rest in a year. This ws in the vicinity
of a couple of weeks after they returned,
floueer's feet were pore. They cupped
them, and puto medicine called iodine on
them." On further examination and
croFS-exaniination, he aid " 1 rather
think it was in tbft fore part of the day I
saw them on Iriday ; came to Mr. Miller's
house. Saw them on the street on Mon
day. It was after they came back the
fret were cupped. Daniel helped to move
Mrs. Miller on the 17th of July; I am
positive. I don't think there was any
thing eaid by them in any conversation
with me about Cambria county. 1 under
stood litem to t-ay they were going up the
railroad towards the mountain. I under
stood it from Dan. I asked Dan what he
was going to do for h living. lie said he
knew where ho could make a cool 40,000,
aud it was easy to be got. It was in the
same conversation about going to the
mountain."
. This branch of the evidence consti
tutes a material part of the evidence of
the Commonwealth; a, if believed, it
. hhows that the prisoners left Allegheny
city together; carrying with them a tin
box and carpet tack, avd one of them
ttating that they were going "up the
railroad towards the mountain,'.' on Mon
day of the week the murder was cornmit
ed, and returned together on Friday or
Saturday of the same week, afcer the mur
der had been committed; and sfjows, also,
other facts of conduct in tbe allegation of
the Commonwealth, btaring upon the
great fact in question. The testimony of
these witnesses, should; therefore, receive
jour eericus examination, and careful
scrutiny.
It is argued that they are not worthy
of credence, and should not be believed
on account of what may be inferred from
their statement, more particularly in
their cross-examination, of their habits
and associations in Allegheny city. That,
gentlemen, with evcrjthing elicited from
them, as well as everything you have ob
served in their manner of testifying, is
proper for your consideration in judging
of their truthfulness, and their claims to
your credence ; but their rank or associ
ations?, whatever they may appear to be,
does not render them incompetent wit
nesses, or furnish a sufficient reason why
their testimony should be entirely thrown
aside, and excluded from consideration.
' It is in the associations, and from the as
sociates of persons accused of crime, that
we generally and usually find witnesses of
- their conduct. Ye W0u!'J 2"?t eXpCt the
most moral, intelligent, and refined citi
zens, of Allegheny city to know anything
about the prisoners. You saw the manner
of theso witnesses. They were subjected
to a searching cross-examination ; particu
larly Mrs. Graham. No witness has been
called to impeach their character for truth
and veracity. In view of their manner,
and everything elicited from them, you
must judge of the truth of their testimouy.
Do you believe them ? If you do, what
that, has. any material bearing upon the
issue, does their testimony satisfactorily
prove? .
Ve now direct your attention to the
testimony introduced for the purpose of
" showing the presence of the prisoners in
Cambria county, in the vicinity and near
the place where the murder was commit
ed, and before and about the time of it
commission. This evidence is very mate
rial ; so material that it their presencs
there, or nearer the place than Allegheny
city, though it is" only a few hours journey
by railroad, be not shown, the case of the
Commonwealth, whatever else that is al
leged may be shewn," would plainly fail.
The presence and conduct of the prison
ers there, before and near the time of the
murder, constitutes a necessary part of
the chain of circumstances relied upon to
connect the prifoners with the crime, and
prove their guilt.
To identify Houser in Cambria county
On the 25th of May, the Commonwealth
called aud examined Agnes' Diamond,
Mary Ann Hildebrand, William A.Stew
art, Jacob Giffin, and Hannah Cobaugh.
"Yq call jour attention to their testimony.
. . Agnes Diamond describes a man who
came to her residence at lleam'ty about
two miles from Couemaugh station, vho
tpoke of being lost; represented !iimselt
as a returned soldier, and hungry, and got
pomethiog to eat; wanted to stay till the
next day,-but the witness refused to keep
him ; asked tho road to the turnpike,
and left about 11 or 12 o'clock. She says,
it was the 25th of May to the best of
my knowledge. It was Ascension Thurs
day' -You heard what she said descrip
tive of him. She says, she does "not
pretend to say this" (Houser) in the man."
Mary Ann Hildebrand testifies that she
lives one-half mile from Ream's, and that
there was a man come to her house on
Thursday, of either the last week in May
or the first week of June; said he wag
hungry and tired; wanted something to
eat. It was between 1 and 2 o'clock. He
asked the road to Coneniaugh. He want
ed to sec Charley Wilson that was killed
about a 3 ear ago on the Penna. R. It.
Then says he, " where does the widow
live?" witue.ss understood him "widow
Wilson." She says he spoke broken Ger
man. You heard the description of him.
After describing him, she said, "I would
take this (llouser) to be the man to the best
.of my knowledge." When recalled she
aid, " I am certain this man was at our
Louse before the murder."
William A. Stewart testifies that ho
lives half a mile from Ream's. He says,
" I think I saw this man (Houser) ; had
not as much beard as he has now. It was
the last weak in May or the first week in
June, between 2 and 3 o'clock. Says he
cao you tell me where this widow lives V
I eajs, ' what widow V He said 4 widow
Wilson Said he wanted to get to tho
Penn'a. Ii. R. that night. He said, he
wanted to go dowu the rood ; asked about
the trains." . " , .
Jacob Giffin testifies that he Uvea in
sight of Stewart's, and that on the first
week of Juue or -the last week of May,
the 25th, " that is the man pointing to
llouserj that passea my place. It was
about 2 o'clock ; between 2 and 3 ; after
the middle of the day. Saw the man
coming in the woods between the two
roads. Aeked where the widow lived;
said widow Wilson.' Showed him the
road. He spoke broken Dutch. William
Stewart, 6aid the day after that it was a
kind of holiday"." On cross-examination,
he said, "I can't make any thing else but
that is tho man."
Hannah Cobaugh testifies : " I live in
Taylor township, half a mile from the
house of Jacob Giffin. I am pretty cer
tain it was Thursday the 25th of May.
She fixes tho time of the circumstance
of selling a heifer to a butcher. I seen
him coming. He told me the dog bit. him.
She describes him. It was about 3 or
4 o'clock in tho afternoon, towards even
ing. I do think he is here ; that dark
haired man. Houser In her cross-examination
she said "that is the man to the
best pf my knowledge."
These witnesses, except Agnes Diamond,
with more or less positiveness, identify
John IS. Iffjvser, as the man seen by
them. You heard their descriptions of
the man, so far as they describe him.
Agnes Diamond, if the man she saw is
the same seen by the others, fixes tbe
time as " Ascension Thursday," the 25th
day of May : Jacob GifSn says it was " the
first week of June or the last week of
May, the 25th," and as he learned "a
kind of holiday :" Mary Ann Hildebrand
says, it was " on Thursday of either the
last week in May or the first week in
Juue :" William A. Stewart, that it was
" the last week in May or the first week in
June :" and Hannah Cobaugh is " pretty
certain it was Thursday the 25th of May."
The witnesses of the Commonwealth, if
believed, show -both of the prisoners to
have been in Allegheny city the first
Thursday in June; and the Thursday
following that, was the day after the mur
der, or the day the bodies were found.
Gentlemen, was that man, seen by these
wituesEes in the vicinity of Conemaugh,
John B. Ifonser ? If so, tc Tien, and for
what purpose; was he there ?
It is further alleged that this same pri
soner, Jolai IS. Houser, was seen on Tues- j
day, the Gth day of June, the day before
the murder was committed, within three
fourths of a mile of Polly Paul's, making
particular inquiry about Polly Paul, and
otherwise moving and "acting in a singu
larly noticeable manner. To shew this,
Mrs. Susan Preall and Mrs. Sarah Paul
were called and examined cn the part of
the Commonwealth. This testimony is so
important that we refer to it at length.
Mrs! Preall testifies :
"My residence at that time the time
of the murder was between Isaac Paul's
and Summerhill; on the road -that leads
to Paul's.' ' ;" " ' " ' '
" There was a man came there with a
tin box the day before the murder. It
was on Tuesday. He asked me for a drink.
He asked roe if Movers lived there. I
told him a family by the name of
Myers lived there before I came. He
said he had been round there ten years
before. Then he asked me about the
property. I lived on; who owned it. I
told him who had it. He said he was out
for buying property; he thought that
would suit him. He asked me when my
husband would be home from the army.
He asked me who was my next neighbors.
I told him Mr. Warner lived one road,
and Mr. Paul the other. WThen I said
'Mr. Paul, he said is she married V I
told him I didn't say Mrs. Paul, I said
Mr. Paul was my next neighbor. Then
ho asked me if I had any cupping, or
leeching, or tooth drawing to do. Then
he started.
" I had never seen the man before.
There is a man in the Court House that
looks like him; that biggest, large dark
complected man Houser looks very much
like him. He is the same height, same
complexion, and looks very much like that
man. He had a mustache, dark clothes,
and white shirt. His language was bro
ken German ; he spoke very broken.
" It was between 12 and 1 o'clock. He
c.ime in the back way. When he started,
he started towards Warner's. Then he
turned round and said ' did you say this
was tuC Wf7 10 Paul s? I said, no. Then
he turned roU-"1 ani went, towards Paul's.
He had a tin box' in ins hand ; one just
like that. The box jn
can't see any difference.
box like that."
In her cross-examination she said, "I
lived on the road that goes ou.4- past Paul'?.
That man wore the same kind ?f mus
tache, not so much round the face, f ;as
not examined before. That evening I
went to Summerhill and told it at' Mr.
Cooper's house. It was before I heard of
the murders I was examined before the
Justice. lie was talking with me more
than 5 minutes; may have been 10 or 15.
I hadn't seen any one then that 'look
ed iike Ream. l had seen Riddle;
he wasn't there. Riddle didn't look like
the man that was at my house. It is half
a mile fr om my house to Isaac Paul's."
Mr3. Sarah Paul testis :
"I live about 1J miles from Summer
hill ; about 3 of a mile from where PoJy
Paul lived. I am a sister-in-law of her's.
The day beforo the murder happened,
there was a man came to our house; I
think it was between 1 and 2 o'clock, as
near as I can recollect. He commenced
asking about ' widow Paul; asked about
her. I told him I know'd nothing about
' widow Paul
him there was
neighborhood, that done some farming. I
told him she wasn't a widow. Then ho
asked about her property ; some one told
him fihe was going to sell her property. 1
told him phe wasn't going to sell it. He
asked me whether she lived by herself
then. I told him he was not by herself
now. He said was there any man about,
the house ? I told him there was a girl
there, -and told him the girl was taking in
wearing, and weaving for other people.
He oaid somebody told him she was weaving
still for other people. He asked me again
whether she was by herself now at pre
sent ; do now, I says ; she has a girl with
her. He sat there a while, pretty near
an hour I guess. Jle talked about all
such foolishness. Then would ask again
about Polly Paul called hef widow
Pau" I told him she never was married.
He said be must hunt her up any ways.
" He talked German from Germany
He said 1 how de-do" when he come to
the door, in English. That was all. He
was not very big; a dark colored man.
He had a beard. He had a mustache, and
Rome beard on his chin. I never seen him
before. I think he is in the Court House
now ; that biggest man. Pointing to Hou
ser. He had a tin box in his band ; he
hadn't it open. He said his business was
cupping and leeching, and tooth-drawing.
It .was a middling large box; it was
brown; it was a box pretty much like
that. One fouud with the prisoners, and
in court. -'
" He said he must hunt her np any
ways. He started off in the same direc
tion he came, towards Summerhill. He
asked me which road ; I pointed my hand ;
asked me if he would have to pass that
saw mill."
Cros?-examined she said : " I am the
wife of Mr. Isaac Paul. I told my hus
band when he came home in the evening.
I was not examined when Ream and Rid
dle were tried for this crime. I was ex
amined before the 'Squire. I told the
'Squire what I have been telling here. It
was after dinner this man was at my house.
It was on Tuesday ; I am certain of that.
He had nothing but a box as I seen.
I did see him come to the house. He
came from Summerhill. There were
some others there but they were not close
to hira. .
He wasn't so very big ; nor the small-
gUSbS
Mr.
the court. I
It was a small
He said somebody told
a ' widow Paul in that
est; common sized. I .couldn't
whether he was as tall a man as
Johnston; it is so loug since: I couldn't
tell exactly ; he looks much liko the man.
I do believe that this is the man;,. I think
it is. He is about the- size. I saw him
the Gth of June. About three weeks be
fore the last court. I saw this man in
the jail ; I went in to see whether I would
know him.
" I didn't say it was a clock pedlar be
fore the 'Squire. I didn't say before the
'Squire he had" no beard. I don't mind
whether he had a beard up along the side
of his face." .
This is the testimony of these two wit
nesses.. . Was the man seen, and described
by them, as they believe, Joiin B. Hou
ser ? It is for you, gentlemen, to decide.
The evidence of identity hero presented
you, is, the expressed impression and be
lief of the witnesses from recollection; the
description given of the man, so far as you
find it describes him; the fact that be
spoke broken German, or rather broken
English ; and, what is perhaps more ex
pressive than any other corroborating cir
cumstance, the fact that he had the box
and held himself out as a cupper and
leecher a professional character ! well
known in cities, but rarely ever seen iu
remote country localities, .like Croyle
township. Was it the prisoner, John R.
Houser ? If it was, and he is shewn to
have been there, a stranger, within f of a
mile of Polly Paul's house, enquiring
about her, her business, property, and
circumstances, in a manner that was re
markable and suspicious, the day before
she was robbed and murdered, and uot
found there afterwards, the presumption,
in the absence of some explanatiou, would
be violent that he knew something about
the crime, and had some agency. in its
commission. Denial, instead of explana
tion, would increaso the violence of the
presumption. And if his presence there,
at that time, and the conduct ascribed to
him there, be satisfactorily shewn, this
evidence, with other facts, if fould also to
be proven and well established facts in the
case, could not fail to suggest other aud
important inquiries. If it be a fact in
the caso that tho crime was perpetrated by
two men, and John D. Houser is shewn to
have been one, who was the other?
especially if it be shewn and believed, and
a fact in the case, that he and Daniel
Buses, in their previous companionship,
had purposed and plotted the specific crime
in the Penitentiary, Buser the more
distinctly involved in the guilty plot and
purpose, and if it be shewn aud believed
also, and also a fact in the case, that they
left Allegheny city together, to go "up
the railroad towards the mountain" two
day3 before the crime was committed, and
returned together, under circumstances
calculated to excite suspicion, two days
after its commission? And, besides, if
two mea were concerned in the perpetra
tion of the crime, is it probable that both
together would acting" the part here
ascribed to Houser ? CT is i, or is it not,
more likely that tho other, if not prepa
ring the clubs, apparently, as it feeins to
us, fashioned by tbe same hand, or doing
some other preparatory work, was, in the
back ground, waiting, in concealment, the
time for concerted action ? The impor
tance of this evidence adduced to prove
the presence of the prisoners in Cambria
county, at the time, and ns alleged; cannot,
gentlemen, be over estimated; since, if it
be a fact, it is a link in a chain of circum
stances which, if . substantiated in all its
parts, would seem to connect them, in vi
olent presumption, or: unavoidable infer
ence, with the body of the crime ; while,
if it be not a fact, satisfactorily proven,
the chain would be greatly weakened, it
not completely broken and severed. Gen
tlemen, was it John B. Houser that was
at the house of Mrs. Preall, and of Isaac"
Paul, on the 6th of June '
It is further alleged that tico men, cor
responding in size, appearance, and move
ment with the prisoners, were seen by
James R. Cooper on the evening of Wed
nesday,' the 7th of June, walking along
the Jackson road towards Poll Paul's;
and that two men were seen by Catharine
Harrison, the night of the same day, about
midnight, betwean Polly Paul's and Johns
town, inquiring for the latter place. This,
it is surmised and argued in behalf of the
Commonwealth, is a part of the whole
transaction, and traces the guilty agents
immediately to and from the scene of
blood. You will judge whether what is
disclosed in this part of the evidence, has
any bearing upon the issue, and throws
any light upon it.
Mr. Cooper says
"I reside at Summerhill. I was at
home on the 7th of June last. In the af
ternoon I went upon the hill, on the Jack
son road. Coming down the Jackson
road, I met two men going np. They
were "both walking in the middle of the
road,, and I was walking on the side.
They both appeared to have dark clothing.
The tallest one was next to me ; about 5
feet 8 inches hygh : the other half a head
shorter. I said 'good evening ;' they
muttered something and went ahead. This
was between 6 and 7 o'clock in the even
ing. The one next me was of dark com
plexion. I knew neither of them. The
one farthest off was tho shortest : the tal
lest one walked very straight. The other
had a stoopy, slouchy walk. The tallest
one had a large black valise in his hand ;
ho carried it off, that way like showiog
how. I believe that sticks like that the
clubs could be put in it. They both ap
peared to be dark' in th face. The road
they were on would lead to Miss Polly
Paul's. Their walk and size corresponded
with these men very much."
Mrs. Harrison says
"I would not be positive to the day, but
it wai the first week of June Polly Paul
was killed. It was during court week.
"On Wednesday night tw3 gentlemen
stopped at our house enquiring the road.
It struck 12 just.as they left. They ask-
ea me tne road to town. They didn't say
what town. 1 directed, them
straight on. Thev afterwards Raid thev
wanted to go to Johnstown: they said
they came from E'bensburj. One said,
John, we'll get to town yet before morn
ing; we are ten miles from Ebenburg"
The evidence, as we have thus followed
it, it is argued by the counsel of the
Commonwealth, establishes all their alle
gations j and that the testimony of the
witnesses from Allegheny city proving the
expressed motive, plans, and purpose, de
clarations and conduct of these prisoners
there, and the testimony of the witnesses
to prove their presence and conduct in
Cambria county, before and about the time
of the murder, together with the evidence
disclosing the manner in which it was
committed, coincide and harmonize in
bringing together parts of one transaction,
of which the robbery and murder of Polly
Paul, at the time and in the manner per
petrated, by these prisoners, is the great
central fact, without which the numerous
other facts and coincidences disclosed car.-
I 1.- 1. 1 tJ .
uui iu it?9vuttuiy ucuijumcu jui ui ex
plained; and that, in its harmony and
corroboration, it excludes every other rea
sonable hypothesis, suggested or supported
by any evidence. It is for you, gentle
men, to pass upon it.
It is urged, also, that, while the witnes
ses corroborate and sustain one an'otherin
proving facta which raise serious presump
tions against the prisoners, with every
facility afforded them for that purpose,
they have failed to furnish any explana
tion, or to give any account of where they
were, on what they were- doing, from
Monday till Friday or Saturday of the
week of the murder. And it is a princi
ple of reason and a rule of. evidence, gen
erally applicable, that "when appearances
are proved against an accused person,
which he refuses to account for or explaiu.
his refusal or omission to do bo increases
the force of the evidence against him."
"This consideration in criminal cases,"
says Mr. Starkie, "frequently gives a con
clusive character to circumstances which
would otherwise be of an imperfect and
inconclusive nature."
It is urged, also, that the whole evi
dence discloses no trace of any other
guilty agent or agents. You will enquire
whether it does; or whether every other
reasonable supposition, but the proposition
maintained by the Commonwealth, is ex
cluded by the combined and corroborating
weight and force of the evidence. Upon
this point, we leel constrained to say, in
justice to the rustic neighbors who assem
bled the next morning, and engaged in
the search for the bodies ot the murdered
females, that we have failed to discover in
the evidence, however it may impress
you, any thing which casts the most dis
tant suspicion upon them.
In conclusion, gentlemen, we commend
tho whole of the evidence to your most
serious and careful consideration. We
remind you again that you should be very
careful in ascertaining whether tho facts
from which conclusions are sought to be
drawn, are well established facts in the
case; and, if so proven, what conclusions
they fairly and reasonably support. The
issue is of most grave moment to these
prisoners, aud to the public. Your ver
dict should be- an expression of your un
biassed judgment; uninfluenced by preju
dice, sympathy, or timidity. And that
judgment you must form, just as you woirid
form it upon any other subject of serious
importance to yourselves or others. If
the evidence, all carefully considered,
brings your minds-to the settled, unwa
vering belief that the prisoners are guilty,
your duty is plain. There can.be no
question about the degree of their crimo.
If it does not so satisfy your judgment and
conscience, you should find them not
guilty. If you have a reasonable doubt
of their guilt, it is their right to be ac
quitted. If you havo not, they do not
deserve to be shielded by your sympathy.
You should not allow yourselves to be
swerved by any dread of results, for
which, if your conscience is clear, you
are in no sense responsible. Wc should
only and ever feel anxious to do our duty.
41 With consciences 1 satisfied with the
discharge of duty,". we may say to you in
the forcible and appropriate words of an
other, "no consequences can harm'ns.
There is no evil, that we cannot either
face or fly from, but the consciousness of
duty disregarded. A sense of duty pur
sues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the
Deity. If we take to ourselves the wings
of the morning, and dwell on the utmost
parts of the seas, duty performed or duty
violated is still with ns, for pur happiness
or our misery. If we say to the darkness,
cover us, in the darkness, as in the light,
our obligations are yet with us. We can
not escape their power, or fly from their
presence. They are'with us in thU life ;
will be with us at its close ; and, in that
scene of inconceivable solemnity which
lies yet farther onward we shall still find
ourselves surrounded by the consciousness
of duty ; to pain us, where it has boen vi
olated ; and to console us, so far as God
may have given us grace to discharge it."
Gentlemen, you have only, in the exer
cise of your best judgment, to do your du-
ij. ine case is now committed to you.
Correspondence of The Alleghanian.
Our UarrJsburg JLetter.
-ii 11 1
uieus it uas leaxea out that tbe i
mined twh imnnrfnf 1'
immediate efforts should be niaie C
ganize, thoroughly the riartv b0Sui,
tbem m condition to fight the next f
natorial battle'as a life aud death kH
2nd. To fight it on radical iw3
principles, without the slightest 2oi)f3
ivi pvpmar sentiment or the
weakened brethren.
Tlmlthl.-vi5
Things in the State Legislature ItTial has been
' Done, and what is Doing A Bit of Sport in
the House The Representatives vould rather
Hear Llenry Ward Beeeher than the Call of
Duty A Lttcly Review of the Democratic
Gubernatorial "Situation" Cass, Clymer,
Packer Republican Sentiment, $c.,'$c.
Harrisburo, Feb. 5, 18GG.
You will have observe! that up to this
time little of importance has been done in
tbe way of legislation. Bills of a local
nature have been read in place, and some
have been reported from committees; res
olutions have been offered, some of them
adopted, and petitions and remonstrances
to keep j without number, principally in reference
to running the street cars in Philadelphia
on Sunday, and for relief to old soldiers,
or the widows of old soldiers, have been
piled upon the Clerk's desk.' The absence
o tbe Governor somewhat retarded the
business of the session : but it is fair to
efforta.will be made for a rwerfairj
cratic demonstration at the Dolh l
fellows deserve credit for their rh
ur mem mere ii
such word as "die" in th
Would you believe it? Althoni "
immense majorities by the Bepok'
since and immediatelv rreceAlnZ.i
I although their manifest syr-'"
i the secessionists has &ientA il V
many of their ablest leading menanlv"
ot the rank and file, yet they still fel
ly maintain that their party stren4
not been diminished, that tbey areh
as strong, if not stronger th an ptp
th eir defeats are to he attributed
weakness on their part, but to frau. .
tlnoA K 1. T tir - . I
i.v,tv vj mo JAejmuiicans, wnicn, 5
the war has been terminated and the
unteer army disbanded, can no lone
u uuciuuu iu an extent sumei.v
defeat them. Hence they contend
victory is again within their reach, k
Sitate at least, and tfcat, with the
iven id "Woodward. TlhX OOO T Kd-
which vhey calculate confidently J
next October, they can elect their cd
liatf frr fJrvr-prnnr tdinsrai V - I
V 3 V - 1 J
:xhu, uy iu way, uere arises a cue:
who will he be ?
best informed
anion?
I doubt wheih
. 1
mem can
this question more satisfactorily th
can mysclt.. liiere is
nimity in the . ranks
by co
id regard t
; . i T r .
West; Hon. Ileister Clymer, in the;,
tre, and Hon. Asa Packer, in the J
are the mrominenfcandidates for do:
tion. Each has a strong body of 1
friends to back him, and no doubt ,
flattered by his friends, looks forward1
presume that work will commence in earn- strong hope, if not confidence of t'.
est m the course of a week or two. ' To-day, I should say, Mr. Clymer i
There was a little sport in the House I the inside track; but this is a war
this evening. Pursuant to adjournment ! chances and changes, and what to-m.
on Friday, a session was held at half-past : may bring forth is hard to foretejl.
seven, p. m.; but many members had been . mer i3 wealthy and has wealthy fr:
attracted to the Court House, to hear i but whether he has the disposition t
Henry Ward Beeeher, who had been an- vest largelv in the contest, sheuldi:
nounced to deliver a lecture there; so that, ceive the nomination, is a quesfioa
when the Houfe met, there was barely a
quorum present. A motion to adjourn
was negatived, and Mr. Wreiser, of Le
high, offered the following resolution :
Resolved, That the State Treasurer be re
quested to inform the House what amount the
Banks of this Commonwealth advanced in
1862 upon the circular of the State Treasurer
many. uoney they must have, af
ney in abundance, this they nu
secret of, or it will be in vain lor t'2
contend for victory. This ideaappc:
be predotoinant with all the leaden
hence many are looking to Cass, wl
sides his wealth, is said to be libera!,
besides commands from his positboa
larsre railroad influence. This, it lei
to meet me .august interest 01 said year in :
sued in his favor. But Packet
said circular of the State Treasurer: also, the 1 more money, probably, than bothlm
amount advanced in coin by the Banks in petitors put together, and for this ::
1G3 upon coin cerf.facates, the amount ad- if h-should show a disposition to -J
vanced by each Bank, and what Banks Etill , A11t tn thn rMnirAii tr.nt hn. will ri
bly, in the end, carry the majoritji
hold the coin certificates
On motion of Mr. Weiser, the rule in
this case was dispensed with, and the reso
lution was read the second time. On ths
question of agreeing to tho resolution, the
yeas and nays were called, when it ap
peared that there was not a quorum pres
ent, 39 members voting yea and 3 voting
nav. Then commenced the fun. A call t
of tbe House was ordered, the" yeas and
nays called, 47 members only answering.
Before the clerk commenced calling the
yeas and nays, the Speaker (Mr. Davis, of
Phila'da., temporarily in the chair,) di
rected the doors to be closed, and the
Sergeant-at-Arms and Assistants to see
that no member was permitted to escape..'
Notwithstanding this precaution, one or
two members escaped through a side door,
but being immediately pursued, were
brought back by the officers amidst a
geueral titter of the House.
Mr. Kuddiman, of Philadelphia, moved
that the Sergoant-at-Arms be. despatched
after the absent members. The Speaker
directed that officer to go in qrest of the
absentees and bring them into the House.
A motion to adjourn was negatived, 18 to
31, and the crk was directed to call tho
names of tbe absentees and enter them on
the journal. Some humorous excuses
were made by tho colleagues or friend of
the absentees, for the purpose of keeping
their names off the journal, and in the
midst of considerable " noise and confu
sion," laughing and joking, a motion to
adjourn to 11 o'clock this morning was
carried..
To-day (February Gth,) being private
calender day, the morning and afternoon
sessions were occupied in considering and
disposing ot some eighty or ninety bills,
none of them affecting the interests of
the good people of your section of coun
try. To-day, ("February 7th,) the morning
session was gone through without the
transaction of any business worth noting.
The resolution of Mr. Weiser, of Lehigh,
given above, was indefinitely postponed,
and beyond this I have nothing to com
municate in the way of legislative intelli
gence. The city of Harrisburg is dull, extreme
ly so; contrasted with this time last year,
when this was a military center, soldiers
plenty, and hundreds of strangers here on
military business, the difference 19 as stri
kiujr as that between a sick man and one
in robust health.
As yet there has been no very loud
political talk, no rough exchange of opin
ions between the two gieat belligerent
parties, no revelation of important move
ments; but there have been whisperings,
sometimes caught by the ears 0 attentive
outsiders, which when considered and an
alyzed, are not altogether destitute of in
terest. After the last meeting of the
Democratic State Central Committee, con
jecture was busy for a time as to what was
the result of their deliberations. That, I
believe, is no longer a secret. By some
convention.
The Republicans bok upon the Ha
vering o; their opponents with, It
too much indinerence, reeling e
certain ot success, iiut it is a j
wisdom never to despise a foe, h
apparently powerless, for despf
sometimej lends strensth to the we
makes them formidable. It will h
therefore, to relax in no effort toi'
success in the next campaign. 0:
is somewhat divided hero as to
likely to be, or who should be tbe I
licau nominee; but, although Moor
and Ketcbum have each numerot
warm friends, the general seotitr.a
pears to be that the signs of tho in
dicate Gen. Joho H . Ueary as most
tn rpfvive tha nomination. I will t
keep 30U informed of matters as
transpire in future at present I hi
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