VOL. 48. The Huntingdon, Journal J. R. DURBORROW, PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETORS. Ylifiee 04 the Comer of Fifth and H'elvia ingtoa streete. THE HUNTINGDON JOURNAL is published every, \Wednesday, by J. R. Dunnoanow and 3. A. NASH, under the firm name of J. It. DURBORROW it Co., at 02.00 per annum, IN Anwsev., or $2.50 if not paid .or in six months :rem date of subscription, and $3 if not paid within the year. No paper discontinued, unless at the option of she publishers, until all arrearages are paid. No paper, however, will be sent out of the State unless a4solutely paid for in advance. Transient advertisements will be inserted at TWO LVC AND A-HALF CENTS per line for the first insertion, SEVEN Aar, A-HALF CENTS for the second, and rive cesrs per line for all subsequent inser tions. 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Pcsuphlets, dce., of every variety and style, printed at the shortest notice, and everyr thing in the Printing line will be execu ted in the most artistic manner and at the lowes rates. Election Proclamation [GOD SAVE ISIE COI(3IO,!WEALTH.] PROCLAMATION. I, AMON HOUCK, High Sheriff of Hun tingdon coanty. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, tie hereby make known and give notice to the ELECTORS of the eount ,, aforesaid, that an elec tion will be held in the said county of Huntingdon. on TUESDAY, the I lth DAy of OCTOBER, 1873, for the purpose of electing the several persons hereinafter canted, viz: CloC person fer the. office of Judge of the Supreme Curt of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. One person for the office of State Treasurer of the State of Pen nsy One person to represent tiib oounties of Hunting don, Mifflin, Juniata and Centre in the Senate of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. One person to represent the county of Hunting- Jon in the House of Representatives of the Com monwealth of Pennsylvania. floc person for the office of County Treasurer for said county. One person for the office of Commissioner for said county. One person for the office of Poor Director- COr Said county. „. . . Two persona for Jury Commissioner fur the county of Huntingdon. _ . . One person for tororner for the county Hunting • don. 4ne person for 'County Auditor for said county. lu pursuance of said Act . , I also hereby wake known and give notice, that the places of holding the aforesaid general election in the several elec tion district within the said county of Huntingdon, are as follows, to -a it : h.t district, composed of the tuwnship of Hen• dersun, at the Union School ]louse. 2.1 district composed of Dublin township, at Pleasant -Hill Sehool HOUELI, near Jukeph Nelson's in ,aid townehip. 3.ldistriet, composed of-so much of Warriors nntrk township, ou is Hut included in the lUth dis trict, at the School Douse, adjoining the town of We rriorsmark. 4ta district, composed of the towarhip of Hope well, at the house of Levi Uoupt, in suid town ship. h disttict, composed of the township of for ret, at the house of James Livingston, in the town of Saulsburg, in said township. Gth district, composed of the borough of SW, lcysburg and all that part of the township of Shir !ey not included within the limits of district No. 21, as hereioafte• mentioned and described, at the house of David ' , raker, deo'd., in Shirleysbarg, Ilk district, composed of Porter and part of Wal ker tp. and so much of West township as is inclu ded in the following boundarits, to wit : Begin ning et the southwest corner of Tobias Kaufftuan's farm on the bank of the Little - Juniata River. to the lower end of Jackson's Narrows, thence in o northwesterly direction to the most southerly port of the farm owned by Michael Maguire, thence north forty degrees west to the top of Tussey's Mountain to intersect the line of Franklin town ship. thence along the said line to the Little Juni ata River, thence down the same to the place of beginning, at the Public School Rouse opposite the Gentian Reformed Church, in the borough of Alexandria. Sth district, composed of thetownship of Frank lin, at the house of George W. Mattern, in said township. sth district, composed of Tell township, at the Union School House, near the Union Meetnig Moose, in raid township. 10th distriot, composed of Springfield township, the school bens's, near Hugh Madden's, in said township. I Isla district. composed of Union township, at Grant house, in the borough of Mapleton, in said township. 12th district, composed of Brady township, at the Centro School Housc,in said township. ' • • ' 13th district, composed of Morris township, at public school house No. 2, is said township. 14th district, composed of that part of West tp. not included in 7th and 26th districts, at the pub lic school Lunge on tho firm now owned by Miles Lewis, (formerly owned by James Susie,) in said township. 15th district, composed of Walker township, at the house of Benjamin Megahy, in McConnellstown. 16th district, composed of the township of Tod, at Green school house, in said township. 17th district, composed of Oneida township, at the bouts of William Long, Warm . Springs. ISth district, composed of Cromwell township, at the Rock Hill School House, in said township. 19th district, composed of the borough of ilir mbgham, with the several tracts of lanh rear to .tnd attached to the same, now owned and occupied by Thomas M. Owens, Jno. K. M'Caban, Andrew Robeson, John Gensimer, and William Gensitner, and the tract of land now owned by George and John 6.hoenberger, known as the Porter tract, sit uate in the township of Warriorsinark. at the pub lic school house in said borough. 20 , 1 i district, composed of the township of Case, at the public school house in Cassville, in said township. 21st district, composed of the township of Jack son, at the public school house of Edward Little., at M'Alcvy's Fort, in said township. '221 district composed,pf the township of Clay, at the public school house inSiottville.. 23d district. composed of the township of Penn, at the public •school house in Marklesburg, in said tow us hip. 211 h district, composed and created as follows, to wit:—That all that part of Shirley township, Huntingdon county, lying and being within the following described boundaries, (except the her neigh of Mt. Union.) namely: Beginning at the intersection of Union and Shirley township line with the Juniata river, on the south side thereof; thence along said Union township line for the dis tance M 3 miles from said river; thence eastward- Iv, by a straight lino. to the point where the main road from Eby's mill toGermany t alley, crosses the summit of Sandy Ridge to the Juniata river, and thence up said ricer to the place of beginning, shall hereafter form a separate election district; that the qualified voters of said election district shall hereafter hold theirgeneral and township , e'ectiors in the public school house in Mt. Union, In said township. 25th district, composed of all that tesritory lying northeastward of a line beginning at the Juniata river and running thence in a direct line along the centre of Fourth street, in the Borough of Hunting don, to the lino of Oneida township, constituting; the First Ward of said borough, at the southeast window of the Court House. 2t;th district, nompossd of.all that territory lying west of the First Ward, and east of the center of Seventh street, composing the second Ward, .t the southwest window of the Court nouse, in the ',Orem : 7h aforesaid. 27th district, composing all that territory lying north and west of the second Ward, and south of a line beginning at the Juniata river and running thence eastward in a direct line along the centre of Eleventh street to the line of Oneida township, constituting the Third Word, and also those por iions of Walker and Porter townships formerly at melted to the East Ward, at the Council louse, in said borough. 28th district, composed of all that territory lying north of the Third Ward of said borough constitu ting the Fourth Ward, at the public school house near Cherry Alley, in said borough. 29th district, composed of the borough of Peters burg and that part of West township, west and north of a line between Henderson and Weattown ship, at and near the Warm Spring., tothe Frank lin township line on the top of Tnssey's Mountain, The Huntingdon Journal. so as to include in the new district the houses of David Waldsmitb, Jacob Longnecker, Thomas Hamer, James Porter, and John Wall, at the school house in the borough of Petersburg. 30th district, composed of the township of Juni ata, at the house of John Peightal, on the land of Henry Isenberg. 31st district, composed of Carbon tewnship, re cently erected out of a part of the territory of Tod township, to wit : commencing at a chestnut oak, on the summit of Terrace mountain, at the llope well township line opposite the dividing ridge, in the Little Valley, thence south 52 deg. east 364 perches, to a stone heap on the weetern summit of Broad Top Mountain; thence north 67 deg., east 312 perches to a yellow pine; thence south 52deg., east 772 perches to & chestnut oak; then south 14 deg., cast 351 perches to a chestnut at the east end of Henry S. Green's land; thence south 31i deg., east 294 perches to a chestnut oak, on the summit of a spur on Broad Top. onthe western side ofJohn Terral's farm; south, 65 deg., east 934 perches to a stone heap on the Clay township line, at the public school house in the village of Dudley. 324 district, composed of the borough of Coal mont, at the public school house, in said.borough. 33d district, composed of Lincoln tp., beginning at a pine on the summit of Tussey mountain on the line between Blair and Huntingdon counties, thence by the division line south, 58 deg., east 798 perches to a black oak in middle of township ; thence 42i deg., cast 802 perches to a pine on summit of TerraN; thence by the line of Ted tp. to corner of Penn tp.; shence by the lines of the township of Penn to the summit of Tussey moun tain ; thence along said summit with line of Blair county to place of beginning, at Coffee Run School House. J. A. NASD, district, composed of the borough of Maple ton, at the Grant School House, in said borough. nth district, composed of the borough of Mount Union in the fchool house, in said borough. 36th district. composed of the borough of Broad Top City, at the public' school house, in said bor ough. 37th district, composed of the borough of Three Springs, at the public school house, in said bor ough. 3Stla district, composed of Shade (ap borough at the public school house, in said borough. 39th district, composed of the borough of Orbi sonia, at the public school house in Orbisonia. The general election in all the Wards, Town ships, Districts anti Boroughs of the county, is to be opened between the hours of six and seven o'clock in the forenoon, and shall continue with out interruption oradjourument until seven o'clock in the evening, when all poles Anil be closed. Every person, excepting justices of the peace, who shall hold any office or appointment of profit or trust under the government of the United States, or of this State; or of any city or incorpor ated district, whether a commissioned officer or otherwise., a subordinate officer or agent, who is or shall be employed under the legislative, executive or judiciary departments of the state or the Uni ted States, or of any city or incorporated dis tiet, and also every member of congress or of tl e state legislature, and of the select and common councils of any city, or cointiiissioner of any in orporated district, is by law incapable of holding or exercising at the same time the office or appointment of judge, inspector or clerk of any election of this commonwealth, and no inspector, judge or other officer of any such °testiun shall be eligible there to be voted fur. The inspectors and judge of the election shall meet at the respective places appointed for hold ing the election in the district, to which they res ?eetively belong, before seven o'clock in the morn ing, and each of said inspectors shall appoint one clerk, who shall be'a qualified voter of such dis trict. In cave the person who shall have received the second highest number of v. tes for inspector shall not attend on the day of any election, then the person who shalLhave received the second highest number of votes for judge at the next prcceeding election shell act us inspector iu Lis place. And iu ease the person who shall hare received the highest number of r otes for inspector shall not'at tend, the person elected judge shall appoint an in spector in his place. And in ease the person elec ted judge shall not attend, then the inspector who received the highest number of votes shall np"oint °judge in his place—or if any vacancy shall con tinue in the board for the space of one hour aft% the time fixed by law for the opening of the elec tion, the qualified voters of the township, ward or district to ethic!) such officers shall have been elected, present as etch election, shall elect°ne of ther number to fill such cocotte} . It shall be the duty of the several assessors of each district to attend at the place of holding every general, special or township election, daring the whole time said election is kept open, for the pur pose of giving information to the inspectors and judges, when called on, in relation to the right of any person assessed by them to vole at each elec tion, or such other matters in relation to the as sessments of voters as the said inspectors or either of them shall from time to time require. . . No person ehallk permitted to vote at any elec tion, as aforesaid, air er than a freeman of the age of twenty-one yeses or more, who shall have re sided in the State at least ens year, and at the election district where he ofiers Lis Tote at least ten days immediately preceding each election and within two years paid a state or county tax, which ellen have been :teemed at least ten days before the election. But a citizen of the United State. who has previously been a• qualified voter of this state and removed therefrom and returned, and who shall have resided in the eleetion district and paid taxes, as aforesaid, shall be entitled to vote after residing in this state six months: Provided, That the freemen, citizens of the United States, between twenty-one and twenty-two years, who have resided in an election district as aforesaid, shall be entitled to vote although they shall not have paid taxce. No pereon shall be permitted to veto whose name is not uontained in the list of taxable inhabitants furnished by the commiesioners, unless, First, he produces a receipt for the payment within two years of a state and county tax asseesed agreeably to the constitution, and give satisfactory evidence either on hie oath or affirmation or the oath or affirmation of another, that he has paid such a tax, or on failure to prod.• a receipt shall make oath to the payment thereof. Fccond, if he claim the right to vote by being as elector between the nge of twenty-one and twenty-two year., he shall depose on oath or affirmation that he has resided in this state at least one year next before his ap plication,.and make such proof of residence in the district as is required by this act, and that he does verily believe, tram the account given him, that he is of age aforesaid, and such other evidence as is required by this act, whereupon the name a the person thus admitted to vote shall he inserted in the alphabetical list by the inspectors, and a. note made opposite thereto by writing the word "tax" if he shall be admitted to vote by reason of having paid tax; or the word "age" if he shall be admitted to vote by reason of such age shall be called out to the clerk, who Atoll make the like notes on the list of voters kept by him. In all cases. where the name of the person claim ing to vote is not found on the list furnished by the commissioners and avessort, or hie right to vote, whether found thereon or not, is objected to by any qualified citizen, it Anil be the duty of the inspectors to examine each person on oath as to his qualifications, and if ho claims to have re sided within the state for one year or more, his oath shall he sufficient proof thereof, bolt shall make proof by at least one competent witness, who shall ho a qualified voter, that he has resided in the district for more than ten days next imme diately preceding such election, and shall also himself swear that his bona fide residence, in pur suance of his lawful calling, is in said distriet, and that, he did not remove into said district for the purpose of voting therein. Every person qualified as aforesaid, and who shall make due proof, if required, of the residence and payment of taxes as aforesaid, shall be ad mitted to vote in the township, ward or district in which he shall reside. If any person shall prevent or attempt to pre vent any officer of this election under this net from holding such election, or use or threaten any or any such officer, or shall interrupt or improperly interfere with him in the execution of his dnty, or shall block up the window, or avenue to any win dow where the keine may be holding, or shall riot ously disturb the peace at such election, or shall use any intimidating threats, force or violence, with design to influence unduly or overawe any elector, or to prevent him from voting or to res train the freedom of choice, such persons on con viction shall be fined in any sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, and imprisoned for any time not less than three nor more than twelve months, .d it shall he shown to the court, where the trial of such offense shall be had, that the person so of fending was sot a resident of the .eity, ward, dis trict or township where the offense was committed and not entitled to vote therein, then on convic tion he shall he sentenced to pay a fine of act less than one hundred nor more than one thousand dollars, and be imprisoned not less than six months nor more than tno years. If seTty person, not by law qualified, 'hall fraud ulently vote at any election of this commonwealth, or being otherwise qualified shall vo'e out of his proper district, if nny person knowing the west of such qualification shall nid or procure such per son to vote, the person offending shall, on convic tion, be fined in any sum not exceeding two hun dred dollars, and be imprisoned in any term not exceeding three months. If any person shall vote at more than one elec tion district, or otherwise fraudulently vote more than onco on the same day, or shall fraudulently fold and deliver to the inspector two tickets to gether, with the intent illegally to vote, or shall procure another to do so, he or they so offending shall, on conviction, be fined in any sum not less than fifty nor-more than five hundred dollars, anti be imprisoned for n term not lees than three nor more than twelve months. If any person not qualified to vote in this Com monwealth agreeably to law (except the sons of qualified citizens), shall Appear at any plane of election fer the purpose of influencing the citizens qualified to vote, be shall on conviction forfeit and pal any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars for every suck offense, and be imprisoned for any term not exceeding three months. If any person or persona shall snake any bet or wager upon the result of the election, within the Commonwealth, or shall offer to snake any such bet or wager, either by verbal proclamation there of, or by any written or printed advertisement, or invite any person or persons to make such bet or wager, and upon conviction, thereof he or they shall forfeit and pay three times the amount so bet sr offered to bet. And the election laws of the Commonwealth further provides that "The Inspectors,Judges and clerks shall before entering on the duties of their offiees, severally take and subscribe the oath or affirmation hereinafter directed, which shall ho administered to them by any judge, alderman or justice of the peace, but if no such magistrate be present, one of the inspectors of the election shall administer the oath or affirmation to the other judge and inspector, and then the inspector so qualified shall administer the oath or affirmation to him. "The inspectors, judges and clerks required by law to hold township and general elections shall take and subscribe the several oaths and affirma tions required by the 19th, 20th and 21st sections of the act of 2d day of July, 1839,! 4n act relating to the elections of this Commonwealth,' which oaths or affirmations shall be prepared and ad ministered in the manner prescribed in the 18th and 22d sections of raid act, and in addition to the power conferred by the 18th section of raid act, the judge or either of the inspectors shall have the power to administer the oaths prescribed by said act to any clerk of general, special or town ship election." ••The following, shall be the form of omit or af firmation to he taken by each inepefitur, viz : 'l, [A. B.] do - that I will duly attend to the ensuing eleotion during the continuance thereof as an inspector, and that I will not receive any tick et or vote from any person, other than such as I firmly believe to be, according to the provisions of the constitution and the laws of this common wealth, entitled to a vote at such election. without requiring eueh evidence of the right to cote ne is directeu by law, nor will 1 vexatiously delay or reface to receive any vote from any person who I shall believe to bp entitled to vots,Cas aforesaid, but that I will in all things truly sat Impartially and faith fully perform my duties therein, to the beet of coy judg meat and abilities, and that 1 am not, directly or indi rectly, interested in any bet or wager on the result of this election." The foliosin slutij he the oath or affirmation of each judge, viz: "1, ]A. ll.] do - that I will, as judge, du ly attend the ensuing election during the continuance thereof, and faithfully assist -tho Inspectors in carrying ant the same ; that I will not 0 . 0 my consent that any vote or ticket shall be received from any person other than such os•I firmly believe to be, according to the pro visions of the consitution and laws of this commonwealth, entitled to vote at such election, without r guiring such evidence of the right to vote as directed by law, and that I will use my best endeavors to prevent any fraud, deceit or abuse in carrying on the same by citizens qualified to vote, or others, and I will make a true and perfect return of the said election, and will in all things truly, iinparthilly and faithfully perform my duty respecting thp tame, to the best of my judgment and abilities, and that 1 11111 not di directly or indirectly interested in any bet . or wager on the result of this election," The following shall be the form of with or affirmation to be taken by each deck, Tin: "I [A B.] do - that I will impartially and truly write down the name of each elector who shall vote at the ensuing election, which shall be given me iu charge, and also the name of the township, ward or district wherein such elector resides, or carefully and truly writedown the-number of votes that 4hall be given fee each candidate at the election, as often as his name shall lot read to me by the inspectors thereof, and in all things truly and fitithfully perform my duty respecting the nine to the best of my judgment and abilities, and that lam not directly or indirectly interested in any bet or wager on the result of this election:: - • . On the day of election any person whose name is not on the mid list, and claiming the right to vote at eaid elec tion, shall produce at least one qualified voter of the die trict as a witness to the resident of the claimant in the district of which be claims to be a voter fonthe period of at least ten days next preeedingsaid election; winch witness shall take and subscribe a written or partly written and tartly printed affidavit to the fact stated by him, which affidavit shall define clearly where the residence is of the person eo claiming to be a voter, and the person so claim ing the right to vote shall also take and subscribe a writ ten or partly written and partly printed affidavit, stating to the beet of his knowledge and belief, where and when be was born ; that he is a citizen of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and of the United States; that he has resided in the commonwealth one year, or if formerly a citizen therein, and Las moved therefrom, that he km resided therein six monde. next preceding timid election; that he has not moved into the district for the purpose of voting therein; that he has paid a State or County tax within two years, which was assumed at least ten days before said election ; and, if a naturalized eitizen, shall also elate when, where and by what court he Wee oatitrulized, and also produce this certificate of naturalization for examination; the said affi davit shall also state when and where the tax claimed to be paid by the affidavit was assessed, and when, where, and to whom paid, and the tax receipt therefor shall be produced for examination, uuleeit the affiant shall state on hie affidavit that it has been lost or destroyed, or that he never received any, but if the person so claiming the right to vote shall take and eubscribe an affidavit, that he is a native torn citizen of the United States, or if born else where, shall state the fact in hie affidavit, and shall pro duce evidence that he has been naturalized, sr that he is entitled to citizenship by reason of Ins futher'e naturaliza tion : and shall farther state in his affidavit that he is at the time of taking the affidavit between the ages of twen ty-one and twenty-two years; that he has resided in the State one year and in the electien district ton day. next preceding such election, he shall be allowed to vote, al though he shall not have paid taxes ; the said affidavits ttf all persona making such claim., and the affidavits of the witnesses to their residence shall be preserved by the elec tion board, and at the close of the eleciton they shall be enclosed with the list of voter., tally list and other papers required by law to be filed by the return judge with the prothonotary, and shall remain on file therewith in the prothonotary'e office, subject to examtnation,asother elec tion papers are; if the election officers shall find that the applicant or applicants possess all the legal qualifications of voter., he or they shall be permitted to vote, and the name or names Anil be added to the list of taxablee by the election officers, the word "tax" being added where the claimant votes on age, the sumo words being added by the clerks in each rase respectively on the list of perstme voting at such election. It [Mall be lawful for any qualified citizen (tithe district, notwithstanding the name of the proposed voter ie con tained on the lint of resident taxables to challenge the vote of such person ; whereupon the same proof orlheright at suffrage as in now required by law shall be publicly made and acted on by the election board and the vote admitted or rejected, according to the evidence ; every parson clean ing to be a nattnalized citizen shall be nquired to produce hie naturalization certificate at the election before voting, except where he Las been for ton years consecutively a voter in the district in which bearers hisavote; and on the vote of auch person being received, it shall be the duty of the election officer to write or stamp on such certificate the word "voted," with the month and year:' and if any election officer or officers shall receive a second vote on the same day, by virtue of the same certificate, excepting where sone are entitled to vote by virtue of the naturaliza tion of their fathers, they and the 'mason who shall offer each second vote, elfin so offending shall be guilty of a high misdemeanor, Ind on conviction thereof, be fined or imprisoned, or both, at the discretion of the court ; but the fine shall not exceed one hundred dollars in each case, nor the imprthonntent ono year: the like puniehment than be inflicted on conviction, on the officers of election who shall neglect or refnee to make, or cause to be made, the endorsement required as aforesaid on said naturalization certificate. if any election officer shall refuse or neglect to require ouch proof of the right of suffrage us is prescribed by this law or the laws to which this is a suppleMent, from any person offering to vote whose name is nut on the list of assessed voters, or whose right to vote is challenged by any qual ified voter present, and shall admit such person to vote without requiring ouch proof, every pers.onso offending shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a high misdemeanor, and shall be sentenced, for every such offense, to pay a fine not cxcevtlicg one hundred dollars, or to undergo an imprisonment not more than one year, or either, or both at the discretion of the court. fen days preceding every election for electors for President and Vice President of the United States, it. shall be the duty of the assessor to at tend at the place fixed by law ft, holding the election in each election district, end then and there hear all applications of persons whose names have been omitted from the list of assessed voters, and who claim the right to vote, or whose rights have originated since the same was made out, and shall add the names of such persons thereto, as shall :how that they are entitled to the right of suffrage in such district, on the personal applica tion er the claimant only, and forthwith assess them with the proper tax. After completing the list a copy thereof shall be placed on the door of, or on the house where the election is to be held, at least eighteen days before the election ; and at the election the same course shall be pursued in all re spects, as is required by this act and the acts to which it is a supplement, at the general elections in October. The assessor shall also make the the same returns to the county commissioners of all assessments made by virtue of this section; and the county commissioners shall furnish copies thereof to the election officers in each district, in like manner in all respects, as is required at the general election in October. The same rules and regulations shall apply at every special election, and every separate city, borough or ward election, in all respects as at the general election in October. The respective assessors ' inspectors and judges of the elections shall each have the power to ad minister oaths to any person claiming the right to be assessed or the right of suffrage, or in re gard to any other matter or thing required to be done or inquired into by any of said officers under this act; any any willful falseswearing by any person in relation to and matter or thing concern ing which they shall be lawfully interrogated by any of void officers shall be punished as perjury. The assessors shall each receive the . saine com pensation for the time necessarily spent in perform ing the duties hereby enjoined, as is provided by law for the performance of their other ditties, to be paid by the county commissioners as in other cases; and it shall not be lawful for any assessor -Se lose. , a tax against any person whatever with in ten days next preceding the election to be held on the second Tuesday of October in any year, or within ten days next before any election for elec tors of President and Vice President of the United States; any violation of this provision shall be a misdemeanor, and subject the officers so elfendiag to a fine, on conviction, not exceeding onehundred dollars, or to imprisonment not exceeding three months, or both at the discretion of the court. Oktflo petition of five or more citizens of the county, atating under oath that they verily be lieve fraud. will be practiced at the election about to he hold in any diatrict, it shall be the duty of the court of common pleas of .aid county, if in session, or if not, a judge thereof in vacation, to HUNTINGDON, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1873. appoint two judicious, sober and intelligent citi zens of the county to net as overseers, who shall be selected from different political parties, where the inspectors belong to different parties, and where both inspectors belong to the Eil Me po litical party, both of the overseers shall be taken from the opposite political party; said overseers shall have the right to be present with the officer of the election during the whole time the come is held, the votes counted and the returns made out and signed by the election officers; to keep a list of voters, if they see proper; to challenge any per son offering to vote, and interrogate him and his witness under oath, in regard to his right of suf frage at said elections, and to examine his papers produced ; nod the officer of said election are re quired to afford to said es erscers so selected and appointed every convenience and facility for the discharge of their duties; and if said election of ficers shall refuse to permit said overseers to be present, and perform their duties as aforesaid, or if they shall be driven away from the polls by vi olence and intimidation, all the votes polled at such election district may be rejected by any tri bunal trying a contest under said election : Pro vided, That no person signing the peliton shall be appointed an overseer. That the citizens of this rtate temporarily in the service of the state or of the United States gevern ment, on clerical or other duty, and who do not veto where thus employed, shall not be thereby deprived of the right to vote in their several elec tion districts if otherwise duly qualified. XV AMEND3IENT CONSTITUTION U. S. "Srcrtos 1. The right of citizens of the I7nited States to vote shall not be denied or abniged by the Cnitcd States, or by any State, on account of eeoc, color nr previ ous condition of senitode. The congress shall have power to enforce ibis article by ay.yropitate legislation:. The full •gyring. instructions from Ills Excellency Gover nor Geary explain the (halts of asseesors, registers and election officers, in regard to all freedmen of this common wealth Ex xerrivz CITAMISER, limunsrarac, Pa., August 1,11b70. To the Sheriff of the Comfy of Huntingdon : Wee..., The Fifteenth Amendment of the Constit Lion of the United Staten it :w followo: "keno,: 1, The right of the citizens of tho United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state, on account of race, colozorprevious condition of servitude. “Sse. 2. The congress shell !ewe power to cut.co this artielebyupprepriate legislation. And tifici4i - nt,The conger:. of the United States, on the :11st day of March, 187 d, pawed an net entitled "An net to enforce the right of citizens of the linitel Stater to et* in the sererut states of the Unto+, andfoe other purposes." the Brat and second sections of which are ns follows : germs 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of lie presentatiers of th United Stoles of Amerien is Stmgress assembled, That till citizens of the rnited States, who Are or shall L 8 otherwise qualified by Into to vote at any elec tion by tlrlfpeople, in any state, territory, district, county, city, parish, township, ochtiol district, municipality or oth er territorial sub division shall Le entitled and allowed to vote at all ouch elections without distinction of race, color, cuotomo, condition of servitude, tongs or regulation of any state or territory, or any constitution, or law under its au thority, to the contrary netwithstedhig.._ Sec. . And be it further emoted, That if by or under the authority of the constitui ion or law of may ttate,or the laws of may territory, any act M or shall be required to to done as a perquirito or qualification for voting, and by such constitution or law persons or officers are or shall beehar, od with the performance of duales in furnishing to citizens an opportunity to pgrform emelt perquisite and to become qualified to vote, it shall to the duty of such person and officer to give to all citizens of the United Mates the same and equal:opportunity to perform mach pa:Nadeite, and to come qualified to vote, without distinction of race, celor or previous condition of servitude: and if any such person or officer shall reform or knowingly omit to. give effect to this section, he shall, for every such offense, forfeit and pay the sum of five hundred dollars to the person aggrieved thereby, to be recovered on an Faction on the ooeo, with full costs and allowance for counsel feet an the court shall deem just, and shall also for every such offense to deemed guilty of at misdemeanor, and shall on conviction thereof be fined not less than five hundred dollars, or be imprisoned not less than ono month and not more than one year, or Loth, at the discretion of the court. And whereas, It is declared by the second section of the TI article of the Constitution of the United Stites, that "This Constitution, and the laws of the rn ited States which shall be made in pursuance thereof, shall be the supreme law of the lamd • anything in the thosti haion or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstand- And whereas, The Legislature of this Commonwealth, on the loth day of April, A. D. 1870, passed an act entitled "A further supplement to the act relating to the elections in this Commonwealth, the tenth section of which provides as follows : --r Bit . ;tt4 10. That so much of every act of Assembly 31: provides that only white freemen shall be entitled to rote or be registered as voters, or as claiming the vote at any generxd or special election of the Commonwealth, be and the same it hereby repealed; and that hereafter all free men, without distinction of color, shall be enrolled and registered according to the provisions of the first section of the act approved 17th of April, 1869, entitled "An act fur ther supplemental to the act relating to the elections of this Commonwealth," and when otherwise qualified under existing laws, be entitled to vote at all general and special elections in this Commonwealth." And whereas, It is my constitutional awl official duty to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed," and it luta tome to my knowledge that sundry assessors and reg isters of voter. have refused, and are refusing to assess and register divers colored male citizens of lawful age, and. otherwise qualifitsl no electors; Note, therefore, in consideration of the premises, the county commissioner. of said county am hereby notified and directed to instruct the several assessors and register. of voters therein to obey and conform to the requirements of mid constitutional amendment and laws; and the sheriff of said county is hereby authorized and required to publish in hie election proclamation for the next ensuing election the het ein recited constitutional amendment, act of congress, and act of the legislature, to the end that the MM. may be known, executed and obeyed by all assessor., registers etcetera, erection officers and others, and thatthe rights and privileges guaranteed thereby may be secured to all the citizens of thin commonwealth entitled to the tame. Isxml (been under my hand and the great real of the state at Harrisburg, the day and year fitlit above written. JNO. W. GEARY. Attest: F. JORDAN, Secretary Of the Commonwealth. The qualified electors will take notice of the ((Mowing act of Assembly, approved the 12th day of March, 1866: "An act regulating the mode of voting at all elections in the several counties In this commonwealth: SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the &Yid to and House of Re yresentativu of the Commonwealth of reansylvania in Genera/ Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the au thority of the same, That the qualified voters of the several counties of ibis commonwealth, at all general, township, borough and special election., are hereby hereafter author toed and required to vote, by tickets, printed or written or partly printed or partly written, severally classified a. follows : One ticket Omit embrace the names of all judge. of courts voted for, and to be labeled outside, "judiciary;" one ticket shall embrace the names of all state officers noted for, and be labeled, "state.," one ticket shall embrace the names of all officers voted for, including officer of we ldor, and member of Assembly, if voted fur, and be labeled, "county ;" one ticket shall enthuses the names of all town ship officers voted fur, and be labeled, "towrship ;" one ticket shall embrace the names of all borough officers vot ed for, and shall be labeled, "borough ;" and each class shall be pepeelted in separate ballot boxes. See. 2. That it shall be the duty of the sheriff of the several counties of this commonwealth to Insert in their election proelanuttion hereafter leaned the first section of this act. JAMES R. KELLEY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. DAVID FLEMING, Speaker of the Senate. Approved the thirteenth day of March, C. D. one then mud eight hundred and sixty-lax. A. G. CURTIN. Pursuant to the provisions contained in the 76th section of the act And aforesaid, the judges of the aforesaid dis tricts shall respectively take charge of the certificates of return of the elmtion of their respective districts and pro duce them at a meeting of one judge for each district at the Court House, in the Borough of Huntingdon, on the third dey after the election, being ON FRIDAY, 111 E 17th DAY OF OCTOBER, 1873, at 10 o'clock a. m., then and there perform the dutles required by law of said judges. Also, that where a judge ' by sicknese or unavoidable ac cident, is unable to attend the meeting of judges, then the certificate or return Shall be taken charge of by one of the inspectors or clerks of the election of the district, who !hall do and perform the duties required of mid judges un able to attend. The return judges for the counties of Huntingdon, Mif flin, Juniata and Centre are required to meet at the Court House in the County of Huntingdon on the eighteenth day of October, t.. D. 1073 for the parpoeeof adding tip the votes coot for Senator of the Commonu cal tit of Pennsylvania. Given under my hand, et my office In Huntingdon, thie sth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thoutond eight hundred and seventy-three,and In the nineytneventh year of the independence of the United ANON MUCK, Ellerin'. Siniurrl OPFICM, September 17, 1873. TEACHERS' EXAMINATIONS. The annual examinations of Teachers for the present school year will be held as follows Jackson, Wednesday, September 17, M'Alevey's Fort. Oneida, Thursday, September 19, Donation S. IL Henderson, Friday. September 19, Union S. 11. Mount Union, Monday, September 22, Mount Union. Mapleton, Tuesday, September 23, Mapleton. Brady, Wednesday, September 24, Mill Creek. Union, Thursday, September 25, Plne Grove S. IT. Caw and Otseville, Friday, September 24, Cassville. Tod, Saturday, September 27, Newberg. Walker, Tuesday, September to, M'Connellstown Juniata, Wednesday, October 1, Bell Crown S. 11. Penn, Thursday, October 2, Marklesburg. Hopewell, Friday, October 3, Coffee Run. Carbon, Coalmont and Broad Top City, Saturday, October 4, Dudley, Three Springs and Clay, Monday, October 6, Three Springs. Springfield, Tuesday, October 7, Maddensville. Orbisonia and Cromwell, Wednesday October 8, Orbisonia. Shirley and Shirleysburg, Thursday, October 9, Shirley'. burg. Shade Gap and Dublin, Saturday, October 11, Shade Gap. Tell, Monday, October 13, Bolingertown. Examinations will commence at 9 o'clock, a. ni. Teachers will not be admitted into the class unless pres ent at the opening of the examination. No certificate can be granted to an applicant found en tirely deficient in any of the branches named on the pre visional certificate. The examination on Theory of Teach ing and U.S. ilistory will be more rigid thanllatit year. Examination on Theory will be chiefly on School Economy. Teachers will bo examined where they are applicants for school., All persona expecting to teach must be examin ed at the public examinations. I will gram no permit', and will examine no one privately amass he brings a written request signed by at least three member of a board of Directors giving satisfactory reasons for hie non attendance at the public examination.. Directors should be present and select their t.tiebers on the day of exam ination. R. M. MCXE%L, County Superintendent. Aug.27,1872t. FOR ALL KINDS 01 PRINTING GO TO THE "JOURIL" BUILDING The Huntingdon Journal THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS Superintendent MeNeiPs Resort. In the remarks accompanying my sta tistical report, I shall aim to mention the improvements that haye been made in the schools of our county for the encour agement of those who have been instru mental in advancing the cause of common school education, and to call special at tention to existing evils that measurers may be taken for their corection. Although the school year that has just closed is the only one during which I have sustained an official relation to the schools of the county, my observation during this time and while teaching in the county; together with an examination of previous reports, qualifies me t 3 say that we are making progress. Teachers as a class make more effort to prepare themselves for their work and consequently are paid higher salaries than they formerly receiv ed; directors build better houses and fur nish them more suitably; the people take a more general interest in the education al questions of the day, and the schbols are attaining more satisfactory results than they did a few,ears ago. Whilethere is mach room for congrat ulation, there are many reforms to be wrought and changes to be effected be fore even approximate perfection is reach ed. Following strictly the spirit of the di rections given in the visitation book, I am able to report only five first class school houses. While only this number IA entitled to rank as first class houses, it is fair to state that we have a respectable number that may be considered, for the most part, good country school houses. Some are not suitably furnished; others are deficient in black-board surface, with out means of ventilation; have not suita ble sites, or lack some minor requirement. Mount Union has a very go6d house, but it is almost entirely without black-board surface. Thirty-nine houses are reported absolutely unfit for use, and many oth ers ought to be vacated,were the districts able Wreplace them by better ones. It is earnestly hoped that directors will erect new buildings, where they are need ed, as rapidly as the circumstances of the several districts will justify, until the thirty-nine worn out houses and the fifty or more indifferent ones shall have given place to edifices that will be ornaments to the communit'es in which they are lo cated, and testimonials of an advanced healthy school sentiment. Let suitable sites be selected and good houses built. Cheapness in school architecture is not economy. • . . A. cheap house is in the end a dear one. Were it possible to estimate the amount ormoney that has been wasted in this county during the last ten years in the erection of school buildings the sum would be surprisingly large. Not enough care has been exeipised or interest manifested by directors in secur ing the erection of good suitable school buildings. Many of our houses wear out with less than five years use, and while they do last, very imperfectly answer-the purpose for which they were erected. Frequently houses are put under contract as late as July or August, and required to be com- PleLed by the meningof the schools in the fall. The work mat necessarily be hurried and consequently is often slighted. The Plan is not adopted in accordance with improved methods of school architecture or with referrence to the comfort and convenience of teacher or pupils, but is mostly left to the choice of the contrac tor. When a house is to be built, directors should fix upon a suitable modern plan for its erection. The specifications should embrace everything that is necessary to a good, substantial, comfortable, conven ient house, and the contractor be requir ed to execute the work according to the strict letter of the plan and specifica tions. During the past.sehool year, eight new houses were built, one in Barree, one in Cromwell; one in Franklin; one in Penn; one in blifingfield; one in Tod; one in Walker; and one in Warriors Mark. The houses built in Cromwell,Springfield and Tod are wilier inferior ones, being poorly constructed, without ante-rooms or clothes rooms and not having necessa ry provisions for ventilation. Those built in Barree, Franklin and Warriors Mark are good houses, but, with the ex ception of the one in Warriors Mark, they are without proper means of ventila tion. Penn built a very good brick house, but I am sorry to report it without ves tibule, clothes rooms and any provision for ventilation, except the raising and lowering of the windows. With a very little greater cost it could have been made a first class house. The best house built during the year and the best country school house in the county—is the one erected in Walker.— It is a brick structure, thirty-two feet long, twenty-four feet wide nod fourteen feet from floor to ceiling; has a large ves tibule and clothes rooms; is provided with transoms in the ceiling and:overlthe door to ventilate the room, and lies one hun dred and twenty square feet of black board surface. Walker has yet two won► out houses that should give place to such buildings as the one described above, and knowning the spirit and enterprise of the people in the district,we feel safe in predicting that they will in the future erect none but first class houses. _ _ _ At least five of the houses built during the year should have been supplied with patent furniture. It would have been done at a cost very little exceeding what was paid by some districts for a home made article. We need better furniture than is found in a majority of the schools in our county and I trust that directors building in the future will supply their houses with good furniture, suitably adapted to the size of pupils. Of the one hundred and ninty two houses in the county, one hundred and fifty five are without suitable privy. The mere statement of this fact should be sufficient to insure the speedy correc tion of so great an evil. Directors and parents should propelly estimate the re sponsibility connected with this sad neg lect of duty. Something should be done at once to remove this degenerating and demoralizing influence to which so many of the children in our public schools are exposed by this failure to supply suitable out-buildings. Another crying demand is apparatus. One hundred and twenty-five (125) schools are without apparatus worth mentioning. • The arg — umetit that teachers do not' know how to use it, is unfortunately ap plicable in some cases, but it is not suffi cient to exclude it from so many of our schools. Teachers can not teach successfully without apparatus, and directors should supply their schools with the necessary apparatus and require teachers to take proper care of it. If a teacher through ignorance or negligence, makes no use of the apparatus placed in his hands, lie should at least be required to take care of it for a successor more worthy of the position, and, on his failure to do so, should be fined for such neglect of dutir. A teacher who allows his pupils to play foot-ball with "Perce's Magnetic Globe" should be discharged without delay. There are this year two hundred and nine schools in opgration in the county, twenty-one of which are graded. I have reported eleven graded schools needed; these are all needed in the villages and boroughs. In addition there should be a graded school in nearly every township in the county. It can not be questioned that properly graded schdols increase the efficiency of our system of public instruc tion, and hence this subject demands greater attention from directors and oth er interested in the success of the cause than it has previously received.— The graded schools already established need correction in at least one particular. The schools of Huntingdon borough are the only graded schools in the county subject to special supervision. The graded schools of a district should not be two, three or half a dozen separate and independent schools.; but one school embracing different departments. Where such schools are independent of one another without any general man agement, the pupils for the most part al lowed to exercise their choice in the se lection of the school they attend, and the teachers scarcely exchangin ,, friendly greetings, the result can not but be dis astrous to the interests of the schools.— The teacher selected for the higher de partment should be competent to take charge of and act as principal of all the schools. Ile in conjunction with the proper authorities, should do the grading prescribe the course of study for each de partment and should have general con trol over all of the schools. The most amicable relations should exist between him and his assistant teachers, with whom he should frequently and statedly confer concerning the condition of the schools and the means to be employed for their improvement. _ _ We may then look to our graded schools for more satisfactory results. _ _ _ The Bible is rend in one hundred and sixty-five schools; vocal music taught in seventeen, and higher branches in only eight. Singing is practiced as an inciden tal exercise in quite a large number of our schools. A great hindrance to the success of the schools in the county is the limited number of the studies pursued. Many of them Are without Geography, Grammar and U. S. History. Refusal to purchase the necessary text-books seems to be the cause. I have strongly urged teachers to give oral instructions in these branches when they could not by any means secure text-books. If these were done and teachers were successful in cultivating in the minds of their pu pils a taste for these studies the books would in most cases be purchased. Oral teaching should precede the text-book in nearly every branch of study in impart ing instruction to primary pupils. I held twenty-nine public examinations during the year; granted two hundred and fifty-eight provisional certificates, the average grade of wftich was 2.33. In the discharge of my official duties examining teachers, visiting schools &c. I traveled one thousand nine hundred and ninety one miles. In consequence of sickness about the opening of the school term, I lost two weeks that would other wise have been employed in visiting schools. .Allthe schools except seven, were vis ited once and some were visited twice. Six of those not visited, were, owing to different causes, not in, session when I visited the districts in which they are lo cated. It is impossible for the Supt. to visit the Schools of this county more than once during the year, or remain long at each school if ho wishes to reach them all while in session. It is claimed by many of those who have never taken the pains to make a calculation of the number of 'schools in the county, the extent of teri. tory to be traveled over in reaching them and the limited length of the school term that the Supt. ought to visit the schools three or four times and remain half a day at each visit. - His visits are necessarily too short to permit him to enter into an examination of the various classes in each school but this we do not understand to be the object for which he visits the schools. He should carefully observe the teach er's method of presenting the branches of study he teaches, notice his manner of unfolding and disciplining the minds of his pupils, ascertain his skill in organiz ing and controlling his school and learn as far as possible his practical ability as a teacher. If he only remains one hour, and is vigilant during that time, he can judge pretty correctly wherein a. teacher is successful or inefficient, and should in all cases give such advice and make such suggestions as in his judgement will prove enelicial to the school. The County Institute was held at Huntingdon during the last week of De cember. It was attended by a larger number of teachers than any previous one held in the county—a fact chiefly attrib uted to the recent act of Legislature com pelling dtrectors to grant teachers time and wages while - atkending the annual in stitute. The instructors anti lecturers were: Prof. J. W. Shoemaker , ' of Phila delphia, A. N. Raub, of Lock Haven and Deputy Supt. Henry Houck. The in struction imparted by those employed for that purpose, embraced subjects and top ics most needing attention, and was given in connected lessons, adapted to the ca pacities and practical wants of those re ceiving it. The teachers of the county took au active part in the exercises and added much to the interest and success of the institute. District Institutes were opened in six districts. They were emi nently successful where they were propei ly sustained and supported, and exercised a potent influence on the cause of educa tion, in the way of increasing the profes sional qualifications of teachers and cre ating a better public sentiment. The one in Porter held day and evening sessions and was well sustained, the evening ses sions especially were largely attended" by the public. In closing the present report, I desire to call special attention to the most prominent obstacle in the way of more rapid progress in our schools, and re spectfully suggest some plans for remov ing these hindrances. The first of these draw-hacks °I shall mention is irregularity of attendance. I venture the assertion that one fourth of the time and money devoted to school purposes are wasted because of the fail ure of parents to keep their children regularly in school. Why they are so criminally negligent concerning the wel: fare of their children, is as strange as it is true. In their business relations they are careful to get au equivalent for their money; why not show an equal interest in that paid for tte education of their children. As one of the means of reme dying this serious evil, we favor a change in the method 'of disbursing the State ap propriation fund. Were it apportioned according to the percentage of attend ance in each district, instead of the num ber of taxables, it would operate as an incentive to secure not only regular at tendance but to bring in children that are not sent to school at all. There are persons incapable of being influenced by any higher motives to send their children to school, who would do so, if it were so much money in their pockets. Besides there are other reasons which, if space permitted, we would give in favor of this method of distributing the State appro priation. But, with 'regular attendanc3 secured and all the preceeding suggestiOns carried out to the letter, many of our schools must remain failures until better qualifi ed teachers are secured. Unless the schools are supplied with competent teachers, the money expended for their support is wasted and the time of the children worse than squandered. We are from forcebof circumstances compell ed to grant certificates to some who are tot fit to teach. Some of our best teach ers every year go to the neighboring coun ties where they receive better wages, and we must fill our schools with what re• mains. The present mode of grading salaries offers every little inducement to teachers to make special preparation for their work. The careless indifferent "school keep er" is paid as much as the live, active, progressive teacher. A part of our teach ers, by attending school or by private study, every year add to their intellectual and professional• qualifications and be come more efficient workers in the pro fession. Others spend the summer vaca tion in idleness, lounging about country stores, making no effort to improve them selves and yet, if they manage to get a certificate at all, receive as much salary as if they had a first class certificate.— Then there are those in the profession who aro earnestly laboring for its eleva tion, they encourage and support teach ers institutes and cducational meetings; are in the van-guard leading public sen timent, and establish their titles to es teem and support by their personal worth. Opposed to them, and in a great meas ure paralyzing their efforts, is another class distinguished for their hostility to teachers institutes, their lack of profes sional zeal and their opposition to prog ress and advancement. No difference is recognized between these two classes of teachers by the salaries paid to. them.— Such a state of affairs ought not to exist. Until successful effort and professional zeal are properly rewarded, justice will not be done to the teachers nor the schools materially improved. Let directors pay teachers according to their qualifications and success in teaching, and in a short time we will have better qualified theachers and better schools. When teaching is esti mated at what it is worth, we will see more teachers advancing toward the front ranks of the profession. I sincerely trust that directors may be awakened to the importance and the justice of paying teachers in proportion to the work they do, and hereafter grade salaries according to the grade of certificate and success in teaching. Practical experience is worth much in teaching, but it is a fact that many in making their first attempt, achieve more satisfactory results than others do after having years of experience. The success of our young teachers will not come with out earnest effort which should in all cases be rewarded. I therefore suggest that when a teacher is employed who has never taught, or one whose experience is not known to the directors, a fixed and a conditional salary be agreed upon; the conditional to be paid at the end of the term, provided general satisfaction has been rendered. A reward will thus be offered for good teaching which can not but result in the improvement of the schools. Although an unfounded prej udice against female teachers still exist to a limited extent in some districts, I am glad to note that it is vanishing be fore the increasing light of knowledge.— Our female teachers are proving their worth wherever they have a fair oppor tunity. In a few districts the average salary of females, this year,tis higher than of males. We suffer from another injustice. While portion s of the county can build good school houses, keep their schools open six mouths and pay their teachers reasonably good salaries, there are many districts that are unable to build first class houses or even keep their schools open live months, by paying low salaries. We look hopefully to the time when the school tax shall be a state fund, and the poor districts placed on the same footing with the rich ones in regard to educa tional advantages. _ _ Thankful fur the kindness shown to me, and for the . promptness with which my official efforts during the past year were seconded, I trust that in the future I may have the hearty co-operation and support of teachers, school officers, pat rens and all interested in the cause of education. Let us labor unitedly and zealously for the elevation of the teachers profession, the improvement of the condition of our schools and the progress of popular edu cation, trusting that the dispenser of all good will crown our efforts with success. What is Thought of It. 31 APLETON, Sept. 12th, 1873. Mat. EDITOR a—Being prompted by a respect for justice in all things, and be lieving that truth is the only way to pros perity, is my reason for just now laying down the Globe and taking up the pen. I commenoed to read a comment headed "The Republican County Convention." As I have never voted anything but the Republican ticket in all my life, I thought I would like to read of Republican Con ventions, but I had not read half of that "hallowed" statement until I found that it contained falsehoods of the blackest grade. Now, Mr. Editor, Ido respect all honest ministers of the gospel and all true lovers of religion, and I can take sugar in tea or salt on potatoes, but Ido not approve of salt in tea nor sugar on potatoes, and per haps that is. why I do not approve of a lying preacher. Does some one say, "who is a liar ?" I say the man who writes that the members of that convention fully ex hibited the wishes and feelings of the Re publican party in Huntingdon county," when I know of at least one district named in that list called delegates in which there was no delegate election held and no dele gates elected, but on that list we see the names o? two persona living in the district referred to who may have been in Hun tingdon on that day, and they may have been in that "respectable looking convention," but if that is a sample of what he calls fully representingthe county, then we must admit that old things have passed away. We who composed the old Whig party, and successfully conducted the same in years gone by, are not to be blind-folded by any man who has lately come, or been driven, from some other county, and is no* trying, by means of his editorial pen, to work such wonders as in ducing old line Whigs to gather around him and sing, "Crown him Lord of all !" DEMO. Fire in Baltimore. BALTIMORE, September 10.—At half past two this morning an alarm of fire was sounded, and in a few minutes a volume of flame burst forth from the Hohday street theater, enveloping the building in a mass of fire. The flames passed out simultaneously from the roof and upper windows, and before the steamers got to work it was evident the theater would be destroyed. Blazing cinders were carried a 1 distance of five and six blocks, and many awnings on Baltimore and South streets were ignited, threatening a disastrous con flagation. In the meantime the flames from the theater had commnicated to the roof of the St. Nicholas Hotel', adjoining on the north, and to a large brick building on the south, and also to the factory of Frey, Walpert k Co., in the rear. ga• There were leas votes oast for dele gates to tho late "Potato Bug" affair than there were delegates in attendanw. NO. 38. Our Camp Meetings.--No. I. MR. EDITOR :—I. was at the Juniata Valley Camp Meetin. It was well attend ed. Camp meeting generally are. People go to camp meetin for different resins.— Some go to see the fokes there. Others go to be seen. Some go for a holiday ez curshun. Some go becoz they sell Incur shun tickets. Some go to seek the Lord. It is a mitt' poor place to go to seek the Lord. I don't think He often attends camp meetin. Canip meeting are of very anshtent ori jin. The first camp meetin of which we have any account wuz held in a big gar den. A fellow named Adam—l forget his other name—wuz the principel tent-holder. Him and hiz wife eat some apples that dident belong to them and they weer put out of that garden. They dident "tent on the old camp ground" any more much. When Noer preached to the Antegoln vians, it is not sertain whether he had a camp meetin or not. It is thot by good skollers that he had though. The peeple paid about az much attention to hiz sur mons then az they do now at camp meet ins. The time the Elebruse went away from Egypt they wur going out into the wilder n( SS to have a big camp meetin and a good time. Pharer dident beleeve in camp meetins, and it took a pktay lot of cocain to get him to agree to let them go. He knowed they woodent know how to behave themselves at camp meetin ; and he was right. They acted so badly out there that thq,y got leave to attend camp meetin for forty years, until they all took the con sumpshun and died from exposure., What wuz left of • their desendeuts was so well satisfied with camp,meetins that they dident want any more of them for several hundred years. Then ten tribes of them repaired to their tents for another grand camp meetin. It was their last one. They have never been hard from since. Of late, camp meetins are held different to whot they yused to be.. They get up a camp somewhot in this wise : A lot of men form a kumpany and get a charter. Then they are a corper.ahun. It is alwaze better to be a oorperashun becoz corpora. shuns have no soles, and they don't appear to be accountable to either God or man for anything they do. If a common man kills another they ar rest him, and put him in jail. Then they impannel a jury of men who can't reed nor rite, they bring up twenty or a hundred witnesses, and they declare the prisoner as the bar to be insane and not accountable for his ants. Then they let him go; and the county pays the costs. If a corpera shun kills a man, or a dozen men, it makes a good item for the newspapers, and there is nothing more said about it. On the whole it iz better to have corperashuns do the killing—becoz then the county don't have any costs to pay. When a lot of men get a charter for a camp meetin, they call themselves a "Camp Meeting Association." They f;11 stock at $25 a share. 'They bye a piece of land in a quiet, secluded place contiguous to a rail rode. On that land, in the woods, of course, they build board tents and they rent them out at so much a tent, with prayin, preachin and singin thrown in. iirniiCe a pier they hold a eamp meetin of ten days' jurashnn. Those dezirin to get snuff religin in ten days to last a hole yeer shood take take, four seets. They will get it. I was there. Tlie corperashun advertises their meetin beforehand ; and, rezonin that all fools are not ded yet, they know that there *ill be a grate many people there, But they don't have erangementz made to accommo date very many of them. And they re. quest the railrode cumpenny to not run any tranes on Sunday and to do just az little az it can to acoommodate the peeple who will be comin to that meetin. As a konsequence, many peeple who come there are put to grate inconvenience. They can sometimes hardly get ennff to eat; the tranes don't run so that they can get away at like; and they have no place to stay.— They sleep on the benches in the tabber nickel or walk through the woods the nite long, coiling down imprekashuns upon the peeple who brat them there, while the au them of their misery are trying to sweetly sleep and kamly rest in reserved tents. At reglar camp meetins they have a hording tent, resembling a horse stable, where you can get meals by paying for them. They have a grossery tent, where you can buy (wine and) milk—not with out price—and beef and such like. They have reglar hours for selling, at a time when preachin izzent in operaihun. It wood probebly be wicked to sell beef when there is preachin. There they have a store where they sell various &skies, watermellens, cigars, lem menade, cheese, bread, and allsuch things. They keep a resterant there too. Soma things are not priced according to quanti ty. The price is owing to how badly you need them. For instense, if you are hun gry and want a slice of bred you pay ten cents for it. If yon arrent so hungry and take the whole loafe you only pay ten cents for it Some artikles loose by cut ting up; and when a loaf. of bred most be cut into six or ate pieces they ott to be sold proporshunately higher. At this store they keep open and sell goods all day on Sunday. It wood be wicked to run cars on Sunday to take the peeple home—but then sellipg goods is a different matter. The grater the profits the bigger the dividends, and the more camp meetin stock will be worth. They are conshiensbus about one thing, however. They won't sell cigars on Sun day. On that holy day they take the supply of cigars to the office and lock them up. Bat the preachers can get cigars and smoke at any time on Sunday that they wish. Preechers are better than other people. I wanted to smoke on Sunday after supper. I went to the office and of fered any amount of money for a cigar.— They woodcut sell me won. Then I im plored them to give me won for nothing— on tick—any way at all. Half-a-duzen young preechers wuz Pettin around on camp-stoles smoking. Not one of them wuz man snuff to offer me a cigar. I wuz mad. If ever Igo to camp meetio agen I will be a preecher. SOLON SNAFFLE. wt. John Irwin, of Bellefonte, is the nominee of the Republican Senatorial con ference of the 22nd district, composed of Centre, Juniata, Mifflin and Huntingdon counties. He is not only entirely fitted by ability for the position, but is one of the most reliable men in the State, and a Re publican who has never unshed in the support of the measures and men of his par ty. He will poll a vote in Centre county which only the usual frauds of the Demos racy can prevent from being a majority of its legal voters.—State Journal.
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