The Huntingdon Journal,
R. DURBORROW,
HUNTINGDON, PENN'A
Wednesday Morning, April I, !874
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MONEY NEEDED BADLY!
Those Indebted to us for Subi3orip
tion, Advertising and Job Work
will Please Pay Up !
We have not the money to run a busi
ness :that costs from $4,000 to 85,000 a
year without the assistance of those who
receive our stock in trade. Every man
ought to think of this and pay up the little
that he owes. It may be only a little, but
when the fact is taken into consideration
that 1200 persons are indebted to us in
the county of Huntingdon, these small
sums aggregate a large amount of money.
We need this money badly to pay debts
and to enlarge our business. We appeal
to those who are indebted to us to come
forward and help us. We have a large
number of excellent patrons, who pay
promptly, of whom we have no desire to
complain, but there are those who say "I
only owe two or four dollars and I will
pay that the first time I go to Huntingdon,"
and they settle down under the impression
that it don't amount to much, but when
hundreds come to this conclusion it does
amount to considerable. We hope that
all those indebted to Us will send it in the
first opportunity that is afforded. Court
week will be an excellent time. We do
not like to dun our friends, but there is
no other course left fur us.
AFTER THE VERDICT ,
The late Investigation, by a Legislative
Committee. of the scandalous reports,
which have been circulated throughout
Central Pennsylvania, for four or five
years, against the late Principal of the
Cassville Soldiers' Orphan School, was one
of the most remarkable investigations, in
many respects, that has ever taken place
in the histdt'y of the . State. During the
pendency of that investigation, we did not
desire to point to the extraordinary means
resorted to by the defense to cover up the
hideous 'crimes charged upon the central
figure. We doubt exceedingly, whether,
in the whole history of criminal jurispru
dence, there has ever been such a prodi
gious effort made to close the moutits of
witnesses. This was done by manipulation,
by cringing, by flattery, by intimidation,
by the marshalling of a numerous and con
venient family relationship, by the enlist
ment of a large body of pupils, by the ar
ray of a SWORN band of factional followers
and by a deceitful combination of Demo
cratic politicians.
No one knew better than Guss that he
had led.A life of dissoluteness. From in
fancy he had placed no restraint upon his
propensities. When a mere boy his pet
phrase was, "it is better to marry than to
burn." He never cast his eye upon a
woman but to lust after her. The orphans
were his prey • because his passions were
incontrollable. He had no fears of the poor,
penttyless mothers. He had waxed rich !
He had robbed the orphans of their daily
bread, had clothed them scantily, and ap
propriated their labor ! He was receiving
his thousands of dollars annually. They
were insignificant! He was a man of
importance at home and omnipotent at
Harrisburg. The head of the School
Department appeared as ro much wax
in his hands. The community around
him was flattered and bullied by turns.
He was as completely "monarch of all
he surveyed" as was ever the matchleis
hero of Cowper. He felt his importance
—"his keep," as they say—and he deter
mined to become a candidate for Congress.
He announced himself with a flourish. He
bad an object in view ! He had position
at home, but he wanted position abroad.
He intended looking in graciously upon
the proud capitals of the Old World, and
he desired to be introduced to the crowned
heads, that would present themselves
whenever opportunity would be offered,
as the "Honorable Abraham L. Guss,
member of Congress from the Cassville
district, in the State of Pennsylvania, and
United States of America" It was a step
big with fate.
"Who soars too near tho eun, with golden wings,
Melts them ;—to ruin his own fortune brings."
Once.in the political arena he no longer
had the puisne orphans of Casscille or
their penniless mothers to deal with. Tie
had men of means, of character and stand- ,
ing, to cross swords with, and they tool,:
up the loud and terrible wail of the out
raged orphans, and sent him out of court,
where he luia sought redress, with the
costs upon his own head. Then for the
first time ho realized that his dissoluteness
was known to the world, and that he would
be made to suffer for the many gross out
rages that he had perpetrated. Ah, Po
litics, we thank thee for bringing the hid
den sores to the surface ! All honor to
the system that corrects sueh flagrant
abuses!
"What is to be done to cover up this
terrible leprosy I"' was the all-absorbing
question which agitated this man. " How
can I close the mouths of these people
against me ? I have it ! I'll go into the
newspaper business!" Having played the
part of a monomaniac before, it was but a
step to madness, ana be made the step.—
He began a systematic intimidation of' ev
ery public and private individual whom he
suspected of harboring prejudices against.
him, while he labored assiduously to stir
up partizans to fight his battles on' all
sides. A born coward, he has always
crouched behind somebody else—generally
a woman ! He flattered his former pupils,
made them valuable presents, and wormed
himself into their good opinions, poisoning
their minds against every individual who
said aught in their behalf, until, assisted
by certain Democratic leaders, he believed
himself master of the situation. Thus
entrenched he thought he could success
fully resist all legal assaults—that is, in
other words, it would be utterly impossible
to convict him in the courtrf, ' this county.
With this view he launched out boldly
and commenced assailing, denouncing, de
faming acrd perpetrating outrage after out
rage upon innocent and inoffensive citizens
at his pleasure. And what could a private
citizen do with such an outlaw ? In any
newer community justice would have over
taken him—swift and terrible ! At last
public sentiment, outside of this i county,
was aroused to a sense of correcting the
terrible outrages which this creature had
been committing upon the helpless and
inoffensive children placed in his hands.
A Legislative Committee was spoken of.
Immediately he rallied his pupils and be
gan to caress, flatter and threaten them to
induce them to stand by him. He con
ceived the idea of getting up a Society of
"Sixteeners," which was to be a society
for mutual protection and the protection
of the "Professor !" This Society was a
mostlormidable auxiliary. Through the
trusted members he managed his defense
and laid all his plans for the overthrow of
his enemies. Through it he endeavored
to mould and did would sentiment for and
against those whom he deemed it advisable
so to do. It labored incessantly to close the
mouths of those who would be of advan
tage to the prosecution. It docked and
scoffed:those who gave damaging testimony.
It in a thousand ways aided and assisted
him in making his defense. No labor ap
peared too great nor matter too small for
this Society only so that it tended to aid
the man whom they had resolved to pro
tect at all hazards. Some of them, no
doubt, were at the mercy of Guss, and he
made the best of his advantage. Many of
these very members were responsible for
the terrible reports in circulation, yet
when they came upon the stand they were
perfectly oblivious, showing the influence
of this man and tl.e Society into which he
had inveigled them. No sooner was the
Committee selected to make the investiga
tion than Gass and certain members of
this Society visited, every one that was
suspected and cautioned them, and by
threats, presents, cringing and flattering,
endeavored to close their mouths. Weeks
were spent in this way.
Then behind this Society stood a com
pact conclave that was ever ready to suborn
testimony, to over-awe the poor pupils, to
misrepresent every utterance, to impeach
the testimony of leading witnesses, to
champion his cause on the street corners,
in the shops, in the saloons, in the cars,
everywhese, and behind •all this stood a
portion of the Democratic party to do any
and everything to encompass the acquittal
of this wretch. It is believed that if the
Saviour of mankind had been placed upon
the stand there would have been the re
quisite number of respectable witnesses to
have impeached his veracity, certainly, if
nothing better. a Jackson to declare that
he "knew the stock and it was bad !"
EDITOR
• The only point in the defense, really,
was that it was a " POLITICAL PERSECU
TION." This is an old dodge of Cuss'.l--
A few years ago, when ministers belonging
to other denominations complained of these
gross outrages, he then alleged that was
"sectarian persecution." Now it politi
cal ! This was wrung in at Alpha and
came out at Omega; constantly wrung in
by his counsel, taken up by the "sixteen
ers," repeated and impressed by the fke
don, .and encored by the Democratic
friends until every nook and corner was
filled with, yea, verily, until the Demo
cratic party, at Harrisburg, in some meas
ure, believed it !
We concede that. Politics brought this
man to justice, and we have a better opin
ion of politics to-day than we have ever
had in our life before ! We pray that
Politics way always be able to catch up
scoundrels, all over the land, and bring
them to justice! We love the system that
thus lays scoundrelism bare and holds it.
up to the public gaze. All hail ! to the
day that ushered into Politics the infa
mous criminal, who lorded it over the poor
Orphans at Cassville !
The reader can see at it glance the her
culean task that lay before those who un
dertook to break up the Cassville
With the twenty five or thirty thousand
dollars a year received from the gate, lie
could make himself.slmost omnipotent.—
But in a lucky day for Morality he strode
into Politics, and "now ha- she there and
none so poor to do him reverence."—
The conte2t was a fearful one, and the de
feat overwhelming. Annual jobs of $25,-
000 or $30,000 are not picked up every
day !
To the Committee, to Gen. Beath, to
the counsel for the prosecution, too much
credit cannot be given. The patience, the
toil, the care, the anxiety, which by turns,
actuated them for the public good, should
never,be forgotten. Their greatobject was
to protect the fair. ame of the poor orphans,
and yet expose Cuss. If they bad been
less careful in this respect much that would
have been valuable could have been pro
duced, but it would have been great in
justice to some poor girl who is now shift
ing for -herself. There was a studied ef
fort to shield the unfortunate. We be
speak the thanks of every good citizen to
these worthy gentlemen for their consid
erateness. May the blessings of Morality
. and Religion follow then, to their latest
day.
be — The All-Day City Item has com
menced a Sunday edition, the first number
of which reached us .last week. It is full
of news and gotten up with much care and
with a special view to Sunday reading.7l
FLAY THE SCOUNDREL.
I..,,terday the formal report of the Joint
Committee of Education in reference to
the Cassville school horror was presented
to the Senate at Harrisburg. As for
shadowed several days since by oar cor
respondent at the State Capital, tha report
recommends that the school be removed
and the children distributed throughout
the State in other schools.
In addition to their recommendation the
majority of the committee are impelled by
the evidence given before them to say that
"While much of the testimony was contra
dictory, enough remained unimpeached to
justify the committee in believing that the
conduct of A. L. (less, Principal, was of
an improper character."
"Improper!" How true the word to
qualify crime the most damning that can
possibly be conceived ! But, if the term
by which these heinous deeds are offie r ially
designated be true, what shall we say of
the Legislature which receives the report
and will have the opportunity of reading
the testimony in all its disgusting fullness
should it fail to take such measures as will
eventuate in the immediate and thorough
punishment of one of the most consommate
villains unhung. The State is-guardian
of the little orphan girls whose unprotect
ed virtue the friend in guise of man has
outraged. And upon the State rests the
responsibility that would have belonged to
the parents of the little sufferers had they
not died for the safety of the union of
States of which ours is by no means the
least important member. The mind fails
in its attempt to imagine a responsibility
more sacred. Not to meet it; and meet
it now and with a full determination that
justice shall have its victim, to be dealt
with accordingly as he has dett2t by oth
ers, is to be more ungrateful to the fathers
of its wards than we think it possible for
the Keystone State to confess itself. ,*
- It may be, and doubtless will be, urged
that the Assembly is not charged with the
duty of originating proceedings against
and prosecuting criminals, however terri
ble may be the crimes of which by public
report they are adjudged guilty; but the
duty of doing so in this case rests some
where in our State Government and if the
particular officer or officers with which it
rests fail in the discharge of it, then, at
least, the Legislature will be expected to
take cognizance of this matter.' We are
not so sure but that now it would be no
' stretch of authority upon the part of the
Senate, or the Clouse, or both in conjunc.
tion, to pass a resolution calling upon the
Attorney General to enter suit against
Guss, as the legal representative of the
legal guardian of the children, for it is in
that relation which the State stands to
them. Even if it were an over-reaching
of their duty, according to the strict in
terpretation of it (and upon this point we
are not lawyers enough to decide),it would
be au error on the aide of humanity that
the veriest stickler for legal proprieties
must needs applaud.
If Guss is not brought to the bar of
justice to show eouse.why, that community
not. being safe in which such a barbarous
scoundrel is at liberty, he should not be
imprisoned for the largest period that the
law will sanction, by some individual or
by the officer or officers of the law, whose
special duty it is to move in the matter,
every father, every mother in the Cora
intlnwealth will recall the fact that the
evidence against him as partially develop•
ed during the recent investigation is in
the keeping of the Legislature, and will
look therefore to those thus fatni!iar with
the guilt of the soulless wretch to perform
that duty.—Pottsville Standard, 2Gil. ult.l
tm.. The Honorable 11. Milton Speer,
member of Congress from this district, de
serted his place in Congress, we are in
f.ffmed, and visited Harrisburg, to set up
the Democratic members of the Legisla
ture to defeat the efforts of the friends of
decency to have A. L. Gass removed from
the.Cassville School. What does be care
for the debauchery of the soldiers' orphans,
provided the Democratic party is strength
ened in Huntingdon county? What does
he care for Morality if the interests of the
Democratic party can be subserved ? There
was a time 'when this zealous gentleman
could not use Gass, when his true opinion
of him was readily exp - ..essed. On the
3d day of October, 1866, R. Milton Speer
wrote an article for the Huntingdon Mon
itor, which contained the following quota
tion: "A. L. Goss, the Principal of the
" school, has not a drop of honorable blood
"in his veins. * * • * Never
" will we be able to speak of the Principal
"of the Cassville School as anything else
" than a low wretch, devoid of every priu-
• ciple of honor or honesty. He k unfit
"to associate with decent people and
"would even disgrace the nymphs the pave
" of Paris:"
gel _ Capt. Brice X. Blair having re•
signed the position of postmaster, at thi s
place, on Friday last the President sent
the name of Col. J. Hall Musser to the
Senate and his nomination was promptly
confirmed. This is undoubtedly an excel
lent appointment. Colonel Musser is a
young man against whom nothing can be
said personally. He is full of energy and
will make an obliging and accommodating
officer. He is a zealous Republican, full
of ardor and enthusiasm, and in him the
party will find a staunch defender and a
spirited advocate. There were a number
of applicants, and Mr. Scott, no eloubt,
thought, it advisable to go outside of those
applying and to select a new man, one
that would be satisfactory to the party and
who would make a courteous officer, and
we .think he has made a happy selection.
Capt. Blair,'after five years arduous labor,
retires front' the position with the good
wishes of his many friends.
m„„ The Globe represents Mr. Petriken
as having gotten off a pun on Mr. Vander
slice, by calling him "Slandervice." What,
a huge witticism ! And it is inferred that
Mr. Petrikea really survived the effort
and expects to be trade Governor, or Lieu
tenant Governor, or something else, on the
head of it. Who ever heard of slandering
vice ? Most anybody could 'do quite ,s
well as this. It may be possible that Mr.
Petriken believed that he was defending
the very iu3personitication of Vice and that
Mr. V. was too hard on his client.
THE REPORT,
The it pork, signed by the majority, as
well as that signed by Senator Warfel,
which we publish this week, are substan
tially the same, emphatically in favor of
rewiring the school. Of course it is un
der,tood that Senator Warfel is the towns
man and friend of Superintendent Wick
ets:lam, and his Report only differs from
that of the majority in omitting the cen
sure of the Superintendent and his In
spectors in not discovering these wrongs
and removing the school two years am—
Under the circumstances we have not a
word of fltult to find with either of these
Ilcp.n•te. They meet all the requirements
of the investigation. Their duty was to
the school, and nut to try Guss. Of course
it amounts to a verdict of GUILTY, and
the Committee would doubtless have said
so, in so many words, had it been necessary
to reach the conclusion they arrived at.—
Apprehending that he would be tried in
court Mr the specific crimes, they pass
sentence of punishment, fir the public
offence, as fhr as their power extends, and
leave the courts to meet out technical jus
tice in each case, for the individual wrong.
The thanks of the community, and in
deed ofethe whelk: State, are due to this
Committee for the patience, fidelity, and
impartiality with which they hav9 dis
charged a ditty, so disagreeable and yet so
important. Even the defendant should
admit this, and yet after exhausting every
effort to induce the Committee to overlook
the evidence and report in his favor, he
turns upon them like a hyena and heaps
upon them every epithet. his depraved
imagination can invent.
As regards the criticisms on the Report
made by Orvis and Reynolds, two Demo
cratic members or the House Committee,
under the guise of a Minority Report, we
have only to say, we are sorry they fell
into the trap set for them by Gust and his
counsel, to induce them to believe there,
was polities in it, and that Guns had their
s;de of the fight. Living in adjoining coon
ties, and having political aspirations of
their own, they may have supposed their
interest lay in keeping Guss in a posi
tion where he could act as a disarganizer
in the - Republican party, but is a
mistake. They have placed them
selves in a psition they will be ashamed
of in the near future. Messrs. Chalfant
and Collins, Democratic members of the
Senate Committee, have shown themselves
superi• , r to the narrow partisan views of
their two brethren of the House Commit
tee, and will have the approval of their
own consciences in ding right for its own
sake.
We give much of our space, on the
outside of this issue, to the speech deliver
ed by Hon, S. T. Brown before the Inves
tigating 'Committee. The Globe having
criticised this speech, from an interested
standpoint, we thought we had better lay
it before our readers, and leave them juke
of its merits and the merits of the case for
themselves.
News and Notes from Washington
Congress—The Rouse Currency Bill Possed:—A
Free Banking Law Proposed _Death of Judge
Dent.—The New French :Minister.
WASHINGTON, D. C•, March 30.
THE CCRIIENCT BILL PASSED IN THE HOUSE.
After a long consideration of the subject;
the House - Mt Monday passed the currency bill.
It legalizes the re-issue of the $44,000,000 re
serve of legal tender notes, matting the maxi
mum issue of Treasury notes $400,000,000 and
about $50,000,000 fractional currency, which,
together with $350,000,000 of national bank
currency! gives the country a total of $BOO,-
000,000 in paper currency.
In addition, Congress, by passing a free bank
ing bill, which is now quite certain, trill re •
move the limitation of National Bank circula
tion, and allow additional banks to be estab
lished, tinder instructions similar to those
which now regulate the National Banks with
a clause requiring a specie reserve in view of
specie resumption at no distant day.
Briefly, the law governing the establishment
of National banks, and which will not proba
bly be changed in reference to new banks under
the proposed fres banking law, is this: To
establish a bank on a $lOO,OOO basis, United
States bonds to that amount must be first be
deposited in the U. S. Treasury, when a char
ter will be granted and $90,000 in currency
will be printed by the 13. S. Treasury and den
livered to the new bank proprietor. The law
further requires that 15 per cent. of the capital
mast be kept by the bank as a reserve. It is
evident, then, that no capitalists will invest
their money in new banks where they a:e not
required by the demand of legitimate trade.
The business cannot lie made profitable under
other circumstances. For example, to pur
chase a $lOO,OOO U.S. bond will require now
about $117,000. These deposited in the U. S.
Treasury will give $90,000, from which de
duct 15 pen cent. of the hundred thousand
dollar basis, leaves of the $117,000 only $75,-
000 with which to do business. The bonds,
it is true pay interest, but even with this the
profits will not be large, and banks will not be
established excepting where they are required
by the legitimate business of the locality. If
a bank fails the holders of its notes are secured
by the Comptroller of the U. S. Treasury from
the bonds held as security. The surplus,
after all legal demands are met, is paid over
to the bank directors, and the bank is forever
closed.
It is thought that the Senate will pass the
House currency' bill, although there is s pretty
general feeling among Senators that the max
imum of 11. S. currency (excepting the frac
tional currency,) should not exceed $382,000,-
000.
TIIE CENTENARY EXPOSITION.
The generous action of the citizens of Phil
adelphialn voting to raise $1,000,000, and at
the same time urging the Councils to add
another million, has caused a great deal of
newspaper comment and conversation here;
and it is more than oprobable that Congress
will re consider its action before the close of
the session, and make an appropriation for an
enterprise so generally commended by all par
ties.
D,ATII OF JUDGE DENT.
Judge Lewis Dent, brother of the President's
wife, died on Sunday, after protracted and se
vere suffering, front internal cancer. His body
was taken to St. Louis, Mo., his former place
of residence, for interment. The President,
wife and daughter were faithful watchers at
the sick bedside.
V. Bartholdi, the new Minister from Fmnet,
has arrived, and c•ill present his eredentialsto
the President in a few flay,
"Housekeepers , ' of Health.
The liver being the greet depurating or blood cleansing
organ of the system—set this great "housekeeper of our
health" at well:, and the foul corruptions which geridef
the blood, and rat out, as it were, the machinery of life,
are gradually expelled, from the system. For this put ,
pose Dr. Pierce's Goblet' Medical 'Discovery with very
small daily doses of Dr. Pierce's PfAisant Purgative Pel
lets'are pre-eminently the articles needed. They cure
every kind of humor from the worst ' , eyeful& to the con.
nmn pimple, Notch or eruption. Great eating alters
kindly healed mid, theirinighty curative influence. Vir
ulent blood poisons that lurk in the system are by them
robbed of their terrors, and by their preserving and some
what protracted nue the most tainted eystems easy be
completely renovated and built up estate. Enlarged glands
tumors and swellings dwindle away and disappear under
the influence of these great resolvent&
DOCTORS COULDN'T HELP HEIL
Mmostitnn, Morgan re., 0., March 1873.
Dear Dn. Pruner.:
When I was 12 or 15 years ssf age I took what is called
Kiog's Evil, and hp constant doctoring It w o uld h ea l i n
one place and.break dna in another. It also broke nut in
lay left ear. d first found your sumo is the eliristiqn
Ideosofr, end sent ten mules for thn first eottle, which
did me more good than all other medicines I ever lewd. I
years old and doctored with fi no • it), or.: and not
one of them helped me so much as one bottle of niseovery.
I have got well and able to do a good day 's work.
Joui.; A. WILSON.
Ti
)i Lil 8
THE VERDICT !
PAND CIA
OF GROSS IMMORALITY!
HE IS UNFIT FOR PRINCIPAL !
THE EVIDENCE UNFIT fur PUBLICATION!
THE SCHOOL TO BE REMOVED!
IT SHOULD HATE BEEN DONEJEABS AGO!
The Orphans to he Placed Far Away from the
INFLUENCE of this Monster
Senator Anderson, chairman of
the Joint Committee on Education,
made the following report on, Wed
nesday morning last to the Senate,
viz:
That your committee, in the dis
charge of this duty, examined a large
number of witnesses, visited the
school and gave the accused and the
accusers all the time required, and
the utmost latitude in the examina
tion of witnesses to enable the com
mittee to, arrive at the truth, and to
lay all the facts before your honora
ble bodies, so that no injustice may
be done the accused, the orphan
children, or the depirtment.
'Pluck of the testimony taken is gross
ly indecent and unfit for publication.
Your committee, therefore, recom:
mend it to be not published in any
shape or manner, but filed among
the records of the Legislature, where
it may be read by members and
those only interested therein. As
the jurisdiction of the Legislature only
extends to the removal of the school the
question of Air. Guss' guilt or inno
cence has not necessarily to be passed
upon. If the continuance of this
school is unwise or inexpedient, es
pecially if its usefulness is destroy
ed and its continuance is injuring
the system, it should be promptly
removed. The superintendent of
soldiers' orphans testified before
the committee, if the rumors con
cerning Prof. Guss were generally
current in the school andinthe com
munity, and were believed, even if
untrue, the effect would be to de
stroy the school and the system.
Your committee
f ind . the rumors are
generally current in the school and
throughout the county, and that they are
believed by many. The children in
the school are familiar in these
scandalous storied and make them
the subject of daily conversation.
The effect of this is to corrupt their
minds, and so long as they remain
there will be subject to this infliv
ence. If the rumors are false the
effect is the same. The fact that
Mr. Guss owns the property,is pub
lisher of a newspaper, is a politician,
and has bitter and unrelenting ene
mies, is sufficient reason to believe
that so long as the school remains
there these scandalous rumors will
be kept afloat. When Prof. Guss
became a candidate for political honors,
he should have relinquished his control
of the school, or it should have been re
moved.
This is a correct principle in all
cases; especially was it important in
his case, as he ran for office in a
county split into factions and de
moralized by strife and hate. It
was this that gave such currency to
these reports; and their spread over
the State has done incalculable
injury to the schools and to
public morals. 'Your committee are
of opinion the school SHOULD HAVE
BEEN REMOVED LONG AGO, and that
would have avoided the necessity of an
examination, which should never have
taken place. The Inspectors of the
Orphans' School Department, in the
judgment of your committee, failed
in the dischargefrof their duty. (.40-
ing to inspect schools of this char
acter when such visits were expect
ed, and as tae guests of the Princi
pal, is not a proper discharge of that
duty. Had the inspectors discharg
ed their duty properly, the Superin
tendent would doubtless long since
have removed the school, THERE
BEING STRONG REASONS FOR ITS REMO
VAL, INDEPENDENT OF THE GUILT OR
innocence of Mr. Guss. While much
of the testimony was contradictory,
enough REMAINED UNIMPEACHED TO
JUSTIFY THE COMMITTEE IN BELIEVING
THAT THE CONDUCT OF A. L.
GUSS, PRINCIPAL, WAS OF
AN IMPROPER CHARACTER.
But as the repUtution of Prof. Guss
is not only inyolved, but also scores
of soldiers' orphans, the question of
his guilt or innocence • is REMIT- !
TED TO THE COURTS FOR IN
VESTIGATION. The evidence
is so contradictory that it would re
quired repetition; and your com
mittee have before stated that it is
important for public morals that it
should be concealed rather than ex
posed in a public report.
Your committee, therefore, re
commend that the Superintendent
of Soldiers' Orphans be directed to
remove the school at Cassville, AT
ONCE ; AND PLACE THE CHIL
DREN IN OTHER SCHOOLS
THROUGHOUT THE STATE,
AS FAR REMOVED FROM THU,
RUMORS AND INFLUENCE
THAT SURROUND THEM AS
POSSIBLE.
GEO. H. ANDERSON,
JAS. S. RUTAN, .
FRANK D. COLLINS,
THOMAS CHALFANT,
• Senate Committee.
M. W. OLIVER,
A. B. YOUNG,
H. M. JONES,
House Committee.
N. 11,1.1",
Air. Warfel presented the minority report as
follows :
The undersigned, one of the joint committee
to whom was referred the communication
of the Superintendent of Soldiers' Orphan
Schools relative to the school aA Casavitio,
would respectfully submit the following re
port :
That your committee, in the discharge of
their duty. gave all parties in interest the ut
most latitude in the subpeenaing and exami
nation oEwitnesses, and did all in their power
to arrive at a just and proper conclusion in
the matter. Much of the testimony taken is
of such a character that its general publica
tion could do no good and might work injury.
Ile therefore joins in the recommendation that
it be not printed, but filed among the records
of the Legislature, where all who are properly
interested can have an opportunity of exam
ining it.
As the undersigned is of the opinion that
the committee were only called upon to con
sider the propriety of the continuance or re
moval of thc school, he therefore declines to
express any opinion upon matter which could
only be properly determined in a court of jus
tice.
The Superintendent of the soldiers' orphans
school stated before the committee that if the
rumors and scandals concerning Cassville
school were current in the community, wheth
er true or false, the effect would be to greatly
damage the efficiency of that school and also
injure the system. In this opinion the under
signed fully concurs, and as allegations of the
grossest and most scandalous immoralities
were current in the school, stud throughout
the county, and were the subject of general
and familiar conversation and newspaper con
troversy, the effect could not be otherwise
'than degrading to all who became familiar
with the recital. The further fart that these
vile stories have been and are still widely as
sociated with bitter political partisanship will
in all probability keep them before the public,
and thus largely add to their demoralizing in
fluence.
For these reasons the undersigned joins in
the recommendation that the soldiers' orphans
be removed from Cassrille, and placed in
schools free from the corrupting influences
which now surround that locality.
JOHN B:WA RFEL
Our New York Letter.
Up at Sing-Sing—ffarel Worktd Merchants—
Society— Temperance Extravagance St.
Patrick'a Day and the Irish—Street Musicians.
NEW Yong, March 30, 1874.
SING-SING--STORES.
Your readers have mostly forgotten Stokes,
and with him Jim Fisk. Well, such is life.—
The hero of to-day is forgotten to morrow.
Fisk lies in his bloody grave at Brattleboro,
Stokes is in Sing Sing prison, but no one men
tions them now. I ran up to Sing-Sing the
other day, and saw Stokes. He is employed
in the prison as book-keeper for the great
boot and shoe manufacturing house of Mellon,
Trask to Ripley, of this city, who employ the
labor of an immense number of convicts
Stokes tenaciously clings to the account he
gave as a witness in his own behalf during the
trial. He contends that his meeting with Fisk
at the Grand Central Hotel was owing to acci
dent, and not to any premediated design to
encounter his enemy and shoot him, as the
prosecution claimed. Stokes said that when
Le caught sight of Fisk the latter was ap
proaching him with speed. He added that he
saw Fisk pull his pistol, and it was owing to
the impulse of the moment—the instinct cf
self preservation—that he drew his own wea
pon and fired. After discharging his revolver
he jumped out of range, and gave the alarm to
the attaches of the hotel. He is well treated,
and does not complain, hut it is evident that
the change from the life of excitement in the
city to the routine life he is compelled to lead
is telling npon Lim. He said to Mr. Trask, of
the firm in whose service he is for the nonce,
that he would like to change places with him.
"Yon are as well off as i:ou are," said the
philosophic merchant. "Indeed, your situa
tion is preferable to mine. You work so many
hours and get excellent food and comfortable
clothing. The change in fassions don't* effect
you, you have no cares on your mind, you
work, eat and sleep. That is all I get for
nearly twice as many hours labor and a million
times more worry.'•
And speaking of
HARD-WORKED MEN,
there are no men in the world who labor so hard
as the merchants of New York. Thelife of the
average merchant is not as pleasant as that of
the dray-horse, for he has more physical la
bor, and the mental worry thrown in. With
expenses rimming into the thousands per week,
with an interest account of Brobindignagian
proportions, with his capital scattered all over
the United States, and his solvency depend
ing entirely on the solvency and promptness
of ten thousand other men, some of whom are
four thousand miles away, the trouble sur
rounding him is perpetual. Be is compelled
to be in his counting-room at eight A. and
from that on till night it is one perpetual
strain. Every nerve in him is strung to the
utmost tension, for a mistake or a neglect in .
the smallest matter may bring upon him ruin.
They grow prematurely gray and nine-tenths
of them die before their time. And the trouble
is that out of every hundred, ninety-five end
their business career with nothing. It is
twenty-five years of labor and trouble and
worry, only to go out finally in a panic,
which they had nothing to do with, and which
they could not prevent or provide against.
.SOCIETY."
What is called "Society" in New York, is a
queer thing.. The great city is full of people
who have made money rapidly, and whose
principal desire is to figure in what they call
.-Society," that is to say, to be recognized as
people , of fashion—to have their wealth rec
ognized, and to have a certain status among
the upper-crust. The real aristocracy are
compelled to recognize these new creations to
a certain extent, for the Almighty Dollar has
a power anywhere in this world. A little law
suit in one of the courts of the city the other
day developed some of the ways by which the
shoddy aristocrats attain their . notoriety
These papers gives account of ladies present
at certain balls, and their toilettes—for a con.
sideration. They hare a regular scale of
prices which the fashionables pay. A mere
modest mention costs $10; a complimentary
adjective or two thrown judiciously in as to
the lady's bean.y, adds a five dollar note to
the bill ; a minute description of a toilette
brings up the expense to $35, and a full de
scription, from the white slipper to the top
dressing, costs from $5O to $75. At one ball
a husband had agreed with one of the report-,
ers for a description of his wife, with which
he was displeased when it appeared, and he
refused to pay. The reporter took his revenge
by suing him, and as lie could prove contract
be got judgment.
not this expose ruin your busineh ?"
1 inquired.
'Not at all," was his reply, "it will increase
it, for it will show them all where they can
get good accounts. But it has killed Mr. and
Mrs. X. Everybody knows to a dead certain
ty that they contracted for my effort to make
her appear as she desired—and all their kind
friends will know that everything that is done
for her hereafter is a mattes of corftract.—
They don't care what people think, for they are
shoddy, but they dread nroof."
And as the fellow's paper has been full of
such work since, I rather think he was right
in his conjecture as to the effect of his pro
cedure.
Speaking of fashion, and the shams that
seems to he a part of it, a lady advertises for
employment as an "ornamental guest." She
oilers to assist 'at dinner or evening parties,
and by her grace, wit and beauty contribute
to the entertainment of the company. She
will do everything in the highest style of art,
but will expect a handsome compensation for
her unique services.
You see you can get anything in New York
for money.
Fulton, the Baptist pulpit orator, Talmadge
and other preachers of the sensational order,
are attempting to inaugurate the movement
here that the women of the West have made
so successful. But it cannot be made to work
here The ruin interest is so strong—its de
votees are so hardened and lawless, and what
is more, the men of the city are so fearfully
taken up by their business, that there can
never be the swell created necessary to carry
forward such a work. But the women of New
York and Brooklyn are doing a splendid work
nevertheless. They are taking drinking men
by the hand and helping them into a better
life, and by working in this way may have
actually reformed thousands, and closed dog
genies by cutting off their custom. The air is
full of opposition to rum, and it cannot be but
that some good 1,11 come out of the move
ment.
A lady blazed all over with diaMonds at a
Fifth avenue party last week. Oh each shoul
ders she had four stars, the size of a dollar,
made of diamonds. Her hair was set thickly
with diamonds, There was a diamond ban
deau upon her brow, She had diamond ear
rings and' a diamond necklace. Upon the
sides of her chest were two circles of diamonds.
Front them depended lines and hurves of dia
monds reaching to her waist, round which she
wore a diamond girdle. On her skirts in front
were large peacocks, wrought of lines of dia
tuonds. There were rosettes of diamonds on
her slippers, and diamonds large or small,taill
over her dress and person, wherever they
could he placed. This lady's grandfather was
cart tuna, her father a pawn . broker, and her
husband—well, be lives upon the father.—
But it don't matter. The old gentleman is
worth his millions, and as he still follows his
business and is adding to his store, his daugh
ter can afford it. lie is never - present at these
parties though.
ST. PATRICK'S DAY.
s New York has more Irishmen than any
city in Ireland, St. Patrick's Day is, of course,
one of the great days that are observed. This
year it was especially immense. Despite the
soaking rain, the procession was over five
miles in length, and the decorations carried
were superb. The Irish are a power in New
York, and they are increasing every year, not
only in numbers, but wealth and influence.—
When one of them gets up in the world he can
command so many of the new corners that it is
no trouble far hint to command position, and
position here means money. Indeed, all that
men care for position is to make money out of
it and they do it. The leaders of the various
rings are in a few cases Americans, but the
majority of them are Irishmen, and the lieu
tenants are always Irish.
STREET MUSICIANS,
About this time look out for street music
lass. Your streets will be made vocal with
the violin and harp, played by little Italian
boys and girls, who leave New York this
month,' :tad get back early in the full., ;These
children constitute a class by themselves.—
They are all Italians, and are sold by their
parents in Italy to speculators, who are called
radsonea, who bring them to America and
teach them to play, the Padrones paying the
parents either a sum in gross, or a price per
year. The little slaves are sent out, and are
required to bring home so much money per
day, the alternative being an unmerciful
beating, which is religiously administered.—
A certain number are sent west every spring,
to work the country, and it is a singular fact
that they send to the Padrones regularly all
that they get except the merest possible liv
ing. They have a fear of the Padrone ; they
regard him as a sort of a powerful devil who
can find them and reach them anywhere, and
this feeling is cultivated, for it makes it safe
to send them abroad. The skulking loafers
who live on these children are the most cruel,
dissolute, debauched set that New York has.
A law will be passed in the Legislature of the
State this winter to break up this trade iu
children. PIETRO.
An Insurance bill now before the Illi
nois Legislature has two sections of con
siderable importance, one of which com
pels the companies to pay the face of the
policy on which premiums have been paid,
and the other allows the policy holder five
years to bring suit on it.
A Georgia cotten spinner says that five
per cent. per month upon all investments
in cotton machinery is a myth and exists
only in the disordered imagination of some
manufacturer on paper; but ten or fifteen
per cent. per annum is a reality, on that
sound capital would do well to lay hold
upon.
um. To be taken in the place of Qui
nine or Bitters of any kind; the dose is
small, and its virtues undoubted. It will
be found cheaper and beiter than any eth
er remedy for that purpose, and also as
a general Plantation and Family Medi
cine, SIMMONS' LIVER REGULATOR
has no superior.
V:e• Parson's Purgative Pills—Best
finiily physician; Sheridan's Cavalry Con
dition Powders, for horses.
New To-Day
FOR RENT.
A first-class STORE ROOM, 113,50 feet, sit.
uate in the central and business port of the town,
Apply to S. S. SMITH,
Apr.l4l. 616 Penn Street.
SS. AFRICA, 103 Fourth Street,
. near UNION DEPOT, Huntingdon, Pa.,
Dealer iu FINE CONFECTIONERY, FRUITS,
NOTIONS, TOYS. JEWELERY, &e Also ICE
CREAM and SODA WATER in scasun,_
S. S. AFRICA,
Aprill,lB74-6mos.
ADMINISTRATORS' NOTICE.
[Estfee f OSBORN LAIRD, deceased.] . . . . .
Lette'rs of Ad . Ministration having been granted
to the undersigned on the estate of Osborn Laird,
late of :Morris township, deceased, all persons
knowing themselves indebted to said estate are re
quested to make immediate payment, and those
having claims to present Skein duly authenticated
for settlement.
J. S. LAIRD.
J. S. LEFFARD,
Admini:tratom
aprJ,lB74.
EXECUTORS' NOTICE.
[Estate of GEORGE I/A WA; deceased.)
. . •
Letters testamentary having been granted to
the undersigned on the estate of George Hawn,
late of Juniata township, deceased, all .persons
knowing themselves indebted are requested to
make immediate payment, and those having
claims to present them duly authenticated for set
tlement.
PETER UAWN,
ISAAC HAWN,
Executors,
April I, IS7-I
CZ L. KIRK & CO.,
10.
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130 North THIRD St., Corner of Cherry,
PHILADELPHIA,
.Have in store and eer for sale, at the lowest
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a large and well assorted stock of GROCERIES,
TEAS, SPICES, FISH. CHEESE, &c. Selected
with carp in this, New York and Baltimore mar.
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Every subscriber sending 50 cents for the Ocoee
Register, one year a Southern Land Journal, I
will mail a package of the JAPAN PEAS, post
paid by mail that will produce from five to ten
bushels of Peas. The pea grows in the form of a
bitSh, end does not require sticking. Address,
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Editor and Proprietor,
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REPOIATOF CIE COVDITION
of TILE FIRST NATIONAL BANK, of
Huutingdea..Pa., at the close of liminess on the
27th day of February, IS7I.
—RESO L'RCES.—
Loans and Discountia
Overdrafts
U. S. Bonds to secure circulation
Other Stocks, Bonds ant 3lortgages
Due from approved Redeeming and
Reserve Agents 47,954 05
Due from other National Banks 5,257 08
Duo from State Banks and Bankers 19,763 57
Banking House 5,279 33
Furniture and Fixtures 3,314 09
Current Expenses : 1,531 79
Taxes paid 9,035 46
Premiums pail l,OOO 00
Bills of other National Banks... 10,555 00
Frsetion al Currency (including nickels) 2,117 80
Specie 1.795 ao
Legal 'fonder Notes 6 2 -.115 00
1 W ATCUES
-LIABILITIES.-
Carithl Stock paid in ,
Surplus Fund
Discount and E:tchauge
—.--. --....
Circulating Notes outstanding 131.334 00
Individual Dqmsits subject to check 197,875 28
Time Certificates of Deposit.... 126,682 85
Due other National Banks. 5,402 04
Due to State Banks and Banker ,
State of reitliylvania,
County of Huntingdon.
I. George W. Garrett
son, Cashier of The First National Bank of Hun
tingdon, Pa., do solemnly swear that the above
statement is true, to the best of my knowledge and.
belief.
~.....
- Sworn to and subscribed before me this 211 b
dew of March 1871.
PETER SWOOP. J. P.
Wig. DORRIS. )
D. P. tiIVEN, ) Directors.
If. 0. FISHERJ
CoireeT—ur - m,
Aprill,lB74
New To-Day.
NOTICE.
V. $. IN FERNAL REVENUE.
SPECIL TAXES.
Slay I, 1871, to April 30, 1875.
lice LAW of December 2-1, 1572, requires every
person engaged in any business, avocation, or em
ployment which renders hint liabelj to a Special
Tax, to produce and place conspicuously in his
establishment or place of business a STAMP de
noting the payment of said Special Tax' for the
Special Tax year beginning May 1, 1874, before
commencing or continuing business after April
30, 1874.
The taxes embraced within the provisions of the
law above quoted are the following, viz
Rectifier. 21:10.00
Dealers, retail liquor 25.00
Dealers, wholesale liquor
Dealers in malt liquors, wholesale 50.00
Dealers in malt liquors, retail 20.00
Dealers in leaf tobacco 25.00
Retail dealers in leaf tobacco 500.00
And on sales of nice $l,OOO, fifty cents
for every dollar in excess of $l,OOO
Dealers in manufactured tobacco 5.00
Manufacturers of stills
And for each still manufactured 20.00
And for each worm manufactured 20.00
Manufacturers of tobacco lO.OO
Manufacturers of cigars lO.OO
Peddlers of tobacco, first-clues (more than
two horses)
Peddlers of tobacco, second class (two
horses)
Peddlers of tobacco, third class (one horse) 15.00
Peddlers of tobacco, fourth class (on foot
or public conveyance) lO,OO
Brewers of less than 500 barrels 50.00
Brewers of 500 barrels or more lOO.OO
Any person, so liable, who shall fail to comply
with the Thregoing requirements will be subject to
severe penalties.
Persons or firms liable to pay any of the Special
Taxes named above must apply to FRANK W.
STEWART, Deputy Collector of Internal Reve
nue at Iluntingdon, and pay for and procure the
Special Tax Stamp or Stamps they need, prior to
May 1, 1874, and without further notice.
J. W. DOUGLASS,
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Office of Internal Revenue,
WAsetxurox, D. C., April 1,1874.-4 t
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E.ECITTORS' NOTICE.
The undersigned, executors of the last will
and testament of Thomas Iluston, late of Jackson
township, deceased, hereby giro notice to all per
sons indebtcti to the said estate, to make imme
diate payment, and those having claims to pre
sent them for settlement.
*BENJAMIN HESTON,
CIIARLE.3 HUSTON,
Executors.
WAlavy's Fort, March 25, IS7t.
EXECITTORS' NOTICE.
Letters testamentaly having been granted
to the subscribers, living in Jackson township,
near 3FAlavy's Fort, un the estate of Thomas
Smith, late of said township, deceased, all persons
knowing themselves indebted to said estate will
make payment without delay and those having
claims against the same will present them prop
erly authenticated for settlement.
JOHN B. SMITH,
JAMES SMITH,
Executors.
March2s-6t.
/ _t
. D3IINISTRATORS' NOTICE.
Letters of Administration having been
granted to the subscribers, living near Alesandria,
in Porter township, on the estate o' Lewis H.
Knock, late of said township. deems .1. at per
sons knowing themselves indebted t......uct estate
will make immediate payment and those having
claims against the same will present them proper
ly authenticated for settlement.
11. CALVIN KNODE,
LEWIS G. KNODE,
Administrators.
Me1125-6t,
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Letters of Administration having been
granted to the subscriber living near Neff's Mills,
on the estate of Sebastian Snyder, late of West
township, deceased, all persons knowing them
selves indebted to said estate will make immedi
ate payment and those having claims against the
same will present them properly authenticated for
settlement.
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PRO CLA M ATION—W hereas, by a pr e
cep t to me directed, dated at Huntingdon, the
21914111 y 01 Feb., A. D., 1874, nuder the hands and scat
of the lion. John Dean, President Judge of the Court of
Common Pleas, Oyer and Tei miner, and general jail deliv
ery of the24tit Judicial District of Pennsylvania,
of Huntingdon, Dlair and Cambria counties ; and the
Hons. Anthony J. Beaver and David Clarkson, his associ
ates, Judges of the county of llnntingdonjustices assign—
ed, appointed to luar, try and determine all and
every indictment made or taken for or concerning
all crimes, which by the laws of the State are made
capital, or felonies of death and other offences,
crimes and inisdemetinors, whisk have been or
shall hereafter he committed or perpetrated, for
crimes eforesahl-4 not commanded to make public ;aorta
motion throughout toy whole bailiwick, that a Court of
Oyer and Terminer,4ll . olllllllolll PICAS 111. 41 Qll/11111, See;ions
will be held at the Court House, in the borough of Hunt
ingdon, on the second Monday (end 13th day) of April,
"b 74, and those who will prosecute the said prisoners, be
then and there to prosecute them as it shall be just, and
that all Justices of the Peace, Corouerand Constables with
in said county, be then and there In their proper perions,
at 10 o'clock,. in., of said day, with their records, inquisi
tions, examinations and remembrances, to do those things
which to their offices respectively appertain.
Dated at Huntingdon, the 18th day of 31arch in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred end seventy-four
awl the 97th year of American Independence.
AMON 11017 CH, 5H101.17,
17,934 40
.$150,000 00
23,000 00
, 8,890 63
$617.034 40
TIOROCL A 3IATION—W herea s. by a pre
cept to me directed by the Judgee of the Com
mon Pleats of the county of Huntingdon, bearing test the
21st day of Feb., A. D, 1871, 1 an* commanded to make
public prisclamtalitln throughout my whole bailiwick, th t
a Court of Common Pleas will be held at the Court House.
in the borough of Huntingdon, on the 3d Monday,
2011* day,) of April, A. D, 1874,f0r thetrial of all iss.:es
in said Court which remain undetermined before the aid •I
Judges, when and where all jurors, wituesees,and snit , r ,
in the trials of all issues are required.
Dated at Huntingdon, the 18th day of March in the ye r
of nur Lewd, one thousand eight hundred and seventy
haw and the 97th year of American Independence.
AMON 11011 CK. SHULL,.
QUBSCRIBE FOR THE JOURNAL .
Only $2.00 a year,
50.00
LEWIS SNYDER,
Administrator.