Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-04-04

HtTuction On iilii thouPu Why ioliy
Is not clear, for II has capitolinc air
The Cameron mansion is down on that
beautiful street By the HreS-a Mg
limestone house, side to the street, and
below il is park where the settler Of
the place, they say, was tied TO tree
TO DO burnt by the drunken Shawnese.
That man grubbed up the forest streets
OF Philadelphia he came this site in
1905 and traded with Indians, and here
his wife, Elizabeth Say, produced the
builder OF Camcron's big house, John
Harris, Jr, 1927. They were Church
of England people and took him to
Christ Church, Philadelphia to BE- bap.
tised. The youth was married to
Elizabeth Mcclure, and he could have
bought from the Penns the whole Cum
berland Valley for 5000, but hc was
too wise to ruin himself, ike Robert
Morris. lie folded his hands and died,
1901, in the house where Cameron now
waits the eternal summons, aud there
the first United States Senator from
Pennsylvania, William Maclay, his son.
in-law, often ate and drank and courted.
They were both laid away in the old
Paxton Presbyterian church.yard, and
the earlier Harris is buried under the
calcimined stump of tree before
Cameron's door. 1t was not until
1868, after his return from Russia,
that Cameron bought the old mansion,
which still shows in great black letters
the date A. d. 1906 IN its gable. When
you see that old white haired, blue.
eyed, lean, tall Scotch.loolsing man
appear on this doorstep, you gather
on asweepot personal reminiscnec IRON
the stump-strewn streets OF Philadel-
phia and William Penn's muddy shoes
to the defeat Of Blaine at the spot
where st, Clair and Anthony Wayne
mustered their armies In Ohio. They
relate that the first manufacture NJ
Harrisburg was counterfeit money, by
Burney, during the revolution. W,
can still seem to see, in these streets
the irascible face and hawk nose Of
Judge M'Kean, going to court in pro
cession, under his cooked hat, and Gen
eral Washington standing up in biz
carriage proclaiming war to the whis
key insurrectlonists. We hear the
county's name pronounced "Th,
Dauphin-the poor boy, the dauphll
Of France, starved by a shoemaker il
the Temple and made to testify agiins
the virtue Of his mother, Marie An
toinette, the superb-she who smilel
upon the old printer Franklin, as lft,
say; Hope on and whip those Eng
lish Here, also, floating down th,
Susquehanna, stopped the son OF kim
Louis Philippe, who long aiterwar'
fought under Mcclellan, the Prime
de JoinviIe. When they moved th
State officers here Simon Cameron wa
twenty-threc years old. Every Amer
, can war, including the Buckshot wal
r has ragged around Harrisburg, and tn
troopers OF J. r. B. Stuart looked Out
in 1868, from the opposite bank upoI
the State House dome.
AT THE STATE HOUSE.
The State House is on an egg-shape'
bill, over the Susquehanna, IN a parl
of thirteen acres. narrowing towar
r the gate. straight is the gate am
broad is the way that leadeth to-
/ disinterestedness. Maple and catalp
: trees fill the breezy park. The OIL
/ State House is OF red brick, trimme
with white ionic porticoes, shaped Ink
u T. 1870 feet by l05-the wing u |
is brary. Two other large buildings, o
the TANKS, are tho Executive Depar
/ ments. Two monuments are close b,
marble tribute to the small conqucr
; of Mexico and " burried obelisk, niue
less consequential, to the anli-secessio
soldiers. Entering these plain bull,
1 ings they are seen to be sufficient fl
. their purposes, and Tor their size wer
/ cheaply built. They cost s275,OO'
! which Is only 100000 more than
! session of the Legislature is said /
cost. What Legislature. in cxten
/ Fifty Senators Two hundred and on
Representatives 1t is modelled aile
the Legislature OF New Hampshire @
the Polish Parliament. These tw
hundred and tity-one statesmen 4,
, 81 900 apiece. The Executive officer
, get, in all, s3I, ,00O--tho Governor
, salary, $4,000
r Let us look at the Governor. lie
one of those dark.eyed men, like Sar
Randall, who suggests coquetry rathc
than power, aud they say he is no,
! coquetting with the Presidency, ths
! deceitful jade. Or az rural memb,
! expressedit; "lle'sgot the Prcsidentil
= maggot into him" Hartranit belong
I to the type OF young soldier.Govcrl
/. ors, like Chamberlain, Hawlcy an
$ Hayes, and is modest as a woman
I look upon, with those Judaic eyes. Br
: he does not appear to have partic
d OF opportunity tor the Presidenc,
!. partly because no Pennsylvania ha
n and partly, also, because il is Ion
e way between the passivenoss Of Hay,
a and the passiveness of Hartrani
: There is smothered warmth in u
n Ohio Governors utterances which Il
. conscientious but painful and crut
}. State papers of the Pennsylvania {
d not show. Clean, neigbborly, health
t a little boyish, Hartunit leaves on OF
= the impression OF good citizen al
y AN obedicnt volunteer soldier. 1
u thinks highly Of the State and its pc
e pie, as he has good reason to do; f
& he has been greatly honored, and is
!. the last war what Governor M,ifl