The Huntingdon Journal. J IL DUttliottltoW, lIUNTINGDON, PENN'A FRIDAY, JANUARY 2S, 1S &. Circulation LARGER than any other Paper in the Juniata Valley. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE 'JOURNAL.' Next year will be one of the most important in our Political History, and the JOURNAL should go into ev ery family. We will send it to new subscribers from now until the first of January, 1877, for TWO DOL— LARS, cash in advance. Everybody will be interested in the Presiden- tial campaign next year, and they should avail themselves of this offer at once. Address J. R. DURBORROW & CO., tf] Huntingdon, Pa THE Centennial Appropriation Bill has passed the Lower House of Congress. THE New Hampshire political pot is beginning to boil. She fires the first gun in the Centennial campaign. 1 .5 . 11. CHARLES O'CONOR on Saturday told an inquirer that he considered all danger past, and that he was improving rapidly. His recovery is a remarkable one. MESSRS. STENGER and Cochrane are getting thunder on all sides for their op positicn to the Centennial appropriation.— Some men cannot help committing political suicide. NEARLY 500 bills, representing an ag gregate of upwards of $30,000,000, have been introduced in the present Democratic House of Representatives,. to reimburse ex-Rebels for their losses during the war. HON. G. H. SPANG one of the hard est worked men in the present Legislature. He is in excellent health and giving evePy hour of his time to his constituents. He 13 an excellent lawyer, a, careful counsel and a true friend. Ex-Gov. FRANCIS THOMAS, of Mary land, late Minister to Peru, while walking on the track of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, near his home at Frankville, Garrett county, on Monday afternoon, was struck by a helper engine and instantly killed. THE Editorial Association, at its Annu al Meeting, on Wednesday, the 19th inst., re elected llon. B. F. Meyers President and R. A. Mennacuin Secretary for the ensuing year. The session was reasonably well attended and considerable business transacted HON. H. H. NATEER. and Hon. ►V. P. M'Nite, our Representatives, are both ready and willing to do anything that may be urged or desired, in the way of Legis- lation, by our citizens. They are atten tive t.► business and highly respected by their fellow members. THE Harrisburg Telegraph, of the 19th inbt., labors through a whole column to prove that there should be no Exemption of real or personal estate from levy and sale on execution It is rather late to undertake to counteract the humanity and charity of the nineteenth century, but we have no objection to the Telegraph doing its level best. COL. M. S. QUAY has been appointed Secretary of the Commonwealth by the Governor and promptly confirmed by the Senate. Col. Quay has made a popular Secretary. We are glad to know that he has consented to serve another term. Few men are. as familiar with the routine of State affairs as he is and few men could discharge them as satisfactorily. AN Act extending the exemption law to include a homestead of the value of $l,OOO, wearing apparel, furniture,- tools and implements, materials of trade, libra ries, and cemetery lots, was offered in the Senate last week. If the bill fails to be come a law, each politician in the legisla ture, should be allowed a cemetery lot free of charge.—lndustrial World. WE do wish some one would pour oil on the editors of the Monitor and 6oot h e them. A whole score of sore-headed bears couldn't make half the ado that they do over an insignificant libel prosecu tion. They are mad becouse we didn't knock down and drag out every person who spoke to us on the subject, and accuse us of connivance. It was none of our fu neral. When our opinion was asked we gave it unhesitatingly. THERE has been considerable flutter in the political circles, at Harrisburg, in re gard to the appointment of Hon. George Lear, to the position of Attorney General, and it is currently reported that combina nations have been formed, in the Senate, looking to his rejection. Several reasons are assigned fur this disposition of admin istrative Senators to kick up their heels, but none of which are of any weight, save with those who have some personal end to subserve. No oue questions Mr. Lear's ability, or his honesty, in fact it is strongly hinted that the latter is the cause of com plaint. He is a bold and fearless lawyer, and we honor the Governor for appointing him, and the Senate should not hesitate to confirm him. THE Huntingdon Congresssional dis trict is singularly unfortunate in its selec tion of Representatives. Speer • took the back pay and now Steuger has gone back on the Centennial. Here is what the Philadelphia City Item has to say about it : "A Poor Devil.""--There are several acci dental Congressmen from Pennsylvania. Mr. Stenger is one of them, and a poor devil is he. The Washington Republican says of him : "Mr. Stenger destroyed the effect of his constitu tional argument against the Centennial ap propriation yesterday by afterwards pleading the stingy act. lle thinks each three of his constituents are unwilling to pay a dime every hundred years of their lives for the celebra tion of the 'glorious Independence day.'— They will not thank him." "Sterger, we thought, would bean improve ment on Spear, but it appears that we were greatly mistaken. Excepting Cochrane, - of Allegheny, he is the meanest man in the State." THE ASSIGNEE BILL The EAlowiag bill, t , ) enable _; s ..; ;:ntes to sell eneumberoil real estate, iiiir,Llueed by Mr. Spang, of lledrord, has the House filially: WHEREAS, It frequently occurs in assign ments fur the benefit of creditors whera the assignor is the owner of a number of tracts of land encumbered to such an extent that it is imposAble to ascertain definitely whether a sullicientamount can be realized to discharge all the liens whereby the titles made by the assignees are regarded as doubtful and the assignees are thereby unable to make advan tageous sales of said real estate ; therefore, SECTION 1. Be it enacted, etc., That in all as si7nment for the benefit of creditors, it shall and may be lawful for the several courts of common pleas of this commonwealth, upon application of the assignees of insolvent debt ors, setting forth that their personal estate is insufficientfor the payment of the debts and real estate encumbered with liens to such an extent as to render it difficult to determine whether the same can be sold for enough to pay all the liens as aforesaid, to grant au or der, where the court shall deem it for the manifest interest of all parties authorizing and empowering the said assignees to make public sale of such real estate, or so much thereof as shall be deemed necessary at such place and upon such terms as the said court shall direct, of which sale notice shall he given twenty days prior thereto by handbills and publication in at least two newspapers in the county where saki lands arc situated, should two newspapers be published in said county, one of which shall be German, if such be published in the county, which sale or sales, after being confirmed by said court, shall discharge all liens against the real es tate so sold, excepting that where the lien of a mortgage upon real estate is or shall 'he prior to all other liens upon the same property except other mortgages, ground rents and the purchase money due the commonwealth, the lien of such mortgages should be destroyed or in any way effected by any sale made by virtue or authority of any sale made under the provisions of this act, and the proceeds arising therefrom shall be appropriated to liens extinguished by virtue of such sale ac cording to their priority ; Provided, Before said sale is authorized the assignee or asignees shall file a bond with two approved sureties in double the estimated value of said real es tate conditioned for a faithful appropriation of the proceeds thereof: And provided, further, That the court shall require such proof of notice of such intended application to have been given to the lien creditors or their at torneys as said court shall deem sufficient to give said lien creditors an opportunity to be beard touching said order of sale. SEC. 2. Whenever said court shall grant an order of sale as aforesaid said court may or der a stay of execution on all liens that may be divested by such sale by the assignee until said order shall be expended or revoked.— Provided, That it shall be lawful for said court to extend any order of sale granted as afore said or to award an alias or pluries order of sale. THOSE LITTLE LIE-BILLS. Both the Monitor and Mae intimate, very strongly, that we helped to instigate, or induce B. F. Douglass, esq., to prose, cute them for libel. The individual who says that we did so, is, in plain, unvar nished Anglo-Saxon, A LIAR. No one asked our opinion about it before it was decided to prosecute, nor did we know any thing about it until after attorneys were retained. We make it a rule never to in terfere with other people's business, having quite enough of our own. When courte ously asked for the use of our file-papers and precedents we gave them out of pro fessional courtesy, and no one but a heath en would deny us this privilege. So far so good. A few words fur Mr. Dougtass : He is a partisan of ours. Assisted our friends in the last campaign. It was not our bu siness to mould popular opinion against him. It would have been very ungrateful on our part to have 4one so, to say noth ing of' being unprofessional. Mr. Douglass may have been in error, and may have committed a worse error in bringing a prosecution. Be all this as it may, the Court settled it, and in favor of the de• fendants But does this justify both those papers in libeling and hounding this man now ? They appear to think that they can now pursue him without restraint.— They return to the charge with ten-fold fury. Da they suppose that the same cir cumstances exist now that did when they published their first libels? Be assured that there is quite another state of' affairs. We are amazed at the stupidity. IF any ambitious rural publisher wants to take a lively racket at journalisub let him buy into one of the Huntingdon papers. That county is a pandemonium of politics, and pours out enough editorial spleen in a week to go around the whole fraternity of the State for a month. The sheriff is the chief visitor of the Huntingdon editor. There is always one about to be sold out, and the others for tunate if they are in no worse condition than under bail for libel. It's due to the people of that belligerent county to say that they do all agree to bury a man when he is dead, and generally go to the funeral.—Philadelphia Timm Colonel, this is very unkind. You are well aware that Huntingdon editors are not the only quill-drivers that receive vis its from the man of writs, nor are they the only scribblers who pour out spleen. They are bad enough, the Lord knows, buc we cannot see that they deserve any special notoriety. There is something gay and lively in running a paper in Huntingdon ; it is true, indeed we often think we would die of ennui if we had to plod through the daily bum-drum of a Philadelphia editor. We get our inspiration at home, the Times is obliged to go to Washington. The United States and Cuba WASUINGTON, Jan. 25.—The following message was transmitted to the house to day by the President: In answer to the resolution Gf the house of representatives of the 22d of January, I hereby transmit a report from the secre tary of state. [Signed] U. S. GRANT, DEPARTMENT OF STATE, WASHING TON, Jan. 25, 1576: The secretary .of state to whom was referred the resolution of the house of representatives, of the 22d inst., that the Presid6nt be requested, if not incompatible with the public interests, to communicate to the house of represent atives any correspondence which may have occurred during the past year between the government of the United States and any of the European governments, besides Spain, in regard to the island of Cuba, has the honor to report that no correspondence has taken place during the past year with any European government other than Spain in regard to the island of Cuba. Instruc tion No. 266, dated November sth last, ad dressed to Mr Cushing, the minister of the United States, at Madrid, and which was upon the 21st inst., laid before the house of representatives in answer to the resolu tion, of that honorable body of the 17th inst., was orally communicated to several European governments by reading the same, or by a statement to the purport thereof by the representatives of the Uni ted States to the minister of foreign affairs of those governments, pursuant to instruct ions from his department which instruct ions accompany the report heretofore made and were in like manner communicated to the House of Representatives upon the 21st inst. No correspondence has, how ever, taken place upon the subject with these governments. Respectfully submit ted, CA for the National Republican Con- vention The next Union Republican National Convention 14 the nomination or candi dates for President and Vice• President of the United States will be held in the city of Cincinnati, on Wednesday, the four teenth day of June, 1876, at noon, and will consist of delegates from each State equal to twice the number of its Senators and Representotivcs in Congress, and of two delegates from each organized Territory and the District of Columbia. In calling the conventions for the election ofdele ; rates, the committees of the several States are recommended to invite all Republican electors and all other voters, without re• Bard to past political differences or pre vious party difficulties, who are opposed to reviving sectional issues and desire to pro mote friendly feeling and pertnament har mony throughout thee ointry by maintain ing and enforcing all the constitutional rights of every citizen, includin ,, the full aad free exercise of the right of suffrage without intimidation And without fraud ; who are in favor of the continued prosecu tion and punishment of all official dishon esty, and of an economical admistration of the Gayer/nent by honest, faithful and capable officers; who are iu favor of mak ing such reforms in governmeni as exper ience may, from time to time, suggest ; who are opposed to impairing the credit of the nation by depreciating any of its obli gations, and in favor of sustaining in every way the national faith and financial honor; who hold that the common school system -is the nursery of Americ in liberty and should be maintained absolutely free from sectarian control; who believe that for the promotion of these ends the direction of the Government should continue to be con fided to those who adhere to the principles of 1776, support them as incorporated in the Constitution and laws and who are in favor of recognizing and strengthening the fundamental principles of national unity in this Centennial anniversary of the birth of the republic. E. D 1‘1011(IAN, Chairman Republican National committee, Wm. E. Chandler Secretary. Our New York Letter. Beecher—Moody and Sankey—Daer and McCau ley—Business Outlook—The Express Monopo -Iy—Servant Girls—The Centennial. NEW YORK, Jan. 24, 1873. BIRECHF.R ToP;C. The motions of Plymouth Church may be called erratic, if nothing harsher. Its last performance, after snubbing the idea of a mutual council, W4B to summon Mr. Bowen, editor of the Independent, to a church meeting to hear grievan,es against h tn. Ills two sons were allowed with him, on tutieravce, hut the stenographer he brought was promptly turned out. But the ieporter made good use of his time while he did stay, and took down the debate word for word, and quietly took satisfaction in putting the report itito next morn ing's papers, were it didn't read creditable to the fairness or order of private Plymouth Church pro ceedings. After all, the charge against Mr. Bow en was that when a church demanded that he should ten all be knew anout the Beecher matter, he refused to say anything good or bat about it. The shrewd, long witted Bowen knew what would exasperate the swivel-tongued hretlierti, and did it, by keeping his mouth Ant. turned the ta bles on the meeting la"t night by taking ground that the church summoned him to hear charges and receive advice not to answer, and the Bowen mouth closed mike adamant again. xi:cut is the strongest in the quarrel. MeODY AND NANKKV Barnum's Iliptiodroura, where Jersey and Vcr m6nt girls rode human chariot races last Winter, and Oihnore's Brass Band made everybody thirsty enough to drink oceans of beer, last summer, is now converted into a tabernacle for Moody and Sankey's great meetings in February. Seats for 7,000 cover the saw-dust, and a choir of 700 from different church choirs will lead the singing. The vast building has been divided up into rooms for various purposes. Besides thevast auditorium for the regular meetings, there are f .ar very large rooms for inquirers, rooms fur classes, and rooms for every purpose. The money for all this has been furnished by wealthy religious people in the city, who are determined to make some head against the depravity that rules the city, and is ruining it. Ono liquor seller, who has one of the most popular bars in the city, subscribed, and actually paid $l,OOO to the fund for the Moody meetings. When asked why he paid his money to a cause that was in direct conflict with his busi ness, he answered that he had real estate, the in come from which was greater than the profits from his bar. That the demoralization of the city, the vise and crime that made New York an undesira ble plaoe to live in, was hurting his largest inter ests. "I them howlers kin stop that kind of a thing," said he, "they are•doing me the hest turn they kin !" Not a very Christian reason, but an exceedingly practical one. But when you come to revivalists, there are two in the city who deserve more encouragement than they are getting; DWYER AND MCCAULEY Are two brands snatched from the burning, that is, one was a miserable drunkard and the other was a prize-fighter. They were converted, and both felt called upon to do something for the peo ple they had formerly known So they take lofts or cellars, just as they can, down in Water and \Tandem streets, and they hold services among the lowest and most wretched people in the city. They are mobbed, and hustled, and despitefullynsed in all sorts of ways, but they stick to it with the zeal of martyrs, and are actually accomplishing some thing. They have got together small congrega tions in both those streets, and have. actually in duced a large number of men and women to try a better life. They work without pay. or hope of pay, happy when the well-inclined give enough to get kerosene to light up their rooms. Men willing to labor for humanity where they do, deser e bet ter encour .gement than they have reocivea or are likely to. TUB BUSINIIB3 OUT-LOOK Is just as bad as ever. Last week there were for ty-six failures, some of them very large. One jewelery house went up with • liabilities to the amount of $400,000, with over $700,000 worth of goods in their store—that is goods that had oost them that amount. This $700,000 worth of goods cannot be sold to-day for one-fourth their cost, for the reason that only very few are buying jew elry, and that few can buy the best in the world, of individuals, at half the prices they eau of deal ers. A diamond never gets to be second handed, and the people who have them are willing enough to realize on them, in tips hope of holding on till the better times come. If any of your readers want a $20,000 cashmere shawl, or a $lO,OOO dia mond, they will do well to strike in now. I would buy a dozen or two myself, but for reasons. I have no sympathy for tboso who fail because of fast living, or extravagance, but that is not the class that is going under at this time. The fail ures of to-day are caused by the fearful deprecia tion of goods, and the terrible dullness of trade. It is horrible for a man who has worked hard all his life, and is getting in positioa to retire on a decent competency, to have all swept out from up der him. The sufferers of to-day are mostly of this class, and they are to be pitied. Tut EXPRESS MONOPOLY• Everybody except the Express Companies and their sudsidized Agents, ought to hope for the sue ce