h - ZI" : 77... . - - . , zi .... i II. I.. JOIIXRTOX, Editor. H K S A FREEMAN WHOM THE TRUTH MAKES FRBE, AXD ALL ARK SLAVES BESIDE, 11. A. M'l'IKE, Publinucr VOLUME 2. EBENSBURG, PA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1868. NUMBER 27 The Cambria Freeman WILL BE 1UBL1SHKD EVERY THURSDAY MORNING, At Ebensburg, Cambria Co., Fa. At the following rates, payable tritJiiii three months from die of subscribing : One copy, one year, ----- $2 00 One coj , six months, - - - - 1 00 One copy, three months, - - - - 60 Those who f.til to pay their subscriptions until after the expiration of six months will be charged at the rate of $2.50 per year, and thoe who tali to pr.y until after the ex pinttiun of twr'.ve months will be charged at the rate ..i 01 per year. Twelve numbers constitute a quarter; twenty riv., six mouths; and fifty numbers, i ii'j year. HATES OF APVEBTI61SO. 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We have made arrangements by which we can do or have dune all kinds of plain iiti I t-ii. v Jul IVnuir.jr, such ns lVn.ks. iNtnphets, .Show drds, Bill pud Lettei lb-ads. Handbills, Circulars, c, in the best style ol the ait and at the most moderate prices. Also, b11 kinds of Killing. Blank liouks, II. ink Dinding, &c , executed to order tin g'.o.l as tho btbt and as cheap as the cheapest. jjACK to FIRST PRINCIPLES boots aTTd shoes OK JIY OWN HAMF.UTIC . WHAT I MAKE JCAN WARRANT ! After an espei'cnce of mrr than year in the faleof Kis'eni mtide v ork, during which time J have expended more ttvm the profits in lepairitig rips and tares, 1 have determined to riune bnrk to first principles and henceforth coidine niv-rlf to the rar.iifaciure ot HOOTS md .-rllOK- I r Mca. Youths, Ladies and Mise rs, i! i.iliu.i now hfiter prepared than ever to irivc? entile s uistuodt n in my husin?;'s. I hiiv- .it present in my employ a competent corp ol work men. ai d nn hv w ithout fer of c duiMJirt: in th;t I c;n turn out fts nest nnd r ;ii-t.it:ti : J?i).tS and SllOC fit as MODKISATR rcii rs c-;ti he nuJ anywhere in the State J mil lining Hon: a made of the fi"e.-t- Freneh CViIUkin nini i:!t;a the past month or f.vo hare hid orders pouring in cpon me from all pir:cis l'nr this kind of work. The material in these Hoots is the l.'est to re found in th imukcf. und the wcrm.inshi ..both in nea nejs an-1 Etrrngth. cannot he excelled nt any other establishment in the counliy. MY TKAIX ALWAYS ON TIME! All work will he reidy for delivery at the time ptomiscd. Wt!'iings. visits and otlr.T in teresting or inipirtsnt oeeurrence? need not be posipoti.' through any failuro on my part to come to liuie. O iod vn.k and moderate prices i? my motto, and one tri will eouviucc an person thvt the mono i will c'.ium'm Z,-' Hej ajriiiir of Hoots nnd Shoes attended to fniimpt.'v and in a workmanlike maimer. ri'U;iu k ml for past favors I leel coiifjileut that my work and prices will commend mo to a con liiiu.iuee and increase of the same. JOHN J). THOMAS. ".t.enhi:ig, May 25, lbfi'-t.-tf. ggiLYER THE JI EMORY OF BL' rniESDS DEPARTED l MONUMENTS, TCIBSTONES, &c. The Hubscriber still continues to manufacture of the bet material arid in the most w t rkmanlii c manuer, at the Lorctto I&arble Works, nil hind ,f MONUMENTS AND TOM II STOXKS, as well as TABLE and BUREAU TOl'S, and all otlicr work in his line. None but the best American and Italian Marble used, and porf.et ati-faction guaranteed to all cases nt prices as low as like work can be obtained in the cities or elsewhere. Call nnd see fpecimens and judge for yourselves vlb to the merits cheapness of my work. JAMES WILKINSON. Loretto. March 12. 18G8.1y. JOSEPH ZOLNER II AS just opened, and offers for Pale lowe than theycau be bought jj1 elswhere, a splendid lot of C e:fthtday and twenty-four hour fffll---' 3f CL(JCKS, fine. WATCHES ofio&l every description, ACCORDEONS, J EWKL HY, and a variety of all articles in his I'm-. Repairing of Clocks, Watches, and all kinds of Jewelry, done on Phort notice and most reasonable terms. All work warranted. Call at his thop.High street, opposite Public School HoUbC, Ebensburg. sep.5,'G7.J R I C II A 11 1) R O V A N , A L TOON A, PA., HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTER, Is prepared to make contracts for the paint ing of Churchc?, Dwellicgs and other Build ings in Cambria and surrounding counties, ited for the execution of all other work in his bcc. fainting dor.e at prices more moder ate and in a Ftyle far superior to most of the work executed iu tLia section. Satisfaction guaranteed. feb.20.-tf. "ff ""S. STRAYER, Justice op the Pxace, Johnstown, Ta. Office on the corner of Market street and Locust alley, Second Ward, dcc.12.-ly. One of the Great WorkBliops of Pennsylvania. On the western slope of the Alleghenie, in the valley of the Cunemaugh, just where that beautiful river strikes the "Laurel Hill" range, one of the greatest I of the industrial establishments of-lenn sylvania is sitirMed. This is the Cambria Iron Company's Works, for the manufac ture of railroad bars. It is an establish ment that the people of Philadelphia shou'd lnvc knowledge of, for it is owned in this city ; it is one thxt the people of the State should fetl a deep interest in, for it is the foremost of the great rolling mills nnd iron works peculiar (Q tlii Commonwealth, and it is one that should elicit the pride of Americans everywhere, for it is the largest single establishment of the kind in the world. It is turning out rail?, to-day, at the rate of tire miles in length, or sufficient to lay twe and a half miles of track every day. Expressed m pound?, the daily produet of railj is five hundred thousand pound; two hundred and fifty tons a quantity sufficient to freight a good sizd sea-going vessel, ai d it vou!d take a flet of three hundred such vessels to carry the product fwr one year. Hut few persut s can fi rm an adequate idea of the number and magnitude ot the agencies which so vast a product sets in motion. This it is cur purpose to present as w :!l as cur brief space will permit. 'I he picturesque hills which surround the Works are filled with coal and iron, clay fjr fire brick, cement, and nenrly all the essentials for the manufacture of pig iron. There are three principal seams of coal, and two i rincipal viins of iron ore. Tin rj is a seam of coal high uion the hid, and then a scam of iror, and then another scam of coal, an 1 so on down to the lap of the valley. Under the soil of these hills, burrowing f,r into the earth, twelve hundred workmen are all tho tirao employed, mining coal and iron ore for this one mill. The enormous amount of coal and of ore they have to get out every day will be understood whon it ia stated that it requires about five tons of coal nnd nearly four tons of ore to make one ton of rails. When the whole daily product of the rolling mill viz., 250 tons of rails per day is manufactured directly from the ore r.nl coal in the?e hills, it requires the miners to get out about one thousand tons of ore, and i.b ut twehe hundred tons of coal every day. Hut a consider able proportion of the railu made are from obi bars re-rolled, and from pig iron pro dui e 1 sit a furnace worked by the oompany near Hollid iysburg. Of the five tons of coal used in the manufacture of a ton ot railroad bars, about three tons are fir.-t applied to the reduction of three tons of ore into nig iron. The coal, however, is not used in its native form, Lut ie finst turned into coke, in which operation large numbers of workmen are all the tims en gaged. This is done by sul jeeiing the coal to the action of smouldering fires, by which means the inflammable and other gases are consumed and tho carbon of the coal is left nearly pare. The carburetted hydrogen gas thus consumed is more than twice as much as it takes to light the w hole city of l'hil idelpbi i, in doors and out. The iron ore is likewise subjected to a preparatory process. It is thrown out from the mouths of tho mines into vast hills, at the base of which cord wood is laid, and through which coal is intor spersed, so as to make smouldering fire here also, to "roast" the injurious gases out of the ore. To complete this opera tion it takes about sr moniJm before the oie can be handled so as to feed it into furnaces where the pig iron is made. The making of the fp'g" is effected in a num ber of immense "cupolas," into the top of which the coko and the "roasted" ore are dumped by a constant procession of carts, day and night, year in and year out. The fire in one of these lias not been out for more than three years. Although tho material thrown into the tops of these cupolas looks very much like the dirt and clay carted off wherever a cellar is being dug in the city it cornea out at the bottom in streams of glowing molten iron, which, running into moulds of sand, makes the pigs. Several hundred hands are employed in "coking" and in the furnaces described. The pig iron is then token to the mill, which covers an immense area of ground. It first goes into what are called "puddling" furnaces where it is healed to a while heat and becomes cf the consistency of dough, by the constant stirring cf a class of wodt mcn called "puddlers." They stand in front of the "fiery furnaces" and by meas of long iron rods (hrust through email openings, they stir the iron about until nearly all the carbon is burned out of it and it is at last brought out in large glowing lumps, which are loaded on iron trucks and taken to a huga revolving wheel called a ''squeezer," and this after a revolution or two throws the iron out in compressed masses called -bloom" iron. The "blooms" arc then taken to the "rolls," which are great trains of revolv ing cylinders, and after being passed through these they come out in flat slabs of iron about five feet long, eight or ten inches wide, and about an inch thick These are next laid into "piles" of eight or ten slabs, the top slab being of "gran ular" or bard iron for the top surface of the rail, and the bottom slab bein of fibrous or tough iron for the undereur faco. Tho "piles' are then heated to a white heat and taken to other trains of rolling machinery, through which theyare run Bucce8sively back and forth until each "pile" emerges from the "roll" a perfect rail, something over thirty feet long. Immediately upon issuing from the "rolls" the rails, while still red hot, are placed in frout of circular saws, and are cut to tLe exact length ordered. The rails are then left to cool, and then each one is tett el a id adjusted by o:her machinery. Those that do not stand the test are sant back to be worked over, and the perfect rails are immediately passed out of the mill, and at once loaded up cn cars, to be taken to their destination. The whole place is a wonder. Every where there is incessant motion, from the loading up of the cupolas with the dirt like masses of ore to the final issue of the iron in a constant stream of rails that make five miles of length every day. Fires are blazing and gleaming every where. Immense numbers of workmen and wonderful masses of machinery are moving with never-ceasing energy in all directions. Including the twelve hundred miners already mentioned, the employes of the Company number four thousanuT ; and these, with their families, constitute nearly the whole population of Jwhnstovvn, a nourishing town of about 20,000 inhab itants. The mill hauds are among the most prosperous nnd contented workmen in the .Slate. They Lave no Trades' Unions, and strikes are almost unknown. The Company encourages them in all kinds of thrift to promote their comfort and independence, and makes advances to every man who desires te b lild a house for hi family. To ensure tho necessities of life, nt fair prices, a great range of rc t.iil stores has been proviled, where every thing is sold, and this regulates all the price in the town. Here the hands have credits from one monthly pay dy until the next. To provide employment for the families of the hands, as well as to furnish them with cheap and good woollen cloths, a woollen mill has been erected. The Company also has its own. railways, its own machine shops, lumber mills and brick yards, and everything requisite within itself to carry ou its great opera tions. Space fail to give a complete descrip tion, bt' vc have said enough to give some idea of an establishment of the n.ost remarkable character, a grand type of the peculiar industries of interior Penn sylvania, and one fully ns woithy of at tention and study as those we Lear so much about, whether in Old England or New England. Philadelphia Laljcr. Thk AroiTf.ta' Cuxnc in Pii vgue While in the market place we will wait for tho hour, for here is a curious eld clock that ticked four centuries ago, when the Swedes were thundering at the nte3 of Prague, and when Iiobemia was a great and powerful kingdom, just as it ia tick ing now. Twenty-four hours the day and uight are marked upon the dial, in stead of twelve, for the clock follows the sun. When night comes the face of the dial becomes black, just as the night and, when the day approaches it turns its great white face out to meet tho light. You can tell from it what time the sun rises, and at what hour he will set. Hanusch, the clever fellow who made it, wa something of an astronomer ; but men knuw little about the stars in thos-e days. But the hour has arrived it ia ten o'clock. Watch closely, for the delicate mechanism is now at work. Out of n small doer above the dial comes a skele ton, ghastly and grim. Around its bony neck old Father Tirre has hung his re moreelee scythe. The gaunt figure pro duces on hour-glare, and turns it to indi cate that another hour has gone, and that the new has commenced. It then pulls violently a bell-rope, precisely as the old sexton in a New England village church would do on a Sabbath morning. At each pull tlie bell strikes, and the skele ton bows its head in approval. Then out of the mysterious tower comes a miser with a bag of gold. lie clenches it tight, for it is evident his tiaie has come, and he hatee to leave his wordly goods behind. He walks about and beat tlie, ground with his stick. There is avarice in his heart and eye a sort of cold .relentless grasping after dollars, that no one can mistake. This figure is the masterpiece of the clock. Wnen the skeleton has rang the hour, both it and the miser re tire in the tower. Then a great bronze door opens, and the twelve apostles pass before the Saviour and bow down to him. Far p on the tower their faces look life like, and the seeas is impressive. DrciDEDi.T Riort I Two Quakers in Vermoat had a dispute ; they wished to fight, but it was against their principles ; they grasped each other ; one threw and sat on the back of the other and squeezing his head in the mud, said, "on thy belly shalt thou crawl and duet ehalt thou eat all the dayB of thy life !" The other soon gained the victory, and when he had at tained the same position, said, "It is writ ten tlie seed of the woman shall bruise the serpent's head ! " Woman is composed of two hundred and forty-three bones, one hundred and nine muscles, and three hundred and ninety-six pins. Fearfully and wonder fully made, and to bo handler! with care to avoid scratches. A 31 OA G THE DEAD. ECENES AT TnE MOKGUE HUNTING FOK X USING FUItNDS. - In a large blue-stone building on the East River at the foot of Twenty-Sixth street, is the Hellevue Hospital. The locality ia surrounded with tenement houses and machine shops. Were it not fjr the fine river views and the tall trees of the hospital grounds, the isitor's first impression of that part of the city would bj far from agreeable. Passing from the Vreet thn ugh an rrched gateway, we find outselvts pleasantly surprised. The hos pital stands back from the river, on a commanding elevation, and from its long piazzes we have a fine view of Hrooklyn, Williamsburg and the river. In front of the hospital are its well-kept grounds, stretching down to the water' edge. It h in this pleasant place where people learn to suffer, and here it is where thousands have gone in search of missing friends Attached to the hospital is the Morgue. In it are seven slabs of marble supported by iron col u mi s rtsiing upon a marble floor. On these slabs of stone the unknown bodies are placed for recognition. Usu ally, the Morgue is comparatively little used, but during the heated term, which commenced on the 14 th inst., the place has bten crowded. Adjoining the Morgue is the dead-house, and attached to it is the deud-house shed. Those who laugh at warm weather, should pay a visit to its victims at the Morgue. On Wednesday 23 bodies were sent out for burial, and yesterday 18 were taken away before 3 s'elock. Resides these, 7 bodies were lying in the Morgue and 22 in the dead house. It must be remembered that this number is but a small portion of those who have died from sun-stroke in the city. The room in which the bodies lie is sepa rated from the main apartment by a glass partition, so that the visitors may view the dead without interfering with the at tendants. The Moigue was crowded Fri day with men, women and children. Many would gaze for hours, as if only to gratii'y a morbid curiosity. Mr. O I'ricn of the dead-house says that he has slept but little during the pist week, for, night and day, the place has been besieged with those anxious to get bodies admitted, or removed. The rush has been eo great that even the warden was forced to leave the hospital and help the Morgue attend ants. The bodies while lying on the slabs, are frequently drenched with car bonic acid, and a constant spray of croton water is kept running upon their breasts. The scene at the dead-hou62 Saturday was enough to make the gayest sad. Men with large arms tame and went with coffins and dead bodies. Tn a court be tween the Dead-House and the shed, red c jfiins were piled up like o; dwocd Here were little coffins for children ; in the corner was a blue coffin, while in the shed and Dead-IIouse, weie square boxes, cracked coffins, and stretchers were lying in all positions. Every two or three minutes some one wanted to 6ee the keeper who had charge of the dead. Among olher3 was a spare woman about 3o years of age. She was in search of her husband. Mr. OTJrien, after listen ing to her description, went to a coffin and wrenched oil the lid. What the night before was that of a human being was now a mass of corruption. "Oh, my God !' exclaimed the woman, "my hus band ; oh, my ." At this juncture another woman inquired for her son. She could not find his body in the Morgue was he dead or in the hospital ! An at tendant swore he knew nothing about the living, he could not keep track of the dead. "Go through the wards," said he, "and may be you can find him." More people came ; some wept, others swore. The woman first spoken of wrung her hands and paced up and down the court in despair. At last she went up to the coffin, and in a pleading voice she said : "Heavens above me what shall I do? God of mercy, I want him buried in Cal vary." (she was a Catholic, and could not bear the thought of having her husband buried in nnconsecrated ground ) "What ingoing to become of me? Last night, poor John, poor John, you was at work ; why did j'ou die before yon bid me good bye I My husband since last night here you are. My God, to think that you have come to this." Here she took hold of the green and putrid hand of her hus band, shook it, and broke into a new paroxysm of grief. "Oh," said Bhe, "you used to be called the handsomest man in New York. Ah now oh speak to me, only one word. John, one word I My darling, my dar ling John." In the hospital are a number of patients suffering from sun-stroke, and of tho Go cases received since the 14th of July, only nine have been lost. Worth Knowing. The following is going the rounds of the papers : One of the most annoying and painful little troubles is a felon. A genuine remedy is worth circulating. It is said that a poultice of onions, applied morning, noon and night, for three or four days, will cure a felon. No matter how bad the case, lancing will be unnecessary if the poultice is applied. The remedy is a sure, Bafe and speedy one. A spire that everybody ieea this warm weather ppr-pplro.- An Elopement Exirn ordinary, ii el Its Sequel. "Hurleigh" writes to the Boston Jour nal, from Eioghampton, N. Y., the sad details of a story of crime occurring in an adjacent town : A merchant of standing and wealth had a family consisting of his wife and several children. The lady had great personal beauty, was very accomplished and intelli gent, a capital housekeeper and earnest Christian, and greatly devoted to her fami ly. Not far from her residence lived a young lady of twenty-three summers, tall, coarse-featured nnd as unattractive as could be imagined. Her mother was dead, and she kept house for her father. The visits of the merchant to this house attract ed considerable attention. It was known, however, that the father was generally present at the visits of the merchant, and the community was generally divided about the matter. Riding ar.4 walking succeeded and the scandal became general. One morning the merchant informed his wife that he ws going to leave that he was going to sail lor California and take the girl with him. Her fatber, he said, had given his consent and agreed to keep the thing secret till after his departure. He told her that no power could prerent bis leaving. If she kept quiet until after he was gone he would give her the house in which she lived and $2,W0 in money. If she did not, he would eo all the same, but would leave her penniless. He asked her to fix his linen'and pack Iris trnnk, and Lave it ready by Thursday morning, all which she agreed to do. He !ou:hl a trunk for the girl, and gave her $200 for her outfit. On Thursday morning he left hii borne. While his Irand was on the door-latch, his wife told him that ?he should remain just where she was and take care of the children, and if at any time he wished to come back, the door would be open to him. He went over to the house where the young woman was in waiting. He gave her father some money, and he accompanied the parties to the cars. j On the way down the father referred to j some expenses he had incurred in giving his daughter music lessons. Ihe merchant handed him 200, which be pronounced satisfactory. After the train had started, the old man told tho story of the elope ment. When some one remarked to him that the merchant would desert his daugh ter as he had his wife, he said that was impossible, for h had never seen such love between two persons before. When he wa3 nsked why he did not put a stop to a step that could only be fraught with mis ery to ail side?, he said that his daughter, w hen she told him of her intended journey, showed bin a bottle of poison, and naid if he opened his head on the matter till after she was gone, she would poison him and herself too. And she would have done it, he said. The sequel to this affair is more than usually tragical. The parties imme diately sailed for California, and for some reason not explained took the return vessel back to New York. They landed in the city, .where the girl was left at a hotel, penniless. She succeeded in reaching this place, deserted and ruined, and sent imme diately for her father, who visited her at the hotel. She agreed to go home with him in the morning. He called for her at the time agreed upon. He found her a corpse. She had committed suicide during the night. In the meantime, the merchant had not been heard from after deserting the girl at the hotel. Ten days ago he appeared at the door of his own house. True to her promise, and true to her wo manly love, his wife threw tho doors wide open and bade him welcome. Hidden from the C3'es of his neighbors and friends, he remains in-doors. The community are equally -divided whether he onght to bo tarred and feathered or forgiven. The Printer's Estate. The printer's dollars where are they ? A dollar here and a dollar there, scattered over numer ous small towns all over the country, miles and miles apart how shall they bo gathered together? The paper-maker, the building owner, the journeyman com positor, the grocer, the tailor, and his as sistance to him in carrying on his business, have their demands hardly ever so small as a single dollar. Hut the mites from here nnd there must be diiligently gather ed and patiently hoarded, or the where with to discharge the liabilities will never become sufficiently bulky. We imagine the printer will have to get up an address to these widely-scattered dollars something like the following : "Dollars, halves, quarters, dimes, and all manner of fractions into which ye are divided, collect yourselves and come home! Yo are wanted ! Combinations of all sorts of men that help the printer to be come a proprietor, gather such a force and demand with such good reasons your ap pearance at his counter, that nothing short of a sight of you will appease them. Collect yourselves, for valuable as you are in the aggregate, single you will never pay the cost of gathering. Come in single file, that the printer may form you ioto battalion and send you forth again to battle for him and vindicate his credit." Reader, are you sure you havn't a cdupla of the printer's dollars sticking aboot your "old clothe ?' . .It is saita thero is a man in .Connecti cut seventy years old who baa lived all his lifetime within fifteen miles of ITart fyrd, yft In neAr-.r opn that ' 'tj-. 31UIIE RADICAL riEEEK EYG. A NEW WAT OV SERVING TIIE ITBtJC THE MILEAGE CV A RADICAL SENATOR. We copy below from Father Abiuham, a Radical campaign paper printed in Lan caster, an article which exposes a villain ous fraud on the Treasury of tho State, accomplished by Mr. Armstrong, a Radi cal member from that county, and one of the faithful, named Ilyus : Tub Strange Kepobts." Our corres pondent, named "Sadsbury," gives some facts aDd figures, which will interest the pjple of Lancaster county. . That a man who was not elected, but absolutely rejected, as an officer of the House of Representatives' and who never performed an hour's service, should draw pay from the State Treasury, Is simply outrageous. The question is, through whose instrumentality was this out ripe consummated, end tcho shared the spoils! The question of "mileage," too, ia one of Intere.-t, aud is not confined to members of the Legislature. Some other officers of the eounty are Implicated in transactions of this kind, and a little ventilation will not bodis edTantageoii3 to the people. Since the above was in type, Mr. Ilyus called upon ns for the purpose of explaining the matter, and putting the responsibility where he rightfully thinks it belong. He etated that lie was promised a position in the Houia by Mr. Armstrong, and after the election of the Speaker, by the latter also. Lpon the failure of the passage of the reso Jution which Mr. Armstrong had offvred, to ppoint him au additional clerk, he returned home. A day or two before final adjourn ment, he received a dispatch from Mr. Arm strong, requesting him to come to Harrisburg forthwith and draw bis pay, and received it. This is Mr. Ilyus' statement. The fact still remains that he drw salary as an officer after having been rejected by a vote ot the House. Communicated lia. Epitoh : In regard to certain "strange reports" in circulation concerning salaries drawn by some individuals from this county at Harrisburg last winter, who were never appointed as officers, and who never served, I here give you a few faels which you called for iu your last issue. Tlie figures are c,flj rial extracts from tho records of the State Treasurer and Auditor General : (Copy.) Commomccatth rf J'ennsylrania : To A. C. iLYrs. Dr. To salary -s I'aster and Folder, session of 1868, $700 00 To mileage, (SO miles circular,) 12 Ox) $712 00 By rcferenco to the Legislative record, ses sioa of 1SG8, page 171, it w ill be seen that Mr. Armstrong endeavors to pass a resolu tion appointing Mr. Ilyus an extra clerk, according to a certain "arrar-gement," which was opposed by Mr. Keinothl, and voted down by 25 to 15. As Mr. I. was not np pointed an officer, the question is, by what 'arrangement' did he get his pay ? And who was the engineer in this transaction? But, here is another fart. The lawful pav of each Senator and Representative is one thousand dollars salary, which was drawn by each member from Lancaster couatv, with the following mileage. E. Billingfeit, Sen., (60 mile.) 18 00 J. W. Fi&hcr, " (37 miles.) 11 10 A. Armstrong. Rep., (306 mi'cs,) 91 SO D. G. Steacy. ' (CO miles.) 18 00 A. U. Keinothl, ' (87 miles ) 11 10 A. Gcpshalk, " (6G miles,) 19 80 As Mr. Armstrong resides near Mount Joy about twentj'-five miles from Harrisburg it is supposed be took the rout by way of Allen'owu, Easton, Great Bend, Elruua, Williamsport and Halifax. Sadsbcrt. We have waited for some days in the expectation that those most deeply inter ested would give some satisfactory ex planation of Ihe grave charges here in volved. Hat there is a strange silence cn the part of the Radical press. So far as Armstrong and Ilyus are concerned, there is not the slightest difficulty. Ilyus, who seems to be an honest rascal, confesses to the fact, and it is not likely that Arm strong will attempt an explanation at all. Hut the public will be anxious to know how this account of Uyus, who never per formed a day's service, passed the watch ful Auditor General, Harfranft. Is he accustomed to pass accounts like that of Ilyus without making the proper inquiry as to their correctness ? To draw the money, Ilyus should have had the certifi cate of Speaker Davis, and of tLe Clerk, Gen. Selfridge. Had Ilyus the certificate? Did this Speaker and thisC'eik allow this man to draw such an amount from the State Treasury, when they must have known that he was not entitled to one dollar? Who authorised Armstrong to send for Ilyus to come to Harrisburg, and draw hia pay ? The correspondent of the Lancaster paper hints at &n "arrange ment" by which Ilyus was to be provided for. The House did not enter into the "arrangement," but refused to ewploy Ilyus. The question remains, Who did employ him, and enable him to draw this saoney ? It is rumored that there are msny more fraudulent accounts like this, in tho office of the State Treasurer, duly certified and paid. The facility and boldness with whih this transaction was accomplished, leave little room to doubt that it ia one only of numerous similar raid on the Treasury. .The public will insist on knowing from the Auditor General, from tho Speaker, and from the Clerk of tho Houe, how this account slipped through the Treasury, so easily. There seems to be gros3 ne glect of the interests of the people on the part of an officer elected to specially guard their intcresls, and there are grave suspi cions of worse than negligence in ethe qunrtrrB. Ji-; " A lTfivi. A Noble Letter from Gen. Hancock. The Louisville Courier of July 28th publishes the following highly important and Interesting correspondence : St. Lolis, July 13. M'jjor General Hancock: I deem it proper to direct your attention to etatements mado by the Radical f rca to the effect that yu are greatly dissatisfied with the results of "tho Democratic National Convention. Tho ob ject of the statement is to create the impres eion that you do not acquiesce la the judg ment cf the Convention, and that your friends do not, and in consequence Seymour and Blair will not have their cordial support. I wish you to know, Geueral, thai I have ta ken the liberty to pronounce these statements false, and to assure those who bavo spokcu to me ou the subject that nothing could cause you more regret than to find your friends, or any of them, less earnest in supporting the ticket than they would have been had 3'our own name 6tood in tha place of Gov. Sey mour s friend, I am, sir. very sincerely your I signet, J S. T. Glovek. NF.wporrr, K. I., July 17. S. T. Clover, St. Louis: My Dear Sir I am greatly obliged for yc.nr favor of the 13th inst. Those who suppose that I do not acquiesce lu the work, of the National Democratic Convention, or that I do not sincerely desire the election of the nomiticss, know very little of my char acter. Believing, as I really do, that the preservation of constitutional government eminently depends on the success of the Democratic party in tho coming election, tccr I to hesitate in its candid supjmrt, I fed I sJiOttfd not only falsify my own recerd, but e&mmii a crime against my country. I never aspired to the Presidency on account of my self. I never sought its doubtful honors and certain labors and responsibilities merely for the position. My own wish was to pro mote, if I could, the goo,! of the country, and to rebuke the spirit of revolution which had invaded every sacred precinct of liberty. When, therefore, yru prononnced the state ments in question false you did exactly right. Principles and not mn is the motto f r the rugged crisis in wkich we are now struggling. Had I been made the Presidential nominee I should have considered it a tribute, not to me, but to the principles which I had proclaimed and practiced ; but shall I cease to revere those principles because by mutual political friends another has been chosen to jut them in execution? Never! never! These, rir, are my sentiments, whatever interested parties may say to the contrary, and J desire that all may know and under stand them. I shall ever hold in grateful remembrance the faithful friends who, hail ing from every section of the Union, prefer red me by their votes nnd other expressions of confidence, loth in and out of the Conven tion, and shall do them all justice to believe that they were governed by patriotic mo tives, that they did not propose simply to aggrandize my personal fortunes, Lut to ava their country through mo, and that they will not sutler anytLing like pensonal prefer ences or jcah.G'iei to itand between them and their manifest duty. I have the honor to be, dear sir, Yerv respectfully yours, TV in field S. Hancock. "Not thk Ska son rem Conv -A correspondent of the Louisville Jn,mn? hailing from Texas, presents the following quite inimitable apologue : I haro a neighbor who has a big dor. IJa is a strong dog, an active dog, but oh what a mean doe ! He sucks all the eggs on tho place, eata the young chickens, gets into the cellar and laps up al! tho milk ?.nd licks up all the bu'ter, snaps at tho children, and is a pest In genera'. The good wife wants him killed, but the husband objects on ac count of one quality, ne is a good coon dog. The wife says there is no coons in the country ; besides, it isn't the season for coons. Let the Radicals make the application. The big d'.gof the Presidency should lie some thing more than a mere coon do;r. so lar as the personality of Grant is 1 . . an element m tne struggle of the parties. this coon storv hits the rs orarMv n.r,t is pusaea ior tne i residency for no other reason than that he has been a successful general, and that is precisely what, in the present juncture, the country does not need. In fact we want everything brtt that In the man who is to be the next President financUl Ability ; knowledge of Constitution and law statesmanship, in a word ; but ability to disburse blood and treasure in the fidd of battle, is not In requisition, thank heaven ! at tho present time. Now is it not the truth that Grant, hi own claims and those of his friend being fairly judged, is not notably the pA&es8or of the qualities needed. He is the successful general the stubborn, tenac ious, taciturn sold kr. Granted. But "there are no coons in the country ; besides, it isn't the season for coons l" , , .. . . : j- . The Land ok Dkspotism Senator Doolittle, in a letter to a Democratic meeting, thus concludes : "from where I stood this morning, rjpon the steps of the Capitol, with the flag of the U&ioe over me, I can look upon the land cf absolute, anqualified despotism. If I visit Mt. Vernon and Bit down by trie tomb of Washington, I sit under the ehadow of mil itary dictatorship more unlimited than can bo foand ia any ciriliaoJ country of the globe. Constitutional liberty Is already bound, scourged, and crowned with thorns, here in her owe sacred temple. Shall the General of tte army, urged ou by the Jacobin chief prieet, crucify her on this sacred capitol bill, beneath her own banner, amid tho scoff and jeer of all tke despots of the old world V Let the people answer. Axna Dickknsom declares that :Grarjta whisky record ia not half as infamous as hia Indian baby record ia California. " O, "en tle Annie, what a tOEgue you Live! You shouldn't blow family matters on the "greet captain with hia whiskers." Perhaps, tho', this is one of the ways Grast Las cf "spread ing civilization" beyond tho Rocky Moun tains. ? - Or.. Vitttn (vn lirtl.. tlirpfl littl Tniiir Pour httie, five little, six little Injuns, ! Scu t;ie, clrbt little, uine little Irvjoas f fut i California.
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