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PEOPLE'S UNION STATE TICKET .
AUDITOR GENERAL:
THOMAS E. COCHRAN,
of York county.
SURVEYOR GENERAL,
WILLIAM S. ROSS,
of Luzerne county.
COUNTY TICKET,
FOR CONGRESS,
WILLIAM 11. ARMSTONG,
of Lycoming county.
FOR ASSEMBLY,
WILLIAM HARRIS,
of Bellefonte.
FOR COMMISSIONER,
LEWIS HESS,
of Potter township. -
FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY,
WILLIAM 11. BLAIR,
of Bellefonte
FOR SURVEYOR,
HENitIY P. TRCZIYULNY
of M ilesburg.
FOR AUDITOR,
AMES GLENN,
of Harris township.
410 THE VOTERS OF MIS CONGRES
SIONAL DISTRICT.
I hereby offer myself to your considers.
tion as an Independant Candidate for Con.
JAMES T. lIALE.
THE PEOPLE'S PLATPORM.
i'.; UNION-THE CONSTITUTION-AND
JOISFORCENT OE THE LAW.
BY' A CAUCUS '
tri.... 1,4„...2)4,4,
ITNION MEN IN CONGRESS
IFIEI3 BY THE PEO E OF PENNSYLVANIA
44 ... ,EuLY 17, 186.,
TIU
Aat we ho,
kl by the Unign in th.1.777)* * of its trial; to
7Poir hearts and hands in carnest,patriotic ef
or its maintenance against those who are in
a !)it ; to sustains with determined resoln
patriotic President and his administration
.ner- , l2•Li efforts for the prosecution of the
he -enervation of the (Union against enc.-
ieibroad ; to punis4 traitors and trea
tin( severity, and to crush the present
causeless rebellion, so .that no flag of
eviar again be raised over any portion of
id to this end we invite the co-operar
to love their Col7lltr y, in the en deavo
t . to States such a patriotic fire as
consume all who strike at the Union of
, and all who sympathise with their treason
their g,zilt."
Couttty Committee.
IT.
- I trsuance of a resolution of the recent Peop
le's (.... 4y Convention. Ido hereby appoint the
. follo;ving named persons as a standing Commit
tee for Centre county, the ensuilg year.
John T. Johnston Bellefonte Chairman
7At l e ti ---
.. McCoy Benner
M
Boggs
Gee. Michaels • Burnside
A. S. Tipton Curtin
John Bailey Furguson
A. B. Erhard Gregg
"!iim.' Jas. P. Coburn Haines
I• • - s ~ D. H. Burket Halfinoon
! 1 John. S. Foster Harris
John Q. Adams Huston
, D. B. Pletcher Howard
r , John Ligget Liberty
- ' 1 Joshua Mitchell Milesb
John S. Faust
-71ainuel Mclean
MiiiihriA.W. W
via,rion
Patton
Duncan Penn
Thol. Hutchison Potter
D. J. McCann Rush
Johnsey Showshoe
Mord. Waddle Spring
Wm. R. Plummer Taylor
John Alexander Union
T B, 117rt'.,r Walker
Robert Campbell Worth
A. N. Russell Unionville
JOHN TONNER,
Presichnt
Congress.
As the organ of the Republican party in
this county we wish it distinctly understood
that we can take no part in an arrangc
i ment that in any manrer looks to support
ing any other than the regular nominee of
the party as our candidate fur Congress.
Mr. Armstrong has received a unanimous
nomination from the whole district ; and we
would be recreant to our duty did we fail to
support that nomination, or in any manner
endorse a candidate brought forward by the
request of isolated individuals, even though
that candidate be our personal friend.
rWe believe the Republican party is the
only true national party of the country, and,
tisne, is responsible for the maintainance
r etuation of our glorious Republic,
c believe that Wm. 11. ARMSTRONG is
ly true and proper representative of
rty itl.this Congressional District, and
h we trust that he will be supported
loyal, Union-loving men.
nother column our readers will ob
he appeal of JAMES T. HALF. to
ans. We 3,inaerely regret that the
klel-end himself to a thing of this
er serving two terms as the repre
ve of the party. In choosing the po
,n of a disorganizer he has forfeited all
to the support of consistent Republi-
,• OAP.
Those who want to
It the ensuing election
that they are assessed
ven.ing,
L.---,..,------____
o e for Wm. H. ARM
he Republican candi
,ongress..
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whole of the Re
,let,
The Evening Bulletin (Philadelphia) has
the following truthful and wholesome ex
posure of the greatest evil now remaining
uncorrected in our military service. We
have repeatedly tried to say about the same,
but are very glad to copy from a cotempora
ry who talks like this : " The placing of
incompetent officers in responsible com
mands is one of the worst mistakes that can
be made, and the country has to pay for it
at frightful cost. Neither personal friend
ship nor political expediency ought to in
fluence the Federal or State Executives to
commission men whose ability is doubtful,
or to intrust them with any important com
mands.
" The country has suffered terribly du
ring the war, from the mistakes thus made.
Tens of thousands of dollars have been sac
rificed, and the war has been indefinitely
prolonged, and yet the incompetent officers
generally escape punishment. We have
seen Miles, after failing ignominiously at
Bull Run, appointed to the command of so
important a place as Harper's Ferry, and
allowed to surrender to the enemy a force
and a quantity of was material, the extent
of which has only been by degrees revealed
to the public. We now know that Gen.
McClellan had to fight the battle of An
tietam against cannon to the amount of
fifty-seven guns and four field-batteries,
ammunition to the extent of one hundred
tuns, and 14,003 small - arms of the best
character, captured from us, and added to
the enemy's strength. From our fighting
men over
. 14,000 were deducted at the most
critical moment. Nor do we yet know if
the whole amount of our losses at Harper's
Ferry has been or ever will be revealed to us,
except, perhaps, through rebel sources.
Miles was known to have been one princi
pal cause of our losing the battle of Bull
Run, by his intoxication ; yet he was white
washed by a Court-Martial, and had lie not
been killed (as is said, by one of his own
men, disgusted by his cowardice,) he would
have probably been continued in the service.
Has the surrender of Norfolk ever been
•punished ? Has the General who, in the
Peninsula, prevented the capture of a rebel
brigade, by his drunken shouting,. ever paid
the penalty of his misconduct?
" The true remedy for all this would con
sist in instantly removing every bad officer,
notwithstanding his connections and influ
ence, without a moment's hesitation, filling
up the vacancies by a rapid promotion of
the meritorious. Military talent is not
common, and when it is exhibited, it should
meet with instant recognition and encour•
agement. Sergeant Gr . een., for example ,
who conducted himself so briliantly in lead-
inn an attack in Carolina, is clearly better
fitted to command a regiment than many
of our Colonels. It is requisite that every
man who conducts himself well shall have
his merits appreciated and rewarded. Pro
motion front the ranks was the great secret
of the---eiti of Nal)o - Inri'S7ttii,iO ,TIT:
_qll loyal men
not, from a private, became a Marshal of
the Empire. Merit must be the only meas
ure of distinction. A General makes a
frightful blunder ; it is hushed up as far as
possible, in order that his feelingfs may not
be hurt, and he commits a second, costing
hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives.
Some may think
,that his feelings were
spared at too great a cost.
" In this Republican country, the-officers
and the men stand upon an equal footing.
The men owe to their officers implicit obe-
dience, for Ix ithout that, N - s'ar cannot be car
ried on ; but the duties of the officers to
the men are co-extensive. The officer who
permits himself to become intoxicated, even
when not in action, deserves death quite as
much as the picket who, overcome with fa_
tigue and exhaustion, falls asleep in spite of
his efforts. The one is a voluntary, the
other an involuntary, dereliction of duty.
The cases in which punishment has been
meted out to officers in this war have been
exceedingly few. It is so easy to forgive,
and those who do forgive do not think of
the lives which are to ; e sacrificed in con
sequence of their lenity, and for which
lives they are responsible to God and to the
country.
In a word, indulgence to the faults of
ggicers is intolerable cruelty to the soldiers
and ruinous to our cause."
If somebody is not shot for that Harper's
Ferry business, we shall infer that our
General-in-Chief is not half in earnest, un
less the President overrules him.
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WHAT ARE THE FARMERS AT HOME DOING ?
—Have they decided on the extent of the
seeding they intend to put into the ground
for next years' crop ? These are important
questions. We, as a nation, must depend
on the earth, on the crops, on the labor of
the husbandmen, to extricate us from our
present difficulties. Hard fighting is sup
posed to be all that is essential to stop the
war. But blows and blood—mangled bod
ies, maimed limbs and slaughtered armies
will not revive the national credit, pay the
national debt, stimulate enterprise and re
ward industry. The nation, after having
achieved the overthrow of rebellion and
plunged the avenged sword up to the hilt in
human gore, must resolve at once to turn
its attention to labor, real, honest, substan
tial and productive labor. War and its ex
citing charms must not be allowed to allure a
single man from the path of patient duty.
The men who left the plow in the furrow,
must make, up their minds to return to its
handles and sturdy toil. Those who quench
ed the forge fires must rekindle its flames.
Those who threw down the hammer and
the plane must resume both, and resolve
again to make them the source of their liv
ing. We must, as a nation, henceforth be
content to labor—labor with our hands and
our brains, that the debt of the war may be
removed—that the' incubus left by the
struggle for liberty mai be destroyed—and
that the people thus disenthralled and
emancipated, may once more rise to nation
al power, dignity, prosperity and happi
ness.
But to return to the farmer. Whether
or not the war be ended, we will require a
a large crop. If the war is prolonged, so
much the more need for breadstuils at home
and grain abroad, If the great struggle in
Timil CENTRAL PR
the field is closed by the glorious triumph
of our arms, we will still need all the earth
can yield. From its bowels, the present
year, little, in comparison to past years,
will he gathered, because the laborer is not
engaged in that business. Therefore, we
must see that its bosom makes up the diff
erence. Every hand. then, that can scatter
a seed, should be invoked to the toil. Wo
men and children can take the field in this
labor, while in the front and brunt of bat
tle, men are struggling on the field of war.
Heed it farmers, heed this counsel, while
the propitious season invites you to the dis
charge of the duty which it suggests.
Plant every inch of ground in your possess
ion. Look to it, that it is well tilled. Be
mindful of the quality of seed you sow—
forget not the care it requires before its
crops can be harvested. And when the
harvest does come, abundance will bless
you, provided you are not • gathered in that
other harvest where the reaper is the angel
DEATH. And eyen then, your labor will go
to bless those who you have left behind—
bless the nation, cor tribute to its revival,
assist in the payment of its debts, and make
America what God designed it should be,
great, glorious and free.— Telegiwp7l.
Proclamation of the President of the
At length the proper estimate has been
put upon the Union of these states, the Gov
ernment upon which that Union rests, and
the laws which have been enacted to give
that Government effect. At length the na
tional authority i to be involud to put
down robellion—to'crush it out—to ester-
United States
minate its cause, and insure the future
peace, prosperity and power of loyal men.
At length war is to Le'carried on as a prac
tical measure to secure peace, and not mere
ly for the sacrifice of the lives and the re
sources of loyal. men. The blow is to be
struck in the face of rebellion. Rye straw
to tickle and chafe its ribs are to be laid
aside, and more effective measures used'
which will tnrn the horror and the desola
tion that traitors had prepared for loyal
men, back upon themselves. Henceforth
we are to have war upon the rebels—the
war that will exhaust their resources, crip
ple their strength, exterminate their power
and humiliate their audacity. It will no
longer be a duel between vast contending
armies, in which the strategic skill of rival
leaders is made the issue, and the glory
which one or the other secured magn . fied
until the cause of the country was in dan
ger of being engulphed in the jealously of
individuals, and personal merit assumed a
far greater importance than political clues
tions of national vitality and prosperity
For asserting this policy, the people of the
states who have been supporting this war
in defence of the Union, will honor and
bless Abraham Lincoln. The army that
has born the brunt of battle will be re
vived by its assurances, because the power
is at once placed in its hands of fighting the
enemy in a manner which must give us the
victory. -
The practical effect of this proclamation
will be to convince those in arms against
the Government, that they have forfeited all
claim to consideration or leniency. It is
not the mere proclamation of a single
Major-General. It is the proclamation of
the Commander-in-Chief of the Army and
Navy, stating in its terms the laws of Con
gress, and insisting that such laws be vig
orously enforce d. This is nothing more or
less than what was demanded by the stern
ness of the crisis. While the Government
was struggling with armed force to.compel
certain States to obey the law, it was only
right that the officers of that Government
themselves should obey the same require
ments, by enforcing the laws which they
were sworn to uphold and defend.
This proclamation seems to come at the
proper time, and when it must and could
only ho effective. We have been assured
that it is the plan of General llaHeck to car
ry the winter campaign beyond 'Richmond
—to carry the war where the laws for the
suppression of rebellion can only be prac
tically and effectively enforced. With this
assurance we have every reason to hope for
its success. It will have no opponents but
the upholders of rebellion in the South, and
those in the North who sympathise with the
slaveholders' treason. In fact, we
tion very much, if this same proclamation
is not in reality the anticipation of an act
which the conspirators themselves have in
contemplation. Thc ir recent defeats—the
delay which is manifested in' Enrope is af
fording the rebel Confederacy recognition—
the necessity of some immediate action to
secure this recognition, and the fact that
certain agents of the Confederacy have re
cently managed to escape to Europe, all
seemed to enforce the belief that this policy
of emancipation which President Lincoln
has thus inaugerated to secure the safety of
the American Union, was a policy which the
rebels were about to covenant should be
adopted to secure the recognition of Euro
pean powers. Be this as it may, the
prompt action of the President will leave
the powers of Europe no longer in doubt.
It will leave the people of the country no
longer in embarassment, but at home and
abroad, places the Government of the United
States in the position of being the defend
ers of liberty, in truth and in reality. It
does not speak the equalization of the races.
It does not propose to elevate the negro to
the eminence of the white man, or degrade
the white man to tie level of the negro.
It simply proposes to rescue this Govern
ment from the destruction of rebellion by
such means as are placed within the reach
of the President and our armies.
Let the issue then be fairly made up, on
this proclamation : Those who oppose, its
terms, arc those who consider the institution
of Si awry of more importance than the in
stitution of liberty, AND ARE CONSEQUENTLY
OPPOSED TO TILE UNION,
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About $150,000 has been contributed in
San Francisco, for the relief of the wounded.
soldiers since the remittance of the first
hun,dred thousand. The movement contin
ues unabated, and , other portions of the
State have commenced the good work in
carnett.
PAP PIAZ FOR TIT H. P 1
SS
Another Important Proclamation' obey. and enforce, within their res pective
President Lincoln has issued another in:- spheres of service, the act and sections
portant proclamation, which we publish above recited.
to-day Like the other one its issuance was And the Executive will in due time re
a foregone conclusion. The former procla- et rmcend that all citizens of the United
mati,m pertains exclusively to slavery and States who shall have remained loyal t here
the slaves. This deals with traitors in the to throughout the rebellion, shall (upon
loyal States. It hurls against them, one the restoration of the constitutional relation
and all, the sternest fiat of justice—the de- betweep the United States, and their re
claratinn of martial law and the suspension j spective States and people, if the relation
of the writ of habeas corpus in their cases. shall have been suspended or disturbed) be
When arrested they are not to- take their compensated for all losses by acts of the
chances of escape before the civil tribunals, I United States, including the loss of slaves.
where they may find sympathising cronies In witness whereof I have hereunto set
on the bei?ch or in the jury box, but are to my hand and caused the seal of the United
be tried by court martial. States to be affixed.
This action has been rendered absolutely Done at the City of Washington this twen
necessary by the combinations known to ex- ty-second day of Sept., in the year of our
ist to discourage enlistments and resist the Lord, One thousand eight hundred and sixty
draft. So far from being mere conjectures, two, aid of the Independence of the United
these conspiracies have been well establish- States, the eighty-seventh.
ed by the most indisputable testimony. The ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Government, therefore, is bound, by a due By the PRESIDENT.
regard to the preservation of the Republic, WILLIAIt 11. SEWARD,
to adopt the strongest nieasnres it can to Secretary of State.
punish these aiders and abettors of the re
bellion. We rejoice most heartily at this PROCLAMATN iii N N, B r Y THE PRES
action, believing it to be for the best inter NO MORE TAMPERINAT- ITH ENLIST
ests of the Union, MEETS.
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A PROCLAIVIATIOTT
Ey the President of the Unitsd States
I, ABRAHAM LiNcor,N, President of the
United States of A merica, and Commander
in-chief of the Army and Navy thereof, do
hereby PROCLAIM and DECLARE that
hereafter, as heretofore, the war will be
prosecuted for the object of practically re
storing the constitutional relation between
the United States and the people thereof, in
which States that relation is, or may be, sus
pended or disturbed ; that it is my purpose
upon the next meeting of Congress, to again
recommend the adoption of a practical meas
ure tendering pecuniary aid to the free ac
ceptance or rejection of all the Slave States
so called, the people whereof may not then
be in rebellion against the United States,
and which States may then have voluntari
ly adopted or thereafter may voluntarily
adopt the immediate or gradual aboliThment
of slavery within their resvective limits ; and
that the effort to colonize persons of Afri'eun
descent with their consent upon this conti
nent or elsewhere with the previously ob
tained consent of the Governments existing
there, will be continued. ; that on the first
day of January, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all
persons held as slaves within any State, or
any designated part of a State, the people
whereof shall then be in rebellion against
the United States, shall be thenceforward
and forever free, and the Executive Govern
ment of the United States, including the
military and naval authority thereof, will
recognize and maintain the freedom of such
persons, and will do no act Qr tfetfi to repress
such persons, or any of them, in any efforts
they may make for their actual freedom ;
that the Executive will, on the first day of
January aforesaid, by proclamation, desig
nate the States and parts of states, if any,
in which the people thereof respectively
shall then be in rebellion against the United
States, and the fact that any State, .or the
people thereof shall on that day be in good
faith represented in the Congress of the
United States by members chosen thereto at
elections wherein a majority of the qualified
voters of such State shall have participated,
shall, in the absence of strong countervail
ing testimony, be deemed conclusive evi
dence that such State, and the people there
of have not been in rebellion against the
United States.
That attention is hereby calleo to an act
of Congress entitled " An act to make an
additional article of war," approved March
13, 1862, and which act is in. the words and
figures following :
Be it enacted by the Senate and house of
Representatires of the United States of
America in Con yress assembled : That here
after the following shall be promulgated .as
an additional article of war, fir the govern
ment of the army of the United States, and
shall be obeyed and observed as such :
_liticic. All officers or persons in the mil
tary or naval service of the United States
are prohibited from employi ,g any of the
forces under their respective commands for
the purpose of returning fugitives from ser
vice or labor, who may have escaped from
any persons to whom such labor is claimed
to be due, any officer who shall he found
guilty by a court-martial of violating this
article shall be dismissed from the ser
vice.
SEC. 2. .And be it further enctel‘q, That
this act shall take effect from and after its
passage
Also, to the ninth and tenth sections of
an act entitled " An act to suppress insur
rection, to punish treason and rebellion, to
seize and confiscate the property of rebels,
and for other purposes," approved July 17,
1862, and which sections aro in the words
and figures following.
SEc. 9. And be it jirither eliacto_ , 7, That all
slaves of persons who shall hereafter be en
gaged in rebellion against the Government
of ti United States, or who shall in any
. C(1 Naiad,
way give aid or comfort thereto eseapino.,
from such persons and taking refuge with
in the lines of the army ; and till slaves ca
turgid from such persons or deserted b
them and coming under the control of th
Government of the United States ; and al
slaves of such persons found in (or bein
within) any place occupied by rebel foree
and afterward occupied by the forces of th'
United States, shall be deemed captures
war, and shall be forever free of their ser
vitude and not again held as slaves.
Si:e. 10. And be it jiirther enacte(l, tha
no slave escaping into any State, Territory
or the District of Columbia, from any of th
States shall be delivered up, or in any way
impeded or hindered of his liberty, except
for crime or some offense against the law's
unless the persons claiming said fugiti
shall first make oath that the person
whom the labor or servitude of such f
tive is alleged to be due, is his lawful of
and has not been in arms against the Unit
Stater in the present rebellion, nor in an
way given aid and comfort thereto ; and ri r
person engaged in the military or nay'
rervice of the United States shall under an:
pretense whatever, assume to decide on tP
validity of the claim of any person to t
service or labor of any other person, or su'
render up any such person to the , ,claiman
on pain of being dismissed from'. tb •
vice.
And I do hereby enjoin upon and
all persons engaged in the military
service of the United "
Alders, Abettors, and Sympathizers with trea
son to be Arrested and Tried under Powers of
Courts-Martial—Suspension of the Writ of
Habeas Ccrpus t; all Traitors—Decisions
of Courts-Martial to be Final, &c.
By the President of the United States of
Aineriect.
A PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS, It has become necessary to
call into service not only volunteers but al
so portions of the militia of the States; by
draft, in order to suppress the insurrection
existing in the United States, and disloyal
parties are not adequately restrained, by
the ordinary processes of law, from hinder
ing this measure, and from giving aid and
comfort, in various ways, to the insurrec-
tion
NOW, THEREFORE, BE Fr ORDERED
Firs!, That during the existing insurrec
tion, and as a necessary measure for sup
piessing the same, that all rebels and in-
sargents, their alders and abettors, within
the United States, and all persons diseour 7
aging volunteer enlistments, resisting the
militia drafts, or guilty of disloyal practices,
;iffori:ig, aid and comfort to the rebellion
::gaint the authority of the United States,
shall be subject to martial law, and liable to
trial and punishment by court-martial or
military Commission.
,"7`ecoini, That the writ of habeas corpus
is suspErnied in respect to all persons ar
rested, or who are now or may hereafter,
during the rebellion, be imprisoned in any
fort, camp, arsenal, military prison, or
other place of confinement by any military
authority, or by the sentence of any court
martial or military commission.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my
hand, and caused the seal of the United
States to be affixed.
s ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Done at the city of Wa.Ahington, the
twenty-fourth, day of September, in the
year of our 'Lord one thousand eight bun
dred and sixty-two, and of the Independ
ence of the United States the eighty-seventh.
By the President:
WM. if. SEWARD, Seeretary of State,
Qa•®.a ~-
We have the authority of . a gentleman on
Gen. Butler's staff for saying that Gen. But
ler has already organized and equipped
three regiments of loyal Louisianians—one
of them white, and two not so white. lla
says that Gen. Butler will welcome the
President's Proclamation as a timely decree
and will pray for the let of January to
come. Gen. Butler has revolutionized and
reorganized what schools there are in New-
OrleauS ; has dismissed the repel pedagogues
and sent for a cargo Massachusetts school
mistresses to give orthodox instructi,n to
young New-Orleans.
~,. o• Q~ •s e
Suoo•r ANOTIIER."—The New Orleans
Delta of the 30th of August has the follow
ing : " Cul. Holcomb, of the Ist Louisiana
Volunteers, sent a long letter to camp yes
terday, detailing an account of a disturl
ance in his camp, and stating, at the close,
that he had . been.obliged to shoot one of the
mutineers. Gen. Butler read the paper
cavfully, end•sed it shoot another,' and
sent it back to the Colonel.
fir• • +
It is stated that Frank Weirick, the rebel
editor of the Selinsgroce Times, has had a
true bill found against him fur treason
against the government. It is to be hoped,
if found guilty, he will receive a traitor's
reward without mercy.
41ta.
A public writer thinks that much might
be gained if speakers would observe the
millers method—always to shut the gate
when the grist is out
GENERAL ELECTION
Pito CLAMATION.
-- vcr lIE RE AS, IN AND BY AN ACT OF
the General Assembly of the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania, entitled " An
Act relating to the election of this Common
wealth " passed the 2d day of July, A. D.,
1839, it is made the duty of the Sheriff in
every county within the Commonwealth to
give public notice to enumerate :-Ist. The
officers to be elected. 2d. Designate the
places at which the election is to he held.
I, CEO. ALEXANDER, High Sheriff of the
county of Centre, do hereby make known,
and give this public notice to the electors
of the said comity of Centre, that on the
second Tuesday of October next, (being the
14th day of the month) a General election
will be held at the several election districts,
established by law in the said county of
Centre, at which time District and County
officers are to be elected as follows, to wit :
One person to fill the office of Auditor
General of the State.
One person to fill the office of SurvEyor
General of the State.
_
One person to represent this Congression
al district in the house of Congress of the
United States. .
One person to repreent the county of
Centre in the House ,of Representatives
of this Commonwealth pf Pennsylvania.
One person to fa the office of Coin,:
Commissioner of th 3 county of Centro.
-11 the office of District
, Tit of Centre.
office of Surveyox,
OPE I i:.
the county of Centre.
In pursuance of said act I also hereby
make known and give notice, that the place
of holding the aforesaid general election in
the several cleetion districts within the said
county of Centre as follows to wit :
For the twp. of Haines, at the public house
of John Ilusscl, in the town of Aarons-
burg
For the twp. of Halfumon at the schoolhouse
in,Walkerville•
For the twp. of Taylor at the school-house
near Hannah Furnace.
For the twp. of Miles at the school-house in
the town of Rebersburg.
For the twp. of Potter at the house cf Geo.
Miller, Potters Fort.
For the twp. of Gregg at the house of Wm.
Musser.
For the twp. of Ferguson at the school
house in Pinegrove.
For the twp. of Harris at the school-house
in Boalsburg.
For the twp. of Patton at the house of Peter
Murray.
For the Borough of Bellefonte and Spring
twp. at the Courthouse in said Borough.
For the twp. of Walker at the school-house
in llubLersburg.
For the twp. of Howard at the house of Mrs.
Eliza Tipton.
For the twp. of Rush at the school-house
in Philipsharg.
For the twp. of snowshoe at the school-house
near the house of Samuel Askey.
For the twp of Marion at the school-house
in Jacksonville.
For the Borough of Mileshurg and Eggs
twp. at the school-house in said borough.
For the twp of Huston at the former place
of holding elections.
For the twp. of Penn at the house of Wm.
L. Musser.
For the twp. of Liberty at the school-house
in Eagleville.
For the te:p. of Benner at the Courthouse
in the Borough of Bellefonte.
For the twp. of Worth at the school-house
in Port Matilda.
' For the twp. of Burnside at the house of
John Boaz.
For the twp. of Curtin at, the school-house
of Robert Mann.
For the Borough of Unionville and Union
twp. in the school-house in sail borouglH
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN. 1
" That every person, except .Justices 09
the Peace, who shall hold any office of pri,fi
it or trust under the Government of dial
United States, or of this State, or of any cityl
or incorporated district, whether a cominisf,
sinned officer or agent, who is or shall bq
employed under the Legislative, Executive!
or Judieiary department If this State, oil
It he United States, or any city or ineorporal
ted °lstria ; and also that every mender oil
Congress and the State Legislature, and A
the Select or Common Council of any eit3A
or Commissioners of any ineorporated dis-i
trict, is by law incalde of lodding or exot rl
ill
cising at ffi
the same time the oee of ...Ind
luspector or clerk of any election of,
Comm ,nwealth, and that no Judge, Ins
tor, or no other o ffi cer of such election, sh.
be eligible to any office then voted hit.''
And the said Act of Asset»hly entitled
An Act relating to the eleetions of this
Commonwealth," passed July the 2d, 1F:19,
provides as follows, to wit :
"'Flint the Judges and I
Sell aforesaid, shall meet at their resneetive
places appointed for holding the el
their distrlets to which they respectively I)
long, before 9 o'cloek on the morning of tli
21 Tuesday of October' in each and every
year, and each of :lie said Inspectors shall
appoint one clerk, who shall be a qualified
voter of said district."
"In case the person who sh•CI receive
the highest numlwr of votes for lini;iector
shah, not attend on the day of iir:2 - election,
then the person who -- shall ha \if rectived
the second highest number of votes for
Judge, at the next preceding cleetiiin shall
act as Inspector in his place, and in case the
person who shall have receive-1 the highest
number of v -, tes for Inspectiq. shall not at
tend, the present elected Judge shall not
appoint an Inspector in his place, and
case the person e:ected Judge shail not at
tend, then the Inspector who achieved the
highest number or votes shall appoint a
Judge in his place ; and if no vacancy
shall continue in the beard fiT the space of
one hour after the time fixed by law For the
opening of the oleetion, the ( - planned voters
of the township, ward or district fir which
such officers shall have been elected, present
at the place of election, shall elect- ime of
their number to fill such vacancy.
. " It shall be the duty of Assessor , , re
spectk'eiy to attend at the places of
every general, special or township
durinir the t"tne silA election is open. fir in,
purpose of giving informai ion to die tiis ! e.•t
ors and dudg,s, when called on, in re;mion
to the rights of any person assessed by them
to v, to itt such election, or such teicter in
relation to the ass-essment of voters as the
said Inspectors or Judges, or either of them
shall from time to time requite."
" No person-shall be permitted' to vote Lt
any election as aforesaid, other than a whine
freeman, of 21 years, or more, who shall
have resided in this State at least one year,
and in the election distriA xl here he oilers
to vote, at least ten days immediately pre
ceding the election, and within two years
paid State or county tax, which shad have
been assessed at least ten days before the
election, but a citizen of the United States
who has been previously a qualified voter
of this State, and removed therefrom and
returned, and who shall have resided in the
election district and paid taxes as aforesaid,
shall be entitled to vote after. 'residing in
the State six months. Provided. That
the white freemen citizens of the United
States, between the age of 21 and 22 years,
and in the district ten ,days as aforesaid,
shall be entitled to vote,Although they have
not paid taxes."
" No person shall be entitled to vote
whose name is not contained in the taxable
inhabitants furnished by the Commission
ers unless, first he produce a receipt for
the payment within two years, of a State or
county tax, assessed agreeably to the con
stitution, or gives satisfactory evidence,
either on his oath or affirmation of another,
that he has paid such a tax ; or failure to
procure a receipt shall make oath of the
payment thereof; or second, if he claims
to be an elector between the age of 21 and
22 years, he shall depose an oath.or affirma
tion, that he resided in the State at least
one year next before his application and
make such proof of his residence in the dis
trict as is required by this act, whereupon,
the name of the person as admitted to vote,
shall be inserted in the alphabetical list by
the Inspectors, and a note made opposite
thereto by writing the word " tax," if he
shall be permitted to vote by reason of
having paid a tax or the word • ' age," if he
shall be admitted on account of his age ; and
in either case the reasons of such votes
shall be called out to the clerks, who shall
make the like note in the list of voters kept
by them."
" In all cases where the name of the per
son claiming to vote is nut found in the list
furnished by the Commissioners and Assess
ors, or his right to vote whether found there
or not isobjected to by one qualified citizen, it
• sill be the duty of the Inspectors to exam
; such persons on oath as to his qualifica
,s, and if he claims to have resided with
i 0 State one year or more, his oath shall
e ficient proof thereof ; but he shall
make proof by at least one competent wit
ness, who shall be a' qualified elector, that
,of Auditor of
he has resided within the district for more
than ten days next immediately preceding
said election, and shall also himself swear
to his bona fide residence, in pursuance of
his lawful calling, is within the district, and
not for the purpose of voting therein.
`4 If any person shall prevent, or attempt
to prevent, auy officer of an election under
this act from holding snch election, or use
or threaten any violence to any such officer,
or shall interrupt or improperly interfere
with him in the execution of his duty, or
block up or attempt to Hock up the window
or the avenue to any window where the same
may - be holden, or shall riotously disturb the
peace of such election, or shall use or prac
tice any intimidation, threaten force or vio
lence with the design to influnce unduly,
or overpower any elector, or toprevent him
from voting or to: restrain the freedom of
his choice, such persons on conviction,
shall be fined any sum not exceeding five
hundred dollars, and be imprisoned any
time not exceeding twelve months, and if it
shall he shown'to the court where the trial of
such offences shall be had that the person of,
fending was not a resident of the city, ward
district or township where the offence was
committed, and not entitled to vote therein,
then on conviction, he shall be sentenced to
pay a fine of not less than one hundred,. nor
more than one th4iusand dollars and be im
prisoned not less than six months nor 'more
than two years. _ .
" if any person or persons shall make any
bet or wager upon the result of any election
within this Commonwealth, or shall offer to
make any such bet or wager either by ver
bal proclamation thereof, or otherwise, he
or they shall forfeit and pay three times the
amount so bet or offered to be bet.
" If any person not by law qualified, shall
fraudulently vote at any election within
thit. Commonwealth, or being otherwise
qualified, shall vote out of his proper dis
trict, or any person knowing the want of
such qualiceation shall aid or prom.re such
person to vote, the person or persons thus
offending, shall, on conviction be fined any
sum rot exceeding two bundled dollars,
and be imprisoned, for any term not exceed
ing three months.
" If any person shall vote at more than
one election district, or otherwise frandu
lertly vote and deliver to the Inspector two
tickets together, with the intent to illegally
vote, or shall vote tic same ; or if any per
procure another to do so,
he or they in offending, shall on cnvi - etion
be lined in anv sun not less than fifty nor
more than five hundred dollars, and he im
prisoned for any term not less than three
nor more than twelve months.
"Ii any pers,n not (pia! i to <<()t in
this ConiiilonsvcaHl agreeithly to the law,
(exceptiag the sons i.f qualified citizens)
shah appear at. arty place of . election for the
purpoie tickets, icr of influencin4
the citizens Cinaliiied to ‘, - ote, he shall, on
conviction, hieFeit and pa: ) ..- any such )iriinee..,
and be iiiiprisoried for any tone nut exceed
ing three inonth::.
Elcctious by Militia or : Volunteera in: Actual
74. Whenever any of the citizens of this
commonwealth qualified as hereinbefore pro
vided, shall be in any actual military service
in any :letaellment of the m ilitia or o ,, r p s o f
volunteers, under a rognisition front the
President of the United States, rr by the
authority of thi: commonwealth, on the day
of the , relieyal election, as ttf , sresat i, SUOV
ci:lzutu , may exercise the right of suffrae-ex
at suc h p l ace its ma y h e appointed by the
cominandiog i.filner of the troop or emnpany
to which they shal respectively I Jeliin,l.t.„ as
fatly as if they were Taeseut at the tnuntl
place of election : Prorificti, that no member
of any [...rich troop or company, shall be per
witted to vole at the place so appointed,.
if at the time of such election he shall be,
within ten miles of the place..at which lie
would be entitlod to vote, if not in service as
itfiffesitUf.
vhn.
ti,ll
Tke prneeedings Gn• conducting such,
elections; shall be, as far as practicable, in
all respects the oaide as are herein directed
in the ease . of general elections, except that
the captain or c-ommanding oin,q, of each
c,onraiiiy or troop shall set as j,t ige, and
that the first fleutsnant or officer second its.
commami, shall aet a.a t inspector ;it such ,
eiecti so far as shaii relate to such c:•ni
r any or tr.op ; and in case of the neglect or
refusal if such offi •er , , or either of them, t
serve in such caotteity. the officer or olli_teri
n ,, xt in (7otorna:::1, in such com pany or t roo p,
shill ;le t as ju k !„e or inspector as the case
may be.
"(6. The officer authorized to perform
the duties ts f judge, shall administer the
proper oath or affirmation to the officer wilt)
s h a ll ac t as i n s i , ector, and as soon as such
tfficer shall have been sworn or affirmed, he
shall admini,o.er the proper oath or affirma
:ion to the ,flicer whose duty it shall be to
act as judge ; and such officer acting as
judge shall appoint two persons to act as
Lterl;:4, ;oil shalt administer to them the
pr,,per ‘,ml) or niTicroations.
77. The se , :eral officers authorized to
monilliA such e:oction, shall take the like
oaths or affirmations, shall have the like
powers, and they, as Well as other persons
- ,vho may attend, vote or offer to vote, at
such election, shall be subject to the like
penalties and restrictions, as are declared
or provi,h.rd in this act, in!the case of elec
tion by the eiti;:ens at their usual places of
eleetffin
78. Within three days after such election,
the judges thereof shall respectively trans
in t the nearest post office, a return
thereof, together with the tickets, tally
lists and list of voters, to the prothonotary
of the county in which such electors would
have voted if not in military service. And
the said judges shall transmit another re
turn of such election to the commanding offi
cer of the regiment or battalion, as the case
may be, who shall make a general return
under his hand and seal, of the votes of all
the companies or troopa under his command,
and shall transmit the same through the
nearest post-office to the secretary of the
commonwealth.
79. It shall-be the duty of the prothon
otary of the county, to whom such returns
shall be made, to deliver to the return judg
es of the same county, a copy certified un
der his hand and seal, of the return votes
so transmitted to him by the judges of the
election in the companies or troops afore
said.
80. The retui n judges of the proper
county or counties, in which the volunteers
or militia men aforesaid may have resided
at the time of being called into actual ser
vice as aforesaid, shall meet on the second
Tuesday in November next after the
election. And when two or more counties
are connected in the election, the meeting
of the judges from each county shall be post
poned in such case until the Friday follow
ing the said second Tuesday in November.
81. The return judges so met, shall in
clude in their enumeration the votes so re
turned, and thereupon shall proceed in all
respects in the like manner as is provided
in this act, in eases where all the votes
shall have been given of the usual place of
election. _
And the return judges of the respective
disti jets aforesaid, are hereby required to
meet at the Court Room in Bellefonte, on
Friday next (October 17th) after the second
Tuesday in October next, and then and
thereafter perform those things required by
law.
Given under my hand, at Bellefonte, th
day of August, 1802,
GEORGE. ALEXANDER,
Sept. 19. '62. Sheriff:
Servico.