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RAILROADS.
RAIL ROAD
Philadelphia s. Erie R. R Division
SUMNER TINE TABLE.

nN and after SUNDAY, JULY 2, 1876.
~ the trains on the Philadelphia d
Erie Railroad will run as follows:
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JAMES d. FULLERTON,
q. G.. NESSEN GER,

Druggist and Parmaceutist, N. W. corner
Of Main and Mill streets, Ridgway, Pa.
full assortment of carefully selected For
eign and Domestic Drugs. Prescriptions
carefully dispensed Mt all hours, day or
night. vln3y
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CHARLES HOLES,

Matchmaker. Engraver and Jeweler
Main street, Ridgway, Pa. Agent for the
Howe Sewing Machine, and Morton Gold
Pen. Repairing Watches, etc, dore with
he same accuracy as heretofore. Salts
faction guaranteed. vlnly
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Excess of expenditures 56 80
5 1880 81
EXPENDITURES.
BY amt paid j. S. & w. II.
Hyde for material furn-
ished paupers $ $50
services $50
" NJ. r. French 500
" NJ 4. French for
keepg Mrs. Steel, 40 30 90
- various persons for
keeping tramps 81 10
$ 'paid various persons
for material furnished
=, paupers 752 "A
keeping Barbara Juggi lOS 90
"p'd James Rickard
for keeping Betsey Gardner $50 90
"p'd II. S. Hartley
for medical service lO1 %
d" '' j. S. Bordwell Z" 10 90
" c. Mead, signing
orders for relief ofpoor 62S
p'd a. Cummings,
signing orders for relief of poor 90
"pd NJ. L. Frech for re-
demption of auditors order 10 90
Fotal expenditures $ 1850 81
SIDEWALK FUND.
RECEIPTS.
To amt tax levied for 1875 sos So
Total receipts S sos 50
EXPENDITURES.
BY amt paid various persons
for material furnished 213 81
{" :" p'd various per-
SONS for labor 80 81
342 81
Excess of receipts 1G2 "a
S 5O4 S5
Jerome Po,ceU, Esq.,, Treasurer Of
School and School BuiLling Funds
Of RidyaOay 1OUnship, for the gear
1875, IN account tCith said Funds
SCHOOL FUND.
To amt received from tax
payers for 1875 2040 II
" tax received from J. w.
Morgester, coll, 1874 $40 %
tax received from NJ. L.
French, coll, 1873 III 20
= tax received from j. Nc
Cauley County Treasurer 1,547 81
" tax received from Jerome
Powell, coll, 1872 46 Sc
" tax received from Hall &
McCauley on judgment
against G. d. Messenger
and b. f. Ely, bail for S75 81
State appropriation for rs 1854 56
5,957 81
bal. due. treas. over paid fund $50 9S
S 2,2l7 so
DISBURSEMENTS.
BY bal. paid-due treasurer
tchool fund at last set
tlement S 1856 81
amt p'd for teaching, or
ders redeemed S,65S so
g fuel and sundry sup
plies, orders redeemed 703 so
paid for tuition,
Fox twp, orders redeemed 1S2 IS
- paid for secetary
for directors, orders red'm'd 90 90
paid for printing and
advertising, orders redeemed SO 81
paid for Centennial
school exhibition, orders
redeemed 8 90
com. Oh amt of orders re-
deemed, viz: "a, 639 65 O.
per. cent. 92 II
s G,2l7 80
SCHOOL BUILDING FUND,
RECEIPTS.
To bal. due fund at last set
tlement S 1856 on
"am't reed of j. MCauley,
County Treasurer 474 90
A" -. w. Morgester coll IA 336 81
" NJ. II, French, A." 70. 92 OF
" Jerome Powell "72. 4lO3
S 2,409 As
DISBURSEMENTS.
BY amt paid for building
material, &C., orders re-
deemed 5 |, lac 35
paid for improving
school lots, orders redeemed 55 45
1915 73
" bal due fund 1913 u
5 2,409 As
We, the undersigned, auditors of
Ridgway township for the year 1876,
do hereby certify that in pursuance of
| previous notice by us given to the
several township officers, and
as by law required, we meet on Mon
day, June 3, 1876, for the purpose of
auditing, settling and adjusting the ac.
counts of the several officers of said
township, at which time we proceeded
to examine, audit, settle and adjust
the accounts of the above named sur
| perViSorS and ex-Officio OVerseerS of
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JOHN COLLINS, Proprietor.
Thankful for the patronage heretofore
80 liberllly bestowed upon him. the new
pro prietor, hopes, by paying strict at.
tention to the comfort and convenience
OF guests. merit continuance Of the
same.
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A NNUAL STATEMENT OF THE
"A settlement of the Ridgway Town
ship Auditors with the several Town
ship Officers of said township for the
year 1875.
w. II. OSterhoW and 0. B. Fitch, Su-.
perUisors and eD-0bicio OUerseers Of
The Poor, IN account NTH the several
funds.
ROAD FUND.
RECEIPTS.
To amt tax levied on seated
property l,69l as
" " unseated " |, ,422 90
3,Il4 Al
Excess of expenditures 1886 O7
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
PUBLIC SALE,

UNHE UNDERSIGNED HEREBY GIVES
notice that there will be sold, at pub
lie vendue or outcry, upon the premises, on
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S 500 4S
EXPENDITURES.
BY amt taxes worked by tax
PAYERS 9SS l9
p'd by twp. orders for
labor on road 3,702 33
" for NATL furnished IS 96
"to J. k Whitmore
for auditors tervices ~ '73
and IA % 90
by twp. orders to o. b. Fitch,
supervisors services for 1875 $50 90
Total expenditures 5 5,l0O As
POOR FUND.
RECEIPTS.
To amt poor tax levied for
1879, seated property 633 %
To amt poor lax levied for 1875,
unseated property 533 81
{ amt reed from Emporium
Boro. for goods furn'd for
man killed at depot, Oct. 10, 10 90
i" amt reed from w. Ii.
Osterhout for brooms manu-
factured by Mrs. Woodward 80
am reed from p. Ken
nedy, S2S 81
" for goods taken FIN Z" 10 35 sc
124 90
IN~,ncn Df Dfn~nonIituroc %
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DISBURSEMENTS.

BY amt paid for building
material, &C., orders re-
deemed 5 1,l46 8;
paid for improving
school lots, orders redeemed 55 AZ
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l,2l5 73
1913 u
s 2.4O9 AZ

We, the undersigned, auditors of
Ridgway township for the year 1876,
do hereby certify that in pursuance of
previous notice by us given to the
several township officers, and
as by law required, we meet on Mon
day, June 3, 1876, for the purpose of
auditing, settling and adjusting the ac.
counts of the several officers of said
township, at which time we proceeded
to examine, audit settle and adjust
the accounts of the above named sur
pervisors and ex-officio overseers of
the poor and school treasurer for the
year 1875, and found them correct as
above stated
Witness our hand this 24th day of
June, A. D., 1876.
j. II. HAGERTY, II
JAMES PLEEIELD. Auditors.
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PROTECTION VS.. FREE TRADE.

To understand the position of the two parties
on the tariff question, the Republican National
Convention declared for g Protection to Amcri-
can Industry" in the following plank
1.-The revenue necessary for current expendi-
lures and the obligations Of the public debt
must be largely derived from duties upon i'm
adjusted to promote the interests Of American
labor and advance the prosperity Of the whole
country"
met at st. Louis denounced the protective tariff
and declared in favor of free trade in the follow
ing plank
"We dcnounce the present tariff levied upon
nearly four thousand articles as a masterpiece
Of injustice, inequality, and false practice; it
yields a swndling, not yearly rising revenue !;
it has impoverished many industries to subsidiZe
a few ; it prohibits imports that might purchase
the products of American labor; it has degraded
American commerce from the first to an inferior
rank upon the high seas; it has cut down the
sales of American manufactures at home and
abroad, and depleted the returns OF American
agriculture, an industry followed by half Of our
people it costs the people five times more than
it produces to the Treasury; obstructs the pro-
cess of production, and wastes the fruit of la
Dor it promotes fraud, fosters smuggling, and
cnriehes dishonest officials, and bankrupts hon
est merchants. We demand that all custom
house taxation shall be only for revenue"
Kemember, also, that Mr.. Tilden the Demo-
cratic candidate for President, was the author
of the Democratic platform. 1t does not require
very wise man to discover that vote for I'll
den is e vote for free trade.
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Easterln's Mil Democratic Club, are com
mended TO the attention of the different clubs
throughout the State Similar resolutions have
been adopted by the Willow Township, Gra-
hams, and Bamberg Clubs, and no doubt by
many other clubs in Orangeburg and Barnwell
counties II is intended that the names of the
obnoxious leaders in each township be sent to
the different clubs throughout the country
= u. Resotred, That we will not rent land to
any Radical leader, or any member of his family,
or furnish home, or give employment to any
such leader or any member of his family.
"2. That we will not furnish any such leader
or any member of his family, any supplies, such
as provisions, farm implements, stock. &c, ex-
cept so far as contracts for the present year are
concerned
"3. That we will not purchase anything anv
Radical leader or any member of his family may
offer for sale, or sell any such leader or any
member of his family anything whatever.
81. That the names of such persons, who
may be considered leaders, be furnished to this
club at the earliest date, and that list of the
same be furnished each member Of the club
"5. That whenever any person or persons
who shall be denominated Radical leaders by
vote of this club shall as such, these reso-
lutions shall become null and void so far as
such leader or leaders, or any member of his or
their families, are concerned.
GO That we will protect all persons in the
right to vote for the candidates of their choice.
~. That these resolutions he published, and
that all the Democratic clubs in the county and
throughout the State are hereby requested to
adopt them.'
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THAT INCOME TAX.
" What Will the Harvest Sci"

Finally, the case against Mr.. Tilden stands
tested, whether he did not make oath to false
he permitted his insignificant income, as re-
ernment officers into estimating his concealed
income at about $4,000 annually, for eight
years following, when in fact his annual taxable
income for the entire period was probably over
100000 3. 1t is an absolute certainty, backed
by his admission, that Mr.. Tilden for eight sue
ccssivc years violated the law, consciously, de
liberately, and habitually, and annually con-
fessed the fact by paying the penalty Tor such
violation. 4. 1t is q conclusion as inevitable as
dcath that he did this for the sake Of pecuniary
gain, with the intent to dciraud the Govern
ment in time of great public peril. s. 1t is
fact, of recent and painful publicity, that Mr..
Iilden has authorized the publication of de-
fence which is obviously dishonest and untruth-
ful in several respects, but specially in that it
falsely declares that every citizen had under the
income act, an honorable option TO make or re
fuse to make yearly return of income. - False
is one thing, false in sll,p is a maxim of Mr..
Tilden's profession.
Throwing aside all improved charges, giving
Mr.. Tilden the benefit of every reasonable doubt
as to motives, basing ones judgment solely on
what is known and confessed, and the conVc-
ton is overwhelming that his election as Presi-
dent would be a disgrace and calamity to the
whole people. Every vote cast for him must be
an approval by the voter Of practices which any
man would blush to recommend TO his son.
Do you ask If all men are to be disgraced who
followed Mr.. Tilden's example in violating the
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A CIear.GUt Pictuy.p,

In his just published life of Governor Hayes,
Mr.. Howels says: Between the beginning of
May and end Of October, 1864, Hayes was under
fire sixty DAYS, and he was under fire on seven
hundred days in the course Of the war. He
was four times wounded, the severest wound
being that received at South Mountain. Yet
the wound from which he has suffered most is
hardly to be called wound at all, \ frag-
ment Of shell struck so close to his knee as IN
cut his pantaloons clean away at that point. He
rode through the day, and never made anything
OF the affair; but now, after twelve years, this
merely approximate hurt troubles him moro
than all the rest, especially in going up stairs.
1t is believed, however, that IL will not prevent
his ascent of the Capitol steps on the 4th of
March next" IN concluding his work, Mr.
Howells says: "This, then, is our leader. The
proportions are heroic, but the figure is not
larger than life; ana the nearer we draw 20 II,
the more august and benign are the lineo-
ments. scholar, and lover OF letters and
the arts, fine by nature ard refined by culture,
careful sclt-study, and wide knowledge of both
men and books d soldier of daJnt.ess bravery
and approved genius; statesman and public
servant of the best principles and OF irreproach-
able performance, his highest commentator to
our honor ana our trust is still that he is true
and good man. Among the escutchcons of tho
old Scottish borderers which hang on the walls
OF Sir Walter Scott's library at Abbotsford are
those of the kutherfords and Hayeses. The
arms Of the Hayeses are shield, with Greek
cross aud four stars, surmounted BY dove,
and having for legend one worG-a word which
has always been the instinct and the piincipie
OF the man whose life we have SO impe,feetly
portrayed-iiecte!
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All SAM AND SIN NOT.

s'Judge sinnot fully explains the income business
--Eei0 Fork World.
Which wish to remark
And my language Is plain
That for ways that are dark,
And for tricks that are vain,
The reformers arc very peculiar:
Which the same would rise TO explain.
sin Not was his name,
And shall not deny
That he failed to observe
What that name might imply;
But Sin Not was only lawyer,
And All Sam he employed him to lie.
Twas the year sixty-two,
And soft were the skies,
And perhaps It's inferred
That All Sam was likewise:
But he played ii that time our uncle
In a way that he thought mighty wise.
Which they had a small game,
And All Sam took hand;
1t was n swindle-the same
lie did not understand
But he smiled as he swore to his income.
With smile that was child-like and bland.
But the stocks that were g slid -
BY that smiling Chinec,
And the funds that were hid,
1t was frlghtful TO see;
And among them was that twenty Thousand
Which the "Alton'' had paid unto he.
But he was not so sly
AS he meant for to be,
And he swore once too much
In that tAlton'' melee;
And the boys got holt on the papers,
And they went for that swearing Chinee.
In the scene that ensued
lie did not take hand,
But Sin Not was imbued
With the courage TO stand
And declare that such thing as a swindle
Was what Sam did not understand.
But his purse, which was long,
Had been used to conduct
The proceeds OF the wrong
TO his own - usufruct;'
And they found that his nest was we'll festhertd
From the numerous geese he had pucked.
Why is why remark.
And do not complain,
That for ways that are dark,
And tricks that are vain,
All Sam is the " chief of his equals.
Which the same shall ever maintain.
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EX-REBEL OFFICIALS IN CONGRESS-.
Their Names and Their Positions
Under the Confederate
Government.

SENATORS.
Goldthwaite, Alabama, Adjutant General.
Jones, Florida, Brigadier General.
Gordon, Georgia, Major General.
Alcorn Mississippi, Brigadier General.
Cockrell, Missouri, Major General.
Ransom, North Carolina, Major General.
Key, Tennessee, Lieutenant Colonel.
Maxey, Texas, Major General.
Withers, Virginia, Colonel.
REPRESENTATIVES,.
Williams, Alabama, Major.
Bradford, Alabama, Colonel.
Hays, Alabama, Brigadier General.
Hewitt, Alabama, Colonel.
Forncy, Alabama, Brgadier General.
Lewis, Alabama, Colonel
Cause, Arkansas, Colonel.
Slemmons, Arkansas, Brigadier General.
Gunter, Arkansas, Colonel.
Smith, Georgia, Captain.
Hartridge, Georgia, Colonel.
Cook, Georgia, Major General.
Hill, Georgia, Colonel of Recruits.
Blackburn, Kentucky, Lieutenant Colonel.
Gibson, Louisiana, Brigadcr General.
Ellis, Louisiana, Captain.
Levy, Louisiana, Colonel.
Lamar, Mississippi, Colonel
Hooker, Mississippi, Colonel.
Franklin, Missouri, Captain.
Clark, Missouri, Brigadicr General.
Ycatcs, North Carolina, Major
Waddell, North Carolina, Lieutenant Colonel.
Davis, North Carolina, Captain.
Scales, North Carolina, Brigadier General.
Robbins. North Carolina, Colonel.
Vance, North Carolina Brigadicr General.
Dibrell, Tennessee, Bligader General.
Whitthorne, Tennessee, Adiutant General.
Atkins, Tennessee, Colonel.
Young, Tennessee, Colonel.
Culberson, Texas, Colonel.
Throckmorton, Texas, Brigadier General.
Douglas, Virginia, Major. =
Cabcll, Virginia, Colonel. IL
Tucker, Virginia, Captain.
IIunton, Virginia, Brigadier General.
Ferry Virginia, Brigadier General.
Faulkner. West Virginia, Minister to France.
Reagan, Texas, Brigadicr General,
Goode, Virginia, Colonel.
Hatcher, Missouri, Colonel.
Singleton, Mississippi, Inspector General.
House, Tennessee, Ma jor.
Ex-MEMBERs OF REBEL GOVERNMENT.
Stephens, Georgia, Vice President.
Reagan, Texas, Postmaster General.
Hill, Georgia, Senator.
Caperton, West Virginia, Senator.
Ashe, North Carolina, Senator.
House, Tennessee, Representative.
Goode, Virginia, Representative.
Smith, Georgia, Representative.
Hatcher, Missouri, Representative.
Singleton, Mississippi, Representative.
Caldwell, Alabama, Solicitor General
Norwood, Georgia, State Legislature.
Gambler, Georgia, State Legislature.
Tucker, Virginia, Attorney General,
Culberson, Texas, State Legislature.
Harris, Georgia, State Legislature.
Senmens Arkansas, State Legislature
Guntcr, Arkansas, State Legislature.
Lamar, Mississippi, Minister to Russia.
Dibrell, Texas, State Legislature.
IIunton, Virginia, State Legislature.
Faulkner, West Virginia, Minister to France
Harris VIRGINIA State DiSl1tnre
Maxey, Texas, Superintendent of Indian AT
fairs
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The Wolf and the lamb. ..MOstly the Welt.

Intimidation by personal violence even to
death is of daily occurrence in the South. But
these Confederate Conservatives have other and
equally as efiicacious means of getting rid of
Republican citizens. One phase Of their system
is disclosed by the following editorial article in
the Marion Star, of September 21:
RENT NEITHER LANDS NOR HOUSES TO ANY ONE
WHO VOTES THE RADICAL TICKET"
The above heading forms part of resolu-
tion which is being adopted generally by all the
landowners throughout the country, and is
looked upon by the cOlored people as % hardship,
q kind OF persecution. A hardship it may ap-
parently seem to them, MS the farmer thus as
sumes the independence of asserting what class
of laborers he will and lie will not employ. 1t
has taken him eight years to arrive at this indie
pendence, but the continued depreciation of his
lands; the financial stagnaton Of the country
the high taxes that threaten confscation, all
have consprcd to make him declare that he will
not longer harbor the agent of his misfortune
Il !" i "Welaud the plan, and think every
farmer in the country should give it his hearty
support. Let every farmer accept it, and the
colored voters had as we'll butt against a brick
wall as oppose it.
Farmers have tried moral suasiOn until the
folly of that course has become self-evident, and
now they come 20 the exercise of a legal right
which can but produce the desired result. Adopt
the plan and stick to it, and two years hence
they will not need the support of such resolu-
tion, for the colored voters will have felt the be-
nign influences of good government, and will
readily act with their employers. The manu-
iacturers up North who have their hundreds of
employees, march up to the polls aud vote their
whole company as they see tit, and Southern
employers have the same right and should dare
exercise it,
Also the following from the Charleston AelcS
and Courier, rs part of the correspondence OF
the well-known "Paysan," writing from the
Fork Of Edisto, under date Of September IS;
"The following resolutions, adopted by the
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RECAPITJLATION.
Rebuilding levees on Mississippi
river ......................... s5,250,O00
Rebuilding bridges in West Viz
ginia 100000
Refund of cotton tax x......... 6S,O72 900
Supplies used or destroyed ..... 1,2O5, ,163 600
Use and occupation of property. POS, 5000
Return OF proceeds Of captured
property E...................... 9,UuO,uOO
Refund and remission of direct
tax.................... 5,153,Ss6
Disoyal mail contractors ........ 350,0O0
Disoyal claimants under repeal Of
section 1880 Revised Statutes. 500, 900
Private relief bills 4,110, 800
Total 81. SOB .622 $50
Now read this decision of Judge Clifford that
thpsa
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"There is one thing" said Uncle Sammy,
persuasively, to doubtful voter who sought in
formation, ''if you elect me President there'll
be no more frauds in the collection of the reve-
nue.. Tell ye, there isn't trick in that trade
that | amt up to, and them fellers never could
get ahead of me."-Horkeye.
General Mcclellan was behind time at Mans
field, Ohio, last Thursday, and the Herald dis
tinguishes him with the following epgram;
.'There once man at Antietam,
Who fought the rebels, and beat 'em;
But he pilied them so
That he let them all 60,
Saying, That is Iay way TO defeat 'em.''
There was an old party named Sammy,
More often called Tilden. the Shammy,
Some questions ON taxes
The country now axes
This venerable party called Sammy.
This ancient old party named Sammy
Explains in n manner so shammy
That the people all say,
sect out of The way,
You deCeitful and eheatin' old sammyr'
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich, Sept. IA, 1876.
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MIA mr. No. no. bv Hon. r Hereford, Of

MIA II. R. No. 40, by Hon. r. Hereford, Of
West Virginia, of similar import.
H. X. No. %, by Hon. j. j. Davis, of North
Caroina Repehling section $3.50, Revised Sta
tutes, which forbids the payment of certain dis
loyal claimants, and appropriating S500,000 for
payment of such claims.
BILLS OF PRIVATE NATURE.
The following is summary of private relief
bills introduced by Democratic members of Con-
gress at the first session of the Forty fourth
Congress for use and damage done to or de-
struction of property in the insurrectionary
States, and for stores and supplies taken, cotton
and other property captured, and other claims
arising out of the late rebellion: