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CLEARFIELD, PA., SEPT. 27, 1865.
STATK UNION NOMINATIONS.
FOR AUDITOR GENERAL:
Gen. JOHN F. HAETEAIJFT, Kontg'y Co.
FOR SURVEYOR GE5ERAL:
Col. JACOB M. CAMPBELL, Cambria Co.
DISTRICT UNION NOMINATIONS.
FOR SENATOR I
Col. JOHN IRVItf, Curwensville Boro
FOR ASSFMBLY :
Lt. THOMAS LIDDELL, Clearfield Boro'.
(Subject to concurrence of Conferees.)
COUNTY UNION NOMINATIONS.
FOR PROTHONOTAItY :
Lt. LEWIS B. CAKLILE, Brady Town'p
FOR REOISTERAXD RECORDER;
Private THOMAS WILLIAMS, Osceola.
FOR TRKASFRKR :
Capt. J. ELLIOTT XEATZER, Pika Tp.
FOR COMMISSIONER :
HOSAOE PATCHIN, Eumside TownsLip.
FOR AUDITOR ;
Lt. WILLIAM E. BE OWN, Clearfield.
FOR -COUNTY SURVEYOR:
THOMAS W. MOOSE, Peim Township.
Our Senatorial Nominee.
The Conferees of the Senatorial District
composed of the counties of Clearfield, Cla
rion, Cameron, Elk and Forrest, met at
Brookville on Tuesday the 19lh day of Sep
tember, and uomiuated Colonel John' Irvin
of Curwensville, for State, Senator.
Col. Irvin entered the service of his coun
try in August, 18G2, as Captain of Compa
ny B, 143th Pennsylvania Volunteers, and
continued in the service until the close of
t!w war. - He received several worud.s. By
hisundaund bravery lie won the esteem
of his super! r officers, the aduii'.ation and
emulation of those over whom he ranked,
and the plaudits of Lis fellow-soldiers in the
ranks. For his many lieroie deeds and great
gallantry ha was successively promoted to
is no man in our county who has made a
brighter record for himself, than Colonel
John Irvin, our Senatorial nominee.
Col. I, is a man well qualified to fill the
important and honorable position for which
he is nominated ; and deserves, and will re
ceive the und,:viled support of all truly loyal
and patriotic men in this Senatorial district.
We trust, therefore, that his friends, and
the friends of the Union will use every hon
orable means to secure his election, and
should they fail in their efforts, they will
have at least, the gratification of knowing
that their votes were cast for a man worthy
their support, confidence and respect.
The Union Party.
One year ago, remarks the Somerset Her
ald, the Union party carried the most
terrible load with which a party ever enter
ed a canvass, and yet Pennsylvania gave
Preside.n t Lincoln twenty thousand majority.
' Does any one fear that llartranft and Camp
bell cannot be now elected if the proper ex
ertions be made? A year aco there was no
certainty of a speedy termination of thewir;
drafts were being enforced carrying terror to
the homes of many of the voters, and the
public debt was accumulating with frightful
rapidity: yet the people courageously deier
mined to adhere to the administration and
with Gen. G rant to"fight it out on that line."
Now we go into the canvas with the war en
ded, drafts ended, and the increase of the
public debt ended, all being results of the
policy pursued by the Union parts'. A year
ago tiia copperheads went into the canvass
with the declaration that the war was a fail
ure, that peace could only bo restored by a
xmpromise with the rebels, that liberty of
speech and of the press had been destroyed,
that the Constitution had been violated in
every essential particular, and that drafts
would never cease nor the war be ended, un
til the ' democracy were restored to power"
All these assertions were repudiated by the
people at the polls, and the inexorable logic
of events have since proven their falseness,
and absurdity. The Union party stands be
sore the people now, with all its pledges ful
filled, with victory inscribed upon its ban
ners, and with the most glorious record ever
presented by any party. Success is assured
if we are but half as true to our party, as
we have been to our country during the last
four years.
Nothing shows the complete collapse of
the so-called Democracy m"re conelusively
than the late elections in Maine and Ver
mont. Though in the first, a strong bid
was made for popular support, by loud res
olutions in praise of President Johnson,
they are beaten worse than ever. Their's
is, indeed, a cruel fate. If they support
President Johnson, they lose all the bitter
and angular sympathizeres with treason; if
they oppose him, they lose the sound Dem
orats, who love the man, and regard his
, remedy as the sure panacea for the nation's
oes. ,
HIDING BEHIND THE "NIGGEE."
William A. Wallace, candidate for the
State Senate, and Chairman of the so-called
Democratic State Central Committee, has a
record which no man need envy. Ilia vote
against allowing the use of the Senate Hall
to Gov. Andrew Johnson and es-Gov. Joseph
A. Y right in March. '64, his speech and
vote against the Bill granting to soldiers
the right to vote whilst in tJie Army, the
part he took in the Clearfield 13th of Au
gust meeting, at which, through the "no
more men no more money" theory, resistance
to the draft was encouraged ; and his gener
al opposition to all measures of the lamented
Lincoln, looking to the suppression of the
llebeliion and the maintainance of the Gov
ernment, stamp his public acts as infamous
and disgraceful, and will hereafter rank
him in the same class with Vallandigham,
Harris and Long. That a man should feel
anxious to withdraw attention from such a
record, when he is a candidate for re-elec
tion, is not surprising. This Wallace is at
tempting in a way that might be well calcu
lated to succeed, were it not that the events
referred to are too fresh in the recollection
of every intelligent man in the laud. We
refer, as a matter of course, to his Address
to the people of Pennsylvania. In that
document he endeavors to force false issues
upon the consideration of the voters of the
State, lie prates about the "habeas cor
" pus,trial by jury, the subordination of the
" military to the civil power, free speech
"and free press" he stigmatizes the trial
and execution of the assassins of President
Lincoln (for to no" other could he allude,)
as ''murder, by military commissions,"
and threatens that "the hour has come in
which they should cease ;" delivers a short
homily on "The Mights of States,'"a:id then
runs ofi into a' long rigmarole about "Negro
equality and Negro suffrage." The latter,
William thinks "are no longer a mythical is
"sue, but are part of the vital, practical re
galities of the present hour," and asserts
without qualification that ' nearly all the
"prominent IiepuLlican newspapers of the
"State have arouwd themselves favorable
"to negro suffrage and negro equality!"
Fie, for shame, Wallace? How can you,
claiming to be an honorable, truthful man.
make such an allegation? A few "promi
nent Republican newspapers" have express
ed themselves favorable to extending the
right of voting to the colored people ; but
that anyone in this State has "avowed"
itself "favorable to negro equality" is a false
hood which must have been deliberately
and intentionally inserted in your ' 'Address."
The fact is "Negro Suffrage" is no issue in
P.e.unsdA-2jrua- mnr.h W- : ' 'AT-: ,y
ty. u lie Itepublican platform is silent on
the subject. The Republican press does
not urge it as a party measure. Why, then,
docs Wallace make such a great ado about
it ? The answer to this question cannot fail
to suggest itself to -every reflecting mind.
"Billy," and the Democratic party with
him, has a record that is dark. He
wants to keep it out of view ; and the best
plan which his fertile imagination could
conceive, was to play the interesting game
of "Dodging behind the Nigger." So
"He turns about and wheels about,
And does just so ;
And every time ho turns about.
He jumps Sambo !"
His pcrformarce is decidedly unique;
and if cur readers have not, as yet, had the
opportunity of witnessing it, (hey probably
will before the day of election. But the
"show," we opine, wont answer the purpose
for which it was intended.
The Fenian Alarm.
There is an organization of Irishmen,
known as the Fenian Brotherhood, whose
declared object is the liberation of Ireland
from British rule. The Brotherhood has
auxiliary societies in all the principal cities
of the United States and Canada. Recently
much alarm has been caused in En-land by
the movements of the Fenians, and the
British government has seen fic to adopt
precautionary measures. A number of gun
boats and men-of-war have been stationed
off the west coast of Ireland, and the Lord
Lieutenant has proclaimed the counties of
Tipperary, Limerick, Cork and Kerry as be
ing under the operation of the "arms act,"
the "peace preservation act," and the
"crime prevention act." These acts enable
the Crown to put any district under a species
of martial law, authorize the searching of
houses for concealed fire-arms, the arrest of
suspected persons, and the adoption of such
measures as may be necessary to suppress
attempts at insurrection. All this is excit
ina and encourages tie British press to rail
lustily against the Fenian organization and
to threaten terrible things if the movement
proceeds. It is evident John Bull is having
a" big scare from a little cause, and we don't
know that anybody on this side of the water
will in the least sympathize with him. The
British navy wants exercise, and there can
be no good reason why it should not take it
in Bantry Bay as well as any place else. -
Rebellion, treason, ndclii war areindis
solubly linked with the name Democracy.
Under Democratic ascendancy the conspir
acy was conceived and matured. Under a
Democratic administration it ripened. By
Democratic chiefs it was directed. By Dem
ocratic politicians it was defended and ex
cused. By a Democratic Convention it was
declared triumphant and by Democratic
papers and speakers the theories from which
the rebellion sprang, are still justified and
advocated.
The Eevolution in Sosih Carolina Govern
or Perry's Address.
That terrible French revolution which
changed the most presumptuous, oppressive
and offensive monarchy in Europe to the re
public of "Liberty, Equality and Fratern
ity," as an astounding transformation, is al
most equalled by the revolution which has
come upon South Carolina. Mark the con
trast between the Speeches of her ruling ol
igarchy at her secession convention of ISM
and the address of her present Provisional
Governor Perry to the convention called to
reorganize the State as a loyal member of
the Union. See what four years of wither
ing war have done in her case. Where now
is that gorgeous fabric of an imperial South
ern confederacy, resting upon the corner
stone of slavery, and bringiug the destinies
of all nations under the sovereign will of
King Cotton ? It has all vanished like a
mirage in the desert,and the once imperious
city of Charleston, which dreamed of the
glory of Rome, has narrowly escaped the
fate of Carthage ! '
The ruins of Sum pter tell the story of
South Carolina. The condition of the fort
ress is the condition of the State, lt must
be rebuilt from its foundation. Th local
oligarch-, the institutions, ideas and class
distinctions of a hundred years' ripening
have all been shattered by shot and shell in
to a heap of rubbish. From these ruins
Governor Perry is called by President John
son to rebuild the fabric of the State, and
with a hitch or two, l:e goes to his task like
a skilful workman. The convention sum
moned together by him has assembled, and
he has chalked out the work which it is re
quired to do. He tells the members, first
in general terms, that it is their duty to or
ganize a State government, "whereby jus
tice may be established, domestic tranquility
insured, and loyal citizens protected in all
their rights of "life, liberty and property,"
and whereby the State may be restored to
her "constitutional relations to the . federal
government," and then he proceeds to his
specifications.
He admonishes the convention that',Afri
can slavery, a cherished institution of South
Carolina from her earliest colonial history,"
"is gone dead forever, never to be revived
or honed for in the future of the Stat'j."
After the sacrifice, in an exhausting war, of
the white bone and sinew oi the ttate, and
property to the extent of two hundred and
fifty millions of the three hundred millions
of her wealth, and all for the perpetnation of
African slavery, tins tremendous fact, that
"it is gone, dead forever, is presented as
the starting point for the convention. They
must build upon the corner stone of Abra
ham Lincoln's emancipation proclamation.
They must declare slavery abolished in their
new tate constitution. It is the hxed con
dition precedent of the President's amnesty,
the condition to a readmission to Congress,
from which there is no cs-ape. I his ntfvy
be a painful duty, hut the Governor is sure
that the members of the convention, patriotic
and honorable men. will fulfill it. He ' next
advises them ar.l all concerned, that "by a
wise, just and humane treatment of your
freed men and woman you r.iav attach them
to you as strongly in their new condition as
thov tvere while your slaves."
jrne uruvei uur iaen pruceens lu ranm-
mend "popularizing the State constitution
in several particulars." The representation
in the State Senate is arbitrary, unjust
and unequal. It oujdit to be rectified. The
Legislature has heretofore elected the Gov
ernor and cast the Presidential electoral vote
of the State. There powers should now be
given to the people. Upon the suffrage
question Gov. l'errv thinks that to extend
the suffrage now to the freedmen, "in their
present ignorant and degraded- condition,
would be little less than folly and madness."
But in his argument upon this subject the
Governor permits his zeal to outrun his dis
cretion. He talks of the "radical republican
party of the North," as if that party had
no vote in Congress upon the acceptance of
the work of his convention. He repeats the
old exploded notions of South Carolina be
fore the deluge, that"this is the white man's
government, intended lor white meu only
notions which, since the deluge, are, even
in South Carolina, utterly absurd and un
meaning nonsense. 1 hey are calculated to
do no good, but will be apt to mukeiraschief,
as excellent ammunition for Northern radi
cal agitators.
We must say, moreover, to Governor Per
ry, that the exclusion of the blacks from the
benefits of the government does not enter
into the programme of 1 resident Johnson.
The institution of slavery bavins prone by
the board, the blacks must be recognized as
citizens, whatever their restrictions for the
present in view ot the general interest of the
community. It is a pity that this other
wise admirable address of Governor Perry
should be spoiled by his exploded heresies
concerning the negro's rights. It never was
wise, and it is now exceedingly foolish, for
any bout hern Provisional Governor to recall
the inflammatory precepts of the Dred Scott
decision. But considering the stupendous
revolution which South Carolina is called to
recognize within her borders, it is not strange
that even Governor Perry should fail to meet
it fully. In the main he has done well ; but
we apprehend that he must drop the Dred
ccot decision or he he will tail to touch bot
tom iu Congress. A. Y. Herald.
Judge Scofield's Address.
The Utica papers contain the address
of
Hon. G. W. Scofield, at the Agricultural
Fair of the State of New York. It is
an
a oie document, ana was received wi
ith
marked attention. As the crowded state
of
our columns precludes its publication, we
give the following to show what others think
of it. The Utica Daily Herald prints the
address entire, and says :
"The address was delivered yesterday af
ternoon, 14th September, by Hon. G. W
Scofield, of Pennsylvania. We do oui
radftrs thA 8rriv rf Tirintirnr in IVill . T,
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is iin pl:if-nrntA onI K1a i-kfi-ult.f In,-. n1
was received with much favor by those who
hpard it. So fnr as Vi drfwin fVm ctn.I,?
of natural science, his positions are com
mendable ; so far as he assails classical
studies, his argument does not carry con
viction. As a whole, the addre-s deserves
the thoughtful consideration of all who wish
to elevate agriculture, and to put it where
it belongs, at the head of the professions."
The Erie Daily Dispatch says :
We notice in the Utica papers the address
delivered before the New York State Fair by
G- W. Scofield, the Congressman from this
district. It is a very able and instructive
document.
British Eoll-Call of Dishonor. - 1
Lending money, said a wise man, is an
unostentatious way ot making a present.
This is a fact which the English holders ot ,
stock in the "so-called Confederate" loan r
are about realizing. They have held a ;
public meeting in London, at winch it was
suggested mac uie unuea ouues cuuum
pay oil ttie rerjeideoi; out iue me
laughed at, and the meeting was adjourned
to the ISth of October, when the subject is
to be ventilated again. Of course, they
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know as all toe world knows, that the
United States will never pay one cent ot the
rebel loan. I
We have been curious, all alonsr, to know
who were the foolish folks in England who
ent that money, lhat curiosity was grati
fied by the publication, lately, of the names
of some ot the dupes whose sympathy wun
slavery induced them to open their purses
and lend money to . he slaveholding rebels.
That especial ninny, the Lancashire baro
net, bight Sir Hf.xry Houghton de
Houghton, has suffered to the extent of
$yuu,000. The young Marquis of Bath has
lost $250,000. A brace of army contract
ors, and shipowners have sunk $1,450,000
in that slough of despond but had proba
bly netted thrice a3 much by trading (send
ing supplies and running the blockade) with
the South. Baron WiiAKNCLiFFE, a mem
ber of the House of Lords, put in $25,000.
Lords Campbell and Donougiimore, who
used to speak boldly for the rebels in their
place in Parliament, ventured only 5,000
each. Several members of the House of
Commons, who were violent rebel partisans,
were also "s"turk" by the rebel loan. Mr.
Laird, ot Birkenhead, who built the Ala
bama, put in $100,000: but Messrs. Pea
cock and Gregory, who used to heartily
berate the Union Government, each ven
tured only a fifth of that amount. For the
rest, bankers, capitalists, doctors, lavyers,
stock-brokers, and one titled old lady,
gallantly risked their money and will lose
it. Well, it was only a bit of gambling ;
the speculators paid about fifty-three dollars
for every one-hundred-dollar note of rebel
stock, and if it had reached par, every one
of them would have nearly doubled his ven
ture. The fine old oaks which surround
Houghton Tower will have to be thinned,
we suspect, to bring back the nine hundred
thousand dollars, the foolish Houghton de
Houghton, Baronet, h:;s lost.
By the published list it appears that
thirty-eight persons in England invested
S'.t8,i)00 in the Rebel loan. This is close
upon $1,500,0! 0, and is probably fully two
thirds of all the money so appropriated by
the English people. No doubt, tho.; who
invested small sums did so, like Si'DNEY
Smith, twenty-five years aso, in the pleasant
hope of receiving ten instead of three per
c-er.t. merest upon their monoy. J. Ley
knew no' better, and ronv bo pined, but the
noble lords, the scini-nolde baronets, the
rigiic-hoi:o:ables, the honoruLies, the bank
ers, merchants, and other great folks who
risked their funds, to sustain." moot unuoiv
cause, merit no iUy, and ought not receive
a i! y.
Several newspaper men went largely into
this loan. Mr. James SrcxcE, the well
known anti-Union Liverpool atrent for the
special correspondent or me
limes, put down $2.j0,O0O. Mr. Ueres-
foud Hope, proprietor of the Saturday
Keiwir. has sank $200,000. jir. Sampson,
who writes the money articles in The Times,
sported $75,000. Mr. Df.lane (originally
one ot ine Delany fan i:y or Cork) ventured
only $50,000, and a Mr. Ridout, of the
Jlorniiia last, Lord Palmerstox s onran.
modestly ri-ked $20,000. So, all the time
that The Times, Morning Post and Satur
day het ieir, seemed to be writing the Union
down, and writing rebellion vn, they really
were using and abusing the great power of
the press tor their own mean and selfish
purposes. For the credit of our craft we
lament this. Lastly, for all things must
conclude, the list closes with the names ot
Honorable Mr. Ashley and the Right Hon
orable W. E. Gladstone ; the first for $2,
rK, the other for $10,000. Ashley, who
is private secretary to ljord J'almf.rston,
his grai.d-step-father, is son of Lord Shaf
tesbury, the pious, who has long been a
great anti-slavery spokesman. Gladstone,
Chancellor of the Exchequer, is a Cabinet
Minister. Here we have the Premier's near
relative, who is also his private secretary.
giving five hundred pounds sterling to the
Confederate loan, and Mr. Gladstone, the
man of the time, investing four times thit
amount ! No wonder that Gladstone
puffed off Mr. Jefferscn Davis as a man
who had founded aa empire (he holds his
court in Fortress Monroe of late,) and made
his infamous Newcastle speech against our
Union. He was oratorical in order that his
two thousand pounds iu Confederate stock
might fructify. Press.
Important Issne3.
Reader ! When asked to vote the Demo
cratic ticket pause and consider whether in
the settlement of the great questions grow
ing out of the war they should be left in the
hands of those by whom the war was carried
to a successful issue, or whether the settle
ment shall pass into the hands of those who
opposed it from the beginning ? It is upon
the people the settlement of this issue de
pends. And it is important It is for you,
reader for every voter to say whether
the war has been a failure, whether those
who began it because you voted in 18G0 as
free men had a right to vote, were justly
dealt with in being conquered. It is for you
to say whether the fruits of the war are on
ly "debt, disgrace and slaughter,"or wheth
er they shall add to the glory, renown,great
ncss and power of our common country.
These, we repeat,are important issues. Let
your sense of right determine your vote.
Maine Election. Tlic Kennebec Jour
nal has returns from 451 towns in Maine,
which gives Cony. Renublican. 53.44Q. an.l
. - ' 7 ,
j Howard, Democrat, 31,117 votes a major
ity for Cony of 22,332. Last year the same
towns cast for Cony 61,615, a ud for Howard
45,332 votes, being a majority for Com of
16,283. The Republican gain on majority
is therefore 6,049. The House of Repre
sentatives will consist of 134 Union men and
17 Democrats. Last year it stood 120 Union
men and 31 Iemocrats.
The Boston Post-office, during the vear ca
ding J une 30, made a profit over expenses
of $348,860. v
The Plan of Reconstruction.
We suppose President Johnson's mind
was turned in favor of the particular mode
of ' 'reconstruction' ' which he is carrying out,
partly by the fact that it was the mode first
adopted dy President Lincon, and applied
by him to the State of Tennessee ; partly by
the circumstance that, as Provisional Gov
enor of Tennessee, Mr. Johnson had an ex
cellent oportunity ot testing the practicability
and value of the plan ; and partly by thefaet
that no other plan had been suggested to
which there were not greater objections than
there were tothe lennessce plan.
Whatever may be the case with our
Southern States, it is certain that Tennessee
will have a full Congressional delegation in
Washington the coming Yv inter. 1 he two
Senators and ten members of the House to
which the State is entitled have been elec
ted, and will appear in their places with their
credentials. It is not likely that Congress
will refuse to admit these gentlemen to their
seats ; and, if they are admitted, it is hard
to see how admission can be refused to those
who are, or then shall have been elected,
from Arkansas or Mississippi, under like cir
cumstances, and after the same order.
Soecial policies or actions of the Presi
dent, such as'the exercise of the pardoning
power, are often confounded with the Lincoln-Johnson
plan or, the theory of political
reconstruction, and the latter is condemned
or approved according to one's opinions up
on these questions. But important as these
may be as public questions, important as
their indirect bearings may be upon the pa
cification of the Union, they do not, strictly
speaking, form a part of the systematic the
ory of political reorganization now being ap-
, - .1 o .1 L?.a- Ti
pneu to tne oourinern ciai.es. j.ls sreps
and incidents are simply these : The sweep
ing away of the local rebel powers and au
thorities in the various States ; the appoint
ment by the President of Provisional Gov
ernors, possessed of authority to call State
Conventions, which have power to revise the
organic laws of their respective States, and
provide for the resumption of the functions
of Government by the constitutional legisla
tive and executive agents elected by the peo
ple; these legislative agents and the legal vo
ters completing the work by choosing the
State Representatives. These are the fun
damental tacts and these are the sequences,
in the Tennesseo plan of reconstruction,
which is gradually being carried out now in
all the Southern States, with a slight vari
ation in the case of Virginia.
So far as the plan itself is concerned, can
a betteronebeuevised? Has any other equal
ly feasible in character and republican in op
eration, been suggested ?
A Settler from the Secretary cf State.
In reference to the suit instituted in Eng
land by the United States against Prioleau
aud others for the recovery of one thousand
three hundred and fifty bales of "Confeder
ate" cotton, tho Vice Chancellor sitting in
judgment, decided in favor oi the United
States substantially as the Power absorbing
the late de facto government of the so-called
;ConfedcrateStates." Whereupon Mr. Sew
ard in a letter to Mr. Adams, instructs him
to inform all concerned that " the United
Pfnt An r.nt admit that the combination of
disloyal citizens wtio have raised ihe stan
dard of insurrection is now, or has at any
previous time, been a government de facto
or in any sense a political Power capable of
taking, holding, giving, asserting or main
taining corporate rights in any form, wheth
er municipal or international. It is true
that a different view of the character of the
insurgents has seemed to find favor with
seme portions of the British nation, and
even with the British government,"and that
"it must be rememberad, however, that as
often as that antagonistical opinion has been
advanced by her Britannic Majesty's gov
ernment in its intercourse with the United
States, it has been as firmly, though, as we
trust, as courteously, denied." This is a
settler, not only in reference to the cotton in
question, but in regard to all debts, loans,
contracts, &c. ' of every description entered
snto with the late so-called Confederate
States, or in behalf of the cause thereof in
any shape or form, at home or abroad.
Everything in the shape of cotton or other
property held anywhere as the property of
the so-called Confederate States, is now
the property of the United States, de facto
and dejure. We dare say that after the
reception of Mr. Seward's letter there will
be no more meetings of the holders of the
rebel cotton loan to discuss the question of
its redemption by the United States.
A wild man has been discovered in a for
est in Clearfield county. He was covered
all over with a copper colored down, and
when captured was able to speak one word
"draft.' He had forgotten all the rest of
the English language. L.X-U over nor Bigler
kindly took the wild man in hands, and
will prepare him to vote tor the Demorcatic
candidates in October. This story may be
true, since large numbers of the residents
fled to the woods during the ljle draft.
Many are yet missing, so thatcmore wild
men may yet be caught. PuTa Press.
The above is news in this section. Wheth
er such a capture has been made, or not,
we are unable to say ; but as Mr. Bigler is in
California, and has not heenjir this place
for at least four months, w.e'deeni this ex
planation due him. In reference, to the
"wild man," we presume, it might be well
enough for our Philadelphia cotemporary to
inquire of the Chairman of the Democratic
State Committee for definite information.
The Johnstown Tribune of last week says
it is informed that Lieut. Col. Linton, the
democrtic nominee for Surveyor General,
made a speech at a democratic meeting in
Ebensburg last week, in which he asserted
that instead of trying and hanging Wirz for
killing and starving Union prisoners, Secre
tary Stanton should be tried and hung, for
he alone was to blame. Such a declaration
by their candidate would only be in accord
ance with the action of their party editors,
for no democratic paper within our knowl
edge has published any of the testimony
edcited on the trial of this brute who starv
ed and murdered Union prison rs by the
thousand. They try to cover up the horrors
of the hell at Andersonville, where so many
thousands of our poor boys suffered,and if
possible hold the Government responsible.
The Alabama Convention passed an or
dinance doing away with slavery, by a vote
ot eighty-nine to three. The Convention al
so passed an ordinancedividingthe State into
six Congressional districts. Committee on
Ordinances reports early next week.
Copperheads vs. Clergymen.
YTehave frquently;heretofore,insisted that
the natural tendency of modern Democracy or
Copperheadisui, was to infidelity. The lea
ding men of the Copperhead organization,
by their defense of slavery, and sympathy "
with treason against freedom, have placed
themselves on the reccord as the great an
tagonists of civilization. All over the world
the copperheads and slaveholders are regar
ded as the opqonents of the civilized pro
gress of mankind. It now becomes ourduty
to show from the reccord that the Copper
head leaders are infidels ; that they arc op
posed to praj er, and that they refused, in
their official capacity, to recognize the the
clergy of the State as being fit to mingle
their prayers with the business of legisla
tion. The following extract from the Legislative
Record, for 1S64, page 12, establishes the
truth of our assertion :
invitation to clergymen.
Mr. Lowar. I offer the following resolu
tion :
Resolved, That the Speaker be repuested
to invite the clergymen ot Harrisburg to
opeu the sessions oi the Senate with prayer.
On the question, Will the Senate proceed
to a second reading of the resolution?
The yeas and nays were requireq by Mr.
Kixsey and Mr. Donovan, and were as fol
lows, viz:
Yeas Messrs. Champneys, Council,
Dunlap, Fleming, Graham, Hoge, House
holder, Je-hnson. Lowry, M'Candloss, Nich
ols, Ridgeway, Turrell, Wilson, Worthing
ton; and Penny, Speaker. 16.
Nays Messrs. Beardslee, Butlier, Cly
mer, Donovan, Glatz. Hopkins, Kinsey,
Lamberton, Lafta, M'Sherry, Montgomery,
Reily, Smith, Stark, Stein, and Wallace 16.
So the question was determined iu the neg
ative. What more can Christian men desire, to
render clear to their minds that modern De
moeraej is radical infidelity ? It will be seen
that among those who voted 2fay on this
question, involving the recognition of a Di
vine authority and power, is the name of W.
A. Wallace, now Chairman of the Demo
cratic State Central Committee.
Twelve mcnths ago the Democracy pro
noueed the war for the Union a-"failure"
but now that the rebellion has been crushed
in spite of them, they profess great love for
the soldiers' who gained tho victory. Do
tUey Suppose the "boys in blue" have so
soon forgotten theit record.
The bloodhounds Hero and Jack, used to
guard Union prisoners at Ricdniond andAn
derscnville, have been bought by George K.
G oodwin, of Boston, for, $ 1 ,400:
AlvtrtiJtemeiitxiet in farce type, ruts, or art efiixiiat'
ttyle.will be charged double 'priee for.ip.iceorrttpied.
'J o insure attentioa.the CASH must aceomoa
ny notices. a follows: All Cautionj and Strays,
w:thSl,rjO; Auditors', Adniiiii:-tratprs'&ai Ex
ecutors' notices, $2,50. each ; Piesslations, 82;
all other transient Notices at the same rate3
Other advertisements at81,B0persr.are,;crScr
l?-si insei tioiis. Ten lines (or less) count a square -
CAUTION. All persons are hereby cnuiioced
against purchasing or ineJdling with one
bay Horse, dun Mare, and Spring Colt, now in
possession of John Hoover, of Ilradv tp., as-the
same belong to me and have only been leftJwiTh
said Hoover on loan, and are subject to my order.
Sept- 27, 1S65 JAMES IRVIN.
STRAY BULL.. Came treppassing on the
premisrsof the subscriber in Pike township. a
bout the first of June, 1305, a Dark Urindte null,
supposed to be about two years old. The owner
is requested to come forward, prove property.py
charges and take bim away, or he willbe dispos
ed ot as the law d irects.
Sept 27 1365. . MOSES BATLET.
LOST. All persons are hereby cautioned a
gainst purchasing or taking an a3ijDo-nt
of certain promisory note calling Tor twenty dol
lars, and dated. about-tho nth of October 18G4, -and
auming due on the 1st of May. 1866, given
by E zra Koot and Win. Hunter to Simon Kora
baugh. The note has been loet. and payment
thereon stopped by the undersigned.
Sept 27, 13'5. SIMON KORABAtTGH.
ADMINISTRATORS' NOTICE Letters
of Administration on the Estate of David
Ferguson, late of Ferguson town'p Clearfield
county. Pa., deceased, baring been granted to tb
undersigned ; all persons indebted to said estate
are hereby required to make immediate payment,
and those having claims against the same will
present them properly authenticated for settle
ment. I). L. FERGUSON,
Sept. 27. 1S65 pd. Administrator.
ADMINISTRATORS' NOTICE Letters
'of Administration on the Estate of James
M'Coy, late of Ueccaria town'p. Clearfield county,
Pa., deceased, having been granted to the under
signed ; all persons indebted to said estate are
hereby required to make immediate payment,
and those having claims against the same will
present them properly authenticated for settle
ment. JO UN M'COY,
gept. 27. 1363-pd. Administrator
ADMINISTRATORS' NOTICE. Letters
of Administration on the the Estate of Sam
uel Spencer, late of Penn town'p, Clearfield coun
ty Pa., deceased, having baen granted to the on-'
dersigned ; all persons indebted to said' estate-'
are hereby required to mase immediate pay
ment, and those having claims against the same
will present them properly authenticated for set
tlement. . M.S.SPENCER.
Sept. 27, 1 65-pd. Administrator.
NEW STOEE,
AT MARYS VI LLE, CLEARFIELD CO.
.The undersigned would respectfully announce
to the citizens of Clearfield county, that b has
opened a now store in Marysville, and tkat he is
now receiving a large and splendid assortmoLt of
seasonable goods, such as
DRY-GOODS AJWJ NOTIONS,
Hardware, Que ens ware,
GROCERIES,
DRUGS, OILS, PAINTS AND GLASS,
BOOTS, SHOES, HATS AND CAPS,
CLOTHING, AND STATIONARY,
and in fact a general assortment of goods, such,
as are generally kept in a country store.
Desirous of pleasing the public, he will nse his
best endeavors to keep on hand the best of goods,
and thereby hopes to merit a liberal share of pat
ronage. Call before purchasing elsewhere, as I am
determined to sell goods at moderate prices for
cpgh.or exchange them for every description
of Lumber, ac market prices
Eept. 27, 1S65. STACY W. THOMPSON.