VOL. 42. The Huntingdon Journal. --- Office in new JuuRNAL Building, Fifth Street. THE HUNTINGDON JOURNAL is published every Friday by J. A. NASH, at 82,00 per 911111IM IN ADVANCE, or $2.50 if rot paid for in six months from date of sub scription, and 83 if not paid within the year. No paper discontinued, unless at the option of the pub lisher, until all arrearages are paid. No paper, however, will be sent out of the State unless absolutely paid for in advance. Transient advertisements will be inserted at TWELVE AND A-HALF CENTS per line for the first insertion, SEVEN AND A-HALF CENTS for the second and FIVE CENTS per line for all subsequent insertions. 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Hand-bills, Blanks , Cards, Pamphlets, &c., of every variety and style, printed at the shortest notice, and everything in the Printing line will be executed in the most artistic manner and at the lowest rates. Election Proclamation [GOD SAVE THE COMMONWEALTH."' ELECTION PROCLAMATION. Whereas, by an act of the General Assem bly of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, entitled "An Act to regulate the General Elections within said Com monwealth," it is made the duty of the Sheriff of each county to give public notice of the officers to be elected, and the time and place of holding said elections in the election districts, and the laws governing the holding thereof: Now therefore, I, BAWL. H. IRVIN, High 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., vnd closed a t seven o'clock p. m.) at which time the Freemen of Iluntindon county will vote by ballot for the following officers, namely: One person for the office of Governor of the Common wealth of Pennsylvania. One person for 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 the office of Secretary of Internal Af fairs 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 Snycer. Two persons to represent Huntingdon county in the General Assembly of Pennsylvania. One person for the office of Prothonotary of Hunting don county. 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. Three persons for the office of Commissioner of Hunting don county. Oue 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 v. m. Is pursuance of said act, I also hereby make known and give notice, that the places 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. sth district, composed of the township of Barree, at the house of James Livingston, in the town of Saulsburg, in said township. 6th district composed of the borough of Shirleysbnrg, 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 Fmker, 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 followlisgboandaries, to wit : Beginning at the south westcorner of Tobias Caufnum'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 411 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, iu the village of Frankluiville, in said township. 9th district, composed of Tell township, at the Union shoot house, near the Union meeting house in said twp. ).Jth 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 the township of West, at the public school house, on the farm now owned by Miles Lewis, (formerly owned by James Ennis) in said town ship. 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 Clouse. 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 tonne, now owned and occupied by Thomas M. Owens, John K. McCahan, Andrew Robeson, John Gensimer and Wm. Gensimer, and the tract of land now owned by George and John Shoenberger, known an the Porter tract, situate in the township of Warriorsmark, at the public school house in said borough. 20th district, composed of the township of Case, at the public school house in Cass - -ille, in said township. 21st district, composed of the township of Jackson at the public house of Edward Littles, at McAleavy's Fort, in said township. 22d dis.rict, 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. 2lth district, composed and created as follows, to wit : That all that part of Shirley township, Huntingdon coun ty, lying and being within the following described boun daries, (except the borough of Mount Union,) uamely : Beginning at the intersection of Union and Shirley town ship lines with the Juniata river, on the south side there of; thence along said Union township line for thedistance of three mile, from said river; thence eastwardly, by a straight line, to the point where the main road from Eby a mill to Germany valley, crosses the summit of Sandy ridge; thence nurthwardly 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 bold their general and township elections in the public school house in Mount Union, in said district. 25th district, composed of all that territory lying north eastward of a line beginning at the Juniata riverand run ning thence in a direct line along the centre of 4th Street in the borough of Huntingdon, to the line ofOneida town ship, constituting the First Ward of said borough, at the south east window of the Court House. 26th district, composed of all that territory lying west of the First Ward and east of the centre of ith street composing the second Ward at the Engine House in the borough aforesaid. 27th district, composed of all that territory lying north and west of the Second Ward and south of a line begin ning at the Juniata river, and running thence eastward an 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 want of said borough, constituti ug the Fourth Ward, at the public School House near Cherry Alley, in said borough. 29th district composed of the township of Logan and the borough of Petersburg, at the school house, in the borough of Petersburg. 311th district, composed of Juniata township at Hawn's school house, in said township. 31st district, composed of Carbon township, recently erected out ofa part of the territory of Tod township to wit: commencing at a chestunt oak, on the summit of Terrace mountain, at the Hopewell township line opposite the dividing ridge, in the Little Valley ; thence south fitty two 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 and seventy-two perches to a Chestnut Oak; thence south fourteen degrees, east three hundred sail Ilty one perches, to a Chestnut at the east end of Hear/ $ Given's hind; thence south thirty one and a half *stet two hundred and ninety-four perches to a tee Wia 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 &stone 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 Tussey mountain on the line between Blair and Huntingdon counties, thence by tile 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 sad 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, oomposed of the borough of Maid eton,at the public school house in said borough. 35th district, composed of the borough of Mount Union, at the public school house in said borough. 36th district, composed of the borough of Broad Top City, at the public school house in said borough 37th district, composed of the borough of Three Springs at the public school house in said borough. 38th district, composed of the borough of Shade Gap, at the public school house in said borough. 39th district, the borough of Orbisunia, at the public school house. 40th district, composed- of the borough of Sfarklesburg, at the main puilic schoolhouse in said borough. 41st district, composed of the borough of saltillo, at the public rchool 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: Szeram 15. No person shall he qualified to serve BR an election officer who shall hold or shall within two months 41 'F f • - 'l , l ' , „ . i.,- . ... : .A.- q. , ... • °,-. ~ . . .. .. a l .4. 0 ,4 . . ~., a- • 1 e_... 3 J. li . ....1 . . . 1 'VE f 1 '!i I - , i --, ii . ..., - . . ' 1 ..-s. i , .. ..1 . ; 4e; ti P - e 44 , At. , .I." , . 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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 fur holding the election in the district at which they respectively belong; before 7 o'clock in the morning of the let Tuesday of November, and each said inspector shall appoint one clerk, wno shall 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 votee for inepector shall not attend, the person elected Judge shall appoint an inspector in his place, and in case the person elected Judge shall not attend, then the inspector who received the highest num ber of votes shall appoint a Judge in his place; and if any vacancy shall continue in the board for the space of one hour after the time fixed by law for the epening of the election, the qualified voters of the township, ward or dis trict for which such officer shall have teen elected, present at such election shall elect one of their number to fill the vacancy. It shall be the duty of the several assessors of each dis trict to attend at the place of holding every general, special or township election, during the whole time aid 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 such other matters in relation to the asesss ment of voters as the said inspectors or either of them shall from time to time require. SPECIAL ATTENTION is hereby directed to the Bth Article of the New Constitution. Searfore 1. Every male citizen twenty-one years of age, possessing the following qualifications, shall be entitled to vote at all elections. First—He shall have been a citizen of the United States at least one month. Seeoud.—He shall have resided in the State one year, (or if having previously been a qualified elector or native born citizen of the State, he shall have removed from and returned, then six months,) immediately preceding the election. Third.—He shall have resided in the election district where he shall offer to vote at least two months immedi ately preceding the election. Fourth. -1 f 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 months ant paid at least one month before the election. By Section 1 of act of 30th of March, 1866, it is provided as follows: That the qualified voters of the several counties of this Commonwealth, at all general, township, borough and special elections, are hereby hereafter authorized and re quired to vote, by tickets, printed or written, or partly printed or partly written, severally classified as follows : One ticket shall embrace the names of all judges of courts voted for, and to be labeled outside "judiciary ;" one tick et shall embrace the names of all county officers voted for including office of Senator and members of Assembly, if voted for, and members of Congress, if voted for, and be labeled, "county ;" one ticket shall embrace the name of all township officers voted for, 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. SEcTios 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. Szeriort 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 numoer 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 same upon his ticket or cause the same to bo 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 pre scribed by law, as fully as if they were present at their usual place of election, Semen 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. Any person who shall, while a candidate for office, be guilty of bribery, fraud, or willful violation of any election law, shall be forever disqualified from hold ing an office of trust or profit in this Commonwealth, and any person convicted of willful violation of the election laws shall, in addition to any penalties provided by law, be deprived of the right of suffrage absolutely for a term of 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 Le the duty of the judges of election for their respective districts to designate one of the inspectors, whose duty it shall be to have in custody the registery of voters, and to make the entries therein required by law; and it shall be the duty of the other said inspectors to re ceive and number the ballots presented at said election. Section 9. All elections by the citizens shall be by bal lot ; every ballot voted shall be numbered in the order in which it shall be received, and the number recorded by the clerks on the list of voters opposite the name of the elector from whom received. And any voter voting two or more tickets, the several tickets so voted shall each be numbered with the number corresponding with the num ber to the name of the voter. Any elector may write his name upon the ticket, or cause the same to be written thereon, and attested by a citizen of the district. In ad dition to the oath now prescribed by law to be taken and subscribed by election officers, they shall severally be morn or affirmed not to disclose how say 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 so sworn, and attested by the officer who administered the oath. If any judge or minority inspector refuses or tails to swear the officers of election in the manner required by this act, or if any officer of election shall act without being first duly sworn, or if any officer of election shall sign the form of oath without being duly sworn, or if any judge or minority inspector shall certify that any officer was sworn when ho was not, it shall be deemed a misde meanor, and upon conviction, the o ffi cer or o ffi cers so of fending shall be fined not exceeding one thousand dollars, or imprisoned not to exceed one year, or both, in the dis cretion of the court. I also give official notice to the electors orHuntingdon County, that by an act entitled "An Act further suppli menial to the act relative to the election of this Common wealth, approved Jan. 80, A. D. 1874. That it is provided in Section 10, that on theday 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 beat of his knowledge and belief, where and when he was born ; that he has been a citizen of the Uni ted States for one month, 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 preceeding 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 mouths and paid at least one month, before se id 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 be paid by the affiant was as seised, 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 mud subscribe an affidavit, that he it a native-born citizen of the United States, (or if born elsewhere, 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 melting the affidavit, between the ages of twenty-one and twenty-two years ; that he has been a citizen of the United States one month, and has resided in the state one year, or, if a na tive-born citizen of the State and removed therefrom and returned, that he has resided therein six months next preceding said election, and in the election district imme mediately two months preceding such election, he shall be entitled to vote. although he shall not have paid taxes ; the said affidavits of all persons making such claims, and the affidavit of the witnesses to their residence shall be preserved by the election board, and at the close of the election they shall be enclosed with the list of voters, tally list and other papers required by law to be filed by the Return Judges with the Prothonotary and shall remain on file within the Prothonotary's office, subject to exami nation, as other election impale are ; if the election officers shall find that the applicant possesses all the legal qualifications of a voter be shall be permitted to rote, and his name shall be added to the list of taxables by the election officers, the word "tax" being added where the claimant claims to vote on tax, and the word "age" where he 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 for any qualified citizen of the district, notwithstanding the name of the proposed voter is con tained ou the list of the resident taxables, to challenge the vote of such person whereupon the same proof of the right of suffrage as is now required by law shall be pub licly made and acted on by the election board, and the vote admitted or rejected, according to the evidence; ev ery person claiming to be a naturalized citizen shall be required to produce his naturalization certificate at the election before voting, except where he has been for five year., consecutively, a voter in the district in which he offers his vote ; and on the vote of such person being re ceived, it shall be the duty of the election officers to write or stamp on such certificate the word "voted," with the day, month and year ; and if any election officer:or officers shall receive a second vote on the same day, by virtue of the same certificate, excepting where sons are eutited vote by virtue of the naturalization of their fathom they and the person who shall offer such second vote, upon so 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 fine shall not ex ceed five hundrecki dollars in each case, nor the imprison ment more than one year ; the like punishment shall he inflicted on conviction on the officers of election who shall neglect or refuse to make ' or cause to be made, the endorsement required as aforesaid on said naturalization certificate. . . . VV 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 ie a supplement, from any person Election Proclamation offering to vote whose name is not on the list of assessed voters, or whose right to vote is challenged by any qual ified voter present, and shall admit such person to vote without requiring such proof, every person so offending shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be sentenced for every such offense, to pay a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or to undergo an imprisonment not more than one year, or either or both, at the discretion of the Court. SECTION 13. As soon HA the polls shall close, the officers of election shall proceed to count all the votes cast for each candidate voted for, and make a full return of the 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 ft 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 declared from the window to the citizens present, and a brief state ment showing the votes received by each candidate shall be made and signed by the election officers as soon as the vote is counted, and the eame shall be immediately posted up on the door of the election house for information of the public. The triplicate returns shall be enclosed in envel opes and be sealed in presence of the officers, and one en vet pe, with the unsealed return sheet, given to the judge, 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 residence be in a town, village or city upon the line of railroad leading to the county seat, shall, be fore two o'clock post meridan of the day after the election, and all other judges shall, before twelve o'clock metidan of the second day after the election, deliver said return, together with return sheet, to the prothonotary of the court of common pleas of the county, which said return sheet shall be filed, and the day and hour of filing mark ed thereon, and shall be preserved by the prothonotary for public inspection. At twelve o'clock on the said second day following any election, the prothonotary of the court of common pleas *hall present the said returns to the said court. In counties where there is no resident president Presidentjudge, the associate judges shall perform the duties imposed upon the court of common pleas, which shall convene for said purpose; the returns presented by the prothonotary shall be opened by said court and com 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 dune 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 open tc the public. And in case the return of any election dis trict shall be missing when the returns are presented, or in case of complaint of a qualified elector under oath, charging palpable fraud or mistake, and particularly spec ifying the alleged fraud or mistake, of where fraud or mistake is apparent on the return, the court shall examine the return, and if in the judgment of the court it shall be necessary to ajust return, said court shall issue sum mary process against the election officers and overseers, if any, of the election district complained of, to bring . them forthwith into court, with all election papers in their Possession ; and if palpable mistake or fraud shall be dis covered, it shall, upon such hearing as may be deemed ne cessary to enlighten the court, be corrected by the court and so certified; but all allegations of palpable fraud or mistake shall be decided by the said court within three days alter the day the returns are brought into court for computation ; and the said inquiry shall be directed oaly to palpable fraud or mistake, and shall not be deemed a judicial adjudication to conclude any contest now or here after to be provided by law ; and the other of the of said triplicate returns shall be placed in the box and sealed up with the ballots. . _ Also in Section 17 of said Act, it is provided that the re spective assessors, inspectors and judges of the election shall each have the power to administer oaths to any person claiming the right to be assessed or the right cf suffrage, or in regard to any other matter or thing requi red to be done or inquired into by any one of said officers under this act ; and any wilful false swearing by any per son in relation to any matter and thing concerning which they shall be lawfully interrogated by any of said officers or overseers shall be punished as perjury. SECTION 8. 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. Sitcrunt 8. Any person who shall give, or promise or offer to give, to an elector, any money, reward, or other valuable consideration for hie 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 or 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 ilial longed for such cause before the election officers, shall be required to swear or affirm that the matter of the chal lenge is untrue before his vote shall he 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 punish ed by a fine 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 theparty aggrieved '• and if any person shall fraudulently alter, add to, deface or destroy any list of voters made out as directed by this act, or tear down or remove the same from the place where it has been fixed, with fraudulent or mischievous intent, or for any improp er purpose, the person so offending shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or 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 fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding two years, or both at the discretion of the court. Any person who shall on the day of any election, visit a polling place in any election district at which he is not entitled to vote, and shall use intimidation or violence for the purpose of preventing any 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 right to vote, or from exercising his right to challenge any person offering to vete, such per son shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a tine 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 doso in a judicial proceeding, shall be guilty of a mis demeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by im prisonment not exceeding two years, or both, in the discretion of the court. . SEC. 4. On the petition of Ere or more citizens of any election district, setting forth that the appointment of overseers is a reasonable precaution to secure the purity and fairness of the election in said district; it shall be the duty of the court of common pleas of the proper county, ail 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 sapie is held, the votes counted, and the returns made out and signed by the election officers; to keeps list of the voters, if they see proper; to challenge any person offering to vote, and interrogate him and-his witnesses under oath, in regard to his right of suffrage at said election, and to examine his papers produced ; and the officers of said election are required to afford tosaid 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 exceeeing one thousand dollars, or imprison ment not exceeding one year, or both, at the discretion of the court: or if the overseers shall be 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 be holden, or shall riotously disturb the peace of such election, or shall use or practice intimidation, threats, force or violence, with the design to influence un duly or overawe any elector, or prevent him from voting, or to restrain the freedom of choice, such persons on con viction shill 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 proclamation thereof or by any written or printed advertisement, or invite any person or persons to make such bet or wager, upon conviction thereof hc or they shall forfeit and pay three times the amount so bet or offered to be bet. - _ - - Election officers will take notice that the act entitled "A Further Supplement to the Election Laws of this Com monwealth," disqualifying deserters from the army of the United States from voting, has recently been declared un constitutional by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, is now null and void, and that all persons formerly disqualified thereunder are now lawful voters, if otherwise qualified. Sec. 111. It shall be the duty of every mayor, sheriff, deputy sheriff, alderman, justice 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 avenue to any window, at the place of the general election, which shall be obstructed in such a way as to prevent voters from approaching the sane, and on neglect or refusal to do on such requisition, said officer shell be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor in office, and on conviction, shall be fined in any sum not less than one hundred nor more than one thousand dollars; and it shall be the duty of the respect ive constables of each ward, district or township within this Commonwealth, to be present in person or by deputy, at the place of holding such elections in said ward, district or township, fur the purpose of preserving the peace, as aforesaid. SEC. 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 aiso the namesof the witnesses ho can prove the same; and 1161101 be the duty of said eourt to cause indictments to be preferred before the grant jury against the persons so offending. SEC. 113. If it shall be made to appear to any court of quarter sessions of this Commonwealth that any riot or dis turbance occurred at the time and place of holding any elec tion under this act, and the constables who are enjoined by law to attend at such elections have not given information thereof,Secording to the provisions of this act, it shall he the duty of said court to eauselhe officer or officers, so ne glecting the duty aforesaid, to be proceeded against by in dictment for a misdemeanor in office, and on con Fiction thereof, the said officer shall be fined iu any sum not ex ceeding one hundred dollars. Sue. 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. HUNTINGDON, PA,, FRIDAY OCTOBER 11, 1878. Election Proclamation 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 do 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. By virtue of an Act of Assembly, approved the 12th day of June, A. D., 1878, I also make further proclamation of "Au Act for the taxation of dogs and the protection of sheep." AN ACT for the taxation of dogs and the protection of sheep. &Moe 1. Be it Eneteted, (Fe., That from and after the passage of this act, there shall be assessed, levied and col lected annually, with other county taxes, in each of the townships and boroughs of this commonwealth, from the owners and keepers of dogs, the following named taxes, namely For each male dog, the sum of fifty cents, and for every female dog the sum of one dollar, to be paid to the treasurer of the county where collected, to be kept by him separate and in such manner that he can know how much has been collected from each township and borough, and how much paid out for losses or damages, in each, at any time, to be a fund from which persons sustaining lose or damage to sheep by a dog or dogs, and the necessary costs in establishing their claim therefor, and herein pro vided, may be paid. Ssc. 2. For the purpose of levying and collecting such taxes, the assessors in each township and borough shall, annually, at the time of assessing other taxable property, ascertain and return to the county commissioners of their county a true statement of all the dogs in their townships and boroughs, respectively, and the names of the persons owning or keeping such dogs, and how many of each sex is kept or owned by each person ; and such commissioners in each county shall, annually, levy and cause to be col lected the taxes herein before named, with, and in the same manner, and for the same compensation, that other comity taxes are collected. Sac. 3. That whenever any person shall sustain any lose or damage to sheep by a dog or dogs, in any township or borough, such person, or his or her agent or attorney, may complain to any justice of the peace of such township or borough, in writing, to be signed by the person making complaint, stating therein when, where and how such damage was done, and by whose dog or dogs, if known ; whereupon the justice of the peace to whom such som plaint shall be made, shall cause a notice to be served on the owner or keeper of the dog or dogs caueing the damage, if known, that a complaint has been made to him of such loss or damage ; and if the owner or keeper of such dog or dogs does not appear, as soon as practicable, and settle and pay for such loss or damage, then such justice shall ap point three competent disinterested persons, not related to the claimant or other persons interested therein, to appraise the loss or damage sustained by the claimant and such appraisers, after being sworn or affirmed by such justice of the peace, or some other competent person, to perform the duties of their appointment without partially and according to the best of their judgment and ability, shall, as soon as practicable, examine the place where 'the damage is claimed to have been done, and the sheep injured or killed, if practicable, and they are requested to do so, and shall be examined, on oath or affirmation to be administered by one of them, any witness called before them by a subpoena from such justice or otherwise, and after making diligent inquiry in relation to such claim, shall determine and report to such justice, in writing, whether any such damage has been sustained, and the amount thereof, and who was the owner or keeper of the dog or dogs, if known, by which such damage has been done, and whether or not any part thereof was ceased by a dog owned or kept by the claimant, which report. so made, shall be signed by a majority of such appraisers, and delivered to the justice by whom they were appointed. Sic. 4. That upon receiving such report, the said justice shall immediately make a certificate thereon or thereto, signed and sealed by him, that such appraisers were duly appointed and sworn by him, and that they made such report ; and if by such report it appears that any damages have been sustained by the complainant, the said justice shall deliver such report and all papers relating to the case, to such claimant or his or her agent or attorney, upon payment of the costa up to that time, hereinafter provided, (or having secured the same to be paid,) to be delivered to the commissioners of the county where such damages have been sustained to be filed in their office. Sao. 5. That upon the commissioners of the county re ceiving such report, it shall appear hereby that a cer tain amount of damage or loss has been sustained by the claimant to sheep, by a dog or dogs not owned or kept by him or her, they shall immediately draw their order on the treasurer of such county in favor of the claimant for the amount of lees or damage such claimant has sustained according to such report, with necessary and proper costs incurred as aforesaid, to be paid out of the fund raised or to be raised by taxes on dogs as hereinbefore provided; and if it shall appear by such report or otherwise, that a responsible person was the owner or keeper of the dog or dogs by which the damage complained of was done, and there is a reasonable probability such damages and costs can be collected from such owner or keeper, then such commissioners shall immediately proceed, in the manner provided by law for the collection of debts and costs of like amount, to collect such damages and costs by a suit or snits from the owner or owners, or keeper or keepers of such dog or dogs, and place the proceeds thereof, less costs, in the proper sheep fund of the county : Provided, At any and all times, it shall be the duty of the owner of any sheep-killing dog or dogs, or any person owning sheep, to kill any and all dogs guilty of killing sheep within this common wealth. Six. 6. That all dogs in this commonwealth shall here after be personal property and subjects of larceny, and the owner or keeper of any dogs shall be liable to the county commissioners for all loss or damage to sheep by such dog, with the necessary costs incurred in recovering and collecting such damages, including an attorney fee of five dollars if finally determiued before a justice of the peace, and of ten dollars if tried in a court of common plass ; but at any time after notice of a claim for dama ges under the provisions of this act, the owner or keeper of any dog may tender to the claimant or hie agent or attorney making such claim a sum of money equal to the loss or damage sustained, or may offer before a justice of the peace, with notice to the claimant, his agent or at torney, as aforesaid, a judgment in an action of trespass, for the amount of such lose or damage, and all costs up to the time of such offer, which offer, for a he of twenty cents shall be entered on the docket of such justice ; and in case the claimant in such case. or commissioners, as the case may be. shall not accept of such tender or offer ofjudgment and afterwards on the final determination of such case shall not recover a greater amount than the sum so tendered or for which a judgment has been offered, as aforesaid, besides the interest and cost since such tender or offer, as the case may be, such claimant or commission ers shall not recover any costs accruing after such tender or offer, but shall pay to the defendant or defendants the cost such defendant or defendants have incurred since such offer or tender, including an attorney fee as herein before provided in case of a recovery by claimants, which costs may be deducted from the amount of any judgment recovered in such case by the claimants or commissioners, and if such judgment is not sufficient such costa may be collected by an action of debt in any court having juris diction of such amount as in other cases of debt, Sec. 7. That justices of the peace for the special services under the provisions of this act, shall be entitled to one dollar for each case, and the appraisers each one dollar per day for the time necessarily spent by them in investi gating each claim, to be paid by the claimant in such case. Sac. 8. That at the end of each year the commissioners of each county shalt certify to the treasurer of the county the several claim, and amounts thereof, filed in their office under the provisions of the act, remaining unpaid; and if any such treasurer shall have in his hands, of moneys collected for the payment thereof, more than two hundred dollars above the amount of such claims, he obeli immediately apportion and distribute the excess to the several school districts in such county, in proportion to the amount of such balance or OKObßil raised by said taxes. on dogs in each or in the several townships or boroughs forming such districts, respectively, and shall notify the school treasurer of such districts how much it is entitled to of such moneys and shall pay the same to such school treasurers, on their receipts and orders for the same, for the support of the common schools of such district. Sec. 9. That this act shall not repeal or affect the provisions of any special law in relation to the same subject in any county of this commonwealth. Sae. 10. That the Sheriff of each county, on the request of the county commissioners, shall cause this act to be published therein, with and in the same manner as notices of the next general election shall be published ; and for the purpose of deciding whether or not the pro visions of this act are desired in the several counties, the qualified electors therein may vote at such election, by ballots written or printed on the outside "Sheep Law," and on the inside "For the Sheep Law.% or "Against the Sheep Law;" and in each county wherein it shall appear by a proper count ef such ballots that a majority are "For the Sheep Law," thie act shall immediately take effect, but iu no other county until a majority of the qualified electors thereof, after like advertisement in like manner, have determined that they desire this act to take effect therein : Provided, That there shall be no advertisement or election for such purpose iu any county oftener than once in two years. APettovzo'—The 12th day of June, A. D. 1878. J. N. IiARTRANFT. MODE OF VOTING. Particular attenilon is directed to the first section of the act of assembly, passed the 30th day of March, A. D 1860, entitled " An act regulating the manner of voting at all elections, in the several counties of this Common wealth." _ _ _ 11 the qualified voters of the several counties of this commonwealth, at all general, township or borough and special elections, are hereby hereafter authorised and re quired to vote, by tickets printed or written, or partly printed and partly written, severally classified as follows; One ticket shall embrace the names of all judges of courts voted for, and be labeled outside "judiciary ;" one ticket shall embrace the names of state officers voted for, and be labeled "state;" one ticket shall embrace the names of all county officers voted for, including office of senator, mem ber and members of assembly, if voted for, and members of congress, if voted for, and labeled "county ;" one ticket shall embrace the names of all township officers voted for, and be labeled "township;' one ticket shall embrace the names of all borough officers voted for, and be labeled "borough;" one ticket shall embrace the words "For the Sheep Law ;" or "Against the Sheep Law ;" labeled on the outside "Sheep Law ;" and each class shall be deposited in separate ballot boxes. Given under my hand at Huntingdon, the 27th day et September, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight and ofthe4ndependence of the United States the one hundred and third. SHERIFF'S OFFIOB, Sept. 27, 1878. j Patents obtained for Inventors, in the United States, Cana da, and Europe at rednced rates. With our prin cipal office located in Washington, directly opposite the United States Patent Office, we are able to at tend to all Patent Business with greater promptness and despatch and less cost, than other patent attor neys, who are at a distance from Washington, and who huve, therefore, to employ"associate attorneys?, We make preliminary examinations and furnish opinions as to patentability, free of charge, and all who are interested in new inventions and Patentsare invited to send for a copy of our "Guide for obtain ing Patents," which is sent free to any address, and contains complete instructions how to obtain Pat ents, and other valuable matter. We refer to the German-American National Bank, Washington, D. C. ; the Royal Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish Legations, at Washington; Hon. Joseph Casey, late Chief Justice U. S. Court of Claims; to the Officials of the U. S. Patent Office, and to Senators and Members of Congress front every State. Address: LOUIS BAGGER it CO., Solicitors of Patents and Attorneys at Law,4eDroil Washington, P. C, tapr26 578-tf The Huntingdon Journal J. A. NASH, - - FRIDAY, - - - OCTOBER 11, 1878 Circulation LARGER than any other Paper in the Juniata Valley. SPEECH OF EON. FRANCIS JORDAN, At McConnellsburg, Sept. 28th. THE CHAIRMAN OF THE DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE ANSWERED-SHAM DE MOCRACY EXPOSED AND THE REPUB LICAN PARTY VINDICATED. • The Republicans of Fulton and adjoining coun ties had a rousing campaign meeting on the 28th ult., at M 'Connellsburg. The principal address wa s delivered by Col. Francis Jordan,of Harrisburg. We publish the full text of Col. Jordan's admirable address, and it will repay perusal. He speaks principally of State affairs, replying convincingly to Chairman Speer's speech, delivered a few weeks since, and shows where the latter perverted and falsified figures and facts. Following is the ad dress : MR. PRESIDENT AND FELLOW CITIZENS :—I am informed that at a recent political meeting here, you were honored and enlightened with the pres ence and speeches of Mr. Dill, the Democratic can didate for Governor, Mr. Speer, Chairman of the Democratic State Committee, and Mr. Stenger, member of and candidate for Congress. So far as I have seen, or am aware, only the speech of Mr. Speer has been published. This looks unkind to the aspirant for Governor ; and leaves room for the inference that his speeches are not considered, by hie friends, worth publication. lam not here to call in question the soundness of their judgment. Nat having heard the speeches, we are confined to an examination of the printed speech of Mr. Speer; but, as the State Democratic Organ, at Harrisburg, has published it as by authority, we are justified in looking upon it as an official expo • Bitten, and vindication, of Democratic principles and candidates. I have the speech before me; and some of you have requested that I should give it some attention. This I propose to do, in con nection with some kindred subjects. You all know how true it is that "a lie can travel a league while truth is putting on his boots;" and any man may, in a single line, make an assertion or ask a question, which will require a page to properly answer or refute. Mr. Speer is a fluent speaker, a respectable lawyer, and an ambitious and ultra partisan. His speech clearly demonstrates these traits of character ; and it has evidently been written out with great care for publication. It has some truth in it; but so suppressed, distorted, per verted, partial and misapplied ; as to convey false impressions, and lead to erroneous conclusions.— The performance, as a whole, is calculated to de stoy all faith in the adage that "figures cannot lio." The speech seems to have been constructed throughout on the principle that some truth is required to make a plausible and credible false hood; and that it was more desirable to attain this end than to vindicate the truth of history by a frank, manly, and full statement of the whole truth on the several subjects discussed. The orator commences with a highly colored picture of existing evils, and a railing accusation against the Republican party, charging it, through bad legislation, as the sole cause of the debt, fi naneial embarrassments, labor-troubles, bankrupt cies, and all the other evils which afflict our com mon country. Are these accusations true? As an humble member of the Republican party, I stand here to deny them ; and I challenge the proofs.— Reckless assertion is neither evidence nor argu metz,t; and slander is not proof. Let us reason together, as old neighbors, and as fair men, de sirous to know and understand the true situation, how it came to pass, and what is new the best thing to be done. The evils that are upon us, such as they are, did not come by chance, nor suddenly, nor without warning; but they are the plain results of a long chain of causes, known to the worlu, and clearly read of all men not wilfully blind. Let me briefly remind you of some of them: In 1559 we had no National debt of any consequence. In 18110 we had a Presidential elec tion, and Abraham Lincoln was lawfully chosen President of the United States. The Democratic party refused to acquiesce in, or submit to, that election ; and inaugurated the war of the rebellion, claiming the right of the States to secede from the National UniOn, for any cause they chose to as sign. The Democratic States, and no others, en listed under the flag of disunion. The Democratic party, and it alone, fought against the national supremacy. The Republican party, being in law ful possession of the government, was bound by every consideration of patriotism and, national honor, to preserve the Union at all hazards, and to band it down unimpaired to posterity. This dreadful and unnatural conflict raged with un abated fury for four long, weary years. The whale power and resources of the nation were thrown in to the bloody strife. The end was the overthrow of the rebellion, and the salvation of the Union, in spite of all the combined and diabolical efforts of the Democratic party, the world, the flesh and the devil. The victory of the right was complete ; but the aggregate cost far exceeded all powers of reckoning or computation. Hundreds of thousands of our gallant dead filled untimely and bloody graves, or were starved in loathsome prisons; our commerce was swept from the seas ; every branch of labor and industry not connected with the war was paralyzed or destroyed; the land was filled with diseased and orippled soldiers, their widows and orphans, the nation was impoverished to the verge of bankruptcy; and our national debt, funded and unfunded, amounted to the enormous aggre gate of about three thousand millions of dollars (3,000,000,000). Such is a hasty outline of this recent and sad history, written in ruin, devasta tion, fire and blood; and, my hearers, you all know and have felt how awfully real and true it is. It is as clear as the noonday sun in the heavens, that this mountain of debt is the cause of all our manifold financial evils. The war of the rebellion caused the debt, and the Democratic party (mused the rebellion; and on this awful record I hurl back the base and calumnious charges against the Republican party, made by the chair man of the Democratic State Committee; and I arraign him and his followers before the bar of history and of public opinion as the guilty authors of all our financial evils and the reckless libellers of the Republican party. But, say the Democrats and Greenbackers, the Republican party has contracted the currency; and in the unwise effort to thus bring about re sumption, have brought distress and bankruptcy upon the country. This charge is so often and persistently made that, no doubt, many ignorant persons, and perhaps others, are thereby deceived. The fact is, the volume of currency has never been materially reduced or contracted; and this the records of the United States Treasury Department clearly show. I examined the whole matter care fully in 1875, and then made out the follqwing table, showing the annual aggregate of outstand ing paper money, including greenbacks, National bank notes, and postal currency, at the clove of eeoh &all year; Aggregate Dote, of Paper Currency. 1865 1866 1867 1865 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 Only a few weeks ago the Register of the Treas ury, on request, sent me a similar statement for the three succeeding years, as follow 8; SAM'L. 11. IRVIN, iiHERIFf. Date. 1876.. 1878 An examination of these tables discloses the important fact that at the time of the panic in 1573, there were over one hundred millions of dol lars in circulation more than at the end of the war in 1865, and the further fact that in 1878 we have nearly sixty millions of dollars more paper money in circulation than we had in 1865. Such are the records of the Treasury Depart ment; and they cannot be questioned ; and they demonstrate the utter mendacity or ignorance of those who assert that the Republican party has paralyzed business, and driven the country into bankruptcy, by a contraction of the currency. If our enemies had any true charges of wrong to make against us, they would hardly find it ne cessary to make and report so many false ones. Here again we are met, in Mr. Speer's speech, with another tissue of fabrications, unreasonable complaints, perverted arithmetic, and cunningly devised sophistries. Staggering under this tre mendous debt, the practical question was, and yet is, how ought it to be managed 1 The Republican party has no apologies to make for its conduct of the war. During its progress the expenditures often exceeded a million of dollars per day; and to provide all this, severely taxed both the wisdom and patriotism of the people. - Editor, HUNTINGDON, PENN'A DEBT AND BANKRUPTCY, 9ONTRACTION. Aggregate o/ Paper Currency. $737,717,597 BANKS AND PAPER MONEY, To accomplish the desired ends different varie ties of notes and bonds were authorized and issued, payable at different times and at different rates of interest ; and the State banks were all superseded and national banks authorized to take their places. Prominent among these obligations were what are now called national greenbacks and national bank notes. Our Democratic friends denounced the greenbacks from the start, and during the whole war, and until recently. Now they have changed their tune, and claim to be the special friends of the greenback, and demand the destruction of the national banks. The greenbacks have answered their purpose, and answered it well, because they were made a legal-tender; were limited in amount under the laws of their creation so as never to ex ceed $400,000,000, and the faith of the nation was solemnly pledged again and again for their re demption.. Peace having been established, and about a thousand millions, or one-third of the national debt, having since been paid off, the assurances of payment of the greenbacks in gold are about to be made good. The premium on gold is only one-fourth of one percent., so that $lOO 25 of greenbacks will buy $lOO of gold; and the notes of the national banks are practically of the same value as the greenback, and are all convertible the one into the other at par, at the option of the holder. What more can any reasonable man ask? There is no better, and can be no better currency in the world. Every holder of the Government money can have, at pleasure, gold, silver, or paper, and any one variety convertible into the other whenever he pleases. There is wisdom in the old adage, "Let well enough alone ;" and we demand, and have a right to demand, that Mr. Speer, and all such chronic grumblers hold their pease, and cease their petty railings and save their wind for F ome more honest and profitable purpose. But, say they, "if greenbacks are now so good, why not issue more of them, and snake money plenty ?" The answers to this questions are plain. In the first place these were issued on a great emergency to save the life of the nation when threatened by war ; and the Supreme Court of the United States sanctioned this money as constitutional because its issue was the exercise of a war power by Con gress. There being no longer any war in exist ence, it would be unconstitutional to issue any more legal-tender greenbacks. This ought to be reason enough to any man s or any party, who has any respect for the Constitution under which we live. In the next place, we do not need any more paper money. The Hon. James A Bayard, Demo cratic United State Senator, of Delaware,in a speech made at Wilmington, on the 29th ugust last, declared that, "In this country, at present, there is really no scarcity of paper money, nor is there any actual need for more money." The banks of the great money centres are full of it, and it can be had in abundance and at moderate rates ; and if more should at any time be wanted, the National Banks are authorized to issue to any amount required by the business wants of the country. Moreover, another issue could not possibly be as good as the old. This, because capital and capitalists are timid; and the doubt on the con stitutionality of any new issue would be a flagrant violation of the oft repeated and solemn pledge of the Government to the holders, that the total amount should never exceed $400,000,000. That pledge was and is as follows : Be it enacted, &c. That the faith of the United States is solemnly pledged to the payment of coin or its equiva lent, all of the obligations of the United States, not bear ing interest,known as United States Notes. And the Uni ted States also solemnly pledges its faith to make provi sion at the earliest practicable period for the redemption of the United States notes in coin," Surely any Government which would voluntary break so solemn a pledge as this, could not have, and would not deserve to have the confidence of its own citizens, or of anybody else. How can an hon est man ask his Government to stultify itself by a repudiation of the solemn pledges on which the notes were issued and paid out? Where is the Democrat, Greenbacker, or anybody else, shame less enough to seriously advocate so dishonorable a course as this? Any greenbacks issued hereafter, therefore, would be a bastard issue, unconstitution al, dishonest and bogus ; and never could take rank or value with those heretofore constitutionally is sued. But, says some Greenbacker or Democrat, why not issue "absolute" or "fiat money," without, any promise ever to redeem, and make currency on the mere Sat of Congress. Why, my good friend, al low me to say that this would be no money at all; and would have none of the esset,tial elements of money. There are some things that Congress can not do.. It reminds the of a resolution recently passed at a county convention of Greenbaokers or Nationals in Dauphin county, declaring in favor of more shad in the Susquehanna river. Let us take one absurdity to illustrate another. Theques tion is, can shad be made by sot of Congress, or by act of the Legislature? Suppose Congress should pass an act declaring shad to be in the river. Would that put them there ? Suppose it passes an act declaring that certain slips of paper shall be cut in the shape of shad, with the name shad printed upon each. Does that make the piece of paper a shad, or give it any of the valuable properties of a shad? Why, mani festly, such shad would not do to roast, to fry, or to broil, and much less would they be good to eat. Just so with any "fiat money" which Congress could create. They might provide the requisite slips of paper and print upon them all the numer als in the alphabet, and eke them out with the prettiests busts of women and grandest spread ea gles the skill of the artist could devise. After all it would not be money, any more than the paper shad would be a shad. Such bastard greenback and National Democratic shad and money would be the laughingstock of the world. Why ? because real shad must hive edible flesh, and real money must have intrinsic value. A promise to pay is one thing, and actual money is another. This greenback I hold in my hand is a mere promise to pay, and it does not purport to be anything else. This coin is money, and has no promise to pay on it. The former is only as good as the latter be cause lawfully issued in limited quantities, and under such conditions and pledges as ultimately to make the promise good and the one convertible into the other at the pleasure of the holder. Take away the conditions and limitations, and the promise is good, for nothing, while the coin is good at all times because of its intrinsic value, and irrespective of conditions. Suppose the late Democratic Southern confederacy, instead of those paper promises ta pay, after their independence should be secured, bad issued gold and silver coins, of the same weight and fineness of the lawful coins of the United States. Then such coins would have been just as good and current after the Confederacy had gone to pieces as before; whilst the paper promises they issued, being only "fiat money," is of no value, and has all "gone where the woodbine twineth." But the Democratic party, through the fault finding chief of its State . Committee, complains of the grinding monopolies of national banks, pro claims them an 'mitigated evil, and demands that they be abolished by law, without benefit of clergy. Let ns briefly inquire into the wisdom of this pro position. In the first place, are these banks monopolies? I deny that they are, in any proper sense of that term. The laws of their creation are uniform all over the United States; and they pro vide that any five or more persons may organise under them, and start a national bank, on the terms the laws prescribe alike for all. If this be monopoly, I confess I don't know the meaning of the word. But in this age of the world, no civilized or com mercial nation can get along without banks of some kind. Hence the pertinent inquiry, when the national banks are destroyed what shall take their place? The Democratic State conventions of Louisiana and Tennessee are more outspoken on this subject than their Pennsylvania brethren. In their platforms they boldly demand the substi tution of State banks for the national banks; and such, by fair inference, is the demand of the Dem ocratic party in this campaign, They ran both the National and State Governments almost un interruptedly for thirty years prior to 1861, and what did they do? They voluntarily abdicated and relinquished all right in the National Govern ment to furnish the people a paper currency ; and for money they gave us the issues of State banks, and occasionally added to these the issue of cities, boroughs, and even turnpike companies, and other corporations—a currency commonly known as "shin-plasters." These were insecure and of un equal value, even in the States or localities where issued; and this inequality became greater and more aggravated the further we got away from the place of issue. A citisen eitherdoing business or traveling in remote States bad to submit to fre quent and heavy discounts, and when the banks or other corporations which issued this paper Money failed, as they often did, the holders bad no security, and often lost the whole amount of the notes held. In these good old Democratic days we were often afraid to keep our paper "wild cat" money over night, for fear it would be good for nothing in the morning. In aggravation of all this, it was so poorly engraved, and so ex tensively counterfeited, that a man in any large business had to keep a small library of counterfeit detectors, and even then was far from secure.— Such was our paper currency in the times of Dem ocratic ascendancy. I feel very sure no intelligent man ever wants to see it back again. I appeal to every man who hears me if our greenback cur rency—Republican currency, if you please, is not infinitely better. It is of the same value in all the States, however remote, and can be exchanged by the holder at any time or place for gold or silver without loss. It is so difficult to counterfeit we hardly ever think it worth while to suspect or examine it; and better than all, it is so secured that should any of the banks which issue it break, the notes are just as good after the break, as be fore, because secured by a required deposit of bonds with the Government; so that no man can ever lose anything by existing paper money, whether issued by the Government or by the national banks it has created. When, therefore, our Democratic friends demand the destruction of our 4ational banks, and a return to the old worn out and exploded system of State banks, tinder 693,090,000 678,475,000 676;508,000 683,878,000 711;584000 732,355,000 740,799,000 777,538,000 673,833,000 697,672,628 688;170,771 BLNKS, which corporations everybody who chose could is sue paper money, and as much of it as they chose, and without any adequate security for redemption, they demand what nobody will give; they propose ivaat nobody will accept; and it seems to me they hold themselves up, without any just provocation, as proper subjects of popular ridicule and con tempt. It is seriously to be apprehended that more lunatic . asylums are needed. CANDIDATES, Our friend Mr. Speer has a few words to say about candidates ; and so have I. It has been my good fortune to have a personal acquaintance, of some ten years, with the Democratic and Republi can candidates for Governor. They are known as good clever fellows, lawyers of good standing in their respective counties; and may be justly con sidered as fair Tarty representatives. Hence at the breaking out of the rebellion, Henry M. Hoyt, then a private citizen, entered the Union Army as a Lieutenant Colonel in the 52d regiment of Penn sylvania volunteers; thus offering his life for his country, and doing a gallant soldier's part, during the whole war, from which he was honorably dis charged a Brevet Brigadier General. Andrew H. Dill, instead of going to the war, continued his attendance at Democratic Conventions; and served his country by drawing up and passing resolutions denouncing the war, and justifying the rebellion. That I may do the man no injustice I will read a few resolutions reported by him in 1861, in the Democratic Convention of Union county: "2. That we deprecate civil war, as we believe that the Union can nerer be maintained by force of arms, and that as Democrats we are not willing to take up arms to support a platform which a majority of the people repudiate at the polls." "3. That we cordially approve the policy of the Nation al Administration (Buchanan'e) in its wise and conciliato ry course in the present perilous condition of the country." "S. That we will, by all proper and legitimate means, oppose, discountenance and prevent any attempt, on the part of the Republicans in power, to make any armed aggres sions upon the Southern States, especially so long as law. contravening their rights shall remain unrepealed on the statue books of the Northern States, and so long as the just demands of the South shall continue to be unrecog nized by the Republican majorities in these States, and unsecured by proper amendatory explanations by the Con stitution." This record speaks for itself, and requires no explan-stions. I submit it, without comment to the patriotic voters of Fulton county, that they may pass judgment upon it at the ballot box. But, we are told that Mr. Dill has sewed in our State Legislature, House and Senate, for nine or more yea-s. For this let us give him all proper credit; but, as he is now an aspirant for higher honors, it is our right and duty to inquire how the important duties of legislator have been perform ed. What did he do for the public good during all these long nine years? On this tne speech of Mr. Speer and his other friends and organs, are ominously silent. He drew his salary all the time with great punctuality and regularity; he answered to the call of the roll; and Mr. Speer informs,us in no very complimentary way, that he drew postage for 2.3 letters per day. The people demand, and have a right to expect, a better record than this. I had the honor in 1355-6-7 to serve you, and the good old counties of Bedford and Somerset, in the State Senate. Any competent man can render his peo ple and State much service there if he will. My term was only three years, and yet I turn back with pride and pleasure to the record then made. Our public improvements had become a source of heavy annual loss to the State Treasury, and scan, dalous political demoralization. A bill was pre pared for their sale, and I was selected by common consent as champion of the bill, and with diligence and persistency I fought it through, the first ses sion of my term. It tailed to accomplish its pur pose, by reason of some impracticable amendments fastened upon it by its enemies. Not discouraged I tried it again in 1857, when the bill for the sale of the Main Line was passed, the public works sold, and the State relieved from her annual bur dens to maintain them, and from this source of political demoralization. When there I found that the legal department of the Government needed reorganization. The Attorney General was more ornamental than useful, and received a salary of only $3OO per annum. Ile was, of course, not expected to do much for this; and the legal busi ness of the several departments was peddled out tolpolitical favorites all over the State. The result was the legal interests of the State were badly attended to; money collected by irresponsible persons often failed to reach the State Treasury at all; and thousands of dollars were paid for a very inadequate performance of the work. To remedy ail this, I prepared a bill to reorganize the Attorney General's Department, defining his duties, and requiring him to keep his office at the seat of government and attend to them. So important was this to the public service that, after explana tion, the bill passed through both branches of the Legislature unanimously; and it remains the law of the land to this day. I refer to these things, not from any egotism, but to show that our State Senate is a place where a reasonably competent man can render good service. if so much could be accomplished in three years, what may wo not reasonaely expect in nine years ? We listen to Democratic speeches, and road partisan editorials in vain for any light on the question. What important public act did ever Senator Dill pro pose? or with the advocacy or success of what public measure does his name stand identified ? Are our laws so perfect tllat ho has been looking in vain for nine years for souletiling to supply or amend? This strikes we as a very high compli ment to our statute books, or a very lew compli ment to Mr. Dill, which is it? His friends assure us, however, that he is an anti-corporation man ; and he is held forth fur our suffsages as an anti-corpuration candidate upon an anti-corporation platform. Where is the evidence of this? We naturally turn to his long legislative record, and from that I beg leave to exhibit to you a few specimen bricks : In 1870 an act was introduced "To authorize and direct the Attorney General, upon complaint made by parties whose interests are thereby affect ed, to institute proceedings according to law, against corporations alleged to have violated duties impos al upon them by law." On this Mr. Dill voted Nay. (H. J. 1870, page 1042.) At the same session another act was introduced entitled "An act to authorize railroad companies to lease or become lez.sees, apd to wake contracts with other railroad companies, corporations and parties," Ay the provisions of this bill, giant monopolies were given lite; and by mergers and oonsolodati , ma made under it, individual enter prises were driven to the wall. The bill passed. Mr. Dill voting iv the affirmative, iH. J. 18711, page 335 ) In 1870, the following was offered : "Resolved, That the Committee on Railroads be and are hereby instructed to report a bill fixing the maximum rates of freight and fare to be charged by all railroad companies iu the Commonwealths" On motion to indefinitely postpone the consider ation of this resolution, Mr. PO! voted Yea. (Leg. liec.lB7l, page Sal.) In 1871, Mr. Dill introduced into the Setrite bill entitled "Au act to repeal the supplement approved April 7, 1870, to the act entitled 'An act relating to executions," approved June 16, 1336, so far as the same relates to the Muncy Creek rail way company." (S. J. 1871, p. 279 This bill passed, arid it was one of the most unreasonable and outrageous bills, ever enacted by any Legislature. Its practical effect was to close all the courts of the Commonwealth, as to all claims and demands against the Muncy Creek railway company. The creditor or o.aiwaut might sue for the price of his work, labor or materials, and obtain a judgment; but this act prohibited the issue of any execution against the company. Governor Geary vetoed the bill, as a plain viola tion of the Constitution, and an outrage against all the creditors of the corporation thusexempted. (S. J. p. 615, 618.) In 1370 (H. J. p. 1119) Mr. Dill voted for an act entitled "A supplement to the Milfor 1 and Matamoros railroad company." This is what in legislative parlance is called a "snake." Many years ago the New York and Erie railroad com pany in consideration of sundry privileges obli gated itself to pay into our State Treasury $lO,OOO per annum; and this supplement, in artfully worded and obscure phraseology, appropriated these annual payments to the owastruotion of the Milford and Matamoros railroad company—thus virtually appropriating money out of the State Treasury to build this railroad. When the fraud was discovered. the Governor sent a special mes sage to, the Legislator°, pointing out the wrong and demanding its repeal. A bill was prepared fur this purpose, and passed • but Mr. Dill voted against the repeal. (S. J. 1572, p 795, 796.1 I will only give one more instance frAn this anti-corporation record, which may serve as a climax, and demonstration Some twenty years ago, nine millions of dollars in bonds found their way into the Sinking Fund of our State Treasury, being the proceeds of the sales of our rublic works. In 1370, a scheme was concocted by somebody to get these bonds out of the Treasury and sell them, and distribute the proceeds among a number of railroad companies in various parts of the State—the bonds of the unbuilt roads to be substituted. A bill was prepared and introduced into the Legislature to carry Out thisobjeot, entitled, "An act to facilitate and secure the construction of additional railways by extending aid to the Jersey Shore, Pine Creek et Buffalo, and other companies." This bill was known and denounced at the time, and ever since, as "The Nine Million Steal." It passed, and Sen ator Dill voted for it, (11. J. 1 a7O. p 97.), and nothing but the firmness and courage of Governor Geary saved these nine millions of dollars to the State Treasury, and from the grasp of the railroad companies. This record is unquestioned, and is presented to you as Senator Dill made it for him self. 'What think you of it. fellow oitisens, whether Republicans, Democrats, Greenbacks, or whatnot, as the record of an anti-corporation candidate ? It speaks for itself; and no comments of wine can make it any clearer or any stronger. It itthard to characterise properly such jugglery as this. Read the Democratic State platform on this sub ject of corporations, and then read this record of their candidate 1 and determine for yourselves whether those who made them are knaves or fools. Candid, truthful, intelligent and honest men they cannot be. In leaving this point a slight modifi- cation in the name is suggested. Instead of anti corporation let it be Andy corporation, and all can then see the fitness of the title. REBEL WAR CLAINI. On this subject the chairman of the Democratic State Committee has surpassed himself in sophis tries and misrepresentations. Let us consider the facts. The fourteenth amendment to the Consti tution of the United States prohibits all payment for the loss of slaves. This is good enough so far as it goes; but there are thousands of other claims for damages and loss of property, ootton, tobacco, horses, cattle, fences, and other things, not in— cluded in the constitutional prohibition, and for which payment is now demanded, "as a matter of justice and right." That in, except for slaves, those lately in rebellion must be paid for all the losses they incurred during the war in their dupe rate efforts to overthrow and destroy the govern ment. Recently I had an interview with an old friend, connected with that branch of the quarter master's department in which these claims are Sled for horses, and he assured me that claims were al ready registered and on file for over ninety thous and horses alleged to have been lost in the two States of Kentucky and Tennessee alone. These demands are growing every year. In the lost Congress, down to the 12th day of last April, the immense number of bills introduced was forty-two hundred and eighty-two, of which twelve hundred and twenty-five, or more than one-fourth, were re ferred to the Committee on War Claims, aggre gating over three hundred millions of dollars ($300,000,000). But few of these were passed, be cause of an adverse majority in the Senate, which made it imprudent for their friends to press them. When the passage of one for $375,000 was being urged, an examination of what was called the Rebel Archives disclosed the fact that the claim was for services rendered the late confederate postoffice department by mail contractors ; and that large payments upon it had actually been al ready made by the Confederate Government ! After this revelation the Democratic majority was found to be not quite large enough to compel its passage ; and its consideration was prudently postponed for a more convenient season. A e know the Northern Democrats disclaim the intention to pay these claims, but the Southern Democrats insist spot: payment; and we know, from sad experiences, that the Northern Democracy are owned and driven by their Southern leaders, and are bound to do their bidding, whether for the inauguration of a rebellion, the striking down of a protective tariff, or the payment of these claims. In the last ses sion of Congress Mr. Conger, of Michigan, moved to suspend the rules to enable him to propose an amendment to the Constitution of the United States prohibiting the payment-of all such de mands. On this motion the vote was 145 yeas to 61 nays-84 not voting. But of this 145 only four were Southern men, and of the 61 votes in the negative 55 were from the South Such is the latest record of the yeas and nays. This is the "Solid South," and it means business. These de mands on the public Treasury are the moutnental outrage of the century; and our only salvation from this threatened bankruptcy and ruin is in the election of a national House of Representa tives not subject to Democratic control. littOßM, I have thus endeavored to answer the main points in Mr. Speer's speech; and with what suc cess judge ye. So much is said, however, about "economy, retrenchment and reform," that in eon elusion I will group together sundry matters under this general head. And here I will notice the baseless and unjust accusation against the Repub lican Legislature for neglecting to pass the neces sary laws under the now Constitution. It went into effect in January, 1974; and from that year to the present, inclusive, there have been Hve annual sessions. The Republicans had the ma jority in 1874, 1877 and 1878, snd the Democrats in 1875 and 1876. An examination of the laws laws passed during these years will show ten passed under the requirements of the new Constitution during the three years of Republican rule for every one passed during the two years of Densoerstie rule. In fact, I know of but one more law of this kind needed; and those complaining have failed to point out any ; but if others are needed, what was Senator Dill about all these five years, that this alleged important public matter has been so ne glected ? Was be too busy looking atter the in terests of corparations ? Mr. Speer, in his speech, gravely informs us that it has been "estimated that one/owed. of the revenues of the United States are annually lost in the collection." But why take an outside estimate on such an important matter, when the official re ports and carefully prepared tablesofthe Treasury Department show the exact annual losses on the revenue for the last forty-eight years? These re ports and tables demonstrate that the average an nual loss on each thousand dollars from 1834 to 1861 (the period of Democratic asoendeney), was two dollars and nine cents $2.09); whilst from 1861 to 1875 (the period of Republican ascendency), the average annual loss of each thousand dollars of revenue, was only thirty : four cents! I have not been able to lay my hands on any official re port later than 1875; bat we have no fears for tho present administration. If there ever was an honest and patriotic man in the Presidential chair, that man is President Hays. It strikes me this monstrous discrepanoy between the ofecia,liy re corded facts and Mr. Speer's estimates evinces not only a want of candor on his part, bat a willful purpose to deceive. Everybody kauws our democratic friends are great on '‘economy, retrenchment and reform," when they are out of power and office; and espe cially on the eve of elections. Unfortunately, when they get elected they seem to forget and repudiate all their fair promises. To say the least, it is un wise in th an to challenge any investigation or comparison on this subject. Take the city of New York for example and il lustration. The Democratic party has unlimited control o• the Government in all its branches, and has bad fit many years. As a result the debt of that city, by a recent ofa.:ial report, was $159.- 623,391.77, which, after deducting their sinking fund of $48,509,4: 4 5 03, leaves the actual debt $131,113,9011.74 ; which approximates one hun dred and fifty dollars a bead for every man, wo man and child in the city. For years past, until very recently, this enormous debt has been increas ing at the rote tif at•out eleven millions of &Alias annually. Here is where Tweed and his confed erates tiourisoed, and stole $30,000,000 Odell/ire ; and when discovered and exposed, his party ruse up in his defenoe, and not only nominated, but actually elected him to the State &eats by twelve thousaud majority • and not satisfied with this emphatic endorsement, they actually got up a sub scription paper to build him a monument. There was at least some propriety in this last move, for be was certainly the most monumental thief and scoundrel this country has ever produced. I ens not aware that the design or material for this mon ument were ever determined upon, but ii, is mani fest that the material should have been brass, Here is a genuine specimen of unadulterateil Democratic "economy, retrenchment and reform." It shows what the party can do when it has a fait chance. For another instance, take the State of M issottrf. There the Republicans were in power several year. after the war, and had the finances and credit of the state in goad shape. A few years sines the Demoarats Ekovired control, and already there is a defalcation of some $300,000 in the State Treas ury; and because of it, payment of the State in terest is suspended, and the good people of Missouri are realizing the piratical operations of Democratic "economy, retrenchment and reform." But we ueed not go to other States for examples. Pennsylvania has had some sad experiences in these matters, which she is not likely to forget. Prior to 1860 the Democratic party wielded almost uninterrupted power, in both the State and na tional Governments, for nearly thirty years. As a result they piled the State debt to over fo r ty millions of dollars. When the Republican party came into power over twenty millions of this debt had matured and been dishonored. We have been in power nearly ever since, we have made provis • ion for all overdue bonds, have paid of about twenty of the debt, have seine twelve millions more in the Sinking Fund; and for the residue have caused the interest so be reduced from six to five percent. ; and IRON than ten year* ago took off all State taxes front real estate Du ring all this time these blatsot reformers have been charging us with embezz einent and dishon esty in our management of the State Treasury and threatening Irightful revelations of fraud and corruption when they got into power. Last May the Treasury department passed into their hands; and alter carefully looking into everything fur several mouths, the Democratic State Treasurer published a report that he found everything in good shape, and no embezzlement or defalcation there. About that time, however, it came to light that away back under a Demo cratic administration, there had occurred what appeared to be an overissue of $lOO,OOO of bonds, and which were unaccounted for. They seem to have been deposited Ina bank, not a lawful deposi tory of State hunts; and it looks very much as if the State Treasury would suffer by this trauma don. Time will show; but at present the fraud awl defalcation boot is on the other leg ; and the friends of those under whom the mystery warred are entitled to the floor for explanations. How the national finances were managed during this same period is a simple matter of history. At the close of Buchanan's administration the credit of the National Government was so low and de moralised that all the ordinary means and ap pliances were found inadequate to borrow or pro cure money on the national credit. Special agents were appointed and sent abroad to other nations to beg or borrow money to carry on the Glovers meat; and so prostrated was the national credit that it actually was compelled to pay twelve per cent. for money to meet-ordinary impasses; and this, too, in the time of pesos. Here was Demo cratic finauciering practically illustrated, with a vengeance. The Republican party came into power in 1861, with the national credit thee rem down and destroyed ky Democratic incompetency, and with a number of the Democratic State, (Concluded on fourth page.), NO. 40.
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