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Special attention given to collections, and ail other legal business attended to with care and promptness. Office, No. 229, Penn Street. [apl9,`7l Miscellaneous. FOR SALE. CHOICE FARMING LANDS MINNESOTA AND DAKOTA, BY THE Winona & St. Peter Railroad Co. The WINONA & ST. PETER R. R. Co., is now offering for sale, at VtaT low prices, its land grant lands along the line of its Railroad in Southern Minnesota and Eastern Dakota, and will receive iu payment therefor, at par, any of the Mortgage Bonds of said Company. These lands lie in the great wheat belt of the Northwest, in a climate unsurpassed for healthfulness, and in a coun try which is being rapidly settled by a thriving and indus trious people, posed to a large extent of farmers, from the Eastern a he older portions of the Northwestern States. H. M. BURCRARD, Land Agent, for sale of Lands of said Companyjst MARSHALL, LYON COUNTY, MINNE SOTA. GEO. P. GOODWIN, Land Commissioner. 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[octl6, SCHOOL of every BOOKS variety, cheap, JOURNAL STORE. at the • e4?l' • .y & AV; • 0 Election Proclamation [GOD SAVE TIIE CoMIONWEALTII .1 ELECTION PROCLAMATION. Whereas, by an act of the General Assem bly of the connuonlvealth of Pennsylvania, entitled "An Act to regulate the General Elections within sa:d 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 said elections in the election districts, and the laws governing the holding thereof Now therefore, I, SAM'L. 11. IRVIN, Iligh Sher iff of Huntingdon county, do hereby made known that the General Election will be held in and for said county On Tuesday, November sth, 1878, it being the Tuesday following the first Monday of No vember, (the polls to be opened at seven o'clock a. m., nod closed at seven o'clock p. m.) at which time the neon,. of Huntindon county will vote by ballot for the folios fug officers, namely: One person for the office of Governor of the Common wealth of Pennsylvania. One person fur the office of Supreme Judge of the Com monwealth of Pennsylvania. One person for the office of Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. One person for member of Congress of the Eighteenth Congressional District, composed of the counties of Hunt ingdon, Franklin, Fulton, Perry, Juniata and Snyder. Two persons to represent Huntingdon county iu the General Assembly of Pennsylvania. One person for the office of Register and Recorder of Huntingdon county. One person for the office of District Attorney of Hunt ingdon county. One person for the office of Treasurer of Huntingdon county. Two persons for the office of Commissioner of Hunting don county. One persons for Director of the Poor of Huntingdon county. Two persons for the office of Auditor 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. X. and closed at 7 o'clock P. X. I's pursuance of said at t, I also hereby make known and give notice, that the piacis of holding the aforesaid 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 new school house in the town of Warriorsmark. 4th district composed of the township of Hopewell, at the house of Levi Houpt. bth district, composed of the township of Barree, at the house of James Livingston, in the town of Sauleburg, 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 Frisker, dec'd, in Shirleysburg. 7th district, composed of Porter and part of Walker township, and so much of West township as is included in the following boundaries, to wit Beginning at the south west 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 house opposite the German Reformed Church, in the bor ough of Alexandria. Bth district, composed of the township of Franklin, at the public School House, in the village of Frauklinville, in said township. 9th district, composed of Tell township, at the Union chool house, near the Union meeting hums in said twp. ;oth 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 farm now owned by Miles Lewis (formerly owned by James Ennis,) in said township. 15th district, composed of Walker township, at the house of Benjamin Magahy, in McConnelstown. 16th district, composed of the township of Tod, at the Green school house, in said township. 17th district, composed of Oneida township, at Centre Union School douse. 18th district, composed of Cromwell township, at the Rock Hill School House. 19th district, composed of the borough of Birmingham with the several tracts of land near to and attached to the same, now owned and occupied by Thomas N. Owens, Johu K. McCahau, 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 Cass, at the public school house in Cassville, in said township. 21st district, composed of the township of Jackson at the public house of Edward Litties, at McAleavy's Fort, iu 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, Huutiugdon coun ty, lying and being within the following described boun ded., (except the borough of Mount Union,) namely:— Beginning at the intersection of Union and Shirley town ship lines with the Juniata river, on the south bide there of; 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 fuoni Eby'a mill to Germany valley, crosses the summit of Sandy ridge; thence northwardly along the summit of Sandy ridge to the river Juniata, and thence up said river to the place of beginning, shall hereafter form a separate election district ; that the 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 of Oueida town ship, constituting the First Ward of said borough, at the south east window of the Court House. 28th district, composed of all that territory lying west of the First Ward and east of the centre of 7th street composing the second Ward at the Engine House in the borough aforesaid. 27th distelct, 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 township constituting the Third Ward, and also those portions of Walker and Porter townships formerly attached to the east ward, at the office of James Simpson, No. 831 Washington street, in said borough. 28th district, composed of all that territory north of the third ward of said borough, constitutiug the Fourth Ward, at the public School House near Cherry Alley, in said borough. 29th district, composed of the borough of Petersburg and that part of West township, west and north of a line between Henderson and West towushipe, at or near the Warin Springs, to the Franklin township line on the top of Tussey's mountain, so as to include in the new district the houses of David Waldsmith, Jacob Longenecker, Thos. Hamer, James Porter, and John Wall, at the school house in the borough of Petersburg. 30th district, composed of Juniata township at Hawn's school house, iu said township. Slet district, compared of Carbon township, recently I erected out of a part ofthe territory ofTod township to wit: :commencing at a chestnut oak, on the summit of Terrace mountain, at the Hopewell township line Opposite the dividing ridge, in the Little Valley ; thence south flay two degrees, east three hundred and sixty perches to a stone heap on the Western Summit of Broad Top moun tain; thence north sixty seven degrees, east three hun dred and twelve perches, to a yellow pine • thence south fifty-two degrees, east seven hundred Roil seventy-two perches to a Chestnut Oak; thence south fourteen degrees, east three hundred and fifty one perches, to a Chostnut 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, east nine hundred and thirty four perches, to aetene heap on the Clay township line, at the Public School House, in the village of Dudley. 32d district, composed of the borough of Coalmont, at the public school house in said borough. 33d district, composed of Lincoln township, beginning at a pine on the summit of Tuesey 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 Coffee Run School House. 34th district, composed of the borough of Mapleton,at the public school house in said borough. 35th district, composed of the borough of Mount Union, at the public school house in said borough. 36th district, composed of the borough of Broad Top City, at the public school house in said borough 37th district, composed of the lswough of Three Springs at the public school house in said borough. 38th district, composed of the borough of Shade Gap, at the public school house in said borough. 39th district, the borough of Orbisonia, at the public school house. _ _ „ . 40th district, composed of the borough of Marklesburg, at the main public school house in said borough. 41st district, composed of the borough of Saltine, 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: SECTION 15. No person shall be qualified to serve as an election officer who shall hold or obeli within two months have held au office, appointment or employment in or midst the government of the United Staten or of this State, or of any city, or county, or of any municipal board; commission or trust in any city, save only justices of the peace, and alderman, notaries public and persons in military cervices of the State ; nor shall any election officer be eligible to any 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 !et Tuesday of November, andeach said inspector shall appoint one clerk, who shall be 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 for Judge at the next preceding election • shall act as inspector in his place. And in case the person who shall have received the highest number of votes for inepectorshall 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 hie place; and if any vacancy shall continue in the board for the space of one hour after the time fixed by law for the opening of the election, the qualified voters of the township, ward or dis trict for which each officer shall have been elected, present at such election shall elect one of their number to All the vacancy. It shall be the duty of the several assessors of each dis trict to attend at the place of holding every general, special or township election, during the whole time said election is kept open, for the purpose of giving information to the inspectors and judges, when called on, in relation to the right of any person assessed by them to vote at such election, or each other matters in relation to the anew ment of voters as the said inspectors or either of them shall from time to time require. Election Proclamation SPECIAL ATTENTION is hereby directed to the Bth Article of the New Constitution. 6ECTIoN 1. EN ery male citizen twenty—one years of age, posse.ing the following qualifications, shall be entitled to vote at :d1 elections. _ _ . First. —lle shall have been a citizen of the United States at least one mouth. Seeoud.—lle 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 returnetl, then six months,) immediately preceding the election. Third.—lle shall have resided in the election district where lie shall offer to vote at least two months immedi ately preceding the election. Fourth.—lf twenty-two years of age and upwards, he shall have paid within two years a State or county tax, which shall have been assessed at least two mouths alto paid at least one month before the election. By Section 1 of act of 30th of March, 1866, it is provided a. fOIIOWS : - . 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 follows One ticket shall embrace the names of all judges of courts voted fur, and to be labeled outside "judiciary ;" one tick et shall embrace the names of all county officers voted for including office of Senator and members of Aesembly, if voted for, and member. of Congress, if voted for, and be labeled, "county;" one ticket shall embrace the name of all township officers votedlor, and be labeled,"township;" one ticket shall embrace the names of all borough officers voted for: and shall be labeled "borough;" and each class shall be deposited in separate ballot boxes. 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. SECTION 4. All elections by the citizens shall be by bal— lot. Every ballot shall be numbered in the order in which it shall be received, and numner 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 came 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 unless required to do so as witnesses in a judicial proceeding. SECTION 6. Whenever any of the qualified electors of this Commonwealth shall be in actual military service, under a requisition from the President of the United States or by the authority of this Commonwealth, such electors may exercise the right of suffrage in all elections by citizens, under such regulations as are or shall be pro scribed by law, as fully as if they were present at their usual place of election, SECTION 7. All laws regulating the holding of elections by the citizens or for the registration of electors shall be uniform throughout the State but no elector shall be de prived of the privilege of voting by reason of his name not being registered. SECTION 9. Auy 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 four years. And also to the following Acts of Assembly now in force in this State, viz : SECTION S. At the opening of the polls at all elections it shall be the duty of the judges of election for their respective districts to designate one of the inspectors, whose duty it shall be to have in custody the regiatery 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 nnutber the ballots presented at said election. Seerios A. 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. Its 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 disci°se 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 of each other. The judge shall be sworn by the minority inspector, if there shall be such minority inspec tor, and in case there be no minority inspector, then by a justice of the peace or alderman, and the inspectors, overseers, and clerks shall be sworn by the judge. Certificates of such swearing or af— firming shall be duly made out and signed by the officers BO sworn, and attested by the officer who administered the oath. If any judge or minority inspector refuses or Mils to swear the officers of election in the manlier 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 or officers KO of fending sha'.l be fined not exceeding one thousand dollars, or imprisoned not to exceed one year, or both, iu the die- 1 1 cretion of the court. I also give official notice to the electors ofiltuntingilon County, that by an act entitled "An Act further suppli mental to the act relative to the election of this Common— wealth, approved Jan. 30, A. D. 1874. That it is provided in Section 10, that on the (ley of elec tion any person whose name is not on the said list, and claiming the right to vote at the said election, shall/pro duceat least one qualified voter of the district as a wit ness to the residence 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 affired and subscribe a written or partly writ ten and partly printed affidavit to the facts stated by him, which affidavits shall define clearly where the residence is, of the person so claiming to be a voter ; and the person so claiming the right to vote shall also take and subscribe a written or partly written and partly printed affidavit, stating to the best of his knowledge and belief, where and when he was born; that he has been a citizen of the Uni— ted States for one mouth, and of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; that he has resided in the Commonwealth one year, or of formerly a qualified elector or a native born citizen thereof, and has removed therefrom and returned ; that he has resided therein six months 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 preceeding said election; that he has not moved into the district for the purpose of voting therein ; that he has if 22 years of age and upwards, paid a State or County tax within two years, which was assessed at least two months and paid at least one month, before said election ; and if a naturalized citizen shall also state when, where and by.what court he was naturalized, and shall also produce his certificate of naturalization for ex amination ; that said affidavit shall also state when and where the tax claimed to he paid by the affiant was as sessed, and when, where and to whom paid ; and the tax receipt therefor shall be produced for 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 naturalized, 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 Stateaone month, and has resided in the state one year, or, if a na tive-born citizen of the State and removed th erefrom 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, lie shall be entitled to vote. although he *Mall not have paid taxes ; the said affidavits of all pertains 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 b e 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 papers are ; if the election officers shall tied that the applicant possesses all the legal qualifications of a voter he shall be permitted to vote, and Lis name shall be added to the list of taxables by the election officers, the word "tax" being added whore the claimant claims to vote on tax, and the word "age' where he claims to vote on age; the same words being added by the clerk in each case respectfully on the lists of persons voting at such election. Also, that in Section 11th of said Act, it is provided that it shall be lawful fur 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 shal l be required to produce his naturalization certificate at the election before voting, except where he has been for five years, consecutively, a voter in the district in which he otters his vote ; and on the vote of such person being re ceived, it shall he 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 officeeor officers shall receive a second vote on the game day, by virtue of the same certificate, excepting where sons are entited to vote by virtue of the naturalization of their Millers, they and the person who shall offer such second vote, upon se offending shall be guilty of high misdemeanor and on conviction thereof, be fined or imprisoned, or both, at the discretion of the Court; but the flue shall nut ex ceed five hundred; dollars in each case, nor the imprison ment more than one year ; the like punishment shall be inflicted on conviction on the officers of election who shall neglect or refuse to niake, or cause to be made, the endorsement required as aforesaid on said naturalization I certificate. . . . . . Also that in Section 12 of said Act, it is provided that if any election officer shall refuse or neglect to require such proof of the right of suffrage as is prescribed by this law or the laws to which this is a supplement, from any person offering to vote whose name is not on the list of assessed voters, or whose right to vote is challenged by any qual ified voter present, and shall admit such person to vote without requiring such proof, every person so offending shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be sentenced for every such offense, to pay a fine nut exceeding five hundred dolljrs, 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 s full return of the same in triplicate, with a return sheet in addition, in all of which the votes received by each candidate shall be given after his or her name, first in words and again in figures, and shall be signed by all of said officers and cer tified by overseers, if any, or if n it so certified, theover 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 doolared 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 fur 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 tie, with the unsealed return sheet, given to thejudgi., which shall contain one list of voters, tally-paper, and oaths of officers, and another of said envelopes shall be given to the minority inspector. All judges living within twelve miles of the prothonotary's office, or within twenty-four miles, if their residencebe in a town, village or city upon the line of railroad leading to the county seat, shall, be fore two o'clock poet ineridan of the day after the election, and all other judges shall, before twelve o'clock Ines Irian of the second day af ter 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 publicinspection. At twel ve o'clock on the said seeond 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 porromt the HUNTINGDON, PA,, FRIDAY OCTOBER 4, 1878. Election Proclamation duties imposed upon the court of common pleas, which shall convene for said purpose; the returns presented by the prothonotary shall be ',petted by said court and com puted by such of its officers and such sworn assistants as the court shall appoint, in the presence of the judge or judges of said court, and the returns certified and certifi cates of election issued under the seal of the court as is now required to be done by return judges; and the vote as so computed and certified, shall be made a matter of record in said court. The sessions of the said court shall be opeu 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 amsirent on the return, the court shalfexamine the return, and if iu 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 r OSSOSBIOU ; 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 certifieti ; 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 li 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 lie lawfully interrogated by any of said officers or overseers shall be punished as perjury. SECTION 5. electors shall in all cases except treason, felony and breach or surety of the peace, be privilleged from arrest during their attendance on elections and in going to and returning therefrom. SECTION 8. Ally person who shall give, or promise or offer tc give, to an elector, any money, reward, or other valuable consideration for his vote at an election, or for withholding the same, or who shall give or promise to give such consideration to any other person or party for such elector's vote or for the withholding thereof, and any elector who shall receive or agree to receive, for himself or for another, any money, reward or other valuable con sideration for his vote at an election, or for withholding the same shall thereby forfeit the right to vote at such election, and any elector whose right to vote shall be chal lenged forsuch C.lllBO before the election officers, shall lie required to swear or affirm that the matter of the chal lenge is untrue before his vote shall be received. SECTION 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, shall be subject to a penalty of one hundred dollars; and if any assessor shall knowingly assess any person as a voter who is not qualified, or shall wilfully refuse to assess any one who is qualified, he shall be guil ty of a misdemeanor in office and on conviction be puutsli ed by a line not exceeding one thousand dollars, or im prisonment not exceeding two years, or both, at the dis cretion of the court, and also be subject to an action for damages by the party aggrieved ; and if any person shall fraudulently alter, add to, deface or destroy ally list of voters made out as directed by this act, or tear down or remove the same front the place where it has been fixed, with fraudulent or mischievous intent, or for any improp er purpose, the person so offending shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding two years, or both, at the discretion of the court; and if any person shall, by violence and intimida tion, drive, or attempt to drive from the polls, any person or persons appointed by the court to act as overseers of an election, in any way wilfully prevent said overseers from performing the duties enjoined upon them by this act, such persons shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a line 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 Ude intimidation or violence for the purpose of preventing any officer of election from performing the duties required of him by law, or for the purpose of preventing any qualified voter of the dis trict exercising his fight to vote, or front exercising his right to challenge any person offering to vete, such per son shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and spun conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not ex• seeding 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 doss in a judicial proceeding, shall be guilty of a mis demeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding ono thousand dollars, or by im prisonment not exceeding two years, or both, in the discretion of the court. . Sec. 4. On the petition of flveor more citizens of any election district, setting forth that the appointment of overseers is a reasonable precaution to secure the purity and fairness of the election in said district ; it shall be the duty of the court of common pleas of the proper county, all the law judges of the said court able to act at the time concurring, to appoint two judicious, soberand intelligent citizens of the said district belonging to different political parties, overseers of election to supervise the proceedings of the election officers thereof, and to make report of the same as they may be required by such court. Said over seers shall be persons qualified. to serve upon election boards and shall have the right to be present with the of ficers of such election during the whole 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 hint and his witnesses under oath, in regard to his right of suffrage at said election, and to examine his papers produced ; and the officers of said election are required to afford to said overseers, so selected and appointed every convenience and facility for the dis charge of their duties; and if said election officers shall refuse to permit said overseers to be present, and perform their duties as aforesaid, such officer or officers shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined not exceeeiug one thousand dollars, or imprison ment not exceeding one year, or both, at the discretion of the court: or if the overseers shall be driven away from the polls by violence or intimidation, all the votes polled in such election district may be rejected by the proper tribunal trying a contest under said election, or a part or portion of such votes aforesaid may be counted, as such tribunal may deem necessary to a just and proper dispo sition of the case. If any person shall prevent or attempt to prevent any officer of an election under this act from holding such election, or use or 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 beholden, 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 fined in any sum not exceeding five hun dred dollars, to be imprisoned for any time not less than one nor more than twelve months, and if it shall be shown to the court where the trial of such offense shall be had, that the person so offending was not a resident of the city, ward or district where the said offense was committed, and not entitled to vote therein, on conviction, he shall be sentenced to pay a fine not less than one hundred net more then one thousand dollars, and be imprisoned not less than six months nor more than two years. "If any person or persons shall make any bet or wager upon the result of an election within the Commonwealth, or shall offer to make any such bet or wager, either by verbal prochunation thereof or by any written or printed advertisement, or invite any person or persons to make such bet or wager, upon conviction thereof heor they shall forfeit and pay three times the amount so bet or offered to be bet. Election officers will take notice that the act entitled "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 votJrs, if otherwise qualified. Sec. 111. It shall be the duty of every mayor, sheriff, deputy sheriff, aldermanjustice of the 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 avonne to any window, at the place of the general election, which shall be obstructed iu such a way as to prevent voters from approaching the same, and on 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, Wbe present in person or by deputy, at the place of holding such elections in said ward, district or township, for the purpose of preserving the peace, as aforesaid. Sze. 112. It shall be the duty of every peace officer, as aforesaid, who shall be present at any such disturbance at an election as is described in this act, to report the same to the next court of quarter sessions, and aisothe namesofthe witnesses who can prove the same; and it Asti be the duty of said eonrt to cause indictments to be preferred before the gran I jury against the persons so offending. Sac. 113. If it shall be made to appear to any court of quarter sessions of thisCommoowealth 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 conviction thereof, the said officer shall be fined in any sum not ex ceeding one hundred dollars. Sac. 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 underthe 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. Pursuant to the provisions of the 76th section of the Act first aforesaid, the Judges of the aforesaid districts shall respectively take charge of the certificates of returns of the election in their respective districts, and produce them at a meeting of one Judge from each district, at the Court House, in the Borough of Huntingdon, on the third day after the election, being on FRIDAY, the Bth day of November, 1878, then and there to de and perform the duties required by law of the said Judges. Where a Judge by sickness or unavoidable accident is unable to attend such meeting of Judges, the certificate or return of aforesaid Judge shall be taken charge of by one of the inspectors or clerks of the election of said district, who shall do and perform the duties required of such Judge unable to attend. Given under my hand at Huntingdon, the 27th day of September, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and third. SHERIFF'S OFFIOR, 1 BAWL. 11. IRVIN, Sept. 27, 1878. f SWAM. CID] AP I . CHEAP ! ! C HEAP ! ‘.../ PAPERS. 1 4.-1 FLUIDS. N.../ ALBUMS Buy your Paper, Buy your Stationery Buy your Black Books, AT TIIEJOURNAL BOOR cE STATIONERY STORE, Fine Stationery, School Stationery, Books for Children, Games for Children, Elegant Fluids, Pooket Book,.Pass Books, And an Endless Variety of Nice Things, AT TEM JOVENAL BOOK cbSTA TIONERT STOKE TOYS AND GAMES OF ALLKINDS Just received at the JOURNAL Store. The Huntingdon Journal J. A. NASH, TIUNTINGDON, PENN'A. FRIDAY, - - - - OCTOBER 4, 1878 Circulation LARGER than any other Paper in the Juniata Valley. THERE are more Hoyt clubs in Pennsylvania than were ever organized by the Republican party in a political canvass. How to pave the way for another pauic—Help to elect the Greenback ticket, and put into prac tics the wild theories of the Greenback platform. —Philadelphia Preeq. WE shall soon laugh at the extreme eccentrici ties of these financial teachers and at every wan who is so thoughtless as to listen to them. "What a fool I was to believe it," will be the jocular self reproach of many an honest man. Two things may now safely be predicted of the future : The American people, without sectional diversions or exceptions, will return to a sound currency like other sensible nations, and will pay their national obligations like other honest nations. We shall have first good money, and next plenty of it.— Money is good when every dollar of it that is in circulation, whether of gold or silver or paper cur rency, is equal in purchasing power to any other dollar in circulation.—Recent letter by lien Hill. $183,469,787.66. The report of the Comptroller of the United States Treasury for 1877, page 32, shows, in tabulated form, that in eleven years, from 1866 to 1877, both inclusive, the national banks paid in taxes $183,469,787.86. About one-half of this, $93,228,788, was paid in taxes demanded by the States in which the banks are respectively located; aad the other half or portion was paid in taxes imposed by the Federal Government. Greenbacks have never paid a single sent in taxes either to the Government or States. Should the banks be aboli•bed ? Who the Inflationists Are. Scranton Republican.] The most outrageous inflationist of the whole party is Peter Herdic, who has become bankrupt for three millions. Ile had about twenty irons in the fire and as many jobs going at once, and was doing a tremendous balloon business on borrowed capital. Hard times and shrinkages came, and when called to pay up, Hoidic was not there. Now he and other speculators like him cry for inflated currency, so as to again burst up their creditors and themselves. It is not a good, healthy diet for such rash operators. How to Make Times Good. Curse the capitalists ; frighten them all you can. Do not let them go into business. If they show any disposition to do so, call a meeting ; get up a set of rules and regulations for managing the bus iness so as to break them up as soon as possible, and threaten those who wilt not go in under the rules until they gather up their money and leave the country, as they have already begun to do. Nothing helps times so much as to let men know that if they yet more by working hard than you do by idleness that you will compel theta to divide. They will work all the harder for such encourage ment. Go right ahead with your communistic speeches; they are doing a great deal of good. All that is necessary is to follow it up, and we will all soon be on the ground floor, all equal—all poor, all idle, all worthless.—Franklin (Pa.) Press. THE real friends of workingmen are those who insist upon having honest money in circulation, and not those who clamor for a eurrency that would foster speculation, increase the power of capital, and cheat the laborer out of part of his hire, 'Workingmen have nothing to do with the manipulation of the money market, nor do they profit by fluctuations of value. They have their labor to sell, and they want conditions which will give steady employment to industry and a fixed value to the money which they receive for their labor. In fluctuations of price, labor is the last to rise and the first to fall. It is a commodity that cannot be held for a rise, like cotton, wheat or stocks, but must be sold every day. Therefore workingmen, so far as they are real workingmen, cannot be speculators, and are unable to take ad vantage of conditions favorable to speculators. A currency that has no fixed value stimulates spec ulation, and so cannot be favorable to working men.—Boston Herald. - - -...111..-• AIN. - Facts and and Opinions. In reply to all assailants, we base the policy of resumption on these impregnable grounds : First—The public faith demands it. By'all the solemn pledges a nation can give, the restoration of specie payment was promised when the green back was issued. That promise ought to Lave been kept long ago ; and it is as unpatriotic as it is dishonest to attempt to prevent its fulfillment now. Second—The highest interests both of labor and of capital demand resumption. Uncertainty is the worst element that can enter into the business cal culations of men ; and the uncertainty which leg islation brings is the worst form of uncertainty. The government must get out of the way and let prosperity return. It can du this best by putting it out of the power of Congress to change our stand ard of value by its votes. Third—The chief hardships of resumption have already been endured. When the law was passed in 1875 our paper money was at a discount of 13 per cent. Since then it has slowly and steadily become better, month by mouth, until now it is but cent below par. The short step to stability and certainty will hurt far less than to retrace our steps and plunge back again into the evils from which we have escaped. Should we now retreat, the unsettled transactions of last year would be thrown into utter confusion. If we now abandon the attempt at resumption, the future will be clouded with au uncertainty that will destroy con- Science and prevent the return of prosperity.— BOBioll Advertiser. Who Mason Is. The following article, taken from the Wilkee barre Leader, will show the reader who Mason, the Greenback candidate for Governor, is, and prove that the efforts to make labor Democrats vote for the third party is a fraud, a deceit, a sham and a snare. We claim that no honest, true, sincere la bor Democrat ought to leave his party—his polit ical home--to join a new, short-lived, political at ganization, when it asks him to vote for any can didate of whom such statements can be made, and, as far as we know, unanswered: NEW VIRGINIA, MERCER CO.. PA., July 26, 1878. EDITOR LgADER—As there are many men in your legion who formerly worked in this valley I ask the courtesy of a few lines to point out who the National candidate fur Governor is. There are, or have been, two men of the same name, both lawyers, living in this county. This is the Mason who lives in Mercer. This is the Mason who is servant for all the cor porations in the county. 1 his is the Mason who loans money at 15 per cent. This is the Mason who threw the miners out of their houses and kept them living in the woods fur three months during the big strike of 1873. This is the Mason who at that time arrested work ingmen on all sorts of pretexts and regretted at a trial before Alderman Rogers, of Mercer, that "the penalty for striking was not hanging." This is the Mason who told our committee, who asked his aid in 1875 to save our families from starvation, that "there were two things strikers could do—one was, starve; and the other—go to the poor house." This is the Mason who convicted the men at Stonoboro in 1876 and personally attended to the gathering of deputies for that purpose. This is the Mason who aspired to be Judge in 1874 and Senator in 1876, and whose aspirations were defeated by the workingmen. This is the Mason who has been the unrelenting foe of every man who toils; who never gave one moment's unpaid service to any human being. This is the Mason who comes forth from his den after years ofcorporation service and note shaving, and lo ! he is the champion of toil. One word of explanation as to the anomaly of such a man being on the National ticket. Last year there was no organized effort in this locality for the Greenback ticket, and this spring a self constituted committee met and elected a lawyer, a rolling mill proprietor and a bank proprietor as the delegates to the State convention. Mr. Mason very wisely ignored the labor movement, as they have always defeated his political hopes. lam no politician and have no means of knowing what oth er citizens may do, but the voice of the working men of this valley is strong against such a repre sentative. The views of Judge Stanton are our views, and his bold declarations against this spe cious demagogue are right and timely. Mr. Editor, if there are any doubting Thomases amongst you, who must feel and ace the wounds that labor has received from this man, we will send you the certified records of the county courts. J. A. B. VOTE the ticket from top to bottom [From the Pittsburgh National Labor Tribune, Workingmen's Organ.] Andrew H. Dill as a Reformer. Editor, Mr. Speer asks the people of Pennsylvania to vote for Mr. Dill as the special representative of honesty, and an economical administration of the State government. A reference to the r -cord of Mr. Speer upon the congressional back ray salary grab way lead some to doubt his siucerity in the cause of reform, and a reference to the proceedings of the Democratic State Convention of 1873, which rejected him for this reason as its chairman, may impair their confidence in his right to speak for his party. The record of Mr. Dill himself does not sparkle with evidences of his devotion to economical ad ministration of the State finances, nor of a desire to protect the Treasury from corpsrate and indi vidual greed. Section 5 of the supplement to the act to authorize the New York and Erie Railroad Company to con • struct said road through a portion of Susquehanna county, approved 26th March, 1864, is as follows : "Section 3. That it shall be the duty of the president and managers of said company, R 8 soon as said railroad shall have been completed through Susquehanna and Pike counties, Pennsylvania, to prepare a full and accurate account of the costs of that portion of said road within the territory of this State, authenticated by the oath or affirmation of the president and secretary of said company, and communicate the same to the Auditor Ueneral of this Commonwealth, who shall file the state ment in his office. That after said railroad shall have been completed and in operation to Dunkirk, or shall have connected at the western end with any other improvement extending to Lake Erie, said company shall cause to be paid into the Treasury of this State, annually in the month of January, ten thousand dollars ; and any neglect or refusal by said company to pay as aforesaid shall work a forfeiture of the rights and privileges granted by this act." This annual payment of ten thousand dollars having attracted the attention of certain covetous gentlemen, a bill was introduced at the session of our Legislature of 1870, entitled "An Act to in corporate the Milford and Matamoras Railroad Company," authorizing Henry S. Mott, D. M. Vanauken and others to construct a railroad from a point in Milford, in Pike county, to a point near the village of Matamoras, in the same county.— The county is not large, thriving or populous; indeed, quite the contrary, and the enterprise was not formidable. The act having been approved Ist April, 1870, was promptly followed by a sup plement containing the following remarkable sec tion : "Section 4. That said company shall connect with the Erie Railway at the railroad bridge con structed by the Erie Railway at the village of Matamoras; and that the provisions of the fifth section of the act entitled 'An Act to authorize the New York and Erie Railroad Company to con struct a road in the State of Pennsylvania., ap proved March twenty-sixth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, shall enure to the benefit and be enjoyed by the Milford and Matamoras Railroad Company. their successors and assigns, for the term of ninety nine years, as fully and to all intents and purposes as if the same had or iginally been enacted for the benefit of the said Milford and Matamoras Railway company; Pro vided, however, nothing in this act shall be con strued to exonerate or relieve the New York and Erie Railroad from the provisions of the fifth sec tion of said act of March twenty-sixth, one thous and eight hundred and forty-six ; and provided further, that said Milford and Matamoras Railroad shall be completed within three years, or this act shall he null and void." It will be noticed that this section does not men tion in tertrs the annual payment of the Erie Railway Company, and one unacquainted with the legislation referred to would not suppose that its effect was to rob the State of ten thousand dollars annually. It was one of the snakes whose like have been effectually Scotched by the new consti tution. The supplement was approved April 6, 1870, just six days after the signature of the original charter. Mr. Dill, the Democratic can didate for Governor, voted for both these bills Shortly afterward the first installment of $lO,OOO was actually drawn from the State Treasury and paid into the treasury of the corporation, or, as was alleged, was used in defraying the expenses of this legislation. .The bill had been improvidently approved by the Executive, and, its true character becoming apparent, Governor Geary in his annual message of 1871 made it the subject of the following recom mendation : "The Milford and Matamorae Railroad. "About the close of the last session of the legis lature an act was passed and approveu entitled 'A supplement to the Milford and Matamoras Railroad Company." The fourth section of this enactment seems to have been intended to take from the State and give to the company the ten thousand dollars bonus paid into the State Treas ury annually by the New York and Erie Railroad Company, under the fifth section of the act of 26th March, 1546. Soon after the adjournment my at tention was directed to the subject, and to guard against loss, I caused the Attorney General to give notice to the New York and Erie Railroad Com pany that the State would look to that corpora tion for the payment of the annual bonus as here tofore, notwithstanding the passage of the supple ment referred to. I regard the latte' as having been enacted and approved through inadvertance in the hurry of a closing session, and, as hasty and inconsiderate legislation, at variance with the settled policy of the State, and highly prejudicial to the public interests; and I therefore recommend its immediate repeal, or at least so much of it as relates to the bonus * . 4 " ' No action having been taken, in 1572 he again alluded to it as follows : "The Milford nnd Matakanras Railroad Company. * * * About the close of the session of the legislature in 1870, an act was passed and approved entitled 'a supplement to the Milford ant Matamoras Railroad Company.' The fourth section of this enactment seems to have been intended to take from the State and give to the company the ten thousand dollars bonus paid into the State Treasury annually by the New York and Erie Railroad Company under the fifth section of the act of 26th March, 1864. Soon after the ad journment my attention was directed to the sub ject, and to guard against loss, I caused the At torney General to give notice to the New York and Erie Railroad Company that the State would look to that corporation for the payment of the annual bonus as heretofore, notwithstanding the passage of the supplement referred to. I regard the latter as having been enacted and approved through in advertence in the hurry of a closing session, and, as hasty and inconsiderate legislation at variance with the settled policy of the State, and highly prejudicial to the public interests, and I therefore earnestly repeat the recommendations in my last annual message for the immediate repeal of this obnoxious law, or at least of that part of it which relates to the bonus. The State having long since abandoned the policy of paying money out of her treasury for the construction of railroads, there is neither equality or justice in allowing this enact ment to remain in force." * * A repealing bill was introduced in 1872. The remarks of Senator Warfel, of Lancaster, to be found in the Legislative Record of thatyear, pages 860 and 563, gives a complete exposition of the fraud, its purposes and projectors. In this speech Mr. Warfel gave the history of the bonus of ten thousand dollars from the Erie Railway, and its attempted diversion from the State Treasury to that of the Milford and Mata moras Railroad, setting forth how that one Wm. H. Dimmick, a member of the House of Repre sentatives from Pike county, owner of 533 shares of the Milford and Matamoraa Railroad, while seventeen shares only were divided among six other stockholders, to bring the company under the law and entitle it to a charter, on April 2d, 1870, five days before the adjournment, read in place the obnoxious supplement, with the snake concealed so ingeniously away down in the fourth and last section, and had it railroaded through the House under a suspension of the rules; how that the journal of the Senate showed the bill to have been reported without amendment, and that no record of its having been amended or pass - d the Senate could be found, but that an entry in the House Journal made it appear to have been re turned from the Senate "with amendment," which was concurred in. The Senate had no record of such amendment, nor could he ascertain what the amendment was. The Senator continuing spoke as follows: _ "But there are those who allege. In justice to the legislature, that this bill never did pass, in the shape in which it is now found, but that the fourth section was attached after the others had been agreed to by both Houses, and the journal of the House fixed up accordingly. Be this as it may, I have no means of proving or disapproving such al legations. I know only this, there is a most sin gular want of everything that might show the bill to have been Froperly considered. It is well known that copies of all bills are preserved by both Houses, but this is an exception. I have carefully examined the files on both sides, and had others to assist me, who were more familiar with the ar rangement of the papers, but we have been unable to find anything in relation to this bill, though the numbers preceding and succeeding are there and everything else that we had occasion to look for. The tracks are well covered. The parties who managed this brilliant financial scheme knew what they were doing, and they left no documentary tell-tales behind, to rise up and plague them after ward." _ . —.— Then after quoting the übposious section he continues; "There le the little joker—part of an act en titled simply 'A supplement to the Milford and Matamoros Railroad company.' And in this con nection I want to call the attention of the Senate to section 8, article XI, of the constitution of Pennsylvania, which provides that 'no bill shell be passed by the legislature containing more than one subject, which shall be clearly expressed in the title, except appropriation bills. "Just how far this title, namely, 'A supplement to the Mittord and Matamoras Railroad Company,' clearly expresses the object of the act, others can determine and govern their notions of rights vesting under the hill accordingly. "Rut, sir, there is a further history in relation to this mutter. The bill after its supposed passage was hurried to the Secretary's office, and there the champion of the measure represented that his wife was dangerously ill ; that he had to get house that night; that it was very important for Lim to get the supplement signed at once, so that he might pay the enrollment tax, and take certified copies home with him. The bill was registered and he was directed to take it to the Secretary of the Commonwealth for examination, but instead of doing so, he took it directly to the Governor, and by making similar appeals and representations in relation to sickness in his fatni'y, and misrepre senting the character of the bill, he procured the Executive signature. "And here let use remark upon a somewhat re markable coincidence. When it was necessary to have this bill signed there was somebody sick.— When this repealing act was to be considered by the Senate Co.nmittee, it was put off from time to time because somebody was alleged to be sick, and I notice in looking over the record, that when it came up in order in the other branch of the As sembly, the effort was made to prevent its con sideration because again somebody was sick. It seems in some way to be connected with a great deal of sickness, enough to almost occasion a sue picion as to the character of the malady. "But to return more particularly to the history of the matter, some time in April, 1870, applica tion w• s made to the Governor for letters patent, which he refused to grant on account of the pecu liarity of the measure, and the manner in which his signature was obtained, and not until the 26th of July, 1871, were letters patent granted under the act to incorporate the Milford and Matamoras Railroad Company, but no reference whatever is made therein to the supplement which proposes to give this nice little annuity of ten thousand dol lars to the company for the term of ninety-nine years." After quoting the language•of Governor Geary's messages recommending the repeal, the Senator had read an article from a Harrisburg correspondent to the Philadelphia Inquirer of March 18, giving a complete expose of the matter, and concluded as follows "The supplement is also in conflict with that portion of the fifth section of the eleventh article of the constitution, which provides 'That the credit of the commonwealth shall not in any manner or event be pledged or loaned to any individual com pany, corporation or association.' Yet in this act the credit of the commonwealth to the extent of ten thousand dollars annually, for the period of ninety-nine years, is loaned or given to this pro posed Miitord and Matamoras Railroad Company, a corporation created by the Legislature of the State. "Now, the only allegation that I have heard against the repeal of this odious section, was with reference to the question of vested rights. To that I have only to answer in a few words. If this Milford and Matamoros Railroad Company have any vested rights to this annuity, it receives them either by the letters patent or the supplement to its charter. But it cannot gei, such rights from the letters patent, for no reference whatever is made therein to the provisions of the supplement, and it cannot got them from the latter, for that is in conflict with the constitution, and therefore void. But oven if it should be constitutional its passage and approval was secured by trickery and misrepresentation, and it is therefore not en titled to that consideration duo to honest and proper legislation." _ . _ — Yet upon a call of the yeas and nays, with a full understanding of all the facts, Mr. Dill voted against the repeal. When Mr. Dill next appears before the footlights in the character of a reformer, let him explain this vote, and then we will call his attention to other like indiscretions. <VW Mr. Dill's Military Record. The Lewisburg Chronicle, published at the home of the Democratic candidate for Governor, thus reviews the military career of that great warrior. The Chronicle is the paper that almost .very Dc.m ocratio sheet in the State has published as refus ing to hoist the name of Gen. Henry M. Hoyt, the Republican nominee: Mr. Dill's military record would not have been noticed by the Republicans, but his supporters have thought proper to bring it forward, and can not complain if it is somewhat ventilated. Pennsylvania, is a patriotic State, and votes freely for men who exposed their lives for the pub lic defence. In modern times she voted for Ja,oll - and Harrison and Taylor and Grant and Hayes for President—for Holster and Ritner and Geary and Hartranft—a9 soldiers or officers—fur Gover nor. Hence, to win the votes of soldiers and their friends, his biographers have lugged in by head and ears, the fact that Mr. Dill was lieutenant of a company of about forty men who gathered in "the emergency" to drive our" Southern brethren" back into "My Maryland." Many, who at the outset, declared—with Mr. Dill—they would nev er aid in preserving the Union, thought it was carrying the joke too far when the chivalry began to burn and rob in Pennsylvania, and declared that they would water their horses in the Susqde hanna and the Delaware. That overcame their constitutional scruples, and found a spark of pa triotism in the breast of many most inveterate copperheads, aroused many Republicans not liable to duty, and tho uprising was overwhelming. Eels ter Clymer and George Bergner, Vie. Piollet and Chris. Ward, and others as incongruous materials, mixed like the crowd of aniinals going into the ark. The campaign lasted about five weeks. Mr. Dill's two score reported—killed, 0; wounded, 0 ; desertions, 3 ; cases diarrhoea, 0 ; total, U. None were even scared, for not a Grayback saw them. All did their duty doubtless, but no gush ing throngs came out to welcome them home—no band to play "The Conquering Hero Comes ?" Now, sum. wish to have that 'emergency' spa•in make amends for the fatal course of Messrs:Cly mer, Dill, Piollet St Co., in opposing the first measure for the suppression of the Rebellion, when it could hale been crushed as Jackson crushed. Nullification thirty years before. It will not avail. That indirect siding with the Rebels caus ed half a million deaths anu a 11 our national debts. ,In surrendering the South to lawlessness, they invited the lawless to extend their ravages into Pennsylvania, and are entitled to no special credit fur rallying to protect their own property and their own families. This view is obviously oorreot, and is confirmed by the fact that jr.3 Clymer as well as Mr. Dill turned out_ in the 'emergency.' In talents and experience, undoubtedly, Mr. Clymer is much the superior ►nap. Descendant of a signer of the Declaration of Independence—the pride of old Berke—the most tremendous efforts were made to elect him Governor of Pennsylvania. But the record was against him. A true Union soldier, his inferior as a scholar, but his superior in patriotism—Gen. Geary—was nominated, and defeated Clymer. Mr. Dill's military cireer, like Mr. Clymer's, is not brilliant enough to hide radical defects and errors of heart. The gallant soldier, Henry M. Hoyt, who was in the front for three years, has the preference in the hearts of a grateful people.—Lew isburg Chronicle. National Banks. There is a wide-spread prejudice against Na tional Banks, and the Labor refuruiers make opposition to these institutions one cif the cardinal principles in their platform. These gentlemen seem to have forgotten that it was largely due to the National Banks that the Government was indebted for funds to carry on the war for the preservation of the Union ; that they stepped forward and took millions of dollars of the Govern ment bonds and paid for them when a portion of the North was denouncing them as not worth the paper they were printed upon. It is boldly asserted by this new party leaders, that National Banks are getting something for nothing, and that they are a privileged class, notwithstanding the fact that we have a free bank ing law, and any number of gentlemen who pro cure the bonds and deposit them can engage in the business. The National Banks bank upon Government securities so far as circulation is concerned, but we hope few people need to be told that a bank that depends upon its own circulating notes for its profits can never make its stockholders very rich. A bank whose circulation can never rise above nine-tenths of its capit 1 deposited to secure its circulation cannot, on the average capital so in vested, oppress anybody. The complaint is that the Government pays the bank interest on its capital so deposited. It seems to have escaped the notice of these fault-tindiug financiers that the Government must pay the interest on its bonds any way, and that it makes no curt of difference to the public who may be the owners. Every bank pays back to the Federal and State Govern ments in taxes every dollar that the privilege of circulating its notes is worth. Some pay more than the privilege is worth; and some, indeed many, banks are reducing their capital for that reason. The advantages of the National system is the absolute security of the bill-holders for one thing, the uniformity of the currency for another. But perhaps a still greater advantage is that the system secures the active co-operation of an immense interest for the maintenance of national credit, which iu emergencies is of the highest importance. I/. would be lamentable if a Nation which bad just proved its readiness to fight and suffer for a principle, should fail at last for lack of common honesty; fail to keep its word in a simple business matter; make shipwreck of its honor in the hope, and the baseless hope at that, of gainining or sa ving certain dollars in a forced bargain with its creditors.—Nero York Tribooe. Pittsburgh Leader.] Our Fathers Tried It. "John Law tried it," well said the Dispatch the other day, "and demonstrated to theconsplete sat isfaction of one generation, the intense folly of the fiat money delusion." This is very true, and the form of Ibis really great man—great be cause he humbugged, and was the first to humbug the civ ilized world on this question—will ever stand "a fixed figure for the time of economic scorn" to "point its slow unmoving finger at." But John Law's fate does not seem to be warning enough.-- After Law, the French Republic tried the experi ment of paper inflation, and then anew generation in England tried it again. It has been tried in almost every nation in Christendom, and our Rev olutionary Fathers tried it. Let us briefly rehearse the story of their attsurgit. Tho result of their trial ought to furnish a waning to be heeded. We are told from the stump and the eancrupi, and even from the senator's desk, that the experience of Europe is of no importance to us. We are a new people, under new oonditions, with new opportunities, etc. It is not for us to learn anything from the experience of mankind. "What is 'abroad' to us," shouted Stanley Mat thews in the silver debate, and the question was tossed around the country, as if it were in itself an argument conclusive and unanswerable. But the experience of our Fathers should be worth something to us even if that of Europe is not.— There has been a great deal said about the silver dollar of our fathers lately. Let us consider the paper dollar of our fathers. The men who began the Revolution were em phatically hard money men. They realised thor oughly the evil and dangers of an inconvertible currency. But no sooner did they revolt from Great Britain and realize the magnitude of the task they had set themselves, than they began to plan schemes for raising supplies by paper money. Like the Republican congress of 1862 they were driven into this course against the better judgment of their wisest men. Their first issue of Revolu tionary "greenbacks," so to call them, was made June 22, 1775, a few days after the battle of Bunker Hill. It was a small one, however, only $3,000,000, and stringent provision was made to have the whole amount "called in" by the last day of November the same year. The patriots were hard-money men yet, and wanted this tensed loan they were making on the people redeemed as quickly as possible. They had entered on a road, however, from which it is hard, indeed, CO' turn back. Instead of redeeming their scrip in No vember, they found themselves compelled to issue $3,000,000 more, The necessities of the govern ment still continuing, a third issue was made ea February 17, 1776—this time of $4.000,000. Some of the conservatives now began to take alarm. Ben Franklin strongly opposed these two latter issues on the floor of the continental con ress. But it was no use; the colonists had begun to be drank with the wine of inflation. They had found the secret bow to make everybody rich by act of congress. They had become converts to the "Fiat" theory, and answered the retnonstraneee of the conservatives by a new issue of 0,000,000 an May 6, 1775. The money began to depreciate. The invariable laws of trade began to assert themselves, and the people, the Quakers leading, began to refuse to take the continental currency at its face value in gold. So the continental congress was called on to issue a "fiat" that this must not be. In full confidence in its powers to "fix the value" of money at just whatever point it pleased, this body passed a resolution which, reciting the fact that "several evil-disposed persons," in order "to ob struct and defeat the efforts of the united colonies have attempted to depreciate the bills of credit emitted by authority of this congress," "Resolved," that "any person so lost to virtue" as to refuse to receive these bills, shall be "deemed published and treated as .n enemy. of his country.' Here was a "flat" severe enough surely. If the mere command of a government can ever arrest depreciation of money, this one should have done so. Now let oil. "Flat" philosophers of this day—the men who toll the people that a gold and silver Vaal* for money is an "idiotic" idea (see Ben Butler's Mae sachuitts platform), and that all we have to do to make as many paper dollars as we choose to is sue as good as 'gold is to pass an act of congress declaring them so—let these men note the result of this first financial "liar of the American na tion. The emphatic testimony of every historian of the period is that this fiat of congress "in creased the decline" of the notes it was intended to bolster up. "Poor's "Money and Its Laws," p. 435 ) Congress then issued more mosey (=SAN,- 000 in November, 1776) and another "Sat," more severe than the first. This was a military eat.— It directed General Putnam, in command at Phil adelphia. to issue an order under date of Decem ber 14, 1776, that "if any one refused to take the government notes in payment for goods, the goods hould be forfeited, and the person so refusing be thrown into prison." Again we have the testi mony of history. Even this order "had no other effect than to increase the decline." It was just after this order that Robert Morris wrote to a friend that £250 continental currency is given for a bill of exchange of £lOO sterling." The revolu tionary dollar had got down to where our "glorious greenback" was after the second battle at Ball Run. Congress got alarmed. The continued steady decline in spite of its "fiats" seemed to that body no mere working of inevitable laws; it was due to the "artifices of the enemy." It was the wicked British and tories who were at the bottom of the mischief It decided to issue one final flat and to reinforce it with the fiat of each of the states. So they resolved that whereas all bills of credit emitted by congress "ought to pass current" and "be deemed of value equal to the same nominal sums in Spanish milled dollars," every person B aking more in said hills "for any houses, lands, goods or commodities" than they would ask in Spanish milled dollars, should be deemed "an enemy to the ii , ,erties of the United States and should forfeit the commodities so offered for sale." The respective states were asked to enact suck laws and impose such penalties "as will prereat such pernicious praotioes." They also recommended the siitte legislatures to inake the continental cur rency a lektal rerolur for debts, which they did.— This fiat hart an effect. ft didn't arrest the de cline of the eontinontat scrip. On the contrary, that dropped fifteen per cent. on the promulgation of this edict wbioh so clearly contes►ed Its in herent worthlessness and necessity for legislative holstering. But it enabled plenty of people to discharge their debts at a tremendous and dis honorable discount, which they did. And whom ever it wis enforced, as in Pennsylvania, it wee with cruel po• shies it resulted in the closing up of shops and the taking down of signs. If people could only sell for worthless scrip, they wouldn't sell at all. Another tack was now taken. The "fiat" of the government establishing the value of the motes had failed. The more government said the notes must be receit ed at their nominal value in Spanish milled dollars the more the public wouldn't so re ceive ti em. A 'list" wai now issued against the wicked di , position of commodities to rite in pet**. In other'words, the government failing in the at tempt to "fix the value of money," undertook to fix the value of nearly everything but mosey. A tariff of prices fur wheat, rye, rum, wool, salt, eta. , was established, and any one asking more for these articles than t, o government prise was to forfeit his goods. This "flat" fell to the ground as soon as issued. People wouldn't sell at all at the government prices, and buyers willingly paid more and agreed not to prosecute in order to get the articles, This "fiat" was no more enforced than the usury laws are now. Its injustice was manifest, tied public sentiment did nut support it. Even lien. ashington shortly after this refused to take continental money at its face value fox old debts. (See letters in Sparks' Life). The Ist business wee seen to be played out. And after this (January, 1777.) congress didn't attempt it. It resorted to expedients. Instead of attempting to arrest the decline of its awn money, it tried to keep pace with it by paying ent fresh issues. In 1775, 6 millions were issued, in 1776, 19 millions; in 1778, 41.3 i millions; in 1779,145 millions. At the close of this last year, in spite of all flats and threats and penalties, one dollar of gold would buy forty dollars of Continental money. With such a depreciation any further iteue would bare bees regarded as too absurd to be attempted. The days of Continental money is any form were numbered. It was two years yet till toe end of the war, but the paper money of the Revolution henceforward played no part in it. Gold and silver found their way out of their biding places and carried the country through. Long after the pews congress in very shame offered to redeem its"bills oferedit" in real money at the rate of $lOO for one and most of it was taken in at that rate. Our fathers bad tried the "flat' money to their heart's content.— They found that it brought them nothing but wide-spread eufforing, injustice and demoralisa tion. They conceived a wholesome horror of it, and in their constitution they enacted that Nu grees should have power "to coin money and reg ulate the value thereof," i. e. the site and encases of the coins. No power to print paper money was given. The states were forbidden to make any thing but gold and silver legal tender in the pay ment of debts. They made the financial part of their constitution as "hard" as they knew bow. And if those fathers of the country could ribs from their graves to-day and see how a hard-pressed congress and an ingenious supreme court have got around tbeir prohibitions, they would not know whether most to be shocked at this violation of the spirit if not the letter of the eoastitutio*, or amazed that their sorrowful experience bad gone so entirely for naught with the profilist gen eration of their children. DILL's established Know-Nothingism la a nau— seous pill for such organs as the Pittsburgh Pest to swallow. Ii sticks in the throats of all Catho— lic Irish Democrats. WORKINGEIN, remember that one of Neeer's newspapers is opposing, with all of its ability (?), the new penitentiary project, NO. 39.
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