government, which expended a large sum of money in promoting the Pans exhibition, certain ly will not treat the agents to whom it bas com mitted the task of preparing a memorial of its birth upon its own soil, in the form of an Interna tional Exhibition of the Arts of Modern Civiliza tion, with such parsimony as would deprive them of their proper influence, dignity and indepen dence. The Stato Commissioners heretofore appointed under the acts of the Legislature have made no re, port of their transactions, and may nut yet hare found their proper sphere of usefulness. They can render much service to the United States Commis donors, and to the Board of Finance, by obtaining subsoriptione creteclt, and promoting such organ izationof the industries pf tlp State no would con tribute to the success of 030 eehiVtje;?, and pree ant an at propriate display of wealth sinsl sauters of the Commonwealth. This great netMnal enterprise appeal!' as wig/ to local pride 119 CO common patriotism; it most be snecessfnl—the nation has decreed it; and since to Pennsylvania has been assigned the honor of hav ing the celebration take place on her soil, she must and will see to it that it shall not fail. I, there fare, earnestly solicit for it nut only,your aid but also the thoughtful and zealous support of unsocial, in dustrial, scientific, educationahand religions as sociations, and that of all good citizens, who have at heart the honor, perpetuity, and happiness of our common country. In my official communisations, heretofore, to the Legislature, and in public addresses to the people, I have without hesitation declared my views in fa vor of protection to our Home Industries, and in, defence of labor against foreign competition. Con tinued observation and experience have tended to confirm me as ti the correctness of the opinions then expressed. I now reiterate them with un diminished confidence; and feel peculiar satisfac tion in the belief that. Congress will maintain a policy that has so vastly contributed to the pros perity of the a hole country. The inter-state courtesies, heretofore exercised, have been continued and fostered by a system of mutual exchanges of the laws and other publio documents; and in the enforcement of statutes au thorizing requisitions, and the rendition of fugs tine criminals. During my administration there has net 000urred a single circumstance to v - ar the harmony and friendship existing between tips Government of Pennsylvania and that of any other State, or of the Nation. The obivious advantages arising from such a condition of our affairs must naturally tend to advance the beet interests of the States, and cement the bonds of the National Union. The recent elections prove, by unprecedented majorities, that the country reposes extraordinary confidence in the patriotism, sagacity and integri ty •f the Republican party. In response to this sentiment, that party should discharge its sacred trust by a wise, honest, eoonomical and patriotic administration of the government; thorough re form of the civil service ; the continuation of each duties upon foreign imports as will secure and en hance the prosperity of ourdomestic manufactures the reduetion of the crate of internal taxes to the lowest degree that would be adequate to the main tenance of the public credit and the gradual ex tinction of the national debt; the restoration of our foreign commerce; the extension of ample fi nancial facilities for the requirements of business ; the encouragement and regulation of immigration ; the increase of the mean, of cheap land and water transportation, with a view to the.largest and most rapid development of the national resources ; and such enforcement of the provisions of the untended Constitution as will preserve peace in the States and secure, beyond the touch of injustice and op perssion, the rightsof all citizens. A❑ the circumstances considered, I may, in this connection be exeused for the indulgence of some brief personal allusions. In the adminis tration of the Chief Magistracy, I have, with only good intentions, end unconcious of intentional error, to the beet of my ability, endeavored to discharge the various duties that havedeveloped upon me, in such manner as to advance the public welfare, by con demning waste and extravagance, practicing economy, reducing taxation, paving the State debt, promoting the public health, advancing the (1611se of g merel education, cultivating humanity and charity, tempering justice from the fountain of mercy, maintaining the principles of the Constitution, and defending the honor and sovereignty of the State, and therightsmad inteysests?!her During, my adininatrotion the Legislature has been in ssesion three hundred and eighty seven daye; in that time nine thousand two hundred and forty-two billet and one hundred and thirteen resolutions, received my approval; six became laws without my sanction, and three hundred and ninety were vetoed. The retest average a little more than one per diem during the sessions, and all of which, with the exception of four were sustained by the Legi. Inters. In addition to my six annual messages, I here *leo transmitted to the Legislature one hundred and five special communications. The period for disconnecting my official relations with the Oeneral Aseembly having almost arrived, I may proper]. avail myself of this opportunity to acknowledge the general courtesy I have received from the successive Legielaturee with whom I have had the honor to hold official intercourse, and to express the profound sense of gratitude I entertain toward the people of my native State, for the many boners they have conferred upon me, and still more for the steadfaet confidence with which they have supported me, and enetainod my isdpirisq,tion, To Hon. Francis Jordan, Secretary of State; Hen. Fred erick Carroll Brewster, Attorney General; Hon. James P. Wickersham, Superintendent of Schools, and General Alexander Russell, adjutant General, I tender my warmest and special thanks, for their hearty accord end energetic support. I owe them not only a debt of gratitude for their personal fidelity, but a sincere and heart-felt com mendation to the people, for the able, efficient and em inently satisfactory manner in which they have performed all the duties that have been devolved upon them in their several departments, Col. Benjamin F. Lee, my Private Secretary, and hie assistant, Col. William C. Armor, are deserving of honorable mention, for their zealous and &BMW execution of my orders. My thanks are also doe, and they are earnestly tendered, to the clerks and other appointees in the several departments, for their uniform courtesy, and the zeal manifested by them for the public good, It affords me pecnlar satisfaction to feel that my official honors and responeibilities are shortly to be transferred into the hands of a gentleman, who will sacredly guard the one, and faithfully discharge the other. Major General John F. Hartranft has signally illustrated his courage and patriotism on many fiercely contested fields of battle ; and qualities, that have made his reputation as a soldier, have been no into conspicuous in the pursuits of civil life. He will bring to the discharge of his duties a large and valu able experience in the management of public affairs; and all that is known of his antecedents may he regarded as a guaranty for that confidence of the people who have Me voted him to the Gubernatoml Chair by so large a majori ty. I bespeak for him your Marty co-operation in guard ing and advancing the public interests; and ! earnestly in voke Heaven'. choicest blessings upon the people of Penn sylvania—that their abundance may never be diminished —and that her honored name may shine in the galaxy of the American Union with increasing splendor forever. Exiccurz CHAYBER, JNO. W. GEARY. Ilarriaburg, its., Jan. 8, 1873. The Huntingdon Journal, T. IL DURBORROW, HUNTINGDON, PENN'A. Wednesday Morning, Jan, 15, 1873 IMPORTANT NOTICE Those who are indebted to us for SUB SCRIPTION, ADVERTISING AND JOB WORK will do us a special favor by paying over to us the balance due us as we stand badly in need of money. The approaching Court will be an excellent opportunity. Come; friends, help us, we need money badly or we would not urge you. OUR CLUB LIST FOR 1873, The JOURNAL will be sent, for one year, with any of the periodicals or news papers named below for the price indi cated. This is a splendid opportunity for our readers to secure cheap and substan tial literature. Phrenological Journal Appleton 's Journal Flectic Magazine Galaxy The Aldine American Agriculturist Hearth and Home Frank Leslies Illustrated Newspaper " Boys & Girls Magazine Chimney Corner " Pleasant Hours Scribner's Monthly Godey's Lady's Book The Atlantic Monthly . Our Young Folks North American Review Harper's Magazine " Weekly " Bazaar Wood's Household Magazine Lippincott's Magazine New York Weekly Times it II " Tribune Scientific American 414 ata4 New AddresS, enclosing check or draft, J. R. DIIRBORROW & Co., Huntingdon, Pa 1107 r The Legislature, after organizing last week, adjourned over until Tuesday of this week. DV- The conviction and sentence of Stokes, for the murder of Fisk, revives the hope that justice in New York City is not wholly "blind." pp, : 4 tire broke out in Hollidaysburg, on Sunday ;tight, about baif-past 8 o'clock, destroying the Standard office, M'Coy's grocery store and partially destroying Goldunn's clothing Mre and Duuker's meat shop. The loss is estimated at -66,000, which is fully insured. go_ We learn from our exchanges that the condition of Senator Sumner continues to excite the serious apprehensions of his friends. His physicians are of opinion that he will not be able to attend to his duties in the senate for some time to come. He suffers much pain and sleeplessness.' although he sits up for the greater part of the day, and is able to receive his fFiepds. SECRETARY BOUTWELL'S DE- FICIT Some little surprise was created at Washington and elsewhere on the publi cation of Mr. Boutwell's monthly state ment of the public debt for December. It shows an increase in the National liabili_ ties of $1,684,307.80. This is the first time since the inauguration of Gen. Grant as President of the United States in which a monthly reduction of the debt has not been declared, amounting in some months to fifteen, and on one occasion to over twenty million dollars. On the present occasion the increase is more nominal than real. Many of the importers have, on ac count of a temporary tightness in the money market at the first of January. let their goods remain over in the warehouses that would otherwise have been withdrawn in December and the duties paid. This alone made a difference of about two mil lion dollars in the receipts for December; but it will increase those in January to that amount over the regular payments.— There were also some three million Inter nal Revenues collected that had not been covered into the U. S. Treasury, making with the other item, five millions. On the other hand the drafts on the Treasury just before the first of January were unusually heavy. When the amount is made up at the Treasury for January it will show a reduc tion of the public debt of five to seven millions; and the aggregate reduction for the current fiscal year will be between fifty and sixty million dollars. One thing is certain, members of Con gress will now cease to demand further reductions of the internal revenues and the tariff, unless they have made up their 'Linde to make no further reductions of the public debt. The present revenues will reduce the debt fifty millions per an num, and that is a very fair basis on which to fix our revenues for the present. DEATH OF NAPOLEON The decease of Charles Louis Napoleon, on the 9th instant, was sudden and un expected. He had been a sufferer for many years from kidney and other troub les, and rather than bear the. pain longer he consented to an operation advised by his physicians after due consultation. One operation had been performed several days before, and another was decided upon to take place at noon on the ninth. He rested easy and slept well during the previous night. Soon after waking in the morning the physicians noticed that the heart failed to perform its functions prop erly, and from that time indications of dissolution increased until he died a few minutes before 11 o'clock a. in. Me died at Chiselhurst, England, in the 65th year of his age leavinghis consort, the Empress Engine and the young Prince, his only child. Like many of those whose ambition ex ceeds their abilities, the life of the Emper or may be said to have been a failure. He' forced himself upon France, coming in the guise of a Republican President, and suddenly, when the opportunity afforded , transforming himself into a despot. He ruled with an iron arm, showing occasion_ ally some slight manifestations of relaxa tion. He built up Paris at the expense of France, and enriched the city by draw ing taxes from the rural districts. Ho was never popular with the people, and was assured of his power only through his army. He forced the country into a dis astrous war, involving au immense loss of life and an almost ruinous debt. He was ,defeated and captured, and only through the good graces of the German Emperor he was allowed his liberty again. He went to England and died there an exile. Am bition—disappointment—remorse— death —oblivion. um _ The Huntingdon Globe, whirls al ways was a gnerrilla organ under the mana gement of "Dad" Lewis seems not to have changed under the management of Prof. A. L. Gass. As it went body and soul to' the bad—otherwise supported the whole Democratic ticket at the last election—its influence for evil to the Republican party was at an end, and the proprietor realizing that its influence of any kind had about ceased, transferred the concern to Prof. Guss, who took the first opportunity to announce that he was a Republican, but also takes the first opportunity, apparently, to write an article against Pennsylvania's eminent and honest statesman—Hon. John Scott. The members of the Republican party do not look upon this as an evidence of Republicanism, but rather as an evi dence that the editor seeks to play into the hands of the Democratic party. Sen ator Scott is not before the people for any position, having expressly stated, so, but if he wero a candidate for the position in the President's Cabinet that tho Globe men tions, there are few, if any Republicans that would think General Grant could do better.—Johnstown Tribune. sm.. It is not certain that Secretary Fish or the Administration entertain any new views in reference to Cuba; but there is a growing desire among members of Congress to adopt a different policy toward that country, and at least concede belligerant rights to these who have so bravely, during the last four years, struggled for their liberty. The difficulty in doing this lies in the facts that the patriots have not yet established a government or anything that can be recognized as such. Still Congress seems disposed to do something in aid of the (oppressed. Dom' lion. Francis Jordan, it is stated, will be appointed to fill the vacancy in the Constitutional Convention, which is about to be occasioned by the resignation of Harry White. This will be a most oppor tune selection, No man has given the principal reforms called for in our State Constitution more thought than Mr. Jor dan, His selection will he hailed with delight in every part of the State. Dor Hon. L. W. Hall has been appoint ed, by Gov. Geary, Speeial Agent of Penn sylvania to collect the claims growing out of the Border Raids. His appointment will give assurance to the claimants that their interests will be properly cared for. No better appointment could have been plan. Jar The Annual Report of U. S. At torney, Hon. H. B. Swoops, for the West ern District of Pennsylvania, to the De partment of Justice, for the year 1872, makes the following handsome exhibit:— The Western District of Pennsylvania embraces forty-six counties. The U. S. Circuit and District Courts are held at Pittsburgh, Erie and Williamsport. Du ring the year 1872 the United States bu siness was as follows : Number of cases disposed of, 175 ; civil cases, 60 ; of these judgments for United States, 55 ; amount of judgments recovered, $141,186.28; amount collected, $57,638.29; criminal cases disposed of, 115; convictions, 99; acquittals, 4; nol. prossed (chiefly dupli cate bill!,) 12; cases pending for trial, January Ist, 1873, 354; amount paid U. S. witnesses during year, $16,354.40 ; U. S. priioners detained in jails 31st Decem ber, 1872, 12; U. S. prisoners in Western Pennsylvania, 31; persons discharged from penitentiary during year, 14; prisoners pardoned during year, 7. E.& — A great portion of our paper is taken up with Governor Geary's last Annual Message to-day. It is a very interesting and instructive document. That portion which rofers to the finances will be read with great satisfaction. • Ds_ The thieves of Philadelphia have been paying their compliments to the Con stitutional Convention. It is hoped - that . the city will reimburse the members far all losses sustained by these light-fingered gentry. Isl. On Tuesday night of last week the Republican members of the Pennsylvania Legislature met in caucus and unanimous ly re-nominated Hon. Simon Cameron fur United States Senator. tzs. His Excellency, Governor John W. Geary, has our thanks for ar early copy of his last Annual Message, which occu pies a large portion of to-day's paper. le,. The Constitutional Convention is now in session in Philadelphia, where it is completely lost in the fog. It would take a police officer to find it. R4s Woodhull and Cidflin are again in durance vile for circulating obscene litera ture. Somebody is determined to make sympathy for these women. ter Hon. Roscoe Conklir.g has been unanimously re-nominated, by the Legis lature of New York, for re-election to tho United States Senate. tel. We are under obligations to lion. Robert 8.. Beath, Surveyor General of Pennsylvania, for a copy of his annual re- re,.. Hon. Simon Cameron will please accept our thanks for a copy of his speech on the French Spoliation Claim. News and Notes from Washington. Chronicles of Congress—The Credit llobilier Investigation—Dcpartmental Intelligence— News Items and Society Notes. WASITINGTON, P. C., Jan. 8, '73. CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY In view of the fact that the 42d Con gress will terminate in six weeks there is a general desire- umnifiagted, both in tli - e Senate and the House, to economise time and hurry up the business by close appli cation to legitimate legislation. • IN THE SENATE. Od Monday, th 3 Indian Appropriation bill was under contideration, and the ques tion as to whether.there is or is not a Teton Sioux tribe on United States territory was again discussed. Government' has been making yearly appropriations for ,such a tribe, and now the statement is advanced that the Teton Sioux are a myih. It comes from parties anxious to implicate' certain Indian Agents in frauds upon the Govern ment. But the Interior Department is in possession of evidence which has been communicated to Congress, and which is considered amply satisfactory to justify the past and future appropriations for their relief. Congress, however, asks the Sec retary of the Interior if some of the Indian appropriations cannot be dispensed with, or the amounts be reduced. Yesterday Mr. Buckingham presented an important bill providing for an amend ment to the National eurreucy and bank ing system. The bill provides fur free banking; prohibits direct or indirect pay ment of interest on deposits ; allows United States bonds bearing coin interest to be counted, as well as lawful money, in the reserves, and compels the banks to redeem their circulating notes either in coin or in legal•tender or in United States bonds, at par, with accrued interest, at the option of the banks. It also provides that United States le gal-tenders, in sums of one thousand dol lars, may be redeemed on demand of the holder, either with coin or with United States currency bonds bearing a coin in terest of 3.65 per cent., and that the prin cipal of any United States bonds bearing coin interest shall, on demand by the hold er, be paid by the United States Treasurer in legal tender notes, and the interest in coin. All bonds issued under the provisions of this act are to be free from Stete and municipal taxation. The last section re quires the Secretary of the Treasury to is sue bonds as herein described, and legal tender notes of denominations not less than $1 and $5 respectively, and to make all regulations necessary to execute the pro visions of this act. The bill was referred to the Judiciary Committee. Mr. Sherman presented resolutions, which were adopted, directing the Com mittee on Privileges and elections to in quire into the 'troubles in Louisiana and Arkansas. Senators Morton, Carpenter, Logan, Alcorn, Rill, Anthony and Trum bull compose the Committee. They will immediately enter upon the duties assign ed them. The Committee will not go to the scene of the difficulties, but will send a commission of responsible and capable men who will be empowered to take the sworn testimony of witnesses. Any wit ness refusing to testify will be summoned to Washington. Twenty thousand dollars have been appropriated to defray the cost of the investigations. That sum will pro bably have to be duplicated before they get tbremgh, To day, bills were passed providing for the erection of public buildings at Evans ville, Indiana, and at Grand Rapids, Mich. largo number of private bills, not neces sary to enumerate, were acted upon during the last three days, IN THE HOUSE. On Monday, the Credit Monolier Com mittee of investation were instructed to admit reporters to their meetings, and to allow their past and futnre proceedings to be published. Yesterday the annual fortification bill was reported and made the special order for Tuesday neat. The Speaker laid be fore the• House a timber of Executive communications, which were referred to appropriate committees. Among these were communications from the Secretary of the Interior-relating to Indian affairs; from the Secretary of War withdrawing his recommendation for the establishment of a depot for mili.ary supplies at San An tonio, Texas, &c. The House then went into Committee of the Whole on the leg:s lative appropriation bill, which was read by sections for amendments. Among oth ers an amendment was agreed to that after the close of the 42d Congress no payments shall be made to contestants of an election for expenses incurred in such election. To-day a bill was introduced and refer red to the Judiciary Committee, to amend the bankrupt act in relation to insurance companies winding up. In the Committee of the Whole the legislative appropriation bill was taken up, and an amendment to raise the President's salary to $50,000 was voted out. THE CREDIT MORILIYR SENSATION The previous decission of the House to conduct the credit mobilier investigation, by the committee appointed for that pur pose, with closed doors, created dissatis faction, and the newspaper reporters, while the faets were withheld, fabricated reports to suit themselves and their readers. On Monday the House reconsidered its deeis sion and instructed the committee to allow its past and future proceedings to be made public. The result was the publication of full reports on the following morning. So far nothing has been elicited to implicate members of Congress or any one else in improper transactions. The Credit Mo bilier was organized by the Union Pacific Railroad Company. This company, in order to secure the completion of the road within the time specified, and to retain the profits that would otherwise go to contractors resolved to become their own contractors. As this could not be done directly, the Credit Mobilier was organ ized by the company, and its officers be came the contracting parties and built the road. When the road was commenced, Mr. Ames, who has been charged by Col. McComb with bribing members of Con gress. had no interest whatever in the en terprise. But the company became hard up for funds, and Ames was induced to aid the enterprise by his enzeries and with his own private fortunes and - that of his brothers, earned through a long life of successful industry. He invested his own and his brothels funds and they became involved and had to ask for an extension of time from their creditors. Ames con tinued to push the affairs of the road and of the Credit Mobilier, by selling the stock of the latter to raise funds to complete the road. The stock was rood and safe and he sold to all who would buy. Members of Congress were solicited to purchase and .some of them did so. At this time Mc- Comb wanted to. control the stock that had been placed at the disposal of Ames ; and because he could not do so he quar relled with Ames and threw the Credit Mobilier-into the eourts, and litigation is now pending. This stopped the sales of stock, and caused much that had been sold to come back into the bands of Mr. Ames, which he was obliged to redeem. In the presidential campaign, for want of better material, the Greeley coalition party seized upon McCombs' story of bribing and pub lished it far and wide. As soon as Con gress met Mr. Blaine, one of thc;se accused of receiving stock-by way of a bribe de manded an investigation. In compliance with that request a committee of investi gation was appointed and proceeded with their work. So far the only man damaged by the investigation is McComb himself. Ames may have been imprudent in offer inn.il stock to members of Congress, and they in buying, as a very few of them did; but he had a large and patriotic enterprise on hand, and wanted to realize funds, in arA rig which under under other circumstances he would have avoided• No member received a single share which they bad not paid for, or promised to pay for at par. But the committee will be through in a few days and the public will have all the facto in the case. DEPARTMENT RUMORS, Some newspapers seem to derive infinite pleasure in reporting about once a week tho removarof certain members from the Presidents Cabinet. The Presiddnt pro poses no changes; and if Boutwell and Fish, or either of thent go oat, it will be at their own desire, and against the Pres, dents' wishes. SOCIETY NOTES, The gay season is now in full blast. There are many strangers in Washington from England and other parts of Europe, and they are cordial and pleased recipients of the festivities. She weather, after the cold snap, is delightfully pleasant, and en joyable, aiding largely in the movements of ladies at the afternoon and evening receptions, WY' The Hon. Daniel R. Clymer, of Reading, Pennsylvania, makes the follow ing suggestion in regr to Hotels : 'Travelers have been much exercised in view of late fires in hotels. The roasting to death of the girls in the Fifth Avenue Hotel, together with other like calamities occuring almost daily, renders it impera tively necessary that cur Law Makers impose special conditions upon the erect ion and building of hotels. First, all hotels above three stories high should be built of stone or brick, with iron joists and rafters and slate roofs, (no wood to be allowed in the building,) which alone would render their patrons and guests se cure in their beds from fire. The traveler in his own house can use his best precau tion against fire, but when business com pels him to put himself under the care and protection of landlords, he is as helpless as a child and at the mercy of hotel servants for his safety from being roasted alive in bed. By recent statements, the profits of our leading hotels,with their high charges, are shown to be very large, therefore, it is in their power to convert and change their hotels to fire-proof buildings. Taverns under three storie4 are not nearly so dan gerous, (and might be permitted to stand,) because being low, escape from the fire is possible; above that height, they should, by the laws of the land, be compelled to be built absolutely fire-proof. The poor and lamented victims at the Fifth Avenue (I say truely poor, yet in God's sight the lives of those poor girls were as precious as that of the Queen on her throne.) would likely have been saved had the Fifth Av -cone had (as all hotels should have,) either iron or stone stairways from turret to foundation stone. Nearly all, large buildings in Europe have stone or iron stairways, and this feat ure of safety, at least we should at once adopt as one means.c.f security from fire. How vast would be the saving in human life, property and insurance, if all our homes were built of stone, iron and slate. Men would then leave family and home in peace, knowing that all nearest and dearest, to them on earth w ts safe from the dreaded fire fiend. New Advertisements, ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. [Estate of ROBERT KING, dee'd. Letters of Administration having been granted to the undersigned, on the estate of Robert Ring, late of the borouzh of Huntingdon, deed.. all per sons knowing themselves indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment, and those having claims to present them duly authen ticated for settlement. THOMAS S. JOHNSTON, Huntingdon. Jon. fAtlnCr. New Advertisements, T JACKSON, At tor • nay at Law. Office with Wm. Dorris, Esq., No. 403, Hill street, lluntingdon. Ps. All legal business promptly attended to. Djan7s ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. [Estate nj JOHN I - TZ, Sr., (I. Cd.] Letters of Administration haz ing been granted to the undersigned upon the estate of John Lutz. Sr.. late of the borough of ShirleysLurg. dee'd., all persons indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment, and Cho, havingclaims against the same to present them duly authentica ted for settlement. WILLIAM B. LEAS, Shirleysburg, Jan. 11 , '73. [Adm'r. AD3IINISTRATOR'S 'SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY. The undersigned, Administrator of the estate of John Lutz. Sr., dee'd., late of Shirleysburg borough, Huntingdon county, Pa., will offer, at public sale, at the late reeidence of the deceased, in Shirley.- burg, Oct Fl?IDA.1", the 24tit of January, 187,3, at 10 o'clock, A. Jr., the following described per sonal property, to wit: One bay mare, t tnilch cows, 3 shoats, 1 car riage, 1 small wagon, 1 cart, 1 cornsheller, wheat, corn, oats and potatoes by the bushel, grain in the ground, several tons of .hay, a large quantity of corn fodder, 1 grain screen, 1 pair large scales, one lot of good lime, harness, and a variety of farming implements; 1 cook store, 1 ten-plate stove, and other stores, and the entire household furniture of the said deceased. - Terms made known on day of sale. IV3I - . B. LEAS, Adel', JOHN X. LUTZ, Auctioneer. pan.15,73-1t ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. [Estate of JACOB BAKER, deed] Letters.of Administration having been granted to the undersigned, residing in Porter township, on the estate of Jacob Baker, late of the borough of Alexandria. deed., all persons knOwing them selves indebted to said estate will make payment without delay, and those haring claims against the seam will present them for settlement. Jan. 15, I: AHOFFMAN, • Manufacturer of all kinds of CHAIRS, and dealer in PARLOR and KITCHEN FURNI TURE, corner of Fifth and Washington streets, lluntingdon, Pa. All articles will be sold cheap. Particular and prompt attention given to repair innn. A share of public patronage is respectfully solicited. [jan.ls,'73y Orrn, 11. & B. T. M. R. It. Co., No. 417, WALNUT Sr., PUMA. riIHE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE -A- Stockholders of the Huntingdon A Broad Top Mountain Rail Road A Coal Company will bo held at their o,ffiee, on TUESDAY, February 4th, 1873, at 11 o'clock, A. 3,, when an Election will be hold for President and Directors of the said Com pany; J. P. AERTSEN, jan:ls,73ttij Q.TRAY STEER. Came t« the residence of tho subscriber, in Oneida township, near the Warm Spring, about the first of July last, a White Steer, with red ear, supposed to be about a year and a half old. The owner is requested to come forward, prove prop erty, pay charges and take him away, otherwise he will WI disposed of according to law. Dec.l7—:a. SAMUEL STREIGTIFF. EXECUTOR'S NOTICE. Letters testamentary having been granted to the undersigned, living in the borough of Ilun tingdon, on the estate of John Glazier, late of said borough, deceased, all persons knowing themselves indebted to said estate will make immediate pay ment, and those having claims will present them duly authenticated for settlement. JOHN If. GLAZIER, Executor. 1)ec.11;72,-(3 [OFFICIAL.] A T S OP TILE UNITED STATES An Act to erect two new Lana Districts in the State cf Nebraska. Be it enacted in the Senate and House of Repre sot:nacre of the United States of America in (Jon g,. assembled, That all that part of the State of Nebraska which lies west of range twenty eight west of the sixth principal meridan, in tire State of Nebraska, be. and the same is hereb}•, constituted and erected into a new land district, to be named and called the Western district. Sec. 2. That all those parts of the present South Platte ud Nemaha district, in the State of Nebraska, which he " " west of the sixth principal meridan be, and the same are hereby, erected into and constituted a new land district, a be named and called the Republican Valley district. _ _ Sec. S. Ttiat the President bi; and he is herisby, anthor ,ed and directed to appoint, by and with the advice and n€ent of the Senate, a register and a receiver for each reaid land districts, who shall be required. to reside at le site of the land office in each case, reseativelv and one amount of compensation, respectively, an are now cancelled by law for other land offices in maid State. Approved;April V, 1812. An Act relative to the Entry and Clearanca of Ferry boats and of bonded Cars pasting from one State to smother through foreign contig - uoue Territor.i. Be it enacted by the Senate and Honer, of Rep t...latices of the United States of America con yrene aesenibled, That vessels used exclusively as ferry boats carrying passengers, baggage, goods, wares, and merchandise shall not be required to enter end clear, nor shall the masters or persons in charge of such vessels be required to present manifests, nor to pay entrance or clearance fees, nor fees for receiving or certifying mani fest., but they shall, upon arrival in the United States, be required to report eels baggage, goods, wares, and mer chandise to the proper officers of the customs according to law. Ace. 2. That railroad cars or other vehicles laden with goods, wares, and merchandise, sealed by a custom officer, under the provisions of sec ion of the act of July twenty eighth, eighteen hundied and sixty six, and the regula tions of the Secretary of the Treasury, passing from one port or place in the United States to another therein, through foreign contiguous territory shall he exempt from the payment of tuly fees tor receiving or rertifyin, manifests thereof. Approved, Juno 4,1872. An Act further regulatings the Construction of Bridges across the Mississippi lifter. Ile it enacted by the Senate and Home of Rep recentatiree of the United States of America in Coo k,. a“endded, That all bridges hereafter eon eructed over and across the Mississippi river under au thority of any act of Congress shall he /object to ell the terms, restrictions, and requirements contained its the filth section of au act entitled "An act to authorize the constructiotf a bridge across the Mississippi ricer, at or near the CO of (Ain't., in the State of lowa, and other bridge . acr said river, and to establish them as post roads," approved April first, eighteen hundred and seventy two; and in locating any such bridge the Secretary of War shall have due regard to the security and conve nience of navigation, to convenience of access, and to the wants of all railways and highways crossing said river. Approved June 4, 1872. • An Act in regard to the Commencement of Increased Pay to promoted OMeers of the Navy. N. 11. P. Be it enacted kg the Senate and Howle of Rep reeentairee of the United States of America in Cog— yr.* assenabled,'That the clause in section seven of the act of Jnly fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy, “making appropriations for the naval service for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy one, and for other purposes," which enacts that hereafter the increased pay to promoted officers shall commence from the date he is to take rank as given in his commission." be, and the same is hereby, repealed ; Provided, That if such officer shall hare been promoted in course to fill a vacancy, and shall have been in the performance of the duties of the higher grade front the date he is to take rank, he may he allowed the increased pay from that date. Approved, June 5,1872. An Act to continue the Act to authorise the Settlement et the ascouuts of Officers of the army and Navy. Be it enacted by the Senate and Mouse of Repre sentatires of the United States of America in Con gress assembled, That the act to authorize the set tlement of the accounts of the officers of the army and navy, approved Jane twenty third, eighteen hundred and seventy, shall continue and be in force for two years from June twenty third, eighteen hundred and seventy two and nn longer. App;oved, Juno 7, 1872. An act to amend an Act entitled "Au Act to regulate the diplomatic and consular Systems of the United States," approved August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and fif ty 3iX. Bc it enacted the Senate and House of Reps, sentatiees of the United States of America in Van !Fess assembled, That Schedule C of section three of an act entitled "Ati Act to regulate the diplomatic and consular systems of the United Staves," approved August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty tin, he amended so as to add to the conaula in Brazil a cowed at Santarem. Approved, June 8, 1872. An act to declare the true Intent and meaning of Section Two of an Act entitled "An Ant to trdablish a Uniform Sykora of Bankruptcy throughout the United States," approved March tan, eighteen hundred and aixty eaten • Be it enacted by the Senate and Hon. of Reit,. eentatiaee of the - Uoiled States of Americo in Con gress assembled, That the powers and jurisdiction granted to the ftrerat circlet courts of the United States, or any justice thereof by section two of an act entitled "At act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the Unitod Staten," approved March emceed, eighteen hundred and sixty ~scot. may be exercised in any district in which the powers of jurisdiction of a circuit court have best or may be conferred on the district court for such district, as if no such powers or jurisdiction bad been conferred on such district court; it being the true intent and moaning of said act that the system of bank ruptcy thereby established shall be uniform throughout the United States. Approved, Juns 8,1872. An Act concerning the Circuit and District Court. of tics United Staten for the District of Kansas. Be it enacted kf the Senate and Houge f Repre sentative., of the United States of A nierifa is (loo m-ea. assembled, That from and after the passage of this act the May term of the circuit court, and the Octo ber term of the district ma nn, of tho Unfted States for the district of Kansas, shall be commenced and held at the city of Leavenworth. Kansas. Approved, Juno F, lei=. An Art to authorize the Appointment oft 'Deputies of Clerks of Circuit and Districts Courts. • Be it enacted by the Senate and Eon. of I:epre sentntiveo of the United States of America in eon greee assembled, That a deputy ordeputies of any clerk of any con .t of the United States may be appointed by such court upon the application of the clerk, and be removable at the pleasure of the court; end the compel, pation otanY'such deputy shall be paid by the clerk ; and in case of the death of the clerk, his deputy or depntiea shall, unless removal by the judge. continue In oMce end perform the duties of the clerk, in his name, until his sm. sailor be duly appointed and qualified ; and for the de fault. or miateasance in office of auy such deputy, whether in the lifetime of the clerk or after his death, the clerk, and his mtote, and the sureties in his officlui bond shall be liable; and hia executor or udministrator !Mall have such remedy for any such defaults or miefsasancea committed after hie death as the clock would be entitled to if the lame had occurred in his lifetime. Approved. dune R. 1572. New Advertisements, AII3IINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. [J ale of Cyru* Ciearlenrf, tend.] Letters of administration upon the estate of Cyrun Gearhart, late of Barren Township, deceased, Lac ing been granted to the undersigned, all persons indebted to mid eetate are requested to make im mediate payment, and (bore having claims to pre sent t hem for settlement. JAMES F. THOMPSON, Ada Cr. Nefre 11 ills, Dec. 11, 1872. o_o TO . THE JOURNAL OFFICE ••— ,l l For all kinds of printing. MRS. L. A. HAMER, MILLINERY, DRESS AND CLOAK-MAKING, Fancy Goods and Notions. Stamping, Pinking and GoCoring done to order. Kid Gloves Cleaned and Colored. Agent, in Huntingdon, for the sale of E. BUTTERICK: 8: CO'S Patterns of Garments and their Celebrated Shears and Scissors. dec4-tt, HUNTINGDON COUNTY SS. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to the Sheriff' of Huntingdon County, GREETING: We command you that you summon William if. Sheibley and William T. Howard, lately doing bu siness as Sheibley Howard, so that they and ev ery of them be and appear before our Court of Common Pleas, to be holden at Huntingdon, in and for the said county, on the second Monday of January next, there to answer 11. S. Wharton of a plea of debt, not exceedir g five hundred dollars, and that you attach Wm. 'l. Sheibley, late of your county'ycoman, by all art singular his goods and chattels. in whose hands or possession soever ti.e same may he found, and also tint you stuninen roe person and persons and every of them, in whose hands the goods or effects, or any of them, of the said Wm. W. Sheibley may be found, so that they be and appear before the said Court, nt the day and place aforesaid, to answer what shall be ob jected to them east abide the judgment of the Court in the premise., and hare you them and there this writ. IIAVIL HA RE, [Adui'r. Witness the lion. joint Dean, President of the said Court, at Huntingdon, the 21st day of No vember, A. D.,1872. T. IV. MYTON, dec. 18,72.6t] Proth'v. D ISSOLUTION. The Copartnership heretofore existing be tween the undersigned, under the name of Henry & Co.. is this dny dissolved, under the terms of its own limitation. The business of the late firm will be settled by the new firm under the mine name. S. E. HENRY, THOS. S. JOHNSTON, S. If. ISENBERG. It. F. ISENBERG. Jana, NOTICE.—The undersigned hare this 4ny, ei - tered into Copartnership, under the name end firm of hiem7 in Co., and will continue the mercantile Intßifles', et the old stand. Jan.B;7: PUBLIC SALE OF BOOKS AND OFFICE-FURNITURE. The undersigned, having purchased the Law Library, Furniture, be., or Miles Zentuiyer, Esq., and not nee:ling them ift his own practice, will offer the following, at Public Sale, at the office. lately occupied by Mr. Zentmyer, on hill street between 4th and bth streets, Huntingdon, Pa., on Tuesday, the 14t1t day of dannary, 1873,, at one o'clock in the afternoon, to wit : One Office Table, 1 Book Case, 1 Stove, Whar ton's Digest, complete with supplement of It 1 Binn's Justice, (3 v 015.,) Pennsylvania Law Journal Reports, IVharton's American Criminal Law, (3 c 015.,) Bouvier's Institutes, (3 v 015.,) 3 Pardon's Digest, 3 Volumes Pennsylvania Black stone, Wharton's Precedents of Indictments, (2 setts), Troubat and Italy's Practice, P. F. Smith's Reports. 13 volumes from let to 13th in elusive, June's Reports ' ( 2 c 015. ,) Darr's Reports., (10 v 015...) Williams onExeentors, (2 vote.,) Chitty on Pleading. (3 v 015.,) Chitty on Contracts, Green leaf on Evidence, (3 v01e.,) American Law Regis ter, (0 c 015.,) Brewster's Digest, Story on Part nership, Story nu Sales. Story on Bills of Ex change, Morris on Replevin, Kinney's Law Com pendium, (11 v 015..) with a numberuf other books. &e. Jan.S,lS73-ts. J. MALL MUSSER. A D3IINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. Letters of administration having been granted to the.subseriber living near Greenwood Furnace, on the estate of Dixon Hall, late cf Brady township, deceased, all persons knowing themselves indebted to said estate will make im mediate payment without delay, and those hav ing claims against the SUMP will present them for settlement. Jan,8,7570-6: ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. Lettces of administration having been granted to the subscriber on the estate of James Moore, late of the horoagh of Alexandria, deceas ed, all persons knowing themselves indebted to said estate will make immediate payment, and those having claims to present them duly authen ticated for settlement. Jan.8,16'73-6t. , COPARTNERSHIP. The undersigned have this day, (.1a4.1, '73.; formed a Copartnership under the firm. of John. Read A; Sons, and will continue the Wholesales and Retail Drug business, at No. 410, Hill street.. Jolts READ, C. C. READ, T. IL READ. All persons indebted to John Read, will much oblige by promptly paying the same. Jan.8,73-3m. FOR RENT. A large first-class STORE BOOM, one of the hest locations in Huntingdon; afro some lodg ing rooms. Apply at Jan.B,4t] QT AGE LINE Front Spruce .Creek to Centre Hall, "crery day, except Sunday), leaving Spruce Creek at II o'clock, and returning at o'clock, P. N. janl;73-y] NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS, Scaled proposalg, to he endorsed "Proposals, will he received at the office of the EAST BROAD TOP RAILROAD AND COAL Mount Union, Truntinedon Co., Pa., (on the Penn sylcania Central Railroad), until twelve o'clock,. noon, on the 24th day of January, 1573, for the. Graduation, Masonry, Tunneling, Bridging, kr... on the Second and Third Divisions cf MP East Broael Top Railroad, extending from Orbisonia to Broad Top, a distaneo of about twenty miles. Profiles, Spceificati..ns, ,te., will be ready for ex awination on and after the 15th day of. Tan.. 167:: Proposals will be received fo7 Sections, Divis. ions., or for the whole work. The company reserve the right to reject any out all Inds not etonsidere , i advantageous. WM. A. INUItAat. President. A. W. SIMS. Chie(Engineer. lj u 73t !j n 23 AGRICULTURAL MEETING. The regular annual meeting of tba Han-• tingdon County Agricultural society, for tSo elec tion of officer, and other business, will Le held in the Court House, on Wednesday evening of tho first week of the county court. By wow: and in bei:alf of tiro Association. Jan.S,'73. ‘ I .IIIRLEYSBURG ELECTRO-3IED ICAL, Ilydropathic and Orthopedic Nati, tote. for the treattnect of all Chronic Dino9E, 4na Deformitie, Send for Circulars. Address Drs. 11111111) k -GEBRUT, Shir:eysburg, Fn. n0v.27, ORPHANS' COURT SALE OF VAL y.I iILE REAL ESTATE. [Eaato of George Moon, deed.] By virtue of an order of the Orphans' Vonrt, of HuntingdGn county, I will offer, at public sale, on the premises, Oa FRIDAY, the 7th February, 1873, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, the following descri bed.llouse and Lot in Wilsontown, Huntingdon county, Pa.. fronting on the road leading train Petersburg to Manor Hill, and hounded by lets of John Gregory, James Myton.:nnd others, contain ing Four Acres, more or less, haring thereon a largo two-story Frame Dwelling House, outbuild. lags. a well of good water, .be. TERMS :—One-third of the purehase money to be paid on confirmation of sale. when (eed will 130 made, the balance in two equal annual payments thereafter, with interest; the whole to be secured. by the judgment bond: of the purchaser. WILLIAM LAIRD, Adin . r. of Geo. Hallman, deed Alexandria, Jxn. 15, 1873.-ts. TT ROBLEY, Merchant !railer, near •Broad Top Corner. (second floor.) Matting don. Pa.. respeetially solkits 11 ellare elf pnblic patronage iron' town and country. ;6,1' 16.72. PLAIN PRINTING GO TO THE JOURNAL OFFICE S. E. HENRY, THOS. S. JOHNSTON B. F. ISENBERG, J. G. ISENBERG. WILLIAM 11A Id., Adm inistratot. S. P. M'DIVITT, Administr*Cor. JAMES A. BROWN'S Carpet Stare. 'H. McSIAN'IGILL. COMPANY, It. iti'DIVITT, Secretary, AN CY PRINTING,
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