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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-28
The Aene er Misery.

The man who has nothing to do is the
most miserable Of beings. No matter
how much wealth q man possesses, he
can neither be contented nor happy
without occupation. We were born to
lsbor, and the world is our vineyard.
We can find q field for usefulness al
most anywhere. In occupation We for
get our cares, our worldly trials and
our s0rrows. 1t keeps US from con-
stantly worrying and brooding over
what Is inevitable. If we have enough
for ourselves, we can labor for the good
of others; and such task Is one Of the
most delightful duties a worthy and
good man can possibly engage in.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-28

refused to comply unless security was
furnished that he would take the bread
away, as so large quantity could never
be disposed Of in the town. In the year
1904 Manchester, England, with a pop
ulation of SO, 600 persons, did not con-
tain single public baker. Dust imag-
inc a city in the United States without
bakery.) In 1868, in Great Britain,
an act was passed making a searching
inquiry into the condition of bake hou-
ses and of the persons employed in
them. History does not yet give much
information regarding bakers in our
own country; but possessing, as we do,
in this age, all the inventions and ap-
pliances for making bread, there is no
use in pursuing the subject further at
this time.-The Confectioner.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-28
II Medicine . Seieneef

1t is a nice question, in many cases,
which has done the more hurt, the dis
ease or the remedy? Whether for in
stance, the child's health suffers more
from the intestinal parasites which vex
him, or from the destructive purgatives
employed as anthelmintics; whether
the cancer or the knife produces death
more speedily; whether calOmel or
quinine be not pretty much such friends
to the sick man as La Fountaine's good
natured bear was to the gardener, whose
mouth he crushed while trying to brush
the flies off as he slept. 1t is an equally
nice question to determine whether
there ever really did occur a critical
period in any disease, when the direct
actual medicine, per Sc, can turn back
the wavering life from the jaws of death
to the fiowery meads of re-established
health; or, granting the possibility of
such a rare occurrence, we do not run
too great risk, as rule, to be able to
profit by it? These are nice questions,
as have called them, nor does the pres
ent condition of medicine entitle us to
expect to see them answered. For these
reasons, among many others, medicine
cannot be called a science. 1t must not
be supposed, however, that the Doctors
Office is to become a sineeure because
his drugs are voted rubbish and his
methods falser. On the contrary, we
shall need him quite as much, and his
advice will be more valuable 10 US than
ever. He will not have it in his power
to do harm, and consequently can give
his undivided energies to the pursuit of
good. 1t shall be in his Office to teach
us the fallacy of physic. He shall pre-
sent to our minds in all its horrid ar
ray the atrocious enormity of medicine
as once it was practiced, and so she'll
save many poor sufferer amongst us
from unconscious suicide. He shall be
our perpetual beacon light against the
irOn-bOund, immitigable loadstOne rock
of quackery. where so many fair keels
lie untimely wrecked. In fine, be shall
become to us the counterpart of that In
valuable member of another profession,
known as the chamber-lawyer, a quiet
man of skill and experience, who
abounds with all the wisdom and unc-
ton of pertinent counsel, and who
never takes his client into Court, where
he is bound to lose, no matter how his
case is decided.-Atldntic Monthly.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-28

One of the saddest things to con-
template, just now, is the large number
Of persons In this country who have no
relatives in Philadelphia.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-28

The State OF Illinois has 81 ,OO0, 900
worth Of fences, and it COSTS $l75, 900
annually to keep them in repairs.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-28

"A $l20, 900 chapel is now being built
for the students at Yale College.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-28

Fat men, and men with tight boots,
will be gratified to learn that there are
only 80 miles of walking required to
obtain full view of the Centennial.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-03-15
Other Cases of Fraud and COrruP
ton I'm High Places.

Reports from Washington are that
the Belknap infamy is but the beginning
of the end, and that other disclosures
are at hand which will equal it, and burst
the whole fabric of corruption. 1t is
predicted that even President Grant,
whose gift-taking from favOrites whom
he has rewarded is notorious, will not
long escape, aud that his own connection
with the populations which nave sur
rounded him will soon appear. He will
be called on to explain the conspiracy of
federal office-holders to defeat the prose
cution of Babcock. 1t is said that
damaging facts are known, and will be
drawn out whenever it is judged polite
to begin the investigation. A resolution
instructing the House Judiciary Com
mittee to investigate the cause of the
discharge of Riddle in the safe-burglary
case, which, it is said, can be traced
home to Grant, will be, or has been, in
troduced. The Navy Committee also
aver that they will shortly be able to
prove that Robson is prominent among
the peculators. His wife, like Belknap's,
is the weaker vessel on which will be
attempted to throw part of the load OF
obloquy that is destined to fall upon
him in his official capacity. He went to
Washington a poor man. He is
now, like the other corruptionists and
bribe-takers who have circled around the
administration, millionaire.
Gen. Schenck, U. S. Minister to Eng
land, has been dismissed at the instance
of the English government, and he
makes haste to escape, by flight from the
English Courts, the penalties of his
crimes.
Pierrepont, a cabinet minister in
charge of the Department of Justice, is
accused of having confederated with
Babcock's counsel in procuring his escape
and cheating "justice" of her dues.
Gen. Meiggs, Quartermaster General
1t is said, will be arraigned for sundry
malfeasances in office and the report i:
that post-trader is at Washington, pre-
pared to swear that he paid Logan
$4,000 for influence in procuring his APP
pointment. The money was nominaIly
to defray election expenses, but paid
after Logan's election.
And furthermore, that the bribery
case of Belknap and Marsh was not ar
isolated instance, but one of many. Ii
word, the lightning is flashing anc
playing around the high places of Repub
lean power and influence.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-03-15
The Assassination i'm Lawrence
A True Statement of the Case.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
Jackson, March 8, 1876.

EDITORS CLARION: My attention has just
been called to correspondence from
Brookhaven to the Daily Times of an unfor-
tunate occurrence which took place about
ten days ago in Lawrence county, and as
am anxious that nothing short OF the facts
should be known to the State, / will give
them, according to the best of my informa-
ton, and will call the public mind to the
difference between the actual occurrence
and the statement Ofthe Times.
On or about the 26th ult Mr.. William
Armstrong, of Lawrence, was ambushed
while walking around his pasture, aud shot
by Charles Fox, (col.) about sunset. and
was found by his wife near eleven O'Clock
at night. He was then dead, having
crawled about fifty wards from the spot
where he was shot. Fox was arrested and
as | understood, con fessed the deed, and
was also expected to implicate others be-
tween whom and Armstrong no good feel
ing existed
Mr.. Armstrong was most excellent cit
iZen, and his death is much lamented in the
where he resided.
Ell. /. BYRD.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-03-15
A Suggestion 40 Democratic Con.
gresmen.

Inasmuch as the Democratic party has
had no control in the government for fif-
teen years and are not responsible for the
present deranged condition Of the curren-
cy, and inasmuch as the Democrats have
majority in but one branch of Congress,
while the other branch and the Executive
Department are in the hands of the Re
publicans, and therefore they (the Dem
ocrats) are utterly powerless to carry out
any plan of their own, for remedying exist
ing evils, we submit that it would be wise
for them to leave the whole subject of the
currency to their adversaries, and direct
their energies to the reduction of expen-
ditures and the decrease of public bur-
dens, and to the exposures of the villainies
and corruptions of the party in power
from this time forward. When they have
wrested the government from the control
of the wreckers, sthey can agree upon a
rlan of correcting the disorders of a
vicious currency.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-03-15
No Coacealment--

A Radical paper hopes the impeach-
ment proceedings in the Mississippi
Legislature will command the attention
of the North and says it is very important
that the true spirit which is animating
these restored Mississippians to new cru
SADIE against the Republican voters, should
be understood. As Mississippi is mol
amenable to Northern communities foI
the manner in hich she chooses to con
duet her local affairs, we do not desire
that her action should be subjected to
surveillance from that quarter for the ig-
noble reason suggested by the Radical
editor. But our respect for the impair
tial judgment of honest and intelligent
people of every section and cline prompts
the hope that these proceedings will re.
ceive consideration everywhere. We
want the country at large to see what an
infamous, corrupt and usurping rule the
people of Mississippi have thrown off, and
how by every motive of self-preservatior
they were compelled to exercise their ut
most efforts at the poll to rid themselves
of it. Let the facts be submitted to 6
candid world, by all means.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-03-15
CORRESPONDENCE.


EDS. CLARION have seen with sur
prise that several Democratic papers
have commented unfavorably on the
proposition of Senator Chalmers, to post
pone payment of that portion of the
State bonds which natures next January.
These papers characterize the proposition
as repudiation. Nothing, it seems to
me, can be more untrue or unjust than
this charge. There is not a civilized
State or nation in the world that does
not, when deemed necessary, extend its
bonded debt, or let it 60 unpaid without
formal extension. So long as the State
recognizes its binding validity and makes
provision for the payment of interest, no
charge of reputation is or can be brought
against her. There is scarcely State
in the Union that is paying off its bond
ed debt, or thinking of doing so. Many
of them are not paying the interest
on it, and several of them have,
within the last few years, expressly
repudiated or scaled large portion of
their bonds. Why should Mississippi
undertake to pay off the principal of her
debt, in her present distressed condition,
when far weather. States, both North
and South, are paying only their inter
est? Are her people so much weather.
and more prosperous than those of other
States? A man who buys government
bond, buys it for an investment or for a
speculation. If for an investment, he is
content SO long as he draws his interest
regularly. If for speculation, he can
not complain that the necessities of the
State render it impossible for her to meet
it promptly at maturity. 1t is certainly
a new idea to charge reputation upon a
State for simple failure to pay off its
bonds when due.
Senator Chalmers proposition is right.
| Pay the interest on the bonds, and extend
the principal until better times enable us
to meet it with less suffering than now.
fear that some of our editors as well
as some of our Legislators are not sufi-
GENTLY impressed with the idea that the
one thing which the people demand and
must have, is some immediate and ap-
probable reduction in the rate of taxation.
They universally expect and they must
have it. Anything short of it will pro-
duce widespread disappointment and
curses dire and deep. Curtailment OF
expenses is an excellent thing, but it will
not satisfy the people. There must be a
curtailment of taxation. The Legisla-
ture has thus far done well in cutting
down expenses. Let them complete the
good work by cutting down taxation. Il
they do not, there will be trouble at the
next election. 1t can only be done by
postponing payment of the bonded debt
incurred by the Radical party. This is
not reputation. 1t is only what all
States do, and what our necessities com.
pei us to do. l hope that THE CLARION
will speak out on the subject.
TAX PAYER.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-03-15
IMPEACHMENT.
Letters from the People.
TAX PAYER.
ABERDEEN. MISS. March q

ABERDEEN, MISS, March 6, 1876.
EDS. CLARION: A sense of profound sat
isfaction pervades our entire county to-day,
at the impeachment of Governor Ames.
From the beginning to the end, the process
of parchment has been characterized by
degree of fairness. dignity and statesman
like ability that does honor to our noble
Representatives, and their names deserve to
be enshrined in the hearts of a grateful peO-
plea patient, long suffering and outraged
people-a people dragged through the mire
of insult. corruption and misrule, till every
vestige of manhood had been well nigh
crushed out OF existence, and the sun of
hope had gone down in night OF humilia-
ton and despair. Thank
God for the victory our efforts have
achieved. Advance our staItdard-stOrm
the enemy in his stronghold-let the CLAIR
ION ring out its CHEEKY blast. The hearts
of the people are thrObbing with anxious
suspense; and when the day of deliverance
comes we shall welcome it with Joy no
people have known since the morning stars
first sang together.
FIAT JUsTITIA"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-03-15

The joint resolution for the appoint
ment of a committee to ascertain the
amount of public debt put on the State
by the late carpet-bag regime, is proper.
Let us know the worst, and be prepared
for it. Notwithstanding the debt is the
product of profigacy, and may have
been, to large degree, created for pur-
poses outside the legitimate ends of gov
eminent, there should be, and will be,
no thought of reputation, nor even of
scaling the debt. As matter of abso-
lutte necessity and of relief to the impov-
erished taxpayers, it may be unavoidable
to defer the payment of part, if not
the whole of the amount; but in the end
it will be redeemed with interest to the
last farthing In this connection we
would call attention to the communica-
ton of I" Taxpayer" in another column.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-03-15
The bill to Retire a Part of the
Floating Debt.

The bill introduced in the Senate by
Mr.. Graham, to retire part of the
floating debt of the State, provides
Section 1, that on the presentation OF
State warrants of 1876, except such as
are required to be bonded, shall be paid
at fifty per cent. of face value and so
per cent. in bonds payable Jan. LIST,
1879, and shall use for that purpose the
surplus now in the treasury amounting
to SOL 900 of the special tax collected for
principal and interest on bonds collected
on account of years prior to 1875 but
no other funds shall be used for said
payments, and provided that nothing in
the act shall change the payment of
warrants out of the general fund accord
ing to priority, but no priority shall be
required for the payment of warrants
as above directed out of the special
fund. Section 2, that the Treasurer
shall set apart out of the special tax of
1875 sufficient amount to pay interest
due on State bonds July 1st, 1876,
before any further payments are made
out of said fund. Section 3, enactin
clause
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-03-15
The WhiGed SepuIchre.

A Washington correspondent of the
St. Louis Globe Democrat, Republican
says in reference to the exposure of cor
ruption in high places that the "crust
has only beez scratcheG"-to use the
language of one of the members-in the
Belknap scandal. The assessment on
post traders and depositors has been car
ried to a large extent, and Belknap's in
come, directly and indirectly, has been
enormous. His fortune is estimated at a
cool 800, 900, and he spent $4,000 in
high living. His family ''kept up with
the fashions" at a fearful cost to the
party which elected him, and to the rep
utation of the government whose war
minister he was.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-03-15

The Natchez Democrat intimates that
the Parsons-Ames Report is the product
of the pen of DIR. Compton, superintendent
of the Lunatic Asylum. The Doctor,
whether good Superintendent or not, is
a ready writer. He has been credited
with the authorship of numerous publica-
tions in behalf of Radicalism in past can
vasses-one of which, the address that ap-
peared over the signatures of Hill and 9TH
er colorod politicians, i'll the late canvass,
was remarkable for its partisan vio-
ence. When the bill to reorgainze the
management of the Asylum becomes a
law, he will have more time to indulge
his taste for political labors.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-03-15

The Senate, sitting as Court of I'm
parchment, was occupied all day Fri
day with the Davis case. Manager
Powell and Counsel FitzGerald spoke in
the morning, and Counsel Morris in the
afternoon. Manager Barksdale closed
the argument at night, when the Court
adjourned until Monday morning, at
half-past ten o'clock, at which time the
vote will be taken The Secretary of
the Senate was Instructed to notify the
House accordingly. ~
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-03-15

WHEN Sheridan denounced the tax
ridden and wronged people of Louisiana,
as a murderous mob" banditti, +"
etc., for overthrowing the rule of public
plunderers, and dispersed the Louisiana
Legislature at the point of the bayonet,
Belknap telegraphed him that all of
us approved his action. At that very
time Belknap himself was selling official
favors, and levying contributions on the
poor soldiers, to enlarge his Golfers. What
do " all of us +" think now?
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-03-15
:" The Guilty Pair. -

Chicago Tribune
1t is evident that at the time of their
marriage, scandal had been busy with
Mrs. Belknap's fame, but after the nup-
tials, scandal ceased its defamation.
Whatever these rumors may have been,
or whatever truth they may have had,
matters little now. They have no imme-
date connection with the present calam-
ity, although the air is again full of
them. The causes which have led to the
downfall of the Secretary, date back to
the time when the siren who first fascin-
ated and then ruined him, went to Paris
with wealthy, spendthrift friends. She
spent a season in that gay city, reveling
in its pleasures, courted and admired by
foreigners, eating of the apple of pleasure
in the Eden which she had found. The
gay widow returned TO this country, a
devotee of luxury, fashionable proAigacy
and personal display, and in the Wash
ington receptions she soon became one of
the most conspicuous figures. Then fol-
lowed the marriage to Secretary Belknap.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-03-15

WHEN Tweed and his gang were
caught in the act of thieving from the
municipal corporation of New York
City, every Radical paper in the land
was charging the offense not only to the
local Democrats of that city, and to the
party of the State of New York, but to
the National Democratic party, and to
the party in every State in the Union.
But now when Babcock and Belknap, the
Secretary of War, are caught in acts
which tend greater to disgrace the Nation
in the eyes of the world and to bring re-
proach even upon our form of Govern
ment, they with equal unanimity ex-
claim OH don't, don't; it is not the Re-
publican party, but individuals who have
done this thing. +.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-03-15

''THE woman whom thou gavest to be
&C with me, she gave me of the tree, and
81 did eat" Belknap tried the old
dodge of father Adam to eyade the re-
sponsibility of his bribe-taking transac-
tions; but it is too thin, since it has
transpired that the Fort Sill affair was
only one of many and that though going
into the Office poor and living at cost
of $50, 900 on salary of $4,000, he had
grown to be worth 500, 900.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-03-15

THE energies of the Democratic House
of Representatives of the Louisiana Leg
islature were exerted IN cain to relieve
the taxpayers of our sister State of OPP
pressive laws; the Senate and the Elk
ecutive being Radical, every measure of
reform was defeated. The most the
House could do was to prevent further
oppressive legislation. We sincerely
trust that next fall Louisiana may rise
in her might, as did Mississippi last fall,
and throw off the burden which now
grinds her devoted people to the very
earth.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-03-15

WE have been requested to suggest
that there should, AZ an early day, be a
meeting of the State Democratic-Con-
sentative Executive Committee, to call
a Convention to appoint delegates to the
National Democratic Convention which
meets at St Louis, June 9th, and to
take such other steps as may be neces-
sarY in the premises.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-03-15

When Packer engaged in the pardon
brokerage he was Republican State
Senator-was subsequently a Private
Secretary in the Executive office, by APP
pointment of acting Governor Davis
and was afterwards Adjutant- General and
confidential adviser of Governor Ames.
1t was through him that the latter
bounded his war dogs on the people OF
Warren county.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-03-15

COMPLEMENTARY I'VE are gratifed to
note that our State exchanges are filled
with complimentary notices of Marion
Smith, Esq, the newly elected Superin-
tendent of the penitentiary, and of the
Legislature upon their judicious selec-
ton. We have no doubt but that his
management of the institution will fully
Justify them all