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BI S. J. BOW.
CLEARFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1864.
VOL. 11.-NO, 5.
HISTOBIOAL COINCIDENCES.
In the Whig National Convention which
met in General William Henry Har
rison, a citizen of a free State, was nomina
ted for the Presidency, with the understand
ing that John Tyler, of Virginia, should be
the nominee for Vice President. Both can
didates were elected, and General Harrison,
dying within one short month after his in
auguration, left the Presidency in the hands
of a most despicable traitor, who only had
the merit of devotion to the interests of his
own family first, and slavery second, to re
commend him. There was always a mys
tery about the sudden taking off of "old
Tippecanoe," and there was not wanting
those who thought he lad been the victim
of foul play, and who relused to believe that
an old soldier and politician could be bored
to death by politicians (as was asserted) in
the .short space of one month.
Genera! Taylor was the next Whig Presi
dent, and although he was a Southern man,
he refused to lend himself to the scheme of
taking the South out of the Union in the e
vent of the admission of California with sla
very prohibited in its constitution. It is a
matter of history that when the old hero
was approached upon the subject, he declar
ed that if the treasonable experiment was
tried he would himself head an army to en
force obedience to Federal laws., "Old
Rough and Ready" did not long survive
t his t hreat, and after a sickness of a tew days,
he died, leaving as his successor a Northern
man who was pledged to the support of the
Fugitive Slave law. General Taylor's death
was attributed to dysentery induced by eat
ing raw blackberries, a fruit that is frequent
ly eaten as a remedy for the disease named.
At all events General Taylor died, and the
country got Mr. Fillmore tnd the Fugitive
Slave law.
General Pierce, of New Hamshire, and
W. R. King, of Alabama, came next in-order
after Tavlor and Fillmore. Mr. Kiug
died of consumption one month after the in
auguration of his colleague, and before he
had Iteen enabled to assume the duties of
the Vice Presidency, leaving "Poor Pierce"
in the hands ot his Secretary or war, .Mr.
.1 eflVrsun Davis. How well the renegade
New Englander served his Southern keep
ers. Kansas and .Nebraska will bear testi
mony He was too valuable a President for
the South to lose, so he escaped being bored
to death by office-seekers, or being killed by
" at III!
a dysentery produced by eating mack perries.
James Buchanan and John C Breckin
ridge followed in regular succession, and
"Old Buck" came very near being one of
the victims of the wholesale poisoning at the
Nathvial Hotel at Washington. Mr. Bu
chanan was an inmate of the hotel at the
time of the "rat soup" affair; but by hook
r by crook he escaped the honors of mar
tyrdom. Had he perished along with nu
merous Northern victims. John C Breckin
ridge would have been President of the
United States for four years, and the sort of
n President he would have made, the histo
ry of the past few years abundently demon
strates. We do not charge the South wi h
intending to poison 31 r. Buchanan at the
National Hotel ; but it is at least extraordi
nary that of the many persons who were ef-lk-ted
by the poison there were no Souther
ners, although there were numerous natives
of Dixie who were guests in the house at
the time.
Mr. Lincoln was the successor of Mr. Bu
chanan in the Presideetia! chair, and the
perils he escaped on his road to Washington,
lifforc his inauguration, are matters cf no
toriety. It may be urged, in answer to these im
j'lied charges of foul play which we have
heard made against Southern political wire
wcrkers, and which we have repeated, that
tliey are not assassins, and that they are not
capable of such vile treachery. This fine
sentiment might have had weight four years
ago ; but now it is light as a feather in the
scale of argument. The Southern rebels
have been guilty ot worse crimes than are
imputed to them by those who believe that
Harrison and Taylor were their victims, and
that good fortune alone saved Buchanan and
Lincoln from martyrdom. The original
treason of Davis, Floyd and Breckinridge
was a far greater crime ; and eveiy devastat
ed town, every Union victim of a secession
gallows, every slaughtered garrison of de
fenceless prisoners,every merchantman trap
Ted and burned, and every starved tenant
of Libhy or Belle Isle, is so much heaped
upon the great original wrong. It may be
fairly argued that men guilty of these great
crimes may be held to be capable of the les
ser offences that are hinted at.
Now for the application. It is a matter
of notoriety that undisguised sympathizers
with Southern secession and rebellion, it not
"entsof Southern secessionists, were prom
iHierit actors in the Chicago Convention.
They virtually sacrificed their "peace on
my terms" principles, when they consented
run an avowed war candidate for the Pres
idency. But they took care to secure a rab
id peace man, a,nd a most inveterate Copper
od as the candidate for the Vice Presiden
T. with the hope that with a non-committal
I'latform, tfie war principles, and the
opposed personal popularity of the one can
didate, woultf secure the success of the en
tu ket. if by any mischance this fine
I"an should be found to work succesfully, it
ould at leaat be a most remarkable coicci
n.ifG8wralMcCleIlan should be pre-
J"aturcly tcred to death by office-seekers,
,ake an iver dose of rat-soup by accident,
w conveniently die of dysentery induced by
S raw blackberries. In that event the
to Kiace would be simple and easy for the
;outh.as Mr. Pendleton would not be theman
10 'brow anv linrnwaril r.Victnplfis in the wav.
Ten though peace meant the destruction of,
"ationility, and the possible subjugation
" the North to Southern traitors. We !
e the hint for what it is worth. It, is at
V? worth thinking about, between now and J
ember, as accident might work the!
retufo is design, and General McClel-
I lan does not enjoy any immunity from the
j chances of life and death. Philadelphia.
JSulletm.
WHAT OF THE NIGHT ?
We shall re-elect Abraham Lincoln
President of the United States. Of this
there is little doubt, and we make the state
ment not as a prediction but as the deliber
i ate judgment suggested by all the signs a-
round us. At me same time we must say to
our friends that they are not altogether act
ing as if they understood the vast import
ance of this campaign. There are two ele
ments that enter into every canvass enthu
siasm and purpose. Ihe attraction in all
multitudes that brings men together is a
great power, and shrewd managers create
and nurse it by poetry and pageantry. Dee
per than this is the feeling of right and wrong,
of truth and falsehood, that men calmly feel.
A party with a purpose is more, apt to be
successful than a party with enthusiasm.
But no nartv can show purpose unless by
enthusiasm. How is it with the friends of
the Union?
e have a cause that surpasses any in
volved in the campaigns of our political his
tory. We have shown our devotion to that
cause bv three years of consuming, desolat
ing war. We have advanced in our contest
for its triumph against every danger and de-
teat, and now we have readied that high
agony of effort that always precedes triumph.
Heretofore the battle has been with our bro
thers in the field armed men whose mis
sion is life and death. Providence now
brings it home to us. The political cam
paign is more important than the military
paign, and must be fought at home. The
enemy has arranged a platform whose genius
is a cowardly submission to rebellion. The
most available man that could be found, the
only noted soldier who seems to be willing to
forget the cause he fought for, is the candi
date, and around him we see gathered a
mighty, resolute, vindictive party.
So far as the enthusiasm of this campaign
is concerned, the friends of Gen. McClellan
are more active than the friends of Mr. Lin
coln. They have assumed the offensive. and
they fight with malignant audacity. With
them it is a great stake. We do not allude
to the mere appetite of politicians for office;
the longing of hungry men who must get
bread or starve. That element is strong in
every opposition. Thej' know that if they
are successful these years of war will all be
in vain. All the blood that has been shed
all the money that has been spent all the
sacrifices that have been made with an al-.
most saintly feeling ot self-denial will be as
nothing. The fruits of these wars will be
in the hands of men whose grasp is death.
They ask power to undo all that we have
given the lives of our sons to accomplizh.
They ask power that they may go back from
the goal that we have reached amid so much
death and debt. They ask the country to
say that, having given so much for liberty
and ,tability, slavery and infamy shall be a
gain placed in power.
On this the issue is joined. e must tight
our battle with more earnestness tnau we
have shown. Advance the whole line and
open everj' gun upon the enemy ! It is not
enough that we can elect Abraham Lincoln;
we must elect him by such a majority that
the world will feel that we are in earnest.
We must carry every State of the Union.
"We must utterly rout and crush this Cop
perhead party, that intervention wiil no lon
ger be mentioned in the councils ot the lu
lllenes, and the llichmond conspirators will
no longer rest their hopes upon the success
of their Northern allies. Thi must be done,
and (lie people must do it ! We are -tired
waiting ior icauers. h e are urcu icmiug
upon our arms while those who should lead
us on are quarrelling over council board.
Let us make our own organizations in our
own way. Not many days remain. What
we must do we must do at once, in every
county and township let the people meet to
gether rnd counsel one with the other, uo
not let us spend the precious hours cooing
sweet songs of hope, and looking at the
floating clouds like the sleepy manners of
the lotus land. This is no time for rest or
anathv. The country demands every citizen
to give his genius to its service, and he who
lags, or pouts, or strools behind, is as much
the enemy of the cause as the active antag
onist in the front., 1-nerds, Jet us do our
duty now, and our children will bless us tor
the sacrifice. PJuTa JVess.
WHO GO FOE M'CLELLAN.
Vallandigham, the traitor goe? for Mc
Clel lan.
Wall th nnfnnnns New Jersey Copper
head and traitor, is for McClellan.
k irArtf mtn irnA r-1-.inimnrs for peace and
disgraceful submission to traitors, is a Mc
Clellan man. ,.
Every man who utters the standing lie
that the "Abolitionists" commenced the
war, is for McClellan.
iVortr rVu1 (rnfirai. ( Vuonel and Cap
tain, is in favor of the election of George
B. McClellan. . . .. ....
Everv Knight of the "Oolden Circle is
for McClellan. j
Every officer who has been disnonoraoiy
ismissed from the army, (for proof of this
you can see them in the streets of Harris
burg,) will vote for McClellan.
Everv contractor who has been detected in
defrauding the Government, huzzas tor ilc-
Clellan. , , . .
Every deserter trom the army is ior ,uc-
Clellan. . , , ,
1.' nrlin rntnl HiramSt. the laW al-
lowing the soldier a vote, goes for McCIel-
.an inaroctad in the rebel loan.
such as the British rebel agent, Augustus
Belmont, of New lork, is a warm mc..u
of McClellan. , , ,.
Such is the character of the leading sup
porters of McClellan.
Declining M'Clellan stock.
LETTER OF TBAIN TO M'-GLELLAN.
George Francis Train has written Gen.
George Brinton M'Clellan the following bit
terly-sarcastic letter, dated
Rockaway-on-the-Sea, Sept. 11, 1864
To Maj. Gen. G.B. M Clellan, Orange, AV:
Dear Sir: It is a mean thing to listen at
the keyhole. It is meaner to open a private
letter. It is the meanest thine of all to ac
cept hospitality and abuse the host. But
these mean tinners are Christian virtues
compared to the accepting the nomination
or a party in order to destroy it. A plat
form is the party's soul. A candidate is
the party's body. Seperate the body trom
the soul and death ensues. It is as difficult
to sit between two stools as to sleep with
one eye open. You cannot worship God and
Mammon. Honesty is not only the best
policy, but the only one lor an honest man
To cheat in politics is as wicked as to cheat
in money. You know the Peace men con
trolled the Convention. They gave you a
platform that was neither hsh, flesh, fowl,
or mackerel. Yet you insist upon the mac
kerel. Hence the Daily News, the Metro
politan Record, Preemans Journal, and
Unto (Jrti ny on trom you like hoops trom
an effervescing barrel. Singleton will fol
low Wood; A allandigham will fall in, and
in two weeks Pendleton will decline to be
shipwrecked with the rest. "Come out
from under the bed," said the indignant
wife to her undecided husband. Not
said he, "jot long as J Juice tJie spirit of a
nuin icitJtin ."
Mark my words. General vou will not
carrv a single btate except New Jersey, and
you will sacrifice seven Democratic members
ot Congress out ot ten. Jx)ok at V ermont.
Maine will be the same. Indiana will ony
lead the other States by a mouth.
You will find it as hard as the rebels have
to fight such Democratic names as Foote,
Farragut, Porter and Dupont, on the sea,
or Grant, Meade, Burnside, Sickels, Han
cock, Thomas and Sherman, on the land
all of whom are against you. The late let
ters of Sherman and Grant rattle through
the Democaatic rauks like lightning through
a gooseberry bush. It only costs toco thous
and dollars to grt vp a McClellan meeting.
Younq Ketclnim said so. If the explosion
of a limited quantity of gas in Union Square
killed two women and wounded several the
other night, what will be the disaster when
your whole party bursts up in November:
James Buchanan said that he was no lon
ger J. !., but the Cincinnati platiorm.
l ou reverse it, and say that you are not the
Chicago platform, but G. B. Mac. J aid
Lord Byron in "Don Juan"
"The well-known Hebrew word, I am,
We English use to govern d ."
But to your letter. Bulwer said the ' 'Pen
was mightier than the sword. ' ' Then he had
not made your acquaintance, General. .Nom
inated on your record. Yes. The
Draft. The Proclamation. The suspension
ot Habeas Corpus. The arrest of Legisla
tures. .Military at the polls, and disojedi-
e nee of orders. Is not that your record? Do
you mean, by alluding to your record, that
3'ou will do the same again?
"Gentlemen: I have the honor to ac
knowledge the receipt of your letter, in
forming me ot my monnnation ot course,
who else did you suppose it was? by the
Democratic National Convention certainly,
it was not the Republican National Com
mittee, recently assembled at Chicago,
That's so; it did not assemble at Cleve
land or New York, 1 as their candidate at
the next election for President of the Uni
ted States. Exactly; it was not' tor the
last election.
It is unnecessary for me to. say to you
that this nomination comes to me unsought."
Why say it, then?
Take the whole letter, paragraph by par
agraph, transpose it as I did this sentence,
and you will find it as weak as dish-water
undecided, incousistant, ungramuiatical, and
egotistical The six allusions to the Union
remind one of the stereotyped cry in the
fortunes ot Nisei watches, clocks, barna
cles. The bright boy who cried barnacles,
watches, clocks, introduced a new idea into
Scotland.
"Tf a frank, earnest, and persistent effort
to obtain those objects should fail, the re
sponsibility for ulterior consequences will
fall upon those who remain in arms against
the Union.
Whv not say war riarht out, not dodge
round a corner this way? Don't forget that
old Cass killed himself with the Nicholson
letter.
"lifilipvinsr that the views here expressed
are those of the Convention and the people
t j. . l ; i! i
you sepreseni, accept me iionniiiiiun.
Ymi don't, believe anvthinsr of the kind.
You know better. The Northwest were all
peace. So reads the platform. Five hun
dred delegates unanimously agree upon a
platform. Here it is:
Jiesolveit, 1 o please you, iney nave war.
Resolved, To please Pendleton, they have
peace.
Resolretl, To please all the outs, the war
go on till the peace is signed.
Ptemember that the Royal George in
Bristol Channal went down with all on
board, the result of trimming.
Walter Savage lender wrote on mc
Georges :
"George the First was reconed vile,
Viler George the Second ;
And what mortal ever heard
Any good of George the Third?
When from earth the Fourth ascended,
God be praisad, the Georges ended.
I condense your letter in two lines :
nfVTirr. T nwpnt the nomination.
but acknowledge myself totally unfit for the
position," i
I mean nothing unkind in this. General,
but you know that now you are a fair mark,
not a large one, tor an to snoot at.
Gioroe Francis Traix.
A Grand Scheme to Secure the Election of
George JJ. McClellan.
It is now clearly understood, that the con
test for the election of President of the Uni
ted States, so far as the friends of Geo. B.
McClellan are concerned, is to be conducted
solely by fraud and falsehood. The Chicago
platiorm is a lraud, because it was prepared
designedly to delude and mislead uninform
ed and unsuspecting people. McClellan's
letter of acceptance is a fraud, because its
object is to draw the wool over the eyes of
the Y ar Democrats and secure their sup
port at the polls. Pendleton's silence is a
fraud, because it is persisted in to save the
peace element. But the greatest of the
trauds contemplated by the Copperheads is
to be held in reserve until its effect for mis
chief to the country and assistance in the
defeat of Lincoln (as the Cops hore and cal
culate) will be beyond counteraction. The
nature of the fraud is of this description :
On the eve of tJie Presidential euxtion, the
copper Jicat I leaders will suddenly sprina on
tlie people a projosition from Jeff. Davis
to the ejject that if the people in tlu; free
oiaies eiecc ueorge n. Jictiicuan the war
will at once cease, the rebellious States
COVENANTING TO RETURN TO THEIR ALLE
GIANCE ON THE BASIS OF THE OLD UNION
NAMELY, with compensation for the slave
property alread lost, the return of all freed-
men in the sla ve states at the tune of the ces
sation of hostilities, and the payment of the
iMA incurred by the war, in common by the
federal Government.
It is calculated by the copperheads, that
this proposition will delude the people of
thersorth into the election of McClellan
with the hope that the war will then end
I his scheme reminds us of the trick to
which McClellan loaned himself on the eve
of the last election for Governor in this
State. A few days before that contest, Mc
Clellan wrote and issued a circular letter ap
pealing to his friends to support Woodward,
on the plea that his (McClellan's) political
opinions harmonized with those ot W ood
ward's when it was well known that Judge
Woodward had pronounced the war to crush
rebellion unholy and unjust that the slave
States should be allowed to go in peace
and that the Government could not coerce
a State after it had resolved to leave the U
nion. This last trick, to delude the loyal
men of the North, on the plea that the reb
els will lay down their arms if McClellan is
elected President, will fail as did McClellan's
tnck to elect W oodward Uovernor.
THE SINEWS OF WAE.
So much has been aid by men who write
loosely ot hnancial affairs ot the need of rais
ing by taxation alone the revenues necessary
to carry on the war, that many persons have
come to believe finally that such a thing is
possible, and to complain ot Congress that
the legislation for that purpose has not been
passed. L his idea originated with the reb
el synpathizing press of England, and was
mere intenuea to uepreciare our prosperity
by weakening our credit. Here it has been
caugh up by Democratic writers for the
purpose ol forcing heavier increases ot bur
dens on the people, in order to render the
Administration odious, that the conduct of
the war might theiebv lapse into Democrat
ic hands.
Now. it is hieh time that the people were
made acquainted with the fact that it is 'not
practicable to support such a war as this
has been by revenues raised by taxation
alone. No great Power ever engaged in a
war of vast magnitude without being com
pelled to resort to loans- England with all her
resources could not have carried on the war
against Russia alone by the aid of revenues
raised by immediate taxation, but having
for allies'France, Turkey and Sardinia, her
burdens were lightened. No field of oper
ations other than Russia could afford a par
allel to our war, and if we presume England
undertaking to invade and conquer such an
area as European Kussia, with no more pop
ulation than the Southern States had at tn
beginning of the war, her debt would have
run up rapidly as ours has done.
This was shown in her struggle with Na
polean, and even more strikingly in the Rev
olutionary war in America, in which, though
she had to contend with but three millions
of rude collonists, untrained to war and hav
ing no educated generals, she augmented her
dei)t enormously. The experiment of all
modern great Powers in wars of magnitude
is the same, and therefore our financial ex
perience, so far from being peculiar, is quite
usual. We must It posterity bear its share
of the burden ef the war instead of expecting
the present generation to bear the whole.
KEEP IT BEFORE THE PEOPLE.
That the Chicago Convention could not
find time nor heart in any resolution or
speech, to utter one word against the SoutJi
ern Rebellion !
Let our brave soldiers in the field, our
mothers and sisters in homes made desolate
bv rebel bullets our starving countrymen
in the rebel prisons, and our overburthened
tax payers to sustain a war pushed upon the
country by rebellion remember that Dem
ocracy has no rebuke for Treason and Rebel-
ion, and hence is entitled to the support on
v of traitors and rebels. Friends of the
Union and haters of Rebellion in the Dem
ocratic rartv break ranks, and come out
from such a cabal of treason. It is no place
for you.
A dried-un. herring-faced, gimlet-eyed
old bachelor says he don't wonder at so many
of the young veterans getting married. He
says one who has faced a cannon's mouth
and heard a thousand of them talk at once,
can never be frightened by a woman. The
old dog ! He ought to be compelled to climb
ashollbark hickory tree.
A maid-of-all-work. who has been missing
during soma time past, has lately been dis
covered: having been found in beer and tea
by her kind mistress.
Jafteman's journal
CLEARFIELD, PA., SEPT. 2S, 1864.
C0BBESP0UDE1TCE OF THE JOURNAL.
Letter from Philipsburg, Pa.
Piiilipsburg, Pa., S .pt. 18, 1864.
Dear Journal: As I predicted in my
last, o it has come to pass. There is trou
ble in the wigwam. The standard bearer
ch )sen hy the Grand Sachems, when in
counsel at Chicago, has refused to smoke
the Kin-i-ki-nick put in the pipe of 'Peace'
by them ; but has filled the pipe with such
a mixture of the weed, as best suits his taste.
The mixture doe's not suit the radical Sach
ems of the Copperhead tribe. Vallandig
ham declines to take a whiff ; nary puff, of
such a conglomeration. The grand organ of
the tribe, Daily Xews of New York, calls
loudly for the re-assembling of thj council,
and tells them to fill the pipe to suit the
chief or nominate a chief that will smoke
the pipe, as at first filled.
Jhe laithlul of this town and vicimtv,
were in high glee when thev received the
news that .Little .Mac rad been nominated.
and, as usual, in loud manifestations of joy
at the brilliant victory which was sure to be
theirs in November. It was some davs af
ter the Young Napoleon's leticrof accept
ance was published, before the snaiks began
to fall back into a torpid situation. At first
it was all a black abolition lie. They could
not see anything of McClellan's letter in any
of their papers, and hence they knew it was
a lie. liut truth is mighty and will pre
vail, even in such a rotten cause as Cop-
perheadisin, and so at last their papers con
tained the heretofore black abolition lie, and
then it was all true as gosjel. It caused a
fall in the stock though. They could not
help but understand from the letter, that
George B. M'Clellan was trying to carrv
water on both shoulders, and swallow the
platiorm; but like unfortunate father Ad
am, he choked on the core. Ihe name ol
1 1 m rwm
McClellan has grown as obsolete, within the
last tew days, as that of John C. rremont,
They Cops, like Micawber, are waiting for
something to turn up, and they will find
something turned up (or it may be down)
in a lew weeks.
The great and grand hue and cry of the
snaiits, is tne negro, uet into conversation,
. ii . , r . i li
argument, or taiK wun one or tnein, ana ne
will invariably (after being flanked on all
'it's,' 'buts,' and 'ands' that he advances)
end with the negro question. They seem to
take an especial interest in the slaves ot the
rebels, and the colored race generally. They
find great fault with the administration, for
admitting colored soldiers into the army and
5
aying them the same as white soldiers.
fet they can take this much derided race,
1 ..1 .1 4t
and put tnem into the held as substitutes.
Look lor a moment at the list for the great
Democratic county ot Clearneld. On her
quota of some 500, in the call of 300,000 vol
unteers on the 10th ot March last, there are
nearly 300 ot these poor, despised, degrad
ed and horrible colored men as substitutes
for the chivalry of your county. Tlircc hun
dred cflored men sent forth to fight the reb
els in the field, while their principals stay
at home and fight, in the rear, the very
same black soldiers thev have thus substitu
ted to go forth, and fight the enemies of
this glorious Union. ''Oh, consistency, thou
art a jewel." Not a day passes but what I
see or hear some portion of these men who
have sent colored men as substitutes, and
first, last, and all the. time, they howl about
the negro and call every man that sustains
the union a woolli'-head, "black abolition
ist, and everything that they regard as in
famous, while they, cowardly dupes, substi
tute cnlortd men to take tlieir places beneath
the glorious Stars and Stripes, and fight for
the maintainaiice and preservation of that
Government whose liberties and blessings
these Copperhead allies of Southern treason
now jso happily enjoy.
lbe cry of hard times, is another howl
the Cops make: When asked for an evi
dence of what they assert, they are at a loss
to point it out. Never has a country flour-'
ished as this town and vicinity has for the
last three years. Three years ago, the grand
total of steam saw-mills was summed up in
the numeral 1 but to-day they are counted
by the dozen, bcarcely a large tract of tim
i. i.i.i..i
ber, nereabouts, out wnat mere is seen to
ascend a puff of steam from its midst, and
the shrill steam whistle "pipes all hands to
breakfast. ' ' Three years ago, lumber could
be bought readily, at the mill, for $7 per M
feet for pine, and Spruce, or Hemlock, "no
sale." Look at the figures now. The most
common pine boards sell at $22 per 31, and
the better qualities at from $20 to $40 per
M. Yet with all the iucrease of saw mills,
and advance in price, the supply is not equal
to the demand. "Hard Times" must be
plead (with any chance of success) in closer
proximity to South Carolina than this "neck
of timber" is situated. But it would be a
God's blessing to the country, and all the
people thereof, it these croakers,who talk
and do all they can to make hard times, were
shipped off to the Southern Confederacy (?)
that they might there leel and enioy, to all
intents and nurnoses. the truth of1 their as
sertions about hard times and a worthless
paper currency. i ours, Leroi.
A philosopher relates an anecdote of an
out-at-elbow poet, who by some freak of
fortune came into possession of a five dol
lar bill, he called to & lad and said "John
ny, my boy, take this WiHiam and get it
changed." "What do you mean by calling
it William?" inquired the lad. "Why
John," replied the poet. "I am not suffi
ciently familiar with it to take the liberty
ofcallingitBill." -
The -waters of the Red Sea appear to be
thirty-two feet higher than the Mediterra
nean, and the Gult of Mexico is twenty-two
feet higher than the Pacific.
COUNTY SCHOOL CONVENTION.
Whereas a majority of the School Direc
tors of Clearfield county having petitioned
the State Superintendent for a Convention,
in order to raise the Salary of the County
Superintendent of Common Schools, there
fore, in accordance with a call published in
the county papers by the State Superinten
dent, the Directors of the several School
Districts of Clearfield county assembled at
the Court House in Clearfield on T'uesday
the IZtJi day of iytptember, 1864, for the
purpose indicated.
Theconvention being called to order by
Josiah R. Reed, upon motion R. V. Wil
son, was elected President, and George B.
Goodlander Secretary.
The convention being organized, the Dis
tricts were called in alphabetical order, when
the following named directors answered to
their names:
Bradford Alexander Livingston.
Clearfield-jR. V. Wilson, U. J. Wal
lace, Michael Kittlebarger, G. B. Goodlan
der. Co yinoton Francis Mignot, F. F. Cout
riet. Furguson John T. Straw.
Goshen Wm. Graham, E. K. Shirey,
J. E. Graham.
Knox P. A. Howies, Lewis Erhard.
Lawrence Josiah R. Reed, Milton Mc
Bride, Joseph Watson.
Penn David T. Sharp. Thomas Dough
erty, Win. P. Beck.
Union Joseph Scofield, D. E. Bruba
ker, Matthias Hollopeter. Total. 22.
The call of the State Superintendent hav
ing been read by the President, Mr. Rowles
moved that the Salary of the county Super
intendent le fixed at $1000, and upon being
seconded, Mr. Shirey moved to amend it by
making it $1200.
The question recurring upon the amend
ment of Mr. Shirey ; it was lost by the fol
lowing vote :
Yeas Wallace, J. E. Graham, Wm.
Graham, Shirey, Wilson, Ki.tleberger, and
Erhart. Total 7.
Nays Livingston, Mignot, Coutriet,
Goodlander, Straw, Rowles, Read, Mc
Bride, Watson, Scofield, Brubaker, Hollo
peter, Sharp, Beck, and Dougherty. .Total.
15.
The question recurring on the original mo
tion to make the Salary 1000, it was agreed
to by the following vote :
Yeas Mignot, Coutriet, Wilson, Wal
lace, Goodlander, Kettleberger, Straw. Wm.
Graham, Jas. E. Graham, Shirey, Rowles.
Erhart, Watson, Dougherty, Sharp, and
Beck. Total 16.
Nays Livingston. Read, McBride, Sco
field, Brubaker, and Hollopeter. Total 6.
The President thereupon declared that
the Salary of the County Superintendent
would be one. thousand dollars in the future.
On motion of Mr. McBride the Conven
tion adjourned sine. die.
R. V. Wilsox, President.
G. B. Goodlander, Secretary.
MUST SUBMIT!
At the opening of the new Club House of
the Keystone Club, in Philadelphia, Mr.
Charles Ingersoll struck the key-note of the
Copperhead party for the campaign. He
declared that if Mr. Lincoln is elected, as he
most assuredly will be, it will be Revolu
tion ! There can be but one intepretation to
such language. A revolt in the North is
threatened if McClellan is defeated. In this
the party is consistant. Jeff. Davis declares
that the majority should not rule, and his
Northern allies make haste to endorse the
doctrine. The issue is fairly presented. If
McClellan is elected we will submit : but it
is distinctly understood that, if Mr. Lincoln
is re-elected, the Copperheads must and
SHALL submit. The rule must work both
ways.
"What we May Expect,
"The Chicago Platiorm," says the N. Y.
Tinws, "means aid and comfort to the reb
els disgrace and dishonor to every Union
soldier, to every loyal man ; and its succes
will bring about one of three things, viz: 1st.
An armistice, which will give the now al
most exhausted rebellion a new lease of life :
or, 2d, a peace, which shall acknowledge the
Southern Confederacy ; or, 3d. a cowardly
truckling to the rebellion, which shall trail
our old flag in the dust, at the feet of trai
tors, and welcome, cap in hand, the chief
rebels to the highest teats in our political
synagogue. Either of these three results
are too terrible to think upon ; each of them,
in the guise of peace, is only the prelude to
a fiercer state of civil war. '
Lieit. Gen. G rant in returning to the
army from his brief visit to his family at
IJurlington, iN. J., was delayed on the road
between Philadelphia and Wilmington bv a
railway accident, the locomotive having run
off the tratk. The disaster might easily
have been foreseen if the railway managers
had only looked at the name of the locomo
tive, which was "Gen. McClellan." The
engine could not go ahead properly any more .
than its namesake.
"People may 6ay what they will about
country air being so good for 'em," said Mrs.
Partington, "and how fhey can fat on it ;
for my part, I think it isowingtothevittles.
Air may do for camomiles and other reptiles
that live on it But I know that men must
have something more substantialler."
TfiarL- lin of the solar spectrum are
considered proof of the existance of an ab
sorbing atmostphereoi a low temperature in
that body, or in some of its envelopes..
Why is talking with the fingers like a
man who is alwavs changing his opinions?
Because it is a specimen of . human mute
ability. .
"I am on the trail of a dear,'' as the . fel
low said when he stepped in one o f the, fe
male street sweepers.