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W. SMITH,
AiTORKSl-AI
-LAW,
t l:1:T ClrirUrld, Pa.
J.
J. L1NGLE,
X T T O R N K Y - A T - LAW,
1:18 Ptilllpabiu-fr, Centre Co., Pa. y:pd
p R. W. BARRETT,
VrfORNEVS AND COUNSELOR AT LAW,
CI.KARFIELI), PA.
January .10, 1978.
I
SUAEL TEST,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Clearlield. Pa.
Mrtifrlre in (he Court House. Jjll.'M
HEXIIY BttETII,
(OSTKltn p. o.)
JL'STICE OF THE PEACE
FOR BILL TOWNSHIP.
Mnj 8, IS7I ly
7"M. M. McCULLOUGII,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
OLKAKPIKLD, PA.
cm. a in Masonic building, gerond street, op
posite tho Court House. Je20,'78-lf.
C. ARNOLD,
LAW & COLLECTION OFFICE,
CtlllWKNPVII.LE,
Clearfield Coonly, Perm's,
n,
s.
T. II HOCK HANK,
ATT0RNKY AT LAW,
CLBAItFIELD, PA.
Oroce iu Opera Hours. i 25,'77-ly
JAMES MITCHELL,
tiEALEH IK
Sijuare Timber & Timber LiuhIh,
Jnll'TS CLKAUFIKLD, PA.
s
V. WILSON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
oflioe one do. r ttift of We.tirn llottl liuildin;,
iiio.ile Court Hours.
,i.d,'77. CI.HAHI IKI.D, PA.
It AN K l'lEf.niNG,
ATTOItNEY-AT-LAW,
ClearUeld, Pn.
Will attend to sll business entrusted to him
I'lniuptl; and hltlilulljr. Jsnl'7
J F. SXYDER,
ATTOKNKY AT LAW,
CLEAIlFIKi.D, PA.
Oniee in Pie's 0era Uouso.
June 20, '7Stf.
WILLIAM A. WAI.LA.:K. IIAVID L. RflRBS.
HAnar r. wallatM. Joan w. wnieLar.
WALLACE & KliEliS,
(rjuwesiors to Wallace 4 Fielding,)
A T T O it N E V S - A T - L A W ,
ji.nl'77 Clcarlield, Pa.
F. O L Bl'I'K . . A. A. OnAHAU.
1)I)CK 4 t; HA II AM,
A1TOHNKY8 AT LAW,
CLBAHFiaLO, FA.
All IpjcsI bu.iness prumptlr attendud to. Office
in llrHlinm'e How rooms formerlr nocunied by
II. II. fwoops. julyH, '78-tr.
THOS. B. HI.RHAT.
CTKtrf a.BIoB.
a r I
UKKAY i liOUDOX,
1U
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
CLEAKFIKLD, PA.
jsHT'Offloe In Pie's Opera lionse, second floor.
30'7
iOSBPB B. H'KKALLT. .
DAiriRL w. u ct'Rnr.
MoCURDY
rcENALLY
ATTORN EYS-AT-LA W,
I irarnrld, fa.
Legal baiinese attended to promptly witbi
n'lelity. Office on Beoond street, aboTe the First
Nstional Bank. Jan:l:76
G. KRAMER,
A.
A T T O R N E Y - A T - L A W ,
Real Rptftte and Collection Agcnl,
CIXAKI'lttl.n, PA.,
Will promptly attend to all legal builneii an
truntrd to hit oar.
Office in PIb'i Opera Hon. Jant'76.
J K. McKKNniCK,
ATTOHNKY AT LAW,
CIsKAHMKLI), PA.
All If put huiiot. mtru'tod to hii oar will re
ceive prompt attention.
OHW oppoolle Cunrt Home, In Mnionin Building,
remind floor. uft.V7H-l J,
JOHN L. CUTTLK,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
nrt Real P,atat Affent, ClenrtlpM, Ht,
Office on Third nreat, bet.Cterrj A Walnut,
MV-Ueapeotrully offr tali itrTtcea In ielllrt
and buyinn land to Olaarfleld and adjoining
eanntlea i and with an iprieneeot overtwentv
ytara aa a aarrtjror, flatter himol that be oan
rndor datliraeUon. a:r;i;ti,
I)
It E. M. SClIEUREIt,
IIOMlF.orATlllC PHYSICIAN,
Office in nriuYnre on First t.
April 24, 1171. Clrarllcld, Pa.
Jlt W. A. MEANS,
I'll YSICIAN A SURGEON,
L1TIIKKSIH K(l, PA.
Will attend professional calls promptly. auRl(l'7H
jyt. T. J. HOT! Fit,
rIIYSICIAN AND SURQKON,
OBloe on Market Street, Clearfield. Pa.
sttfOfflco hoars: I to 12 a. in , and I to I p. ttt.
JR. J. KAY WHIG LEY,
IIOMlKPATIIIO PHYdlCIAM,
cr-flfncs a.lJolnln( lbs re.lifenM ef James
Wnglry, Kre., OB Heeond tit., Cleartield, Pa.
July.(l,'71( tf.
jyt. II. n. VAN VALZAH,
CI.KAHPIr'.I.I), PIUS A.
OFFICE IN MASONIC BUILDING.
Ottca hours From II to I P. M
May 12,
, 1K7.
1)
II. J. P. BURCT1FIELD,.
Lets 8nre0D 0f the 83d Regiment. Psnnsylsanla
Volunteers, having ratarnea from tna Army,
oilers his professional services totaeelttiens
ef Clear6eld county.
(Profasslonaloalll promptly attended to.
uraee oa Heeoad street, roraieriyoeeapiea vy
ir. Woods. sprVe U
I TARRY HNYDKK,
11 BARDKR AMU HAlRDIIRHgllB.
Khop ob Msrkel t.. npposlts Court House.
A eloea towel for avery aastomar.
Alee esaBf ettaror af
All Kinds of ArvtrWl la Hasaan Hair.
Claartsld, Pa. may l, 'It.
.., Ml,.. .. - - nl
CLEMfI ELD "lift
GEO. B. G00DLA.NDER, Proprietor.
VOL 52-WHOLE NO.
Cards.
17ILMAM M. IIKXKY, Justice
n or thr Fracr ann Hcritrhek, Li'MllKK
CITY. Collection tniid and noner prompt.,
paid over. Article ol agreement an 1 dead ol
ernvevanoc neatly ei ecu ted and warranted m.r
reel or no cbarite iHjy '7S
JOHN D. THOMPSON,
JuMie.e or tli Peare and Scrivener,
Curwenavllle. Pa. ...
fcj.Col.et.on
paid over.
made and
money promptly
fehtr7lt.
JAS.
B. GRAHAM,
dealer la
Real Estate, Square Timber, Boards,
SHINGLE, LATH, A PICKETS,
:10'73 ClearHeld, Pa,
WARREN THORN,
BOOT AND SHOE MAKER,
Market M., Clrarllrld, Pa.
In (he shop lntely ocrupted by Frsnk Short,
one door west of Allrghnny Ilou.e.
REUBEN HACKMAN,
House and Sign Painter and Paper
Hanger,
Clearfield, Puiui'a.
Hi-Will axeoute joba la hit line prompt I j and
In a wurkiniinliaa manner. ajr4,o7
JOUN A. STADI-EU,
11AKKK, Mnrket St., Clearfldd, Pa.
Fretb Dread, Kuk, Roll. Pie and Cakea
on hand or madr to order. A jtnrrnl aixortiiieiit
of Con-feet lonaricn, Frufta and Nut tn atook.
lot Cream and Ovulera in tea .on. Halooo nearly
oppoHit the I'ostfiffice. Hrirna modi-ruin.
Mrfh ll-'7V
WEAVER & BETTS,
PEALSHS
Real Esta'.e, Square Timber, Saw Legs,
AND LL'MilKR OP ALL KINDS.
.3-Offli'e on Heeond street, In resr of store
room ofUeorje Wearer 1 Co. I JenV. '78 If.
RICHARD HUGHES,
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.
ron v
llirnlur Toirnnhtp,
Osceola Mill. P. O.
II offii-lsl business entrusted to biin will be
promptly attend,! to, m.li29, '7o.
J. BLAKE WALTERS,
REAL ESTATE BROKER,
A in IIR4LF.R IR
Siiuv Ijos mid Jjiinilior,
CI.KARFIEIJl,
ODiee In Ijrsbem's Row.
1:25:71
E. A.
BIGLER & CO.,
DKAI.EHB IN
SQUARE TIMBER,
and manutactureri of
ALL KIMN OP HAH l l 1.1 I.IJ11 It,
I-77J Cl.KARFIELD, PENN'A.
G. H. HALL,
PRACTICAL TUMP MAKER,
KEAR CLRARFIHLD, PENN'A.
Jrtr Pumps always on hand and made to order
en short notice. Pipes bored on reasonable terms.
Ail work warranted to render satisfaction, and
dellrered if desired. niT2o:lyid
THOMAS H. FORCEE,
PIALBa R
GENERAL MERCHANDISE,
;HAI1AMT()N, Pa.
Also, extensive msnufactnrer and dealer In Square
Almtier ana sawed Lumber ot all kinds.
Ortlera. lollelted and all bills promptly
tilled.
I, SNYDER.
PRACTICAL WATCHMAKER
AMD filALKR IK
Watches, docks nnd Jewelry,
Graham' Row, ifnrket Street,
f'LEABPIKLI). PA.
All kind of repairing in my line promptly at-
ended to. April 2-V 1874.
Clearfield Nursery.
KN'COURAGti HOME ISPUSTUY.
THE andenUned, barlnf fuhllhed a Nur
ttry on the 'I'ike, aout half way between
Clear finld and Curweniville, tn prepared to for
nlih all kind of FRUIT TIIKES, (ttandard and
dwarf,) Ererftreena, Shrubbery, Grape Vine,
tioofeberry, J.nwtoo Ulaekberry, Mrawberry,
and Raipberry Vlnui. Alan, (Siberian Crab Tree,
Quince, and early vearlet Rhubarb, Ac. Order
promptly attended to. Addre,
J. 1). wit id lit,
ep20 SH. Curwen-vllle, Pa.
X"?w 91 nrblc Yard.
The amlerfifftted would Inform the rmMiA that
be hm opened a new Majbln Yard on Third Mreal,
op pom te the l.ulhtran Church, whr ho will htfp
ooootautly on bund a itock of rariom kinds of
maibl. All kind of
TOMBSTONES, MONUMENTS,
i'oHt for t'fmrtrry Loin,
and all older work In hi line will bo promptly
eir ml rd ia a neat aud workmnnlike manner, at
rcnmnialile rate.
He Bnerantreaatl!iarturr work a'i'l liw prirni.
dir. him a eail. J: FI.AIIARTY.
Claarlivhl, Pa., Mxrch 27, I7H-tf.
ANDREW HARWICK,
Mnrkrt Ntreet, C It-ardrld; Pa.,
HARliraCTIiaRI AUti tl ai.rr ir
nAlt.NKSS, SAMJLES, lllUULES, C0I.UU3,
and all kind of
HOHSB FVHSISIHNQ G00H8.
A full ftoek of Ruddier' Hardware, Rrunbe,
Comb, Itlanketf, Rubes, ete., alwaj on bund
and for aal at lb lowest eaah price. All kind
of ft'iiairiog promptly attended to.
All kind "f bidet taken tn etrharire for bar
nrp and repalti)t. All kind uf harntM leather
kept on hand, and for snle at a una II prt.fi I.
Clearfield, Jaa. IV, lt7A.
E. WARING'S
LAW BLANKS
Fr ul at tbt C Iter field Rai'tiLtcm office.
The monl Complete NerUt of I. aw
, MllankB published.
Theee nianka are (otten ap in euperlor t.?I,
are af nntlona alia, and furniibvd at very lew
flgare for eeih.
Call at th RiirratJciR offit and txamia
them. Order by mail promptly Riled.
AddrMt., UOOlil.ANUKK A LKE,
July itt IHTT tl. Clearaeld Pa.
Insurance agency.
I'KNTZ tl DR0CU0ANK, A(ents.
(8nccessors to Mnrrsy k Uordoo.)
The following flrst close companies represented:
North Itrltlsh A Msreaalile Fire Ins.
Co., of England f 2M(MI,o00
amtii.h Comiaerolal lire Ins. Co., of
Eniland IIO.IMIO.OOO
North America, of Philadelphia 4,7ml,lin(l
Fire Association, if Philadelphia l,lo,
Wslertowa Fire, New Verk, Insures
ferns property only M TnO.DOO
Mobile Vire Depanmeal las. Ce. ...... II,r
Perseas la the anuntry wantinK lasuranca, can
have it promptly attended to by a.ldreesln as in
person or by letter. Lowest possible ralee in ftret
elaM aompaules. iVo e.asfe. Offioe la Pie's
Opera Heuae. ANUKKW PFNT7., Jr,
I. T. DkOCKUANK,
Claarleld, May I, UTI ly. Areals.
s.
2,500.5
THE' CAMPAIGN.
SPEECH OF
HON. MILTON SPEER,
Chairman of the Demooratio State
Committee.
Deliver mi at McCoNNii.i.Miiintu,
SeitkmIieu Giu. 1878.
Pa.,
By tho poac-flul jiowor o( llio ballot
tlio peoili! til PennHj-lvatim nro cullud
upon to chouse their executive for tho
next four yeum. To ho tho Governor
of this urcut Ntnto in tin honor worthy
tho amhilinn ot her purest tud alilost
cilizenn. Threo polilitul pultieH, hy
their platlormn mid their uundidttlen,
challenro tho peoplo'n rttronition and
eliiim llieir mi tirade. One ot (hem
burn of tlio tiinireH8 tluil hun
like u ptiil over the .State und
the nutioti hua neither record or his
tory, und henco cunnot ho judged by
hul it has done, but only by whut it
promises to do. Tho other two the
ltemuerutio and tho Kepuhlicun np
peul not only to the uxHiintnces of tho
prcKenl and pledcB of tho luttiro, but
t6 tho tteliievenients of the imst. With
judieiul patieneo und fuirneHti, let the
high tribunal of tho people hour and
determine.
From 1SC1 until this hour Pennsyl
vania bus hud it Republican Governor
and the nalion a Republican President.
From 18(il to 18T5 till departments ol
I bo Federal Government, legislative,
executive mid judicial huvo been Re
publican, und the sumo is tiructicullv
iruooflhisiStuto. 'Phut parly had but
to apeak and it was done : to titter its
decree and it became law. Willi tho
purse of the n a lion in the one hand and
llio sword in the other, it bought or
lieutall opposition into tlio dust. Jo
political puny since tho birth of tree
govern nioiit lias wielded such power or
cnjovid such opportunities. No iiesti
letieetir (amino has desolated the laud,
hut the earth during all this period,
with luxuriant bounty, bus yielded her
wealth aim licr harvest to the touch i
toil. Why, iheii, should we not to day,
in ytate and nutioti. hcuhuppy and pros
perous people I Why should mil tho
air be vocal w-ith tb innsin ot our in
dustries ? Why should not tho mill,
ionsui hands this muutcntoMst retched,
willing und anxious to woi k,lind ready
employment ? Why should this land,
blessed by heaven und rich in ull the
elements uf productive labor, be turned
into a vast almshouse, whose only echo
is the cry lor bread and ui;uiliHt u hose
portals tho tramp stands knnckino; day
and night lor udmiltance ? These
questions and many others liko thorn
the people uk, us they have a right to
ask, and they turn with anxious and
resolute purpose lo tho Republican
parly and demand an answer. As
their servant, charged with high duties,
commanding untold resources und ex
orcising, legally or otherwise, imperial
power, it is culled tor judgment upon
tho record mado by itself. If either
fuilhless or incompetent, its claim to
public confidence should perish.
Nor is tho test tin unfair ono. "Ev
ery tree that bringctli not lorth good
fruit is hewn down und cast into tbo
fire." Government exists tor tho peo
ple, n ml no, the peoplo for the govern
ment. Its duty is protection, not plun
der; and when 1 lie rulers uf a freo peo
plo fail in this high duty, either from
evcukncsNof hend or corruption of heurt,
tho only salely ol tho Republic lies in
their overthrow. Thank God, no man
or party was ever born on our soil
with a crown upon hia brow. Withjus
tho diadem of power rests with tbo
people. Nu hereditary succession lrom
father to son is written in our constitu
tion of luws, mid if our peoplo guard
their liberties with vigilance and vir
tue, this budge of monarchy shall never
shumo llieir escutcheon I In Pennsyl
vania it is worth, not birth, that makes
ibe man.
What is our condition to day, after
almost seventeen years of unbroken
Republicun rule 7 It is not too much
to say that values huvo decreased ono
third, and tho debtor class, unable to
meet their obligations after a long und
desperate struggle, have yielded lo tho
inexorable logio ol events und gono
down to hopeless ruin. I need not
point you to tho endless listot applica
tions for tho benefit of tho bankrupt
law which is now repealed. For the
last five years, every hour that tho
clock has sit tick, day nnd night, bus
tolled the fiiiniiciul fuilure ofan Aincri
can ciliren. Like dcuth, the iron heel
of di.-ustcr has crushed both high utul
low. llio manttlueturer, giving em
ployment to a thousand men, and the
country merchant, providing liir him
self und tardily an humble support,
havouliko bowed beneath tho fury of
tho storm und now lie powerless ex
cept lo mark thr pal h of its desolation.
Driven by tho Sheriff from the homo
ol their childhood und from llio graves
ol their dead, in tho bitterness ol ' their
agony and beneath u starless sky, Ihey
summon their oppressors to the judg
ment nail.
Mote than thirteun years have elapsed
since the close of ibe wur. Tho South,
prostrated and exhausted, addressed
herself' to replacing the ravages of war
with llio fruits of peace, but .Slate after
Slain wus overrun with cormorants
and adventurers, who fed upon dirorder
and fattened upon plunder. They
secured control uf the local und Slate
governments mid rioted in tho sub
stance of tbo peoplo. In a few years
the debts and liabilities of tho eleven
Slates that had engaged in lhc rebellion
wero increased over .'0ll,(l0(l,000. In
Mississippi ono-sixtb ot tho land was
sold for taxes. Jl discontent prevailed,
the army was at bund to deepen tho
oppression by aiding the oppressor.
When these politicul vampires had
loaded themselviD with plunder thoy
would floo tho scene of their crimes, not
always unpunished by tho avenging
minister of justice.
This policy, long supported by llio
Federal government, entailed great
burdens upon tho peoplo. The South,
lltcrully rubbed, was suable to pay her
shuro ol her common debt, and the na
tional expenses wero largely increased
by maintaining an army whoso only
employment was tho maintenance ut
so called Slnto governments, which
rested alono not on tho popular will, but
on tbo bayonet.
Strangely onntigh carpet bog rulo
expired in its lust gigantic crime And
now these vlevon Stales, tinder rulers
of their choico, aro as peaceful as Penn
sylvania, und (heir cilitens, whito and
colored as secure in their rights or per
son and property as our own.
By reforenco to tho tlnunco report
for 1877, pages 1 1 and 12, it will bo
seen that tho net ordinary receipts ol
tho Treasury sinco Ihu Republican
party came into power nro 85,(l57,K(i!t,-2-1.65'
r and if yon will turn lo the i -port'uf
tho civil servico commission,
appointed by President Grant, of which
Girg iSlllinm Curtis was t member,
niatlo to tho forty-second Congress,
CLEAKFIELI),
you will find it estimated ' that ono
foui lh of Ihu revenues of tho United
States uro entirely lost in tho collec
tion." Hence, if llio 5,OOD,000,000
received represent but throo-forlhs of
tho amount levied by luw, tbo remain
ing fourth, lost or stolen, but paid by
the people, is $1,085,1)50', 107.21, a sum
greater than tho assessed vuluo of ull
iho property, real or porsonul, in Penn
sylvania, and a sum, too, which, with
interest from tho timo it was collected,
would more than pay every dollar of
tho nulionul debt. Tho payment ol
taxes is never the most pleasant duty,
but it becomes especially bard in these
limes, when tho tax payer has overy
reason tobelievothatoulol four dollars
paid by him lor the support of tho gov.
ornmont ono dollur is lost by negligence
or directly stolen. What private cili
ren would so conduct bis business ?
What corporation would exist an hour
under such management ' II a rail
road President wero to make such a
report to his stock holders, ho would be
instantly driven inlo disgrace. And
yet the peoplo are told thai tho cry for
retrenchment and relorm is hollow ana
iflsincere. Why should tho e.xponses
of tho government now bo almost twice
us much per capita us before the war?
Tho last fiscal year of Democratic ad
ministration closed Juno .ill, Isbtl, und
tho ordinary expenses, including inter
est and pensions, wero under 859,000,
000. The last fiscal year of absolute
Republican control ondod June IK), 1875,
und tbo ordinary expenses, excluding
interest and pensions, wero over cU l -,-
000,000. Tbo increase In our popula
tion cannot account tor this alarming
increase, in our annual oxpenses, nor
cun it bo churgeil lo iho war, for ull
claims resulting from the wur such as
pensions und interest on tho public
dehl aro excluded. It is tho result of
official incompetency ,cxtruvuganco and
corruption. It tost yearly about 81.95
per head to govern us beloro tho war ;
it costs now nearly $:i.5l) per head.
STATE PLATFORM.
Alter having donated to railroad
corporations over 200,000,000 of acres
ol tho public lands the Republicans, in
their plutlorm, in impudent mockery,
declure " that the public lands belong
to tlio people, and should ho reserved
exclusively ibr actual aettlera." 1'liia
means, 1 suppose, if tbo railroads don't
want uny more of them. And yet
about tlio tunc tho liepuhlicuns In
Pennsylvania wero adopting this res
olution llio Republicans in the Uni
ted States Senate 'wero voting a ro
grant of public lands to tho Northern
I'tt'dlic Railroad Company of 40,000,
000 of acres 1
Tho same platform makes curliest
declaration in favor of homo industry,
and yet Iho peoplo do not forget that
a Republican Congress ill 1872 reduced
the larill'on bituminous coal, iron, sleel
and other unit ies in Iho mining und
manufacture of which Pennsylvania
labor and capital w ero nnd are largely
employed.
And the same plallorm is loud in
protest against iho payment of South
ern claims. This cry bus served many
a political villiun a convenient purpose.
but let tho truth bo known. hut
ara Southern cluims ? A persistent
etl'ort has been matlo to huvo tho peo
plo beliovo thut tbeso claims are de
mands upon the Government, made
exclusively by ponton In the South
who wore engaged fn tho rebel on.
Instead ol this being true, a vast ma
jority of tho claims IhuB far allowed by
congress navo been presented by
Northern and Union men for losses al
leged to bavo beon sustained by them
in or on account of tho war. And how
stund the two parties on this question f
in tho p orty-sccona Congress (ltepiih-
lican) bills woro passed tor claims
amounting to f 2.4118,172.35. In tho
rorty -third Congress ( Republican) the
amount wus 2.511,2:18.05 Now, tho
l orly fourlh Congress (Democratic')
passed claimsamountingtooiilyal,.178,-
207.43, about 81,000,000 less than had
been allowed by tbo Republicans in
tho Forty second and Forty-third Con
gress. I iislPiid ol hills for tho payment
of 83,000,000,000 Southern cluims hav
ing been introduced in Congress, the
actual amount pending is 85,000,107.
in magnitying the number one bill lor
tho sumo purpose, but presented by
different members, has been counted
fifty-four times ; another, forly-niiio ;
another, twenly-nino ; another, twenty
four ; and so on. By such means uro
tho people In bo misled and the Repub
lican party kept in power.
Til r ct uitKNcr.
It in a remarkable fuel thut tho Re
publican Sinto plutlorin is silent on tho
picslion ol tlio currency. Why? Not
because tho people feel no interest in
this question, nor because a politicul
party asking a renewed lease of power
should now delitio its position upon an
issue so vital ; but becuuso it wus
deemed sulcsl tor success to leave the
subject open, that the uinnugem of the
cuiupuign inigbl lake uny position that
parly necessity might require, lhc
question, to somo extent, is supposed
to bo one of latitude and longitude, and
henco It was thought cruel to coin
pel the sumo sneuker to deliver the
same speech ill Luncaster as in Alio
ghony. Alter an unbroken silence of
three months the Republicun biiL'lo
cull is for hard money und national
banks I J ho currency that sustained
our armies in tho field that curried
our flag to victory that preserved our
government that paid lor tho torn
limbs and mangled body of tho livini'
soldier und for tho precious lite ol the
deutl, must ho withdrawn as worthless
rugs I And in Us pluco Iho people must
take a currency founded upon tlio in
torest bearing debt ot tho covcrnnu nt.
and whoso circulation has already cost
llio nation over 00,000,000 1 Jly
lrtends when you endorse your neigh
bor' nolo you think you do him a In
vor; but would you not think that
man insane who would pay a bonus to
bo allowed to endorse hia paper? And
yet such Is tho law under which the
national banks are organised. They
do business upon tho credit of tho gov
oihmcnt; they roceivo semi annually
interest upon tho bonds deposited, and
in uddition ninety per cent, thereon in
notoa for circulation, which they aro
allowed to lonn at any rate of interest
atithoriied by tbo law of tbo Sluto
where the bank is located to bo charg
ed by any other banks ol issue. Thus
it happens that local hunks may have
special charters, allowing eight anil ten
per cent. Interest to bo charged. If so,
national banks, alter receiving six per
cent, on their bonds, ran supplement it
with ten per cent, on their notes, thus
getting sixteen per cent, for whut is
practically the same Investment 1 It is
not against tho stockholders of nation
al batiks that tho argument is address
ed, but against tho luw which permits
such llugrant wrong upon tho rights
of the people.
On tho 1st of November last there
wore in rxistonce 2,080 national bank,
with a capital Hock paid in ol 117!,
407,771, and with surplus lund and
othernndivided prulltsol 1U9,34H,7!I9..
ill!.' These flgtlros tell the story. These
PRINCIPLES, NOT MEN.
PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1878.
banks have been organized for about
twelve years, and have annually declar
ed dividends never lesathan lour and of
ten twolvo per cent, i and yet in this
brief period they have accumulated un
divided profits, held now by them us a
surplus lund, amounting to more than
one-third of all their puid in cupttul
Thus their stock becomes enormously
enhanced in vnluo, s is seen by recent
quotation of tbo slock ol tbo Chemical
National Hank of Now York, whose par
vuluo, 1 beliovo, is (100 per share,
while its par vuluo In tbo market is
?1,i00 per shuro. A system ol tinance
that permits such profits when labor
is idle and industry purulvzed is op.
pressivo to the peoplo and dangerous
to freo institutions. It tends to cen
tralization ; it builds up a vast money
power born of tho auDio parent, suck
ing tho satno brutc.:t. iuA devoted to a
common purpose. It General Jackson
had cause to feur ono bank controling
830,000,000 or40,000,000, wtt would
bo huvo thought of 2,000 bunks, organ
ized under one law, with thesamoinlor
ests und aims, and having 8500, 000,
000 cnpilul ?
A circular from tho Secretary uf tbo
American Hankers Association, dated
August 31, 1878, sIiowb tho concentra
ted action and tlio evil disposition uf
these banks. Tho purposo evidently
is to levy a largo corruption fund to
debauch tho voters in doubtttil Con
gressional districts aud lo elect the
friends of tbo banks to Congress. Do
not our duty und our salely ulike loud
ly invoke instant und crushing condem
nation of the system and tbo means by
which it is sought to pcrpctuuto it ?
Tho circular says :
"To meet the expenses of our asso
ciation for tho current year, as direct
ed by tho convention and by tho exe
cutive council, our treasurer bus pre
pared his drutts, which will reach you
about the same tune as this is deliver
ed. A prompt response will, wo hope,
ho given by all bunks and bunkers,
whether previously mombors of this
association or not. 1 hero nro indica
tions thut a renowed and violent wur
is to bo mudo upon the bunks, and it is
not ibe port ol wisdom or prudence for
us to sit supinely idle and allow our
selves to bo misrepresented and ma
ligned before tho public."
"There aro indications that a renew
ed und violent war is to bo mado upon
the hanks that is, the people aro try
ing to repeal tho luw, aud thoreforo we
need money lo control elections, employ
lobbyists ut.d corrupt Congressmen 1
How shameful is this revolution.
A continuation ot nulionul bunks
means tho perpetuily of tho nulionul
debt. It is never to be puid I Is that
the doetrino of tbo Republican party in
Pennsylvania? Tho farmer or mo
chanic'never feels that bis homo is bo
cttro while tho mortgage remains tin
puitl. Wo huvo a tnorlgago upon tbo
nation of ovor 82,000,000,000 nnd wo
now and then hear it whispered that
it is a national blessing. To tbo hold
era of our bonds, exempt from ull tax
ation, it may bo so ; but to the millions
of taxpayers, if a blessing, it comes in
a sad disguise. Syndicates and rings
may sing its praise, but tho people,
bending beneath the weight of its con
suming burdens, speak a truci voico.
It is tho right oi tho nation to chango
tho system, and no ono can bo misled,
for tho law authorizing those banks ex
pressly reservo to Congress the right
to alter, amend or repeal it at any timo.
In making tho change invested capital
should bo protected anil no shock
should bo given to tho business of the
country.
Tho Treasury note, issued by the
Government mid based upon tho entire
wealth of tho nation, should take the
place of tho national bank note, under
sufo und proper regulations of luw ;
and thus there would ho annually sav
ed to tho peoplo from 815,000,000 to
820,000,000. This note should not bo
dishonored by the Government by its
rcliisol to accept it for any debt whero
tho contract creating tho debt does
not provide for payment in coin. If a
Republican Congress and a Republican
President could make tbo greenback a
legal tender to tho soldier and tho suit
or, tho willow and tho orphan ; if it
was money lo pay for tho blood of 500,
000 of our bravest and best, who died
thut tho nation might live why should
not tho Government accept it in pay
ment ot its own custom dues? Are
life unit limb less sacred than tariff
rates? No human Inngiingo cun esti
mate tho wrong dono by this degrada
tion of tho people's currency. Year
after year tho DemocrntB in Congress
huvo tried to redress this wrong, but
as votes are Ihero counted, and not
weighed, they huvo thus far failed. Hut
tbo day ol the people's dclivorunco
druweth nigh, anil this shumo of our
nutioiial legislation will soon bo blot
led out, und niter it shall havo been
buried with tho political crimes of the
past, tbo wonder will be that such in
jnslico could over have bad a defender.
Such is a clear declaration ol tho
Pittsburg platform.
1 would not be unjust to the Repub
lican State managers. Timidly silent
in their plnllorni, apparently bold in
their declaration in tavor of national
bunks as mado by Mr. Grow in his
opening speech of Iho campaign, they
yet present evidence of a very occoni.
mndating spirit. 1 no itcptiblican con
vention of Lycoming county n few days
ago indorsed lor Assembly two of iho
nominees of tho Greenback party ami
"no questions asked." Tbo nuptiuls
woro happily celebrated, Mr. Grow, as
the high priest, ministering at tho al
tar. Now, shall tho offspring ho a "rag
baby ?" Hut tho virluo ol this exam
ple is found in the sense of comfort it
gives to Republicans throughout the
Stato in not ton ing them to lio in their
bed if they find it too short. It recalls
the parson's announcement of a funer
al: "It will take placo to-morrow af
ternoon if it rains in the loronoon, but
H it ruins in tho afternoon it will tako
pluco in tho InrentHin."
RETRENCHMENT.
While tho net ordinary receipts of
the Treasury since the Republicans
havo been in power aio over 85,000,
000,000, a very small portion of that
Bum bus been applied to tho pnymcnt
of tho Nalionui debt. Alter paying
llio interest and pensions, most of tho
balunco has been expended in defray
ing tho current expenses of tho Govern
ment. With 80,000 Federal ollice hold
ers and vast appropriations for tho
army and nary, the bunions of the
peoplo remain (jut little less than ut the
close of tho war.
After 8200,000,000 expended lor the
navy, it is not now fit nr uclivo ser
vice. That extravagant expenditures
havo been made, tho following state
ment will show :
Appropriations by the forty lliir l ( Kr ulili.'an )
CoiiRress were
l7 4 ISI,,nt,lS7..
I B70 I, 7.37U.BS7 II
MI.7S,t74
P., Forty fourth ( Pemoersile) Coneress
1S7T....- fl6t..n0.lM:i.u
in; o.6i)s,i.iis
.10vM2t.sl
DllTrrcnea la te years..
M,c7i,sso.t)l
From this difference should bo de
ducted 85531,003.20, deficiencies np
propriuted lust session for tho yours
ihif und Inis, leaving un actual
saving to tbo Government by tho Dem
oerutio Ilotiso ot Representatives in
two years of 848,144,180.88 ! Audit
should bo remembered that tho reduc
tion in our oxpenses would huvo been
much greater had it not been for tho
action ol tho Republican Senate, which
increased tho appropriation in many
cuscs as passed by tbo House. No
party, intoxicated with power, ever ro
t'onns itself. Tho peoplo must relorm
it. Tho Republicans, tossing millions
as pennies during tho high tide ol tho
war and tho year immediately suc
ceeding it, bavo neither tho head nor
the heurt tn return to tbo plain ways
of penco. Their leader ull tend to the
centralization of power and to the op
pression of tho people Aided by cor
porate capital and by assessments gath
ered from ctllco-Loldcrs and nflice-hun-tcrs,
tho Republican party will neither
correct its abuses nor willingly surren
der tbo high trust it bus betrayed.
With a quarter ol a million ot tho
popular und a majority of tho electoral
vote ayainst him, wo huvo in tho scut
of Washington and Jackson a man who
represents iho success ot tho foulest
conspiracy ugainsl free governmentand
constitutional liberty known to the an
nuls of timo. And tho men to whoso
fraud, forgery and perjury ho owes tho
nnnso of President, instead of weui ing
chains and manacles uro loaded with
rewards and honors ; aro mado judg
es of courts nnd keepers of tho people's
treasure I Aly Wends, if a beggar, sturv
iug, tukci a loaf of bread not his own,
ho is arrested, tried, convicted and sent
to prison. Hut bore a bund of political
desperadoes, located in three Slates, by
nameless crimos have stolen Iho jewels
of tho republic ; and instead of being
overtaken by the swilt hand ol tho
avenger, they to-day mock tbo peoplo
in their citlumity and riot in their sub
stance. If justice biiB not fled tbo
earth, tho day, tho hour, is near ut
hand w hen her sword shall merciless
ly behead theso guilty wretches I
STATE ISSUES.
Let mo turn now briefly lo Stato is
sues. Vt o are all proud ot ronnsylva
nia. Baptized in the blood of tho'liev
olution, she has reared somo mighty
men. ller people honest, intelligent
and industrious ; her lorests rivaling
tho cedar of Lebanon and her soil
rich in minerals, she invites to her bor
ders tho best brain and brawn ol the
earth. Forgetting party names and
parly divisions, her citizens should
make her peace und prosperity their
common iiihoritnneo and their common
jov. Jin t a State with so many diver
sified interests and so many hources of
wealth is too inviting to escape tho
pluccmun and the trader, and to clay it
may be said with truth that no North
ern Sluto bus been so cursed with ling
und machine politics. Our people, feel
ing llio poison in tho system, Bought
deliveranco in a radical chango of tho
organic law, and the now Constitu
tion, in muny respects a model, took
form and being, not, however, without
a bitter Btrugglo, for tho old order of
things died by decrco and not by
choico.
Hut more was expected by tho
chango than bus beon realized. Over
wbeliningly (Ideated at tho polls, the
political cabal who had been controll
ing the Sluto, reluctant to retiro from
tho sccno of their past triumphs, tax
ed their ingenuity to defeut tho spirit,
it not tho form and letter, ot the nw
Constitution.
Ono of the complaints of the people
was that corporutions had too much
power. Tho creatures of legislative
will, mere servants ot tho people, thoy
wero hardly out of their watldling
clothes until they assumed to bo the
people's masters. Manufacturer and
producers could find no means to mur
ket, although a ruilroad might pass
their door. Tho rates wero exorbitant,
or no curs could bo bad, or the "ring"
might bo selling tho hi mo products or
goods. Tho griovunce became intol
erable and holiest men, with ono voico,
demanded that the power ot monopo
ly should bo broken and tho rights of
tho citizen respected.
Henco it is that wo find in tbo now
Constitution, nrliclo 17, Iho following
sections :
Sec. 3. All individuals, associations
and corporations shall bavo equal
right to havo persons and property
transported over railroads and canals,
and no undue or unreasonable discrim
ination shall bo mudo in charges for,
or in litcilitie lor, transportation of
freight or passengers within tho Male
or coming from or going to any other
Stato. Persons und property trans
ported over any railroad shall be de
livered at any station at churges not
exceeding tho churges lor transporta
tion of persons and property of tho
sanio class in tho same direction to any
moro distant station ; hut excursion
and commutation tickets may bo is
sued lit special rates.
Sec. 7. No discrimination in charges
or lucdities lor transportation shall bo
mode between transportation compa
nies ami individuals, or in favor of
either, by abatement, drawback or
otherwise, nnd no railroad or canal
company, or any lessee, manager or
employe thereof, shall muko any pref
erence in furnishing cars or niotivo
power. a
And ns if seeing with tho oyo of
prophecy Iho opposition with which
these sections would hornet, tho con
volition added :
Sec. 12. The General Assembly shall
enforce, by appropriate legislation, the
provisions ol this article.
Tho members of tbo Legislature
swear to "support, obey and defepd the
Constitution of tiiis Commonwealth,"
and yet with Iho duty therein written,
" tho General Assembly shall en
force by upproprinto legislation Iho
provisions" of article 17, no luw bus
been passed to carry out these provis
ion. Tho wroiays uf Iho peoplo in
this regard remain unredressed, and
tho slrong arm ol corporate power
continues to oppress, iinrehuked.
And when last winter tho suffering
oil interests ol our Slate, employing a
vast amount of capital and thousands
of laborers, ventured to nnproach tho
Legislature for relief and lo p inl to
tho Constitution as the ground of their
petition, they wore laughed to corn
und turned nuked away. It was fruit
less for iho present Democratic candi
date lor Governor, then a Senator, lo
muko earnest plea lor the rights of the
peoplo against tbo greed of monopo
lies, for, ns ho spoke, ono ot tho b ail
er of tho Republican ring, liko tho
serpent at tbo cur of Kve, was whis
pering poison to those who know not
what it was lo disobey his nod.
Defeated but not dismayed, tbo oil
men returned tn their wells with firm
purpose to leitcli oppressors, by tho
ballot, tbo measureless depth of their
wrongs. Hut happily just then tho
Republican Slate convention, compos
ed in part ol member ol the Legisla
ture, met In llariisbiirg but a low
step from tho spot whero tho free
pipo bill bad been murdered, and with
anxious concern passed this resolution :
Sixth. That we view with alarm the growlnK
depression of many of the Ivailit.a trade iulereila
ot the ISIate and oountry, resulting pertly, II is
believed, from unlair ailrenlaees and disurimt
naling rates of freight and transportation privi
leges given by msny treneporlatioa eouipsnies
ol tbo State end oountry to a favored few to the
prcdjudioe of our general producing inurerti,
and thie convention earnestly recommends tbs
ensctinent ofsueh laws by the Slate and Nsllooa
Leglilatures as will correct Ibis growing evil.
If tho "alarm" was sincere, tho Ro-
publicnn Legislature could speedy havo
removed u, lor it was then in session.
The performance was a pretenso and
so intelligent members of all parties
muni rcguru it, a no ricpunncan man
ager will discovor that milk is for ba
bies, but that strong men want meat.
Nor should tho recent action of Gov
ernor Hartranlt a to tbo quo warran
to, proceedings in Venango county
pass without brief notice. Ho hud
long been familiar with tbo grievance
of tho oil men and ho bad witnessed
tho nncqttal contest thoy waged bo
foro the Legislature. Ono bravo word
from him then would havo saved their
cunso : but it was not spoken. Iio re
mained. Bilont as death when honest
speech would huvo been golden, and
bo must not hopo now, when the storm
of tho people's wrath is gathering to
save a sinking can so and candidate by
a writ from any court. A quo war
ranto may do many things, but it can
not elect General Hoyt Governor.
STATE IXPENSES.
Ring rule has brought with it, ol
course, a largo number ot offices and a
largo increase in tho annual expendi
tures. I cannot refor to theso in detail
tail but a fair sample of tho system of
ring rulo 1 select Iho expense ol tho
Kxecutivo in 1801. tho year before tho
war, under Governor Curlin, and tho
expense of 1877, under Governor
llurtranft.
tIRSRH CI'RTIX.
llovernor's salsry
Private secretary
Messenger
Itcpuirl to Kxecutive Mansion.,,,..
, t 4,0011 00
ooo in
6io no
1.0 00
.. $ 4,4. 0 00
Totil.
i'Roi;n H a nf RARrr.
Oovernor's salsry $10,1.00 00
l'rirutc secretary 2,5011 (III
Kxecutive clerk I, Am) 00
Messenger l,2eil no
Night watchman tloo 0(1
Pge ?WI 00
Recorder for llostd of Pardons iil'll 00
Clerk for Hoard of Pardons., soil no
Carpet : 10
(Jla.a, etc HI 60
l.al.or 6 1!5
Tuning piano 10 on
Coal 210 25
Cleaning H. M (Ml
Wa(cbman 21 00
Furniture., (J 6i)
Sprinkling street 15 t0
Carpet 7011 12
Carpet and turn ituro it, I 00
Furniture 78 2o
Repairs , 64 00
Sprinkling streets 1& 00
Iticblcnul Kxeoutire.,. 2,000 00
Incidental bieeutive, Il'rd of 1'ardout. &00 00
t'ndcr Hartranlt, 121.75' 47
I ndcr Curlin 5,450 00
Hartranftorer Curtin in one yrar.,$10,ln7 47
I give you tho expenses of Iho Stuto
Government under the lust Democratic
Govornor (Packer) onding in 1800, and
also under Governor Curtin, includin;
the war, Geary and Hartranlt:
Under Packer, Uj re years l ,340,819 18
t oiler Curtin 1.SS5 157 08
tadcr (leery (leeond term) S,SOs,so5 07
I ndcr Hartranlt (Orst term) 3,2711,215 28
Tho abovo figure do not include in
lorcst paid on Sluto dehl, pensions, or
amounts paid to soldiers orphans
schools, ft will bo seen Ibat Govornor
Ilartranfl's first term, years alter the
tho war, cost almost threo time a
much a Pucker's. A part of this in
crease i accounted for by the increaio
in tho number of judges and members
of tbo Legislature; but theso items
explain but a small portion of the in
crease. For example, in 1859 tho Sen
ale cost, in round number, 850,000;
in 1874, with tho same numbers, it
cost 8134,000, an increase of 881,000.
In 1809 tho House cost 8125.000; in
1874,8209,000, an increase of 8141,000.
There bus beon a steady increase, and
tho present year will be tho most ex
pensive ever known to thu Stato. Tho
last session of tho Legislature of 1878
cover 1 14 days. Its expenses were
Balnry of Senators.......
Salary of cmpluye
Postage
Stationary
. 7S.07S 20
.. ao.coo 4
5,o.iO no
. 11,011 so
$12R,7M 40
Patary of members. ,.
Salsry of omployee..
Postage
8taliouary.,
..1201.721 20
.. 02,075 2
.. 20,300 00
.. 22,00 01
-.17,3;S 01
Kijiense of Senate and Iloaae
,.14110,140 41
tost of each member, l,v,7.
Tho bill is 825,350 for poslago. This
would pay postugo on 815,000 letters,
which would bo an uvorago of 3,3tiG
letters to each member, and as tho ses
sion continued 1 14 days (including ail
journmont) each member, to use bis
postage, would havo to write duily 23 1
letter.
Thus it has gone lor many years,
and thus it will go as long as the pres
ent dynasty Bhall rulo the State. Un
der Pucker, our lust Democratic Gov
ernor, it coal forty-two coins per bead
to govern the peoplo lor threo years.
Under tbo first term ol Ilurtraufl it
cost cighly seven cents and under tho
present term It will cost ninety-fivo
cents. And In this iucroaso no ex
penses arising from tho rebellion anil
no interest or pensions are included.
And in return lor theso heavy and
growing burdens whut bavo tho peo
plo received? lint struggling indus
try has been aided ? What monopoly
has been seized by tho throat and
taught obedience to tho law? What
legislation bus been passed to enable
individual shipper and producers to
secure justice in tho relentless warfare
wago'l ugainsl them by corporate won h
and ling combinations? Whatninglo
measure urged by the people and op
posed by corporations bus been coined
into law ?
And upon the other hand what
proposition for the creation of sine
cures and tho further oppression of tho
peoplo has tailed ? When tho ear of
tho Iicgisluloro woro deal to tho ap
peals In behalf nf the depressed oil in
terest ot tbo hlalo, they wero open
wido to the imperious demand ol tho
ruling cabal to pass the Recorder's bill.
I nwnling to givo a helping hand to a
great industry that develops the re
source of tho Commonwealth and em
ploys thousands ol men, tho law-making
power was yet servile in it haste
to create a new nfliee, with enormous
nnd undefined emoluments, (With tho
extraordinary tenuro to its appointee
of ten yenr. Why not givo him a life
estate at once? ff tho people aro to
bo plundered under the form of law,
lo raiso funds to dehutich electors und
perpetuate tbo rulo of rings, It would
Lave tho expenso of repeated legisla
tion to declure by a general act that
the officer and courts of Iho Stuto do
and nl right ought tn. belong to the
Republican riiigstnr, their heir and
assigns lorevor. From the judge upon
tho bench down oven to Ibe notary
public, tho commission passe through
tho sumo channel. Stranger tn hon
est labor, Willi politic as a profitable
TERMS $2 per annar- ;a Advance.
NEW SERIES-V0L. 19, NO. 3S.
Irado, a few desperato men havo by
desporato means installed Ihemselve
in all tho avenues of State power, and
now, liko birds uf prey, they claim the
people as their own. Need 1 name
them? No; for there ib ecarcly a
child, from tho river to tho hike, able
to prattle at it mother' knee, that
cannot nioun tho roll.
THE VITAL ISSl'E.
Tho vital irisuo of this contest Is
Shall tho government of Pennsylvania
bo recucd lrom ring rulo and restored
to tho peoplo ? Upon this platform all
honest men can stand, and toerothcr
they should make common battle
nguinst n common foe. In the pres
ence of tbo great peril minor differ
ences should be trampled in tho dust;
disorganizes should bo hung to the
lump post, nnd tho army of Iho people
under Iho banner uf reform borne by
our gallon leader, should march with
resistless tread to victory. First drive
from the temple tho bands that pol
lirto it, nnd then it will be timo to ur
rango tho order of our worship. It is
noontide madness for anyjono who do
sires tbo utter overthrow of hateful
porsonul rulo in Pennsylvania to waste
his lire in this bayonet charge
And, my friends, it is well for you
and for all taxpayers that tho Demo
cratic party presents candidate whom
it is an honor to support. In tho full
bloom of vigorous manhood ; loved at
homo and esteemed abroad ; born to
toil and schooled in adversity; faith
ful to friends and fearless in duty, their
lives and their honors aro alike a les
son and a legacy to every young man
in Pennsylvania. And when tho do-
creo of tho peoplo shall havo been ro
corded and tho agod minister shall
greet his son as Governor, tho child of
tho circuit as executive uf tho Sluto
will bo truo to tho curly training ol
hi pious father and faithful to the
interests and tho honor of tho Com
monwealth.
THE UllDEH oTrilK GARTER.
Tho Order of tho Garter, will) which
Earl lieaconsfield and Lord Salisbury
have been invested by tho Oueen of
Great Britain, is ono of tlio odest and
most fumousol the ordorsol knighthood
that remain Kuropo. Tho exact dato
of its foundation is not known. One
authority ascribes it to 1192, when in
a batllo with the Saracens on St.
George Day, Richard Cieur do Lion
commanded twenty six of his knights
to wear around their legB thongs of oltto
leather. Rut most writers agree thut
it dales from Edward III., though iho
precise dato is in dispute, r roissart giv
ing 1344, and Stow 1350. General
tournaments in that timo woro held at
Windsor. Atone ol them, soys the fami
liar story, tho Countess ot Salisbury
lot fall her garter when dancing with
tho king, and the king picking it up,
lied it uround Ins leg, there were
smiles from the company and jealous
glances lrom the queen, noticing wbicb
Edward restored tho garter to tho
countes saying "Jloni soitquimaly
pn.se," (Evil to him who ovtl thinks)
and added that thoso who smiled would
shortly see the gartor advanced to such
honor and renown as to account them
selves hnppy to wear it, Thcro have
been writers to ridiculo this story, but
none to suggest a more probablo t hoa
ry. The order was founded in honor
of the Holy Trinity, tho Virgin Mary,
St. Edward tho Confessors, and St.
George, tho latter of whom had thon
boenmo tho guardian saint of England,
and was considered tho special patron
ol the order. It bos always born the
titlo of "Tho Order ol St. Gcorgo" as
well as of "Tho Gartor."
The original dress of knights was a
blue mantel tunic nnd capuchin, em
broidered with garters of gold and bluo
silk, tbo largest of wbicb was worn on
tho left shoulder of tho mantle. Henry
Vlll. changed it, as did Charles II. af
ter him, but Charles for the last timo.
As now used, it consists of a durk blue
velvet garter, edged with gold, and
bearing tbo motto in letters ot gold,
and worn below tho kneo on tho lelt
leg ; a muntlo bluo velvet, lined with
whito tatl'eln ; a hood of crimson vel
vet ; a surcoat also of crimson velvet,
and lined with whito taffeta ; a bat of
black velvet, lined with tull'eta, and
bearing a plume of ostrich and heron
fealhcra.fastoned by a band of diamonds.
Tho collar is of gold, being composed
of twenty-six pieces, each in tho form
of a garter, and has appended to it a
figure ol St. tioorgo on horseback. A
ribbon. The star has eight points, and
is of silvor, having tho cross of St.
(icorgo in tho centro and being cm
broidered on tho left breast.
Of tfio royal family, beside tho Qneon
and Princo of Wales, who belonged to
the order, Ihero nro the Dukes of Edin
burgh, Connaiight and Cambridge, and
Princo Leopold ; of foreign sovereigns,
the kings of Italy, Portugal, Denmark,
Belgium and iho Hellenes, and emper
ors ol Germany, Austria, Russia und
Brazil, beside tho Shah of Persia; of
titled persons from abroad, the dukes
Suxo Aleiningen, Brunswick and Suxa
fohurg Golha, tho grand dukes of
Mccklcnburg-Strclitz und llesso lmrm-
sludt, (Louis IV.,) thocrowm princo ol
Germany, nnd tbo princes Christian ot
llolstem and William ol 1'rnssia.
Among tho English nobility who
havo been invested with tho order aro
Eurls Granville nnd Shufteshury, the
Dukes of Wellington, Devonshire, Som
erset, Sutherland and V estminister,
and Viscount Strulfurd de Rcdclifio.
Tho Into Earl Russell wus of tho num
ber, as was also tho Into ex-King Geo.
ot llanover. low members ot llio
British Houso of Commons havo receiv
ed tho honor. Palmerslon wastholast
Walpolo received it whilo in the Houso,
as did hord North fifty yennt litter
Ijord North being dsignated in debato
as "tho noble lord with the blue ribbon.
It was offered tho ynungur Pitt, who
declined it lor himself, but asked thut
it might bo given lo his wayward older
brother, second and last Earl of Clio
thatn. Tho request wn granted, but
tho king wished it distinctly under,
stood that the bestowal was ill consid
oration ol service rendered to tho
crown by all tho members of tho fami
ly. A writer in Hrliravia relate that
when it wn olfered to tho lute Lord
Filzwillium, ho asked how much it
would cost. "A bout a thousand pounds,"
somo ono replied, whereupon the noble
lord quietly remarked that bethought
ho could muko a belter use of hi
motley.
I venorntu old ago ; and I lovo not
the man who cun look without emotion
upon the sunset of life, when tho dusk
of evening begin to gather over the
watery eye, and the shadows ol twi
light grow brooder and deeper upon
the understanding. Longfellow.
Converted. Tho celebrated Dr.
Dio Lewis, after throe years in Cali
fornia, claims that the Chine so are phy
sically, morally and menially, superior
to any oilier people.
lesser St. (ioorgo is onamoled on gold I Py, clclir ln,lioIt of wlat will follow,
and set with diamonds, being Biispendcd j 1 n0 PlaM nd V'ton adopted, and
over tbo left shoulder by a dark blue!1 10 K?nerttl management followed out
EDUCATIONAL. . -
tot M. I. McQFtrteX
"I WILL If T1IET PAT ill FOR TT."
T turn tej ( ttio reptV it to Lev mi.orf
to us whon asked to iiioverouTplly'"iT.'"
the organization ut an institute in bis
district. The reply lo ns seems barren
of thut zoul and caudor that should
murk the loyal teacher. We wish
briefly to hlalo that if our teachers
wish to aid in securing a more exalted
public opinion of the ollice of teacher,
to awaken our directors and pa
trons to an unlimited zeal and just ap
preciation ot tho copious labors of iho
school room, wo must mw'. Work
to secure public conSdvnco and esteem.
Work to mould public sontiniont in fa
vor of better pay, bettor teacher and
better school. Work to remove tho
seules from the eye of cheap "croak
ers," and wipe out that indifforcuco
that seems to bavo gathered like a
storm cloud ovor the blue sky ol prog
ress. Work to purity, dignity and
elevate the profession, to unite in just
criticism, and censuro tho disloyal and
unworthy teacher, and thus secure a
premium and recompense for tbo earn
est and devoted of tbo profession.
Work to show director and the publio
thut a distinction should bo mado and
preserved belwcon tho faithful and the
unfaithful ; the qualified and tho un
qualified ; the apprentice and the work
man; tbo moral and immoral j tho de
serving and the undeserving. Work
tor promotion, success and reputation.
U'oiik without ceabino. Then and
then alono will we see a brighter day
for our schools and teachers. Shall we
stand still liko the stagnated water in
the pool, wIlUoul uxbibiting lifo, vigor
or will? Surely not. 1 insist that tho
two hundred and twenty teacher
abont to engage in leaching, move in
a solid phalanx to bring about the ends
and measure above spccifiod. Organ
ize your institutes, your lyoouin and
societies at onco. Go to work to dis
cuss the issues involved In the groat
work of which you aro a fucloi. See
that your patrons and directors attend
the meetings. Strive to enlighten tho
mind and awaken interest. Labor to
do your duty faithfully, and show our
authorities that your courage and zeal
is undaunted though your wages be
reduced, and another year may bring
to you tho enjoy mont of a better repu
tation and a ricbor compensation. And
shnme bo to the teacher who says, "I
.,:n I. : .1.. : .1 ' .
mo worn 111 inu lusiitute 11 tnoy pay
mo for it."
EIlUCATlONAf. BRIEFS.
Wo slated in an article last week
thut tho institute district and pluco of
first meeting would be announced this
week. On account of somo irregulari
ties in securing necessary information,
wo aro compelled to omit tho Famo,
but will attend to it in duo time.
The Hoard of Directors ol Burnsido
borough bavo just finished reseating
their school building. They secured
the patent Dove tailed Triumph Desk
at a cost of 82 10 00.
Tbo director of Knox township aro
building c now school house in the
Eastern part of that township, the con
tract to bo completed in thirty day.
Wo bavo seen it stated that tho di
rectors ol I.awrenco Independent Dis
trict aro building a bouse at Paradise
A houso is being built thcro by the
Hoard of Lawrence township not
Lnwronco Independent.
Tho editor of tho llollidaysburg
Standard says that eleven ot the fo
malo teachers of Titusville have beon
married wilhin the last year, and that
all tbo female teacher of Western
Pennsylvania havo mado application
for positions in that city.
Tod Ford, of Akron, Ohio, a humor."
ous lecturer ot unquestioned ability
and reputation has beon engaged for
Tuesday evening of institute week.
His subject will bo, "Go West, Young
Man." Tho instituto lecture course
will be mado np of tho best talent in
tho lecttiro field both instructive and
entertaining.
The Board of Lawronce township
report the following appointment of
teacbor : Paradise school, Y . T. Spsck
man; Wolf Run, Lewis Brown; Wa
lorlord, Jonnie Shaw; Montgomery,
W. lv Tate; Hnttwood, Sadie R. Mo-
Coy; Hazel Greon, Annio P. Road;
.ML Carmcl, D. N.Groor; Clover Hill,
W. S. Port; ML Joy, vacant; Pleas
ant Dale, Mary Saukoy ; Centro, W.
C. Pontz ; Pino Grovo, Wood R. Mo
Closkey; Ml. Zion, D. S. Lnnsbcrry.
Till FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL.
Every teacher is aware ol the utility
ol tho first day's impression in the
school room. It is necessary that the
teacher makes a special preparation
preparatory to opening the school, re
membering that "first impressions aro
lasting ones." Tbo following very
valuable arlicle wo take lrom the Nor
mal Teacher :
"Tho first day of school is the most
important ol tho whole term. What
tbo teacher does this day will form a
Iho first day, will bo with few excep
tions, pursued to the close ol the torni.
Wo huvo watched this matter carolul
ly ami havo novcr known it to fail. If
tho teacher ha little or no system the
first day, ho will have little or no sys
tem during tho term. If ho goes to
tho school room not knowing hardly
what to do, or how lo do it, tho first
morning, rutber relying on tbo exigen
cies of the occasion t prompt him to
do something, ho will tind himself in
tho snino predicament every morning
of tho school term. If ho drags him
sell to tho school room dreading his
first dny's work, his step will grow
slower nnd slower, and his dread will
increase until, by tho last day, it will
becoma "a burden too grovious to he
borno."
If this bo true, how important it is
then that wo begin aright. Wo all re
member, perhaps tho old provorb which
say, "Any thing well begun I half
done." Wo can not be too careful In
our first day' work.- It ts essential
lo our highest success that ws niako
specittl preparation for it. You can
then plant your chart and set your
compus accordingly. Yon will oon
find out how much ofan interest your
patrons tnko in education ; who tho
unruly boy and girls are; what kind
of a teacher thoy bad last wintor, hi
fault and fuilure especially ; just how
tho school has boon managed Tor years
past, and just now if tkould be managed,
and unt il other useful information
that will bo of great nolp to you. Visit
iho school room in person with tho
director, and tell him that the houso
must bo put in order before school
open. Having arranged all tho pre
liminaries, you are now prepared to
muko out your pmgrammo lor tho
first day. Go to your work knowing
just what to do and how to do it.
Huvo two or throe of tho patrons, the
director, and, If possible, the trustee in
to see you organize. Bo proparod to
show yourself master ol the situation
and, our word for iL you will be mas
tor through tho entire term. Do not
be so simplo a to give your pupil for
ty or fifty rules prohibiting them from
committing a buntirod or mnre depro
dations, which 'they would, porhupa,
have never thought oi had you not
told thorn, but rullter maintain order
by forestalling disorder. Be very card
ial to have everything as orderly tho
first day as you wish to havo It during
the entire term. Again wo repeat,
you ran not bo too careful of your
first day'i work. 'Only this, and noth
ing inoret ' "