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A ,a, Printing PUBLISHED -IN No. 212, FIFTH STREET, TERMS : not paid within the year. 0 0 0 0 000 0 0 0 00000000 PROGRESSIVE 0 0 0 REPUBLICAN PAPER. 0 o o 0 o o 0 o o FIRST-CLASS ADVERTISING MEDIUM 5000 READERS WEEKLY. ';-* cr so = ,-4 1- 0 0 04 i ~• a m ~o n' St 2 .92 o 0 e.,- "0 a, si o -I rr 4 Er CD r I-3 z g , - -, ....... ••••• 'OR PRI SPEC: The Huntingdon Journal. J. A. NASH, - - - Editor. HUNTINGDON, PENN'A. FRIDAY, - - SEPTEMBER 13, 1878 Circulation LARGER than any other Paper in the Juniata Valley. To the People of Pennsylvania. The Republican party of Pennsylvania, in appealing once more to the people for their suffrages, does so with tho conviction that the candidates upon its ticket are in every way worthy of support ; honest capa ble, and faithful to its principles, and that the record of the party since its advent to power, demonstrates that the Common. wealth has never so prospered as when under Republican rule. The Democratic Party held almost un broken control of the State from 1829 to 1858. Excepting Governors Ritner and Johnston, it had all the Governors elected during that period, and controlled the Legislature in both branches in every year but three during that time; it built up an enormous debt of over forty millions of dollars, and produced the Canal Ring, under which this debt was contracted, and did more to foster jobbery, promote corruption, and establish traffic; in office, than any organization that has ever existed here. The Republican Party obtained partial control in 1858 and 1859, and was com pletely successful in 1860, and has re mined in power with but one or two interruptions since that year. Under its hands, the credit of the State, impaired by the recklessness of its predecessor, has been restored; the State debt has been reduced from $42,000,000 to $22,000,000, with an accumulation of a Sinking Fund, practically reducing it to $13,000,000; a war debt of three and one half millions has been paid; the tax of three mills upon all our real estate has been wiped out; a half million has been bestowed upon the citizens of Chambersburg for their relief from rebel incendiarism ; the common school system has been maintained at a present annual expense of $1,000,000; the orphans of our soldiers have been cared for ; asylums for the insane and reformatory institutions have been estab lished and supported; $1,000,000 have been dedicated to the Centennial Celebra tion ; our internal resources have been developed; bureaus have been erected and maintained for our mining population; yet, no where in the Union, is the burden of a State Government so lightly felt. The State, under Republican rule, has been honestly governed, and her honor held above reproach. It is alleged by the opposition that the annual expenditures of the State have been increased since the Republicans came into power. The increase of expenditures has only kept pace with the increase in population, wealth, and the material in dustries to be fostered by the Government. Twenty-four years ago the Common Schools received an annual appropriation of $150,- 000 to $175,000 ; now they receive one million. Then there was no expense for repelling invasion or suppressing the re bellion ; no Chambersburg sufferers to be indemified • no soldiers orphans to be maintained ; no insane asylums to support; few charitable institutions to aid. The Legislature has been doubled in size and expense. To these causes, not to extrav agance, corruption, or wrong, the increased expenditure is largely attributable. The increase has been for the public good, while the ability to maintain the expendi ture has grown with the growth of the State, and strengthened with its strength. Within the last few years the people have been relieved entirely from all direct taxa tion for State purposes, except partially upon personal property, and the burden of the maintenance of the Government has been imposed upon corporations. The Republican party came into promi nence before the whole world as the sword bearer of this nation, to protect and pre serve it against internal as well as external foes; and having delivered the Union from destruction, claims that the National Gov ernment should be administered upon the principles of those who preserved it, and not upon the principles of those who en deavored to destroy it. The doctrine of State Rights, though kept in the background, is the distinguish ing tenet of the Southern Democracy.— Without the Southern Democracy the Democratic party of the nation cannot pre vail. It is dominated by them. Mr. Singleton, of Mississippi, at the last session of Congress announced boldly his adhesion to the doctrine that his allegiance was due first and always to his State. No party adhering to this principle can be safely en trusted with the administration of national affairs The Union, held subordinate in supremacy to the States, would fall asunder upon the first resolute assertion of State sovereignty. The Republican party main tains the recognized powers of the States under the Constitution but stands like a rock against the right of a State to set up its supremacy against that of the nation. The party maintaining that right is unfitted by its principles to administer the govern ment of the nation or maintain its integrity. C = - .... 1 C O a, 17' , Controlled by the south the Democratic Party must shape its policy upon the mould of the southern leaders, and the southern leaders, in turn, must accommo date themselves to the demands of their section. Mr. Goode, of V irginia, who had charge of the bill to reimburse William and Mary College for its alleged loss dur ing the Rebellion, gave to his constituents as a reason for not pressing a vote, that its passage would affect the elections now pending ; after the elections he could rally more strength for it as the immediate fear of public censure would then be removed from the Democratic members. The poli cy of Mr. Goode actuates nearly all the friends of southern claimants. They await a Democratic Congress and Administra tion, when the Democratic Party must give them all they demand. Present de lay is no abandonment of the claims. Democratic success will not only invigorate them but like the Archangel's trumpet will wake from the dead thousands of others now resting in the grave. Their extent cannot be measured, except by the ability of the party in power to manufac ture them. For the same reason the Democratic Party, in Congress, discharged disabled Union Soldiers from position and replaced them by the soldiers of the Confederate Army. For the same reason, the Democratic party is a Free Trade party. It made a determined effort last winter, following the lead of a Committee of Ways and Means appointed by a Democratic Speaker from Pennsylvania, to pass the Wood Tariff " m c_4_ a cla 0 CD 02 HUNTINGDON, PA„ FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 13,1878. Bill, aimed destructively at the vitals of all the industries of our btate. The bill would have driven our workingmen out of employment or reduced their wages to starvation point, and would have succeeded, but for the almost unbroken front pre sented against it by the Republicans in Congress. An analysis of the test vote upon the bill is as follows : For the bill, Northern Republicans 5 " " Southern " " Northern Democrats 45 " " Southern ~ Against the bill, Northern Republicans 109 Southern " Northern Democrats l5 ~ " Southern " The Democratic party in Pennsylvania halted on this question--its candidate for Governor avoiding the initial vote in the Legislature—as did the Democratic mem bers of Congress from Pennsylvania, until the thunders of popular sentiment, from Allegheny to the Lehigh, drove them to a faint resistance to the bill. The Repub lican party of Pennsylvania, standing firmly by the policy of Protection, is in accord with the party throughout the you n try. Our present paper currency grew out of the necessities of the late war. It supplanted a debased State currency, which was the plague of commerce and a prolific source of loss. Already practical ly at par with gold, it is the best currency we ever produced. In sixteen years scarcely ever has the change: of money in this country looked to see from what bank the note he handled was issued. It mat ters nothing, except to those interested in National Banks, whether the bank curren cy is retained or replaced by greenbacks, if the latter can constitutionally be substi tuted. The credit of each is based upon the National faith. To increase this cur rency would simply decrease its purchas ing power. Its present, volume is equal to that before the panic of 1873, while the price of nearly every article of consump tion is so reduced that a dollar will pur chase more than at any period since the war. To pay the National debt with irredeem able promises to pay is repudiation. The masses of the people of Pennsylvania are honest, and cannot sanction repudiation in any form. The remedy for our present difficulties is to be found only in a patient adaptation of ourselves. to our surround ings. The current of wordly affairs flows on irresistibly; we cannot turn it back.— We are gradually but surely rising from the slough of debt, incurred when it was so easy to borrow, and as we emerge from it we will find our way back to National prosperity. The Republican party has always insist ed upon the equal rights of men, without regard to color, condition or nationality. It gave the right to manhood, to labor, and to the proceeds of labor, to four mil lions of down-trodden people, and can nev er agree to surrender the right of the hum blest citizen to live unmolested under his own roof tree, and to contract for his own labor as he will. The founders of the com monwealth, a toiling people, handed it down to their posterity with a title sanctified by struggle, suffering and sacri fice indestructible by any of the wild va garies of Socialism or Communism. The safety and prosperity of this State depend upon the maintenance of the prin ciples of the Republican party. It has proven itself a trustworthy guardian of the interests of both State and Nation. Pub lic security, public confidence, and public honor are alike involved in the coming contest. The voters of the State will be found with the party which has given strongest evidence of its ability to main tain them all. M. S. QUAY, Chair. Republican State Committee. OUR CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESS What They Say at Home and Abroad. Chawbersburg Public Opinon.] As will be seen by the proceedings, the nomination of Hon. H. G. Fisher was made at the Congressional Conference of this District, Newport, Pa ' on Thursday night, on the thirty fifth ballot. The can didates were Hon. Thad. M. Mahon, of this county; Hon. H. G. Fisher, of Hun. tingdon ; Louis E. Atkinson, of Juniata, and Capt.Wm.Harding, of Snyder. _ . The defeat of Mr. Mahon is of course a surprise and regret to his many friends here and elsewhere in the District. No man in the county stands higher in the esteem of his fellow-citizens. This was indicated by the great unanimity with which he was chosen and pressed for the Congressional nomination, and the univer sal disappointment that has since followed at his failure. The gallant fight he made two years ago was to his credit and should have secured him the re nomination, but it has not. He is content, and his friends should be satisfied. Besides the considera tions which governed the conference are not to be disregarded. The doubtful char acter of the District for the Republicans has been materially increased in the birth of the Greenback party in Huntingdon county. Mr. Fisher, it is claimed, will poll the full Republican vote of that county, and his personal popularity will gain him a liberal support from the other two parties. MT.. Fisher is at present our honored State Senator, having already creditably and efficiently served two years in that ca pacity. His resignation would of course call for a new election, but as the Legisla ture will have but one more session in his term, and he would not be required to take his seat in Congress until December, 1879, this would seem to be unnecessary. Blair County Radical.] THE Republican conference of the XVlllth district acted wisely in nomi nating Hon. H. G. Fisher, of Huntingdon, for Congress. Mr. Fisher is competent, is a gentleman of irreproachable character and possesses is a marked degree the con fidence of the people of Huntingdon coun ty, irrespective of party. Indeed, there are few people anywhere so universally esteemed in the county of their birth and residence. Mr. Fisher carried that Sena• torial district in 1876 by a large majority, his nomination then healing up all the dissentions that for so many years had distracted and divided the party in that county. His record in the Senate will bear the closest scrutiny, and his devotion to the interests of his immediate constitu ents and the people at large, as evidenced in his passage of the new penitentiary bill and his advocacy of every measure having for its object the best interests of the workingmen have greatly endeared him to the people of that county. We regard his nomination as exceptionally strong and heartily congratulate the people of that district in having for their standard•bearer a gentleman so competent and so univer sally esteemed wherever known. Perry County Freeman.] Hon. Horatio G. Fisher. Our Republican State. District and County ticket is now full. It was com pleted last Thursday by the nomination of Hon. Horatio G. Fisher, of Huntingdon, for Member of Congress from this district. The proceedings of the Conference, found in full in this paper, reported by a representative of the Freeman office, who was present on the occasion, show how the nomination was made. There was a friendly contest, without any bitterness, however, for the nomination ; and therefore there are no dissatisfied or wounded candidates. All was fair, square and honorable.— Neither Fulton nor Perry presented a can didate. Juniata, Snyder, Franklin and Huntingdon, each presented a candidate. When several ballots had been taken, Cap• tain Harding, of Snyder, withdrew ; and the contest was narrowed down to the favorites of the three other counties. On the home stretch, Mr. Fisher made the nomination, and all the other candidates who were present, cheerfully acquiesced in the result of the Conference. We can't say that we had any particular preference. Mahon was a good man, At kinson was a good man, Harding was a good Republican, and Fisher was a good man. There was no ugly feeling—no set up job—no friend to be rewarded, no foe to be punished, as we understand the mat ter ; and all that nineteenth twentieths of the Republicans in the district asked and demanded, was that the Conference should exercise its wisest judgment in the selec tion of a candidate from the list of good material presented. That the Conference has done this we have no doubt, and is therefore deserving of all credit for the wise discharge of its duties. We in com mon with the masses of the district, would as cheerfully follow the Republican flag under the leadership of Mahon, or Atkin son, or Harding, had any one of them been settled on the ticket, as we do under the leadership of Mr. Fisher. And we are gratified to state that this is ttie feeling of every Republican in the six counties com prising the district. Who is the nominee ? what are his qual ifications ? and what are the promises of his successful election ? We answer as best we can, for we have no personal ac quaintance with the gentleman. He is a native of Huntingdon, has received a good education, has been admitted to the Hun tingdon Bar, but we understand has been engaged in the Broad Top coal region too much to permit him to practice law.* The miners in his employ has never struck for higher wages, and between them and him there never has been a conflict. His pop ularity was tested not only in his native county, but also in Franklin county, where two years ago he ran for Senator, and car ried his Senatorial district by a majority, gratifying to his friends and lamented by his political opponents. That he can do so again, his friends confidently claim, even in Huntingdon where there are so many antagonistic elements of political agitation and unrest. If he can't do it, no other Republican could be presented who could. That is our understanding in the matter, and we express it because all the informa tien we have, induces us to believe it is correct. Mr. Fisher is without doubt, a man of strict integrity, possessing first-rate busi ness qualifications, is said to be a fair, ef fective, magnetic speaker, and has the snap, vim, and tact to make just such a champion as the Republicans of this district demand. As we understand the situation and the qualifications of our nominee, we congratu late the Republicans of the district upon the selection of their standard-bearer, and believe he will be elected. And we hope every Republican, with not a few honest Democrats, in this county, will do all they can to advance the prosperity of the country by working and voting for Horatio G. Fisher. [*Mr. Fisher is no lawyer, but all his life has been engaged in active business, and his large experience gained therein the better qualifies him to represent this district in Congress.—ED.] Fulton Republican.] Hon. H. G. Fisher. The Congressional Conferees of this county were uninstructed. On the 29th ult., they met the Conferees from the other counties composing the XVIIIth district and nominated the Hon. H. G. Fisher, of Huntingdon for Congress.— Mr. Fisher is competent, is a gentleman of irreproachable character, and possesses in a marked degree the confidence of the people of Huntingdon county, irrespect ive of party. Indeed, there are few people anywhere so universally esteemed in the county of their birth and residence. Mr. Fisher carried the Senatorial district com posed of Franklin and Huntingdon coun ties in 1876 by a large majority, his nomi nation then healing up all the dissentions that for so many years had distracted and divided the party in that county. His rec )rd in the Senate will bear the closest scurciny, and his devotion to the interests of his immediate constituents and the people at large, as evidenced in his pas sage of the new penitentiary bill and his advocacy of evt ry measure having For its object the best interests of the working men have greatly endeared him to the peo ple of that county, We regard bis nomi nation as exceptionally strong and heartily congratulate the people of the district in having for their standard bearer a gentle man so competent and so universally es ,eensed wherever known. We regard his election a foregone conclusion. Snyder County Tribune.] Hon. H. G. Fisher. As will be seen by reading the proceed ings, Hon. H. G. Fisher, of Huntingdon County, was nominated for Congress in our District. We are free to confess that Mr. Mahon was our choice, but at the same time are ready to give Mr. Fisher our un qualified support, and will use our pen, voice and influence to secure his election. We believe that it is of the greatest in terest to our citizens, as well as of the whole United States, that none but loyal, and true and tried men are elected to the next Congress. We know Senator Fisher to be an able and honest exponent of Republican principles, and we also honestly believe that he can be elected. Whilst we should have preferred the Soldier Mahon, we shall aim to secure him the full Republican vote in "Little Snyder," thus showing that we are now fully willing to ratify the action of the Newport Conference and call upon the Republicans of the District to rally to the support of Hon. H. G. Fisher, the choice of our Republican constituency for the high and exalted position for which he has been nominated. EVERYBODY vote for Fisher Chambersburg Repository.] For Congress, Horatio G. Fisher. The Republican Congressional Confer ence, which met at Newport on Thursday last placed in nomination fur Congress in this district, the Hon. Horatio G. Fisher, of Huntingdon, and we accordingly place his name at the head of our columns as the regularly nominated Republican candidate. He was not, as our readers are aware, our first choice, as we have advocated steadily the nomination of our own candidate, Mr. Mahon, with all the energy we could com mand, believing that as the nominee of this county, he was entitled to all the aid we could give him. But he was not the choice of the district conference, and as the nomi nee is a faithful Republican, and a gentle. man in every way well qualified to repre sent us in Congress, it is the duty of every Republican to give him his cheerful and untiring support. He is not without ex perience in public life, as he has been a member of the State Senate for the last two years, where he has occupied a promi nent position in a body containing many able men. The location of the nominee had doubtless much inf uence with the conference in making the selection of the candidate. Huntingdon is, we regret to say, about the crookedest county in the State, politically. The discordant elements which have long existed there, were favor able to the outgrowth of the greenback heresy, and, as might be expected, produced a plentiful crop. As the greenbackers have no possible chance of electing their candidate for Congress, they may scatter, to some extent, on the candidates of the two leading parties. Mr. Fisher, being an extensive coal operator, and the employer of a large number of workingmen, his friends urged that he would stand a better chance for securing part of this element than any other candidate named. Whether this claim is well founded or not, remains to be seen. The importance of carrying the district this fall cannot be over-esti mated, and we feel confident that the gal lant Republicans of Franklin county will not permit any slight considerations of per sonal disappointment, to prevent them from giving Mr. Fisher the solid vote of the party. Altoona Tribune.] A Good Nomination. The Republicans of the Eighteenth Con gressional district did a good thing when they nominated Senator Horatio G. Fisher, of Huntingdon, as their candidate. The district is perhaps the closest in the State, and though it invariably turns up Repub lican on the Presidential vote, and generally so on the vote for the Republican State ticket, yet the Democrats have always managed to get away with the Congress man. If there is any man in the Repub lican party in that district who can change such a result, that man is Senator Fisher. He is a gentleman of ability, and exceed ingly popular with the masses. As Sena tor he served well ; no one could have been more watchful over the general and special interests of his constituents. Every thing that would benefit the people of his im mediate county or of that district, was as carefully looked after as if it were his own personal matter. Thug, by his indefatigable labors he won the confidence and esteem of not only those whom he immediately rep resented, but of his entire Congressional district. It was, therefore, but natural that public sentiment in the Republican party should point to Senator Fisher as the most available candidate, and the one to redeem the district. His Senatorial career is a strong guaranty that should he be sent to Congress his work there will be performed with the same fidelity to his con stituents and the good of the State gen erally. His work will also be in accord ance with the wishes of the Republican majority. There is only one county—his own—that is seriously affected by the greenback movement, and we believe Sen ator Fisher will be able to neutralize all the mischief it may do to the local Repub lican organization. With his own party united, he has a clear field, and will be able to go out of Huntingdon with a good ma jority, which, added to those of Franklin and Snyder, will certainly be enough to overcome the three Democratic counties and secure his election. DEFERRED LOCAL MATTER. For the JOUNAL.] More About That Wonderful Cave. When truth flashes on the warld sudden ly, with no voice to herald its coming, peo ple are inclined to discredit it and and are slow to acknowledge the verity of the real acquisition. A star may illumine the glo ry of the heavens, and its brilliancy will not be seen because it is not common. And a great discovery may be given to a gen eration and deemed fallacy till the follow ing age realize in it the world's priceless boon, for the great mind of humanity is slow to realize and slower to believe. So, a cave of surpassing wealth and extent, grandeur and varied beauty, may be dis covered and people will not allow them selves to realize the fact, because caves are not common things. A few days ago, when an agitated com munity more trembling at thoughts of an upheaval, or a downfall, or a something or other, no one knew what, when the foot steps of the Patriot man, who in his weak ness had gone before, were still but faint echoes in the subterranean saalts of that "Freak of Nature." We, too, claim ing to be mortal—and had visited one cave before—only one, resolved to see this one located near Alexandria. ,It was our plan in the first place to allow any friend to ac company us in this arduous and dangerous expedition, but on second thought, we con cluded that it might be but a ruthless sac rifice of human life to the darkness and unbroken gloom of that mighty subterra nean land beneath the liquid waters of the "Blue Juniata." So, in a quiet, unobtrusive manner we were at the mouth of the cave, and before the rising sun lit up the eastern horizon, to shed his glory on us perhaps for the last time as we thought, we were equipped in every particular for the hazardous un dertaking. Before us was the sinuous course of the mighty Juniata, in the dist• ance reposing in modest grandeur was the town of Alexandria whose now sunlit spires gave beauty to the rolling landscape, and behind us were the jagged peaks of War rior Ridge reaching their summits toward heaven in every particular a symbol of the fierce name they bore. We didn't attempt to get a drink as the Patriot man put it, we wern't dry, we came there to see that "Freak of Nature" and we were not going to take anything and not see the whole freak. We had every thing necessary calculated for an extended search, but we forgot—we had no jug— how could we catch those bats—the Patri- of man's—without a jug, so after a short dispute we hit upon the happy expedient of bottling a few; we had a bottle, so we started. We designed remaining in the cave sonic time in order to fully explore its hidden resources, possibly gain access to its unbounded treasure, and at any cost to fathom its darkest depth and to measure at any sacrifice its most death-like silence and gloom. Now the Patriot man says "a breeze blew up," but the calmness of the unbrok en stillness of that hour was not ruffled by tree nor•flower, and not a zephyr stirred blade nor leaf, nor human sound echoed to charm that voiceless and terrible silence. According to the same authority former explorers were accompanied by a dog and a cat, but we—we were magnanimous— we went alone, and if blood must be saeri• ficed on that subterranean altar the blood of the brute and the beast must be spared, and we, if needs be, for the sake of truth, resigned to our fate in the good cause, would willingly_immolate ourselves on that silent shrine, but only the dark walls and the echoing gloom be mute witnesses, no fear stricken wives with tear-stained cheek and wringing hands stood there to bid as a last, fond farewell or clasp us to their fair bosoms on our return—alas ! such con solation was not,—years had passed since the writer had again walked the paths of life singly, and the friend who now stood by him had passed far down the vista of life, too alone ! would that some sweet hearts had stood there to fall upon our necks and welcome the returning prodigal to their bosoms ! Surrounded as we were by no motion nor sound, those, who have never been un der ground, far from the cheerful sunlight and the noise and tumult of busy day, can not imagine the grimness and the loneli ness of the terrible silence about to envel ope us. By our step we were about t) pass from the present into the reign of we knew not what, perhaps an age whose barbarism had been too remote for the chequered page of history, or perhaps into the grotto of a people that had passed from the reg istry of races, or may be into what was once the last defending hold of a living people, and now the eternal resting place of their inanimate clay. Perhaps we were about entering upon the hidden wonders of the untold wealth of bandits and rob bers, and might gaze upon the remains of those who fought over golden treasures and passed away before their time, or it might be that the drifting and changes of time had hemmed a virtuous people from the sunlight of heaven there to give up their souls without a struggle. Perhaps what was once the abiding place of the savage and the heathen, his home and his fireside, by a mighty internal power was now an echoless tomb ; or perhaps the walls of that gloomy region had once echoed the infernal death-shriek and for anus since has perpetuated the silence of the grave. Or perhaps we were to gaze upon running brooks and babbling streams whose tran quil clearness had warbled in an eternal silence, or to look upon golden tribes on the bosom of glassy lakes where no riffle had ever broken the placid waters of its surface, or even to disturb the lair of some beast of prey of bygone ages whose whiten• ed bones had laid in unmolested repose where the sun shines not. Whether about to gaze on the wrecks of time, or the fierce carnival of the past, or lose the echo of our own voices amid the death-iike re-echoes of those gloomy-walls, whatever was to be our fate we were wil ling to explore the most hidden recesses of its unbroken muteness. Everything ready, after examining the entrance and finding it safe, we set to work to lower such things as would be of practical use in a careful and extended research, ropes to scale heights and reach inaccessible places, a small boat to tow us across the different streams; torches to light our journeys ; fishing tackle, cooking utensils, an axe, gun, different kinds of cutlery; provisions to last several days, in fact, everything to make life comfortable, and when they were safely landed below, after taking a last look at the beauties of the surrounding world, we went down, down into the utter dark ness of a region to behold a scene which would strike grandeur and sublimity to the heart of a savage. Our first thoughts were of facing some grim monster of death, but no glassy eyes were before us, and nothing but unspeakable silence around us, and our voices were muffled in the gloomy stillness of death. We found the surface here and there covered with smooth pebbles as if washed from the distant sea, and again we trod upon rock smooth and slippery and solid, and then upon the sand, and wind ing our way fur same distance we came to the centre of the cave, whose arched roof appeared as from the natural liana of the sculptor, with a profusion of statuary and rude profile whose charming beauty would crown the highest glory of the artist's brightest dreams We found perfect comes in every nook, and hanging cylinder shaped masses in the distance that flashed the reflected light in resplendent streams of glory and brilliancy. Here and there were colossal rocks, the plaything of the world in its infancy, boulders whose migh ty forms were now as immovable as the eternal bounds of the unconfined sea. Streams and rivulets and limpid waters hurried through chasms and flowed over cataracts, glittered for a moment, and dis appeared beyond in the boundless gloom. Here rose up a mighty figure to tell us there were giants in those days, upon whose grim visage the figure of time had played for centuries, and yonder a wall, a barrier to the ravages of all times, upon whose glassy surface deep-dyed silence and per petual gloom had fbrever rested without one relieving ray from the boundless ocean of sunlight. The Patriot man found nickel—we fail ed to find any nickel—we took our nickl3s along. We found, however, various other metals and things, and an abundance of— could we help finding—brass where the Patriot man had been. We took a west ern course, surveyed in every particular the region under and beyond Alexandria, and notwithstanding the many fears and misgivings, we pronounce everything safe, gentlemen, perfectly safe, no alarm. We kept on for considerable distance hoping to be able to come out, perhaps, at Arch Springs, but after crossing brooks and streams and hills and rocks in unbroken darkness and silence, we came to the re mote extremity from which we had entered. We took a new course on our return, and the varied novelty of the scene lent strange beauty and charm to the spell- bound gloom. Our route crossed ridges, the bulwarks of time, and followed chan nels scooped out by the hand of ages, with here a stately rock whose crested height had been forever crowned in perpetual darkness, and there a plain upon whose sullen bosom the unnumbered dead might be marshaled, and down thoroughfares winding by formless domes and pinnacles and towers under whose murky canopy shades and spirits might fitly shudder to pass, and at last from out the profound darkness we bathed ourselves in floods of sunlight and gazed forth on flitting cloud and smiling nature mid the gorgeous glory of bounteous heaven. Now, if this don't convince you of the verity of the Patriot man's story another visit will. THE "UNEWEIPECTINI3" FABXZB..—OUt in the Buckeye State. as we learn from the Ohio Farmer, a new swindle has been set on foot by which unsuspecting farmers are swindled out of their mosey, and in order that Huntingdon county farmers may see how the thing is done, and be prepared for these scoundrels if they happen to receive a call from them, we publish the article as we find it in our Ohio contemporary :. "Every day brings us new developments in the swindle business. The "tricks' devised to entrap the unwary farmer are both numer ous and ingenious. A correspondent tells us that two "nice looking" fellows, in a "Dice looking carriage,"•stopped for dinner at the house of an intelligent farmer of hie acquaint ance. not long since. They made themselves "agreeable" during the dinner hoar, and succeeded in convincing "'sloe host" that they were men of importance, engaged in the laudable work of writing np the agricultural resources of the country for a well known Metropolitan paver. After dinner they sat on the front porch and quiszed the farmer as to the fesources of the district, average yield of crops, etc., etc. The time for departure arriving they asked how mirth the bill was. "Nothing 0, they couldn't listen to that! They were 'yell paid by the proprietors of the aforesaid journal, and could afford to pay their way. They couldn't think of "sponging." They always "paid fifty cents apiece for dinner and the same for horse feed, making a dollar and a balf ; hadn't anything less than a ten dollar bill," which they tendered to the fanner insisting that he must take the dollar incl.a half out of it and give them the change. This was accordingly done, an appeal to the wife's butter money being necessary, however, be fore the change could be made. By this time the horse and carriage was at the frost gate, and with many kind expressions on both sides the two young gentlemen drove off,• leaving behind them a character for intelligence and generosity, .which had it extended over a Congressional district, would have been all that was necessary to secure them seats is Congress. "A few days later the farmer went to town to pay his June taxes, when he found to his unbounded surprise that the bill was a noto— rious counterfeit, and that the same ten-dollar bills had been "shoved off" on no lose than three other men in the county. The farmer returned home a wiser, bat humbler man, and now no inducements are powerful enough to make him entertain travelers, no matter how "gentlemanly" they may appear." SPEND YOUR MONEY AT HOME.—The following are given by an exchange as among the most forcible reasons why you should spend your money at home, and we commend them to our readers: It is your home ; you cannot improve it much by taking your money away to spend or invest. There is no way of improving a plates so ranch at by encouraging good merchants, good schools and good people to settle among you, and this cannot be done unless your spend your money at home. Spend your money at home, for there is where you get it. It is your duty. Spend your money at home, because when it is necessary for you to get credit, it is of your own town merchants you have to get it, and they must wait for the money. Therefore when you have the money, spend it at home. Spend your money at home. It will make better business for your merchants ; tbey can and will keep better assortments and sell at lower rates than if the only business they can do is what is credited out, while the money goes to other places. Spend your money at home. Set the ex ample now. Bay your dry goods, groceries, meats and everything at home, and you will see a wonderful change in a short time in the business outlook of the place ; therefore deal -pith your merchants at home. Spend your money at home. What do you gain by going off? Count the cost; see what yon could have done at home by letting ionr merchants have the cash. Strike a balance and see if you would not have been just as well off, besides helping your merchants. Spend your money at home. Your mer chants are your neighbors and your friends ; they stand by you in sickness—are your as sociates. Without your trade they cannot keep up business. No stores then, no one wanting to buy property to settle on and build up your place. Subscribe for your local paper, end buy only from those who advertise in it. If you do not find their advertisements there you may safely conclude that the house has gone out of business, or that they are too poor, too mean, or too old fogyish to make their heal ness known, acd in either case you will not be likely to buy goods cheap there. AN UNCONSCIOUS SNAKE SWALLOWER. —Last week farmer Potts, of Berks county, was the victim of a terrible adventure. Be coming drowsy he laid under a tree, and while sleeping a snake about nineteen inches in length of a green color darted into his opea mouth and descended into his stomach. After he awoke be experienced a peculiar and sick enning sensation .At times he frothed at the mouth, and his eyes almost started from their sockets. A physician pressed his ear to Pott's breast and distinctly heard the movements of the reptile. The victim was required to inhale the steam of boiled milk, which pro duced a strangling sensation, the snake having made an unsuccessful effort to leave the stomach. Potts was then led under a shed roof and put on a wagon. A strong rope was tied to a beam and then securely wrapped around the legs of the sufferer. The wagon was then pulled away, aad Potts was left dangling head down. While in this position he again inhaled the steam of boiling milk. The patient's tongue protruded and his eyes started. The thick steam flowed into his throat and the sufferer made a noise as if choking. Then quick as thought the doctor saw a head protrude, and seizing it with his naked fingers be quickly pulled, and the reptile was dashed into an empty bucket. In a few seconds Potts was lying on the ground nearly dead. He was given some whisky and water and rubbed with coarms towline, and finally he seemed to be resting easy. HIS eyes were bloodshot and every vein seemed bulged and ready to burst. He was carried into the house and put to bed, and light food was administered. His throat was very sore, but still be was thankful when he was told that the reptile bad been removed. He is slowly recovering.—Harrisburg Patriot. A DOMESTIC Scounan.—lt may be in teresting to families to know that a Bostonian has been devoting his time to studying the carpet bug or buffalo moth, the anew pest which threatens to become as great a nuisance indoors as the Colorado beetle has proved in the fields. It is the larvae of a beetle so smell as to escape detection unless specially looked for. It was discoveerd in every room in the Bostonian's house under the edge of the car pets, and wherever discovered a hole had been eaten through the woolen part of the carpet. In some places the carpet seemed to have been cut with scissors. Several larva having been placed in glass-covered boxes, those that survived without food split lengthwise and produced a black beetle, spotted with red and white, about one-eighth of an inch long. Pepper, snuff, kerosene, and various Insect powders, were employed in vain to•klll the larva and beetles, but benzine ?roved effective. The beetles, being sluggish, are easily caught and killed, but the larva are sonlable that they are apt to get away. They do. not confine themsel"es to carpets.; they eat furs, soft brusbet, feathers, and II oolen staff of any kind, whether hanging in closets or folded, in drawers. Some female& who have been absent for any time have found their carpets wiped on their return, and the whole hotbbitiarrts ing with insects. These have beg been known in Europe ; but they have never been so destructive as here. It is a noteworthy fact that all our entomic enemies, exeept the Colorado beetle, have come from abroad, and we may frankly say that they area very poor return for the good things we are constantly sending to Europe.—Barton Ness. NO. 36.
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