14, 1869.
Bitftsmait's Jmrrrral.
S. J. 0W, DITO iD PROPE1ETOB.
CLEARFIELD, PA., JULY U, 1869.
REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET.
ro GOVERNOR :
JOHIf W. GEARY, of Cumberland co.
for Jtrncs of trritac coort:
HEBEY W. WILLIAMS, of Allegheny co.
The Tirginia Elections.
An election under the Prssident's procla
mation was held in Virginia on Tuesday,
J nly 6th. Its ol.ject was to ratify or reject
the new Constitution and to elect officers
under it. The officers to choose were a Gov
ernor, Lieutenant Governor, and Attorney
General.nine members of Congress,a Legis
lature, and county officer?. The candidates
for Governor were II. II. Welle, RaJieal
Republican, and G. C. Walter, 'Conserva
tive.' There were two complete set of can
didates in the field representing these par
tics from Governor down. The result is a
Conservative triumph the State having
given Walker some thirty thousand majoritr,
and a Walker majority of fifteen on joint
ballot in the Legislature.
The Constitution, as carried by the
"Conservative" party, is the same as was
adopted by the radical convention in Octo
ber, 13G7. when the representation was 70
Republicans to 35 "Conservatives." With
the ratification of this Constitution, the
clcctiou has passed upon the 15th constitu
tional amendment, which, either way the
State might have gone, would bo adopted.
The strife between the two factions was on
the rebel disfranchising clause in the Con
stitution, on which a seperate vote was or
dered by the President The "Conserva
tives" voted for the Constitution without
this clause, and, it seems successful ly. The
only question that is now left then is wheth
er the "iron-clad oath" will be imposed ac
cording to General Canhy's conclusions, or
set aside by our chief executive.
Gilbert C. Walker, the Governor elect,
is a native of New York. He has been for
Fomc years in business at Norfolk, Va.,
where h it much respected. He claims to
be a Republican, and is known to have
been always for the Union. His main sup
port, however, ca-ne from the Democrats
and Ex-Rebels, with such of the colored
voters as they could control, which seems to
have been more than anybody considered
probable. The election is said to have been
very quiet throughout the State.
Unless the new Legislature that is chosen
ratifies the Fifteenth Amendment, and com
plies with other provisions of the Recon
struction act, the State will be refused ad
mittance by Congress.
Facts Worth Remembering. Wherc
ever the Republican party rules in the coun
try, there indebtedness is reduced and the
people prosper. For instance, the State of
Iowa recently paid off a large part of its
debt, and has funds on hand sufficient to re
deem the outstanding loans, as soon as the
holders are ready to receive the money.
And Indiana is pursuing the same course.
Five years ago the debt of that State was
$J,000,XK, and has now been reduced to
$11,600,000, of which $S00,0t)0 was paid off
on July 1st, leaving only $l,8o0,000 still
due. It is the same in Pennsylvania. Un
der the Republican Administrations of Gov
ernor Curlin and Geary the State debt has
been largely reduced and taxation lightened.
The tax on real estate has been aliogcthor
removed. If the people want this satisfac
tory state of affairs to continue they must
re-elect Geary in October. To return to
sham Democratic government will be to in
vite increased indebtedness and misrule.
"Military Satraps." The Democracy
of Ohio, at their late Staie Convention,
Dominated a "military Satrap" General
Rosecrans for Governor. Tho Democracy
seem determined to invest largely in soldiers
this fall, (Gen. Hancock being also strongly
urged for Governor iu this State) not be
cause they like them, but because in their
desperate strait and forlorn condition they
are ready to take anybody that they think
will givo them character, respectability and
votes. We opine, however, that the dodge
will avail them but little, as their diatribes
against the soldiers are still too fresh in the
memories of the people to be caught by
such shallow pretences.
1ROOressixo. The New i'ork World
advises its party to give up the dead issues
of the past, and especially to abandon iu
habitual hostility to the "nigger." The
JForM asserts that "the Fifteenth Amend
is certain to be ratified and become a part
of the Federal Constitution, and under it
blacks will vote at the Prsidential election
of 1S72. It is, therefore, useless and fool
ish to harness a dead horse to the Demo
cratic catch." The World is shrewd.
High Commendation. The Hartford
Post ay of the Republican nominee for
Governor of Pennsylvania : "Certainly no
more popular candidate for Governor could
be chewen than G o vernor G eary. 1 1 is repu
tation throughout the country is high and
needs no comment"
Ji-stSo. At the late Copperhead Con
vention in Maine, the most prominent reso
lution declared in favor of froa t.adc Yet
working men throughout the country sup
port that party and hope to keep wages up.
W hat folly!
1 Gov.' Geary's majority over Clytr.er
1S65, was 17.17S votes. We exnct thil
he doubled thi., f t!L
THE REGISTRY LAW.
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania,
after an exhaustive examination, on Wed
oesday last, pronounced the Registry Law,
passed last winter, as a constitutional en
actment. It will he remembered that,
few weeks aeo. Judire S hars wood, in the
Court at Amu" Print decided the law uncon
stitutional. The opinion in bane was read
by Judge Agnew.
Judge Sharswood"s position, seconded
now by Chief Justice Thompson, was that
the law prevents an equal election. His ar
gument was therefore necessarily a mere
begging of the question, and gained its
Btrengrh from the discrepancies pointed out
between the local and general law. The
unconstitutionality of the whole act was in
terential and not intrinsic. True, defects
in the local law were pointed out, but no
one of them was declared sufficient to in
validate it, except as it bore upon the as
sumption of discrepancy. The argument
was ingenious, but far-fetched. It steered
i . i . .
ciear 01 me main question, and was no
doubt all that the case would admit of in
that direction. It was very plain from its
tenor that no registry law, however mani
fest its merits, would be pronounced con
stitutional. The argument was one directly
in the interests of the politicians, and lost
sight of the common weal aa well as the
legislative privilege.
J udge Agnew completely undermines this
logic He strips the Iw of every partisan
aspect, and proclaims its necessity for the
public good the highest object of legislative
attention.
That equality that sounded so pretily on
the lips of J udge Sharswood does not exist
where a part of the commauity, differently
situated and subject to adverse circumstan
ces, ia liable to be imposed upon by unprin
cipleu and designing scamps. As well
might it be argued that the law sufficient
for a quiet rural village are in every respect
ample for a populous and wicked city. The
object of the constitution and the law is to
nmiAnf ill. ..::.. t.- i : i . i .
p'" c labiAeu in iiis mgnesi, rigni.
Shall the good the greater number be
injured in their right, rather than a few of
the bad the lesser number be injured
perchance, in theirs ? What madness this
would be ; yet this is the strongest phase of
the Sharswood logic. The equality he in
sists upon is purely fictitious. It never has
existed and never can exist, until crime of
every kind is .licensed. At long as a dis
crimination against the wrong doer is con
stitutional, his factitious equality can have
no existence.
We shall not follow J udge Agnew through
his masterly refutation by facts of the ar
guments in the lower court Every appeal
he makes is a home-thrust; and if precedent,
practice, history, evidence, even the law
and the constitution themselves, be of 'any
avail, his position is more than vindicated.
The ground has been ail gone over before,
and the conclusions have always been uni
form, that the greatest good of the greatest
number was to be consulted iu preference to
the least good of thd least number.
Under Sharswood's argument no law is
equal that does not apply to all parts of the
Commonwealth alike. Under Agnew's ar
gument, only the law is equal which protects
all the citizens alike. According to Shars
wood's logic a man may vote as often as he
pleases without detection. According to
Agnew s logic a man may vote hut once.
Uuder bharswood s construction the good
man becomes the victim of the scoundrel,
the ballot box staffer, arid the bummer.
rT.i.. ..... .it.
i nuui .xiicw a consirucuon tne baa man is
only prevented from practicing his rascality.
I ben, it is plain that, in sustaining the con
stitutionalny of the law, the honest man
is only protected in his legal privileges
whilst the criminal is discomfited. Certain
ly no sane man will object to this propo
sition. it is unnecessary io pursue the minor
T. :. .
points of the decision. They all hinge upon
this leading and impregnable feature. We
feel truly thankful for this clear exposition
It is a timely removal of a great legal ques
tion irom the arena of politics into the
higher regions of legislative duty and ab
stract rights. We shall, of course, hear the
customary howl from grovelling and bigoted
men. I he brawler will have his moments
of indignation. The comer politician will
lament the loss of hit power to carry pre
cinctsby fraud and intimidation. But these
things will prove the righteousness of the
uiiidiun. I or Kin nnnl. aa tnrti.fr wka
hereely attacked. J ustice never gained a
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serene triumph.
Then, let the new law be strictly carried
into effect, by the various officers named
therein, and the ballot-box will be freed from
the corrupting influences by which it has
been surrounded for years past As it is no
partisan act, so let.its administration bo in
no partisau spirit, but with such fairness as
to disirm all its enemies and vindicate the
wisdom of its timely passage.
Democratic "friendship for the rights
1 r . r . 1 ii
uu iiucrraia 01 me laooring man was
vaunted at Columbus, the other day, by a
party which, in the resolution directly pre
ceeding, avowed its desire for absolute free
trade. It is the same party which once
elected for President a man who thought
sheep's head and pluck wages enough for any
man here.because no more was. paid in some
districts of Europe. That sort of friend
ship means that sort of competition !
Repudiation is to be the battle-cry of
tne democracy. A New York newspaper
navmg Mia that it is as plain as the nose
on a man's face that the Democratic party
wm boldly enter upon the next national
campaign with repudiation emblazoned on
her banners," the Savaunah RrpublLxm,
edited by a rampant ex-rebel, replies, "and
t might have added that after the cam
paign is over thoee 'banners' will be borne
aloft in triumph."
A heavv colred vote has contributed
to the Democratic success in v;,.,;..:. t.
is tne lemocratic intention to quit reviling
that wing of the party hereafter, and to ex
tend to it, io the words of the Ohio Demo
cratic Convention, "the right hand of fel
lowship as to bretherain a common cause."
Clearfield Republican, take notice f
Read the new advertisements.
Our Candidates and Platform.
In our last issue we announced the nomi
nees of the Republican State Convention,
held at Philadelphia on Jane 23d. Below
we present the platform adopted by that
Convention, wich will be read with interest
byalL
toe platform.
Resolved, That we rejoice in the glorious
national victory of 1S6S, which is bringing
peace, happiness and prosperity to us as a
nation.
Resolved, That we wholly approve of the
principles and policy of the administration
of Gen. Grant, and we heartily endorse every
sentiment combined in bis inaugural ad
dress,and especially approve the late amend
ment proposed by Congress and known as
the fifteenth amendment.
Resolved, That we have confidence that
the general administration will wisely and
firmly protect the interest and dignity of
the nation in respect to our just claims
against Great Britain, and that we indorse
the action of the United States Senate in
rejecting the Johnson-Clarenden treaty rel
ative to th i Alabama claims.
Resolvexl, That we sympathise with the
struggling peoples of all nations in their ef
forts to obtain universal freedom and the
individual rights of man.
Resolved, That we cordially indorse the
administration of Gov. John W. Geary, as
wise, economical and honest, and that it de
serves, as it has received, the approval of
the people of Pennsylvania, and we especi
ally commend his uniform efforts to restrain
the evils of special legislation.
Resolved, That in the Hon. Henry W.
Williams, our candidate for the Supreme
Court, we present a learned, pure ana pat
riotic jurist who will adorn the high posi
tion to which we propose to elect him.
Resolved, That we reiterate and affirm our
adherence to the doctrine of protection, as
proclaimed in the ninth resolution of the
platform, adopted at the State Convention
of March 7th. 1SG6.
Resolved, That we indorse the ticket this
day nominated, and pledge to it our hearty
and cordial support.
Rejoiced, That the chairman of this Con
vention is hereby authorized to appoint a
Chairman of the State Central Committee
on the joint recommendation of the candi
dates this day nominated, and the State
Central Committee shall consist, during the
coming campaign, of the same number of
delegates from each county as the Conven
tion, rnd they shall be annointed bv Sena
torial and Representative districts, except
A II 1 I A 1 ll m . . ,
Aiiegneny, wnicu snail nave eight members.
To the second resolution Gen. Koontz, of
Somerset, proposed toadd these words,
"and especially do hereby ratify and approve
the amendment to the Constitution of the
Uuited States proposed by Congress, known
as the fifteenth amendment" This he ad
vocated in a brief and forcible speech, and
was supported by Mr. Grow.
While this gentleman was in the midst of
an eloquent speech, Gov. Geary, accompa
nied by the Committee, entered the hall
The delegates rose in a body and cheered
him for several minutes. When the cheer
ing had subsided the Governor proceeded to
speak at some length, thanking the Con
vention for the nomination, and pledging
himself to discharge every duty to the best
of his ability.
hen he concluded, the amendment of
Gen. Koontz was adopted unanimously.
Republicanism at the South.
The Virginia election, says the Pittsburgh
Gazelle, has resulted so satisfactorily to the
Democracy, that they are clamorous for the
designation of early dates for the elections in
Mississippi and Texas, when they will antic
ipate the same success. We sec no reason
why their desires should not be gratified
with a trial. In any event, the three States
will be organized under Constiiutions, not
only far more Republican than they had be
fore but in fact really quite up to the ad
vanced enlightenment of tho times. They
will all ratify the XVth Article, no matter
what party may control the local legisla
tures, and, under the Constitution of which
that Article shall be a part they must, and
will forever continue to be States Repnbli
can in toriu, and in fact, cling as fondly as
they may to Democratic politics. We find
no objection on that score to their earliest
possible reconstruction, and would not de
lay it for a day. The reorganized States
are all bound to make a trial of Democracy.
and with the open aid of tho colored vote.
1 lie sooner they begin the earlier they will
be through with it. Nothing is more cer
tain than the temporary devision of the col
ored vote from Republicanism, except its
ultimate return to the political associations
to which all the personal and political liber
ty of the freedmen is due. It would be as
unwise to attempt to stem the outward cur
rent now, as it would be short-sighted to
despair of its certain and irrosistablc reflux
For the present and perhaps for years, Re
publicanism must gird itself up to fight bat
tles and win victories of the Union in these
Northern and always loyal States. We need
only to be true to the same principles of lib
erty and justice, for which we have in the
eight past years conquered so much, to be
ustly confident of fresh triumphs, although
against heavier odd. Republican pros
pects may look dark for a year or two, but
in 18.2 we shall again sweep the broad
field of the Union from the St Lawrence
to the Gulf.
Horrible. The military atrocities of
Haynad, the Austrian General, and of the
French in Algeria in smoking thousands to
death in a cave have been thrown into the
shade by a recent act of Letona, the Span
ish General, in Cuba. It seems that a
great number of families from Puerto Prin
cipe abandoned that city together, and,
guarded by a force of patriots, encamped in
the woods. When Letona knew that thw
families were almost unprotected, he con
ceived the idea of attacking them in their
camp, and at night with a large force at
hand, he surprised them and slaughtered
large numbers of children, women and old
people. The news given to the Captain
General shows that tha number of those
whose throats were nut, mounts as high as
2000, and as all are children, women and old
persons, the barbarous monster, author of
these unheard of crimes, excuses himself by
saying the night was obscure and he could
not see.
The gradual but certain reduction of the
public debt is steadily going on under Presi
dent Grant's wise administration of Gov
ernment During the month of June the
decrease was $16,410,132, and during his
administration, less than four month, $36,-
460,779.
A Little of Everything.
Scotland In had a Jan enow (tons.
Allentown's indebted nets is $104,460.
Where to find milkmen at th watering places.
A negro hai been admitted to the bar is Flor
ida
Cheap and nasty a penny-worth of Epsom
alts.
Peaches from Mobile bring eight dollars a box
in Chicago.
Ships that are ia demand clerk-ships and
conrt-sbips.
Query how can a floating debt be paid out of
a sinking fond ?
It is in China that the lost tribes of Israel have
been discovered.
The Illinois egg and batter market is now par
tially supplied from California
Reports the town elerk of Hartford, the death
of one person from '-ignorance."
A certain Miss Hart.of Troy, returns an income
of more than $80,000 a Hart worth winning.
Fact most roots and .Acts: are now used as
medicines except the cube root and the bark of a
deg.
Win. F. Fair, of Newark, N. J., has been fined
J 1,000 for using a cancelled United States fieve
nue stamp
The Florida Legislature received a yearly sala
ry. At the last extra session they sat tor but
three days.
Lancaster has a white wood-pecker with a red
head. Heading and Doylestown each have a
white robin.
Reported that numerous camels, the onVprlng
of those originally taken there by the army, now
roam over the western plains.
The Chinese in California are very skillful in
counterfeiting gold dust, and succeed in selling a
good deal of the bogus article.
Paddy writing from the field to his sweetheart:
'Darling Peggy, I write you with a sword in one
hand, and a pistol in the other."
In a recent interview with a reporter, ex Presi
dent Johnson said that be "often put his hands to
bis head and wonders if he is sane."
A sea side reflection ploughing the sea often
causes harrowing sensations in the stomach, the
deeper the farrows the worse for the crop.
Theyounvman wboassed the daughter's hand
and got the father's boot, had the consolation of
knowing that his wooing was not bootless.
A storm in Iowa carried four thousand feet of
lumber a distance of three miles, tearing the
boards to bits as they flew through the air.
Our "devil" says if a young lady would sack
him without hurting his feelings, let her giro
mm the sack sbe has on contents included.
An Unio editor lately betook himself to the
hardware business. He had serred an appren
ticeship to the hard-Krar business previously.
Richard Realf, Old John Brown's Secretary of
Mate, has been appointed Assessor of Internal
Revenue in the District of Edgefield, South Car
olina.
A party of scamps entered the Lutheran Sunday
school at bunbury and robbed a number of boxes
in which the classes had deposited their mission
ary offeiings.
A home missionary was asked the cause of his
poverty. "Principally," said he. with a twinkle
of the eye. "because I have preached so much
tcitltout notes "
Gail Hamilton is surprised that two peoplo
have kept in matrimony twenty-five years in Illi
nois. Has not Gail kept put of it twice as long
n aiassacnnsetts f .-'
Olirer Wood, a Democratic lawyer in Auburn,
ew York has taken a young negro student Into
his office. Will not his friends have somewhat to
objeet to this nigger in the Wood-pile.
Theie are probably not less than a hundred
colored men now in Rome preparing for the Cath
olic Priesthood. The majority of them will be
come teachers of the freedmen of the South.
A New Tork critie describes fashionable musio
as "a medium between a squeal and a shriek,
with enough piano agitation to mace the whole
resemble a fiht between a calf and a hyena."
There were twenty casualties from fire-works
in New York on the 5th, and ten in Brooklyn.aad
thirty fires in both eities. Philadelphia had forty
fires the same day. The fires were not serious.
A Portland man ba cured one of the most dan
gerous cases of eancer by drinking red elorer
tei and applying a rod clorer compress, and
thinks it will prove aa infallible remedy in all
cases.
'-No, Josh, I was neber drunk, but I was toxi
cs ted once on ardent spirits, an' dat's enuff for
dis nigger. De Lord, if my bead didn't feel as
if all de niggers In de world was splitten wood
upon it."
Russia is somewhat alarmed at the n amber of
iron-clads Prussia has been steadily adding to
her well organized navy, thus securing the actual
and undisputed claim to the supremacy of the
Baltie sea.
One hundred and forty-two thousand, two hun
dred and twenty-seven immigrants have landed
in New York - since Janu-ry 1, 1869, an increase
of thirty thousand over the corresponding period
of last year.
A Texas editor thns laments: Fourth of July !
Yankee Doodle played thy death march. Negro
equality is rocked in thy cradle, while we but re
member with mournful pride thy past and glori
ous memories
The electric telegraph in the Cnited Kingdom
has been taken into tho poi-esion of the Gov
ernment, and made a part of tho . British postal
service. The cost of this measure of public policy
was about $3,500,000.
New Hampshire has refused to make nine per
cent- the legal rate of interest in that State, and
has levied a tax of one per cent, on the business
transacted within her boundaries by foreign or
outside insurance companies.
The candidates for the vacant throne of Spain
are the Duke of Montpensier, the ex-King of Por
tugal, Pr noe Henri of Bourbon, the Duke of
Aosta, the Duke of Genoa, and the Prince of As-
turias, with the odds in favor of the latter.
Chicago plumes herself on having supplied
New York wi:h the Ocean Bank robber and Vir
ginia with Waticer, the successful candidate for
Governor. Indeed, it is safe to believe that Chi
cago is everywhere we'l represented except, of
torse, in heaven.
One of the latest inventions for the destruction
of life and limb is elai mod by a man in
Iowa. He says he has invented a eannon that
will shoot fourteen miles. He modestly asks a
million of dollars from the government before
Uncle Earn can use it.
With a conscientious disregard of troth charac
teristic of much Democratic journalism, the Chi
cago riau says tho Republican party grows
smaller each year. Tho party polled 1,311,812
votes in 1856; 1 ,857,610 ia 1860; Z,3.'3,035 in 1864,
nd 3,018.353 188.
Gen. Grant expressed ton friend the other day,
that he felt that Gen. Geary would carry Penn
sylvania by a larger majority than before, that
Gov. Geary was a soldier and statesman, and that
the Keystone State never had a Governor that
was more true and faithful to her best interests.
The Copperheads, at the recent election in
Virginia, ran and succeeded in electing several
negroes to the Legislature in that State. By way
of returning the compliment many of the darkies
voted the Copperhead State Ticket, and gave
that party a majority in both branches of the
1 Legislature. Truly the world moves.
Froceedinga of Court.
' Below we give an epitome of the business
transacted at the J une term of our Courts :
QUARTER SESSION.
Com. vs. Sebastian, John F., and Lewis
Smith, Jr. Larceny, felony. True bill
Defendants appear and ask for trial. J ury
sworn. Prosecutor called; and now by
leave of the Court, the District Attorney
entered a Holle prosequi, for the reasou that
the ownership of property was improperly
laid.
Com. vs. John Z. Kitchen. Involuntary
manslaughter. True bill. Cause tried.
This trial originated in the accidental shoot
ing of a boy named Charles M. Breath, son
of Joseph Breath, Esq., by the defendant,
in November, 1867. After a careful hear
ing of the evidence, the jury rendered a ver
diet of "co guilty."
Com. vs. J. E. Lemoine, J. 31. Newman
and J. Nelson. Entering building with in
tent to commit a felony. Tried and found
guilty.- Sentence, &c, published in Jour
nal of June 30th.
Com. vs. J. E. 1emoine, J. M. Newman
and J. Nelson. Larceny felony. (Robbing
Co. Nat Bank.) Tried, and Lemoine and
Newman found guilty. Sentence, ic,
published in Jockxal of June 30th.
Com. vs. Lewis Plubelle. Selling liquor
without license. True bill. Continued un
til September term. True bills were also
found against the defendant for selling
liquor on Sunday, and to wen of intemperate
habits.
Com. vs. John Ligafelter. Larceny fel
ony. Bill ignored.
Com. vs. John Q. Adtms. Fornication
and bastardy. True bill. Continued to
September term.
Com. vs. Samuel Woolheator. Cutting
timber misdemeanor. Bill ignored, and
the prosecutor, J. S. Gearbart, directed to
pay costs.
Com. vs.- Samuel Fulkerson. Assault
and battery. True bill. Defendant pleads
guilty. Sentenced to pay a fine of $15 and
costs of prosecution, and to remain in cus
tody of the Sheriff until the sentence is
complied with.
Com. ts. Daniel Chambers. Assault and
battery. True bill. . Cause reached and
jury sworn. Defendant asked leave to with
draw his plea, and submit to the Court.
The Court sentenced him to pay a fine of
$5 and costs of prosecution, and to remain
in custody until sentence is complied with.
Com. vs. George W. and Abr. Ilohn
Assault and battery. Ignored ; and Henry
M. Lines, prosecutor, to pay costs.
Com. vs, George W. Ilohn. Assault and
battery. Ignored; and B. F. Kreitzer,
prosecutor, to pay costs.
Com. vs. 3Iilton Lines. Forcible entry.
Ignored ; add George W. Holin, prosecu
tor to pay costs.
Com. vs. George TIV. Ilohn. Assault'
with intent to kill. Ignored.
Com. vs. J. Dempsey, John. Cannon and
William UalL Cause tried. Verdict guil
ty. Sentence, John Cannon and William
Hall each to pay a fine of $1 and costs of
prosecution, and undergo an imprisonment
of two months in county jail, and remain in
custody until sentence is complied with.
Dempsey not appearing.
Com. vs. Dempsey, Cannon and Hall.
Jjarcenj ; miademeanor. True bill. Can
non and Hall plead guilty ; sentence deferr-.
ed. Uempsey uot appearing. The same
parties also plead guilty in another indict
ment sentence deferred.
Com. vs. Henry Gross. Selling liquor
without license selling to minors and to
men of intemperate habits. Recognizance
forfeited, and respited until September
term.
Com. vs. Lewis A. Shearer. Larceny
and false pretenses ; felony. True bill.
Cause tried. The jury, under the instruc
tions of the Court, found the defendant
"not guilty," without leaving the box. A
true bill was also found against the same de
fendant for forgery, but, after the above
verdict was rendered, a nolle prosequi was
entered by the District Attorney. The
prosecutrix was Hattie Tomlinson, a dealer
in "roots and verbs." The case grew out
of the burning of her office in this town
lately, Mr. Shearer being an insurance
agent. There will probably be a civil suit.
as the company, we undcrslaud, refuse to
pay her anything on her policy.
Com. v. Jacob Stine. Selliug liquor to
minors. IruebilL Indictment quashed as
it is not alleged that intoxicating drink was
furnished as a beverage.
Com. vs. Jacob Stine. Selling liquor on
Sunday. True bill. After jury was called
and sworn, the defendant plead "guilty."
Sentenced to pay a fine of $10 and costs of i
prosecution, and undergo an imprisonment I
of ten days in the county jail.
Com. vs. William, David and Dave Coul
ter, Jr. Riot misdemeanor. True bill.
Cause reached and the case made "surety
of the peace." Sentence: that each of the
defendants pay a fine of $10 and costs of
prosecution. David Coulter, Sr., entered
bail to keep the peace ; especially towards
Jacob Stine, the prosecutor.
Com. vs. John Criswell, Jr. Lunacy.
Cause tried. Verdict "not insane," and
county to pay the costs.
Com. vs. John Make, George Smith,
David Patterson, Joseph Marland, James
Wiseman, Joseph Wilkinson, 3amuel Wil
kinson, and Patrick Dugan. Indictment,
Conspiracy. 29th June, cause reached and
jury sworn. The defendants are miners,
working in the coal mines about Philips
burg and Osceola. The conspiracy charged
consisted in their belonging to a secret so
ciety called "The United Sons of Liberty,"
which the operators alleged was for the pur
pose of controling the hours of labor, the
price of labor, Ac., to their injury. The
defendants did not deny that they belonged
to the society, but alleged that there was
nothing illegal in it that it was a benevo
lent association, fcc. The Court held, how
ever, that it came under the technical defi
nitions of a conspiracy, and the jury found
them guilty, except Samuel Wilkinson a
boy.
Patrick Dugan was not sentenced, aa the
Court and Counsel thought he was not
guilty. Malee was fined thirty dollars, and
each of the others twenty dollars, and very
i much to the chagrin of Buokwalter, the
agent of the operators, they were all dis
charged without further punishment
We think the Operators are far worse
than the men can possibly be. The evidence
showed that they put up a notice at the
mines, that on and after a certain date they
would only pay such a price, and then when
the men refused to work for that price, they
"black listed" them; that is they made out
lists of the men and sent them all through
the mining regions to prevent other ojcra
tors from giving them work. If this is not
a worse conspiracy than any the men were
guilty of, then we are much mistaken. We
believe in ptotccting the rights of Inbor,
and if owoers of coal mines can combine to
fix their own prices, surely the miners ought
to be permitted to combine for their own
protection. This was an interesting case,
and was ably tried by the Counsel on both
sides.
OYER AND TERMINER.
Com. vs. David Ball and Joseph Baer.
Murder ; felony. Defendants demanded a
separate trial, which request was granted ;
whereupon ihe District Attorney elected
David Ball for trial. Jury called and sworn.
After a patient hearing of two days, the jury
retired for deliberation ; and after an
absence of four hours, they rendered a ver
dict of "guilty of murder in the first de
gree." The counsel for the prisoner moved
for "a new trial and in arrest of judgment."
The motion for a new trial was argued on
Monday, June 27th. The Court held it
under advisement
ROAD MATTERS.
Petitions. To vacate road from Erie
turnpike to public road leading from turn
pike to Pennvilie. Viewers, James 3Iitch
ell. Moses Wise, Philip Long.
For a road from Godfrey Hilebnrn's to
Henry Wineert's, in Brady township.
Viewers, II. Luthsr, J. Postlethwaite, Jo
seph Lines.
For re-view of a road from New Wash
ington to Bethlehem, in Bell and Burnside
townships. Viewers, S. F. McCIoskey, R.
Jlehaffey, James Savage.
For a private road from B. SIcGovern's
to road near A. Jlignot's, in Girard town
ship. Viewers, 1L Luther, J. Postleth
waite, J. Yoast
For a road from New Washington bor
ough toClearfield borough. Viewers, S. F.
McCIoskey, James Savage. J. II. Breth.
For a road from point on old Roling-stone
road near George Hoover's to new Roling
stone road near John Hoover's in Jlorris
township. Viewers, J. B. Kyler, A. Hub
ler, G. Hoover.
For a private road from A. Peter's to
near line of Joseph Miller and John Peters,
in Bradford township. Viewers, James
Mitchell, George Wilson, Jacob Barger.
For a road beginning it farm of M. Walk
er and fo intersect the old Philipsburg and
Janesville road near Beaver Run bridge.
Viewers, Thomas Henderson, R. II lies,
S. F. .McCIoskey.
For a road from the residence of D. For
ccy to intellect Bald Hill Fording at N. E.
corner of the old Forcey farm ; and to va
cate part of road leaJing from Philipsburg
to Bald Hills. Viewers, James Mitchell,
S. P. Wilson, Edward Williams.
For a road from county line near A. Pear
soll's to public road near J. Bundy's, in
Huston township. Viewers, S. F. McCIos
key, A. V. C. Rosecrans, Charles Brown.
For a road :rom II. S. Weber's farm to
intersect road at Jefferson county line near
II. Anthony's, in Brady township. View
ers, R. Luther, D. Rishel, C. Hock.
For a road from G. A. Marshall's to in
tersect Coal Hill road, in Brady township.
Viewers, R, Sutton, S. J. Hoover, James
Irwin.
For a road from Chestnut Ridge School
house to Askcy's tavern, in Pike township.
Viewers, James Mitchell, Jordan Reed, J.
Hartshorn.
Confirmed, Absoi.ctelt. A road fron
near Laurel Run to the road near A. Reed's
in Lawrence township.
A road from 1). Brubakcr's farm'to Stony
Bridge School house, in Union township.
A road faom Ilahu's road to intersect
road at Daily's farm, in Penn township.
A road from near Clover Hill School
house to road on line between James Mitch
ell and S. Tate's heirs, in Lawrence town
ship. A road from near tho church in New
Washington borough to borough line at
William Hutton's.
Confirmed Nr. Si. A road from Joab
Rider's to fo rks of road leading to Catholic
church, in Covington township.
A road from Cambria road to intersect
road between J. Foy's and 31. 31. Foot's
farms, in Beccaria township.
A road 1 miles from Ulahville to inter
sect rosd from E. Davis' to Donation School
house, in Beccaria township.
To vacate and supply road from Adam
Weber's to Henry Rheem's, in Brady town
ship. To vacate road from 31 1 Pleasant farm
of Fry to old Warrick farm of Foot, in Bec
caria township.
A road from Benjamin Knepp'g to Gal
lows Harbor, in Bradford township.
A road from Jacob Uumel's to Hartfelt's
sawmill, in Brady township.
A road from Poplar Run road to near
Thomas Wall's sawmill, in Penn township.
A road from month of Pine run in Knox
township, to the road from Glen Hope to
Philipsburg near Madeta bridge.
To vacate and supply road from the north
ern line of Clearfield borough to brick yard
north of said "borough, in Lawrence town
ship. Several other road petitions were con
tinucd to September term.
The last Grand Inquest again recommend
ed the building cf a new jail.
!' ckargtd doubt Htual rates. Nttuu
K. B O T T O R
. photograph Gallery
F S
kabeet street, clkamei,b, pem'a
Negatives mads -i i ..
r pr.- V. U "ana a good assortment
rJf?ZZZ-m& 6t.reo.copi. Vj.a.
... J -V neiiams. made to
ruer. i - , . L.
A T APLE SUGAR luii r..:..i .
--. i- P. KhAIZJCit S, .Market street.
JTEW ADTEKTISEMEHT8.
31
rillTE WIXE VINEG Alt a 7
, ALL PAPER new and Lcautitul d.n..
suitable for narlor. ""KM,
nld . ' ' , -,r rBnaj.
r -- i-. ivnAltER s '
TP KRATTER sells the best mowing ...,,.
. patent snaths. KboHes etl.brated k'
hay forks, solid steel shovels, hoes, spades
harvest cans, Ac. "coop,,
N Tlm E- A11 l ersons are hereby notified
X1 notTto trust or harbor Mary McMana
as a township charge. She being able t.
tain herself, the township will p., o debts Z
her contracting. ADAM UKRbitAJj
jjr J.'6-3t-50 eta dne. Orerseer Beecarit p.
niSSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP
The partnership heretoioie existing K"
tween the undersigned in the wagon maxis bT
siness has been dissolved by mutual consent All
persons indebted to the said firm are requested Iu
make immediate settlement. nd thnn htvin
claims will present them. WM.M'KMUht
-Jl'JM- CHAS. JANSoi.
TN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THF
Uuited States, for the Western District'
or Pennsylvania: At Clearfield ihe 13th da, .r
June, 1863: J "
To wnoir rr at coxcenx : The BBderriene
hereby gives notice of his appointment ar rMt
of David Persing, of Mosbannon Station in tb
county of Clearfield, and State el PennnTlvania.
within the xaid District, who has been .li'u lrtj
Uauaruptoa creditors' petition by the District
Court of said District.
t. A. A. ADAMS, Assignee.
To the creditors of said Bankrupt.
CLEARFIELD ACADEMY.
The First Session of the next Soholactie ynr
of this Institution, will commence on Jiocdtv,
the 6th day of September. 1S69.
Pupils can enter at any time. They will be
charged with tuition from the time they enter ts
the close of the session.
The course of instruction embraces everything
included in a thorough, practical and aeeom.
plished education of both sexes.
The Principal having had the advanteCe of
much experience in his profession, assorts pa
rents and guardians that his entire ability and
energies will be devoted to the mental and moral
training of the youth placed under his harg.
Terms or Tcitiox:
Orthography, Reading. Writing and Primary
Arithmetic, per session, (II weeks.) Si 9
Grammar, Geography, Arithmetic, and Hist.
y- S.M
Alrebrj,Geometrv, Triironomotrv. Me nan rmti
Purveying, Philosophy, Physiology, Chemistry
noon-Keeping, uotany, and Physical tiengra
Latin, Greek and French, with anv of tha .
bove branches ilion
Music. Piano, i30 lessons ) Hft.PO
I tTXo deduction will be made for absence.
For further particulars inquire of
Rv P. L. HARRISON, a. w.
July 3I.18B7. Prisseirail
LIFE INSURANCE
COMPARISON.
Advantage of the MUTUA L VI a ovrr the
Rttn.ru Premium Plan mf
S TO C K C OMPA X 1 ES:
BATES.
. Rrtiirn Pr'm Mutual liifirrmem JW'r
Aire. Plan Piatt oti Si.lKKi c la (hid
4a $in 65 SS2 00 5
45 oA 2(1 37 :t0 16 VO 19 i d
50 75 50 47 no 2- 50 iin
53 109 35 5a 40 4 5 )w H
On the ages named the rates of the Stork Com
pany are from 2 to St percent, bigiicr tu n tiis
Mutual rates.
KKSfl.TS.
Policy for S.'t.nofl at I Policy in the MdiuiI
age of 32, on the return I Company same fail f
Companies. annual xre
premiam plan ol l-I.KJK , easti . half n.te. fur i.'S.-
Di.d. nil I eii inlOjrarn.
in enjn. iri'ludn.f in
terest on notes. it.-'Mij.
But the Mutual Co&ipa
n.v will pay tne
miuin.all ch. SIS'J 50
aud no DivLltml to be
made. In easeof death
at end of 10 years, the
Stock Company will pay
the
Am't of Policy S5.000
Keturn Premium 1. 395
Am't of Policy SI0.M
Le&s I'r'iu notes 5ns
Cash
and 4 i i idead.
in Cam.
Showing that for a 1 1 0 tunrr C,isl rrrmium,
the gain on the Mutual plan to the intire1 mem
ber's family is Fifty Per Cent Should dentil
occur at the end ot 5 years, the coni)arUon would
Cash p'd Stock Co S'"'97 5-pd to fHmPvVi.6!- is
" Mutual $7:ii Olt- ' " S'J.5M
and dividend.
At tho aze of 40, the Mutual plan for 5I.U16 Is
Cash fremiti m wiil viel.t ?M..tfiu ; nhiie theStf k
plan for 52 0;I2 50. Cash Premium, yields 57 iWi
0. Showing a gain on the mutual I Uj of S
327 50, and dividend.
INSURE TOUlt LIFE TS THE
PENN MUTUAL,
OF PIflLAD I! LPII1A.
II. B. SWOOPE, Agent.
July ll.'6-tf ClesrBeM. I'
HW. S .MIT II. ArroKSEr at Law. Clearfi'li
. Pa., will attend promptly to bn.ine- e
tru8ted to his care. June M'.
"PSTRAY. Strayed away from the rrem
i.ses of the Mthscriher, in Lawrence t'p
about the 1st of June, ISM, a pale red yenling
nencr. witn some white about us brad.
formaline respecting its whereabouts will lis
thanksnlly recaived.
June 30. io8. Mrs EI.EAV'K TAT.
AUTION. All persons are heniv ean-
tinned against r-nrehasiiisr a cTtiin
note given by me to J. M. Test, t f Decatur t .
May 17. Ib6. doe in 60 days from date, for tli
sum of One Hundred and Sixty Dollars .
have not received value for said note I will ft
pay it unless compelled so to do by process f
Osoeula, June lft,'a-:itp.-j:0. L. Fl'LTi
PXKCUTOR'S XOTICE.-L-tter. T.j--lJ
tanientarv on the estate of Robert h-
Fulton, late of Burnside town--hip. decesed,
having been granted to the underaiftne.1. -tiee
ia hereby given tat all persons indebted
S lid estate are requested to make iwmedikie pay
ment, and those baring claims againrt tfce ssw
will present them, properly authenticsled. l'
settlement to JAMES. ItlHt'U
June 30, 139-6tp je-utor
A DMIXISTRATORS' NOTICE.-!-
tern of Administration on the e'p
of Frederick Conklin. late of Graham tp dcfA
having been granted to the undernijtned. '
is hereby given that all persons indebted to ( ;
estate are required to make immediate Pjuin'
and those having claim.' against the same wo' Pr
sent them, properly authenticated for etU'e
to " FKANCIS COL:i:0.h-
Jane 30. 1 S69-6t pd . Adm trIOT ;
p AUTION. All persons are hereby can-
tinned against harl-oring or trustmp "
wife Minerva on my account, as I will PJ
debts of her contracting unless eomuelled to i.
so by due process of law. L.,., ru
June 53,r69-3t. OKO. B.JsMJnv.-
T"V TSSOT.TTTT A V (IP PARTNERSHIP'
1 riM . i - i ...lA.& arKtllie "
- iiie paniiersnip nrcitiiM ,,
the practtoe of law as WALLACE, BlfLfc
FIELDIKG, is dissolved. est-.
The business will be settled and berealter v..
ducted in the name of ... .trifE
June 9, l3H9-4tp. W'LU AMAALLAL
TyANTKD AGENTS for
V son'g Law of Business- .Vh
directions and forms for H transections, j- -ritate,
by Theophilus Parsons. L. L. D . fr T
of Law in Harvard University A "t' ,
everybody. Explaining every kind or "jl.
apd execute them. Tb highest ud bei l .
: . - -i . .. . ,:k.-.l trmf.
iij in ine tana, tend lor our uoci ---r.
for our Patent Bible Pro5tecm? i-"' iJ?.' ,.