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nANIEL GooDLANDER, BOOT snoE

bis shop. near Luthersburg, Clearheld county Pa
BOOTS SHOES. SOLE 4 UPPER LEATHER
Kip and Calf Skins. French and American ,
and variety of Innings, Bindings, Shoe Pegs
in fact. everything usually kept in shoe finding
establishment He has also Flour, Sxgar Coffee
Tea, Rice, Soda, Syrup, Tobacco, Scgars, Nails
Glass. &C., all ofwhieh can be had cheap for cash
Luthersburg. November 2, lS59-lyp
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ORPHANS COURT SALE.-By virtue of
" order of the Orphans Court of Clearfeld
county. there will be exposed to sale, by public
outcry, at the house of VIM. A Mason in the Bor-
ough of Curwensville, on Saturdaythe 1lh day o.
August, 1860. the following real estate, 10 wit:
Fifty acres and one hundred and forty three
ty, being the purpart set off to Asher Cochran, as
one of the heirs of Olphant Cochran, deceased
late the estate of Asher Cochran. decd TERMS,
one half in hand. and the residue in one year
thereafter, with interest, to be secured by bond
and mortgage. JOSIAH EVANS
July Is, 1860 Administrator
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nISSOLUTION.-T partnership eptere5
II into on the 18th day of May 1850, in the Mer.
chandizing and laundering business at Graham
ton, is this day dissolved by mutual consent by
Matthew Forcee retiring from the firm. Thomas
H. forcee will continue TO carry the business
as heretofore, and win collect and pay all claims
OF SAID hrm NJ. I. Ii. F0RCEE
Grahamton. June &c. 1S6O-juIy4
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CAUTION The public are hereby cautioned
~ not to trust or harbor my son, George Baugh
man, on my account, as I will pay no debts of his
contracting, unless compelled by law
July IL, ls6G-pd AND. BAUGHMAN
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A DMINISTRATOR,s NOTICE-

Al D-nINI's Nh OK > NOIICE.-Ietters
IA of Administration on the Estate of Samuel
Stroup late of Ferguson township. Clearheld coun
ty, Pa, deceased having heen granted to the nm
dersigned residing in Knox township, all per-
sons indebted to said estate requested to make
Immediate payment, and those having claims A.
gainst the same will present them properly au-
thenticated for settlement.
June IL, lS60-6tp. GEO ERHARD Adm'r
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Our DISTINGUISHED VIsIroR.-The comet
begins to present quite luminous train, and
a nucleus of much deeper intensity of light.
through an inverted telescope it resembles
red-heated ball gently reposing on the apex of
perpendicular and copious jet fountain of
white light. The train is broad, and displays
dark stripe like the axis of a cylindrical
cone, with slender streamers like the long tail
feathers of the Tyre bird. About nine O'Clock.
or little before, it may be seen in clear
evening considerably higher and much more
northeily thar the planets Jupiter and Venus.
1t seems to be very busiiy engaged in attending
TO its own business and generating its own
pyrotcchnic splcndor.
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V,HE CLEARFIELD ACADEMY will

Il opened for the reception of pupils fmaIe and
femaie) on Monday, May 2Sth. Terms, per ses
sion of eleven weeks:
Orthograpky, Reading Writing, Primary Ari;h
metic and Geography, $3.50
Higher Arithmetic, English Grammar Geogra
phy ana history $500
, Algebra, Geometry. Natural Philosophy and
Book Keeping. SfO0
Latin and Greek languages, $500
10 students dcsirous of acquiring a thorougf
English Education, and who wish to qualify then
selves for teachers, this institution offers desrab
advantages. No pupil received for less than b.
a session and no deduction except for protractsI
sickness Tuition TO be paid at the close of ii
term. may30l G. b. SANDFORD Princips'
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CLEARFIELD HOUSE, CLEARFIELp
~ PA.--The subscriber having purchased tbs
furniture and interest from H. H. Morrow: in said
House, is now prepared for the reception Of tran
sient and permanent boarders. Every depart
ment connected with his establishment viii bs
conducted second to none in the county He res
pectfully solicts share of public patronage.
July IL, 1S60-y. GEO N COLBTRN
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County Convention.

The members of the Peoples Party Of Clear
field county are requested to meet in convention
At the Town Hall in Clearf1eld,
ON FRIDAY, THE Sd DAY OF AUGUST, 1850,
at O'Clock P. NJ, for the purpose of nomIna-
ting County ticket, taking action in regard
to Congressional and Representative candi-
dates, and transacting such other business as
may be deemed necessary. According to the
plan of organization adopted last year, erery
member of the party can attend as delegate,
and have avoice, in proportion to the num-
Der of votes his district polled for our candi-
dates at the last election. 1t is hoped that
every district will be represented.
By order of the County Committee,
Wm. Mcbride, Curwensville, Chairman.
Wm. NJ. Smiley, Beccaria township.
Jacob Snyder, Bell township.
George Leech, Bloom township.
David Adams, Boggs township.
VIM. Hoover, Bradford township.
j. X. Arnold, Brady township.
John Mahaffey, Burnside township.
Jon'a Westover, Chest township.
S. B. Row, Clearfeld borough.
John Reiter, Covington township.
Jacob Gearhart, Decatur township.
Edmund Williams, Ferguson township.
A. w. Heath, Fox township.
Ed. Woodbridge, Girard township.
John Sankey, Goshen township.
Jas. E. Watson, Graham township.
John G.. Cain, Guelich township.
John b. Hewitt, Huston township.
John Swan, Jordan township.
Ed. McGarvey, Karthaus township.
Martin 0. Stirk, Knox township.
James Forrest, Lawrence township.
Samuel Kirk, Lumber-city borough.
VIM. Campbell, MD. Morris township.
Samuel Sebring, New Washington.
David S. Moore. Penn township.
Jos. A. Caldwell, Pike township.
John Brubaker, Union township.
Isaac Goss, Woodward township.
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TRAGEDY IN IowA.-A horrible affair occur
red recently in Jefferson county, Iowa. A
man named John Kephart, who is about sixty
years of age, killed or ratherI butchered a
woman and her two children. Their dead and
mutllated bodies were discovered on the 30th
June, by fishing party, in Cedar creek, into
which they had been thrown. The woman
was about thirty years of age, and had two
terrible gashes in her forehead, evidently cut
by an axe, and her skull was broken. One of
the children, boy of about years of age
had his head also cut and his skull broken !;
the other, girl OF about years of age, was
also badly mutIlated. The name of the woman
was Willis; she came from Muscatne, and
she and her children, in company with KEEP
hart, were going westward ina wagon drawn
by an ox-team. Parties were Immediately sent
in pursuit, and succeeded in arresting Keep
hart. A second son of Mrs. Willis was found
in the wagon with him. The lad says the
murder was committed near Eddyville; that
his mother was killed in the night; that in the
morning, when his little sister and brother
got out of the wagon and made an outcry the
heartless wretch caught them and killed them,
with an axe, after which he placed the bodies
in the wagon, and drove to Cedar creek. a
distance Of 30 miles, where he threw them in
the water. On the 9Th July, some $50 men
from the vicinity of Batavia, went to Fairfield,
where kephart was imprisoned, forced open
the Jail, and took him to Cedar creek where
they had erected gallows to hang him. The
Burlington Hawkeye says Kephart, pretended
to be preacher. .swas a jealous exhorter,
positive and prompt in manner, talked much
about duty and honesty, with apparent SINGER
ity. He was an elderly man, but ssrather good
looking, of good address, and plausible and
gracious in conversation" His ruling pas
sions seemed to be avaricc and lust. Under
the guise of being minister of the church to
which Mrs. Willis belonged, he caught her in
his meshes, and induced her to become his
housekeeper-poisoned her husband-induced
her to sell farm of l60 acres which her hus-
band had owned, for which she got S4OO in
gold, and bis aim was then to get possession
OF this money. She refused to let him have
1t, and the only way in which he could get it
was to Kill her; so, under cover of dark
night, while she was asleep with her three
children, in the emigrant wagon in which they
were travelling, he deliberately murdered her
with an axe.
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The Union will probably survive the success
of Lincoln and Hamlin. Mr.. Robert G.. Scott
said ia the Richmond Convention ssthat Mr..
Seward was statesman, plain, honest out
spoken man, who meant what he said, and
therefore was infinitely to be preferred to
Douglas, who eqnivocated, mystifed, and de-
ceired." Mr.. Scott belongs to the class that
has already declared that the Union could not
endure the election of Seward
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One evening last week President Buchanan,
on the occasion of aserenade given him at the
White House, made regular stump speech
in favor of Breckinridge and Lane. 1t is the
first address OF this character that has ever is
sued from the portals of the Presidential man.
sion, and it is to be hoped, for tho honor OF
the country, that it will be the last.
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the friends of Lincoln, Hamlin and Curtin are
organizing and forming .sW Awake Clubs''
in some parts OF our county. We understand
that two clubs have been formed in Guelich
township, one in Curwensville, one in Burn
side township, and that several more in other
districts are about being organized. This is
right. Let the good work go on, so that we
may soon hear Of clubs being formed in every
township. Favorable results are always the
effect Of organization.
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"Wednesday, Aug. 9th, will suit Ciearfield
for the meeting of the Congressional Confer
cnce at Ridgway.
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II OST, STOLEN, OR STRAYED, from
IL the subscriber in Clearfeld borough on the
9th or 9TH of July, a small black and tan colored
Rat Terrier bitch. Any person returning the same
to Shorty at the Short Shoe Shop in Clearfeld
boro', will be literally rewarded by
FRANK SHORT
n. B. Any person known to keep said bitch af-
ter this notice, will be dealt with according law
July 1S 1880 Z. SHORT.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

Aterft senets mp auth large type out of Wstat
styfeacH be charged double price for space occupied
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NOTICE TO AssEssoRs.-wbere,, =

IVOIICE i U ASS ESSOIfS.- hereas :
l the last part of the 9th clause of the 2nd $.
ton of the Act of Assembly, entitled IAN Act
the regulation of the Militia of this Comm h
wealth, approved the 2lst day of April A. 4
1893, Assessors of boroughs AID townships are
rected to furnish the Brigade Inspector of the b.
gade In which their districts are situated. vii
copy OF the military roll of their respective l..
trlcts when they deposit the original with .-s
county Commissioners. Notice IL he, az r he.
BY given, That the Assessors of the several to
ships and boroughs in Ciearfeld county. cons,..a
ting the 9TH brigade of the 14th division PeuIs
Nahia miiitia, that they are required TO furr s1
NE with copy of said military roll on or befo-o
the First day of August next; and upon faiIu rs
thereof, the penalty for neglect of duty will t.
strictly enforced. "a Copies of the rolls can b
sent TO me by mail, addressed to Burnside, P.
or left with j. II. Larrimer commandant of II G
brigade, at his Office in the borough of Clearfel1
S. c. PATCHIN,
Brio Insn 5fh Rrirada y II
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Brig. Insp. 5th Brigade, 18th Div P. NJ
Brigade Insp's Office Burnside tp., July 4, / IS.
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RoARDS AND SHINGLES-The highest mar.
y ket price pa i'd for boards and shingles in IL
change for -four, bacon, goods &c, at the corner
store Of 4. A. IRWIN. Curw'y July 9
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z0z5zs P3Ict
MINERAL WATER-If you want "Icy
w Cold and Sparkling Mineral Water, call at
Lorraine y Cos Dy1g Store. as they have recent
ly put up splendid fountain. July Is.
DAY UPi PUY UP .-All persons indebted
Il to the undersigned on Judgments Notes,
Book Accounts, Lands. otherwise, are notified
to make payment without delay, and save costs
ham, Boynton & Co., in Clearfeld borough, where
he keeps his books. JAMES B. GRAHAM
CearHeld, Pa, July Is, 1860
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RUGGIES, BUGGIES = One Jenny Lind O2s
y Falling Top, One Heavy (no top), Two neU
style very light trotting bugges without tops ior
sale cheap by L. A IRWIN Curwensyille
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"OUSE AND LOT FOR SALE.-The nm
l. Il dersigned offers at private SALE seven and
half acres of ground in Beccaria township, at the
mouth Of Whitinore run, on big Clearfcld creek
having a two-story frame house, 20 by So feet in
dimensions store house Is by 26 feet. stable and
other out buildings thereon. For terms apply -
the undersigned, near AnsonviIle.
July IL, 1SSO.-2m.-pd JOHN SWAN
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rAUT1ON.-The public are cautioned agsin.,
~ purchasing note given by me about the 5th
June, 1860, made payable to B. Hutton, one yea-
after date, for the sum of thirty dollars as hsvs
received no vaIuo for the same and will not nav :.
unless compelled by due course of law
Boggs tp., July IL, 1850. JOHN BEISu
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NLooR Oil Cloth, oil cloth for carriage tops. IA
=! = bic cloth IN pieces and patterns, on hand a.
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ARRIVAL OF THE GREAT EAsTERN.-The inn
mense steamship Great Eastern has reached
the port of New York. At7a O'Clock on the
morning OF the 2Sth she came to anchor off the
light-ship at Sandy Hook, after voyage of IL
days, and within half an hour the news was
flashed all over the Union. Her best perform
ance was 333 nautical miles in "a hours, and
had she been run at full speed, and by the
most direct route, her passengers assert that
she would have made the passage inside of
nine days. The cautiousness of Capt. Vine
Hall, however, led him to deviate occasionally
to the southwark Of the true course, and much
time was lost in verifying and correcting the
compasses, between which, owing to the local
attraction, there was very considerable diff
ference. She came into port much lighter
than she will usually sail, in order to cross the
bar; but this fact is countervailed by the foul
ness of her bottom, which very much retarded
her speed. Unquestionably she is in many
respects of perfect model. Her PROV parted
the water without ripple, and she left it aft
cleaner than any other ship. She is stiff and
staunch-so much so, that her great engines,
wheels and paddles impart scarcely percep-
tible vibration to her frame. She moves
through the water with the least swell conceiv-
able for so vast hull. When first seen from
the front, she looks square, vast and ungainly,
and in her upper works appears like crippled
ship. The latter fact is probably due to the
absence of main-top-gallanty yards. Only three
of her masts are spared at all. The first look
at her disappoints one; but when she passes
objects by which her vastness may be mea-
sured, then she looms up in all her gigantic
proportions. Within an hour or two after her
arrival the whole bay was covered with water
craft, loaded down with thousands of passen-
gers whose enthusiasm was truly electric.
She will remain on exhibition at the foot of
Hammond street, New York, for the next six
weeks, for the benefit of her stockholders.
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CUTTING OFF A DISEASED MEMBER The spec
ches made by jeff. Davis, Breckenridge, Hal
lett and Toombs, upon the occasion of sere-
made to Breckenridge, at Washington, after
his nomination, show the prevalence of the
most intense feeling Of bitterness toward Doug
lass. Davis said his fate would be like that of
Van Buren, and that his followers were only a
set of spoilsmen and Treasury plunderers-
they would cut him off as diseased member,
just as Van Buren was cut off. 1t is thus the
South deals with refractory Northerners. 1t
uses them while it can, and when they show
the least signs of independence, spurns them
as rebels. The administration and the South
have determed to crush Douglas, and they
will do it.
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NEW FIRM AND NEW GOOD
JOHN & JERRED F. IRWIN.

The undersigned give notice that on the 18th A
pril they enterod into partnership in the mercan-
tile business in Curwensville, and that hereafter
the business will be conducted by them Jointly un-
der the name and firm of John & J. f. Irwin
They inform their customers and the public in
general that they have received from the East and
opened at the old stand large and varied stock of
SPRING AND SUMMER
DRY-GOODS, GROCERIES, QUEENS
WARE, HARDWARE, SC, &C,
specially adapted to the wants of the community.
and will sell the same at the lowest cash prices.
Also, large assortment of Boots, Shoes Hats
and Caps of the latest styles and best quality all
OF which they intend to sell at reasonable rates
Also, an extensive stock of the most fashionable
READY-MADE CLOTHING,
at prices to suit the times Now is the time to
purchase Call in and examine our stock before
you purchase your goods, and we feel confident
that we can supply you with all kinds of goods
at as low prices and as reasonable terms as Won
can procure them elsewhere. Give us trial
JOHN IRWIN
May 80, 1860. JERRED +. IRWIN
N. B. Persons indebted to the old firm are re-.
quested 70 call and settle may 80
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The Naples correspondent of the Daily Necs
writes as follows s:-ssEverything wears war
like aspect here, and there is no lack of ener-
gy in making preparations for putting down
the almost universal rising of the nation.
Steamers come and go day and night-ammu-
milton in great abundance and provisions are
sent without ceasing; and that there is any
necessity for the latter shows how completely
the Government has lost the command of the
Island. From one magazine alone, that of
Scafati, $50 cantaria of powder have been
brought over this week to Baia, for the manu-
facture of bombs-those amiable persuaders.
those favorite counselors of the Bourbons.
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CLEARFIELD. PA, JULY a, 1860.
UNDER WHICH KING.

The nomination of two Presidential tickets
by the Democracy at Baltimore, threw the
faithful into the worst dilemma they have ever
experienced. They were at a loss to know
which of the two they should support-whether
they should go for Douglas, or for Brecken-
ridge-and several days passed before any con-
siderable number would commit themselves.
Their newspaper editors were the most sorely
puzzled of all, and made all sorts of excuses
for postponing any decided expression of opin-
ion until they could, like certain Hoosier
politician, get ssmoar light on the subjeck."
Our neighbor of the Republican seems to have
been in this category but we presume that by
this time he has consulted the proper oracles,
heard their decree, and will in his issue this
week let the world know whom he will serve.
Quite number of his editorial brethren have
in the meantime taken their position-some
for Douglas, others for Breckenridge-and if
we are permitted to judge from the press how
matters stand with the masses, we should say
that the party is nearly equally divided be-
tween the two factions. Efforts, it is true, are
being made to reconcile differences but there
10 lOO IuuCu DltteIutSS anu uaITeQ GAnlDlLeO Dy
both wings to admit of q well grounded hope
that any thing can be effected. Their tradi-
tionary charm of sssticking to the ticket" and
that the party was invincible, has been dis
PEELED, and certain defeat stares them in the
face. Indeed, some of the leading Democrat
ic papers acknowledge that there is no hope
for them. We have only room to give para
graph on the subject, from the n. Y. Herald.
In late issue that paper says
"The Democratic party istdestroyed. There
is not the remotest visible ghost of contin-
gency for the reunion of the belligerent ele.
ments of this revolutionary convention. The
moral consequences of what they have already
done render it superfuous to speculate upon
what they may do to-day or tomorrow. AS
suming that those fighting factions, cliques,
and sections may still agree to bury the hatch
ct, and unite upon compromise ticket. it VIII
avail them nothing. The party is broken to
pieces, and, with one, two or three tickets, it
must be superseded. 1t is too badly cut up,
too seriously crippled, and has too many bones
broken, to be healed and put upon its legs a.
gain in single day or a single year. 1t is
practically dissolved and disbanded, whatever
may be the remedies attempted. In brief,
the National Convention of the Democratic
party, having become degraded to the base
condition of Tammany Hall in its worst days
of ruffianism, is only suffering the fate of Tam
many Hall-discords, divisions, rebellion, de-
feat and disgrace"
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Tt}g RAFTsmAN's JOURNAL.
OBJECTIONS CONSIDERED.

The terrific attacks made by the New z Tork
Herald and journals of like principles, upon
the rails that Lincoln split thirty years
ago !; the home thrusts which have been made
at those pairs of my thical boots that were not,
when be was member Of Congress, sent home
under his official frank the fearful onslaughts
that his old fat-boat has endured the hard
words that have been leveled at his mouth,
nose, head, hair, legs, eyes: the objnrgations
showered upon his height; the anathemas
hurled against his popular name among the
pc opIe, "H onest Old Abe''-these ought to be
sufficient proof that in all the essentials that
make up man fit for the Presidency, he so
well satisfies the Democrats that they have
not word of criticism or complaint We
have seen no allegations that he has not the
ability to fill with honor to himself and his
party, and with safety to his country, the high
place for which he is named. We have not
yet ascertained that there is journal whose
editor is brazen enough to lay the charge of
dishonesty at his door; and surely, we do not
know the man who has the hardihood to al
lege that his every public act has not been
dictated by conscious patriotism. Nothing of
this sort. The quarrel thus far centres in his
accidents. He is too long he is ugly he
has been poor and humble he once thought
of becoming blacksmith and pounding out
his fortune on the anvil; he cannot make the
bow of a French dancing master his learning
was acquired, not thrust upon him he has
never sought office he is an outsider and no.
body supposed that he was in the line of pre-
ferment. Such are the objections thus far de-
veloped. What there is in store in that mag
azine of lies Of which the Sham Democrats
have the key, we who do not draw our arms
from there, cannot know. We submit, how
ever, that until his ability is disproved, his in
tegrty soiled, or his love of country success
fully questioned, the people will be justified
in believing they now do, that Lincoln is
the man OF their choice. AS in these he is
invulnerable, let US advise the Democrats to
keep firing away at the rails and the boots
Chicago Tribune.