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Characteristic
(Column 5)

Summary: A reprint of the Spirit's two contradictory articles on the protection of Naturalized citizens, preceded by a dicussion of Jerry Black's role in claiming the Secretary of the State did NOT represent the administration when he said the citizens do not have protection. Black tried to convince the people in order to salvage the naturalized citizens' vote for him.

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The War Of The Judges
(Column 1)

Summary: Description of a battle between Judges Douglas and Black for the Democrat Presidential nomination--that Black responded in the Washington Constitution to Douglas' speech on Popular Sovereignty in Harper's Magazine Sept. 1859. The Repository how Black must be shirking his duties as Attorney General, and that he also must have had a hand in articles written, supposedly by Johnny Cooper, in the Spirit (Black's paper). The Repository criticizes Black's logic in a Spirit article that defends the maintenance of slave property from state to state.
(Names in announcement: Johnny Cooper)

Naturalized Citizens
(Column 4)

Summary: The Repository claims that Jerry Black simply restated what several previous Whig adminstrations have said--that a naturalized citizen is protected by the U. S. government just as if he had been born in the country. Black is part of the Democrat Administration that does not believe in this protection.

Brand The Falsifier
(Column 4)

Summary: A reference to an article last week in the Spirit, written by Brand, that accuses McClure of having lost his Party's and friends' support. The Repository challenges the Spirit to name the friends.
(Names in announcement: Brand, Col. McClure)

Make Him Explain
(Column 4)

Summary: The editors wonder why Samson, the editor of the FultonDemocrat, is asking Col. A. K. McClure to come over with his long purse. Does this mean that the vote of Samson, a locofoco, is for sale? And can he or the Spirit produce names of people whose votes Mcclure has bought.
(Names in announcement: Col. A. K. McClure)

Full Text of Article:

The editor of the smut machine, on the other side of the Cove Mountain, ycleped the Fulton Democrat, is calling upon Col. A. K. McClure to come over into Fulton County, and "bring his long purse with him."

What is Samson to do with McClure's purse? How does he know that the Col. carries a "long purse?" Has he ever seen it? If he has, under what circumstances? Please explain. The Spirit, just now, is very anxious to find some-body who has handled "the long purse" of the gallant Col.; or who has filled it for the man above all others whom the conductors of that journal hate. But they have not succeeded. Haul up Sansom [sic] and make him explain the dark meaning of his editorial.

When we hear a calf bellowing at the tail of a cow we infer that it is after milk--and when we see a man calling upon another for a sight of his purse we conclude he wants money. We would not insinuate that Sansom is purchasable--well, stop, we feel like taking that back, when we consider that he is a locofoco--or that he is thus making an offer to McClure, (whom he alleges will buy votes) but we ask for an explanation of the mystery surrounding his appeal to McClure to "come to Fulton County and bring his long purse with him."

We say that considering that he is a locofoco he may be among the purchasable. Our reason for saying this is founded upon the charges made by the Democrat, and the Spirit that McClure buys votes. Whose votes does he buy? Are they not locofocos? This slur is of their own manufacture.

Astonishing!
(Column 5)

Summary: The editors make fun of the Spirit for accusing McClure for not paying for the debt himself, as a way of avoiding acknowledgement that he is greatly responsible for the sale of the Public Works and the abolition of the Canal Board--which reduced the debt.
(Names in announcement: Col. A. K. McClure)

We Cannot Stand It
(Column 6)

Summary: The Repository lists the amount of money that paid for foreign goods--startin in 1852 and through Sept. 1859. The nine months of '59 have a total ($57,995,371) greater than the combination of the two highest (and previous) years. This export of money is the fault of the Democrats' Free Trade policy.

Remember The Foundry
(Column 6)

Summary: The Repository reminds readers of the embarassing pamphlets issued during last fall's elections that claimed if Hon. Wilson Reilly were elected, then the National Foundry would be located in Franklin county. The Repository had caricatured the pamphlet, and the embarassed Democrats had quickly pulled the pamphlets from public circulation.
(Names in announcement: Hon. Wilson Reilly)

Jay-Bird Heels
(Column 6)

Summary: The editors respond to the Spirit's mention of their deformed feet. The editors reply that the Spirit's editor has long heels which are always being tread on.

No Wonder
(Column 6)

Summary: The Repository responds to the Spirit that it is not afraid of the Spirit having listed Jerry Black as a Presidential candidate--especially when the Repository saw the ears of a donkey on Black.

The Campaign
(Column 6)

Summary: Mention of L. S. Clarke's and Snively Strickler's consistent attendance (where they have spoken) at nightly Republican meetings all over the county, and praise for their characters.
(Names in announcement: L. S. ClarkeEsq., Snively StricklerEsq.)

[No Title]
(Column 1)

Summary: A prediction that Col. McClure will receive more Democratic votes on Oct. 11th than ever before.
(Names in announcement: Col. A. K. McClure)

Cheering News From Adams
(Column 1)

Summary: A letter from Adams county reporting that Col. McClure has campaigned in Adams and has drawn large crowds, and that claims that 200 to 400 Democrats have pledged to vote for Douglas is impossible, when so many favor McClure.
(Names in announcement: Col. A. K. McClure)

Farewell
(Column 2)

Summary: A farewell to John L. Cooper, of Santa Cruz, who left for California on Oct. 1st from Chambersburg with his wife, Alice, the youngest daughter of W. W. Paxton.
(Names in announcement: John L. Cooper, Mr. W. W. Paxton, Alice Paxton)

Full Text of Article:

--Whenever this solemn word must be pronounced, it carries with it sorrow and pain. Sometimes, and under one class of circumstances, the grief can scarcely be assuaged which arises from the cause that requires this word to be uttured [sic]. At other times the bitter cup is so well mingled with sweets that the paroxysm of grief is of short duration. It never can fall from the lips of parents upon a daughter about to leave the home of her childhood, without being attended with heartfelt anguish. No matter how good a match she may have made; no matter how happy may be the prospect before their loved one, she is lost to them--a vacant place is made at the family table.

Sometimes a Father, Mother, Sisters and Brothers are called upon to part with one whose voice has ever been gentle and kind in their midst--who has never been long absent at any one time--and whose place they all know can never be filled. Such was the case last Saturday morning when Mr. John L. Cooper, of Santa Cruz, California, left his place, with his young wife, the youngest daughter of our townsman, Mr. W. W. Paxton. She, the tender, beloved, amiable Alice, departed for her new home in the far off golden State with the husband of her confiding heart's choice. The separation was too tender for the eye of the public; we will draw a vail [sic] over it.

The happy couple are to set sail this afternoon, from the port of New York, for their home on the Pacific coast. As an evidence of the excellent choice our highly-esteemed young neighbor--the loved Alice--has made of a partner for life, we have but to say that, in addition to the Carriages, Stoves, & c., of which we made mention in a former issue, which Mr. Cooper purchased, of Chambersburg manufacture, for his own use in California, we have the pleasure to add that he subscribed and paid for the best family newspaper on the Atlantic side of the Rocky Mountains--The Repository and Transcript.

Franklin County Teachers' Association
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Summary: The Executive Committee of the Franklin Country Teachers; Association mett at Montgomery's Hotel, Chambersburg, on Sept 10th to set the program for the Annual meeting on Nov. 2nd: Othograph--James Montgomery; Phonetics--T. M. Richards, F. Noble; Reading--W. H. H. Newman, William H. Blair; Penmanship--J. N. Snively, Peter Swisher; Philosophy of Arithmetic--J. S. McElwaine, J. B. McKeehan; Arith. Fundamental Rules--J. L.P. Deatrich, P. K. Shoemaker, Isaac Miller; Common Fractions--D. S. McFadden, H. Atherton, F. J. Pfoutz; Decimal Fraction--A. B. Stoeler, J. B. Eckerman; Ratio and Proportion--J. F. Bolt, J. W. Coble, Frederick Walk; Extraction of Roots--Joseph Eckart, J. B. Caufman; Percentage--G. W. Betz, George Eby; Oral Arithmetic--H. Omwake, W. H. Hockenberry; Geographpy--H. B. Kendig, Samuel Gelwicks; English Grammer--J. K. Shryock, S. H. Eby; Arithmeticial and Geometrical Progression--J. W. Hays, Jacob Cook; Mensuration--A. McElwain, J. H. Youst; Algebra--J. C. Atherton, R. A. Moore; Natural Ph
(Names in announcement: James Montgomery, T. M. Richards, F. Noble, W. H. H. Newman, William H. Blair, J. N. Snively, Peter Swisher, J. S. McElwaine, J. B. McKeehan, J. L. P. Deatrich, P. K. Shoemaker, Isaac Miller, D. S. McFadden, H. Atherton, F. J. Pfoutz, A. B. Stoeler, J. B. Eckerman, J. F. Bolt, J. W. Coble, Frederick Walk, Joseph Eckart, J. B. Caufman, G. W. Betz, George Eby, H. Omwake, W. H. Hockenberry, H. B. Kendig, Samuel Gelwicks, J. K. Shryock, S. H. Eby, J. W. Hays, Jacob Cook, A. McElwain, J. H. Youst, J. C. Atherton, Robert A. Moore, B. A. Fry, Dr. S. G. Lane, William Hayman, J. R. Gaff, Perry A. Rice, Prof. W. R. Linn, J. Lehman)

Drowned
(Column 3)

Summary: A child left momentarily unattended drowns.
(Names in announcement: Mr. George Cook)

Full Text of Article:

--A child of Mr. George Cook, residing near Mt. Hope, Quincy township, aged about 18 months, was accidentally drowned on the 24th ult., under the following circumstances: The mother left the child, which was unable to walk, in the room, while she went to attend to some domestic affairs. During her absence, which was but for a few minutes, the child crept from the room into the yard, where a small stream of water passes. As soon as the mother returned the child was missed, when search was made for it and its lifeless remains were found in the rivulet referred to. No pen can describe the distress of the fond mother on beholding her dead babe--certainly no blame can attach to the parents for the sad accident.