JOURNAL
punishment of all persons who violate lu erim
t nal laws, Federal law, wherever i t eM bo made
to apply, displaces State law.
Too qaestioa horo naturally arises, from what
touroe Congress derives, the power to transfer to
Federal tribunals certain classes of eases embra
ced fn this section! The Constitution expressly
declare that the judioial power of the United
States shall extend to all eases in law and canity
arising nnder this Constitution, the laws of the
t'niud States, acd treaties made or which shall
bo made nnder their authority; to all eases af
recting their ambassadors, or other pnblio minis
ters and consols ; to all eases of admiralty and
jurisdiction; to all controversies to which the
United States shall be a party ; to controversies
between two or more States; between citisens of
different States; between citisens of the same
Bute claiming land nnder grants of different
States; or between a State, or the citisens there
of, and foreifeiSiStates, citisens or subjects.
Hero the judicial power of the United States is
expressly set forth and defined, and the act of
September 24th, 1753, establishing the judicial
courts of tbe United States, in conferring upan the
Federal courts jurisdiction over eases originating
la State tribunals, is careful to confine them to
the classes enumerated in the above recited clause
of the Constitution. This section of tbe bill un
doubtedly comprehends eases and authorises the
vxereise of powers that are not, by tbe Constitu
tion, within the jurisdiction of the courts of the
United States. To transfer them to those courts
would be an exercise of authority well calcula
ted to excite distrust and alarm on the part of
all the States. or the bill applies alike to all of
mem, as well as to those that have not been en
gaged in rebellion. It may be assumed that this
authority is incident to the power grunted to
Congress by the Constitution, as recently amend
ed, to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the ar-
tide declaring that neither slavery nor involun
tary servitude, except as a punishment for crime,
whereof the party shall have been duly convict
ed, shall exist within the United States, or any
place subject to their jurisdiction.
It cannot, however, be justly claimed that
with a view to the enforcement of this article of
the Constitution, there is at present any necessity
for the exercise of all the powers which this bill
confers. Slavery has been abolished, and at pres
ent nowhere exists within the jurisdiction of the
United States, nor has there been, nor is it likely
there will be. any attempt to renew it by the people-or
the States. If, thowever, any attempt
shall be mvle. it will become the duty of the
Ueneral Government to exercise any and all in
eidental powers necessary and proper to maintain
Inviolate the great law or rreeaom.
OVPtCSRS.
JThe fourth section of the bill provides that offi
oere and agents of the Freedmen's Bureau shall be
empowered to make arrests, and also that their of
ficers may be specially commissioned for that
purpose by tbe President of tbe United State. It
Iso authorizes eirouit courts of the United States
nd the superior courts of the Territories, to ap
poiot without limitation, commissioners, who are
to be charged with the performance of quaai-ju-
aictsi amies. -
. The fifth section empowers the commissioners.
so to be selected by tbe courts, to appoint in wri
ting under their hands, one or more suitable per
sons, from time to time, to exeoute warrants and
other prosecutions desired by the bill. These nu
merous offieial agents are made to constitute
sort of police in addition to tbe military, and are
authorised to summons a pots commit at ut, and
-even to tall to their aid such portions of the land
and naval forces of the United States, or of the
nilitia, as may be necessary to the performance
wf tho duty with which they are charged. This
extraordinary power is to be conferred upon agents
Irresponsible to the tfoyernment. and to the peo
ple to whose number tbe discretion of tbe com
missioners is the only limit, and in whose hands
euoh authority might be made a terrible engine
or wrong, oppression and fraud.
OCU LIKD AKD AVAL VOKCKS.
a The general status regulating the land and na
val forces of tbe United States, the militia, and
the execution of the laws, are believed to be ade
ornate for every emergency which can occur in
times of peace. If it should prove otherwise
Congress ean at any time amend those laws in
euoh a manner as, while subserving the public
welfare, not to jeopardise the rights, interests
and liberties or the people.
rsss
" The seventh section provides that a fee of ten
dollars shall be paid to each commtuioner in ev
ery ease brought before him. and a fee of five dol
lars to his deputy or deputies for eaah person he
or iney may arrest and take before any soon
commissioner, with suoh other fees as may be
aeemea reasonable oy such commissioner in (ten
oral for performing suoH other duties as may be
required in the premises. All thee fees are to
be paid out of the Treasury of the United States,
whether there is a conviction or not; bnt in ease
of a conviction they are to be recoverable from
the defendant. It seems to me that under tbe in
fluence of sunn temptation bad men might oon-
vert any law, however beneficent, into an instru
ment of persecution and fraud. "
YtGRATIO OF OPriCBRS.
By the eighth section of the bill, the United
States Courts, which sit onlv in one nlace'for
white citisens, must migrate, the marshal and
district att'rney, and necessarily the clerk, al
though he is not mentioned, to any part ot the
ditriot. upon the order of the President, and
mere noia a court; lor tbe purpose of the more
speedy arrest and trial of nersons charored with a
violation of this act; and there the judge and the
officers of the court moat remain, on tbe order of
the rresiaent, tor tne time designated. The
ninth section authorixos the President, or such
person as he may empower for that rmrnose. to
employ Such part Vf tbe land or n ival forces of
the t nitea testes, or of the militia, as shall be
neoessary to prevent the violation and enforces
the due execution of this act. . This lanruaze
saeras to -imply an important military force, that
is to be always at hand, and whose only business
Is to be the enforcement of this message over the
van region wuero 11 is intended to operate
' KVIL EFFECTS.
I do not propose to consider the policy of this
bill. To me tho details of the bill are frought
wun evii. j.ne wnite race ana tne black race of
the teouth have hitherto lived together under the
relation of master and slave capital owing labor.
Now, suddenly, that relation is changed ; and as
to ownersnip, capital and labor are divorced.
They stand now each master of itself, in this new
relation one being neoessary to the other. , '
KKW ADJUSTU KM TS.
There will be a new adjustment, which both
are aeepiy interested in making; harmonious
Each has equal powerlia settling: the forms, and
if left to the laws that regulate eapitnl and labor,
it is confidently believed that they. will satisfac
torily work out the problem Capital, it is true.
aas more intelligence, nut labor is never so ignor
ant as ut te know its own value, and not to see
that capital must pay that value.
This bill frustrates this adjustment ; it inter
venes between the capital and labor, and attempts
to settle questions of political economy through
the agency of numerous officials, whose interest
it will be to ferment discord between the two races,
so far as the breach widens their employment
win ooouuu, uu waen it is closed their occupa
tion will terminate in all our history, in all our
experience, as a people living under Federal' and
State law. No such system as that contemplated
by tbe details of this bill has ever before been
proposed or adopted, to establish for the security
of the eolored race safe-guards which go infinite
ly beyond any that the General Government has
ever provided for the white race. In faet the
distinction of rase and color is by the bill made
te operate in favor of the colored and against the
wnite race
'. - BTCWClFifc LBCM4LATIOW.
Thsr interfere with' the municipal legislation
f the States, with the relations existing- exclu
sively between a State and its citisens, or between
Inhabitants ef the same State, an absorption and
assumption of power by the General Government
srhiek, If acquieaesd ia. mast P destroy our
leeVsrwtire sysesa ef limited powers, and break
.down she banters which preserve the rights of the
States. Jtisaaother step or rather stride towards
CBtrsiUation, and the concentration of all legis
Istivs powers in the Kaiioual Government. The
tendeaey of the bill mast be to rasuseitata the
spirit of the rebellion aad so arrest the progress
of those inflaenoes srhieh are mora closely draw
ing around the &ttes the bonds of union aad
peso.' ... , '
,' SLATERT ASOUSBBn.
My-lassented predecessor, in his proclamation
of the 1st of Jaauary. 1833; ordered and declared
that all persons held a slaves within certain ,
i-Jata jnd jrt of States, thesip deiijfuajtetf, J
were and thence forward should be free ; and
further, that the Executive Government of the
United States, including the military and naval
authorities thereof, would recognise aad maintain
tbe freedom of such persons. This guaranty has
been rendered especially obligatory and sacred
hr the amendment of the Constitution abolishing
slavery throughout the United States. I therefore
fully recognise the obligation to protect and de
fend thatclass of our people whenever and wher
ever it shall become necessary, and to the full ex
tent compatible with the Constitution of the U
nited States.
RIGHTS Or PRBEDXEX.
Entertaining these sentiments, it only remains
forme to say that I will cheerfully co-operate
with Congress in any measure that may be ne
cessary for tbe promotion of the civil rights of
tbe freedmen, as well as tbose ot an otcer classes
of persons throughout tbe United States by judi
cial process, under equal and impartial laws, in
conformity with the provisions of the Federal
Constitution I now return the bill in trie tenaie.
and regret that in considering the bills and joint
resolutions, forty-two in number, which have
been thus far submitted for my approval, I am
compel led to withold my assent from a second
measure that has reached tbe sanction of botn
Houses of Congress. Akdrbw Johnson.
Washington. D C, March 27
IjUftsmatt's mirnal.
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8. J. ROW, RMTORASD PROPRIETOR.
CLEARFIELD, PA., APRIL 4, 1866.
UNION REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET.
- roa governor:
Gen. JOHN V. GEAEY, of Cumb. Co.
Deserters and Democrats.
. In the Pennsylvania Houe of Represen
t a vires, at the evening session of March 28,
the act "disfranchising desertera" was dis
cussed. Messrs. Davis, Thomas, Allen,
Starnbaugh, and other Union men spoke in
favor of the bill ; and Messrs. Royle, Sat
terwait, Koon, Pershing, Grassland, and
ether Democrats against. Mr. Crossland,
as appears by the j published proceedings,
among other things said :
"He would stand up for the man who had
fled from the draft to. Canada, or elsewhere,
and there remained until peace liad been
proclaimed.
This candid admission on the part ot Mr.
Crossland,, that he would defend deserters
m their attempt to vote at elections, is wor
thy of remembrance by, at least, the sol
diers who periled their lives in defence of
the Union. The Democratic leaders en
couraged these men to flee from the draft,
and now they stand boldly up in the Legis
lative halls and justify them in their deser
tion knowing that if they can rrevent the
disfranchising of deserters, they will all vote
for the Democratic ticket. Tho issue in
the coming campaign then is a plain one :
Union soldiers against draft deserters sol
diers for Gen. Qeary, and deserters for Cly
mer. .
Will He Explain ?
In the Senate of 'Pennsylvania, on the
11th of March, 1862, on the resolutions
favoring the abolition of slavery in the Dis
trict of Columbia, Mr. Clyiner said .
"It is an admitted fact, and not mere the
ory, that abolitionism leads to infidelity. . . .
The Constitution is now the written law of
tbe land, and the expressed will of the teo
pie ; the only one that, in gDvernraental mat
ters and subjects ol btate or national policy,)
bind my conscience."
The fate convention which nominated
Mr. Clymer for Governor, passed this reso
lution : f ..
. 'That we owe ebedience to- the Constitu
tion of the United States, including the
amendment prohibiting slavery ; and under
lis provisions wiji accord to tnose emancipa
ted all their rights of person and property."
If "abolitionism leads to infidelity," did
the Democracy of Pennsylvania fall into
"infidelity" when they endorsed the "a
mendment prohibiting slavery'.' in the U
nited States ? And, did Mr. Clymer, when
he accepted the nomination under that en
dorsement, also become an "infidel," and is
"infidelity'.', ("abolitionism,") hereafter the
ONLY theory that is to govern his conscience
in State and national policy? Will Mr.
Clymer explain ? ' ..
The Second Veto.
. As was anticipated, President Johnson
vetoed the Civil Rights Bill last week. The
message, setting forth his objections, we
print to-day to the exclusion, of our usual
vanety. All candid men must admit that
it is' an able document, whatever differences
may prevail as to its subject matter; and
we regret to see that some of onr Republican
cotemporaries have lost their temper over it.
Presuming that the. Constitutional 'objec
tions urged by the President were sanctioned
by his Cabinet containing some of the
ablest statesmen of the landand knowing
that they also had the endorsement of some
of the profoundest legal minds outside of
the Cabinet, we feel much more disposed to
aocept his conclusions as being based upon
sound judgment, then to indulge in a course
which is sure to gladden the hearts of our
political enemies, and which might result ic
destroying the efficiency of our own party
for future good and success.
Resigned. Mr. Clymer resigned his seat
in the State Senate, last week; no doubt,
thinking ha had made sufficient record, for
,hia own good just now. . 4
The Home of Clymer.
The Journal, published in Reading, the
home of Heister Clymer, comments upon
the prospects of the success of the Demo
cratic candidate for Governor, thus: -
"Th e Gazette is candid enough to say
that 'it does Mr. - Clymer no discredit to
compare him with V allandigham. Our
neighbor evidently-thiuks al. a model pa
triot' of the 'constitutional' sort. The peo
ple of Ohio, didn't think so when they bu
ried him politically under nearly fifty thou
sand Union majority, and no more did the
Ohio soldiers when they consigned V al. to
a lower depth by piling up nearly fifty thou
sand majority ol their votes against him al
so, bo it will be with Clymer. Alter Ue-
tober he will next to V al. be the deadest
duck, politically, in the United States."
The Journal referring to Mr. Clymer's
antecedents says :
'The old-line Democrats are swearing
roundly at the nomination of Clymer. They
know him to be an old-line Whiir.who turned
Democrat for the sake of office. Clymer
was a radical Whig up to 1S53 or therea
bouts and ran for the Legislature in this
county on the V hig temperance ticket.
rinding a poor show for orhce in rJerks on
the Y hig side, he turned "Uemocrat, and
has made a pretty good thing of it. Out
side of this county he Will have a 'hard
road to travel.' Pennsylvania is not going
to change gallant And vjCurtin for a Cop
perhead Governor just yet."
The following pithy and truthful article
is also from the Journal:
'The Clymer newspapers are trying to
set tbe Republicans against Gen. Geary by
holding him un as a Tife long Democrat.'
They seem to be exceedingly concerned be
cause the itepubucans didn t nominate a
candidate of Whig antecedents. Now we
are just as much concerned in their behalf.
They have nominated a renecade Whig,
who, as is well known, turned Democrat be
cause it paid better in Berks county. What
is worse, lie abandoned the true Democracy
in 1861,- when the war broke out$$l turn
ed Copperhead. Geary belongs to the real
simon-pure Democracy the Democracy that
stood bv and fought for tho Union in its
hour of periL If the Cops can trust Cly
mer, they can be quite sure that we can
trust Geary. They tried hard, months ago,
to win him over to their side ao as to make
him their Gubernatorial candidate but the
General wouldn't take the bait"
The Stockton Case. The contested
election case of Mr. J ohn P. Stockton, who
was present and voting as a U. S. Senator,
came up on Friday, March 23d, on the re
port of the Judiciary Committee that he
was entitled to his seat. A motion, was
made to amend the report so as te read,
"was not entitled to his seat. "The amend
ment was lost by yeas 18, nays 22. The
question recurring on the original resolution,
the vote stood, yeas 21, nays 21 ; when Mr.
Stockton rose and voted for himself, making
the vote 22 to 21. On Monday, March 25,
the case came up again on motion of Mr.
Sumner to amend the journal by striking
out the vote of Mr. Stockton, as he had no
right to vote in his own cise ; which was
agreed to. A motion was then made to re
commit the resolution, but was lost ; where
upon Mr. Clark moved to amend the report
so as read that Mr. Stockton "is not entitled
to his seat as Senator from that State (New
Jersey.) The vote on Mr. Clark's amend
ment stood yeas 22, nays 21, and the reso
lution as amended was passed by the same
vote. Mr. Riddle then asked leave to
change his vote, making the yeas 22, nays
20. . The reason given, for refusing a seat
in the Senate to Mr. Stockton, is because
he was not elected by a majorty of the votes
of the New Jersey legislature.
That Record. The editor of the Clear
field Republican, in his last, issue, after
charging us with not giving a fair version of
Mr. Clymer's votes in the State Senate in
1864, virtually admits that Mr. Clymer did
vote against an increase of the soldiers' pay,
and against the resolution tendering thanks
to Gen. Grant and his army, but tries to
screen him under the shallow plea that the
Senate was un-organized. It we have not
fairly represented Mr. Clymer, why don't
you publish the record, and give your read
ers the chance to judge 'for themselves?
One fact, truthfully .presented, is worth
more than a column of mere "bare-naked"
assertions. ' .
Noteworthy. The Convention that
nominated Clymer, resolved, "that the na
tion owes to the brave men of our army
"and navy a debt of lasting gratitude for
"their services in defense of the Constitu
" tion and the Union," while Mr. Clymer,
by his vote in the State Senate, on the 6th
day of January, 1864, virtually declared the
"boys in blue" vnvcorthy his gratitude for
"the series of gallant services and glorious
"victories." for the Constitution and the
Union. How will Mr. Clymer and his par
tisan friends reconcile the above radically
opposite declarations ? : They are both on
record, and demand an explanation. '
North Carolina.' The Raleigh Stand
ard, commenting upon the recently pub
lished correspondence between Senator Fes
senden and W. A. Graham says : ;
'We trust the Reconstruction Committee
will not content itself br examinine onlir
such witnesses as may-be tendered by per
sons claiming seats, but that persons "un
mistakably" loyal, and not ot the faction
which now controls this State, may be sent
for and examined. We want 'the truth,
the whole truth, and nothine but the truth '
in this matter." .
A jury in London has given a verdict for
122,500 to Rev. Mr, Eland and wife, who
were severely injured in the recent railroad
accident at Staplehurst. . A- few verdicts
like this in .the United States would go a
great way toward making railroad comna-
ties more careful
Party Fealty.
It is among the reports from Washington
that Senator Sumner is preparing toarrafgn
the President for his veto, on the ground of
faithlessness to principles of the Republican
party. Considering how recently Mr. Sum
ner, in the Senate, separated himself from
his friends on a measure to which the Re
publican party was quite as distinctly com
mitted as it was to the Civil Rights Bill,
such a proceeding, to" say the least, would be
not a little audacious. It is conceded that
the Representation and Suffrage amend
ment would have passed but for Mr. Sum
ner's opposition. Tbe violent and sweeping
character of that opposition is without, a
parallel No one questions his right to sep
arate himself from his political friends ; all
will concede that if he really felt the meas
ure was an unwise or a dangerous one it was
his duty to oppose it. But he should be
willing to concede the same right to the
President in regard to another , measure.
He may criticise and condemn the grounds
of the veto, but he cannot with consistency
assail the President for separating himself
from his. political friends, for the - President
has done no mere than the Senator himself
did on a no less important measure. And
in regard to the Civil Rights Bill, we find
Mr. Bingham, one of the most astute ..Re
publican members of the House, opposing
it as unconstitutional and unwise and dan
gerous. We believe no one . has assailed
him tor apostacy. That he wa3 notsuccass
ful in his opposition does not alter his posi
tion he would have'defeated the bill it' he
could.
As bearing on the question of party, feal
ty, we may instance the course of Senator
Trumbull, on the resolution to unseat Sena
tor Stockton. Although ic had been agreed
upon, and was as much a party measure as
anything could be, and although it was back
ed by peculiar reasons, and if carried would
tend to secure the Civil Rights Bill (of
which he was the author) in spite of the
veto, Senator Trumbull steadily refused to
go with his political friends, and by -such
refusal, on the first trial defeated the resolu
tion. No one, that we have heard of, has
denounced him, or " proposed to class him
with the Copperheads, for no one supposes
he is less a Republican now than he was be
fore he separated himself from his political
friends on the measure, and the same may
be said of Senator Sumner. What they
might become, into what attitude they
might be driven, should the "dogs of the
war' ' be let loose upon them, no oqe can be
certain.
We make reference to these cases for the
instruction they afford and as a part of the
current history of the day. Pittsburg Com
mercial. .An Offset. The other day Postmaster
Cleveland, of New Haven, tendered his
resignation.with the declaration that he sup
ported Mr. English, the Democratic candi
date : and, if the President did not like the
politics he could take the office. The resig
nation was not aocepted,whereupon the Pres
ident was quoted for English. A few days
later Mr. Starkweather, postmaster at
Norwich, Conn., tendered his .resignation,
with the declaration that he was for General
Hawley, the Republican candidate, and if
the President did not like that he could take
back the office. But the President declined
to take it back, and there has been a mark
ed decline from previous quotations.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, in his last po
litical lecture said : "The kind and patient
Mr. Lincoln was cudgeled and whacked by
Congress, and he bore it with a patient spir
it, reminding hiin of some horses who mere
ly act when cudgeled as though it was to
brush flies off. When they commenced
whacking Mr. Johnson, they found a pair
of heels through the dashboard, and they
left the wagon and took to trees and bushes,
crying, 'beast, brute,' but since then have
cudgeled more carefully." -
Doctor J. A. Reed, of Baltimore, denies
the whole theory of trichina. He says:
"I boldly assert that the trichina never did
and never will destroy human life ; that
they have, in all probability, existed in the
human flesh always, certainly for the last
half century ; and I think it a fair deduc
tion, taking it for the sake of argument, as
granted, that we may receive them through
the instrumentality of the hog, that they
arc not more dangerous to life on that ac
count." The legislature af Alabama has passed,
and Governor Patton has approved, a law
taxing tho vending of newspapers or period
icals published in any other State, fifty dol
lars a year, but levying no tax orr the sale
of foreign publications. This kind of dis
crimination against loyal men, and in favor
of foreigners, affords , a new argument for
theimmediate restorationof this rebel State.
"SMALL favors," etc. The Copperhead
papers are crowing over what they call
"Democratic V ictories" in- some of the
small cities . and towns of Pennsylvania,
which they have always carried. They are
very careful not to publish the returns of
the late Governor's election in New Hamp
shire. The WUmingtonTN. C.) Herald, allu
ding to a report that secret societies exist
throughout tbe South, organized to foment
their disturbances, hopes that the guilty
persons may be brought to punishment. It
adds ; "God knows North Carolina has had
enough of war to last her for the next cen
tury." . - - - ,
Mr. Ride, an Englishman, who has resi
ded thirty five years in East Feliciana, La., :
has been notified by his neighbors that if he
leases his land to negroes they will burn his
buildings and kill him. Loyal people, those
Louisianians, .
The Senate has rejected Edmond Mur
phy, the Assessor of Internal Revenue at
New Orleans, for the reason that he had
dismissed; from his office a olerk because of
the latter's efforts in the cause of colored
suffrage. -
The N. Y. Tribune intimates that if gold
falls to 121, the Secretary of the Treasury
will order the interest on the third issue ef
7 30s to be paid in gold at 6 percent., which
he can do at his pption. . - "
A Richmond paper records the desperate
threat of a man there who declared that he
would have money if he had to work for it .
Strange, Discoveries A Eemarkable Cave
in California.
The Shasta (California) Courier has a
long article about two Portuguese arriving
in town from a prospecting tour, bringing
rich specimens with them. The direction
they had been is indicated west by south of
Shasta, where they had seen much snow,
many deer, bear and other frame. Thev
jnade a discovery of avast cave, and endeav
ored to penetrate it with pitch pine torches,
but their" light gave out before they had dis
covered its extent. The marks of various
kinds of animals were distinctly seen as far
as they went, and being curious to find a
termination returned to mn.ke preparations
on a larger scale. Of the second attempt
at exploration the Courier says :
"Arriving back at the point from which
they had started, they determined to pack
a small iuule they had with them with blank
ets, a little provisions, and a great deal of
pitch pine, and fully arming themselves,
again started. Thus equiped, they resum
ed their search more leisurely and with re
newed confidence, and were soon beyond
the point of their former exploration, and
at least a mile on their subterranean travels.
Close examination of the trail they were
on satisfied them that the place had been
traveled by Indians, and hence they came to
the conclusion that there might be an outlet
somewhere in advance of them. Soon their
progress became more difficult, the passage
narrowingin Rome places so as to make itdifi
cult to squeeze the little mule through and
tlien it would ope:s out on a scale so grand
that their lights failed to reveal anything
but walls oi" darkus. As yet no living
thing had presented itself to disturb the
mouowihy or the darkness, and the poor fel
lows began to think that they might be on
the route to the lower regions. Soon, how
ever, on turning an angle on the trail, a
glimpse of daylight was had, and alter a
few minutes a scene burst npon them such
as to strike with wonder and awe the behold
ers. Even the mule manifested surprise at
the scene presented.
' 'They stood on the bank of a subterranean
stream of great volume and rapidity of cur
rent, as wide as the Sacramento or about
2 0 feet and apparently of great depth.
The bank on either side was sloping, and
covered with a rank growth of rushes and
coarse bunch grass. The scene was lighted
up by an aperture in ' the mountain over
head, seemiugly some hundred feet above
them, and to the eye apparently no larger
than a mining shaft. The opening at the
base seemed from 40 to 60 rods the whole
presenting the appearance of a vast invert
ed tunnel. Lying about them were the
bones of animals that had evidently been
killed fir food by Indians, the indications of
old camp fires being plenty aH around. The
water was pure and pleasant to the taste,
having no unusual flavor. .
"Finding no road to travel onward, nor a
boat for internal navigation, " they returned
from the place from whence they started.
On their return they examined more closely
the nde, and when they could, the, top of
this wonderful opening. They found the
walls of hard granite, occasionally of a
broken or shelly character, but generally so
firm as lo canse no fear of its falling. They
noticed several quartz veins that were cut
by the vast tunnel, but saw no great indica
tions of wealth about tbem. In fact, they
say they felt somewhat in a hurry to get
away, and did not care to spend the time
necessary to a minute examination. ; They
will return about the first of May, and say
that they will take pleasure in showing to
the curious the wonders they have discovered.
"The location of the above cave, says the
Red Bluff Independent, is supposed to be
in the vicinity of Yolly Bollv, almost direct
ly west of lied Bluff. At least a cave was
discovered in that locality by a hunter last
summer, who explored it as far as half a
box of matches would carry him. An In
dian who accompanied him tried to dissuade
hini from going near the cave, stating that
it led to the everlasting hunting grounds of
his tribe, and if the hunter persisted he
would be a dead man. Another Indian who
accompanied the party, but was not present
when the hunter explored the entrance to
the cave, corroborated the statement of the
first, and added that none living had ever en
tered that cave and come out alive. The
revelations made by the Portuguese in the
above story will lead many to explore the
-whole of the Yolly Bolly region next sum-
mor.
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stylettn.ll be charged double, prict forxpaeeoeeupicd.
To insure attention, the CASH must accompa
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with $1,60; Auditors', Administrators' and Ex
ecutors' notices, S2,S0, each; Dissolutions, $2;
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LIST OF LETTERS remaia-rng anclstmad
in the Past oS:e at Clear&eld Pa on the 1st
day of April. lSj3.
A she raft, Thos.
Jieieel, Miss Kate- -Ogden,
Moses
Peterman, Miss Anna
Robertson. Alex.
Sweet, Geo. H. 2
Smith, Board man
S trickier, Wm.
Sheppard. Thos. M.
Sheppard, Henry
Warren. Geo. W.
Wilson.' George
Woods, Miss Sarah 3.
Ratchelor, John G.N
Boyerun, Doc ken
Brady, Mrs. -Brooks,
Edw. W.'
Courtney, John
Diekerson, Stsel
Fisber. John
Hector. George
Hornet, Jewet G.
Mitchell, W. J.
M'Phewin, P.
Nelson. Isaac C. S
Persons calling fer letters In the shore list
will please say they are advertised. -
M. A. FKANK, P. M.
JyJ" O "WV ; PO,B:.S A'LB
THE WESTERN HOTEL PROPERTY,
, Kylertown, Clearfield coanty. Pa. .V,
This old, well established and favorably known
house is now offered for sale. It is one the best
locations in the county, and offers rare induce
ments for sny person wishing to engage in the
business. There is about one acre of land at
tached to the house, npon which is erected a large
frame stable and all neoetsary buildings for an
establishment of this kind, together with a eom
modioas two story Store House, well finished and
in good repair.
Immediate possession given. " For priee and
terms of sale apply to, or address,
r ; - J. BLAKE WALTERS.
Aprll4,l68-tf. Clearfield, Pa.
A DMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. Letters
of Administration on the estate of Titus H
Bailey, late of Bloom township, Clearfield coun
ty, dee'd, having been granted to the undersign
ed, all persons having claims pgainat the estate
are requested to present them properly authenti
cated for settlement,, and those indebted to said
estate are requested to make payment witho it
delay. . , j v. BAILEY,
Mapeh 7. 18(!fi. Administrator.
HW ADYlRTISMirrs.
PUBLIC VENDUE. The mdenigBe wi!h
sell at pnblio outcry, at his residence 1
Boggs township, on April, 28th, 1U6, the toiii
ing personal property, to wit ; One hen .
yearling colt, 3 fresh milk cows, I haiffer, I i,w
young cattle, 7 hogs, 24 sheep, 2 bureaus, f ted
steads, 2 breakfast tables, settee, chairs, rocklo
chairs, 3 stands, 2 cookstoves and parlor ato
one set blacksmith's tools, threshing maohin.'
fanning mill, 2-horse wagon, bnggy, tied 8i'
timber sled, 2 plows, harrow, a lot of straw. h,
by the ton, side saddle and many other article
too tedious to mention. Terms, which are eaty. b
bemade known on day of sale BaletocomtneiM
at 9 o'clock on said day
April 4, 1S6S- PETER GEARH ART.
JO MUSIC TEACHER 9
""AND : DEALERS.
The subscriber Is fully prepared to. fornUh
Sheet Music, Strings, Musical Instruments, aad'
Musie Books of all kinds at the lowest trad
rates, wholesale and retail, from the largest i
lections in this country. .
-Orders punctually and faithfully attended to.
' Address all orders,
SIBERIA OTT, 748 Broadway, TX. V.
rjiIIE BOARPMAN, GRAY h (XX
P IAN O FOR TE 8,
WHOLESALE AGENCY. . .
..... ..r. . ., . ,
-The subscriber, late m member of this vH
known Arm has established '
WHOLESALE AGENCY;
748 Broadway, New York Cit,
Where he will be pleased to reeelve the orders of
his friends and the pnblio, and especially te hear
from those who have so liberally bestowed their
patronage on the Arm heretofore.'' He will sap
ply these superior instruments to the trade . . .
Wholesale and Retail, at the ver j Low
est Prices, - -
Made with the Insulated Iron Rim aad Vrasao
... (oast in one solid plate.) They ezoel all eth
ers in durability and superiority of tone,
; and eleganoe of external appearance, -
All these Pianos hare overstrung Scales, giving
in connection with the patent iron rim and frame.
Full Round Powerful, mnd Steett 'Mellow Tout.
The Cases are "elegant in appearance, and easily
and safely handled.,
Warranted to prove satisfactory, or iA
m6ney returned. ; " :.
Address all orders to '
SIBERIA OTT. 748 Broadway, Y T.
H. W. M I T H'3
AMERICAN ORGANS,
The Most Perfect and Beautiful
M U S I C A L "i N S TRU M EN T
'IN TUE WORLD,'
' -'- FOB TBI- ::
AMERICAN HOME CIRCLE,
i '.'.f .t j' ti -c. -
TnE AMERICAN ' ORGAN
Makes home attractive, refines and elevates the
minds of all, beautiful in appearance and effect.
- " SIBERIA OTT, ;
748 Broadway, New York City,
' ' ; " WHOLESALE AGENT. ' '
The immense popularity of these Organs- a&d
their superior Musical 1 Powers, is fast bringisg
them before the public, as the instrument so long
desired in AMERICAN HOMES. And although
the cost price is but a trifle over the Melodies,
yet the musical advantages., beauty of tone and
quickness ef touch and action are so far snperlsr,
that they are fast superceding the' Melodlen. eal
the call is now almost exclusively for the
AMERICAN ? ORGANS;
It is adapted to any music, from the quickest and
most lively,' to the heavy tone of the Church Or
gan, r And almost universally they stre prelerrsd
to the Piano, by persons who have them, yet eoiV
ing leu than half, and only Ukiag a small amoasl
Of r.OOm. .. , .... . ". i
; ' Send fer dwrriptiv circular giwng full frti
sdmn'smdpneu. , , -J'-zv- iZ,. ' "
r Exclusive Agencies secured ' to Dealers, sod
large, discounts to the trade aad Teachers. Ad
dress all orders,' : ,.;. :; '. -
SIBERIA OTT, Wholesale Agent,
r 1 v 4 v ' 748 Broadway, Haw York
' New York, April 4th, 184.. y. . . '
200
BUSHELS of choice beans for sale lj
Ll IRVIN A HABT8H05.
FrSll, Salt and plaster4 In Jaree cjoaerltlee
t Mar. 22, 18o5. J. P. KRATZEf
OIL TERRITORY AND LEASES fr
sale by . , H. B. SWOOP.
, Clearfield. Pa , Mar.S2.lWS.. A'y atLsw