It Cambria Frcemae. KnCKSBUaiO, tA. THURSDAY, : : APRIL 22, 1869. .1 i i TLe l.ast Reconstruction Act. On the day before Congress adjourned a law was passed authorizing the President to bubniit the newly framed conhtitutionB of the States of Virginia, Missisbippi and Texas to a vote of the people, at such time as ht may deem expedient. This last aud worst reconstruction experiment contains the fol lowing scandalous section : "That before the States of Virginia, Texas and Mississippi shall be admitted to representa tion in Congress, their stvsral legislatures, which may be hereafter organized, ahull ratify the fifteenth article, which has been proposed to the several Stales as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States." Odious and detestable as hare been all the former laws on the subject of reconstruction, this feature which we have copied from the lat enactment completes the crowning act of infamy. It is the first instance in the history of the government in which, by a bold aud unwarranted exercise of power, Congress has undertaken to coerce a State to ratify an amendment to the constitution. What would Madison, or Jay, or Hamilton, have said, if some member of the Couvcntion of 1787, wise after the manner of our radical Salons of the present day, had proposed to confer upon Congress the power to compel a JState to adopt a proposed amendment 1 Does any man outside of a lunatic asylum suppose that if this coercive power in Con gress had been incorporated in the section of the constitution which provides for its own amendment, that instrument wculd ever have been adopted by the thirteen original States ? If Daniel Webster, the great expounder of the constitution, had occupied a Mat in the Senate of the Uuitsd States when the section of which we are speaking was offered and adopted, what an indignant frowu would have rusted on his majestic brow and how bis eloquent tongue would have thundered forth its denunciations against tho proposed outrage! Bat the days of statesmanship have departed and the reign of political charlatans is upon us. That such a glaring legislative fraud should bo not only attempted bat consummated, was scarcely to have been expected even from the radical party, aud is another proof of the total revolution that, is being effected in our sj'ftcm of government. It is forcing ne gro suffrage upon the people of the North, whether they are willing to have it or not, by an act cf Congress, and is therefore a bold, open repudiation of the Chicago platform. It is Congress saying to Virginia, Mississippi and Texas, we have compelled you to give tho ballot to your ignorant and degraded ne groes, and now, unless you force negro suf frage upon the unwilling people of Pennsyl vania by adopting the fifteenth constitutional amendment, we will refuse to recognize you as States, or to receive your members of Congress, and will continue to rule you by the strong arm of military power. With much greater right might Congress say to these three States, if you will elect the rad ical candidates for Governor we will admit you into tho Cuion, but if yon do not you shall remain as you are. In that event the rights of these three States would alone be affected, but under this section of the law the rights of every State In the Union op posed to negro suffrage are overturned and trampled in the dust. It is defiant, insolent revolution. It is amending the const Itution, not in the way provided for In that instru ment, but simply by an act of Coitgrets. Viewed in all its aspects, that !s the plain tffjet of this section of the act. Such is the flagrant character of a law which has been approved by a President who. during his whole life, probably never read the constitution of the United States. The radical theory la and has been that these three States are not in the Union that they are conqaored provinces, possessing none of the powers and attribntee of a State yet before they are received as States they are required to ratify a constitutional ameudinent. which Is the highest and most solemn aot of power which a sovereign State can perform. The chili it equal to the maa. Merely to state the proposition is to show its utter absurdity. When this section was before the Senate even to pro nounced a radical as Mr. Conk) Lag, from New York, felt constrained to denonnoe it in the following terms : "Now, sir, as a friend of the fifteenth amend merit, as a friend of restoration, as a friend of its completion, I earnestly hope that no pro cess involving; the force, at least, if nothing more of this proposition will be resorted to as a means of promoting that amendment. If it can be carried at all it must be carried before tbe honest sense, the enlightened judgment of the American people ; and as far as it ia even by insdvertance associated with unfair dealing, with a breach of faith, with an cot which would be deemed overreaching between man and man and recreant looking to the plighed faith o' a great government, so.far as it is associated with anything like that, is so far is it contaminated by a stigma and distrust which ought not to rest upon it." Is endeavoring to find out what teas and was not done by the late Legislature, we are gratified to know that the project to con tinue the publication of Bates' Military His tory was defeated in the committee of con ference on the appropriation bill. It was an iniquitous measure, uncalled for and en tirely useless Q ny possj.bIe aspect la which It could be view!. Its defoat will avs the State about one Wjred and seven ty five thousand dollars. . A Law was passed a few days bafora the adjournment of the legislature throwing the door of evidence wide open in the trial of civil enita. It allows either the plaintiB or defendant, or both, to be examined in the same manner as other witnesses. When we receive a correct copy of the law we will publish it A tegUry law was also passed, b ;t as we have net yet Fen it wc cacno! Ci.fi . j state its previsions. Tlie Xctv Slate Treasurer. If the one-half or even a tithe of what comes to us from Harrisburg in connection with the lobby operations of llcbcrt W. Mackey, the newly elected State Treasurer, be true, he is a rotten and corrupt politician, and his election to the office was difgrace fu.l to all who were concerned in it. His success in obtaining the position was a mat ter of very great surprise, and when it was known that he was indebted for it to tho Cameron influence a dark taint of suspicion attached to him. Iiis course since his elec. tion has removed all doubts as to his true character. During the session Mr. Wallace introduced a bill ia the Senate requiring the State Treasurer, after the first Monday of May next, to keep the funds of the Common wealth in the State Treasury at Ilarritbu'g. This was to prevent that officer from loan ing the public money to the banks and put ting the interest received frem them for the use of it into his own pockst. Most sure ly that was an upright and honest bill, and ought to meet with universal approval. The bill was referred to the appropriate committee. JIackey knew that its passage would diminish the profits of his ofiice as it has heretofore been conducted, and although he will not enter upon its duties uctil the first n eek in May, yet he suddenly appeared at the capital and by some peculiar process familiar to Pennsylvania legislation, persua ded the committee to report the bi'l with a negative recommendation. At a subsequent period of the Besion llr. Billingfelt, a radical Senator, proposed an amendment which was adopted to the ap propriation bill, directing the Stale Treas urer to pay off eijht hundred thoujand dol lars of the public debt. The annual inter est on this turn would amount to forty-eight thousand dollars. The money is now in tbe treasury and is not required to meet any de mands upon it. The effect of the amend ment would be to save this amount of inter est and to extingnieh the State debt to the extent of the large sum above named. Is thero an honest man in the State who will not admit that the proposition was wise and judicious ? Mackey knew very well that if this amount of money was taken from the treasury 71010 there would be just that amount less to be loaceJ ont for his own personal benefit when he would take posses sion of the office. It is charged that by the persistent efforts cf Mackey this fair and honest proposition was defeated in the con ference committee on the appropriation bill. In addition to all this, he is cbirged with having strenuously labored to secure the pas sage of the infamous bill imposing a tax on coal and petroleum, which vvonld have brought more than one-third of a million of dollars into the treasury to be used for bis own private benefit. In this he failed, but he was remarkably successful for a new be ginner in his other disreputable schemes. If Robert W. Mackey does not require a strict watch over his operations in the treas ury department wo can only eay that his antecedents thus far as a lobbyist are no in dex of character. Legislative Girts. The new legislative farce known a "Aftf tual Qift Presentation,'" was played last Friday, before a large and admiring audi dence, on the floor of the House of Repre sentatives at Darrisburg, just previous to the final adjournment of . that inimorta body. Tho assignment . of the part of the play to tha several actors was well cast, and each performed his allotted part with artistic judgment and markeJ ability. It was a most strange and singular afterpiece to the legislative drama which has been daily and sometime nightly played on the same boards by the entire company for the last four months. When the custom among members of the legislatnre of presenting gifts to ono another originated we caonot say, but it is a silly practise, and is more honored in the breach than in the observance. On this occasion the presents consisted of gold watches and gold watch chains, silver pitchers and gold headed canee. The speeches made by the donors as well as the receivers was flat, stale and unprofitable. As we have not yet seen the general appropriation bill, we can aot say whether or not it contains a special appropriation for the payment of all this jewelry ont of any monies in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. "We were pained to see that the Hon. Hen ry Ms Miller, of blessd memory, was not made the recipient of any of these valuable gifts. His patriotic and unselfish services demanded some public recognition. It would have been la accordance with the fit ness of things If Klisha W. Davis had pre sented McMiller with a brass medal, having his resolution to increase the pay of the members engraved on one side and the image and superscription of Peter Her die on the other. Another grave omission was the absence of the twenty-seven folders and pasters. With their absence the entire performance was marred and made to re semble the play of Hamlet with the part of Hamlet left cut. They should have been there to point the moral of the joyous scene, and to each one of them should have been presented a leatfter medal, with appropriate speeches by their frienda, Wilson and Mc Miller. As an evidence of the estimate in which tha late legislature was held by an impar tial judge, we present the following pen and pencil picture from Theodore Tilton, editor of the New York Independent, who paid a visit to Harrisburg during the session : . "Never before have wc seen no squalid an array of low brows grouped together in anv one legialative chamber, not even in Albany. Solid lennsylvanians say freely (and with many in tTspruikted damnations) that the present legis lature is the most corrupt that ever preyed upon that bleeding commoawealth." Mr. Dana, of the N. Y. Sun. de.-.lmp holding any petition under Grant. Tl Governor's Veto. A good deal of newspaper discussion has been elicited in cenpequenca of a veto by the Governor, of a law passed by the Legisla ture empowering hiin to commute tbe death penalty to imprisonment for life in the Pen itentiary. Tbe veto, which of eourise was written by Attorney General Brewster, is sound in its reasoning and will meet with general approval... It seems to.us that in a complicated case of murder, involving a large amount of testimony, a Governor, we care not who be may be or whether lawyer or layman, would be a very .unsafe person to decide, not upon tb9 guilt or innocence of the defendant, but on the degree of his guil t, because that was tha precise question which the law submitted to him for his delibera tion. He would be an entire stranger to tho parlies aud would not have heard the testi mony of the witnesses, and thus have been enabled to judge of their ability and opportu nities of knowing the truth of the facts about which they testified. These and various other considerations, present at the trial and which have their proper weight with juries, would disqualify him, tt least in many in stances, from arriving at an intelligent nn derfctanding of the true merit3 of the case. Besides, if he could so govern himself as not to permit his judgment to be controller by the personal appeals of the re'ativce and friends cf the prisoner, he would be icss than human. While we are, therefore, opposed to vest ing this power in the Governor, wa are just as well satisfied that the power to commute the death penalty to imprisonment for life ought to be lodged somewhere. Of course the power would be but reldom exercised, for the reason that verdicts of murder in the first degree are in most cases in accordance with the evidence, and would not therefore be disturbed. But that there have been aud will La cases ir. which, although the jury has rendered the highest verdict known to the law, yet in which, from many circum stances, the liTe of the criminal onght to be spared, is a fact not to be disputed. Wo think that the caso of Gerald Eaton, who was recently executed in Philadelphia, wa9 an instance of the kind. In what tribunal, then, should this power of commutation be vested ? Of necessity either in the judges or the jury bafore whom ths prisoner has been tried. Ia one State at least, Illinois, a jury in rendering a verdict of guilty of murder in tha first degree may state in their verdict whether ths defendant shall suffer death or be imprisoned for life. We would canfsr the power on the judges of the Courts. Could any possible harm to society result from it ? We think not. They heard all the evidence as detailed by the witnesses, as well as their manner of stating it they have weighed it well and have given it due and careful consideration all the facts and surroundings of the case are familiar to them ; and, besides all this, from ths very nature of their ofiice they would be exempt frotn any undue iufiueuca from personal appeals or other outside iu terference. If a change should be made in the law it is manifest to us that the judges ought to be the custodians of the power. The true re form, however, would be to go to the root of the svil at once and abolish capital punish ment. Bat we do not look for this change in our penal laws to be effected under the present state of popular opinion on the sub . ... 11 . i ' 1 ect. That it will eventually tase piaco wo believe and hope. We echo the mant nf Horace Greelv. who in a sent!- recent article on the death penalty said : . . "Here, then, we Uke our stani. tUntil it cau be aliutrn (as in the nature of things it. neves can be) th.t judges are infaUiaUe in judgment and that jurors cannot err in their iiud'ug, we insist that the law has no right, according to its own theories, so to dispose of any respondent a3 to put it out of its own pow er to redress an injury or to correct a mistake. Hanging presupposes omnipotence and omnis cience. In all other human affiirs we trust the disclosures of time, and patiently or impa tiently wait for the developments of circum stances. In banging we assume that no new evidence an be discovered, that every witness has told the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, that the Court had made no mis take in its law, that the jury ha? been entirely faithful in the di-charge of its duties, llutm all things it has acted intelligently and that legal science will never hereafter be able to find a fhw in the indictment. "We take issue here. We say that precision and certainty like this are impossible, and, whatever may be our judicial muhinery, must always remain im possible. We say further that experience in quite a large number of cases has shown that even confession is not to be relied upon as con clusive evidence of guilt, and that without such evidence the law is continually falsifying its own dictum that it is better that ten guilty men should escape than oue innocent man should suffer. Yet we begin in doubt, go on in doubt, aud end iu diubt, the only certiin thing being the de ith of our victim !" Singular Incidbxt. Recently, a citizen ofBurlington, New York, upon going to an upper chamber used as a sleeping apartment byktho boys of the family, found a perfectly black dove perched upon the bureau, direct ly in front of a mirror, intently engaged in looking at itBelf. Tha dove was caught, and confine! ia a lower room until morning, when it was taken to the barn, an4 retained there during the day, and as tha door was left open it rlew away. Again, the next day, upon going into an other room, also used as a Bleeping apart ment by the head of the family, the same dove' was found perched npon the bureau, ou a pin-cushion, engaged as on the previous occasion, look'ug at itself in a mirror. The dove was again taken and put out of the room, and flew about for a abort, time, when it alighted on the peak of the house. In the minds of the superstitious the in cident will be regarded as a bad omen, and by all it will be looked upon as a very singular incident, as black doves are a spe cies almost unknown, and how it could hava found its way into two different sleeping rooms of tha same house is a little mysteri ous. . . It may be interesting to many of onr citizens to know that a National Irish Con vention is to be held in Chicago during the coming month, to form an aid society for the encouragement of emigration from Ire land. Previous to tha meeting an address to Irishmen throughout the United States will be prepared. It is expected that dele gates will be present frsm all the principal western cities?. Uarrisburg Correspouder ce. UAKE13BOBO, April 17, 18C9. Dear Freeman Yesterday at 12 o'clock the Pennsylvania Legislature adjourned sine die, and if the newspapers are to be believed, and of course thev are, the .people of the Commonwealth are glad of it, knowing that if they are to be blessed with no'" good laws they will be cursed with no more bad ones. Tha closing scenes having been already des cribed by a number of writers for the. daily papers, and. the speeches. . reported. Jr- the same way, it is enough for mo to say that presentations were the order of the day. FVervhndr- repented evervbodv else with something;' ranging from speaker's gavel to a-six hnndrtd "dollar watch. - - 1 There were a number of bills passed dur ing the last week. The bill revising the ' tax laws was reconsidered, amended so as to tax oil, anthracite coal aud whiskey, and passed in the House, but voted down in the Senate. . A resolution to print ten thousand copies rf Bates' Military History for the use of the House, at a co?t not to exceed J3.50 ner cortv. was adopted bv the House. An act for the protection of game in Cam bria and a number- of othar counties, was also passed. An act allowing parties to pay seven per cent, interest by contract was lost. The Philadelphia police bill was passed by the Hoiteo but again voted down in ths Sen ate. This is the recond time during this session that the Senate has refused to pass this police bill. The radicals of the House appeared determined to force their brother radicals of the Senate into the adop tion of this measare, bat they did not suc ceed. - Considerable ex'-itement existed for a few days in' legislative circles, occasioned by a nimberof Scmators drawinglheir full amount of pay and then voting down the appropri ation bill. . Thev weakened in the k uees,?i however, reconsidered the matter, and passed the bill by just one of a maj r ity tha voto standing seventeen ayes to sixteen nays. Tho bill establishing an additional court in Cambria coiinty passed both Houses and has received the sanction of the Governor, as have also tho acts incorporating a Medi cal and Surgical Hospital in Johnstown and allowing the Cambria Iron Company to maintain a bridge over the Concmaugh river. The city to-day is dull. The hotels are deserted members of the Legislature have nearly all departed for their respective homes the lobbyists (whose occupation, like that of Othello's, is gone) have disap peared strangers are but few and far be tween, ami quiet again prevails in our us ually staid and sob-r city. 'The' season for active business closed with the session of the Legislature, and although the poor unfor tunate mortals comprising that honorable body have been outrageously villified for the past two months I feel like saying a word or two in their favor.. Notwithstanding they have been charged with bribery and all sorts of conuption by many of the newspa pers of the State, it is just to say that while in our midst thy conducted themselves, one and all. in tho mot creditable manner on all occasions. I did not hear that. any of them were summoned before his Honor the Mayor, and feel sure they would not have escaped the vigilance of our efficient police had they been guUty of any misdemeanor. And now, dear Freeman. .13 the session of the Legislature has closed, and as you will be able to find onr local doiugs in the Morning Patriot. I will not trouble you with another letter fur a while. II. Communication. St. Augustine, April 16, 1859. . Dear Freeman : We beg a space in your columns for a few remarks with re gard to the ir justice with which we have been treated by the school directors of Clcar fild township. We engaged to teach in Schools Nos. ? and 5, for the sum of $30 per month, if the schools were conducted pro perly ; otherwise, from $2C to $27, according to the satisfaction given. Of course we were under the impression that if complaints were entered, the directors would apprise u- of the fact end visit the schools before de ciding against us. Consequently, when our schools were closed without any- evidence of dissatisfaction on their part, or any visits having been mad to rilher of the schools lj any member of I he Board, we supposed that no deduction - from the sum first specified would be made. The teacher of Scho 1 No. 3 was notified during the third month thr.t one of the citizens complained of her losing time, Iherebj' throwing the close of school term too late in the -season Tbe director who spoke of it was satisfied that the delay had been unavoidable, and as not a day was lost after that time and an order for $30 as In r third month's salary was written soon af terwards, this should not have been consid ered at all when the fourth month'3 ealary was to be paid. This was the only thing spoken of till cur schools were closed, our reports taken in and examined, and orders on the treasurer for twenty-seven dollars in full were written by the Secretary. We were then informed that it had been decided by a majority of the Board that no teachers against whom complaints had been made should receive orders for thirty dollars, and that we had each been chTged by two: cit zens of the townhip with, neglecting onr duties in the school room in every case by persons who had never entered our school room doors. One of these had expressed dissatisfaction to the teacher and was. invi ted to visit the school, 'which he refused to do. In schools numbering, TeRpect ively, over seventy and over forty pupils, this was the only instance of dissatisfaction ; which came to our knowledge during th session. If these complanits were made during , the term we should have been apprised, of it'; if they were not they were u?eless and un necessary, end should not have been accept ed. The trifling sum of three dollars taken from our rightful earnings we do not consid er, but the fact that our wages were lower than thosaof other, teachers in the township may not prove a good recommendation in other districts .where we. shall apply, for schools hereafur. . The circumstances having been misrepresented, we fcol that our repu tation as earnest and conscientious teachers is at stake, and have taken this method of defending it.- .' . . I a conclusion , the teacher of School No. 5, having been requested to settle with school orders yet in her hands the taxes of a person in another township, in. whose liabilities she is not concerned, it ia respectfully suggested that she be appointed Collector of Taxes for the coming year. Very respect fally.. -.. ;; Josie akd Lixa. First Comb, Fibs SiRTKD.--There will not be a day in the year on which you will not be able to find at Oak Hall an ele gant and large assortment of fine ready made Clothing. But how is the time to make your purchases;' the season " Is jost opening and the shelves and tables are fair ly groaning under the weight of the Spring and Summer Stock. ' You will hav a wider range of choice ; get the goods while they are fresh and add vastly to. your own com fort by changing your clothing with ths season. Then stand cot on the order of your going, but go at once. JLA.TE XETVS JTEJIS. Six dwellings in Mount Carbon were destroyed by fire on the 12 instant. A four legged chicken has been hatch ed in Columbia county, and it hops about on "all fours." . . V "; Judge Peter Herbine, of Columbia co., was drowned, in the mill race at Slabtown, a few days since. It is 6uspecled that he was foully dealt with. At the municipal election at St. Paul, Minn., Gilman (Democrat and Max well, ; (Itepublichn,) candidates f r Mayor, each had 1.&65 votes. The city charter provides that in case of a tie vote the choice shall be decided by lot. , - ; . - fAt Pern 111., fortnues have been made in the ice business during tho past winter One firm alone ha cleared ver abundred 1 thousand dollars, and it is estimated that Peru will be' the; gainer to the amount of a quarter of a million dollars. '-. " . A lad in Owingsville. -Ky., the other day had all tho fingers of ihe right hand chopped off with an axe by a comrade. He picked up the severed members without an exclamation ot pain or rear, carrieu tnem home, and told of the accident. Wm. Ilurlbut, of Cornwall "Yt., died last week of starvation, having eaten noth ing, save what was force! into his stomach; for nearly a year, from , tbe fear that ho should become a town pauper, although worth about eight thousand dollars, and a bachelor seventy years old. ' C. H. Stinson was elected Speaker of the State Senate on Friday. The Demo crats vottd for W. M. Randall. Stinson has received his reward for depriving Judge Greenback of, his seat upon the bench he was elected toby tbe pecp'e of Philadelphia. The colored population of Washington are in a state of excitement over the fact that the President has selected a white man from PhiTadelnhia as steward for the White Douse. Who knows but that this act will deprive the. Radical party of the negro vote 1 An extensive and valuable gold miue has receutly been examine ! near Warsaw, in Milton comity, Ga.. and its quality test ed. It hns eight distiuct veins, and has been long known to tho old residents of the county. Mr. Graham, tho owner, has just secured titles to it, after thirty years' etrug gle. ....... An animal, about two feet tall, shaped like a chiM and with a Lemaa voico, but covered with silver jrrav hair, six inches long, has been freqnently seen in the woods near Union villej Ivy. It burrows iu the caith. is very f td of food, and, although several times pursued, has easily made its escape. Some of the laborers excavating the great mound in the northern part of St. Louis have unearthed a row of Indian graves sixty feet in length and twenty-five feet be low the surface. Large quantities of bones, beads, coius, and other relica have been thrown up and the place has been viited by great numbers of curiosity hunters. Mount Hood, and other high peaks ia Oregon, have begun to smoke; aod the in habitants of the State fear earthquakes. Hood (13,000 feet high.) Jefferson (11,000 feet,) and the Sisters not Brothers, as some of the. pnprs print it (1 1,000 feet.) are t xtinct volcanoes ; and Mount Hood has been active within the tradition of the In dian tribes. A remarkable insUnc? of suspension of animation has been recently developed in Brooklyn, New York. Mr. E. R ele sus tained by a fall from his h rse injuries so severe that he sank rapi l;y and appeared to die. Preparations were made for his funer al, but twenty-four hours after his snpposed death he revived, considerably startling at the undertaker. A man named Fay aimed a revolver directly at hi3 forehead while walking on Twenty-sixth street, New Ycrk, the ether day, pnlled the trigger, and the next mo ment the bullet, instead of penetrating the sknll, fell upon .the pavement as flat as a peony. Fay is not a juggler, but his front al bone must be a curiosity. Ths shl mere ly shocked hirru John S. Car'i'e, formerly a democratic U. S. Senator from West' Virginia, aposta tised last fall, and did all in his power to aid in the defeat of Mr. Seymour. Grant undertook to reward him for h'13 treachery to the democracy by appointing him Min ister to Stockholm. The radical Senate, however, refused to confirm him. They love the treason, but de?pise the traitor. A little boy. a bootblack, named Fras tr.s Dean, ou Friday evening attempted to jump on an empty coal train, at Harrisburg. while it was moving from the Iiebanon Val ley to the Pennsylvania Railroad, ami slip ping, foil under the car.s. and had his legs terribly mangled so much so that ampu tation could not be avoided. Eight cars ran over him before he wes extricated. An ingenious individual has laid before Professor Morse, the electrician, a plan for sending velocipedes over wires by electricity. He proposes that Ihe wheels shall run on wires, one above and one below, tho tire3 being grooved. He thinks tl at they can be used for carrying the mail, and even ges so far as to propose to send a man from New York to New Orleans in an hour and a half. A negro in Montgomery, Ala., pickud up a love of a bonnet in the streets of that city, and was shortly afterwards arrested by the police, charged with having, in his pos session a swindling device. 'The identity of the article was established after considerable trouble, and the court decided that it was a swindling device, but that the negro was uot a swindler. The court is a married man. . The Harrisburg Patriot,, cf Saturday, says: Early yesterday morning an invalid soldier, while in a fit of insanity, fell on the railroad at the Pennsylvania depr.t as n train was approaching, and but for the opportune interposition of several persons would have been killed. One of bis feet was somewhat crushed, the. men not being able to get him entirely off the track iu time to prevent injury. . ' ' " -' " - Two daughters of Frank Milliard, aged respectively thirteen and three years, wrro burned to death on the 1st insU'.'at their parent' residence in Washington tp But ler county. The oldest .girl attempted to revive the fire, which was low, by pouring petroleum on it, when the flames reached the can and exploded it, scattered the hom ing liquid over 'the children and burned them in a horrible manner. - - - - Beast Butler has won another victory. It appears that he was recently ' riding ia a street car in Washington when a lady who was leaving the car remarked, as she passed him, "Look out for your spoons." , The General promptly followed her, and ascer tained that she was employer! in the Treas ury. She has now obtained a permanent leave of absence, and the General has had her place filled by a black woman. j t- . . C. C, Crow, who was recently nominated by Ulysses U be Governor of New Mexico, was formerly a rebel General, and the man whom he is to supercede is General Mitch ell who fought on the Union Hdej and re ceived some sixteen wounds. In one of the battles of tbe West, General Mitchell defeat ed a rebel fcrce .under. Crow, capturing a large number of bis men. ne is nav pet ting paid back. Mitchell sympathizes with tue democracy, ad Crow has teen recon- strutted. Miss Cairnes, who shot her -seducer. McComas, last weok.'at Jarratsville. Mary land, is still at liberty; Public sentiment is bo much in her favor that the authorities have not demanded her in prisonriieat, nor asked ecurityw ,Sbe et ill rrihains at her horn, perfectly reconciled, mid ready for any demand the sheriff may mare. It is eaid that no jurv co!d possibly "be found to convict her, though hhe owns to a delilxrate intention, Jong premeditated, if the deceased foiled to make reparation by marrying Ler, of taking hi life. Something has at last turned up which eclipses in importance, in radical eyes, even carpet-bag rn-onfltrucrW) and the XVih amendment. Forney tells 11s in ore of his 'two papers (both daily") tha. fliould the Quaker experiment with the lui:ins prove feuccesafulit will live iu boug.and tradition forever, and the story of peace aud good will and human faith will be toM from neth er to child long afte- tha XVtb amendment and the problems of reconstruction shall be forgotten and passed out f. memory or un derstanding,: a tV playthings of politicians and statesmen. We believe you, Mr. For ney. The N. Y. -Express says : The story that the Imperialist was shutdown upon by the newsmen turns out to be incorrect. Out of the edition of 10,000 there have been sold all 'but 4C0, and the Fecund number is an nounctd for Friday. The Radicals have too much money. 'influence.", an l interest b allow this project to be nipped in tbe bud. There is a mystery about tho pubiictii.'ii of this paper which is quite excithg. There are two numbers 37 : of the street. fnm which it is isaid to issue; aud although.it claims that number to be its ofSce, no trace j of newspaper business can be found in eith er bouse. .. " . , -A newspaper corrcsjonderit recently had au interview with Senator Spragun on the subject-of. his-late etartlirgKpeecl.es. The Senator says that ho intends to. keep at his work,-and, not to fold Ms arras and se the country go, the devil. Jle cuifesscs to beikg crazy, in the . senw that all! nreat re formers are -crazy. He is ut bidding for the Presidency, uaj would not Uke it un less ho was permitted to appoint whom he chose to ofiice. Iu a big boodle of letters, asking for copies cf his late speeches, only two came from Rhode Island, wh?re he said the truth' about the great family monopoly was unpalatable. ' . - TI e N. Y. World sKys : Our Washing ton dispatches took warlike. Grant, it seems, has given .out that. sess-sion of Con gress wiil be called within sdxty days with a view to force the Cuba bufiness. It is also distinctly alleged that he will not en force the neutrality laws, but will allow the filibustering expedition now fitting out in New York and New Orleans to leave our shoies. . Iu addition to Cuba, the President and his personal friends are determined to make an i.-sue with England on the Alaba ma claims, with a view, finally, to compro mise by taking Canada as an offset. There is a prcspect of stirring times ahead. oil nr np aflEAl4tn 1 nvr 3 TT mm mm I L v - - 1 1 ABOUT1BID.BREAD & CARBS BUT BUY lUiR JSL T2 "GUT IEESL FROM M. 1. OATMAN, Who sells the BEST BRANDS AT TBE LOWEST M41BT PRICE. EXECUTOR'S - NOTICE. The nn ders'sned, ha vine; been annotated Execu tor of the last will and testament of Mrs. Apa loaia Brown, late of Washington township, !cc'd, hereby gives notice to all persons indebt ed to rbe estate of saM deceased that pa ment must be made without delay, and thoae having chum ng-iitift the sarae are requesteJ to pre sent them crojterly aiulintieatcd for settle ment. "JOSEPH CR1STK, F.xecutor. Waahirgton Tp . April 15, lFGf). Ct. EXECUTOR'S NOTICE Esthers I A Te;tame;itarr on th ft nf .Tr.nv T ter, late of Carroll township, defeased, havii.g been granted to the undersigned bv the Regis ter of Cumbria cou ity, all persons having clairor egtirnst the said" estate should proven them properly nuflientieated for settlemeL t, and those knowing themselves indebted to tho si me are notified that pivment niut be made w'uh outdelav. NICHOLAS LAMDOfjrtN, Carroll Tp , Apiil I,1PG!K-Gc Executor. lEXECUTOITS SALE. The im- designed, Executor of Urs. Apalonia Erown, deceased, will offer at public sale, on the premises between Planes Nos. 4 and 5, in Washington township, on Sathbday. Mat 1st, IbCD, at 1 o'clock, r. m , a PLAN II HOUSE ad TWO ACRES OF GROUND, besides a lot ot Household and Kitchen Furniture, late the prortv of sai 1 deceased. " . . JOSEPH CR1STE, Executor of Mrs. Analonia P.rown, dec 'J Washington Tp , April 15, ISG'J. 2t. ALUAHLE FARM FOR SALE. . The undersigned offers for side the Farm upon, which he now resides, wiu tte about two miles mirth ot St. Augustine, iu Chest town ship, Camuri a -county, contaiuing tiO ACRES and GO PERCHESSO Acres cleared andunl der good fences, and the balance well timbered There is a comfortable DW ELLINO HOUSE, good BARN, all necesaarv OUTBUILDINGS and a fin YOU5U ORCHARD upon the pre mises. For terms tr.v which wiil be made c.aM' nir to 1 WILLIAM KELLY. : . .Che.-t,Trx. April 15, IfeG-St -- -t Jtf OTICE , DIVORCE J Annie A. 1 Ju-Cal hster. byJier next friend, David Z. Black, vs. Nason.McCalli.ster. In the Court of Common Pleas of Cambria Countv. No. 10 Dc. -Terra, 168. Libkl nrD.roacV. - The undersigned, having been appointed Commissioner by the Court to take testimony in tho above stated case, hereby trives notice to all p.irties interested that he wiii attend to the duties of said appointment at the office of Shoe maker & Oatmar. in Ebensburg.on Tbwiudat. Mat 13 th, ISbd, at 2 o'clock, p m .when and where they may artend it thev think proper. . GEO. W. OATMAN, , April 15, 1869 .-4t. -Commi ssioner. THE SCHOOL DIRECTORS - OF CAMBRIA. COtrNTV.-r..v.. In pursuance ol the forty-third sectioned the Act of Bin May, 1654, you are herebv no tified to. meet in .Convention, at the Court Rouse in Ebensburg.on the FIRST TUES DAY in Ma j, A. J). 18f.9, being the rorjitTH dat of the month, at 1 o'clock in the afternoon, and select, ,vrva voc, by a majority! the whole number of Directors present; one person of literary and scientific acquirements', and of skill and experience in the art of teaching, as County Superintendeat for the three succeed ing years, determine the amount of compensa tion for the same, and certify the result to the State Superintendent at Harrisburg, as required by the thirty-ninth snd fortieth sections of said i ct- - J . J; UilifMAN, o. fiupenntendens of Cambria Co Ebensburg, April 8, iec9.-3t. DENTISTBY. The undersigned, ijrraduat' v ' flv of the Balti more College of Dental Sur gery, respect fully offers his rnorsssioxAL services' to the citizens of Eb- enfbur:; and vicinity, which place lie will viS;t rouBTH Mosdat of each month, tore- on the koui main one week. Aug 13. SAM'L BELFORD; D. D. 8. DR. H. B. MILLER, Altoona, Pn., Operative and Mechanical DENTIST, Office on Caroline etreel, ' between Virgin?! and EfflffiS streets, . Persona , from Cambrk county or ehewhere who get work done bj ie to theimouhtof Ten Dollars and upwards, wm have the railroad fare deducted from their bills All woek wakkamtep. Jan. ill, 16C9.-tf. ;TR D. W: ZIEGLER, SurgeorTBeZ JL-r tist.will visit i-bensburg pro fessional! y oa the SECOND. Morr pat of each, month, and retnaii. one week, daring which time lie may be found at the Mountain Hone. t"Teeth extracted without piin bj tbei of Nitrate Oxide, or Laughing Gas. JAMES J. OATMAN, llTT) tenders his professional ferrice? as Phv'. sioian and Surgeon to the citizens of Carroj tewn and vicinity. ' Ofiice in rear of hav ing occupied, by .J. EncK & Co. as a stot. Night calls can- he made at his residence, ors door south of A. Uang's tin and hardware store. fMay 0, 1867. DEYEftEAUX, MflS.V'riiT- siciAM and Sfrgeoh, Summit, Pa - Office east end of Mausioi. House, on Rail Road street. Night calls may he made y the oQce. . . rmj2S.tf. J. LLOYD, successor to R. & Bunk. Dealer in Drugs, Medicines Paints, l;c. tore on Main street, ojiotiu the "Mansion House," Ebeusburg, Pa. October 17. 1867.-Cm. LOID l CO., Hauliers, jt -' Ebensbceo, Pa Gold. Silver, Government Loans, at J other Securities, hnaght and srhl. Interest allowed on Time Leponits. Collections ma.la in all accessible points in the United States, and a general Banking business trausactci. WK. & CO., Ban-ktrs, Altooxa. Vi. Drafts on the principal cities arnl Silver and Gold for sale. Col lections ma le Moneys received on deposit, pr-aUe on ('? ruand, without interest, or upon tirre, witii interest at fair rates. st3. L. O A T M A EBESSBUnG. PA., Is the sole owner of the Right to iimefc:t e and sell TIIR UNEQUALLED METROPOLITAN OIL!! FRANK "V. HAY, fnOLF.SALS and RETAIL Mannforttm of TIN. COPPKIl and SHEET-IKON WARE. Cnai street, below Clinton, Johut totem. Pa. A large stuck coristautiy hand. V. A STIOTYAKKR . . . .S). W OATtfl SHOEMAKER & OATMAN, Arn rr nkT at Law, Ebenburg, Pa. Offu-o cn High street, immediately east of Hun;!e? hardware stor. " apS.'Ej! D. MXAUGirUX. JTTORNEY AT LAW, Johnslmm, P. OfSce in the Exchange I -uilding, on tl.e Corner of Clinton and L.H.ust streets up stairs. Will attend to all business connect ed with his profession. Jan. 81. 186?.-tf. R. I, JOUNSTOX, J K. SCASLiK. JOHNSTON' . SCAN LAN. Attorneys at Law, Ebenshurg, Camhria co T&. Office opposite the Conrt Ikuso. Ehensbnrg. Jan. 81. IS67.-tf. JOHN 1 LINTON ATTORNEY AT LAW, Johnston. Fa Office in building n corner r.f Main-! Franklin street, oppusite Mansion lh u?e. second floor. Entrance on Frankliu errst. Johnstown. Jan. 81. 18G7.-1 f. WILLIAM KITTELE, ITTORNEY AT LAW, Ebensburg. ra. J Office in Colonade rw, Centre s'imt. Jan. 81. lS67.-tf. (J L. r ER SiTTxgTAttorat- L.vr, Johnstown Pa. Office on Frai 'in street, nptairs, over John Bcr.to'-'s Hardware Store. Jan. 31, 1S07. 7M.-H. SECURER, Arror:tT-AT Law, Ehensbunr. Pa. 0;ice in nxnis recently occupied by Geo. 11. Kea le. I'o . in Colonade Row, Ceitire street. .tuc.27. J.EO M. READE, Adonvgt-u'r, " Ehenshwrg, Ta. Office in new lu:!.ii:..2 receDtlv erected on Ccr.tre street, two t1.-r from High ttreet. aug .27. AMES C. EASLY, ATToiixEr- at-Law. Carroll! 01m Ciimhrin Oj.. J Collections and all legal buVincv? prompt'" attended to. Jfttl Sl.lSt- a. Korsr.TN', Ja-'hotown. . - - T. W. TlrK, Ehensburff. KORELIN & DICK, Attohnkys -at-Law, Elensburg. Pa. Of?r? with Wa Kitte'l, Esq., Colonade Row. oct.22.-tf. r - P. P. TIERNEY, ATTORNEY-AT LAW, Ebmaburg, Fa--OGice in- Colonade Row. t i Jan, 6.1887-tr. . . .r.i. JOSEPH M'DONALD, ITTORNEY AT LAW, Ebenaburg, fa ll Office on Centre street, opposite Lintm' utel. . ' ' ' . Jan. 31, lSCT-tf JOHN TENLON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Ebensburg Fa OfSce on High etrcet, adjoining his r dence. - - i. Jan 81, 1867.-tf; ; KINKEAD, Jwtire of the TV anI fTliTim 4,y.yf LCima rnrrrred V the .ofiice formerly occupied, by MIR-6'' Eq1.. riee'd, on Righ St.; Ebensburg. JT S- STHAYER, Jl STICE OF ths - Pxace, Johnstown, Pa." Office ou ta corner of Market street aud Locust !' Second Ward . dec.l2. lJ ' JMXK HERE ! -LOOK IIERETP A VALUABLE FARM FOR SAlX . The subscriber will sell the Farm on which he resides, in Allegheuv twp., Cambria county The Farm contains 145 Acres (90 cleared) the improvements are ample and u poed oru Jalr terms and Indisputable title. Pops--1011 ffiven let April. X. WALTERS. feFeb.4, 1869.-tf. Lorett Rg 111 flflfi I'KIME CIGARS just i JUUUU ceived at M. L. Oilman's. od door east of "Freeman" oflce. Also, a lari Koek of the bM. bcands of Chewing ToU' CTjars at wholesale" priees.
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