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CLEARFIELD Bepcblicaii, 1'U.m THE SECRET SERVICE At A VEHICLE FOES " -- CLEARFIELD BEPCBLICAii," kLACKfcAIUNO PURPOSES. The roport states that tht Secret Service appear to havt baon used CLEARFIELD, PA. largely for blackmailing purposes and persecution of private individuals, and I men In ggTABLIBHED let!. aft . f. that art employed it without any tost of qualification, provided they what to information ClrtuUtlon ef any Newspaper havt aeemt bo ni largest REPUBLICAN, against persons; and that porsons of IB North Central Pennaylvanla. CLEARFIELD character and reputation who havt felt tht force of Its methods have aa a Terms of Subsoription. rule declined to put their grievance boforo the Committoe, preferring rather i edranee, wl,hl" oo ' i .id " ' otiu..a GEO. B. QOODLANDEB, & TEBMS-- $2 to suffer silenco u Lid n i mi before ' Editor Proprietor. PRINCIPLES, NOT MEN. per annum In Adranoe. in than to encounter f (Ml p.id after Ik eiplrntioa months... a the plots they fult sure would follow their complaints. Solicitor Rayner Rates ot Advertising, testified : "Within eight months I OLE 10 VOL. SERIES-V0- know of or ten jrentle. .ilent edrertlsemenU, per square of lines or NO. 2,633. CLEARFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1879. NEW L. 20', NO. 31. tight private u..lllieaorle.e 11 M men, who hays violated bo law, whose ' . n , . .. l A for names have been entered there, and aad Bieoutora' aolloee-..- .. I to A lainiitrttora' they have boon reported on in aolleea I to tbe Asaltors' thirty-seve- to benefit the ...... I vessels to enforce the Cus THE "DRY PRINTING FRAUD. mitted to Pay Director Bradford at ho wont abroad the list of claimants he.did it Collector, who most terriblo way." Wild, Secret Ctitloai end BatrBye.. to tht 00 He staid abroad till 1877, was in some way related to bun. Piisolslioa notieea I cn Years cl Fraud ! tom laws tha Treasury having Thus nearly half appears to be waste liondon $u00,000 to moot dralls drawn disappeared. Service agent at Now Orleans, was Carde, II or Un,l year.., to ijll re- t dm t CONHTAIILEBS charge of building, equipment, repair, in a "reform" administration of the by Paymasters all over the world on and when Williams was in danger, DISMISSALS TO DOVER UP FRAUD. dismissed front tbt Department of Jus-- , rnl.maolleel, P,r "M " to FEES Lel We hue printed a large number of Bow purchase and sale of these revenue Jay Cooke, MeCulloch & Co. Cutter turned to defend bim. James II. tice for taking money from claimants ADVERTISEMENTS). tha Bureau. If provious manauemont was Jaspor W. Johnson of Oregon, Sec TBARLY FEI DILL, and wiH oa the rocelpt of twenty. vessels, and of the examination, ad- no worse and it is known it was brought bills of exchango from Fran- Robinson, Assistant Solicitor of tht in a officially examined. 00 I 1 column $51 00 leooMite. mail a to STARTLINa EXPOSURE OF COR that retary ot the iiiDorai Hepublioan .Na- cast bt Tbt , ooov any edriras.. mot mission and government of cadets cis O. French, exchange teller of tbe Treasury, declined to aid Moore's in. contract made by bim with claimants, Snare. H ' 71 RUPTION IN THE TREASURY no bettor about f 12,000,000 have been tional Committee, was appointed in I!?!..-- 10 00 1 oolumn. 10 00 therein a notwork oi assessors, col wasted or stolon.. Tho "dry printing" f irst lVational Bank ot Now York and vestigation, saying, "They don't want 1876 an Inspector of Customs and and tht check paid lo him, art in the M. DEPARTMENT. Me- Q. B. OOODLANDKR, WILLIAM HENRY, Justice lectors and other Internal Kevcnue fraud was an cfturt to print fractional New York agent ot Jay Cooke, it continued up stairs," referring to tbe and kopt on tba pay rolls several Department of Justice records. Yot scatTunnn. 1.DU1IKR & Publleher. abb officials reaching over tho whole ourroncy on dry by Culloch Co., the very houso against oecrotary s Ulllco ; and ho he is now engaged to "protect'-- ' the CITY. Collootlona aiada and atoner STJPPHESSED paper hydrostatic months, receiving several hundred promptl THE GLOVER RE whoso many Appointmont in an paid over. Artlelea of aaraomeot and deada o I country, with the United States Army pressure. In this attempt 300,000 throatencd failure tbo with Clerk fortor dollars, without rendering any service Government and tbe publio against PORT. - CarHs. uoroyanoo neatly eieoule.1 and warranted eor. and the federal Courts to uphold were wasted by a professed inventor drafts at London woro to he protected effort to broak down Moore's Investi- to the tiovernmenL Ue was eent by counterfeiters and swindlers in several root or no obarge. 1)7 7 them ; tho illumination, by remitting to Bradford. Ootobor 4 by abolishing tbe force ol States. Tbo recommend dlUANTlO FRAUDS UNEARTHED BY Till construction, named Stuart Gwynn, and it now fation Assistant Secretary Conant to Biutord roport tho OF EVERY DE8CRIP nspcction and superintendence of 61,0 ho drow from the New York of Customs, to which abolition or thorough reconstruction of Kin PRINTING COMMITTEE MILLIONS ON MILLIONS turns out on inspection of the secret Wilson, at Cincinnati, to help capture (J ilea eoellv eieoated ' lighthouses, and of $300,000, and October 6 Mooru's assistant in the matter who Secret ' OF Till PUBLIC FUNDS STOLEN AND tho light vessels, archivos of the Patent Office that the too convention lor liristow. the Servico. JOHN D. THOMPSON, beacons, buoys, sea marks, fog signals, $181,323, and paid them to French for had first traced the Jones package SQUANDERED FLOOD! NO THE then Chiof of the Bureau, Spencer M. A system of thoft, which had gone WHOLESALE ROBBERY IN THE SOUTH W. SMITH, JuiUm of tht Pm and ScriraBtr, and of bills of exchango. This he did Bomo belonged. Robinson suddenly manu tt COUNTRY WITH COUNTERFEIT tho arrangements for saving Clark, was part ownor with Gwynn in on for years, was dotectod at Norfolk THE GREAT COTTON SEIZURES. CurwcBivtlle, Pa. en- - days before tho mail left for London, factured an opinion that there was no ATTORNEY-AT-LA- W, MONET TOCARRY . ivcs during shipwrecks along the the worthless patent, for dovoloping in 1877 by Maj. Mooro, special agent. .CoMwtloni prompUT ILE0TION8 In 18C2 Congress provided lor Troas- ! ftnd tnontv tiro coast and on many rivers ; the in which ol and, as cash was then worth 5 por law lor the existonce oi this lorce, rieirgeW. Pa. ptldovar. fb2S'71tf STARTLING DEFICITS IN THE ho paid Gwynn much this Instead of turning into the Treasury ll:l:TI spection ot steamboats and boilors on cent, a day in the market, French and which bas existed over fifty years. ury special agonta to collecting cap- MINTS HOW THE BUREAU jionoy. The "waterproofing" fraud dutios collected from morchantt on proporty his associates wore enabled to uso When Moore informed Assistant y tured and abandoned at tht OF PRINTING AND EN every coast, river and lake In the was a proteose to mako greenbacks this goods, the Colloctor of Customs and T J. LINGLE, B. GRAHAM, half million to make or up- Conant of Williams' frauds, South, and for turning into tha Treas JA3. HEAVING IS RUN. United mates, Including 4,000 vessels, and fractional currency waterproof by $100,000 other officials stolo the money and ward. swore Conaut, to astonishment, ad ury tbe proceeds ot sucb property, to -- r doalor la and examing and licensing 14,000 paper a 01 Cutter that be did this Moore's Y - AT LAW, ipping tbe into mixture omitted to enter it on the books. While be returned to owners on proof bo- ilTOENK in- by order of Secretary Robeson. vised him to drop the inquiry, and he the Cfc, y:pd Fraud Absolutely Unchecked and the pilots, engineers, etc.; hospitals and water, castilo noai) anil some other Moore was engaged in exposing these 1:11 VhlllpabarfC. Centre Pa. Real Estate, Square Timber, Board b, foro tbt Court of Claims of ownership physicians for 18,000 sick or disabled gredients. This oath bad no good ef- WIDENING THE SCOPE OF THE . threw such difficulties in its way that frauds he was dismissed SHINGLES, LATH, PICKETS, national finances at the Mercy suddenly from and freedom from complicity with tho soamon, located IMow Ban cost about 5 Moore felt forced to suspend it tbe OUNDD.SWOOPE, ' of 7'hievet and Jiobbert. at lork, fect, and the mixture the servico, and tho mattor was put Robollion. Ynder this act 175,000 :10'T3 Clearfield, Pa, rr&ncisco, Baltimore, Now Orleans, cents a gallon, whilo 50 to 95 cents whole timo that Conant was Acting from Thousands of dollars, the total not into the bands of Ayor and Chamber- bales of cotton were collected and sold, KY LAW, Louisville, Boston, Chicago, Mobile, Secretary of tho Treasury. When ATTORN AT Tbo New. York Star of July 0th. a gallon was paid for it. for tbe red being ascertainable without a much lain, tht special agents whose noglect the proceeds being, as nearly as could Bounty, Pa. Detroit, Key Wost, Portland, Mo.; need on Shorman became Secretary, Moore re- CurweairiUo, CleerHold printed a document which deserves the ink for printing tbe seals notes longer investigation, were found to to examine the books had made these bo ascertained, $26,500,000. Of Oct. I, '70-I- REUBEN HACKMAN, ported tho facts to him, and Shorman this. thoughtful consideration of every citi- Pittsburgh, Norfolk, Philadelphia, St. from two to twelve pricos woro paid. have been obtained from tho Treasury frauds easy. referred tho mattor to Goorgo F.
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