VOL. 43. The Huntingdon Journal. Ogee in net° JOURNAL Building, Fifth Street TILE HUNTINGDON JOURNAL is published every Friday by J. A. NASH, at $2,00 per annum IN anvaric.t.:, or $2.50 it not paid for in six months from date of sub scription, and 13 if not paid within the year. No paper discontinued, unless at the option of the pub tinier, until ell arrearages are paid. No paper, however, will be sent out of the State unless absolutely paid for in advance. 'f i r adverZisements will be inserted at TWELVE AN I CENTS per line for the first insertion, SEVER AND A-HAL? CENTS for the second and FIVE CENTS per line for All subsequent insertions. 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Hand-hills, 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. Professional Cards• WK. P. & R. A. ORBISON, Attorneys•at-Law, No. 321 Penn Street, Huntingdon, Pa. All kinds of legal business promptly attended to. Sept.l2:7B. DU. G. B. HOTCHICIN, 82-i Washington Street, Min tingdon. junel.l-1878 BCALDWELL, Attorney-at-Law, No. 111, 3rd street. . Office formerly occupied by Messrs. Woods & Wil liamson. [apl2,'7l TAR. A.B. BRUMBAUGH. offers hie professional services to the community. Office, N 0.523 Washington street, one door east of the Catholic Parsonage. Lian4,'7l DR. ITYSKILL has permanently located in Alexandria to practice his profession. [jan.4 '7B-Iy. E C. STOCKTON, Surgeon Dentist. Office in Leieter'e 11. building, in the room formerly occupied by Dr. E. J Greene, Huntingdon, Pa. [apl2B, '76. GEO. B. ORLADY, Attorney-at-Law, 405 Penn sdieet, Huntingdon, Pa.. [n0v17;75 GL. ROBB, Dentist, office in S. T. Brown's new building, . No. b2O, Penn Street, Iluntingdon, Pa. [apl2.ll HC. MADDEN, Attorney-at-Law. Office, No.—, Penn . Street, Huntingdon, Pa. [apl9,'7l T SYLVANUS BLAIR, Attorney-at-Law, Huntingdon, e) • Pa. Office, Penn Street, three doers west of 3rd Street. pan4,7l T W. IiATTERN, Attoruey-at-Law and General Claim • Agent, Huntingdon, Pa. Soldiers' claims against the Government for back-pay, bounty, widows' and invidid pensions attended to with great care and promptness. Of fice on Penn Street. [jan4,'7l T S. GEISSING ER, Attorney-at-Law and Notary Public, LI. Huntingdon, Pa. Office, No. 230 Penn Street, oppo site Court House. [febs,'7l SE. FLEMING, Attorney-at-Law, Huntingdon, Pa., . office in Monitor building, Penn Street. Prompt and earefnl attention given to all legal business. [augs,'74-6mos New Advertisements BROWN'S CARP HST STOR FJ, 525 PENN STREET, JUST THE PLACE FOR HOUSEKEEPERS I IK9, FRE STOCK! NEW STYLES!! 10, oA_lR,lmmril, ALL GRADES AND AT PRICES THAT CAN NOT BE UNDERSOLD. FURNIIITTR E, The Largest Stock and variety of Chairs, Beds, Tables, Chamber Suits, Lounges, ROCKERS, MOULDINGS, BRACKETS, &c., 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 for 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 21 yards wide. Halls covered with one solid piece without joints. [Bring diagram and measurement.] For PICTURE FRAMES AND LOOKINC CLASSES, This is headquarters. Mattresses, Window Cornice, and anything in the Cabinet or Upholstering line made to order or repaired promptly. UNDERTAKING Also Odd to the Filrilituro & Carpet Minus. gant Caskets and Burial Cases, WOOD OR LIGHT METALIC TO SUIT ALL. BURIAL ROBES IN VARIETY. A FINE PLATE C SASS HEARSE Ready to attend funerals in town or country. My new clerk and traveling agent, FERDINAND Kocit, will call briefly in the principal towns, villages and valleys of this and adjoining counties, with samples of Wall Paper, Carpets, Carpet Cbaiu, and illustrations of Chairs and many kinds of Furniture, to measure rooms, &c., and receive orders for any goods in my line. If he should not reach you in time, do not wait, but come direct to the store. JAMES A. 525 I'EN7N SP., lIUNPING-130:N, I'A. March 21, 1879. There is no "Powaer in the Cellar," TONS OF IT IN OUR MAGAVNE DuPont's Powder. WE ARE THE AGENTS FOR THE 0-) 114:644.1T11, -1113,--:c SEND IN YOUR ORMRS. HENRX cgr, CCD..., Aprii125,1879. HIT_NTINGDON PA_. New Advertisements. S. WOLF'S. HERE WE ARE ! At Gwin's Old Stand, 505 PENN STREET. Not much on the blow, but always ready for work The largest and finest line of Clothing, Hats 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 st. 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 Owin's old stand. S. MARCH, Agt. MONEY SAVED IS MONEY EARNED The Cheapest Place in Huntingdon to buy Cloth ing, Hats, Caps, and Gents.' Furnishing Goods is at S. WOLF'S, 505 Penn street, one door west from Express Office. S. MARCH, Agent. TO THE PUBLIC.--I have removed my Cloth ing and Gents.' Furnishing Goods store to D. P. Gwin's old stand. - U..Expenses reduced and better bargains than ever can be got at S. Wolf's 505 Penn Street. March 2S, 1379. BEAUTIFY YOUR 1 - 1 0 AI H: S ! The undersigned is prepared to do all kinds of HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTING , Calcimining, Glazing, Paper Hanging, and any and all work belonging to the business. Having had several years' experience, he guaran tees satisfaction to those who may employ PRICES MODERATE. Orders may be left at the JOURNAL Book Store. JOHN L. ROIILAND. March 14th, 1879-tf. New Advertisements. BROWN, HUT TIILII I. A. It Pr i l he Tiuntingdon ournal. -AND Pt Puts' `,etter, The Bivouac of the Dead. THEODORE O'HARA. The muffled drum's sad roll had beet The soldier's last tattoo ; No more of life's parade shall meet That brave and fallen few; On Fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread, And Glory guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead. No rumor of the foe's advance Now swells upon the wind ; No troubled' thought at midnight haunts Of loved ones lett behind; No vision of the morrow's strife The warrior's dream alarms ; No braying horn or screaming fife, At dawn shall call to arms. Their shivered swords are red with rust, Their plumed heads arerbowed, Their haughty banaer trailed in dust, Is now their martial shroud; And plenteous funeral tears have washed The red stains from each brow, And the proud forms by battle gashed, Are free from anguish now. The neighing troop, the flashing blade, The bugle's stirring blast. The charge, the dreadful cannonade, The din and shout are past; Nor war's wild note, nor glory's peal, Shall thrill the fierce delight Those breasts that never more may feel The rapture of the tigot. Like the fierce northern hurricane That sweeps his great plateau, Flushed with the triumph yet to gain, Came down the serried foe; Who heard the thunder of the fray Break o'er the field beneath, Knew well the watchword of that day Was Victory or Death! Full many a norther's breath has swept O'er Angostura's plain, And long the pitying sky has wept Above its mouldered slain. The raven's scream or eagle's fight, Or shepherd's pensive lay Alone now wake each solemn height That frowned o'er that dread fray. Sons of the Dark and Bloody Ground Ye must not slumber there, When stranger steps and tongues resound! Along the heedless air. Your own proud land's heroic soil Shall be your fitter grave; She claims from war its richest spoil— The ashes of her brave. Thus, 'neath their parent turf they rest, Far from the gory field ; Borne to a Spartan mother's breast On many a bloody shield. The sunshine of their native aky Smiles sadly on them here, And kindred eyes and hearts watch by The heroes' sepulchre. Rest on, embalmed and sainted dead, Dear as the blood ye gave! No impious footstep here shall tread The herbage of your grave; Nor shall your glory be forgot While Fame her record keeps, Or honor points the hallowed spot Where Valor proudly sleeps. Yon marble minstrel's voiceless stone In deathless song shall tell, When many a vanished year hath flown, The story how ye fell. Nor wreck, nor change, nor winter's blight, Nor time's remorseless doom, Can dim one ray of haly light That gilds your glorious tomb. *torg-Erlier. THE HERO WOMAN. BY GEORGE LIPPARD In the shadows of the Wissahickon woods, not more than a lialf a mile from the Schuylkill, there stood, in the time of the Revolution, a quaint old fabric built of mingled logs and stone, and encircled by a palisade wall. It had been erected in the earlier days of William Penn, perhaps some years before the great apostle of peace first trod our shores, as a block house, in tended as a defence against the Indians. And now it stood with its many roofs, its numerous chimneys, its massive square windows, its varied front of log and stone, and its encircling wall, through which ad mittance was gained by a large and stoutly bailt gate • it stood in the midst of the wood, with age worn trees enclosing its veteran outline on every side. From its western window you could ob• tain a glimpse of the Schuylkill waves, while a large easement in the southern front commanded a view of the winding road, as it sunk out of view, under the shade of the thickly clustered boughs into a deep hollow, and more than one hundred yards from the mansion. _Here ' from the southern casement, on one of those balmy Summer days which look in upon the dreamy Autumn, toward the close of November, a farmer's daugh ter was gazing with dilating eyes and half elapsed hands. Well might she gaze earnestly to the south, and listen with painful intensity for the slightest sound. Her brothers were ' away with the army of Washington, and her father, a grim old veteran—he stood six feet and three inches in his stockings— who had manifested his love for the red coat invaders in many a desperate encoun ter, had that morning left her alone in the old mansion, alone in the small cham ber, in charge of some ammunition intend ed for a band of brave farmers, about to join the hosts of freedom. Even as she stood there, gazing out of the southern window, a faint glimpse of sunlight from the faded leaves above, pouring over her mild face, shaded by clusterinc , brown hair, there not ten paces from her side, were seven loaded rifles and a keg of powder. Leaning from the casement, she listened with every nerve quivering with suspense to the shouts of combatants, the hurried tread of armed men echoing from the south. There was something very beautiful in that picture. The form of the young girl, framed by the square, massive window, the contrast between the rough timbers that enclosed her, and that rounded face, the lips parting, the hazel eye dilating, and cheek warming and flushing with hope and fear; there was something very beau tiful in that picture—a young girl leaning from the window of an old mansion, with her brown hair waving in glossy masses around her face. Suddenly the shouts of the south grew nearer, and then, emerging from the deep hollow, there came an old man, running at full speed, yet every few paces turning around to fire his rifle, which he loaded as he ran. He was pursued by a party of ten or more British soldiers, who came rushing on with their bayonets fixed, as if to strike their victim down, ere he advati ced ten paces nearer to the house. On and on the old man came, while his daughter, quivering with suspense, isung leaning from the window. He reaches the block-house gate, look 1 He is sur rounded—their muskets are levelled at his head—he is down, down at their feet, grappling for his life ! But look again' He dashes his foe iiide ; with one bold movement he springs through the gate ; an instant and it is locked ; the British soldiers, mad with rage, gaze upon the HUNTINGDON, PA., FRIDAY AUGI'ST 8, 1879. high wall of logs and stone, and vent their anger in drunken curses. Now look to the window ! Where the young girl stood a moment ago, quivering with suspense, as she beheld her father struggling for his life, now stands the old man himself, his brow bared, his hand., grasping the rifle, while his gray : hairs wave 13,1. k from his wrinkled and blood-dabbletl ,ace. That was a fine pie- A ture of an old veteran, nerved for his last• fight—a stout warrior preparing for his death struggle Death struggle ? Yes ! for the old man, Isaac Wawpole, had dealt too many blows I among the British soldiers, tricked, foiled, and cheated them too often, to escape now ! A few moments longer, and they would be reinforced by a strong party of refugees ; the powder, the arms, in the old t block-house, perhaps that daughter her. i self, was to be their reward. There was scarcely a hope for the old man, and yet he had determined to make a desperate "We must bluff off these rascals!" he I said, with a grim smile, turning to his t child. "Now, Bess, my girl, whn I fire this rifle, do you hand me another, and 1 so on, until the eight shots are fired. That will keep them on the other side of the wall, for a few minutes at least, and then we will have to trust to God for the rest Look down there, and see a hand steal ing over the edge of the wall! The old man levels his piece—the British soldier falls back with a crushed hand upon his comrades' heads. . No longer quivering with suspense, but grown suddenly firm, the young girl passes a loaded rifle to the veteran's grasp, and silently awaits the result. For - a moment all is silent below. The British bravoes are somewhat loth to try that wall, when a stout old "Rebel," rifle in hand, is looking from yonder window. There is a pause—low, deep murmurs— they are holding a council ! A moment is gone, and nine heads are thrust above the wall at once—hark I One, two, three The old veteran has fired three shots— there are three dying men grovelling in the yard, beneath the shadows of the wall ! "Quick, Bess, the rifles 7" And the brave girl passes the rifles to her father's grasp. There are four shots, one after the other ; three more soldiers fall back, like weights of lead upon the ground, and a single red coat is seen, slow. ly mounting to the top of the wall, his eye fixed upon the hall door, which he will force ere a moment is gone. Now the last ball is fired ; the old man stands there in that second story window, his hands vainly grasping for another loaded rife. At this moment the wounded and clyk_ng band below are joined by a party of some twenty refugees, who, clad in their half robber uniform, come rushing from the woods, and with one bound are leap ing from the wall "Quick, Bess, my rifle !" And look there--even while the veter an stood looking out upon his foes—the brave girl, for, slender in form and wildly beautiful in face, she is a brave girl, a "Hero Woman"—had managed, as if by instinctive impulse, to letd a rifle. She handed it to her father, and then loaded another, and another. Wasn't that a beau tiful sight ? A fair young girl grasping powder and ball, with the ramrod rising and falling in her slender fingers. Now look down on the wall again. The refugees are clambering over its summit— again a horrid cry, and another wounded man topples down upon his dead and dy ing comrades ! But now look!! A smoke rises up there, a fire blazes up around the wall—they have fired the gate. A moment, and the bolt and the lock will be burnt from their sockets. , --the passage will be free! Now is the fiery moment of the old man's-trial. While his brave daughter loads, he con tinues to fire, with that deadly aim, but now—oh, horror !—he falls, with a musket ball driven into his breast. The daugh ter's outstretched arms received the father, as with the blood spouting from his wound he topples back from the window. Ah, it is a sad and terrible picture. The old man writhing there on the oak en floor, the young daughter bending over him, the light from the window streaming over her face and over her father's gray hairs, while the ancient furniture of the small chamber affords a dim back ground to the scene. Now, hark ! The sound of axes at the hall door—shouts, hurrahs, curses ! nWe have the old rebel at last!" The old man raises his head at that sound, makes an effort to rise, clutches for a rifle, and then falls again, his .eyes gla ring as the fierce pain of that wound quiv ers through his heart. Now watch the movements of the daugh ter. Silently she loads a rifle, silently she rests its barrel against the head of that keg of powder, and then placing her fin ger on the trigger, stands over her fath er's form, while the shouts of the enraged soldiers come thundering from the stairs. Yes, they have broken the ball door to , fragments, they are in possession of the old block-house, they arc rushing toward that chamber, with murder in their hearts and in their glaring eyes. Had the old man a thousand lives, they were not worth a farthing's purchase now. Still the girl, growing suddenly white as the 'kerchief round her neck, stands there, trembling from head to foot, the ripe in her hand, its dark tubelaid against the powder keg. The door is burst open—look there !• Stout forms are in the door, with, muskets in their hands ; grim tnces, stained with blood, glare into the chamber. Now, as if her very soul was coined into tha . words, that young girl, with her face . pale as ashes, her hazel eye gleaming with deathly light, utters this short yet mean ing speech : "Advance one step into the room-, and I will fire this rifle into the powder there!" No oath quivers from the lips of that girl, to confirm her resolution, but there she stands, alone with her wounded father, and yet not a soldier dare cross the thresh old ! Imbued as they are in deeds of blood, there is something terrible to these men in the simple words of that young girl, who stands there with the rifle laid against that keg of powder, They stood, as if spellbound, on the threshold of that old chamber. At last one bolder than the rest, a bravo, whose face is half concealed iq a thick beard, grasps his musket, andiA4ds it at the young girl's breast ! "Stand back, or by I will fire !" Still the girl is firm. The bravo ad vauces a step, and then starts back. The sharp click of the rifle falls with an un pleasant emphasis upon his ear. "Bess, I am dying," gasps the old man, faintly extending his arms. "Ho ! ha! we foiled the Britishers! Come, daughter, kneel here; kneel and say a prayer for me, apd let me feel your warm breath upon my face, for I am cold—O, dark and cold 1" ! Look! As these trembling accents fall from the old man's tongue, those fingers olnloose their hold of the rifle; already the tOopers are secure of one victim, at least +a young and beautiful girl ; for affection fr father is mastering the heroism of the teoment. Look! She is about to spring in ihis arms ! But now she sees her dan r ! Again she clutches the rifle; again, 'a though her father's dying accents are in r ears, she stands there, prepared to !Otter the house in ruins, if a single rough h4nd assails that veteran form. °iThere are a few brief, terrible moments suspense. Then a hurried sound far wn the mansion ; then a contest on the stairs ; then the echo of a rifle shot, and tile light ofa rifle blaze; then those ruffians le the door-way fall, crushed before the stung arms of the Continental soldiers. hen a wild shriek quivers through the m, and that young girl—that "Hero Woman"—with one bound, springs for siard into ber brother's arms, and nestles there, while her dead father, his form yet *arm, lies with fixed eye balls upon the loor. . itiett fflistelaq. ;1-__ They Hated Slanderers. • 1 - Mrs. Goode and Mrs. Meller were next door neighbors on Danbury street, and there was a frequent interchange of calls be tween them ; but no evil results there 'from, because both were excellent wo ven. Mrs. Goode called on Mrs. Meller the Other morning to speak to her about some gmptyin g s which acted as if they were not oing to rise properly. Mrs. Meller has knad back with Mrs. Goode to look at them. After the matter had been discuss ed with the gravity demanded by the im portance of the subject, Mrs. Goode said : "Did you hear that story about the Ran soms ?" "Yes, it was awful, wasn't it? Who told you ?" '"Mrs. Liebig." "She told me, too. I think that woman might'be better engaged than in telling stories about people." Mrs. Meller spoke with some warmth. "I should say as much," returned Mrs. Goode. 'lf there is anything I despise it is tattling. I don't see anything Christian alt it. I abominate it myself. If there wag more charity in this world it would be better for all of us." f'l know it," added Mrs. Meller ; "but kui - ,iple won't, be charitable. They will talk and talk and talk. I don't suppose tliat Mrs. Liebig is without a story about somebody a single day. She has got a fearful tongue, and she don't care who she wags it against. I think she had better look at home." "If she did, she'd have to give up her care of her neighbors, for she'd have her hands full of her own. But that's the way of that class. There's Mrs. Hook, you know, her tongue is always pitching into somebody, and it was only night before last that my man saw her John carried home dead drunk. "Why, Mrs. Goode you don't say so:" "Indeed I do." "Carried Lome drunk !" repeated the shocked Mrs. Meller. -Yes, carried home drunk. And Goode says it is ❑nt an uncommli occurrence, either." "Well, I declare ! If I ever thought that. I always believed John was a model boy, I suppose he gets it from his father." "His father? Why, did her husband drink?" "Drink I Didn't you know that ? But I forgot, it occurred before you moved here." "Well, I delcare! That is news to me," ejaculated Mrs. Goode. "0, yes, he was a drinker. He kept full of rum two thirds of the time, In fact," here Mrs. Meller lowered her voice, "there's good reason to believe that he died in a drunken fit." "Heaven I" gasped the shocked listener, while her eyes sparkled. "Yes, Joe Hook died in a drunken fit, if ever there was one. But don't - speak of it for the world." "I shan't say anything about it. You know well enough that I ain't one of the tattling kind," promptly answered Mrs. Goode. 'But who would have thought it ? Well, well ! If I ain't completely stump ed. I don't see bow she can bear to sail around in the style she does with that aw ful memory on her." "Oh, she thinks people don't know it. And now you say her boy is goinc , the same way. Do ydu know, Mrs. Goode, said Mrs. Meller, impressively, that I be lieve these slanderers have a judgment sent upon them." "Belie& it !" exclaimed Mrs. Goode, vigorously, "I know !"—Danbury News. [Original.] She Could not See the Point. "Mrs. Burns, I am going out to see the sick this morning, will you accompany me ?" "Why, who is sick ?" "A very poor man, whose family are in sore digress. lam taking some things to him." "Well, indeed, Mrs. Baird, I never go among trash, and I guess the rich will send him enough." "Have you no jellies or wine, or some nice bite you could put in my basket ?" "Indeed I can't spare thew ; I can't afford to make such things to give away. I have so many strangers that it takes them all, and at any rate maybe he wouldn't get them, the rest of the family would eat them from him." "Remember, Mrs. Burns, you have no reward for what you give to visitors, but 'he who giveth to the poor lendeth to the Lord.' " As a boy was going down a street in Boston, a woman opened the front door of a house and called, "John, John, John !" As the boy paid no attention to the calls, a pedestrian said to him, "Here, boy, your mother is calling you." No she isn't," replied the lad, as he turned the corner ; "she's only my father's second wife, and I want her to understand that she can't run me." Is the Rondout Methodist church, on a recent Sunday morning, the usual don ning of overcoats was proceeding amid considerable confusion, but had not been completed when the pastor arose to pro nounce the benediction. lie paused a moment, and said : "Brethren, I guess I will put on my overcoat hereafter during the benediction, so as not to lose any time." Democratic Platform. The following is the platform adopted by the Democratic State Convention which assembled at Harrisburg on Wednesday of last week : Resolved, I. That we, the Democratic party of Pennsylvania in convention as sembled, renew our vows of fidelity to the fundamental principles proclaimed and practiced by the illustrious men who settled our free institutions and founded the Dem ocratic party to protect and preserve them. 2. That the just power of the Federal Union, the rights of the States and the liberties of the people, are vital parts of one harmonious system ; and to save each part in its own constitutional vigor is to "save the life of the nation." 3. That the Democratic party maintains, as it ever has maintained, that the military are, and ought to be, in all things subor dinate to the civil authorities. It denies, as it ever has denied, the right of the Federal Administration to keep on foot, at the general expense, a standing army to invade the States for political purposes, without regard to constitutional restric tions, to control the people at the polls, to protect and encourage fradulent counts of the votes, or to inaugurate candidates re jected by the majority. 4. That the right to a free ballot is the right preservative of all rights, the only means of peacefully redressing grievances and reforming abuses. The presence at. the polls of a regular military force and of a host of hireling officials, claiming the power to arrest and imprison citizens, without warrant or hearing, destroys all freedom of election and upturns the very foundation of self-government. We call upon all good citizens to aid us in pre serving our institutions from destruction by these imperial methods of supervising the right of su ff rage and coercing the popular will, in keeping the way to the ballot.box open and free, as it was to our fathers, in removing the army to a safe distance when the people assemble to ex press their sovereign pleasure at the polls, and in securing obedience to their will when legally expressed by their votes. 5. That Rutherford B. Hayes, having been placed in poler against the well known and legally expressed will of the people, is the representative of a conspiracy only, and his claim of right to surround the ballot-boxes with troops and deputy marshals to intimidate and obstruct the electors, and his unprecedented use of the veto to maintain this unconstitutional and despotic power, are an insult and a menace to the country. • 6. That the Democratic party, as of old, favors a constitutional currency of gold and silver, and of paper convertible into coin. 7. That we are opposed to the system of subsidies by the General Government un der which, during the period of Republi can ascendency, political rings and corpo rations profited at the people's expense, and to any appropriation of the public moneys or the public credit to any object but - the public service. The reforms and economies enforced by the Democratic party since its advent to power in the lower house of Congress have saved to the people many millions of dollars, and we believe that a like result would follow its restoration to power in the State of Penn sylvania. 8. That the Democratic party, being the natural friend of the working m an, and having throughout its history stood be tween him and oppression, renews its ex pression of sympathy for labor and its promise of protection to its rights. 9. That we look with alarm and appre hension upon the pretensions of the great transportation companies to be above the fundamental law of this Commonwealth, which governs all else within our borders, and until they accept the Constitution of 1873 in good faith they should remain ob jects of the utmost vigilance and jealousy by both Legislature and people. 10. That the recent attempt, under the personal direction of ruling Republican leaders, to debauch the Legislature by wholesale bribery and corruption and take from the Commonwealth four millions of dollars for which its liability had never been ascertained, is a fresh and alarming evidence of the aggressiveness of corporate power in collusion with political rings, and should receive the signal condemnation of the people at the polls. 11. That the present condition of the State Treasury, a bankrupt general fund, and even schools and charities unable to get the money long since appropriated to their support, is a sufficient illustration of the reckless financial mismanagement of the Republican party. A Reputed Indian Heiress. General Alfred Sully, who died recently at Fort Vancouver, on the Pacific coast, left a valuable estate in Philadelphia, in herited from his father, and also a consid erable sum of money he had accumulated in his long army career. It is now said that the only person to whom any part of General Sully's large fortune, of right be longs, is his half bred daughter, Julia. at present living with White Swan's band of Yankton Indians' eighty miles above this place, on the Missouri river, and making her home with the family .of Colin La Mont, also of mixed blood. Those who knew Gen. Sully well while campaigning against the Indians of Dakota, say that at his death, he had no wife or any issue liv ing except this girl, and steps will soon be taken to establish her rights to the fortune. The marriage of Gen. Sully, according to Indian custom, with the girl's squaw moth er, is susceptible of proof, and it is believ ed that it will be difficult to invalidate the claim. Gen. Sully's daughter, wholis well known to those who have traveled through the upper country is regarded as the handsomoEt Indian maiden on the Missouri river, or in the great Sioux Nation. She cannot talk English, and her habits are thoroughly aboriginal. The daughter of the late General Sally was frequently seen by the writer, while engaged in surveying the Yankton Reservation. Having had occasion to stop at the house of Colin La Mont, the girls handsome appearance at tracted attention and La Mont was asked if she was a daughter of his. La Mont said : "No, sir, she is Sully's daughter, and if any of you men have seen Sully you would say she bears a strong resemblance to him." AT an auction of miscellaneous articles out-of-doors it began to sprinkle, when a bystander advised the auctioneer that he had better but up an umbrella as the next article. A YOUNG poet of the realistic school writes : "Time marches on with a slow, measured trod of a man working by the day." Natal Sistm. THE OLD FOOT-PRINTS OF THE RECEDING RED lAN, AND THE EARLY LAND-MARKS 0? TH COMING HEIR MAN WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO The Juniata Region. BY PROP. A. L. OURS, OP HUNTINGDON, PA '774 good to mn.ge on Nation/I pao•ed away Forever from the land we call our own. ARTICLE XVI. His sarcastic letter is dated January 25, 1719-20. To this letter of Gov. Spotts wood to the Governor of New York, we are indebted for several items of interest in the history of the early alliance of the Tuscaroras with the Five Nations ; and what is of especial value, is a statement that will, we believe, solve the question as to how their name came to be geographi cally fastened in Juniata county. OUR NAME "TUSCARORA." It has always seemed to us that the only natural solution of the baptismal Tuscarora in Juniata county, must have arisen from the residence of that tribe there at some period ; or at least that the "Tuscarora Path" was a special route traveled by them in their migration northward. But re search has been in vain among historians for any evidence or even a statement that they ever did live here. The common story is that the Tuscaroras, being driven out of Carolina, about 1713, joined the Five Nations in New York, who after this event were known as the Six Nations.— This statement seemingly would allow of no time for a residence in the Tuscarora valley. Yet we know that language ad heres to the soil when the lips which spoke it are resolved into dust. The Alleghens es. Allegewi have left us almost nothing but their name glued to our great mountains and the river at their base, but as long as the one stands and the other flows, they will remain a monument of that extinct race. How could this valley, this stream, this mountain get this Tuscarora baptism unless that tribe once lived here ? The language of Gov. Spottswood above re ferred to is as follows : NEAR SUSQUEHANNA IN 1720. "In the years 1712 and 1713. they (the Five Nations,) were actually in these parts assisting the Tuscarouroes, who had mas sacred in cold blood some hundreds of the English, and were then warring against us; and they have at this very day the chief murderers, with the greatest part of that nation seated under their protection near Susquehannah river, whither they re moved them, when they found they could no longer support them against the force which the English brought upon them in these parts." "Darin°. the Tuscouroro war about 200 of your Indians set upon our Virginia traders, as they were going to the South ern Indians with a caravan of at least 80 horses loaded, and after killing one of our people and shooting most of the horses, they made booty of all the goods, declaring their reason for so doing, was because they did not carry their ammunition to the Tuscouroroes " The Governor then asks : "Is their close confederacy with the Tuscouroroes any ways agreeable to the Five Nations' answer, which Lawrence Clawson reports to your Commissioners on the 6th of May, 1712, and to be taken fi.)r the assistance promised to reduce these murderers." This letter, dated January 25, 1720, states many other interesting things con cerning the conduct of the Five Nations, in their raids to the southward during the past eight years. From this and other sources we learn of the trouble they en tailed upon their dependent tribes, living on the Susquehanna, by passing througli their towns and enlisting recruits; but as these things throw no special light upon the Tuscaroras we will not dwell upon them here. UNDER IROQUOIS PROTECTION The above extracts prove, that although the great body of the Tuscaroras left Car olina in 1713, yet seven years afterwards, instead of being with the Five Nations in New York, they were seated under their protection, near the Susquehannah river, having been removed there by them. The Five Nations had a "close confederacy with the Tuscaroras," but they had not adopted them, nor taken them to New York, but left them living near the Susquehanna. Here, then, beyond doubt, we have them in the Tuscarora Valley during these years. The Five Nations, in spite of all the pres sure brought to bear upon them, had aided their kindred, and in their extremity, had allowed them to occupy a quiet in terior region, which they in former years had depopulated by their exterminating wars to the southward. Here, hemmed in by mountains they were beyond the reach of their enemies. This position that the Tuscaroras lived at some distance from the Five Nations, is strengthened by the assertion on July 7, 1720, that the robberies and mischiefs committed are to be ascribed to "some loose straggling Indians of the Five Na tions who joined the Tuscaruros." This language shows that the loose fellows straggled from New York southward, and living among the Tuscaroras were molest ing the settlers. COKING IN FRAGMENTS. The Tuscaroras did not all come north at the same time. As we shall see, they kept coming in detached fragments during at least 55 years. One whole tribe called the Nottaways remained in Virginia for a great many years, and until they entirely melted away. Those that remained were induced to maintain terms of peace with the whites, and did not aid their brethren in the wars. On the breaking up of the hostile forces, in 1713, the fragments of The several tribes, scattered in different di rections, seeking safety from the vengeance of their many overpowering foes. This made them a roving, uneasy set of fellows, who were constantly seeking to better their condition by a change of residence. It is exceedingly difficult to follow these de tached fragments, as they soon lose their identity in the company of remnants of other tribes similarly situated. Yet we have the testimony of Gov. Spottswood that in 1720, "the greatest part of that nation" including their chief warriors, were thus seated near the Susquehanna, in a region of which the white people knew but little. They may not all have lived in the Tuscarora valley, who had come north; and it is even possible, that some may then already had gone as far as New York, bat the bulk of them must have congregated in the Tuscarora valley as their head quarters. Their council house, no doubt, was in the "old fort field" near Milligan's, above Tuscarora Academy, while the whole Juniata region constituted their hunting ground. There were at this time soother Indians in Pennsylvania, except the Dela wares who had not yet left their tuttive , river; the Sbawanese, who also had come from the south ; the Conoys, from Mary land; and the little squad of Conestogas; all of whom lived east of the Kittoehtinny mountains. NUMBER OF THE TUSCARORAS.. What numbers the Tuscaroras constituted at this date, we have no means of knowing. In Carolina and Virginia, in 1708, they were reckoned to have 1200 warriors, waking a population of 8,000 Co 12,000. They had fifteen towns, and lived largely by cultivating the soil. Like the Iroquois in the north, their hand was against all the surrounding nations; but their enemies, who assisted the whites in extirpating them, in their turn soon shared the same fate. Another authority enumerates the Indians living in Virginia and the Caro linas, and says, the Powhatans consisted of 30 tribes and 8000 inhabitants; the Mannahoaes, between the Rappahannock and York rivers, 8 tribes; the Manakins (Monacans), between the York and James rivers, 5 tribes ; and that there were, be sides, Nottaways, Meherricks, Tuteloes, &o. "In 1708, Tuskarora Indiana—sen sible men—they live in 15 towns, 1200 warriors; Chowan, 13; Nottoway, 30." As a sample of the terrible depletion that bad been going on among these tribes, it is mentioned, that the Chowanokes once numbered 3,000 bowmen (Captain John Smith,) were now after 120 years reduced to 15 men. The Nottowsys, Mehevios, and Chowanokes, like the Tuscaroras be longed to the Huron-Iroquois family, and spoke dialects of the same language. The Mannahoaes probably were of the same class. These names show they were de rived from the Powhatans. YASIOYDES. TILE WORD "TUSCARORA." The term Tuscarora was applied gener ally to several distinct tribes of Indiana. Its origin and meaning have not been de termined. They were allied and probably confederated, as were the Iroquois of New York. The name bears the identical re lation to them, that the name 'lroquois does to the Five Nations. Though, after being disintegrated and divided, the rem nants that finally did join the Iroquois, were received as simply one nation. How many sub divisions there were at this time. we have not seen stated. As finally domi ciliated in New York, one portion or frag ment or tribe settled on the Chemuog branch of the Susquehanna; another on the north east branch ; a still larger por tion settled "on Canaseraga creek, east of Syracuse, between the Onondagas and Oneidas. This last was considered the place of the council or capital of the na tion. They were admitted into the Iro quois Confederacy -as the Sixth member, but without a voice in the Grand Council. ROW RECEIVED . 131( IROQUOIS. , Morgan, in his League of the Iroquois, (1851) says : "The Tuscaroras were re garded as a constituent member of the con federacy, although they were never ad- Ritted,t4 t 1 14 4 ,4 0 ,411444114.4 Fife- 1 4 44040 were opposed to changing the number and apportionment of the Sachemships ad - opted at the first organization of the. Leigne.• Otherwise they were equal." But this fact, we may add in passing, made the New Yorkers take the 'precaution to cause the Oneidas to become a party to the bessiou of the Tuscarora lands to the State, at the treaty at Fort Herkimer, in 1785. TEN YEARS OF PROBATION. Samuel G. Dra)ie, a scholar ot• mat ability, and of exteasive lrulian antiquarian research, in his history of the North Ameri can Indians, says that, 'The Tuscaroras from Carolina joined them - (the Five Na tions) about 1712 ; but were not formally admitted into the confederacy until about ten years a Tier that—this gained them that name of the Six Nations." WERE THEN ON JUNIATA. The inference is .lear. During these ten years the most of them were upon .the Juniata, and after this probation, they were formally admitted and assigned a por tion of the Oneida territory. A. strong confirmatory proof is to he found in the fact that during this period they are never mentioned at any of the conferences or treaties. But at the end of that period they do appear. APPEAR AT TREATIES. At a treaty at Albany, in 1722, the Five Nations, calling themselves . by that name, transacted the business, in the preSence of the Commissioners of Indian Affairs of New York, and at its conclusion requested a special interview with the Governor .of Pennsylvania, and this is the way the re cord introduces the Tuscaroras : ' "The next day, the 14th of Septeiihlr, the Governor received, at his chambers, the ten chiefs of the Five Nations, being two from each, together with two others, said to be of the Tusrororoes." THEIR ADVENT BUT RECENT. This is the first mention of the Tusca roras in the management of the affairs of the Iroquois; and the expression denotes that their appearance in this capacity was something new. And it is a fact that even during the next ten years the term Six Nations is never heard, but after that time it comes into almost universal use; but the term Five Nations was still 'often used, possibly because of tho peculiar manner in which they were united, having no vote in the national council. Some idea of the change in the term applied commonly by the English, will be gathered from the words of the Governor in a letter dated April 18, 1732: "Those Indians by us generally called the Five Nations, bat of late the AS'i.r Nations, alias the - Minquays and Iroquois." Here we see the use of the several terms : Six Nations lately substituted for Five Nations; the French term Iroquois; and the old Dutch Min quas, in the process of transformation into Mingo, which was first applied - to the Sas quesahannoughs, then to their remnant the Conestogas, then to their kindred in New York, and finally especially to those from New York settled on the Ohio after 1755. ENUMERATED WITH PENNA. TRIBES. At the treaty above spoken of at Al bany, in 1722, Gov. Spottswood got the Iroquois to agree to a division line along the Potomac and the High Ridge of mountains, to prevent incursions between the northern and southern Indians. There are ten tribes enumerated on each side of that line. The Five Nations are namely in their order from east to west, but the Tuscaroras are enumerated in a separate class among the tribes resident in Penn sylvania and in subjection to the Five Na tions. (See this matter, as fully set forth, in a future article on the Conestogas.)— From this enumeration, it is fair to pre sume, up to this date, the Tuscaroras were mostly in Pennsylvania, differing from the Conestogas in that they were subjects fur protection and refuge and not by conquest, NO. 31. To be continued.)
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