Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1872-11-27

running for reelection as President, |
had but so votes. In 1852 General
Scott had AZ votes. In 1864 General
Mcclellan had but 2l votes, and 10
1868 Horatio Seymour had 80 votes
In 1868 the popular white vote for
President Stood as follows:
Grant...--",... ,ogo,1a
Majority for Grant............,..........aTs,oS ,oS
At the late election this majority sf
373,0O5 on the white vote has beeo
changed into majority against hin.
The gain is nearly bali million. La
all remember this fact - Cincinnati
Enquirer.
Gen. James Shields, formerly Of
Illinois, subsequently Of Minncsota,
mere recently Of California, and now
Of Missouri, Is favorabiy named as
candidate iot the United States Sen!
ate. Gen. Shields was elected TO Con-
gress two years ago, but was cheated
out of his seat by the prcvailipgI
practice OF the day. /
What agonies must that poet have
endured who, writing 10 his sweet
heart, asserted in his manuscript that
he kissed her under he slsn! ea sss sls1s. e.
type so as TO make him say that be |
"klcked her under the cellar stars
The current OF air created by the
flames in tho Boston fire was no great
that fragments of paper were carried
sixteen miles away. Leaves OF check
books and lcdgers were iouni at
Quincy, Hanover, and East ycy.
mouth. Cinders fell in Abington,
Hanover, and Pembroke. A chured
$50 note was picked up at East Aling.
ton. The glare of the conHagration
was seen at Concord, N IL aud the
light was distinctly visible ninety
miles at sea, and was also noticed of
the Isle of Shoals.
Morton, the most contemplate, as
well as most audacious and dangerous
political trickster ofthe Radical p:rty,
has received the unanimous ca,cus
nomination for reelection TO The
United States Senate by the Legsla.
turc ofllndiana. This is fitting tuit
OF victory achieved by force, fraud,
and tho unstinted use of the public
money Cameron, tho unscrupun nus
counterpart of Morton, will conc
next, with an endorsement of he
Pennsylvania railroad.
The official count of the vote II
New York shows that the negro Fed
Douglass ran largely behind the ret
OF the Grant electoral ticket. II
Tapicr is the name of n colored Qsn.
tlcman who has been elected TO C,n.
gress in Alabama; after being nnc
years in its State Prison. |,
Judge Bond, of North Carolina, las
sued the Wilmington Journal for oil
ing him scoundrel, and wants De
editor put under bond not to do 60
any more. l.
Jay Gould was arrested in New Yrk /
on ailidavits charging him J
with unlawfully appropriating to lis
own use, while in control Of The Eie I
50, 500 900 belonging TO Tie
stockholders Of that road. Ho gate
bail in sl.000,000
Judge Black and Wood ward and
Ex-Governor Curtin were among those
invited by Mr.. Meredith, tho Presi.
dent OF the Constitutional Convention,
to private consultation regarding
the appointment OF committees and
other matters.
Texas is again "lone STAR They
elected full Democratic delegation to
Congress, and her Legislature is
largely Democratic, We advise Demo.
cratic young men, who design emigra.
lion, to 80 to Texas. Aside from
Us politics, IL is better country, any
how, than many of the Western
States, for cmigrants.
Fred Douglass truly says that
Grant would have been beatcn with.
out the negroes, therefore the negro
s'encnt must DC recognized ana re-
yardcd.
There are ninety.6ve lawyers in
he Constitutional Convention and
,nly one editor, our amiable, good
looking bachelor friend Harry G.
Smith, of tho Lancaster Jnteiiigeaccr,
being the ono who Is playing il alone.
As Harry is used TO going 1t alone,
,owover We presume ho don't mind
I much.
In tho thanksgiving proclamation
'f Gov. Edwin McCook, of Colorado.
,ne of the causes enumerated why the ,
whole people Of the Territory should
yivo thanks TO the Almighty God il :
he fnct that "the people have youcb.
'afed to us another four years of Ro.
'ublican.govcrnmcnt." MoCook ia aura i
# bis Govcrnorsbip for az Indefinite
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