VOL. 48.
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'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.