THE &AFT8Ml4H8 IWiE
gUfisman s lunrnaL
S. J. ROW, EDITOR ASD PROPR1BTOR.
CliEARFIELD, PA., JULY 31, 1867
FOR SUPREME JVDVS,
Hon. Henry W. "Williams,
OF PITTSBURG.
From Mexico. The Havana Breussa
says, the Liberal authorities of the City of
Mexico are persecuting the Catholic church.
They stripped the Cathedral of all its orna
ments and silver ware, and arrested the
Bishop of Jalapa, the Abbot of Guadaloupe
and Dr. Arrillaga, Superior of the Jesuits,
who are held in close confinement. The lat
ter two are over eighty years old. The
charge against the Bishop of J alapa is that
he acted as alternate for the Archbishop of
Mexico in the council of the Regency, and
against the Abbot that he took part in the
deliberations of the Assembly of Notables.
It is also stated the famous Chapel of the
Rosary has been leveled by the Liberals.
It is also stated that Juarez will be elect
ed to the Presidency without much opposi
tion, the feeling for him being almost unan
imous, lie probably perceives that recent
events make it necessary ior him to run a
gain ; and those events are of a character so
much in accord with Mexican sentiment
that it is quite impossible that he should
not be the most popular man in the land.
Next to him 6tands, unquestionably, Es 0
bedo, who superintended the business. The
thing all around is altogether Mexican.
"On the whole, then, I am of opinion
that the provision of the act of Congress of
February 25, 1862, declaring the notes is
sued in pursuance of that act to be lawful
money and a legal tender, is unconstitu
tional." To which the Press replies : Thus con
cludes Judge Sharswood's able opinion
against our currency an opinion which is
practically nullification, and if adopted as
law would in an hour convulse every busi
ness house in this city and State. We tiust
every man who see3 this paragraph will cut
out this simple platform of the Democratic
candidate, and keep it in his pocket-book
along with his greenbacks. Let him read
it and think on it every time he receives a
United States note as compensation for his
labor or wares. If he values this decision
above his greenbacks, let him vote for
Sharswood; if he prefers United States
money to the above precious oitoi learning,
let him cast his ballot for the Hon. Henry
W. Williams, who to all the qualifications
of his opponent adds that of fervent and
unflinching patriotism.
Losing Ground. Upon the nomination
of Mr. Sharswood the Democratic organs
made extravagant boasts as to his populari
ey even with Republicans. If there ever
was a basis for these pretensions, which we
certainly doubt, that period has gone by.
The Pottsville Journal says :
"There is now great probability that he
will be opposed by numerous democrats who
are not willing to trust him with great pow
er. If his decision against the validity of
greenbacks could be carried into practi
cal effect, it would compel every man who
owes a debt of any kind to pay it down in
gold, no matter at what cost. It is no won
der, therefore, that Judge Sharswood is los
ing strength every day. We cannot afford
to place a man upon the Supreme Uench
who holds opinions so direetly opposed to
the public interest."
Jcst Like 'Em. The market houses at
Ilarrisburg are being whitewashed and new
pavements laid around them. The Tele
graph states that the Copperhead officials
having charge of the work, gave the white
washing to a colored man and refused the
application of a tchite man. The Cops have
an eye to business and seem to be preparing
to receive their "fellow-citizens of African
descent" into their society by the time Sam
bo becomes a voter. Poor Cops ! The "nig
ger" has been their party shibboleth in the
past, and they hope now to make him their
etay and their strength in the future.
. Immense deposits of tin ore have been
discovered in Madison county, Missouri.not
far from Pilot Knob and Iron Mountain.
One lode is between five and six hundred
feet wide, and several smaller ones have
been found. The surface ore yields from
three to fifteen per cent. These are the
largest deposits known in the world.
The indications are unmistakable that
Mormonism is about to fall to pieces, weak
ened by the weight of its own corruptions.
Brigham Young has had a long career of
uninterrupted crime. lie and his immedi
ate followers are now at daggers' points, and
every day adds to the velocity of the down
fall of mormonism.
A little daughter of Joseph Mayo, of Chi
cago.died from hydrophobia on the 22d insL
She had been bitten by a dog several months
ago.
The Country's Bulwark.
During the debate in the Senate between
Messrs. Fessenden and Chandler, near flie
close of the recent session of Congress, there
occurred an impressive and touching scene.
In replying to the personal allusions of the
latter, Senator Fessenden had occasion to
refer to some current newspaper falsehoods
in reference to the appointment by him of
relatives to office. When he attempted to
give an account of his four sons who volun
teered and served during the war, one of
whom was killed and another lost a leg and
an arm, he broke down with emotion, and
for some minutes was unable to proceed with
his remarks. Other Senators shed tears of
sympathy, and the entire audience was
hushed in painful silence.
It is men like these men who feel with
the common people, having suffered with
them who are the guardians of the Repub
lic. There are men and women in this
country, and plenty of them in every State
and oouuty, who will never more see the
opening flowers of spring-time without
thinking of the violets that bud and nod
over some little grave hidden faraway under
Southern foliage who will never more feel
the warm winds of the South without hear
ing the eternal requiem which they cease
lessly murmur ; and to these people we look
for the guardianship and protection of our
land. No cunning argument, no learned
sophistry, can deceive them. They never
believed the draft was illegal. They will
not believe the currency unconstitutional.
No matter how learned the lawyer, no mat
ter how able the judge or statesman, he
cannot unsettle them. Their patriotism is of
the heart, not of the head.
Sheridav. An exchange says: Rumors
thicken as to the removal of Phil Sheridan,
who is making reconstruction changes so
vigorously and effectively in Texas and Lou
isiana. General Geo. II. Thomas is his an
ticipated successor, but it is hardly possible
that prudent and strictly loyal officer would
consent to anything which would look like
a reflection on the hero of Winchester and
New Orleans, whose course aud pluck he so
heartily endorses. If Sheridan's removal
depends on Thomas' acceptance of the va
cated command, the man who sent Earlj
whirling is safe.
The Mayor of St. Louis recently so far
forgot the dignity of his office as to strike
with a cane and kick a respectable negro
woman of that city. He was brought up
before a Justice of the Peace and tried by
a jury of six men, who found him guilty of
the charge ami assessed him to pay a fine
of three dollars and costs a very light pen
alty for so grave an offence.
The First English Lutheran church, in
Ilarrisburg, has been remodeled and will be
dedicated with appropriate services on Sun
day, August 4th. Rev. Dr. Sprecher, of
Springfield, Ohio, will preach the sermon
on the occasion. All the former pastors of
the congregation are invited to attend.
About half of the Table Rock, at Niaga
ra Falls, was blown off on July 24th. A
blast of 200 pounds of powder moved the
whole mass of rock, but the most projecting
point breaking off, the rest settled back a
gain. Another attempt will bo made to dis
lodge the whole mass.
The statement of General Ould, over his
own signature, that in August, 1S64, he of
fered, as Confederate Commissioner, to de
liver up, without equivalent, ten or fifteen
thousand sick or wounded Union prisoners,
is attracting attention. Ultimately all the
facts will come out.
The western cities have been flooded with
counterfeit nickel five cent pieces. At Cin
cinatti a party has been arrested, having
nearly a bushel of spurious coin in their
possession, together with the necessary im
plements for its manufacture.
Still Right. Notwithstanding the bare
assertion of the editor of. the Republican
to the contrary, the fret remains that Judge
Woodward did indorse the ruling of Judge
Williams in M'Clourg vs. Croghan's Ad
ministrators, ax correct.
Gov. Geary has designated Wednesday,
August 28th, as the day of execution of
Charles Chase alias Charles Witmer, at
Brookville, Jefferson county, for the mur
der of Mrs. Elizabeth M'Douald, in Febru
ary last.
Montgomery Blair is making speeches in
Virginia in opposition to the course of the
President on the military reconstruction law.
If the Blairs leave Johnson, his career will
soon be ended.
Maximilian's death will be celebrated by a
funeral service throughout the Austrian
navy, and all its vessels will have their top
mast flags veiled with crape for seven weeks.
Since the administration accepted Mr.
Motley's resignation, President Johnson
has nominated a motley crew for ministers
to Austria.
John Slidell is at present living near Par
is, as well as his son-in-law, Erlanger, the
Hebrew banker. It is said, and on appar
ently good authority, that, although he is
most anxious to pass his last days in Amer
ica, he has latterly given up all hope of ever
again seeing his native land. There is also
a weN accredited story that he fully accepts
tin? situation, and wmiM -roillino-lti
should he be allowed to return, in complet-
jug mo rauiuiu jJiau ui iccoubirucuon.
Another Pretext.
The veto of the reconVtruction bill has
(rin ti.P Democratic press of the country
another pretext for re-asserting their alleged !
profound devotion to me i;uiipiuunvu. n
the character in the play of "Money" who
had witnessed many total subventions of the
British Constitution had studied the mod
ern history of the United States only in
Democratic journals, he would have arrived
at the conclusion that the American Consti
tution had been so terribly riddled by the
Republican party that not a shred of the
original document remained. But further
investigation would have still more aston
ished him by disclosing the many outrages
and wrongs the Democracy have endeavored
to shield "by their favorite shibboleth, and
exposing their habit of systematically iuvo
kinglthe" Con.-titution only to defeat and never
to defend the great objects it was designed
to serve, as set forth in its preamble, viz :
"To form a more perfect Union, establish
justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide
for the common defence, promote the gen
eral welfare, and secure the blessings of
liberty." Deluded believers in their false
reasoning would be found to conclude that
the Constitution prohibited efforts to pre
vent the destruction of the Government ;
that it would prevent forever the establish
ment of justice in the Southern States ; that
it would render domestic tranquility impos
sible by placing the peace of the nation at
the mercy of defiant rebel leaders ; that in
stead of requiring the adoption of measures
for the common defence and the promotion
of the general welfare, it forbids them, and
that of all possible political crimes none can
be so hineous as to insure the blessings of
liberty to American citizens. History has
no example of the perversion of the spirit
of a political charter equal in flagrancy to
the treatment the Constitution has received
from the party which professes to be its ex
clusive friends. They pretend to find in it
only a warrant for Slavery and Rebellion,
and that it contains nothing to authorize the
protection of Liberty and Loyalty. Press.
The Surratt Trial.
It is becoming a matter of curious inquiry
why every Democratic journal in the Uni
ted States attacks, with virulence and ma
lignity, all who are concerned in prosecuting
i he parties who were manifestly active in
effecting the murder of Abraham Lincoln.
Why is it that every effort made to bring to
justice the men implicated in this foul,
bloody, and unnatural murder is discouraged
by them, and all vials of their wrath empt
ied against the judge and all er gaged in the
trial? Speak out plainly, gentlemen,- and
tell the truth. Admit that you chuckled
over the murder of Abraham Lincoln ; that
you still think it a good thing, and that in
this trial your sympathies are all with the
assassins. What else are we to infer from
this persistent .slander of ad the witnesses
for the prosecution and this endless reviling
of all concerned in the prosecution? We
trust that the Democratic press d -.es not
speak the sentiments of all its readers. If
it does, we shall be forced to the unavoida
ble conclusion that this country presents
the hideous spectacle of a large political
party virtually approving a homicide. Yea.
An AlledgeuS hover of Counterfeit
Money Arrested. On the morning of
the 19th, the U. S. detectives arrested at
Altooua a man named Win. Johnston, pro
prietor of a livery stable in Altoona, but a
resident of Ilollidaysburg, charged with be
ing extensively engaged in "shoving" coun
terfeit money. The information was made
before U. S. Commissioner M'Candless, of
Pittsburg, and the accused was removed to
that city the same day for a hearing. John
ston is well known, and is in independent
circumstances. He has been suspected for
some time of being engaged in passing coun
terfeit postal currency, and has been under
the surveillance of detectives. In April
last, one of the officers introduced himself
to Johnston, and, representing himself as a
"t-hover," bought from him, as is alleged,
one hundred dollars in counterfeit fifty-cent
notes. Sufficient information was obtained
against him at the time to have warranted
his immediate arrest, but it was deemed ad
visable to allow him to run at large till
the day above stated.
"I look upon Mr. Johnson," said Sena
tor Willson in his speech at Saratoga, "as I
"look upon Dull Run. It was a great les
"son to the country. Andrew Johnson
"stands right there, and every time he un
"dertakes to do anything against the cause of
"liberty and justice the country rallies and
".oes further than it ever would have gone
"before." Mr. Willson's speech is a very
good one ; full of kind, cheering, and noble
words. He tells us how excellent the effect
of the overthrow of the President's policy
has been upon the South, persuaded at last
that it is thoroughly and fairly beaten, is
beginning to submit with a very good grace.
He predicts that the reconstructed States
are destined to become in a very short time
the stronghold of radicalism, and assures us
that among the advocates of "Equal Rights
for all Men," of suffrage for the blacks,
North as well as South, are Grant, and
Sheridan, and Thomas, and nearly every
general who has maJe a reputation.
The Trce Policy. Republican leaders
are making it a distinctive portion of their
creed that encouragement should be given
to northern settlers disposed to become
permanent residents of the State as land
holders. The Democratic policy on the
other hand is to favor the emigration only
of laborers, whom they hope to render sub
stitutes for the freedmen as farm hands, and
to discourage, by systematic persecution, the
emigration of men who would be at once
capitalists and laborers. Thus while the
Southern Democrats continue their insane
warfare against the true material interests
of" their section, by attempts to exclude
Northern citizens from a large portion of
the Union, the Republicans are striving at
once to establish the prosperity of Virginia
on a broad and enduring foundation, and to
cultivate a genuine feeling of nationality.
One report savs the President is inclined
to send Gen. Banks on a mission through
the Southern States to hurry up reconstruc
tion. The best thing the President can do
in that behalf, is to see that the laws are
duly enforced. I f he had taken that course
from the start, reconstruction would now be
much farther advanced than it is.
Five thousand coolies are about to be im
ported for service on the Louisiana and Mis
sissippi plantations.
Address of the Union Ecpulicaa tate Cen- t
trai uommictee.
To the People of Pennsylvania:
Fellow Citizens : The official term of Geo.
W. Woodward, thief Justice of the Su
preme Court of the State, is about to ex
pire ; and under the Constitution lus sue- j
ce'sor will be elected on the second Tuesday ;
of October next. This election is every j
way important, aud the more so, because of i
the great principles and issues mvwreu, and
of the fact that the term is for fifteen years.
All the powers of our Governments, both
National and State, are divided into three
classes : the Legislative, Executive, and Ju
dicial. The people are the source of all
power; and our Constitutions provide the
manner in which all offices shall be filled,
and the terms for which they shall be held.
The National Judiciary bciug for life and
the State J udiciary for fifteen years, changes
in these tribunals are wrought more .slowly
than in the other brauches of the Govern
ment; and hence should be made with great
er caution and wisdom ; for nothing is of
greater public importance than a wise and
patriotic judiciary. Our past history shows
a constant tendency in these several depart
ments to enlarge their respective jurisdic
tions, and occasionally to encroach on each
other; and especially is this true of the Ju
diciary. It is but recently the Supreme
Court cf the United States, in the interests
of slavery, gravely undertook to overturn
the foundations of the Government on that
question, ai.d to nullify and destroy acts of
Congress enacted by the men who made
the Constitution. The Dred Scott decision
virtually legalized and extended slavey over
all the Territories of the Union, in defiance
of Congress and the people, and laid down
principles, which, but for subsequent events,
would have extened slavery and made it
lawful in all the States. And after the re
cent civil war was inaugurated, our State
Judiciary, by a denial of the constitutional
powers of Congress and of our State Legis
lature, in measures absolutely necessary to
cany on the war and save the nation, so im
periled our cause as to make intelligent
patriots everywhere tremble for the issue of
the contest. True, these false theories did
not prevail. But it is equally true the con
tinued assertion of them paralyzed the arms
of both the National and State Govern
ments, distracted and disheartened our peo
ple, gave aid and comfort to the enemy,
1rolonged the war, and added immeasura
bly to our sacrifices of blood and treasure.
I fence it is, "That warned by past misfor
tunes, we ask that the Supreme Court of
th'i State be placed in harmony with the
political opinions of the majority of the
people, to the end tht the Court may nev
er again, by unjust decisions, seek to set
aside laws vital to the nation."
Who, then, are Henry W. Williams and
George Sharswood, the candidates for this
vacant scat upon the Supreme Bench?
What are their past records, and where do
they stand, in these eventful times, and ou
these momentous issues? The weal or woe
of the Commonwealth, and perhaps of the
nation, is involved in these questions; and
it behooves every patriotic voter in the State
lo examine them with care.
Of Judge Williams, the Union Republi
can candidate, we here propose to give no
extended biography. He is a high-toned,
Christian gentleman, about forty-six years
of age, a ripe scholar, and a learned and
eminent lawyer, with fifteen years' judicial
experience, on the bench of the District
Court of Allegheny county. lie was first
elected judge in 1851, when he ran over one
thousand votes ahead of his ticket, aud was
re-elected in lSfil, by the unanimous vote
of all parties. The following extract from
an editorial in the Pittsburg lust, (the prin
cipal Democratic paper of the West) shows
the estimation in which he is held by polit
ical adversaries:
"The nomination of Hon. Henry W.
Williams, as a candidate forjudge of the
Supreme Court is a good one. lie was the
best inan named before the Republican Con
vention, and possesses legal and moral
qualifications for the responsible position to
which he has been nominated."
He is of the Webster and Clay school of
politics, and during the recent civil war,
from the beginning to the end, did every
thing in his power, through his means, his
voice, and his votes, to strengthen the hands
and encourage the hearts of the lojal peo
ple in the struggle to maintain the Union.
W ho, and what Judge Sharswood is, as a
public man, will appear from what follows:
Early in the history of this nation politi
cal sentiment became divided on the powers
of the National and State governments, and
their true relations to each other. On thee
divisions two great parties were subsequent
ly founded. The one, known as the State
Rights party, had John C. Calhoun for its
champion, and the other, for its recognized
leader, had the great expounder of the Con
stitution, Daniel Webster. The former
held free trade, and the right of nullifica
tion and secession, as cardinal doctrines,
denying the constitutional power of Con
gress to impose duties for protection, and
claiming nullification and secession as inhe
rent rights of a State. The latter denied
these assumptions, and between these con
flicting principles and parties there has been
perpetual warfare. In the main, tho old
Whig party ranged itself under the banner
of Webster, and the Democratic party un
der that of Calhoun. One of the legitimate
fruits of the States rights doctrine was the
rebellion of 1S33, in South Carolina ; the
avowed object of which was to nullify the
protective tariff law of Congress, enacted in
1S28. The country at that time was saved
from a disastrous civil war by the firmness
of President Jackson, the wisdom of Con
gress, and the patriotism of General Scott.
That effort at rebellion and civil war failed;
and the principle on which it was based was
repudiated. But in 18G0 and 1S61 South
Carolina, and other rebel States, again en
deavored to put in force their States rights
doctrine of secession. The sympathj', im
becility, and connivance of President Bu
chanan, and his advisers, so contributed to
the success of the effort, that its consum
mation could only be prevented by a long,
desperate, and bloody civil war. In the end,
and after fearful sacrifices of life and treas
ure, the rights and power of the National
Government were again vindicated ; and
the Calhoun doctrine of secession was again
overthrown. Such, at least, has been the
popular conviction, and cause for rejoicing,
and even the worst of Southern rebels have
been compelled to confess it, and for two
years past have been weeping over their
"lost cause." "Strange, sad, and incredible
as it may seem, we are already called upon I
tn fiorVifr. tltrtttA crrpnf. isiib Avor on-otn Tlirt I
Democratic party, with Judge Sharswood
f-.r its leader, and with Free Trade, State
Rights, and Secession upon its l auner, is
again marshaling its hosts, and now sum
moning us to the field of political combat,
on these same issues. That party, at their
National Conventions, in 1856 and 1SG0, re
adopted what are known as the Virginia
and Kentucky resolutions of 1798 and 1799,
as part of their platforms. These kesolu
tions are known as the embodiment of tho
old State rights and Calhoun doctrines.
They do not regard the relations of the
States or people thereof to the United States
as constituting a government, in the ordina
ry and proper sense of the term, but declare
them to be merely a compact, and that "'as
in all other cases cf compact among parties
having no common judge, each party huun
equal right to judue for itself, as veil of in
fractions, as the mode and measure of
redress.
Under this free Democratic charter for
rebellion, the lawful election of Abraham
Lincoln as President of the United States
was claimed by the people of the rebel
States as an "infraction" of the "compact,"
and they chose secession and civil war as the
mode, anil the destruction of the Union and
State independence as the measures of redress.
The Democratic party, at its last National
Convention, proclaimed the war a failure,
and it has now put in the field a life-long
Free Trade and State Rights candidate,
whom J'udgc Black endorses as one who will
"stand by the Constitution and give pure
law" viz : who will stand by the Constitu
tion as the State Rights party construe it,
and give us such "pure law" as Judge
Black has given President Buchanan and
Andrew Johnson.
Judge Sharswood and his party friends
have not only denied the lawful power of
the National Government to coerce a rebel
lious State, to make and enforce a draft, to
make paper money a legal tender, to eman
cipate and arm negroes, to punish rebels
and traitors by disfranchisement, to suspend
the writ of habeas corpus in time of rebel
lion, or to arrest and try offenders in time of
war by court-martial; but they hold that all
these things, though actually done, were il
legally and wrongfully done, and therefore
settled- nothing ! Or, as the Democratic or
gan, (the Philadelphia Age,) in a recent
elaborate editorial on the Republican State
I'latform, thus expresses the same idea:
"We put it to the sober thoughts of the
people of Pennsylvania, whether they would
not have ail these grave pending questions
decided according to law, aud not according
to war, just, in fact, as they icould have been
decided had they arisen, eight years ago, or
had no tear taken jdace."
Is, then, the ' lo.st cause" not lost? Has
the late dreadful war decided nothing? Is
the right of secession hi open question?
Has slavery not been abolished? Are not
the four millions of bondsmen free? lias
our national debt no legal existence? Have
the victors no power over the vanquished?
Have rebel States and people lost no rights
by rebellion ? Have our sacrifices of blood
and treasure been all made in vain? Fellow
citizens, weigh well these solemn questions,
and answer them at the ballot-box on the
second Tuesday of October next.
Having concluded to reserve for a future
occasion some remarks on party organiza
tion, and other topics, this address might
here properly close. But, it may bo asked
by some, is Judge Sharswood, indeed, the
political heretic herein set forth? "A man
is known by the company he keeps," says
the old adage. We have the right to as
sume, and have assumed, that the Judge is
of the' same political faith as his party, and
the public will hold him responsible for all
the guilty acts aud emissions cf his party.
There can be no mistaking the true position
of the man who recently delivered an elab
orate opinion denying the constitutional
power of Congress to make paper money a
legal lender. (See the case of Borie vs.
Trott, Legal Intelligencer of March ltli.
1 864. page 92. ) An J when we go further
back, and examine his early history, we find
ample justihcation for all we have written
and more. So long ago as April, 1834, he
appeared as "The Orator of the Day," at a
meeting of a Mates Kights Association, in
Philadelphia. We here copy some of the
proceedings of that interesting convocation
from ""The Kxa miner and Journal of Po
litical Economy, Devoted to the Advance
ment of the Cause of State Rights and Ftee
Trade," Vol. 1 , ge, 309.
Tl c orator on that occasion delivered a
long and carefully prepared vindication and
eulogy of the State Rights V lrginia and
Kentucky resolutions, herein before cited,
and summed up his elaborate endorsement
thereof as follows :
" We comeback to our starting place, and
fading nothing in the Constitution cstaUish
itig any final judge of the enumeratal pow
ers, prohibitions, and reserved riohts, it must
rest upon the admitted principles of general
law, in cases of compact bttueen parties
having no common superior. Each State
has the right to judge for iteelf of the in
fractions of the compact, and to choose for
itself the most proper and efficient remedies.
The better to exhibit still further, if pos
sible, the true character of that meeting
and its distinguished orator, the following
toasts are copied from the proceedings.
( Same volume, page 312):
Toast: "John C. Calhoun The first to
throw himself into the breach against Fed
eral usurpation. May he live to see his prin
ciples predominant throughout the icorld."
Toast: "The Patriots, otherwise called
j ullijiers of South Carolina their memo
ries will be cherished when the advocates of
the Force Bill are forgotten, or remembered
with execration."
Toast: "The State of South Carolina
as her principles are elierished, tee need not
fear usurpation, cither in the Legislative,
J udicia), or Executive departments of the
Government."
The Hon. John C. Calhoun was among
those invited to this meeting by Judge
Sharswood and others, but declined in a
published letter of sympathj'.
We thus submit, as briefly as possible, the
record of the Democratic candidate, aud of
the party which placed him in nomination.
We feel that no added comments could do
justice to the subject; and only ask you,
fellow-citizens, to examine the whole record
with care, and under a sense of your solemn
responsibilities to your country, render your
verdict at the ensuing election.
By order of the Committee.
F. Jordan,
Ilarrisburg, July 26. Chairman.
The President has appointed Generals
Sherman, Harney and Terry to act as Com
missioners, in connection with others named
by the last Congress, for selecting a location
for indians, etc.
"Washington City Gossip.
It appears that the oCk'ul copy of fhe
supplemental Reconstruction act was is ue.
a few days since from the State Department
so full of errors that it has been found n
cessery to issue a new copy, which has been
carefully compared with the enrolled bill
The erroneous copy has led to the impre
sion in some quarters that the supplemental
act deprives the President of all power of
removal of District commanders, and r,',
il in uie ijliuus vi jrraui. ine
. ; . U 1. . J . A . n-,
direct
copy shows that this is not true. Thel'r
ident retains that power, and the rumor jj
still reiterated that he will apply it t0 0eB
eral Sheridan, and supersede that officer by
appointing either General Thomas or Gen
eral Hancock.
Gen. Thomas has sent ord-r to General
Duncan, at Nashville, in regard to tbe dis
position of troops at the approatline elec
tion day. He directs that, exe jt in r
treme cases, no troops shall approa
election polls.
The summing up of the ci v :
Surratt trial commenced on t
half of the prosecution. The cur; ;
was crowded to suffocation and the miv..
in the trial is intensified as it draws so lim
its end. Surratt winced a good deal, wn
the District Attorney was denouncing 1
as a spy, blockade runner, murderer and a...
sin. and seemed visibly affected when ik
counsel charged that he deserted his moth
er at the scaffold.
The internal revenue receipts of last fc
were $4,078,563.
The Government has advices that its bear
er of dispatches has at last reached the eitv
of Mexico, and delivered to Mr. Otteubourg
notice of his appointment as 3Iiuiter to
Mexico, a commission for which, howevr,
has never been issued, together with the
despatches of the State Dcpartuieut. Sume
of these despatches related to steps tc pre
vent the execution of Maximilian.
A project is on foot for the establishment
of tn Ocean Steamship line, bctweenWash
ington and Antwerp, with a depot for the re
ception of German emigrants at Washing
ton, from which they will be dL-tribuud
through the Southern States.
It is reported that a dreadful riot oecnr
ed at Rogersville, in East Tenne.-see, wheiea
speech by Emerson Etheridge was inter
rupted by some one in the audience; thnlie
was given and returned, and finally the
meeting separated itself into Radical and
Conservative camps, which opened fire up
on each 'other. Two persons were killed
outright, and thirty-seven were wounded,
seven of whom is thought will die.
At verttseMentiiAet mlargt type, cuts, or out of plan'
vtyUwill be charged double price for spareoceupi4
(ORPHAN'S COURT SALE.-By virr7e
" of an order of the Orphans' Court nf
Clearfield county, tbe undersigned nJuiiaistrator
will offer atpnblic sale, on Saturday, August 24ih.
18(i7, upon tbe premise, the following Real Kstate
of Jame4 Gill, dee'd, vii : A certain inessauge or
tract of land, nituate in Beccaria tw'p, ClearfielA
couDty, being tbe homestead property upon which
be lived at the time of his death . and containing
about 37 acres, more or less ; about 'So seres clear
ed, having a good soil, in a good state of cultira
tion, and having tbereon erected a small log
bouse and barn ; also a bearing orchard ou tie
premises, and a never failing spring of water ct
tbe door. Sale to commence at 2 o'clo. k, P. M ,
when conditions will be inade known bv
J.M SMITH,
July 27, 1867. Administrator
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rmVO FARMS FOR SALR Theunder--
signed offers for sale two farms detent
ed as follows : ,.
No. 1 is situate in Boggs township. Clearfie A
county, about f oi a mile from toeKailroaJ.beitg
known as the Lindsay Stone Farm, and contains
about one hundred acres about i5 a-res clear,
60 of which is in gras, and under gooJ fences
with a log house and good log barn, and a younj
orchard of choice fruit trees thcrron.
No. 2 is situate in Bradford township, near tie
Railroad at Woodland, and contains one humirf .
acres 50 acres clear, of whica 40 is in gra?
under good fences a log house and frame -
and some choice lruit trees thereon. The .
farms will be sold on reasonable terms, or t
if desirable. Apply to. or address the ul
signed, at Woodland, Clearfield cunty. Pa
July 31, 1867-3m. JEKE. LLLLK
c
LEARFIELD ACADEMY-
The First Session of the Second Scholastic
year, will commence on Monday, Sept. 2d, It'-
Pupils can enter at any time. They will
charged with tuition from the time they enter to
the elose of the session.
The course of instruction embraces everything
included in a thorongh, practical and accom
plished education of both sexes.
The Principal havrng had the advantage of
much experience ia his profession, assures f
rents and guardians that his entire ability n
energies will be devoted to the mental and moral
training of the youth placed under his charge
Terms of Tpitioh:
Orthography, Reading, Writing and Priniry
Arithmetic, per session, (11 weeks.) 5
Grammar, Geography, Arithmetic, and Hi
r7- - y
Algebra.Geometry, Trigonometry, MensuraJon.
Surveying, Philosophy, Physiology, Chemistry
Book-keeping. Botany, and Physical Geosraj
phy.
Latin, Greek and French, with any of tbe a
bove branches, s'2,
EXo deduction will be made for abwoce
For further particulars Inquire of
Rev. P. L. HARRISON. .-
July 31,1867. PrineP!-