n ii 1 I i R. t. JOHXSTOK, Editor. IIK IB A FREEMAR WHOM TIIH TRUTH MAKES FREE, AND AH. ARE SLAVES BKS1DK, VOLUME 2. ebensburg, pa., Thursday, September 24, 1868. NUMBER 34. The Cambria Freeman WILL BE PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING, At Ebensburg, Cambria Co., Fa. At tte following rates, payable wiUiiti three months from dte of subscribing : One ccpy, one year, ----- 2 CO One cepy, mx month, - - - - 1 00 Ge py, three months, - - - - 60 Thote who fail to pay their subscriptions tatil after tle expiration of six months will be charged at the rate of $2.50 per jear, and those who fali to pay until after the ex juration of twelve months will bo charged at the rate of $8.09 per year. Twelve numbers constitute a quarter; tweuty five, six months; and fifty numbers, otio year. HATES OF ADVERTISING. 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Rcligioua, Fray er and Toy Books, renkiir, Pip'-s, tW We linre added to our stock a lot of FINE JEWELRY, to which we would invite the attention of th Ladies. PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS at lower prices than ever ottered in this place. Paper and Cigars ! 1 either wholesale or re tail. LEilMON 6i MURRAY, July 30, 160. Main Street, Ebcnburg. jfo it ki(Tn siTT p pi xg EXCHANGE OFFICE. We ro YorK Rates Kngland, Wales. Austria, P.vlen, llanover. now selling Exchange (at New on Ireland, Germany, Bavaria, Hfsfien, Belcium. Scotland, Prussia, Wurtemberg, Saxony, Switzerland, Holland. Nor WAV and Fr.inr. And Tic kets to and from any Port in England, Germany. New South Ireland, Scotland, France, California, Wales or Australia. KERR & CO. AILEY, FAHHELL & CO., i,i:u pipr, fall! & MR m MMMfflMS AL-0. Pijr Lead, Iron Pipe, Rubber noe, ateem Gauges, Whistlee and Valve?. 1 OonDor Sinks and Bath Tubs, Steam Pumps, Farm Pumps and Force Pumps, And every description of goods for WATER, GAS 8l STEAM. No. 1G? Smithfield Street, PITTSBURGH, PA. Bt?-Send for a IVicc List. ,pr 23.-ly. I ENCOURAGE HOME INDUSTRY li WAGON, BUGGY and CARRIAGE MANUFACTORY. Having taken the Wa ffonmakin? hop recently occupied by Mr. Wm Liehy (who , still remains in their employ,) the subscribers are prepared I to manufacture mJheavvAVAGONS, BUGGItb, CAR RIAGES and" other vehicles, aud wdl guaran tee'all work done by them to be perfectly sub B'auUal. neat and satisfactory, while their prices will bo as moderate as those of any manufac turer ui the country. Repairing of all kind ooue promptly and done well. Give us a call tou net:i anv work in our line THOM AS T. WILLIAMS & BRO. EbenBburg, June 25, 19. fTTnnARiaiE CIGARS just re iU.UUU ceived at M. L. Oatman's," one door cast of "Freeman" office. Also, a large stock of the beat branda of Chewing Tobacco. Cigars ai wholesale prices. AMES G. EASLY, Attorney j at-Law, Carrollteum, Cambria Co., Pa. Collections and all legal business promptly attended to. Jan 81. 1867. WILLIAM KITTELL, iTTORNEY AT LAW, Ebensburg, Pa. Office iu Colonads Row, Centre street. Jan.31, 1867.-tf. "Jf S. STRAYER, Justice of tub Peace, Wobristown, Pa. Office on th corner of Market strwt and Locust alley, Seeonrl Wrd. thK42.-Jj. M. L. OATMANj DEALER IK CHOICE FAMILY GROCERIES consisting cp gouHe &ira; Jamtljr Jflaur, GRiLV, FEED, BACON, SALT, FISH, FRESH VEGETABLES, ALL KINDS OF FRUITS, SUGARS, TEAS, COFFEES, SYRUPS, MOLASSES, CHEESE, &c. Also, a large itock of the Best Brands of Cigars and Tobacco. STORE ON HIGH STREET, Four Doors East of Crawford $ Hotel, Kben.sburg-, l"n. ENTISTKY. The undersigned, a graduate of the Btlti more College of Dental Sur gery, respect fully offers hi- PUOKE.SjSIOSA services to the citizens of Eb- ensburg aud vicinity, which place he will Tiiit on the FoubTii Monday of each inonta, to re main one week. Aug 13. SAM'L BELFORD D. D. S. ENT I STRY. Dr. I). W. Zeir- kr hss taken the ro:-rns on High street recently occupied by l.ioyn iv L- . as a Bauktng House and offers his professional servi ces to the citizens of Fbensburg and vicin ity. Tcrf7i extracted without jHiin by use of Nitrous Oxide or Laughing Gas. DR. H. 3. MILLER, ALTO ON A, PA., Operative and Mechanical DENTIST. Office au Curoline street, between Virginia and Eruraa streets. All tube warranted. Altoona. June 18, lc'oS.-tim. "TAMES J. oJvTMAN, M. I)., tenders his professional services as Phy sioian and Surgeon to the citizens of Carroll tewn and vicinity. Oflice in rear of build ing occupied by J. Buck & Co. as a store. Night calls can be made at his residence, one door south of A. Hang's tin and hardware store. TIay 9j 18G7. fi7EVEREAUX, 31. D., Phy- -- tier an ani Sckgeon, Summit, Pa. Office east end of Mansion House, on Rail Road street. Night calls may be made at the office. f my23.tf. J. LLOYD, successor to R. S. Bi7NV, Dealer in Drua.i, Medicines. Paints, fyc. Store on Main street, opposite the "Slansion House," Ebeusburg, Pa. October 17, 18G7.-6m.' D. M' LAUGH LIN, TTORXFAr AT LAW, Johnstown, Pa. 1 Office in the Exchange building, on the Corner of Clinton and Locust streets up stairs. Will attend to all business connect ed with his profession. Jan. 31, 1867.-tf. R. L JOHNSTON, J E. SCANLAi. JOHNSTON SCAN LAN, Attorneys at Law, Ebensburg, Cambria co., Ta. Office opposite the Court House. Ebensburg, Jan. 31, 18G7.-tf. JOHN 1 LINTON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, JoJimloicn. Pa. Office in building on corner of Main and Franklin street, opposite Mansion House, second floor. Entrance on Frank.Hu street. Johnstown. Jan. 31. 1867.-tf. F. A. SHOEMAKER I TTORNEY AT LAW, Ebensburg, Pa. l Office on High street, one door East of the Banking House of Lloyd & Co. Jauuary 31, 18G7.-tf. F. P. TIERNEY, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Ebensburg, Pa. Office in Colonade Row. Jan. 6. 18G7-tf. JOSEPH M'DONALD, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Ebensburg. Pa. Office on Centre street, opposite Linton's tiotel- Jan. 31, l8G7-tf. JOHN FENLON, I TTORNEY AT LAW, Ebensburg Pa. H Office on High stieet, adjoining bis resi dence. Jan 31. 18G7.-tf. (J L. PERSHING, Attorney-at- Law, Johnstotcn, Pa. Office on Frank lin Btreet, upstairs, over John Benton's Hardware Store. JaB. 31, 1867. GEORGE W. O ATM AN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Ebensburg, Pa. Office in Colonade Row, Centre street. January 31, 1867.-tf. TTM. H. SECIILER, Attorn ev-at. " Law, Ebensburg. Pa. Office in rooms recently occupied by Geo. M.Reade. Esq , ia Colonade Row, Centre street. aug.27. GEO. M. READE, Aitorneg-atLaw, Ebensburg, Pa. Office in new building recently erected on Centre street, two doors from High street. aug.27. HKINKEAD, Justice of the Peace and Claim Agent. Office removed to the office formerly occupied by M. Hassou, Bsj dee'd, on High St., Ebenetrurg. jl3. THE WOLF CHASE. During Ihe winter of 1834, being en gaged in the northern part of Maine-, 1 had much leisure to devote to the wild sports df a new country. To none of these was I more passionately addicted than that of Ekating. The deep and se questered lakes of this Northern State, fiozen by intense col J, preeent a wide field to the lovers of this pastime. Often would I hind on my rusty skates, and glide away up the glittering river, and wind each mazy streamlet that flowed on toward the parent ocean, and feel my pulse bound with joyous exercise. It was du ring one of these excursions that I met with an adventure, which even at this .period of my life I remember with won der and astonishment. I had just left my friends bouse one evening just before dusk, with the inten tion of skating a short distance up the noble Kennebec, which glided directly be fore the door. The evening was fine and clear. The new moon peered from her lofty seat, and cast her rays on the frosty pines that skirted the shore, until they seemed the realization of a fairy scene. All nature lay in a quiet which she some times chooses to assi'me ; while water, earth and air seemed to have sunken into repose. I had gone up the river nearly two miles, when coming to a little stream which emptied into the larger, I turned in to explore its course. Fir and hemlock of a century's growth met overhead, and formed an evergreen archway, radiant with froft-work. All was dark within, but I was young and fearless, aud as I peered into the unbroken forest that rear ed itself to the borders of the stream, I laughed in very joyousnees My wild hurrah rang through the woods, and I stood listening to the echo that reverbera ted again and again, until it was hushed. Occasionally a night bird would flap its wings from some tall oak. The mighty lords of the forest stood as if not but time could bow them. I thought how oft the Indian hunter concealed 'him self behind these very trees haw oft the arrow had pierced tho deer by this very stream, and how oft his wild halloo had rung for his victory. I watched the owls as they fluttered by, until I almost fancied myself one of them, and held my breath to listen to their distant hooting. When suddenly a sound arose, it seemed from the very ice beneath my feet. It wrr loud and tremendous at first, until it end ed in one long yell. I was appalled. Never before had such a noise met my ears. I thought it more than mortal so fierce, and amid such unbroken solitude, that it seemed a fiend from hell hud blown an infernal trumpet. Presently I heard the twigs on the shore snap as if from the tread of some animal, and the blood rush ed back to my forehead with a bound that made my kin burn, and I felt relieved that I had to contend with thing9 of earthly and not spiritual would, as I first fancied. My energies returned, and I looked around me for some means of de fense. The moon shone through the open ing by which I had entered the forest, and considering this the best means of es cape, I darted towards it like an arrow. 'Twhs hardly a hundred yards distant, and the swallow could scarcely excel my des perate flight ; j'et as I turned my eyes to the shore, I could 6ce two dark objects dashing through the underbrush at a pace ne trly double that of my own. 15y their great speed, and the short yells, which they occasionally gave, I knew at once that they were the much dreaded grey wolf. I had never met these unimals, but from the description given of them, I had but little pleasure in making their ac quaint mice. Their untamable fierceness and the untiring strength winch teems to be a part of their nature, render them ob jects of dread to the benighted traveler. "With their loDg gallop, which can tire The hounds deep hate, the hunter's fire," they pursue their prey, and nought but death can separate them. The bushes that skirted the shore flew past with the velocity of light, as I dashed on in my flight. The outlet was nearly gained ; one second more and I would be compara tively safe, when my pursuers appeared on the bank directly above me, which rose to the height of some ten feet. There was no time for thought ; I bant my head and dashed wildly forward. The wolves sprang, but miscalculating my speed, sprang behind, while their intended prey glided out into the river. Nature turned me towards home. The light flakes of snow spun from the iron of my skates, and 1 was now some distance from ray pursuers, when their fierce howl told me that I was again tho fugitive. I did not look back I did not feel sorry nor glad; one thought of home, of the bright, glad faces awaiting my rctu n ; of their tears if they should never again see me, and then every energy of mind and body was exerted for my escape. I was perfectly at home on the ice. Many were the days I spent on my skates, never thinking that at one time thay would be my only means ot safety. Every half minute an alternate yelp from my pur suers made me but too certain that they were clos at my heels. Nearer and nearer they came ; I heard their feet pat tering on the ice, nearer, still, aotil I fan cied I could hear their deep breathing. Every nerve and muscle in mj frame wu stretched to its trttaort tension. The trees along the shore seemed to dance in the uncertain light, and my brain turned with my own breathless speed ; yet still they seemed to hiss farth with a sound truly horrible, when an involuntary motion ou my part turned me out of my course. The wolves close behind, unable to stop, and as unable to turn, slipped, fell, still going on far ahead, their tongues loling out, their white tusks gleaming from their bloody mouths, their dark, shaggy breasts freckled with foam ; and as they passed me their eyes glared, and they howled with rage and fury, The thought flashed on my mind that by this means I could avoid them, viz : by turn ing aside wbouever they came too near, for they, by the formation of their feet, are unable to run on ice except on a straight line. I immediately acted on this plan. The wolves having regained their feet, sprang directly towards me. The race was re newed twenty yards up the stream ; they were already clo?e on my back, when I glided round, and dasoed past my pursu ers. A fierce growl greeted my evolu tion, and the wolves (dipped upon their haunches and sailed outward, presenting a perfect picture of helplessness and baf fled rage. Thus I gained nearly a hun dred yards each turning. This was re peated two or three times, every moment the wolves getting more and more excited and baffled, until coming opposite the house, a couple of stag hound-i, aroused by the noise bayed furiously from their kennels. The wclves, taking the hint, stopped in their mad career, and after a moment's consideration, turned and fled. I watched them till their dusky forma dis appeared over a neig hboring hill. Then, taking off my skates I wended my way to the house, with feelings better to be imagined than described. A UUXTER TREED. The Southern hunters tell wonderful stories of their adventure in tho forest. I would not care to vouch for them all, nor, indeed, for all of any one of them ; but it is proper to remember that what appears incredible ! the man of civilization eeem3 to be quite probable, and even common place, in the Western wilds. Let me tell a single story, to illustrate some of their exaggerations, which was related to a circle of Southern moti in a Mississippi steamer, and did not seem to be doubted as an authentic incident by any one of them. The pecarry is a creature of the hog species, and is utterly feurlcss. It pays no regard to rifle balls unless they hit it. and never, hesitates to attack any one and every one, whether man or beast, that comes across its path. A relentless war is waged against it by the Southern hunt ers, as much for their own safety as from any love of the sport. It has won the reputation of being the only wild game which the experienced hunter always runs from instead of stopping to fight. A Texan said that onco when he was ehooting in a swamp he killed a couple of peccaries. (Th'iB creature roams in flocks numbering from ten to fifty.) In an in stant the whole company turned upon him, and he at once ran to a tree and sprang into its branches. One, two, three hours passed and yet no help came. He was separated from his friend, und did not dare to stir from his position. Get ting "oneasy both in body and mind, he moved a little to make his seat easier," and losing his balance, fell. Luckily, he said, he dropped his rifle, and caught hold of a lower branch of the tree and clung to it for his life, with bis feet within a cou ple of yards of "the sile." "This," he added, "was very okknrd and I cud see the peccaries jumpin up to catch hold of my feet. Fori'nately they couldn't reach, &nd 1 thought I was safe ; but otdy see the cunnin' of them critters ? Several of them lay down on their stom achs, and others got on their backs, so as to form a platform. The head peccry got on to it, and jumped up. and seized me by the heel of the right boot. I kicked t bim with my left foot, like a horse, and when we were a-etrugglin', the other paccaries rolled from under him and left him bangin' on to my heel by his tusks, while his friends were a-gruntin away like mad all round. They made a most dreadful nize ; and my arms were gettin tired ; and I began to make up my mind that I'd a have to fall and try what a rush would do among them, when crack went a rifle, and down fell the big gest peccary. It took me so by surprise that I dropped to the ground and saw that my friend bad come up. Hut he was soon in as bad a fix as I had been myself. The peccaries made a rush for him, and he was glad to do as I had done drop his rifle and hist himself up a tree. I made for my rifle, and loaded it and fired ; when the pesky things turned on me, and I had to drop it agin and run up the tree double quick. Then my friend he come down, got his rifle, and blazed away at them agin ; then they went at him full pelt ; then I came down and fired agin ; and we kept on, firing turn about, until you may believe me or not, as you please, stranger we done this fifteen times, and killed the thirty peccaries between us." This story, with occasional variations and additions, was told as a true story of a Texan hunter's life. Whether it was true the reader can determine for himself. Do Yrtn want tatter times? TP an. vnta I for Scymotrr and Blair, Maixe. "Have you heard from Maine " Ycsl And we don't like it. And we don't intend to like it. And we won't like it one bit, and in proof that we do not, we shall the more earnestly urge the canvass, the hotter pour in the fire of hot, not cold fact, and arouse the people to the dan ger of allowing New England Senators and carpet-bag Senators from Southern States to control the nation. We don't like the news from Maine, for these reasons. We hoped to reduce the Republican majority there, and if the first report ba true, we have not. We do not like it, for all last night, and all to-day, in banks, banking houses, and bondholders' houses and offices, there has been too much levity. We see the pro tected aristocrats in glee. Bondholders rub their hands, stop their carriages, to ask each other "Have you heard from Maine Vf The speculators who amassed fortunes dealing in United States securities all over New York to-day drinking champagne, and dancing in glee, shouting the while, between the popping of corks j "Have you heard from Maine?"' Tho turnouts of the bondholders are more numerous in Central Park to-day than for months the gold fish ride there, and nod to each other, and order their carriages up to drinking places, call for the best wines, drink at the expense of woi king-men, sncar at laborers, ask each other : "Have you heard from Maine ? Over the prospect of more victories, eager to tighten the bond3 about the mus cle of labor, the exempted, gold-clutching bondholders of the East are in too high glee, and are shelling out thousands more of dollars stolen from the people, to be sent to other States for the enslavement of labor. We do not like it one bit, for the j carriages of bondholders tell with crushing j effect on the bare toes of the children of the workingmen, who are mortgaged to ! support tho children of the aristocrats,! Tipsy bondholders, last night, drunk with wine, and flush over the news, em braced each other in the corridors of lead ing hotels, whirled and twirled and held aloft their reports from Maine, and drank more wine and snatched at each other's diamond pins, and waltzed about the floors, hiccupping : "Hic-hic-ave you hie 'eard from Maine !" At the Fifth Avenue hotel last night one drunken bondholder, whose income is seventy thousand a year in gold, and who pays-no taxes, was talking to a circle of Maineites thus : "I say, have you heard fr'm 'aine ? G d d n it, money is what wids. If j we sow money we reap bonds! Rah fr'm 'aine " And now Ies' go for them j Western eous of" toil, we Dresume he might have said, but "toil" was not the word used. Indeed, we do not like the news from Maine. Hut it neither scares, disheart- ens. nor surprises us. We exoected New England to unite against the West, the South. We looked for results to follow the expenditure of three hundred thousand dollars in that State by Republicans, much as thoy have. We know the aim i9 to consolidate New England ; for her to join hands with the negroes and carpet-baggers of the South, and to control affairs to the last hour of her destiny. We know the Republican victories mean gold for the rich, rags ami labor for the poor, exemp tion from taxation of bondholders, and tenfold taxation for laboring men and producers, 'and we don't like the news from Maine. Hut Seymour will be elected for all that. Kentucky will offset Maine and Vermont in electoral votes, and all of Radical New England when another war comes. It is a long ro .id, an I a hard road, and a dangerous road yet for Grant before he reaches the White House. New England has gone New England, so far as heard from, and no man expected different. When Oregon, and California, and Ken tucky, and Nevada, and Montana, and Maryland, and Mississippi, went Demo cratic, the Republicans said : "Oh, this don't elect your President ! " Nor does the failure to change Maine elect Grant. Go on with the light ; we are not beaten, nor disheartened, nor weakened, nor demoralized. Ar. Y. Dem. "THEY CANTTAX ME!" We have repeatedly heard poor men, laboring men say, remarks the Galipolis Dispatch, "Well, I have not got any pro perty, they can't tax me Much !" We recently met one of this class return ing after a hard day's work, carrying on his arm a peck of meal ; we accosted him, and the following conversation ensued : Well, Jones, how do you get on 1 "Poor enough! It seems harder to make a 6uppert for myself and family than ever before. I work hard, live poor, don't driuk or lounge around, and yet it is all I can do to live." Well, that is not to be wondered at, when you and other laboring men vote year after year to increase your own bur dens. Times will grow hard until you change your way of voting, and taxes will increase. "They can'l tax me much for I've got nothing." Tbey can't eh ? Let's see ! What did that peck of meal cost you ? "Thirty cents." Do tou know what it costa to tmIm n bushel of meal ? "No." It costs about fifteen or twenty cents. "The loyal people say you copperheads are mighty bad people, and try to deceive us working men, and I begin to believe it, for I know they don't tax corn meal." I think I can prove to you that corn meal is pfetty heavily taxed. "I'd like for you to do it, then." Well, the corn from which that meal was made was raised on taxed land, plowed by a taxed plow, drawn by taxed horses, hitched with taxed gears. It was hoed with" a taxed hoe, cultivated with taxed implements, gathered in a taxed wagon, drawn with taxed horses, thrown into a taxed crib, shelled on a taxed ma chine, measured in a taxed measure, taken in a taxed sack and ground on a taxed mill, eeived with a taxed seive, mixed in a taxed pan, stirred with a taxed spoon, salted with taxed salt, put into a taxed bake pan, baked in a taxed stove, laid out on a taxed plate, cut with a taxed knife, and lastly eaten by a heavily taxed man. "Whew ! well I'll swang, that's uear ly all taxes. I declare to srac'ious I nvnr - a looked at it that way before." If it were not for the taxes you could buy a bushel of meal for what that peck cost you. Besides, it is not on that alone you are taxed, but upon everything you have to buy. A pound of sugar only costs three or four cents," but you have to pay from sixteen to twenty. A pound f coffee only costs ten cents, but you have to pay thirty, and if it costs you three hundred dollars a year to support your family, you may safely say one half of it is tax. Now, is it any wonder that times are hard, and that yea find it diffi cult to live ? "It costs me more than three hundred dollars a year to live. I used to get only fifty cents a day and I lived a great deal better than I do now on a dollar and a quarter. I see there is a great wrong somewhere, and I am going to take your advice, and see if there is any pojd in voting for a change of rulers. I'll try the experiment, anyhow, but I must not tell old Squeeze, or he'll discharge me and call me a rebel ; bnt a hundred arid fifty dollars tax is too much for me. That much saved, would buy my winter's fuel, sugar, coffee, flour, &c., to last me a year, and a roll or two of muslin and cal ico for my wife and children. How thick headed I must be not to see this before. I begin to see now why old Bonds oscd to come round and see me just before the election and be smiling and polite, and why Sirs. Bonds would send my wife some little nick-nack or other. Bonds is rich ; he gets gold from the bank for his bond3 I work to pay that. LTis bonds are not taxed. I pay $150 a year all in little things ; even a box of matches is taxed. I thank you, Mr. Editor for this talk ; it has done me good, a new light has broken in on me and I'll not keep it hid under a bushel neither. I'll talk to the men about it. It is now all plain. I declare I'll never forget that peck of meal !" We gave the honest fellow a hearty grip and passed on, more determined than ever to work for the enlightenment and redemption of the toil-worn sons of labor. The Mystkry of an Or.n Foict. A letter writer in describing Fort Marion, one of the defences of St. Auguatin?, Florida, gives the following story i Fort Marion has an old, solemn and rather threatening warlike appearance. The outer wall, five feet thick, of the material called Coquina, (Ko-ke-na,) found in great abundance on the beach near the lighthouse, has quite a slant or inclination inward of several degrees from a perpendicular. An inner wali two and a half feet thick, standing perpendicular, keeps in position a bank of sand some 8 or 10 feet thick between the outer and inner walls. Behind these walls are ar ranged the casements, strongly arched overhead, and extending all around the interior. Fpon these arches and the walls a floor of brick, stone and concrete is laid, whereon the heavy guns of the fort are placed ; very few are in position now. Within the enclosure of tho fort below are piles of cannon balls and quite a number of old Spanish guns partly eaten by rust. In 1858, while putting come heavy guns in position on the fort, an arch gave way, making a hole some five feet wide, dis closing a cell hitherto unknown to any person living. In this new and strange apartment were found one or two gun carriages made of mahogany, finely wrought. During the excavations made by the officers, one of them accidentally discovered the appearance of a doorway, that had been masoned op. They deter mined to test the reality of the suggestion, and removing a few stone?, revealed an opening into another cell, where was found a bedstead, on which lay the skele ton of a man chained to a huge staple in the wall ; beside the bed stood an open mahogany chest five feet long, 2 feet wide, sides of plauk two inches thick, mounted with huge irtn strap hicges and three enormous locks. No clue .has yet been found to the history of this case, or the offense of this teiribly punished victim. A wretch was heard to say the other evening at a social party, that a young la dy playing the piano forte was like an ape her iirgvrs were a'mong keys. A Dos; Recaptures III Master' UoiNe from T2ilees, The best dog Etory which we hnv heard of for some time, and which i vouched for to be true in every particular comes to us from Robertson CouMy. A few nights ago Mr. Williams, who reside about four miles west of Springfield, 1. 1 a neighbor, Mr. Pettit, have the use of hi dog to assist and protect him Lorn chicken thieves. About twelve o'clock on tho same night a burgler entered the stable of Mr. Williams and stole therefrom a youu bay mare, with a saddle and bridle, an i was riding along tho road past Petti:' a house, when the dog commenced barking, and breaking, hi3 chain, bounded over the fence and dashed after the horseman at full speed. Tho chase continued for four miles, when the horse stumbled and fell. The dog rushed up and immediately attacked, it is supposed, the daring thief, who fired three shots at the animal, but misFed him, as no marks were found upon Lim. Whether the dog closed in upon tha thief, or whether the thief took to his heels across the country, has not been d? flr.!te?y ascertained, but the dog caught hold of the bridle lines in his mouth, and led the horse back three miles, where ha was met by Mr. Pettit and his man, who were arouf-eJ by the furious sounds and were following in the direction whither they went. Mr. Pettit immediately re cognized the horse and dog, and at onco surmised what had happened. The wholo four, the two men, dog and horse, returned to Mr. Williams', whom they found last asleep, altogether ignorant of what had taken place. The next day several peo ple in the locality testified to hearing threo distinct 6hots fired about the place whero the dog brought the robber to bay, aof one of tho bullets was found en the road about four hundred yards from the spot where the scuffle took place. The dog is about four year3 old, and weighs about forty-five pounds. Mr. Williams would not part with him for any money. Aa'i ville Union, 1st. pKiVirx.GED Classes. The Cincinnati Enquirer turns up the following as com prising some of the privileged classes under the present Radical dispensation: 1. The bondholder. He is exempted from State an ! local taxat'u n. He receives his interest on his bonds iu gold, while ever' body else has to take his in legal-tenders. 2. The Southern negro, who has a Freed -men's Bureau to look after his interests, and to feed and clothe him if he don't choose to work. 3. The New England manufacturer, who receives an immensa bonus in the Eh&pe of protection to bis. fabrics, all of which comes out of tha pockets of the laboring classes, who aro compelled to buy them. 4. Tho railroad monopolists to whom Congress has grunted tracts of land large enough for empires, out of which they can build their roads and have a great deal to spare ! A few favored men have thus voted to them, freo of expense, a great railroad. 5. The Con gressmen and legislators who sustain theso privileged classes in their rascalities upon the people, and who are made partners on that account in the robberies. 6. The im mense army o officeholders who live upon the unclean drippings of tho Treasury. It is a party opposed to the Democracy which, by the act of its leaders, has brought into being these privileged classes, and upon which they mainly rely for their continued existence. It is no wonder that, with such immeue interests fastened upon the bod' politic, and drawing its heart's blood, tho country has ceased to flourish, and its resources are being dried up. Ge.v. Grant and tub Cow's Tail Accident. That story cf the way Gen Grant was xwcrfully overcome by a cow's tail, told so pathetically by his fond parental parent, has pleased a great many children, and they are fund of repeating it, some-times with slight deviation from its original prolixity. Asfor instance, pass ing a number of cleanly and well clad children who were sitting upon the side walk in South Brooklyn, the other day, amusing themselves with patriotic song and story, they regaled the ears of travel ers with the following mournful legion of how Ulysses commenced a race, nip anJ tuck, with his father's cow, which ho was going to loan, for a time at least, to a man who kept a mixed grocery, and ho it ended. The boys sang : Of General Grant his father said. Old Jesse said with pride, That if U. S. could not get meat. He'd 6urcly take the hide. The charming fact to illustrate, He gave the story wind. That when he couldn't catch "a horn" He grabbed tbo tail behind ; Anil to it held right boy fully. Until the cow did jump. When Ulysses did come right dowa Upon his hardened "rump.' An elderly boy suid, at tho close, that he rather guessed that was the way he'd come down ia November. . . It is necessary to elect Boyle and Ent and a majority to the" Legislature, if we wish an honest and economical govern ment Tho defeat of nartrsnft and Campbell, with a Democratic House, (and Senate, if possible,) would open tho road to an easy victory next year, when wo could oust Gov. Geary, an! elect an Executive who would be a credit instead of disgrace to the St.te. Democrats re member the 18th of October. : t in
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