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Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1865-06-21
Suffrage in Tennessee and Negro Suf.
fraSe in the South.

The action of Tennessee in all matters
relating to reconstruction is of usual
Interest, not only because she occupi es a
a leading position just now among tie
Southern States, but because she may b e
supposed to indicate in some degree the
policy of President johnson, whose in
iiuence has been potential there for the
last four years, and probably is so still,
if he chooses to exert it. 1t is we'll
known that the Legislature has denied
the right of suffrage, for the present, to
men of color. The Senate, by large
majority, has now passed another suffrage
bill Of novel character. 1t confines
the right of voting to those white men,
otherwise qualified, who are publicly
known to have entertained unconditional
Union sentiments from the breaking out
of the rebellion until the present time. .
Provisions are made for proving the fact
of loyalty beyond question. All other
persons are excluded for sac years after
the passage Of the act, and may then be
readmitted to franchise by petition to the
Circuit or Chapcery Court, on proof of
loyalty to the United States, in open
court, upon testimony Of two or more
good loyal citizens.
If the loyal citizens of North Carolina
for instance, will take such action as this
and infexibly aply it at the polls, the peo-
pie would be better reconciled to the with
holding of suffrage from the negro, be-
cause there would then be a better chance
of ending that class legislation which
was the the offspring of slavery and is
still our greatest danger. But there is
"a more excellent way yet, and that is
both to disiranchise the disloyal men so
long as he remains so, and enfranchise
the the loyal man without any regard to
color. That is safe, that is right, that is
the principle of our institutions, that is
the point to which, in the order of
wonderful Providence, we have been
brought, and we ought to evade it.
One thing is ce,y ctear to our minds.
No State can be SAFELY recognized in
the South which excludes colored men
from the suffrage. 1t may, under mill
tary duress, have the firms of govern
ment, as in Louisiana but few now wish
this humlliating spectacle repeated. It
will be much more likely to demonstrate
the impotency of the white Union men
to control, as in the election Just held in
Virginia. The alternative of gov
ernmentS in which colored men partici-
pate or no government at all by the peo-
pie. will soon be made apparent, and per-
haps in view of it politicians may be
to do justice which other con
siderations have failed to gain at their
hands, a - -
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1865-06-21
I IMPORTANT TO TAX-PAY ERS
/ AID COLEEC rOKS,-By the 9Th
June lith. st

section of the Act of Assembly, 1864, it is
made obligatory upon the Treasurers Of the
several counties of Commonwealth TO pay over,
annually, 10 the State Treasurer. the whole
amount of State taxes due, by the FIRST
DAY OF AUGUST. under penalty to tax
payers OF having FIVE PER CENT added to
amount charged asaint them in tho
Duplicates. The collectors are hereby requir-
ed to proceed Immediately in the collection OF
TAXES, and demand from each taxpayer in
his duplicate the amount so charged
against him. so that the Treasurer may COM
ply with the law. All persons who fail TO pay
over their State taxes. by he FIRST OF
AUGUST NEXT, the Collectors are authori-
zed to add FIVE PER CENT 10 the taxes Of
all dclinqueDts.
Payments must be made by Collectors to
the County Treasurer or before the 3lst Of
July next.
by order Of the Commits soners.
June ID I'll ~ J. GREER, CLERK
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1865-06-21

res. Treason must BE made Of7tons ;
Traitors must be punish od and imporcr
ished. THEY mast not only be punished,
but their social po,cer, must be destroyed;
Ind Gfter neatiny treason odious, ccery
taton men and the Government should
be remmerated ont cf tie pockets Of
those cho hare inflicted this great suffer
ing upon the country" President John
son, April 2l. 1865.
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1865-06-21
TERMS OF PUBLICATION

The JuNIATA SENTINEL is Published on
Main Street, next door to the Post Office.
Miiliintown, Juniata County, Pa, on every
Wednesday at the rate of $500 per year in
advance ard $3.50 if not paid within the
year We wish 10 do q cash business as
nearly as possible. We wish to deal honest
y and alike with ALL and therefore need not
be asked to vary from our terms by any one.
Thankful for past favors We ask the continued
upport aud efforts OF our friends.
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1865-06-21
Vaiiandigham ON Democrats.

In letter from this arch traitor ad-
dressed to Democratic Committe of
Lancaster, Pa, he speaks as follows the
present conditiun Of the Democatic
par.y.
"Without more of courage, more igor,
more audacity, if you please in graphing
with great questions as in former cars,
the democratic party cannot, ought not
to survive, and must give way to younger
and more vital organization. If tits to
remain in its present comatose stse at
now the beginning Of new epoh in
public affairs, it were better that it nould
be buried out Of sight at once"
As Vallaudigham says, so let all the
people respond. Let the rotten. treasona.
BILE Democracy Of the last four years "be
buried out Of siyhtl" 1t is dead and
stinketh," and who desires any longer to
smell its putrid remains
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1865-06-21

nea- A large fire occurred in Harris
burg on Wednesday morning last-it
was in the heart of town and doubtless
the work Of an inccndiary. The upper
stories of the Telegraph printing office
were destroyed and the loss is about
s6000-one half of it covered by insu,
rance. Wepicked up few specimens
of the melted type.
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1865-06-21

ra- John Mitchell has come to grief
in New York. Gen. Dix put quietus
on this imported traitors pen, and it is
not likely that Mitchell will have an oo-
Iortunity to disgust loyal men or delight
Democratic friends by an exhibition Of
his hatred fora government which saved
his neck from an English halter. Crime
will not have received its just due until
all such men as Mitchell have been sum.
marily dealt with. Our Government
should offer to exchange Mitchell with
England, for some Of the rascals who
have taken refuge in that land from JUS
tice in this country. The exchange would
be perfectly fair
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1865-06-21
Ran AWaY-Six Cents Reward.

DAN away from the subscriber in Spruce
IlHill township Juniata county on the l2th
of June 1865. John W. Crawford an appren-
tice TO the farming business. Said boy is
about IG years old, somewhat stoop shoul-
dered and about five feet high.
All persons are notified not to harbor or
rust him on my account asI viii pay no debts
of his contracting,
The above reward will be paid for his re-
turn but no thanks.
J. F. G. LONG.
June l1th st
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1865-06-21
H@r The work upon the Capitol exte

S~ The work upon the Capitol exten-
sion at Harrisburg is going on, and the
foundation walls ale already up. The
extension is made in the rear-of the pres
ert cdiiice, and is intended for committee
rooms on the first floor and for the State
Library on the second. @ =
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1865-06-21
IS- Washington, June Sth. Gen. Can

@- Washington, June Sth, Gen. Can
by has, by orders from Secretary Stanton
hunted out and arrested the man who of
fered last winter, in an Alabama paper.
to be one Of certain number of persons
to pay million dollars fo- the murder of
Mr. Lincoln, and he is on his way, under
guard, to this section Of the country.
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1865-06-21

r@ Judge Underwood of Eastern
Virginia, has taken to Washington the
papers relative to the indictment of Gen.
erals r. E. Lee, CoIse, Evell and Long
street; and Billy Smith, Letcher, Case
nova, HcVeigh, and some forty other
civilians, indicted for treason.
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1865-06-21

ESTATE NOTICE
II Estate Of .i5raham Halteman deed
Notice Is hereby given that letters of Admin
isation on the estate of Abraham Ilalteman,
late of Monroe township. deceased, have been
granted to the undersigned residing in the
same township. All persons knowing ,henr-
selves indebted TO said csta,c are requested to-
make to immediate payment and those hsv-
ing claims will please present them duly au-
thenteated for settlement.
CHRISTIAN HALTEMAN,
ISAAC UALTEMAN,
Adainistrators.
June II lSGj-tt.
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1865-06-21

General Howard yesterday morning
received a letter from South Carolina
which gives gratifying account Of the
colored population totally different from
the statcmen. of The Richmond Pcpub-
hc Forty thousand freedmen in South
Carolina are now industriously at work
eultivating the soil, and 5000 colored
children are attending school regularly.
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1865-06-21

sa- The Democratic papers in this and
other states are claiming the majoriries
given by the main aid OF rebel votes, in
the recent election in Virginia, as aglo-
rlous Democratic victories" Nothing
could be more consistent than such a
claim, because it is true that of late Years
as now. all Democratic victories were re-
bellious against the government, and all
that has teen and is rebellious, can only
be accounted as Democratic.
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1865-06-21

nea- 1t is said that the only joke Gen.
Sherman ever pcrpetrated was on Gu
tering the capitol of North Carolina
Turning to regiment of veterans who
where marching by the State House, he
called out: "Don't you think this is a
good place to sing Raleigh round the flag,
bows ?'
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1865-06-21

Governor Holden of North Carolina
has invited the leading Union men of the
State to meet him in conference at Raj
eigh before the PRONUNCIATION of his
forthcoming proclamation.
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1865-06-21

s@- Less than four years ago Gov
Magrath of South Carolina declared that
rather than be taken by the Yankees he
would blow his brains out He has been
taken, but he still survives, from cause
which every one must imagine, to wit,
that he has no brains to blow out
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1865-06-21
HOUSE AND LOT FOR SALE.

TIlE undersigned offers for sale valuable
4 house and lot in Thompsontown, Junists
County Pa. The House is good Frame With
a good Kitchen attached and having on the
Lot good Stable, with carriage she'd and
other out buildings. There is also a well Of
water at the door.
DR.. FREDERICK SORG,
mav:ilst-3t.
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1865-06-21

So The Richmond Republic says; 1t
is stated that IS pieces of property in
Richmond have been already libeled for
eonfiscation, which is only beginning
The proceeding is in rem,, that is to say,
against the property itself--the owner
not being made party to the cause. The
term Of the Federal court at which the
libels will be produced and acted upon
will be held in the Fall.
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1865-06-21

sg Both England and France appear
to fell considerable uneasiness concci ming
the disposition toward them of the Amer
ican Government, aud the American peo-
pie. The language Of the two govern
ments is anything but defiant. Both are
now paying us more compliments during
one month than they have done during
the whole four years of the war Both
represent their relations to the Govern
ment of the United States as most ami
cable, but eudeavor in vain to calm tho
apprehcnslons Of the public.
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1865-06-21
l6o Acres,

About 65 acres of which are cleared and un-
der cultivation, the balance being tinbeIland.
There is on the premises LOG HOUSE and
LOG BARN. an Apple Orchard and q ino
Spring of Water,
TERMS:-One. half of the purchase money
to be paid on the confirmation of the sale by
the Court and the other half On the first Of
April next to be secured by judgment.
SALE to commence at o'clock, p NJ. OF
said day when attendance will be given by
the undersigned, from whom any additional
information may be obtained prior to the
sale.
SAMUEL j. KURTZ.
Nav 3lst Cots
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1865-06-21
JUST RECEIVED.

3g1ESE CORHEs
and PULLEYS 5 complete. They are of the L.
test style and will lift from
SiX TO EIGHT HUNDRED POUNDS
nj one draught. For sale at the cheap store
iE Patterson by
May3l. J. h. VI TODD.
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1865-06-21
rs7g- TIE yFNF4Tf SpyTJNE,J -..,s

fs9~ TIE JUNTATf SENTINEL -ysa
has the Largest CTcaiatioa of any paper pub
iIshed in this County. II is therefore the
6est ddeertising medium. 1t is Paper, truly
loyal. ably conducted, first class Localist,
ami well worthy of the patronage of every
lc,sl citizen in the County
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1865-06-21
The Gettysburg Celebration.

There will be a grand Fourth of July
celebration at Gettysburg. Gen Toward
is to deliver an Address and Gen. Gealy
is to be chief marshal of the day and has
gone there to complete arrangements for
laying the Cornerstone of the Monument
on the Fourth of July. He has obtain
ed from General Grant permission for
two bands of music, one regiment of in
fantry, one battery of artillery and one
squadron of cavalry, Of the army, to be
present at the celebration. The resi-
ments have not yet been designated.
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1865-06-21

MoNEY.-We are greatly in need Of
money. Those indebted to US for the pa.
per for year or more and all owing US
ior job work or advertising will please
notice that We want our money
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1865-06-21

NOTICE.-The School board of Ferman-
In agh school district will meet on Saturday.
June, 24th 1865, at 2 o'clock at Jacob Wills
in MiRintown, for the purpose of meeting all
those who may hold receipts for money, adj
vanced to the bounty fund of said Township,
for the purpose of exernpting said township
from draft. Said receipts to date from Feb
ruary 1861, and to receive vouchers for said
receipts.
by order Of the Board.
June 9th co. WM. GIVEN, Secty.
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1865-06-21
S. l.. Nc

SS The opposition papers, says the
Lebanon Courier, are now greatly agitated
about the Union party being broken up by
internal dissensions. We recollect that
they were similarly distressed last fall,
and made similar representations, but the
election showed the tru.hfulness of their
stateme mt by running up something like
half million majority for the Unionists
As the great head of the Democratic par
ty is now in imminent danger of having
his neck dislocated, and as the body of
the party is now about caving in from
galloping consumption, we suggest that
decent respect for public sentiment
should induce these Copperhead editors
to dry up. uH r4
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1865-06-21
lieu Adrfrtisfmenls.
NOTICE TO- RELIEF APPLI.

l. IAN ASs-1uc loHOWihS TesoiutIOn WaS
passed by the Board of Relief June IL, 1866,
and ordered to be published in the papers Of
the County, to wit
Resolred, That as the exigeneies of the
General Government hare passed away with
the end of the rebellion, the duties Of the
Board OF Relief have also come 10 an end
Notice is hereby given to all persons inter-
ested that there will be no more meetings Of
said board held.
by order Of the Board, tE
JANIES S. cox, Pres.
Attest A. J. GREER, Crk.
June 14 lSG5-3t.
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1865-06-21
FARM AT
PU LIC S ALE.

TNIIE undersigned Administrator of Estate
Il of John Lantz, will offer for sale at pub
lie Outcry by order of the Orphans Court, on
the premises in Delaware township, Juniats
County. Pa, about two and one half miles
North West of ThompsontOwn, on
SATURDAY. AUGUST ETH. 1865.
A tract of land situated as above stated AMI
bounded by lands Of S. D. Evans. David
Walkers Heirs. Margaret Stinson and others
containing about
Smyrna times., 1865-03-30
Rapid Growth of the West.

A correspondent of the Boston Trarellcr,
writing from Quincy, H., thus alludes to the
comparatively prosperous condition and rapid
growth of the West:
1t would astonish you in New England to
see how fiourishing and progressive the West
is. The high prices paid for products have
llquldated mortgages and liabilities all over the
West. Population is pressing into all our
towns and cities. Illinois is crowded with men,
young and middleaged men, too.
The State is required to furnish as many
troops as Ohio, under the last call, and in 1870
our population cannot be less than three mil
lions. The West will be the centre fpolitical
power, and it is wise for the Eastern States to
adjust themselves gracefully to the contingen-
cies of the future, and realize the fact that the
mission Of New England consists rather in cd
ucating and training the people for the great
valley Of the Mississippi New England will
not always be the workshop OF the nation. but
it may always be the university of the people.
The winter on the Mississippi, in the region
of Quincy, has been charming and beautiful,
no snow, no intensely cold weather-weeks and
weeks of sunny days have made the winter
very pleasant i'll the West. Emigration to the
West is on the march now. Trains are freight
ed down with passengers seeking new homes
i'll Missouri. People from every State in the
Union are passing through the city Of Quincy,
lurcd by the prospect Of cheap and fertile land
across the river. The old Southern and rebc
population, disfranchised and conquered, seeks
II home in regions more West to hide it,
shame and chagrin.
Smyrna times., 1865-03-30

On AND WATER never agree. The food at
Oil City has foated off forty thousand barrels
Of oil, and damaged the works Of the oil com
panies to the extent, it is said, of two millions
of dollars One mischief is the filling up OF
the wells with sand and dirt, compelling the
work of opening to be done again. The snow
in that vicinity was two feet deep, and on We'd
nesday, Thursday and part of Friday it rained
necessarily. This caused the mischief. Oil
City was under water, and many of the bust
ness offices were carried off. The McClintock
and Oil City bridge, over, the creek, and the
away. Passengers were being rOwed across
the creek at one dollar a head and landed at
the door of the First National Bank. The
river bottom land above Oil City was entirely
submerged and everything swept off.
Smyrna times., 1865-03-30
WHOLE NO. $50
Marriages. in Lent.

Neither the Episcopal Church of America,
nor the Church of England, have ever abso-
lutely prohibited, by law or canon the ceebra-
ton of marriage during seasons Of either SOL
emn .tdSting or of yfe0Sting; but the Cody
practice" Of both Churches has been to OBJ
serve the restriction during Lent, although
there are many and frequent exceptions to this
orthodox rule. Among others, our readers
cannot have forgotten that of the Prince of
Wales-the "eldcst son Of the Church and
Of the = Defender of the Faith which was
however allowed by special license from the
Archbishop of Canterbury, But in ireland
the forty-ninth canon "a. d. 1899 is still in
force, prohibiting marriages among Protes-
tants during the time of Lent and oi any pub
lie fast; and Of the solemn festivities of the
Nativity, Resurrection, etc" In England and
in Ireland ali Episcopal marriages must be eel
ebrated between the hours Of eight clock III
the morning and twelve 0 clock, noon. The
Roman Catholic Church forbids the ceebra-
| ton of marriage from the first Sunday in Ad-
vent till the seventh Of January, and from
Ash Wednesday till Easter Sunday All other
| Christian denominations are, we believe. quite
untrammelled, either by law, canon or custom
or this interesting point.
Smyrna times., 1865-03-30

A correspondent Of the Buffalo Express, III
North Collins, Erie county, gives the particulars
OF a terrible accident which occurred at that place
last Monday evening, resulting in the death Of
Mrs Uriah Clark, and the serious and proba-
bic fatal injury of three Of her children and a
girl aged l3. Mrs Clarke and her three chill
dren were seated at a table, on which was plac-
cd lighted lamp, which the girl undertook
to fill with kerosene. In attempting this, the
blaze communicated to the oil in the lamp.
causing an explosion Of both the can and the
lamp, and instantly enveloping all four persons
in sheet of liquid fire. Efforts We're made
in vain to extinguish the flames. The untortu-
nate mother was burned to blackness from head
to foot, and her features so horribly distigured
that her most intimate friends could not recog
nizc her. She survived till Tuesday afternoon
enduring the most intense agony.
Smyrna times., 1865-03-30

A DEVOTED BRAKEsuAN-T Berlin jour
mails relate the following incident, which has
just taken place in Prussia A pointsman was
at the junction Of TWO lines of railway, his lev
er in hand, for a train was signalled. The en-
gines were within few seconds of reaching
the cmbankment, when the man, on turning
his head, perceived his little boy playing on
the rails Of the line the train was to pass over.
With Il heroic devotion to duty, the untortu-
nate man adopted a sublime resolution. Lie
down - he shouted to his child but as to him
self he remained at his post. The train pass
ed along on its way, and the lives Of one hun
drcd passengers were perhaps saved. But the
poor child The father rushed forward, ex-
pectng to pick up only a corpse but what wa:
his JOY on finding that the boy had at once
obeyed his order He had lain down, and the
whole train had passed over him without in
jury. The next day the king sent for the man
and attached to his breast the medal for civil
courage.
Smyrna times., 1865-03-30

To those lords ofcreation' who curve their
nasal organs at the idea of communicating mat
tcrs Of business to their wives, we particularly
commend perusal of Carlyle's history Of the
great Frederick. Speaking of the queen, he
says Her Judgment was good; and Frederick
liked to have it on the weightiest things, though
her powers Of silence might halt now and then.
He has been known, on occasion, to run from
his privy council to her apartment while COM
pcx matter was debating to ask her opinion
before it was decided. Excellent Louisa prin-
cess full of beautiful piety good sense and affec-
ton touch of the Nassau heroic in her. At
the moment of her DEATH it is said, when speech
had fed, he felt, from her hand which Law in
his three slight pressures: Farewell = thrice
mutely spoken in that manner-not easy to for
get in this world.
Smyrna times., 1865-03-30

A BAD PRAcTICE. Many persons who use
kerosene lamps are in the habit when going to
bed or when leaving a room for short time,
Of turning the wick down low in order to save
trife of the consumption of oil. The conse-
quence is that the air of the room soon becomes
vitiated by the unconsumed oil vapOrs, by the
gas produced by combustion, and also by the
minute particles Of smoke and SCOT which are
effects, and the wonder is that more persons
are not Immediately and fatally injured by
breathing it. Irritation and inflammation
of the throat and lungs, headache, dizziness
and nausea are among its effects.