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TIIE JOURNAL.
CLEARFIELD, PA., MARCH 6, 1861.
Rexoval. On the 1st of April, the "Raftsman a
Journal" offioe will be removed to the second sto
ry or Graham's new brick building, on Market
street, nearly opposite the "Mansion House."
Lock Oct. Most of our subscribers are prompt
raying ones; but we haw a few who are tardy
or indifferent in this respect. "After rafting" the
names of good subscribers only will be retained
on our list, and orders for new subscriptions will
have to be accompanied by the Cash.
A. M. IlttLs desires to notify bis friends and
patrons that he will bo in his office In Clear
field, (opposito tho Clearfield IIouso,) until
after the June Court, with the exception of
the second week in May. Persons desiring
Lis services will do well to call before that
February 27th, 1861-St.
time. .
The Farmer and Gardener, and the .imeri
a'n.Bee Journal, for March, have been receiv
ed. These standard publications are Issued by
A. M. Spangler & Co., 25 North Sixth street,
Philadelphia, at prices which place them with
in reach of every Farmer and Apiarian. Both
of them, together with a handsome Premium
Book, are furnished at $1.60 per annum. This
-we believe to be cheaper than any similar pub
lications In the conntry, and ought to secure
for them an immense circulation. Those who
desire to see them can obtain specimen copies
without charge, by addressing the publishers.
The River, .Rafting, &c Last Thursday
the water in the river commenced rising and
the ntxt morning the freshet had reached a
good running stage. On Friday rafting-in"
was commenced, but the work was not pushed
as vigorously a9 usual. On Sunday and Mou-
day a number of rafts passed down, but on
Monday night the atmosphero grew cold and
yesterday morning some snow fell, giving
sudden check to (he running of rafts, and
causing the water to fall rapidly. There is no
telling at this time what prices will be; but
there is no doubt that an effort is being made
by eastern speculators to control the market
and reduce the rates as much as possible
This has induced some of our lumbermen to
hold back their rafts, and unless there is
prospect of paying prices, it is quite probable
that a considerable quantity of the timber now
on the river banks will not be moved at all
To-day it is storming and f reezing hard
TEBBIBLE TRAGEDY IN Lt COMING CO., PA
From the Williamsport Bulletin, March 2.
One of tho most brutal murders it has ever
been our lot to record occurred in this place
on the night of Monday, the 11th ult. Bar
tiey llindley, an Irishman, and a tailor by
trade, formerly ol Philadelphia, killed his
wife. Marv Ilindlev. They resided on the
bank of the river, corner of Front street and
line alley, a short distance above Pine street
in a bouse belonging to Johann Beck. The
absence of Mrs. llindley, and Barney's contra
dictory . replies as to her whereabouts soon
began to-excite suspicion.. No clue, however,
was found, by which to unravel the mystery ;
until the next week. One of tho officers vis
ited the- house, and found a lot of feathers
which had apparently ' been emptied from
bed, and llindley could not satisfactorily ex
plain what had become of the ticks. On Fri
day, tho 22d eleven days after the woman was
missed, three empty bed and bolstertlcks
wore found on the bank of the river, where
they had apparently been washed up by the
ice flood. These were much stained with
blood. After dark they were removed to the
otfice of Justice Montgomery, who, with the
aid of the police, was busily but silently en
caged in fjrretinff out tho mystery. A war
rant was then issued for Barney llirdley, and
on Saturday morning he was arrested by om
cers Coder and Sloan, and brought before
'Squire Montgomery, but by request of the
District Attorney he was committed to jail to
nwait a further development of facts tn the
case. On the same dav the officers made an
examination of Hindley's residence, with the
"view of eliciting other facts. A nsmber of
?lood stains w.ro found about the house, on
the floor and in the child's cradle. The feath
ers in the house) appeared to lie of the same
kind with the few that remn?"ed in the bloody
tick found at the river. Hindley's little son
a boy about 9 or 10 years of age, was question
?d as to what had become of his mother, but
nothing conclusive was obtained from him,
further than that he appeared to be governed
by some undefined f ear and would burst into
tears when "questioned, and said that he never
expected to see his mother again. The search
wag continued during Saturdaynight and Sun
day morning, hundreds of excited people par
ticipating in it and thronging around the
Jioiue. ine river was dragged, ana tto ice
piled along the shore was examined, but in
vain. About noon on Sunday the body was
tound by A. Harvey, Esq., and others aiding
urn. It was buried in the woodshed back of
the house, about twl feet nndcr the ground,
and the wood was piled upon it. The body
t' the victim was carried into the house and
laid upon her husband's tailoring bench near
the front window, through which the broken
head and cut throat could be plainly seen.
The report spread like wildfire through the
uhole town, and crowds, of old and young,
male and female, poured in from all directions
to see this damning evidence of the prisoner's
guilt. While these things were going on at the
house by the river, another bloody. scene in
this terrible tragedy took place at the jail
where the murderer was confined. In the
lorecoon liindley succeued in borrowing a
r izor from another prisoner, with the avowed
intention of shavins himself. "'With this he
cut his throat, nearly severing bis windpipe.
The act was almost immediately discovered,
and physicians were sent for, who sewed up
fce wound. Thinkine that he was about to
die, llindley then made a full confession of
"is guilt. Ho stated that he had killed las
wife on the night of Monday, the 11th ult.,
had put her in a meat barrel in the house,
and kept here there until tho next night and
then buried her. Numerous reports wero cir
culated to the effect that he had killed his
first wife, thepreseat victim being his second,
but no such confession was made. The doc
tor's efforts to save llindley for sufferance ac
cording to law were unavailing, and he died
n Tuesday morning, between five and six o'
clock, from the effects of the cut in his throat.
pRESERVATioir or the Hair. Some atten
tion paid to this item of propriety would avoid
touch of the Baldness so pravalentin this coun
ty. Dr. Bellingham, of London, bag imraor-
ized his name aa the inventor of a "Stimu
' Jting Ongtient," which could be as appropri
ate in preventing as in curing baldness. To
"use a luxuriant growth of beard or whiskers,
" equally certain. Messrs. II. L, liegeman
Co. now have tlje entire American market.
"enc. we oo!i & largo increase in hirsute
appendages among our young men. ' See cur
advertising columns. .
CLIPPINGS AND fCRIEBLlNGS
KJ"Still about old winter. His breath was
quite frigid yesterday. - -
K"IIow to make people acknowledge the
com tread on their toes.
n7"A nut for the times. Who was Chest
nut's political progenitor 1 A. Burr.
CCJMr8. Partington says there must c some
kin between poets and pullets, for they are
both chanting their lays. . -
H7VVe don't think that South Carolina has
any warrant for her conduct, but she evidently
has a good deal of war-rant.
EThe question In Louisiana is not now
whether a man Is "right on the goose," but Is
he "right on the pelican ?"
DA brother lawyer once told Saxe that a
beard was unprofessional. "Right," said Saxe,
"a lawyer cannot be too barefaced."
OSIteported that negotiations are on foot
with Spalding, to slick the Democratic party
together with 'prepared glue.' It mends hob
by horses', why not the Democracy ?
ff"One of the financial writers in NewTork
says: "Rates of Interest are very irregular
and governed more by taste and feeling than
by any ordinary rules of quotation."
DSThe Memphis Appeal says that the four
vears of Mr. Lincoln's administration will be
the "reizn of steel." The lour years of Mr
Buchanan's have been the reign of stealing.
IE?-Preparlng to leave the State tho Ger
mans in the interior of Texas, on account of
secession. The most of them will go to Ceo
tral America, particularly to the plateaus of
.Nicaragua.
E7A widow lady, sitting by a cheerful fire
in a meditative mood, Hhortly after her hus
band's, decease, sighed out "Poor fellow how
he did like a good fire. I hope he has gone
where they keep good fires .'"
CC?Statcd by Slobklns, that the cannon
with which South Carolina intends to destroy
the Union is liu-chanan, the 'Norwich Bulle
tin' responds : " l es, and that's the cannon ev
erybody wants to see discharged."
K7ln a fix the beautiful and accomplished
wife of Judge Douglas, who, a newspaper co
temporary says, made a wager of $100, prior
to the late election, that she would sleep with
the next President of the United States. We
think the Judge will prefer to advance the
mouey, and pay the wager.
His Inaugural Address.
V I
DELIVERED MARCH 4th, 1861.
Fellow Citizens of the United States
In compliance with a custom as old as the
Government itself, I appear before you to ad
dress you briefly, and to take, in your pres
ence, the oath prescribed by the Coustitution
ol the United States to be taken by the Presi
dent before he enters on the execution of his
office. I do not consider it necessary at pres
ent for me to discuss those matters of admin
istration about which there is no special anx
iety or excitement. Apprehension seems to
exist among the people of the Southern
States, that by the accession of a Republican
Administration, their property and their peace
and personal security are to be endangered.
There has never been any reasonable cause
for such apprehension. Indeed, the most
ample evidence to the contrary has all the
while existed and been open to their inspec
tion. It is found in nearly all tho published
speeches ol him who now addresses you.
do but quote from one of these speeches when
I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or
indirectly, to interfere with the institution of
slavery in the States where it exists, I believe
I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no
inclination to do so. Those who nominated
and elected me did so with the full knowledge
that I had made this and many similar dec
larations, and had never recanted them. And
more than this, they placed in tho platform
for my acceptance, as a law to themselves and
to me, the clear and emphatic resolution
which I now read.
. Resolved, "That the maintenance inviolate
of the rights of the States, and especially the
right of each State to order or control its own
domestic institutions according to its own
judgment exclusively, is essential to that bal
ance of power on which the perfection and en
durance of our political fabric depend. And
we denounce the lawless invasion by an arm.
ed force of the soil of any State or territory,
no matter under what pretext, as amongst the
gravest of crimes."
I now reiterate these sentiments, and in do
ing so, I only press upon the public attention
the most conclusive evidence of which the
case in susceptible Ihat the property. Deace
and security ot no section are to bo in any
wise enaangerea by the new incoming Admin
istration. I add, too, that all the protection
which, consistently with the Constitution and
the Laws, can bo given, will be cheerfully
given to all the states, when lawfully deman
ded, for whatever cause, as cheerfully to one
section as to another. There is much contro
versy about the delivering of fugitives from
service or labor. The clause I now read is as
plainly written in the Constitution, as any
other ol its provisions :
"jto person held to service or labor in one
State under the laws thereof, escaping into
another, shall, in consequence of any law or
regulation therein, be discharged from such
service or labor, but shall be delivered up on
claim of the party to whom such service or la
bor may be due."
It is scarcely questioned that this provision
was intendea by those who made it for the re
claiming of what we call Fugitive Slaves, and
the intention of the law-giver is the law. All
members of Congress swear their support to
tne wnoie oonstuiuton to this provision as
much as to any other to the proposition then
that slaves whoso cases come within the terms
of this clause, and "shall be delivered up,"
their oaths are unanimous. 2soi if tbev would
make the effort in good temper,couId they not,
with nearly equal nnanimity, frame and pass
a law by means of which to keep good that u
nanimous oath There is some difference of
opinion whether this clause should be enforc
ed by National or State authority, but surely
that difference is not a very material one. If
the Slave is to be surrendered, it can be of but
little consequence to him or to others, by
which authority it isdone. And should anyone
n any case be content that his oath shall be
unkept on a merely unsubstantial controversy
as to how it shall be kept I Again in any
aw upon this fubject ought not all tha safe
guards of liberty known in the civilized and
humane jurisprudence to be introduced, o
that a freeman may not be, in any caso, sur
rendered as a slave ? And might it not be
well, at the same time, to provide by law for
the enforcement of that clause in the Consti
tution, which guarantees that "the citizens of
each State shall be entitled to all the privile
ges and immunities of the citizens in the sev-
ral States." I take the official oath to-day
with no mental reservation aud with no pur
pose to construe the Constitution or laws by
any hypercritical rules. And while I do not
choose now to specify particular acts to Con
gress as proper to he enforced, I do suggest
that it will be much satcr for all, both, in offi
cial and private stations to conform to and a
bide by all these acts which stand unrepeal
ed than to violate any of them, trusting to
find impunity ia having them held to be un
constitutional. It is scarcely seventy-two years since the
first inauguration of a President under our Na
tional Constitution. During that perlo4 fifteen
different and greatly distinguished citizens
have in succession administered the executive
branch of the Government. They have con
ducted it through many perils, and generally
with great success. Yet with all this scope for
precedeut, I n,ow enter upon the same task for
the brief constitutional term of four years, un
der great and peculiar difficulty. A disruption
of the Federal Union, heretofore only men
aced, is naw formidably attempted. I hold
that in contemplation of universal law and of
tfje Constitution, the union of these States is
perpetual. Perpetuity is implied, if not ex
pressed, in the fundamental laws of all nation
al governments. It is safe to asseit that the
Government proper never had a provision in
its organic law for its own termination. I
shall continue to execute all the express pro
visions of our National Constitution, and tho
Union will endure forever, it being impossible
to destroy it except by some action not provi
ded f or in the instrument itself." Again, if the
United States be not a government proper, but
an association of States in the nature of a con
tract merely, can it as a contract be peaceably
unmade by less than all the parties who made
it ? One party to the contract may violate it,
Or bre?.k it, so to speak, but does it not require
all to lawfully rescind it?
Descending from these general principles,
we find the proposition that in a legal contem
plation of the case, Union is perpetual, con
firmed by the history of the Union itself. The
Union is much older than tho Constitution.
It was formed in part by tho articles of asso
ciation in 1774. It was matured and continued,
by the Declaration of Independence in 177G.
It was further matured, and the faith of all the
then thirteen States expressly plighted and en
gaged that It should be perpetual by the arti
cles of confederation in 1778, and finally in
1789. One of the declared objects for ordain
ing and establishing the Constitution, was to
form a more perfect Union ; but if the destruc
tion of the Union by one or by a part only of
the States be lawfully possible, the Union is
less than before the Constitution ; having lost
the vital element of perpetuity, it follows from
these views that no State upon its own mere
motion can lawfully get out of the Union ; that
resolves or ordinances to that effect are legal
ly void, and that acts of violence within any
State or States against the authority of the
L'nited States, are insurrectionary or revolu
tionary, according to circumstances.
I therefore consider that in view of the Con
stitution and laws il.e Union is unbroken, and
to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as
the Constitution expressly enjoins on me, that
the laws of the Union be faithfully executed
in all the States. Doing that 1 deem to be
only a simple duty on my part, .and I shall
perform it so far as practicable, unless my
rightful masters, the American people, shall
withhold the requisite means, or in some au
thoritative manner direct the contrary. I
trust this will not be regarded as a menace
but only as the declared purpose ol the Union,
that 1 will constitutionally defend and main
tain it. In doing this there need be no blood
shed or violence, and there shall be none unr
less it be forced upon the National authority.
The power confided to me will be used to hold,
occupy, and possess the property and places
belonging to the government, and to collect
the duties on imports, but beyond what may
be necessary for these objects there will be no
invasion,- no using of lorce against or among
the people anywhere. Where hostility to the
Unite 1 States in any interior locality shall be
so great and so universal as to prevent compe
tent resident citizens from holding Federal of
fices, there shall be uo attempt to force obnox
ious strangers among the people for that ob
ject, while the strict legal right may exist in
the government to enforce the exercise of
these officers, the attempt to do so would be
so irritating, and so nearly unfeasible with
all, that 1 deem it better to forego for a time
the uses of such officers.
Tho mails, unless repelled, will continue to
be furnished in all parts of the Union so far as
possible. The people everywhere shall have
that sense of perfect seenrity which the most
favorable and calm thought and reflection on
the part of the Government can give them.
The course here indicated will be followed,
unless current events and experience shall
show a modification or change to be proper,
and in every caso and exigency my best dis
cretion shall bo exercised according to cir
cumstances actually existing, and with a view
and a hope of a peaceful solution of the nation
al troubles and the restoration of fraternal
sympathies and affections. That there are
persons in one section or another 'ho seek to
destroy the Union at all events, and are glad
of any pretext to do it, I will neither affirm
nor deny ; but if there be such, I need address
no word to tbem.
To those, however, who really love the U-
nion may I not speak, before entering upon
so grave a matter as the destruction or our
national fabric with all its benefits, its mem
ories and its hopes ? Would it not be wise
to ascertain previously, why we do so ? Will
you hazard so desperato a step while there is
any possibility that any portion of tho ills you
fly from, have no real existence ? While the
certain ills you fly to are greater than all tho
real ones you fly from, will you risk tho com
mission of so fearful a mistake 7 All profess
to bo content in tho Union, if all Constitu
tional rights can be maint;fnied. Is it true
then that any right plainly written in the Con
stitution has been denied I I think not.
Happily the human mind is so constituted that
no party can reach to tho audacity of doing
this. Think if you can of a single instance
in which a plainly written provision of the
Constitution has ever been denied. If, by the
mere force of numbers, a majority should de
prive a minority of any clearly written Consti
tutional right, it might in a moral point of
view, justify a revolution. It certainly would,
if such a right were a vital one. But such is
not our case. All tho vital rights of minori
ties and of individuals are so plainly secured
to them by affirmations and negations, guar
antees and prohibitions in the Constitution,
that controversies never arise concerning
them.
But no organic law can bo framed with a
provision specifically applicable to every ques
tion which may occur in practical administra
tion. No foresight can anticipate, nor any
document of reasonablo length contain express
provisions for all possible questions. Shall
fugitives from labor be surrendered by Nation
al or State authority 1 The Constitution does
not expressly say. May Congress prohibit
slavery in the Territories ? The Constitution
does not expressly say. Must Congress pro
tect slavery in the Territories f The Consti
tution does not expressly say. From ques
tions of this class spring all our Constitutional
controversies, and we divide upon them into
majorities and minorities-. If the minority
will not acquiesce the majority must, or the
government must cease. . There is no other
alternative for continuing the Government but
acquiescence on the one sTdo or the other. If
a minority in such caso will secede rather than
acquiesce, they m4e ft precedeut which1 io
turn will divide aacrruln them, for a minority
of their own will secede from them whenever
a majority refuses to be controlled by such a
minority. For instance, why may not any por
tioa of a nc Confederacy, a year or two
hence, arbitrarily secede again, precisely as
portions ol the present Union now claim to se
cede from it ? All who cherish disunion sen
timents are now being educated to the exact
temper of doing this. Is there such perfect
meniiiy ol interests among the States to com
pose a new Union as to produce harmony only
and prevent renewed, secession Plainly, the
central idea of secession ia the essence of an
archy. A majority held in restraint by Con
stitutional checks and limitations and always
changing easily with the deliberate changes of
popular opinions and sentiments, is the only
trne sovereign of a free people. Whoever re
jects it, does of necessity fly to anarchy or to
despotism. Unanimity is impossible. The
rule of a minority as a permanent arrange
ment, is wholly inadmissable, so that rejecting
the majority principle, anarchy and despotism
in some form is all that is left.
I do not forget the position assumed by
some that Constitutional questions are to be
decided by tho Supreme Court, nor do I deny
that such decisions must be binding in any
case upon the parties to a suit as to the ob
ject of that suit, while they are also entitled
to very high respect and consideration in all
parallel cases by all other Departments of the
Government. And, while it is obviously pos
sible that such decision may be erroneous in
any given caso, still the effect following it be
ing limited to that particular case, with tho
chance that it may be overruled and never be
come a precedent for other cases, can be bet
ter borne than could the evils of a different
practice. At the same time the candid citi
zen must confess, that if the policy of the
Government upon the vital questions, effect
ing the whole people, is to be irrevocably fix
ed by the decisions of the Supreme Court, the
instant they are made in ordinary litigation
between parties in personal actions, the peo
ple will have ceased to be their own rulers,
having to that extent practically resigned
their government into the hands of tbat emi
nent tribunal. Nor is there in this view any
assault upon the Court or the Judges. It is a
duty from which they may not shrink to de
cide cases properly brought before them, and
it is no fault of theirs if others seek to turn
their decisions to political purposes.
One section of our country believes that sla
very is right, and ought to be extended, while
the other believes that it is wrong,-and ought
not to be extended. This is the only substan
tial dispute, for the fugitive slave clause of
the Constitution, and the law for the suppres
sion of the foreign slave trade, are each as well
enforced perhaps as any law. ever can be in a
community nhero the moral sens:: of the peo
ple Imperfectly supports the law itself. The
great body of the people abide by the dry
legal obligation in both cases and a few break
over in each. This I think cannot be perfect
ly cured, and it would be worse in both cases
after the separation of the sections than before.
The foreign slave trade, now imperfectly sup
pressed, would be ultimately revived without
restriction in one section; while fugitive
slaves, now only partially surrendered, would
not be surrendered at all by tRe other.
Physically speaking, we cannot separate, we
cannot remove our respective sections from
each other, nor build an impassable wall be
tween them. A husband and wife may be di
vorced and go out of the presence and beyond
the reach of each other. But the different
parts of our country cannot do this. They
cannot but remain face to face, and an inter
course either amicable or hostile must continue
between them. Is it possible then to make in
tercourse moro advantageous or more satis
factory after separating than before ? Can
aliens make treaties easier than friends can
make laws 1 Can treaties be more faithfully
enforced between aliens than law among
friends ? Suppose you go to war, you can
not fight always, and when, after much loss on
both sides and no gain on either, you cease
fighting, the identical old questions as to
terms of intercourse are again upon you.
This country, with its institutions, belongs to
the people that inhabit it. Whenever they
shall grow weary of tho existing government,
they can exercise their Constitutionel right of
amending it, or their revolutionary right to
dismember or overthrow it. I cannot be ig
norant of the fact that many worthy and pa
triotic citizens are desirous of having the na
tional Constitution amended. While I make
no recommendations of amendments, I fully
recognize the rightful authority of the people
over the whole subject, to be exercised in
either of the modes prescribed in the instru
ment itself, and I should, under existing cir
cumstances, favor, rather than oppose, a fair
opportunity being afforded tho people to act
upon it. 1 will venture to add that to me the
Convention mode seems preferable, inasmuch
as it allows the amendments to originate with
the people themselves, instead only of permit
ting them to take or reject a proposition orig
inated by others not especially chosen for the
purpose, and which might not be precisely
such as they would wiah to either acceptor
ret use.
1 understand a proposed amendment to- the
Constitution, which amendment, however, I
have not scon", has passed Congress, to the ef
fect that the Federal Government shall never
interfere with the domestic institutions of the
States including that of persons held to ser
vice. To avoid a misconstruction of what I
have said, I depart from my purpose not to
speak of particular amendments ao far as to
say, that, holding such a provision to be now
implied as Constitutional law, I have no objec
tion to its being made express and irrevocable.
The chief magistrate derives all his authori
ty from the people, and they have conferred
none upon him to fix terms for the separation
of the States. The people themselves can do
this also if they choose ; but the executive, as
such, has nothing to do with it. His duty is
to administer the present Government as it
came to his hands and to transmit it unim
paired by him to his successor. Why should
there not be a patient confidence in the ulti
mate justice of the people ? Is there any bet
ter or equal hope in the world? In our pres
ent differences, is either party without faith of
being in the right ? If the Almighty Ruler of
Nations, with bis eternal truth and justice, be
on our side of tho North, or on yours ot the
South, that truth and that justice will surely
prevail by the judgment of this great tribunal,
the American people. By the frame of the
Government tinder which we live, this same
people have wisely given their public servants
but little power for mischief, and have with
equal wisdom provided for the return of that
little to their own hands at very short inter
vals. While the people retain their virtue
and vigilance, no Administration, by any ex
treme of wickedness or folly, can very seri
ously injure the Government in the short
space of lour years.
My Countrymen One and all, think calmly
and well upon this whole subject. Nothing
valuable can bo lost by taking time. If there
be an object to hurry any of you in hot haste
to a step which you would never take deliber
ately, that objecfcwill . be frustrated by time.
But no good object can be frustrated by it.
Such of you as are now dissatisfied, still have
the old Constitution unimpaired, and on the
sensitive point,- the laws ot your own framing
nnder it ; while the new Administration will
have nd immediate power, if it would, to
change either. If it were admitted tbat you
who are dissatisfied held tbo right side ia the
dispute, there still is no single good reason
for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriot
ism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him
who has never yet forsaken this favored land,
are atill competent to adjust in tho best way
all our present difficulties.
In your hands, my dissatisfied countrymen,
and not in mine, is the momentous issue of
civil war. The Government will not assail
yon. You can have no conflict without being
yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath
registered in heaven to destroy the Govern
ment, while I shall have the most solemn one
to "preserve, protect, and defend it-"
I am loth to close. We are not enemies,
but friends. Wo must not be enemies. Tho'
passion may have strained, it must not break
our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of
memory stretching from evtry battle-field
and patriot grave to every loving heart and
hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet
swell the chorus of the Union, when again
touched, as surely they will be by the better
angels of our nature.
During tho delivery of the Inaugural, which
commenced about half past one o'clock, Mr.
Lincoln was much cheered, especially at any
allusion to the Union. President Buchanan
and Chief Justice Tanoy listened with the ut
most attention to every word, and at its con
clusion the latter administerod the usual oath,
in making which Mr. Lincoln was vociferously
cheered. The Chief Justice seemed very much
agitated, and bis hands shook very percepti
bly with emotion. The inauguration of to-day
makes the eighth ceremony of the kind at
which Justice Taney has officiated, having
administered the oath successively to Presi
dents Van Buren, Tyjer, Polk, Taylor, Fill
more, Pierce, Buchanan and Lincoln. The
ceremony was exceedingly impressive. At
the conclusion of the inauguration ceremonies
the President was escorted to tho Senate
Chamber, thence to his carriage ; and the mil
itary forming as in the procession of the morn
ing, accompanied him, with the Committee of
Arrangements, to the White House. Every
thing passed off peaceably.
Mr. Rout. E. Wat30, is now in this coun
ty, soliciting aid for the starving people in
Kansas. Mr. Watson was formerly a resident
of our county, and is well known here.
Justices of the Teaco who intend lifting
their Commissions must give notice to the
Prothonotary within 30 days from election.
A Catid to tub Pltkeki.no. The Rev. William
Cosgrove, while laboring as a miss onary in Japan,
was cured of Consumption, when all other means
had failed, by a recipe obtained from a learned
physician residing in the great city of JedJo.
1'his recipe has cured great numbers who were suf
ering from Consumption, Bronchitis, Sora Throat,
Coughs and Colds, and the debility and nervous
depression caused by these disorders. Desirous
of benefitting others, I will send this recipe,hich
I have brought home with me, to all who nead it,
free of charge. Address Rev. Wm. Cosguovk.
Feb.27-l!m 439 Fulton Avenue.Brooklyn, N.Y.
ClULI.S AND FkVEU ! CuiLLS AND Ff.vf.r V One
of the greatest remedies that has ever been laid be
fore the public, for Fever and Ague, and which
have received the highest encomiums from the
press and the people, is Dr. J. Hostettcr's Stomach
Bitters. Who would endure the tortures, arising
from this terrible disease, when it can be so easily
cured ? Who would have sleepless nights, burn
ing fevers and chills, alternately, when a remedy
can be obtained for a mere trifle? And yet how
many families linger out a painful existence un
der this deadly blight, and do nothing but gulp
down quinine, until it becomes as common as their
daily meals, and yet they are not relievod. None
but the foolish and weak would hesitate to procure
these valuable Bitters, and save themselves in tenso
agony. Sold by druggists and dealers generally ev
ery where. See advertisement in anotheroolumn.
DIED:
On Sunday evening, March 3d, of pneumo
nia, Jamks W. Strakford, op Morris town
ship, aged 29 years and 13 days.
K7" Venango papers please cop.
LOST. Tho undersigned, on Monday, the 25th
February, lost a dark morocco pass-book,
containing the list of retailers of Clearfield coun
ty for 1861, on the road from James Forresta to El
lis Irwin s through Clearfield borough. The find
er will be suitably rewarded by leaving the book
at this office or returning it to the owner in do-
shentp lfeb27 ELLIS It. LIVERG00D.
AD M LM STItATORS' OTI CE. Letters
of Administration on the Estate of Johu Peter
Kider, late of Covington township, dee'd., having
been granted to tho undersigned, all persons in
debted to said estate arc required to make imme
diate payment, and those having claims against
the samo will present them duly authenticated for
settlement, at his residence in Covington town'p.
teb.'ZJ, ISOl-otp. JUAB it 1 D-h.lt, Aum r.
EXECUTORS' NOTICE. Letters Testa
mentary on the Estate of Greenwood Bell,
late of Bell township. Clearfield county, Fa., de
ceased, having been granted to the undersigned.
all persons indebted to said estate are required to
make immediate payment, and those having claims
against the same will present them duly authenti
cated for settlement. ARTHUR BELL,
- DAVID BELL,
Bell tp., Feb. 27, 1361-Gtp. Executors.
PUBLIC SALE The undersigned will sell
by public outcry, on Friday March 8th, 1861,
At. tKa ittn rs wl orcfl nf A l, r I, a rn it nam a H no 1r1 in
Lawrcnco township, Hay by the ton, Grain by the
bushel, Cows. Bureau, Chairs, Cupboard, Beds agfl
T!nltllnflr C.nnlr V f i 1- r n ml n nf hnn.nliilit n . 1
kitcben furniture too numerous to mention Sale
to commence at 9 o'clock, A. M. Terms made
known on day of sale. J. L. REAM?.
G. W. KHEEM,
February 27. 1SSI. Executors. Ac.
JpiLOUK! BACON!! GROCERIES!!!!
TAINTS, OILS, DYE-STUFFS ;
LIQUORS OP VARIOUS KINDS,
Tobacco, Scgars, &e ,
FOR SALE LOW FOR CASH,
In the basement of Merrell & Bigler's building by
Feb. 27, 13CI-tf. 0. B. MERRELL.
AUDITOR'S NOTICE Tho undersigned,
having been appointed, by the Orphans'
court of Clearfield county, to settle and adjust the
account of Josiah Evans, Administrator of the Es
tate of Aeher Cochran, late of Penu township, said
county, doe'd, wilt attend to the duties of said ap
pointment at his otfice in Clearfield, on Saturday
the 23d day of March, 18(31. at 2 o'clock P. M. of
said day, when and where all persons interested
may attend if they see proper.
THOS. J. McCULLOUGII,
February 19th, 1861. Auditor.
CHAIRS !! CHAIRS !!! CHAIRS !!!!!
ROW IS THE TIME TO BUY KM!
The undersigned has now on band, at his Furni
ture Rooms on Market St., Clearfield, Pa., a short
distance west of Litz's foundry, a large stock of
CHAIRS OF ALL KINDS,
manufactured oat of the best materials, finished
in a very superior manner, and which he will sell
LOW FOR CASH. His long experience In the bu
siness makes him feel confident tbat bis chairs are
made in a substantial and workmanlike manner,
and will stand the test of trial. Persons wishing
to purchase oh airs should call at once and get
them while they can be bad at the lowest rates.
Feb 27, 1861. JOHN TROUTMAN.
ioortineDt, for
tfARTSWICK'S.
ADMINISTRATORS' NOTICE. Letter
of Administration on the Estate of Joseph Cad
w all adoi, late of Bradford township, dee d, hav
ing been granted to the undersigned, all persona
indebted K said estate are required to make im
mediate payment, and those having claims against
the same will present them duly authenticated for
settlement. J.M.ADAMS,
Clearfield. Feb. 20, 1361-6t. Administrator.
EXECUTOR'S!. NOTICE. Letters Te?ta
mentary on the Estate of John Weld. Jr.,
late of Beocaria township Clearfield county. Pa ,
deceased, having been granted to the undersign
ed, all persons indebted to said estate are requir
ed to mako immediate payment, and those hav
ing claim? againsi the same will present them
properly authenticated for scttletcent.
. TUEOD011E WELP.
February C, ISt'l-Stp. . Executor.
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. Letter
cf Administration de bonis tisvL on the Ertate
of George Dillon, lato of Ik-ccntu tp.. Clearfield
co., Pa., deceased, having Heen granted to the un
derpinned, all persons indebted to said estate are
required to make immediate payment, cad thoe
having claims against the same will present them
properly authenticated for settlement.
THEODORE WELP.
February 6, 1861-2t Administrator.
ADM I N ISTR A TOR'S N OTIC E. Letters
of Administration tu the Estata of John
Young, lato of Burnsido township, Clourfield c ,
Pa., deceased, having been granted to the under
signed, all persons indebted to said estate are re
quired to make Immediate payment and thv
having claims against the same wrll present them
duly authenticated for settlement.
t? A ML' EL SEBRIMiJ.
February 6, lSGl-6tp. Administrator.
EXECUTORS'
mentary on th
XOTICE. Letter Teota-
tary on the Estate of John IHllan, late
of Beccaria township, Clearfield couuty, Penn'a,
deceased, having been granted to the undersign
ed, all persons indebtod to said estate are requir
ed to mako immediate payment, and thr.se having
claims again? t the ?ame will pretest them pro
perly authenticated for settlement.
JAMES II. II EG ART V, of Ecciria.
JAMES A. IIEttARTY, of Guelich.
Febrnary 6, ISfil-fitp. Execntors.
TOI1N ODEI.L, ITPIIOLSTEKEK AND
CARRIAGE TRIMMER. Lveated at A. II.
Shaw's Mills, oaf milr. Host of CUarJuld lioro"
Respectfully informs the citizng of Cleurtvjl J and
adjoining counties, that be is at alt times prepar
ed to manufacture, at the shortest notice. Hair.
Hnsk, and traw Mattresses of all kinds and sire,
one of which is a Folding Mattres. suitable- for
Cabins on ltaf is, which can be folded in am&I)
compass, and emptied and refilled at p leaf a re;
and very cheap. He also trims Carriages, stake
repairs to 411 kinds of carriuge triraraii'g al Up
holstery, and makes cords or Masons tpactnj line?,
of any thickness or length. Country produce,
corn busks, or raih taken in exebango Ur work.
Orders left with any of the merchunu of Clear
field Boro', will be primptly attended to. janMl
NEW DRUG STORE.
The subscribers have cpened a full and com
plete assortment of D It U O S in the new brick
building of Ir.-Woods, on the corner of Locust
and Cherry streets, in the Borough of Clearfield,
whera they will at all times be happy to accom
modate any person whomsy desire articles in their
line. The business will be confined strictly to a
DRUG AND rRESCIHrTION BUSINESS,
and no pains will bewared to render satisfaction.
Dr. M. Woods, the jnuior partner, may always be
found and consulted in tho "Drug Store," when
not absent on professional business. A separate
room for consultation is attached to the torc,
where patients may be examined privately.
Every article usually found in such an estab
lishment will be kept on band, and sold at groatly
reduced prices. Terms being strictly Cash illen
able them to offer inducements in the way of price.
Physicians will be supplied at a small percent
age' over cost and carriage. Their orders are solici
ted. Every article sold will be pure and of th
best quality. WOODS A BARRE1T.
Clearfield. Pa.. February 13. 1861-tf.
HOSTETTKR'S STOMACH
BITT E R S.-The proprietors and
Manufacturers of llotr.tter's Cdebratnl Stonutrh.
Bitters can appeal with perfect conflnee to phy
sicians and citizens generally of the L'nited States,
because the article has attained a reputation here-,
tofore unknown. A few facts upon tbispoiut will
speak more powerfully than volumes of bare asser
tion or blaioning puffery. The consumption of
llostetter's Stomach Bitters for the last year a
mounted to over a half-million bottles, and from
its manifest steady increase in times past, it w ev
ident tbat during the coming year the consump
tion will reach near one million bottles. This im
mense amount could never have been sold but for
the rare medicinal properties contained in the pre
paration, and the sanction of the most prominent
physicians in those sections of the country whera
the article is best known, who not only recommend
the Bitters to their patients, but are ready at all
times to give testimonials to its efScaoy in all ca
sesof stomachicdurangements and the diseases re
sulting therefrom. This is not a tomporary popu
larity, obtained by extraordinary efforts in the way
of trumpeting the qualities of tho Litters, but a
solid estimation of an invaluable medicine, which
is destined to be us enduring as time itself
Hostettcr's Stomach Bitters have proved a God
send to regions where fever and ague and various
other bilious complaints have counted their vic
tims by hundreds. To be able to state confident
ly that the 'Bitters' are a certain cure for the Dys
pepsia and like diseases, is to the proprietors a
source of unalloyed pleaeuro. It remvesall mor
bid matter from the stomach, purifies the blood,
and imparts renewed vitality to the nervous sys
tem, giving it tbat tone acd energy indispensable
for the restoration of health. It operates upon
the stomach, liver, and other digestive organs,
mildly but powerfully, and soon restores them
to a condition essential to the healthy discharge
of the functions of nature.
Elderly 'persons may use the Bittersdaily as per
directions on the bottle, and they wiJI find it a
stimulant peculiarly adapted ta comfort declining
years, as it is pleasant to the palate, invigorating
to the bowels, excellent as a tonic, and rejuvena
ting generally. We have evidence of thousands
of aged men and women who have experienced
the benefit of using this preparation while suffer
ing from stomach derangements and general de
bility; acting under tne advice cf physicians,
they have abandoned all deleterious drugs and
fairly tested the merits cf this article. A few
words to the gentler sex. There are certain pe
riods when theircaresare soharrasaing that many
of them sink under the trial. The relation of mo
ther and child is so absorbingly tender, that tho
mother, especially If she be young, is apt to for
get her own health in the extreme anxiety for her
infant. Should the period for maternity arrive
during the summer season, the wear of body and
mind is generally aggravated. Here, then, is a
necessity for a stimulant to recuperate the ener
gies ef the system, and enable the mother to bear
up under her exhausting trials and responsibili
ties. Xuraing mothers generally prefer the Bit
ters to all other invigorators that receive the en
dorsement of physicians, because it is agreeable -to
the taste as well as certain to give a permanent
increase of bodily strength.
All those persons, to whom we hare particular
ly referred above, to wit: sufferers from fever and
ague, caused by malaria, diarrhoea, dysentery, in
digestion, loss of appotito, and all diseases or de
rangements of the stomach, supcranuatod inval
ids, persons of sodentury occupation, and n-ursing
mothers, will consult their own physical welfare
by giving to Hosteller's Celebrated Jftomach Bit-
tcrs a trial.
Caution.. We cautiorr the public against using
any of the many imitations or counterfeits, but aek
for Hosteller's Celebrated Stomach Bitters, and see
that each bott'.o has the words "Dr. J. Hostetter'a
Stomach Bitters' blown on tho side of the bottle,
and stamped on the metaliiccap covering tba oork.
and observe that our autojraph tignature is on the
label. QrTrepared and sold hylustnurlf Smith.
Pittsburg, Pa., acd sold by all druggist, grocers,
and dealers generally throughout the United
States, Canada. South America, and Germany.
A gen u Geo.W.Rheem and CD. Watson, Clear
field ; John Patton, Curwensville ; l. Tyler. Bus
ton : F. K. Arnold. Lutbersburg. Oct 24, '60.
BLANKS cf all kinds, asd Foolscap and Letter
paper, for sale t HAKTS-WICK. 3
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