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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.
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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
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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.
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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.