; She $owst gqraWJfnn. tii runttsnrti kvkry Wednesday, by W. U. DUNN. FFICE IU ROBTNSOS & BONNER'S BUILDIKJ ELM STREET, TIOMEST A, PA. TERMS, $2.00 A YEAR. No Subscriptions received for a whortor period than three months. Correspondence sol Iclted from all parts of tho country. No noilco w 111 bo tak cn of bnnonymou communication. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. TIONESTA LODGE JL. ot O. JV. MEETS every Friday evening, at 7 o'clock, In t no 11 nil formerly occupied by tho Uood Templars. O. W. SAWYER, N. O. &..H. HASLET, Soc'y. 27-tf. TIONESTA COUNCIL, NO. 342, O. TT. -A.. IvT. MEETS at Odd Follows Ixdgo Room, every Tuesday evening, at 7 o'clock. P. M. CLARK, C. 6. A.VARNER, R. S. 81 J. K. HI. A INK, M. D. R. KOBKJVT, M. D, BLAINE tC EGBERT, OFFICE and residence In house former ly occupied Dr. AVinan. Office days, Wednesdays and Saturdays. 32tf E. L. Davis, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Tionosfa, To. Collections mado in this and adjoin ing counties. 1 40-ly J. B. ACNEW, W. E. LATHY, Tloneuto, Pa, Erio, Pa. AGNKIW Jto LATHY, Attorneys at Law, - Tlonesta, Pa. Office on Elm Stroot. May lfl, 187u.-tf II 1 1 111 H W. TATE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, luk &rtsi, TIONESTA , PA. F.W.Mays, ATTORNEY AT LAW. aud Notary rciiLicv Reynold IlnkJll A Co.'e Iltook, Moneca Hi., Oil City, l'a. SiMy r. KINKBAJt. V. B. BMH.RT. K1XNEA R A SMILEY, Attoraays at Law, Franklin, Pa. PRACTICE In the several Coarta of Ve nango, Crawford, Forout, aud adjoin lug 0OHntia. S'J-ly. XATIOXAX 1IOTEI,, BUCKLIN A MORE, FnoriUKTona. Frist-Class Lloonsod House. Good sta ble oonncKd. 15-ly Lawrerco House, TIOTOCSTA, PENN'A, C. K, Mc CRAY, rROPRiKTOR. This house is centrally located. Everything now and welt furnished Suporior accommoda tions and striut attention given to guests. Vegetables and Fruits of all kinds served In their season. Sample room for Coui moi'cial Agent. Tlonesta House, ANDREW WELLER, Proprietor. This house has boon newly tilted np and is now hpon for tho accommodation of the pabllj. Charges reasonable 84 ly CENTRAL HOUSE, BONNER A AGNEW. BLOCK. I Aonkw, Proprietor. This is a new noun, aud hasjut boen fitted up for the " aeaommodutloii of the public A portion of the patronage of the publio is solicited. -ly FORREST HOUSE, O A. VARNER Proprietor. Opposito O. Court House, Tlonesta, Pa. Just epened. Everything now and clean and . fresh. The best of liquor kept constantly on hand. A portion ortne public patron ax is respectfully solicited. 4-17-1 v W. a COBURN, M. D., PnYSICIAN A SURGEON offers his services to tho people of Forest Co. Having had an experience of Twelve Years in constant practice Dr. Coburn guarantees to give satisfaction. Dr. Co burn makes a specialty of the treatment of Nasal, Throat, Luna; and all other Chronic or lingering diseases. Having investigated all scientific mothods or our Ing disease and solected tho (rood from all systems, he will guarantee reliof or a cure In all cr tea -"There a euro Is possible. No Charge lor Consultation. All fees will be reasonable. Professional visit made at all hours. Parties at a distance can con suit him bv letter. Ofllee and Residence second building below the Court House. Tionestu. Pa. Of- llce days Wednesdays and Saturdays. 25tf Dr. J. L. Acorrb, miYSrCIAN AND SURGEON, who has . I had fifteen years' experience in a large and suceesslni practice, will attend, an Professional Calls. Office in hla Druir and Grocery Store, located in Tidioute, near Tldiouta House. IN HIS STORE WILL BE FOUND A full assortment of Medicines, Liquors TCottcuo, Cigars, Stationery, Glass, Taints. Mta,'u(Wy, ollof tho best quality, aud svill be sMd t f easonaMe raUs, DR. CIIAH. O. DAY, an experienced iphyslclan and Druggist from New York, itas charo of the Sture. All proscriptions. tut up accurately. V. H. iuv. jVo. V. risk. A. B. KBLLT. tfJL Y, PARK .0 CO., 33 A K K B B S Comer or ElmlA Walnut Sta. Tlonesta. Baak of Discount and Deposit. Interest alldwbd on Tinie Deposits. CollecttoAS raadooaall tho Principal points cf the U; S. Collection sclicitcd. 13-iy. F 7ELT CARPETINGS, 85 cts. per yard. vLr.rii,iT.i( tor rooms in rlfecof Plaster. FFLT KOOU ajnu amiwuiau For samplos, address C. J. FAY, Camden, N,ew Jersey. A l. i-j A- ' ....... i , , i . . r , 1 nv-w. Hi l-'T r.f a Piano for dcntributing . n,i,t0. II. H. l'iano Co. jslO Droadwayj Ney YiYl- v) VOL. IX. NO. 15. ORA.TI01ST, Dolivcrod at Tioncsta, Pa., on tho Fourth of July, 1876. BT MILES W. TATE, Esq. After certain introductory remarks Mr. Tato spoke eubstantially na fol lows: We have here a common purpose and a pleasant duty. Tho patriotic light that to-day touches us with its nimbus of glory, dissolves all difleien ces of interest, and tints our thought and feeling with its harmonious hue. Banished be the cares of life and the toils of business wo will rejuvenate to-day into this El DoAdo we will plunge and come up fresh and young agaiu. We know uo Beet r party here. We aro citizens, with no creed, but country, no acolytes, but patriots. Democrat and Itepuplican may we bo, but the channels of tne soul are run ning freely on. Widening in their placid goings far beyond the bounda ry linos of caucus and primary meet ings. Wo rule out the politician as one who may be of use to-morrow but not to-day to-day is for tho heart. We forget the old animosities of the war, as the hands that wounded, now draw near with trembling pity throughout our land, to Blanch and heal the bruises war has mado. Tho blue and the gray, side by aide, in the shop, on the farm, in the busy mn.t, look up to that Btarred banuer O, long may it be folded together in peace as it is now, with the old love thrilling aUng every nerve, and their hopes nestling iu its peaceful folds like tho prayers of happy childhood on a mother a neck. True it is we do not forget how should we forget when the lava waves of human passion were devasta ting our land, and the stately edifice of our liberties was rocking to her baso with the giant upheavals of civil war. Nor do we forget how could we forgot tho bravo men whoso souls went straight to God from prison-pen and battle field, redeemed by Christ's broad grace in merit of such holy causa alone, nor tho living heroes who walk among us to-day,- starred with bullet wounds, and striped with sabre cuts, marked by tha war with their country's flag, and rendered forever illustrious as its firm defend ers. No! We mourn for the ono, wo honor the other, and we remember both to-day, as the men of bronze and iron, who led up our victory through the ivory gates of death. And we recall, too, tho achievements of the fathers the days of Gage, and Percy, and Pitcaim, when the fires of revolu tion were kindling in the Occident. We used on such occasions as this, to view those old heroic times as in a fine crystalline mist of romance, where in we beheld the hardy pioneers of the hemisphere simply wooing and win ning victory in her secluded forest home, and leading her blushing, like a bride, in the van of their triumphal marches. But our own war has given us the true measure of those times. We well know now iu what a "forge and what a heat those noble souls were wrought. In the light of Antie- tam and Gettysburg, we read the true story of the sufferings of Princeton, Yorktown, and the hundred fields of revolutionary fame. Our own was the mightier struggle, for it was waged to make a republican form of govern roent possible in the world.- They fought against the oppressions of an unnatural parent, we fought for tho union, for government, for our coun try and for a flag, that symbolizod the final hopes of man. The glory ot both is ours, as we gather here to-day the great sacrifices of one hundred years ago, those of the last decade, and the countless ones not written in iofm-n a.. .4.11 ;n v.. inscribed in the book of the recording angel, to stand out plain and golden in the light of eternity; and these are all a part of the fragrant memo ries that gather about this natal day. And now, my fellow citizens, at the end of one hundred years of liberty horc, what has been our progress what is our tendency and our future as a people 7 1st. Our civilization was the natur al product of the ages. When the ful ness of time came, she took the sta tion assigned her by providence, from the beginning. Tho logio of modern events was this : . The barons in tho meadow of Runnymedo domanding, and obtaining, Magna Cbarta, John Ivuox, the Reformation, Oliver Crom well, ruritanistn, and alter these, as an inevitable consequence, American civilization. Even the geologic for mation of the hemisphere was a beau tiful contrivance of providonce for the soat of a mighty empire, lbe high est border, or mountain ranges on the west, as you know, with the great slopes and rivers inclining towards the east, left these vast and fertile areas for the progress of our civilization Aud tho same laws that gavo us t TIONESTA, PA., place among the nations, and fitted up a hemisphere for our occupation, made our material progress possible and probable. Yet with theso existing conditions of power and permanence, it required, in the beginnings as it does now, a heroism of brain as well as body men like Samuel Adams, who never held any office but presi dent of the town meeting, but who with this potential and only body of deliberation of the colonists, watched and waited, and finally outwitted the coroneted parliament of Great Britain. Men like John Ballard, who, over hearing one of tho governor's grooms say, "thero will be hell to pay for tho Americans to-morrow," left on the in stant and went to send Paul Revere on his famous ride, so that next day when the red -coats did move, patriots sprang up like fabled myrmidons from be hind tree and fence, dropped from the clouds, rose out of the ground, it seemed to the astonished Britons, un til they fled before tho minute-men of Concord and Middlesex, as sands bo fore the Simoom of the desert. Men who could frame the very best govern ment of the centuries, and at the same, timo keep on fighting and mak ing love through Bunker Hill and Long Island, Princeton, Trenton, and Saratoga, Valley Forge and York town. Such were the men who gave to us, and to all time tho "Govern ment of the people, by the people, and for the people," which, according to the sublime prediction of Abraham Lincoln, shall not perish from the earth. With the termination of the revo lution began our progress. Tho gems of art and manufacture were set in rings of ever-widening influence. The green belts of agriculture were drawn out like lines of latitude and longitude. The three years' war followed to es tablish our naval prestige, -and pro tect with our flag, the rich argosies of our commerce upon tho high seas. The two years' war with Mexico, gave us the Pacific elopo, with its rich depos its of the metals, nd its fairy fertile valltys for sunny homes, and highways for our kingly lines of .traffic. The benodiction of the skies lit on land and lake and river. The diameters of national advancement were projected across the continent the virgin forests yielded to the rough embrace of toe hardy pioneer; from this union sprung hamlets hamlets grew into villages, villages into towns, and towns into cities. Our population doubled every fifteen years, our wealth every ton years. The small brooks turned their countless mills of manufacture the thunderous music of machinery vi brated on tho air north, south, cast and west, with their varioty of soils, and products and climates, their fer tile margins, poured round with the two oceans, like the Bhield of Achilles, with its ornamental edging the in land streams stretching like silver chains, into highways for mutual aids and exchange of commodities, the common school houses nestling along our hillsides church-spires pointing from the thousand summits of our land "the way to heaven" colleges of education, art and science the happy homes, free from oppression and fear; these were the results of our progress, and such the vision that Everett saw when he exclaimed, "Atlantis hath riseu from the ocean." But to this unexampled progress there came a sudden, and well nigh fatal check. The peril foreseen and foretold by De Tocqueville, arose. The dream that Edmund Burke en tertained of the Republic, with slavery as a tolerable element, was dissolved. The alarm bells of civil war were rung in the streets of our own Rich mond. The old flag that had flashed its "line of light" around the world, was torn from its proud poeition by fratri cidal hands, and the baptism of blood descended again upon the land. The wheels of progress stood still. Men almost doubted tho evidence of their senses. The ominous calm that pro ceiaa the storm held the event in abeyance for a time, then the angry waves of contending armies rushed against each other with a violence that shook the very earth to its center. In to this conflct you remember, were thrown on the one side the prayers of tho people for larger liberty and surer laws, and on tho other, the curses of every aristocratic government on the globe. And the masses everywhere shrank at the menace of danger. Tho result of the years, the symmetry of society, the rounded institutions of religion and the family, were all in mortal peril. The freedom that had struggled down through all tbo ages, like a line of light, obscured at inter vals, but never altogether broken, seemed about to bo annihilated. Never was a war begun with 6uch mo mentous issues at stake. But the spirit of the minute-men of Concord and Lexington, leaped to the front, and soon wo beheld theauthentio fires of liberty kindled opon a hundred battle fields, by tho boys iu Muoj to JULY 19, 187G. light the highway to their victory for the right. In the wars of antiquity, it was fabled that Jupiter, and Juno, and Mercury, came from 01ympu3, to hurl confusion into the contending ranks of armies. To this decisive combat, the one true God of battles seat his evangels from their Bkiey abodes, to minister to tho truo heart and ncrvo the strong arm of the union soldier, contending for the preserva tion of tho liberties handed down to him by tho fathers. And though tho issues were so tremendous, tho result to humanity bo important, the faith in the event so universal and sublime, still the day of decision did . not ar rive, hope often deferred nade Bick the patriot heart. and though the soldier's courage waned not, and peo ples' faith failed not, yet after three years of a struggle, the event still hung in doubtful balance, when in a supreme moment, Abraham Lincoln threw into tho trembling scales the broken man acles of four millions of bondsmen, and then came the end I The athlete of the Occident rose from tho encoun ter, laureled with- Gettysburg, an! made his triumphal march directly through the gates of victory. And, what is unparalled in the history of any country, the United States, that had gone into the war dependent upon British manufacture, that had ruled aud belted the commercial world from tho time of the Navigation Act, came out of it with her own wrought to a degree of perfection that placed her in the vanguard of civilization. 2. But let us turn for a moment to the tendency of this great people. In a Republic like ours changes take place almost imperceptibly, which under other forms of government, would descend only from the scaffold, or rise from a revolution. And bo it always has been sinco the origin of our institutions here. But the same laws will govern as did in the beginnings, if wo but retain the moral manhood of the fathers. Yet we have difficulties in our day that were wholly unknown to them, and graver, we think, in their character. They had slavery and federalism wo have the dangers arising from immi gration, emancipation, and centraliza tion in State and industrial affairs. These in their tendency are vast prob lems for our day, that are not solved at this hour, and which will require the finest mounted political wisdom for their solution. a. I do not deprecato immigration. It is only a few years since our fath ers themselves came to this land for a resting place and a retreat from op pression. It is tho .glory, rnd shall ever bo tho boast of America, that Bhe is the homo of the friendless, and refuge for all who toil, or march or sail under the sun. But those dense masses of foreign populations, like the ocean waves that bring them, are roll ing ia upon us with a rapidity and frequency that wete wholly unknown to the fathers. As they come, they renounce allegiance to Queen or Em peror, while at the same time a vast majority are pledged in heart and conscience, to obey the Pope of Rome in things temporal, as lord paramount. Tho doctrine of this temporal prince is that he has full power to absolve his subjocts, wherever they aro, from alle giance to all government, and attach it to his own. . The tendency of all this would be to overthrow free gov ernment here, and establish the tem poral power of the church. It is strongly opposed by the liberty-loving Catholics of America and I am glad I can reckon in that church some of tho most rmiuont patriots of the age, some of the most devoted citizens of our own or auy times, but it has its advocates, and it has, too, its menace of danger to our institutions. I point you, my fellow citizens, to tho common school of our land, as. the palladium of our liberty, the very temple of American citizenship, spanned by tho divine arch of promise, one extremity resting on tho gates cf the kingdom of knowledge, and the other resting upon the gates of tho kingdom of heaven, against which vandal hands were never uplifted, until immigration Bent them to our Bhores. I point you to the Bible of the Christiau, as the beneficent casket in which are contain ed all the treasures of government, law, and civilization bo miraculously preserved to us through tho centuries, upon w'aich hands sacrilegious wero never laid, until immigration mado such outrage possible. The bell, hung on the rock in the ocean, to be rung by the action of the waves, was torn down by a band of pirates whose own ships were subsequently dashed to pieces for want of the warning. Any sect or party that Becks its own ag grandizement by tearing the common school from its place in American civ ilization, will split upon the glooioy rock without warning, and be swallow ed up forever in the waves of a just nonular indignation. To a crreat I extent indeed, it is true, our civiliza tion disintegrates aud assimilates these $2 PER ANNUM. populations as they come, but the ten dency of tho immigration of tho last fow years has been to collect in our larger cities and from a distinctive element not in harmony with ftco institutions. b. Emancipation has left its dan gers too. If tho Barao immortal hand that inscribed emancipation as with a sunbeam, upon the iron bands of slavory, could at tho samo time havo swept away its consequences, it would havo been well for us to-day. We are accustomed to say that time will right these things, but it requires more than time, more than simple laws and methods of reconstruction to rc verso old class distinctions, to edu cate the slave, black or white, up to tho dignity of citizenship, aud more statesmanship than has yet been ex hibited at the White House, to pre vent the fatal tendencies, that might yet make it possible for some future American to walk about tho Capitol at Washington, and listcu, and dream, as Virgil did on the mournful plains Of Phiiippi. This danger can only bo averted by citizen-education diffused amoung the masses, lifting them abovo the distinctions of cast class, into the moral manhood that asserts equal ity of rights before the law, for oycry son and daughtor within our broad domain. c. Centralization is iu part due to our rapid progress. Art draws on her magio mittens, and hands a message from New York to San Francisco in a moment of time. Trade steps into her seven leagued boots and glides across the continent within a week; thus bringing remote cities near to each other, and actually joining the sea-boards of the hemisphere. And the same facilities connect the States together, and transmit authority along our telegraph and railway linos ; put ting power into a nucleus; influence into a cluster; making a combination against trade, making a combination against the pooplo possible : organiz ing State legislatures in the interest of monopoly, and subsidizing a vonal press to cover the "designs of danger" with specious pretences of public ne cessity. 3. But if these perils are guarded against in their tendencies, by sturdy individual manhood and intelligent citizen-education, then for tho future of this people, there is no benefit or bless ing of which we may not be either in possession or expectancy; and the more runded and complete these ac quirements become, the more speedily and surely will the grand ideals of the race be realized. Our material pro gress, so freed from tendencies to de cay, will work out new wonders in science, art and government. Our flag, spread like an Argus, over every ocean, lake and river, will cover and protect our-commerce as it belts the globe. It was because our institutions wero to enduro that our moral manhood roso equal to the tasks of war and peace, thai tho example of America freed tho Russian scrfis, inspired the iron duke of Germany against tho interference of church with state made Franco a republic sent tho genius of Emanci pation into Italy, dethroned tho Pope; within the last sixty days struck from his throne the Turkish Sultan, who violated the rights of the people ; and as the crowning result of her transforming influence upon the world, has diffused tho spirit of tranquility among the peoplos of the earth. And now that tho nations aro indeed "stretching out their hands to ono another," and calling over to each other, the words of grand old Paul, "the nations ehall be fellow-heirs," come to ns with a sweeter meaning and a clearer ring of prophecy; unfold ing to us tho apocalypse of millennial glory, with its seven angels, represent ing the seven divisions of land of tbo globe, flying through the air, and car rying their messages of "pcaco and good will" to the uttermost parts of the earth. No matter what tho dangers that menace now, the horizon is clearer to day than it was a decade ago; brighter far than when the minuto-mcn of Con cord leaped ni tho Thermopyln) of tho centuries, and held the pass of civ ilization against lh& tory ; for tho morning-red of universal peace is breaking upon the world : And while it was noble for tho citizen of tho past to dio fir bis country, it will be. next to that nobility for tho citizen of tho present and the future, to live for its glory and aggrandizement in tho placid day, which shall end only when the angel shall como upon tho planet, and annouuDtJ that "timo shall bo no more." And now, fellow citizens, I have done. As we stand to day upon the threshold of a new contury, we look back upon a progress that is without a parallel in history. To the individ uals of which'the State is composed, belongs the glory and attach the re sponsibilities of tho full development of eur iustitutious. Whilo the Stale governs much by public wiadoui, much Rates of Advertising. Ono Kquare(l Inch,) one Inortlon - l SO One Square " ono month - -3 00 OneS(uare " ' three months - fl 00 One Square 41 one year - 10 00 Two Squares, ono year - - - 1ft Oo Quarter Col. " - . . - 30 00 Half " . . . . woo Ono " " - - - - IQO 00 I-egal notteo at established rates. ' Marriage and death notice, gratis. All bills for yearly advertisements col lected quarterly. Tomporary advertise ments must be paid for in advance. Job work, Cash on Dollvery. also is left, with as little interference as possible, to individual discretion. No great nationality ever yet perished by the hends of its- enemies. Its de struction was tho result of its own weakness. Our progress has boen un exampled, it may be without limit, but empire, it has truly been said, is not preserved by memories of the past, nor is tho future constructed out of such stuff as dreams aro made of. Im migration, emancipation, and central ization, with their dangers to the Stale, to the ballot-box, to trade and polity, aro realities; and their porilous ten dencies can only be averted by moral manhood and citizen education. These moral manhood and citizen-education are tho two columns of our future grandeur and stability, destined, may wo not hope to adorn, ennoble and immortaMzo our hemisphere with un fading glory, orbed with the bow of the pcac. w?ht ve been contemplating; beneath whos dazzling eh ad a the throne, ivnd dynasties of tho world will melt and fade away, and around whose summits will burn, immortal and undimmed, the true glories of American citizenship, as it sheds its radianco on tho "ovening of the world." A small box arrived at tho railway at Lille, in tho north of France, a few dajB since, directed to the Museum of Natural History, in Paris. The reve nue rificials at the elation opened the box, but could find nothing. It was Boon ascertained, however, that the box had contained an extremely pois onous snake, which had made its es cape when tho box was opened. Sinco then they have not been able to find the snake, and his presence in the rail way station has caused not a little con sternation in Lille. In the criminal court in Paris the other day a German, named Aphonso Bacr, was sentenced to a month s im prisonment for Belling a quack medi cine. The magical drug which was advertised as a specific in affections of the norves and epilepsy,' under the name of catt anti-neuralgiqHe, waa found to bo brandy, with an infusion of tobacco leaves and burnt sugar. The receipt, from its sale, however in tho last year amounted to $360,000. A huge kiln on a Government dock in London is known as "the Queen's tobacco pipe," and is used to burn condcranod imported goods. Great quantities of tobacco, forfeited bocause unfit for salo, are there consumed; and various perishable things, upon which the duties aro not paid, are also destroyed. Nine hundred spoiled haras and a sh:plond of tea were re cently burned. As a boy in Aroostook county, Me., was leading a heifer home the other evening, a boar mado a dive for her as they were entering the yard. The heifer ran, the boy held on to the ropo, tho bear chased both, until the neigh bors, hearing tho bellowing of the heifer and the screams of tho boy, came and shot bruin. The trustees of a Canadian school rccoutly advertised for a teacher. From the many letters they received they selected two or three of tho best, and sont for tho photographs of the writers. Then they picked out tho best looking photograph, aud sout for the original. Ho proved a first-rate, teacher. Tho Cincinnati Enquier calculates that, letting 1,000 represent a woman's chances of marriage in tho whole co u r80 of hor life, 130 of those chances are lost when bhe is seventeen years old, 588 when she is twenty-seven, 092 wheu she is thirty-three, aud tho entiro thousand wheu she is forty-five. A train cn the Rensnelaer and Sar atoga Railroad would havo run into a burning bridge had not a woman who lived near by given a s'gnal of danger, and Iho woman would not have got a dollar apiece for dinners supplied to tho belated passenger if she had not savtd their lives. A mother's love never changes. Wheu a young man ia Europe wrote homo to hU mother iu St. Louis that ho was about to go from Nancy to Ems, she exelaimui in a tianaport that tho dear boy hadn't altered a bit, but was, she now knew, as fond of tho girls as over. A disconsolato giil stood up to her neck in a poud near Sacramento for an hour, deciding whether to drown herself. Then she concluded to live, and waded out, Tho Centennial plan for making horso-car conductors honest is to fire oll'a small caution after tho reception of each faro. A Maiuo cow swallowed $50, and they gave her outciicj all in vain. The gold ore found at Saccarsppu, Me., yiulds $15 a toa. The cats of the Wo cf Man are without tails.
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