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Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1871-08-09

REMovED.-General Stoneman has
been removed from the command Of
tho department of Arizona by order
Of General Grant. Whyy Who in
fluenccd the President in this case?--
Answer: A gang Of suffers and con
tractors, who were opposed TO Stone.
man because he would not permit
them TO swindlc the government. In.
stead Of paying these men from thirty.
five dollars per ton for hay, he pur.
chased it directly from the Indians at
from nine to eleven dollars, which
may account for the fact that at the
Camp Grant massacre, of one hundred
and twenty five Indians killed mostly
squaws and children-nincty dead
bodies were found each with a bundle
of hay at its side. The removal Of
General Stoneman is disgrace to the
administration, and a fit illustration
ofits Indian policy. Age.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1871-08-09

The MAN VINO Runs GRANT. =
Some of our good Republican citizens
were greatly Mortified when the sug.
gcstion was made to nominate Simon
Cameron on the samo ticket with
Grant. They profess to regard him
rs the most corrupt politician 10 the
whole country, and refer to his ante.
cedents to prove the truth Of what
they say: his Winncbago transactions;
his conduct while Secretary Of War
under Lincoln, and the resolution Of
ccnsuro by the House of Congress,
and TO the fact that he got.his position
of Senator by the purchased votes Of
members Of the Pennsylvania Lcgis-
lature. They pronounce and prove
him to be rascal all over.
And, yet, this same Simon Cameron
is one of the acknowledged managers
OF the Radical party, and the man who
has more influence over Grant than
any other person, not even excepting
Senator Morton He may, with truth,
be said TO run the Administration. =
Sumner was displaced from the Chair
manship Of the Committee on Foreign
Relations, and Cameron put in his
place, because, Ms was alleged, it is
necessary that the Chairman of that
Committee should bear no confidential
and intimate personal relations with
the President. Cameron filed the rc.
quircment. With all his corruption
he seems to be the very person Grant
chooses to take into his confidence.
If Grant is run for President, why
should Cameron be objected to for
Vice President? We can't see.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1871-08-09


HAD TO PAY HIS FARE AND Ten
CENTS OvER.-On Tuesday morning
last, President Grant came over the
New Jersey railway to Nov York
without ticket. When the conduc.
tor approached TO ask for his ticket
gentleman whispered "Tbat is the
President" al can not help it," re-
piled the conductor; "my orders are
positive. The last time President
Grant came over this road a conduc.
tor was removed for passing him with
out ticket. ! must obey my orders"
Upon which the President paid the
full fare for his journey, with an addi.
tional penalty Of ton cents for neglect
ing to buy his ticket in advance
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1871-08-09

As MIGur BE Expected. We no
tice by our exchanges that the appro-
priation Of $40 900, made by the Leg
islature last winter in aid of the
sufferers Of the Mifilintown fire, has
caused much bad blood and litigation,
ending in a number of libel suits
This is just what might have been cx.
pectcd from a transaction wholly il.
legal. The State authorities had no
more right to take that money out OF
the State Treasury and deliver it to
the citizens of that place than they
have 10 steal horses. The State Tacas
ury is no fire insurance department
for any community. 1t is as much
the duty of the citizen 10 have his
house insured after IL is built as to
warm it. Then, if it burns for him,
he need not depend either on State
or local charity. Insurance is a
square business transaction, and the
individual who can afford to own a
house, and don't have il insured, is
either ignorant or miserly, and ii
burned out deserves no help. Not
from the Legislature at oil events,
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1871-08-09
"Su,oxe Tbaf..

The Rev. John p. Newman, who
runs the Methodist or Metropolitan
church at Washington, and does the
praying for the United States Senate
and for Grant when at home, like too
many clergymen, has undertaken to
cheat the Lord out of part of his time,
in writing (and then getting Brother
Harlan to frank,) electionccring let
ters TO Iowa, advocating the re clec.
tion of Harlan to the Senate. AL.
though his letters are all headed "con.
fidential," some gentleman has given
a copy TO tho press, Yet, but one re.
ligious and none Of the Radical jour.
nails have denounced this scurvy trick.
The Northeastern Christian Adro-
cate, the leading organ of the Metho-
dist church in that region, says of it
That the world may know that the Methodist
| Episcopal church has fellowship with this kind
of political intermeddling. we thus speak out
Change names, aud for d. Ne~men put the aa'a,
/ # Arehbi.hop PgreeH, and for James Harlan put
Patrick " Biraey, aud iet hs circulars hare gone
10 eUery priest IN the State. how could hore de
nounced il! The names unchanged, and the fac,
established, we denouncc II just as promptly, and
just as severely. That il 'oas confidential mate'
il the eorse.
That editor deserves the thanks OF
the Christians and those opposed to
moral perjury.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1871-08-09

Gov. GEARY TALKS SOUND DEMoo.
RAcY "A reporter of tho Now York
Herald has recently been interview.
ing some Of the Republican leaders in
Pennsylvania, among the number Gov.
Geary. The Governor was entirely
willing to give his opinions to the
public, and from the tenor Of them, il
is hard to resist the conclusion that
he is preparing to come back to his
old love, the Democratic party. In
answer to a question what relations
he held with Gen. Grant, he said
Every good, so far as know. Perhaps
Grant don't like my position on the 'bayonct ques-
ton but cant help It. As the Governor Of this
Commonwealth was bound in my message to al
ude to that, and to condemn the action Of the
general government in using the marines Mt Phil.
adelphia during the election OF last year. don't
believe in that policy, aud never can be made to
believe in 1t. Had the power, would give the
South universal amnesty. Then | would say,
You are put upon your good behavior. Hold
your elections In your own way. Elect your own
candidates. Let the elections be conducted fairly
II you are not able to maintain order, let your
Governors or your Legislatures call upon me- and
viii back them with the whole strength Of the
goyernpent' i believe that would have done
more to secure peace than anything else. You
can't govern this people with the bayonct When
ever 1t comes TO that the republic Is failure, and
we bad better confess II. Better have fifty fights
at the polls than to have the bsyonct there
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1871-08-09

The OIL BUSINESS The extraor.
dinary increase of the petroleum trade
is ono of the notable features Of the
commercial returns of the past year.
The exports of petroleum in 1870 were
81 per cont. greater than those Of. the
previous years. Tho total export
from the United States in 1870 WAS
l4l, POS, ,l55 gallons--against Il ,500,-
600 gallons in 1860, and .9A2sl,000
gallons in 1868. The, daily .aycrg
product of the Pennsylvania oilsnisl
trict in December, 1867, was 10000
gallons; in the same month in 1870;
il was 1921 gallons--a fact which
shows the inexhaustibiiity oftho w6lls.
The total annual supply is estimated
at 2l1 100000 gallons, which, reckon
ing tho price at an average Of 20 cents
per gallon, represents value gilmore
than s42, 100000 for single year.
certainly q remarkable return for n
product unknown to commerce ten
years ago.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1871-08-09

FIsH.--The fish question is attract
ing pretty general attention through.
out the country. California has an
abundance of excellent salmon ia her
waters, but no shad. Settlers from
the distant shores of the Delaware,
tho Hudson or the Connecticut have
longed in vain for the bony but deli
cious fish, whose annual visit to tho
Atlantic coast is one Of the cherished
recollections Of their youth. Their
longings are about to be gratifcd.--
Thirty thousand young shad have
been safely transferred via the Pacific
Railroad from the Hudson to tho Sac,
ramcnto, and next year, perhaps, the
inhabitants OF San Francisco win be
dcvouring them broiled for breakfast.
Fifty years ago this feat would have
been as incredible as wonld be at the
present day tho prediction of the sub.
marine transfer Of thirty thousand
babies to Europe fifty years hence.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1871-08-09
PAIN words.

Horace Greeley has lately taken 10
write and talk like a copperhead-
telling tho naked truth. In late
number Of tho Radical Bible tho
Tribune, he says;
Onr correspondents have been so long In tho
disturbed districts of tho South that we can fbrm
from their letters distinct idea Of the state OF so,
coty In that unfortunate part of the Union. II Is
a melancholy picture that they draw for us The
most Intelligent, the influential, the educated, the
really useful men of the South, deprived OF all po-
litical power have come to look upon themselves
as tho outraged subjects Of q dcspotic conqueror.
Taxed and swindled by horde ofrascally foreign
adycnturers and by tho Ignorant class which only
yesterday boed the fields and served In the kltch-
en- they nothing for politics, except TO throw
Oh the oppressive yoke th,J have no intcrest In
national affairs they would call themselves OF
either party, provided their rulers only Of the
other. The refuse of northern cities, who went
southwark after the war, out at elbows and desti-
tutc of character and education, now roll In splcn-
did carriages, drink rare wines, glitter with dia-
monds as big rs Nsk's, and stoal taxes as fast as
New York street commissioner, II is no won
der that the impoverished planter growing poorer
every day, tho ex Confederate officer, who fought
so brayoly for cause In which he honestly be-
lievod the professional men, accustomed all their
lives to hold ofico and lead the public sentiment
Of their communities, look upon such things with
rancorous hearts. They might submit to be ruled
by soldiers who had beaten them in battle; but
here they are plundeted by suffers and camp fol
lowers.
THIS is miserable state of things indeed for u
republican governmont---a burlesque upon the
suffrage, when the only restriction upon voting is
that the votes shah not be east for the most nte-
gent and virtuous citizens We have often warned
our party in Congress Of the inevitable result Of
the vindctivc method OF reconstruction. We
have told them. and we tell thom again that there
is only one way to restore the union--univcrsal
amnesty and impartial suffrage.
There is moro truth in that extract
than has appeared in the Tribune for
six months, and il Horace would just
take one more trip through the South,
he would curse aud swear at Grants
scalawags down there equal with
Ben Wade, who everybody knows
piles oath upon oath.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1871-08-09
.1,cf,sS ErpIostoss.

NINETY PEOPLE KILLED BY A BOILER.
The Staten Island ferry boat West,
field exploded her boiler at White Hall
Ferry, Now York, about o'clock on
tho 30th ult:, just as she was leaving
for tho island. Between four and five
hundred persons wero on board, the
ferry master, by counting his money,
arriving at this conclusion.
The boat was in the slip at the time
OF the explosion, and as the day was
very warm, the majority ofthe passen
gers crowded to the forward part Of
the boat TO catch the sea breeze.
The engineer of the boat, II is said
was a colorcd man. The cause Of Tho
explosion Is not fully ascertained.-
The front of tho boiler was suddenly
blown out, lodging in the bow thirty
feet distant. The forward part Of the
boat, the upper cabin and all, was in
stantly shivcrod and split into a thous
and pieces, as an eyewitness expresses
IL.
The forward part of the boat was
lifted fifty feet in the air, and tho
smoke stack fell, and then everything
was buried in tho hold. Passengers
chairs, stools, benches and life pre-
servers were dropped into the hole
fronting the huge boiler, which poured
out hugo volume Of steam. Many
persons were blown overheard. A
father and a mother had their children
blown from their arms. The water
in an instant was alive with men
women and children struggling fol
life. The after part of the boat, which
had escaped the force of the explosion
would have been safe for tho unin
|jured, but they were panic stricken
and leaped overheard without rcgart
to the consequences.
From amidships to the cut-watel
the boat presents vast hold filed will
fragments of .spars, beams, flooring
and bulwarks, and fragments of iron
How many bodies lie beneath th,
ruins in that fearful abyss it is impos
siblc as yet to tell They are bring
ing them out every hour. Many per
sons were blown bodily into the air
falling into the water. Some hav,
been hauled out by boatmen will
hooks and otherwise, and large
party are engaged in dragging th,
bottom, constantly finding bodies
Up to the last accounts ninety dead
bodies had been recovered, and one
hundred and fifty are serverely injured
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1871-08-09

CHARLEsroy.-It appears from the
election returns that the "new dc.
parture" has played the dusc with
secession and loyalty in Charleston,
South Carolina, where an election for
Mayor and other city officers come of
on the Sd. The returns show that
the Democrats carried the city by
III majority. Two years ago the
vote stood about thus: Radical, 49,.
600; Democratic $500. Giving SO.
cession and loyalty $500 majority,
1t is as clear as the sun at MONDAY
that the twin relics of disunion, SO.
ccssion and loyalty, are killed stone
dead, even in Charleston, and through.
out the whole country about as dead
as Duling's hogs-"dcad as HI, SIR
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1871-08-09
serere b..s Tr,.e.

The Chicago Journal, a leading
Radical paper, is rather severe on the
alien Orangcmen, who misuse aud
abuse Protcstantism to add strength
10 their cause. The Journal says:
1t is as needless us II IL unjust 4,
make this a matter Of religion as DO.
tween Catholicism on one sido and
Protestant tism on the other.i The
porpetuation Of antagonism and hate
by the Orange organization is simply
contemplate. The time TO lay aside
all such antngonisms arrived long ago,
and who ever maintains now, or do.
vises for present use, leagues, orders,
associations, ceremonies, or anything
whatever for expressing or for calling
to remembrance, an extinct, abomina-
bic fcud, does a disreputable thing
Orapgemen in this matter arc confcd'
crate asses; they richly merit public
contempt; they arc but little better
than that mob which dogs their steps
for they purposely revive memories Of
hatred, and blood and horrible outrage,
which decent regard for human broth.
crhood would lead them to bury and
utterly forget. If they think their
demonstrations other than q disgrace
TO them, in an ago Of respect ibr hu
man principles, they ought TO be un,
deceived ut once. And If any fresh
fools turn up now, to make capital
out of public indignation ut mob VIC
lence, for their schemes Of rcllgloul
prejudice, and to stir up Protestant
hatred of Catholics, we warn them
that all such imitation of the Irish
mob will meet with the exccratlon ol
tho respectable public. There is nc
place in American society for these
Protestant Ku.Klux. 20 y e-is = -
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1871-08-09

So, So.--Tbc Washington Patriot
says that "all important papers re.
quiring tho signature of the President
must be sent to Long Branch by a
special messenger, who is allowed ten
cents mileage each way for going and
returning, hotel bills, and other cx,
pcnses. 1t is estimated that every
timo the President signs his name by
the seashore to commission, order,
bigamy pardon, or other paper, il
costs the taxpayers about seventy.tive
or a hundred dollars, according to the
allowance which may be made to the
messenger"
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1871-08-09
Capture or Turner.

j. X. Turner, the Titusville lawyer
sentenced to fourteen years in the
Penitentiary, who escaped from the
U. s. deputy marshal, near Greenville,
on Wednesday Of last week, was taken
on Monday night at place called the
Diamond, about eight miles from
Titusyille. The former statement
that his handouts were removed on
the cars was not correct, he having
jumped from the car window with
them on. He was stunned by the fall,
but not seriously injured, and lay un-
conscious for time, when he proceed
ed rapidly across 10 Ohio. A number
of parties were appealed to, to remove
his handouts, without success, until
boy was prevailed upon to cut them
with a cold chisel. He continued on
in Ohio until he reached Ashtabula
county, whore he ascertained that the
officers had passed him, when he re-
traced his steps towards Titusville,
with the object of securing assistance.
Meantime, parties in Crawford county
had got upon his track. Atthe Dia-
mond, two men from Titusville met
him with buggy, and the three were
driving to Titusvilc, when they were
stopped by a drawn pistol, and Turner
was seized, ironed, and taken into
custody. The parties who made the
arrest, Mcssrs. Carmichael, Williams
and Snyder, delivered the prisoner to
the U. s. marshal at Oil City, and
were paid the reward Of $500. Hay.
ward, one OF the men who drove the
buggy, has been arrested for being an
abetlor of Turner's; Bodine, the other
was not TO be found. Turner was
deeply depressed by his capture-fre.
quently burst into tears--and thought
he had been unjustly dealt with. He
denied the truth of the many stories
that have been circulated to bis dis
dit-Erie Observer.
1t is evident from this that Turner
will not annoy tho Democrats in
future political contests with his loyal
clap-trap, as he has in the past.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1871-08-09

OVER SHOT THE MARK.-lt was not
so intended, but one good thing has
grown out of the Ku Klux investiga.
tion, "only one, and nothing more" in
the language Of Poe's raven, Facts
have been developed which show the
"carpct bag State governments have
been inefficient and corrupt, and have
created local offices heretofore un.
known to the people, and filed them
with political adventures that the
State debt and taxation have been dis
honestly increasedj and that thepetty
officers have been tyrannical and over.
bearing in their conduct and extor-
tionate in their demands.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1871-08-09

KICKING IN THE HARNESS. Ohio
Office holders. in Washington have
been taxed so heavily for State pur.
poses, that they have rebcllcd, and
there is q lively fight going on at the
present time between them and the
Radical State Committee. The clerks
say that they are like barrel tapped
at both ends, and must run dry unless
a plug is applied TO at least one of the
aperturcs. They cannot supply mon
cy for party purposes both in Wash.
ington and Ohio. AS they vote in
both places, wo do not see why they
should not pay in both places.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1871-08-09

CRowING.-Wc notice that Mr.
Russell Errctt, Chairman of the Radi.
cal State Committee, gloats over the
fact that he and bis pet party friends
have taken the state tax Off of office.
holders, bank presidents and other
wealthy corporation officials. An in.
dividuaI who carries SO many double
letters in his name should tell the
whote truth after beginning. He should
have stated that the relcfgivcn 10 the
rich was Il burthcn imposed on the
laborer, because the money taken out
Of the State Treasury by the class in
dicatod, and from which they have
been exempted, must be imposed on
tho poor mans COW and horse. II
dirty work like this is worth growing
about, its no wonder the country is
drifting hi wards.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1871-08-09

LUMBER. The Cameron Press says
Ono day last week number of cars
loaded with pine lumber = shipped
from Grand Rapids, Mich. were Ia
ken east over the p. 4 Il, road. Is il
a fact that Michigon can supply the
eastern markets with lumber, and sue
cessfully compete with our lumber
men? Some that are acquainted with
the trade say that it is. We do not
feel inclined to believe that they car
transport lumber that distance to the
eastern cities for the same price VIC
can in Cameron county.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1871-08-09

TIE "NEw This new
measure has been practically tested
by tho prisoner whom Mr.. Valan.
digham was defending at the time he
shot himself. The jury in the case
failed to agree, and were discharged
BY tho Court and the prisoner ro
manded to Jail. On Thursday last he
aud four others "dug out" and made
their escape A large reward is Of
fcred by the authorities. Tho prison
er has acted upon the adyico of his
counsel, and by "digging out" has
practically accepted the "ncw dcpar
ture."
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1871-08-09

WILL They BnE ?-Gearyitcs and
Camcronites divide the Radical party
in this State. Each faction says the
other is dishonest, and both tell the
truth, which is the only strange thing
connected with the subject. DR.. Stan
ton, tho Radical candidate for State
Treasurer, is a Cameron man and so
is his partner on the State ticket The
Geary men were left out in the cold
at the last Convention, and they snarl
and show thcir teeth at the more for
tunate animals. viii they bite?
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1871-08-09

EDITORIAL CHANGES We notice
that II. A. Guernsey and VIM. p.
Furcy, Esqs., have become editors and
publishers Of the Lycoming Standard.
A change was highly necessary in that
direction. The personal vitupcration
which has filed tho columns Of that
journal for some time past was an
outrage upon its readers and a dis
grace TO Journalism. We hope "the
new departure will bo decided i'm :
provemont in this instance.
Mr.. Harvey Sickler, for ten years
past editor of the Wyoming Democrat,
has disposed of his interest in that
journal to Mr.. Alvin Day. who in the
future will watch over tho interests of
our Democratic friends in little Wy.
oming. Success and prosperity to all
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1871-08-09

A LOYAL Posy.--The Philadelphia
Age says; Foster Blodget, Radical
aspirant for Senatorial honors from
Georgia, and u friend of General Grant,
denies that he embczzlcd tho funds OF
the Western and Atlanta railroad.--
But the Grand Jury OF tho county
think differently, and have indicted
him for tho ofiensc. His secretary
acknowledges that hc fobbcd eight
thousand dollars out Of claim of IF
teen thousand, put into his hands for
collection by the aforesaid company.
What an interesting member OF the
San Domingo "Ring' Blodget would
make.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1871-08-09

Frederick Arnell, switch tender, on
the Cumberland Valley Railroad at
Bridgeport, across tho river from
Harrisburg, has been in the employ
of the company for thirty.four years
Hc Is eighty years old, Frenobman
by birth, and was n soldier under Ma
poleon Boneparte in the campaign of
lXl2-lh ..u-l. Il