VOL. 41. The Huntingdon Journal. .1. R. DURBORROW, - PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETORS Office in new JOCIINAL Building, Fifth Street THE HUNTINGDON JOURNAL is published every Friday by J. R. DURBORHOW and J. A. NASH, under dio firm name of J. R. Dminoitaow & Co., at 400 per :militia IN ADVANCE, or S2.SO if not paid for in six months from Bete of subscription, and /3 if not paid within the year. No paper discontinued, unless at the option of the pub lishers, until all arrearages are paid. No paper, however, will be sent out of the State unless absolutely paid for in advance. Transient advertisements will be inserted at reixtxx AND A-HSLP CENTS per line for the first insertion, scvax AND A-LIALP CENTS for the second and rive czars per line fur all subsequent insertions. 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Hand-bills, Blanks, Crrds, Pamphlets, &c., of every variety and style, printed at the shortest notice, and everything in the Printing line will be executed in the most artistic manner and at the lowest rates. Professional Cards• CALDWELT, Attomey-at-Law, N_. 111, 3rd street. /. Office formerly occupied by Messrs. Woods & Wil liamson. [5p12,71 TAR. A.B. BRUMBAUGH, offers his professional services U to the community. Office, 11 0.623 Washi❑ton street, one door east of the Catho 'arsonage. [jan4,'7l V C. STOCKTON, Surgeon Dentist. Office in Leister's L. building, in the room formerly occupied by Dr. E. J. Greene, Huntingdon, Pa. [apl23, '76. fl M. B. ORLADY, Attorney-at-Lmv, 405 Penn Street, U Huntingdon, Pa. [n0v17.`75 G. ROBB, Bennet, office in S. T. Brown'. new building, . No. 620, Penn Street, Huntingdon, Ps.. [ap12271 HC. MADDEN, Attorney-at-Law. Office, No. —, Penn . Street, Huntingdon, Pa. [apl9,'7l FRANKLIN SCHOCK, +ttorney-at-Law, Hunting el . don, Pa. Prompt atter,, n given to all legal bum nels. Office, 229 Penn Street, corner of oourt House Square. [de04,72 T SYLVANITS BLAT. Attorney-Pt-La , Huntingdon, . Pa. Office, Penr, Street, three door. west of 3rd Street. r W . SIA Et , :tto rp at-Law Government for back-pay, wido e' and invalid pensions attended to with g. c mire and promptness. Of fice on Penn Street. [jan4,ll S. O EISSING ER, Attorney-at-Law and Notary Public, IJ. Huntingdon, Pa. Office, o. 230 Penn Street, oppo site Court House. [febs,'7l c.l_ E. FLEMING, Attor-Pp.t-Law, Huntingdon, Pa., 0. office in Mmitor building, ?enn Street. Prompt and careful attention given to all legal business. [augs,l4-6mos WILLIAM A. FLEMING, Attorney-at-Law, Hunting don, Pa. Special attention given to collections, and all other legal business attended to with care and promptness. Office, No. 229, Penn Street. rapl9,ll School and Miscellaneous Books. GOOD BOOKS FOR THE FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. The following is a list of Valuable Books, which will be from the (Mice of the Huntingdon JOITIINAL. Any one or more of these books will be sentpost-paid to any of our readers on receipt of the regulat price, which is named against each book. Aileu's (it. L. & L. F.) New American Farm Book 12 50 Allen's (L. F.) American Cattle.* 2 50 Allen's (IL L.) American Farm Book ............ .. 1 50 Allen's (L. K) Rural Architecture lso' Allen's (R. L.) Diseases of Damestic Animals 1 Ott American Bird Fancier 3O American Gentleman's Stable Guide* 1 00 American Rose Culturist 3O American Weeds and Useful ......... Atwood's Country and Suburban Rouses- ......... 1 50 Atwood's Modern American 'iomesteads* 3 50 Baker's Practical and Scientific Fruit Culture....__ 2 50 Barber's Crack Shot* Barry's Fruit Garden Bell's Carpentry Made Ea5y*.................. ............ 00 Bernent's Stab' it Fancier 3O Bicknell's Village Builder and Supplement. 1 Vole 12 00 Bicknell's Supplement to Village b 00 Bogardus' Field Cover, and Trap Shooting* 2 00 Bummer's Method of Making Manures 25 Boussingault's Rural Economy 1 60 Brackett's Farm Talk-. paper, Wets.; cloth 75 Breck's New Book of Flowers 1 75 Brill's Farm-Gardening and Broom-Corn and Brooms paper, sticts.; cloth 76 Brown's Taxidermist's Manual* 1 00 Bruckner's American Manures* . 1 50 Buchanan's Culture of the Grapeand Wine making* 75 Buel's Cider-Maker's Manual* Buist's Flower-Garden Directoiy Buist's Family Kitchen Gardener 1 00 Barges' American Kennel and Sporting Field*..— 4 00 Burnham's The China Fowl* 1 00 Burn's Architectural Drawing Book* .. Burns' illustrated Drawing Book* 1 00 Burns' Ornamental Drawing 800k*......... Burr's Vegetables of Atnerica. 3 00 Caldwell's Agricultnral Chemical Analysis 200 Canary Birds. Paper 50 cts Cloth 75 Churlton's Grape-Grower's Guide 76 Cleveland's Landscape Achitecture* ,. 1 50 Choke Diseasc,a of Sheep* 125 Cobbett's American Gardener 75 Cole's American Fruit Book enle'd American Veterinarian Cooked and Cooking Food for Domestic Animals 20 Cooper's Game Fowls* 6 00 Corbett's l'oultry Yard and Market.pa.socts., cloth 75 Croft's Progressive American Architecture lO 00 Cummings' Architectural Details lO 00 Cummings di Miller's Architecture. lO 00 Clipper's Universal Stair-Builder 3 50 Dada's Modern Horse Doctor, 12 mo 1 50 Dada's American Cattle Doctor, 12 mo 1 50 Dadd's American Cattle Doctor, Bvo, cloth. 2 5 0 Dadd's American Reformed Horse Book,B vo, cloth 2 50 Dada's Muck Manual 1 25 Darwin's Variations of Animals & Plants. 2 vole* [new ed.] Dead Shot ; or, Sportsman's Complete Guide* 1 75 Detail Cottage and Constructive Architecture. lO 00 De Voe s Market Assistant. 2 50 Rinks, Mayhew, and Hutchison, on the D0g.... Downing's Landscape Gardening 6 50 Dwyer's Horse 800 k.... .......... - .......... Eastwood on Cranberry ............ ... ............ Eggleston's Circuit Rider* .. .. Eggleston's Ead of the World Eggleeton's Hoosier School-Maeter Eggleston's Mystery of MetrGp. ,- sville l5O Eggleston's (Geo. C.) A Man of llonor Elliott's Hand Book for Fruit Growers* Pa., 60c. ' • clo 1 00 Elliott's Hand-Book of Practical Landscape Gar dening* e . .. „ 1 50 Elliott's Lawn and Shade Trees. I 50 E liott's Western Fruit-Grower's Guide 1 50 Eveleth's School House Architecture. 6 00 Every Horse Owner's Cyc10p5edia.......... .............. Field's Pear Culture... ........ .................. ........ . Flax Culture. [Seven Prize Fasays by practical grow ers.] Flint (Charles L.) oa Grasses* 2 50 Flint's Mitch Cows and Dairy Farming* 2 50 Frank Forester's American Game in its Season. 3 00 Frank Forester's Field Sports, 8 vo. 2 vols.. ..... ~ 6OO Frank Forester s Fish and Fish•ng;Bvo , 100 Eng 3 50 Frank Forester's Horse of America, 8 vo., 2 vols lO 00 Frank Forester's Manual for Young Sportsmen, Bvo 3 00 French'. Farm Drainage 1 50 Fuller's Forest-Tree Culturist 1 60 Fuller's Grape Culturist 1 50 Fuller's Illustrated Strawberry Culturist 2O Fuller's Small Fruit Culturist 1 5 . Fulton's Peach Culture Gardner's Carriage Painters' Manual * 1 00 Gardner's How to Paint* Geyeliu's Poultry-Breeding Gould's American Stein-Builder's. 4 00 Gould's Carpenter's and Builder's Assistant . 34 0 Gregory on Cabbages paper.. 30 Gregory on Onion Raising*...... paper.. 30 Gregory on Squashes .paper.. 30 Guenon on Milch Cows 75 Guillaume's Interior Architecture. 3 00 Gun, Roil, and Saddle. 1 00 Hallett's Builders' *ti ifi Speccaons . - 1 75 I al lett's Builders' Contract* lO I larney's Barns, Out-Buildings, and Pences•.......__. 600 Harris's Insects Injurious to Vegetation—Plain $4 ; Colored Engravings 6 60 Harris on the Pig 1 60 Hedges' on Sorg 'o or the Northern Sugar Plant.— 1 b 0 llelnasley's Hardy Trews, Shrubs, and Plants* 7 50 Henderson's Gardening for Pleasure-.... ........ Henderson Gardening for Profit 1 50 . . . . __. . _ ._ Henderson's Practical Floriculture... 11erbert'syints to Horse-Keepers 1 76 Holden's Book of Birds paper 25c.; cloth.. 60 Ifooph's Book of Evergreens ' _ ....... 3 00 Ifooper's Dog and Gun paper 30c.; ; cloth 6O " ' II per ' Western Fruit Book'. Hop Culture. By nine experienced cultivators 3O How to get a Farm and Where to find One 1 25 THE JOURNAL STORE Is the place to buy all kinds of . A., is J, . ;11) * tj AT lIARD PAN PRICES Vote for James P; Sterrett, Election Proclamation [GOD SAVZ TUN COMMONWEALTH.] J. A. NASH ELECTION PROCLAMATION. 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 county to give public notice of the officers to be elected, and the time and place of holding mid elections in the election distriots, awl the laws governing the holding thereof: Now therefore, I, THOIEAS K. HENDERSON, High Sher iff of Huntingdon county, do hereby made knowu that the General Election will beheld in and fur said county On Tuesday, November 6th, 1877, it being the Tuesday following the first Monday of No vember, (the polls to b opened at seven o'clock a. m., vnd -Posed at seven o'clock p. m.) t which time the Freemen of Huntiudon county will vote by ballot fur following of ficers, namely: One person for Supreme Judge of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. One person for .!..ate 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 county. 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 A. N. and closed at 7 o'clock P. M. _ _ _ I pursuance of said act, I also hereby make known and give notice, that the places of holding the afor,aid general election in the several election districts within the county of Huntingdon, are as iollows, 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. " Bth district, compos;sl 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 braker, dec'd, In Shirleysburg. 7th district, composed of Porter and part of Walker township, and so much of West township us is included in the following boundaries, to wit: Beginning at the south west corner 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 rouse 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 cbooi house, near the Union meeting house in said twp. idth 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. 12th district, composed of Brady township, at the Centre school 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 on the liirm now owned by Miles Lewis (formerly owned by Jaznes'Ennis,) in said township. 1.611 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 douse. [jan4,'7l 18th district, composed of Cromwell township, at the Rock Hill School House. 19IE district, composed of the borough of Birmingham with the several tracts of land neer to and attached to the same, now owned and occupied iiy Thomas M. Owens, John K. McCahan, 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 Warriorsmark, at the public school house in said borough. 20th district, composed of the township of Case, at the publio school house in Cassaille, in said township. 21st district, composed of the township of Jackson at the public house of Edward Littles, at McAleavy's Fort, in said township. 22d district, composed of the township of Clay, at the public school house in Scottsville. 23d 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, Ilnntingdon coun ty, lying and being within the following described boun daries, (xcept the borough of Mount Union,) namely:— Beginning at the intersection of Union and Shirley town ship linos Wittl-the Juniata river, on the south side there at; thence along said Union township line fur the distance of three miles from said river; thence eastwardly, by a straight line, to the point where the main road front Eby's mill to Germany valley, crosses the summit of Beady ridge; - thence northwardly along the summit of Sandy ridge tothe river Juniata, and thence up said river to the place of beginning, shall hereafter form a separate election district ; that the qualified voters of said election district shall hereafter hold their general and township elections in the public school house iu Mount Union, in said district. 25th district, composed of all that territory lying north eastward of a line beginning at the Juniata riverand run ning thence in a direct line along the centre of 4th Street in the borough of Huntingdon, to the line ofOneida town ship; constituting the First Ward of said borough, at the south east window of the Court House. 20th 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. 2711 t 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 line of Oneida townshir 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. 831 Washington street, in said borough. 28th district, composed of all that territory north of the third ward of said borough, constitutieg the Fourth NVard, 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 towuships, at or near the Warm Springs, to the Franklin township line on the top of Tamers mountain, so as to include in the new district the houses of David Waidsmith, Jacob Longanecker, Thus. Hamer, James Porter, and John Wall, at the school house in the borough of Petersburg. 30th district, composed of Juniata township at Ilawn's school hOuse,ln said township. 31st district, composed of Carbon township, recent7y erected out ofa part of the territory of Tod township to wit co.nmencing at a chestunt oak, on the summit of Terrace mountain, at the Hopewell township line opposite the dividing ridge, in the Little Valley ; thence south fitty two aegrees, east three hundred and sixty perches to a stone heap on the Western Summit of Broad Top maim tain; theace north sixty seven degrees, east three hun dred and twelve perches, to a yellow pine - thence south fifty-twodsigrees, 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-four perches to a Chestnut Oak on the summit of a spur of Broad Top, on the western side of John Terrel's farm : south, sixty-five degrees, cast nine hundred and thirty four perches, to a stone heap on the Clay township liue, at the Public School Reuse, in the village of Dudley. 32d district, composed of the borough of Coati:aunt, at the public school 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 Tod 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 Goff. Bun School House. 34th district, composed of the borough of Mapleten,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 City, at the public school house in said borough 37th district, composed of the borough of Three Springs at the public school house In said borough. 38th district, composed of the borough of Shade Gup, at the public school house in said borough. 39th district, the borough of Orbisonia, at the pubiic 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. 42d district, composed of the borough of Dudley, incor porated on the 13th November, 1876, at the public school house, in said borough. The 15th Section of Art. 8, of the Constitution, provides: SscrioN 15. No person shall be qualified to serve as an election officer who shall hold or shall within two months have held au office, appointment or employment in or under the government of the IlMted States or of this State, or of any city, or county, or of ally municipal board; commission or trust in any city, save only iustices of the peace, and alderman, notaries public and persons in military services of the State ; nor shall any election officer be eligible to au civil office to be filled at an 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 places appointed for holding the election in the district at which they respectively belong; before 7 o'clock in the morning of the let Tuesday of November, and each said inspector shall appoint one clerk, wno shall he qual ified voter of such district. In case the person who shall have received the second highest number of votes for inspector shall not attend on the day of the election, then the person who shall have received the second highest number of votes fur 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 place ; and if any vacancy shall continue in the board for the space of one hour after the time fixed by law for the epening 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 fill 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, iu 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. - - - SPECIAL ATTENTION is hereby directed to the Bth Article of the New Constitution. SECTION 1. Every male citizen twenty-one years of age, possessing the following qualifications, shall be entitled to vote at all elections. - - — First.—lle shall have been a citizen of the United States at least onelnonth. Vote for William B. Hart .-...,- .7 )1 :.':-... he ..... _ ';. tr.ri - :,. tingdon Ji..-urnal. Election Proclamation Seeond.—lfe shall have resided in the State one year, (or if having previously been a qualified elector or native born citizen of the State, he shall have removed from and returned, then six months,) immediately preceding the election. Third.—He shall have resided in the election district where he shall offer to vote at least two mouths immedi ately preceding the election. Fon rth.—lf twenty-two years of age and upwards, he shall have pail within two years a State or county tax, which shall have been assessed at least two months atm 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 tickets, printed or written, or partly printed or partly written, severally classified as follow, One ticket shall embrace the names 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 fur, and members of Congress, if voted for, and be labeled, "county ;" one ticket shall embrace the name of all township officers voted for, and 6e 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. SECTION 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. Sxcrios 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 name upon his ticket or cause the same to be written thereon 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 sinless required to do so as witnesses in a judicial proceeding. SECTION 6. Whenever any of the qualified electors of this Commonwealth shall Le 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 pre 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 fur the registration of electors shall be uniform throughout the State but no elector vhall be de prived of the privilege of voting by reason of his name not being registered. SECTION 9. Any person who shall, while a candidate for office, be 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 font years. And also to the following Acts of Assembly now in force in this State, viz F.:I7TION S. At the opening of tho 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 required by law; and it shall be the duty of the other said inspectors to re ceive and number the ballots preseuted at said election. SECTION 9. All 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 a 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 affirmed in the presence ()teach 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 dilly 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 lie was not, it shall be deemed a misde meanor, and upon conviction, the officer of officers so of 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 auppli meantl to the act relative to the election of this Common wealth, approved Jan. 30, A. D. 1374. That it is provided in Section 10, that on the day of elec tion any person whose name is not on the said list, and claiming tbo right to vote at the said election, shall pro duceat least one qualified voter of the district as a wit ness to the residence of 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 aftired and subscribe a wriUen 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 Le 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 wins born; that he haw been a citizen of the Uni ted States for one month, and of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; that lie 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 he has resided therein six menthe next proceeding 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 proceeding 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 ; ..nd if a naturalized citizen shall also state when, where and byiwhat court he was naturalized, and shall also produce his certificate of naturalization for ex amination ; that said affidavit shell also state when and where the tax claimed to be paid ty the affiant was as seised, and when, where and to who, paid ; and the tax receipt thetelor shall be produced far 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 bornelsewhere, 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 une month, and has resided in the state one year, or, if a na tive-burn 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 tile within the Prothonotary's office, subject to exami nation, as other election papery are ; if the election officers shall find that the applicant possesses all the legal qualifications of a voter he shall be permitted to vote, and Lie 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 define 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 pub 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 require.' 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, mouth 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 eons are entited to vote by virtue of the naturalization of their fathers, they and the person who shall offer such second vote, upon se offending shall lie guilty of high misdemeanor and on conviction thereof, be fixed 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 un the officers of election who shall neglect or refuse to make, or oeuee to be made, the endorsement required as aforesaid on said naturalitation 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 prescribe,. by thin 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 saute in triplicate, with a raturn 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 tt 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, andoaths 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 stiles, 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 met idan of the second day after the election, deliver said return, together with return sheet, to the prothonotary of the court of 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 Presidentjudge, 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- Vote for John A. M. Passmore. HUNTINGDON, PA , FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1877. Election Proclamation. puted by such of its officers :old such sworn assistants n 3 the court shall appoint, in the presence of the judge or judges ofsaid court, and the returns certified and cOrtifi- cab; 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 mutter of record in said court. 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 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 ajust 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 enlighten the court, be corrected by the court and so certified; but all allegations of palpable fraud or mistake shall be 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 shall be placed in the box and sealed up with the ballots. Also in Section 17 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. SeceioN 5. }lectors 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. Stenole 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 fur 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 game 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 swear or affirm that the matter .of the chal lenge is untrue before his vote shall be received. /-EcrioN 19. Any assessor, election officer or person ap pointed as an overseer, who shall neglect or refuse to per form any duty enjoined by this act, without reasonable or legal cause, shad 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, lie shall be guil ty of a misdemeanor in office and on conviction be punish ed by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or nil mieonment 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 from 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 imt.rieonment 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 actin; overseers of an election, in any way wilfully prevent said overseers from performing the duties enjoined upon them by this act, such persons shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof ehall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not 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 for the purpose of preventing any officce 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 tb challenge any person offering to vete, such per son shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon 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 do so 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 seeriishall 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 time the same is held, the votes counted, and the returns made out and signed by the election officers; to keep a list of the voters, if they see proper; to challenge any person offering to vote, and interrogate him 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 convietiva thereof shall be rived 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 striven 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 nosy 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 threaten any violence to any such offi cer, and shall interrupt or improperly interfere with him in the execution of his 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 wascommitted , 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 do, ..rs, 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 he or 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 .•A 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 ofthe 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 iu said ward, district or township, for the purpose of preserving the peace, as aforesaid. SEC. 112. It shall he 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 a ho can prove the same; and itsball be the duty of said eonrt to cause indictments to be preferred before the gran I jury against the persons so offending. SEC. 113. Hit 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. SW.. 114. It shall be the duty of the several courts of quarter sessions of this Commonwealth, at the next term of said court after any election shall have been held under the act, to cause the respective constables in said county to be examined on oath, as to whether any breaches of the peace took place at the election within their respective town ships, wards or districts, and it shall be the duty of said constables respectively to make return thereof as part of their official return at said court. Given under my hand at Huntingdon, the 28th day of September, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and first. SHERIFF'S °MOB, I THOMAS 11. HENDERSON, Sept. 2S, 1877. J SHERIFF. Miscellaneous TO ALL MEN-A SPEEDY CURE. The direful resultsof Early Indiscretion,which renders Marriage inipossible,Destroying both body and mind Gener al Organic Weakness,Pain in the Read or Back,lndigestion, Palpitation of the Ileart,Nervousu .2101, Tim idity,Tremblings, Bashfulness, Blushing, Languor, Lassitude, Dyspepsia, Nervous Debility, Consumption, Jic., with those Fearful Effects of mind so much to be dreaded, Loss of Memory, Confusion of Ideas, Depression of Spirits, Evil Forebod ings, Aversion of Society, Self Distrust, Love of Solitude, etc. MARRIAGE. Married persons, or young men contemplating mar riage, aware of Physical Weakness (Loss of Procreative Power—lmpotency), Nervous excitability, Palpitation, Organic Weakness, Nervous Debility, or any other' Dis qualification, speedily relieved. A SPEEDY CURE WARRANTED. In recent diseases immediate Relief—No Mercury. Per sons ruining their Health, Wasting Time with Ignorant Pretenders and Improper treatment. Driving Disease into the System by that deadly poison, Mercury, and causing Fatal Affections of the Head, Throat, Nose or Skin, Liver, Lungs, Stomach or Bowels, speedily cured. Let no false delicacy pre,ent your appl3 ing. Enclose stamp to use on reply. Address, DR. J. CLEGG, LOCK HOSPITAL, BALTIMORE, MD. Offices, 89 & 91, South High Street. Sep2l-Iy] WILLIAIVI W. DORRIS, Attorney-at-Law, 402 Perin Street, HUNTINGDON, PA March 16, 1877—y Vote for Samuel H. Irvin. The Huntingdon ,rournal The Auditor-Generhip Miners' Journal.; As Democratic journals are' endeavoring by innendoes and otherwise to tarnish the char act !' of J. A. M. Passmore, the Republican can date for the office of Auditor General, we - ill give our readers a brief history of his car er, and a few facts relative to his standing wh re he is known. . A. M. Passmore was born in Chester county, in 1836. Ile was one of a respected Quaker family, whose ancestors had settled in Pennsylvania in 1682. The family has been held in high esteem among their neighbors. No man has warmer friends or more earnest supporters than are the relatives and former - neighbors of Mr. Passmore, in the old Quaker settlement in Chester county, his former home. As an expression of the estimate which Chester county places on him we may also refer to the action of the Republican Conven tion of Chester county, in passing the follow ing resolution a few months ago. "Resolved, That we, the representatives of the Republican party of Chester county, in convention assembled, recognize in John A. M. Passmore, Esq., (a native of this county, but now a resident of Schuylkill county), who is suggested as the next Republican candidate for the office of Auditor-General, a gentleman of culture and refinement, an earnest and thorough-going Republican, and a man in every way eminently qualified for the proper discharge of the duties of the office for which lie is named, and that we instruct our delegates to the State Convention to support him, and to do all in their power to secure his nomina tion." Mr. Passmore's father died poor, and left his son an orphan, without property, at the age of twelve years. When only eight years old the boy became a miner by working in the chrome mines, where he toiled faithfully year after year, until at the age of fifteen, being disabled by an accident, he was obliged to give up that employment. Meanwhile he had been able to attend school for a few weeks each winter, where he began to acquire the education which his natural thirst for knowl edge prompted him to seek. Leaving the mines, he worked two years on a farm, teach ing'in the winter a district school. Subsequently, lie taught in order to support himsrlf while at the same time he pursued his stud in the State Normal School at Millers ville. During those years of labor ityegillred strenuous efforts for the young man to dis charge his responsible duties as teacher and at the same time keep up w ith his class.— Young Passmore's energy was equal to the emergency, and after four years of continued effort, be graduated with honor in 1860 in the Normal School. His health had become im paired. He stepped out into the world be yond the pupil's life to essay his "commence ment" as a man. Without money, without health, without aid -to place, be began a new struggle in a new field. lie then came to Pottsville to reside, and after faithful management of the public school during five years, he was desired to open a select school, which, under the name of the Paschall Institute, he controlled until lie abandoned teaching in 1869. In the mean timr he bad studied law, and in 186 G had been acinOtted to the bar, but never entered into its active practice. In 1869 he was made an agent of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Com pany, of which he afterward became manager and attorney for Pennsylvania. We thus see that J. A. M. Passmore is a self-mode man. He owes his success to his own efforts. He comes from the ranks of the laborers, and in elevating him to the position for which he has been nominated each work ingman can feel that he is pla,fing in office one of his own class. Bow much wiser is it for the laboring man to honor laboring men by voting for Mr. Passmore, who is of their num ber, than by voting for a labor reform candi date who cannot be elected, and thus indi rectly aiding Mr. Schell, the Democratic nom inee. Mr. Passmore's duties as State agent fcr the Metropolitan have fur years required him to travel about from point to point in theState,and the large and friendly acquaintance which he tubs made thro' all parts ofthe Commonwealth was one cause of his strength in the Conven tion at Harrisburg, and will give him many votes in November. Then has J. A. M. Pass more the esteem of the people among whom be is best known 7 When he relinquished Li is position as teacher, he was chosen a school director. The School Board in turn elected him President, and he is now near the end of his fourth term of ser vice. The public schools of Pottsville rank high in the Commonwealth, and the people of Pottsville are proud of the character which . those schools have attained. In 1867 Mr. Passmore was actively engaged, with W. L. Whitney its President, as one of the organizers of the Pottsville Benevolent Association, which is still in successful opera tion. The Benevolent Asso?iation's Home for Children, has since been founded, in 1873, as a branch of the association, and has for its objects "to afford a home, food, schooling and clothing for destitute, neglected and friendless children, and, at a suitable age, to place them with respectable persons and families, to learn some useful trade or occupation, and thus aid the Benevolent Association in its work, as one of its greatest difficulties was that many chil dren needed help chose parents were poor and unworthy, and that some children, with out parents and friends, were growing up ne glected, wicked, ignorant and depraved..:' - Of the Home for Children Pas . smore filled the office of President for four years.— Speaking of these two institutions, the MINERS' JOURNAL some time since said : "There are no public or private institutions in our com munity of which our people arc more proud than these ; and it may be said that through their able management they have become the most effectual medium through which to dis tribute charities and provide homes for the friendless that have been established in any part of the Commonwealth." The Republican county meeting of 1877 "Resolved, That the Republicans ofSchuylkill county present the name of their fellow citi zen, John A. M. Passmore, to the considera tion of the Republicans of Pennsylvania for the nomination for Auditor General of this State ; and our delegates to the State Conven tion are requested to earnestly insist upon his nomination, and that the nomination of John A. M. Passmore will insure for the Common wealth a faithful, energetic and able officer, and by his popularity will materially strengthen the Republican party in the Anthracite coal region in the coming campaign." - Don't Let Them Fool You. The following, from the Indiana Democrat is about the coolest and cheekiest production that we have met with in a long time. If Republicans cannot join with the Democrats and aid them in electing their ticket the Demo crat urges them to join the Labor-Greenback party which is tantamount to voting with the Democracy. The Democrat says : "We are satisfied that the Labor-Greenback ticket, would run 500 votes in this county, if there was only some one to start the ball. There are hundreds of Republicans so thoroughly disgusted with the Cameron•Mackey rule, and the operations of the Treasury thieves at Harrisburg, that they are seeking an opportu nity to leave the party. We invite them to join the Democracy, bat their prejudices will hardly allow them to do so. The half way step is in the Labor Reform." BECAUSE, through dissatisfaction with . the Hayes southern and civil service policy, the Republicans of Ohio, gave the President a slap in the face, is no reason why the noble old Republican party of Pennsylvania should be lukewarm and allow our State and County tickets to be defeated, this fall. Ohio was the home of the President, and although we doubt the wisdom of our friends there, yet it is not necessary to follow their action in the Key stone State. Arouse, Republicans, and sup ort your whole State and County tickets. TWENTY years ago a Democratic State Treas urer went to Canada with the people's money. There has been none elected on the Democrat, is ticket since. Vote for Hart. ALL our candidates are good men, honest and true. Vote for every one of them, from Supreme Judge to Coroner. Don't split. Vote for James Harper, Plain Facts for Voters to Read. A REAL WORKINGMAN Philadelphia Telegraph.] There is no reason or excuse for the organ ization of a new party of any kind except that good government cannot be accomplished un der those already in existence; and a new party when it comes into the field is bound to justify its existence by proving that a desire for good government and not greed for plunder is the animating motive of those who com prise its rank and file and those who figure as its representative men. A new party must have clearly-defined principles and aims, or it can never achieve even a transient success, it must seek to PC complish its ends by fair, open and honorable means. The great trouble with the old Know- Nothing party was that it sought to accomplish its ends by tortuous, underhand, and grossly improper methods—the principles of that party are not necessarily under discussion— and the so called United Party, which to all seeming is even less animated by principle than the Know-Nothing organization was, can scarcely expect to be more sucmssful in en deavors to win a permanent grasp of power by means that will not bear the examination of honorable men. The so-called Labor party is a class party, and is consequently antagonistic to the genius of Republicanism. But the men who are at tempting to run it are not true even to their own performances or pretensions. It was easily within their power to have demonstrated that they aimed at something more than a grab at power for the benefit of a certain clique, by confirming the nomination of such cautli didates on the ticket of the older party or ganizations who were unexceptionable, or who, by having risen from the ranks through their own merits and exertions, especially commended themselves to the suffrages of in telligent workingmen. For instance, by confirming the nomina tion of such a man as Captain Hart, the Re publican candidate for State Treasurer, they could have done very much to make his elec tion a certainty upon peradventure, while they would have won credit for an intelligent effort to give their principles a practical ap plication. Captain Hart is a workingman— that is, he is a man who, until he obtained a position in the Stale Treasury Department, made his living by following a trade. Brick laying was the trade whicu Captain Hart was brought up to, and which he followed until the breaking out of the war. During the war he served as a soldier, and won distinction as a gallant one, and when the war was over he doffed his uniform and went back to brick laying again. Governor Hartranft knew him both as a soldier and a bricklayer, and knew him to be an honest, industrious, and trust worthy man, who, when he had ajob of brick laying to do, laid bricks with the same earnest ness and conscientiousness that be performed his soldierly duties, and had him called to Harrisburg to fill a clerkship in the State Treasurer's office. From clerk he rose to Cashier, and his abilities, experience, talents, and integrity in discharge of his duties as Cashier pointed him out to the Republicans as the most fit man t 3 nominate for their can didate.for State Treasurer. The nomination of Captain Hart by the Re puolicans was a proper one, but it would have been an even more grope- one for the Labor party to make and by making it the managers of the Labor party might have demonstrated that they were aiming at something more than communism. In fact, the managers of the Labor party might have looked the whole State over without finding a man who so in every way filled the conditions which one would suppose ought to be filled by the candidate ofa political organization which, if it has any intelligent and honorable aims, seeks to elevate the work ingman, morally, socially and politically, Instead of nominating him however, a. no body was put up to figure as the Labor party candidate for State Treasurer—a nobody for whom it will be impossible to secure a single vote outside of the comtnunistical organiza tions which are now seeking to accomplish through the ballot boa what riot and arson failed to accomplish last July. These facts speak for themselves to all thinking people, and they ought to speak with particular force to well meaning workingmen who have been deluded under one specious pretext or another into joining a party which has no reasonable excuse for being, and which, if it succeeds in obtaining control of the government, will work incalculable injury to these for whose ostensible benefit it was organized. Store Orders. Insignificant words are those that head this article to he, who has never realized in prac tice the full force ef their meaning. it is safe to assume that in no other mode has greater advantage been given corporations to oppress the workingman, To the mechanic resident in populous cities the subject has little interest, because through force of circum— stances he has no knowledge of "store orders." But the miners laboring in the coal fields ; the iron workers at furnaces, forges and mills ; they all can bear testimony in denunciation of the practice. Wherever this infamous cus tom has existed, there will be found the living witnesses of this hell-born innovation of the llonopolist. Its results may be summed up in this wise ; John Smith, an honest, hard working furnace man, finds employment at the Blood Squeezer furnace, of the Man-Killer Iron Company. Scant wages don't last long with seven or eight mouths to' feed, that many bodies to clothe, and twice that many feet to cover. Sickness steps in, and the little hoard accu mulated by thrift and economy fades away. And so it is when the family are moved to their new home, the savings of mouths and years arc expended. Still with a brave heart, John commences the battle of life anew. From time to time during the month the wife needs house hold supplies, and obtains them at the Com pany store. She is a good housewife and econ omises at every step. Little luxuries are un known, only the necessaries of life are seen on the table. Well, the month rolls round and pay-day comes. John has intended to surprise his wile with a new dress, little Tommy must have new shoes, the baby in the cradle a toy rattle. All these thoughts flit through his mind as he steps up to the paymaster's office. The dapper clerk calls out, 'John Smith, $54.- 60, and a dapper clerk number two, from be hind a big ledger, utters a refrain, "John Smith, store account, $62.18." John cannot credit his senses, he demands an explanation. It is given him. The only understanding he has is, that he is charged ten, twenty, and thirty per cent. more for pork, flour, coffee, sugar, kc., than he ever paid before. There is no help for it. The Man-Killer Iron Co. has long before driven off all other store keepers. With heavy heart, and tear burdened eyes, John walks slowly- home. It is a new experience, and a sad realization. Home is reached. The little ones, knowing it is pay day, go through an old practice of searching their father's pockets for candy. But alas I for them no treat exists, and looking in his tell-tale face they comprehend a father's sorrow This is but the beginning of a chapter of woe that in its monthly repetitions adds larger to the debt, that month by month forges the chains of slavery around the arms of freeman. That for the aggrandizement of capital, the laborer must sustain the grinding, crushing process of reduction. The moral of the recital of this homely story is just this. When a bill was offered in the Legislature to prevent this practice, a bill which provided that the workingman should be paid in cash, we find by the records that Amos C. Noyes voted to defeat its passage. All•the promises and pledges of the wily poli tician cannot wipe out this damning blot. by his actions will he be judged. We have no fear that the workingmen of the State will hesitate to stamp him, the political imposter that he is. As I'ASSMORE, the Republican candidate for Auditor General, was brought up on a farm and worked in the mines for seven years, and Hart, the Republican candidate for State Treasurer, learned the trade of bricklaying, it would seem that they are very proper candi dates to receive the votes of those who want to honor working men. They strikingly illustrate how to open the path of honor is in this country to those who start in humble life and' have industry and pluck to push their own way. Vote for Richard Wills. Mr. Schelifs Record. Schuylkill Republican.] William P. Schell, General of Credit Mobil. ier and Labor Reformer by brevet, claims re cognition as the friend of the workingman. We need, for the purpose of illustrating his friend ship for the toiler, recite but a single instance of his devotion to their interests. The busi ness community and its contingent interests are the life and essence of the property of the Commonwealth. That which op erates for the good of the mass, must in a lesser degree help each single individual. The laws of economy—governing finance, trade, mining, manufacturing and commerce—are adjusted by the subtle nicety of cr.reful man- agement. Any cause which tenth to promote .a particular industry by sapping the life blood of all other avenues, is at once fatal and dan gerous. The welfare of all depends upon the interchange of harmony throughout the whole fabric. 'these deductions are but the ripened fruition of experience. How, then as a law maker, does the record of William P. Schell accord with the principles noted? We answer, be has been the subservient creature of the capitalist and monopolist. The encroachments of corporations upon the rights of citizens arc well known to he vicious and flagrant. The vested powers of corporations, not well defined by special or general legislation, affords many loop-holes for the oppression of the general community. At times the yoke of oppression becomes too burdensome, arid with unanimity of action the people rise en masse and demand relief. Such junctures afford an opportunity for the observer to discern who among the public servants care for the public good, and who are body servants of the corporation monopolies. Senate bill, No. 287, Session of 1860, offers this test of Mr. Schell's motives. It was "An act to regulate the charges of railroad companies." Ruinuous competition between the inter state railroad companies was carried on in a reckless manner. The improvident mismanagement of railway officials reduced charges on traffic to competitive points, to figures far below the minimum of cost. Regular tariffs were abrogated and special rates, in times of competition, made lower notch by notch. Instructions to local agents contained one proviso, and that, "Get freight, no matter about the rate, get freight." This practice operated to the disadvantage of every consumer throughout the State, and in this wise. The fact cannot be denied that to competitive points merchandise was carried for prices that did not near pay the costs.— The bondholder had to receive his interest, the stockholder his dividend, and so to get a right balance in the income account, the rates of freight to all way stations were raised to figures that enabled the railroad companies to carry through freight at a loss, aid yet on the entire tonnage they would make handsome profits. Our Democratic journals endorse this practice, they say to the merchant in Pitts burgh or Williamsport, "it is none of your business whether the merchant in Chicago pays less freight from Philadelphia than you do." In other words, the merchants through out this State had to pay io - addition to fair charges, an extra amount that would cover every loss incurred by the railroad companies through competition. Now, every consumer throughout the State was equally interested with the store-keepers, every article purchased, either for food or clothing, had to be raised in price to cover this increased cost. It therefore was the busi ness of every person in the State who was concerned to protest against this practice.— They bad a right to ask the Legislature not to forbid competition, but to say to the railroad companies, "you shall not make up your losses on through traffic by making unjust charges to the citizens of this State. With that end in view the bill aforementioned was pre t iated. It was eminently fair and just. But it met with opposition from the ring, and when Aleck McClure said, "I ant opposed to this bill," its fate was settled. By ledgerdermain its title was changed, the text of the bill destroyed, and free license given the corporation magnates to pile onerous burdens upon our citisens.— William P. Schell foilowed the pathway hewn. by McClure. The crooked finger of the mo nopolist held him captive, and with full de- . . liberation ho recorded his vote in favor of the wholesale robbery that his constituents begged and implored to be shielded from. Look and Think. Pittsburgh Cuitiruercial Gazette] There are five parties before the people of this State claiming their votes this year.— These are, the Republican, Democratic, Green back, Prohibition and Workingmen. One of the first two named will succeed, because they comprise an old and complete organization, and represent the leading issues before the country. The number of votes required for success for either of these will depend on the extent the others may draw on the voting population. Assume that 500,000 votes will be cast, and that 100,000 of these are divided between the three parties last named, and a majority of the remaining 400,000 will elect the party that get theta. A few years ago the Prohibitionists polled a few more than 5,000 votes, nearly all of which came from the Re publicans, who had enacted the local option law, the year before. This loss gave the Democrats power, which was at once used to repeal local option. The Greenback party, this year, may draw as largely from the Demo crats as from the Republicans. It is, how ever, a national question, and has no place in an election involving only State issues. What ever the vote it gets it can amount to noth ing, as Congress only can deal with that ques tion, and Congress is decidedly against them, in both parties and in both branches. The Prohibitionists are largely Republicans. Their vote will weaken the party just so much, and will, as it did before, benefit the Democracy just so much. It cannot by any possibility have any other effect. We appreciate those who act front principle, but a man who si,ould stand in the way of a raging flood, that he may contribute to stop it when the known re sult will be his death, and suffering of his family, may be credited with pure motives and very bad judgment. So with those who vote prohibition just now, We do not doubt the purity of their motives, any more that the effect of their votes will be to help the Demo cratic party. Prohibition will never come that way. A certain sympathy attends the movements' of the workiug people. They have been op pressed, and the hard times have exerted a crushing influence upon them. Believing that polities have had more to do with this than they really have had, they turn to the ballot for relief. The motive is of th 9 highest and best. But Ohio illustrated just what the effect of that course is. It gave the Democrats power in the State, including the Legislature. They will send a Democratic Senator to Con gress. It is one vote nearer a Democratic majority. What will be the effect? Not to help the workingmen, but to oppress them by increasing the public debt with Southern' claims. If the workingmen's party can com mand 28,000 votes. in this State, as in Ohio, they will elect the Democratic ticket, beyond the peradventure of doubt. We therefore urge them to think of this. Is it not true?— Do they not know that thiS will be the effect of what-they will accomplish, if they vote a separate tic:set. All is self evident, and is absolutely undeniable. We do not believe they wish this result, and therefoie urge th .t they arrange to place.therr votes where they will accomplish their proper purpose, by co operating with the party they would prefer to have succeed, as between the two great parties in the State, We cannot divest ourselves of responsibility by voting a side ticket. This country is as really in the conflict between the old spirit of slavery and freedom, .aa. ever it was. The uprising of rebel influences proves this. To day, that clause of the Fourteenth amendment which restores that where the right of franchise is abridged representation shall be equally abridged, is a dead letter. There are members of Congress representing South ern constituencies that have not been allowed to vote. This evil will spread and broaden, and its influence on the country cannot be fully foretold. We can only meet it, by meet ing the party that gave it existence, and that will extend the influence of the slave spirit.— And it can be met only by voting the Republi can ticket. MAKE it a point, Republicans, to see that your neighbor attends the election. Our op ponents are quietly at work and will have out every vote. Vote for William H. Booth, Hon. Amos C. Noyes. A dhanipion Monopolist—llis Monopoly and War Record, While a Member of the Rou4s of Representatives. "That capital combined in corporate orga nizations has been too highly favored by both State and Federal legislatiou."—Demoeralic Platform. It is our province to recite below the official record of Hon. Amos C. Noyes, Democratic candidate for State Treasurer, and let our readers comprehend the consistency tbst exists between the candidate and the pia - dorm. Laurel Run Improvement Compaq', title afterwards changed to PHILADILPRIA AND READING COAL AND IRON COMPAbiY. Voted Avg. —[(louse Journal, page 932, 1871.3 Amendments to the Constitution : Six. 8. No bill shall be passed by the Leg islature containing more than one subject, which shall be clearly expressed ie tbo except appropriation bills. Sac. 9. No bill shall be passed by the Leg islature granting any powers or privileges hi any case where the authority to graot such powers or privileges has been or may hereaf ter he conferred upon the courts of the Com monwealth. Voted NAY.—LL. It.„pages 414, 415, 416, 1864. Lehigh and Susquehanna Coal and Iron Co., act to hold lands, mine coal, &c. Voted AYE. —[L. R., page, 412, 1864.] Lackawanna and Susquehanna Coal and Iron Company, act to Incorporate. same character as LAUREL RUN. Vuted AYE.-[L. R., page, 591, 1864.] An act mu prevent the payment of workmen and laborers for wages due by orders upon corporation store keepers. Voted NAY.--[L. R., page 791, 1863.] An act to repeal - the fourth section of the supplement to the charter of the .11ilford and Matamoras Railroad Company, approved April 6tb, 1870. Voted NAY.-[L. R., page 476, 1872.] The section referred to diverted from the State Annuity of Ten Thousand Dollars, pail by the New York and Erie Railroad Company, and transferred the same to Milford and Mata moras Railroad. The bill was "snaked" through in the interest of a few speculators owning the Milford and Matamoras Railroad. The act to repeal was in compliance with spe cial message of Governor Geary denouncing the hill.—[L. R., page 370, 1872.] RIR WAR RECORD. An act to prevent the immigration of Negroes and Mulattoes into this State : First section made it a penal offense for any person, white or colored, who aided in bring— ing Negroes or Mulattoes in the State. • Third section compelled Sheriff's, constables and police officers to arrest all transgressors of foregoing sections. Voted YEA.—[L. R., page 547, 1863.] Joint resolutions upon the state of the coun— try declaring war, all war measures of Con— gress wrong, denouncing the war as a failure, and condemning the Emancipation Proclama— tion. Voted YsA.--[L. R., page 365, 566;1863.] "That this General Assembly, in common with all truly patriotic people of this great and loyal Commonwealth, execrate and con— demn the traitors in arms against this, the best Government under Heaven, and that we will hail with pleasure and delight every` vic tory of our gallant soldiers in. the field, by which this wicked .rebellion is to be crushed" and its guilty authors brought to a just pita-- isbnient." Voted NAY.—[b. R.. page 629, 1863.] The Greenback and Labor Party. Republican.] The Greenback and Labor party is conipo sedoftwo distinct organisations, united in one, for the purposes of this campaign., The Labor party met in convention at Harrisburg aboat the 10th of September lest, and adopted a plat form, denouncing the granting of subsidies of any kiwi whatever by the Government, in the most positive terms. At Williamsport, some weeks after, the Greenback convention met, and adopted a platform declaring in most un equivocal and emphatic terms, in favor of the granting of subsidies by the general Govern ment. The trreettactr anttiAborpitviy lead ers had a conferen , ,e and they thought they had better unite, on the principle that, in uni on there is strength. So a single ticket was wrought out of the Greenback and Labor tiek ets, which presents itself as the Greenback and Labor ticket. The question is, which platform is the joint ticket astride of? Does it stand on the Labor platform, or on the Green back platform ? So far as the public knows, neither platform has been revoked. The La bor platform and the Greenback platform an tagonize each other in many vital particulars. On the question of subsidies, they are as wide apart as the poles, and are going in opposite directions. la the Labor platform the true ex ponent of that party's principles ? Is tbe Greenback platform the true exponent of the principles of that party? If tbe platforms do represent their principles honestly, which wing of the party is expected to surrender its prin ciples, or which has already done so? And if either wing of the party has surrendered its principles, what was the consideration for its , so doing? If neither wing has surrendered its principles, then we have the old spectacle of a single ticket riding two platforms, going in the opposite direction. The candidates have one foot on a platform in favor of subsidies and the other on a platform against subsidies, and the question is, where are the subsidies to come in We hope the party knows just what it seeks and where it stands, but it certainly has a peculiar jumble of principles. About the most that it can hope to accomplish is to aid the free trade Democracy of Pennsylvania to power. Without protection Pennsylvania becomes emasculated, and her industries must languish and die. The only protection we now have is the gift of the Republican party, and it has only been preserved by that party. The Democratic party is determined to enforce' free trade upon the comity if possible, and it behooves all Lonest Pennsylvanians to use their voice, influence and votes to prevent the• Democratic party of Pennsylvania from being elevated to power on its free trade' platform ; and this can be done by Republicans remain. ing loyal to their party. We have enough Republicans in the State to prevent the State being put in a false position on the great ques tions of the day; but if they suff e r themselves to be misled by any outside movement, they may contribute to elect the Democratic ticket, and thus contribute to put the State in a false position on these great questions, and help to , bring upon the manufacturing industries great prostration and loss. Then let Republicans ' consider well these questions before they cote-. mit themselves to the Greenback and Labor party, on its double platform. Do They? Do the Republicans who are crying for "a change" remember that we have had a Demo cratic Congress for the past two years—two years of the hardest times the country bas ev er experienced? If they 4b not we advise them to brush up their memory. Wby that Congress was so miserably penurious that they would not even appropriate money enough] to pay the honest current expenses of the govern ment. Think of our army and our courts serv ing five months without pay I How would it fare with the Pennsylvania Railroad company, or any individual business man, :f such a pol icy were pursued by them JUDGE STERRiTT is admitted to be one of the ablest and purest Judges in the State. 51r. I:lArt.is a first class man in every particular, honest, reliable and true. Mr. Paaaalore has }lva so conectly that he cannot be assailed. (:)11 the lther hand Judge Trunkey bas descended to the work of political canvassing for office. Noyes and Schell, are incouteeta bly rroven to be railroad corruptioniste, and opposed to the workingmen. The choice between them is easy. ANY workingman who, having always voted with the Republican party, now deserts it for the purpose of seeking relief for his idleness in third party ritovements, may be compared to a sailor who leaves a tight and safe ship in a storm to find succor on a piece of floating timber he discovers storm-tossed on the waves. pre ticket is composed of good men, and they deserve the hearty support of every Re publican in the county. Vote for every ose of them. Vote for Dr. A_ B. Brumbaugh. NO. 43.
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