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S. J. BOW, SDITOB A PROPRIETOR.
CLEARFIELD, PA., JAN. 24, 1866.
Union Statk Convention. A State
Convention will be held at nrrisbur, on
"Wednesday the 7th day of March, 1365, for
the purpose of nominating a candidate for
Governor, to be snpported by the friends of
the Union at the coming October election
All the friends of our Government, and all
who were loyal to the cause Tf Union, in
our late struggle, are earnestly requested to
unite in sending delegates to represent them
in said convention. .
The Law Vindicated. Mrs. Grinder
was hung at Pittsburg on the 19th. Sever
al hours previous to the execution, she con
fessed having caused the death of Mrs.
Carothers and Miss Buchanan, by adminis
tering poison. Marschall and Frecke, the
Boyd's Hill murderers, were executed on
the 1 1 th. Truly, the way of the transgressor
is hard. "
Gov. Ccrtin at Home. Gov. Curtin
and family arrived at Ilarrisburg, on Fri
day evening. The Governor is much im
proved in health. lie was enthusiastically
received by the people, and, as he approach
ed the Capitol, was greeted with a salute of
cannon. Later, he met a number of officials
and citizens at his residence.
Gen.' Grant gives it as his opinion that it
is not desirable at presnt to remove the Uni
ted States troops from the States lately in
rebellion, nor wise to put arms into the hands
of the militia as a method to be relied upon
.to preserve the tranquility ot the South.
Council from such a source will probably be
heeded. . ' j. . . . ,
' John Bright said in a late speech on Irish
affairs that Parliament had passed two hun
dred acts in favor of the landlord and not
one in favor of the tenant ! The serious
question is whether such shall be the
ppirit of legislation in this country legisla
tion for . monopoly and no legislation for
industry.
: Large bodies of Northern men who had
gone South to settle in Louisiana,Mississippi
and Alabama, are being forced to leave their
new homes by the hostile attitude of the
whipped rebels, who threaten to burn the
property and take the lives of all Northern
men who attempt to settle in the South.
The Emperor of the French has resolved
to urge on the legislative branch of his gov
ernment, a cultivation of friendly feelings
with the people and the government of the
United States. Sensible fellow, that Napo
leon, as he understands how to get into a
safe corner.
Ex-Gov. Kirkwood of Iowa has been elec
ted by the Legislature of that Stite, United
States Senator to fill the unexpired term.
As his successor for the long term, commen
cing March 4, 1867, the Secretary of the in
terior, the Hon. James Harlan, has been
elected. .
The Western papers are complaining that
it costs three bushels of corn to send one to
market, a distance of one hundred miles ;
one hundred bushels to get a pair of boots ;
one thousand bushels to get a suit of clothes,
and two tons of corn for a ton of coal.
The Florida Legislature has elected Mr.
Call and Provisional Governor William Mar
vin, United States Senators, over two Reb
el Generals. Gov. Marvin was elected, for
the short term, on the ninth balloting.
General Sheridan, in reply to a recent
letter of Jubal Early, has written a state
ment showing that he captured, as prison
ers, more men than Early reports as his en
tire forces in the Shenandoah Valley. .
The requisitions of the different Paymas
ters have been promptly met by the Treasury
Department, and they are now being dis
patched to the Military Departments for the
purpose of paying off troops. '
The Suffrage Bill. Last week, the
U. S. House of Representatives, passed the
District of Columbia Suffrage Bill, by a vote
of 117 to 45. It is thought that the U. S.
Senate will also pass the bill. V
Nearly three hundred Postmistresses have
been appointed in the South, because no
man could be found who would take the oath
that he had not borne arms against the U
nited Slates Government
-For the benefit of the poor the President
has.ordered the large quantity of wood be
longing to the Government to be sold in
small quantities at seven dollars and a half
per cord. .
A constitutional amendment reported in
the U. S. Senate, provides that no claim
6hall hereafter be recognized for the pay
ment of losses by the emancipation of the
fjaves. .
REMARKS OF HOJT. G. "W. SCOFIELD,
On the District of Columbia Suffrage Bill.
Me. Scofield. Mr. Speaker
Mr. Halk I ask the eentleman to sus
pend a moment for the purpose of submit
ting a motion to amend.
The Speaker. A motion to amend is
not in order pending the motion to re-commit.
Mr. Hale. My motion is to amend by
adding instructions.
1 he bPEAKER. buch a motion is in order.
Mr. Hale. I move to amend the motion
ot the gentleman from Iowa Mr. Wilson
by adding to that motion an instruction to
the committee to amend the bill so as to ex
tend the right of suffrage in the District ct
. I 1-11 -.1
t.oiumcia. to an iKirsons comme wimm eiui-
er.of the following classes, " irrespective of
caste or color, but subject only to existing
provisions and qualifications other than
those founded on caste or color, to wit :
1. Those who can read the Constitution
of the United States ; '
2. Those who are assessed for and pay taxes
on real or personal property within the
District j
3. Those who have served in and been
honorably discharged frouT the military or
naval service or the United fctates ;
And to restrict such right of suffrage to
the classes above named, and to include
proper provisions excluding from the right
of suffrage those who have borne arms
against the United States during the late
rebellion, or given aid and comfort to said
retemon.
The question then being upon the amend
ment offered bv Mr. Hale ;
Mr. Scofleld. Mr. Sneaker, the color
ed population of the United States i3 now
about five millions That is nearly double
the population of all New England, fully
one seventh of the entire population of the
United estates, and almost double the pum
ber that carried this country through a sev
en years' war with the greatest military
Power m the world.
What shall be done with these five mil
lion people ? Colonize them? Where and
when ? To Africa ? Liberia is the most
desirable and accessible part of that country,
but that colony is now more than forty
years old, and its emigrant" population is
only seven or eitrht thousand, some ten
thousand, in alL, have been taken there,
but from twenty to thirty per cent of that
number died during the period or acclima
tion. To land five million men, women,
and children upon this . miasmatic coast,
without houses, roads or improved lands
would be murder by the million. Ihe origi
nal kidnapping and importation of slaves to
this country was a very merciful and Chris
tian business compared with such an exodus
ahis. But if we were wicked enough to
embark in such a cruel enterprise we could
not accomplish it - Calculate the expense,
to say nothing of suffering, of collecting the
entire population of Ohio, Indiana, and
Illinois and taking them to the Atlantic
coast; compute the expense of transporta
tion for such a nation across the Atlantic,
and to these sums add the cost of houses,
roads, clearings, stock, and temporary main
tenance in that unhealthy climate, and you
will have a bill too great for the resources
or the country, even it we were not in debt
But to gather up and colonize the scattered
and unwilling colored population, almost
equal in numbers, would be a much greater
undertaking.
Colonize them in Mexico, then, it is said.
The expense might be a few million less,
but stiil far beyond the present resources
and strained credit of the Government,
Other obstacles would intervene. Mexico
has eight million five hundred thousand pop
ulation now. Where could you thrust five
million more in that uninviting land of end'
less war? Beside, if this vast population is
as undesirable as i represented, they would
be nearly as offensive to the people of Mexi
co as it is said they ought to be to us, and
our unchristian purpose would be defeated
by the kindred prejudices of that nation.
Colonize them, then, in some of our western
Territories ! The expense and injustice .of
this undertaking would be considerably less,
but it would be just no colonization at all.
They would soon be surrounded by our ad
vancing millions, and left in the very heart
ot the country iroin which you desire to ex
pel them. "
The whole scheme of colonization is so
far beyond the present ability of the Gov
ernment, so destructive to the productive
interest of tire country, so inhuman and un
just toward the people whose unpaid laborhas
added so much to the wealth and comfort of
the nation, and whose valor and patriotism
has helped to sustain it in its late life-struggle,
and so impracticable and impossible,
even if it was right, that its advocates can
scarcely expect to be credited with sense
and sincerity at the same time. The thought
less may be sincere, but the knowing 'ones
can only design to distract the attention of
the people from the consideration ot other
propositions and necessities. Arid if coloni
zation were practicable what would become
of the old theory urged by pro-slavery di
vines and politicians, who are for the most
part the present advocates of colonization,
that white men could not labor in the warm
latitudes of the South ? Do they propose
now, in sending off the only possible labor
ers there, according to their theory, to aban
don the culture of the South altogether? or
do they confess they were only trying to
cheat the people into the support of a cruel
institution by false logic then, as they are
trying to delude them with false theories
now? If you mean to try colonization why
not begin it at once ? The longer you delay
.the more numerous will be these people,
and the more determined to stay. Bring
in your bill and let us see the details. How
many billions of new bonds "must be put
upon the niaret, how large an army will be
I asked, how many ships will be needed, and
uuw many vears win it tate to enect tne ex
pulsion? What, in the meanwhile, is the
wolrd to do for cotton ? What shall be done
with the unwilling and the fugitives ? Will
you hunt them with bloodhounds, or procure
the services of Buchanan's old marshals?
Give us at once your bill of particulars.
If colonization is found impracticable,
will yon try to re-enslave them ? I suppose
not The blacks are now too intelligent
too self-reliant, and too spirited to submit
again to the oppressor. .It is feared by
some that the northern wine of tb
cratio rartv will ae-ain vipI.1 it nwir
quite free from the old callous, to the yoke of
the Southern master ; but the negro never
will Besides, the great Republican party,
strong in numbers but stronger in its convic
tions of right, will always stand between
the weak and oppression. I know it is said
that party may become powerless by the
detection ot the 1'resident. jli is auegea oy
the Opposition, and feared even by some ot
our friends, that when the grim leaders ot
the rebellion shall re-embrace their old party
allies, a President placed in power by Re
publican trust and iiepublican votes, ior
petful of an example that consigned two
lVcsidents to private life and public infamy.
will be present to celebrate tne reunion ui
these pardoned principals in crime with sus
pected accessories before the fact. I do
not speculate as to what the President may
do. ou never know what a singleman, sud
denly elevated to power, may do. - .rut
not your trust in princes" is a warning
that will apply to all men in "power. I nev
er could guess the secret motives that in
duced Tyler and Fillmore to betray the
Whigs. I have often heard that a person
who stands on the brink of Niagara, or
climbs to the top of a lofty tower, - feels an
almost irresistjble impulse to jump off. It
may be some such unnatural sensation that
prompted these two gentlemen to leap from
their nigh eminence into the terrible obscuri
ty below. I cannot believe that Mr. John
son will follow these unseductive examples.
But it he should, he alone will be broken.
The tower will stand, but his crippled limbs
can never again acend it The ranks of the
Kepubhcan army would not even waver.
Its contractors and sutlers would fly, to 'be
sure ; but without the loss of a man or a
gun, it would still stand, the friend of the
oppressed and the terror ot the oppressor.
V hatever individuals may do, b assured
the Republican party will adhere to its
principles, and its principles will certainly
triumph. The Whig party could hardly be
said ever to have been in a settled majority
of the people, and it stood yet he betrayal
of two of its Presidents,- and only broke
down when it surrendered to the slave pow
er in the Baltimore convention ot 1S52.
I conclude, therefore, that colonization
and re-enslavement are both impossible.
"Then extermination awaits them," so we
are told. The census, however, tells a dif
ferent story. These tables show that the
black population multiply quite as fast as
the white. It is the large additions of the
white element from abroad that gives that
race an apparent advantage. I know that
these people are poor. For long, dark years
their industry has gone to swell the over
tTOwn estates of their nresent persecutors.
But they have been accustomed to a life of
deprivation. 1 heir wants are tew; and in
a country where labor is high and land and
food are cheap they cannot waste away. 1
know it is thought that this rapid increase
is due to the mercenary care of the master.
The more children he could raise for the
market the greater his estate. This i3 true
only of a few of the more northern States.
Breeding was not encouraged in the plant
ing States further south. The overseers
task was inconsistent with the duties of ma
ternity. The services of the mother were
worth more than her offspring. The life of
the nlave was graduated by the price of cot
ton, and, as a general rule, it would pay to
use him up iu seven years. And whatever
would pay in that country was practiced.
Humanity was no restraint, for making a
man into a brute makes the maker brutal
During the transition from bondage to free
dom, in. the midst of civil war and bitter
persecution, their numbers may possibly
diminish lor a short time ; but the expecta
tion that they will become extinct has no
foundation either in the history or charac
teristics ot the race.
In endeavoring to look fairly at this ques
tion, 1 have found no evidence upon which
to rest the belief that this race is ever to be
colonized, reenslaved, or exterminated. I
come back, then, to the question with which
I began, what shall be done then?
"Let them alone." That is the answer
given by a member of the New York Leg
islature when it was proposed to send sur
geons to vaccinate the Indians who were dy
ing of small-pox on the Reserve, "They
are a drunken, vagrant, thieving race,"
' . . iiT . .1 i mi
said ne: iiet tnem alone, ine sooner
they are gone the better for the country."
"We cannot afford to let them alone," said
the member in reply ; "they spread the in
fection through the whole surroundingcoun
try, and we have only the choice to admin
ister relief or suffer and die with them."
Neither can we afford to let five millions
of population, who are forever to remain in
our midst, increasing as we increase, sink
down into hopeless ignorance, degradation
and vice. If we do, our own race will cer
tainly grade down to them. The more we
degrade these people the lower we sink ourselves.-
The ignorant white people have
been made to believe that the elevation of
the negro is equivalent to their debasement.
The reverse is true. The more we improve
this unfortunate race, the higher we raise
our own. Human influence is not confined
by a sharp embankment of rank or condi
tion. It overflows to adjacent ranks, cor
rupting or purifying them as it is itself cor
rupt or pure. All classes in society are ele
vated where there is no degraded class. It
is the interest, therefore, of every while
man that these people should be educated
in morals, skill, industry, and letters. Eve
ry dollar expended for this purpose will e
concmize losses by unskilled labor, by riots,
theft a"d poor rates more than tenfold. I
am not now advocating the cause of this
race, however meritorious it may be. I do
not base the necessity of their improvement
upon any claim of their own. It does not
at all impair my argument to concede the
truth of all the charges preferred against
them, even by their most unscrupulous ac
cusers. Suppose that their minds are as
weak, and their proclivities to vagrancy and
vice as strong, as the life-long despoilers of
their earnings allege, (admitting at the same
time my premises that they cannot be sent
abroad, nor reenslaved nor exterminated at
home, ) it only makes the necessity founded
in self-interest the more imperative upon
us in every possible way to encourage their
improvement
I submit to the House that the cheapest
elevator and best moralizer for an oppressed
and degraded class is to inspire ihem with
self-respect, with belief in tne possibility of
their elevation. Bestow the 'elective fran
chise upon the colored population of this
District and you awaken the hope and am
bition of the whole race through jut the
country. Hitherto punishment has been
the only incentive to sobriety and industry
furnished these people by American law
They were kept too low to feel disgrace, and
reward was inconsistent with the theory ot
"service owed. " Let us try now the pur
suasive power of wages and protection. If
colored suffrage is still considered an exper
iment, this District is a good place in which
to try it. The same objections do not exist
here that are urged on behalf of; some of
me oiaics. xv cuusiuuuuuu ijunuvu in
tervenes. Here, at least Congress is su
preme. The law can be passed, and if it is
found to be bad a majority can repeal it.
The colored race is too small in numbers
here to endanger the supremacy of the
white people, but large and loyal enough to
counteract to some extent disloyal proclivi
ties, -
V hy, then, should they not vote ?
Because, say the opposition, that is ne
gro equality! Equality in what? In mind,
stature, morals, or wealth? If these much
coveted qualities.can-be so easily bestowed,
is any man mean enough to withhold them ?
The objection is contradictory. First, he.
shall not vote because he is the white man's
inferior ; and second, because he will make
him an equal. Do- you mean by equality,
personal friendship and social intercourse ?
Why, sir, if "there is anything free in this
country, or any country, it is the right of
each man to select his own associates. Com-
Fanionship is free now, and will be then,
t is your constitutional right to associate
with men of color now, if. you are so inclin
ed, while you are not forced to associate
with nor even speak to a white voter now,
nor will you be with a black voter in the fu
ture. On the other hand, it is the consti
tutional right of the colored man to shun
you how, and his right would neither be en
larged nor diminished by his enfranchise
ment The equality "so much dreaded and
so fiercely denounced, must mean, if it
means anything, that a colored man s vote
will count one toward the election ot mayor
and councils for Washington city, and a
white man's vote will count one also, and
no more. That is all. And why should
they not be so counted? What do the may
or and councils have to do that none but
the aristocracy can judge of their fitness?
Simply to mend the roads, look after the
poor, and take care ot the schools, i Cer
tainly these are subjects of deep interest to
men of color as well as white men, and not
above the capacity of the lowest Colored
men do the work on the streets ; they ought
to understand what repairs are needed as
well as how to make them. lousay they
are poor they ought to know the poor
man's wants. You say they are ignorant-
then give them a chance to vote against a
mayor who loads them with school tax and
deprives them of schools. In this District
no vote is cost for President, 'member of
Congress, judge ot the courts, nor any oni
cer except the administrators of local affairs,
in which all citizens, however ignorant in
national matters, arc necessarily well in
formed. This action is not altogether an
experiment. In Boston the colored people
vote, and in the best-governed city in the
United States. But it is to be considered
an experiment altogether, then, as I said
before, there is no better place in the whole
country in which to try it than the District
of Columbia.
Again, it is said it will lead to amalgama
tion. This cry has been too often raised to
alarm even the most ignorant. When the
Democratic party endeavored ' to establish
slavery in the territoiy acquired from Mexi
co, the arguments in opposition were met
by the cry ot amalgamation. Negro
equality was their covering cry, during their
long struggle, through fraud and violence to
force sla very on the unwilling people of Kan
sas. '-When slavery was abolished in the
District of Columbia, "Amalgamation and
negro equality" was bellowed by that party
all oyer the land. - AVhen the great and good
President issued his proclamation of eman
cipation, they again screamed "Amalgama
tion and negro equality ;" and the cry came
still again in terrible shrieks when slavery
was forever prohibited by amendment of
the Constitution. ihisis a standing argu
ment with the opposition, and is brought
out on all occasions when any legislation is
proposed touching the interest of the color
ed population. Even on so trifling an occa
sion as the passage of a law at the last ses
sion allowing these peopie to ride in the
street cirs in this city, a cry of horror was
sent over the country, that I thought would
startle the whole Anglo-saxon race to its
feet in defense of its blood, but I soon saw
that nobody was scared, and we all now see
that nobody was hurt Let our sensitive
friends compose their nerves and try to tell
us how a little enlargement of the elective
franchise, over small and purely local mat
ters in this District, will result in marriago
between the two races. It is a fright that
makes you mistake a ballot for a billet-doux.
It cannot be possible that any man of com
mon sense can bring himself to believe that
marriages between any persons, much less
between white and colored people, will rake
place because a colored man is allowed to
drop a little bit of paper in a box, thereby
intimating who he considers the fittest per
son to be mayor of this city. It is too tri
fling for argument - ,
We are again told that their average abili
ty is below that of the white race. How do
you know that? The colored man has nev
er exhibited equal ability, to be sure, but
he has never had equal opportunities. The
forbidding statutes of the South attest the
capacities of the negro. If they really be
lieved his mind was so feeble, why bind it
with such heavy chains ? If it was incapa
ble of learning, why prohibit it with the
penitentiary? : Their theories . proved he
was weak, but their legislation acknowledg
ed he was strong. Thev debased him bv
law to fit him for slavery, and justified sla
very because he was debased, oo in this
District the withholding opportunities of
improvements is justified on the in-nnnd nf
Uiis inferiority, and his inferiority is shown
Dy tne lacs ot improvement. Ifut suppose
the white race is superior, does it follow
that the inferior race should be denr-i! nf
any authoritative mode of making its wants
known to the Government? Lfmind is to
be made the test of suffrage, a great many
noisy declaimera against the negro will lose
their votes. As a general rule the men least
fitted to vote are the warmest advocates nf
exclusion. They apprehend, with much
reason, that they may be distanced in the
race if the black man is not forced to cairy
weight . Such men should beware how
they advocate a theory, that would jeopard
ize their own votes if made universal. But
it is further said that whatever their pa na-
city,they are at least uneducated now. That
would he but a short-lived objection if true
and not solely applicable to people of color.
But it is not true of the largest portion , of
the colored people in this District. Nearly
all of them can read, and the scholarship
of many is of a very high order. The whole
objection is easily obviated by an education
al qualification. -
Another objection, verv much rcMoA n-
on, is that a majority of the white popula
tion here aie opposed to it - A prominent
man charged with a high crime iu Pennsyl
vania alleged . that the hostility, and preju
dice and the people in the couuty where he
was indicted would deprive him of a fair
trial, 'and asked the Legislature to grant
him a change of venue. The people ot
that county remonstrated, and submitted to
the Legislature that they were the fittest
persons to try him, because they knetc he teas
guilty. If the people here were generally
consenting to this enlargement of the fran
chise its necessity would be less apparent
It is because the negro is hated in this city,
and justice denied him by prejudiced offi
cials, that his vote is ne cessary tor his own
protection. Every vote against him at this
pretended election was an argument in his
favor. I know that the prejudices, errone
ous sentiments, and even vices of the peo
ple should be somewhat regarded in legisla
tion, and that vested wrongs supposed to
be vested rights should -be - divested very
slowly. But what less can we do in this di
rection than is proposed to be done by this
bill, namely, to bestow the elective fran
chise upon a handful of men, who, as a body,
are intelligent, sober, peaceable, and indus
trious, and in a District where only local
officers are chosen, and over which our
right to legislate cannot be questioned. It
must be opposed, not upon the ground that
it is going too fast or granting too much at
first, but uponhe ground that, in that di
rection no step should be taken nothing
granted now, nor forever ; that this is ex
clusively a white man s Government and
the colored man is his slave. This is a reb
el heresy entirely exploded by the war. We
are coming back to the doctrine of our fath
ers. In the Continental Congress they as
serted that "all men are created free and
equal." They subsequently made the Con
stitution to accord with this sentiment, and
forty years, as long as they lived to adminisJ
ter it, negroes were allowed to vote in all
the old States except perhaps, South Caro
lina. Both the precept and practice of our
fathers refute the allegation that this is ex
clusively a white Oman's Government. If
we cannot now consent to so slight a recog
nition, as proposed by this bill, of the great
underlying theory.of our Government, as
declared and practiced by our lathers, we
are thrown back upon that new and mon
strous doctrine that the five millions of our
colored population and their posterity forev
er have no rights that a white man is bound
to respect. . '
Who pronounces this crushing sentence?
The political South ; and what is this South?
The southern master and his northern min
ion. Have these people wronged the South?
Have they filled it with violence, outrage,
and murder? No, sir, they are remarkably
gentle, patient, and respectful. Have they
despoiled its wealth or diminished its gran
deur? No, sir, their unpaid toil has made
the material South. They removed the
forests, cleared the fields, built the dwellings,
churches, colleges, cities, highways, rail
roads, and canals. Why, then, does the
South hate and persecute " these people ?
Because it has wronged them. .Injustice
always hates its victim. . They arc forced to
look to the North for justice. And what is
the North ? Not the latitude of frosts ; not
New England and the States that border on
the lakes, the Mississippi, and the Pacific.
The geographical is lost in the political
meaning of the word. The North, in a po
litical senso, means justice," liberty and u
nion,and in the order in which I name them,
Jefferson defined this "North" when he
wrote "all men are created equal, endowed
by their Creator with certain inaiienable
rights, among which are life, liberty,, and
pursuit of happiness.'' This North has no
geographical boundaries. It embraces the
friends of freedom in every quarter of this
great Republic. Many of its bravest cham-
iions, like our still unstolen, Republican
'resident, hail.s from the geographical South.
The North, that did not fear the slave pow
er in its prime, in the day of its political
strength and patronage, when it comman
ded alike the nation and the mob, and for
the same cruel purpose, will not be intimi
dated by its expiring maledictions around
this capital. The North must pass this
bill, to vindicate its sincerity and its eour
age. The slave power has already learned
that the North is terrible in war and forgiv
ing and gemle in peace; let its crushed and
mangled victims learn from the passage of
this bill, that the justice of the North, un
limited by lines of latitude, unlimited by
color or race, slumbercth not
Id Memory of the Fallen School Teaohers.
At the last meeting of the Teachers' As
sociation, it was unanimously resolved that
there be a monument erected, at the expense
of the teachers of the State, in honor of and
as a tribute of respect to their brothers, who,
in the war of rebellion, gave up life that free
institutions might live.
As it is necessary to have an accurate list
of all who have thus died, the ; Association
requested the School Department to collect
through the district officers, this desired in
formation. The directors are therefore re-
snectfnllv and mosf fnrnflrcnli
X -v.-. wxvk.wj i-, VJ 1U1
ward to the Department, as early as possi-
oie, tne luu names ot all, and their respec
tive districts, that were actual t&ichers
who died in consequence of wounds received
or di sease contracted . in the aftny or navy
of the United States. ; By actual teachers
IS meant thrvRA xtihn tnurrlif Ktt tVa rcn
- uuuw JJ ""V. J , Ul
term in any of the schools or literary ihsti-
tuuons oi me otate.
It is a work of charity, we know, but its
obiect is to mmmcmnntp tli nriV.lo AtiaAa
brave men.
Please to make out the list in the follow
ing order, giving the tnwnsfnn nr 1iaf."rf
the county, and the signature of the Presi
dent and Secretary of the board :
Name, j Company. J Regiment j Rank.
Pq rAo f Ti vvi, fJY rt.. . 1. C7ii - j
o iuiuujuujv me ouius are requested
vj au me aiAeuiiuu oi meir committees to
this subject, in order that directors may col
lect the facts with as little trouble and delay
VyllAO. XV. JOBURN,
Supt. Com. Schools.
Theerand inTvnffa
-o j t: r.r wuulJ' xuiaa.,
T o i p o "uc"1" , against tren. A.
J. fcrmthj u. b. A., for burning the court
house and tnven r.f flrf.,.! .1
Of 1864; ' auminer
Last
tnense. Sixteen thousand tons of iron were
used, and one hundred and fifty thousand
stoves were sent to market.
m mm
Ripe strawberries arc being enjoyed by
the epicures of Maeon Ga.
Over a million of Springfield rifle mus
kets, and immense supplies of animcniticn
for small arms and cannon, are stored away
in the Northern arsenals.
The notorious counterfeiter, named Rob
erts, whose arrest in New York was noticed
some weeks ago, has. escaped from the jail
in Brooklyn.
American securities are now the most ac
ceptible of all the loans offered for sale at
Frankfort-on-the-Main. 1
A treasury clerk was sent to jail in Wash
ington, charged with stealing $35,000 in
United States bonds. ' : .
The cashier of the sub-Treasury at San
Francisco is a defaulter in the sum of $500 -000.
gw Sflrfrtbcmfttts.
ttyUunll br charged double prie forspaceorcHpitd.
To insure attention, the CASH muit accomp.
nynoticee.M followr AH Cautioni and Stryi.
withl,50; Auditor!', Adminiotraton' and Ex
ecutors' notices, $2,50, each; Dissolutions, $2
all other transient Hot ices at the same rates'
Other advertisements at 81,50 per sq a are, for 8 or
leu insertions. Ten lines (or less) count a square
" OST on Monday, January 8th, between
-Li Xewburg and Clearfield, two Quia Blanket.
The finder wille suitably rewarded on return
ing them to the subscriber, or by leaving them at
the Journal tiffice. LEWIS J. 11L KD.
STRAYED OK. STOLEN on or about
the 6th day of December last, a light Brindle
Cow, medium site, horns good, hollow back, and
rather high and heavy rump. When lost, gave a
considerable quantity of milk. Any person re
turning her to the subscriber at Lumber-oity. er
giving information that will lead to her recovery,
will be handsomely rewarded.
Jan. 21. lS6d-pd. . M. HOLLOPEIER.
JiX ECUTOR'S SALE OF
VALUABLE REAL ESTATE.
Will be exposed to Public Sale at the late dwel
ling house ofUeorge Wilson,' deceased, in the
Borough of Curwensvillo, Cloarfield oounty, on
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17T11, 1866,
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at 2 o'clock. P M., of said day. the following d
scribed real estato. to wit :
A CERTAIN TOWS LOT, situated on the north
west corner of Main and Pine streets in the Bor
ough of Curwensville, containing J acre more or
less, whereon is erected a well Dniahed. large
three story FRAME DWELLING .UOL'SE good
stabling, wood house Ac., -with ngood selection of
Apple, Pear, and Peach trees, M rape vines A e .
thereon The above property will be sold pur
suant to the directions contained in the last will
and testament of (ieorge Wilson deaeased. Con
ditions and terms of sale made known on day of
sale by ' ' WM. McNAUL.
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Jan. 24th, I366-4t. - Fxeoutors. -'
' SPECIAL 2i0 TICEl ' ' '
" u Great- Oafa from little. :Acortn" grow."
The worst discasos known . to the human race
spring from causes so small as to almost deiy de
tection. The volumes ef scientifio lore that fill
the tables and shelvrs ot the medical fraternity
only go to prove and elaborate these facts.
Then guard yourselves while you may.. The
smallest pimple on the skin is a tell. tale and in
dicator of dieeaso. It may fade 'and die away
from the surface of the body, but it will reach the
vitals, perhaps, at last, and death be the result
and final close. Macwjeis Bilivcs, Dvsi-bptio
and DiARRiiBA Pill euro where all others fail.
While for Burns, Scalds, Chilblains, Cuts, and all
abrasions of the skin, Mvgoiel's Salvb is Infallible-
Sold by J. Maooiki., 43 Fulton street, New
York, and all Druggists, at 25 cents per box.
H
ORSE-STIOES and horse-nails, to be had at
Aug. 23. MERUELLA BKJLER'S.
ALAKtiE LOT of Raft rope, small rope.aad
Fully blocks, for sale by the coil, at a tuiall
advance on cost by IRVIN A IIARTSHQRN.
RUSS' ST. DOMINtiO, Hubbairs, Drake s,
Hoofland's German, A listener's A Green's
Oxygenated Bitters, and pnre liquors of all kinds
for medical purpose, for sale by
Jan. 10. HARTSUICK A IRWIN.
QUARTERLY REPORT of the County
National Bank of Clearfield, Jan 1st, laoS.
' RKSOURCR8. -
Loans and discounts -: : : ; : 974,900 94
U. S Bonds Deposited with Treasurer
of U. S. to secure circulation : : : 75,000 00
Due from Natinnnl HnnVi .....
" " other Banks and Bankers
Premiums
Expenses and Taxes ::::::
Specie en hand,
U. S. Legal Tender notes, : : : :
Notes of other banks, : - t : : ;
Remittanoes and other cash items.t
Total : : : : : ;
t 23,107 23
1,930 20
: 1,129 24
7tl 50
: 8,309 00
.- 1.834 00
546 50
S1S7.62S 69
- LIABILITIES. -
Capi tal stock paid in . : ; : : : 3100,000 00
Notes in circulation : 41,995 00
Due Ind. Depositors t : : : : 39 918" Si
" National Banks i,: '
" u ether Banks and Bankers i , : 1,555 03
' " Discount and Interest : : 4,020 29
" 41 Profit and loss, ::: : : : 150 00
Total Liabilities :::::: ? 187.6 23 66
I hereby certify that the above statement is a
true copy from the report made to the Comptrol
ler of the Currency. Jan. 1st, 1866.
W. V. WRIGHT, Cash.
; , "' .
SOMETHINCJ TE7
IN CURWENSVILLE ! ....
DRUGsFdRUGS!!
The undersigned wonld resppotfnlly announce
to the pnblio that he has opened a Drug Store, in
the room recently fitted np in the house of George
Kittiebarger, on Main street, Curwensville, Pa.,
one door West of Hippie A Faust's store, where
ne intends Jo keep a general assortment of
Drugs, Medicines, Oils, Paints,
D ye-stuffs. Patent Medicines, Per
: fumery , Toilet Goods, Confectiona
ries, Spices, Canned Fruit, Tobacco,
Cigars, Books, Stationary, Pencils,
" Pens, Inks, and a general variety
of Notions ; Glass, Putty, etc.
The want of a Drug Store hs long been felt in
Curwensville, and as that want is now supplied.
. 6"-. ura, vj nnci attention to ea
siness, to merit and receive a liberal share of
publie patronage. .
His stock embraces most articles needed in a
community, is entirely new, and of the best qual-
Itv. Which ha will . !
- ' k roMonaoie price
Call and examine the goods, which cannot fail
t0,ea- JOSEPH R. IRWIN.
November8, 1865. .
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