VOL. 43. The Huntingdon Journal. Office in new JOURNAL Pudding, Fifth Street THE HUNTINGDON JOURNAL is published every F r id a y by J. A. NASH, at $2,00 per annum IN ADVANCE, or $2.50 it not paid for iu six months from date of sub scription, and 63 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 fur in advance. Tr..insient advertisemvnts 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. Regular quarterly and yearly blisitt,ss advertisements will be inserted at the following rates: 3m 1 6m 19m I ISr Iln $3 501 4501 5 501 8 OTicoll 9 00 2 " 5 00; 800 10 00112 00 %col 18 00 3 " 7 00;10 00114 oyB 00 3ic01,34 00 4 " 8 00,14 00120 00 18 00 1 c 01136 00 • All Resolutions of Associations, Communications: of limited or individual interest, all party announcements, anti notices of Marriages and Deaths, exceeding five lines, will be charged TEN CENTS per line. Legal and other notices will be charged to the party having them inserted. Advertising Agents must find their commission outside of these tiger.. .411 advertising accounts are due and collectable when the advertisement is once inserted. JOB PRINTING of every kind. Plain and Fancy Colors, done with neatness and dispatch. Hand-bills, Blanks, Cards, Pamphlets, &c., of every variety and style, printed at the shortest notice, and everything in the Printing line will he executed in the most artistic manner and at the lowest rates. Professional Cards WIL P. & R. A. ORBISON, Attorneys-at-Law, No. 321 Penn Stree ~ Huntingdon, Pa. All kinds of legal business promptly attended to. Sept.l2,'7B. Dit. G. B . HOTCTIKIN, 825 Washington Street, ITun tingdon. junel4-1878 IA CALDWELL, Attorney-at-Law, No. 111, 3rd street. •Office formerly occupied by lifessrs. Woods & Wil liamson. [apl2,'7l DR. A.B. BRUMBAUGH, offers his professional services to the community. Office, No. 523 Washington street, one door east of the Catholic Parsonage. ijan4;7l 1111..IIYSKILL has permanently located in Alexandria to practice his profession. [jan.4 '7B-Iy. E • C. STOCKTON, Surgeon Denthet. Office in Leieter'e building, in the room formerly occupied by Dr. K. J Greene, Huntingdon, Pa. Lapl2B, ie. GBO. B. ORLADY, Attorney-at-Law, 405 Penn Street, Huntingdon, Pa. [n0v17,'76 GGL. ROBB, Dentist, office in S. T. Brown's new building, . No. 5211, Penn Street, liwitingduu, Pa. Lapl2:7l I I C. !4 ADDEN, Attorney-at-Law. Office, No. —, Penn . Street, I.l.untingdon, Pa. kpi9;7l T SYLTANIIS BLAIR, Attorney-at-Law, Huntingdon, eJ . Pa. Office, Penu Street, three doors west of 3rd Street. Dau4;7l TW. MATTERN, Attorney-at-Law and General Claim . Agent, Huntingdon, Pa. Soldiers' claims against the Government for back-pay, bounty, widows' and invalid pensions attended to with great care and promptness. Of fice on Pella Street. (jan4,'7l LS. GEISSINGER, Attorney-at-Law and Notary Public, . Huntingdon, Pa. Office, No. 230 Penn Street, oppo site Court House. Liebs,'7l Q E. FLEMING, Attorney-at-Law, Huntingdon, Pa., 0. office in Monitor building, Penn Street. Prompt and eareful attention given to all legal business. faugs;74-limos New Advertisements. HTINTI SaiIARE DEALING CLOTHING IIOM Is now prepared to SUIT Its Patrons lii GAITS ©f the VERY LATEST STYLE And the BEST MAKE UP. at prices to suit the times. My stock of IZEADY - MADE CLOTH-IVO FOR MEN, YOUTHS, BOYS AND CHILDREN IS FULL. Men's Suits for $4.00 up; Boys' Suits for $4.00 up ; And Children's Suits for $2.00 up. 3010( 1 52' lOC* 3E3C. 43E‘ 38E AIL rJet For MEN, YOUTHS, BOYS, and CIIILDREN is large, and prices low. The best line of SHIRTS, ranging in price from 35 cents up. A large assortment of HALF-HOSE-5 pair for 25 cents, and up to 50 cents per pair. LINEN COLLARS, 2 for 25 cents. SusDefiers, Shoulder Braces, ail Halidierchiefs, Also, Trellis allq Satchels, All bought at BOTTOM PRICES FOR CASH, AN - I) WILL 13_1- SOLI) CI - IT:AI" r•cryt CAt 11. The only place in town where you can get the GENITIN A SPLENDID LINE OF SAMPLES FOR SUITINGS To be made to order, Measures taken and good Fits guaranteed, Don't Fail to Call and Examine my Goods and Prices before Purchasing, DON'T FORGET THE PLACE : NEARLY OPPOSITE THE POSTOFFICE. T. W. MONTGOM April 11,1879. BROWN'S CARP ET STORE, 525 PENN STREET, JUST THE PLACE FOR HOUSEKEEPERS! 879, FRESH STOCK ! NEW STYLES ! ! 1879, C.A.RI='MTII I ALL GRADES AND AT PRICES THAT CAN NOT BE UNDERSOLD FUR,NI'TITH P:, Chairs, Beds, Tables, Chamber Suits, Lounges, ROCKERS, MOULDINGS, BRACKETS, &e., ever exhibited in Huntingdon county WALL PAPER ! WALL PAPER ! In this department I have made important changes ; procured the latest improved trimmer, and my new styles and prices fur 1879, can not fail to suit purchasers. Call and see. WINDOW SHADES and FIXTURES in great variety. Plain, satin and figured paper, plain or gilt band shading, spring and common fixtures. FLOOR OIL CLOTHS From 15 inches to 2i yards wide. Halls covered with one solid piece without joints. [Bring diagram and measurement.] For PICTURE FRAMES AND LOOKING CLASSES, This is headquarters. Mattresses, Window Cornice, and anything in the Cabinet or Upholstering line repaired promptly. UNDERTAKING Also added to the Furniture & Carpet Business. Plain Coffins, Elegant Caskets and. Burial Cases, WOOD OR LIGHT METALIC TO SUIT ALL. BURIAL ROBES IN VARIETY. A- =NM PLATE GLASS 1---I=_A.II,SM Ready to attend funerals in town or country. My new clerk and traveling agent, FERDINAND Roca, will call briefly in the principal towns, villages and valleys of this and adjoining counties, with samples of Wall Paper, Carpets, Carpet Chain, and illustrations of Chairs and many kinds of Furniture, to measure rooms, &c., and receive orders for any goods in my line. If he b houlil not reach you in time, do not wait, but come direct to the store. JAMES A. 525 PENN ST., lIUNTINGDON, PA. March 21, 1879. S. WOLF'S. At Gwin's Old Stand, 505 PENN STREET. 1 3m 6m 19m11yr 18 00 1 527 1 $ 36 38 00 501 65 50 DO 65i 80 60 00 801 100 Not much on the blow, but always ready for work The largest and finest line of Clothing, Hat And Caps. GENTS.' FURNISHING GOODS, In town and at great sacrifice. Winter Goods 20 PER CENT. UNDER COST. Call and be convinced at S. WOLF'S, 505 Penn at. RENT AND EXPENSES REDUCED, At S. WOLF'S. I am better able to sell Clothing, Hats and Caps, Gents.' Furnishing Goods, Trunks and Valises, CHEAPER than any other store in town. Call at G win's old stand. S. MARCH, Agt. MONEY SAVED IS MONEY EARNED The Cheapest Place in Iluntingdon to buy Cloth ing, Hats, Caps, and Gents.' Furnishing Goods is at S. OLF'S, 505 Penn street, one door west from Express Office. S. MAhCII, Agent. TO TIIE PUBLIC.--I have removed my Cloth ing and Gents.' Furnishing Goods store to D. P. twin's old stand. . - -,f - A_Expenses reduced and better bargains than ever can be gut at S. Wolf's 505 Penn Street. March 28, 1879. BEAUTIFY YOUR I I 0 IVF _E] S! The undersigned is prepared to do all kinds of 110 USE AND SIGN PAINTING, Calcimining, Glazing, Paper Hanging, and any and ail work belonging to the business. Having had several years' experience, be guaran tees satisfaction to those who may employ him. PRICES MODERATE. Orders may be left at the JOURNAL Book Store. JOHN L. ROHLAND. March 14th, 1879-tf. New Advertisements. G-I) 0 S The Largest Stock and variety of BROWN, e _ Tuntingdon :::-- ournal. New Advertisements HERE WE ARE ! -AND csticet VETO No. 3. THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE! Vetoing the Legislative, Exec utive and Judicial Appro priation Bills. The following message of the President was delivered to the House to day : 7o the House of Representatives. SIRS : After mature consideration of the bill entitled "An Act Making Appropria tions for the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Expenses of the Government for the Fiscal Year ending June 30, 1850, and for other Purposes," I herewith re turn it to the House of Representatives, in which it originated, with the following objections to its approval : The main purpose of the bill is to ap propriate money required to support, du ring the next fiscal year, the several civil departments of the Government. The amount appropriated exceeds in the aggre gate eighteen millions of dollars. This money is needed to keep in operation the essential functions of all the great depart ments of the Government—Legislative, Executive, and Judicial. If the bill con tained no other provision no objection to to its approval would be made. It em braces, however, a number of clauses rela ting to subjects of great general interest, which are wholly unconnected with the appropriation which it provides for. Ob jection to the practice of tacking general legislation to appropriation bills, especially when the object is to deprive a.co ordinate branch of the Government of its right to the free exercise of its own discretion and judgment touching such general legisla tion, were set forth in the special message in relation to the House bill No. 1, which was returned to the House of Representa tives on the 29th of last month. I regret that the objections which were then expressed to this method of legisla tion have not sensed to Congress of suffi cient weight to dissuade it from this re newed incorporation of general enactments in any appropriation bill, and that my Constitutional duty in respect to general legislation thus placed before me eannot be discharged without seeming to delay, however briefly, the necessary appropria tion by Congress for the support of the Government. Without repeating those objections, I respectfully refer to that message for a statement of my views on the principle maintained in the debate by the advocates of this bill, viz., that "to withhold an ap• propriation is a constitutional means for for the redress of what the majority of the House of Hepresentatives may regard as a grievance." The bill contains the following clauses, viz And, provided further, That the fol lowing sections of the Revised Statutes of the United States, namely, Sections 2,016, 2,018, 2,020 and all of the succeeding sec tions of said statutes down to and inclu ding Section 2,027, and also Section 5,522, be and the same are hereby repealed, and that all the other sections of the Revised Statutes and all laws and parts of laws authorizing the appointment of Chief Supervisors of elections, Special Deputy Marshals of elections, or Gener al Deputy Marshals having any du ties to perform in respect to any elec tions, prescribing their duties and powers and allowing them compensation, be and the same are hereby repealed. It also contains clauses amendatory of Sections 2,017, 2,019, and 2,031 of the Re vised Statutes. These sections of the Re vised Statutes, which the bill, if approved, would repeal or amend, are part of an act approved May 30, 1870, and amended January 28, 1871, entitled "Au Act to Enforce the Rights of Citizens of the United States to Vote in the several States of this Union, and for other Purposes." All of the provisions of the above-named acts which it is proposed in this bill to re peal or modify relate to Congressional elec• tmtis. The remainina e' portion of the law, which will continue in force after the enactment of this measure, is that which provides for the appointment by a Judge of the Circuit Court of the United States of two Super visors of Elections in each election district, at any Congressional election, on due ap. plication of the citizens who desire, in the language of the law, "to have such elec tions guarded and scrutinized." The duties of the Supervisors will be to attend at the polls at all Congressional elections, and to remain after the polls are open until every vote cast has been counted, but they will have no authority to make arrests or to perform other duties than to be in imme diate presence of the officers holding the election, and to witness all their proceed ings, including the counting of votes and making a return thereof. The part of the election law which will he repealed by the approval of this bill in eludes those sections which give authority to Supervisors of Elections "to personally scrutinize the count and canvass each bal• lot," and all the sections which confer au thority upon the United States Marshals and Deputy Marshals in connection with Congressional elections. The enactment of this bill will also re peal Section 5.522 of the Criminal Statutes of the United States, which was enacted for the protection of U. S. officers engag ed in the discharge of their duties at Con gressional elections. This section protects Supervisors and Marshals in the performance of their du ties, by making the obstruction or assault ing of these officers, or any interference with them, by bribery or solicitation or otherwise, crimes against the United States The true meaning and effect of the pro posed legislation are plain. The Supervi sors, with authority to observe and witness the proceedings at Congiessional elections, will be left; but there will be no power to protect them or to prevent interference with their duties, or to punish any vio lation of the law from which their powers are derived. If this bill is approved only the shadow of authority of the United States at National elections will remain, the substance will be gone. Supervisors of elections will be reduced to mere in spectors, without authority on the part of the Supervisors to do any act whatever to make the election fair, and all that will be left to Supervisors is permission to have such oversight of elections as political par ties are in the habit of exercising without any authority of law, in order to prevent their opponents from obtaining unfair ad vantages. HUNTINGDON, PA , FRIDAY JUNE 6, 1879. The object of the bill is to destroy any control whatever by the United States over Congressional elections. The passage of this bill has been urged upon the ground that the election of mem bers of Congress is a matter which con cerns States alone; that these elections should be controlled exclusively by the States; that there are and can be no such elections as national elections, and that the existing law of the United States regula ting the Congressional elections is without warrant in the Constitution. It is evident, however, that the framers of the Constitu tion regarded the election of Members of Congress in every State and in every dis trict as in every important sense justly a matter of political interest and concern to the whole country. The original provision of the ConAitu tion on this subject is as follows: "The times, places, and manner of holding elec tions for Senators and Representatives shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof', but Congress may at any time, by law, make or alter such regulations except to places of choosing Senators " A further provision has been since add ed, which is embraced in the Fifteenth Amendment. It is as follows: Section 1. "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be impeded nor abridged by the United States, nor by any State on account of race, color, or previous condi tion of servitude." Section 2. "The Con gress shall have power to enforce this ar tick by appropriate legislation." Under the general provision of the Con stitution. Section 4, Article 1, Congress, in 1866, passed a comprehensive law, which prescribed full and detailed regula tions for the election of Senators by the Legislatures of the several States. This law has been in force almost thirteen years; in pursuance of it all of the members of the present Senate of the United States hold their seats. Its constitutionality is not called in question. It is confidentially believed that sound argument can be made in support of the constitutionality of the National regula tion of the Senatorial elections, which will show that the election of members of the House of Representatives may also be constitutionally regulated by National au thority. The bill before me recognizes the principle that the Congressional elections are not National elections. It leaves in full force the existing statute under which Supervisors are still to be appointed by National authority "to observe and wit. ness" Congressional elections wherever due application is made by citizens who de sire said elections to be guarded and scru tinized. If the power to supervise in any respect whatever the Congressional elections exist under Section 4, Article 1, of the Consti. tution it is a power which, like every oth er power belonging to the Government of the United States, is paramount and su preme, and includes the right to employ the necessary means to carry it into effect. The statutes of the United States which regulate the election of members of the House of Representatives are esiential, and part of which it is proposed to repeal by this bill have been enforced about eight years. Four Congressignal elections have been held under them, two of which were at the Presidential elections of 1872 and and 1876. Numerous prosecutions, trials, and con victions have been held in the courts of the United States, in all parts of the Union for the violation of these laws. In no re ported case has their constitutionality been ealled in question by any Judge of the Courts of the United States. The validity of these laws is sustained by a uniform course of judicial action, and the opinion, if it is urged that the United States Elec tion Laws are not necessary, an ample re ply is furnished by the history of their or igin and bf their result. They were especially prompted by the investigation and exposure of frauds corn 'flitted in the City and State of New York at the election of 1878. Committees rep resenting both of the leading political par ties of the country have submitted reports to the House of Representatives in extenso of these frauds. A committee of the XLth Congress, after a full investigation, reach ed the conclusion that the number of fraudulent votes cast in the City of New York alone in 1868 was not less than 25,- 000. The Committee of the XLlArth Con gress, in their report submitted in 1877, adopted the opinion that for every one hundred actual voters of the City of New York, in 1868, one hundred and eight votes were cast, When, in fact, the number of lawful votes cast could not have exceed. ed 88 per cent. of the actual voters of the city. 13y this statement the number of fraud ulent votes at the election in the City of New York alone was between 30,000 and 40,000. These frauds completely reversed the result of the election in the State of New York, both as to the choice of Gov ernor and State officers, and as to the choice of electors of President and Vice President of the United States They at tracted the attention of the whole country. It was plain that if they could be contin ued with impunity, free Government was impossible. A distinguished Senator, in opposing the passage of the election laws, declared he had for a long time believed our form of government was a compara tive failure in the large cities. To meet these evils and prevent these crimes the United States laws regulating Congressional elections were enacted. The framers of these laws have not been disap pointed in their results in the large cities. Under their provisions the elections haye been comparatively peaceable, orderly and honest. Even the opponents of these laws have borne testimony to their value and efficiency and to the necessity for their en actment. A committee of the XLI Vth Congress, composed of members, a majority of whom were opposed to these laws, in their re port on the New York election of 1876, said : "The Committee commend to other portions of the country and to other cities this remarkable system developed through the agency of both local and federal au thorities acting in harmony for an honest purpose." In no portion of the world and• in no era of time wher.+ there has been an expression of the popular will through forms of law, has there been a more corn plete and thorough illustration of Repub lican institutions. Whatever may have been previously the habit in the conduct of the elections in those cities, or however they may conduct themselves in the future this election of 1876 will stand as a mon ument of what good faith, honest endeav or, legal forms, and just authority may do for the protection of the electoral fran chise. This bill recognizes the authority and duty of the United States to appoint Su pervisors to guard and scrutinize Congres sional elections, but it denies to the Gov ernment of the United States all power to make its supervision effectual. The great body of the people of all parties want free aed fair elections, which does not mean freedom from wholesome restraints of the law; or that the place of elections should 4 a sanctuary from lawlessness and crime. dre the day of an election, peace and good ttrder are more necessary than on any other 4ty of the year. On that day the humblest d feeblest citizens, aged and infirm, altottld be and should have reason to fee! that they are safe in the exercise of their *lost responsible duty, and their most Fred right as members of society—their y_ and their right to vote - The constitutional authority to regulate Congressional elections, which belongs to the Government of the United States, and thich it is necessary to exert to secure the rfght to vote to every citizen possessing the requisite qualifications, ought to be en• *reed by appropriate legislation. So far from public opinion in any part oPhe country favoring any change in the r tion of the authority of the Govern talent-in the protection of elections from viele.nce and corruption, I believe it de minds greater vigor; both' in the enact dint and in the exaction of the laws Rimed for that puipose. , . . _ Any oppression, any paptissn partiality, 41kb:experience may be .shown in the wpt king of the existing laws may well en gikebeareful attention, both of Congress arid o the Executive in their respective sefes of duty for the correction of these rti3chiefs. • yes no Congressional election occurs un ta after the regular session ofvCimgress 411 have been held, there seems to be no ptibtic exigency that would preclude a sesotkable consideration in that session. of atay administration details that might im . e l the present methods designed for the p /ention- - ef all citizens in the complete a eilual exercise of the right and power ofiauffrago at Mich elections. But with DO-views, libt ‘ h: 6f the constitutionality and of the' value . f)f the existing laws, I cannot approve any measure fbr their repeal, ex capting in connection with the enactment of other legislation which may treasonably b. expected to afford wiser or more efficient scegUards for_free and -rimiest Congres .., a nabelections ' . • , ikned,) Atty£IIERPOIID B lIAYES, . xrutily .Mansion, May 29, 1879. ... .. ..,, ' i , bottori-from Nebraska. . - —T— it LINCOLN "NEB. May 19, 1879. I MR. ED'ITOR P-Rr--- ei. A. A. Kerlin, Amos Smoker, jr., and, Heft your town on are morning 6f t' 14th inst., on the 7.30 train, for I.4ineoln Neb.- We had .a very p mot side to -14tibtrrgh, having a fine v wpf the boptiful mountain scenery c stag the'Agegheny . . :We arrived at t sburgis about one cylelhck, and left in t ‘ a 3, sty ne minutes i u c u t h e i se Chicago' . the ß. - 1, i , t t s f b c a r rgh Chicago,, }'' o r t passing through the balance of Pennsyl vania' and a good portion of Ohio (to Wooster) by daylight. Salem, Alliance, Massillon and Wooster are large menu ' factuling towns. As fiiltreslerti Ohio and eastern Indiana I caronotiray anything about them, having passed through them after night. Western lodianaiand s Eastern Illi nois have tome very poor tanO, particularly western Indiana. There are a great many ponds and a great amotrnt orkiwampy land. I saw hundreds and thqusanch7 oT acres there that are not worth as much fur farm ing purposes as the laud on. the, Lick Ridges. But as we neared Chicago we saw some very nice land and. fire scenery. To our right was lake Michigan. It was quite stormy on the lake, and the white caps, as they call them, were flying very thick, but it was very foggy and we could not get a very good view of the lake as we went in. Got into Chicago at 8 o'clock, and left at 9 45, on-the Chicago, Burling ton & Quincy R. R. As we were leaving Chicago we had a splbodid view . of the lake, but the waves were not running so thick. After. leaving Chicago we passed through some splendid country, well im proved, and so level that you could see as far as the eye could reach, and this was not only for a little piece, but for miles. Imagine yourself standing on the platform of a splendid car of the C. B. & Q. B. 8., as I did, and flying along at the rate of forty miles an hour, viewing the country for miles on either side, and you can have a faint idea of the pleasures of our trip. The only objection I saw to this part of Illinois the land is too level. As we neared the Mississippi it was more rolling. We crossed the Mississippi river at Bur lington, on the iron bridge. Burlington is a large town on the banks of the Missis sippi river. After leaving the river some distance we passed through some very fine country in lowa. This is a little rolling, but we did not go very far until night came on, and we saw no more of lowa un til morning, when we passed through some more very- fine country until we neared the Missouri river, when it is very much broken. When we came to the Missouri river our cars were run on to a steamboat, and taken across to Plattsmouth. Then we ran up the river about three miles, having a very good view of the river. Then up the Platte river about twenty miles. After leaving this river we came to some of the beautiful and productive lands of Nebraska. We arrived at Lincoln at about half past one o'clock on Ffiday, the 16th, having been on the cars all the time, except about an hour in Chicago. This is undoubtedly a very good country, or a great portion of it. The upland is not so good, but along the creeks the land is very good. The people here live in dugouts, some in sod houses, some in very small wooden houses, and others in - good two story houses, with nice surroundings. I can see no reason why they should not all have better houses; the country would certainly afford it. Wheat is now worth from 60 to 70c per bushel ; corn, 20 cents ; potatoes 75 cents to $l.OO ; butter 12 to 15 cents per pound ; eggs 8 to 10 cents per dozen. As my article is much longer than I intended, and perhaps not very in teresting, I will close. Yours, J. B. W. CONSCIENCE is your magnetic needle. Reason is your chart. But I would rather have a crew willing to follow the indications of the needle, and giving them selves no great trouble as to the chart, than a crew that had a good chart and no needle at all. DICKENS said : I have known vast quantities of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare you out of countenance any day in the week if there is anything to be gained by it. THE beautiful at heart is a million times of more avail, as securing domestic happi ness, than the beautiful in person. Our Washington Letter. I WASEIINGTON, D. C., May 23, 1879. The Democratic party is getting deeper and deeper into the mire as it struggles to get loose. The situation is similar to that of last week, and is not improving for thee by delay. The Democratic leaders are now aware that caucus cannot hold them together in future as it has in the past for the purpose of "starving out" the Government. Delays are resorted to there fore in promulgating a policy in the hope that malcontents may be "roped in" and the conspiracy have the unanimous sup port of the Confederate party. Threats and arguments are used in turn upon the refractory members apparently in vain. The fact remains that enough Democrats and Greenbackers will join the Republi cans in voting the appropriations to defeat the conspirators. In fact, very few of the Northern Democrats who should continue to coerce the President by the starvation threat could hope for re election, and that will enforce a measure of decency upon the Congressional majority. So the pros pect is that the majority must finally back down, and they are postponing the evil day to their own disadvantage, since the longer the delay the greater will be the disappointment and the more emphatic will be the Republican triumph. The Legislative appropriation bill will probably go to the President for his veto to-day. The Republicans were not allowed to amend it in the slighest point. Senator' Blaine closed the argument on the Repub lican side with one of the best speeches of his life. It was a very crushing exposure, not only of the Confederate conspiracy as a whole, but of the disloyal character of the leading men engaged in it, and many of the Confederate Senators were stung to the quick by his hurtful thrusts. No amount of eloquence, however, could effect any thing against the Democratic programme, the break down not being prepared by the bolting Democrats until after another veto finally settles the question of the Presi• dent's determination to stand by his party in matters involving vital principles and probably the life of the Republic. The veto will not be long delayed, and then will come a Democratic address to the country, instead of any further legislation of the political sort as a means of letting the defeated majority down easily. The Republicans are satisfied to go to the peo ple on the recJrd made at this session, and universally believe that they will make great gains in consequence of it. The Warner silver bill has met with several drawbacks in the House, where it was supposed to have a large majority. The inflation feature of it was spoiled by an amendment providing that the Govern meert shall be paid for coining silver brought to the mint by private parties. This is unsatisfactory to the national Greenbackers and they will make great effort to restore their pet characteristic of free coinage, but it is believed that they will fail at this session at any rate. There is a very strong opposition in both the old parties to dis turhiftig finalaeial qmestion at dais, ses sion Secretary Sherman peremptorily declines to be a candidate for Governor of Ohio, and says he must decline if nominated. The feeling in favor of Judge Taft's nomi nation is strong and growing stronger among Ohio men here. I do not credit the report that Secretary McCrary is to leave the Cabinet. We have bad so long a rest from .rumors that somebody must be the subject of one, and why not Secretary McCrary ? The gossips place the date of his retirement at a safe distance to prevent detection immediately. He will not resign before September they say ; probably not, and also probably not at all. The Senate is discussing the bill relative to the National Board of Health's author ity in the matter of means to prevent the introduction and spread of contagious dis eases. Secretary Sherman has not yet given Prof. Gamgee the contract he was authorized to give for constructing a dis infecting ship. Some action must be taken soon if any work is expected to be done this year. That very important matter, the count ing of the electoral vote, attracts new in terest from the fact that the House select committee on the subject has a bill which seems, upon hasty examination, to be free from ambiguity, and to be fair. The sec tions of most interest at this time are the sth, 6th ; 7th and 11th, and I give them in full. sth. Controversies as to the electoral votes in any State may be passed upon by its highest judicial tribunal, who shall send its decision under seal to the President of of the Senate. 6th. Both Houses of Congress shall meet on the second Monday in February next after the meeting of electors ; the President of the Senate shall preside ; two tellers shall be appointed by the Senate and two by the House. ith. The President of the Senate shall open all the certificates, and the votes shall be counted by the two Houses in the al phabetical order of the States as certified, unless rejected by both Houses; if there be a controversy in any State, and a certi tied decision of it by its highest judicial tribunal, the electoral votes of that State shall be counted in accordance therewith, unless the decision is reversed by both Houses; if there be a controversy and no such judicial decision the contested votes shall not be counted unless both Houses concur therein ; if there be, conflicting ju dicial decisions or conflicting certificates, the decision or certificate held by both Houses to be given by the proper authority shall be conclusive unless rejected by both Houses 11th. The joint meeting shall not be dissolved until the count shall be com pleted. No recess can be taken except upon a question arising under this act, in which case either House, acting separately, may direct a recess of such house not be yond the next day, but if the count be not completed before the fifth day after the first meeting no further or other recesses shall be taken by either House. LEO. A BOY'S reverence for the name of moth er is apt to be in the inverse ratio of the number of domestic commodities with which an indulgent father from time to time has provided him. "I'd hate to be in your shoes," said a Terre Haute woman, as she was quarrel ling with a neighbor, "You couldn't get in them," sarcastically remarked the neighbor. IF anything will impress the human mind with awe, it is the expression of the man's face who has just been aroused from snoring in church. "Do not sing that song again," is the sarcastic title of a new song. Pat Nistm. THE OLD FOOT-PRINTS OW THE RECEDING RED AND THE EARLY LAND-MARKS OY THE CONING WHITE lAN WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO The Juniata Region. BY PROF. A. L. OUSS, OF HUNTINGDON, PA 'Tie good to muse on Nations passed away Forever from, the land we call our own. YAMOYDEIC ARTICLE IX THEY WERE TRIBUTARY WHEN THE DUTCH CAME A few facts in regard to the subjection of the Lenni Lenape tribes to the Iroquois will be in place here. Smith the historian of New York sa3s, in 1756, "Our Indians universally concur in the claim of all the lands not sold to the English, from the mouth of the Sorel river, on the south side of lake Erie and Ontario, on both sides of the Ohio, till it falls into the MissisElippi ; and on the north side of those lakes, that whole territory between the Outawais river and the lake Huron, and even beyond the straits between that and lake Erie. When the Dutch began the settlement of New York, all the Indians on Long Island, and the northern shore of the sound, on the banks of the Connecticut, Hudson, Dela. ware and Susquehanna rivers, were in sub jection to the Five Nations; and within the memory of persons now living ac knowledged it by the payment of an annual tribute." This authority dates the subju gation of the Delawares prior to 1614. A SPECIMEN OF PAYING TRIBUTE In July 1709 we find Owechela, Passa kassy, Sasseonan and Skalitchy, chiefs of the Delaware Indians, settled at Peshtang [Harrisburg.] and adjacent places, with other Indians ready to send 21 belts of wampum to the Five Nations "to be pre sented to them as their tribute ;" but they did not go, as they heard the Iroquois "had appointed all the Indians of these parts as also of Maryland, who are all tributaries to the said Five Nations to meet their chiefs, who were coming down for the purpose, at Conestoga," but these did not come, as they were aiding the English in a war against the French in Canada We next hear of this tribute in 1712, when "the Governor and Council rode out te Ed. Farmer's house to meet the Delaware Indians according to appointment ; before they set out on their journey to the Five Nations." There were "Sassoonan, (after wards long known as Allemappees,) 80°1 !itchy, Ealochelan and eleven others." We have here a fine description of the relation existing between the Delawares and the Iroquois. We take especial pains to lay this and similar matters befbre the reader, as, through Hackewelder and other causes, great errors have been reiterated even by respectable historians. Of these errors we will give an • example froth _Dalus,_ Wl° says: "That the Delawares or Chiho hockies, which was their real name, were until some time subsequent to 1736, en- tirely independent of the Iroquois, is be yond a doubt true, although front sinister motives, there were those who maintained they were always subject to them." POSITIVE PROOF OF BEING SUBJUGATED Now beneath this let us place the evi dence from the lips of the Delawares them selves to the Governor and Council, in 1712, at the meeting .above stated. Scollitchy,. their speaker, declared, "That martyr years ago, being made tributary to the Five Na tions, and being now about to visit them, they thought fit first to wait on the Gov ernor and Council, to lay before them the collection they had made of their tribute to offer; and have a conference with the Governor upon it; they, therefore, laid on the floor 32 belts of wampum of various figures, and a long Indian pipe, called the Calamet, with a stone head, a wooden or cane shaft and feathers fixed to it like wings, with other ornaments. This pipe, they said, upon making their submissions to the Five Nations, who had subdued them, and obliged them to be their tribu taries, those [Five] Nations had given to these [Delaware] Indians, to be kept by them, that at all times thereafter, upon showing this pipe where they came, they might be known to be the friends and sub jects of the Five Nations, and be received by them when they came amongst them. Then they proceeded to open their belts and declared for what purpose and with what intention each of them particularly was sent." Here follows a statement of the purport of each of the 32 belts. We give a few to show, not merely that they were a con quered people, but they bad a fawning, cringing, submissive spirit. If admissions are worth anything, here they are. "The first belt they said was sent by one, who at the time of their agreement or sub• mission, was an infant and orphan, the son of a considerable man amongst them." "The fifth is to inform, That though the principal of the family that sends it be dead, yet they continue their obedience, and show their intention by this present." "The seventh by a woman, who desires to be considered according to her sex ; and desires peace that she may eat and drink in quiet, and is willing always to pay tribute." "The twelfth by a woman, That a long time ago they made a peace, and desired that it may always be kept strong and firm." "The thirteenth by a woman, That form erly the Five Nations lived among us, that though now they are at a distance, they may be quiet.' "The seventeenth, That they shall al ways keep an open and clean house fur the Five Nations, and be ready to receive them." "The twenty third, That formerly one of the chiefS of those Nations name down and dwelt among them; and they regarded him always as their superior, and one of them." "The twenty-seventh, That having heard that in their wars they had obtained a victory over the French, they were very glad, and congratulated them upon it." "The twenty ninth, That they are glad they can go in peace to hunt far abroad, that they may return home and eat meat quietly to make them strong." "The thirty-second, They hope they will be pleased with the present now offered, and that their children will have it in everlasting remembrance; these last twenty four were all sent by women, the Indians reckoning the paying of tribute becomes none but women and children." These are specimens of the others. It will be observed that one claims to have been an infant at the time of their sub mission, and that they regard the Iroquois as a superior race. In October-following' these chiefs again returned saying "that when they went with their tribute to the Five Nations, they were very kindly re ceived by them, and that they had also re ceived the presents sent by the Governor "very kindly and thankfully ;" and each of them had sent bundles of skins in return as tokens of friendship. "The first was from that town our Indians call Mechaten awgha, or Sennecaes being Tsanondouans; the second from the Cayoogoee ; the third from the Onondagoes; the fourth from the Onoyootes; and the sth from the Canny ingoes, or Mohawks." ABOUT RECOLLECTING THE DATE. We must however receive the statement of these people, about remembering the time of their subjugation, with some de grees of allowance, for ate conference held at Aughwick, now ShirleyslArg, Hunting don county, Pa., Sept. 5, 1754, "the Beaver. a noted man of the Delawares," directed his speech to the Six Nations, and said : "Uncle, I still remember the time you first conquered us, and made women of us, and told us that you took us under your protection, and that we must not meddle with wars, but stay in the house and mind council affairs." It is probable that the original submission, dating back into the unknown past, was at subsequent times renewed, and that it was one of these confirmations of the old covenant that the Beaver King referred to. It is certain no one at that time could remember the date. It was this same Beaver King, that in 1756, carried off the Innis family from Tuscarora valley. FIRST TRIBUTARY-THEN WOMEN. Morgan, in his League of the Iroquois, says, that "after the Five Nations had con quered the Delawares, they only required them to pay the tributary wampum, as an acknowledgement of their subjugation ; but afterwards because the Delawares, with out permission, made an inroad upon a western tribe, a deputation of Iroquois chiefs went immediately info the country of the Delawares, assembled the people, and degraded them from the rairk of tribu tary nations, divesting them of all civil power, and declaring that they should henceforth be women. This degradation they signified by putting on the skirt of a female, and placing in their hands a corn pounder, thus showing that their business ever after should be that of women. From this denationalization the Delawares never were emancipated." From this it appears there was a differ ence between a mere tributary nation, and one reduced to "women." Morgan, gives no date, but part of the story harmonizes with the speech of Teedyuscung, hereafter given, in which he acknowledges that he was formerly called a woman, and had a hominy pounder placed in his hands; and the other part resembles the story of Hackewelder, that the Iroquois sent for them to aid in a fight at the Ohio river, and hiding, suffered them to be attacked, and then disowned having sent for them. It is probable that they only excused their conduct by prerending to have sent for them to fight. According to a letter written _ by be, Tortoise Itatv Simerattiebet Wit "Ohioh" in 1732, it was about the year 1727 that "ye Five Nations told the Del. awares and us: Since you have not hearkened to us nor regarded what we have said, now we will put petty coats on you, and look upon you as women for the suture, and not as men." HALF OF THEM KILLED BY SENECAS. As bearing upon the question of the re lation existing between the Delawares and Iroquois. it may be stated that there was war between the "Sasquehannocks" and the Delawares about 1635; and, as this information comes from Maryland, where all the Indians to the northward were called Sasquehannocks, including even the Iroquois, it is most probable that• the Sas. quehannocks named were the Iroquois. In fact it was the Iroquois that De Vries found, in 1633, at war with the Armewamen and Sankiekans on the Delaware river, maintaining a supremacy by daring and butchery over these Algonquin tribes at that date. In 1663, these Armewamus are named as having half of their number killed by the Sinnikus, [Senecas] who were at war with these River savages, as well as the Miequas or Sasquehannocks. Gov. Colden in his history of New York, pub• lished in 1726, says that the subjugation of the Delawares took place in 1664, which corresponds well with their complaint to the Dutch the year previous, that the Sin nekus killed half of their number. If their subjugation took place in 1617 or 1635, or later, one who was then an infant might be living in 1712, St the time they payed the tribute wampum, as they often lived to be 100 years old. THEIR LANDS SOLD. One thing;eh;veaCov;iibeYon'd doubt, the Delawares were long in subjection to the Iroquois; but it seems just as clear, that until L 36 they allowed them to sell their lands, and did not pretend to sell it "from beneath their feet," as the; actually did in that and subsequent years, sod thus contributed to drive them to the French and add to the horrors of a terrible border war. THE "TRUE INTENT AND MEANING." As we have already stated, the deputies of the Six Nations sold to the Penn Pro prietaries in 1736, all 'the lands lying be tween the mouth of the Susquehanna and Kittatinny Hills, extending eastwafdasfar as the heads of the branches or springs which run into the said Susquehannah." This did not interfere with the lands claimed by the Delawares. Eleven days after this purchase in open council, and after some of the Deputies were gone home, an article of agreement, explanatory of the Deed, was signed by a number of the re maining Deputies, stating that the "true intent and meaning" was "to release all lands beginning eastward on the Delatcare river." If this were not a manifest trick, we might at least observe, that they had in the first place a queer way of expressing their "true intent and meaning." W3I. PENN'S OLD PURCHASES REVIVED This step was followed the next year, Aug. 24, 1737, by the Proprietaries get. Ling from Monokykiekan, Lappawinzoe, Tishekunk and Nutimus, Delaware chiefs, a release, which recites that after several meetings held during the three past years, at Pennsbury "several deeds were shown to them for several tracts of land which their forefathers had more than fifty years ago sold to William Penn ; and in par- ticular one deed from Maykeerikkisho, Sayhoppey and Taugh•haughsey, the chiefs or kings of the Northern Indians on the Del aware, who for a certain quantity of goods, bad granted to William Penn a tract of land beginning on a line drawn from a certain spruc tree on the river Delaware, by a west north west course to Neahameny creek, from thence back into the woods as Jar as a man could go in a flay and a half," &e. &c. (To be Continued.) NO. 23.
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