VOL. 42.
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TAR. G. B. HOTCHRIN, 204 Mifflin Street. Office cor
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fl CALDWEL.L, Attorney-at-Law, No. 111, 3rd street.
1/. Office formerly occupied by Messrs. Woods & Wil
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DR. A.B. BRUMBAUGH, offers his professional services
to the community. Office, No 623 Washington street,
cur door east of the Catholic Parsonage. [jan4,'7l
DR. HYSKILL has permanently locatod in Alexandria
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.