HORATIO SEYMOUR,
of New York.
For VICE PRESIDENT:
GEN. FRANK P. BLAIR,
of Missouri.
NOTICE.—Many of our subscribers
have failed to make advance payment
for the REPORTER, and the attention
of such iscalled to our Terms. Wg
nrinting the REPORTER for Lalf a
dollar less per year, than 24y county
paper of its size in Penrjylvania, and
furnish as much read’; matter as other
papers which cos 82,00 and $2,50 per
year. Now friends, such ofyou as are
10 arrears, we beg of you to pay up, as
we need the money, being required to
pay cash for every article, paper, type,
vak, &e., which we use. Besides, we
wish to add one or two presses to our
establishment, in order to enable us to
still better serve our patrons, and to do
this, we must first get what is due us
for subscription, > rertising, and job
work.
ppm
GEN. BUTLER'S REPORT ON
THE EXCHANGE OF PRI-
SONERS.
Nid
Vue
owing to delay in preparing ti
-
ve
copy, we are ebliged to omit 1
t!
, Gen. Butler shows that General
: was to blame for all the deaths
nisery resulting from the non-ex-
aT ale ary +} Yim :
A AS} 18Y'S, ESEIO ER TEL: + LA¢ ml-
AEersonviiic &nd
-onfeder
f brave Union scoldiers would
1 released, and their lives
0
oee
BEY
ed
der, Gen. Butler, publishes his report,
and fastens the blame upon the radi-
Grant.
ville, to this repert, and ask them how
they can now vote for Grant.
can you vote for the author of this in-
cruel deaths?
>
Ceurage, Democrats, in every othe
state, outside of our own, our gains are
heavy, and the prospects very fair for
Seymour & Blair.
by only a small majority, in October,
and that can be overcome in Novem-
ber, if you but do your whole duty,
and work until the polis close, on the
Ard of November. Toe cause of the
Democracy, is the cause of God and
our country. All the infidels in the
«nd areloud for the election of Grant;
the greatest blasphemers in the country
are Grant's right-hand men. Grant
himself is an inebriate, and the great
radical leader Wendell Phillips, says
(rrant eannot stand before a bottle of
whiskey without falling down.
West Viginia wiicels into the Dem-
ocratic column by two thousand ma-
jority, and vow calls to Pennsylvania
to redeem herself on the 3rd of No-
vember,
Democrats, of Centre wout you do
4
and corruption was led astray at the
late election: Old Centre can roll up
70C majority, if the whole vote is
brought out.
ee fe pee
Doubles Villainy.
& 1 mid h cr F100 1 8 tv
are oid that racdicais in
it
Lie
for the
"Wi #
iif mal
ny
t
ii,
Ww o 1
mm 10
n counterfeit money
them too good to
will
will
and
round and stez! it back
cm the poor dupe, if possible,
yuble villaing—they
of buying votes, they
counterieit money,
iam 1D
Aide Al
. 3
» 1 in n
ii in corrupting another. Any
0 endygzh fo sell hisvote, if he
(ed by cogaterfeit radical green-
“«
dent as follows: “I do not say
Lay nag be emergencies so S€Vere
as woud compel me to vote for & man
who sometimes got drunk ; but I sa
“ha
ee
am directed by the Democratic |
. .
I
State Committee of Pennsylvania, to |
offer fo the eounty, giving in Novem- |
ber the largest per centage of increase
over its Democratic vote in October,
a banner with appropriate devices,
costing $500.
[Signed] WM. A. WaLLACE,
Chairman.
Democrats of Centre, go to work,
and try to win this handsome prize.
y a >
We are reliably infor
chairman of the radical county com-
mittee, should have declared, they had
stent, $10,000 in Centre county, to
berelection. We have no doubt of it
—and these enormous sums come from
the pockets of the government thieves,
who, under radical rule, robbed the
public treasury of hundreds of mil-
lions, and now they use part of this
plunder to corrupt the ballot, so that
| operations. These ten thonsand are
laboring man.
BE Se a
We have evidence to prove and
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|
i
present radical rule, commencing 1
| 1860, there was more fraud, rascality,
| robbery, plundering, and thieving by
radical office holders. high and low
| than under 80 years of Democratic
uupnnished,
rule. Those villains go
and are still in power; will you have
‘and Blair, on next Tuesday.
“Let Us Have Peace,”
The above is the motto of the Grant
party just now. Daring the
Radicals Assassiaating Doud
Mombers of thoi Own Parly
More Arms for the Negroes,
St. Louis, October 24.—1The Deme- |
{
crat’s special from Little Rock, Arkan- |
sas, says the Hon. James Hinds, mem- |
ber of Cougress from the Second Dis-
trict, was assassinated
traveling through Monroe. The Hoan,
Joseph R. Brooks, whe was with Mur.
Hinds, was wounded, but itis
posed not fatally.
The republican has a special from
Little Rock Arkansas, which says:
A
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‘ongressman Hinds and the wounding
I'he dis-
wlical
RR:
Ria
Yi \
DIODAS
(
| of Mr. Brooks is distrusted.
patch further says that the
party defeated beth [Tinds and
lout of the nomination of Congress.
| Both were discountenanced, and ware
| making a canvas amoung the negroes
| against the Radical! Central Commit
tee, Rice & Co. and were capable of
| doing the Radical party great injury.
| The Radicals cha rge the killing on the
Democrats, but the endeavors to fix it
prove fruitless, as the
for
| on them wiil
| Democrats had everything to hope
| from desertion of Hinds
| Brooks, which would eventually be
| disastrous to Radicalism, It
interest of the Democracy to
the
preserve
way. 1 they were killed the
erats would suiler, while the Radi
The death of both d
| ses of thesa danrerous malcontents, whe
influential with the ne-
ISDHO
+
Mmosy
of Lie Radical
ly under the controle
On the 20th insnant a party of fifty
roes attacked Dardanel. firing i
WOT0eS attacked ardanci, nring into
honses the whites, rallied
drove themoat. A na2atin
held by the whites the next day.
iL
1C
| '
Wao
Qi
ya "a yvY
i eo
WAS
1 the radicals re-
¥ » .y . 1 lay - } #1
Governor of Arkansas, and other
‘
%
"Vy
cop
} 1
Sed
say thatthe four years of blood
-
s have had unlimi-
Y
Le
“oy
ad
t strange ?
| inability te govern. “Let us
peace.”
PP
| the Bellefonte radical organ will have
‘a long tax to pay—it now
| cegnomen six yards in len
| evidently thinks there is
Our neighbor now r
o
sometl
r
‘“
hin
ang
2
lin a name.”
minds us of the baptismal of a young
logan) a
i@SACKS-
| fritz Constantinspoliche Dud
| pfeife.
ey lp Ape
In 1866 Clymer had 290,096
1 321,393, for Auditor Genera’.
| vote in Pennsylvania, of 31,297 in two
| years. Democrats, thisie encouraging
cal fraud and colonization, the recent
some majority.
el Ap eee
Democrats of Centre, a few votes in
Pennsylvania fer Seymour,
the greatest importance to have out
every voter. See to it that not a sin-
gle vote is lost. The contest is fu
constitutional liberty against radical
daspotism.
rule will completely ruin the country.
The radicals have already half robbed
1
| determined effort to save
$ try.
&
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COMPLIMENTARY.
conversation, |
overheard by a Democrat on Monday
evening last. It is rather complimen-
: gy TH Doar +
tary to iii Brown
[PL
IR]
ot TF
ivy,
IAD —
speak at our meeting
» 1 LO
night (
SECOND RAD—“Ol,d —n it, they
’
Wil OVer.
‘own’s ad--n
have sent Bill Br
First Rap—* Well,
enery cuss, that's a fact, but still he
D
i).
sopperiie
1
tie Pi
ads pretty
well.”
Ot Ap rer
Eighty years of Democratic rule in
the United States, and no taxation
and no stamps to pester the people,
but all prosperity.
Seven years of radical rule, and 26
tuxed to death, and the States disuni-
ted. People of Centre county on
nex+ Luesday, 3rd, you must choose
|
ofa public man whether he does drink
or not, 80 that they may give their
vote inteilivenily, What 1]
rq nt h ‘a
ia
i
; MUU WAU ABRY TS deaucy
the charge in public, :
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- tone ps re mr
The wife ofa cross hushand in Hart-
:
r
‘ : a al re Tr
|
|
|
|
i
| been impossible to ship them on any
regular boat, or to charter a steamer
vke them.
-
ADAMS,
specially to ts
{ $
Jorx Quincy the Demo
cratic candidate for Governor ol Massa-
of tha nerre arn-
| chusetts says x
ments established inthe
ments established 1n the
} i ! 3 il rile
by this run-mad Congress, re-coustra
ted governments:
“I do not
believe this system
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1
™
I+ 3
iv 1%
ss not fitted t
tom 1t 1s wrong.
1
{ one cla
iahrla
| whole fact
i a ]
stanaQ.
. '
01 the mails
. 1 y
1s clear to ma ana 1o
The country ¢
oastruzte 1 ont
1
v
avery
§
.
|
A
di
never wii ge
"
udicsd mind.
;
' not an
. & p>
Conzressional Gain.
We have D OCT
Ill
)al
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and three
» 1° 1 “y
Radical House wi
cratic member
it will make a difer
1
Lal
i the vote of
I.
> -
s Devotio
AN
A Siste i
.
A California
{ “A couvieted murderer, senten
‘ iar tallc thita atiyser +
papel teiis this Sslory.
vad
d
| death at Austin, Nevada, was last week
)
furniched by his sister with material
5
for writing, throa files, fi ine saws,
and poison with which to comimti
le in hi
i |
| cide in case his eiforts to escane f:
ry
Lhey
3m : +1 i
vere concealed in the ba
.
y
| , ry
| the frame of a large photygra
rit to
i sister, which she broug
had the jailor deliverit to him in her
With the saws he
! ly cut off his rons wl
| were discovered and
though thie poison was yet effectually
concealed. The sister promis «1 other
| assistance, which she was to render in
parson, as others were afraid, and a
presence,
1!
AU
hia
! Lady
wiempl
y d
l
the
tools tound,
| plan whereby, under pretence of giving
| another prisoner into his eharge, the
jailor was to be induced to open h
door, when he was to be ever]
by the pretended gu ud and the
| derer spirited away.
indicted for aiding
[=
OU
mui-
f
tr
\ Is
(0 rescue
pris-
i
——— ly tl a ——
pers in Texas -
Sight,
"
td
Ny
2s
{svar
Grasshoj i
rasshioppers is again
or
2
re area of
va larg
£XAas.
ves ib had not reach
Dallas, none havinz been nearer than
Mansiield, Tarrant county, accord
inr
to the Dulias Herald.
That
howaver, has heard from them at sev-
eral places on the frontier,
zos, in the county of Hood, they ap-
peared in clouds on Monday, the 21st
ult., and ate up every kind of veget:
tion.
Springs to be a cloud, and preparations
were made for rain; they made a noise
in their flight very similar to a storm
of wind and rain. When they came
nearer, however, they began to descend
and cover the earth in every direction,
sousuming all garden stufls and other
green vegetation they could find,
The following extract of a letter from
John H. Cochran, esq., dated at Belk-
nap, on the 16th of last month, de-
scribes the first appearance of th
pest,
Or
Oo
“
vy AT “5
{
Li Ri LW
| rh A \
took to be the smoke of an immenss
Ie, but on looking closer, l perceived i
» . . 1
was the inguairy of every one, both old
[t continued to approach
two hours came near
wud in about
Nearer and
i » . "
| nearer, dimmer and dimmer the sun
| shines—we see what it is. My Lord!
the Kgyptian plague!
\
[8
‘=
From the
| ground upward, as far as the eye could
| sea, on account of their densencss was
| almost a solid mass of living, moving
| insqcts-~grasshoppers.
“All who saw the sight, agree that,
for every square inch of surface
which they flying there mus
have been no less than one bushel
This |
ail i |
werle
Hi
STASI OP PALS. bho
ware moving of
Wil d. I'h y
wide and as long each way as the hori
Lhis
he
miles
were soa
LON LO us. be seen be
lore
Wills
they
4a1)1'0A
rn what
they
vi
x rt
noch
disce
hed us the W
rend W
on account ol the dens ness of the
mass. Lhey passed over in a north
east direction: still wel
left of the first coming.
ageration, :
“P. S.—Since the above was written
we learn that the grasshoppers have
been seen returning west.”
. id $%
Dreadful Railroat
Persons Injured—Full List ol
the Killed and Woundod.
Albany, October 24.—A terrible ac
cident HHudsan River
Lt might, to thie
TL
las
rain geome north.
. B 5
dis: about
Greenbush, The
Cars
ister 1s
ea miles blow
and
irom 1
lwo
i
yi
ial
SMOKING Car passenger
were thrown track, being
smashed to atoms, and about forty per
sons injured, several very seriously
-
[n Mitchell, Indiana, the other day.
the ceremony oil marriage was pertor-
med between James DD. Wedge wood,
and Matilda Wedeewood. Matilda
is now the wife and third step-mother
Db. WW T
namad Baraar
io Ja HOS
A
Wf James Jd rewood.
brothers Ly
cousins
married
Matilda had tl
3 + yt
fata
three
ry
1). 8
Dhiialined
| in the Constitution aud inh
oul ancesters,
cute the will of the people, whom the
| fragment wy Rump Congress has put
at d volution.” To rry
out the decisions of the supreme Court
i3 “revolution.” This revelution at
hand. The people's will, the judg-
ment of the court of the highest juris
is “*revolaticn.”
‘
eflanees, Is ''re [R
\ 1S
10
i {2 ' y ' PTH
| ping vamp Congress,
! - a lp
\ : 3 1 9
Francisco, October 23—
-A nother severe shock of earth
arercd here, and has sent
onle shrieking with terror into
4
wots, lt 1s
{rake
vil 2
ne
gL)!
as
sir
|
|
1 4
| 4
!
shatteted buil-
I'he
snstainad by tne
lines or any |
el
A ' .
Ives 1036.
lothes, fearful of'what may come next.
|
Ie
iA
* 1
AY
varm and sultry.
> yp
Chein
Q
The Prairie du Union con-
tains a notice of the death, by con-
About a
| week before he died he was ordered by
sumption, of Judson Hard.
his physician to quit work, and he did
| his last type-setting on a notice oi his
own death.
| + tt
| Isaac Armour was thrown from his
| wagon, naar Ottowa, Lilinois, on Tues-
the
dragged with his
| day, and his feet catching in
he was
| & ea
d.
ti mre
A manin New Jerscy has recovered
verdict of $500 against another, be-
child oi'the former was drown-
hint had placed
|
|
| cause a
x + ys 1 bl
1.5% I Lae 1a5el
An
viy
& BY J
ow 4
express car on the Hudson
r Ratlroad was rece:
] 1
,000, the messenger being garged
len money.
The recent di
Metz was caused by a work-woman, in
a moment of passion, throwing a pair of
Ol cen
sastrous explosion at
scissors among the fulminating pow-
der used in the manufacture of car-
tridges. Iorty-five persons were kil.
led, besides twenty-eight badly woun.
ded.
aE oa
A physician in Concord, X. H., has
|
to combine a walking stick, a thirty-
{ 19 30 arranged as
i
tly secure from dust,
and was patented on the 28th of last
Hk
July.
}
»
tichard Walkley, who, for murder.
ter a sickness of several months, near-
A shrewd fellow in T
a box
the shore, and allowed other
ab’
the prizo at $100 a “gr
took the opportunity of enriching th
selves, until it was found that the dia-
monds could be realy cut with a knife.
>
land fair, by letting people raise him
mium for suce
failure,
ae ——
A lady in Baltimore has sent the
Secretary of the Treasury two cents,
t
»
lling him that the compound inter-
est on it in a thousand years will pay
il
vile
nationt! debt, and save the coun
irom the crime of repudiation.
ee
Friday night made a
-
1
DUurrial
1 o1
on
{4d 1 the
ifice of Alexander & Son,
»
i)
open Lh
> o>»
Congress--Oflicial,
» ofhicial
“} ££.1} p
| He 1010wWinyY
{
a
oy
,
»
a
n Shipments —Anothe
hguak: Shock,
y 1 « $3)
FL er Lo.
- 2
operty in the
thaual
Cll
u
suflere 1 the
y
the damage to propert
i i
{i | Sri 352d ital £
ail Adireciions. DDACK Of Han
ners NUMEerous assures
wero
1 $F rosnn i "a Treads
; iromotners voiumes
nuierous
h damaged.
kK building
At Al eda,
ooklin and Orleans all suflered
verely. The destruction of property
| at San Jose and Brashear City is great.
I'he brick and adobe
| Mission of Ban Jose is a
ns,
| At Stocton and Maryville the
jury to buildings was slight.
| lumn, Healths)urg, Santa Rosa
lejo, and Martin elt tl
| of the shock ; chim Vs
IY
FLAY WAG Oniy
remains uninjured. an
12
£Ji -
SC
r
miss of ru-
in-
Val-
R
fire-wal
fail
LAI SU
and
loss
At Vis-
was done to rly. Tha
proj
| considerable at Los Angeles,
18
| age was done. Santa Cruz, Monterey
and Watsonville, suffered little loss. In
| the State of Nevada the earthquake
| was scarcely felt. The San Francisco
| Committee of’ Architects, appointed by
port
the City Hall unsafe, and it will have
to be taken down.
| city officials and courts will find other
| quarters. The other city buildings
are uninjured to any great extent.
| the Board of Superintendents, re
San Franeises, October 27.—Aneth-
er sharp shock of an earthquake was
felt here at midnight on the 26th.
Considerable frichy was occasioned but
no damage resulted.
London, Oct. 27.— Light shocks of
earthquake were felt at various places
in Cork county, Ireland, yesterday.
Ninety-three flocks of sheep were re-
cently killed in®Switzerland, by a thun-
der cloud which passed over the coun-
try.
Governor ayes, of Ohio, Las ap-
pointed Thursday, the 26th of Novem-
ber, as a day of Thanksgiving.
The silly people who are digging for
gold in Kelly's Island, Lake Erie, un-
der the direction of planchette, have
gone eight or ten feet into the solid
limestone without results, but they
persev era.
|
1
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|
A A AAS HO SIS
Two PIrecTures. — Seymour is a
temperate and benevolent.
(rant is a drunkard, a swearer, be-
longs te no church, and is the choice
ef infidels.
Which of these two will professed
Christians choose?
Come, let us have consistency.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
NITTANY VALLEY INSTITUTE
JACKSONVILLE, Centre Co., PA.
hy. : .: 0% : . .
This Institution will open for the admis-
lon of students, for a term of twenty
on the 4th of Nov. 1808.
weeks,
facilities are afforded. For particulars
iy
bo" Cot
3 P
iu!
Pua A2
I rof,
tre Co fl,
. M. Otro.
Dr. J. Riuoans,
Rev. J. K. MiLrLeT.
Bev, D. G. KLEIN.
V A : _
| ne
n/n
oct30, Wt
v
TABLE PROPERTY AT
ATE SALE in Millheim.
und reigned
ten!
f
offers
{he
Estate ut Private Sale, con-
¥
N
A LOT OF GROUND,
erected a two-story weather
boarded log-Rouse, 8 new two-
tory COACH SHOP, BANK
yard. The Lot contains a!
kinds of fruit trees, and all ne
buildings. For further information
to SAMUEL BAME,
Millheim,
[he undersigned offer:
uable Real Estate,
ship, Centre county, i
{ south of Millheim, at private sale,
CONTAINING
| under the best st
der good fences,
(CHOICE
we
em
+} {
ile 103
in Pen
via half
nil
. . og
lowing val-
situale
: }
A
Wut o
ate of cultivation, and un-
and TEN ACRES
TIMBER
AL
"
LAND.
Thereon are erected a two-sto-
ry weather boarded Log
HOUSE, BANK BARN.
Jl necessary
! bal Ra
| with a weil
large stream of running water a few roi
| from the door, and
| TWO ORCHARDS OF CHOICE FRUI
For further i
{
is
T
on the premises, particular
{ apply to
Christian Bame.
tf Penn township.
DMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE.
A Letters of administration on
estate of Mathew Catzmyer, late of Greg
{ township, deceased, having been grant
| to the undersigned, he
| knowin
i
tute t
Vie wir
oct
t}
requests all perso:
g themeelves indebted to said
liate payment,
mis against the
} : n duly authenticated according
i to aw for setlicment.
| JOHN RISHEL,
Admini
1
L
1s y » y i
MaKe anda
: ‘
those having cla
erent the:
nin
same to
Wr
ESIDENTIAL
PD
PRE
monwealth of
Any :
n act re:aLing 1o elec-
wealth, _ppr od the
thousand
L. DZ
"nite, Pi nns
Known and
‘ounty al
wha
14
i one
nine,
fF 1 N tu i
ie CO Ol Vy:
NR Qo Hereby mu give
1 .
$ ts 1} ' . i :
Lice TO Le #10 ) : je « Tress
» 4 red
{ sRid
81
An eection w he
Cs ti t ON
OF NOVEMBER, 1
f Nov ber), at which
Twenty-six person
nonwealth of Pennsvi-
lege of the Uni-
ie ii
1q 1
miro
iil
Lan ii
( Fil
di
OURNLY Ol
PUESDAY be-
the 3rd day {
wiil vais
epresent the t
Elect
"or
Ak
ey or s to
ral Ui
i
t the places of he ailing the
ral eieclion
oroughs, districts and townships with
. i Ceiitre, are as follows, to
For the borough of Bellefonte and Sprin
| and Benner townships, at the court-hou
| in Bellefonte.
For the town:zhip of Burnside at
house of John Boaz.
For Curtin township at the school-
at Robert Man
For Fergusen township at the
" . . 3 Yo. . AE
house in Pine Grove Mills.
I ALSO HEREBY make known an
give Notice th
{\ in tho ROVE
- "n
wi
EK
~§r
t
house
ns,
scl
SCI
1
i of B. F. Hosterman.
Boalsburg.
| For Haines township at th
of John Russal in Aaronsbur
| For Halfmoon township at
| house in Walkervill
For Howard borough and Howard town
use Of Mrs. El T n.
former place
in
e public }
vil
\ ie,
{ ship at the h za 4
For H ust
of holding elect
For Liberty towns
{ in Eagleville. ;
For Miles township at the scl
3 } “. 1a a
in Rabersburs,
For Marion township at th
in Jacksonville.
{ For Milesburg ;
| ship at the school house in :
{ For Potter township at the public house
{ of Mr. Porter at Old Fort.
Di
“4 } + +1}
nm WOWIHNSL.D al Lhe
LOLS.
hin
Hip
ol h
A daN
i
3
: y
horous
For Patton township at the house of Pe-
| ter Murray.
1
{ Wim. L. Musser.
| For Rush township at the school house
i in Philipsburg.
For Snowshoe township at the school
housze near Samuel Askey’s,
For Taylor township at the school house
For Unionville borough and Union town-
| ship at the school house in Unionville,
{ For Walker township at she school house
in Hublersburg.
| For Worth township at the school house
in Port Matilda.
NOTICE ISHEREBY GIVEN--"That
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| profit or trust under the United States or of
this State, or a city ¢i incorporated district,
| whether a commissioned officer or other-
wise, who is or shall be employed under the
Legislative, Executive or Judiciary De-
partment of this State, or of the United
States, or ofany incorporated district, and
also, that every member of Congress, andof
the State Legislature, and of the Select or
common Couneil of any city, or Commis-
sioner of any incorporated districtisby law
incapable of holding or exercising at the
| time, the office or appointment of Judge,
| Inspector or Clerk of any election of this
Commonwealth, and that no Judge, In-
spectors or other officer of such election,
hall be eligible to be then voted for.”
And the said act of Assembly, etitled “An
act relating to elections of this Common-
wealth,’ passed July 2, 1839, further provides
as follows, to wit:
“That the Inspectors and Judges shall
meet at the respective places appointed for
holding the elections in the district in which
they may respectively belong, before 9
o'clock on the morning of the 2d Tuesday
of October, and each of said Inspectors
shall appoint one clerk, who shall be a qual-
ified voter of such district.
“In case the person who shall have re-
ceived the second highest number of votes
for Inspetor shall not attend on the day of
election, then the person whoshall have re-
ceived the second highest number of votes
for Judge at the next preceeding election,
shall act as Inspector in his place. And in
casethe person who has received the highest
number of votes for Inspector shall not at-
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an Inspector in his place, and in case the
erson elected Judge shall not attend, the
Vasniator who received the highest num-
ber of votes shall appoint a Judge in his
place; and if any vacancy shall continue in
the board for the space of one hour after the
time fixed by law for opening of the election,
the anlified voters of the township, ward or
district for whichsuchofficerssha!l have been
elected, present a the time of election, shall
elect one of their number to fill the va-
cancy. .
No person shall be permitted to vote as
any election, as aforesaid, than a white
freeman of the age of twenty-one years or
more, who shall have resided in the state at
least one year, and in the election district
where he offers to vote at least ten days im-
madiately preceeding such election, and
within two years have paid a state or coun-
ty tax, which shall have been assessed at
least ten days before the election. Buta
citizen of the United States, ‘who has pre-
viously been a quaiified voter of any State
and removed therefrom and returned, and
who shall have resided in the election dis-
trict and paid taxes aforesaid shall be enti-
tied to vote after residing in this State six
months: Provided, That the white freemen,
ages of twenty-one and twenty-two years,
ten days, as aforesaid, shall be entitled to
although they shall not have paid
“It #hall be the duty of the zeveral Asses-
iving in-
rede 11 1 Tes 4 : *
calied on, In relation to the right of any per-
eon assessed by them to vote at such elec-
tion, and on such other matters. in relation
spectors, or either of them, shall from time
to time require,
“No person shall be permitted te vote
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taxable inha
| taxabl bitants furnished by the Come
missioners, unless first, he producs a receipt
| for pavment, within two years, of a State or
| county tax, assessed agreably to the Consti-
| tution, and give satisfactory evidence either
: his oath or affirmation, or the oath or af-
ion of her, that has been paid such
or in failure to produce such areceipt
to tha payment thereof ; or,
nd, if h aim a right tovote by Jureq
an elector between the ages of twenty-one
and twenty-two years. shall depose on oath
or affirmation, that he has resided in the
at least one year next before applics-
and make such proof of his residence
as is required by this act, and
wat he does verily belives, from the sac-
ounts given him. that is of the age afore-
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in the distaict
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quired by this act, whereupon the name or
onso admitted to vote shall be in-
d in t he alphabetical list, by the in-
snector, and a note mude opposite thereto by
writing the word “tax,” if he shall beado,
to vote by reason of huving paid tax
word “age.” if he sell beadhmitted
e by reason of ag9, and ineither case the
shall be cred out tothe
who shall maake the like note in the
them.
all cases where the name of the person
ring to vote is not found on the list
by the Commissioners or Asses-
sors, or his righr to vote whether found
serie
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or the
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written thereon or not, is objected to by
any qualified citizen, it shall be the duty of
| the Inspectors to examine such person on
ath as to qualifications and if he claims to
have resided within the State one year or
his oath shall be sufficient proof
any
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| one witness who shall be a qualified elector,
at he has resided within the district for
© than ten days next immediately pre-
eeding said election, and shall slso himself
is within the
suance of his lawful calling,
he did not remove into the
district, and that
in.
Every person qualified ax aforesaid, and
ho shall make due proof, if required, of his
ce and payment of taxes, as afore-
| be admitted to vote in the town-
wy ile?
residen
side,
“If any person shall prevent or attempt to
nt an officer of the election under this
from holding such election, or use or
threaten any violence to any such officer, or
shall interrnpt or improperly interfere with
him in the execution of his duty, shall bleck
or attempt to block up the window oravenue
act
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or shall use or practice any intimation,
its, foree or violence, with the design to,
nee unduly, or overawe, any elector
im from voting, or to restrain
choice, such person on con
lin any sum not exceed-
d dollars and to be imprison-
| fora 10t less than one or more than
welve months, and fitit shall be shown to
} urt where the rial of such offence
| be had that the person so offending
a resident of the city, ward, district
or township where the said offence was com-
itted, and not entitled to vote therein,
nviction he shall be sentenced te
pay a fine of not less han one hundred nor
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med not less than six months nor
han two vears,
‘If a persons shall make any
bet or wager upon the result of any elec-
nm within this Commonwealth, or shall
er to make any such bet or wager or prin-
vertisement, challenge or invite any
r persons to make such bet or wa-
i thereof he or they
ore t
\n person or
i conviction
‘eit three times the amount so offer-
{ any person not by law qualified, shall
monweslth, or being otherwise qualified
person knowing the want of such a
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to vote, the person, on conviction, shall be
fined in any sum not exceeding two hundred
dollars and be imprisoned for a term not ex-
If any person not qualified to vote in this
Commonweslth, agreeably to law (except
the sons of qualified citizens), shall appear
at any place of election for the purpose of is=
suing tickets or of iafluencing the citizens
qualified to vote he shall on conviction, for-
feit and pay any sum not exceeding one
hundred dollars for every such offence, and
Le imprisoned for any term not exceeding
twelve months.
AN ACT regulating the mode of voting at
all elections, in the several counties of
this commonwealth,
Sger1oN 1. Be if enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the Common-
wealth of Pennsylvania in General Assem-
bly met, and it 18 hereby enacted by the
authority of the same, That the qualified vo-
ters of the several counties of this Common-
wealth, atsall general, township, borough
and special elections, are hercby hereafter
authorized and required te vote, by tick
printed, or written, or partly printed an
partly written, severally classified as fol-
lows: Une ticket shall embrace the names
of all Judges of courts voted for and be la-
belled outside “judiciary ;” one ticket shal}
embraces the names of all State officers vo-
ted for, and be labelled, ‘‘State’’ one ticket
shall embrace the names of all county offi~
cers voted for, including office of Senator,
member, and members of Assembly, if vo-
ted for and members of congress, if voted
for and be labelled “county,” one tickes
shall embrace the names of all township of
ficers voted for and be labelled ‘town.
ship: one ticket shall embrace the na me
of all borough officers voted for, and be la-
balled “borough; and each class shall be
deposited in-seperate ballot boxes.
Section 2. That it shall be the duty of
the sheriffs in the several counties of this
commonwealth. to insert in their election’
proclamations hereafter issued, the first see~
tion of this act. "
. JAMES R. KELLEY,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.:
SavID FLEMING,
¢ senate.
APPROVED—The thirteenth day of March
Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-six.
¥ A. G. CURTAIN.
der my hand, in my, office in
_ the ninth day of Septem ber,
Given un
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P. Z. KLINE, Sherif,