THE ELK ADVOCATE ELK ADVOCATE Btri tll Ihi PtttttK' ptoplt't righ ti maintain VnnwtJ iif parry mnd mhribtd Ay pain ; flntptd tut to Truth, t.ihfrlff anit Laic, So favor aift tu and no frmrihall ." Publishel II V P Every Saturday IT. niRRETT. Ridgway, Pa. Jan, 23th 1864- TERMS. $1.21 if paid in ttdrnnee: or $1.50 within" the year iinil $'i,00 (it theeipiration of the ve ir 8. M. PETTENGILL & CO ADVERTISING AOINCT 1 1 9 Nassau St.; New-York aadl 0 State St., Boston FOR PRESIDENT IW 1864- GEORGE. B. MtfM.ELLAN. Subject to the Decision of the Demo, eratie National Convention. We are sorry to be compelled again, to offer an-appology to our patrons for nonappearance of the Advocate, which we promised should he a rccular visitor to each of our patrons. Hut owing to circumstanee over which we had no controll, the paper has hen delayed, and the principle caue we have to offer is. sickness of "ii r family lor the last three wcr Vs. Hoping that those of our family who have hecn overtaken by d. sease. mav sneedly be restored to health, we will aga'n publish the paper regu lrlv. Mr. Chase Supplying the Rebels. If the western Republican press is to be believed Mr. Chase 8 treasury agents are quite as active in supplying the rcb eli with what they need on the Missis sippi as are his custom-house officers on the Atlantic coast. The Cincinnati Gazette proves conclusively hat the whole system of trade permits on the river is nothing less than an organized swind'e npon honest commerce, and that no one tjnins bv it but the personal friend's of Mr. CttASK'n political friends, who hold the offices. The Gazette in. lishesa lone letter from nn asent of the Sanifarv Commission, who writes of what be actually saw in a trip up and down the Miss;s--ippi. ' We quote an extract : The oustom is, as T have been credi Mr informed, for men of capital and i professed lovalty. or I might say tin- i doubted lovalty. to procure permits to trade. These persons sent agents of doubtful loyalf f. and these again sub asents. more unscrupulous, and who are loval to their interests. These men ate paid ten dollars per bale on all the cotton they can -purchase at fifteen cents per pound. Thev proceed to different points aloncr the river, and establish di rect connection wi'b guerrilla chiefs and hands, who. for a consideration, will afford protection to the cotton which they purchase. Supplies are furnished; many articles contraband of war are smuegled tn and the enemv in this way are directly furn'shed with that they most stand in need of. These specula tors, if loval at home, must need assume the earb of traitors and rebels when they go beyond our lines, and, to show their symnathy, communicate all the in forma, tion they are in possession of. and abuse and curse the Yankees to the perfect satisfaction of their new friends. The Gazette adds editorially : It appears from all the information we bare, that the 'rinss.' as some of the cot ton speculators are eilled.enterin tnar rangements with agents of the govern ment to divide the proceeds of thoir op. erations. Furnished with permits, they pass throiish the lines, and arrange with the guerrillas, paying the latter so much a bale or pon ml for all the cotton ob tained, and smn;ling goods through for their use besides. Thus the mon strous spectacle is presented to the gov ernment officials being in partnership with combinations of speculators, which keep the guerrillas on the Mississippi alive, and make it their interest to keep . together. These outlaws and murder ers, who are plundering the people, fir ing on unarme I steamers, and destroy, ing the property of the government, ob tain ther principal means of support from men who leceive permits to trade from, and are under contracts to divide the profits of their business with, officers of the government. This is the most monstrous aspect of the cae that has yet been presented, and. but for the con vincing character of the information be fore us, we should be slow to believe that any loyal man, especially a sworn officer of the government, could be guil ty of aiding bunds of outlaws who are murdering our soldiers, destroying our boats, and robbing private citizens. This is indeed a monstrous state of af. fairs ; but is :t not what nJght be expec ted when men like Cali.icot are delib erately appointed treasury agents by Mr. Chase f Congress should look, into this matter, and, aftei punishing the guilty, instruct the Treasury Depart-I meni 10 inrow-open me traae oi tne Mississippi to all who choose to enter upon it. TRei rebel would fare bo bet-' tar than they do under ths present sys tem, while loyal, -honest traders' would, at least, have an even chance with the guerrillas, and rogues. Every pound of cottoo wt receive helps our financial eonaition, endvery green. back which Bods its way to the south in exchange for it la an appeal to self interest against tit rebellion. Mr. Chase's particular friend would cot ' do" so" well, hut the eoutrj st larpr would l benefited. From the A no York -World. The Black Republican Can didates for the Presidency. The following list comprises all the names thus fur started as abolition candi date for the presidency. They are set down in the order of their availability and probable chaners : A"iiaiiam Lincoln, Salmon P. Chabk, John C. Fiikmont. Nathan iel I'. BANKH, BkNJAMIN F.BUTI.KII. I'tAi-A nm .l.rnA imiiiir einnrr-iTs in ! this list, but it lontains no mime that has acquired distinction by signal mili tary achievement. Ofthcse three nin jor. generals two have never fought a battle, and the military record of the other is not brilliant. It is clear, there fore, that, if military popularity is to enter, as a potential element, into the prexidcntial canvass, the advantage of that element will not be on the side of the Republicans. We proceed to in quire into the availability of their sever al candidates. 1. Lincoln. The extraordinary and successful efforts now making to bring Mr. Lincoln immediately into the field as the candidate of the state legislatures and loyal leagues, would react powerfully against him if his Republican compcti tors had any approach to equality of strength as compared with each other, n that case, their common interest in his delcat would lead to a combination to put a common stumbling h'ock out of the wav. and sivean open field to the other candidates. But a the case stands, to defeat Lincoln would be simply to nominate Chask; it is only the adherents of Chase, therefore, that have any interest in thwarting him. "The impossibility of forming a combination against him makes Mr. Lincoln a very strong candidate ; but the present de monstrations in his favor should not be counted for more than they are worth This concerted movement of the legisla tures and loyal leagues does not render him independent of the nomination of the national convention ; they only in crease his chances of ge'ting it. If the convention were to be culled in March 1 or April, Mr. Lincoln would beirresi-' tible ; if it is deferred till June, it may , turn out that he has deployed his forces too soon, and put them upon so long a march that thev will have spent their strength before they reach the field of battle. This is a mere fitrure of speech. but a solid reasou is, that the Outs, being always more numerous than the Ins, even in the party of p.wcr, and twenty Outs, on an average, coveting the I n!ee of everv Tn. it is for the ireneral in- terest of all the active, working politi i . .7 ,. . cians not in office that there should be a change of administration and a new deal With Mr. Lincoln as a candidate, the office-holders would play the presidential name with loaded dice, as against the more numerous class of office seekers. Here, then, is a powerful force which can be organized against Mr. Lincoln. and which will become stronger by the lapse of time for these two reasons : First. Mr. Lincoln's influence will di minish as the value of his patronage ebbs away toward the close of his term ; and, second, the Outs will come to a bet ter understanding with each other in pioportion as casual vacancies, which some of them mght wish to fill, become less important. Strong as Mr Lincoln is, he cannot run independently of a convention, for should he attempt it he would give the Outs and the radio ils a capital reason for supporting another candidate. The sooner the convention is called the better are Mr. Lincoln's chances. 2. Chase. The most formidable competitor of the actual President has no chance whatever, except as a con vention candidate.. Being a member of the cabinet, he could not, in honor, run , mrainfif hia nffininl pliu-f nprlninlv lint iV "f" - , j the rcgulat convention of the party had put that chief in nomination. The ut most that the proprietors of his position allow him to do. i to try to carry the conventiou. Failing in -that, he will be compelled t support his successful competitor. Mr. Chask wiM tro iuto the convention with many drawbacks. The Republicans count a great deal on the army vote ; but Chask is notoriously unpopular with the soldiers on account of his vexatious tardiness in supplying money to pay them. He has powerful and indefatigable personal enemies in his own party The most vigorous of these is General Cameron, whose mo tives in joining the present Lincoln movement are well understood. Gener. al Cameron has do real friendship for a President who wavered all through thfi winter of 1860 HI as to whether he would keep the promise he had made to give Cameron a place in the cabinet ; who was forced against his will to ap point him ; who compelled him to expur gate his second report of its ubolitioiiism on pain of dismissal ; who finally did re move him into distatetul but honorable banishment to Russia. Bur Camkims harbors a more insatiable grudge againM Chase than against Lincoln. It was Chase and Chase's friends who, by their industrious attempts to ruin Cameron, kept Mr. Lincoln in indeci sion throughout the winter after his elec tion. Cameron has gone into lib Lincoln movement to pay off old soores againbt Chase. No man in the Repub lican party has more energy of character and there are in that party but one or two n.ore skillful managers. Tlioe one or two are not against him. but with him. No man will goto greater lengths than he to compass, his ends. With so much opposition to breast, and with little but his abolitionism to stand upon. Chase is just now at a discount. But still he ib almost the only hope of the Republican Outs, as against the Repub liean Ins. The thirst for publie plunder ' tray work wondrrs fot him yt 3. Fremont. The gentleman has next to no strength as a convention can didate, as all the other party chiefs have long had a common interest in his polit ical death and burial. But he has llie natural elements of n strong and magnet ic personal popularity, as is proved by by bis brilliant presidential campaign in 'of), and by the fact that, despite all the efforts nf Mr. Lincokn to dwarf him. he has a devoted personal lollowing. He is the only ore of the Republican candi dates who would have the moral audaci ty to run independent of a regular nom. ination. Against Chase as the regular iiomineo he would have no motive to run ; but as agains-Lincoln lie would have the advantage of some military qualities, and the sincere and hearty en thusiasm nf the ultraradicals. In gen craroharacter Frcmont contrasts favor ably with Lincoln in two respects ; fearless promptitude of decision against Lincoln's timid vacillation, and intel lectual and social cultivation against Lincoln's uncouthness the former helging him with the multitude, who always do homage to boldness ; the latter helping him with the cultivated classes who are scandalized by luck of dignity in on exalted station. Fremont's ad. hercnt s regard him as i. great popular iuoi, wtio. Dccaiise he is a popular idol, has been made the victim of jealously unit .k . .i n . j and injustice. As between the Outs and Ins, the fitrmer would find their advao tage in support'ng Frkmot if he were elected, and they would hazzard little beyond the doubtful chnnce of appoint ment to occasional vacancies if he were not. 4 and 5 Banks and Rutler. Neither of these can run except as a fonvintii.n itdntllit.it. l.A:. ml.. chance, even in that relation lies in the remote possibility of the convention get- ting into a dead lock between Chase & Lincoln. In that contingency the ... iiboni idti Mm-ui'-;iii. uti willing IO COIII' proini-e on Banks, and the Chase fac tion on Butlkr A Disgusting Incident. A Washington correspondent of the New York Esprr, gives the following u(!.-ount of a recent scene in the House of Representatives . . 'The House presented a pitiful specta' cle to day, when the death of Senator ; Bowden of Yirginia was announced. After the customary eulogy from a Vir ginia member, a Republican member from the West got up, not sober, if not drunk, and begon all sorts of gyrations and gesticulations, which soon indicated that if he hearing that the Republicans claims all the religion and all the educa tion, and all the learning, and that hitherto not even fchveholding barbari ans have even presented this sort of a spectacle in Congress, we may doubt whether Abolitionism is really refinement and civilization. Another Republican member shuffled him off, and relieved the I!oue from speotacle." It is curious to observe how careful our telegraphic agents are. in keeping all such bits of news as the above out of their reporfstothe associate press. Had this congressinal. swaggering devotee or King Bacchus, been a Democrat, we would have hud the whole scene eraphi. callvprepresented.causingevery Jacobin Pecksniff in the country to weep croco. dile tears for a month. A Dastardly Outrage. The Northumberland County Democrat Office Mobbed and Partially Destroyed. A most dastardly outrage upon Con. stitutional lights; the liberty of speech and of the press, was committed at Sun. bury, Northumberland county, on the night of the 18th of January ; an out. rage which would have bean sooner no ticed but for the sickness and necessary absence of the regular editor of this pa per from the office. Ott that night a band of lawless men, I strangers in the place. instigated by ' some uiuievnieni Aooniion citizens, en. tered the office of the Northumberland Couty Dimtxrat, in Sunhury, armed with pistols and swords, and after mal i . t I- ? . -.. treating and robbing Mr. Simpson, the' proprietor ot the building, who under, took to remonstrate with them, tore down and broke the presses, upset the imposing stones, tumbled tubles. cases and stands around the room, scattered and mixed the types, stole an American flag and decamped. This is but one of many similar outra ges that have been conni itted upon the property and persons of Democrats by the "unquestioning" supporters and myrmidons of the Federal Administra tion, and it is high time either that they shout I eease, or that Democrats should arm theiiiSflv-es and. as a united bodv. prepare to resist, if need be to death, all future demonstrations of the kind. The Northumberland County D'-mo. ria' is one of the inrwt able. high. toned and fearless papers in the State. It is never scuirilous, but has a habit of tel ling the truth in terse and bold Eng lish, which is oftYnsive to those who are conscious of their daily sins and the grTO corruptions of their party. For this offence for boldly advocating a constitutional, and opposing a despotic government, and for denouncing the frauds and usurpations of those in pow er, it has suffered. We congratulate the talented and gen tlemanly editor, Mr. Purdy, for the dis. linguished mark of respect which has been paid him. It shows that his artil. lery has not been employed in vain against the bushwackers and guerrillas of Northumberland county and marks Liui as a man of distinction. We extract the following from an ex-1 tra issued and signed by Mr. Purdy, ana commend its spirit as entirely proper to occasion t ' The Northumberland County Demo crat, though mobbed by strangers, at the instigation of partizan scoundrels, is not dead ; it will soon again appear to defend the time. honored and constitutional principles of the Dcmocratio party, and if law among Loyal Leaguers is a thing gone by. and if brute force and the reign of mobs, at the instigation of drunkards, is to be the order of the day, the Democratic party are prepared for the issue of self-defence to the destruc tion of property for property, or even life for life. We have ever been the advocates of law and order, but the Democratic party cannot be held re sponsible for anarchy if forced upon them." To the Editor of the Ettt Advocate. Prothonotary's Office Ridgway, Dear Sir : I send you the following enmno&itinn intended for nnblieation Sn j (he , Advocate with riCMUre. It wag I , , , , . . , composed before leaving the shores '. f m7 own native country and though the spirit of the poem may fail to fiind : an ccl0 ; nnv but in the Dreast. of my - ,. " . ., .. ow fellow countrymen in exile, still ' ""deed sufficient recompence will that be to me for my trifling labours. Yours 4c. John M. Moriartt. RETURNED. Oh ! Ireland in my dreams of thee, When far away Resplendent as a summer day beau sho.ne And in my waking hours I wept To think, dearland.Iwasnotnea the To know that still thy freedom slept And starr hope was slow to cheer thee. So dreamed I, many and many a time Tn exile dark ; And wept to think thy glory's bark So long delayed But now I see thee face to face, Soul-smitten with thy graces tender, And own not fancy's self could trace A tithe of all thy native splendour. Oh ! fair thou art above all climes That I have seen Full vested in thy glorious green Thou hast no peer. Yet mid thy beauty's sheen there looms, From out thy visage, one deep shadow ; Solemn and sacred too it glooms As twilight in an evening meadow. Oh ! cursed be the alicu crew, . And foreign brood, Whose arts have dimmed thy won ted mood Of mirth and song ! Ever I'll pray at morn and noon That God may send his swiftest thunder Forth from his Heaven of wrath, that soon Thy tyrant may be trampled under ! Sad Accident. We are sorry to learn that a son of Mr. Wm. Cox, of Winslow township, aged about twelve yeais, was accidentally crushed to death by a timber stick, on the 6th inst. The notice sent by the friends of the unfor. tunate boy was not handed to us in time for this issue, but will pppear next week. tSrookvUle lirpublican. MARRIED In Fox township, Elk county Pa., on Sunday evening, January 21sr, by E. B. Hoyt. Esq. Mr. S. liemmenway to Mrs Martha Campbell. S-'e are happy to say. that the above couple, kiudly remembered the priuter. DIED In Ridgway township, Elk County Pa.. Jan 25th, of Small Pox, at the residence of his father, John J. Reed. Aged 24 years. New Advertisements DR. W. W. SHAW, Practices Medicines & Surgery Benezette, Elk Connty Pa. Public Sale ! Will be sold at publio sale, on Thurs day, the 18th day of Februaty, 1864, in the village of Centreville ; a corner lot and house thereon, situated on Brook, ville and Caledonia Streets, ten miles from Ridgway (the county seat,) ten miles from Caledonia, six and a half miles from St. Mary's. The lot is 105 feet long, and G5 feet broad. The improvements consists of a lurge two story ylank house, containing three room on the first floor and three on the second, also, stable, woodho ise and other out buildings, and a Dumber of choice trees on the premises. The property will be shown by calling on Rev. Mr. Laniag. who now resides in the house, any time previous tothe 13th of February. The sale will commence at 1 o'clock P. M., when the conditions of the sale will be made known. J. DEWEESE BOYER. Kersey, February 2nd 1864. ORPHAN'S COURT SALE. -jv virtue of an order of the Orphan's D Court of Elk County, made Oct. lUth, 1803, tnere win be exposed at publie sale at the Court House in Ridg way on Monday the 29th day of Febru ary A. D., 1864. at 10 o'clock p. m . of said day "the following described Real "Estate, to wit. tract piece or parcel ot "land situate in Fox township. Elk Co. "Pa., described as follows : Beginning "at. a post at the north east corner of "Franklin E. Hewitts land, fhence south 'by said Hewitts land one hundred (1001 "rods to a Beech, thence east by land "of Daniel Kingsbury, nineteen (19) "rods to a post, thence north by said "Kingsburys land fifty. five (55 rods to "a post, thence east yet by said Kings bury's land, forty five-(45"i rods tn i "TIem'ock. thence west by land of Pat "riek Whallon sixty (60) rods to tho "place of beginning, containing twentv "four (24) acres and ninety two (92) "petcbes more or less, being part of "tract No. 4091. the property of tbe estate of Patrick M. Keely deceased. T-rm of tnh, one third of the purehase bid to be paid on confirmation of the sale residue in two equal annual instal ments thereafter with interest therefrom to be secured by judgment bond, and mortgage on the premises. MARY KEELY. Administrator of the estate of Patrick M Kecly. deceased. Ridgway Feb. 8th 1864. LICENSE"nOTICE: The follow ing is a lint of the persons who have presented their petitions for Store and Tavern Licenses, March session, '64 : Chas. Weis. Tavern St. Mary's. Joseph Luhr, " St. Mary's. D. Thayer, " Ridgway. D. S. Luther, " RidgwaV. " F. Schocning& Co., Store Centreville James Coyne, " Ridgway. IN THE CCTRT of Common Tleas of Elk 1 County, Arrabella Rtormfeltx, No. 12 October by her next friend. Term 1864. Fredrick Rudolph, "Subpoena in Di- vs. vorce." John Aormfellz. To the respondent above named. Ton are hereby notified and required, to appear and answer said complaint, nn the first day of next term the 29. dav of Fe hrnarv inst. P. W. HAYS, Sheriff-. Ridgway Feb. 1st 1864. TAKE NOTICE! I 11 persons having unsettled accounts with the undersigned, ore requested to eail and settle on or before the 5th day of March 1864. Persons not pre pared to fork over tbe "Greenbacks," (which in all eases would be acceptable) can give their note. Those neglecting this notice, may expeet a visit from the proper officer. A. S. HILL. Kersey, February 1st 1864. r 1ST OF LETTLRS remaining in the Post Ofltce at Ridgway. Jan uary 1st, 1864. James Garver, John Mahony, David Charlund, Geo. W. M. Vandgruft, Jacob Schmidt, Mr. Shebern, John T. Rielly, James Jackson. Timothv Harnett. Zagarirb Head, T. A. Hollenbeak. T. S. Clifton, James Barrett, Alexander O'Melley. XT' Persons c tiling for anv of tbe above letters will please say " adver tised." L LUTIIKR. P. M. NOTICE Is hereby given that there will be a meeting of the Stockholders ' of the Shawrriut and Ridgwav Rail Road company at their office in the 1 village of Ridgway in the office buil- I ding of Souther & Willis, on Friday the i utn day ot 1'cby inst. at IV i o cIjcW a. I m. for the purpose of chosing a Presi dent and Board of Directors for the en- suig year. A. WILLIS, Secretary. COUNTY DIRECTORY. Vre$ulent Judge. Hon. It. G. White, Wellsborough. Astociute Judget, Hon. V. S, Brockway, Jay tp. Hon. E. C. Schultze, St. Mary's- Sheriff. P. W. Hays, Ridgway . Pruthewttary, Reg. and Ree. George Ed. Weis, Ridgway District Attorney, J. C. Chapin, Ridgway Treamrer, Charles Luhr. St. Mary's County Surveyor, George Walmsley, St. Marys Commutioner$, Charles Weis, St. Mary's Julius Jones, Beceze't Joshua Keefcr, Jones Auditor $, R. T. Kyler, Fox Henry Warner, Jones II. D- Derr. Benezett . .- Crronor Louis Volmer, St. Mary's Ridgway Markets. Corrected weeekly: ') $ buskel I 3 00 " " 1 00 " "... 4 00 " lb . . 28 "... 56 ' M. 10 00 " bushel ... I 50 " bbl. 10 00 " lb . . . 7 "ton ... 20 00 " bu. ... 85 44 44 ... 2 00 " " 1 50 " M. ... 4 00 " dozen . 25 Buckwheat Beans, Butter Beef Boards Corn Flour Hides Hay OaU Wheat Rye Shingles Eggs Appointed. The Commissioners of Elk county have appointed John C. McAllister Commissioners Clerk, aud Wm. A. Bly Mercantile Appraiser, for 'the yesr 1864. . SnETIFFS SALE. TY virtue of Suudry writs of Lor Facial, Alia Fi F k Ven. Ex. issued out of tb Court of Common lieu of Elk county, and to me directed and delivered, I will expose to publio sale or out err on Mond th vqiK u of February next at 1 o'clock p. m.. at i.. n . ir ! u: i .. v i .no vuuit iivuv iu Atiugway, me' 101 lowing described property to. wit : All the right, title and interest, of Henry Luce, of in and to the following aescrioea iraci or piece or land descri bed as follows : Situate in Jonas, town, ship Elk county Pa. Beginning at the north east corner of lands deeded to Henry Luce by Lucius T. Luce aod running west one hundred tods to a stake, then south Ana bnnitrikj and sixty rods to a stake, thence ast one Hundred rods to stake, theneo north one hundred ind !( mAm n place of beginning, containinc one nan. i i i-i ... ... ureu acres woicn aeea is recorded in the Recorder'a offioe of Elk county ia deed bjok "E" page five hundred and seventeen. Seized and taken in execution and to be sold as the property of the said Hen ry Luce, at the suit of Joseph Luce. ALSO All that certain piece or pareel of land situated and being in the township of Fox county of Elk Pa. Bounded no follows to wit : On the east by lat.ds of the Oyster estate, on the north by lands of D. Kingsbury, on the west and south by lands of S. Short, containing about one hundred and thirty.two acres more or less and known as the ten acre lot. V . civ ..... wutuiieeo acres oi wnieh is improved and a good f rame barn and frame hou erected thereon, the house is well fin ished and painted, with other out buil dings erected thereon. Seised and taken in execution and to De sold as the property ol N. M. Brock, way, at the suit of Sampson Short. ALSO All the tight, title, interest and claim of Stephen Minor, the defendent above named, of in and tothe following deseri. bed real estate, to wit: A certain piece of land , situated in Spring Creek town ship, county of Elk, and known as the vrow 101, containing fifty acres of land, mors or less, beins the nam lnt nn. -l jt . a .. r. cuasea Dy o erome rowe.i, on tne 9, da of June A. D. 1856. at Treasurera aaj tor taxes and costs, and soled by the said J ere me Powell, to J. C. Chapin, and bv said Chanin tn A1nt M.. hood, and by said May hood, to Elisabeth Meddock, and by said Elisabeth Med dock, to Stephen Minor, upon which erected, a small round log dwelling or shanty, aod about one acre of which ia improved. Seized and taken in Fxeeutioa and to be sold as the property of Stephen ML nor, at the suit of Elisabeth May hood. -ALSO A LL that tract or pareel ot one bun. dred acres of land, situate in Jay town, ship Elk county, known as the David Carr tract, and bounded on the North by lands of Daniel Denison aud Charles Leggett, and on the West by lands dee ueu io aioozo Drockway. ALSQ ONE other tract of land, j i nrockwav tract. ai Last by said th Nurth and on the Brock way, Michael containi thirty acrs fran thereon Seized and De soia as me prope terat the suit of Jer Sheriffs Office 1 Ridgway Feb. 9, 1864. I NOTICE. A meeting of the Coot, missiouers and board of Relief will held at the Commissioner's office im Ridgway on Friday Feb. the 12th nest. By order of the Commissioners, J. C. M'ALLISTER CJerk. January 15 1864. . NVTICE to the Stockholders of tho Oil Creek and Ridgway Railroad Com pay. inn adduii meetinv ra in kim a i ... ... holders of this Company, will beheld i Wednesday the 10th day of-Februar1 18R4, at 1 o'clock P. M., at No. 4 Wi lings Alley, Philadelphia. JOSEPH LESLr To Consumptives. The undersigned having been restor. ed to health in a few wV h simple remedy, after, having suffered a. verai years, with a severe lung affection, and the dread disease, Can-iumptioo ia anxious to make known to his fellow suf. f'erers the means of cure. To all who desite it, he will tend a copy of the presenptioo used, (free of charge,) with the directions for prepar ing and using the same, which thy will find a ture curt for Consumption, Asthma, Bronchitis, Cocoas, Cold tic. The only objct of tho advertiser in sending the prescription is to benefit theaffiicted.andspead information which he conceives to be in-rahrable ; and ho hopes every sufferer will try his remedy, a it will eost then uothiog, and ma piove a blessing. Parties wishing the jreectfptfon will please address ftiv. EDWARDA. WILSON, WiJUaui1) org, Kings Count, K Toff i