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JOHN F. MOuKE, Kuitor.
THUKHDAY :
December : : : 10th, 18(37.
Standing tlrmics.
The sixty thousand troops composing
the regular army ot the United States
could be much more profitably employ
ed in fighting the refractory Indians
than in the unrepublican service of op.
pressing and intimidating the Southern
people. Gen. Giant has been much
praised for his activity in reducing the
expenses of the War Department; and
for any approach to economy in that
respect our tax burdened countrymen
have reason to bo grateful. But the
dismissal of a few score of clerks and
hangers-on is scarcely a matter of con
sideration, in view of the fact that vfe
are supporting a standing arma three or
four times moro numerous than the
Government requires for any legitimate
purpose. Tlio people have as much as
they can do to pay the enormous bill
that was run up during the war; and it
is about timo for them to object to this
extravagant military expenditure in
timo of peace. The working classes,
who toil from morning till night to buy
food and shelter aud luiment, at war
prices, for their families, will naturally
grumble to ecc a large share of the earn
ings applied to the maintenance of thou
sands of lusty fellows who are restrain
ed in military service for no better pur
pose than to assist the schemes of a de
signing and unscrupulous faction. A
political party that cannot work out its
ends without an immense army to do its
bidding, is too dangerous and expensive
an institution for a Republic to tolerate.
The soldiers themselves do not relish
the humiliating service in which they
aro employed, is evident from the great
number of desertions. During the past
year thirteen thousand soldiers deserted,
or as many as constituted the entire reg
ular military force in the days when the
Republic was governed upou republican
principles.
The sixty thousand stalwart men who
are now helping to carry ont the Ro.
construction programme of the Radicals
would be doing butter service to their
country in the several fieJds of industry
faaiion'af strength and prosperity. In.
stead of wielding swords and muskets,
they Bhould be at the plow, the anvil, in
the workshop, in the counting-room, or
wherever elso their toil or their talents
may contribnte to the matoi'al wealth
of the land. We aro tow paying more
thwn seventy million of dollars for the
support of a standing army ; and to what
end? To keep up the military depart
ments of the South, to hold a section of
the Republic under military government
to violate the fundamental principles of
our iorm of government by subjecting
American citizens to tenorisia and du
ress.
No one imagines that the Southern
people purpose any act of insubordina
tion. They have neither the wil! nor
tho power to raiso an armed hand against
the Central Government. If left to
their own local resources they could ef
fectively guard themselves againt any
sedicious movement of the frecdraen
tho only danger to be apprehended.
But then the Radicals propose to dictate
to their Southern States their votes at
the next Presidential election, and to do
that they must have bayonets at their
command. Is it not hard that the peo
ple should be taxed to supply the means
of trampling upon their own liberties ?
Tho masses of tho north aro not afraid
of their Southern countrymen. They
feel that they are securo against cither
treachery or violence. They know that
all the fighting has been done and that
there is no' need of a vast armed force
to preserve the ptace of tho common
wealth. Why then pay seventy mill,
ions a year for the maintenance of a
standing army ? To keep a minority in
power? We do not think that the
popular sentiment will tolerate any such
outrage upon self-government.
The shaky political fabrics of Europe
may require great military organizations
to prop them up ; the strength ot our
Government is, as it has always been in
the consent of the governed. Whatever
issues may have to bo determined by
force of arms, whether from foreign an
tagonisms or domestic contention, the
republic's dependence must be upon its
volunteer soldiery. They can be trust
ed iu time of war; a large standing ar
my eaDBOt always be trusted ia time of
peace. I
The Prospects or JTorthcrn
Workinfmtn.
From every quarter we hear of the
suspension or contraction of labor in our
manufactories, ship yards, and work
shops of tho discharge of laborers from
public and private works. How are the
thousands upon thousand of mechanics
and lalorerj, thus thrown out of em
ployment, to livo through the dreary
winter which has jutt commenced ? In
tbo oily of New York alone, we lenrn
that fifty thousuod working people ave
forcibly idle. The jame may be said of
every city in the North. Whila the
stagnation of all branches of buBinese is
already soscvercly felt iu the North,
the mad legislation of Congress is hur
rying ten millions of people in the Scuth
to a condition which is likely to oa'mi.
nate in absolute starvation. The rich
lands of the South which, in a state of
but partial cultivation, whilom produced
more than two-thirds of the wealth of
the entire nation arc now fast ruuning
to weed, whilst tho black cultivators
are indulging iu a political carnival, un
der tho protection of United States bayi
oncts, awaiting with impatience that
long expected and oft promised milleni
um, when they shall legislato themselves
into plenty of pork and hominy, with
plenty of nothing at all to do 1 Mcan
whilo the white owners of the soil
without capital and without labor;
without the power of helping thejiselvcs;
with their hands tied by unconstitution
al legislation, see approaching ruin star,
ing them in the face, while the worse
class of scoundrels, spewed from the
Northern dens of infamy, which they
alternately occupied with our Northern
penitentiaries, now occupy the highest
seats in tho Southern Stato conventions ;
educate the blacks in the noble science
of legal robbery and legislative swind
ling, and taunt the native whites as dis.
franchised rebels and outlawed traitors 1
In short, the South, which, under
wise and liberal legislation, and under
the Constitution, should now offer to the
mechanics of the North ten millions of
paying consumers, will soon exhibit to
their astonished gaze ten million pau
pers, depending upon their charity for
a precarious subsistence. The South,
whose exubcrent products should
freight our ships; infuse a new life into
our shipping interests jindpav. ,forg
past, as an exporting section of our
country. The South, which formerly
gave vigor to our manufactures and to
our commerce, will, in its poverty, be
compelled to dispense with the goods it
cannot pay for. The South, under the
new Radical Congo regime, like the
once flourishing Islands ot Jamaica and
Ilayti, will be the scene of squalid
wretchedness, ot anarchy, of crimo and
utter demoralization ! And all this loss
of national wealth, national strength and
national honor all this misery, humili
ation and degradation, in the South and
consequently in the North, is to pcrpefr
uate the reign of Thaddeus Stevens, of
Cameron, of Kelley, of Sumner, of
Wade, of Colfax, of Butler, of Ashfby,
ot bchenck, and of a host of political
harpies who h ave battened upon the
publio spoils until their bloated and fcs.
tering corruption stinks in the nostrils of
a disgusted people 1 How long, 0
workmen of the north, will you uphold,
by your votes, the reckless demagogues
who, in their blind ambition, thus dry
up the sources of your prosperity ? How
much longer will you be deluded by
their deceitful cry of "protection Jor
American labor," whilst their only
care is to swell the purses of princely
capitalists and to cram your money into
their own pockets ?
The time has come when, unfortun
ately, you must feel calamitous conse
quences of the unjust, tyrannical, waste
ful, destructive legislation of past years.
But, thanks to a just and merciful God,
the time is not far off when, at the bal
lot-box, you can and will hurl from
their places the bold usurpers who have
conspired agiinst your government,
your freedom, and your national pros
perity !
In tho States of Connecticut, of Cal
ifornia, of Ohio, of New Jersey, of
Maryland, of Kentucky, of New York.
the people have already spoken. Even
in Boston and Pittsburg, heretofore the
impregnable strongholds of Radicalism,
the Radical leaders have been repudia.
ted by adherents, lately awakened to a
stern reality of the present crisis. Their
doom is irrevocably sealed. In vain
will they try, by partial and ineffective
legislation, to rally back tho people
around the black flag of "Reconstruc
tion," Io this litt itspf rate effort, they
will signally fail. Tho people, become
wiso by experience, will desert them in
mas and leave them to sink ignomini
ously into their political graves ''unhon
ored and unsung I" Pat. and Union.
General Leslie Combs, of Kentuo.
ky, who was a captain in 1812 the
compeer of Clay, Webster, Crittenden
and tho friend and companion of Gen
erals Haarison, Tyjcr, Winchester and
Scott may be seen daily in the streets
of Lexington, straight as an arrow, hale
and hearty, and looks as if he might live
for twenty yeara to come. He has not
an unsound tooth or grey hair in his
head, and never carries a eane. Only
the other night he went out hunting
with some boys, and had the good luck
to capture three possomsand a coon.
Last week some persons ia a barber
shop, in Bath, Mo., heard a scratching
in tho stove funnel, as though a rat was
running through it. Some efforts were
mado to see what it was, without suc
cess, until a live dove dropped into the
coal fire in the stove, where it burned to
death. The bird entered the ciuiney at
tbo top, some fifty feet above.
A " bellows " fish was caught at
New London, Conn., the other day, six
feet long, and weighing four hundred
and fifty pounds. His mouth was eigh
teen inches wide, and full of sharp tenth.
The most unprofitable consignment
that can be made is to ship a sea.
Sulphur comes from Vesuvius ;
therefore it is gec-d for eruptions.
One finds the misfit of a boot when
he puts his foot in it.
The art of book-keeping taught in
one short and easy lesson. Never lend.
Whst is the differenco between a
spendthrift and a feather-bed ? One is
hard up and the other is soft down.
What sort ot an Asiatic has the
largest nose ? An NostrilAsian, of course.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
We have found it necesary, in order to keep the
financial department of the Advocate on a good
basis, to adopt the following role :
Transient Advertisements must be paid for in ad
vance; and all Job Work as soon as completed.
Bills made out and presented to yearly advertisers
at the beginning of each quarter.
Subscriptions to be paid fcr invariably in advance,
novtf John F. Moore, Publisher
Splendid collection of Holiday Can
dies, toys and gifts at the Store of
HYDE, GILLIS & Co.
T 1ST OF CAUSES set dawn for January
Term,
Weis for use, &e., vs Ocrg.
Same vs Same.
Same vs Some.
Waimright vs Crowell.
Bell vs Werner et al.
Hill vs Breedin et al.
Viers ct al. vs Braniff.
Loomig vs County of Elk.
RntUbun vs West Creek Manufng Co.
rinion ts iuntone el 01.
Dill vs Barrett.
Weis vs Lloyd.
Dovcrcaux vs Township of Jones.
Benzinger et al. vs Funk.
Lawrence et al. vs Luhr et al.
Mnyhood vs Crispin ct al.
Weis for uso vs Qcrg.
Same vs Same.
Same vs Same.
GEO. A. RATIIBUN,
dec3t Prothonotary.
I' 1ST OF LETTERS remaining in the
j Ridgway Tost Office for the month
ending November 30th, 18C7.
Andrews Simou, Austin, J. II.
Baker Susan, Blair J., Bennett Annie.
Calmer William, Coy M.
Daugherty James.
Fitch O. B.
Gray John.
linger George, Hover Christina, Humph
rey U House A. F., Heflelflnger William,
Hillman Lewis, Holes C. H. 8.
Jones Julius.
Lano N. B.
Montgomery T., Meeker Moses, Mitchel
David, Marsh A. J .
Nail John.
Phelps Charles, Phalen Martin, Postleth
wait Agnes.
Riblet Henry.
Strickland Samuel, Shaw W. W.. Sweet
ing George, Hessery Ervin, Scott Corwin.
l nancy Owen.
Vnnce George.
Woodruff S. E., WTlson John, 2.
Persons calling for any of the above let
ters will please say " adyertised."
UltOVJSU. MESSENGER,
dec!7 PoHtmaster.
LIST OF JURORS Grand and Traverse
drawn for January Term, 18U8.
GRAND Jl'BORS.
Beneiett. Jas Overturf, Jacob 8 John.
son, Julius Jones, Miles Dent.
Fox. Charles E Gross, Reesman Mere
dith, R M Bennett, P A Jordan, Thomas
Malone, U U Shons, W K. Meredith, Wm
McCauley.
Jitdyuai. bdward Derby, D Scribner.
Spritiy Creek. Adam Shall.
St. Mary's. Daniel Scull, Frank Weisjr.
Charles Luhr, Frederick Miller, Joseph
Windfelder.John T. Burgan, John Traindle.
jay. zenas nebb.
Junei. Joseph Pistner.
TBAVIE.SE JURORS.
Bennett. Martin F.nz. John 7 T.imla.
muth, Milton Chase.
iox. Patrick Smith, Uriah W Rogers,
Rf-uhftn S OroHfl. .Tprfminli Rnllivon lnn
Harrington, Michael Callahan, Edward
T f 1 T .. . T m.. 1 i
mi.vruaMjr, iioujus xv. xityior, jeremiau
Hewitt.
llwhland. Charles Stubbs. Levi F.lli.
thorpe.
Horton. Robert Molntosh, O P Kelts,
Edwin Aldan, Joseph S Hyde.
Ridawail-W m-oila T Franfl, T.rnma
Powell, Robert Hillock, Harry Maxwell,
B A Dill, O L McCracken, H S Belnap, P
W Barrett, Thornton Strang.
St. JUary't. John Garner. XI Kreti, Frnk
Forenbaug, James Coyne, T Brauiff.
Jay. Charles Webb, Armcl Turley, R
B Johnson, H A PearsaU.
BY VIRTUE OP A WRIT OF Fi
eri Facias, if sued out of tho Court
of Common 1'ljas of Elk county, l'cnn
sylvania, and to mo directed, I will ex.
pose to salo at Publio Outcry, at the
Court House in Ridgway on Monday,
the 13th day of January, 18C8, tho fol
lowing described property, to wit :
All tho interest of the defendant of,
io and and to those certain town lots,
knowu as lots Number six (G) and seven
(7), situate in tho village or town of
(lidiwav. Kilt nuiiutv. Pennsvlvnnin
r j j - j , j ,
fronting on the cast side of a street call
in! Or.int ntrcpf. im 1 hnundp.d nn th
north by an alhv liu.litijf along the Mill
race, on the south Lj lot numbered eight
p), on the west jy mid Urant street,
and on the cast by lots numbered twelve
(12), thirteen (13"), stid fourteen (14,)
according to a pliiti of town lots made
and laid out by Henry Souther, and re
..,i.,.i : i, t. ..i. .. r in-. r f n.
VU1UUU IU 1 II v JU UI'IUVI S VUJi:U Ul UI&
county in Deed Book K, pp. 528, 529,
ana oju. vvitn a two'story iramo
buildinsr: main nail beinr about sixteen
feet front by twenty cifiht, a wing on tho
south side two stories high, about twen.
ty two feet square, and a wing on the
back or cast side, one storv liio-Ii. and
j - o
sixteen by nineteen and a half feet, or
thereabouts unfinished. Also, a num
her of fruit and shade trees on said lots.
Seized, and taken in execution, and to
bo sold as tho property of Thornton
Strang.
JAMES A. MALONE, Sh'ff.
Osf it L,'Aver fc'edal
t 4 akd to a
",57rTT'R I !H HrRTflRATIVF Irt
Bf i- I'. H Strfi A'rrlcottur1 Snrlrt;,
IU k'jir, tiukleu in Nathua, Krjit. Jirftt,
K A ft SETT'S
YeolVJc Hal Kestoratlre
i!t. : .:- r,-.-r IMr fo Ift Nml Colort pro
tiki! - lite ir'ri?()i of Ute I lair i rhnnRt-s tin 9
tv - o fhc.r oii-riiiiil oi-nnic svt'tion ; eradi-
T' utn t-rvniruiT tk'.A llunmtw : prrvenw fc
if v ftollim nut I i a mipertnr Pri'ming. fa
t)Jb stoic nnine mmucnoui uw
fcaat, Went, Nor lb, ud
Boutn,
W 0
J. R.
BARRETT & CO., Proprietors,
MANCHESTER, N. IL
For sate by' Druggists generally.
TS. Bordwcll, M. V. Eolectio Physicion.
, Office and residence opposite the
Jail, on Centre St., Ridgway, Pa. Prompt
attention will be given to all calls. Office
hours : 7 to 8 A. M- j 12 to 2 P. M. ; and 6
to 7 P. M. Mar. 22, CC-tf.
jTCU ! ITCH 1 1 ITCH 1 1 1
SCRATCA 1 SCRATCH 1 1 SCRATCH ! ! !
in from 10 to 48 hours.
Whcaton's Ointment cures Tho Itch.
Whcaton's Ointment cures Salt Rheum.
Whcaton's Ointment cures Tettor.
Whcaton's Ointment cures Barbers' Itoh,
Wheaton's Ointment cures Old Sorer.
Whcaton's Ointment cures Every kind,
v, iiuiuu. n&u Magic
Trice, 50 cents a bok : by mail, 60 cents'
Addreps WEEKS & TOTTER, No. 170
Weshington Street, Boston, Mass. For sale
by all druggists. Sept. 17 67 ly,
rj'fllE. following named persons have filed
f applications for License, in my office,
to bo heard at the next Court of Quarter
Sessions, Commencing on the Second Mon
day of January, 18G8, being the 13th day
oi me juontn.
TAVERN LICENSE.
Joseph Koch and Son. Kersev. Centre
ville; Chas. II. Volk, St. Mai ys ; Joseph
uinuieuer, St. Marys; Anthony Focht
man, St, Marys: Leonard Cook. Johnson-
burg; John Munn, Jay township; David
T 1 u : . .X k
iuuji'1. r.mgwuy ; u.yj. v;ysicr, OX Iwp. ,
M. V. Moore, Uidgwsy ; MichaelGerg, Cen
trevillo ; R. nt. Bennett, Centreville ; II. A.
Frost, Centreville ; John Haley, Ridgway.
EATING II0CSR LICENSE.
Edward Blinzlcr, St. Marys; Jacob Graus,
St. Marys; James McCloskey, Centreville;
James Rogan, St. Marys; Samuel Misel, St
Mary's ; John Griebel, St. Mary's; Thomas
Zimmett, St. Mary's.
8T0BE License.
Joseph Wilhelm, St Marys ; W. Wasson,
Ridgway. GEO. A. RATHBUN,
Prothonotary.
B E A L E ' S
(late fowell's)
EMI3EOOATIONI
F
OR ALL DISEASES INCIDENT TO
Horses, Cattle and the Human Flesh.
requiring the use of an external application.
This new Compound, prepared bv a urao-
tical Chemipt having a full knowledge of
an tne medical virtues of each ingredient
that enters into its composition, is warran
ted to exceed anything of the kind yet of
fered to the public as an external applica
tion for the diseases for which it is recom
mended. Wo are satisfied that it will work
its own road into the confidence of all who
use it, and those who try it once will never
be without it, and therefore we rely on ex
perience as the best test of its usefulness.
It is pronounced by Farriers, and all who
have tried it to be the best application ev
er used. This Embrocation has been put
up for over eight years, and it is only
through the increasing demand and ureent
request of my friends and the Publio that
1 send it forth as the grand remedial agent
for the various diseases to which that noble
and useful animal, the HORSE, is subject.
Many remedies have been offered to the
Publio under different forms, some of these
are injurious, others at best of little use,
and many wholly improper to answer the
purposes for which they are recommended.
A judioious and really useful composition
free from those objections, has therefore
long bocn desired by many gentlemen who
nave valuable horses, ana are unwilling to
trust them to the care of designing and
pret tending Farriers. Their wishes are a
length fully gratified, by Dr. Beale being
prevailed upon to allow this valuable Em
brocation (which has proved so efficacious
to the various diseases) to be prepared and
brought out to the publio.
This embrocation was extensively used
by the Government during the war.
Address all orders to
DR. EDMOND BEALE,
6t)2, South Seoorid St, Phil'a.
tkirFor Sale by BorUwell & Messenger,
Ridrj, Ta. ap80Jy
EW HARDWARE STORE!
The subscribers have just Jopcned in
ST. MARY'S
A new and Complete Stock of Heavy & Shelf
HARDWARE ! !
And will keep constantly on hand a great
variety of
CO OK AND HE A TING 8 TO VES
Bar Iron, Steel Anvils, Bellows, Nails,
Horse Shoes, Springs, Build
ing Hardware, Saws
and Filet of Every Description I
GUNS, PISTOLS AND CARTRIDGES,
Cutlery, Tlated Ware and House
Furnishing Goods. Al'
kinds of Mechan
ics' Tools I
TINWARE
Of every description,-which will be sold av
the LOWEST CASIIjrRICES.
They have also the exclusive agency in S t
Mary's for the
IMPROVED ORIENTAL
BASE.BURNINQ COAL STOVES !
AND PAH LOR FURNACES !
Which have received Four First Class Pre
miums at the New York State and oth
er Fairs ; Also, the Great Silver
Medal at the Fair of the Am-
rioan Inli(ue, JieM la
New York City, 1866.
They are Perpetual Burners, only one fir
being required to bt made
during the season.
M. BEECHEP, Jr.
WM. H. COPELAND.
nov28'67 ly
jSamethittj Jpiu.
A LARGE STOCK OP
GOODS
The undersigned have on hand a large
t".l t;.j Cc:L-aWs ctoci cf GOODS,
and will constantly keep an extensive
assortment, including everything that
is wanted to
EAT, WEAR, OR FEED.
which they will sell at tho very bottom
figure and from this date will sell only
for CASH. We will use every endeav
or to make it to the interest of onr cup-
tomers to adopt ths universal
CASH SYSTEM.
We have determined to give the
CASH SYSTEM
a fair trial, bolicvins it to bo the inter
est ot both buyei and sellor.
POWELL & KIME.
Ridgway, Aug. 13th, 1867. so.
PATRONIZE HOME INSTITUTIONS.
FLOUR, FEED AND GRATn".
rriHE subset ibers having completed their
JL New Grist Mill in Ridgway ar bow
tireimrcd to furnish the nannle nf ha an.
rounding country with
Flour of the Best Quality,
nun ui iiieir own niunmaciure, at tne lowest
market rates.
The attention of lumhnrmn mil ml,...
is called to our lacilities for furnishing:
FEED OF ALL JjTTNn.V
cheaper than it can be bought any other
place in the county.
jPariA8H i aid roa GRAm-ja.
3.8. HYDE,
J. V. HOUR.
J. K. WHITMOBF.
November 7, 1867tf
BLACKSMITH'S CARPENTER'S AND
joiner's tools for sale " cheaper than
the cheapest" at the St. Mary's Hardware
Store. (BVa8'6T.
N