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