THE FREEMAN.I
SXXNSBVHV, PA.,
Thursdat, : : : s 7ax. 2?,1869.
VALEDICTORY, y
My connection with the Cawbhta Tbex
Maw, as Its editor, ceased 'with the close of
the second volume, and alter the present is
sue my name will be withdrawn from the
position it has occupied since the $stablish
ment of the paper in January, 1867. It i
not improper to say a few words before the
editorial department passes into other hands.
. Two .years ago the publication of the Fbke
if as was commenced. The objVct was to
restore" the Democratic organ of the county
to the confidence of the party and the peo
ple. How far this has been accomplished it
not for me to say. The large and con
stantly increasing list of subscribers, how
ever, afford satisfactory evidence that I have
hot labored in vain. Still, Small praise is
due to my effort.?, embarrassed as they were
ly pressing duties in another sphere. The
success of the Fbeemak is mainly the result
of the zeal and energy of its publisher, who
has given it his constant and unwearied at
tention ever Ftnce its publication was com
menced. While he has given it in a great
measure whatever of local interest it has pos
sessed in the r-ast, the promptness of its
publication at the same time every week
gave it increased value. I cordially re
commend him to my friends asona w" will
continue to male the Fcekman worthy of
their coi.Cdence and eupport.
Xor will the editorial department of the
FnEUA2? suffer by my withdrawal. More
time and more talent will bo given to this
department than I have been able to bestow
upon It, and its readers may confidently ex
pect an improvement on the past.
Nor will I deny myself the pleasure of an
occasional contribution when time and cir
cumstances permit, and JIacShane and the
other correspondents will fill their places as
heretofore.
To my brethren of the quill I can only say
that I part company with them with regret
a regret softened, however, by the recol
lection that our intercourse has for the most
part been plea&ant and agreeable; and I ab
dicate the chair editorial without an unkind
feeling towards any one. In retiring 1 ten
der to all patrons, friends and enemies
the kindest wishes of my heart for their pre
sent and future welfare and happiness.
Given under my hand at Pittsburgh, this
25th day of January, A. D. 1SG9, and of my
Independence the first.
R. L. JOHNSTON.
lVASIIIXGTOX.
Amendments to the Constitution are still
the order of the day In Congress. They
come not now in battallions bet in spies.
As yet they have not been discussed, and
therefore no vote has been taken on any of
th:m. Moorchead's fchort tariff bill, as it is
callei, has gone to the bleep that knows no
waking, at least for ti e presout session.
Ben. Butler has introduced a new financial
scheme in the House, and Las made a lengthy
rpcech in support of it. Benjamin wants to
abolish gold and silver altogetbor, and to
substitute an irredeemable paper currency in
their stead. Butler thinks that gold and
silver are relics of a b:ubarous age. There
was a time when Ben. was supposed to have
strong love for the precious metals, in all
their different shapes, and when he had an
ugly habit of laying violent Lands on them.
Bnt siuue a New York judge made him dis
gorge fifty thousand dollars which he bad
stolen from a banking house in New Orleans,
he seem to have acquired a dislike to the
article.
A large number of till are before Con
gress granting both money and lands in aid
of several new railroads from the western
border to the Pacific coast, and to branch
roads to cciect with the Uuion Pacific rail
Dad. All these projects constitute the most
xipaDito swindle of this or any other age.
They are rotten and corrupt, and about four
fifths of the members are directly interested
iu the spoils.
A long but animated discussion has taken
place in the Senate on Miss Sue Murphy's
claim. Suan lives in Decatur, Alabama,
aiid claims seven thousand dollars for dama
ges done to her property by the Union army
wfcen it occur ied that place. Susan says she
loyal, and io this she is sustained by
tl.e fiicers of the army who were in Decatur
at the time. She ought to be paid, but
v hotter she is or not one thing is certain
that when the debate on ht-r case is closed
Sue Murphy will be the best known young
woa.au in the country, and if she does cot
jet hur mcny she will acquire what some
p-ote prizo more highly, an unbounded no
toriety. A bill was before the House last week au
thorizing the President to extend the protec
tion cf this government over Uayti and St.
Doiuingo. The preposition ought to have
embraced Dahoawy and Southern Africa.
The bill was laid on the table.
A woman rights convention was in ses
sion in Washington last week. They want
an amendment to the constitution conferring
the right of suffrage on women, black and
white. All the old stagers were on hand
Mrs. Mcit. Mrs. Wright, Susan B. Anthouy,
Mrs. SUnUa, Mrs. Dr. Walker, and others.
Mrs. Dr. Walker appeared on the platform
in pantaloons, wearing her hair after the
fashion of Etp.
A nations! convention of the colored peo
ple was also in session in that city. Thev
aleo want Congress to so amend the Consti
tution at to give them the right to vote in
all the Northern States.- Forney said in his
piper that their deliberations would compare
favorably vritb those of Congress. Whether
heioteiided by that revaark to compliment
the negroes or to degrade Congress might
some doubt, but we can't see that I
it wM fcm ft titer effect. " j
If the taxpayers of the country could form
any adequate-conception of the numberless
ways in which a Radical Congress squanders
the money collected from them by tho govern
ment, they would open their eyes with per
fect amazement. Here is one instance among
a thousand. The Johnstown Tribune of the
15th instint, under the head of "Laws of
the United States,! publishes three columns
and a half of closely printed matter, which
is made up entirely of appropriations to va
rious Indian tribes under certain treaty stip
ulations. The following paragraph, relating
to the .Miami. Indians in Kansas, is a speci
men of the entire series of appropriations:
For permanent provision for blacksmith nnd
assistant, and iron and steel for hop. per fifth
article treaty sixth of October, eighteen hun
dred and eighteen, end fourth article u-caty
June filth, eighteen hundred and fitty-fuur,
nine hundred and forty dollars.
This is the second instalment of the kind,
for at the commencement of the publication
are the words, "continued from last wtseJc,"
and we learn from the words at the bottom.
"to be concluded next ucek," that its readers
will be served with another dish of the same
intellectual food.
The real object of the Radicals in Congress
when tbey panned the act under which the
laws of the United States are published in
certain obscure country newspapers, w u ;
enable a few Radical paper-J Men stalled
in the Southern fi..-sbj Northern carpet- j
base" 10 maintain their ex'utence by sub
stantial aid from the public treasury. The
benefits of the law have been extended,
through the ii.fluence cf Radical Congress
men, to numerous Northern journals of the
loyal stamp. In the number of the l"iibunc
referred to may be found appropriations to
the following tribes of Indians: The Makah
tribe, the Menamoncas Mold Indians, Nis
qnally and Puyadup Indians, tho Nez Perees.
the Omahas Quapaws, the Qui-na-elt and
Quil-leh-ute Indians, the Goship bands, fcc
What' manner of intersst the people of
Cambria county can have in these Indian
appropriations, apart from the taxes they
are compelled to pay for that among other
purposes, is not visible to the naked eye.
Not one man in a thousand would read them,
nor would he feel any more interest in them
than he would in the domestic economy of
the South Sea Islanders. In how many loj'al
papers North and South these laws are pub
lished we have no means of knowing. Of
course the work is not done merely for the
love of the Indians, but the government is
charged a round sum fjr it, aud the people's
money is taken to pay for it. Thousands of
dollars are thus annually filched from ths
treasury to pay for a useless job and thereby
support and maintain Radical newspapers.
We do not attach any blame to the editor of
the Tribune. He did not make the law, and
is simply availing himself of the profligate
expenditure of the public money by his Rad
cal friends in Congress. The law is a shame
less swindle and a cheat. Hundreds of icn
ilar iustances of reckless extravagance might
be giveu. Congress legislates upon the the
ory that greenbacks grow upon every bush
by the wayside, and to be possessed need
only to bo plucked. The people are restive
and impatient under the oppressive weight
of taxation. They atk for bread and a cor
rupt Congress throws them a stone. How
long will this endure 1 How long will the
patient taxpayers of this country consent to
be robbed and plundered by the men
Washington ?
Dates' Military History.
But few persons not acquainted wuii iiic
dark and crooked ways of Pennsylvania legis
lation are aware that there is now being pre
pared, under the supervision of one G&mue
P. Btes, a military history of the Pennsyl
vania volunteers who served in the late re
bellion. It seems that daring the session of 1864
a claune was inserted in the appropriation
bill authorizing the Governor to appoint
some competent person to prepare a military
history of the organization of the Pennsylva
nia volunteers and militia who have been in
the field, and who 6hall be paid a sum not
exceeding twenty Jivt hundred dollars for such
service. At first sight this would seem to Le
a trifling matter, but it is bound to end in a
stupendous fraud upon the treasury. If any
man supposed that it was intended at the
beginning to complete the work for twenty
five hundred dollars he was not among the
initiated. It was simply the entering wedge
of a terrible vent in the treasury merely a
beginning of the end. Accordingly, at the
session of 1S7. the sum cf three tliousand
dollars was appropriated for the same pur
pose, and at the session of 1868 an addition
al appropriation cf six thousand Jive hundred
dollars was made to pay clerks and other in
cidental expenses, thus making the sum of
twelve thousand dollars already appropriated
for this purpose. More than four years have
elapsed since this long tailed rat took shelter
under the public rueal;tub, and we learn from
the Harrisbnrg Patriot that the historian has
progressed no further, than the fiftieth regi
ment, and has publiehed the first volume of
bis work, containing over thirteen hundred
pages.
Tnis is a huge job, and will cost the State
at UsAtffty thousand dollars. Lei no man
delude himself with the idea that no more
appropriations will be made in aid of Bates'
history. He has got the machine in full
.operation, and its wheels will be kept well
greased by a Radical legislature. Just as
certain as the next legislature meets just so
sure will the inevitable Bates make his ap
pearanee, knocking at the doors of the trea
sury, with the second volume or his history
in his hand, and his Radical friends will Dm-
nounee the magical words, " Oven Stsnm.
A
tiv.i..i!. t . . -
. uc wuo.o u.ng is an impudent swindle and
a robbery upon the taxpayers of the Com
monwealth. Who Samuel P. Rnt
know not, neither do we care. In this State
he has hitherto been unknown t r v..
A
in the first volume of his work he is evidently
a man of letters. -
. ,We have this one request to make of Bates.
A company of veterans called the "Silver
Grays," who fjught. bled and died , for their
country, was essentially a Cambria county
organiration. Ilere was first conceived the
grand idea of its formation, and from this
county was recruited most of its members.
The people of this county, therefore, feel a
just and patriotic pride in all that relates to
it. When Bates comes to write the history
of the organization and subsequent career of
that strong arm of the military force of Penn
sylvania we trust that he -will do it full and
ample justice. Let him remember that as
Napoleon had his '-Old Guard" so had Cam
bria county its "Silver Grays." Without
the history of the "Silver Grays" Bates' his
tory would be a sad failure. It would be
the play of Hamlet with the part of Hamlet
left out.
One Thousand Silica.
From the mountains of Utah, close upon
the valley of Great Salt Lake, flashes a dis
patch, savins that one thousawl miles of
rails Lave been laid upon the Uoio rac
Railroad. For a distant '!atfir thaQ from
Washington Orleans, from New
York Mobile, or Boston to Chicago, has
this continental railroad been pushed west
ward from Omaha, which is itself more than
fourteen hundred miles from Na York by
the nearest travelled route. Chicago was, a
few years ago, the "far West;" to-day the
locomotive, drawing after it not only its
heavily laden train, but population, manu
factures, agriculture and civilization, is
fifteen hundred miles beyond the Garden
City on the Lake. Beyond the Missouri
stretched the ''Great American Desert,"
untilled. unsettled, unexplored ; the railroad
in crossing it, has opeued to emigration lands
unequalled on the continent for luxuriant
crops of corn, wheat and grass. The Rocky
Mountaiua were Nature's alm6t insur
mountable barrier to further extension of
population or trade; the railroad engineers
have found a pathway over which they
transport crowded trains at twenty-five
miles an hour, while all the abundant facil
ities of a well-stocked road are taxed to the
utmost to meet the demands made by the
freighting traffic. In inception, execution,
and results, this is the grandest enterprise of
modern times.
We have spoken of the extent r.f the traffic
of the Union Pac;ac. It must le borne in
mind that all the business thus far has been
local'trade upon the finished part of a road
which precedes, instead of follows, emigration
'and the mauuold business ot populous com
munitses. And yet, the earnings of the
Union Pacific Railroad for the year 18(58.
upon an average distance of less than 700
miles, were more Utan Jive million dollars a
fact as curprising as gratiti'ing. Every
added mile opens new sources of revenue,
and every year will see the business of every
section very gieatly increased. Add to this
extraordinary local traffic the trade of Utah,
Nevada, Montana and Oregon, ns they are
successively brought within the reach of the
U. P. R. R., and .then, to that sum add the
immense through transportation, which wi'l
be inevitable when the grand line to the
Pacific shall be complete, and the total can
hardly be realized or even estimated.
One thousand miles of thiF road have been
built. Five hundred miles of the Central
Pacific have also been opened, leaving but
about two hundred miles between the two
roads. This gap will be filled early in the
present year, and by tho beginning of sum
mer the tourist may, in the space of a week,
make personal comparison of the state of the
crops upon the Granite Hills, and upon the
western slope of the California Coast Range.
Government has given so liberal aid to the
Union Pacific Railroad that it may be fairly
denominated a national work. The Govern
ment loan Of tiuwla la mmW o -l.x, ivij
gres--es, and the Company's own bonds to an
amoUDt equal to the U. S. bond subsidy find
a ratv !a. These bonds are for $1,000
each, have thirty years to run, pay 6 per
cent, gold interest, the principal is redeem
able in gold, and they are, bv provision of
the national charter, made a First Mortgage
upon the entire line. A limited amount are
offered for the present at PAR and accrued
interest, in currency.
Many bankers predict that when the road
is completed, and the issue of bonds conse
quently stopped, their prico will be higher
than Governments, they having so longtime
to run. It is probable that a large amount
will be taken for investment npon foreign
account. The bonds may be obtaiued of De
Haven & Brother, Dealers iu Government
Secmities, Gold, &c, 40 South 3d St..
Philadelphia, Pa.
Defeat of the Radical Nominee fob
U. S- Senator in Indiana. King Caucus
has been dethroned in the State of Indiana.
A corrupt politician named Will. Cumback
was made the radical nominee for U. S.
Senator to succeed Mr. Hendricks. Sixteen
radical members of the legislature refused to
support him and voted for a candidate of
their own. The democrats supported Mr.
Hendricks for re-election. Numerous ballots
were had without resulting in the election of
either of these candidates. The sixteen
radical bolters, however, stood firm. They
could neither bo wheedled nor forced from
their purpose to defeat the corrupt Cumback.
Finally that gentleman was compelled to
withdraw, and Mr. D. D. Pratt, a respecta-
uic ami conservative man, was elected.
The moral of this result is that indenend
ence and firmness give power and success to
the weak and few. A Btrong will is worth
a regiment in battle. Let the members of
our legislature profit bv the exam da of h
sixteen fearless Indianians who refused to
oow neiore the throne of King Caucus, but
who. in utter contempt of his power, took
him hv t Via rtatb a A X. V. J
disgracefully out of the legislative ball.
"j anii DHPiN m. Ti I riir fn on Ft m,
Aiumsuurg ratnot.
An Ebbob. We notice that several of
K?:.ea;if,excbD,?e3'.sai'8 H.rris-
uaye iauen into trie error of
j granted that if the State Com
rnrttee does not meet before the fourth of
March and appoint a later day for the as
sembhng of the State Convention, that body
win meet on that dav.
tion supposed to have been adopted by the
1 last State Chnvpnti'nn. a . i
was adopted bv the last finnvntmn it r,i
lows that the next Convention cannot ha
i .i . ., - - : .
held on the fourth of March, except by
express provision of the Committee. The
almost universal expression of the democratic
presB of the State in favor of a later assem
bling of the Convention, will, doubtless,
Uarrisburg Correspondence.
'Haeeisbobo, Jan. 23, 1869.
- jDear Freeman Hon. John Scott waa duly
elected U. S. Senator on Tuesday by the Re
publicans, the Democrats voting for Hon.
Wm. A. Wallace, State Senator from the
Clearfield district. ." ,
On Monday night the bill retaining Mr.
Peltz (who was defeated at the October elec
tion) in office as Receiver of Taxes in the
city of Philadelphia, was brought up and as
the law requires the Receiver to be sworn in
on the J5th of January, it was necessary
that this bill should be passed immediately,
and the Radicals went to work in their
usual happy style. The ex-speaker led off,
and the smaller lights followed in his wake,
but as the law was to be violated and the
ex-speaker had his say, his man Friday
kackled, and some Rooster called the pre
vious question. This was indispensable. It
wouldn't do to have the subject discusssd.
The scheme might be ventilated, and Peltz
would be compelled to vacate. On Wednes
day the bill was again taken up. and a
usual the previous question being called, the
bill was passed. The Democrats may expect
this in all bills having a political tendeucy
(and the exspeaker insists that k: 1E
a political necessity). It h -iways been
the tactics of the it.-", and as they are
becomin" "Qrupuious every aay, it
:a wbe suppose I they could be weaned
off now, when their salvation as a party de
pecds on such intamous legislation to keep
them in power. They have a great advan
tage over Democrats in this particular. If
they cannot elect their men, they can and
do legislate them into tffico. I notice the
Radical papers are begining to squirm under
the load they are compelled to carry by the
leaders of their party in the Mate Legisla
ture. The peace and quiet ot the tracheal
family is being disturbed, and the proceed
ings are not just as harmonious as the head
of a large aud respectable tamily could desire
to have among his offspring. The eldest of
the family thiuks the spoils were not equal
ly distributed. There was no fatted calf
slaughtered for him, and he declined to ac
cept his portion. A younger member of the
family was equally dissatisfied, and suggest
ed that the elder brother should have bis
share. He is not considered an important
branch of the family, however. He is not
uuder the parental roof and not entitled to
any favors from that quarter when the
youngers are to be taken caie of.
The patting and folding question has been
finally disposed of. After the defeat of the
resolution in the Senate, the LU use, in its
determined efforts to take care of its friends,
passed a lesolution that the Speaker and
Clerk appoint an additional number of
officers (pasters and folders are officers now.)
not exceeding twenty seven. i. Uon't un
derstand how these gentlemen will get their
pay. Some of our weak-kneed Democrats,
as before, (hoping to have a share of the
spoils, I presume.) went with the Kads. on
this resolution.
There were quite a number of visitors in
the city on Tuesday and Wednesday.
There has been but little legislation, and
that mostly of a local character. The Senate
had no session on Friday, theie not being a
quorum Jpresent. The Democrats adjourned,
and the Had 3. were left in the lurch. The
fi'iijse adkmmed over from Friday until
Tuesday at 3 p. m. H
Anotjiek Steamboat Disasteb. Thrill
ing and Heartrending Scenes. We mention
ed briefly yesterday, tne news brought by
telegraph, of the destruction of ano'her
steamboat on the Mississippi river, and the
loss of many lives. The particulars are
painfully interesting, and we are enabled
t ) lay them before our readers even before
we expected. Tho stern-wheel steamer
G!Me, Captain J. F. Muse, which left New
Orleans lnursday evening with tre'.gnt aud
six or eight passengers, for Grand .core, ex
pioded her boilers at midnigbt at or near
what is known as the Valcourinc crossing,
some fifty miles above the city. The steamer
subsequently took fire and was totally des
troyed. Some eight or ten of the passengers
aud crew are supposed to have been kibed
outright by the explosion, and some twenty-
five or thirty scalded more or less seriously
The Glide had been running along with the
steamer Blackford, bound for Bayou Catau
bleau, and had passed her a short time before
the accident occurred. I he Blackford anil
th Tl.ma Powell, both bound un. reached
the Glide some twenty minutes alter me ex
plosion, and took on board ber passengers,
who were in imminent danger from the
flames, which were then making rapid pro
gress. At tne time the accident occurred
the Glide was in the middle of the river, aud
there was no way for the passengers to h.3ve
gained the shore had not assistance been
given them by the steamers mentioned.
Shortly before two o'clock this raornior the
steamer Governor Allen, Capt. Tobin, bound
down to the city from the Ouachita River,
reached the scene of the disaster, and at oncj
rounded to to render assistance. The Gov.
Allen took on board from the Blackford an
Powell most, if not all, of the injured, and
brought them down to the city, some being
sent to their homes, while others were sent
to the Charity Hospital for treatment.
Memphis Avalanche, Jan, blh.
Suddenly Became Rich. Judge La
trobe, a well known American jurist, died
some time since in Europe while traveling
on the continent, and it was ascertained at
the time his will was read that he had be
queathed a considerable amount of his prop
erty to Miss Verdie S. Gelter, of Cumberland
county. Pa. The matter was the subject of
several articles at tne time in the New York
papers, but as time passed on and nothin"
further was heard in relation to the matter
the truth of the news of the young lady's
good fortune began to be doubted. Recently,
however, all doubts have been Bet at rest by
the arrival of the papers of administration
of Judge Latrobe's estate, and it is proved
by them that Miss Gelter has fallen heir to
a large portion of the Judge's very valuable
property, ana mat the lady is now independ
ently wealthy for life.
-the nomination of Wm. A. Wallace,
for United States Senator by the Democratic
caucus of the Pennsylvania legislature,
was a deserved tribute, and all that it was
in the power of our friends in that State to
pay, to one of the most efficient working
uemocrats m an Pennsylvania, and a gen
tieman every way worthy to succeed to the
chair, which Mr. Buckalew vacates next
March with . the sincere regret of every
nemocrat in Pennsylvania or out. N. Y.
World.
Tho action of the Democratic Senators
at Ilarrisburg, in refusing to present them
selves in the Senate Chamber while the in
famous Peltz bill was pending is entitled to
the highest commendation. They did ex
actly right, and the way they checkmated
tne low tricksters who sought to nuhfy the
will of the people by a mean and contempti
ble legislative dodge, will secure to the
praise of every honest voter in the Common
wealth. All henor to them !
Ben. Butler says- "Coined Gold has
ever been the handmaid of Despotism."
He doesn't think it Bo'ontectfdnabla iri 'the"
bap of spoons ami plat. ,
A State Historian. -
The golden era of literary patronage' has :
returned once more, and produces for the
benefit of mankind a historian. It is not
Lathrop Motley.-nor Bancroft, nor Draper,
buf Samuel P. Bates, member of the Penn
sylvania Historical Society. The first volume
of the great History of the Pennsylvania
Volunteers, containing over thirteen hundred
pages, is before vs. This instalment of the
work goes no farther than the fiftieth regi
ment, and the public may, therefore, expect,
at least four more volumes of the work
When finished, it may be safely estimated
that it will cost not less than fifty dollars a
copy. The Pennsylvania legislature has
thus shown a liberality towards literature
which outshines that of the famous Augustan
age. Oar modern Augustus who so mildly
rules the State, we learn from the preface,
warmly encouraged the author while prose
cuting bis labors, and a munificent Ms;enas,
in the person of Hon. George Connell. pur
chased with the money in the Treasury, as
the legislative proceedings four thous
and copies of the book. This is a far higher
recognitu ot literary merit than that which
received in that golden age for authors,
when Addison. Steele. Gray and Parnell
were honored by government. Our author
hes a department established for him, and he
receives the diguified title of State Historian.
Clerks and messengers are provided for him.
Postage, telegrams and incidental expenses
are paid by. the public. How delightful it
is to be an author in these times, and enjoy
the magnificent patronage of a radical Penn
sylvania legislature! Narrow-minded anu
suspicious people, who constantly carp at the
txj?nditures of the legislature, will call this
a job, and will begin to count up us immense
cost to the treasury. Let these savers of
candle-ends and cheese parings grumble.
Grateful posterity (which does not pay, it is
true.) will thank a legislature and a Gover
nor who transmitted them such a woik.even
if it cost the present generation fifty dollars
a volume. It will be a splendid illustration
of what patronage can do to encourage the
writing of historical books and the printing
ot the same.
The labor consumed in prepariug these
volumes has, doubtless, been immeuse.
When it is considered that the greater por
tion of them consi-ts of the rolls of upwards
of two hundred regiments in tho office of
the Adj'itant Ueneral, the amount of work
performed may be appreciated. It has re
quired the labor of four Assistant State His.
tonansbesides the State Historian himseif,
for upward of a year, and is yet far from
being completed.
" Instead of wearily wasting time in search
ing among the archives, examining reports
of battles, or visiting the fields, our historian
took another and quite an original plan. He
wrote circulars, ilis materials come fresh
from the hands of the living performers of
the glorious deeds which he recounts. It is
quite true that these materials may, some
times, be subject to slight suspicion. Defect
ive memories do not supply the best data for
history. Even at this distance of time,
passion or prejudice might warp some of the
narrators to whom the State Historian ac
knowledges himself indebted for reports.
Besides some of our heroes may be given to
a little harmless exaggeration of the value of
the service which they performed. This,
however, may lend a piquancy and charm
to the history which it might not otherwise
possess. The War Department might have
furnished much more accurate materials than
the accounts fioru officers on which the State
Historian was compelled to rely. But he
6ays that he was not permitted to make use
of the books and records in the Adjutant
General s office at Y a;.hmgton. His appli
cation was stnODorniy reiused." it is
evident that Secretary Stanton did Dot have
a high appreciation of the great historical
work which ho was preparing uuder the
auspices of the Pennsylvania Legislature
Sianton w ho knows something of the radicals
of his State may have inspected a job in it,
and refused to encourage it. If it is not as
complete as a state Historian with lour
assistants could make it, it should be re
membered that the time allowed has been
much shorter than that consumed by a
Motley or a Buckle. A legislature less
kindly disposed toward literature might be
elected, and might rudely suspend the prose
cution of the work. It had, therefore, to go
on with the materials at hand. We con-
ratulate the Historian and his Assistant
is'orians thai four volumes are yet to come.
Harrisburg Patriot.
Xcwi or tne Week.
Forty guests were poisoned in Brooklvn
last week by eating colored candy at a party.
Anotner t,r,gush uatholic prelate. Dr
Clifford, Bishop of Clifton, is to be made i
cardinal.
XT a a
rveniucay, it. is saia, nas never lost a
cent by the defalcation of any State official
during her entire existence as a State.
Llus Bowan, aged sixty years, and
wcigntng iour nuiuired pounds, c.iel at
Lampeter, Lancaster county, on Thursday
the democracy of New Hampshire
hare nominated John Bell for Governor, and
Gen. M. T. Donohue for Railroad Commis
sioner.
iuiiu me piBii imneen years IVit
murders have been committed in New York
city, the perpetrators which were never dis
covered.
An insane man named E!i Heverly. of
uvenon townsnip, urarilord county, com
mitted suicide on the 17th instant by shoot
ing himself.
A son of Joseth Espenlade, of Renova.
formerly of WilliamsiMDrt, died some days
ago from the effects of poison administerd by
Colonel John W. Forney, and Colonel
Alexadcr McClure have been elected "hon
orary" colored men, by the convention of
mat race, at Wasaiugton.
The Newport (R. I.) News says there
is a family in that city in which the father
is seventeen years of age, the mother six
teen and the baby three weeks old.
A little girl died at Paterson on Thurs
day, poisoned, it is supposed, from coloring
matter in candy, which she ate Christmas.
The reason assigned ii a very probable one.
-John Botdorf, engaged in running a
market car from Baltimore to Suobury,
Shamokin, Ashland, &c, was killed at the
latter place, on Monday last, by being crush
ed between two cars.
Knapp, a prisoner in the Western Pen
itentiary, recently put on the garb of insan
ity, and played bis part so well that be pro
cured quarters in the hospital, from which
he soon made his escape.
Joseph Gee. of MiddlebuTg townshfp,
Luzerne county, was burned te death, a few
days ago, by rushing into his house, which
was on fire, to save some of his papers and
money, stowed away in a bureau.
John Otherday, the IudUn who saved
the lives of sixty white poople during the
Indian massacre, was hauled un K.fnr k-
St. Paul police court, the nr.hr
fined five dollars for beine drunk
( &wa-
derly.
-Australian letters fnllv confirm
ported massacre at Povertv Kv Wo v
land, by Mooris. Thirty.tbree whit
about twenty friendly natives were killed
and the rjrosnernnn Btf1arrn - , '
entirely
blotted out, .
Secretary McCulIoch recently issued an
order discharging all the colored messengers
in the Treasury, and supplying their places
with ex-soldiers." The beads - of bureaus
made such opposition, however, that the or
der was revoked.
On Tuesday last, as two, men.' Corn
liuus Clepper and Peter Goodling. at a store
in Washington township. Yrk county, were
tuselling in a playful manner with a it,
the same was discharged, and the contents
entered th stomach of Mr. Goodl.ng, caus- j
ing death in about six hours. .
George Maeuire, who was confined in
the Kittanning jail on the charge of assault
and bittery with intent to commit a rape,
escaped on the 16th inst., by fi-st making a
hole through the ceiling of an upper room
to the roof and letting himself down to the
grout d by means of a rope mada out cf his
bed-clothes.
Mr. Twilchell has been acquitted of
participation in the mnrder of her mother
Mrs. Hill, the Prosecuting Attorney almn
doning the case immediately after the con
clusion of the testimony on the part of the
Commonwealth. The evidence was not con
sidered strong enough to justify further pro
cedure against ber.
A h'rt time ago a man named ilornsby,
near Mahauoy, Schuylkill county, was
6lightly bitten by A terrier dog. The wound
was trifling, and no thought of hydrophobia
was entertained until Saturday the 10th
inst., when the usuall symtoms began to
make their appaarance, -and on Tuesday
morning be was a corpse.
Washington Bunting, employed in a
paper mill in Liwar Oxford township, Ches
ter county, met with a terrible deaih on
Saturday.'tho 16th inst., by being cafight in
the belting of a shaft which revolves at the
raie of 250 times a minute, around which he
was whirled until the machinery could be
stopped. His limbs were much shattered
and one leg torn off, yet he lived about
three hours.
The Republican nommees for the U. S.
Senate, lately made, are as follows : Reu
ben E. Fer.ton, New York ; Hannibal Ham
lin, Maine ; and Carl SLurz, Missouri. The
successful cantidates in all these States suc
ceeded only after a Litter contes-t. in which
tho ill-feelings engendered do not end with
the final ballot. In this State, the nomina-ti-n
of John Scott does not meet the appro
bation of the anti-Cameron wiug of the par-
A terrible accident occured in the town
of Falmouth, Maine, on the 22-1 inst. A
man named Swett was cutting trees, when
the axe glanced and buried itself in the body
of a lad named Marison. killing him almost
instantly. They were alone, aud bwett was
so horror struck that he went into convul
sions. He was found writhing in the tnow
at that o'indilion and the dead body of the
lad near by. the liver protruding from the
wound. It is feared that Swett will also
die from the effects of the shock.
DR. H. B. MILLER,
Altoona, Pa.,
Operative and Mechanical DENTIST.
Office uu Caroline street, between Virginia
and Emma streets. Fersona from Camlri.i
county or elsewhere who get ork lone by me
to the amount of Ten Dollars and upWaril-;. wilt
huve the railroad fare deducted Iromlheir till.
An wokk warrantrti. Jan. 21, lc69.-if.
STRAY BULL. Came to the premise's
of the subscriber in Carroll township, Cam
bria county, pome time in December last, a
DARK BK1N DLE BULL, one year and a hall
old. with a white ppot on the left side ; no ear
marks. The owner is requested to come for
ward, prore property, puv charges and take him
away, otherwise he will be disposed of xecord
ingtolaw. WILLIAM A. BAGLEY.
Carroll Tp., Jan." 21, !Sti3.-3t.
fTHKIAL' LIST. List f CauPs ?t
-m. down for trial at an adjourned Court of
tomraou flws, to be held at Ebencburg. in
and for the County of Ca .ihri.a, commencing
on Monday, the 15th diy of February next, at
10 o'clock a. sc. :
Hoffman ; .vs. Colclesw et al.
Carman t. James et al.
J. K. HITE, Prothonotary.
Prothonotary 'a Office, Ebensburg, Jan. 21 , 'C9 .
NOTICE TO wSUPEIiVLSOKS AND
SCHOOLTREASURERS The Coun
ty Auditors, having certified the amount ol
Road and School Taxes received on Seated and
Unseated Lands, the SuperTiora and Treii;u-
rrof School Boards of the peroral districts
entitled to the ioi are reqtieared to preaent
proper voucners to the Uooi.'y 1 reurer, aud
receive the fame, on aud alter the first day of
t eoruarr , id:.
JOHN" FERGUSON",
JOFINr A KENNEDY.
MAURICE McN'AMARA.
Attest Trcmai J. Glam, Clerk.
TVT OX-EX I' LOS
XT
THE XETT LIGHT,
PETROLEUM FLUID ! !
Girea twice the light of Carbon Oil, and ia safe
under all cirrumtances.
CANNOT BE EXPLODED !
The undersigned are now manufacturing and
have for sale their
NEW PETROLEUM FLUID
made by distillation without the aid ot com
pound?, which is g adualSy taking the place of
Carbon Oil wherever introduced.
AGENTS WANTED- IN EVERY TOWN I
Send for Circular. Addreas
J.J. PALMF.R i: CO.,
No. 6 Htnd Street,
Jan. 21, 1809. -3m. Pittsburgh.
HEAP HEAL ESTATE I will
sell for cash, or on time, the following de
scribed Real Est.He :
FOUR HOUSES and LOTS in the Borosgb
of Ebensburg.
SIXTEEN ACRES OF LAND lying imme
diately south of Ebensburg.
A FARM OP 130 ACRES in Blacklick
Township, about 51) acres cleared. An excel
lent Coal Bank on the tract.
FOUR TRACTS UNIMPROVED LAND
in Sumroerbill Township.
A TRACT OF UNIMPROVED LAND in
Washington Township.
A HOUSE and LOT at Hemlock, now in
possession of Mr Moreland.
A TRACT OF LAND in Washington Tp.,
in name of Ruffner.
Also, various other LANDS or LOTS OF
GROUND in d'UTarent portions of Cambria Co.
A good title will be given in all cases.
Com'rs.
jan21.
Kuiijii i' l.. JOHNSTON.
Ebensburg, Jan. 14, IP69 tf.
UDITOR'S NOTICE. In the Or-
phana Court of Cambria County. In
the matter of the first and second accounts of
Enoch Farrensvorth, Administrator of William
Henry Lloyd, dee'd, the last of which was sub
mitted to J. C Easly upon exceptions. And
now, to wit : 9th December, 18G8, on motion
of George M. Reade, Esq.. James C. Eaaly
appointed Auditor to report distribution of the
money m the hands of the said accountant to
and among the persons legally entitled thereto
liy the Court. Extract Irooi the Record
In testimony whereof I have hereucto set
my hand and affixed the seal of the aaid Court
this 9th day of December, 1868. -
r Jahu GaiMijf .Clerk
A.'" 19"l" at i will attend to
ficel, rlo0Vrh pab76 SPPPfct'HWt. at the of
fice of Geo. M; Reade. Esq.. in Ebensburg, on
Mojtdat, tb 8th dat ot Fmroart, 18t9, at
I o clock p.m., when and where all persona in
terested may -attend oc he debarred 'from-any-bare
of said fund. ' - 3
An.21..Jt. - J Cv BASLY, JUditoO 1
nooixAinys qekhas butehs,
A
HOOFIAHD'S GERMM1 TOIiC.
l-rerared by Dr. C. M. Jak, TMladelfAU.
Thrir iutroJuclion lata tLU country fcoia rUftnf
uccuri4 la
. . 1825.
THEY CVTtED TOCS .
FATHERS AUD MOTHERS, .
And will run yon anit yotir
-MMrrt. Thfj r
entirety dillV.Tnl"r"
r.r..i.itr?tnn now f 1
from tb irr-f
in tbo --wifitry
I - I -- - - -
' Uilfr. flr
Toirlc. Tliy fro
no 1virn prcpa tmym ration, or nr,j
likaoor; but gaoU, innt, xOibl miinnu .ay .
Tht griAUtt known reinedUifor
Liver Complaint,
- DYSPEPSIA,
IferYoua Bobfllty, -
JATTKDICIS.
Diseases of ihe Kidneys,
. ERUPTIONS OF THE SKIK,
mad all DImum artslnc from aCtatM
tloied Liver, Stomach, or
mrvniTT or rirs blooj.
Constipation. Flatuleno. Inward Ti"9
FuIUie8 of Bloort to tfeo Head, Acidity
of tfao Stomach, Jfause.-, IIs- rt
bura , p i sa a t for Foo.1 . rulncta
or Weight in - the Stomach,
Sour JEructa.tiona, Sink
intr or Fluttering at the
Pit of the Stomach, Swim- '
minir of tr.e Head, Horned 9t -Difficult
Breath in. Fluttrinjr
at the Heart. jrKlp Cbokln or
Suff ocatiicf ia3e 11 V,atlf
when in a I,y-JJ?'P r. Po a,r
or Webs before the Biht. Uu.4.
Pain in the Head, DeficienT
Of Perapirotion, YellowneM
of the Skin aad Eyes,
Pain in the Side,
. Back, Chest, Limba, eto..
Sudden Flushe of Ht, Burning-
iu the Flen,ConBtint IaMimnr
cf Evil and Great Depression or 8plrt.
jlil ttetc indioaU dxiraic of the .tw r l.geuir
Org; iniwi mlA mjr Ud.
Hoofland's German Bitters
tn entirely vccll. and contain n n
Itouor. It 1m a compound or I'lnld K -
tra l. The Hool, Jlerba, and Barks
iron vtlIcH tlee rxlrael are Mad
are slathered jH". ernian.
All tlie nie1 c f rlnal -virtue
are extracted JJ from lhm bjr
a i r I e n 1 1 It t Um ll. ThM
extracts are tliew lorwarOcd to this
country to be Bd exnrendy for tue
manufacture ot tueae itinera. There tm
no alcolioltcanbatance ol auyklnd naad
In rompouiKlli'C tne Bluer, nence M In
h onlr Hitter that cum be
cases where alcoholic stimulant
not ad-vlsabie.
Hoofland's German Tonta
it m ftrmUnaliim f 3 tht inffrtdienU A Wrtwa
.vrilh reus Sanim. Crus Jiu-m. vranp, ve. . w. wv
for the tame Aiuatt at tl Ui,ue-rt, tn cata .
pure alfoholie ttimvlut it Ttquurtd. Ton mil bear rm
mind Utat thett rtmediet art entirely different frm
any others advrrtifdor the evrt of Vit diteattt mamed,
thttt being taentiftc preparations of mtdicinal txtraeis,
while the nlbtrt are inert decoctions of rum vm
form. The 'IONIC u decidedly one af the mot yJ
tant and agrteabi rtmedict ever i-fftrtd tht poho
Jit taste it tquitite. 11 1 pitaturt to io
kyf-yinij;. exhilarating, ana mtiUctmii ituirmtem
touted U 1 frf khvtcn at tht gi taUtt J att tunica.
DEBILITY,
There if no medicine tmwl t rootaT
Pillcrt or Tonic it, tM.iiixmmm I I -atrs mf 'ffri.'.'y. '
They impart a Une H rifir im t S r.
tysu-n. ttrtnglhen I i B - tht appetut. cawM
an enjoyment i; IWbIL cod, rrylU LSeso-
mach to digest tt. pvrijy the bloe'd, fiet a pood, simjtd,
healthy rent) lezion, rrcdicatt the yllom tinge from tht
I i L . J L IK.
TC, Indian a vinfn i n i nr. t r c r. , u:iu v . .. . ... -
ton a thori-brcathed, tmaciaUd to-ok. ond nerxou s
invalid, to a full-faced, ttuul. and rici ni perti n.
Weak and Delicate Children aro
madi ulroii; ty tiiintr th SSitlera or
'ionir. In lac t, tticy sre futility .tteai- .
. r z f..C.....l I I .
perlect safety to a. rUUU tliree im H
old, the moat delicate female, or a ma
of nlnelT.
Thttt Jltintdiet art Vtt bM
Blood Purifier
tvtr mw and inK ruri a 12 diseases rwla'nf "rmm
bM d blood Keep yvurstmgmsn I led ptere ; i -y yi sm
iiwr t ori'rr ; keep Va yrar ii'-'x or punt
in a tound, healthy t) tWiIi!, ty ih m
cf thte . remedies aajaaBaMJud no 'uhm
tver astail you. The tff. ntaw tht cuir ;;fff'J
them. If icart cf hints! rertiiasion un forat.ythnt
)M must try V.m y ryi.riont.
fkom nojr. geo. "w. woodwahd.
CiWf Jmtlca of the Fnrremie Court cf Prrr.TBia
1'uiLADCLrciA, Marrb 1, 117.
J find H'tern'an'T t Gtrman Hi:.'rt " t not t tiim
ieming bertrage, t-ul is a good tonic, useful in difrdert
o f the dtftiivt orgns, and mf gttjt b, ue fd i eajtt mf
iebiitig and want of frf i adion, in Iht sy:cm.
i'ttsri Im'v.
txoi w. ,rooDrjRCe,
rnoii nox. jamh3 move r-sox,
Jaigm of the Supreme Court of Penr.y!vaM.
iaiLnLrH: a. A-rW tt is"..
I consider X7 " IIooflaad'
German Kit JF term a n'luti
medicine In caic Ammn- ayf attacks off
n d 1 fe a lloiiaafiaa mwtmamoT I Jlep! .
I ran ci-rtlijr thi irom y eiprr.iucc t
It Veure, w illi rf anrri,
. J A .11 L Val6.nPSOM.
TitoM rev. jossrn n. kexsard, d. p.,
Taetor cf the Tenth B.iptit Church, rhlla-Je?ph!a.
D. Jictioa-Pm S;: 1 havt bten frt-ftmn.iyt
requested to connect my name teilh recommendation! of
dijierent kinds of mkliiinn, but regarding the practica
as out of my appropriate sphere, 1 ha ,e in all casts U
dined ; but mxih a clear proof in wiriout instances, and,
particularly in my tnen family, of the usefulness of rr.
HooAand't Gtrman Bitters, 1 depart for one. frem mm
utual courst, to express my full conviction thai for ytu
eral debility of tue eyntem and especially for-L-ivor
Complaint, it is '"Tv mmm3mmmtfe and valuable
preparation. In l-Oy I tome etaset it may
fail; but usually, I vl doubt not, it unit
be umry beneficial ummtm to thott vae tujer
rmm tht about saumtt. 2'ourt, wry respectfully,
J. It. iXJtxSrdKD,
Eighth, btlw Cualct tirtmt.
CATJTTOn.
IToeflanS't German Remeditt art covn'.erftitti. fist
genuine have tht signature of C Ttl. Jack so IX am
tht front of tht outsiilt mrapper of each, boUU, and thm
name of tht arttcit blown in, tack, ka(Um, Ml mihtrt arm
counterfeit.
c .f ' B 1 00 per bottle t
Or, a. hair dozen Tor $5 OO.
Price or th Tonic, $1 0 per bottle t
Or,ahaU dortmor 7 60. 1
The tonic 1 put op la onart bottlee,
XecmUecl that it it Dr. HxJtanr$ German XemtAU.
that art to universally used and to highly rtcom
mended ; and do II lia.v aliou, thi Lruggiittl
totna-ace you to. take ASanyiMn, ,Zeoillo
may tay is just at It ja mmd. fcrcawT 21
tot t?tM MtU " " lte ufnappUn
PRTNCIPAX. OFFICEt
AT THE QESKAN KBinciNJ BTfTWWQ
. eSl jkUCB ST K EXT, PhUodtZfto, '
CHAS. M. BVAlTtSy .
Proprietor.
TormMr O. H.. JACKS OK dk CO.
Tiieao Remedies ar tor aaJo y Pi txgm
axtats, Store lreepera, and JKedlelno Paaia
ra oreryAvlicre.
Do net forget to tmmint urt U tht arUdt yam tarn, tst
ardor U ytttht gemant., .. .
QOTFor Sal. by R. J. LtCaJD. DrnRgUt