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[feb.l,ll W. 3IATTERN, Attorney-at-Law J • and General Claim Agent, Huntingdon ' Pa., Soldiers' claims against the Government for back pay, bounty, widows' and invalid pensions attend ed to with great care and promptness. Office on Hill street. ben.4,11. S. GEESSINGER, Attorney-at- L• Law. Huntingdon, — Pa. Ofbeo owe door Eist of R. M. Speer's office. [Feb.s-ly J. HALT. 1Ir”EIL K. Act.r.x LOVF.L, L ovELL & M USSER, Attorner•et-Late, ilulmsoDON; PA. Speeis I attention given to COLLECTIONS of all kinds; to the settlement of ESTATES, &e.; and all other kgal basins.. prosecuted with fidelity and dispatch. jnor6,'72 Tto A. ORBISON, Attorney-at-Law, • Cace, 32t Hill street, Huntingdon, Pa. [may3l;ll. -WILLIAM A. FLEMING, Attorney at-Law, Huntingdon, Pa. Special attention given to oolleotions, and all other legal business attended to with care and promptness. Office, No. 229, llill street. [apl9;7l. Hotels JACKSON HOUSE. POUR DOORS EAST OF TEE UNION DEPOT, HUNTINGDON, PA. A. B. ZEIGLER, Prop. 13-Gut, Nucl2, MORRISON HOUSE, OPPOSITR PENNSYLVANIA R. R. DEPOT HUNTINGDON, PA J. R. CLOVER, Prop. April 6, 1871- y Miscellaneous, 111 T ROBLEY, Merchant Tailor, in A-A-• Leister's Building (second door,) ifunting don, Pa., respectfully solicits a share of public patronage from town and country. [0018,72. 1 - 4 A. BECK, Fashionable Barber -1-111 , • and nairdresser, Hill street, opposite the Franklin House. All kind; of Tonics and Pomade. kept oa hospiand for sole. rapl9,'7l—fan HOFFMAN & SKEESE, Manufacturers .f all kinds of CHAIRS, and dealers in PARLOR and KITCHEN FURNI TURE, corner of Fifth and Washington streets, Huntingd.n. Pa. All articles will he sold cheap' Particular and prompt attention given to repair ing. A share of puhlie patronage is respentfully Lian.ls,*73y WM. WILLIAMS, MANUFACTURER OF MARBLE MANTLES, MONUMENTS. HEADSTONES. &C.. HUNTINGDON, PA STER PARIS CORNICES, MOULDINGS. &C ALSO SLATE MANTLES FURNISHED TO ORDER. Jan. 4, .71 rtoTO THE JOURNAL OFFICE rnr .411 t,rinting, 101 OR ALL KINDS OF PRINTING, GO TO Al • THE JOURNAL OFFICE I he untin,(Ydon ournal. , New Advertisements. `U MUFF'S SALES. k 3 By virtue of sundry writs an. Fa. Vend. Exp. and Low. Fa. to me directed, I will expose to pub lic sale at the Court House, in Huntingdon, on MONDAY, April 13. 1871, at 1 o'clock, p. m., tho following described real estate, to wit J. A. NASH, All of defendant's right, title+ and in terest in all that certain messuage and tract of land situate in West township, Huntingdon coun ty. State of Pennsylvania, adjoin inglands of Win. Stewart and Dorsey's heirs on tun west, lands of John and Michael Ware on the south, and land, of Wm }teed on the east, containing 102 acres and percheS, having thereon erected a two story dwelling house, frame barn, and other outbuild ings. ALSO, All of defendant's right, title and inter est, ia a certain tract of land in Jackson township, county of Iluntingdon, and State of Pennsylva nia, bounded on the east by land of George W. Johnston, on the north by land of James Fleming, on theaotals-by land of Greenwood Furnace Com pany, containing ICO acres, more or less. Seised, taken in execution;-and to be sold as the property of George Warfel. Al.o—Allthat certain two story frame dwelling house, with a basement story, being about twenty-five feet in front by nineteen feet in depth, b.cateil on a lot or piece of ground in the village of MeConnellstown, Walker township, in the county of Huntingdon, on the west side of the • puolic road leading from Huntingdon to Bedford, adjoining lot or Jonas Buclovalter on the north. and a sixteen foot alley on the stealth and west, to gether with the ground covered with said build ing, and so mush other ground immediately ad jacent thereto and belonging to the at ore named Daniel Megahan as may be necessary for the or dinary and useful purposes of the , ame. " ' Seized, taken in'eseeution, and to be sold ns the propeti ... of Dnnel Megohnn. ' " ' •• ' -'-` ALSO—AII. of defendant's ribla, title and linen,: in all that certain tra,t of land situ ate in the township of Spring& ld, county of Huntingdon, Pa., bounded ns follows: on the south nud rant by lands of Eli,ha Green's heirs, on the south west by lands of Wm. 11. Looth, on the north west by lands of John Star's heir's, on the north by lands of Caleb Brown and Benjamin Ramsey, ot, the east by lands of llenry C. Cromer, containing 198 acres, more or less, having thereon erected a small frame barn, two dwelling houses, ono and a half stories each. Seized, taken in eNocution, and to be sold as the property of Samuel 11. Anderson. ALSO—AII of defendants' right, title and interest in a certain tract of land situate in Henderson township. Iluntibg.don county, Pa., hounded as follows: On the north by lands of Jo seph Trymer, on the south by lands of Clarence Trytuer, on the east by lands of William Rupert, en the west by latndr of - Shooter, containing GO acres, more or less, baring thereon erected a two story log dwellink house and a log stable. . . J. A. BAILEY Seized, taken in execution. and to be sold as the property of Jaeul? Shorrelt and George Jackson. . • ALSO—AII of defendant's right, title and interest in all that certain lot of ground &jai ate in that Tart of the borough of Huntingdon known no West Huntingdor, at tho south-west corner of Fifteenth and Mifflin streets, fronting fifty feet on said Mifflin street, and extending back at right angles to &ono 150 fret to a fifteen feet alley. ALSO—AII of defendant's right, title and interest in all that certain lot of ' .round situate in the western part of the boroughof Huntingdon, at the south-west corner of fifteenth and Moore streets, fronting fifty feet on said Moore street, and extending 4Jack at right tingles to same 150 feet to a fifteen-feet alley. Seized, taken in exeeition, and to be sold as the property of Jacob Stahley,. • •n"'• • • • ' ALSO—AII of defendant's right, tide and interest in nit that certain lot or piece of ground situate in West township. Huntingdon Ca., Pa.,-bounded as follows: on the north by the pub lic read leading to Warrior Ridge from the main road running from Petersburg up Sharer's Creek Valley. on the east and south by lands of John Rung. on the wort by the public road running from Petersburg up Shaver's Creek Valley, con taining about one acre, brtoin.• ' thereon erected a three story building about 30 by 20 feet, with a kitchen attached, nod th. , curtilage appurtenant thereto. Seized, taken in execution, and to be sold as the property of Henry Rudy. ALSO—AII of defendant's right, title and interest in a certain lot of ground situate in the borough of Petersburg, Huntingdon county, Pa.. bounded and described as follows: On the west by Washington strtet. on the south by an allex, on the east by King street and on the north by lot now or formerly owned by Henry Grazier: said lot being No. 61 in the plan of fetid borough, end haring thereon erected a frame or log. house and other outbuildings, . . Seined, taken in eieoution, and to he sold as the property of Jacob Bruner. ALSO—AII of derentlant'a right. title and interest in all that certain messungc and tract of land. s'tnate in the township of Penn. county of Huntingdon, Pa., bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a post thence by land of Isaac Peightal N. 41 degrees E. 69 perches to a stone heap: thence land of Joseph Norris, N. 63 degrees W 41 perches to a post; 'hence by land of It. 0. W. Wall, N. 49 degrees W. 631 perches to a post : thence by land of John Lee, S. SC do ewes W. 46 perches to a post ; thence by lands of Samuel Harris' heirs S. ns degrees E. 122 i perehes to the place of beginning, enntnining 40 acres and 73 perches net measure, having thereon erected a one and a half story log dwelling house and a log stable. Seised, token in execution, and to be sold as the property of Israel Merkel. ALSO—AII of defendant's right, title and interest in a certain tract of land situate in the township of Cass, county of Huntingdon. Pa., bounded as follows: on the east by land of Solo mon Mirely, on the west by land of John Steelier, on the forth by land of Jesse D. Shore and on 'the Awl by land of Benjamin Everett, contain ing; 113 acres. more or loss, having thereon erected a two story dwelling bootie, a log barn and other out buildings. Seised, taken in execution, and to be Aid as the property of Joseph Ilarbangh. ALSO—AII the defendanth' right, title and interest in 251 acres of land in Clay town ship, adjoining land of Samuel Bowser on the west. Benjamin Shrpe on the east. M. J. Ashman on the south, and David Storer on the north, with a large dwelling house, large barn and other out buildings. Seized, tniten in execution. and to he sold PP the Property of Satunel L. Glasgow and Harriet N. Glar7ow. _VII" Madura will take notice that 20 per cent. of the purchase money must be paid when the pro perty is knocked down, or it will beput up again for eats. AMON POUCH, Sheriff's Office. j [Sheriff. Huntingdon, Mch. 25, '74. j TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED. Take notioe that John S. Nimmon and A. A. Skinner, Assignees of William P. Ramsey, of the towngbip of Dublin, hare filled in the office of the Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Huntingdon county. their amount as Assignees aforesaid which will bo preiented to the said Court on the second Monday of April next, for confirma tion and allowance, and will be sr/confirmed and allowed unle , s ,xceptions to filed thereto. MarehlB,74, MO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED. Take notice, that Robert Cunningbam.com mittee of John B. Tnssey. a lunatic, late of Porter township, deceased, has lits 4 in the office of Pro thonotary of theCoart of Common Pleas of Hun. tingdon County. his account as committee afore said which will be presented to the second Mon day of April next, for confirmation 3nd allowance, and will be so confirmed and allowed unless ex ceptions be tiled thereto. T. W. DITTON, Mardi 18;71 Prothontory. TRIAL LIST FOIL A PRIL TERM 1874 FIRST WEEK. Lowell Shuroway who bath eurvired W. A.:I L. aumway, partner lately trading as W. A. & L. Shumway vs. James Dunn. SECOND WEER. Harriet C. Reese by her father Dr. J. A. Shade so. C. A. Reese Mary J. Mitchell's use vs. William McClure Henry omMus for use of Robert A. Laird vit. The Township of Por ter and the Borough of Alexandria. T. W. AfTTON, March 16;1 I. Prothonotary, NOT IC N DIVORCE. ROBERT PALMER,I In the Court of Common Pleas of Huntin g don Coun t, ty. January Term, 1874. MARTHA PALMER No. 27. Diverts. To Martha Palmer, respondent above named. Yon are hereby required to appear before our Judges at Huntingdon, at a Court of Common Pleas, there to be held on the second Monday of April next, to chow cause why a divorce from the bond of matrimony, as prayed in the libel filed, should not be decreed in the suit. It has been impossible to serve you with the above notice personally, by reason of your absence from the jurisdiction of the Court. MarchlB-4t I ?Air Mall:34lm Courtship Aft Oil iili o. A STORY FOR WIVES. "Now this is what I call comfort," said Madge Harley, as she sat down by her neighbor's fire one evening; "here you are at your sewing, with the kettle steaming on the hob, and the tea.things on the table, expecting every minute to hear your hus band's step, and see his kin 3 face look in at the door. Ah ! if my husband was but like yours, Janet." 'be is like mine in many of his ways," said Janet, with a smile. "and if you will allow me to speak plainly, he would be still more like him if you took more pains to make bim comfortable." "What do you mean ?" cried Madge ; "our house is Its clean as yours ; I mend my husband's Clothes, and cook his dinner as carefully as any woman in the parish, and yet. he never stays at home of an even ing, while you sit here by your cheerful fire night after night as happy as can be." "As happy as can be en earth. - aid her friend, gravely; "yes and shah I tell you the secret of it, Madge?" "I wish you would," said Madge with a deep sigh ; 'it's misery to live as I do now." "Well, then," said Janet speaking slow ly and distinctly, "I let my husband see that I love him still. and that I learn ev ery day to love him more. Love is the chain that binds him to his home. The world may call it folly, but the world is not my lawgiver." "And do you really think," exclaimed Madge in surprise, "that husbands care fur that sort of thing ?" - . "For lore, do —, Fou mean ?" asked Janet , . "Ycs ; they don't feel at all as we do, Janet, and it don't take many years of married life to make theM thiak. of a wife as a maid-of-all work." "•A libel, Madge," said Mrs. Matson, laughing; °•I won't allow you to sit in Williani's chair and talk so." "No, because your husband is different, and values his wife's love, while John cares for me only as his housekeeper." "I don't think that," said Janet, "al though I know that he said to my husband the other day that courting time was the happiest of a man's life. William reminded him that there is a greater happiness than that, even on earth, if' men but give their . heart's to Christ. I know that John did not alter his opinion, but he went away still thinking of his courting time as of a joy too great to be exceeded." "Dear fellow," cried Nudge, smiling through her tears, "I do believe he was very happy then. I remember I used to listen for his steps as I sat with my dear mother by the fire longing for the happi ness of seeing h'in." "Just so," said Janet ;" do you ever feel like that now 7" Madge hesitated. "Well, no, not ex actly." "And why not ?" "0, I don't know," said Madee, "mar ried peaple give up that sort of thing." "I:ove, do son mean ?" asked Jauet. "No. but what people call being senti mental," said Mrs. Harley. "Lenging,to see your husband a pro per sentiment," replied Janet. 'But some people are ridiculously foolish before others," reasoned Madge. "That proves they want sense. lam not likely to approve of that, as William would son tell you; all I want is that wives should let their husbands know they are still loved." "But men are so vain," said Madge, "that it is dangerous to show them much attention." Her friend looked up, "0, Madge, what are you saying ? Haveyon, then, married with the notion that it is not good for Jchn to believo you love him ?" .No, but it is not wise to show that you care too much fur them." "Say me and him ; do not talk of bus. bands in general, but of yours in partic• ular." "He thinks quite enough of himself al ready, I assure you." 'Tear ~ 11adge," said Janet, smiling, "would it do you any harm to receive a little more attention front your husband." ! of course not. I wish he'd try," and Mrs. Harley laughed at the idea. "Then you don't think enough of your self already ? and nothing would make you vair, I stippise?" Madge colored, and all the more when slap perceived that William Matson had come in quietly, and was now standing be hind Janet's chair. This, of course, put an end to the conversation. Mad ;e retired to her own home to think ofJanet's words. and to confess secretly that they were wise Hours passed before John Harley re turned home. He was man of good abil ities, and well to do in the world; and having married Madge because he truly loved her, he had expected to have a hap. py home. But partly because he was re served and sensitive, and partly because Madge feared remake him vain, they had grown cold toward each other, so cold that John began to think the ale house a more comfortable place than his own fireside. That night the rain fell in torrents, the winds howled, and it was not until the midnight hour had arrived that Harley left the public house and hastened toward his cottage. He was wet . through when he at length crossed the thresLold, he was, as he gruffly muttered, "used tp that;" but he was not "used" to the lone and look with which his wife drew near to wel come him, nor to find warm clothes by a crackling fire, and dippers on the hearth ; nor to hear no reproachful- late hours, and neglect, aid dirty footmarks, as he sat in his arm-chair. 1.-lome change had come to Madge he was very sure. She wore a dress ho had bought her years ago, with a neat. linen collar round the neck, and had a cap, trimmed with white ribbons on her head. T. W. MYTON, Prothonotary. 'You're smart. Madge," he exclaimed' at last, when he had stared at her for some little time iu eilence. "Who has been here worth dressing for, to-night ?" "No one until you came," said Madge ; half laughing. "1? Nonsense; you didn't dress for me 1" cried John. "You won't believe it, perhaps, but I did. I have been talking with Dirs. Mat son this evening, and she has given me some very good advice. So now, John, what would you like for your supper ?" "John," who was wont to steal to the shelf at night and content himself with anything he emld find, thought Madge's offer too excellent to be refused and very soon a large howl of chocolate was steam ing on the table. Then his wife sat down, for a wonder, by his side, and talked a little, and listened, ana,..looked, pleased, AMON HOUCK, Sheriff. HUNTINGDON, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1874 when at last, as jibe could not help it, he said, "Dear old Madge!" That was enough ; her elbow somehow found its way then to the arm of his great chair, and she sat quietly looking at the fire. After a while John spoke again: "Madge, dear, do you remember the old days when we used to sit. side by side in your mother's kitchen 9" "Yes." "•I was a young man then, Madge, and, as they told me, handsome; now I ant growing older, plainer, duller. Then you —you loved me; do you love me still ?' She looked up in his face, and her eyes answered him. It was like going back to the old days to feel his arm around her as her heactlay on his shoulder, and to hear once again the kind words meant for her ear alone. She never once asked if this would make him "vain ;" she knew, as if by instinct, that it was making him a wise, a more thoughtful, more earnest hearted man.— And when after a happy silence, he took down the Bible, and read a chapter, as he had been wont to read to her mother in former times, she bowed her head and prayed. Yes prayed-for pardon, through the blood ofJesus. Christ—for the strength to fulfil every duty in the future—for the all-powerful influence of the Spirit, for blessings on her husband evermore. She prayed—and net in veins for the Argument of S. T. Brown, Esq., .Before the Joint Committee of Investiga tion, on the (Jasscille Soldiers' Orphan School, in the Senate Chamber, Barris burg, Minh 19th, 1874. Mr. Chairntan and Gentlemen of the C'oinntittee :—lt was assigned to me to speak in reply to such argumeatsas should be produced on the part Sif the defendant here, and my being called at this time is owing to an arrangement entered into just at the commencement of the argument of Mr. Doty, the counsel for the defense insisting that we shall occupy a full hour and a half of our time before they were called on to reply. This being the case, of course I have made no preparation. to speak in chief, and shall occupy a portion of the time left us by referring to a few points of the testimony which have been very cur sorily glanced at by my colleague. Be fore doing so, however, I would just re mark that the testimony of the prosecution in this ease is not that of one or two wit nesses, but of many. It is true that the main witnesses are five in' number, three females and two males. The females have all been named here by Mr. Doty. They are Miss Hancuff, Miss Pope and Miss Ildrelay, now Mrs. Funk. The two boys were Alfred Hancuff, and John R. Strick• land. The first three were girls who tes tify to the criminal acts attempted on themselves. The two boys testify to crimes, so shameful to huinanity that they ought to be unmentionable in their details, of which they also had personal knowledge, because perpetrated on themselves. But before retbrring to the details of these charges, or the answers made to them, I will read en extract or two from the testi mony of Miss Haneuff. Mr. Doty refer red, at some length, to the testimony of Miss Hancuff in relation to the first out rage attempted,—that which occurred in the room or office of A. L. Guss, when she was between the age of 13 and 14 years, but merely hinted at two er three other insults, of equal or greater aggravation. After detailing the insults referred to by Mr. Doty, as occurring in the room, she is asked the question, "Did he ever do anything, on any other occasion, and if so when and how long after that ?" Answer— "l presume it was a year or more after ; it was not more than two years at the far thest, when I remaihed there during vaca tion, before I was 16, the last vacation I spent there ; he, met me in the hall. and asked me to take a walk to the spring. I inquired who was to go along—a little sus picious, you will observe, of her preceptor and teacher—he allowed, 'we will do. I remarked I would rather have some more to go along. * (Here follow several ex tracts from the testimony, which, though proper for the Committee, who were to pass upon'it, yet it- is of such an obscene character as to be unfit for publication, and we omit Next day when I went to his office for a hammer to nail my trunk, be got it and handed it to me, and as I turned to leave the room, ho said. 'Llok here, Kate, you will not tell what has happened between you and me, and if I can do you a good turn I'll do it; but never tell your friends about what has happened." Now, gentlemen, Guss has undertaken to give an account of this occurrence him self: He was called to the stand, and re lated his long, tedious story. You will remember that after having taken the stand as a witness, he finally came down to this point in the case, and denied that he ever had any criminal intimacy with any of these girls, and never did anything improper, except on one occasion he did put his arm around Kate Hancuff and kissed her. lie says he was in his office, sitting on the table, and she came in, and be got down and put hisatrms around her and kissed her ! That was a scene worthy of a painter—a scene that ought to be de picted by a Reuben o: a Hogarth ! Ima gine to yourselves this clergyman (!) sitting in his office, in the deepening twilight, and and Miss Hance, a well developed young girl of sixteen, enters the office; the door closes with a spring lock behind her. •There she stands, in the presence of this man, who is meditatiag a sermon, perhaps, or perhaps upon that lecture on Solomon's Temple; upon the felicity of that great Prince who had built the temple, and who had three hundred wives and seven hon. .dred concubines; hot he deliberately gets down off the table, places his arm around the young girl, presses her to his bosom and kisses her. That was all according to to his statement. But do you believe it, 'gentlemen ? A man like that, with a face that alone would justify a prosecution for adultery and incest every day in the week!. If that was all, gentlemen of the Commit tee, it was only because he was repelled by the stern virtue of this girl of sixteen. I believe I have occupied the balance of the one and a half hours. THE CHAIRMAN :—You have six min utes yet. Nit. BROWN :-But this is a small part ofthe testimony and cross-examination. The most searching and the most insulting questions were put to her. It was well for the Committee to give the defendant and his counsel all the latitude they wanted for their defense, but I say they put questions which were an insult to. •then• own man hood, and all in the attempt to torture her into some contradiction tlrt they might take 'advantage of. But did they do it? say they utterly tailed, in ill this hour and a half of cross-examination, commen cing their questions with the time when she come to the school, a child of eleven years of age. She innocently remarked that before she come to the school she knew nothing about such things, and had never heard of them. But I tell you, gentlemen, that when a young girl got. into that school, it was not long until she learned something about them, either from the teacher or the general report current among the employees or boys; and I say that is one of the most damaging features of the evidence—that the children talked about these things—that the boys and girls talked about them—the boys had their suspicions, and the girls knew they were true. Time up. Woods follows. Adjourned till if r. m EVENING SESSION. Petriken opens. BROWN : Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Committee:—The cane of the prose cution having been , presented by my col league, Mr. Doty, and the testimony hav ing been commented on to some extent, it now becomes my duty to answer, as tin. as I can, in the liniited time left. me, the ar guments presented on the part of the de fense. The nature of this duty precludes. of course, that preparation which would enable me to make an orderly and metho dical presentation of the ease, and I trust I shall be indulged if somewhat wandering in my remarks. The review of my col league, happily relieves me from many of the loathsome details of this evidence. 'I am glad it is so, Lecause he has done it well, and because it is unpleasant for me to dwell upon such disgusting details. I would have been content to close this case when the testimony closed, without a word of argument—content even to have per mitted them to go on and break the force. and explain away these terrible charges if they cuted. But they insisted on their right to be heard ; it was granted, and it has imposed on us the duty of replying. We have assumed that duty, and are here to discharge it to the best of our ability. What is nature of the defense set up here ? If I understand rightly their arguments, the defense consists 'tithe first place, of the allegation that these witnesses for the prosecution are of bad character, and have sworn falsely. Second, They say that the charges were made fsr politi cal purposes. Third.—That Guss himself has denied them, and Fourth. That Guts is a man of good character, and that every body says so about Cassville. Under these four beads are included all the arguments and the positions they have taken. The first two relate to the witnesses for the Prosecution ; the other two to the testimo ny of the defendant. They say, in the first place, that these girls and boys who have testified to these damaging facts against Prof. Guts, are of had character and ought not to be believed. They can e& a number of employees of the school, over about Cassville, who said they knew these girls when at school, and some said their characters were not very good, and others that they were bad, and so it went. Now, gentlemen, I want you to remem ber this one thing about the testimony to character, and it is this : they undertook to break down the testimony of these girls before you by evidence relating to their history and character five or six years ago. I believe all these three girls, Hanna, Barclay, and Pope, are now between 19 and 20 years of age. They went s back to the period when they were in the school, and from 14 to 16 years of age, to show what they then were, and I say they did not succeed in shaking the testimony of these girls by any evidence offered on this point. It is not a question of inquiry here whether these girls, when children at school, always told the strict truth ; wheth er they were good, pious littlegirls ; and it is well, perhaps, if they were not, because very good children always die young. That is not the question ; but I say, if it were ths question, they did not show that they were liars then. Is it to be supposed ;hat because children will tell fibs in school that they are never to be believed under oath. afterwards ? When is the dis ability to be removed if not in five or six years ? Suppose it could have been proved that Mr. Woods or Mr. Potrekin was in the habit of telling lies when at I have no doubt it could have been proved by that oligarchy at Cassville School,—why everybody knows that either of these gentlemen would ha throws into spasms at the idea of telling . "' falsehood maw, when they have grown to be men. The question is whether at the time these girls took the book and swore to tell the truth, the whole'truth, and uothingbut the truth, they were then of such 'croutons character that you are not to believe theta under oath. Now, it seems to me, it comes down to that, and that is the point in the case. If you believe these girls and their' statements, can you hesitate for a moment in declaring that this is northe man to train up and guide, and control the chil dren of our fallen Soldiers ? I sty the main question is, are these witnesses worthy of belief? If these witnesses are not to be believed who can be believed ? What is the nature of the testimony they adduced to break them down ? When we asked them the question, why of bad char acter? "Oh" they said, 'ohey told'stories on the school." What stories "Oh they raised stories on Prof. Gass," a num• her of them said this, and I believe some of them said on Mr. Weidman. You 'heard Weiduaatt's statement and know all about it. But, they said they had raised stories on Guts. That is begging the question. and I tell you, gentlemen, that is where all the trouble arose. Away back five or six years ago, these stories were atleat, and as soon as they got afloat and ,from that day down to this hour, there has beet' a systematic effort to break down the character of these children, as they then were, and young ladies, as they now are•. Front that very day it seems to have been the object of this man to break them down, by a systematic and persistent effort. But the question now is, have they sue ceeded ? Thesestories were afloat. How -did they get afloat ? Every one of these three girls told her isother. Miss Hancuff wrote to her mother, and Miss Pope, as soon as she got,,iuside of her mother's door related to her the story of outrage and in sult. They say she cause back to Hunting don with Guss after the alleged injury. She said on the stand that she had no money to bring her home. Guts had taken her there, and she had not the com mand of wagons and teams to come and go when it-pleased her, nor the means-to pay her bills at Cassville. Necessity knows tie law, and she was compelled to return holm the best way she could. When they ask why Mrs. Hancuff permitted 'her child to remain there, why send the other younger children there, we give the same answer; she was not able to support them, That she e senten e l ha thems exhausted t a ter erp and ow l e er fs , is the reason the State supports then), and t the r n r n r e s . and the guardian exhausted all his power to get this girl away and they failed. When these children get into Guss hands he keeps his clutches on them. Did they break down these witnesses ? When I want to get to the very bottom or an affair and want to know what the God's truth is. I waist to see the witnesses on the stand, and hear them tell their story ; to have them submitted toa cross examination I want to understand the motives that in flueuce them in givitys ' their testimony, and I would rather have that than the gossip of ten thousand of the Gusses and Riendlaubs concerning their character. I want to hear them .as you heard them. Did they not sustain themselves ? Talk about these trifling contradictions in de tail. It strengthens their story, and shows that there is no concert between them. These four or five witnesses, living in dif ferent counties, not acquainted, and per haps never having spoken together since these things took place, and yet testify to facts of the same nature, within their own knowledge, uncontradieted, except so far as they have undertaken to contradict them by evidence against thei? characters. What were the motives to induce these girls to tell these stories ? It is a rule of evidence and of common sense that men and women do not perjure themselves with out a motive. It is natural to speak the truth. It is doing violence to our natures to lie, and nobody tells a lie, especially un der oath, unless there is sonic strong court tehailing motive. What motive had these girls in coming here and relating these stories falsely ? The motive was all on the other side. Their motive would rath er be to conceal. What motive .had they to tell these things which they could not tell without bringing more or less of stig ma on their own characters? And it was no small load of infamy they took on them selves to have their names associated with this man, one which would go down to the latest hour of their lives. But I say that they are corroborated here by numberless circumstances, and by the conduct of A. L. Guss himself. Why did ho send these persons to see this lady. Miss Hancuff? Why did Harper Snyder go to her and try to persuade her to be silent, and why did the sister-in iaw write a letter to her. on the same subject, couched in beautiful but artful language though it be ? Do you thick, if these three girls had gone on the stand and given evidence favorable to Guss, that they would not have been pa raded there as paragons of excellence, an gels of purity and truth? If these girls had come to the stand and told their stories and gone away, and yet. bad heard noth ing more and seen nothing more of them, you might have doubted whether it was in human nature to commit such acts,— whether any man could be so depraved; but they have undertalen to attack their characters, and I leave it to you whether we did not sustain them. You heard the evidence for and against:4ll6r characters. and I leave it to you, in the discharge of your solemn duty, to say ou whibh side it preponderatei. I say that their testimony is more worthy of belief this hour, than if there had not been a word of testimony of with regard to their credibility. I believe they did not undertake to break down the two boys, Hancuff and Strick land. What about them ? Mr. Petrekin talked about them in a very low tone. and a very modest way, but gentlemen, there that testimony stands, and so does the tes timony of these girls, yea, and there it will stand, until the clay when the Great Judge of all, to whom they appealed for the truth of what they were about to declare, shall pass upon it. Did they even attempt to break down the character of these boys ? Let U 3 see what they did do. In regard to Strickland, they brought a Miss Some b,cly from Howard, who said John Strick laei! was a loafer. • How did she know it? She lived three miles out in the country, and lie in the village, and she had seen him loafing about the railroad station. If he, living As the village, became a loafer thus, how many times must she have come in, three miles to loaf there to find it out? That was very hefty testimony. It is a rule among lawyers that when an attempt is made to break down a witness and fails, it injures the case of the party who at tempts it ; and I think the attempt to break down John Strickland:s evidence in that way was a failure. I will now take upthesecood point, that this is a poStical prosecution, as this per. scented saint would have it. Now;gentle men, that utast mean sometl i ig. It must mean that these witnesses for the prosecu tion testify to these things falsely, for political purposes, or else it means that being true somebody has induced them to .reveal them for political purposes. Their argument is a little obscure, but it must mean cue or the other. Where is the evidence that these young ladies made these statements for political purposes? What political purpose had Kate llancuff,—a young lady living in Blair county ? I do not know that the political fame of Prof. Guss extends up there, and besides she was not a voter. And Lousia Pope, pray what political purpose had she tosubserve She lives in Huutingdon, the present headquarters of the Professor, but she was not a voter, and I doubt whether she knows what political party she belongs to, and Mrs. Funk, or Strickland, or the Han cuff boy,—what political purpose had they to subserve that would induce them to perjure their souls against this man Guss? Why, it is too absurd to talk about. Mc- Eldowney is the only voter in the crowd, and what political purpose had he to sub serve. I never knew while the testimony was being taken, what his polities were, but I accidentally learned by a gentleman of good standing in 'the Democratic party last week, that he was a Democrat, and Mr. Petrekin says this is not a fight in their party, but in ours. What political purpose then lied any of theac six witness es to subserve The other branch id' the argument, then, is that somebody has induced these - wit. nesses to reveal these facts for political purposes. If they mean to insinuate that I or any of these gentlemen associated with me ever breathed a wish or desire that any witness that appeared on the stand, was there for any other purpose than to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. I hurl back with contempt the in-inuation. It is not in the case, and there is no evidence of it. I'll tell you, gentlemen, what this argument means. It is that if Gen. Beath and Mr. Vanderslice, and the citizens of Huntington county, and you, gentlemen of the Committee, had not stood by these young girls, and slid to them, "stand up and tell all you know, and we will protect you from the rage and malice of this man," that they would have been able to smother this damning testi mony, and God knows, perhaps they could have done it. What were these orphan children against this man, and his array of counsel, and his backers about Cassville? They were powerless. That. is what is in the argument. gentlemen, if it means any thing at all. I was glad to hear the coun sel on the other side argue the case in that way, these constant allusions to Senator Scott and the political purposes, and all that, and I hope you will not be surprised at Mr. Woods, as he has had John Scott on the brain for several years. It is a kind of harmless lunacy, and the people of Hun tingdon county are not much affected by it. What was there in the evidence to show that Senator Scott had taken any part in this prosecution one way or the other ? If there is anything, I can't re member it; but if such evidence had been in existence, would it not, after the spirit displayed here, have been dragged into the case. The whole amount of it is this, that these stories were afloat for years, that these girls had made these statements, but the whole three had told their mothers about it. They had gone just where nature di rects when the the child is injured. A son will generally go to the father, but naturally they go to the mother, but, by God's providence, these children had ua friend but the mother to go to, and they went and told their wrongs there, and from that day to this hour these stories were afloat. They toll them to their mothers, the mothers had spoken to their friends on the subject, and they thus be came spread over the county, and they knew it. Every one of these mothers had written to him, and charged him with it. He knew they were afloat, and the source of them, and he knew that there was noth ing political in them. Now. what induced them to argue this way I do not know, or what private griefs the gentlemen have I know not, and care not; but I was glad they undertook to argue the case on that foundation, not be cause it was the proper thing to say, but when an attorney undertakes to talk to in telligent men as if they were fools, he is invariably set down at the estimate he pla ces on the intelligence of those who hear him. I was glad they argued it in that way,----on a foundation, which you know to be false, from every word of testimony in this case, from beginning to end. But Mr. Goss, they say, has denied this thing. He has risen to explain. Well I now my province here is to answer the or gaments on the part of the defense, and not specially to review the testimony of either the prosecution or the defense; but as Mr. Guss' testimony was an argument, and not testimony, it makes it necessary for me to glance at-it slightly. You remember, gen tlemen, we closed a little before adjourn ing time at noon, in Huntingdon ; every body else Lad been heard, as was supposed, on either side until that time; but they were still net quite ready to call Guss. We then adjourned over till 2 o'clock, when Mr. Guss takes the stand, and for three mortal hours occupied your time and our time telling about this case. A per son would think he might have denied these things in three sminutes. It don't take a man very long to say you lie, or I did not do it; but be commencesaway back longyears ago, and for the purposeof con venience, I will divide his testimony into five chapters. Don't get alarmed, gentle men, about the number of chapters. The first four have so little in them that I can go through them in f irty seconds each. The fitst told us how he got into the Orphan School business, and for that he makes Dr. Burrowes responsible. I believe the old gentleman is dead now, but if he togs re sponsible for putting Gass into the Or phan School business, it was the great mistake of his life. That is all I have to say on chapter first. In the second chap ter he told us how he got into politics, and, for that he makes Gov. Curtin responsible; lie said the Governor solicited his aid and influence to elect a certain Ephraim Baker to the Legislature of Pennsylvania. That will be news up in Huntingdon county, hecatre it was often wondered there how Ephraim did get into the Legislature. Some supposed it was through a little com bination that used to exist in Huntingdon county, but does not now, as nobody seems willing to acknowledge that they belonged to it. Ephriam, I had always supposed, was a little like Senator Nye ' when he first got into the United States Senate, lie said "I looked around among these great men, and said to myself, how did 1 get here; but after being there a while, I said to myself, how in the devil did the rest of you got here." I think that was about the way with Ephraim, and when this testimony gets out there it will be news indeed ; and some things understood that never were before. That is all I lave to say on the second chapter. The third tells how this Orphan School grew, from small beginnings, to be a great and flourish ing institution, all. no doubt, through the learning, piety, zeal, and diligence of A. L. Gess. He told all abouthow much the property cost in the first place, and bow much he had expended since. He seems to think you are a beard of viewers to find out how much damages ho should be al lowed for this property. I don't think he deserves any, and will not waste very much time on it. It seems to me that when he came from Juniata county, he had not the houses and lands, farms, printing office, and Huntingdon and Cassville property that he has now. After receiving some $25,000 per annum from the State he could afford at sometime perhaps to atop business and retire; but that is not our business; and only refer to it because he did, and thus dismiss chapter third. You will re member, at the end of about an hour and ten minutes, he began to approach the case. He draws his slimy folds around some of these girls, and begins to fumble in his pockets for letters, and opens two or three from Miss Barclay. It did not ap pear that these were all he received, but with great care he had selected these to read, and it seamed to me that this whole story of his was a studied effort to pro ' duce a plump, rosy-faced, symmetrical story. I suppose he had got a great many letters from Miss Barclay, and have only this to say about the letters read there that it is natural to suppose they were the best of the lot, and secondly they are altogether consistent with the idea of his guilt. It is not to be presumed that Miss Barclay would write to him anything that would convey a confession of her own guilt, and although lie did his best to sap the foun dations of virtue in that girl, yet she was not so lost to a sense of shame as to put it on paper. She writes to him for money, and tells her plaintive tale, but did not say whether the charges of criminal inti macy were true or not, and I leave that question with you. He then talks about MeEldowney. handling him very lightly, because that was dangerous ground. They did call a number of witnesses to testify that George did not stand well fir truth in the town, but I asked nearly all of them the question, whether they had not a store bill against George, and I think about NO. 13. four-fifths of them said they had. It seems to me these gentlemen were the victims of misplaced confidence, whom George had not paid, and therefore they set him down for a liar, but although the testimony against him was to the effect that George was not altogether truthful in that line, having been unfortunate financially, who doubts that he told the truth about Guss. His testimony was corroborated, and his statement so consistent, and he maintiined himself so well on the stand that there is no retu.on to disbelieve a word of it. Then they come down to this question of good character, on the part of Guss, and they say that the man stands first-rate at home, and they consider thatvery much in his favor. Well now, as a general rule, gentlemen, good character is of very little weight in a court of Justice, and I think that after all that had been given in evi dence, iu this case, it required a good deal of cheek to set up that defence ; but they called a large number of witnesses to the stand, who said his character for chastity was good, and also men living along the road between Cassville and Mapleton, who were actually willing ti swear that they had seen the man pass along the road in a wagon with girls, and bad noticed no im propriety. Was not that wonderful evi dence. That this max could restrain his animal passions so far as to pass a farm house in Cass township without doing any thing improper. That is all they knew about his-character. They did not bear it questioned till after this difficulty sprung up. It seems to me that this was ridicu lous evidence, and the indictment they at tempted to put us on is as ridiculous, first on the letter of Prof. Wickersham, and then on this article in the Huntingdon JOURNAL. We did not propose either one; we told them that we chose to make our accusations and we told you that we would prove them; and have we not done it? Testimony of good character has no weight, except in a very close ease, and then only as furnishing an inference from which to infer the innocence of a party. It amounts to nothing at all against positive proof ; and now, gentlemen, it seems to me that this man has utterly failed in this ques tion of good character, and that there is nothing in it, after the evidence of bad character, and that he ought to be sum marily dismissed and punished on the mire of bad character alone. Looking at the whole history of this man, it seems to me that he has never done a good action in his life, unless it was to offset and cover up some deed of depravity, or whitewash over some of those deep and damning ac cusations, and he has had great experience in that. He understands that business to a dot. When sickening reports were abroad in the community, a nomination for Congress he thought would be a good dis infectant, and he tried it. He then seems to have thought that a trial in Courtwould help him, and so into Coma he went. He prosecuted Major Wharton for circulating orie of the very charges now before you. Mrs. Pope had made the charge before the School Board. Wharton knew it, printed it and sent it round. He testifies that he had nothing to do with the statement of Mrs. Pope until she -bad made the affidavit before the School Board. He went into court, and what was the result? Whar ton admitted the publication, bait said it was true, and the jury said he was not guilty of a libel because it was true. That was another black spot instead of a whitewash ing. Next, he chose a trial before the Church court, and as some one remarxed at Htntingdon, that while military courts were organized to convict, this church court was only organized to acquit. In this court Gnss appeared Is prosecutor and defendant, producing all the testimony and arguing his own case, and yet strange as it may seem, he got out of the ministry on that very occasion ;—resigned, like the man over in the other end of the capitol, a few days ago, who resigned and went home because the banks did not respond promptly. The next whitewashing appli cation was the re-union and cowbiding resolutions. They were written in the Oldie and you will find them there, and the editor blowing his horn all the while to dry the wash and rub it in. But it did not stick well. There appears to have been some material left, into which the counsel have been dipping during the progress of the case, but they did not understand the business half as well as their client. The Cassville atmosphere was considered favora ble for a little furtberapplication, bat from the disgust that seemed to spread over the countenance of this Committee whenever the brush was brought out it was evident that the illusion was dispelled. But perhaps the greatest attempt at whitewashing was when the Professor took the stand as a witness. You can judge of that job your selves' as is was done in your presence, and I have nothing to say further about it. I must now close. A great many at tempts were made by this man to break down these witnesses, and every one who would say a disparaging word of these poor girls was brought upon the stand, to cast a stone. Now, gentlemen of this Commit tee, this is all frora the man whose first duty it was to train these children in the paths of virtue, and then, ever after, to defend their characters from the assaults or all ealuminators. That was his duty, and yet not content with calling others to ma lign and break them down, he undertakes to do it himself, and testifies against them. He, their protector 1 It is the protection which the wolf gives to the lamb, and which the vulture gives to its prey. But I will not intrench upon time ofmy colleague. Mr. Vanderslice has a better right to speak of these things than I have. He was the comrade in arms of the fathers of these girls. They fell on the field of battle, and I died commending their offspring to God and their country. He is here to raise his voice in their behalf, and he will do i. in fitting terms. All I have to ask is that when you make your report it will be in such language that it shall never hereafter be doubted whether the Legislature of Pennsylvania is willing to wink at such transgressions, or whether it is willing to take the responsi bility of placing on them the seal of its stern and emphatic condemnation. The receipts from customs during the present month are not below the corre sponding period last year. It is the opin ion of the Treasury officials that the cus toms have recovered from the effects of the fall panic. They make bricks out of bone dust in Australia. The Milwaukee S6nCtsel thinks this is better than cremation. A widow, on this plan, could take the hot bones of her late lamented husband to bed with her to warm her feet with. Millard Fillmore's mother was a native of Rhode Island ; her ancestors having been clock makers near Apponaug. Many of the clocks made by them a century ago are said to be still running, and the old Millard home-stead still stands.