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TIIUIDAY, : : : MAY 20, 18C9.
Democratic Slate Convention.
The Democratic Stale OonTfofion for the
nomination of crndidates for the offices of Gov
ernor aid Judge of the Supreme Court, will
meet at 10 o'clock A. M on Wednesday, Jul v
14. 1869, m the Hall of the Douse of Repres
entative at Harrisburg-. By order of the
Democratic State Committee.
WM. A. WALLACE. Chairman.
David Caldw&li, Secretary.
Meet lug of Democratic Count j
Commlttse.
The members of the Democratic County
Committee of Cambria county, are requested
to meet at the Court House in Ebensburg, on
Tcesdat, the Stu pat ok Jcxb nkxt, at one
o clock, p. m. A general attendances desira
ble, as the time for holding the next County
Convention will be named and other business
of importance to the party will be brought be
fore the Committee.
II. 1). WOODRUFF, Chairman.
Names or MrMBtns or ins Committee.
Alleghany.-Joseph Hogne ; Blacklick, John
'erpuson; CnmbrUbor., Dan'l McPeulc; Cam
bria twp., Wm. Larimer; Carroll twp., Eraan'l
Pishart; Carrolltown bor.. John Euck; Chest.
John M. Swope : Chest Sprirgs bor., Joseph
Wagner: Clearfield, Charles MiGough; Cone
ma ugh bor., 1st ward. A.Brindle: 2d ward,
Henry P. Freidhoff; Crovle, Elisha Plummer,
Ebensburg, E W., Philip" Collins: W. W., Geo.
W. Oatinan ; East Contmaugh bor., Jehu T.
Cooney ; Franklin bor., LawrPree Furlong ;
Gdllitzin, James Henrr ; Jackson, D. F. A.
Greer; Johnstown, 1st ward, John Uannan: 2d
ward, John F. Barnes : 3d ward, James Kin:
4th ward, Charles Phtt: 5th ward, Hei.ry Mat
tern: 6th ward, Hugh Maloy; Lorctto, Thomas
Callan; Millville, Peter McDermott; Minister,
A. Durl.in ; IVopect, John White ; Richland,
James Costlow ; Summerhill, Alex. Skelly :
Smumitrille, John Shrbugh ; Susquehanna,
John Bearer ; Taylor, Wm. Headrick ; Wash
ington. J. H.Kennedy: White. Geo. Walters;
"W ilmore, Isaac Wike; Yoder, George Uaas.
Reconstruction In Virginia.
Virginia, the mother of States and of
BtatesiutD, after having been under the
heel of military rule nearly all the time
fcince the close cf the rebellion, and after
having suffered all the pains and penalties
incident to such a condition, is alwi.it to b
permitted to enjoy the luxury of a popular
election, after the fashion In which elections
are now conducted in the Southern States.
It will be remembered that the last recon
struction act, which was passed a few days
before Congress adjourned, empowered the
President to submit the Constitution of the
State to a vote of the people, at such time
and in such manner as he miht deem ex
pedient, lie has accordingly ordered that
the election shall take place on the first j
Tuesday in July, and has also directed that
the two'clauses in the Constitution relating
to disfranchisement aud the test oath shall
he voted on separately. At the same time,
a Governor and other State officers, tnem
l ers of Congress and a State Legislature
will be cliOsn.
It seems strange that ninety-three years
after the sigring of the Declaration of Inde
pendence, and eighty yeara after the adop
tion of the Federal Constitution, a State so
renowned as Virginia, npen whose soil the
first white settlement in the original thir
teen States was mode a Stato that was fore"
most during the revolutionary stuggle a
State that gave birth to Washington, Jtfler
son, Madison and Marshall, and beneath
w hose soil repose their honored bones a com
monwealth from whose princely munificence
to the general governmentsprans most of the
present flourishing States of the Northwest
it seems strange that at this day such a
State Bhould be dependent on the mere
whims or caprice of a Congress and a Presi
dent, as to the time and manner in which
she frhall exercise, what she was the first of
the old thirteen colonies to proclaim, the
right of self-government. It is one of the
legitimate fruits of radical misrule and inca
pacity, and will stand to its eternal dishonor.
When some future Macauley comes to write
the history of the last three years of radical
reconstruction in tho Southern States, it
will be presented to the world as the most
selfish, wicked, unnatural and unstatesman
like policy that was ever adopted by any
government claiming to be based on wisdom
and intelligence. Nothing in the history of
the world but itself could be its fit parallel.
As the test oath and the disfranchisement
clauses will be submitted to separate votes,
they will of course be defeated and the ro
mainir.g provisions of the constitution will
be adopted. But will this secure the right
of self-government to Virginia, her restora
tion to the Union and the admission of her
members of Congress to their seats in that
body 7 That will depend entirely upon the
result of the election, as the very same thing
has depended on the result of the elections
in other Southern States, and especially so
In the case of Mississippi. The people of
Virginia can decide nothing finally at this
election. Ey the seventh section of the act
under which the election is to take place,
it is declared "that the proceedings in any
of said States Virginia, Mississippi and
Texas shall not be deemed final, or operate
a complete restoration thereof, until the ac
tion of said States respectively shall be ap
proved by Congress."
This clans econtains the same fraudulent
intent that has marked all the former recon
struction acts. It is simply keeping the
woid of promise to the ear of Virginia, but
breaking it to the hope. Suppose that her
people should defeat Wells, the radical can
didate for Governor, elect a majority of dem
ocratic Congressmen as well as a democratic
Legislature, thus securing two United States
Senators, does any person believe that a rad
ical Congress would regard this result as a
finality t
Reconstruction in the Southern States has
heretofore meant, and in the future will
continue to mean, the success of the radical
ticket. That and nothing less. In Vir
ginia the decent and respectable men of
both parties will vote for Walker for Gover
nor, and his election may be fairly presumed.
If Congress will regard that as final and as
operating a "complete restoratiou" of the
State, it will form an exception to all for
mer precedents.
Tb Eight Hour Law Muddle.
When a man whose business if is to le
gislate for the country undertakes to pre
pare a bill reducing the number of hours
each day that an employee of the govern
ment thall work, from ten to eight, without
any corresponding reduction of pay, it would
seem to be a very easy task for him, if his
intentions are honest, to express his mean
ing in language that cannot be mistaken.
Congress passed an eight hour law, but
the Secretary of the Navy has construed it
to mean, that for eight hours work there
shall be a deduction of one fifth of the pay
that was allowed for ten hours work. The
Attorney General, Mr. Hoar, has given a
written opinion on the subject, in which he
sustains the view of the law taken by the
Secretary of the Navy. Mr. .Dorie, being
appealed to by the workmen employed in
the several navy yards, to modify his con
struction of the law, replies that if Congress
means he should pay as much for eight hour'
labor under the new law ats for ten under the
old, it must say so. There i6 great excite
ment in the navy yards and government
workshops over the matter. The Prt&ident
has been asked to interfere, but what can he
do in the face of the opinion if his Attorney
General ?
Henry Wilson has been bawling himself
hoarse in Massachusetts in attempting to
show that Congress did not mean to do what
Mr. Hoar says the law plainly expresses on
its face. Wilson contends that the radical
pjirty is founded on "the rock of.oges" and
contains within itself all the brains of the
country. He is a member of the Senate and
advocated the passage of the law. If the
intention of Congress was what he declares
it to have been, why did not his fertile ge
nius make it plain to the intellectual pigmies
of the Senate? Such bungling legislation
might naturally be expected from a Penn
sylvania Legislature, but coming from so
able a body as Congress, it is a huge bur
lesque. It is gratifying-, however, to learn
that the difficulty is about to be holved from
a'quarter least to be expected. A committee
of the employees of the government at Phil
adelphia have addressed a letter to John W.
Geary, informing him that the decision of
Borie and Hoar has "exhibited a tendency
toward the defeat of the republican party in
our fall campaign," and imploring him to
use all the influence and power at his com
mand "that may affect the President and
officers of his Cabinet to a consideration of
the subject of the reduction of pay under the
eight hour law," etc. Geary replies that, in
his opinion, it is as plain as mud that what
ever the law may express. Congress never
intended that there should be any reduc'ion
of the pay, and in conclusion consoles the
committee as follows : '-Yu nr. ay, therefore,
rely upon my support of this view of the
subject at all times and wherever my influ
ence may extend." There is a sublimity of
ridicule in thus enlisting the Websterian in
tellect of Geary ,in the novel effort of explain
ing to Graut and his Cabinet the true intent
aud meaning of a law which has already re
ceived a judicial construction by the law offi
cer of the government. Such an anomily
could only occur under a radical administra
tion. It remains to be seen whether Borie
and Hoar will maintain thoir position, or
whether Geary shall triumph.
Revising tue L.M.
Will the senseless blunders of this admin
istration never cease? It commenced its
career by committing a ridiculous blunder in
the selection of a Cabinet officer, and it has
been floundering in the mire ever since. We
are now informed that the President had an
interview with Secretary Fish at the State
department, on the 10th of this month, and
reoised the recently confirmed list .of Consular
appointments. Some of these, it was dis
covered, were wholly unfit to be made, and
the commissions of such will be revoked.
If any former President had dispensed the
patiouage of his ofiiee in this way, he would
have become the langhing stock of the whole
country. A President is supposed to know
his business. But here is Grant sending to
the Senate the names of persons as Consuls
of the government at the various foreign
commercial cities the Senate confirms or
rejects them. Three weeks after the ad
journment of the Senate, the Presic'cr t g es
to the department of State to revise the list
of appointments vhicli have been confirmed,
and for the first time makes the discovery
that some of them, were wJiolly unfit to be
made. Tho man who will make nominations
to important offices in this loose and thought
less manner is totally unfit to fill the office
of President. It U a degradation of the of
fice, and nothing so humiliating has ever
before occurred during a democratic or whig
administration.
As a commentary on this revision of the
Consular list, in order that he might discover
what nominations were not fit to have been
made, President Grant permitj a self-confessed
scouudrel, James M. Ashley, to go to
Montana as her Governor.
A paragraph is going the rounds of the
radical press, containing a list of the States
whose legislatures have ratified the negro
suffrage amendment. The list includes Ten
nessee, Minnesota and Missouri. This is a
falsehood. It is well known that the legis
latures of Tennessee and Minnesota adjourned
without taking any action whatever on the
amendment, while the legislature of Mis
souri ratified only about the one half of it.
It is true that Vial was all of the amendment
which had beeu sent to that body, ("by a tel
egraphic despatch), and it did all therefore
that could have been expected from it under
the circumstances. It can complete the work
by ratifying the balance at its next session
in 1870. Until then Missouri stands for
nensl r-egro suffrage.
ScuEPLEa & Co., oue of tlie most exten
sive foreign exchange brokers on Wall
street, New York, failed to I La tune of $8,
000,000 or $10,000,000 on Monday.
COMMLSIClTIO.8.
OCK COMMON SCHOOLS.
Dear Freeman Last week we ventured
to slate a fact, to wit. that nothing is taught
in our common schools but the common
branches, and they are taught only to the
few. This is as true cf nearly all common
schools in the State as of our own. Now.
does" this kind of education fit the rising
generation for future usefulness ? It does
not. Many pupils leave school unable to
make any calculation correctly in sqnare or
cubic measure, such as the plank in a house,
the shingles ia a roof, the stone in a base
ment wall, or the plastering in a house.
After spelling and reading and penman
ship are pretty well taught, every bov in
school should be taught book-keeping. This
is what everybody practices daring life. In
order to introduce this, blank bocks, pro
perly ruled, should be furnished for every
school. Single entry should be taught to
every one, and double entry to the best
scholars in writing and counting.
Next to this the functions cf the circle
should be taught. The relation of sine,
UDgent and chord, with all the other func
tions that enable one to count trigonoma
t.ically. The reason of this is that there
are many calculations which cannot be well
made without this knowledge. Some one
knows that a road on his farm rises three
degrees, or that water falls three degrees,
and desires to know how many feet that
wilt be in a mile. " Ruch questions arise
every day in practical business.
Again, surveying should be taught to all
who can count tolerably. Those who are
not fir advanced thoul i be taught to calcu
late the contents of land by triangles, par
alellfgrams, trapeziums, etc.. while those
further advanced in arithmetic should learn
to make the same calculations by latitude
and departure. Then laying cut and divid
ing land' in certain proportions should be
taught, for .the simple reason that nearly
every body owns land. These things can be
taught almost as easilj' as arithmetic, pro
vided the teachers understand them. Pnt
how many i f our teachers know that the
chord of (iO, the sine of 90 and the tangent
of 45 degrees are equal, or anything about
the other proportions of the functions of the
circle, or of logormthims ? There's the rub !
Plotting surveys and drafting . buildings,
etc., should be taught. It is a nice thing
to make the liues of a fifteen sided tract of
land meet on paper, with the protraeter,
and is a nice thing todraft a building, retain
ing all the proportions and putting in all
the el ecleras. How many of our teachers
can do such tilings? Yet our txholars in
the common school should be taught such
things !
Civil engineering: should be partially
taught, at last. To take all the elevations
and depressions of coal fields, rail road lines,
etc., and calculate the carves according tt
Gunter, as we u.-od to say at school, is just
what young men want to know now a-days.
but iD the name of education where are
tkey to learn such things?
Grammar ought to be taught in our
schools. Some people say that it ia taught.
We deny it. The parts of speech is taught,
anil some silly, useless analyses. But the
figures of speech, transaction, elegance of
diction, ornate composition, and even para
graphing and punctuation, are not taught.
That grammar which will make the rising
generation useful as writers, speakers aud
teachers should be taught.
Phyt-iology should be taught, especially
to females. Many of our ptoj.le who are
teetotalers in some respects, might learn that
there is not a more prevailing or dangerous
intemperance in the land than that of going
all year with the feet clad in nothicg but
gauss stockings and cloth gaiters. Cold
feet nay, even d.tmp feot are to be dread
ed. L-wik at the annual victims of consump
tion ! The simple physiological fact that
the lungs are made to breathe pure air, aud
to breathe as much as they can hold, is worth
knowing.
Music ought to be taught. TV"e do not
mean singing without time, pitch, harmony
or measure, but tbe science of music should
be taught. The blackboard is a good place
to draw long lines, make the staff, divide it
into bars, mark the clefts, sharps and flats,
shape the notes and placo them on proper
letters, teach the scales, etc. Even practice
on an instrument might betaujrht to females
without interfering with other studies.
If all these things were done people would
be more willing to pay tax and send to
school. But when it is known that the boy
who was half through his arithmetic last
year must begin at addition again, and
that nothing was taught this year that was
not taught last year, but little inducement
is furnished for exciting a spirit of interest.
We think we hear some one saying. uGive us
a chance," "We are tfnly beginning." etc.
Yes, we have been beginning for thirty-five
years, and we are still at the beginning.
The schools were established to fit men for
practical business, but after a third ofacentu
ry's experiment we see nothing but failure.
Even tho Philadelphia Bjard of Elucation,
says of that place, where schools oirght to
bo good, "That the common school has
failed, so far, to make practical scholars."
If it has failed in the city what has it done
in the country ?
We write as a friend of the system that
was wisely designed to reach rich and poor
alike wisely planned, but wretchedly exe
cute!. The expenditure of six millions of
dollars in one State annually ought to be
prolific of greater results, and would be if
the object was practical improvement. But
we fear it is not. "When we see more than
a hundred thousand dollirs thrown away
annually in paying officials who never teach.
but who merely gather statistics that no
body reads, and print reports that all have
read before, we see something that looks
more like a gigantic swindle than a common
schoal system. Tip.
Johnstown, Mny 15, 18C0.
THE LADDER.
Mister Editor Did yon ever go up and
come down a ladder? It appears to me
that I can tell you of a ladder that is not
much like Jacob 'a ladder. I mean the lad
der of extravagant expenditures. Begin
ning at the first rung I find Johnstown Dis
trict Court, as I see in yonr last paper, giv
ing somo one $800 for the use of a hall,
when one could be got for $400. For a
second rung I see an effort made to raise
tho salary of the County Superintendent
$200 when he did not ask it. For a third
rung I see a new election law increasing the
expenses of the elections quite unnecessarily.
I believe there is a jury law of the same
kind. If the Sheriff is not honest enough
to panel jurors." if election boards are not
honost enough to count votes, will jury
commissioners, or assistant judges of elec
tions, be.any honester? For a fourth rung
I Bee Congress dividing itself out into corr
mittees. to travel at public expense and gath
er statistics which are worth nothing to the
people, and which ought to end like Bates'
History, while the people are taxed almost
beyond endurance. Taxpayers, how Jong
is this ladder to lie, and how long will you
suffer it 7 Chess Springs. -
Gen. Joe Lane, who was on the Demo
c'ratic National ticket with Breckinridge in
1860, has jotccd the Catholic Church.
The Pacific Railway.
JZxercises Attending the Laying of he Last
Rail at Promontory . Utah Presentation
of a Silver Spike The Last Tie Speeches
and Despatches.
Promontory. Utah, Tuesday, May 11.
In presenting the silver spike to Dr. Dnrant
yesterday, in performance of his part in the
exercises attending the laying of the last
rail of the great Pacific Itad, lion. T. A.
Tuttle, of Nevada, offered the following sen
timent :
To the iron of the Etst and the gold of
the West. Nevada adds her link of silver to
span the Continent and wed the oceans.
Hon. A.K. Stanford, Governor of Arizona,
offered a spike of iron, silver, and gold, as
an offering from Arizona, with the following
sentiment :
Ribbed with iron, clad in silver, and
crowned with gold, Arizona presents her
offering to the enterprise that has banded
the Continent and dictated the pathway to
commerce.
SPEKCn OF GOVERNOR STANFORD.
Governor Stanford then responded as fol
lows in behalf of the Union Pacific Road :
Ceutlemen ; The Pacific Railroad Compa
nies accept with pride and satisfaction these
golden and silver tokens of your apprecia
tion of the importance of our enterprise to
the material interests of the sections which
you represent on this occasion, and to the
material interests of our whole country,
East and West, North and South. These
gifts shall receive a fitting place in the su
perstructure of our road. And, before lay
ing tho ties and driving the spikes in com
pletion of the Pacific railway, allow me to
express the hope that the great importance
which you are pleased to attach to our un
dertaking may be in all respects fully real
ized. This line of rails connecting the At
lantic and Pacific, and aff.rding to com
merce a new transit, will prove we trust,
the spedy forerunner of increased facilities.
The Pacific Railro?d will, as soon as com
merce shall begin fully to realize its advan
tages, demonstrate the necessity of such im
provements in railroading as to render practi
cable the transportation of freights at much
less rates than are possible under any sys
tem which has been thus far anywhere
adopted. Tho day is not far distant when
three tracks will be found ner essnry to arc m
modate the commerce and travel wh:ch will
seek a transit across this Continent. Freights
will then move only one way on each track,
and at rates of speed that will answer the
demands f cheapness j and time-cars and
engines will be light or heavy, according to
the speed required and the" weight to be
transported. In conclusion, I will add that
we hope to do ultimately what ia now im
possible on long lines : transport, coarse,
heavy, and cheap i roducts for all distance
hi living rates to trade. Now, gentlemen,
with your assistance, we will proceed to lay
the last tie and rail and drive the last spike.
SPKECH OJ" GENF.BAT. IOTVJE.
General G. M. Dodge, Chief Engineer of
the L'nion Pacific railroad, in responding
for California, Nevada, and Arizonaj said :
The great Beuton prophesied that some
day a granite statue would be erected on
the highest peak cf the Rocky Mountains
pointing westward, denoting tho great route
across the Continent. You have made the
prophesy to-day a facf.
the i.ast tie.
The Superintendents of Construction. S.
B. Reed, of tbe Union Pacific Railroad, and
S. V. Strawbrid.ee, of the Central Pacific,
placed the last tie beneath the rails. The
tie was of California laurel, French polished,
and on the centre a silver plate bearing the
following inscription : "The last tie laid on
the completion of the Pacific Railroad. May
10, 18C9,'' with the names of the directors
and ofiirers of the Centrxl Pacific Company.
The Union Expressj Comptny presented (a
silver hammer for the purpose of driving
the spikes.
THE LAST WOrSK.
All being prepared. Governor Stanford
stood on the south rail, Dr. Durant on tho
north rail. and. on the signal of "O K" from
tho telegraph offices both gentlemen struck
the spikes, and tho work was done. The
vast multitude cheered lustily, and Dr. Du
rant and Governor Stanford cordially greet
ed e-ich other and shook hands. The doctor
proposed thre cheers for the Central Pacific
Company, which was followed by the Gov
ernor's proposing three cheers for the Union
Pacific Company. Tbe utmost cordiality
reigned, Durant exclaiming, "there is hence
forth but one Pacific Railroad cheer cf
the United States." Cheers followed for
the engineers, contractors and tho laborers
who have done the work.
TESPATCTt TO PRESIDENT GRANT.
The order of exercises was read by Edgar
Mills, banker, of Sacramento ; also the fol
lowing message;
Promontart Scmmit,
May 10th, 186912 noon, j
To Ifis Excellency General U. S. Grant,
President of the United States, Washing
ton, D. C:
Sir : We have the honor to report that
the last rail is laid, the last spike is driven,
and the Pacific Railroad is finished.
Leland Stanfokd.
President Central Pacific Railroad Company.
Dr. Dcrant,
Vice-President Union Pacific Railroad Company.
A Sinecurk in Omo. We recommend
any one who may have had their hopes of
office blasted at Washington to apply for
the land agency at Chillicothe. The Lima
Democrat states that the government con
tinues, year after vear. to salarv tvn nfTmra
I at the expanse of $1,950 each, and pays
-"v. u, vj naiuu eigut acres
of land, in Taulding county, ten feet under
wator, in the very worst drought the world
ever saw." The yearly cost of watching
this marsh is not less than $4,000 or, say
$2,000 for each of the agents. Really this
is better than a consulate in some small
German principality or some semi-barbarious
city of South America. Two thousand a
year and nothing to do but bathe, boat and
fish in a frog pond eight acres in extent, is
suggestive of that supreme happiness which
many lazy fellows imagine is to be fonnd in
in a consulship. Cm. Commercial.
Extraordinary Excmange. The Petit
Muniteur says : "Pius IX, received with
his sown hands the offerings presented to
him by the different deputations. Among
others the Pope received on the 10th an
English nobleman, who presented His Holi
ness with a skull cap filled with sovereigns.
At the end of tbe tassel was a diamond of
immense ralue- Having presented his mag
nificent offeting. the Englishman added,
with the usual phlegm of his nation, that he
gave the present on the condition of getting
the Pope's skull cap in return. Pius IX.
smiled, and ringing the bell he ordered the
servant to bring him another calotte. When
brought he took off the one he wore and
gave it to tbe Englishman, who put it into
his pocket and retired, saying ho was never
so pleased in his life."
Strong suds of common soft soap,
mixed with ben food, is said to be a sure
prerentire and cure for gapes. , .......
LITE REUS ITEMS.
Tbe Catholics of Germany have sent np
ward of $2,500,000 to the Pope to commem
orate his jubilee, and tbe addresses bear
325,000,000 signatures.
Daniel Boone first set foot in Kentucky
on'June 7, 1769, and the people of the
State propose celebrating this centennial by
a grand barbecue and festival at Frankfort.
Tbe Fat Contributor has been visiting
Baltimore, and is pleased to find a growing
and strengthening Uuion feeling, especially
among those who went to hold office under
Grant.
Yonnj Siegrist. who lately rode a bicv
cle on a wire rope 20 feet above a lake 300
feet wide In San Francisco, talks of crossing
the Niagara River below the Fall3 in the
same manner.
Fourteen railway locomotives have ex
ploded within the past seven months in the
United States, killing twenty-nine persons
outright, and severely wounding a much
larger number.
A machine baa been invented and put
in operation in California which, it is said,
has cut, threshed, cleaned and sacked the
wheat for twenty acres in ten hours, with
only three men to work it-
Washington's "little hatchet" ia in the
Alexandria, Va., Museum. Washington
didn't tell a lie about it, but there is a lin
gering doubt that the specimen in question
is the cause of falsehood in the Museum
showman.
John II. Mil's, a brakesmvi on the
Central Railroad, residing in Utica, has re
ceived by the will of a deeeased relative,
city lot in Chicago, covering abonl thirty
acres, and valued from two to three hundred
thousand dollars.
There is a chestnut tree on the farm rf
Joseph Whitman, in Upper Sauoon town
ship, Lehigh county, that measures twenty
six feet in circumference at ti e be, and
maintains this huge width up to where the
branches fork out.
A citizen of Cairo, Illinois, has invented
a spring to be attached to the fet. by means
of which a person is relieved of the labor of
walking to a great extent. He claim hi?
invention will enable a man to walk ten
miles per hour with ease.
A Dr. Lichtcnthalcr, cf Lock Haven,
recently drove his horse over two ladies
named Mrs. Anthony and Mrs. Barnes, cans
ins injuries to the former. lady which result
ed in her de ith the same Light. The doctor
has been arrested.
The following makes an excellent guano;
Collect a barrel of bones a.i 1 crush themi ;
mix with a barrel ol hard wood ashes ;
moisten with sop-suds; apply a qiart or
two at a time. Use a a special fertilizer
on melons, squashes, early corn and cucum
bers, allowing a gill to a hill.
' In the office of the Corning. New York,
flint-glasi works, a single window has been
fitted with inside blinds, the movable slaN
of which are mad-3 of green glass. Tho ef
feet ia beautiful, and the experiment may
mark a new era in the history of inside
blinds, both for office and dwellings.
As a means of destroying vermin, the
carbonate of biryta is recommended ss the
surest and swiftest poison available. It is
a dry. white, tasteless powiler, which may
be mixed with raw flesh, dripping or meal,
ami thrust into the holes or among the runs
cf rats, mice and other small game.
An iron watr pipe, eleven inches in
diameter and S.890 feet, (one and two thirds
miles) long, has bepn laid in Tuolumne
count y. California. It runs down a monn
tian. under a crek, nr.d up the ascent on
tlie opposite side, under a perpendicular
prjssiveat the lowest point of 684 f-?t.
The Stockbridge Indians in Wisconsin
are rapidly disappearing. This tribe once
numbered 10,000 warri rs. Tbpy immigra
ted from Massachusetts to New York in
1789, to Ohio in 1S09, and to Wisens-;n in
1821. They are now suffering f r fund, and
number but SCO men. women and children.
Ex Governor Pollock, the proscriptive
old Know Nothing, whom Grant made Di
rector of the Philadelphia Mint, has turned
out every one of a number of wounded sol
diers who wero employed therein, to make
room for a lot of political bummers who
never saw a tattle field. Such is Radical
lovo for the dear, brave 6oldier?.
At Lima, Ohio, recently, two confiden
tial men were arrested for swindling an old
man out f some money. The next night a
vigilance committee took them ut of jail,
shaved their headu, tarred and feathered
them, and ejrged them ou: of town, with a
little f: ieudly advice to give Lima a wide
berth in their future perambulations.
At Jacksonville, a few days agaman
had in his possession a grub worm brought
from Missouri, which, though itself dead,
had a live plant growing out of its body.
The plant was quite long, and seemed like
ly to become a shoot for a forest tree. It is
supposed the worm ate the seed and died,
whereupon the seed took life and grew.
The New York Tribune is exercised in
spirit, because it announced that ex-Presi
dont Johnson will soon visit Washington.
Why not ? It is asked "Can the leopard
change his spots ?" The answer is "Yes;
when lie is tired of one spot, he can go to
another." An ex President' has the same
privilege, even without the Tribune's per
mission. An elm tree, supposed to be from 250
to 300 years oid, has been cut down in Roy
alton. Connecticut. It was one hundred
and twenty feet in height. The trunk was
perfectly straight and sound, and measured
seven feet at the ground, and three feel in di
ameter at sixty feet from the ground. At
which point tbe first branches start out. The
tree furnished over thirty-six cords, running
measure of sixteen inch wood, and employed
one man nearly fifteen days to fell and work
it np.
The Portland (Oregon) Courier says
that dnring a brisk shower :A Sheridan, in
Yamhill county, on the 18th of March,
there fell what seemed to be a kind of bail,
but on examination was found to be com
posed of-peculiar whitish worms millions
of them. . Each worm had the power of
doubling up and skipping a foot or more.
They wore from an eighth to a quarter of
an inch long, with a small darkish spot,
about the bead. They appeared to die very
soon. '
If we remember rightly, the typos of
Washington city are almost to a man Rad
icals ; that is, those who are in Government
employ. They have a typogrphical union,
and a day or two since the son of Fred Dou
glass, who was appointed to a position in
the Government printing office, made appli
cation for membership. The Radical typos
being thus confronted with one of their own
chetwhed principles, negro equality, are de
bating the question whether the application
shall be granted or otherwise. Admit him
by ail means.
A gentleman in the vicinity of Willams
port has 30,000 trout confined in three
ponds, all of whicn have been hatched this
Spring by artificial process. In two other
basins he has about 3.000 yearlings ; in an
other, about 600 from two to three years
old, which will average from 8 to 10 inches
in length ; and still in another, about 500
from three to four years old, which will av
erage from 12 to 15 inches. This individu
al expects i in a few . years to supplv that
mnrket with fresh troat. "What a .luxury
THE GREAT FAMILY REMEDY.
To prevent or conquer disease id ft grand and
noble achivemcnt, and so surely as the bullet
and bayonot will destroy, so snrely will the
Great Family Mwdicine and Bonsehold Rem
edy, MISIILER'S HERB. BITTERS protect
and preserve hunwn life Now, the present id
the most important period of the vetr to pre1
pare the human ey? tern bv using ihis celebra
ted bitters for the'eevere drain upon in strength
which the near summer months will bring, and
under which au unbraced, depleted and debili
tated organism wi!l speedily give way. It is
to prevent this evil result that thU bitters is
recommended fr bth cexes ernl all apes. It
is the most escelleut Spring and Summer Ton
ic ever offered, and wherever it has been intro
duced it is found indispensible to voting and
old. It purifies the blood and secretions ; ac
celerates the digestives functions ; and regu
lates the liver ; recruits all the vital forces ;
tones the entire system and eeables the weak
ind nervous to sustain any fluctuations of tbe
temperature or changes in climate.
SUCCESSFUL. BECAUSE OF SUPERI
OR MERIT. Mrs S. A.' Allen's Imprqv
f. (new slyle) Haik Reptoher or Dressing,
(in one bottle.) Every Druggist sells it.
Price One Dollar.
OUR KEW FASIIlVr
SEWING MACHINE I!
The superior merits of tbe "Pinjrer" Ma
chines over nil others, ei her for Family "e r
Manufacturing :irp.es, nrc so well e3rablished
and so generally admitted, that au enumeration
of their relative excellences is no longer con
sidered neces:!rv.
OUR NEW FAMILY MACHINE.
which has beeu brought to perfection reird'e'S
of time, labor, or exp nse, is now confidently
presented to tlie public as incomparably the
Best --'rwiNG Macuine i.v existed cf..
Th machine in question is SIMPLE. COM
PACT, PURABLK. and BEAUTIFUL. It
is quiet, light running, and capable of per
forming A RANGE ANI VAB1FTT OF WORK never
beiore attempted upon a single Machine, usin
either S'Jk, Twist, Linen or Cotton Thread,
and sewing with equal facility the very finest
and coarsest materials, and anything between
the two extremes, in the most beautiful and
substantial manner. Its attachments for ITem
miri. Braiding, Cordirg. Tucking, Qu:liing,
Felling, Trimming, Binding. &c, are 2sovel
ind Practical, and have been invented aud
adjusted especially tor thi Machine.
New designs of the Uniqr.e. Useful and Pop
ular Folding Tops and Cabinet Caes, peculiar
to the Machines manufactured by this Cnmpa
nv, have been prepared for enclosing the new
Machine.
A faint idea, howerpr, ran at best be con
veyed through the n.edium of a (necessarily)
limited adverttseisent ; and we therefore urge
every per.on in quest of a Sewinij Maehine by
all means to exaiiine and tet-t, if they can pos
sibly do so, all the le.tding rivnl Machines be
fore milking a purchase. A selection rai then
be made uiidcritaulingly. P.rrvl es or ap-n-cies
for aupplyins ths Sinper" Machines will
be found in nearly every citv and town through
out the civilized world, win re Machines wi.l
be cheerfully exhibited and ny information
promptly furnished. ' Or conimunicatiens raay
be addressed t "
The Singer Manufacturing Compsny,
45H BltOADWtY,
X iZ IV Y O R K .
Pnrt.ATKLPiiiA OKurr, HOG Chistnct Strfet.
C. I'. ROBERT J, Agent for Fhensbure
and viciniry. keeps these Machines constantly
for sale at his store on Iligli street Tbe pu'.
lie are respectfully invi ed to c'I and see them
in operation. Instruction given free. Ma
chines sold at city prices. No FRF1GHT CH ARGED
AUo, Singer's Needles, Oil, Silk and Cotton
always on hand. aug.2il.-ly.
ROHRER'S WILD CHERRY
TONIC BITTERS
ARE TDE
BEST IN USE!
ISE ROHREB'S TONIC BITTERS,
The very best in the Market
R. E. SELLERS & CO.,
No. 43 Wood St.. opposite St. Charles Hotel
Also, Entrance Xos. Ib2 & 104 Th'rd St.,
PITTSBURGH, TA.,
t"Wholc9ile Agents lor the "West.
For pale by A. A. BARKER for Ebensburg
and vicinitv fje.l 1 ,'63.-ly.
THE ERIAT PACIFIC RAILROAD
is r i x i s h c i) :
First Mortgage Bonds
OF TOE
UNION AND CENTRAL
PACIFIC RAILROADS
BOUGHT AND SOLD.
DE nAVEN & BROTHER,
Bankers and Dealers in Governments,
Ko. 40 s. Third Street,
PHILADELPHIA.
SHERIFF'S SALE. By virtue
of a writ of Vend. Expon. issued out of
the Court of Common Pleas of Cambria coun
ty, and to me directed tbere will be exposed to
Public Sale, at the Court Hous in Ebknsbobq,
on Monday, the 31st dat of Mat, at7 o'clock,
p. m., the following real estate, to wit: All
the right, title and interest ol William Bark,
of, in and to a piece or parcel of land situated
in Washington township, Cambria oountv, ad
joining lands of tbe heirs af Edward Burk
Arent oonman, and others, containing 1C2
acres, more or ic8, unimproved. Taken in I
execution and to be sold at the suit of Louisa '
Keepers. JOIIN A. KLAIR. SI enff. !
; SherilTs. Office. Ebensburg, May 13. 15HS9. .
UUSIh
WABRac0'gDtTtOj
a
GET THE BEST!
WEBSTER'S BNABHIDB'B DIETIQMRY
3,OOORvrT(ngii 1,40 Prfi0111,
to. Hrlce $1. IO.OOO Wordiaai
Mewnlnic not ronlmnot la
any other DIcllouArf,
Viewed as a whole, we are cor.fi lent thjt
no other living language has a dictionirv
which so fully and faithlully seta forth itspra.
sent condition and this last edition of 'Webster
does that of our writtan and spoken Engli
tonirue. Harper's M-igazite.
These three books are tq scm total f,f
great libraries.; the Biblk. Sheakspeak nxi
Webster's Kotal Qdabto Chicago En
nine Journal.
The New Wkbjtek is glorious it ia perfect
it distances and defines competition ;
leaves nothing to be desired J . H . Rtyrmni,
LL. D., Pres't Vassor College.
The most useful and remark.tSle eompend;.
nm of human knowledge in our lansunce
W. S Clark. President Mass. Agricultural
College-
WEE ST EH "S
NATIONAL PICTORIAL DlCTiOMW
040 Page Octmo, fiflu KngratB..
"The work is really a gem of a DtcrioxAur,
the thine for the ruiliio:r." American Lda-
cttioual Monthlv.
"Ju many rispefta, tills Dictionary is
losr convenient ever published." Uoc'i?i:cr
LfBiocat
"Asa manual of reference,' it U eminenil?
fitted for u?c hi families and schoola." X. Y'.
'I rihnne.
It is altogether the be"t treasury of nr'.
of i's size which the English bmguage hag ever
pos-essed liurrtord lVcs.
Published by G. & 0. Mehbiman. Spring,
field, M iss. f my 13-3t
LTOONA MOTYlT IN RUINS I
CLOTHING BAZAAR!!
STILL RIGHT SIDE UP !
spams m mm mm
IN IMMENSE PUUFUalON!
ALL WANTS SUPPLIED !
ALL T A ST KS U I TE O !
ALL nrYEUS Pi.E SZD
SUITS VO'.l OLD PKOI'LE!
SUITS F- 'It MIDDLE; AG F.D '
SUITS POP. YOUN'J AME1HCA!
CLOTHIMcTcLOTHItVC!
TO FIT tVURVMlS A.VD II ) Y I
GENT'S FURNISHING GOODS
t'F EVERY IEi-CRirTKN .
BOOTS & SHOES, HATS & CA?3;
CF ALL. STTLtS AND fIZiS.
Trunks, Valises, Traveling 2rs,
L'liibreS.as, .c., Uc.
stock the largfst!
uuodstiie very p.f.t !
' stylus ti1h x i a test !
pkicms the ij'.vi;.st:
c3.otiiia; rrjinc to ciircr
or an' goods or mty Je tleslrrd.
CALL ani SEF. ! I j CALL and SEE'
CAN SUJT YOCi GOODS & PLTCZS-
I
e.ySiSTOhB ox Annie Stb- i:t. c!
Ekij-iA door north of the Post OZx.
D n't mistake tfc place and tbere wHl be tJ
mistake about you. estt-ntr trortd trn;i..
OODFllEY WOLFF.
Altooni, April i?r lrti3.-tt.
OOD,
MOP, R ELL it
WASHINGTON STREET,
Near Pa. Rr R. Depot, Johnstown, Fa.
Wholesale and Hefcil Dealers it
F8IIM 11 L3MESTIC MT Si
nT!
V
MILI.IXEKY GOODS.
IIARDWAttE.
QUEENSVVARE.
BOOTS AND SHOES.
HATS AND CAP.
I HON AND NAIL",
CARPETS AND OIL CLOTHS.
READY-MADE CLOTHIN'S.
GLASS WARE, YF.LI.OVY WARE.
WOODEN AND WILLOW WAuF.
PROVISIONS and FEED, ALL KINDS,
Together with nil manner of Western l'lv l.
snch hs FLOUR. BACON, FISH, SALT.
CARBON OIL. &c, Ac.
Who'esnle and retail orders pr.lic.:
and promptly filled on the shortest notice
most reasonablo terms
WOO D, MORRKLL CO.
Johnstown, April 2S, IbG'J. ly.
A W SON 6c iTAlcEli,
FRANKLIN" STREET,
In tho Cia POST OFKICK BCILD10'
Johnstown, Pa.,
WHOLESALE GROCERS
AND DEALERS IS
WESTERX FRODl'Cc:
HWPnilT IV TJJtfnH Veep consian
.nm w niRr.n ri inn pr;
T
bUOARS, SYKIU'S. MOLASSES. TW?
COFFEES, FLOUR. BACON. POTATOES
DRIED and GREEN FRUITS, TOBAGtV
CIGARS, Ac. Ac.
Orders solicited from retail dealer?, aiK"31
isfaction in good and prices guaranteed-
Johnstown, April 28, 1S(9.
A. D. CRISTE,
LITTLE & BAIBDr
WHOLESALE
COMMISSION MERCHANT
.112 & 114 SECOND AVENUE, j
PITTSBURGH, PA. j
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