Tuue3Dat, : : : ArEiL 18, 1EG7. ansa 23 ra rs : stirrer, i ,:r. It. L. JOHNSTON, H. A. McPIKG, - Editor. - PCBUsHEB. .Dcznocratlc County Commutes. The Democratic County Committee of Cambria county are respectfully requested to meet at the Court House in Ebensburg, onl Wednesday the 15th day of May next, for the purpose of transacting business relating to taa coming election. - A general aiieau ance U requested. : Tho following gentlemen compose said Committee : Win. Buck, Jos, Mardi8. A." Hartz, Francis Bearer, Henry 'Bender, Daniel McDonald. P. J. McKenzie, C. Warner, David Farner, Johu II. Douglass, John Devlin, Edward Connery , Peter Brown, Iiees J. Lloyd. John Sharbaugh, John Man- ion, John Cooney, John H. Kennedy, George Ourley, Charles O'Uagan, D. F. A. Grier, Hugh Bradley, J. B. U'Creight, Jo3.Roxler. James King, Geo. SbafTer, Francis O'Friel, Tbos. Judge, Edward Farren, John White, James Costelow, James Burk, John M'Col gan, Christian Walters, John F. Allen. -GEO. C. K. ZAUM, Chairman. , Johnstown Democrat please copy. ' ouii cousmr. The United States is passing through a great struts. We have had great agi tations, waged with much warmth and even fierceness, in our counsels. We have had bloody strife both external and inter nal. We have had many trials to test the strength of our government, but the , chip of State has rode out the storms of foreign and domestic strife. But greater dangers now menace us; and it is some what singular, in the history of nations, that the period of peace following great struggles in the field, has been more dan gerous to the liberties of the people than 'war itself. According to the views entertained by the Thirty-seventh Congress, and the then President, Mr. Lincoln, the end of the war was to restore the Union of the State?. This doctrine was promulgated by Con gressional enactment, by Presidential proc lamation, and vindicated by the terms of surrender of Lee and Johnston to Grant ' and Sherman. The same doctrine has governed 'Mr. Johnson, the. successor of Sir.' Lincoln, elected by the same paity and upon the same platform as Mr. Lin coln. No State has power to dissolve her relations with the Union, was the axiom upon the terms contained in them ; and tnat from the first day of Jose, 1855, till the present time, the States in rebellion have returned to their allegiance to the constitution, and have been peacefully exercising the functions of State governments in the same manner as before the act of secession. . . That the President suspended the rebel Governors, and through the aid of Provi sional Governors enabledthe State to re-adjust her relations to the Federal Union, by the choice of all her officers by the people. That in pursuance of the Act of Congress she called a convention and adopted a new constitution, republican in form, being the same under which she had lived more than seventy years, excepting that African slave ry was forever abolished. , . ; That before the beginning of 1866 a Gov ernor. State oflicers, judges, &c, were elect ed by the people, who hava been exerclsix!? the functions of their ounces ever since. That under new constitution- sae . 4 ATS r-?-" C: nr. elected members of Congress, and the State, under said constitution put in operation, was recognized by the President of the Uni ted States, and that such State government has constantly been recognized till the pres ent time. - .. -v V, . .- ..; , That although the members of Congress elected by Georgia have been refused ad mission, yet Congress, as well as the Presi dent, have on various important questions treated ber as a sovereign state : by extend ing U, S. courts throughout her limits by her postal arrangements, and by her direct taxes assessed upon Georgia as a State , &e.; and submitting that a State cannot be in the Union for one purpose and out of the Union for another purpose that a State cannot be In the Union for taxation, and out of it for representation. Sec. That Georgia was willing to submit to be deprived of Congressional representation till more liberal views would restore it, but that afterwards-. Congress passed the Military Bill, which the President declared lo be un constitutional, but which was re-passed over his veto-'. 'That, nevertheless, the President 13 willing to execute the law. That from the formation of Georgia as a State till the present the right to vote has been 'given only to toliite persons, with certain minor qualifications . ." That the State of Georgia owns a large portion of real estate upon which are valua ble buildings, arc. That the Military Act authorizes black men to vote, which is not allowed by. the laws or tre estate of Georgia.;. ; That there are large numbers of true, loyal white men in Georgia who could cot conscientiously; take the oath imposed by ids act oi Congress That the intent and design of said act is to abolish the present State f Georgia, and rect. in Its stead, a new State over the same territory, and against the wishes of the le gitimate electors of said State. That the President has ''given out,r and declared his .Inteation -to. execute said act. and to appoint officers and furnish i them witn miatary iorce to execute -the same, against the wishes of the people of Georgia. That the execution of said law would to tally destroy the corporate existence of, the sa'.d btate. ;' " Ava nnaiiy mat tne state or tfeorgia has A lawsuit of fifty-six years duration Has just been decided in Ikeritucky. ' - --St. Bernard's (Catholic) Church, Ea3- ton, was destroyed by fire on the 10th. -A shad was causrbt with a dip net in the river near Bedford, a few days ego. -The rnost "annoying cut the Republi cans have "lately received is the Connecti cut. . .- .. .:. , . : . . At Old Lynne, Connecticut, a man 103 years of age, voted for English, for Governor. - It is believed that the coming wheat crop will be the largest ever groiva ca this - la Sijn a well at Portland Me!, recently, data ghelh vfers; founds 44 feet below the surface. Barnum is saM to be negotiating for the remains of the Radical party cf Con necticut, to put in his Museum. : A late Jacobin newspaper "tentaius an article headed "A lesson for the Re publican party." The Republican party will not take many mora -"'lessons before it graduates.'5' '" '" -. . " ; ; ';. ' ''''' ' "" A hickory cane", cut at Mount Ver non, with a Charter Oak head, which has been, seasoning for some years for a De mocratic; 'Governor of Connecticut, has been handed over to Mr. English:"" ' The Boston Post thinks that Senator Sumner must have been beyond the reach of Senator Chandlers breath when he omitted to include him with Senator Sauls- bury," in his resolution for expulsion. William Baker, aged 73, died recent ly in Spencer County, Indiana. He was followed to the grave, by seventy-eight descendants, including" sixty-three grand children and three great grandchildren. When the news from Connecticut was received in Boston, a merchant Prince exclaimed : -D n the miserable : little State 1 We sent money enough there to have bought up every d ; d Copperhead in it." . . : '; : ,.- upon which the war was fought and, won. The South held the converse cf the propo-1 no remedy. at lawi to prevent the subversion ition, and was defeated. i f her TfTk ecept a: . . stnjmentalitr ef the Sonreme Court, 'i And Congress Las, however, recently passed l therefore pray an injunction to restrain the an act known as the Military Bui, estab- j enforcement cf said law, &c... lishing military governments in the South ern States, ignoring their existence as States, and treating them as military dis tricts. The President proclaims the bill unconstitutional, and vetoes it. The Con gress, representing only a portion of the States, passes the bill over the veto. 4 The President signifies his intention of yielding bis own opinions to the flat of Congress, The foregoing is the merest skeleton of the bill, and entirely Tails to da it justice. It was drawn by Judge Llack, and em bodies all the ground of complaint, '' in a plain and terse style. J ".' V - ' . V. ' Bow a Vesue .wji ,;CHANolro." The following ts a specimen of the way in which legislation is sometimes effected at the close of a session. : ' . ' " o;. I t " 1 a in , . . rr- e r emus iiiviur oeen urocjrDt ia uamoiia and appoints oGcers to enforce the net of I roncty agrJn3tthe pnsjyania Railroad Congress, xlaa ce been tne lyrani ne. is i ttompanyby the sufferers who sustained in- represented he would have maintained his position and refused to carry out the be hests of Congress. Had he done so, revo- lution might havo been precipitated, and civil war might again rage in our country. Fortunately for a free government like ours, there is a body far removed from port Iran tempests, whoso duty it is, when called cpon, to decide between the Presi dent and Congress, and to declare what powers are committed to the one and the other. That a majority cf this tribunal is Republican, and appelated by President Lincoln, should not and will no. prevent the honest discharge cf their duty. Before this tribunal soma cf the Southern States have appeared by a bill in equity to re strain the cSIcers appointed under the law from carrying out it3 provisions. This bill is intended to test the constitutionality of. the act of Congress, and sets forth the complaint uf Georgia and ether States in the following terms, as we have abridged them for the readers of the Fkeeiian : , That the Stats, HUe the other States, was originally settled from Great Britain, and in 1776 united, with twelve other States in a Declaration of Indc-pendtnce,declarin j thetn- selves and each of thera free and mUpend ent" fouirht through the war of therevclu- tion. and joined, ia a treaty cf peace with ! Great Britain in 1783. . That subsequently she joined with twelve . other States ia adopting the Federal Con- .- Ktitution, which became binding ca all the . States, and continues so until the pressnt day. That in 1E31 she endeavored to with- draw.frora the Union, and asserted her riht t to do so, while the Government danied that rhrht, and civil wat"rcu!tcd. That during the war, and fcr tile purposes ,-cf conciliation, Ccrrcaar and tl 3 President, , by. resolution ana proclamation, declared m the purposes of the war to be the prescrva " tion of the Union, and to prevent secc-sJ'in therefrom ; and that while these resolutions and prvvwmativns remajcedin falLforee tho jury by the breaking-cf the bridge at Johns town on the 14th of September Jast, when President ' Johnson passed -through that place, the Railroad Company caused a bill to be introduced into the Senate changing the tenue in Hho6e suits' from Cambria to Blair county ; The Senate amended by sub stituting Centre for Blau- and in that shape it was received in the House. ., In the House the bill was amended by, substituting Som erset fur-Centre. Th fact that the sabstl tution qi comerset was- made is noted on the journal of the House, and on the original bill is known to every member of -the iiouiie and 13 acknowledged, as we are in forried by the Clerk, kut nevertheless the biJ.i teas messaged back to ike Senate as hav ing passed the House , without amendment ; wiva hurriedly taken to the Governor, who sigced it at 12 o'clock on Wednesday night, and etrly on Thursday morning one of the ofliccrs of the road had a certified . copy of the act in his pocket, purporting to change the venue to Centre county., - ,' Comment. 13 unnecessary..; When subor dinate cScers cf the Legislature thus assume supreme powers, it is about time to make a few wholesome changes. ' Of course an act signed and certified under such cireumstan ces have no force. rairict $ Union. " If the foregoing be correct, and we have too inuch fear that it Is," something mors than a. pa?s:ng .. condemnation , should bo wao- we A'Jraud upon the people in foisting a law upon them, contrary to the sahctipn'oif the Legislature, should be punished i if there b law to punish crime. ,.: 4- :? f;,:, , : ' .: In regard to these case3 ; ;we ; never doubted but that as fair a "trial could, be had in Carabria county as elsewhere ; bat An explosion of fire-amp occurred at ten o'clock on the nizht of the 12th inst., in the Bancroft slope of the Ashland colliery, Pottsyille." : Twelve miners were killed, among them James Mather, a well- known cricket player. - v , ' ; The New York Tribune in itt "re gions" department has the following : It is said that while the Catholics have only 32 of S07 churches in thi3 City, yet their church- attendance is nearly as large as that of. all the other denominations com bined.; '" ' '., : f ' t i r-At Sudeld Centre, Oliio,. Tuesday eighty Cvie young ch iidren of M4 aaeLBIlt-s xer were burned to death, uttheir dweiunr, which: iwas accidentally fired by i their mother. . The oldest cut,- when in - the agonies of death,' aroused- and Saved, ' her ' - wn exchange- says The wife of a Wail street broker has gone away with an adventurer,. because her husband took the ridiculous part oCock Robin, in the cha rade 'Babes in the Woods, and hopped about the stare with two feather brushes under his coat tails. ' ' - The ten thousand dollars stolen from the Adams Express Company's Messenger on the steamboat Elisha Bennett, between Pittsburgh and Greensboro', on the night of the 5th of April, has been recovered through the Detective - Agency) of Allan Pinkerton, of Chicago. The guilty parties will be speedily brought to justice. ' ---One'day last'week five tnen were crossing " the Susquehanna " ia a small boat, below Binghamton, N. Y., when one of them jumped overboard, exclaiming that he was not, going to . cross, in a J host .when he could swim as .well.' The' boat was capsized in the effort's of his comrades to return the man to the boat, and four of the five men were drowned. , . ' - An abandoned woman named Slary Brenahan murdered a llttla girl, daughter of Michael Kavanagh? . living ia Chicago, on Tuesday of last week, by dro wning her in a barrel of .water.- bhe also attempted to. murder another; girl by throwing her 4own a privy vault. :The .murderess-, was captured by the police after a severe struggle.- Her neighbors .had -for soma time past declined . to recognize her ia conse quence of her bad character, and the took this means to revenge herself. . ........ 0 ....,-.-,. ... -A" young man named Ilctert Fergu son,' a graduate cf Philadelphia "JJedical College, who-recently killed a, rival who had won from him. the afrectiocs of -a de praved but beautiful girl ia Memphis,; for which crime he was released oa bail, was attacked a faw nights ego in a low den in that,-city by a man named Ycnker,; who had been instigated,; to the.- deed by the courtezan in question, but .succeeded in thocting hi3 assailant dead, ritcr which the girl herself fired four shots, at Fergu son, woundisg , him fatally, and theu at tecspted to fxnuh her bloody -work with a knife, when she in ..- turn was. shot and killed by her victim, .Beforq the dead body of the fiend-like woman could be ta ken from tho prostrate ford of ; Ferguson, he too'had expired.' ; -,f ' . ..- . Caeeqli.towu, Aran. 15th, 1237. ' Dear Freeman While tho plowmen all over this section of the country are busy keeping step to the music cf the sweetly singing birds of spring, "Iago" seats himself once more to give you the news frcm the north. It is gratifying to be able to state, as the result cf observations taken ia thr&a-fourths of the townships of the county, duiing the week just past, that the fall grain looks un usually .well, and that the, farmers. on every side appear to be working this spiing with renewed energy and hope, now that the im pending cloud of war seems to be lifting and breaking on the sky of America. T he saw mills, too, both steam and water mills, are busy the latter with good water every place and the former unfettered by the ice and snow which causes them to work on so wearily during the winter. Indeed, both the crop3 and industry of our citizens give promise of a fruitful season .ol reward, and we may .congratulate ourselves that the "frosty sons of thunder" are never-lacking in peace or in war. I have not the facilities nor the time now to go into a rtatistical estimate cf the mills and lumber made thereby in this country, but it is truly astonishing to a person cf even the wildest conception to travel through the northern townships and witness the extent to which lumbering is now carried on bere. The roads I Dare I make mention of that important, but . so :little heeded, subject? Would that I could induce even these citizens most remotely interested in this matter to travel-them for a day or two, even on horse back. I feel -satisfied that Oiey would then put to the blush those more directly inter ested who are yet so careless on that subject, and that something would then 'be done' to ameliorate the condition of those compelled, by business or necessity, to travel the roads north, even when almost impassable.. Could not the Freeman, in its thunder tones. awaken those most deeply interested from the lethargy in which they appear so con tentedly to rest:' ; If all else fails, could ncj the facetious MacShane" come to our aid and produce for our country-a character to match the Arkansas traveler, for no other could travel well on our roads. - - - i Ground has been, broken and the work commenced on the proposedaddition to our church. 2sTo doubt the zeal and energy of our people will complete it by next fall, and Car r oil town will then boast as commodious and fine a chnrch edifice as any town in our county. . . . . ' - - r-;ii ,y.s:ll ;. '. The Lemke Association ? gratefully ac knowledges the receipt of the Freeman, marked "lrce," and thethanks and prayers of the Lemkeyite8 have been Voted to the editor and publisher thereof.'"' Lvgo. i-ji a- A. A . jl Mrf i , CASH CAPITAL 4500,000. S f-4 1G TRADE 1' OP 1GG7. s . MYEIfi JBSt BE GXIVSD A NEW AND EKTEITSIVE stocii R D 'rs DRESS GOODS, Uctatioxs of Fobtcke. -A .corres pofident of the Cincinnati Commercial, writing from Indianapolis, says: ': "While passing through the Union de pot, a few days ago, X was accost ed by a i$. ' na fl.rrnp.il man in fndpd at rnv LIua. Ills 1 apparent familiarity surprised tne at first, but I soon recognized himas an eld ac-quaintanceC- I first taw; him fourteen years ago, working at a windlass in the gold dig gings "of Australia; He and. hisUhree partners hoisted by that windlass,: from a single shaft, more than SSOO,00O. - A few roonths later I bade him good-byej -as be sailed from Melbourne for New York, with $100,000 in bills cf exchange in his pocket. - I next saw him a wounded rebel soldier,; lying on the battle field of Antie- tam. vA little more than a year later I saw him as a Union soldier, lying in a hos pital in Tennessee To-day he is a helpless wanderer, dependent on charity for a din ner." v'v; , l- ; r- ,;V;- -..-'.':-''. CLOT II I N G , tvt ilOTIOHS, &a, I DEFY SoDBctitioii! , Valoablb Abyics roa ths Aftlicted. ' Dr. Strickland, in reply to numerous ap plications for advice, wishes to inform those who are afTacted, that they may consult him on all Acuta er Chronic riiseases by letter, stating t!;e ?;e, symptoms, &c, with a- fee of two dollars enclosed, Dr. 8. hasobtained leat notoriety as an experienced physician, loth in Europe and America, especially In the treatment of Chronic com plainti, "after other doctors nave failed to. euecf a cure. Those sufTering should immediately send for a prescription, by addressing Dr.-A. Strick land, Cincinnati, Ohio.t i: : - ' . i .:- -i -ly. i ! r . '' : ' Cccgh Medicines should be so com pound ed that they can be taken "little and often." It is the throat and chest, not the stomach, that is affected. ; This in one great secret of the success of Cos's Cough Balsam. Try it.-' All dealers sell it.' ' i ' f ; .i . . E EITTIEU IN GOODS M PRICES end lavlta iho 1 if the. L K..IL Co., procures laics in tht3 way tr it will not be Ion- till iy will have ;g justice anywhere, But, we fear,' it 'is not justice they want - c " ' ' It is acknowledged by Physicians, Drug cists,' and everybody else who ever used It, inai ur. icikiaaa o vus.-a Aaisara ;TO Y E E .& , 1LJ Fourth atn -It is stated lliat seven thousand moro 1 -., wxu curs vc.--diseases cf U 1 ' - - tl Colls, AstL .3 Throat andLu: c-r rem ndali LANDEI.L, d Arch, I?K11.M, . AHE OPENING FOR SPRING OF 1SC7 : . 3 Case3 Select Shades of SILKS. " "i: ' Fashionable PLAID SILKS, -v'?-v!l ' -: BISMARCIT, the New Color SILK," Best BLACK SILKS in Town, - -PLAID INDIA SILKS, Perfect, - ' '' New Spring DRESS GOODS, : . ' New Style Spring CHINTZES, -., ,. ORGANDIES cf Newest Styles,, Stel-Colored Poplins, for Suits.- : . IT. B. STAPLE Housekeeping GOODS. Fresh Stock CLOTHS, CASSIMERES and tweeds, for Youths. - ' ' P. S. Merchants in search of scarce and desirable Gooda will find it their-interest to call and 'examine our stock. ap.4.-Gfc. .TAHH FOR: SAU2. Tho sul - ecriber ofTers for sale a piece of land situate in Cambria township, Cambria coun ty, three miles West of Ebensburg, on the Tne tract contains 50 and in good condition, r wita a two-story square LOG cellent Spring ae voting or Aa indisputa- will PUECHAGEEB TO JIV uUi. mi) 13 OF We are now prepared to insure LI VP ?OCK against' both' Death and Th,f, - thi3 lire and reliable Company. Owners of stock have cow thf opportunity, by mxit n? with ti5s ("Ji-.m? anwi of nV.toi;.. ty and remuneration for the loss of their an. irnals in case of death or theft. - OWNERS OF HOPJ5ES, llanufacturers, Farmers, Teamsters, Ex pressmen, Physicians, and in fact all irao are to any extent dependant upon the $erri ces of their horses in their daily vocstiofo Bhculd insure ia this Company, and thus' derive a protection against the loss of their animal, which are in many cares the sole raeana of support to their owners. V FARM STOCK. - ' Farmers and others owning cattle should avail themselves of this means of satin tfcj value of their stock, and secure an equiya lent for the loss which would otherwise fell heavily upon - them in being deprired of their Cattle, by Insuring in this, the PIONEER COMPANY OF AMERICA By insuring in' this Company you tt change a'certainty for s.n uncertainty. Ko man can tell whether bis animals may not be stolen or. die through some unforsecn calamity.. .; , CO- Competent Agents wanted, to ichm a liberal compensation will be paid Apply to : EEPJi & CO., General Agents, April 4, 18S7.-ly. Altoona. Pa. Col. WM. K. PIPER, Ebenbburg.bas been appointed local agent for the Hartford Live Stock Insurance Company. ORPHANS' .COURT SALE By virtue of an order of the. Orphans' Court of the county of Cambria, the under signed, guardian cf Anna 5J. Fries, will ex- Eose; to ..Public Sale, on the premises in th orongh of Sumniitville, on Wednesday tin 81A day of May next, at 2 o'clock p. the following real estate, to wit : A certain LOT OF "GROUND, situate in the boroush of Summitville, Cambria county, bounded and described as follows : Beginning at a nest at a corner on the easterly side of the old Alle gheny Rail Road; north 45 degrees, east 210 ftet, to a post j thence south 42 degrees, east 100 feet, to a post ; thence south 45 de grees, west 130 feet, to the Turnpike road; thence along said Turnpike, north 82 deg., west 125 feet, more or-less, ta the place of beginning ; and marked and numbered ca the general plan of said boiough. as lot Ka. 25. having thereon erected a two-story Brick and Frame lljuse and Frame Stable. Also That certain LOT OF GROUND sitnated in the borough aforesaid, fronting on the Turnpike road, and adjoining LotXo. 28,i ma iked and numbered on the geueral plan of said borough as Lot No. 27. Also That certain- LOT CF GE0UXD sitnated in the borough aforesaid, fronting cnthe old Allegheny Portage Rail Road, itndadjojning Lot No. 27, marked andjium hered on the general plan of said borough M Lot No. 28. - Terms of. Salt One-half the purchart money to.be paid pa confirmation of sale, and the residue in one year thereafter, with interest,, to be secured by ..the bond and mortgage of the purchaser. ! - - B. L. JOHNSTON. GuarJiaD. April 11. !867.-3t. A MENDMENT TO SUJVTJIU' -a-- ORDLNANCES ordained and enacted by the Burgess and Town Ceuucil of tbt Borough of Carroiltown, in relation to grad ing and paving the sidewalks f Main and Carroll etreets, in said Borough. Be it ordained and enacted by the Burnett and Town Council of; the .-Borough of. Car rolltown, and it is hereby ordained by tba authority of the fame, That the Street Com missioner shall, on or before the first day of May next, proceed to grade the pidewalks Alain street not heretofore graced, commenc ing at the southeast corner of a lot pwnel by, llisa Judith Whelan, and continue north ward, "without interruption, to an alley Icsd ng to the? Monestery, ,on the property w Frederick Snyder. ; . : - Each -owner of lot or lots immediately fronting on said part of , Main street is re quested . to proceed immediately afcef tie grading is. completed to lay a parcmcnt of 21 iich plank, on 3 inch ties, and faea them down with 5 inch spikes. Said side walk shall be eicht feet wide, pUnk Jaid side by side, and shall be complete bj first of September next ensuing, under the penalties prefjcribed by the Ordinance pas ed and published the first day of April, P. 1867. , .' ; " ' ' . e Given ' under my hand and seal of ofr" this second -dav of larch. a. d. 1867. ' D. C. WETS ELL. Burgess. - Attest John E. Maucheh, Clerk. -.-' Stone 'fTurnpike'. acres, which are cleared iiuua, gooa lsjxs,i, aa c: of water at tho door, arid a chard of wdl?selected Fruit. ble title will be given. ;JTcrtns will be : s pasrsd over tho Pennsylvania ILulfoad in flarcli than In February, and irafei 13 smi on me iurc?.se. .,, V'a voIvi reco tit's Teat res: t;o.u.:. .; :-i any c qaieser c; .uV :-iy Known. mead cur readers to try kaowaas It to';ba! A easy. Persons -dedro-3 of purchasing .Ilupca' '; "J. II. DARR. Altoona, . ''-' cr R. L;jOUN3XOH, LlcnsLurg, : April 4;1S3?.-Sm. - -' : O.OOD TRUNKS AND VALISES. lia."a frr 2iie low at , . G, UUilTLEI'S. U fl o s.v c 0. s. 1 V y s .V ."r v TV Jf Ebensburg, Cambria CO., t r in Lumber. . The P$ and LEND LUMBER.