THE FREEMAN.
SSEXSBVEQ, PA.,
TltciwDif, t : : Ma sen 4, I8C9.
AXDREW J O II SOT.
To-day Andrew Johnson lays aalda the
cares and troubles of ths Presidential office
and once more becomes a private eitizes.
Ilia administration has been a tnrbnlent one,
and ro President sine ibe days of General
Jackaosi kaa encountered aa firm and vindic
tive an opposition at has been visited on his
devoted head. 27cminated by the Baltimore
Con Tea tlou, not because he was a republican,
but for tho purpose of conciliating the war
clement in the democratic ranks, he walks
forth from the White House with the male
dictions upon hie head of tke party that ele
vated him to power. For attempting to carry
oct tha hutnano policy bequeathed to him by
President Lincoln, according to the testimo
ny of Geneial Grant before the reconstruction
committee, he has been so opposed and tra
duced by the leaders of the radical party as
to render it almost certain that Abraham
Lincoln, had he lived, would haxe met with
the same fate. Standing firmly by his own
resolutions, (the celebrated Crjttenden reso
lutions.) which ha introduced into the Senate
in 1801, two days after the first battle of
Bull Run, he has been deserted and denounced
by the very men who voted for and sustained
them.
Persecuted by the fierce spirit of rebellion,
which made a deep impression upon his ex
citable and sensitive nature, he made a great
many declarations of policy, when he was
Milittry Governor of Tennessee, foreshadow
ing future vengeance, all of which vanished
amidst the general feeling of general joy and
congratulation consequent on the successful
termination of th.9 war. As President he
wisely exhibited a spirit of forgiveness which
aa a man, smarting under a deep sense of
persecution and wrong, he had thoughtlessly
thrown away.
Andrew Johnson could never be a repub
lican.'nor could he ever sympathise with the
political views of that party. lie is a born
democrat, and his intimate personal relations
with Andrew Jackson strengthened and con.
aolidated his original political faith. Ilia an
nual messages, aa well as some of his admi
tably written veto messages, were simply the
enunciation of political doctrines as applica
ble to the nature and powers of the govern
ment which bad been hia constant rule and
guide ever since he first entered upon public
life. In that respect, at least, he has been
consistent, and has maintained his well
known and long established political convic
tions with aa ability and tenacity worthy of
all txdairation. Whatever else may be said
of him or of his administration of the gov
ernment, his personal integrity is bejond re
proach. Ilia most bitter enemy cannot charge
bin with being corrupt, or of prostituting
his high office to purposes of venality or per
sonal gai a. His greatest mistake was in at
tempting, la 1866, to form a new or third
political party. The same thing had been
attempted before, and with precisely similar
results for Webeier declared that John Tvler
and his party could have been carried in a
good sied omnibus. No President, eveD
though he may wield without check or re
straint the entire patronage of the govern
ment, can transfer the allegiance of tho great
masses of the people from the democratic
party. It has existed too long and has too
firm a hold on the affections of the people
for thera passively to consent to be used for
any such purpose.
President Johnson has exhibited rare cour
age and great steadiness of purpose amidst
Unequalled difficulties, and his administra
tion will form a prominent epoch in the his
tory of the country. He is yet in the prime
of life, with a vigorous and robust constitu
tion, and may in the future play a promi
nent part in the political affairs of the nation.
In an able article on Mr. Johnson's admin
istration the New York World speaks as fol
lows of the retiring President :
While we cannot regard President JoHNgov
either as a wise statesman or a skilful politi
cian, we must concede that he has been placed
in a position ao trying and difficult that no
address or abilities could have appeared to ad
vantage in it. We- must also pay a sincere
tribute to his personal character; which is less
distinguished perhaps by the amiable than by
the respectable virtues. He is a man of set
tled convictions and stubborn fid' lity to them,
lie cherish as a just deep reverence lor the
Constitution of his country- He has never
been accused, never even suspected, ofuciug
any public position for purposes of private
gain. With a Democratic Cocpress to sup
port him. he would have made a judicious and
successful, though probnbly not a brilliant ad
ministration. His talents are better fitted for
debate; and if, after a needed interval of re
pose, he should be returned to the Senate
from Tennessee, he wdl be one of the most
important and useful members of that bodv
a perpetual thorn in the siue ef the Radicals,
and the fearleaa champion of honest legisla-
Tlia State Treasurer's Office.
It has long been a well known fact that
the man who can succeed In getting himself
State Treasurer and hold the office for three
or even two years, is on the sure road to for
tune. We think it may safely b said that
this has been the uniform result for the last
fifteen years, We aro not aware of any ex
ceptiou to it, no mattor what may have been
the politics of the incumbent. Hence the
great anxiety to got control of the office. Of
course this golden stream does not flow from
the mere salary of the office, which is com
paratively small, bat has ita rise in a more
Inexhaustible source. The method by which
the Treasurer's office is made to yield such
large pecuniary rewards Is easily explained
and net difficult of comprehension. An im
mense amount of money, only to be counted
by millions, annually passes through the
bands of the Treasurer, and is always avail
able, not only for all legitimate demands upon
the Treasury, but even for purposes of pri
yate speculation and profit by the Treasurer
himself, if he sees proper to resort to them,
although there ia no legal authority to justify
tin; to so doio-. The Treasurer eefecta fif
teen or twenty banks located In different !
portions of the State as the recipients of his
favors, and to one be loans twenty-five thou
sand dollars, to another fifty thousand, and
to another a hundred thousand, and so on,
until he may have oct on loans In this way
half ft million of dollars. This money, for
the nse of which he receives a large per cent
age or discount. Is to be returned to the Trea
sury at the end of a specified time. If the
officer understands his business, and he gen.
erally does, he can readily tell when and for
what length of time the Treasury will be in
a condition to thus justify him In loaning the
public funds without incurring the risk of a
deficiency when claims may be presented for
payment. In this way both the Treasurer
and the banks make what is called a nice
tiling out of the operation. The Treasurer
receives a per centage from the banks for the
use of the State funds, and the banks also
charge a heavy discount to their customers
to whom they in turn loan the money thus
borrowed from the State Treasurer. The
State does not really lose anything by the
process, while the Treasurer as well as the
banks are largely the gainers. While this
practice may not prove hazardous to the
Treasury, it is morally and financially wrong,
atid ought to be remedied by stringent legis
lation. If the money of the people can thus
be loaned to the batiks, the profits ought to
go into the Treasury and not into ho jKicket
of the Treasurer himself. - This is common
sense and common honesty. It is simply an
outrage to say that an officer of the govern
ment has a right to speculate on the public
money for his own pecuniary benefit. Yet
it is done and will continue to be done if not
checked and prevented by the necessary leg
islation. Will not some member of the 'r"7
orous economy" school offer a bill authorizing
the State Treasurer, at stated periods, to loan
to the banks that will pay the largest bonus
the surplus money in the Treasury, by giv
ing ample security to the State, and requir
ing to make report under oath of the amount
of interest paid into the State Treasury. A
law of this kind would simplify the matter
wonderfully, and would realize annually not
less than seventy Jive thousand dollars to the
State. This sum would more than pay for
the lolding and pasting swindle, and we trust
that 6omc competent member who has the
necessary amount of back bone will under
take the task and punh it vigorously through.
What radical member possesses courage
enough to inaugurate this much needed re
form? The Removal of the County Seat.
We have heretofore refrainsd frcm saying
anything in reference to a project reeently
started by a few persons in Johnstown in
favor of tho removal i f the county seat
from Kbensburg to that place. The thing
in itself was preposterous and absurd that
we did not care about wasting time in dis
cussing it, being well satirficd that it had
not the ghost of a chance before the Legis
lature. The advocate of the measure, how
ever, were determined to test its merits,
and for that purpose prepared and sent to
Ilarrisburg a bill to carry out them p'ur.
poses. The bill was referred to the Com
mittee on New Counties and County Seats,
consisting of fifteen members. Yesterday
week was fixed by the Committeo as the
day for hearing an argument on the
question. Ebensbarg was represented by
Hon. A. A. Barker, R. L. Johnston, Esq,,
Geo. II. Reade, Esq.. F. A. Shoemaker,
Esq., Edward Roberts, Samuel Henry and
Abel Lloyd. The friends of removal were
represented by Daniel M'Laughlin, E-q.,
Cyrus Elder, Esq., and John F. Barnes,
Esq. After hearing all that could be said
on both sides of the question the committee
made a unanimous report against the biU
This ends the matter at least during the
present session.
As a decided curiosity we publish below a
copy of the petition in favor of the removal,
which was circulated In the southern por
tion of the county. We have only one re
mark to make in reference to it, and that is,
that in one judgement, no other man in the
State, besides its author, could have com
pressed within the same limited space as
many suppressions of the truth with as
many suggestions of falsehood as are con
tained in this precious document :
To the Honorable thk Senate andHol-skov
RtP&KSEJdATlVES OK THR CoMXOX WEALTH
OF PXNNSYLVANIAI.M, IX GtNIKAL ASSEMBLT
MET :
The pelition of the undersigned, citizens of
the County of Cambria, Humbly Represents,
that both the public and private interests of
the County of Cambria demand the Removal
of the seat of Justice from Ebensburg to
Johnstown in said County. The seat of Jus
tice is now located entirely out of the way for
all the practical purposes of a County Seat
Were it not that they are compelled to trans
act their judicial and county business at
Ebensburg, the people of the county would
have no occasion to even visit the place. In
going there, the people go away from all busi
nes; in coming away from there they ret;rn
to business. There is no community of inter
esta between the interests of the County Seat
and the interests of any other portion of the
county. The developments of the great re
sourres of the county are all away from the
County Seat, and never can have any relations
with it. Going to Ebensburg is in truth going
away from every business relation of the
Countv, simply to transact that business at
Ebensburg. It is difficult of access from all
portions of the County, and is an additional
tax and encumbrance upon the peopla of busi
ness of the County. By reason of its location
the expense attending tho administration of
justice amounts to a delial of it, to a very
great extent. Johnstowu. on the contrary, is
located, that all the principal business of the
County centers in it it is the general market
for the products of the County; it is there the
farmer gets everything he needs in exchange
for his products. It is the business chart of
the County and surrounding counties. The
people of this CouDty go there to traffic and
transact business, and there could attend to
their legal and county business, without any
additional expense. It is easier of access to
the remotest portion of the county than Ebens
burg. It is a growing city, with a large, In
dustrious, and increasipg population, and des
tined ere long to one of the great cities of the
State. The city, with its surroundings, is one
of the greatest manufacturing and mining
districts in the Commonwealth. The necessi
rL,, 1U beinS the Seat of Justice of the
tC HLmu u, be aPPart to all . We repeat.
Crests ? thC' JudifiaI coun'y'nd private
mujrests of the people of the County demand
the Removal ot Count, Seat from EensburJ
to Johnstown. We therefore pray your Hon
orable Bodies to pass a law to submit the
question of the Removal of the Seat of Justice
to a vote ot tne people oi 8 ft hi uonnty, ana aa
in duty bound will ever pray, etc .
The Immortal Tvsrenfy-EIgut.
A few days ago, when the appropriation
bill was before the Hou'se of Representatives
at Ilarrisburg, a member by the name of
McMiller, from Montgomery county, made
a motion to increase the pay of the members
from one thousand to fifteen hundred dollars.
The proposition received twenty-eight votes
eighteen democrats and ten radicals. The
mover of this amendment, McMiller, is, or at
least pretends to be, a democrat. Whether
this is his first term in the Houfe or not we
cannot say, as he has hitherto been unknown
to fame, but we a-e very certain that it ought
to be his last, and that the legislative seat
that knows him now ought to know him no
more forever.
This movement, coming from a democratic
source and receiving democratic support, is
particularly aggravating, in as much as the
democratic party has been loud and vehement
in its assaults upon radical extravagance.
Its sincerity may well be doubted when one
half of its members In the Assembly ly their
votes, give the lie to U. professions.
If thi I'lundermg game baa succeeuea
tne increased pay would have amounted to
sixty-six thousand dollars. It 6eems that
McMiller find his friend Davis, a verysu?pi-
cWis radical member from Philadelphia, who
jointly engineered the movement, were con
fident of success, but when the crisis came
the courage of about one half of their allies,
like that of Bob Acres, oozed out at their
fingers' ends. Do McMiller & Co. suppose
that the people would tamely submit to such
shameless robbery ? If they do they egre-
giously mistake public sentiment. The peo
ple of all parties demand the mo6t thorough
and searching refcrn in the expenditures of
the State government, and any member of
the Legislature who stands between them and
their settled purposes will he crushed as be
tween the upper and the nether millstone.
We trust that full and ample justice will
be meted out to these twenty eight pure and
incormptiblo patriots by their respective
constituencies, and that honest men will be
elected to fill the beats which they have dis
graced. The State Convention.
We observe with regret that the seeds of
what may result in an angry controversy
have been sown by the Pittsburgh Post and
the Ilarrisburg Patriot, in reference to the
question of instructing delegates to the next
Democratic State Convention. We trsst that
tlie editors of bttb journals will see the pro
priety of cutting short thus unprofitable dis
cussion just where it now stands. Its further
prosecution can result in no good, but may
do much barm where none is really intended.
The delegates to the Convention will have an
important duty to perform, and it is to be
presumed they will be competent for the
task that will be set before them. While we
have uo fixed convictions in favor of the
nomination of an' particular candidate, we
yet protest against the argument of locality.
We could point to many sore political rever
ses which were alone traceable to a too will
ing acquiescence in this plausible claim.
All other things being equal, it is entitled to
paramount consideration ; otherwise, it ought
not to be entertained. What we want and
that we hope to get at the hands of the Con
vention is the strongest candidate the man
who can eencentrate upon himself the mosi
voles, without regard to the mere circum
stance of his local habitation, whelhe that
may be in the east or the west, the north or
the south, or in the center of the State. We
have confidence in the integrity of the Con
vention, and believe that its members will
be governed in the conclusion at which they
may arrive, not by personal feelings or local
claims, but by a determination to win in the
contest.
Ilarrisburg Correspondence.
IIarbisecbg, Feb. 27, 1809.
Dear Freeman The following bills per
taining to your county are at present before
the Legislature : An act extending the juris
diction of Justices of the Peace in certain
criminal proceedings and in cases of surety
of the peace to certain districts in the county
of Cambria. Passed the House. A supple
ment to an act incorporating the Cambria
Iron Company increasing its capital stock to
five million of dollar:", to enable it to engage
in the manufacture of steel rail. Passed by
the Senate.
The Senate, on Friday, disposed of the
Metropolitan Police Bill by a very decided
majority against it. the vote standing twen
ty nays to eleven ayes all the Democrats
and six of the Republicans voting in the neg
ative. Notwithstanding the efforts of the
State Committee, the radical caucus and the
Philadelphia roughs, there are six Republi
cans in the Senate of Pennsylvania, to their
honor be it said, who were honest and inde
pendent enough to defeat this iniquitous
measure. There is no doubt but what this
bill has been disposed of to the entire satis
faction of everybody but the aforesaid roughs
and their coartjutors.
The two Houses yesterday adjourned over
until Monday, the 8th of March, to allow
thecommittee on the contested election case
of ihayer vs. Greenbank to take testimony
in Philadelphia, and ro give the radical mem
berd an opportunity to attend the inaugural
ceremonies, at Washington on the 4th inet.
As everybody and all their friends will be
out of town next week, you need not expect
to hear from me. j-rt
A Case of th Retbibutivk Justice of
Heaven. A brutal beast named Brown as
sassinated a man named Bolmeyer in broad
daylight, on a public street of Dayton, Ohio,
during the late war, simply because the laU
tcr was editor of a democratic paper in that
city. Brown was arrested, but a change of
venue being obtained to the loyal county of
Miama, he was, after a mock trial, acquitted.
The Bucyrus Forum bow tells us that every
juryman who took part in the trial has since
either been bereft of reason, died an unnatu
ral death, or committed suicide, and that
Judge Parsons, who presided at the mock
trial, died a horrible dpnrh nnlv a fun, -1
. , a .Enr uaVB
since in the Insane Asylum at Dayton
cmjr muso wuo sow tne wiuq snail reap
the wuirlwud." r
JLATE KE1Y8 ITEMS.
Five white men have recently been as-
aassinated by Indians near Sitka, Alaska.
Nearlv half of the town oi unippewa
Falls, Wisconsin, was burned on the 24th.
At a ball in Foeterbury. Illinois, a lew
nights ago, six persons partook of poisoned
liquor ; one of them nas alea.
The Boston vommonweaiin manes mc
statement every afternoon, after 3 o'clock,
some twelve eo fifteen Uulted States Sena
tors are so drunk that they are unable to
attend to business.
A child of Mr. Schribner, a resident of
Loyalsock, Lycoming county, was scalded
to death last week in a tub of hot water,
into which it had fallen during a brief ab
sence of its mother.
The Democrats of the Hartford Conn.,
district have nominated Senator Dixon for
Congress, his term as Senator expiring with
the present Congress.
Twenty thousand dollars worth of pro-
perty fell a prey to the "tore-nena, in
Cleveland, on Wednesday night. A fire
man was fatally injured.
ranil Sittler shot at a coose, near
rr,.tn,n tV,o Xfhar dav. but missed the
goose and hit a young man named Fegley.
Vininrr Vim almost instantly.
FomilA KiiffraM was defeated in the
Vpvada Legislature on Wednesday, and an
to f-trike the word white"
from the Constitution was adopted.
Tt has been found impossible to secure
a iurv fur the trial of Grant for shooting
Pollard, in Richmond. Va.. acd a panel has
been ordered from Alexandria and Norfolk.
Aaron Jones, the pugilist, died at
Leavenworth. Kansas, on Tuesday. He
was an Englishman, and dunne the war
served General Beauregard aa hU chief
equerrv.
The California wheal crop is so large
that if mistakes have not been made, it has
never been equalled in any country. They
talk of 75. 80. and in one case 100 bushels
to the acre.
Thomas Dntlon, of Aston, Delaware
county, celebrated the one hundredth anni
versarv rf his birth on the 2.1 Inst., in
which his posteritv and relatives, to the
number of about 250, participated.
Frank Leslie inserted a cut in his Hlus
trated News, wherein Miss Elw&od. a fair
skatist, appears as Mercury, arrayed inde
cently, at the Buffalo Skating Rink. Her
parents modestly claim 550.000 damages.
The largest man on record in modern
times, was Miles Darden, a native of North
Carolina, born in 1789. He was seven feet
six inches high. At his death, in 1857, he
weighed a little over one thousand pounds.
A prize fight took place at Jerrin gRun,
neai Beltimore, on Thursday, between JNew
tnn Montgomery and Feter Joyce. Thirty
three rounds were fought in forty-five min
utes, aud Montgomery was declared the
winner.
A Christian maiden naaeed Mary Gil
more renounced her faith at Chicago last
Saturday, and embraced Judaism. The
same afternoon Bhe married a handsome
young Israelite, which was a singular coin
cidence. The town of Wells has a citizen who
married at seventeen. His first child was
a daughter, who married at thirteen, and
eightoen months afterward made her father
a grandfather, at tho early age of thirty
niue and a half years.
The Tittsburg Commercial say sthat
Mrs. Rachael A. Clarke, wife of Wm. Clarke,
residing in Anthony township, Lycoming
county, was. mi Monday lat, delivered of
a female child, and on Wednesday follow
ing, had firo more male-children.
One of the loyal militia of the infamous
Brownlow recently outraged the person of a
young negro girl. He was arrested and giv
en in charge of a negro guird, who shot and
beat him to cleath with their muskets. Their
commander approved of the deed.
The borough election in Clarion, the
other day, resulted in a Democratic tri
nmph, by the following vote : Democrat
69, Radical 47. In November last the
vote stood, Seymour 64, Grant CO ; which
shows a handsome Democratic gain.
A project to bring the remains of Wil
liam Penn from EnglaLd to this State, and
erect a monument over them, 13 being agi
tated. It is understood that his body was
interred in a leaden coffia, and the 6trans
portation would not be a difficult matter.
Andrew Jackaon had a colored lady ar
rested at Pittsburgh the other day on the
charge of stealing a stovo. Horace Greely
was put in durance vile. In one of the east
ern towns of the State, for stabbing a meer
schaum hued "bruddei" named John Brady.
At some points about the country they
are taking popular votes to dtermina who
shall be postmaster, under the incoming
administration. At Jonesville, Wis., a
young lady received the majority of vetes,
and has gone to Washington after the ap
pointment. A crazy man, having got into the gal
lery of the Senate of the United States dur
ing a rambling debate, was taken out, tho
Sergeant at arms telling him that he was
out of place in that gallery. "That's so.
said the lunatic ; 'I ought to be on the
floor with the Serator!"
Seventy-five hundred dollars have been
voted to the contestants ia the Second
Congressional Districts of Louisiana, one cf
whom is a negro. This is odo effect of Rad
ical reconstruction. Rather expensive busi
ness, when the mases are complaining of
hard times and high taxes.
In Rhode Island a negro can voto if
any one will pay his poll tax of $1.00, but
a naturalized white alien must have an in
come from real estate with at least $134
before he is permitted to vote. Many Irish
and Germans are thus prevented from ex
ercising the right of suffrage.
Barney Barnnm, a chap in Jennings
county, Indiana, who has heretofore had
hard work to make buckle and strap come
i .1 Ml f , . , . .
wgeiner, wm now nna tnem lapping a
long ways over, having become heir to
$2,200,000, left by an able and efficient un
cle who lately died in Germany.
To cure foundered horses take a lump
of alnra the size of a walnut, powder it and
dissolve in warm water. The horse must
be drenched with this liquor, and It will
throw him into a profuse perspiration, and
he will soon be well as ever ; this should be
done as soon as you ascertain his condition.
So says an exchange.
The jury in the case of Nancy E. Clem,
fer the murder of Jacob Young and wife, at
Cold Spring, Indiana, last September, have
returned a verdict of guilty of murder In the
first degree, and sho has been sentenced to
the penitentiary for life. Her counsel has
moved for a new trial.
A new illuminating material, recently
patented in Germany, consists of a mixture
of two parts of the poorest rape seed oil
and one part of good petroleum. It Is
burned in a lamp of peculiar construction,
but somewhat similar to that of the ordina
ry moderator lamp, and gives a light not to
be surpassed for purity and brilliancy.
General Murray McConnell, whose re
cent murder at Jacksonville. Illinois, has
Produced a sensation in the West, was the
first man, it is said, to appreciate and en
conra?e Stephen A. Douglas. It was in
his office that Douglas first studied law, and
be was a warm personal friend of the states
man during his entire political career
Dn nnnca of mm camnhor and an
ounce of powdered shsll of red pepper are
macerated in eight ounces of strong alcohol
for seven days, and then strained. With
this tincture furs and cloths are sprinkled
over and rolled up in sheets. This remedy
is used in Russia, under the name oi -oni-nese
Tincture for Moths,'' and is found very
effective.
A lady In Davenport, Iowa, has just
fallen heir to a fifth share in Texas land
which is valued at $5,000,000. This tract
is located in Bexar county, near San Anto
nio, and is known as the Medina "eleven
league tract." The Stat9 government gave
it to John Mullen, in 1833, for -valuable
rondered. but after-litieation de
prived him of it. and it is only recently
that the claims of his heirs have been recog
On Friday last. E. H. Bucr, formeryl
of Pittsburg, R. J. Wllliame, his son-in-law,
of Monongahela City. A. M. Larwell, of
Woobter, Ohio, Beckwith Sears, of Morgan
town, and Stockton Hervey, of Monongahe
la City, left Morgantown in a skiff for Ge
neva, and have not since been heard of.
Tbey are supposed to have been drowned,
as the skiff has been found floating bottom
upwards and the hat of one of the parties
found with it.
Two fatal accidents occurred ia Clarion
county week before last. Wm. Reed, while
attempting to disengage a log, tripped and
fell, when the log fell upon him crushing
him in such a manner as to cause his death
in twelve hours. While engaged in shov
ing a large log in Wilson's mill, in Helen
township. Mr. John W. Lyon tripped and
fell, and the log fell upon hi3 hsad and
crushod it almost to atoms causing instant
death.
George S. Twitchell, Jr.. the Philadel
phia murderer, seems to realize hia situa
tion, and spends much of his time in read
ing religious works and listening to his
minister. Dr. Bringhurst. He is quiet and
docile, his manner being described as amia
ble and winning. Ho still protests, how
ever, that he knows nothing about the
crime for which he is to be bangad. A
movement has been made by citizens to se
cure his pardon by Gov. Geary.
Great preparations are being made to
celebrate the completion of the Pacific Rail
road. It wiil be formerly opened by a
grand excursion on the 4th of next July.
Gov. Ilaight of California has received an
invitation to meet the Governors of other
States iu Chicaeo. to parliemate in the
- " a a
opening excursion. Part of the programme
is said to be the simultane- us starting of
two 'through trains," one from New York,
the other from San Francisco. It will be
the biggest railroad event the world has
seen.
Two mysterious attempts have been
made to assassinate Mrs. Julia Skagg3, a
poor widow seamstress, of Leavenworth.
A few weeks ago she was shot at while sit
ting at a window, the bullet grazing her
face. Last week she received a box pur
porting to be medicine sent by her sister in
Kansas City' the contents of which were
found to be arsenic. The poor woman has
no idea what motive her fiendish enemy can
have, and is so much alarmed that she has
left Leavenworth to escape the persevering
assassin.
A Des Moines? widow, and her baby,
and a Des Moines bachelor who hated ba
bies, travaled Chicagoward by the same
train. Widow saw a friend on a station
platform, put baby in bachelor's lap, went
out, got left bachelor distracted widow
telegraphed back and baby to stop at next
station overtook thnm by next train all
went to Chicago all come back together
widow with a new husband back with a
new baby baby with a new parent all
happy together, and nobody hurt says the
Statesman.
Fifteen years ago James Gull departed
from Belleville, Illinois, bound to California,
leaving behind a young wife and child. In
a few months news came that he had been
killed by the Indians. Three years after
his wife married again, and now Gull turns
up at Belleville, to find hr fupplied with a
husband and eight children, only one cf
whom is a Gull. Mr. Gull was captured
by the Indians, on his way across the
Plains, consented to become one of the
tribe, and was taken prisoner ncently by
Custer. The wife prefers her second hus
band, anJ Gull "is willin'."
A WoxnsEFCi. Clock. A citizen of De
troit has just completed a clock which is
described by the Free Press : It is inclosed
in a case of eight feet high, similar to the old
fashioned eight day clocks. - Below the cen
tcr of the face is an ordinary dal, with an
attachment for striking the quarter hours ;
at the left of this dial, set on a pivot or axis,
is a terrestrial globe about eight inches in
diameter which performs diurnal revolutions,
and on which are represented the five grand
divisions of the earth. On the opposite side
of the di d is a solf-regulating calender, cal
cnlated to run ten years without winding
and pointing the year, month, and the day
of the week. Immediately above the dial is
a section of a tower, resting on two pilasters
with a window, or opening; at which ap
pears, each time the clock strikes the hour,
one of the Apostles. Still above this tower
is a sort of verandah, at each end of which
sit an angel with outspread wings, and in
the center "Death" presides at a small bell,
on which he strikes the hour of the day with
a hammer. When the hands point to twelve
o'clock, the angel at one end of the veran
dah "rolls the stone away" and a door flies
opeo, from which emerges the Savior, who
takes position, and one by one tho twelve
Apostles follow and take their places iu close
proximity to their beloved Mahler, while
death rings out the last stroke just as the
Virgin Mary appears at the window of the
tower beneath.
Hsavy Failure. Samuel Hess, a lumber
merchant, of this city, who has a large lum
ber yard at Graefi's landing on the Oonesto
ga, failed yesterday. Mr. Hess' liabilities
are estimated at $125,000; we learn that
$67,000 of this amount is in the shape of
notes discounted at the various banking in
stitutions of this city. These notes are en
dorsed in about equal proportions by Mr.
Uess father, Henry Hess and by Christian
Lininer, his father-in-law. These endoraera
being men of ample means it is supposed
that the banking institutions are orotected.
The other creditors will likely lose h'eavily.
In connection with the foregoing we regret
to announce the death of Henry Hess, father
of the above Samuel Hess, who died suddenly
this morning, it is supposed from an attack
of aploplexy superinduced by the excitement
created by the news of the above failure.
Lancaster (Pa.) Intelligencer.
Db. Carbiebh, an eminent French physi
cian, gives the following process, which he
has employed for forty years, as a sure and
simple means of discovering whether death
is real or apparent : The system consists in
placing the hand, with the finger closed, be
fore the flame of a lamp or candle. Ia the
living person the members are transparent
and of a pinking color, showing the capillary
circulation and life full of activity, while in
that of a corpse, on the contrary, all is dull
and dark, presenting neither sign of existence
nor trace of the blood current,
-wwa T7T
terprise, of Virginia, Nevada, under date
of Not. 29, 1868, says : A most singular
phenomenon was witnessed from this city
yesterday morning at four o'clock, by
minors and others who were astir at that
hour. The sky was perfectly clear in
every direction, and in the eastern horizon
was peculiarly blue and bright, not the
slightest sign of mist about the ridges of
the distant eastern ranges, yet the morning
star rose of a blood red color and with a
bright white halo, apparently five or six
feet in diameter surroanding it. From the
lower Dart of this halo there extended
downward a tail, apparently some eight
feet long and two feet in width at the up
per part. This tail was slightly curved,
of a sabre shape, bluntly rounded at the
lower end, and both it and the halo ap
peared to be filled with urnall and exceed
ingly brilliant stars. This strange sight
lastwl some fifteen or twenty minutes, or
until the tar had risen so high that the
tail of the halo appeared to be two or three
feet above the crest of the distant range,
when it suddenly faded out.
BUY YOUR FLOUR
FROSI
M. L. OAT MAN,
itXD YOU WILL GET
TSE VERY BIST 13 THE UK
TTNITED
STATES MARSHAL'S
OFFICE. Wisterm District or Prm.v-
taxii. Pittsbl'I ou i his is to frive notice
that on the 6th d iv of January, A. D. a
Warrant in Bankruptcy was issued against ihe
estate of JOHN M. KLNU.ol Johnstown, in
thd countv of Cambria, and State of FtniiPYl
vani-i, who has been adjudged a Bankrupt on
his own petition; that the p.iyrnent of any deb's
and delivery of any property belonging to such
.... t . i . i
U.iiikrupt to him or ior ris use, nnu mu nuns
fer of anv nropertv tV him, are forbidden by
law; that a Meeting of the Creditors of said
Bankrupt, to prove their Debt and to choose
one or more Assignees of his Estate, will be
held at a Court of Bankruptcy, to be hohien at
the ofllee of the Register m Bankruptcy in llol
lidavt-buri? before John Brotherline, Esq.. Reg
ister, on the 15th day of March, A.. D. lbt:9,
at 10 w clock a. m.
THOMAS A.
U. S. Marshal,
W. F. Bathcrst, Deputy.
RO'.VLEY,
as Messenger,
feb le(.-4t
ITT NIT ED
STATES MARSHAL'S
J OF
OFFICE, WrsTBR District ok Penjj
6TLVASIA, PiTTSBURon. This is to srive notice
that on the ICth dav of January, A I- 169
a Wartart in Bankruptcy was issued against the
Estate of AUOUSTINE D. CRISTK.ot Mun
ster. in the countv of Cambria, and State of
Pennsylvania, who has been adjudged a Bank
rupt on his own petition ; that the payment of
any 1'ebta and tlehverv of anv property nelong
Hiig to such Bankrupt to him or for hia use, and
the trjnsfer of any property by him, are torbid
den by law; that a Meeting of the Creditors o
said uankrupt, to prove their Debts and to
choose one or more Assignees of hi Estate
wiil be held at a Court of Bankruptcy, to be
holdea at the office of the Register in Bank
ruptcy in Ho. lid.n shurg before John Brother
line, Esq.. Register, on the I5ih day of March,
A. D. 1S'J, at 10 o'clock a. m.
THOMAS A. ROWLEF-,
U. S Marshal, as ilessenger.
W. F. B ATn t'RT, Deputy. feb.18. 4t.
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UPOPwTANT TO FARMERS 1
California and Oregon
SEED WHEAT AGENCY.
"We furnif-h Fanmers with the
BEST SEED WHEAT IN THE WORLD
Perfectly free from insectiform or other im
purities ; grown from AUSTRALIAN and
CHILI Seed, yielding, on gMd soil
SIXTY BUSHELS TO TUE ACRE,
AXD WETGHISO
C5 Pound to the Measured Bnihtl,
The EARS OF WHEAT, when mature. are
usuallv ELEVEN OR TWELVE INCHES
LONG.
Iut np and pecurelv tied and sealed in
linen bags, and Bent by mail free to all prw of
tlie country, on receipt 01 price.
PRICES.
Samples . . . .10c. each Bags. .50c. k$l each
Or in larger quantities at reasonable rates
Address
California, and. Oregon
SEED WHEAT AGENCY,
SAN FRANCISCO,
California.
DMLNISTKATOirS NOTICE.
Letters Tetamentarv on the Estate of
Mrs. Margaret McKenn i, late of Loretto bor
ough, deceased, having becu eranted to the un
dersigned by the Register of Cambria county,
all persons indebted to said estate are required
io make payment without delay, and tho.e
having claims against the same wiil presei.t
mem proper y auinenticateu lor settlement to
.TRAM CIS O'FIIIEL, Administrator.
Loretto, Feb. 18, IfcCU.-Gt.
TjXECUTOU'S NOTICE. Whereas
---- oncers i estamentary to the Estate of
jacoo cenaer, late of Uarrolltown borough, de
ceased, have been granted to the nndersigned,
nn persuus mueoieu io tne saia estate are re
quester to raise immediate payment, and all
uaving claims against Vie estate of sail dece
dent wilt make known the same without delav
HENRY BYRNE, 6 ay
JU1CH L wEAKLAND, of Wm. ( x re
Carroll Twp., Feb. 12, l8G9.-6t.
IXKUUTOR'S NOTICE. Letters
J testamentary oo the estate of Peter San
n rq . 1 -i t rf lfnnDi..iK t . . .
, - - ""-oi ivwusiiip, aeceasea, nave
uceii uraniea to tne subscriber residing in Gal-
Jitzin township, m said county. Persons havinsr
nww win present theru
properly proven to the subscriber ; and those
owing the same will make immediate pavment.
n ?HILIPC.J- SANDERS, Executor.
Galhtzin Tp., Feb. 2, lt69.-6t.
ALTION. All persona are hereby
cautioned against purchasing or usine'a
Note for Twenty-Eight Hundred Dollars, with
out interest, dated Dec. 30th, 1863, running ten
months, and drawn by me in favor of Urbanus
Higgle. Said Note was obtained through false
representations, and I will not pay the same
unless compelled to do so by legal process.
, GEO. S.PERRY.
Osceola, Pa., Feb. 3, 18b9. feb.ll.-3t.
A DMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE!-
Josh siS? Admintration on the estate of
Joseph SprinSan, late of Sasquehanna twp.,
Vajkoria county, having been granted to the
undersigned, all parties indebted to Raid estate
are required to make payment, and those hav
ing claims against the same are requested to
present them for settlement.
F. A. SHOEMAKER. Administrator.
Ebensburg, Feb. 4, 1869,-Ct.
S ELECT SCHOOL. The undersigned
will open a Select School in Room No 1
Ebensburg Union School House, on Momdat
March 15th. 1869, tor a sesaioa of two month
1 irms $1.50 per month of four weeks
Feb. 11, 1869,-vf, GEO. W. COPE.
A Singular I'uenomeson. loe en
1868. FALL TRADE. 1868.
1 am now prepared to oner
SUPERIOR INDUCEMENTS
TO CASH rrBCHAJSEBS 07
TB. SHEET-IROI & HF1 Ml
XITHEB XT
WHOLESALE OR RETAIL.
My stock consists In part of every variety of
Tin, Sheet-Iron.
COPPER AND BRASS WARES,
BMAMKLLED AND PLAIN
SAUCE-PAHS. BOILERS, fco.,
COAL SIIOVELS, MINE LAMPS, OIL
CANS, HOUSEFCRNISUINO HARD
WARE OF EVERY KIND.
Spaav'e iatl.Dail
HEATING and COOKING STOVES,
EXCELSIOR COOKING STOVES,
NOBLE, TRIUMPH and PARLOR COOK
ING STOVES,
Amd any Cooking Stove desired I will get
when ordered at manufacturer's price
Odd Stove Plates and Grates, Ac., for re
pairs, on band for the Stoves I sell ; other
will be ordered when wanted. Partlcaiar
attention given to
Spouting, Valleys and Conductors,
mil of which will be made ont of best mate
rials and put up by competent workmen.
Lamp Burners, Wick and CMmneja
WHOLKSiLC OK SETA IX. .
I would call particular attention to the Light
House Burner, with Glass Cone, for giving
more lipbt than any other in ne. Also, tta
Paragon Burner, for Crnde Oil.
iPEXCER'S IIFTEU T
It recommends itself.
SUGAR KETTLESTND CAULDRONS
of all sizes constantly on band.
Special attention given to
Jobbing in Tin, Copper and Sheet-Iron.'
at lowest possible rates.
Whoijuale Mkrciiasts Lists
now ready, and will be sent on app.icatka
by mail or in person.
Iloping to see all my old customers acd
many new ones this Spring, I return my
most sincere thanks fer the very libera pa
tronage I have already received, an? wi'l
endeavor to please all who may call, wheth
er they buy or not
FRANCIS W. IIAY.
Johnstown, March 7, 1867.
tJiiJSAT Reduction in Prices I
TO CASH HIWHS!
AT THE Eiicxsiiirsa
nOl'SE-FURMSIHAB STORE.
The nndersigned respectfully informs tbe
citizens of Ebensburg and tbe public geter
ally that he has made a great reduction In
prices to CASH BUYERS. My stock will
consiot, in part, cf Cooking, Parlor an-i httJ-,
mg Stoves, of the most popular kinds ; 7-
trare of every description, of my own msn-
ufactnre ; Hardware of ail kind, such a
Locks, Screws, Butt Hinges, Table Hicgbs,
Shutter Flinges, Bolts, Irr-n and Nails, Win
dow Glass, Putty, Table Knives and Fi rki,
Carving Knives aod Forks. Meat Cutteia,
Apple Parers, Pen and Pocket Knives in
great variety, Scissors, Sfcuirs, Razors and
Strops. Axes, Hatchets, Hammers, Boritg
Machines, Augers, Chissel3, Planes, Com
passes, Squares, Files, UApps, Anvils, Yitcs,
Wrenches, Rip, Panel and Croee-Cut Saw.
Chains of all kinds. Shovela, Spades, Scythe
and Snaths, Rakes, Forks. Slrih Bells,
Shoe Lasts. Pegs. Wax Bristles.. Clothes
Wringers, Grind Stones, Patent Molasses
Gates and Measures, Lumber Sticks, Ilorss
Nails, Horse Shoes. Cast Steel. RiBes. Shc-t
Guns, Revolvers, Pistols, Cartridges, Fiw
der. Caps. Lead, Ac. Odd Stove Plates,
Grates and Fire Bricks. Well and Cistern
Pumps and Tubing ; Harness and Saddlery
Ware of all kind j Wcotlen and Willow Wort
in great variety ; Carbon Oil and Oil Lamps.
Fish Oil, Lard Oil, Linseed Oil, Lnbricatirg
Oil, Rosin, Tar, Glassware. Paints, Yarn Wi
es, Turpentine. Alcohol. Ac.
FAMILY GROCERIES,
such as Tea, Coffee, Sugars, Molasses. Sjr
ops. Spices, Dried Peaches. Dried Apple,
Fish. Hominy, Crackers, Rice and Pearl
Barley: Soaps, Candles; TOBACCO aid
CIGARS; Paint. Whitewash, Scrub, Hore. '
Shoe, Dusting, Varnish, Stove. Clothes aod
Tooth Brushes, all kinds and tizi-s ; Bed
Cords and Manilla Ropes, and many othr
articles at the lowest rates for CASH.
fjt House Sjtouting made, painted and pnt
np at low rates for cash. A liberal discount
made to country dealers bnving Tinware
wholesale. GFO. 11 U.NTLEY ;
Ebensburg, Feb. 28, 1867.-tf.
M. L. OATMAN7
DKALBR IV
CII0ICE FAMILY GROCERIES
CONSTSTIKQ
gcublc (grfra Jamilg h
GRAIN, FCED,
EACOIf, SALT, FISH,
FRESH VEGETABLES,
ALL KINDS OF FRUITS,
SUGARS, TEAS, COFFEES,
SYRUPS, MOLASSES, CHEESE, &c.
Also, a large stock of the
Bes Brands of Cigars and Tobaccj.
STORE ON HIGH STREET,
Four Dor$ East of Crawford' i HM
Ebensburg, Pa.
S3ECURE THE SHADOW EKE
THE SUBSTAXCE FADES!
SPEKCE'H JCEYT
Is now in perfect order for executing Picture
ia every style of the art. Photographs of life
like accuracy, ranging from the smallest cari
picture to the largest siza for framinc taken i
any weather, and warranted to give satisfaction.
x articular attention paid to children's pictures.
F rames of all kinds for sale cheao. Frames of
any kind not on hand will be ordered when de
sired. Instructions in the art on liberal term.
of Town 1111. T. T. 8 PEN OB.
Ebenvborg, Oct. 8, 186$. Fhoo graft-
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