I t I ' " ... . - net. 11)11 I Ml III I SAMUIL T, SEUGEET. Yoie- p fA' 21ce $enatori strict of Pennsylvania i . he nndersignod hiivinir been elccU t . nnd returned nt tn mm gonom ... lion ah ono of tho Senators to rci i lit tliii district in tho Ijerinlatnr f :' : nnnvlvnnin, feels it to bo his duty t ; ' f bot'ora tho people of tho dintriit on Hlatcmont ot tn proceedings h recently roaItod in Riving hi i to one of the defeated cundidates, it the 7th oi Jannnry last, the day ointcd by law for tho mooting of i legislature, 1 witb the other new : elected Nsnators, appeared in th ; iate chamber at liarrisuurp' an t . It the oath of oflice. On the same tuy, contrary to the courtosy extend ci in such cases by immemorial nsnpo ix tiOtition signed by John J. Patter- tiO'i and gome twenty othor citiienn of J uutata county, was presented to the Senate, alleging that said election was Ian,, uo, and tho return luise and on true, and praying that John Jv. ltobi - might be admitted to tho seat I , I by mc. Tho potition contained rithteen specifications oi alleged illegal .)! trauuulont votes, amounting in tUo aggregate to something over liiiudred, charged ns having boon cast I'irmo. On tho lUb otjunuary tho t 'i)mittce was drawn, and coimiritcd . ( .sorgo Lundon, Jacob E. Kidgway J . Vr. Fishor, Warren Cowlos, A. W. Taylor, republican, nnd George D .Jutkson and R. J. Linderman, demo- crnta. A iter the com m i ttoo was drawn all the above named Senators appear ed before the Speaker's chair and took the oath prescribed in such cases, to wit j 44 To well and truly try the matter of the petition and a trucjudgemcnt give thereon according to the evidence, unless the committee shall be dissolved. On tho same day the Committeo met and organised by electing Geo, Jxndon chairman, and appointing Caiit. 1 ay lor, of Heaver county, clerk At tho samo meeting the committee thve my counsel until Monday, Janu ry 20th, to filo thoir answer to tho petition. It happoncd unfortunately thnt all the counsel employed to rep resent my case belore tho committee, were cngnged during tho following week in different courts and wcro con sequently nnablo to cive any person al attention to collecting the facts necessary to bo incorporated in tlio anawcr. In most instances,! was there fore compelled to rely upon the infor mtttion 1 could obtain in answor to . letters writton to different counties in the district. Yet during this brief ronod we wcro cnnblod to find some thing over one hundred and fifty illegal votes which had been polled fur the 6iJ John A. Itobison. Un tho ZUth of January oar anewer was filed, do nying tho allegations of the petition, tpccilying moro than ono hundred and filly illegal votes cost for John K. Jiobison, and also asking that the re turns lor tho township of lay lor, in Centre county, should bo excluded from the count because tho election wns held somo threo miles from the i, see fixed by law. Also the town of Taylor, in Blair county, be cause tho election officers had not beon sworn as required by law, and also tho townships of Cass, Union, Portor, Todd, Dublin, Lincoln, Penn, and Oneida, in Huntingdon county. becauso or gross misconduct of the election omcurs and great irrogulan Ves in the manner of holding the elec tions in tlicso several townships. In tho answer leave was also asked to add other namos to tho different spe culations. On the day after the answer was tiled when the committee first mot to benr testimony,' Mr. Cessna, one ol tliO Attorneys for ltobison, remarked that ho noticed wo bad asked loave to add other names to the specifica tions ot our answer, and thai proba bly they would desiro tho samo priv ilege to add names under tho differ ent specifications of tho Petition. Somo of tho committeo replied "cer tainly, if one party had the privilege to amend tbo other should have the artie privilege." But neither at this nor at any other time tras any motion m ile by the contestant for leave to file any amendments or additions to the pe tition and no leave was ever granted by the committee for such a purpose. Within a day or two after tho con testant commenced producing his cv- i nce, wnncsscs wcro cauea to prove nr. illegal voto not mentioned or spe tilied in tho petition. Ono of my counsel objected to tho cvidonce, be cause it did not tend to prove any of Hie enarges made and which alone wo wero bound to meet. This objec tion, it was admitted by all was well luksn. But the chairman of the com mittee replied, that they icishrd to hear tht trhole. can, whether in accordance intk the technical rules of evidence or f it. That the committee iranted to r,.iu which of tlie candidates had actu 4i l!y received the great ernumber of legal t ' and which of them the legal voters tf the district wanted to hare represent ih:m in the Senate. To this statement -r f the chairman kvkry member or T H COMMITTEE ASSENTED. My COUn- I replied, that if that rulo was to bo ;i I jptod by tho committee and applied 1j both sides ot the case they wore perfectly satisfied. .Nearly every du mber of tho committee answered, 1 ' i sit tho same latitude should certain Jy be given to both sides. Tho objoo-ti-n wa therefore overruled and tho evidence received. Within the next week, the same objection was made, the tne answer given by the chairman, ih' same, reply made by my countd, and t'-s same assurance given by the com r.Utee that equal latitude would cer t'-xnly be allowed to both sides, at least o-s dozen times, and each timo tho t ! ection was overruled and the ovi ! nee offered by the contestant re ' ited. My counsel supposing as t. ay were bound to do, thai the oom n ittee intended to act in fairness and f 'd faith, and knowing that tho full-c-t possible investigation would only moro clearly demonstrate tbe legality f f my election, censod to mako any .rlber objection to the evidence of f rod, and thus for more than three v. ocks tho committee received all ev i nce offered by tho contestant, 'icthor relevant or irrelevant, pc rti r tit or impertinent to the issue rais- 1 by tho ictitioo and answer. More . .... " " " "I- b red by be contestant and received ' nT m A TTTITTIT TT mJmJ r. Tll TrTTTiTr TTdfN a hl t ii I fl H Illl An I R 1 I I I H R ffl . tr . .'.i M V U II II M H I H II 11 11 H I AI I I U ,R , in.LW I""-. H l H 111,0 . H U iVJl-Vl,: w, H-C Hi . H-' g II -C FJ . II H M GEO. B. GOODLANDER, Proprietor. PRINCIPLESNOT MEN. TEKMS-$2 per annum, in Advance. ... - . I,, - VOL.4JWHOLENO.2070. CLEARFIELD, PA., THURSDAY, MAY H, 18C8. NEW SERIES-VOL. 8, NO. 42, by tho committee, was in reference to matters not charged or mentioned in tno petition. Within a day or two after we com moncod giving evidenco in support of our defence, a witness was called and aworn to provo an illegal vote cast for John K. Hobison, which hnd not boon specitlod in our answer. To the surprise and astonishment of every one not initiated in the contemplated dodge, the contestant's counsel objoo- led to tho evidenco on the ground thnt they were not bound to meet any chargo of illegal or fraudulent voting lor Hobison but such as bad been spo cified in tho answer. In vain my at torneys urged the precedents set bv contestant's counsel themselves, tho re pea tod decisions of the committee upon tho very point, and the solemn assurance of the committoe so often given that the samo latitude would be allowed to both sides in the produc tion of evidence. The committee by a strict party voto sustained the ob jection and excluded tbe evidence. .Similar offers were repeatedly mado by my counsel, and as often rejected, for the same reason. l!y this decis ion, after tbe committee had received all kinds of evidence which the con testant could offer, we were prevented from proving more than one hundred illegal votes cast fur John K. Hobison, some of the witnesses to prove which were then in Ilarrisburg, while others had already been subnepnad )nt not yet arrived. In reply to what my counsel said in reference to the contestant having offered, and tho committeo having re ceived evidenco not in support of any cnarge or allegation contamod in the petition, II. B. Swoope. one of Kobi- son'g attorneys, said it was not true ; "that all the evidonco offered bv them was admissible either under the original or the amended petition." To this my counsel replied "that no amended petition had ever Leen filed in the case." Mr. Swoope tnen called upon the clerk of the committeo, who produced a bundle of manuscript, en titled "amendments to the petition," out wnicu bad never beeu marked filed, had never been printed, had nev er been read nor offered before the committee, and which nono of my counsel nor any member or the com mute bad ever read or seen or heard of. No member of the committee to this day knows when that document was handed to the clerk, nor will any mcmoer ot the committee even pre tend that he ever saw it or knew any thing of its contents until some days after the contestant closed his evidence This so-culled "amendment" not only adds new names under almost all the specifications of tho petition, but also contains iMrteen new and distinct spe cifications not referred to in nor cov ered by the original petition. And yet this latter document teas not sign ed oy any voter in tne aistnct, nor bu any one else, was not sworn to by any one and not certified by anv county of ficer, as the law requires thepdition to be, ana was certainly not presented to tne senate, nor even to tbe clerk f the committee, until long after the expiration often days from the meet- ngortho legislature. Immediately on tho adjournment of tbe committee, my counsel prepared an amendment to the answer, specifying in detail tho great number of illegal votes polled for Kobisnn, which had come to their knowledge after tbe filing of the an- wt r. M be very next day they asked loave of tho committee to tilo this mendmont to the answer. This was objected to by the counsel for tho contestant on the ground that it was too late, although it was only the day ociore mat any member ol tho com mittee saw the "amendment" to the petition. Tho leave askod for by my counsel to file tho amended answer, was refused by the mnjonty of the committeo. It must bo apparent to very honest and intelligent man. that tho whole proceedings connected with tho preparation of the so-called amendments to the petition, and the surrcplious manner in which that document was got before tho commit tee, can bo characterised by no other name than a scurvy trick, a deliberate ly planned fraud, not only nnon me. ut upon tno rights ol the JcgAl voters ot the district, which no honorablo member of the legal profession would havo perpetrated, and which no mem ber of a pommilteo, having any self-re- pect, or any regard lor tho appear ances of doconcy would bavo been guilty of abetting. ho manilustly unfair wero theso va rious rulings of the committeo and so pparont was it that they would work gross injustice, that ono of tho Kcpub- ican members 01 tno committeo suid to my counsel, that at the proper time ho would himself move to strike from the rocords of the committee all tho evidence offered by the contestant which could not have been received nder tho original petition had the same strict rule been applied to tbe contestant which was afterwards ap plied to ns. Alter these rulings my counsel pro duced and offered to the committoe all tho evidonco in their power which tbo committee would recoi vo, but at every step was cramped and fettered by ovcry legal technicality which the in gonuity of tho counsel for tho oontost- nt could deviso, and which technical ities tho majority of the committee ero generally willing and ready to sustain. As soon as tbe evidence was finally closed upon both sides, my counsel submitted the following motions and reasons : fW mm fW wmttttnt UrliMt for Smafnr im th 7iroUy-lr Bumtnnnl Vtnt4 of i'tnmtfl- flnmmtt T. Sk tilting mrmhnr t Th. .rttfiM In Ihi. . !lif "1m4 n hoih il, Ik. ra.pn.fl.at, S.ta.?l T. Ph.r.rt, h til. ,,mr-rtfy WW-. Ih. !- t-t- niw u n. fd ni ...dm-.u to p'.ltlcn" In thli mm, and itrlk. oat all Ik. rt iIdo. r(ivi ia luppnrt of, or oail.r, .aid M-oatl.d ".m.ntiinenti," fur the following rvaftom: 1. liMauM th. ao-allxl "am.rjdurnll" Iter, not lirncd bj th. petitioner, a. rnqnircd br Ih. MatDtr, to wit: "lty at leant twoutjr qualified .lector, of th. diltrii-L" 2. HeeauM th. allrKd "amendment!" ar not aeconianid by an attidarit taken and lubierilied by at bait St. of th. petition.!, that th. faeU th.raln Mated an true to th. ben of their knowl dfre and bali.f, a. required br the atatata. S. Became th. alksired "ameadmeau'' are not aroompanied by a eertiSoata from th. traatmrer, prothoooUry or oommuiioner. of the ouunty when th. pelilion.ra, at th. time of ligning th. aame, were qualified aleotora of tb. di.tuct, ai re quired by tbe statute. 4. Baeauae th. alU-Red "amendment!" to tho petition were not presented to the Henate within ten da.rl aHer tbe organisation of th. Legialatur. a.zt auoeatidiug the election, a. required by tho (Utute, to give the Benat.juriedir.inn in tbe eaae j which .tatuto provide, and enjoin, ae follow. : "lint no petition ofmpl.ining of an undo, election or falae return of a penon elected Uoraraor, Sen ator or member of tiia llona. of KepraMntatiTea, tnALL la iiTi rro by the Legislators" unlaas the foregoing requisites ara eom)ilid with. a. Boo use tui. ootumittee ha. no pow.r, right or authority in law, nor discretion in equity, or otherwise, to permit, allow or aoaoeut that th. original petition present.d to tbe Beoat in this eaae .hall, may or can be amended in the manner proposed In this ease, or in any other manner whatsoever, as the anmmitte. hv no iurisdi.tion or control ovar tbe question of "amendment." to the original petition. 0. lloeausa th. tern. In this easa between th. onU-atant and respondent, is founded by and upon uc pennon anu answer, wnicb ean neither a. .a tarred nor dimiuiebod bv th. committee. T. Because tbe eonimitt. .re sulinnlv bonnd br th. oaths they have taken in this ease, "to try tb. maiuw oi me petition, ana to giv a true judgment uieraon, according loth, evidence, anlsas th.com Itlee b. dissolved." I. Became, tb. eomralttee ara not sworn to trr or oeciae any tacts set cut in th.so-a.Ued "amend menu to potition. (. Because even If tb. atatata wan not Impera tive In forbidding the committee to exercise luris- aiciion in allowing amendment, to th. Petition, It woald be both Inequitable and auiust to allow or act upon the amendments in this case, for th. reason that th. committee, lav refused to allow amendment, to reepondanta an.w.r, or bear art aenoa at acts not set out in tbe answer. Jn support of these reasons, th. sututa In refer nee to contested elections is sited Act of July 1, i. aac rampa. Ls Mr; far. Uig, a p., 1.9 BOS IOC 1 1 Tho principal objection urged to the granting of this motion, was that it was submittod out of time; that it should have been mado, il at all, before tlio contestant cloned his evidence in chiefll The absurdity and audacity oi mis onjoction win ne apparenlwhen it is remembered that it was not nntil some days after the evidence of tbo contestant had closed that any one anew oi tne existence or the "amend ments to the petition," and not until the same time was it ever dreamod that the committeo would not recoive the same kind of evidence in behalf of the sitting member which it had re ceived in behalf of tbe contestant, and which it was designed by this motion to strike out. Allor argument fAii motion was refused by a bare ma oritv. the chairman, Senator London, voting -.1. fl. wim mo two democrats, and tlieuiuiu bcr of the committee who had previ ously said be himself would make the same motion, voting with tbe ma jority I I have given thus at length, and minutely, a history of the nroccedinirs before the committoe, that tho people of the district may see and know what evident unfairness characterised its proceedings, nnd that the majority of me committee irom tne beginning did not design permitting an impartial investigation into the merits of the last election in this district. I might with propriety stop here, and refer the reader for information as to tho merits of tho case as It stood under all tho evidence received, (notwithstanding me previous uniair ruungs oi tno com mittee,) to the plain and candid state ments of the minority of the commit tee in their report, which is signed by Hon. George D. Jackson and JK. J. Lindorman. But for the convenience of the rcador, I will here Incorporate mo suostance oi mat report. The majority of the committee In their report giving tho sent to which was elected to John K. Kobison. admit that the return from Tavlor township, Centre county, which trave eighteen majority against mo, mnst be rejected, as it was not a legal election, the Jlcpublitan members of the oleo tion board having, without authority of law, removed tbe election somo three miles lrom tho place nppointod for holding it, by reason of which remo val somo of the citizens of tho town ship wero prevented from voting. This would increaso my mnioritv over Itobison, from twenty-two, as reported to forty. , Tho mnioritv of the committeo aUo conccdo, that Ihore were sixty-eight sepcrate illegal votes proven to havo been cast for Kobison. My counsel contendod they hnd pro ven eighty -eightinstoad of sixty-eight. But tnko what tho majority of tho committeo admit and it still further increases my mnjontay to one hundred and eight. They then contond that there wero twenty-three seporato ille gal votes proven to have been cost lor me, although they aro very care ful not to etato the names of the twenty-three illegal votors, nor whoro tho votes wero polled. Now I most positively deny that all the evidence roccivod proves that twenty -throe il legal votes wero polled for me in tho entire district, whothor specified in tne potition or not. Aa impartial judge could decide after giving the luiiest cnoct, that over five ; illegal votes were polled for me in tbo on tiro district. But taking all that this partisan committeo contends for and it only reduces the majority io eight u- five. The question will naturally ariso in the mind of every candid man, how could any committee, how evor partisan its members might bo, throw a Senator out of his seat who hold tbo certificate of election by a majority of twenty-two, which was increased by tho one item in Taylor township, to forty, when tho samo committee concede that only twenty- three sepcrate fllegnl Totes were poll ed for him and at the samo timo ad mitted that sixty-tight separate illegal vnts were polled for his competitor. 1 ho answer to this question developes i the greatest outrage perpetratod by tho committoe. They'.dcducted thir ty-three lrom the number ot rotes poll ed for mo in the borough of Philips- burg, Centre county, lirow out tho entire poll of Kus. township, in the same county, and also throw out the entire poll of carbon township, linn tingdon County." Ifyon what pretext was this doner ' ' ' In tho 1st, 2d'and Id specifications of tbe contestant a petition it is charged in substanco, that fl laree number ot unnaturalized forciificrs, working up on tlie Tyrone & Ctoarhcld railroad viuisi uuiu uountr, ncro unti into KubIi township and Philipsburg bor ough, and thoro voted upon forged naturalisation pnpers casting thoir rotes for mo, that thoy wero sent tbore with the avowoi purpose of con trolling tho election, and loft as soon as they had voted. Th names of forty-two persons so allered to have illegally voted lor me an given in these specifications. Instead of at tempting to prove one ry ono that those forty two persons turned Totod in either of tbe districts montioned. that thoy had no right tovoto, either berauso they were unnaturalized for eigners, or by reason of Uuir non-res-idenco, and that they est sheir bal lots for mo, contestant'! counsel at tempted by the testimony of ono II i- cuaoi u iiuara, who swore mobtly to Hearsay declarations or third parties, to prove the charge as awhole. Yet under all of the evidence offered and received, for the double purpose of iiiiiuoncing mis case nntt creating I prejudice against the Denocratic par ty, which might bo nsedby our ene mies In future campaigns, ooso, vague and indefinite as the evidmce was, it is not proven that even one or the forty -two persons namod noted illegal ly or voted for me. On the othor hand, tbe poll lists of thtse two dis tricts show that only caain of these forty-two persons named roted at all, three in Rush township, and twelve In the borough of Philipsburg. Of these fifteen it was clearly provtn that two wero regular cilicons of Jhilipsburg and legal voters, and that seven olh. crs of the fifteen wore rogilarly nat uralizod in tho courts of Schuvlkill and Luaerno counties. As to the re maining six no direct evidence could be had identifying them, but it was proven by the oflicers of tho election that some of the naturalisation papers voted upon by these mon that day were ixsued by conrts in the State of New York and in thecotjntios of Cam bria and Elk in this Suto. nono of which papers were even alleged to bo forged or fraudulent lliehnol O' Meant was shown to be entirely unworthy of oredence bv every kind of testimony by which a man could bo discrodi'.cd. lie was positively contradicted in almost ev ery important statemett he made, by witnesses whoso truth and veracity woro above suspicion. IIo was prov en by a large number f respectable persons to have borne a bad character for truth and veracity in every place be ever lived in America, and was not to be believed on oath. In addi tion to this, it was proven and not at tempted to bo denied, teat be tamper ed with witnesses subpoenaed by us, that bo mado them drunk in order to prevent thoir testifying and then at tempted to bribe them to loave Ilar risburg. AH this was in evidonco be fore the committee, and yet not ono syllable of it is mentioned in the re port of the majority. My counsel of fered to prove to tbe committee that O'Moara had stated that be was to re ceive TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS if be succooded in swearing Ilubison into tns seat, and at other times had boas tod that ho had voted the Irishmen at Philipsburg for the republicans. This offur was rejected by tho com mittee as was also the offer to prove that II. B. Swoope of Clearfiold had stated thai ho was sure of having tho lurgost icpnblican voto in l'hilipsburg ever poilod, as lio had an Irish boss "all right," even aflor it was lu evi dence that days beforo any railroad hands were sent upon tho end of tho road in l entre county, ho was nego- nuu ii ij wun v .-ucara concorning tno votes of tbo men, and that O'Moara was aftorwards paid by tho Itepubli- cans eighty-five dollars in pursuance of that negotiation, llie only evidonco in addition to Oifoara'i offurod by the contestant, of any importance to the legality of tho election in Philipsburg was thai of tlie repub!lcu lii(.rortor and clerk, who went ovor the poll list and picked out thirty-three names which they said thoy thought belongod to tho railroad party, as there were no citizens bearing tliono names. Yet it was proven cloorly that twelve oat of tho thirty-throe wcro old cilicons of 1 nilipsburgand somo of them repub licans. Notwithstanding this tho committoo doducted the wholo thirly throo from my voto without a parti cle of evidonco ai to how any one of them voted, other than the fact that somo of tho Irishmen wore brought to tho polls by one Mark Leddy, who was vouched lor as a legal voter by Geo. II. Zeigloi, the republican inopoc torl By deducting thirty-throe from my vote in Philipbburg it gave Hobi son a majority in that borough al though his oounsol in the final argu ment of tho caso admitted that it was a democratic district. In Kush twn., It was proven by tho judgo of tbe election that but six rail road Irishmen voted. It was not pro tended that any Republican vote was illegally rejected thoro. Neither was it prctondod that any Illegal demo cratic votes were poilod except tho votes of those Irishmen. And yet tho entire poll of this township, w hich favo mo fifty -one majority (although received but ono hundred aud twen. ty-seven vous to ono honored and til-' in Jerusalem, in tho time ol the Jlac-ty-threo polled for the democratic jcabces, and about one hundred rears candidnle tbe year before, thus nega before the reign of Herod. living the idea that any fraud was comtnittod by my Irionds) was thrown oui Dy the 001011111100. In regard to tho Irish votes In I'hillipsburg nnd Kush township 1 have only this to say: It was proven by Philip Collins, tbe contractor, that ho sent tho mon there cn tbe 25th of Sept., not to vote, nor for any pur pone of controlling the election, but to finish that part of the road in Cen tre county, which had to bo fiinubcd belore the lull rains began, in conse quonce of tho'ebaracter of the ground and the nature of tbo work, that they remainod there after the work was finished aftor the middlo of Novem ber. These men were assessed and duly paid thoir taxes, and having been iu the districts moro than ten days beforo tbe election in pursuance 01 tneir luwtul calling wcro legal vo ters, although we contend most, il not all, of their votes were polled for tbe republican ticket as was demonstra ted by comparing the last vote with that ol previous years and by the tir cumstaucessurrounding O'Moara, who to a great extent manipulated this vote. But even after throwing out thirty- tnret votes in rhillipsburg, and the entire majority ot fifty-one in Hush townshi,p it still lelt me elected by a majority ol ono, and it becamo neces sary for the committoe to perpetrate an outrage on somo other portion of iua uiBvrici 111 oruur vo give my seal to one whom the people had repudia ted, lb is was dono by throwing out Carbon township, Huntingdon coun ty, which gave me sixty-five majority. Although it waa not alleged that any legal votes bad boon rejected there, nor .that any illegal votes bad boen poilod excepting one Wm. Plumb, who was alleged to bo an onnaturalixod foreigner, though it was not proven tor whom he votod. Tbe excuse for doing this was, that pemons other ban tbe election board woro at limes in the room, and that no copy of the assess list had been filed in tbe office of tbe Prolbouotury 1 Much graver ir regularities were shown to have ex isted in the seven republican town ships in the same county heretofore enumerated which gave an aggregate majority against mo ot about lour hundred, aud in several of them tbe number of votes returnod exceeded the names on tbo poll lists, and yet no mention is mado ol any of those townships by the majority of the com-, mittco. Groat effort had been mado to man ufacture political capital out of two items connected with this investiga tion Trin nnn tliat U'M pars waa paul t500 to leave the Suto. Stren uous efforts have been made by tho radical press to hold tho democratic organisation responsible for this, and to implicate lion. Wm. A. Wallace in tho transaction. O'Moara admit ted hi in ie It whon on the stand that ho had threatened to go to Ilar risburg and testify to tbe lubricated story which ho afterwards did testify to unless ne was pain money, mo man who furnished as well as the man who paid the money waa not shown to bo in any manner identified with the democratic organization, nor to havo bad anything to do with voting tho men in Philipsburg or Bush town ship, whether those votes were legal or not And it was positively proven that when tho man who afterwards paid tbe money went to see Mr. Wal. ace, be absolutely refused cither to my any money himself or to author- 110 the pnymont of any, and thnt be had no knowlodgo that any was paid. The othor item is that one John Casey a witness examined by tho contestant was killod near tho town of Cloarfield, on his way from Ilarrisburg, and this is ebnrgod to have beon done by dem ocrats in consequence of what John Casey had testified to. No moro false or malicious charge could possibly be made, nor one with less foundation. It is of courso imnossihlo at this time to tell who killed John Casey nor for what motive, for tbo men arrested and confined in tho jail of Cloarfield county, for his murder, have not yet boon triod. .He was killod at a time whon it was a physical impossibility for any human being in Clearfield to know that ho hnd testified at nil in tho caso, much less what that testimo ny was. His testimony in reality amounted to nothing in the caso (as he could not evon toll for whom he vfttsvl) and hH it heon fully known could not havo furnished a motive for any democrat doing him tho slightest injury. On tho other hand his death was mado to serve '.ho contestant throughout tho ontiro caso, and is even still sought to be usod as so much po litical aipitn.1 by radical politicians throughout tho State. 1 have now, follow-citiscns, dis charged tho duty which I feel I owed to you by giving a plain unvarnished statement of these proceedings in or der thatjyou might see to what extent your riglits hove beon disregarded and trampled upon by the reckless and corrupt partisan majority which for years have controlled tho legists- turo of onr Stato. Amoso tux Ancunts. A gentle man in Nashvillo is in possession of a very ancient coin, about the site of an Amorican qnnrtor dollar, bearing m rather strange device on each side, with Ilobrew inscriptions round the border. Tho Ilobrow characters on each sido, when translated, road, "Jerusalem," and "The Holy." On tho othor aide the inscriptions read "Isrsol," "Shekel." A gentleman who is thoroughly-familiar with Jewish history and the Ilobrow language says thia ancient relic waa coined about twenty -two hundred years ago, ifliKtlirarf, Sittunrr, tc NEW HARDWARE STORE Philipsburg, Centre County, Pa. G. II. ZEIGLER & CO. DIALKRS IX Foreign & Domestic Hardware WOOD, WILLOW, Sl TIN WARE, Stoves, Oils, Faints, Gloss, &c, &c. rpril atlMtlea er M.ehanle., Bslld.ri, f ana- -a- ars, Iisnsaaras.o, ail Buj.rs gsnerallr, I. Invited to ta. (act that w. ara offering a batter assortment af goods la oar line than aan b. found .ls.whsr. in thl. part of th. Slats, at Pricei to Salt th Times- Onr stock eomprbei a general asso.-1at.nl of Tools and Material. ud by Carpeatere, Blaek sialtas, Carrlaga and Wagea Makers,.., vita a largo stuck f Iron, Xails, Steel, Spikes, Mining Supplies, Saddlery, Rope, Chains, Grindstones, Circular, Hill and Cross-Cut Saws, , ENAMELED, FINISHED & TLAIN ' IIOLLOVv WARE, CABLE CHAINS, Lard, Linseed, Coal, Lubricating and risti Uils, Tl'KPKMTISI, BKXZI3I, , VARNISHES, COAL OIL LAMPS LSD LAVTERKS Aa ioall.nl assortment af Flat Cattery, eon. rirlntr KNIVES, I FORKS, DESERT, TEA. k SCISSORS. TABLESPOONS, RAZORS, Ac. BRITANNIA k SILVER FLATED WARE. TIN WARE IN GREAT VARIETY AND BEST MANUFACTURE, Hoss.kaM, Bartlealtamt, Farmlaf aid Rafting Impletseats af th. lato.1 and most - Imaror.d palarai. Blaakraltai ea t rapplied wlta Aavlla, Bal- Iowa, View, Bled re., Bsam.rs, Bona and Mala Shots, Hon. Kails, and all kinds of Iron and Ste.L Carp.st.rT sad Bntld.rt will lad Is aa. astak. lishai.at a supsrior .took of Plants, Basis, A agar., Batekasa, slngls, doable, bit aa pealing Ale., B.ssasrs, CkUala, rilea, Hiagaa, Sor.wa, Belts, Locks, Pall.7., Sask, Cord, Aa., Ae., A.. fara.n and rtaftm.n will lad avsrytalag la tb.tr line, and f beeper Ikaa aaa ka had .ls.whsra. tefX. Partlsalar attention It lav led ta ear slock of Stoves, ompri.ing Spear's celebrated Anti-Dost, Cook nnd Parlor Stove, af all sites. Also, th. Ni.garm Cook, Parlor Cook, Brilliant, Pawn, Daw til op, Arctic, and Ceainaa Igg, rocket, Aa. Allof the above goods wUl be U chap for cash. G. n. ZEIGLER 4 Co. Pklllpibarg, Oct, 10, ISOT-ly gtanlnj $Mll. 0. P. Hoop, U. L. Heed, I NOTICE, ,1 lw. w. Powell. J. f. Weaver, once. Betta. HOOP, WEAVER & CO. CLEARFIELD PLANING MILL ALL RIGHT! TnK proprietors respeolfullj Inform Ibcoltltra. of Claarleld aonntj, that tbey kava entirety refitted Ibis seleMi.henent with tbe lalaet Unproved wood-workiag machinery, and ara aow prepared to locate all order, la theii line of baaineaa. They will giro aapclal ati.atioa la tbe maaefee ture of malarial (or house building, toeh aa FLOORING, WEATHER. BOARDING, SASH, DOORS, BLINDS, na.iCKETs .yiotLDi.rag, OF A L t 1TYLBI. We always bar. on hand a Urge slock of PRY Ll'.MIlER.aod will psych f..r all clear Leather. One-end -a half Inch panel stuff preferred. Lumber Manufactured to Order, Or aiokaagod, to suit eaetontera. VO-Onton lullelted, and Lumber furnished oa short aotioe and aa reasonable tennt. n00P, WEAVER A CO. ClfO.HI.ld, Kev. T, 1M7. JJIGIIEST PRICE fait! in Goods or Cash for Lambrr aid Shingles, at tb CLKARETKLD BTORE, lol If , JTear Phiilpseinrg, Pa, ?lif f U.ti flrlrt IJfjiiiMlQtt, Trrma of HnWrli(liti, ' Tf pa-'d la erfinnre. er wtlbln lree tannins.,. It W If paid .fer three sad Wfor. Ms ftmuilie J f If paid ner (he .splrstinn nf ait wx.u.lie..., I ed Ralra of Advcrtlntui;, Transient edt ertlnereinisf per en.ieof 10 liars or Ires, t times Or Ires. ,,l U Prr earh en!m-nt Insertion.............. &ft Administrators' and K leentors' notice. t l9 Aahtors' netlces.. f fl Camions and Kstrays. .. 1 6 litseototion notices H 00 Local nonces, tier line - I ft Ohitnary nolinea, ov.r Ire lines, per line...... It Professional Cards, I year I DO viAKLr anvaavisaaama. I eqnare IMI J eolumn.........tJ t J auuarer. I S 0 i column.. . 0 I tqu.ree 2(1 00 1 column....,, 7 00 dob Work. ' ' ' BLAsraa. ' Ingle qolre tJ id I fl quire, nrrrrtilrr,! 75 X quires, per quire, J 00 Over t, per quire.. I to nswiiaii.i... I sheet, IS or lees,) 4(1 I J sheet, fi or Vss,t4 id i sheet, 14 ar less, t 50 1 sheet, Ji or less, 00 Over tt of each of sliove at properlinnsie rates. OBO. B. flOOflLANDKR, Kditor and Proprietor. Hoots unit &0fiS. SEW.. BOOT AM SHOE SHOP. EDWARD MACK. : Oa Market ttrsst, onnoaita tb "Repnbllenn" rpnR proprietor ha entered lata th BOOT Jl 81JOK businsss at tba above .land, and i. determined not to be outdone either In qual ity ar priee for his work, rraeera! aueaUon will be paid to nseaafacwing Hewed work, lie ha. ob hand a large lot of trench Ktp and Calf Skins, of the very best quality. The oitl aens af Clearfield and vicinity ara retpoetlallj Invited to giro bin a trial, Ko ebarg. for call. OT,'e-tf ... PEACE PBOCLAIMED. TUB WAR 0T2R IH CLEARFIELD. KNOX TOWNSHIP QLIET. Ktarly all the Contrabands going lack jo xnetr oia masters ; tut 'nary one going to old Massachusetts, where they were loved to long and to well. , IV eonseqaene af tb. .hove facta. P, SHORT, f tha old "(Short fcaoe 6kop," woald m nonnoa to hi. aanerowe patroas. and tha neoola of ClearSeld eooety ai large, thai ha ka aow Irat rata lot of good malarial, ju.t received fro at tba Kast, and is prepared en snort aotlo to msk. and mend Boots and Bhoea, at hi. nw (hep ka Graham's row. Be Is satisfied thai be eaa plea all, (unless It night besom Intensely loyalstay. at-boas patriots. H.is prepared tesell low for Cask or Caantry Prodoe. Don't forget tb 6hep a.il door to bower A Graham' .tore, on Market street, Clearleld, Pa, Bad kept by f.llow .oramtnly tailed JyJ,'7-y "BHORTTr . DANIEL CONNELLY, Boot and Shoe 3Ianufacturcr HAS Jo.t received s In lot af French CALP 6 KIN 8, aad I. bow prepared to mannfee. Uara everything In his line at th lowest Igara. lie will warrant kia work io b aa represented. U. respectfully solicit, a call, at hit tbo? em Market street, eoond door west f tb postoSo. where k will do all la bis power to render satisfaction- Boat In O.lter ton. on band. y,'7-y PAMKL C)5SELLT. SEW BOOT AM) SHOE SHOP, IN CCRWEK8VILLC TBI subscriber having lauly sUrted a hew Boot aad cho shop la CurwearvlUe, am Mala .treel, oppotlu Jos.ph R. Irwin's Drag store, rerpectlolly anaoanea. to tba public that he is nranarad ta maBafaetare all stele. r nm and Shoes, aad everything ia his lln, ob short Botlc. He alee keep, on kind a good assort ment of ready-made work, whisk he will il cheap for cash or country produce. wciii-n i.-tj LKWI8 7. HOsf. W. WALLACB . . TH08. H. SHAW AMERICAN HOUSE, l.athcrehurfr, t'lrarflcld Co., Pa. rpfllS well known and long eslabllrhcd Boiel, X formerly kept ky R. M . Moore, aad latterly by ft m. Bchwem, ar, has b.ea leased for a term af years by tha noderslrnel, to whlck tha atlea tiea el tha traveling roblic is bow eall.d. and a liberal share of public patrnaaga is eolicited. aprio, c-ly-pa bUAW WALLACB. JONES'S HOTEL. (roaaaaLT iro.ii'i,) . ' . Corner of South and Canal 6treets, (at Railroad,) HARRIS II CRG, Pa. ' ' asarlt lia pd J. B. JONES, PropV. THE WESTERN HOTEL. ; CLBABPIILD, PA. rpnK rubseriher baring Icaaad for a tarn af 1 yean this well-know Hotel, (kept for many year by Mr. Lanich.) and r fitted and refur nished It throughout, is now prepared to enter tain traveler and tb public generally apoa term. It ia hoped alike agreeable la both patrons and proprietor. Hi TABLB and BAR will b (applied with th beet tb market afford, aad aa paiat will be spared aa kit part to add ta tha eonronienca and comfort of hts goesls. A urery mania Is also attached to tb a. tnbltsbtnent. Horses, Berrl.e, etc., famished oa short lot.., er persons takea to any point aeslrea, dAMKB A. BH.NK. Jel Troprieur. S U SQUEHANNA HOU S E. Cnrwansvllle, Clearfield roanty, Pa. : THIS old aad weU e.Ubll.hed Hotel, beaatl. fally aitaatad aa th. hanks of tha r-ueque-hanna, ia th. borotgb of Cnrw.ni.ill., hat b.a leased tor a term af years by th. undersigned. It ba. .. a .atir.ly taltt.d, and is now open ta tbe public generally and the travelling commu nity in particular. N paint will ba spared re reader gaeett comfortable while tarryiag at thl boa... Ampl Btahling room for the aooomm. datioa of team. Chargee moderate. aovll U WM. M. JEWRIES. MOUNT VERNON HOUSE. Lcunra city, cLiARriiLD co., pa. rpilB andcrslgaod having purchaacd this Hotel, I takes this opportunity of informing the pub lic in general, aad travelers la particular, that ka kas taken great pains la refurnishing and refitting It with special rvfereno loth accommodation and omfort of all who may choose to gir him a call. The wants of bit patrons will ba attended to with pleasure and promptness. Ampl cJTABLINU attacked thereto. my ly JAE9 ABTtlCnS. RAILROAD HOUSE. ; MA! It STREET, PBILlPSBtlRO, PA. TBK and.rsigned keep conrt.stly e band tha bast of Llqaert. lilt table is aiwsys applied with tb best th market afford.. Th trav.ling publle will dow.ll to give kins a eslL BOVI.T. - KUXt.KIl.LUlU. "sTisquehanna7hcse. COXE8TOWH, DAUPHIN CO., PA. TIIB nnderslgned lake thm method f l forming lha Watermen of Clearteld ooanty, that he hat resiled and re-opeaed the betel foe -aerly kept ky B. .Shreloer, at Colettowa, wher he will take epaclal pain to reader setisfactlea ta all who favor kirn with their patronage. Ba ka klawa all th rocks oat of tha river aad pleated snubbing port, for half a mile above hi plaoa. (feblaVeT) ubORdK PALK. CAMIAQE AND SIXIQH SHOP, IN CLEARFIELD. Pa. (tmmsdi.Uly la raaf of Machln Shop,) rpiiE sahscrlber would respectfully Inform tb X rltlsenetf Cle.rleld, and th publle ia go etel,lhat ka il prepared t dn allkiad. of workoa CARRIAGES, BUOOIR1, SLE1QIIS, Ac. oa tkort aotlc and ta rea.on.blt tttBi, acd la a workmaallka mana.r'. WAll order promptly tteVd a. l eh. 14, 'M, . WM. M SIOHI.
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