The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-08-29
Jimmy HelIIeIlnger NOW renrfnl.

DEAR SIR Doubtless your readers have
marvelled at my silence during the past
week, but it was unavoidable Sir Walter
Scott observed nearly one hundred years
ago, that the ordinary disappointments,
troubles and ills of life simply served to
rouse and irritate, but great calamities rem
der men voiceless. Never before did | SO
fully experience this truth. The binding
snow drives of the Alps, stagger and an
noy the tourist, but the leap of the Ava
lancho carries him at single swoop into
the gorge of Death. 1t is even said that
the human voice amid the glaciers of Mont
Blanc becomes an executioner loosening
by its vibratory wave the white mountains
of death. What the Avalanche is to the
traveller high upon the frozen Jura, has
been the action of the people of Perry on
Monday last, in placing by acclamation one
of her own citizens in the field for the
Judgeship, and that too with a vim and
enthusiasm unprecedented in her history,
and worst of all, and most to be deplored,
with unanimity of purpose so vehemently
expressed as to render the act absolutely
appalling no one dissenting and none cry
ing aloud. 1t was expected that the stones
of Jerusalem were to say something at
the proper moment, and hoped from the
similtude of the situation that the
l.
but they did not, so far as have been in
formed. Is itany wonder that was silent
May, / was prostrated and with q mus
tard plaster on my head and decoction
of peach blossoms on my feet / am now
barely able to take the field against this
great crime. Even now | only do SO to
warn our friends in Cumberland, that as in
the ancient apalogue, it is the purpose of
the electors of this county to kill the lawful
heir and seize upon the Inheritance. Place
no reliance upon anything being done in
this county to thwart this conspiracy, for
although few of us will raise our voices
and use our presses as we have done in
years past to stint the aspirations of our
own citizens within the narrow bounds
prescribed by just appreciation of your
superiority, still it will not avail and well
may Old Mother Cumberland cry out like
the frantic scar "Oh how sharper than
serp ents tooth it is to have thankless
child.'
am troubled on every side, l am per-
picked but have not yielded to despair. l
have hope, for prophet is not without
honor save in his own country. 1t is true
the result of my labor in Perry has been
not only fruitless but disastrous, and l
now turn my eyes with trembling to the
fair county of Juniata where / still expect
we can make a stand and check the bold
conspirators of Perry. Should this fail,
and alas nothing is sure, then all is lost.
Concentrate then on Juniata--make her
blue waters vocal with the eloquence of
right "Thrice doubly armed is he who hath
his quarrel just"
l have dispatched Cliffentaffer to see
McGrannahan who is said to be roaring
like bull of Baashan at the result in
Perry uhnsn rnnott will ha frivop uo,, na3yt
week. Finally I would have our friends in
Carlisle remember that Troy was only lost
when the statute of Minerva (Which fell
from Heaven) was captured by tho assail-
ants and with this example before them l
close by repeating the axiom "A word to
the wise is sufficient"
Yours with fear and trembling,
-. ...... JIM HEFFLEFINGER,
Who in view of this great calamity feels
indifferent about his mere personal inter-
ests.