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Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-06-20

BUTLER's "MY DEAR PITKIN."-The
Philadelphia Times, in alluding to this
Louisiana "bloody shirt" agent says
"The President deserves thanks foi
kicking My dear Pitkin' out of the
Office of United States Marshal fol
Louisiana. Ptkin is q great fraud
General Butler says he wore the blue
but he did not disgrace that cloth un
til be had disgraced the gray by COW
ardice at Shiloh and was treated tC
the cold shoulder by his comrades il
the Southern army. lie was Kcllogg'i
and Packard's most plant tool, anC
was detailed by them last fall to turn
the crank of the outrage mill. lie in
vented Eliza Pinkston and palmcd hei
off upon confding Kelley and the near
sighted Sherman. He secured tho
Louisiana canebralxcs for witnesses O
political intimidation, armed and equip
ped them with afiidavits and pait
them with the money of the govern
ment. He devised the plan OF pressing
Union soldiers into service as copyisti
for United States Commissioners il
order to get the Sherman report ant
accompanying junk-shop material be
fore the Senate and the country as
backing for Returning Board villainy
1t is gratifying to find that Mr.. Hayc
is disposed to cast such dcadweigh
adrift. lie might have easily found
however, bettcr man than Jacl
Wharton to take his place. Wharton
is gentleman of convival habits anc
considerable popularity in conscqucnc,
of his ability to tell a good story bu
he hasn't much Of the stuff that enter
into the composition of good civil ser
vice officers.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-06-20

INsURANcE.-We elsewhere alludC
to the insurance business in genera
way. Here we only wish to call the
readers attention to the report of the
Lycoming Mutual, which does consid
able business in tins county. This
company last year collected off the
people 6s5,0s293, and paid out fol
losses s5O3,5O7O2, leaving a balance o.
nearly forty per cent. for commissions
expenses, etc. Besides, the company
has s93, 3,il3.33 on deposit in tho First
National Bank, of Muncy, probably all
the banks capital, and yet the ofliceri
have made ono of the largest assess.
ments this year that they over made
Now, who is willing to go into
business and have his capital found
and realize out of that capital forty
per cent? That is just about what
mutual insurance costs these days
when men who loan their own capita
cannot earn half that sum.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-06-20

PATRIOTISM WINKING 0UT.-A Wash
ington dispatch to tho Philadelphia
Times, says; "Under this administra
tion five and probably six foreign mis-
sions have been declined by dis
tinguished citizens. George vii
liam Curtis was offered and declin
ed the mission to England, James Rus
sell Lowell refused tho mission to Aus
tria, Schneider, of Chicago, sought bur
afterwards declined TO go to Switzer
land, Wayne MacVcagh was offered I
European mission, probably that at St
Petersburg, but positively refused the
honor and il General George Logar
declined the Brazilian mission, abour
which there is conflict of pretty goot
authorities, he makes the sixth states
man who has rejected diplomatic hon
ors during Mr.. Hayes brief reign
"The governments" Southern policy
seems to be the lion in the way.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-06-20

gew advertisements.
SheriH'S Sale.

BY virtue Of sundry writs Of Fieri FaeiGs ia
sued out Of the Court Of Common Pleas Of Clear.
field county, and to me direeted, there will be
exposed 10 public sale, At the Court House, in the
borough Of clcarheld, on Saturday, the eth day
Of July, 1877, at | o'clock p. m, the following
described real estate, to wits
All the undivided one third part Of the follow
ing described tract or piece Of land situate in
Huston township, Cloaricld county, Pa, bounded
and described as fullows. Beginning at pitch
pine corner Of tracts Nos. 1923, 5s07, and $50
thence north by tract No 57O7, 800 pcrches to a
rock oak thence west by tract No. i26l, 52I per-
ches to hemlocki thence south by tract No.
1881, 800 perches to a white pine thence east by
warrant No. 4igg, 52i perches to the place Of be.
ginning, containing 800 acres and allowance,
being surveyed 10 pursuance Of warrant No. 426S,
and the same premises which Chester Munson and
Letitia, bis wife, John Y. Norcross and others, by
deed datod the 18th October, A. d. 1879, and re-
corded in the Office Of the Recorder Of Deeds for
said county Of clesrheld, in Deed Book -
page -, etc, granted and conveyed unto Luther
Dock, james Mitchell and Frederick O. Miller,
each being vested with one equal undivided third
part thereof. The same being timber land, un.
improved and yielding no rents. issues or profits.
SeiEed, taken In execution and TO be sold as the
property Of James Mitchell
TRIMS or SALE.-Ths price or sum at which
the property shall be struck OF must be paid at the
time Of sale, or such other arrangements made as
will be approved, otherwise the property will be
Immediately put up and sold again at the expense
and risk Of the person TO whom II vas struck or
and who, In case Of deficiency at such re sale,
shall make good the same, and in no instance
will the Deed be presented in Court for conirma-
tion unless the money Is actually paid to the
Sheriff ANDREW PENrZ, Jr.,
SHERlFr's 0rrioe, Sheriff.
Cieardeld, Pa, June 20, 1877.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-06-20

RAIRoADING.-There are different
methods OF railroad competition. The
New York Central reduces the fare
and the Hudson River employs young
ladies as ticket agents, while the Penn
sylvania Central gobbles up the through
travel for New York, West, and uic,
rersa, by running faster lines than any
other road. From Chicago to New
York the distance is 0l2 miles, which
is made by the Pennsylvania Central
In twcnty-four hours being about
,hirly.cight miles per hour. Tha,
beats our "limitcd mail' line all hollow,
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-06-20
"BOU It WE'LL IS SIMPLY A
SOREH HEA D.

Under this caption, the Boston Post
alludes to the conduct OF George S.
Boutwell,, once Governor, Congress.
man and United States Senator from
,Nesece,usotts, and q one ,. tine g Ssers-
MNn9n51e1U1sskagis.sS1GuRNnul1lo
involved in van, Notwithstanding the
rare opportunity offered by the recent
unploasantncss. He should, Ike Ben
Butler, have embraced that occasion
to render his name equally as notori-
Gus, if not as infamous. However,
Decoration Day was the time fixed to
devolope the true meanness Of the crea.
turc who has successfully imposed him
self upon the people in the shape of a
statesman (2) for many years. But his
time is up. This last effort coniiscates
the Groton man. The Post disposes Of
him in this way
Boutwell, had another bilious attack
at Barnstable on the 30th ult. He
must have fought so hard and received
so many wounds in the late war that
he refuses alike to forget and to heal.
As he looked at the fresh flowers
strewn on the graves of Union soldiers,
he declared that the two last amend.
ments to the Constitution were in
peril, and that he feared the peril is
every year increasing. No one has
touched them yet, however, but a Re
publican Supreme Court, and Bout
well doubtless wants seat on that
bench for his "judicial mind, to show
them how to interpret Three States,
he said, instancing Mississippi, South
Carolina and Louisiana, shave been
seized by armed minorities,' and he
says it is "a precedent full Of peril.
As peril diver, so to speak, Boutwcl!
is far from a success he does better
as diver for sponge. His melancholy
wall is that humble citizens are de-
prived of their right of suffrage; but
if dozen years of reconstruction ex-
periments have secured nothing, what
would be the sense, according to any
but the Boutwelian logic, in their con.
tinuance, The Groton sage lays down
one broad proposition, namely, that
the minority must submit to the ma.
jority, er else there is an end OF con-
stitutional government Docs he real.
ly mean all that? If So he would
have employed his time well, since he
must indulge in political harangue,
in denouncing the fraud that put Hayes
in The place to which large majority
OF the State and the people elected Til.
den. But no bilious man ever secs his
conclusion from his premises. Bout
well is simply q sorehead, and he has
no better taste and no moro soul than
to advertise himself as such on an oc-
casion that warranted nothing of the
kind. He was in the land of whale
men, and he naturally thought of blub-
ber Having proved himself such a
startling financler, he thinks he will
now attend to the Constitution. lie
shows himself as good Judge as he
was General, and he imagines himself
to be Turgot and Turenne rolled to.
gether.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-06-20
mAxims FOR THE DAY.

No man worthy the Office Of President should
be willing to hold 1t If counted in, or placed there
by aoy fraud. u 3 GRANT
l could never have been reconciled to the ele-
vatien by the smallest aid Of mine Of person,
however respectable in private life, who must
forever carry upon his brow the stamp Of fraud
first Triumphant in American history. No sub
seauent ectlon, however meritorious can wash
away the letters Of that record.
CHARLES FRAScis ADAMS.
Under the forms Of law, Rutherford d. Hayes
has been declared President Of the United States.
Ills title rests upon Acknowledgement Of lawful
voters, the false certificates of the returning OH
GERS acting corupuy, aud the decision Of a com
mission which has refused TO hear evidence of al
legged fraud. For the first time are the American
people confronted with the fact of q fraudulenty-
elected President. Let It not be understood tha,
the fraud will be silently acquieseed in by the
country. Let no hour pass in which the usurpa'
tion Is forgotten.
ADDRESS or DEMocRAric NJ. C.'s.
One hundred years Of human deprayity aecu.
mua,od and concentrated into climax Of crime
Never again In Eve hundred years shall they hay'
an opportunity to repeat the wrong
DANIEL W. VOORHEES,
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-06-20

"iE SMELLED MIcE."-An OK
change Gays; "When Governor Ton
Young returned to Columbus from hi
recent trip to Washington he appear
ed considerably cast down, He statet
to q friend in Columbus that his throa
had been cut by the administration
that he would not attempt to secur,
the nomination for Governor, becaus,
he was satisfied that neither himsel
nor any other Republican could b,
elected.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-06-20

A Radical exchange says "Captair
W. b. Hart, Cashier of the Treasury
will have walk over for the Republi
can nomination for State Treasurer
There is not candidate in the ielC
against him, and it is hardly probabl,
that there will be-" Well, we will b,
very much mistaken if the Captain
does not hear some Noyes that will
astonish him by the time the election
is over, so that his Hart will leal
within for j. rage
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-06-20

AN "EXAMPLE."-Thc advocates Of
capital punishment base their chief
argument on example, with a vicw of
terrifying those who are disposed to
commit murder A Phila. trough"
and prominent local politician, named
Fletcher, was hung last week for kill
ing fellow.man. One Of his "cronios'
who was present and witnessed the
"cyc for an eye" etc, murdered one Of
his associates the next day. Tho
Times in alluding to the crime says ;
"Thc strangled body had not been con.
signed to the grave before our city
was the scene of another murder, the
victim being, as in tho Fletcher case,
a fireman. The wholesome influence
Of hanging n man is not very appar-
cnt under these circumstance. Reader,
reflect.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-06-20

A New TUNE,-Thc Radical leader
who have shouted "rebel," "traitor,
Confederate leader" etc, for fftcer
years, now very sagely como to tn,
conclusion that Southern man
should be elected Speaker of the mex,
Congress. The impudcnco of thcs,
leaders is equal TO that of Satan, and
he offered to sell the whole world whor
he did not have title to a foot of soil
except in tho "infernal region" "A
Southern man" What loyal how
that would produce. No "rebcl yell
could exceed IL.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-06-20

The REAL CRIMIsALs.-The New
York World commenting on Senator
BoutwclI'sspeech says "The criminals
with whom the people have just now
to settle tremendous account are not
tho authors Of secession in South Car
olina. They are the aiders and abet-
tors Of Mr. Boutwell,, who have made
ten years of peace more terrible and
more disastrous to this country than
five years of civil war.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-06-20

"When the nation chose a lawful tribunal {,
reader lawful Judgment bet ween Mr.. Tilder
and Mr.. Hayes, its decision was mado the Law fu
decree Of the nation, from which there could b,
no appeal." Phiiadelphia Tima.
To this special pleading the New
York Sun puts its objections in this
way:
"lltrc arc three distinct propositions, AMI
every one Of them is uniruei
]. twas not lawful tribunal, because Il wal
formed contrary to the Constitution.
2 II did not render a lawful decision. The
decision II rendered was contrary both to the
law and facts
3. There Is an appeal from H.. The Electoral
Commission act distinctly provided that no right
Of the parties TO appeal TO the courts should b,
affected by the proceedings"
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-06-20

Old Sitting Bull Morton is not the
"big Injun" he used to be. When he
lectured at Indianapolis, on the 9th
inst, there were less than one hun
dred people TO listen to him. This,
Notwithstanding he was among his
own people and the lecture was for a
charity. Think Of as big u man as
Morton lccturing on as large a topic as
the electoral college before as small an
audience as one hundred. Write lcha.
bod upon his door.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-06-20
knows viii

A POTENT PETITION. - Fourteen
thousand Taxpayers of Washington
city have signed petition asking Mr.
Hayes to remove the negro, Fred
Douglas, from the Office of Marshal ol
the District of Columbia. This is iar
ahead of the famous petition signed by
three thousand clergymen, in 1851
praying Congress to prohibit slavery
in Kansas.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-06-20

The selinsgrove Times says: OWN
II. Gibbony, who has been doing the
tapnng business for John NJ. Rine, at
McKces, Half Falls, Snyder county
disappeared several days ago, leaving
Mr. Rlne minus about $4,000 On Tues
day morning Mrs. Gibbons followed
her deiaulting husband but no one
knows whittier"
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-06-20

ANOTHER TUNE-"The horrible III
leuton assassinations," about whicl
VIC heard so much through Radica
channels, before Chief Justice Wait,
and the Radical Judge Bond went Il
South Carolina to try the offenders
don't amount to so much since th,
trial is over and nobody convicted
These two Judges spoiled score o
bloody shirt stories which had beer
cooked up by Radical stumpcrs Tor th,
next campaign.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-06-20

Peru, in South America, has again
for the hundrcdth time, been annoyed
by an earthquake. Thirteen towns
have been turned upside down, over
six hndrcd lives lost, and twenty mill
ion dollars worth ofpropcrty destroyed
at one good shake. And yet, wbilc We
write, somebody is engaged in erecting
a mud hut on some ruin ready for an
other shake. That's the way the
world moves.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-06-20

BLOODY SHIRT MoRroY.-The In
dlanapolis Sentinel says "Evidontly
Morton is dying. He looks pale, has
waxy complexion. He is on bis last
legs. His mind seems 10 be weaken
ing He lacks vigor. If he can raise
the devil in the South again he may
revive and exhibit his old time vim
dictiveness. But the indications are
that he will be called upon at no dis
tant day to wrap the folds OF his
bloody shirt around him and pass IN
his checks"
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-06-20

CoLPAx EsJorISG Social LiTE.-Conccrnng
bis private affairs ex-Vioe President Schuyler
Coliax says that on the whole, he was neyer SO
agreeably situated 10 his life, As Mr.. Lincoln
used to enjoy his receptions better than his Office
he couldn't give him." so Mr.. Colfax enjoys lee
turing and the half literary life he is now lead.
ing far better than his official career There arc
no teasing for Office now no hard work In Con.
gress on small pay no new calumnies no i'm
portunity BY swarming lobbyists nothing but
easy work and good pay, and, as he says, "no.
body to obey but my wife" 'My life I. now a
social ons," he adds, "and prefer It TO any
other. Moreover, my time and travels are paid
for somewhat larger than mileage and per- diem
rates. have made $50, 600 in three ycars from
winter lectures alone Radical Exchange.
Well, that's pretty good. But We
recolleet the time and so does the Ex
V. p, when Nesbit, the governmen,
envelope and stamp manufacturer, used
to send him a $1,000 "greenback" be
fore breakfast, and Oakcs Amcs gave
him a $1,000 check monthly, for the
interest on his Credit Mobilier stock
which he acquired while presiding in
the Senate. These things are all good
Sunday School lessons, and it will be
well enough TOR our boys not to initiate
Schuylers crooked ways
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-06-20

The Crawford Journal the Republi-
can organ of the county, opposes Judge
Pctts for Judge, and he predicts his
defeat if nominated because "of his mn.
fitness for the position" Pettis now
holds the Office by appointment of Gov
ernor Hartranit, to fill the vacancy
caused by the death OF Judge Lowrie
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-06-20

The current paragraph to the effect
that General Wade Hampton carried
the dead body of his son Preston from
the field while the battle of Petersburg
was still raging is Incorrect. Wade
Hampton, Jr., now living in Mississip-
pi, was riding with his brother when
the latter was killed, and carried the
body to the rear. General Hampton
did not know OF bis bereavement until
the battle was over.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-06-20

SEVERE lRosY.-An exchange says:
"The Governor of Rhode Island has
written letter to Mayor Stokley OF
Philadelphia, rendering to that city
the Rhode Island Centennial Building.
A careful measurcment of the struc-
turo showed that it could not be put
up in Rhode Island without infringing
upon the soil of Connecticut. Hence
a resolution by the r. ]. Legislature
TO give il TO Philadelphia.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-06-20
UHY he DID IT.


The Doylestown Democrat puts the
removal of the troops from the South
in this way
"a good many reasons have beer
given for the Presidents withdrawn
of the troops from the State Houses o.
Saa.. Ss.aa.....ssa.;sa .c.sssa.;sa AID Louisiana, al hui
6n1nnraS ~S-nrFsSrssRass1UVl
ness u s"v 81. isNaty 1.uy NdCw'
that in doing this the President viola
ted the known principles Of his party
He WIS not only not pledged to dc
what Mr.. Tilden would have done had
he got the scat he was elected to fill
but he was bound in honor TO do th,
other thing, Now why he went coun
ter to the well settled principles Of the
party that nominated him has passed
comprehension with n great many pco
pie Of both parties. We believe We
can give the reason in few words
II irds because the neat Congress wA
hare a Democratic majority Here lies
tho milk in the political cocoa.nut
The Southern policy" so called, wa:
the direst necessity TO the administra
ton. The credit it is entitled to, fol
removing the screws from South Car
olina and Louisiana, can be put into q
cats horn and not half fill it. A few
days after the adjournment Of the last
Cnprroao Cnnnrol Gharmnn mat n 1ia
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-06-20

Mr.. Pierrepont is setting an exam
pie Of ostcntatious extravaganza
which Ill becomes the representative
of a republic. lIc is lavIshing his mon
cy no literally on dinners and balls
that Londonors don't know what to
make of il. Now this may be very
nice by way of introducing Grantinto
society but no American wants his
goyernmept represented BY q snob.
2dRAa1uJ1I ~. ~<r
aro veiy uhlaV0TaUiu 10 TNn 1Ii si0
third-term project on English soil.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-06-20

Jefferson Davis now lives near Mis-
sissippi City, on the border of Pont.
chartrain between New Orleans and
Mobile. He is writing bis memoirs, is
in excellent health and looks younger
than he did few years ago
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-06-20

MY dear Pitkin," as Ben Butler
would say, has been hit right between
the eyes by "thc government" Hav-
ing held the fat Office of Marshal Of
Louisiana, and helped to count Haye;
in, he has, nevertheless, been removed
turned out 10 pasture. But he
swears vengeance.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-06-20

CRuEL.--Thc editor of the Philadcl.
phia Tines, in alluding to the post.
ponemcnt of the extra session Of Con.
grcss, says; Probably the reason
Hayes postponed the extra session Of
Congress from June TO the 10th of %
tober, was from a consideration of the
fact OF Mr.. Blaine's liability to sun.
stroke during the hot season.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-06-20
TABLE& POCKET CUTLERY,
GLASS and PUTTY,

Foot and Chain Bolts, Carriage, Tire aod Barrel
Bolts, Bed Cord, Sad Irons, Horse Brushe, and
Culry-Combs, Grind-stono fixtures, Gum, Homp
and soap-stone Packing, Cable Chains, etc.
They will also keep on hand full assoitment
Of Tinware, and general stock Of House Furnish
ing Goods, which they will sell a, prices 10 sui,
the times
Persons wishing anything in their line are in
vited 10 call and examine their stock before
purchasing. REED a HAGERTY.
clearaeld, May so, is77-iy.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-06-20

Miss Nelson has diamond weigh
ing thirty-one carats, the largest ever
worn by an actress on the stage. II
is set in frosted gold leaves, and is val
ued at $4,000.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-06-20

BAD LITERARY REsuLTs.-Just pre-.
vious to the adjournment OF the Lcgis.
lature last Winter, n committee was
appointed to interview or examine our
penitentiaries. The Wardens of the
Eastern establishment have furnished
the committee some damaging facts
relating TO our education. 1t appears
that nine out of every ten of the con.
victs are what VIC term educated, and
smart" but they never learned a
trade. The Wardens say that something
must be done to make trade education as
dignifed as intellectual labor, and in
this way decrease the number of con-
victs. This phase of the case is a
terrible satire on our "frce school
SYSTEM" and shows clearly that a
mental education without muscular
effort is failure and void of moral in.
tegrity. Hence, the filling up of our
prisons and penitentiaries. There are
some screws loose somewhere, and
they should be frightened up.