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THURSDAY, SEPT. 16, 1669.
UNION . REPUBLICAN TICKET.
STATE.
FOR GOVERNOR
JOHN W. GEARY.
JUDGE OP BC PRERE COURT:
ItElitY W. WILLIAM&
COUIV'MY.
ASSOCIATE JUDGE DISTEICT COURT.
JOHN 31. EIEtKPA.TRICK,
ASSISTANT LAW COMMON PLEAS,
FRED , K. H. COLLIER.
,STATE EiszTATA—THOMAS HOWARD.
"' Assirma4—MlLEB 8. FITIMTHREYs,
ALEXANDER MILLAR,
JOSEPH WALTON.
. JAMES TAYLOR,
D. N. WHITE.
JOHN H. KERR.
eamarts HUGH S. 71.5". 1 4rge.
TasAsuaara-108. F. DENNISTON.
CLERK or couRTB—JOSEPH.BROWNE.
iticSaDau—raomes H. HUNTER.
COmiasszoxia — )HAUNCEY B. BOSTWICK.
Measure—JOSEPH H. GRAY.
CLERK ORPHANS' Coma— ALEX. MILAN'S.
DMICTOP. or roou—ABDIEL McOLIIRE.
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WE PlitfiT on the inside pages of
lAis morning's Gezzrrs—Second Page:
-Poetry, "Daybreak;" Crimss and Casual.
Ifes, State News, Personal, 'General Intel
ligence. Third and Sixth pages: linance
and Trade, Markets,'lmporte, River News.
Seventh page: The Avondale Calamity,
Pernicious Influence of Byron's Poetry,
Oil Regions Items, Last Moments of Sec
retary Batedins.
PETROLEUM at Antwerp, 5611
11. B. Borros at Frankfort, 87i.
G3LD closed yesterday in New York
at i3eq@l36l.
THE Baptist Church at Avondale lost
all its male members but .three by the ter-
Tilde mine disaster.
THE larns.lis who lost their lives at
Avondale were nearly all Welshmen, and
nearly all Republicans.
Tam Chinese mission is said to have
been , tendered to, and declined by, Es-
Senator Frelinghnysen, of New Jersey.
GOV. HOFFILUI has certified the ratifi
•cation of the XYth Article by New York,
in compliance with a direct request made
to him by the State Department.
Tun English Government are not in
ed to renew the Alabama negotia
tions, so long as there is any prospect
that our own Goveinment will concede
the British position on that question, by
recognizing the belligerency of Cuba.
In this connection, we may remark that
if Minister Sicxr,zs has given to the au
thorities at Madrid any intimation of our
intention to recognize that belligerency,
he has done so wholly without instruc
tions from Washington.
Taa:Aßegherly Valley Railroad bake
stt, Oil City is rapidly approaching cora
pletlon. By the first of next January
trains Will pass over and make connec
tion with the roads penetrating the up
per Allegheny districts and reaching all
the important lake shoie points, and at
*a same timese - wiring new outlets to
theieast and west. The bridge will be
a 'Superior specimen of workmanship and
!in keeping with the ; general appoint
ments of this well managed railway.
Ax AsstraD report comes from the Pa
vitlc coast announcing the diseovery of a
paper upon the sat,beach, purporting to
he a memorandum;from the Franklin ex
pedition, thesurviiors of which, desert
ing -the ships, had then made their way to
a point in latitude 69 i north and longitude
98 West, where "the y thiew into the sea
the vessel containing ' this document.
Trafortunately, iteppears that this point
ielnuidreds of Miles in the interior of
the Arctic , Continent. Otherwise, the
Story= would be plausible:
GREAT. ACTIVITY prevails in the oil
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regions. and operations:are going on vig
orously both in producing and develop
ing. -TO fears entiTtained a few weeks
ago tiu*the region, was, well nigh ex
imust.ed of its rich uleaganions deposits, are
now effectually dissipated, as the yield is
on the increase and new wells are con
.
stantly awarding explorers. • Experi
ments are going forward in the region
peal
Tidionte to discover a new oil belt
- 'tinting northeast from the ,present line,
And If successful fresh life Will be given
to the tra4e,in that region.
OiThiernr has been honored this week
with he convening together in Conven•
tendon of all the master mechanics of
the leading railways of thecountry. The
aldeat of the meeting was to enable the
Inembers, by an interchange of views and
opinions, to profit by each others wisdom
and experience in the construction and
operation of roads and of rolling stock.
We have seldom seen together any body
of mechanics so conspicuous for learning
and intelligence, and doubtless much prac
tical good will result from the meeting.
• With commendable good taste the leading
iron and steel manufactirers of the city
have tendered the Isiociation a grand
complimentary banquet, which will be
held tonight at the Monongahela House.
Ottn PEOPLE will not fail to' Son-
tribute their just share to the A4on
dale relief fund. It is proposed that this
fund shall be permanent, and that it shall
reach $250,000. We find a list oq the
victims by this terrible calamity in the
Luzerne journals. These are 108 in
number. Of these 67 were married, 22 of
them having each one child, 10 of them
each having two children, 11 of them
midi three children, 7 of them 4 chil
dren and 3 of them each 5 children or_
more. Saty•seren widows and one hun
dred and twenty.two orphans! We hope
each reader of this paragraph will try to
form a correct idea of what his or her
feelings or impulses would be, if that
stricken and Mourning congregation
were grouped standing in the visible
presence of our pitying eyes
Ix a recent protracted and extended
journey through the northwestern coun
ties of the State we were enabled to judge
correctly of the very decided popularity
of Goy. Geary, and of the disfavor in
which the Democratic millionaire is held.
There is now not the least doubt but
Geary will be • re-elected by an over
whelming majority. Everywhere the
ranks ; are closely cemented together and
the greatest harmony prevails even in
sections where local causes combined
to insure dissension. - We can safely assure
our readers that other counties will . do
their accustomed share of the work in
securing the desired result and it only
remains in Allegheny to look to her
own laurels and sustain the reputation
she has made of furnishing Republican
majorities which would do credit to
States.
TOE Jamestown and Franklin Railroad
is now recognized as the Franklin Pi
vision of the Lake Shore Railroad, a con
solidation having beetr - recently effected.
GEORGE H. 31cIrrntz. Esq., one of the
most efficient and thoroughly skilled rail
road men of the country, we are glad to
state, retains his position under the new
order of things, as Superintendent. He
is the right man in the right place, and
eminently worthy the large share of con
fidence and respect reposed in him. The
work of extending the road to Oil City is
being rapidly pushed forward'and will be
completed by the incoming of the next
year. The route follows the Allegheny
river and is parallel with the line of the
Valley Railroad on the opposite bank.
When finished, the extension will prove
an important feeder to the great road
which it is now parcel and part.
AVONDALE-WHAT
ter's inquest at
.r.ate the hdrri-
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gun to whis
ally s whole
itively deelar
re originated
1 of the shaft.
videnee upon
de up, 'it is
apparent that the enquiry
The verdict of the Corou
Avondale does not corrobo
ble suspicion which had s',
per that the disaster was
sale murder. The jury ro
ed their - opinion that the
from the furnace at the foo
So far as we have seen the
which this finding is
ducted with care and with
view only to revealing th.l
upon whom this might. '
fore inclined to regard the
jury as the most enlightene.
udgment upon ''the facts
Nevertheless, if murder L
here, it may have baffled, an
baffle, any possible investig
men tell no tales; not one
the public knowledge, who
he saw the fire break out
witnesses who could have'
story, were those who perished in the pit.
The Coroner's evidence has been almost
wholly conjecture, hypothesis 'and a pos
teriori argument. If better proof be ex
tant, it hides away in the con clone guilt
of murder; time alone will d sclose it to
the world.
It is true that the snspicio to which
we refer largely rests upon the hostile
feeling known to exist between the Av
ondale operatives and the other members
of the Miners' Union from which they had
seceded. It is also known that these
operators were' Welshmen almost to
a man. Of the 108 names of the vic.
time here before us, the ful hundred
bear the familiarly known We sh names.
The anthracite country is full f the re
cords of national ill-will between the
Welsh and Irish miners. It is ut a few
I ra
years since an armed mob of the tter sur
rounded a Welsh church at Archbald, in
this Luzerne county, on a quiet\ Sunday
morning, forced the congregation to leave
the building, and then set it on fire,
burning it to the ground before the eyes
of the men, women and chlAten who
had been worshipping there. The same
spirit was constantly betrayed. ~The mu.
tual jealousies of the two classes have
been the chionic basis for constant turbu
lence in 'those districts. Here is, we
hope, tfie only real foundation for the
Ithocklag susPlcionitbat this tirti WU the
work of an incendiary. ' And with pnaufis
wail status always existing, it would be
strange if this suspicion had not found a
public utterance now. j We must hope
that there was really dthing more is It.
i'nUIB'CTRG.II GAZETTE :‘ Tilt ItSDAY, SEFIEMBER 16, 1869,
- THE AVONDALE DISASTER.
Men who are regularly engaged in
hazardous employments almost univer
sally become reckless and disregard the
ordinary suggestions of prudence. This
was strongly illustrated in the case of the
Luzern county miners when they com
menced the long strike sixteen weeks ago:
The Companies were anxious to continue
the engineers at their posts, pumping out
water and pumping in air. The miners
knew that sooner or later they would re
sume work in the old places, but they
drove the engineers away, in some in.
stances breaking the pumping machinery
The same indifference to. danger was
evinced by this class in going into the
Avondale mine before its ventilation had
been fully, accomplished. Nor was this a
solitary instance of this species of indiscre
tion. A. day or two before the Avondale
catastrophe work was resumed in an old
mine which had a - ventilating shaft.
The foreman pointedly cautioned the
miners to extinguish their lamps before
beginning the ascent to the outer world.
This order was disregarded by all of
them. What was the consequence? The
fresh air forced in to the "breast," where
the men were engaged in taking out coal,
naturally caused the foul air to eeek egress
by both shafts. As the workmen ascen•
ded their lamps set the as on fire, and
but for the self-possession of a workman
outside _ a terrible tragedy would have
resulted. lie instantly covered the
mouth of the piL with plank, and these
with_ old blankets, which he saturated
with water, -thus speedily \smothering the
flame, which had not reached down into
the mine. _
We make these statements in order to
show that while a law is needed to compel
proprietors to take all due precautions
for the safety of miners employed by
them, legal provision is jo i st as much re.
quired for constraining " miners not to
meddle with the measures adopted for
their own safety, and to punish them for
disobeying the orders of their foremen in
this regard.
That not a little of the mining in the
anthracite counties is conducted without
proper reference to the security of either
life or property, is evident enough. But
many of the averments of the New York
journals, on this head, are simply in ac
cordance with the ignorance usually
evinced in that quarter touching all Penn
sylvania affairs. Take for illustration,
the complaint that no, ventilating shaft
had been provided or this Avondale
mine. This is a new mine, haying been
worked only a few months. Two shafts,
side by side, one for working and the
other. for air, would have been of no
practical utility. A mine must progress
to a certain distance before a ventilating
shaft becomes necessary or of special
value. Such a shaft would have un
doubtedly, according to the rules per
veiling in the county, have been put into
the mine, when it had been run far
enough; It is possible that if as air shaft
had been sunk in this mine witlin a hun
dred feet of the working - shaft, the men
might have escaped; but this is hardly
probable.
Of course, the laws should determine
how far a mine may be pushed before a
ventilating shaft mast be put in. But to
assume that neglect of ordinary and fair
precaution was evinced by the absence
of such a shaft in this mine, shows a total
lack of knowledge of the whole subject.
We have long felt that the "cracker"
ought not to be built over the pit month.
whether the mine is worked by shaft or
plane. A "cracker" is an immense wood
en structure, an hundred feet high, the
machinery in it driven by esteem engine.
This fabric is liable to at least all the or
dinary risks of fire, and in case of con
flagration, while the miners are at work,
peculiar hazards are incurred. The propo
sition to substitute iron frames for wooden
ones in these structures, is not sufficient.
Nothing short of constructing entirely of
iron will answer the purpose, provided
the "cracker" is built over tie pit mouth.
* The A.vondale mine adjoins the Union
mine owned by the Delaware and Hud
son Canal Company. The distance
through from one of these mines to the
other does not exceed fifty feet. Opera
tions in either mine can be heard distinct
ly in the other. If the Avondale propri
etors had run a tunnel into the Union
mine, which has more than one outlet,
their miners would not have been hope
lessly imprisoned. The usage which
prevails sanctions this procedure. The
objection to it, on the part of the owners
of the Avondale mine was that thejr
mine being lower than the other the
running of a common tunnel would have
let the water of the Union mine in upon
them,l.hus forcing them to do the water
pumping for both mines. This might have
been avoided by giving the tunnel the
form of an arch or siphon; but the ex
peCtation was to complete an independent
air-shaft at as early a day as possible.
No motive, except that of economy,
exists for building the "cracker'? over the
pit. It' costs less, while hoisting
the coal out of the mine, to send it di
rectly to the top of the "cracker," than
to stop , it midway, dump it into cgs, run
it : five hundred or more feet, and then lift
it to the head of the "cracker." But se
curity demands that the "clacker" should
be r',eintlyed tO, such distance silts no case
to obstruct egfese from the mines. •
• The ventilating apparatus used is often
defective. Septetimell common tin pipes
are Put lu, Which are soon corroded and
destroyed by the acids of the mines.
Even these pipes are frequently not ex
tended u the coal is taken out, so that
the pure air does not reach the Ardor
WAS let
been con
• erve, with a
. truth, reflect
e are there.
• erdlct of the
and reliable
s been done
. may always
• tion. Dead
.an lives, in
can say that
The only
old the true
parts of the mine, to refresh the laborers
and help expel the had air. If an iron
pipe, such as is ordinarily used to conduct
water, and twelve inches in diameter,
should be put in, and this divided into
several smaller ones on reaching the
points where mining is going on, such
a volume of air would be forced in as to
expel to the desired - degree all impurities,
and would be secure, for long periods,
against corrosion pr breaking.
Bat, it is useless, here and now, to con
sider all the points in the case. This
matter is destined to come before the next
Legislature. It is, therefore, desirable
that as many of the gentlemen who may
be elected to either of the two Houses as
can shall visit the anthracite counties be.
fore Jantiry shall come in, talk with both
r c
proprieto and miners, go into the mines
and exa 'ne everything !or themselves.
Legislati n accomplished . under excite
ment is 11 enough, provided the agita
tion leads to a careful scrutiny of all the
essential acts pertaining to the subjects.
Mining is a dangerous employment,
and cannot be reduced to the risks of ag
riculture. This - presents no reason why
the dangers should not be brought to the
lowest practicable point. But it happens
that the wages of the miners are much
higher than in ordinary departments of
industry; so that the miners are paid
abundantly for the hazards they run.
Besides, we apprehend that, taking a con.
siderable series of years, deaths In the
mines, in proportion to numbers, are
scarcely more than on railroads
in the general system of the
country. However this may be,
whatever can be done to avert dangers
and suffering 'among the miners should
be done, and without reference to the
money cost. The expense will fall at
first on the proprietors, but will ultimate.
ly be diffused over the whole population
consuming anthracite, the price of coal
being made to cover the increased cost of
sanding it to market
SKIES stucur.
Pennsylvania and Ohio are, in this year
of grace 1869, as soundly and faithfully
Republican as in any year past. Aye, and
more so! Ohio promises to us a larger
majority than she gave to GRAFT last
year, while 'the relative strength of par
ties was never so favorable, as now, to Re
publicanism in our own Commonwealth.
We have none but encouraging tidings
from every quarter of Pennsylvania.
Governor GEARY strengthens himself
daily with the people. Every meeting
which he addresses is a local triumph,
and his audiences are enthusiastic for the
soldier of Lookout Mountain, and the up
right and fearless Executive. Almost
daily, the Governor meets his constitu
ents face to face, and talk to them so ef
fectively to the purpose, that hundreds
of his old opponents whd come to scoff,
remain, regretting their injustice.
The soldiers who never dodged their
country's call to arms, the taxpayers who
don't dodge their just obligations to the
State, the Republican masses of the peo
ple who don't mean to dodge their duty
at the polls—these are rallying, every
man of them, to the support of the loyal
and taxpaying ticket of a party which is
steadily and rapidly cancelling the Dem
ocratic debt of the Commonwealth.
Partisan slander has recoiled from our
candidate, who stands the stronger, to
day, for the malignant but exploded fab
rications of his and our enemies. This is
so evident that the libellers of Republi
canism find it expedient to let GEARY
alone, and are just now firing away at
Judge WILLIAMS, with about as much
effect as if they were dogs barking at the
moon.
While the Republican ranks are every
where closed up, and every man has eyes
front at attention, the opposite organi
zation is crumbling away in all parts of
the State. While Gov. GEARY grows
stronger with our friends, Mr. PACKER
grows every day weaker with the Democ
racy. The one represents living princi
ples which a free people love, and what
the other represents no two Democratic
editors or orators can agree upon defin
ing.
The signs are auspicious for a larger
majority to GEARY in 1869, than we gave
to President GRANT in 1808. Our Gover
nor is safe beyond a contingency. Let
our friends look now to their Legislative
tickets!
MINOR TOPICS.
Mr.- SEWARD, In his recent speech at .
Sitka, predicted that Alaska would some
day become the ship yard foi the world.
Formerly, American statesmen were in
the' habit of predicting that America
must become the source from which the
rest of the world should draw her ship
ping. A favorite idea, some score or two
of years ago, was that, in the event of a
foreign war, our navy could speedily be
rendered irresistible and the enemy's
commerce annihilated by the innumera
ble vessels which could be constructed
upon the Mississippi river and its
branches and sent from•thence out into
the oceans. Yet the little island of Great
Britain does most of the ship-building;
iron war ships have rendered the idea of
our impromptu navy obsolete. The for
eats have been out down fro nearlyall
the acceseible parti of the conntiY. new
ones are not planted, and we are fast be
coining s treelciiilt.conntry.' Tgls:an' nlbi
latioi of the woods naturally affects the
waters;and the rivers have dedreticed In
voltime:% l The
_tipper 'Ohio' is no longer
navigable for the beats which 'formerly
plowed its waters, and it lathe someway
with all the other great streams. So if
Mr. Sewall's northern continent of Wal
rods out be allowed to keep Its tress,
the time may come when it shall fulfill
the prophecy of the ex-Secretary.
OUR SCHOOL TEACHERS are exercising
a potent influence upon the future men
of this country. For hours each day the
minds of our youth are spread out be
fore them as ready for impressions, more
or less lasting, as so many sheets of wax.
Is it not through-W i se teachers that any
great reform must i be operated? Year
by year crime increases and immorality
becomes more prevalent, although the
pulpit and the press have been working
with much of their great weight thrown
against the rising tide; but this work has
been directed mainly through the pa
rents and it has not succeeded. Why not
now try what can be done through the
teachers? The one particular crime which
seems to increase most alarmingly is
that of embezzlement or false appropri
ation. In most cases the sad history is
the same. A young man, anxious to be
come rich and with cotifused notions as
to right and wrong, borrows ;money with
out informing the lender of the fact, and
in a short time the money is gone and
cannot be replaced; then follows ex
posure and disgrace. Corrupt and
thoughtless parents cannot be depended
upon, but if every teacher would exert
himself to impress his pupils constantly
with the idea that surreptitious borrow
ing, for whatever purpose, is stealing, is
it not possible that a few might take it to
heart who otherwise would become the
heroes of one of those romances of de
falcation which people our State prisons?
And if so, is not the experiment worth
trying?
SOME PERSONS are beginning to doubt
whether politeness demands that a man
should give up his seat in a car as eoon
as a woman makes her appearance. To_
our mind there is, in the premises, room
for the exercise of a good deal of judg
ment. The cars are public conveyances,
and are legally unable to take more pas
sengers on board than they can supply
with seats. A man gets in, pays six
cents for his seat and occupies it; a
woman comes in when the seats are full,
and has no more right to that man's six
cents' worth of accommodation than
she would havl in the market to your .
carefully selected delicacy, the supply
of which had become exhausted. It is
not, then, as some women seem to think,
one of a woman's rights; it is simply a
question of amiability. We have seen
young men who allowed an old man to
stand, but sprang up, as if propelled from
a needle•gun, if a pretty girl came in,
who, possibly, was stronger and better
able to stand than they were themselves.
Our advice is that each man should first
decide that he has a right to_ the seat,
and then decide solely upon the merits
of each case, whether he will give it up
or not. Remembering that a weary man
or a tired woman. even though she be
neither young nor pretty, is often really
worthy of consideration in street-care.
STATE POLITICS.
THE Atloona Vindicator, Democratic,
of the most virulent species, doesn't pay
and is offered for sale.
HON. R. M. BEATTY presided at, and
Hon. T. J. Bigham addressed. a large Re-
publican meeting at Kittanning on the
7th inst.
Tme Republican County Executive
Committee of Armstrong Is working that
county well this campaign. Mr. Alex
ander Reynolds is the energetic chairman.
A is - EW Democratic paper has been
established at Ridgway, Elk county, in
the interest of a faction of the party in
that county known as the Ridgway ring.
Tim Republican conference, which met
at Lewistown on the 10th inst., nomina.
ted as candidates for Assembly, General
T. F, McCoy, of Lewistown, and John
N. Swoope, of Huntingdon.
Pubiie Opinion says that the Republi
can ticket in Franklin county was never
=imposed of better men than the present
candidates. In point of ability and gen
eral merit they are unexceptionable.
THE Mauch Chunk Gazette' "has it on
the best authority that Judge Packer re
marked the other day that he believed his
chances for election poor." Packer's
opinion on Packer's chances ought to
carry weight.
GEN. D. B. McOußeav, of Erie, late
Adjutant General of - the State, and C. 0.
Bowman, Esq., of Corry, have been
nominated for the Assembly by the Re
publicans of Erie county. This will
give that county an able representation
in the Legislature.
Tnn Lehigh Register says: When Dr.
Cattell, the energetic President at Lafay
ette College at Easton, sought assistance
from the men of wealth of this valley . to
save that venerable institution from ruin,
he appealed to Asa Packer, but got from
him no assistance. He next applied to
Mr. Ario Pardee, of Hazleton, whose
generosity immediately` responded by a
handsome endowment. The personal
pride of Asa Packer was aroused upon
this, and then he endowed Lehigh Uni
versity,
IT is confidently predicted in Carbon
county . that Mr. Packer will fun behind
his ticket. He is. decidedly unpopular
with the workingmen. He has never,
with all his wealth, done aught to allevi
ate the sufferings of the poor. Where he
is best known, people laugh at the idea of
his being ch aritable. His corruption
fund, in this canvass, is to be used in buy
ing up men of supposed influence with
workingmen. The bone and sinew
should be on the look-out and distrust all
who suddenly become convinced that
Packer is a great friend to the cause of
, labor. ' •
In Memoriam.
At a special meeting of the Board of
Inspectors of the Western Penitentiary,
held September 15th, 1869, to take action
on the death of our late colleague, James
Pdanhall,.Esq., the following redolutions
were adopted and ordered to be pub.
Winans& 'The death of James Mir
shall, Faq., our colleague and friend,
which occurred suddenly on the 9th inst,
is an impressive dispensation of Provi
dence which we dare not misinterpret,
and cannot misunderstand. God has
spoken to us, almost in an audible voice;
that while five of us were in this field to
gether, the ono is When and tat others
left; watch therefore, for ye know not
what Sour your Lord doth come. Resolv
ed therefore:
lat. That as a Christian James Mar
shall was an honest npright man, and
feared God and eschewed evil. •
2nd, As a Busines., man, he was full of
integrity, prompt in his engagements,
and successful in his undertakings.
Sd. As a public citizen, he was enter
prising in his character, liberal in his
views, and willing to expend his strength
for the public good.
4th. As a patriot, although an adopted
citizen of this young republic, he was
pre-eminently a lover of his country. In
the dark days or the late rebellion he
planted himself as a rock on the side of
the Union and never faltered; and ever
since in the bestowment of any office hie
stern and unyielding judgment must
first be satisfied that the applicant was
honest and loyal.
sth. As an in.spector of this institution,
he was brought into more intimate con
tact with us. In the management of the
Penitentiary, his judgment was iv mid
and his conclusions Just. Economy,
honesty, and a rigid obedience to law,
were the cardinal principles of his official
life; and in his last intercourse with the
prisoners, while he taught them to ex
pect that the inflexible law of . justice
would be meted out, yet, underlying
this seeming severity, he made them
also feel that he was not insensible of
their infirmities, that ho pitied their mis
fortunes and was willing to devote much
of his time to alleviate their condition
and win them back to an honest and vir
tuous life.
Resolved, That in recognition of his
memory and his worth, the Warden be
requested to drape the office of the insti
tution in mourning.
Resolved, That a copy of this minute
be sent to the family of our deceased
friend, with the assurance that in this
death they have our unfeigned sympa
thy.
[Signed] THEODORE H. NEVIN,
ORMSBV PHILLIPS,
JAMES A. LOWRIE,
ROBERT H. DAVIS,
Inspectors.
Obituary,
At his residence in Jackson townshig t
Venango county, on Friday last, Mr.
John Bleakley, father of Col. James
Bleakley, President of the International
Bank of Franklin, departed this life.
The deceaSed was widely known and
universally respected. He was born
near Iniskillen, county Tyrone, Ireland,
in 1.788, and was one of the Bleakley's
who, with a single exception, made up
the entire population of MarphY town
ship. The deceased came to America in
1819, and was married a short time sub
sequently to an accomplished lady of
Pottsville, who preceded him to the
grave. He was a zealous, devoted and
consistent member of the Presbyterian
church and passed through a long life of
usefulness with a record unsullied and a
name associated with no discreditable
act. He was buried with Masonic hon.
ors on Sunday last. The funeral cortege
was one of the largest ever witnessed in
the section. A very large delegation of
Masons were in attendance from Frank
lin, the deceased being a member of the
order for over half a century, having
been initiated in Ireland as early as 1819.
THOU BRINGEST
LUNG-WORT.
One of the truest and most suggestive ideart
can be obtained from the caption at the head,
of this article; for of all diseases which impair
human health and t bur ten human life, note are
More prevalent than those which arreCt the lungs
and pulmonary tissues. 'Whether we regard lung
Mae - uses in the light of a merely slight cough,
which is but the Ore-runner of amore serious
malady. or as a deep lesion corroding and dis
solving the pulmonary structure, It is alwayst
pregnant wi.h evil and foreboding of disaster.
In no doss of maladies should the plmiciatt or
the friends and family of the patient be more
seriously forewarned than in those of the lar Rs.
for R h in them that early and efflelent treat-
meat Is most desirable, and it is then that danger
can be warded off and a core effected. In DR.
KEYSER'S LUNG CURE you have a medicine
of the greatest value in all these conditions. An
alterative, a tonic. a nutrient and resolvent,
succoring nature and sustaining the recupera-
live powers of the system, Its beautiful work—
Inge, in harmony with the regular functions, can
be readily observed by the use of one or two bot
tles: it will soon break up the chain of morbid
rvnipalhies that disturb the harmonious work
lugs of the animal economy. The harrassing
sough, the painful respiration, the sputum
streaked with blood, will soon give blue to the
normal and proper workings of health and vigor.
An aggregated experience of over thirty years
has enabled Dr. Keyser, In the componading of
his LUNG CURL to give new hone to-the eon
europtive invalid and at the same time speedy
relief in those now prevalent, catarrhal and
throat affections, so distressing in their effects ,
and so almost certainly fatal in their tendenCies,.
;Wm cured by some appropriate remedy. DR.
KEISER'S LUNG CURE is a o thorough and ef-
Eclent, that any one who has ever used it, writ
never be without It in the house. It will otters
cure when everything elsa fails, and in simple
cases will cure oftentimes in a few days. .
The attention of patlants, as well as medical
men. Ii respectfully Invited to %Ms new and
calttable addition to the pharmacy of the corm-
DR. SEYeER may be consulted every day
natal 1 O'clock P. 3f. at his Great lildicine Store,
161 Liberty street, and from 4 to 6 sad 7 to 9
at night
THE FEVER AND AGUE SEASON,
When the leaves begin to change, remittent
and intermittent L.vers make their appearance.
From the surface of the earth, bathed nightly in
heavy dews. from marshes and. swamps fur
charged with moisture, froM the dying foliage
of the woods, from festering Pools and sluggish
streams, the sun of Beistember evolves clouds of
miasmatic vapor perilous to health and life: The
body, deprived by the burning temperature of
July. and August of much of its vigor and elas
ticity, is not in a proper plight to resist malaria,
and hence all diseases that are ;produced by a de
praved condition of the atmosphere are partlen
.
lady prevalent to the Fall. • - • '
There 111 no reason why the health 6f thousands
of people sumac' be thus sacridoed. A prepara
tory course of HOSTIO sTortIA.CH itIT
TEA'S is a ce. taro prott ellen against the enldem
les and endemics which Autumn brings in 11l
train.. Let all dwellers in unhealthy localities,
liable to such visttations, give heed to the warn:
tog and advice conveyed in this advert!, meat,
ant they may bid defiance totheloutea halationa
which are now dolma, night, and day, Rum the
soil around them. No firmhoulte to the land
should be without this invaluable exhllerant and
it:itinerant at any period of the year, bat tape.
maity In the Fall. It la not safe to go forth into
'the Chill. Misty atmosphere of it denten:thee
morning or evening with the stomach onnutified
,a toulevall4 of the tonics which medical
chemistry has yet given to the world, IiOnTET"
BITTERS are admitted tote theDuren.
the most wholesome and the most beneficial.
Let ell who desire to escape the talons attacks.
bowel complaints and malaripus fevers, take the
BiTtitite ai least twice a •day throughout the
present season. It Is as wholesome as it is in..
fallible Look to the trade-mark, "HOnTET-
T it% littddAtat 111TTS an, en graved on the
label and embossed en the bottle, and their rev.
anus stain" timing. the Ctork, aa
.coaniartelli
latfl atenaG.