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VOLUME 5.
TTVlRKGTORY.
MST OF POST OFFICES
Post Offices.
Beth el Station
Carollfowflj
Chess Sprin2s
Conemaugb
Cresson,
Ebensburg.
Fallen Timber,
JaIiitzin,.
3emlxJcf ;
Johnstown,
Loretto,
Mineral .Point,
ilunster,
flattsyille,
Koseland,
St. Augustine,
Scalp Level,
Sonman,
Summerhill,
Summit,
Wilmore, "
roat Masters.
Districts.
Enoch Reese,
Joseph Behe,
Henry Natter,
A; G. Crooks,
J. llo'usion,
John Thompson,
Asa H. Fiske
J. M. Chris ty,
"V7m Tiley, Jr.,
I. E. Chandfcjr,
M. Adlesberger,
Wissinger,
Blacklick.
Carroll.
Chest
Taylor.
Washint'n.
Ebensburg.
Whiter
Gallitzin.
"Washt'n.
Johnst'wn.
Loretto.
Conein'ghi
Munstef?
AndrW' J Ferral, Susq'han
Stan. Wharton
George Berkey, .
B. M'Colgan, .
Clearfield.
Richland.
Washt'n.
oyle.
w;n;Tn XPOnnnell Wab.t D-
Morris KeiL, S'meriH-
CHURCHES, MINISTERS, &c.
Presbyterian Bev. D. Habbisox, Pastor.
Preaching every Sabbath morning at 10J
o'clock, and in the evening at 3 o'clotk. Sab
bath School at 1 o'clock, A. M. Prayer meet
' ing every Thursday evening at 6 o'clock.
Methodist Episcopal Church Rev. J. S. Lem-
i'n rnTa. Rev. J. Gray, Af-
siatant. Preaching every Sabbath, alternately
at 10 o'clock in the morning, or 7 in the
evening. Sabbath School at 9 o'clock, A. M.
Trayer meeting every Thursday evening, at 7
Welck Independent -Rev Ll. R. Towell,
Tastor. Preaching every Sabbath morning at
10 o'ciock, and in the evening at 6 o clock.
Sabbath School at 1 o'clock, P. M. Prayer
meeting on the first Monday evening of each
month : and on every Tuesday, Thursday and
Friday evening, excepting the first wee in
each month." - - '
CalvinistiQ Methodist -Rev. Johx Williams,
Pastor. Preaching every Sabbath evening at
2 and 6 o'clock. Sabbath School at V o clock,
A. M. Piayer meeting every Friday evening,
at 7 o'clock.. Society every Tuesday evening
at 7 o'clock.".,
Disciples ntv. W. Lloyd, Pastor. Preach
ine every Sabbath morning at 10 o'clock.
Particular Bap lists Eev. David J ekkixs,
Tastor. Preaching every. babbath evening at
2 o clock. Sabbath School at at I o'clock, 1 . M.
Catholic Rev. M. J. Mitchell, Pastor.
Services everv Sabbath morning at 1 0 o clock
and Vespers at 4 o'clock in the evening.
CKEXSBl'KG MAILS.
MAILS ARRIVE.
Eastern, daily, at Hi o'clock, A. M.
Western, " at 11 1 o'clock, A. M.
MAILS CLOSE.
Eastern, daily, at 8 o'clock. P. M.
Western, " at 8 o'clock, P. M.
ErThft mails from Biitler,Indiana,Strongs
town, &c, arrive on Thursday of each week,
at 5 o'clock, P. M.
Leave Ebensburg on Jtriday oi eacn new,
at 8 A. M.
8, The mails from Ne-ttraan's Mills, Car
rolltown, &c, arrive on Monday, Wednesday
and Friday of each week, at 3 o'clock, P. M.
Leave Ebensburg on Tuesdays, Thursdays
and Saturdays, at 7 o'clock, A. M.
RAILROAD SCHEDULE.
CRESSON STATION
West Bait. Express leaves at
8.43
9.50
9.22
8.33
8.38
12.34
C.58
10.39
A. M.
P. M
A. M.
P. M.
P. M.
A. M.
A.M.
A. M.
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" Phila. Express
Mail Train
East Through Express
" Fast Line
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Fast Mail
Through Accora,
COUNTY OFFICERS.
Judjesofthe Courts President, Hon. Geo.
Tajlor, Huntingdon; Associates, George W.
iey, Henry C. Devine.
Protkonotary Joseph M'DonaH.
Rtgitter and Recorder James GriSin.
Sheriff John Buck.
District Attorney. Philip S. Noon.
County Commissioners Peter J. Little, Jno.
Campbell, Edward Glass.
Treasurer Thomas Callin.
Poor House Directors George M'Cullough,
George Delany, Irwia Rutledge.
Poor House Treasurer George C. K. Zabrn.
Au-iiUrs William J. Williams, George C.
K-Zatra, Franci3 Tierncy.
toumy Surveyor. lienry ocanian.
Coroner I'--James Shannon. .
Mercantile Appraiser Patrick Donahoe.
Xrtft. of Common Schools J. F. Condon.
t I tnExsnrnc noil, officers.
-AT LARGE.
Jitices of the Peace David II. Roberts
Earrisoa Kinkead. .
School Directors Abel Lloyd, Phil S. No
Joshua D. Parrisb,. Hugh Jones, E.J. Mi
oon,
lis,
"ia j. Jones. ; . . .
EAST WARD. "
Constable Thomas J. Davis. . :
Town Council i. Alexander Mooref Daniel
Evans, Richard R. Tibbott, Evan E. Evans,
wlliam Clement. ' " " ' '' : ' .
tntptctort Alexander Jones. D. O. Evans.
Judge of Election Richard Jones, Jr. 1
Anettor Thomas M. Jones.- ... -
Aitittant Assessors Tbly$ 13. Evans, Wm.
D- Davig. -
... . ..WEST WARD.' '
Contlahle William Mills, Jr.
V y n Council John Dougherty, George C.
Zabm, Isaac Crawford, Francis A. Shoe
t&ker, James S. Todd. .' ; , ,.
Jvd3e of Election Michael Hasson. ,
Attuior-. James Murray. " -
Uu'''tant "or William Barnes, Dan-"
The General Bounty Hill.
AS ACT BKLATING TO THE PATMEST OT BOUNTIES
TO VOLCSTEERS.
We append the Bounty Bill as passed
by both houses of our State Legislature
and approved by the Governor :
Section 1. Be it enacted hy the Senate
and House of Representatives of the ' Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania, in General
,
Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by
tha authority of the same. That all bond
warrants or certificates of indebtedness,
issued by the Commissioners, or Commis
sioners and controller of any county, or
the corporate authorities of any city, ward
or borough, or the school directors, or
road commissioners, or supervisors, of any
township of this commonwealth, for the
rtnvment of bounti3S to persons volunteer-
I i'utr to enter the military or naval service
I of the United States, under any reqaisi-
. i . t T ?J a C
ticn heretofore made oy me rresiuenD oz
the United States, be and the same are
hereby .'egafoed, made valid .and binding
upon such counties, cities, wards, boroughs
and townships as if full and legal author
ity had existed fiJJthe issuing and making
of the same when the v were issued and
made ; and that in U oases where any
special committee, cotti.mis.sioner, or an
individual or individuals, of any county,
city, township, or borough or ward, shall
have subscribed and paid, er becu'.me" per
sonally liable for the pavment of monO
for the purpose ot paying Douoiies
volunteers, under the late calls of the
President of the United State, who have
been mustered into the United States milita
ry service, and creditedlo such county, city,
township, ward, or borough, with the
understanding, or agreement, that a law
would be enacted to levy and collect a
tax upon such county, city, township,
borough, or ward, for the payment of such
Advancement and liabilities, all subscrip
tions, so paid, or money borrowed a?
aforesaid, shall be good and valid against
such county, city, township, borough, or
ward, as if the same had been subscribed i
or borrowed by the corporate authorities !
of the same, under the provisions of. this j
act : and it shall bo the duty of the com
missioners, supervisors, councils, or school
directors, as the case may be, to proceed
to levy and collect a tax upon such
county, city, township, borough, or ward,
sufficient to pav the principal of all such
claims, with interest thereon until the
day ot the payment, together with the
cost of collectiou thereof. .
Sec. 2. That all payment of bounties to
volunteers, entering the service of the
United States as aforesaid by the com
missioners, or the commissioners and
controller, of any county, or the corporate
authorities of any city, ward, or borough,
or by the school directors, or road com
mUsinnPN. or suDervisors. of any town-
nf this commonwealth, and all loans
made by said authorities, for the purpose
of making suca payments, oe auu iuc
same are hereby legalized and made valid.
Sec. 3. That the.authorities aforesaid
are hereby authorized and required to exe
cute and complete all agreements and
contracts heretofore made by the aforesaid
v,-;mpi nf such counties, cities, ward,
boroughs, or townships, for the payment of
bounties, as aloresaid, or ior reiuouiu.
advancements made for that purpose by
any committee, special commissioners, in
dividual or individuals, on condition that
they should be refunded, according to the
true intent and meaning of such agree
ments and contracts ; and for that purpose
the said authorities are hereby authorised
to borrow money, and issue bonds, war
rants or certificates in the name of such
county, corporations, or townships, with or
without interest coupons attached, payable
at such time and place as may be agreed
upon, and to levy such -taxes as may be
necessary to meet tho payment of the
principal and interest of said bonds, war
rants and certificates, as the same, aha I
become due; which taxes aod levies shall
be assessed and collected as other county,
city, ward, borough or township taxes are
assessed, levied and collected : . Provided,
That in all election or enrollment districts,
Wt having any constituted authorities, ?s
contemplated by 'this act, competent to
levy and collect said, tax, the board of
election officers of . such district shall be
authorized to levy and proceed to. have
uaid tax collected in such districts. .. ...
r Sec. 4.. That all assessments heretofore
made 6f taxes for . the purpose of paying
bounties, as aforesaid, be and the same is
hereby legalized and made valid : 1 fo
wled, That the property of non-commis-eioned
officers, and privates, in actual
service in'tbe United .States army and
navy, from this Commonwealth, or who
died, or were permanently disabled, 10 such
service, or having been in such service for
the space of one year, and .six months,
were honorably discharged therefrom and
the property of widows, minor children,
EBENSBURGr, PA., THURSDAY, APHIL
and widowed mothers of non-commiasioned
officers and privates, who died in such
service, shall be exempted from taxation
under the provisions, of this act : Provid
ed, That the provisions of the first, second,
third and fourth sections of this act 6hall
be so understood as to have reference only
to such agreements and contrasts as have
been entered into by the authorities
aforesaid, -subsequent to the seventeenth
day of Qctober, one thousand eight hun
dred and Bixty-three. .
Sec. 5. That all the provisions of the
fourteenth section of an act to create a
loan, and provide for arming the State,
passed the fifteenth day of May,, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-one,
which authorized the associate judges and
couDty commissioners of the several coun
ties cf this Commonwealth, to constitute
a board, of relief for the families of such
volunteers as have been, or shall be, en
rolled and mustered into service from
their several countie?, are hereby extend
ed and applied to the families of men-who
have been, or may hereafter be drafted or
conscripted and mustered into the service
of the United States, and credited to the
quota of said counties, respectively j and
all arrangements made by tb.3 several
counties of this Commonwealth, for the
support of the families of volunteers,
militia, drafted or conscripted men, mus
tered into the service, and credited, as
aforesaid, are hereby . legalized and con
firmed; and full and legal authority L
hereby given said county commissioners
to borrow money for the payment of such
eTTh?nses, and for the extension of auch
relibf t0 the; families of all private sol
diers non-commissioned. officers who
have beei? mustered in, or may hereafter
bo niuaterea into the service of the United
States, and credited as aforesaid, in pur
suance of auy requisition made, or to be
made.' bv the President of the United
Statea, or by any law of the United States
now made, or hereafter, to be made, or by
the Governor of Pennsylvania, or aayJaw
of paid . Commonwealth now made, or
hereafter to be made-
Sec. 6. That the Commissioners of any
end every county in thi Commonwealth
are hereby authorized to borrow such sum
or sums of money as may be sufficient to
pay to each and every non-commissioned
officer and private soldier who volunteered
from such county, and entered-the milita
ry or naval service of the United States,
on or after the seventeenth day of October,
Anno Domini one thousand eight hun
dred and sixty-three, and to each and
every non-commissioned officer and private
soldier who may hereafter volunteer and
enter the service of the United States
from such county, and be credited to the
quota thereof in pursuance of any requisi
tion of the President of the United States,
or by any law of the United States now
made, or hereafter to be made, a sum not
exceeding three huudred dollars : Provi
ded t hoirever, That in that part of any
county where school directors, or road
commissioners, or supervisors of any
township, or where the corporate author
ities of any city, ward or borough, or any
committee, epecial commissioners, indi
vidaal or individuals, have paid, or have
now commenced to raise a fund for the
, purpose of paying such bounties, it shall j
be lawful jorFucli school directors orroaa
commissioners, - or supervisors . of such
township or towtisjiipa, or the corporate
authorities of such city, ward or borough,
te borrow such sum or sums of money as
may bo required to pay to each volunteer
from such district, a sum not exceeding
three hundred dollars ; and it shall be
lawful for such authorities of said townships,
cities, wards cr boroughs, to i3sue bonds
yi said townships, cities, wards or boroughs,
for such sum orsuras of money, and in such
amounts as may be necessary to pay the
authorized, bounty to each volunteei
required to fill the' quota or quotas of such
township, city, ward or borough: And
provided further. That such townships,
cities, wards and boroughs as have filled
their quota or .quota under any call or
requisition heretofore .made by the Presi
dent of the United.States as aforesaid;
without aid from the county, city or bor
ough, ' shall be exempt from any tax
levied, or to be levied, by said county,
city or borough for tho payment of boun
ties, or for the' payment .of any bonds
issued by said county commissioners, city
or borough authorities, for the payment of
bounties to volunteers . to fill the quota
aforesaid :. .And provided further, That
no county, city, ward, township, borough,
or other districtwhich shall have agreed
to offer to pay as bounty to each volunieer
credited to such county, city, ward, town
ship, horough or other district, a larger
sum than three hundred dollars, shall be
subject 'to the limitation as to amount
prescribed in this act; but any payment
made, or te be made, or obligation given,
or in be civen. or liability incurred, or to
be incurred, in pursuance of such offer or
agreement, i3 hereby ratified and declared
to be lawful and valid i And provided
further, That in cse tho Commissioners
of any county, or the Commissioners and
Controller of any county in this Common
wealth, shall neglect or refuse to take the
necessary steps to raise or complete the
raising of bounties in townships, wards
ld boroughs, not having raised, or dem
menced to raise bounties at -the time of
the passage of this act, then, and in that
ase, said township, ward or borough, by
their authorities aforesaid, shall have,
power to procee'd and raise bounties U3 if
done by the county authorities.
Sec. 7. That the said county commis
sioners, or school directors, road commis
sioners or supervisors, of any township, or
CDrporate authorities of any city, ward or
borough, are hereby authorized, (for the
purpose of carrying out the provisions of
this act,) to borrow money, and issue
bonda, certificates of indebtednc?s, no
bond, or certificate, to be less than the
sum of twenty-five dollars, except when
the bounty is less than twenty-five dollars,
in the name of such county,, township,
city, ward, or borough, wiUi or without
interest coupons attached, payable at such
time, and in such manner, as may be
agreed upon ; and to levy, and assess, on
all property, professions, trades, and occu
pations, subject to taxation, for State and
countv nurnoses. and collect such taxes as
mav be necessary to meet the principal
and interest ot said bonds and certincates,
as they shall become due and payable;
which taxes shall be collected as county,
cily, ward and borough, taxes are now
levied and collected, including a per capita
tax of not more-than one dollar. on all
taxable male inhabitants ; Provided, That
only one per capita' lax shall be levied in
any one year : Provided, That in all cases
where any person or persons, liable to
draft, have, for the purpose of raising the
sum requisite to pay a bounty to the vol
unteers required to fill the quota of any
county, city, ward, borough or township,'
stipulated, in writing, to pay a sum great
er than the amount of tax which would
be due upon the assessed valuation ofthcir
real or personal property, it shall and may
be lawful for the corrate authorities of
such county, city, ward, borough and
totvnship, to collect the amount so sub
scribed : Provided, That no bonds or
certificates, issued under any of the pro
visions of this act, shall be for a longer
period than ten vears : Provided furOer,
That in alf cases where a borough and
township have separate boards of sthool
directors, and are embraced in one district,
for the purpose of the military draft, the
directors of said districts are hereby au
thorized tj act jointly in carrying into
effect the provisions of this act.
Sec. 8. That in aSl cases where the
county commissioners of any county, the
school directors, road commissioners or
supervisors of any township, or the corpo
rate authorities of any city, ward or bor
ough, have levied a per capita tax upon
persons subject to draft or military duty,
the action of said corporate authorities be
and the 6ame is hereby legalized and made
valid. . . . '
i . Sec. 9 That in any case where a part
of the bountv. authorized bv this act, has
been paid by any ward, township, city or
borough, and said ward, township, city or
borough authorities, as aforesaid, glial!
neglect or refuse to pay. kucu part as
remains unpaid by the terms of their
agreements to pay bounties to volunteers,
then the difference between the bum so
paid, and the full aaiount of the bounty
promised, (not exceeding in the whole the
sum of three hundred dollars to each
volunteer,) shall belaid said volunteers by
the county authorities in which said ward,
townships, cities or boroughs are located ;
and the county commissioners in which
said ward, township3, cities or boroughs
are located shall assess, levy and collect a
tax on such defaulting ward, townships,
cities or boroughs as other ward, township,
city or borough taxes are levied and col
lected, in such" amounts as may be required
to pay tho balance due the volunteers, as
aforesaid, from such defaulting township;
city, or borough. .
Sec. 10. That the money so borrowed
by the county commissioners, shall be
paid over to the treasurer of tha proper
county, who shall pay to each nou-com-missioncd
officer, or privato soldier, who
volunteered from and ha3 been credited to
to the quota of such county, and has been
mustered into the service of the United
States, or has been honorably discharged
therefrom, the sum of money to which
such person shall becntitled, under, the
provisions of this act, on the warrant or
order of the commissioners, drawn on him
for that purpose ; and said treasurer shall
not receive more thau onehalf of ono per
centum on any money so -paid over to
him.. . -r ... . - , . : . ....
SFf-Vll. That the. money so borrowed
by the school directors, or road commis-.
7, 1864.
sioners, or supervisors of any township, or
the corporate authorities cf any city, waTd
or borough, shall be
treasurer of said city.
raid over to the
township, or when such officer docs not
exist, to a person duly appointed by said
authorities of said township, city, ward,
or borough, who, upon giving sufficient
bond for the faithful performance of his
duties, shaU prbceed to pay such persons
in the manner directed by the tenth sec
tion of this act, and shall be allowed the
same percentage as is allowed to the
county treasurer by the tenth section ot
this act : Provided, That the compensa
tion allowed to any collector of taxes,
uudcr this act, shall not exceed two per
centum.
. Sec 12. That in case any veteran
soldiers, who have rc-cnlistcd, and have
not been credited to any special locality,
sha'l hereafter be credited on the present
draft, to tire locality from which they
originally volunteered, suc-h veterans shall
be paid by tho local authorities, whose
duty it is to pay bounties, such bounty as
under the provisions of this act shall be
paid to volunteers from said locality.
Sec. 13. That if. any soldiers or non
commissioned officers or privates, who
would have been entitled to receive the
said bounty, shall . have died before re
ceiving the money, the proper authorities
shall pay the same to such person or per
sons as, by the laws of the United States,
would be entitled to receive the bounty of
deceased soldiers. .
Sec. 14. That all accounts of the re
ceipts and expenditures of the bounty
fund, arising from any taxes that have
been assessed, or may be assessed for the
purpose, as aforesaid, shall be audited in
like manner as other county, township,
city, borough, or school district, accounts
are audited.
' Sec. 15. All bonds, warrants, cerlillcatc3
of indebtedness or loans issued, or to be
issued, under the provisions of this act,
or of any special act heretofore passed, or
hereafter to be passed, authorizing panic-.
u!ar cities, counties, wards, boroughs, or
townships, to borrow moneys and pay
bounties to volunteers, shall bo exempt
from all taxation.
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Tlte Petroleum Region.
The editor of the Oil City Rejistzr, in
closing the second volume of his weekly
publication j thus refers to the improve
ments which have taken place ia that
vicinity within a short period :
"It is now over two years since wc first
arrrived in Oil City, with our press and
material:?, after a tediou3 journey in mid
winter, over almost impassible road?, from
Kittanniug to this place. . OiL City was
then a town in the wilderness, .consisting
of little else than board ehaties. The
present immense Petroleum business was
but fairly commencing. With the first
issue of the Oil City Register, our citizens
organized a borough, aud laid the founda
tion of the present flourishingcity. The
contrast between now and then is sO great
as to almost eppcar incredible: In these
two short' years the export of Petroleum
to foreign countries ha3 increased from
about 7,000,000 to 23,000,000 galioDs.--The
home consumption, has increased in
like ratio. Oil City now numbers between
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tour anauve mousanu lnuauiiauia. alhi;;
the valley of Oil Ureek, ior a distance e
twelve miles, an almost continuous town
has spruug up as if by magic. Wo
estimate the entire population of Oil City
and Oil Creek at from 12,000 to 15,000,
which is daily increasing by fresh arrivals.
Two railroad? tapping the Oil Region
have been built, and several more arc
projected and under course of completion
to this point. The marine fleet engaged
ia tho oil trade has averaged about 500
oil boats and barges, besides some fifteen
steamers. In a busy season, even this
immense means of transportation has
been found inadeqite to the great and
growing Petroleum trade. There are now
seventy-six refineries in this collcctioned
district, with an average capacity of from
ten fo three hundred barrels per day, and
many more are building,. Blocks of
stylish and substantial dwellings and bus
iness houses now line our principal streets ;
one church has been built, and two more
'are in course of construction, as well
as a .' commodious school house. From
one' well has beeu realized, so we are a
authentically informed, $1,000,000 during
the past season." " . .
an inclined plane to relieve you.'
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"Ah?"renlied red. who had more
relish for wit than work, "the plane may
be inclined, but I am not.".
. ; "Wake up and pay for your lodg
ings," said the deacon, as he nudged a
sleepy Etranger with the contribution box.
-Ssjk. "Why don't you wheel the barrow
cf coals, Ned ?" said a miner to one of his
sons. ."It's not a very hard job ; there's
NUMBER 28.-
A Salient Kcbiile.
The Ebensburg Democrat & Sentinel;
of the 23d inst., in the coarse of some'
remarks touching. the Philadelphia Sun
day Mercury criticism of the Moore-Mar-bourg
homicide case verdict, (published
in theso columns last Week,) took occasion
to travel cut of the line of its duty by
indulging in a tolerably strong insinu
ation that H. L.Johnston, Esq., was the
author of that scurrilous production.
Whereupon, Mr. J. indignantly denies the
"soft impeachment," and proceeds to
"take down" the Dem. & Sent.- in this
wise ' 1
Mr. Todd Sir: In vour issue of Iaa
L wcek, under.the caption of "An Insult to'
Cambria County,' you do mean injustice?
which I desire to have corrected. From
that article I extract the. following sen
tences in ' reference to an article which -had
appeared in the Sunday Mercury.
"Wc have heard very strong insinua
tions that the article was written by an
interested individual of this county." '
"Perhaps the key-note to the kink in this
afiair, and the copious encomiums on the
talents and superior skill of a certain at
torney, might be found in a very small
space, in a former number of the 'Mer
cury "
As the only counsel noticed in tho
article referred to in the "Mercury," of
course I am the person alluded to. If
instead of "a certain individual of this
county," and "a certain attorney," you
had said "Itobcrt L. Johnston," your ar
ticle would, at least, have had the merit
of manliness ; but as you deal in "insinu
ation" only, your article might injurd
others, when it was only intended to injure
me. - . -;. ,
Why you depart from your usual inof
fensive course for the purpose of damaging,
by insinuation," a man who never harmed
you, I am at a loss to know. You are
well aware, sir, that I have never doubted
either the houesty or the legal ability of
Judge Taylor; nor have I ever doubted
for a moment tho intelligence and purity
of the juros of Cambria county. And
the. fact that in the case in question, in
which the Commonwealth asked for a
conviction for murder in the first degree,
and in which the Coufe instructed them,
to find for murder in the first degree, un
less "insanity was clearly proven," a ver
dict of murder ia the second degree
instead of a defeat, was a triumph for the
prisoner, and proves that, in . Cambria
county, jurors will not hang a man for
slaying the seducer of his wife.
But, sir, I had nothing more" to do with
any articles in the Mercury than with the
able editorials of your own paper. Iu
practice of nearly twenty-five years, I have
never written an article 'for any paper
connected with the trial of any.case. In
the Moore case, 1 paid no attentio'ri tc
reporters, publishers, or anything else;
except my duties as couu-el. Along witht
my able colleagues, I endeavored to savo
from the death punishment as pure and
upright a citizen a3 lives in Pennsylvania5
and we su3ceeded. . --
I regretted the article in tho Mercury
so fir as aught was said derogatory td
cither Judge Taylor or the jury. .Thac.
could not be palatable to any attorney id'
Judge Taylor's District, and, I presume;
was called out by a slur upon an equally
honest and able Judge in Philadelphia.?
But with that I have nothing to do they
are responsible" for what they say. More
than this, they are men whom I am proud'
to call my friends, and men, too, who a'reV
able to do what some editors cannot,
write their own editorials.,
I admit that iri ihe notice of myself iri
th? Mercury, personal friendship has at
tributed to mo ability and talent" that I do
not pos3es3. It is the failing of the gen
erous and warm-hearted to do so. 13ut
the praise of tlia generous and noble ha,
not been more usefui to me through life
than tho malicious insinuations of the .
mean and envious. And among the latter
I ha-e met nothing s contemptible zi.
the article to which I have referred aiit
article that on a groundless suspicion.
would endeavor to create difficulty between
Court and counsel, and that would be
intended to impair my professional sue-'
cess and usefulness before the intelligent"
people of Cambria couuty, who are called
upon as jurors to decide upon questions
ol hie, Iibertv, and prcpertv.
R. L' JOHNSTON'.- '
March 23, ",S$4. , r
rs5- If the color of Jeff. Davis' skin,'
says Prentice, were to strike in, his soul,
would be white. If the color of his soul
were to strike out, his skin' would be'
back.. ;. w ;
JEST Declaiming against pride, is nofc
alwaye a sign of humanity. . .
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