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Particular attention given to the settlement of estates of dece dents. l}thce in he JORRXAL Building. [feb.l,'7l T W. MATTEILN, Attorney-at-Law • and General Claim Agent, Huntingdon, Ps., Soldiers' claims against the Government for back pay. bounty, widows' and invalid pensions attend ed to with great oars and promptness. Office on Hill street. Dan. 4,11. T . S. GEISSINGER, Attorney -at -LA,. Law, Huntingdon. Pa. Office with Brown .1.• Bailey. [Peb.s-ly J. HALL HeSSER. K. ALLEN LOVELL. L OVELL & MUSSER, Attorryt-at-Lare, IitNTINGDON: PA. Special attention given to COLLECTIONS of all kinds; to the Flettleulent of ESTATES, ae ; and all other legal business proseeuted with fidelity and d ispstch. tn0v6,12 PM. & M. S. LYTLE, Attorneys • at-Law, Huntingdon, Pa., will attend to All hinds of legal business entrusted to their oare. fee on the south side of Hill street, fourth door of.st of Smith. fjanA,'7l. 13 A. ORBISON, Attorney-at-Law, ALA. Nice, S2l Hill street, Huntiogdon, PA. 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TIDIr ROBLEY, Merchant Tailor, near " •Broad Top Corner, (Booond floor,) Hunting don, Pa., rerpectfully eolioite a share of public patronage from town and country. [0ct16.72. Tito A. BECK, Fashionable Barber • and Hairdresser, Hill street, opposite the Franklin House. All kiwis of Tonies and Pomades kept en handand tar sale. (ap 19,71-6 m caIIIRLEYSBURG ELECTRO-MED ►Y ICAL, Hydropathie and Orthopedist Insti tute, for the treatment of all Chronic Diseases and Deformities. Send for Circulars. Address Drs. BAIRD & GBBRETT. Shirleyshurg, Pa. n0v.27,12tf) 'The Huntingdon Journal. Legal Advertisements PROCLAMATION—Whereas,by a pre -11 -A- cept to me directed, dated at Huntingdon, the 22d day of Jan., A. D., 181'3, under the hands and Kai of the lion. John Dean, President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, Oyer and Terminer, and general jail deliv- I cry of the 2ith Judicial District of Pennsylvania, compe -1 sed of Huntingdon, Blair and Cambria counties; and the Hons. AnthonyJ. Beaver and David Clarkson, bib associ ' utes, Judges of the county of Huntingdon, Justices assign ed, appointed to bear, try and determine all and every indictment made or taken tor or concerning all crimes, which by the laws of the State are made capital, 1/1" felonies of death and other offences, crimes and misdemeanors, which have been or Abell hereafter be committed or perpetrated, for crimes aforeAdit—l am commanded to make public procla mation throughout my whole bailiwick, that a Court of Oyer and Terminer, of Common Pleas and Quarter Sessions will be held at the Court Holm, in the borough of Hunt ingdon, on Oro second Monday (and 13th day) of April, 1.73, and Mime who will prosecute the mid prisoners, be then and them to prosecute them as it AO be Just, and that all JUStieNS of the Peace, Coronerand Constables with in said county, be then and there in their proper person., nt 10 o'clock, a. m., of said day, with their records, inquisi tions, examinations and remembrances, to do those things which to theisolfices respectively appertain. J. A. NASH, Dated at Unntingdon, the 19th day ofMarch, in the year of our Lout one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two and the 97th year of Atnerica!t Independence. - 110ROCLAMATION—Whereas, by a pre cept to me directed by the Judges of the Com mon Pleas of the county of Huntingdon, bearing test the 224 day of Jan., A. D., 1873, I am commanded to make public proclamation throughout my whole bailiwick, th it a Court of Common Pleas will be held at the Court House, in the borough of Huntingdon, on the 3d Monday, (aod 21st day,) of April, A. D., 1873, for the trial of all issues in said Court which remain undetermined before the said Judges, when and where all jurors, witneE.es, and snit e , in the trials of all Issues are required. Dated at Huntingdon, the 19th day of March, in the ye r of nor Lord, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two and the 97th year of American Independence. T RIAL LIST FOR APRIL TERM 1873 FIRST WEEK. Fred Klepser, Executor, tte. of Wm. Enyeart vs. Jackson Enyeart. Eli Sankey for use vs. Martha Walker. Lowell Shninway sur viving partner of W. A. Shuilw‘ai vs. James Dunn. .1. Crawford Wallace vs. G. &J. H. Shoenborg. Jacobs k Withington for Jacob lloffmau F. B. Reece .b Co., SECOND WEEK. Rose M. Herron vs. David Blair. Saml. R. Douglass' use vs. H. S. Wharton. Edward Williams vs. The Adams Express Co Margaret A. Crownover vs. Geooge P. Wakefield. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania vs. John Minnick, of al. Same vs. Adam Speck, et al. .1. M. Booker, et al v s. Wm. J. Booker Harrison Couch vs. Thomas Knode. Andrew Decker vs. Rebecca Gorsuch, et al David Newingham's Ex- ecutors ve. A. P. Wilson's admei John G. Ritter ye. John Houck, et al. Mordecai Henry Ye. The township of West. Joseph Douglass vs. Danl M'Gahali wife. R. Myton A Son vs. William M'Clure. Dr. Henry Orlady ve. Joseph Johnston. William Outshall vs. B. Stevens. Prtornr's OFFICE,T. W. MYTON, t March 19, 1879. Prothonotary. REGISTER'S NOTlCE.—Notice • is -KA hereby given, to all persons interested, that the following named persons have settled their ac counts in the Register's Office. at Huntingdon, and that the said accounts will be presented foi con firtdation and allowance, at an Orphans' Court, to be held at Huntingdon, in and for the county of Huntingdon, on Wednesday, the 9th day of April neat, (1873.) to wit: 1. Final account of J. E. Harper, administrator of the estate of Mary Waggoner, late of Dublin township, deceased. 2. AcCOnnt of William E. Corbin and Adam Rupert, administrators of the estate of David Corbin, late of the borough of Huntingdon, de ceased. 3. Partial account of George Jackson and M. B. Massey, Executors of Martha Massey, late of Barree township, deceased. 4. Account of George Jackson and M.B. Massey, Execute., of the lest will and testament of Robert Massey, late of Barree township, deceased. 5. Administration account of Henry Leiner, administrator of George. Noltie. late of Walker township, deceased. 6. Final account of Henry Grains, administra tor of Dr. Wm. Grafts, late of Porter township, deceased. S. Aecoont of James D. Seeds Executor of the lost will of Hugh Seeds, late of Sends, township, deceased. S. First and partial account of Abram Taylor and Jesse Curfman, Executors of Conrad Curl man, late of Cass township, deceased. 9. The second and final account of George Jackson and James 11. Lee, Executers of the last will and testament of Henry Lee, late of Jack son township, deceased. 10. Partial account of J. R. Simpson, Executor of the estate of Maria Steel, late of the borough of Huntingdon, deceased. 11. Admistration account of Sterrett Cummins, Executor of the last will of Daniel Barr, late of Jackson township, deceased. 12. Final account of Mrs. Martha C. Weston, surviving Executrix of the last will and testament of John Hampson, deceased. 13. Account of David and Joseph Grove. ad ministrators of the estate of Catharine Grove, late of Shirley town-hip, deceased. 14. Account of David and Joseph Grove, ad ministrators of Samuel Grove, late of, Shirley township, deceased. 15. Guardianship account of John 11. Glazier, guardian of Lizzie tunes, minor child of John C. Inns, late of Hollidaysburg, deceased, who will have attained her majority on the sth day of April, 1873. 16. Final account of James E. and Robert Har per.late of Dublid township, deceased. 17. Account of David Johns, administrator of Joshua Johns, late of Union township, deceased. 18. Administration account of Livingston Robb, administrator of Joseph K. 'tarnish, late of Por ter township, deceased. 19. Administration account of, George Jackson, administrator of Alexander Thompson, deceased. 20. The first and partial aeoonnt of Geo. W. Taylor and Andrew Croteley, administrators of Abram Taylor late of Calla township , deceased. 21. Finil account of Wm. R. Baker, Executor if David S. Baker, late of the borough of Orbiso tia, deceased. 22. Account of Robert M'Neal, ndminietrator of Alexander M'Annicb, late of Dublin township, deceased. 2:,'. Final account of Maria Shaffner and David Detwiler, Executors of Jacob Shaffner, late of Brady township, deceased. 24. Account of M. F. Campbell, administrator of the•estate of Hannah Corbin, late of Union township, deceased. 25. Final account of Samuel B. Grove, guardi an of Kate Hampson, of Brady township, who has now attained her majority. 26. Account of J. Simpson Africa, Executor of the last will and testament of Henry Sturteman, late of the borough of Huntingdon, Pa. 27. Account of Samuel Bolinger, administrator of John Bolinger, late of Cromwell township, de ceased. 2S. Final account of Dr. Wm. P. M'Nite, guar itian of Stanley, Elwood and John Wicks, minor children of John Wicks, late of Shirlyhurg, de ceased. 29. Guardianship amount of William W. Stry ker, guardian of the minor children of Mahlon Y. Stryker, late of West township, deoeseed. 30. Guardianship account . of George Garver, guardian of John 8., Mary Ann and George Bow- 31. Account of Mrs. Lucy W. Brown, adminia tratrix of Dr. H. L. Brown, of Cassville borough, deceased. W. E. LIGHTNER, Rsaisagn's Orncn, 1 Register. Huntingdon, Meb. 19.1 NOTICE is hereby given to all persons interested that the following Inventories of the goods and chattels set apart to widows, under the provisions of the Act of 14th of April, a. d., 1831, have been filed in the office of the Clerk of the Orphans' Court of Huntingdon county, and will be presented for "approval by the Court," on Wednesday, April 9th, 1873 : 1. Inventory of the personal property of John Y. Moore, deceased, as taken by his widow, 1114.- abeth Moore. 2. Inventory of the goods and chattels, rights end credits which were of William S. Leffard, as taken by his widow, Catharine Leffard. 3. Inveit'tory and appraisement of the real es tate of Robert King, deceased, as appraised for the ore of Louisa C. King, widow of said deceased. 4. Inventory of the personal property of Allen S. Houok, deceased. as taken by his widow, Alley E. Houck. 5. Inventory of the property set apart to Ada line Campbell, widow of Peter H. Campbell, of Mount Union, deceased. 6. Inventory and appraisement of the personal property of Dixon Hall, late of Brady township, deceased, as taken by his widow, Margaret Hall. 7. Inventory of the goods and chattels, rights and credits which were of Jacob Baker, of the borough of Alexandria, deceased, as taken by his widow, Margaret Baker. . . _ 8. Inventory of the personal property of E. B. Blackwell, lase of the borough of Petersburg, as taken by his widow, E. C. Blackwell. 9. Inventory of the personal property of Cyrus Gearhart, late of Barret' township, deeessed, as taken by his widow Mary A. Gearhart. W. E. LIGHTNER, Clerk of Orphans' Court. Orphan.' Court Offlee, Merck 19,13. r ac puoo' pow. Winter Will Not Last Forever. Winter will not last forever; Spring will soon come forth again, And with flowers of every color, Deck the hillside and the plain ; Lambs again in the fields be sporting, Birds re-echo from each tree, "Winter's gone! its days are ended ! We are happy—we are free I" Hedge and tree again be budding. Again with leaves be covered u'er. Winter will net last forever ; Brighter days are yet in store Sorrow will not last forever ; Brighter times will come again, Joy our every grief succeeding, As the sunshine after rain ; As the snow and ice in winter, Melt at the approach of spring, So will our cares and trials Joy and peace and comfort bring. When the heart is and and drooping, Think, though you be vexed and sore ; Sorrow cannot last forever ; Brighter days are yet in store ! AMON MOUCK, Stumm CURING A SMOKER ; AMON fIOUCK, Sawn,. -OR.- " CIGARS FOR TWO." "SMOKES, does he ? The abominable wretch !" exclaimed Mrs. Volant to her friend, Mrs. Washburn, a young wife who had just gene to housekeeping. "He smokes, but he is not an abomina ble wretch—l am sure he is not," replied Mrs. Washburn, a little startled by the hard name applied to her husband, whom she both loved and esteemed. "Not a wretch ?" "No, I'm sure he is not." "Yes, he is; any husband, especially one who has been married only a year. and won't leave off smoking when his wife de sires it, must be a wretch." vs. John G. Stewart vs. John Bare. vs. A. B. Frank. "No - you overstate the case. He is everything a husband ought to be—so kind, so devoted, so indulgent. But then I do wish he would not smoke." "You must break him of it—the cruel monster." "Nay, do not call him such bard names. I love him with all my heart, though he does smoke." "Well I suppose you de; young wives are apt to be foolish.' "Foolish !" "Yes ; he sees, I dare say, that you love him, and so he takes advantage of you." "Why, Mrs. Volant, don't you love your husband r "Well, suppose I do; there is no need of telling him of it. I make him think I don't care anything about him. Why I can manage him as easy as I could a kit ten." "I don't like that ; I think there ought to be love and confidence between man and wife." "Pooh !" "You cannot be happy with him." "I should not be if I became his slave.'' "Not his slave !" "Don't you believe it ! When you have been married as long as I have, you will get rid of some of those sentimental no tions, which answer very well far the first year or so, but become very inconvenient after that." "For my part, 1 always mean to love my husband as much as I do now, even if it is sentimental 1" "See if you do ! Husbands must be carefully managed or they become tyrants. Now my husband smoked the first year after marriage; but then he was a little careful about bringing his cigars into the house, for I told him up and down, that I wouldn't have it." "I should suppose he would have rebel• led." "He did, but not at first. One night, about a year after we were married, be brought home a whole bundle of cigars, and put them on the mantel-piece. Taking one, be eoolly lighted it, and proceeded to read the evening paper." "That's just the way my husband does." "I was downright mad at his impudende but did not say a word. The next day I bought a monstrous great snuff-box, and filled it full of rappee. In the evening be lighted his cigar, as before, but no sooner bad he done so, than I seated myself op posite to him, and drawing out my snuff box I took a generous pinch, snuffing the filthy stuff into my nostrils, at the risk of sneezing my head off." "How funny." "My husband did not think so. He looked at me with astonishment." 'You take snuff ?' said he. I do, at least I mean to learn, I replied. 'lt is a filthy habit,' says be. 'No worse than smoking,' said I. We debated the matter a long while, and at last he gave up the point, and promised to throw away his cigars if I would throw away my snuff." "And he never smoked any more?" asked Mrs. Washburn, laughing. "Yes, he began once after, but I took the snuff again, and he gave it up." "Are you sure he don't smoke now ?" '•lf he does, he never lets me see him. My sitting room is not all smoked up, as yours is." "It was a glorious trick." "That it was, and I advise you to try it upon Mr. Washburn. "I couldn't take a pinch of snuff any more than I could swallow an elephant." "Smoke then. There are some little cigars sold at the apothecaries made on purpose for ladies. They are so mild that they puldn't make you sick; though even if tin did, you wouldn't mind, so they cure your husband of smoking." "It seems too bad to play such a trick upon him—he is always kind, and permits me to de just as I please or wish," said the tender-hearted Mrs. Washburn. "What else could he do?" "It looks kind of mean to me." "Not a bit." "I don't know as it would succeed." "Nonsense! I am sure it would. lie would never let yon smoke, for these hus bands have an awful horror of any impro priety in their wives." "Then, he says be has always smoked, and can't leave it off." "Pshaw I The old story." "I am almost tempted to try it." "I would." "It seems so unkind though, that I have not the heart to try it." "You are notional my dear Mrs. Wash burn. When you have been married— The remark was broken off by the ab rupt entrance of the "abominable wretch" himself. Mrs. Washburp rose as he en tered, and in spite of the abominable odor that his breath must have exhaled, printed a kiss upon his tobacco-stained lips. story-Zdkr. CIJAPTER I HUNTINGDON, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 1873. The lady who had been married several years was disgusted, and after a few words concerning the weather, took her leave. CHAPTER H Mrs. Washburn was a pretty, affection ate, gentle-hearted wife. Her whole exis tence was bound up in her husband, as well it might be; for never was a husband more devoted to his wife than he was. To our mind she was a model wife—none of your stormy vixens, that set their hearts upon attaining a point, and will pull the house down upon your head, but they will attain it. In her eye, Mr. Washburn had only one fault, and that was the villainous habit of smoking, which all her eloquence had been powerless to overcome. She didn't "put her foot down," as her friend Mrs. Volant had done; for—poor, gentle-hearted crea ture—she could not think of provoking a quarrel with him, and had about concluded to make the best of it and let him smoke in peace. But there was something so irresistibly funny about Mrs. Volant's plan, that she determined to try it, and accordingly on the afternoon of the next day, she sent the Irish girl to the apothecary's shop for a bunch of "Bagdad cigars." Disposinc , * few of them in her work-basket, ready for the momentous occasion, her mind pictur ed the scene that would ensue when she should light one of them. It was so funny that she laughed out loud at the idea.— Wouldn't he be surprised to see her, who teased him so much ' to leave off smoking, commence smoking herself. Wouldn't his • eyes stick out when he should see her puffing a cigar at her sewing, as he did when he read the evening paper. She was so pleased with the plan that she could have put it into execution, even if it had been only fir the sport it promis ed her, independently of any good res•llt that might flow from it. Wouldn't he be mortified, and would she not win the day, and glory over hid defeat? Wouldn't he bo glad to promise that he wouldn't smoke another cigar as long as he lived? She was so delighted that she could hardly contain herself. Mr. Washburn cube home to tea, and, as usual, when he entered the house, he gave her a kiss and a tender greeting.— They were seated at the tea-table, Mrs. Washburn was so full of mirth that she came near scalding herself with the hot tea when she poured it out. Her merry, mischievous laugh rang pleasantly in her husband's ears, who, poor fellow, could have no idea of the terrible ordeal through which he was doomed to pass. When tea was over, the astral lamp transferred to the lamp•stand, and Mr. Washburn had stretched himself into a comfortable position in the large, easy rocking-chair, with his legs lazily reposing in another chair, the everlasting cigar was produced, lighted, and began to diffuse its fragrance throughout the room. Mrs. Washburn could hardly control her inclination to hint into a laugh at the mere thought of what she was about to do. Seating herself at the aide of the table, opposite her husband, she took from her work-basket, with an air as grave and solemn as a judge, one of the "tiagdads." Placing the filthy roll between her ruby lips, she glanced at her husband. "Now, Mr. Smoker," thought she—it would have spoiled the joke to have said it—"we will see whether you don't aban don that nasty habit." Mr. Washburn happened to glance at her, but, contrary to her expectation, he manifested no surprise, and went on read ing the JOURNAL. 'SO, so, Mr. Smoker," thonghtshe again, "you think I am joking, do you? I will soon convince you ;" and the lady took a paper, and applied a light to the cigar. But Mrs. Washburn was rather inexpe rienced in the modus operand: of lighting a cigar, and she was unable to make it go. She lit another paper, and puffed away with all her might, but the Bagdad was as resolute as the great caliph himself. She persevered till her extraordinary exertions again attracted the attention of Mr. Wash burn. "You arc lighting the wrong end, my dear," raid he, with the utmost nonchalance. "How provoking he is!" thought Mrs. Washburn, "why don't he remonstrate ?" "You should bite off the twisted end. and then put it in your mouth," continued the husband, turning to the paper again. Aided by these directions, the lady took another cigar, which she succeeded in lighting. The first taste of the tobacco smoke was horrible, but she had determin ed to be a martyr, for her husband's sake, and taking her sewing, she continued to puff away as she plie her needle, till a certain nausea compelled her to abandon the experiment for that time. Casting the Bagdad into the grate, she began to wish she had not listened to Mrs. Volent. 'What is the matter, my dear ? Wasn't it a good cigar ? Try mine; they are Monte Christos of the first quality," and the imperturable Mr. Washburn offered her the choice from his case. "No, I thank you, my dear, I will not smoke any more to-night." "But what's the matter, Mary? You are as pale as a sheet !" "I feel a little faint; I shall be better in a moment," and Mrs. Washburn was obli ged to leave the room. Poor woman I She was sick all the evening ! But the next day, Mrs. Vo lent, who bad called to learn the success of the experiment, advised her to try again, assuring her that it would not make her sick the second time. CHAPTER 111. Mr. Washburn had a couple of his intimate friends at his house to play a gams of whist the next evening, and the devoted wife resolved to try the effect of a smoke in their presence. When the party were seated, Mr. Washburn passed round the cigar case. •'Won't you smoke, my dear 1" asked he, tendering the cigars to his wife. "I will; but you know, Joseph, that I never smoke your cigars; they do not snit my taste." Whew! that was cool! Mrs. Washburn lit a Bagdad. "Is it possible you smoke, Mrs. Wash burn ?" asked Mr. Barnes, astonished at the singular spectacle of a woman puffing away at a cigar, for all the world like a loafer in a bar-room. "Occasionally,just to please my bus• band," replied lirs Washburn, after she had blown ant a long breath of bluesmoke. "Yes, Barnes," interposed Mr. Wash burn, "it is more sociable, you know, to have company when one smokes. We are generally alone in the evening, and she is so kind as tosmoke with me. Ah ! Barnes, teach your wife to smoke; ft is so pleasant to smoke with one's wife." The lady was thunderstruck. Was it possible that he had no more respect for the proprieties of life than that ? She smoke! She had already acquired the reputation of being a smoker, without having produced any of the anticipated good results. _ _ Mrs. Washburn threw the lighted Bag dad into the stove. She had almost cried with vexation. • "Not smoke, my dear ?" said her hus band. "I think you can be soeiable to-night if I don'tsinoke." "Do smoke, my dear ; it gives me so muelepleasure to see you enjoy a good cigar." — "That's too bad, Joseph." Mr. Washburn laughed outright, and, throwing down his cards, explained the event of the preceding evening. "I will own up; I did it to break him of the habit ; I give it up." When the gentlemen had taken their leave. Mrs. Washburn explained by whose advice she had adopted the plan. `•Mrs. Volant has die reputation of be ing a perfect shrew. Her husband is a laughing stock for all State street. She is a bad adviser." "How slick you have turned the joke upon me;" said Mrs. Washburn, laughing heartily. "To tell the truth. overheard some of your conversation when the plot was laid." "Oh, ho, you did; no wonder it failed, then." "I did; but, Mary, are you so very much against my smoking? I love the weed, but I loveyou more; and Mr. Wash burn kissed her tenderly. "Nay, I will say no more about it. Perhaps I was selfish. "Not selfish. I will leave it off, my dear, for your sake." •No, no; I don't want you to do so. If you are so very fond of smoking. I will never say another word about it." And Mr. Washburn has smoked his cigar in peace ever since. fading for the I" Speech of Hon. John Scott, The following are the remarks of Mr. Scott, delivered in the U. S. Senate, in opposition to increasing the pay of mem bers : Mr. SCOTT. Mr. President, I intend to vote to recommit this report, and have thus far refrained from saying anything on the subject; but I can no longer refrain from saying a few wards giving the reasons why I shall do so. It is very evident that the interest upon this, question concentrates almost entirely upon that part of the proposed legislation which effects the pay of members of Con gress. That is the only increased pay which is proposed to he made retroactive. While there is a constitutional prohibi tion against legislating for the increase or decrease of the salary of the President during his term of office, there is no such prohibition with reference to any other offieer or person named in the bill, and what has been already said has been well applied in reprobation of this practice of carrying the pay backward. Mr. CARPENTER. Will my friend allow me to interrupt him a moment, and remind him that the members of the Cab inet during the last four years have had more pay than we propose to put up for ourselves even in the future ? Their sal ary has been $B,OOO, and we only propose to put ours at $7,500. They have their pay for four years, and we shall have ours t'or two; that is the difference. Mr. SCOTT. I am aware of that; but the difference between the member of the Cabinet and the member of Congress is still observed, and you raise the salary of the member of the Cabinet, putting him at still snore than the member of Congress; and if be is worth more for the future, why is he not worth more for the past as well as the member of Congress? We are legislating on this subject, I fear, in a bad astmcsphere, and what I say I say perhaps from some old-fashioned notions that Ilave imbibed ou this sub ject; but nevertheless I must say it. I fear that when we get to Washington, where we are in the habit of attending dinners—or if not in the habit do at least occasionally attend dinners—that cost five hundred or a thousand dollars, and we see a mode of lite that is so entirely beyond the means of the average people of the country that we feel perhaps a little re flection that we are not able to live up to it, and we get the idea that our salaries ought to be put uptosuch a figure as to en able the members of Congress here to live as well as those who are much better off in the goods of this world than the average members of Congress can hope to be at home. Now, sir, salaries for members of Con gress are not made for the purpose of ac tual compensation. Everybody knows that ; and no one better than the Senator from Wisconsin, who enjoyed a very lu crative practice and whose talents and abilities entitle him to it. He did not leave his practice and come here for the purpose of making money by being a mem ber of Congress. Everybody knows that men who are engaged in large business en terprises, the heads of large mercantile or manufacturing establishments, those who are in any large business that brings them in great money returns, do not have them and become members of Congress for the purpose of making money. When we come to fix the salary of members of Con gress, if we fix it at a price which does not exclude from that honorable position (hon orable if it is made so) those who are poor, those who can come here anti live as well as the average members of the community live throughout the land, we do all that ought to be expected. Now hok at it, Mr. President. The last law that was passed fixing the salary was passed in 1866. Gold at that time, if I recollect ar4,ht, was about 125 or 150, and there wasan income tax of abouts2oo on every one of the alaries that wasdrawn. Gold has been going down and the prices of com modities have been decreasing, so that in reality the salary has been increasing ever since 1866 and the income tax has been taken off. The salary is to-day more in reality than it was then. Now we pro pose to increase that salary and to carry the increase back two years. I admit that no member can on the present salary come here and bring his family and live eves in the manner in which not the richest but many of the moderately cir cumstanced people here do live; and I suppose there are not many members of Con gross who when they do come hero, either to the House or to the Senate, expect to bring their families and make their homes here. There are not very many of them that are able to do it. But we must in this matter preserve that moderate degree of salary which will not make office-seek ing desirable for the purpose of making money and which will be in accordance with the true theory of the plain republi can habits of our own people. I think with the Senator from Vermont [Mr. Monntu.] that this is a very great mistake, and that there is not a member of Congress who has participated in this legislation for the purpose of carrying our salaries back for two years that will not regret it. Ido not think it is sound in principle; and while I could perhaps make as good use of the money in paying my family expenses as any member of Congress, I do not feel that I would be justified in voting for this bill for the reason that it is carried back and for the additional rea son that it is putting the salary uu above the income enjoyed by the very large ma jority of the farming community and of the manufacturing community, certainly far above the laboring community of the country, and if we do strike a fair aver age, that which we have now we ought to adhere to. Mr. CARPENTER. Mr. President, this is a practical matter; this is business. It is not a matter of sentiment, it is a prac tical question. The Senator from Penn sylvania [Mr. ScoTT] admits that a man cannot come here with his family and live like a gentleman in 'Washington on oar present pay, and he thinks it is not desir able that we should. Mr. SCOTT. The Senator will not mis- quote me. I did not say he eould not come here and live in the style in which those who have plenty of the goods of this world could live. It is not neensary that a man should live in the best style to live like a gentleman. Mr. CARPENTER. There is no doubt whatever that a Senator . could come to Washington and live on 85,000; he could come here and live on $3,000; he could come here and live on a thousand ; but how would he do it? The Senator from Vermont seems to be alarmed lest his constituents should get after him if his salary is increased. I have not the slight est fear that any objection willbe made by the people .of Wisconsin. They are men of liberal views, men of sense. I have not conversed with any man in that State on this subject for years who did not ap prove of an increase of our salaries and who did not look to that as true reform in the civil service. Why, it is with this as it is with everything else in life, if you are to have a position among gentlemen you must live as gentlemen live. The expense of living has advanced fearfully beyond what it was in the days of the Revolu tion. This is the consequence of our advance in wealth, in civilization, and in impor tance as a nation. The people of Wiscon sin if they send a man here to represent them in the Senate wish him to live how ? In the garret of a five-story building on crackers and cheese, to dress in goat skins and sleep in the wilderness ? • No. When they come here and ride by the mansions of my honorable friends from Vermont [Mr. MORRILL and Mr. EDMUNDS] up on the Circle, see their elegant houses, bril liantly lighted, surrounded by acres of pavement, parks, fountains, &c., all hnilt at the expense of the nation; see them giving levees and receptions; and if they ride by the palace of my honorable friend from New Jersey and see his magnificence of living., and then come to the homes of the "poor white trash" of this Senate and find their own Senators among them, they will not like that. [Laughter.] They have manly pride; and expect to find their Senators living like other Senators. At home they hive as well as anybody; and they expect their representatives to live as well as the representatives of other States; and they have sense enough to know that if the people are to govern this country, they must pay the expenses of its government and the expenses of Its officers. The people of Wisconsin knew that the services of a competent cashier of a bank or president of an insurance company can not be secured short of a salary of $lO,OOO a year. They believe a Senator ought to have as much brains as a cashier of a bank sir president of an insurance company The Senators from Vermont may truth fully represent the views of their constitu ents. The Senator from Pennsylvania [Mr. Soorr] may truthfully represent his constituents. I have no right to say they do not. But I speak for a people living on the beach of the great lakes, on the wide prairies of the West; a people whose cheeks arc fanned by breezes which have come a thousand miles ; a people living on the banks of a river which traverses a continent; a people whose views are en larged to correspond with the face of na ture with which they are familiar. They are able, and expect to pay far whatever they have. They expect to be served thithfully, and are willing to pay a compen sation for the services rendered. They expect and desire to be represented as well as the other States are represented. They intend that their Senators shall have as much influence in the national council as the Senators of any State have; and they are willing to pay the necessary expense to secure this end. What would be the practical effect of such social distinctions upon the Senate as must result in paying low salaries ? The old writers upon government say that there is but one way to have a republican government, and that is to fix the sala ries of public servants so that they amount to compensation for the services rendered. Nobody claims that the present salary amounts to compensation. The Senator from Pennsylvania says that no man comes to this Senate with the expectation that he is to be compensated. Why not ? Why should we not be compensated ? Are we the only portion of these forty millions of people who are to be slaves, who are ex pected to toil for an inadequate eompen sation ? Mr. SCOTT. Will the Senator permit me a question ? Mr:CARPENTER. Certainly. Mr. SCOTT. I need not ask the Sen ator from Wisconsin whether he was not aware of the law of 1866 when he agreed to come here? Mr. CARPENTER. Certainly; and I was aware of the power to increase the pay, [laughter,] and I expected the Sen ate had sense enough to do it. I knew both things. Mr. SCOTT. I wish to put a practical question; if the Senator (lid come here with the view of increasing his pay? AN illiterate person, who always vol unteered to "go round with the hat." but was suspected of sparing his own pocket, overhearing a hint once to that effect, re plied. Other gentlemen puts down what they thinks proper, and so do I. Charity's a' private concern, and what I give is noth ing to anybody." A PICTURE dealer who has quite as much businessas he can attend to, says the hardest work ho has to do is to "frame excuses." Constitutional Convention, The following amendments to the Con stitution, in reference to the Executive department, was agreee to in committee of the whole : SEC. 1. That the executive departments of this Commonwealth shall consist of a Governor, a Lieutenant Governor, a Sec retary of State, an Attorney General Aud- itor General a Secretary of Internal Affairs, and a Superintendent of Public Instruc tion. SEC. 2. The supreme executive power shall be vested in a Governor, who shall take care that the laws be carefully exe cuted. He shall be chosen on the day of the general election by the qualified elec tors of the Commonwealth at the places where they shall respectfully vote for representatives. The returns of every election for Governor shall be sealed up and transmitted to the seat of government, directed to the President of the Senate, who shall open and publish them in the presence of the members of both Houses of the Legislature, the person having the highest number of votes shall be Governor, but if two or more be equal and highest in votes, one of them shall he chosen Governor by the joint vote of the members of both Houses. Contested elections shall be determined by a committee to be se-'I leeted from both Houses of the Legisla ture and formed and regulated in such manner as shall be directed by law. SEC. 3. The Governor shall hold his office daring four years from the third Tuesday of January next ensuing his elec tion, and shall not be capable of holding the office for the term next succeeding the term for which he was elected. SEC. 4. Relative to the election of a Lieutenant Governor, who shall be Presi dent of the Senate. Sze. 5. That no person shall be eligi ble to the office of Governor except a citizen of the United States of thirty years of age, and seven years a resident of the State. SEC. G. That no member of Congress or person bolding any office under the United States, or of this State, shall exer cise the office of Governor or Lieutenant Governor. SEc. 7. That the Governor and Lieu tenant Governor shall receive compensation for their cervices, which shall neither be increased nor diminished during their term of office. SEc. 8. That the Governor shall be-com niandLr in chief of the army and navy of the Commonwealth. Sac. 9. He shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of two-thirds of all the members of the Senate appoint a secretary of the Commonwealth and an at torney general during pleasure, and such other officers of the Commonwealth as he is or may be authorized to appoint. He shall have power to fill all vacancies in of fices to which he may appoint that may happen during the recess of the Senate by granting commissions which shall expire at the cud of their next session. He shall have power to fill any vacancy that may happen during the recess of the Senate in the office of auditor general, state treasu rer, secretary of internal affairs, superin tendent of public instruction, in a judicial office, or in any other elective office which he is or may be authorized to fill. If the vacancy shall happen during the session of the Senate, the Governor shall nominate to the Senate before their adjournment a proper person to fill the vacancy. But in any such cases of vacancy in an elective office, a person shall be chosen to such of fice at the next annual election ofrepresen tatives, unless the vacancy shall happen within three calender months immediately preceding such annual election, in which case the election for said office shall be held at the second annual election of represen tatives. Iu acting on executive nomina tions the Senate shall sit with open doors, and in confirming or rejecting the nomi nations of the Governor, the vote shall be taken by yeas and nays, and shall be en tered on the journal. SEC. 10. ale shall have power to remit fines and forfeitures, to grant reprieves, commutations of sentences and pardons, except in cases of impeachment, but only upon the reccommendation in writing of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, At torney General, Superintendent of Public Instruction, Secretary of Internal Affairs. or any three of them, after fall hearing of the parties, upon due public notice and in open session, and such recommendations, with the reason therefor at length, shall be recorded and filed in the department. Be Kind to the Poor. Ay, be kihd to them ! Ye who have never felt the bitter pangs of hunger, who have never parsed through dreary winter with chattering teeth and limbs palsied with cold, who have never prayed for the sweet forgetfulness of sleep, to shpt uut for a brief season the frost whose icy breath struck a chill to your heart, and who have never been a prey to the eanker-worm of grief and misery. which all these sufferings ent•til, we pray you, be kind to the poor ! Be kind to the poor. Yes, for tho blessings of prosperity which Heaven has showered upon you, will yield you no true happiness if others are starving. Heaven has placed you on earth, has exposed you to like chances of want and wretchedness. Iu a pharisaical spirit then, thank nut God "that you are not as other men." but rather with publicans sne humbly for mer cy, and enhance the efficacy of prayer by charity and kindness. A satisfied con-' science sheds a peace and comfort through the heart and soul, without which the im mortal spirit cannot be satisfied. Follow not then after the selfishness of the world around you, unless like Dives, thou weuldet hereafter reap his fate, and view amidst thy 'torment the poor man on Abraham's bosom. Be kind to the poor. Earth has' more sorrow than the heart can contain, more of suffering than frail nature can bear. The widow left to toil and struggle alone amidst the desolation of bereavement appeals in tones more eloquent than words, for your sympathies and aid. The helpless orphan, brought into the world and left alone by the relentless hand of death, claims your guardianship and protection. And as you expect a continuance of the mercies and blessings of Heaven, so in this wise be merciful to others; then shall the gates of plenty and honor be open to thee, and the pillow e peace kiss thy cheek. THE man who can't he happy unless his mother-in-law lives is the samehouse with him, isn't a resident of New York. He lives in Jersey City. He says she's the on• ly woman who can tackle his wife success fully. They take up so much time jawing each other that he has a peaceful life. COURTING aftor marriage—Applying for a divorce. NO. 13. The Science of Teaching minus Eju kashun Number Too. WOLLER'S GROVE, March 15th a. d., 1873. MISTER EDITUR :—Befour i enter into the speerit of this letter i dezire to troll yoor atten.shun to sum mistake made by yoor printermann in the printing of my letters. Now if their is ennything that i I like more then ennything elce it is kor reckt spelling; and, atom 01l tither people, a printermann ott to be a korreckt speler. Butt just look at the bedding of my last letter in the JURNEL of too weeks ago and it sez "the sicence of teething nines ejukashun" which that bedding just lon tradikts my theory about the prezent kom men skool sistem. My theery is, was and has bin that skools, as at present kodukt ed, make nines out of children whaer otherwise they mite have bin tensible and usefull men and wimmin if they hadent a bean sent to skool at 011. That is won of the theeryes that iam agoing to demon strate if you give me spase enuff in yoor valueible paper—as the Gloab korrespon dint's say. Too sea at wunce mr. editor that thatt wuzzent whot i was wonting to say. I merit to say—and did say, if yoor printer mann had only red it rightly—i sod "the science of teething nines ejukashun." The wurd minis is a fatten word meening the nott having of a thing when you ott to have it badly ; and i meen to show thatt the moast of the yang men and wimmin who boss our kools for thurty and forty and want fifty dollers a munth are minis ejukashun and ott to have a little of itt themselves befoar thay undertake to teeth children bad habbets. Their wuz areazon for me taking this bedding. In the furst plaice it wuz a sutible wun for my subjekt. in the sekand plaiee, wan Jasen, (nott the Jason whu went" to kolkiss after the Golden Fleas, but a later heroe,) has bin riting a ceres of artikles whiteh he bedded "ejukashun and the sience and art of teech ing" and my peaces are in kortradistink sun to these. (My reeders will exkuzs the bigg word used here.) Itt bums naterel to me when i amm tocking att the store at the Grove to putt in such wurds now and then to chew my laming ; and i will do itt sumtimes even when i rite letters. I !tim ed it from heering yang splurges of skool teechers & dokters & lawyers & preecbers do it. Butt they dident offen putt the bigg words in the rite plaice; and i doo— that is the differrunce.) Jasen went to a good deal of trubble riting that sett of ar tikles on teething; and i will wager my Iced that thair wuzzent ten teechers in Huntingdon kounty who red them threw. I took notis to the matter and i kno their wuzzent a teecher in the Grove who red too comma of it; butt it wuzzent bekos they new too much olreddy. The Lord knows their wood enny of them need is reed 01l that Jasen and forty more peeple coed rite in a veers time before they wood boo verry much about the subjekt in hand. Their wuz another mistake yoar printer mann made. When i had okkazhnn to speck of the gentelman who gives out surtifekates in the foil (not addems fell, but wun of the konsequenses of it) i sad superkumbent : and evry blessed time your printermann had it superintendent. Thair are mangy reezons for my way of speling it being tha rite wun. Thatt offisee is a ded wait—lying hevvy on 01l the teechers who don't gett to his summer normel skule. They feel uneezy and trembel like an asspen leef when he is examening them for surtifekates--thay get them dm wheth er deserving or nett; and ell winter they are uneezy for feer he will bum to vizzit Chair skules and find how poorly they kon dukt them—butt he haszent trubbled ma ny teechers abOut the Grove this winter. Then that thousand dollers a year ways hevvily on the taxpayers; and they kon sider the name superiukunibent as being a well chosen wan. Then danyel webster in his sligshunary don't rokkognize such a word as superintendent of kommon skools. He ownly speeks of superintendents of ams howses Paz John Lowgen and fifty other poppers at ten thoneend a year) superin tendents of public works (as T. A. Skort of Phila.) and superintendent of customs (as bed millyner shops.) If the legislaoher had appropriated to eech member a coppy of Websters Bigshinary along with Fur den's Digest, Blusters Saints Rest and s.utch books as they gett non koppies of evry year, they wood hay seen that they were rong and they wood have made it kounty superinkumbent in there book of laws. Before thatt their ware tinny kounty superinkumbents the ksools went on quiet ly & plezzently and the times wur sumthing like whot they wuz forty yeer ago when i had the hon nerof going to Attie. Butt times aint now whet they wunce wuz nor is it likely they ever will be agen. The establishment of kounty superinkambents was the entering wege and sinse thatt tithe noo books and non innnovashuns without number have bin forged upon the peeple untill they have almost seamed to kumplane—and they just fold their heeds and sity."lett the warst bum, it kantt be much worse than it has bin." The wurat iz now nett far off; when it dun bum thare will be weeping and Dashing of teeth and bombing of beds and sending to skool every day. That worst innovashun of 01l will be a kompulsery skule law. When i am at the subjekt i mite say a wurd hear regarding our present kounty superinkumbent. Sumbuddy from the upper end wonts to kno whair he has bin 01l winter that he diddent visit their skules. There wun varius reesens for his not doing so. In the furst plaice it. wuz bold last winter and nott plezzent travling around. In the sekkund plaice it mast be remem herd that be was a citizen of Loozern, char ' cole or sum uther bounty at the time he was elected bear (as i hay bin reliably in formed by Squire Woodbern) and he has not yet had time to get akquainted in this kounty. It izzent safe for a man to at tempt to travvel too match in a kounty whare he ant akquainted—az he mite get lost and never be found ages, which wood be a grate loss to the kounty. In the therd plaice (as i lurn from sum of the Grove teechers) he is making preperashnns to start a summer normel auk nrly in the summer. Thies skule is to eklips 01l the normel skools ever befoar seen in this or enny other kountry. Ittis to have a prin ciple and fore prefessers, besides assyotant tutors, janiters, &c., and wun hundred and twenty-five students, and it is to last twolv weeks, instead of six az heretofour. Here ken be lurned enny of the twenty-fore branches theft go to make app a batcheler of—i forgett the other bigg wurd, but its sumthing. 011 teachers desiring good surtifikaits shoed attend a summer normel skool. I shall advise 01l the Grove teach ers to go. mr. editor i hadent yett got farelyunder hedway in this letter, butt it is so long that i will quitt this time and just konsider this letter a kind of interdaksbun to my next letter which i will try to snake more intur resting. NICODZMUS WOCKER.
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