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Whereas, by an act of the General Assem bly of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, entitled "An Act to regulate the General Elections within said Com monwealth," it is made the duty of the Sheriff of each enuety to give public notice of the officers to be elected, the time and place of holding said elections in the ~'-,ction districts, and the laws governing the holding .hereof: Now therefore, I, THOMAS K. lIENDERSON, Iligh Sher iff of Huntingdon county, do hereby made known that the General Election will be held in and fur said county On Tuesday, November 6th, 1877, it being the Tuesday following the first Monday of No vember, (the polls to be opened at seven o'clock a. m., end closed at seven o'clock p. m.) at which time the Fr eemen of Iluntiodon county will vote by ballot for following of ficer., namely: One person for Supreme Judge of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. One person for State Treasurer of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. One person for Auditor General of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. One person for High Sheriff of Huntingdon county. Two persons for Director of the Poor of Huntingdon comity. One person for County Surveyor of Huntingdon county. One person for Coroner of Huntingdon county. The Election Polls in all the wards, townships, boroughs, and districts of the county shall be opened at 7 o'clock ♦. M. and closed at 7 o'clock p. M. 9m lyr 3m l6m In pursuance of said act, I also hereby - make known and give notice, that the places of holding the aforesaid general election in the several election districts within the county of Huntingdon, are as tollowe, to wit : let district, composed of the township of Henderson, at the Union School House. 2d district, composed of Dublin township, at Pleasant Hill School House, near Joseph Nelson's in said township. 3d district, composed of so much of Warriorsmark town ship, as is not included in the 19th district, at the school house adjoining the town of Warriorsmark. 4th district composed of the township of Hopewell, at the house of Levi Houpt. fith district, composed of the township of Barree, at the house of James Livingston, in the town of Saulsburg, in said township. 6th district composed of the borough of Shirleysburg, and all that part of the township of Shirley not included within the limits of District No. 24, as hereinafter men tioned and described, at the house of David Fraker, dec'd, in Shirleysburg. 7th district, composed of Porter and part of Walker township, and so much of West township as is included in the following boundaries, to wit: Beginning at the south west comer of Tobias Caufman's Farm on the bank of the Little Juniata river, to the lower end of Jackson's nar rows, thence in a northwesterly direction to the most southernly part of the farm owned by Michael Maguire, thence north 40 degrees west to the top of Tussey's moun tain to intersect the line of Franklin township, thence along the said line to the Little Juniata river, thence down the same to place of beginning, at the public school house opposite the German Reformed Church, in the bor ough of Alexandria. Bth district, composed of the township of Franklin, at the public School House, in the village of Franklinville, in said township. 9th district, composed of Tell township, at the Union choot house, near the Union meeting house in said twp. ;11th district, composed of Springfield township, at the school house, near Hugh Madden's, in said township. 11th district, composed of Union township, at the Railroad school house, in said township. filth district, composed of Brady township, at the Centre :UllOOl house, in said township. 13th district, composed of Morris township, at public school house No. 2, in said township. 14th district composed of that part of West township not included in 7th and 26th districts, at The public school house the farm now owned by Miles Lewis (formerly owned by Jam, Ennis,) in [said township. 15th district, composed of Walker township, at the house of Benjamin Magahy, in McConnelstown. 16th district, composed of the township of Tod, at the Green school house. in said township. 17th district, composed of Oneida township, at Centre Union School House. . . 18th district, composed of Cromwell township, at the Rock Hill Schpol House. 19th district, composed of the borough of Birmingham with the several tracts of land near to and attached to the same, now owned and occupied by Thomas M. Owens, John R. McCelan, Andrew Robeson, John Gensimer and Wm. Gensimer. and the tract of land now owned by George and John Shoenberger, known as the Porter tract, situate in the township of NVarriorsmark, at the public school house in said borough. 20th district, composed of the township of Cass, at the public school house in Cassialle, in said township. 21st district, composed of the township of Jackson at the public house of Edward Littlee, at McAleavy'e Fort, in said township. 22d district, composed of the township of Clay, at the public school house in Scottsville. 29d district, composed of the township of Penn, at the public school house in Grafton, in said township. 24th district, composed and created as follows, to wit : That all that part of Shirley township, Huntingdon coun ty, lying and being within the following described boun daries(except the borough of Mount Union,) Namely:— Beginning at the intersection of Union and Shirley town ship lines with the Juniata river, on the south side there of; thence along maid Union township line for the distance of dues miles from said river; thence eastwardly, by a straight line, to the point where the main road from Eby's mill to Germany valley, crosses the summit of Sandy ridge; thence northwardly along the summit of Sandy ridge to the river Juniata, and thence up said river to the place of beginning, shall hereafter form a separate election district ; that the gnalitied voters of said election district shall hereafter hol a their general and township elections in the public school house in Mount Union, in said district. 25th district, composed of all that territory lying north eastward of a line beginning at the Juniata river and run ning thence in a direct line along the centre of 4th Street in the borough of Huntingdon, to the line of Oneida town ship, constituting the First Ward of said borough, at the south east window of the House. _ . 26th district, composed of all that territory lying west of the First Ward and east of the centre of 7th street composing the second Ward at the Engine House in the borough aforesaid. 27th district, composed of all that territory lying north and west of the Second Ward and south of a line begin ning at the Juniata river, and running thence eastward in a direct line along the centre of 11th street to the !ine of Onside township constituting the Third Ward, and also those portions of Walker and Porter townships formerly attached to the east ward, at the office of James Simpson, No. sai Washington street, in said borough. 28th district, composed of all that territory north of the third ward of said borough, constituting the Fourth Ward, at the public School House near Cherry Alley, in said borough. 29th district, composed of the borough of Petersburg and that part of West township, west and north of a line between Henderson and West townships, at or near the Warm Springs, to the Franklin township line on the top of Tussey's mountain, so as to include in the new district the houses of David Waldsmith, Jacob Longenecker, Thos. Hamer, James Porter, and John Wall, at the school house in the borough of Petersburg. 30th district, composed of Juniata township at Hawu's school house, in said township. 31st district, composed of Carbon township, recent'y erected out of a part of the territory of Tod township to wit: commencing at a chestnut oak, on the summit of Terrace mountain, at the Hopewell township line opposite the dividing ridge, in the Little Valley ; thence south fitty two degrees, east three hundred and sixty perches to a stone heap on the Western Summit of Broad Top moun tain; thence north sixty seven degrees, east three hun dred and twelve perches, to a yellow pine • thence south fifty-two degrees, east seven hundred and seventy-two perches to a Chestnut Oak; thence south fourteen degrees, east three hundred and fifty one perches, to a Chestnut at the east end of Henry S Green's land; thence south thirty one and a half degrees, east two hundred and ninety-feu perches to a Chestnut Oak on the summit ofa spur of Broad 'Fop, on the western side of John Terrel's farm : south, sixty-five degrees, east nine hundred and thirty four perches, to &stone heap on the Clay township line, at the public School House, in the village of Dudley. 32d district, composed of the borough of Coalmont, at the public sphoel house in said borough. 33d district, composed of Lincoln township, beginning at a pine on the summit of Tussey mountain on the line between Blair and Huntingdon counties, thence by the division line south, fifty-eight degrees east seven hund red and ninety-eight perches to a black oak in middle of township; thence forty-two and one half degrees east eight hundred and two perches to a pine on summit of Terrace ; thence by line of Toil township to corner of Penn township ; thence by the lines of the township of Penn to the summit of Tussey mountain ; thence along said summit with line of Blair county to place of begin ning at Coffee Ran School House. 34th district, composed of the borough:of Mapleton,at the public school house in said borough. 35th district, composed of the borough of Mount Union, at the public school house in said borough. 36th district, composed of the borough of Broad Top Citz, at the public school house in said borough 34th district, composed of the borough of Three Springs at the public school house in said borough. 38th district, composed of the borough of Shade Gap, at the public school house in said borough. 39th district, the borough of Orbisonia, at the public school house. 40th district, composed of the borough of Marklesburg, at the main public school house in said borough. 41st district, composed of the borough of Saltillo, at the public school house in said borough. The 15th Section of Art. 8, of the Constitution, provides : FACTION 15. No person shall be qualified to serve as an election officer who shall hold or shall within two months bass held an office, appointment or employment in or nodes the government of the United States or of this State, or of any city, or county, or of any municipal board; commission or trust in any city, save only justices of the peace, and alderman, notaries public and persons in military services of the State ; nor shall any election officer be eligible to ary civil office to be filled at en election at which he shall serve, save only to such subordinate municipal or local officers, below the grade of city or county officers as shall be designated by general law. _ _ An act of • Assembly entitled "an act relating to the elections of this Commonwealth," passed July 2, 1819, provides as follows, viz : "That the Inspectors and Judges shall meet at the res pective pieces appointed for holding the election in the district it which they respectively belong; before 7 o'clock in the morning of the let Tuesday of November, andeach mid inspector shall appoint one clerk, who shall be qual ified voter of such district. _ — lit case the person who shall have received the second highest number of votes for inspector shall not attend on the day of the electian, then the person who shall have received the second highest number of votes for Judge at the next preceding election shall act as inspector in his place. And in case the person who shall have received the highest number of votes for inspector shall not attend, the person elected Judge shall appoint an inspector in his place, and in case the person elected Judge shall not attend, then the inspector who received the highest num ber of votes shall appoint a Judge in his plate ; and if any vacancy shall continue in the board for the space of one hour after the time died by law for the spelling of the election, the qualified voters of the township, ward or dis trict for which such officer shall have been elected, present at such election shall elect one, of their number to till the vacancy. It shall be the duty of the several assessors of each dis trict to attend at the place of holding every general, special or township election, during the whole time said election is kept open, for the purpose of giving information to the inspectors and judges, when called on, in relation to the right of any person assessed by them to vote at such election, or such other matters in relation to the assess ment of voters as the said inspectors or either of them shall from time to time require. 60 ...... 300 SPECIAL ATTENTION is hereby directed to the Bth Article of the New Constitution. Szerteer 1. Every male citizen twenty—ono years of age, possessing the following qualifications, shall be entitled to vote at ail elections. First.—He shall have been a citizen of the United States at least one month. Seeond.—He shall have resided in the State one year, (or if having previously been a qualified elector or native born eittsen of the State, he shall have removed from and returned, then six months,) immediately preceding the election. T 1 ii d.—lle shall have resided in the election district The 11untillgclan ournal. Election Proclamation [GOD BAVZ THI CoNNONWEALTII.I Election Proclamation where he shall offer to vote at least two months immedi ately preceding the election. Fourth.—!f twenty-two years of age and upwards, he shall have paid within two years a State or county tax, which shall have been assessed at least two months anti paid at least one month before the election. By Section 1 of act of 30th of March, 1866, it is provided as follows That the qualified voters of the several counties of this Commonwealth, at all general, township, borough and special elections, are hereby hereafter authorized and re quired to vote, by ticket,, printed or written, or partly printed or partly written, ,everally classified as follows : One ticket shall embrace the ::woes of all judges of courts voted for, and to be labeled outside "judiciary ;" one tick et shall embrace the names of all county officers voted fur including office of Senator and members of Assembly, if voted for, and members of Congress, if voted for, and be labeled, "county;" one ticket shall embrace the name of all township officers voted for, and be labeled,"township;" one ticket shall embrace the names of all borough officers voted for, and shall be labeled "borough;" and each class shall be deposited in separate ballot boxes. SecrioN 13. For the purpose of voting no person shall be deemed to have gained a residence by reason of his presence or lost it by reason of his absence, while em ployed in the service, either civil or military, of this State or of the United States, nor while engaged in the navigation of the waters of this State or of the United States, or on the high seas, nor while a stu dent of any institution of learning, nor while kept in any Poor house or other asylum at public expense, nor while confined in public prison. SECTION 4. All elections by the citizens shall be by bal lot. Every ballot shall be numbered in the order in which it shall be received, and number recorded by the election officers on the list of voters, opposite the name of the elector who presents the ballot. Any elector may write his same upon his ticket or cause the same to be written *hereon and attested by a citizen of the district. The election officers shall be sworn or affirmed not to dis close how any elector shall have voted unless required to do so as witnesses in a judicial proceeding. SECTION 6. Whenever any of the qualified electors of this Commonwealth shall be in actual military service, under a requisition from the President of the United States or by the authority of this Commonwealth, such electors may exercise the right of suffrage in all elections by citizens, under such regulations as are or shall be pro scribed by law, as fully as if they were present at their usual place of election, SECTION 7. All laws regulating the holding of elections by the citizens or for the registration of electors shall be uniform throughout the State but no elector shall be de prived of the privilege of voting by reason of ids name not being registered. SECTION 9. Any person who shall, while a taindidate for office, lie guilty of bribery, fraud, or willful violation of any election law, shall be forever disqualified from hold ing an office of trust or profit in this Commonwealth, and any person convicted of willful violation of the election laws shall, in addition to any penalties provided by law, be deprived of the right of suffrage absolutely for a term of four years. And also to the following Acts of Assembly now in force in this State, viz Si mos S. At the opening of the polls at all elections it shall be the duty of the judges of election for their respective districts to designate one of the inspectors, whose duty it shall be to have in custody the registery of voters, and to make the entries therein pequired by law; and it shall be the duty of the other said inspectors to re ceive and number the ballots presented at said election. SECTION 9. AU elections by the citizens shall be by bal lot ; every ballot voted shall be numbered in the order in which it shall be received, and the number recorded by the clerks on the list of voters opposite the name of the elector from whom received. And any voter voting two or more tickets, the several tickets so voted shall each be numbered with the number corresponding with the num ber to the name of the voter. Any elector may write his name upon the ticket, or cause the same to be written thereon, and attested by a citizen of the district. In ad dition to the oath now prescribed by law to be taken and subscribed by election officers, they shall severally be sworn or affirmed not to disclose how any elector shall have voted, unless required to do so as witnesses in &ju dicial proceeding. All judges, inspectors, clerks, and over seers of any election held under this act, shall, before en tering upon their duties, be duly sworn or armed in the presence of each other. The judge shall be sworn by the minority inspector, if there shall be such minority inspec tor, and in case there be no minority inspector, then by a justice of the peace or alderman, and the inspectors, overseers, and clerks shall be sworn by the judge. Certificates of such swearing or af firming shall be duly made out and signed by the officers so sworn, and attested by the officer who administered the oath. If any judge or minority inspector refuses or tails to swear the officers of election in the manner required by this act, or if any officer of election shall act without being first duly sworn, or if any officer of election shall sign the form of oath without being duly sworn, or if any judge or minority inspector shall certify that any officer was sworn when he was not, it shall be deemed a misde meanor, and upon conviction, the officer or officers somf fending shall be fined not exceeding one thousand dollars, or imprisoned not to exceed one year, or both, in the dis cretion of the court. I also give official notice to the electors of Huntingdon County, that by an act entitled "An Act further suppli menial to the act relative to the election of this Common wealth, approved Jan. 30, A. D. 1874. That it is provided in Section 10, that on theday of elec tion any person whose name is not on the said list, and claiming the right to vote at the said election, shall pro duceat least one qualified voter of the district as a wit ness to the residence 01 the claimant in the district in which he claims to be a voter, for a period of at least two months next preceding said election, which witness shall be sworn or affired and subscribe a written or partly writ ten and partly printed affidavit to the facts stated by him, which affidavits shall define clearly where the residence is, of the person so claiming to be a voter ; and the person so claiming the right to vote shall also take and subscribe a written or partly written and partly printed affidavit, stating to the best of his knowledge and belief, where and when he was born; that he has been a citizen of the Uni ted States for one month, and of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; that he has resided in the Commonwealth one year, or of formerly a qualified elector or a native born citizen thereof, and has removed therefrom and returned ; that lie has resided therein six months next preceeding said election ; that he has resided in the district in which he claims to be a voter for the period of at least two months immediately preceeding said election ; that he has not moved into the district for the purpose of voting therein ; that he has if 22 years of age and upwards, paid a State or County tax within two years, which was assessed at least two months and paid at least one month, before said election ; and if a naturalized citizen shall also state when, where and hy o wlett court he was naturalized, and shall also produce Ins certificate of naturalization for ex amination ; that said affidavit shall also state when and where the tax claimed to be paid by the affiant was as sessed, and when, where and to whom paid ; and the tax receipt therefor shall be produced fur examination, un less the affiant shall state in his affidavit that it has been lost or destroyed, or that he never received any but if the person so claiming the right to vote shall take and subscribe an affidavit, that he is a native-born citizen of the United States, (or if horn elsewhere, shall state the fact in his affidavit, and shall produce evidence that he has been natnralized, or that he is entitled to citizenship by reason of his father's naturalization ;) and shall further state in his affidavit that he is, at the time of making the affidavit, between the ages of twenty-one and twenty-two years ; that he has been a citizen of the United States one month, and has resided in the state one year, or, if a na tive-born citizen of the State and removed therefrom and returned, that he has resided therein six months next preceding said election, and in the election district imme mediately two months preceding such election, he shall be entitled to vote. although he shall not have paid taxes ; the said affidavits of all persons making such claims, and the affidavit of the witnesses to their residence shall be preserved by the election board, and at the close of the election they shall be enclosed with the list of voters, tally list and other papers required by law to be filed by the Return Judges with the Prothonotary and shall remain on file within the Prothonotary's office, subject to caeca nation,as other election papers are ; if the election officers shall find that the applicant possesses all the legal qualifications of a voter he shall be perniitted to vote, and his name shall be added to the list of taxables by the election officers, the word "tax" being added where the claimant claims to vote on tax, and the word "age" where he claims to vote on age; the same words being added by the clerk in each case respectfully on the lists of persons voting at such election. Also, that in Section 11th of said Act, it is provided that it shall be lawful for any qualified citizen of the district, notwithstanding the name of the proposed voter is con tained on the list of the resident taxables, to challenge the vote of such person ; whereupon the same proof of the right of suffrage as is now required by law shall be tiub licly made and acted on by the election board, and the vote admitted or rejected, according to the evidence; ev ery person claiming to be a naturalized citizen shall be required to produce his naturalization certificate at the election before voting, except where he has been for five years, consecutively, a voter in the district in which he offers his vote ; and on the vote of such person being re ceived, it shall be the duty of the election officers to write or stamp on such certificate the word "voted," with the day, month and year ' • and if any election efficer:or officers shall receive a second vote on the same day, by virtue of the same certificate, excepting where sons are entlted to vote by virtue of the naturalization of their fathers, they and the person who shall offer such second vote, upon se offending shall be guilty of high misdemeanor and on conviction thereof, be feed or imprisoned, or both, at the discretion of the Court; but the fine shall not ex ceed five hundred; dollars in each case, nor the imprison ment more than one year ; the like punishment shall be inflicted on conviction o the officers of election who shall neglect or refuse to make, or cause to be made, the endorsement required as aforesaid on said naturalization certificate. Also that in Section 12 of said Act, it is provided that if any election officer shall refuse or neglect to require such proof of the right of suffrage as is prescribed by this law or the laws to which this is a supplement, from any person offering to vote whose name is not on the list of assessed voters, or whose right to vote is challenged by any qual ified voter present, and shall admit such person to vote without requiring such proof, every person so offending shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be sentenced for every such offense, to pay a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or to undergo an imprisonment not more than one year, or either or both, at the discretion of the Court. SECTION 13. As soon as the polls shall close, the officers of election shall proceed to count all the votes cast for each candidate voted for, and make a full return of the same in triplicate, with a return sheet in addition, in all of which the votes received by each candidate shall be given after his or her name, first in words and again in figures, and shall be signed by all of said officers and cer tified by overseers, if any, or if n A so certified, the over seers and any officer refusing to sign or certify, or either of them, shall write upon each of the returns his or their reasons for not signing or certifying them. The vote, as soon as counted, shall also be publicly and fully declared from the window to the citizens present, and a brief state ment showing the votes received by each candidate shall be made and signed by the election officers as soon as the vote is counted, and the same shall be immediately posted up on the door of the election house for information of the public. The triplicate returns shall be enclosed in envel opes and be sealed in presence of the officers, and one en vel pe, with the unsealed return sheet, given to the Judge, which shall contain one list of voters, tally-paper, and oaths of officers, and another of said envelopes shall be given to the minority inspector. All judges living within twelve miles of the prothonotary'e office, or within twenty-four miles, if their residence be in a town, village or city upon the line of railroad leading to the county seat, shall, be fore two o'clock post meridan of the day after the election, and all other judges shall, before twelve o'clock mei idan of the second day after the election, deliver said return, together with return sheet, to the prothonotary of the court o f common pleas of the county, which said return sheet shall be filed, and the day and hour of filing mark ed thereon, and shall be preserved by the prothonotary for public inspection. At twelve o'clock on the said second day following any election, the prothonotary of the court of common pleas shall present the said returns to the said court. In counties where there is no resident president t'residentjudge, the associate judges shall perform the duties imposed upon the court of common pleas, which shall convene for said purpose; the returns presented by the prothonotary shall be opened by said court and com puted by such of its officers and such sworn assistants as the court shall appoint, in the presence of the judge or judges of said court, and the returns certified and certifi cates of election issued under the seal of the court as is now required to be done by return judges ; and the vote as so computed and certified, shall be made a matter of record in said mutt. The sessions of the said court shall be open to the public. And in case the return of any election dis trict shall be missing when the returns are presented, or HUNTINGDON, PA , FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1877. Election Proclamation. in case of complaint of a qualified elector under oath, charging palpable fraud or mistake, and particularly spec ifying the alleged fraud or mistake, of where fraud or mistake is apparent on the return, the court shall examine the return, and if in the judgment of the court it shall be necessary to :dust return, said court shall issue sum mary process against the election officers and overseers, if any, of the election district complained of, to bring them forthwith into court, with all election papers in their possession ; and if palpable mistake or fraud shall be dis covered, it shall, upon such hearing as may be deemed ne cessary to eulighten the court, be corrected by the court and so certified ; but all allegations of palpable fraud or mistake shall Le decided by the said court within three days after the day the returns are brought into court for computation ; and the said inquiry shall be directed only to palpable fraud or mistake, and shall not be deemed a judicial adjudication to conclude any contest now or here after to be provided by law; and the other of the of said triplicate returns ehall be placed in the box and sealed up with the ballots. Also in Section IT of said Act, it is provided that the re spective assessors, inspectors and judges of the election shall each have the power to administer oaths to any person claiming the right to be assessed or the right of suffrage, or in regard to any other matter or thing requi red to be done or inquired into by any one of said officers under this act ; and any wilful false swearing by any per son in relation to any matter and thing concerning which they shall be lawfully interrogated by any of said officers or overseers shall be punished as perjury. SECTION 5. Electors shall in all cases except treason, felony and breach or surety of the peace, be privilleged from arrest during their attendance on elections and in going to and returning therefrom. Secriors 8. Any person who shall give, or promise or offer to give, to an elector, any money, reward, or other valuable consideration for his vote at an election, or for withholding the same, or who shall give or promise to give such consideration to any other person or party for such elector's vote or for the withholding thereof, and any elector who shall receive or agree to receive, for himself or for another, any money, reward or other valuable con sideration for his vote at an election, or for withholding the same shall thereby forfeit the right to vote at such election, and any elector whose right to vote shall be chal lenged for such cause before the election officers, shall be required to owearor affirm that the matter of the chal lenge is untrue before Ida vote shall be received. SECTION 19. Any assessor, election officer or person ap pointed as an overseer, who shall neglect er refuse to per form any duty enjoined by this act, without reasonable or legal cause, shall be subject to a penalty of one hundred dollars; and if any assessor shall knowingly assess any person as a voter who is not qualified, or shall wilfully refuse to assess any one who is qualified, he shall be guil ty of a misdemeanor in office and on conviction be punish ed by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or im prisonment not exceeding two years, or both, at the dis cretion of the court, and also be subject to an action for damages by the party aggrieved ; and if any person shall fraudulently alter, add to, deface or destroy any list of voters made out as directed by this act, or tear down or remove the same front the place where it has been fixed, with fraudulent or mischievous intent, or for any improp er purpose, the person so offending shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding two years, or both, at the discretion of the court; and if any person shall, by violence and intimida tion, drive, or attempt to drive from the polls, any person or persons appointed by the court to act as overseers of an election, in any way wilfully prevent said overseers from performing the duties enjoined upon them by this act, ouch persons shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment riot exceeding two years, or both at the discretion of the court. Any person who shall on the day of any election, visit a polling place in any election district at which he is not entitled to vote, and shall use intimidation or violence fur the purpose of preventing any officer of election from performing the duties required of him by law, or for the purpose of preventing any qualified voter of the dis trict exercising his right to vote, or from exercising his right to challenge any person ()tiering to vote, such per son shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and apon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not ex ceeding one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding two years, or both, at the discretion of the court. Any clerk, overseer or election officer, who shall disclose how any elector shall have voted, unless required to dose in a judicial proceeding, shall be guilty of a mis demeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by im prisonment not exceeding two years, or both, in the discretion of the court. SEC. 4. On the petition of five or more citizens of any election district, setting forth that the appointment of overseers is a reasonable precaution to secure the purity and fairness of the election in said district; it shall be the duty of the court of common pleas of the proper county, all the law judges of the said court able to act at the time concurring, to appoint two judicious, soberand intelligent citizens of the said district belonging to different political parties, overseers of election to supervise the proceedings of the election officers thereof, and to make report of the same as they may be required by such court. Said over seers shall be persons qualified to serve upon election boards and shall have the right to be present with the of ficers of such election during the whole tints the same is held, the votes counted, and the returns made out and signed by the election officers; to keeps list of the voters, if they see proper; to challenge any person offerog to vote, and interrogate hint and his witnesses under oath, in regard to his right of suffrage at said election, and to examine his papers produced ; and the officers of said election are required to afford to said overseers, so selected and appointed every convenience and facility for the dis charge of their duties; and if said election officers shall refuse to permit said overseers to be present, and perform their duties as aforesaid, such officer or officers shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined not exceeeing one thousand dollars, or imprison ment not exceeding one year, or both, at the discretion of the court: or if the overseers shall be driven away from the polls by violence or intimidation, all the votes polled in such election district may be rejected by the proper tribunal trying a contest under said election, or a part or portion of such votes aforesaid may be counted, as such tribunal may deem necessary to a just and proper dispo sition of the case. If any person shall prevent or attempt to prevent any officer of an election under this act from holding such election, or use or pireaten any violence to any such offi cer, and shall inte*upt or improperly interfere with him in the execution of Iris duty, shall block up or attempt to block up the window or avenue to any window where the same may be holden, or shall riotously disturb the peace of such election, or shall use or practice intimidation, threats, force or violence, with the design to influence un duly or overawe any elector, or prevent him from voting, or to restrain the freedom of choice, such persons on con viction shall be tined in any sum not exceeding five hun dred dollars, to be imprisoned for any time not less than one nor more than twelve months, and if it shall be shown to the court where the trial of :such offense shall be had, that the person so offending was not a resident of the city, ward or district where the said offense was committed , and not entitled to vote therein, on conviction, he shall be sentenced to pay a fine not less than one hundred net more then one thousand dollars, and be imprisoned not less than six months nor more than two years. "If any person or persons shall make any bet or wager upon the result of an election within the Commonwealth, or shall offer to make any such bet or wager, either by verbal proclamation thereof or by any written or printed advertisement, or invite any person or persons to make such bet or wager, upon conviction thereof heor they shall forfeit and pay three times the amount so bet or offered to be bet. Election officers will take notice that the act entitled Further Supplement to the Election laws of this Com monwealth," disqualifying deserters from the army of the United States from voting, has recently been declared un constitutional by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, is now null and void, and that all persons formerly disqualified thereunder are now lawful voters, if otherwise qualified. SEC. 111. It shall be the duty of every mayor, sheriff, deputy sheriff, alderman, justice Odle peace, and constable or deputy constable of every city, county and township or district within this Commonwealth, whenever called upon by any officer of an election, or by any three qualified electors thereof, to clear any window, or avenue to any window, at the place of the general election, which shall be obstructed in such a way as to prevent voters from approaching the same, and en neglect or refusal to do on such requisition, said officer shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor in office, and on conviction, shall be fined in any sum not less than one hundred nor more than one thousand dollars ; and it shall be the duty of the respect ive constables of each ward, district or township within this Commonwealth, to be present in person or by deputy, at the place of holding such elections in said ward, district or township, for the purpose of preserving the peace, as aforesaid. Sac. 112. It shall be the duty of every peace officer, as aforesaid, who shall be present at any such disturbance at an election as is described in this act, to report the same to the next court of quarter sessions, and also the names of the witnesses who can prove the same; and it shall be the duty of said court to cause indictments to be preferred before the grant jury against the persons so offending. SEC. 113. If it shall be made to appear to any court of quarter sessions of this Commonwealth that any riot or dis turbance occurred at the time and place of holding any elec tion under this act, and the constables who are enjoined by law to attend at such elections have not given information thereof, according to the provisions of this act, it shall be the duty of said court to cause the officer or officers, so ne glecting the duty aforesaid, to be proceeded against by in dictment for a misdemeanor in office, and on con7iction thereof, the said officer shall be fined in any sum not ex ceeding one hundred dollars. Sac. 114. 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With hands uplifted, see ! she kneels beside the sufferer's bed, And prays that He will spare her boy and take herself instead. She gets her answer from the child—soft fall these words from him : "Mother, the angels do's° smile, and beckon 'Little Jim;' I have no pain, dear mother, now, but 0, I am so dry— Just moisten poor Jim's lips again, and mother, don't ye cry." With gentle, trembling haste she held a tea-cup to his lips; He smiled to thank her as be took three little tiny sips— " Tell father when he comes from work, I said good night to him ; And, mother, now I'll go to sleep." Alas, poor "Little Jim." She saw that he was dying—that the child she lov ed so dear, Had uttered the last words that she might ever hope to hear; The cottage door is opened—the collier's step is heard-- The father and the mother meet, but neither speaks a word— He felt that all was over—he knew the child was dead ; He took the candle to his han.l and walked toward the bed ; His quivering lips gave token of the grief he'd fain conceal— And see! his wife has joined him—the stricken couple kneel ; With hearts bow d down with sadness, they hum bly ask of Him, In heaven once more to meet again their own poor "Little Jim." E4e *Orly-Utter. INEZ ; - OR - TWO LIVES WRECKED• Down, down, down, bathed in all the re splendent glow of an autumn sunset, sinks the sun ; so beautiful, so picturesque, in the various hues and changing colors of nebulous light, now orange, now purple, and now a deep crimson. I stand by the little barred window of my prison cell and eagerly watch the changing scene, the last time I shall ever see it. Oh heaven I the thought nearly crazes me ; and yet whose fault is it? No one's but my own ; mine and a hellish, devilish, maddening ap petite for rum, inherited from my college de bauches. To-morrow I die ; die for a crime I committed when maddened by that demon, All day long I have beard the steady rap, rap, of the carpenters' hammers as they con structed the scaffold, off of which I am to step into—eternity; into that black, void hereafter from which there is no returning. Oh 1 Inez! Inez! it might have been other than it is, I might have been a man, respected, loved, honored and trusted by my fellow men ; I was so once, I held my head as high as any one ; I laughed with the gayest, moved in the best society, and if any one had told me then in those gay old college days, when the wine went round, and the jests of rollicking com panions made merry the nights, if they had told me that I should one day lie here a felon. branded with the crime of murder, I would have considered it an insult and a hundred reckless companions would have been eager to avenge me. How can I tell the story of my downfall and ruin ? Where shall I begin ? My , Itollege days were wild and reckless, but I was no worse there than the rest; but there I paved the way, and the road has been easy since then : down, down, and to-morrow I expiate my worthless life upon the gallows. I graduated from college at the head of my class when I was twenty-four; a bright future was before me then, opportunities presented themselves, and if I had improved them, I would not have been here. From col lege I went to Saratoga, and it was there I met my "destiny." Inez Bainbridge was the queen of the sea son, tall, graceful, and faultless in her ways, she brought scores of admirers to her feet and among them was myself. To say that I loved her, would inadequately express my feelings; I worshipped her, she was all in all to me, and ere two months had passed away I pressed upon her lips our betrothal kiss. Swiftly the time passed away, the season ended, and we returned home, Ines to New York, and Ito St. Louis. We corresponded regularly, and oh what joy I experienced iu reading her letters, so sweet, so tender, so full of affection. It was not long before I noticed a change, longer intervals elapsed be tween her letters, and then they were short, and very cold, at last they ceased altogether. Four weeks and no news from Inez; was she sick ? I could not believe she was false to me. No, no, I could not, would not believe it. Another week passed by and still no word. I could not bear this suspense longer, the next day I started for New York. I was seated in the smoking car reading, when my attention was arrested by the con versation of two gentlemen seated opposite me. "I suppose you have heard the latest city news ?" said one. '°No ; what is it ?" "Why, the greatest catch yet ; all New York is wild over it ; you knew Inez Bambridge, she that was going with that St. Louis chap at Saratoga last season ; we all thought it would prove a match there, but something broke it up, and now she is to be married to that En glish gentleman, Lord Carslile." TLe half-smoked cigar dropped from my nerveless fingers, as he stopped speaking. I staggered across to where they were seated. "Sir I" I began, "excuse me, but what did I understand you 'to say just now ?" The last speaker looked at me quizzically a moment, then answered. "Why, that Miss Bambridge, of New York is soon to be married to an Englishman, Lord Carslile." I tottered back to my seat, his words still ringing in my ears. As I fell back upon the cushions, I heard him say : "Fred, I'll bet you two to one that's the St. Louis chap Inez was going with last season ; did you see bow wild he looked when be spoke ?" "My God 1 Inez false to me ? Oh heaven I the thought made me wild ; I had loved her, madly, fiercely, she was my;idol, the goddess whom I worshiped; and to think that another man would clasp her to his bosom and press burning kisses upon the lips I thought were wholly my own, nearly drove me mad. I had not drank a drop since first I met Inez ; but now brought on by my despair, the old mad dening, burning thirst for ruin came back with tenfold power, and I could not resist it. I arrived in New York, and that night for the first time in sixteen months I partook of that liquid insanity, that nepenthe for broken heart:,, that surcease for sorrow; I drank; drank deeply to drown my despair, to quell that fearful gnawing at my heart. What car ed I now for any one, or any one fcr me ? I was mad, wild peals of maniacal laughter would burst from my lips, I was wild with the sorrow I had endured, and frenzied by the rum I had poured down my burning throat— yes mad, mad, mad. I was leaning against the bar brooding over my trouble, when I was accosted by a man who had just entered. "Stand out of my way sir, and let me pass." "You 1 Who are you ?" . _ "Who am I? Ili teach you who I am, sir. I am Lord Carslile. Out of my way, you insolent drunkard." My eyes flashed fire ; every word he spoke burnt like molten lead into my soul. This then was Lord Carslile ; the man who had stolen Inez from me ; who had robbed me of my darling ; the thought of it made me des perate and drawing a revolver J fired three shots in rapid succession at him ; with a wild cry of "My God, he has killed me !" he fell lifeless to the floor. I did not try to escape. The awful thought of what I had done held me spellbound, rooted me to the spot, and there I stood with wide staring eyes gazing at the bloody body of my victim. I could not tear myself away ; my eyes were riveted to it, and often I see it now, with its ghastly upturned face, wild, glaring eyeballs fixed and glassy, turned full upon me, the features motionless and rigid, and a dark pool of blood with one tiny stream marking a red course over the floor ; and there I stood, till the officers came and arrested me, placed the cold irons upon my wrists and brought me here. And what of Inez ? The news of Lord Carslile's murder spread like wild fire over the city. In less than an hour after it had transpired the news was broken to Iner. With a wild piercing shriek she fell fainting to the floor. She recovered consciousness a raving ma niac, and to-day, chained hand and foot, is confined in a madhouse. Yes, that is all. I have seen the sun set for the last time. To-morrow at noon I mount the scaffold—a last look at this beautiful earth —the black cap will be drawn—the lever touched—a lifeless body swaying in the air— and my soul all stained with its fearful crime will be hurled before its Maker. *elect istellang. Those Circus Bills. AM AGED FEMALE ACROBAT CONFUSES A MODEST YOUNG MAN. From the Detroit Free Press.] She had one in her hand as she came up stairs, and she didn't say a word until after she had wiped her spectacles, placed them ou her nose, unfolded the bill and read a few of the headlines. She was old -fashioned, in look. There were strings to her bonnet, she had no bustle, her gray hair was combed down smoothly, and there was only eleven yards in her black alpa ca dress. "Young man, don't you know that circuses are awful liars and humbugs ?" she finally in quired. The man at the table leaned back in his chair, and refused to express an opinion. "Well, I know it," she continued, in a pos itive tone, "and I believe they get wuss every day. Now see here—listen to this : "A got.. geous panorama of amazing wonders—a gi gantic combination of astonishing acrobatic talent.' That's all right on the poster, but hey they got 'em ? I'd like to see one o' them an imals." "You're laboring under a mistake, madam. It means a grand display of natural curiosities, and informs the public that the proprietor has secured many first-class acrobats—the chaps who stand on their heads, turn head over heels, and cut up so many monkey shines." "It does, eh ?" she mused ; "waal, do you believe it takes a smart person to keel over ?" "Well, one has to have a good deal of train- ing." "They do, ell," she remarked, as she put her umbrella in the corner and spit on her hands ; "I'll show you that you are deceived ! I'm as old woman, but if I can't—" "Madam, hold on—don't do it I" exclaimed the man behind the table. "I can flop right over there and never shake my bonnet," she said, as she rose up. "I know you can, madam, but don"t. I am here alone, and I—l don't want you to. I'd rather you wouldn't. If you are determined on it, I shall leave the room !" "Well, you know I can do it, and that's enough. You may be right about what that means, but see here—hear this : 'The high ways ablaze with resplendent chariots--.the grandest pikgoant on earth.' I've been to lots of eirousses, young man, and I never saw a pa geant yet. If they had one, the door of his cage wasn't open." "You are also in error there. The bill re fers to the fact that the great number of wag ons, chariots, Sze., make up a sight worth see ing as they pass along the street." "Um-m-m," she muttered, as she folded the bill over; "I don't see why they couldn't have said so, then. And now see here—read that : 'Sig. Govinoff in his aerial flights.' Now, then, is that a boa constructor or cundurango?" "It is a man, madam—one of the perform ers. His real name is probably Jones, but that isn't grand enough, and so they put him down as 'Sig. Govinoff.' He is the man who jumps off a rope, turns over twice, and comes down all right." "He is, eh ? We'll if he's got an idea that he's the smartest man alive, I watt to disap point him. I never did try to turn over twice, but I'll do it right here and now or break my neck ! Git the things •fli'n that table I" "Stay, madam—don't. I wouldn't have you do it for fifty dollars." "Just once I" "For heaven's sake, madam, get down offi'n this table—here—here's a dollar if you won't do it I" "I don't want your money, and I won't try it if you're so scart ; but I don't want no cir cus going around talking about aryal flights and deceiving the people !" She sat down, the young man wiped the sweat off his brow; and presently she remark ed: "And here's another thing, right here : 'A sparkling asterisk, flashing across the field of the cloth of gold—Mons. Gomerque in his great delineations of human character. I'd like to know who she is ?" "Madam, that's a man—a man who deline ates"character." 'How ?" "Why, be makes up faces—e.zpresses mirth, sorrow, joy, and so forth." . . . _ "He does, eh ? Well, what's thr.t to blow about ? Make up faces—see here 1" And she shut her eyes, run her tongue out, and looked like the bottom of a brass kettle wh:ch had been kicked by a mule. "They are humbugs, sir 1' she said as she drew her tongue in, "and d'ye 'spose I'd pay fifty cents to go to one ?" "They Lire quite entertaining as a general thing." "They are, eh ? Entertaining, eh ? Well, if I can't do more entertaining in five minutes than a circus can do all day, I'll leave my bonnet up here I Here, hold on to this chair I" "Madam, I earnestly hope you are not going to perform any trick ?'' I hain't, eh? You just hold on the legs of this chair 1" "I can't, madam—l wouldn't do it for all diamond pins in Syracuse ! Go away, madam, go home I'm in an awful hurry !" "Well, I won't then; but when I say circus es are humbugs, I can prove it. I don't keel two cents for their big words, and their pa noplies, pageants, asterisks, giraffes, aryals, georgouses and ourang-outang—l can beat 'em all holler myself!" And she took of her spectacles, lifted her umbrella, and went down stairs. A Simple Plan of Ventilation. The following simple method for ventilating ordinary sleeping and dwelling—rooms is re commended by Mr. Hinton in his "Physiology for Practical Use :" "A piece of wood, three inches high, and exactly as long as the breadth of the window, is to be prepared. Let the sash be now raised, the slip of wood pla ced on the sill, and the sash drawn closely up on it. If ti' slip uas been well fitted, there will be no draft in cons ience of this dis placement of the sash at its lower part; hut the top of the lower sash will overlap the bot tom of the upper one, and between the two bars perpendicular curre is of air, not fell as draft, will enter and leave the room." TRAGACANTH .T , ke of powderec. tragacanth, 1 drachm ; glycerine, 6 drachr4 ; water enough to make in all 10 ounces. Hub the tragacanth in a mortar with the glycerine and then add the water. This wall p.oduce a mucilage at once of excellent quality. "I's saddest when I sing" exclaimed a Sun day evening warbler. "And so is the neigh borhood," sighed a voice on the street, Autumn Woods. Changed are the summer dews Into frost in the chilly air; And many and bright are the golden hues The woods of the hillside wear ! 'Tis like o'er leafy tide, A su^ of flame did fall ; Or the blood of the tree whore my Saviour died Did tinge them all! Ab ! beautiful autumn leaves! And why, I ask, may not I Be adorned with something that life achieves At the time when I come to die ? Why not be overcast With the smile as well as the tear, When I've fulfilled to the very last My mission here ? Enriching the ground stripped bare, By the rock of the withering grass, Like Samaritans giving their alms of care To the frost dead world as they pass! 'Tis a lesson that we who live May learn in the autumn wood, That dying, we to the world should give Some parting good! How to Beautify Home. TREASURES OF WOOD AND FIELD. Ferns and autumn leaves are every year be coming more popular as drawing-room deco rations. Tastefully arranged they add greatly to the beauty of a room while it is but little to gather and preserve them. Truly, florists keep them as part of their stock in trade, and you may buy them all pressed and ready for use by the quantity if you desire ; but there is a present pleasure in collecting them ; and a pleasure afterward in treasuring them as souvenirs of woodland rambles and pleasant country excursions. Delicate ferns are pret tiest; the coarser varieties do not pay for the gathering. HOW TO PRESS FERNS It is best to take a large book into the woods and lay the ferns into it as gathered ; but this is not always practicable. Put them to press, however, as soon as possible, since some kinds will not remain fresh for a day even in water. Lay them smoothly in a large volume, and tie a string around the book.; this will be all the pressure they will need ; heavy pressure gives them a mashed look. We have pressed them satisfactorily, merely by using folded news papers put smoothly under the movable hat box in a Saratoga trunk. HOW TO TREAT AUTUMN LEAVES. Autumn leaves require more care, and the greatest pains must be taken to keep them from becoming mildewed. A day or twoafter putting them to press examine them to see if they are damp, and if so, change the papers between which they lie. The first step is to dry them, after which they may be kept in definitely ; but before using for decorative purposes there are many methods by which their beauty may be improved. Some press them with a warm (not hot) waxed iron ; others varnish them with a solution of gum shellac, which imparts a brilliant but stiff appearance; others use a barely warmed iron smeared thinly with spermaceti, which the iron must be warm enough to keep liquid.— Dogwood, maple, oak and sumach leaves all keep their color well, and are beautiful when pressed. The poison ivy---"the five finger" it is sometimes called—loses its poisoning prop erties after drying, unless again wet, and is among the loveliest of leaves. In gathering leaves WEAR A THICK PAIR OF GLOTEIi for protecting the hands. Grasses should be gathered when is full flower, and dried by hanging up in a room where the sun will not shine on them. Every one knows how beau tiful these are arranged in vases, and our native grasses are, many of them, as effective as the costlier imported varieties. A few butterflies, caught and chloroformed, will add much to the beauty of such a boguet, collecting your leaves, break some clusters and twigs ; these you can press in newspapers under your trunk, and you will find them use ful beyond measure when you begin the work of decoration. SEA-WEEDS, MOSSES, LICHENS, ETC. Sea-weeds also are well worth preserving, making lovely transparencies, and beautiful also when grouped in a basket or in a picture with ferns. To preserve them, float the bit of sea-weed in a basin of water and slip a sheet of white paper under it while yet in the water. Take paper and plant out carefully, and hold the sheet up by one corner to let the water drain off, then dry between sheets of blotting paper. Gray moss and lichens are beautiful for ornamenting crosses and tilling baskets. They require no preset vation beyond merely gathering. Coal Oil for the Hair. The British consul at Nicolaieff, Russia, is said to have discovered that petroleum is the greatest of all hair invigorators. In a report to his government be says that a servant form erly in his employ was prematurely bald. The servant was engaged to trim the lamps, and bad a habit of wiping his petroleum-besmear ed hands in his scanty locks. Three months of this lamp trimming and dirty ha,bi! procur ed for him a much finer head of black, glossy hair than he possessed before his baldness. The consul tried the emedy on two Spaniards who had become suddenly bald, and met with the same wonderful success. He then suggest ed his petroleum cure to the owners of some black cattle which had become bald, and to the possessors of horses which had lost their manes and tails. The remedy not only pre vented the spread of the disease from which the.animals suffered, but also effected a quick and radical cure. The petroleum, be says, should be of the most refined American qual— ity. It is to be rubbed in vigorously and quick ly wit,i the palm of the hand, and applied at intervals of three days, six or seven times in all, except in th?, case of horses that have lost tails and manes, when more applications may be requisite. Tl•e experiment will not be whol. ly a new one in this country. It was renaark. ed, howeve.., that a majority of the people who went into the o" regions when petroleum speculatio is were at the highest, came out baldheaded and with a tired appearance. On the other hand, a well known and popular on guent for the hair is asserted to be one of the new petroleum products. Rainy Days. "Sain.shave been calm ~ vhea stretched upon the rack, And Montezutua smiled on burning coals; But never did housewife notable Greet with a smile a rainy washing day !" Nor could she ever be reconciled to the thought that this world was not made to hang clothes lines on, and that the wind "which whistleth about continually" is no respecter of we' linen. One rainy day nurses more amiability than half a dozen dry ones. It makes the folly of ill-humor so manifest. There is no use trying to "fret or spleen" against a rainy day, for the sky relents no tn, , re than a cope of lead, and its watery issues rather thicken than fall, A dull spectacle 1 And yet it has advantages. Was it of a gadding, sunshiny day, think you, when es world and his wife were abroad, and all , t.t.ires parted, that Homer --"Heard the Iliad and the Odyssey Rise to the swelling of the voiceful sea ?" No surely .At. It is to rainy days that we owe the conception of most good and great think ' , gs, sayings and doings—a day that so licits dot or tickles the sense, plays no fantas• tic tricks with sunbeams, but stands over you with the vast, gray, motionless, thought moulded aspect of an Egyptian Sphinx. What a foster-mother of studious thought ! Give me a rainy day for close and continu ous thought, and a rainy day for one of those quiet, almost unconscionable naps, when the "patter patter" of the "rain on the roof" lures you ir.to sweet, lovely dreamland, far from the ousv world with its flurry and sunshine.— Scrap Book. THE other day a boy started to carry home a yellow j - cket's nest to tie to the dog's tail to 'lave some fun. He didn't get the nest all the way home, as it became so heavy he couldn't carry it but he succeeded in coaxing most of the yellow jackets to accompany him the whole distance, and they supplied him with so much amusement that he hasn't once thought of fun or the dog since, and dosen't think he will. "WHY don't your father take a newspa per ?" said a gentleman to a little urchin whom he caught in the act of pilfering one from his doorstep, "Cause he sends me to take it." Our New York Letter. Niw Yoix, Oat. 3, 1877. Thanks takers Due—Tke State Convention—Book Sales—Rises Accidents—no Clairmont Bank Low Prices—S'uppliet—Faskions. ?HAIM/ WHIM DUE. It is justly held stupid to open conversation with speaking of the weather, but the rale dosen't apply to such weather as we have now. To-day completes s week of perfect, sunny, cool, delicious days that are the charm of the Hudson river coun try in September. Farmers begin to talk of a drouth, but the country needs a few weeks of such dry days to dry out healthy alter the soaking rains of summer. THIM STATE CONYZNTION. The New York State Convention opened yester day with what sanguine Republicans are pleased to term a slap at the administration. The adop tion of a most moderate and jest platform, advis ing resumption, denouncing subsidies, insisting on the rights of labor and capital to an equal hearing, and expressing no opinion on the administration policy, while hoping it will result in peace at the South. and promising that no act of the Republi cans of New York shall be withheld for its success. It can hardly fail of approval from all 0103 not pledged to the support of measures and men rather than of principles. Ex-Congressmen Ward made the strongest possible answer to all fault finding in the pithy declaration that if the announcement of Republican principles be the condemnation of the administration, let that condemnation fall. The Good Republicans of the State do not derive great encouragement from the eight of a President escorted and flattered by ex-rebels. who bane never shown any convincing proofs of a change of heart. They do not relish the modest demand to appoint Hershel V. Johnson to the vacnney on the Supreme bench. The late news front Ailiroios.ippi, which reads as if it dated before the wa., with tilt, eight of "reconciled" Democrats susrounding Re publiean speakers with shot-guns in good old Southern fashion is not the exact style of harmony preferred here, and sound Republicans who pro teased their faith before the battle of Antietam desire to have it distinctly understood that the harmony has not got to be entirely on their side. The administration, say these Republicans, talk too much in the vein of the man who believed its unanimity in families. and complained that be was always unanimous but his wife wasn't. At least the New York Convention has the courage to express its opinions, and nobody has any difficulty in knowing what its acts and words mean. 1001 C SALES. The trade sales of books held last week and this has exceeded the hopes of dealers, and a million dollars' worth of books will be upon the market in the next ten days. That means that people have money once more, and begin to buy books and surround themselves with comforts and indulgences again. A bookseßer who attended the sale trout Illinois said the great harvest was no sooner gath ered in August than he began to sell more banks than he had done before fur a year. Books will be cheaper than they have been since the war, a* auction prices ruled twenty per cent. below the usual wholesale rates. RIVER ACCIDNZITM, The sunny afternoons tempt sw ill crafts out on the river, and one of the worst forme of town sav agery is the recklessness with which larger vessels wr ek those that cows in their any. Hardly a day passes without an account of a row-boat run down and her crew sunk by a tug or lighter, out of pure wantonness The river pilots arc utterly careless of human life, and laugh at it as fine sport to run down a pleasure boat with two or three boys and girls aboard. Two weeks ego a party of buys and girls in their teens, living in the same tenement house, went out front the foot of Cann' street about Sunset for a row, and found a small steamer hearing down on them. They °hang ed their course, when, the boat changed hers so as to bring them exactly in her path, ran them down, and kept on her way, mixer paying attention to the screams of the creatures struggling in the water. A girl of sixteen was drowned, one of the boys succeeded in swimming ashore with the other, though his own leg was broken in two places and his shoulder crushed. The of of the gag -ship. Minnesota liwYe made complaint to the pilot coin missiouer that one of their boats going ashore made si4nal of danger to a tug eoniing its way, to which no attention was paid, and an apprentice boy front the ship was drowned in the ouliisitain. They said it was no uncommon thing for the steam tugs to deliberately run down mall boats. Peo pie's lives are literally in the hands of the ooarse and demoniac set who fill the poets of oardrivera and river pilots. TUB CLAIRMONT RAMC. The Ciairtnout saving's bank failed for only 8100,0011. but the history of its defalcations read much like the practice of many similar institu tions outside the city, where rural virtue is sup. posed to nourish. How many country banks are there which refuse to lend their funds to trice& of the othecni, or which do not bare little outside affairs in which the help of the bank conies handy. How Presidents there are who consider themselves were figureheads, and take the word of the people at the bank that everything is right. when they spare time from their other pressing business to look into its doors. How many trust ees there are who don't know much how things are going on in their bank, but take it for grant• ed that ail is right, just like the trustees of the Clairmont bank, one of whom did act know Ma name was on the list, while another had withdrawn months ago, though his name had ant been takes off. What hasty release of hypothecated securi ties is necessary sometimes to get everything clear for the inspection of trustees when they happen to grow curious, and how handy it comes, when a friend is secretary of a bank, to borrow of him, on a note of bawl, to tide over a low place. When these things souse to a climax, it is small isolator. for the President to say that he considered the concern only a little one-horse bank anyhow, and be loesn't see any sense in making such a fuse about it,—like the worthy Mr. Broadhead of the Clairmont bank. The sense of honor among bus iness men amounts to just enough to make thews meet their obligations before banking hoersolese, to keep their oredit good, and outside of this, they are as reckless of others' interests confided to them as the bay pilots are of the rowboats in their way. LOW PRICES, It seems like old times, when one goes out to do fall shopping again, and a man buys a good wain mutts, and linen shirt ready made for a dollar, and a calico wrapper for his wife for another dollar, ano a pair of button boots for his six-year old for another dollar still. There are plenty of six dol lar a yard goods fo. - flue ladies, but the priees are low enough where they should be, on cheap things such as ordiaary people want, and I often wish that readers who live where prices take the pro Ats off the bie harvest, and the skill of the seamstress and shoemaker is hard to come at. could benefit by the cheap conveniences of city life. SUPPLIES. The grape yitld is enormous, and line concord grapes are selling daily in the streets for fire mats a poutati. Potatoes are 51) cents a bushel, the best oysters a dollar a hundred, and if flour and beef fall, as they must soon, it will not take large wag es to feed and keep a family in New York neat winter, especia:ly with coal at three dollars a ton. PA SlllOl4B. The fall hats out are a style like the masculine helmet hat in gray felt, with scarf of dark !sofa plush, thick in its pile as the tufted wood mosses that wrap themselves about an old trunk. A twist of the scarf about the crown, and a silvered bird's wing added, wed the simple trimming is complete. For early fall, blank chips and straws are shown of reversed gipsy shape, that is, coming close on the iorellead, with full trimming of satin loops and .o s behind, filling the upturned brim. The i,_ it geranium red is largely seen in the flowers and ribbons mixed with fall trimmings, and sa occasional hat with lunjful) Isom barbel indicates that lace is coming back to use. The breton habit is one of the late impertations in dark camels-hair with bands of moss cloth in mixed she 'es and biAtons for trimming coming with the pattern. The moss cloth in autumn col ors is a handsome relief to quiet colors. Suits of Scotch waterproof in the tartan plaids have long been favorites for seceice in England, but this fall is the first time they have been worn here. A firm is making them in fine goods, principally in the argyle plaid, like the forty-second, but with more open squares. The dresses are made up in either the large or small plaid of these colors, and suits of this kind for both ladies and young girls cannot be too highly recommended. The escape seen on nutriy all the fall suits is of such simple and con venient out that country readers are advised to procure patterns without delay. It is known as the I'renoli 'moque, fitting closely in the bask with two or four pieces as desired, and fitting the figure graceful's , in front by a single dart and gore di rectly ur .er the arm without any cross seam at the waist. Ladies will recognise how easily such a Jacque oau be fitted and made, but will keep in mind that its style depends on the neatness. Seams pressed ti'l almost invitible, a side gore hidden under the arm, and not a particle of fulness more than is necessary to go over the hips, for which the dressmaker takes the measure as closely as for lb. bust. Such a swine is made up as a part of a, suit, or as the outside garment in heavier cloth s The length in the back is about 30 inches, in freak 27. PIETRO, Talc Petaluma (Cal.,) Argue says Jamas Nur lish is still at work on the redwood tree he fella at Russian riser station some months ago. Ile has already made from It 260,000 shiagles, I,oo* fence posts, 6,000 stakes, lumber for a dwelling house and outbuildings, and has timber for 300,- 000 shingles. The tree was fourteen feet in diam eter. Aoi Make* iita not childish, as men say ; it 18,1 na atill tna childreu. NO. 40.
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