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Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1870-08-03

whether an honest man, capable
enough to hold Office, can be- protec.
zionist, and as for the many schemes
Of plumber that make a moral miasma
about the National Capitol, he must
turn his back upon them, so long as
he has good emotion in his heart or
lucks brass upon his cheek.
1t is all very well to sit back in the
old fashioned arm chair of office, and
laugh ut Don Quixoles, whogo charg-
ing up aud down the world, mislak
ing wind mills for giants. Unques-
tionably the Fog bank and Cave and
wind mlls--and they are not, as John
Randolph said, run by water, but by
whisky, women, rings aud foul lob
bies. And undoubtedly am Qnixotic
ass for charging into them, when b5
different course might now be
swinging back in an official chair,
laughing at the stupid people for be-
ing so damnably imposed upon But
the world has to have its official phis
losophers-clse how could we run
the post office and It's Quixotic asses
-elso no reform.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1870-08-03
Japanese Schools.

The schools OF Japan possess many
singularities, especially those for
young girls Of fourteen or fifteen
years Of age, dcnominated finishing
schools. In those establishments, all
masters pay for the privilege of teach
ing, instead Gus is the case with us)
being paid for their lessons. This
makes the instruction labor of love.
Then, again u certain extent,
Japanese yong li.dy is allowed e5hs
siderable freedom as to the selection
of her instructors she generally pre-
frs the best looking.
A lady principal of one of our fin
ishing establishments for young ladies'
would not be a Little surprised if she
could be suddenly transported to
Japan there to study the peculiarities
OF japanese customs.
Instead of our closely pent school
rooms, with the girls sitting bolt up
right upon an educational stool, sho
would find the girls in a delightful
garden, fragrant with tea aud flowers.
She wonld sec n number of little sum
warehouses, embowered in the midst
of those charming vegetable products
for which Japan is so justly celebrated,
brought to perfection 10y the most
exquisite horticulture. She would
see bright eyed damsels, with cheeks
pink as roses, moving around with
graceful steps, each bearing a small
lacquer tray with tea and cakes. She
would see these damscls, with Joyous
smile and modest mein, vending each
their way to summer.house. In.
each Of those summer houses she
would see a master or professor, either
waiting the return of one of the re.
freshment bearing damsels, or else
sitting by the side of one who had
already come back. japanese girls re-
main in educational seniinaries of this
kind until marriage, and they make
excellent wives
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1870-08-03
The U. S. Girondists.

j is very curious and instructive TO
notice how many leaders of the Re.
publican party have been sbelved
since the war and during the war
some 10y complete retirement and ex.
lie, and some by being slowed away
in rlaoes ofrcspectabiity. These per.
Sous, once memorable, like the Giron
dsls Of the French Revolution, were,
willing enough to start aud press the
irrepressible conflict, but when the
struggle came they either had no be
lief in real strife, or no taste for the
conflict Of arms, Tho Secretary Of
Slptc under Mr. Lincoln passed speed.
lis from the declaration that there
would be no war, TO the ringing of
his "litllo bell' to send bis fellow.
countrymen to prison for opposing
the conflict Of arms The Secretary
Of the Treasury under Mr. Lincoln
went from mere enemy to the ex.
tension Of slavery, to full believer
in war for the extinction of slavery
Tie late Secretary Of War passed
from q fierce Pro Slavery Democrat,
who dcfcd the Lincoln administra.
tion, to one of the forcest advocates
Of the Lincoln partisanship.
The great disturbcrs of the peace,
however, were Mr. Seward and Mr.
Chase, and they served the Rcpubli
can party until they could serve it no
longer, oven though they hadnowhcrc
else TO 20. 1t was one Of the wonders
Of ,ac age TO see Mcssrs. Seward and
Chase and their few followers become
Conservative, and it has also been
among its marvels to see them power
less TO control The party they created.
They have done an amount Of evil for
free government, which no time, nor
talent, nor labor can remedy. 1t is
not the abolition OF slavery we refer
to, for that was the destiny of civil
war; nor the Generalization of the
country, for that is an accident OF
war; nor the change of political con
fdcnccs aud leadcrships, for in this
history but repeats itself; but the
great evil, for which as vet thcrc is
no remedy, is the war upon the auton-
omy of the States, the Federal inter
position in franchise, the coercion in
time of peace Of local governments by
military power, the setting aside OF
the fundamental law Of the land, the
total disregard Of the rights Of minor
itios. the exclusion from their seats Of
such Senators aud Representatives in
Congress as are not in accord with
the Administration, the attempted
control of the Supreme Court, and the
intimidation OF justice. These aud
like evils will endure as long as the
Government exists. The creators OF
the Republican party set this ball IN
motion, aud Messr Seward and Chase
who probably never dreamed Of going
so far, aud who would have arrested
the evil before its great elimination
must be held largely responsible foi
the prominent part taken by them in
the literal dismombermont Of the Re
public, and in undermining the Con
stitution which first gave birth to the
Government.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1870-08-03
Rome as Seen by an American.

Rome is difficult subject to deal
with, so many books aud letters have
been written about il. 1t looks so diff
ierently seen through different specta.
ccs, and it is so difficult to discon
meet the present from the past. Its
situation is not unpleasant to the eye,
built on and around moderate oleva.
lions, from which stretches Off the
Campagna to distant mountains, and
within and outside its walls are gar.
deus and puplic grounds of interest.
st. Peters is a wonderful church, and
so is St Paolo, with its immense
white marble floor glstoning like a
sea of glass. The ruins of the Coils.
cum, like the baths of Caracalla, and
the domo of the Pantheon; buildings
which stood before the Christian sia,
and relics and bones ofmartyrs which
have been accnmulaiing over since ;
the Palace Of the Vatican with its
thousands Of rooms and the Quiiinal
and their beautiful gardens and won
dorlul collections Of art. and that
library in the former with It's 100000
volumes adorned With paintings,
vases, and the costly gifts Of kings I;
the Catacomls, where lie bones of
the dead Of so many ages, and the
great memories and religious associa-
tons And some of tho streets of
the city-thoso most frequcntcd by
slrongvrs-though generally without
side walks, arc on dry, cool, sunny
day, not unpleasant Bat then on the
other hand it can not bo ignored that
Rome has narrow streets and dirty
Smells boggars aud hcas, and pesli-
lential miasma Oat of our party Of
seven, Eve wero sick there, and We
heard Of deaths OF strangers all about
us--sovon 10 ono hotel, and three in
one family. lam glad to have seen
Rome should have been sorry not TO
have seen it-but TO speak the truth,
must say, that coming from it TO the
clear, cool, invigoraling mountain air
Of this beautiful Florence seemed like
passing out from the valley of the
shadow OF death into an earthly para.
disc. ! was in Rome on tho great
day Of It's carnival, aud agree with
the correspondent of the London
Times, that it is the human intellect
reduced to lis lowest ebb.- George 7.
AngcR
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1870-08-03

was or was not instrumental in rails
ing purse or sum of money for the
President, and report the same.
4. Whether the District Attorney
for the Southern District of New
York, Judge Picrrcpont, did or did
not subscribe $40 600 or other consid
cradle sum toward the election Of the
President, and if SO, the manner in
which said sum was appropriated.
.. Whether any party appointed to
a Cabinet Office ever contributed n
valuable library or other valuable
property not cash to the President
before his said appointment.
g. Whether any members Of Con
grcss are supplied with gas at their
.residence in Washington city by the
Sas Company Of said city free of
charge, and ifso who, aud how many,
and the names Of said members Of
Congress
T. Whether any member Of either
branch of Congress are stockholders,
directly or indirectly, through any
persons as trustees or agents, in any
Pacific on other railroad to which tho
Government of the United States has
granted subsidies Of public lands, and
whose bonds have been endorsed, or
either; and If so the names of such
members, the amount of stock owned
by him or for him by others, or the
proportion of land held by him or for
him in the name of others, or the ag-
gregate value Of endorsed bonds, or
subsidy bonds held by him or by
others for him, and to report the same
to this House.
s Whether there is any member Of
the family Of the Secretary of State
engaged by any foreign Government
as attorney or counsel to whom is
paid a consideration, aud what con.
sideration, if any, for services, and
what kind Of services
.. Whether any member of the
Cabinet has a partner, who has aban,
doned the position Of assistant in his
office to become an attorney in prose
cutting claims before his department.
TO- Whether any member Of Con.
gress has had employed as clerk in
any Of tho departments any frmlle
whose relations to him have ceased to
bo matter Of doubt, and who is paid
her fees as mistress by tho salary Of
her position
H. Whether the Mayor of Wash.
ington, Silas J Bowen, did or did not
purchase in a pOnd dde sale the house
Of the President, now occupied by
Gen. sherman, for the sum ofsl0. 900,
prepaying the President 81 900 to bind
the sale and the said sale was sub.
sequcntly set aside by the President
and the same property sold to a. 4.
Stewart and Others for s65, 600, to be
presented to Gen, Sherman Whether
said sale and receipt OF s25, 600 profit
by the President was or was not pro.
tested by Silas J Bowen, and whether
rHid Basvep did cr diI NOT secure for
the quiet settling said sale and allow.
ing the President (instead of HIMSELF |
TO make $4,000, some political con.
sideralions in the way Of Government
patronage, district ana Post Office ap.
pointmonls, etc.
Am Resolved, That IN order to investigate. /
mako clear and report upon these questions, said .
Committee have full power to send for pcrsons and .
Unp0f.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1870-08-03
How Knives and Forks are Made.


New Britain, Connecticut, has q
cutlery mandatory, opened last
spring. In the Hartford Couram we
find very interesting description of
it, from which we take the following
The principal thing manufactured is
table cutlery. The visitor is first ia
ken to the store-room, where he sees
riles Of oxen's bones, brought hither
from The slaughter.houses of New
I York city. They are first soaked and
bOilod, and then sawed out aud shaped
by series Of ingenious machines, 60
ing at last to the riveting room where
they are fastened TO the blade of the
knife or the shanks of the fork.
In the store room, too. lie piles of
cocoa, ebony and rosewood, brought
from the region Of the equator. The
hard and beautiful woods are manipu-
lated very much in the same way ms
the bones, and arc sawed out by sim.
liar machines. The blades Of the
knives, and the steel portion Of the
fork, first assumes shape in the black
smith shop, an imense room contain
ing iorges, eight ornine trip hammers,
and two rows Of drops, each one hun.
dred feet long.
Ailer these huge instruments have
given blades and forks their rough
forms, they are sent to the punching
room, where the holes for the rivets
are made. They then 20 TO the hard
ening or tempcring room, which con
tains three furnaces, in which tierco
heat is constantly maintained There
are the tempcring, the annealing and
the case. hardening furnaces The
processes here are very delicate, the
blades being dipped in oil before they
are placed in the anncaling furnace,
and great skill being required to keep
the furnace always at the proper de.
gree Of heat
This anncaling is, as is well known a
most important operation Without
il our knives and forks would soon
bend and break and become useless
From this room the blades next 90 to |
,"o 'o ogi ,;ni ,o 4" ""''m ,;,h ,,''o @ wv
cor ,sa5 S'a - > H. ,ra w. ad loO
,,iycn to tho blado and rho sSo,n
SSoints ,o tbo eorl, Thenrindin,, % roo,p
iroson,s - nnr;a". si'.hs IT, So "rl
iho ra,,;,ii,. ,rh;,li, 'n ~ s,o. '0m, "
r"U h"n, s,o"'o ~ n''
i'o"a ," ,ta eno 49, n,r'iolaa "eI' :
IN ,Po v ,,rnnoss "s oc ' ''r;nJ;r, G.o,, =" o
ino ''S ,Sd;r Yc.os o,.es " '"Ns '''' '"''
9 ,hev onnIr uho s,ol 1Jol.s ,oI
90 '"ey aIPiy wy 49, o'"Ie' "
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1870-08-03

Negroes are being imported into
Louisiana from Ilayi Here is a
chance for naturalization under the
bill recently passed 10y the Radicals.
The voters are canning by tho ship
load, The Radical party no longer
expect TO hold power by the votes Of
white men, or even native born ne,
groes. They mean to bring the dirt
caters and snako-wofshippors from
llayli and Africa, to rule America,
mould It's laws, aud fashion It's morals.
This IAN illustration OF the real mean
ing of the amendment TO the Natural.
ization laws. How do white men
like the change
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1870-08-03
CLEARFIELD. PA.
Tmn sILLY YOUNG RAnnlr.

There was young rabbit
Who had bad habit
Sometimes he would do what his mother forbid,
And one frosty day
His mother did say.
"My child you must stay in the burrows close hid
For ] hear the dread sounds
OF huniimen and hounds,
Who are searching around for rabbits like you,
Should they see but your head
They would soon shoot YOU dead,
And ihe dogs would be on With you with boo
rut poor, foolish being,
When no one was seeing,
Looking out from his hurrow 10 take a short play
lie hopped o'er the ground
With many bound,
And looked around proudly rs Il be would say,
Do ] fear mani
Now catch me who cam
So this young rabbit ran to 6nc applc-trce,
Where gnawing the bark
lie thought not to bark
The coming Of hunters 80 careless was hc
Now as rabbits arc good,
When roasted or strwed--
a man came along hunting rabbits for dinncri
He saw little Bun
Then raised his big gun
And there he lay, dead, the foolish young sinner
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1870-08-03
DIFFERENT MINDS.

Some murmer when the sky is clear
And wholly bright TO view,
II one small speek Of dark appear
In their great heaven Of blue;
And some with thankful love are filled,
II but one streak Of light,
One ray Of Gods good mercy gid
The darkness Of their night.
In palaces are hearts that ask,
In discomfort aud pride,
While life Is such drcnry task,
And all good things denied;
Aud honrts. in poorest huts, admire,
How love has in their aid,
lLoYe that not ever seems 10 iife)
Such rich provision made.
--drcAbislop Trench.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1870-08-03

When was teaching in --semi-
nary, | boarded with an old lady who
had an opinion on every subject, and
expressed it. One night a train ran
of the track near by, and in eense.
quence there was deal of whistling.
Next morning the old lady inquired
If We had heard the Disturbance
MOI" | said, "my wife thodght some.
thing was the matter, but heard
nothing" "Well," said she, "l dare
presume there has been an accident,
for the cars have been Whistling most
all the night: They whistled and
whistled dare presume, for half an
hour. ] didu't think il possible for Il
man TO hold his breath so long ~
"Why, mother" said her daughter
dts a steam whistle" "Law said
the old lady, 81 always thought that
it was tho engineer that whistled.'
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1870-08-03
Correspondence Of the New York sun.l
The Small Thieves Punishedj The
Big Ones Shielded.

Big Ones Shielded.
WASHINGTON, June 25 Inside po.
litical circles Of the Capitol are aston.
ishod that the Sun should be the first
to strike at certain instances of brib.
cry and corruption in high circles
Leading Congressman fear that you
may stimulate through healthy
public opinion, an investigation which
willuncoyer the tracks ofhigh officials
who have been diverling tho public
attention from gigantic frauds and
jobs, stepped in corruption and bribery.
The manner of divorling public crli.
cism has been to investigate picayune
Jobs, like the sale of cadetships, while
great leaders, who are bartering cab.
net appointments, immense slices Of
the public domain, and even national
honor, 90 unpunishcd and even un.
noticed.
Day by day the little members, like
Whittemore, have been probed and
their little sins have been the ladder
on which men deeper in corruption
have raised themselves to positions of
unsuspected party. A rod Of ven.
geance, threatening political osIracism,
is held over these members, and they
dare not rebel.
When the Military Committee first
began investigating the cadctship
sales, these carpet bag members held
a secret meeting, They resolved that
4 n priucry was TO be Investigated, such
investigation should begin at the head
that is to say, among the leaders,
who are making their thousands, and
not among few powerless members,
who now and then take $500 with
which TO build u lrecdman's school
house. At this meeting resolutions
were prepared. They were well di.
gcsted, aud based on absolute facts in
the bombshcll which was to mako the
leaders dodge to protect their own
corrupt jobs.
The leaders head tho resolutions.
They were thrown into intense OK
element. "They shall not be intro
ducod. Their introduction will be
'"o Po'i',oui IS".n M".I""v " an.
them They will destroy the Rcpub-
lican party" Such exclamation, with
threats of the ostracisin oil any Re.
puoi,can ,"tiou"clhg ig tpu reso'"{I9nsi n,, y
tlu',uneI I a a"V,n 'i ~ s,,u iiouso ,' i"u1
=" " ii,,io "J "" ,on ao, ;,,,, , ois @ ""o
-, ~ - 'sn,s'"s ,', Nv "", =
," ~" so,.s ~ a',a''"s as ~ "'u oVeupi
,ns Wv "',v.''om ~ ino ptoP,v' & "'',g ~
H,it",v,,"' ".o', = ',,,,, ""u "Ta', o"aoo 49, ".
49, 49, % ai'u ,L '9ps'uI' I ~ ',o "Il'gi'
Lo Vov So"d "c or " ,"v 'Im ~. I,,
'"o "V"u Vi '"' ''''o", - u"pu"''"'u'
" ''e''"N' VI Ns VOC .,
carpet baggcr receives SJUU, pays u
over to build freedman school house.
ond l. dol,,sod C.,,, Lis so.t Ia ,Lo
IL, ..i',i. a.. p.';.i.'.'
l.1'e, l,VuSo, M""o ,''u +, 'Ss'uon' y, 'oov'IV -
SlU,OuU from a. i. Stewart which
contribution enables him TO mako
I cor OQn from ,bo Gala 81 ,.,s,
N,VivVy ~"
| Whlch uelongcu 70 MT. buWchi anu
/ Mr. Stewart il called to the Secretary.
Jin II Ia don,poble.-it Il unhoar.
~,
"",Vi n,i "usv wv, W. 'uo'','t '.,,l..
IVY % "'S ~ ,,'o S,o'ul' c..,i 'on' llsli'' ~
~ " ,, 'yo'' LUZ w " Iou''' @ /" ''''ieo.l !,
a"u , ""'y,, IT' ""' " '"io M '.o" . '',e'.u ~
] " tNV huu'e' ~ lhut IV"h N'it
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1870-08-03

"What is the size Of this place 2"
gravcly asked Now Yorker Of the
conductor, just ailer the brakeman
had sung out"O-pe. Ii kay, at n South.
ern station, where not a house was
visible among the pines, except a
rambling shed called an "cating sa-
loon" "lt's about as big as New
York. was the ready answer, "but IL
isn't built up vel"
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1870-08-03

A SHARP LooRoUr.-Smollett tells
an anecdote ola If crazy lreeihinker
of bis dey, who, CHANGING in Rome,
stopped one day before bust Of
Jupiter, and lowing low, thus address
ed the drthroned idol: "Sir. il you
should ever get your head above
water again, hope you will remember
that treated you politely in your
adversely"
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1870-08-03

The Hon Freeman Clarke, radical,
and cx comptroller OF the treasury,
Washington, says that the people pay
100000. 900 taxes, only iO0,VOOO00
Of which ever reaches the treasury. N
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New York and Pennsylvania


The only real date we have on
which to make an estimate of the
growth of these two States are TO be
found in their votes at the Presiden.
tial election of 1860 and 1s6S-the
interval covering eight years of the
decade. Here are the figures
Total Vote. New York. Pennsylvania.
1865 $4,000 655,6eg
1860 675,l56 f35,5l2
Increase in years, l74,6lO 1920
The increase of votes in Pehnsylva.
MIA was nearly 3S per cent. while in
New Yoik it was less than 26 per
cent Allowing for corresponding
growth between 1868 and 1870, when
the ninth census il to be taken, we
may estimate that from 1860 to 1870
the population Of Pennsylvania has
increased at least IL per cent. while
that of New York has increased about
20 per cent The Presidential vote
of 1850 represented in New York;
according 70 the eighth census, taken
that year, population of 3,sS0,727.
Add to this 20 per cent. and it will
give New York a population in 1870
of 5000, ,l37. The vote of Pennsylva.
mia in 1860 represented population
of 2,0O0,B70 Add to this & per cent.
and tho population of Pennsylvania
in 1870 will be 3,0979sl in round
numbers, while New York has 5,000,-
GOO Inhabitants, Pennsylvania has
100000, The superior growth Of
Pennsylvania is owing to the develop
ment of sources of wealth that do not
exist in New York coal, iron and oil
being the principal.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1870-08-03

The difference between a "country"
and "ciiy" grocnhoru is, that the enc
would like to know everything, and
the other thinks ho can tell him.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1870-08-03

"My DEAR said the sentimental
Mrs. Waddles, "home you know is al
ways the dearest spot on earth.'-
"Wcll. yes" said the practical Mr..
Waddlos, "it does cost me about twice
as much as any other spot"
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1870-08-03

Henry Mix, Esq, of Towanda, has
a horse valued at $1,000.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1870-08-03

In the Coroner's Office, at San Fran
cisco, certificate Of death reads,
"pied from rupture Of the head
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1870-08-03
DENTAL PARTNERSHIP.

g. DR. A. NJ. HILLS,
~Ilfffy Desires to inform his petrons, and the
public generally. hat he has associated With hin
Ia The practice Of Dsndstry.
S. p. SHAW. d. d. S,
who ha graduate of the Philadeirhia Dental
Vehsee, ard therefore has the highest ettcsiA.
oons 81 professional skill. All work done In
ne ehee ! viii hold myself personally rcsponsi-
eie Tor being done IN the mo,t ss,isiaeiory man
ne soe highest order 81 the profession.
an established practice Of tWcnty .tw, years 10
ny, pace enables me to speak to ny patients
knsagcmsnu frou distance should be made
~ letter q f-- day before the patient dgsirns
Jane I, isss ~
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THE
! sCLEARRIELD REPUBLICAN,"
a BsTABLIs DIN Is2T.
The largest circulation Of any News
paper in North Central
u Pennsylvania,
Terms of Subscription.

u paid in advance, or within months..,.sa 90
4, n egi sa.r aud before months........ 2 so
b paid afi,r the expiration of months. 90