TFIE FREEMAN. FBEXSBURG, PA., Thursday, : : : : Dec. 17, 18G8. now it is. A fortnight ince we succeeded, through the leverage of the Freeman, in pnmping an editorial out of the Johnstown Tribune. We intended a reply that would have effec tual annihilated our antagonist, but the "weightier matt' cf the law" postponed our intention ; and now, the Tribune is non est. So our neighbor mntt pardon us for tLis time, as our neglect to reply is not ,ut of any want of respect for him. Or. if Lo prefer it, he may apply that luminous tiLixim of equity te bis own cae, that "what shomld be done will be considered as d. ne."-and consider the Tribune annihilated by uur intended rejoinder. President's Zrlessage. Owing to the great length of this docu ment we Lave been forced to cendense it in a few particulars in order to bring it with in proper bounds for publication in our columns, but on all the leading topics we gie the language of the President in full. We present it to our readers without com n e:,t. We trust they will do more than diil the Ui.ited States Senate give it a hearing. We hav6 barely had time to glance over it, and cannot refer to its reoom nietiiiati'ins or conclusions, but may d so hereafter. The reports of the vaiioua heads of De partments are before Congress. The Mes sage affords a general idea of their bearing. APOLOGV. The AVn'jlt'ini:in f lant week says that we ?(-r to create the impression that it "copk-s"' or phgiari.-es its editorials. We certainly desired to cieato no such lmpres ti'.n. We be'it-ve the AUeghanian writes its own editorials, or procures the writing of them, which is the Eame thing ro far as its readers are concerned. The nrticle on naturalization in its col umnH, referred to by a, introduced the opini-m of other editors, and we iDfened that it was giving the opinions of other edi tors not copying their editorials. If we wronged them in this they have our apology. P.ut if they are proud of their own edito rials why do they seek to explain it away ? They did recommend in substance the very changes in the naturalization laws we re ferred to and condemned. If the editorial was tLi ir own, a3 they say it was, and a3 we admit it was, then they did advocate one year's rcsidf.nre aftr naturalization they did advocate giving the sole power to United State C..)rta ar.d their officers they did faver comjel'ing the applteact to advertise in the newspapers. Thiy said these things is god, plain Kglish, and they ought to eiand by them. It id not a bit of difference whether we ire n f,dd m.m" or not, tor how "witless" our "pui.s" are. Iu other words, abuse is u argumsut. " Alttiovgh we were first 5n tbn field to an nonnce onr rTfc-erie for Cen. Geary where tWupht he wov.ll be most useful. to his t-Ufe 5;d country, we take occasion to state tl:it, in coiicquerce of this letter to us, wo ) Lite at the he-id of our columns the name of M'j. Gen. John W. Geary, a our candidate for tlovcinor, and there it thall remain until alter he is elected. 'All we Lnve wri'ton about bim in regard to hit, claims for United States Senator, we ra peat as particularl applicable to hia fitness lor tUe govern.-li:. Lrt our g.-ilhsnt T?.y9 in Dlue rally nronnd the b.iiuier of the Chevalier liajard of our State. 'He has ever been without fear and without ter.-OHch, as a!l the hosts of freedom wHl tc ktiowltMlge. "No American least of all no Pennsylva nia!!, tifed be told of tie military record of our gallant (earv. VVberever the foe was to be tou: d, there did ov.r noble leader appear to head the combat w ith all the visor of his pi ar.t nature, li: Mex:co, in California, and in the giand arena of the rebellion; he ever ap-I-e.ired in the fiout raiik, alway? cryinir 'Conic on, and rot 'Go, boy? like Borne we niight nan-.e. "Tlu deci.-ion of the Republican State Coi.vtntiou of course inunt be our Kuide in this uiattPr, and thut decission, wc think, Me give in adv iiice." The above tlorjuent extract" is taken from the Erie R'jmbUcan. If cur memory is not at fault its former editor was the pres ent IX'pu'y Secretary cf the Commonwealth uiu'er Geary, and it is quite likely that he piill controls its columns. It is very evident that he is blissfully ignorant of the military eirccr cf the "Chevalier Bayard of our S ate." In this county, where the former hifctory, both military and civil, of Geary is ) ;, such grandiloquent praise is calcu lated "to bring down the whole house." The tditor is especially unfortunate in his allusion to Geary's military record during the Mexican war. We have a ft int recollec tion that after the troops from this county had returned from that war, a meeting was h!d by them in the Court House in this place, at which resolutions were adopted ex pressing, in very plain language, that in their opinion, the aforesaid "Chevalier Bay ard" was itn arrant coward, and totally un fit to command a regiment. Resolutions of a similar character were passed about the Fame time at a meeting held in Uniontown, Fayette county, by the troops from that c unty who had served in Geary's Regiment. All this, coming from Geary's own soldiers, who knew all about his career In Mexico, and who were especially familiar with the storming of Chapultepec, is rather damaging to the claim row set up for Geory as "the Chevalier Bayard of our State." We would Hke to pv: the Cambria county soldier who rel in the Mexican war who will btand up and say, without blushing, that Geary "eycr appeared in lio front rank, always f.r Cme on boys ." Tbo less that his A if ik:s my about his Mexican campaign the better for his repnJatkn. He was most cer VaJti'y not then a loutric Dhu, "Om tyat upon who.cc buttle horn, V us wortb a thousand men." He rather belonged to that more modern school of immortal heroes of whom the re doubtable Bob Acres is the shining proto type. But id "our gallant Geary" even a "Chev alier Bayard" in politics 1 In the first place, the lea !ers of his own party, as for instance Fitzgerald's Item, asserts in unequivocal terms that he is angularly inexact, or in other words, that he trill not tell Hie truth. Was his attempt, in October, 1867, to pro cure, under the broad seal of the Common wealth, a fraudulent and illegal vote by the soldiers stationed at Fort Delaware, when he knew that unJer the law they had not the shadow of a riht to vote, evidence of a nice seDse of Executive honor and integrity ? Or was it not a plain, palpable violation of the law, to effect a ba.se and unworthy purpose, such as no high minded, honorable Executive would resort to? His recent refusal to pro claim Henry D. Toster elected to Congress from the Westmoreland districts, over that Broctian, John Covode, stamps him as dis honest in the discharge of his official duties. It was against all law as well as established precedents. But what better could have been expected frcm a man of the mental calibre of ,;our gallant Geary." And yet he was named as a candidate for the United States Senate. Oh! shades of Webster, and Clay, and Calhoun, and Benton. But this "Chevalier Bayard" has ac'nounced over his own signature, to the editor of the Erie jntllican that although he is not a candidate for the Senate he has kindly permitted his friends to use his name as a candidate for re nomination to the office of Governor. Will he succeed in his aspirations? Strange things are brought to pass in this leaden headed age, when mediocrity mounts to the the highest civil position. When the Radi cal cauldron boils the scum is seen to rise to the surf ice. We only hope that the Itadieal Convention will renominate Geary, with all his imperfections thick uyon him. Such political mountebanks must, in ths nature of things, at last descend to their proper level. Surely the intelligent pecplo of the old Keystone will net consent to be dishon ored by him for another term, but will con" sign to merited contempt and forgetfulness the weakest, vainest and least competent Executive that ever afflicted this or any other State. Indian Unpleasantness. ' Col. E. C. Wyncoop, denounces the receLt descent of Gen. Custer upon Kettle's band of savages, as an outrage only second to the Chivington massacre. He thinks these treacherous imps might have been surround ed and captured alive. We are led to believe this is one of the phases of the quarrel be tween the Interior aud War Departments, as to who shall control Indian affairs. As the War Department has to do the killing, would it not be as well to let it do the steal ing, for the hitch seems to be here. II military men are willing to do more work for the same pay, without additional glory, why not transfer the whole business at once. There will be people to deal with these Mr. Lo's, in the way of trading and stealing their lands, giving them bad whisk j and depreciate! paper money, but does it make any difference what Department au thorizes the legitimate traffic? We have heard it intimated that Senatois have rela tions who profit by contracts through the Interioi Department who might not fare so well if put under the eye of soldirrs of the old school, who made their reputation when houest dealing was the rule, and honor was at a premium. We question the sincerity of men who dispute the right of Sheridan or Sherman to kill as they go, when dealing with these treacherous red skins, who will murder when they get a chance, without regard to sex, age or condition, and have endorsed these same Generals in their raids in the Shenandoah Valley and the march to the sea. It was right to leave a track of smok ing ruins, the lonely hut of t he poor widow and the last ear of corn of the orphan, as weil as the barns and mil's and mansions of the more wealthy utter desolation was the pass word, and it wa carried out to the letter. Women and children filed to the monutains and polished with exposure anl hunger. It was claimed to be iuslifiable under the rules of war, and has not certain ly been condemned by any body connected with government. Why should military men boggle about killing a few Indians, whn arc retarding civilization, who toma hawk the suckling babe with as much pleas ure as they do ham stringing a buffalo. Let us be just ; if it is fight to destroy white people for offending laws, let the same measure be meted out to the red man. and by all means transfer the Bureau of In dian Affairs to the War Dsparfment, and give the contract for clearing the country of Indians to Sherman, with the proviso, he shall take no prisoners. Pittsburgh Post. Tntc Asn.ES of Columbus. A Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Gazelle says: An interesting fact has just come to the knowledge of the Government here, which may aid, in some degree, the negrotiation of Mr. Seward for a naval depot in the West Indies. While the heart of Christopher Columbus is preserved in Havana, his ashes are in an irou coffin buried beneath the floor of a chapel in an old church in St. Domingo. It i3 also intimated that these ashes can be secured by our Government and that Presi dent Baez will allow them to be transferred to thin city for proper interment. We hope an effort will be made to secure the ashes of the discoverer of this continent for appropriate interment at our National Capitol. That is where ttey ought to be placed. A magnificent and appropriate tomb should be placed over them, either by the government, or by voluntary subscrip tions from the people of the Uuited States. Every one would feel like contributing for such a purpose. A penitentiary bird named Martin Cof fee, who had escaped from prison in Nash ville, Tenn., about a year since, was arrested in Elizabethtown. Ky., one day last week, and returned to the Penitentiary, where he has vet to serve fifteen years. When nab bed he was in the midst of a religious revi val, and last week had baptized by immer sion forty persons in one day. When going into his old quarters, be remarked that it was a burning shame that a useful Evange list like himself should ho cut shirt in his revival operations. The crjtnes which brought him to the penitentiary in the first placo were numerous and heinous, ft is said that Secretary Seward ha sent Caleb Cushing to Spain to offer the Provisional Governmeat one hundred xaillioos of dollars for Cuba. Washington Correspondence. LETTER NCMEEB OKE. Dear Freeman I am seated to fulfill a promise long since made of furnishing the readers of the Freeman with whatever I can find worthy of their perusal in the Fed eral City, either in or ous of Congress. My opportunities for obtaining information here are as good as the best, and you and yonr readers may rest ae&ured that they ehalll not go unemployed. There is a degree of petulence manifested hre towards every act of the President, to tally unworthy of those holding the high positions cf Representatives of a great peo ple. Tae fact is well uuderstood here that the perusal relations between the President elect and the present incumbent are not very good; and Radicals from whom better might be expected, are out toadying each other in order to gain the favor of the in coming, at the expense of the outgoiug ad ministration. Senator Ramsey of Minnesota, brought forward, on Tuesday, his favorite hobby, in the shape of a bill to abolish the frank ing piivilfg'j. Ihe proposition being only a rcpititiou of one made by the same Sena tor, at every previous session, it met with densive laughter. Of course it was referred, to "sheep the sleep that knows no waking." This Senator Ramsey' is a Pennsylvanian Alexander Ramsey, of Harrisburg, and family represented the Dauphin district in the other house. His term expires next March, and Ignaticus Donvelly is his Rad ical compotitor before the Legislature of Minnesota. Mr. Dumally is also a Penn- pylvanian. being formerly from Philadel phia. Senator Pomroy, of Kansas, introduced a bill to continue the Freedman's Bureau in Virginia Mississippi and Texas. You will reeollect the Radical press boasted that this source of taxation and corruption would ex pire at the end of the current year. In deed, the Rump Congress itself had passed a law to that effect. The Oregon Legislature had resolutions presented in the House requesting its Sena tors and Members who voted to impeach the President to resign. The House refused to receive the resolutions, and returned them. A resolution increasing the tax on copper one to three cents a pvtinJ was passed, on the grouud, I tuppose, that the Rump House desires a monopholy of brass. The Message came in on Wednesday, and its reading caused quite a scene in the Sen ate. You will have seen by tee Message itself, before this time, that it pours hot shot inte the Rump for its glaring and pre sistent outrages upon the Cor.stitueion and ths rights of the people. Radical Senator Conness, wis-representiDg the Democratic State of California, objected to continuing its reading, and wheu somewhat rtbuked by more intelligent Rtdicals, he was akout w ithdrawing his obv etion when the pure and immaculate Comeron of Pennsjlvania arose in his place and renewed it. There was a flutter a little sparring, and a mo tion for adjournment was put and carried. On Thursday, when the message again came before the Senate, Simon persisted in his objectien to its reading till he was fairly looked down by other Senators, and then yielded with the worst possible grace. The Message was then read through and tabled, as the next greatest indignity the Senate could bestow upon it. A Pennsylvanian cannot but. feel a sense of degradation to find his great State repre sented by such a creature as Simon Cameron. I trust the r.ew Radical Seuator from Penn sylvania will give character to the position rod prove a rebuke to corruptionists. President Johnson rtcommends in his message a repeal of the Civil Tenure Bill anl Senator Butler has made motion to the same effect. As the law was not enacted for any good purpose, but to hamper the President in the performance of his uty, it will no doubt be repealed, now that Grant is elect ed. That law, though almost every Radi cal member voted for it, will have but few to sustain it when the occasion that induced its passage shall have passed away. Of course Butler's purpose is to make fair weather with Grant. He has an "eye single," or rather a single eye, to his own political success. It will be recollected that Grant had him "bottled up" once, but this will relax the "corkajro." You will recdlect that according to Radi cal Reconstruction Georgia ''came iu" last mmmtr and, by Radical permission, voted for President; but she some how forgot to vote for Grant. On the contrary she voted for Seymour and Blair. Senator Sumner ha3 offered a resolution to the effect that Georgia shall be unreconstructed again and it is quite probable the Radicals will pass it. It was proposed to have the Virginia election on the 20 th of January next, and a Radical debate grew out of it, in which the only question was whether the State be Radical. If Radical, she should come in if not, not. Petitions are pouring in for Woman's Suffrage, and it is by no means clear that the "dear creatures" may not get the right to vote in this District. If the law should pass 1 ilou't thiuk many of them will ever vote "on age," for I never fouud a young lady to acknowledge she was over twenty one. It is rendered pretty nearly certain that E. B- Washburne, of Illinois, Gen. Grant's neighbor and confidential friend and adviser, will be his Secretary of the Treasury. Though I see several announcements of the General's Cabinet, I view them all as mere ly conjectural except that of Washburne. Some are urging little Ned Mac Pheon for P. M. General, with what prospects of suc cess no one can tell. Pennsylvania, unless her Radicals quarrel, will get a Cabinet ap pointment. The Democrats here are in good spir its, and enjoy themselves over the troubles of the Radicals. Nothing but the "cohe sive power of the public plunder can hold the Radicals together for a single twelve month after the inauguration of Grant. But I have filled my sheet. Yours, Very Truly, Jcsiata. The minutest fossil horse yet discover ed was lately found by Professor O. C. Marsh, of Yale College, in the tertiary de posits of Nebraska. Although full-grown, as the ossification of the various banes prove, it was only about two feet high. This makes seventeen species of fossil horse now known to have lived in North America, although, until quite recently, it was generally believed that there were none indigenous to the con tinent. Advices from San Kow, China, report the safe return of two Ministers of the Lon don Wesleyan Mission. Upon traveling through China, they were well treated, and saw abundance of coal evidences, and of gold, silver, lead and iron mines. Catholic mis sions were very numerous, and Qitho'ic converts were numbered by hundreds of thousands. A big brother with ft pistol behind the bridegroom was one of the concomitants of a marriage put West recently, Xevrs rtlie ITceR. A three million Catholic cathedral is being built in Canton, China, and another in Pekin. Grant despises oratory. Balaam's ass, in his opinion, was not near so intelligent a creature as Bonner's Dexter. Among a number of crows seen reeently in Kirby, Vt., was one half white, having the most of the feathers in one wing and on the back perfectly white. A female servant in the Adams' niiuse, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, was burned to death on Wednesday. Her clothing took fire from the explosion of a kerosene lamp. Finley, who artempted to rob and mur der llaj. White, in Schuylkill couwty, diep the other day, in the PottsvHle jail from wounds received in the conflict with his in tended victim. Helena (Montana) has a curious ppeci ment of gold from boulder. It is a correct representation of the shell of a snail, and weighs 9.60. It is in its original form, moulded in the rocks. What may be expected of Grant, in the event of his having occasion to exercise the "much abused" veto power : "For reasons best known to myself. I have the honor to return the bill without my signature." Joseph S. Martin, aged sixty years, a resident of Brooklyn, New York, committed suicide by hanging himself with a silk hand kerchief to the door knob of his bed room at the State Capitol Hotel, Harrisburg, on Fri day. ' A negro named Jones brutally abused the wife t Rev. ilr. James, ef Raleigh, N. C.. on Friday, for taking fire-wood. James, upon expostuatins: witn the negro was shot dead by him. The murderer has been ar rested. Canadian weather prophets predict a hard winter, from the number of bears and other wild animals Bearing the abodes of men. We wonder how the bears expressed their fears before the men inhabited the region. On Saturday, in Worcester, Mass., a man named Lune Tulley attempted to mur der his wife. He shot her in three places and then shot himself and gashed his throat with a knife. The woman will recover, bt.t Tully can't survive. Ell wood- Bates, a young man employed on the Kail road near Uhaurt s rord, was killed on Tuesday last, by a derrick falling on him. He was engaged in hoisting a stone, when the apparatus gave way, crush ing him iu its desceut. Weston has postponed his walk from Biddeford, Me., to St. Paul until the 5th of January, being delayed by the non arrival of expected friends. He will at once go to New York and make arrangements for his return to Bangor to begin again. A western millionaire astonishes New Yorkers by driving a span of blacks tandem, with white leather harness. The million aire must be a Radical bondholder. Only Radicals are trying to demonstrate how well the blacks can do in white harness. The Winthrop (Me J Bulletin tails a st rv of a cat fifiv-two years old. The ani mal is in the family of Nelson Norcross, of Windham, Mass., and during her early life she went three trips to the West Indies before the mast. She ha3 been the mother of 255 kittens. The Chilton (WiO Times says that, in the town of Woodville, an Indian and a she bear were found lying together. The Indian had put six shots into the bear, and then attacked her with his knife, and in ber dying struggles she had grappled and equaezed the life out of him. In the family of Stephen nerriek, cf Middlesex, Vt.. there are three mothers, three grandmothers, three daughters, two granddaughters-, two wives, one widow, two husbands, two fathers, two sous-in-law, one grandfather and one son-in-law, and only six members in the fajnily. There was actually drawn from Jthe United States Treasury to pay for the pur chase of Alaska, $7,200,000 ; but $5,000 000 was sent to the Czar. What became of the balance? This is a very interesting conundrum. We shall be glad to furnish the answer, as soon as we get it. Mrs. Abraham Lincoln while recently making some purchases at a fancy goods store at Frankfort-on-the Main, suddenly fainted away. She was removed to her apartments in the Hotel d' Angleterre, where at last accouat3 she was lying in a condi tion which gave rise to grave apprehensions- Alexander Willis, (colored J the Federal solriier who was to have been hanged in Raleigh ."N. C, Frida3'. for the murder of Alexander Shelby, has had bis sentence commuted by Governor Holden to imprison ment for life in the State Penitentiary. In the eyes of loyal Governors color far surpass es charity in covering sids. Strange phenomena are reported in the Sierra Nevada mountains, at the head of Kera river. The earth is said to have been shaking for more than two weeks almi'st a constant shake, roliinjj rocks down the mountains, and the earth waving like the sea. It is supposed that it ia a volcano getting ready to burst out A scalawag organ in Tallahassee, Fla.. grieves because that State is not represented in Congress by a negroes. It says "it might have been" had not the negro belted the regular Radical nomination. The party was so corrupt that the negro could not swallow it, and the organ will have to be content with a carpet bag representative. Willian Marshall, charged with the murder of his mother and brother, in Platte county, Missouri, gome time ago, and for whose arrest a reward of $3,000 was offeicd, was secured last Sunday in Barry, Missouri, and lodged in Platte county jail. The in ducement to the crime was to secure the property which would revert to him at their deaths. The Allegan Journal (Mongrel) says : "The Republican party has been truly re presented by that sterling and steadfast Re publican, Z ichariah Chandler." Chandler has been " steadfastly "drunk ever since he entered the United States Senate, and if he "truly represents" his party, they must be a fearful set of inebriates and blackguards in Michigan. Mrs. Lyon, of Lehman township, Pike county, is in jail for alleged shooting of her husband. She borrowed several loads of buckshot from her neighbor, and it is sup posed loaded her husband's gun, and while he lay asleep shot him. She is said to be of a quarrelsome disposition, and some words passd between the couple early in the evening. An equal saffrage meeting was recently held in Cincinnati, at which fifty persons twenty-five of each sex were present. Res olutions were adopted setting forth the principles that in a Republican Government the right to vote should not be restricted to any class, color or sex. An association was formed for the promotion of universal suf frage and equal rights. George Francis Train has been set at liberty, the plaintiffs in the case against him having withdrawn the suits. Train has is sued writs against the Marquis of Abercorn, Lrd Lieutenant of Ireland, for $100,000 damages for false imp isoumeut. and against the Ebbervale Steel Company for $20,000. Train has sailed in the Australasian, from QuecDstown, for New York. LijDclx Law in Indiana Express Robbers II nil? uy n jiod. A vigilence committee, said to hail from Seymour, Indiana, arrived at New Albany at eleven o'clock Saturday night, and at three A. M. proceeded to the I lovd county jail and demanded admission, which was re fused by the jailer, lie was, however, soon overpowered and tied, and the watchman was compelled to open the cells ot the noto rious express robbers. John, x rank and bi- mon Reno, and Charles Anderson, who were immediately seized upon and all four bung. Frank Reno fought desperately for bis Jife. The committee returned on the seven o'clock train this morning. Two of the robbers, Frand Reno and Charles Anderson, had but recently arrived from Canada, where they tried under the extradition laws. Later. Additional particulars of the tragedy at New Albany have been received here. Abont three a. m. Luther Whitten, one of the outside guards of the jail, was met at ihe entrance by a party of men, who pre sented pistols at him, demanding silence or death. Whitten, however, shouted, but was seized, knocked down, and informed that if another shout was uttered he should die. By this time the jail ofKce was filled with men searching for tha kyes. Sheriff Fullalove, understanding the situation, came down from his bleeping apartment and gained the door leading to the grounds on the west side of the jail, there he met an armed force, who directed their pistonls at him. He exclaimed, "Gentlemen, don't shoot ; I am Sheriff." One of them shot, however, the bullet taking effect in his right arm, inflicting a severe and painful wound. The keys were demauded, but he posi tively refused to surrender them. About a dozen of them then entered Fullalove's room, where his wife lay in bed, and de manded the keys of ber, which she refused ; but they succeeded in finding them conceal ed in a drawer, and Thomas Mathews, one of the inside guards, wes compelled open the cells of the men. The mob had deter mined to hang Frank and William Reno first, and they were diaged out and hung alongside of each other on the earns pillar. Simon Reno was then brought out, but he fought the mob with great cespeiation, j uown before he was knocking one or two uovr overpowered and left suspended between the ceiling and floor. Charles Anderson, the last victim, was heard to beg for the privi lege f praying, but his request was refured. and he was hung at the southwest comer cf the jail cell. After threatening to kill the Shir'fF, the mob proceeded to the train, car ry ing with them the jail keys. From the jail to the train armed men stood on guard to prevent any alarm being given. At four p M. the train, with the entire party, consisting of seveuty-five to one hun dred men, started off. They came well arm ed aud t quipped for the work. They in tended to hang a man camel Clark, the murderer of George Tille, but they conclud ed cot to do so, fearing to remain loneer. These vigslants came from Sjymour, Indiana, in a car by themselves, attached to the reg ular train. Cha-les Anderson and Frank Re io, were surrendered by the Canadian authorities up on a solemn pledge by the United Slates Government that they should have a fair trial, and if found iuuocent should be re turned to Canada. A Mysterious Rkvelation A Witness of the IIorM Brfure the Flood. A queer exhumation was made iu the Strip Vein Coal Iiank of Captain Lacy, at hammondsville, O., one day last week, Mr. Jan.es Parsons and his two sons were engaged in making the bank, when a huge nsass of coal fell ilown, dicWing a large tmocth slate wall, upon the surface of which were found, carv ed in bld relief, several lines of hierogly phics. Crowds have visitel the place since the discovery, an I mcny gxlo scholars hive tried to decipher the characters, but all have failed. Nobody has been able to tell in what ton gun the words are written. How came the mysterious wkir.g in the bowels of the earth, where propably no human has ever penetrated'? By who and when was it written ? There are several lines, about three inches apart, the first containing twenty-five words. Attempts have been made to remove the slate wall and bring it out, but xipon tapping the wall it gave forth a hollow sound that would indicate the existence of a hollow chamber beyond, and the characters would be destroyed in re moving it. At last accounts. Dr. Harts horn, of Mount Union college, has been tent for to examine the writing. A novel lunar phenomenon was visible at Norwich, Conn., on Tuesday evening. As the moon rose, a distinct aud perfect du plicate was reflected close by its southern side. It continued thus for many minutes, and was observed with interest by many people. H o D E It S OF GOVERNMENT SECURITIES Can realize a handsome profit by exchanging them for the FIRST MORTGAGE TONDS or THE Union Pacific Railroad OK THE FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS OF THK Central Pacific Railroad On this date, October 19. For SI000 TJ. 8. 6s of 1861 we would jrive S10O0 Union Pacific Railroad Bond and $124. 33 cash. For $1000 5.20s of 1862 we would pive $1000 Union Pacific Railroad Bond and $100.33 cash. For $1000 5-203 of 18G5, May and November, we would give $1000 Union Pacific Railroad Bond and t88.08 cash. For 4000 5-20s of 1SC5, January and July, we would give $1000 Union Pacific Railroad Bond and $78.08 cash. For $ 1 000 5 20s of 1 867, we would give $ 1 000 Union Pacific Railroad Bond and S7ri,(l8 cash. For $1000 5 20sof 1868, we would give $1000 Union Pacific Railroad Bond and fbO 58 cash. For $1000 10.40s. we wonld give $1000 Uiiiun Pacific Railroad Bond and $25 5d cash. In case Central Pacific Railroad Bonds are preferred, the difference would be $10 less ot each $10W0 exchanged. The difference will vary slightly as Govern ments go up or down. DellAYEX & BROTHER, DEALERS IN GOVERNMENT SECURI TIES, GOLD, ETC., No. 40 South Third Street, Dec. 10. 1868-ly. PHILADELPHIA. CAUTION. All persons are hereby cautioned against interfering in any way with the following described property, which I have bought from James W. Delozier and left with him during my pleasure: Two bay mares, one five and the other four years old last spring. The left bind foot of tke five year old mare is white. JOHN N AGLE, J a. Clearfield Tp., Dec. 10, 18G8 3t. T ICENSE NOTICE. The following -"- petition for Eating House License haa been filed in my office, and will be presented to the Judges of the Court of Quarter Sessions at the next Argument Court : Henry Shaffer, Richland township. J. K. HITE. Clerk. Eteasburg, Dec. 10, 18C8-3t. Immediate' aod OP READY-MADE CLOTHING. OWING TO CHANGES that have taken place in our firm, by reanon of the death rf or e of the members, it has become absolutely necessary to sell out oar entire Stock ..f FALIL 4 WMf EE CliOTMMG. Bather than send any portion of it to Auction, we will offer it to the people at Prices Below the Cost of Manufacturing, and thns clear out our entire Establishment securing a BY LETTING THE GOODS GO at such rates as will satisfy any reasonable purchor. Oar immense house ia fairly loaded with GARMENTS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, Suitable to all Classes Made it mm the utmost cahk Of the vert Finest Mateeials comprising, is t3e GENERAL READY-MAPE DEPARTMENT 3000 OVERCOATS, made in mot fashionable style?, of all kinds of Beavers, Chinchil las, Incots , Ac. 3000 SUITS, Coats, PauU and Vests of the same material Business, Dress, Traveling-. "Indispensible" Suiitg, 4c. 5000 COATS, Chesterfields and Sac3, Morning and Lounging Coats, Frock and Drei Coats. Ac 5000 Prs. PAXTA LOOXS, of all materials, and cut on every approved style, Harrow and Xobbv. plain and comfortable. GOOO VESTS, Velvet Vesta, Fancy Cassimere Vests, Cloth Vets, double or tingle brea' high or low cut. In the CUSTOM DEPARTMENT. e Uro a lirfr nir.ptmuit nf P;wo f5n' that must be disTX?ed of : to do hicb Here we propose for a Few p," to make to order from DEDUCTION OF 15 PER CENT. FOR ALL CASH ORDERS. Thus we ofiVr Clothing a pood in point? or STYLE, MATERIAL, FIT n.l FINISH as cm be had in any 3IGHCUAXT TAILOUI.G ESTABLISH 31 EXT, and at aU-ut half the ordinary prices. In tie Youths' and Children's Department. This department has b;en a fpeciaiitv with us this year. "We have hd manif ictme i the largest and bet assortm nt or BOYS' CLOTHING to be louxj iu the cUv, all of wlach is now for sale at GREATLY KEUUCED TRICES. A RARE OPPORTIIMTY TO FIT OCT THE IMBREX. BLACK GOODS ROOMS. MOURNING WEAR C'erical Garments, Fill Dress Suits. Llack Cloth Ove.cuats, Black Cloth and D -kiu TWs. Biack Cloth and Caaaimere Coatr, Clatk VcsJi In the Gent's Furnishing Department, any customer purchasing an article of clothina: will be alllowtd a deduction' of TWENTY PER CtNT. ou any additional purchase made iu this department. HANDKERCHIEFS, OVERCOATS, HOSIERY. SHIRTS, COLLARS, ic , &c. &c gss AT.-m COMMENCES TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1st. Store will be opened early and closed late. About SEVENTY-FIVE SALESMEN will be in attendance. Prompt and polite attention will he given t all. No customer will be unsuppliod if any it a-onable accommodation of prices will induce him to buy. REMEMBER THESE POINTS: 1st. It H tie largest and best stock in the city. 2nd It mfftt be all sold NOW 3d. At rrioea tven below our lowest current rates. 4tta That whatever yur size or th-ipe, you cau be fitted. 5ih. The goods are o elegant anj the prices -o low. that it will pay you to lay in a stock, of cloihii g for the next few yers. Oib. That you miy never have another such chance. OUR NECESSITY IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY! WAffAMAKER & BROWN, OAK HALL BUILDINGS, S. E. Cor. Sixth and Market Sts., Dec. 3. 18C8.-tf. Tj. L. LANGSTIIOTirS 1 PiTEST MOVABLE COMB BEE HIVE! PRONOUNCED THE BEST EVER YET introduced in this Cou:.ty or Stale. Any person buing a family ri;ht cftn have their Bees transferred from au old box to n nerf one. In every instance in which this has been done the result has been entirely satisfactory, and the fir.t take of honey has invariably paid all expenses, and frequently exceeded them. Proof of the superior merits of this invention will be found in the testimony of every man who has given it a trial, and among the number are the gentlemen named bejow, and their experience should induce every one interested in Bees to - BUY A FAMILY RIIIT! Henry C. Kirkpatrick, of Carroll township, took 1U6 pounds of surplus honey from two hives, which he sold at 35 cents per pound. Adam Deitrich. of Carroll township, took from two hives 100 pounds of surplus honey. James Kirkpatrick, ot Chest township, took 60 pounds of surplus honey from one hive. Jacob Kirkpatrick, of Chest township, ob tained 72 pounds of surplus honey from one hire, worth not less than $21, and the right cost him only $5. Peter Campbell from one hive obtained 36 pounds of surplus honey at one time. &3"Quite a number of similar statements, authenticated by sume of the best citizens of Cambria county, could be obtained in proof of the superior merits of Laugstroth'a Patent Mo vable Comb Bee Hive. Tersons wishing to purchase family rights should call on or address PETER CAMPBELL, Nov. 5, 188G.-tf. Carrolltown, Pa. ANDREW MOSES, MERCHANT TAILOR, StrrpEs's Boildiho, Clinton St., Johsstown, H AS in3t received his fall and winter stock . . of fine French. London and American CLOTHS, CASSIMERES and VEST1NGS, and a full assortment of Gent's Fernishino Goods. Mr. Moses has been for eight years cutter at Wood, Morrell & Co.'s establishment, and now desires to inform his friends and the public gen erally that he has commenced business in Sup pes's building, on Clinton street, with a stock of goods adapted to the fall and winter, which he is prepared to make up in the latest styles and at moderate prices for cash, hoping by at tention to business to merit a share of public pttronage, and maintain that success which has heretofore attended his efforts in producing good fitting garments. Give him a call. Johnstown, Sept. 2, 1868.-tf. F. ALT FAT HER, MANUFACTURER And Wholesale and Jletail Dealer in HAVANA AND DOMESTIC CIGARS, PLTJCt A ISD FISE Cl'T Clsetvlng and Smoking Tobacco. u'"jjt -uu-m -..jn., it thtc sign or tux nroiAK,- MAIN STREET, - - - JOUfSTOWN. Snuff, Pipes, Snuff Boxes if Cigar Cases, imperative - measure, in our very best style making a i M. L. OAT MAN, DEALER IU CHOICE FAMILY GROCERIES COXSTSTTNG P Rouble tn familn i lour, GRAI, FEED, BACON, SALT, FISH, FIIESII VEGETABLES, ALL KINDS OF FRUITS, SUGARS, TEAS, COFFEES, SYRUPS, MOLASSES, CHEESE, &c Also, a large stock of the Best Brands of Cigars and Tobacco. STOKE OX HIGH STREET, Four Doors East of Crawford's Hotel, Ebcnsburgr, Ia. New Firm New Goods. THE undersigned, having given bis Bon, J. E. Shields, an interest in hU store. the business will hereafter be conducted un- aer lne nrm ame ol 1 eias I 3 ,3 m. .11 " 3H V 1 . i f Ti tt cn 1 ' BUU 3 wo reucramiircu w eu vouu& i-ueup for cash, or exchange for grain, lumber or produce, we hope fcy strict attention to bus iness to merit a liberal patronage from a generous public. Haying determined to settle np my old books of thirty years standing. I nw those indebted to me to come forward and make settlement on or before the 1st day ci December, 1868. V. II. SHIELDS. Loretto, Oct. 15, 18G8.-tf. AILORING ESTABLISHMENT REMOVED. The subscriber would re spectfully announce?to his customers and the citizens of Ebensbarg and vicinity generally, that he has remove.! to the tew building on Centre street, pro'w the Mountain House and snnp' MERKS, VESTING-. Ac. whh-h hewUi u. .ke to order in the best tv a:".! at t'-.- ' rrl- i ces. .r eeling comment oi giving enur Bat 1 faction, I hopo for an lnereMd patronage 1 my new locattoa. D.J.EVAI3. Feeling confident ot giving entire saU- adioinin"- the lw omce OI Ueo. al. Keaae, Xusq. and is now not only prepared to mainifacure all troods which mar be brought to bim. hi t ii
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