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An Infqnltous. Law.
Unl'P8 we can obtain an extension of
time it jill require $2.25 to secure the
Freeman and American Stock Journal for
one year after the first of March, ami when
that month closes e shall ceare to ffer the
Jwrnal as a premium to tubscribers. Let
tkote therefore who want that useful agricul-
tuial aud stock monthly act at once.
Our lady fi lends are not actiDg as prom fit
ly as we had hoped in the matter cf securing
the Detnorest Monthly and tbe majrnifircLt
prize picture in connection with the Free
man. Only two ladies, ore in Ilaltimire
and the other in Johnstown, have yet availed
themselves of this offer. Let us hear from
you right away, ladies. Remember that the
Freeman, the Monthly and a $10 engraving
are all given for $3 P5.
The bill repealing the fifteenth section of
the Registry Law, which abolished the Spring
elections, was passed through its second
reading in the Hotiye on Thursday last.
The bill now in course of passage provides
that the several election, township, borough
aud ward officers ducted in October, 18C9,
shall continue iu office during the terms fr
which they were elected, aud until tbeit
successors shall have been duly elected and
qualified : and fixes the time for hereafter
holding the township and borough elections
on the third Friday in March. We think
that such are the provisions cf the law. It
i very defectively drawn, aud the Solon vbo
accomplikhed the tak, ought to make one
more tff-irt in that direction and then for
ever quit the buainees.
Another Outrage.
The Senate Committee in the contested
election case of Edward Scull and Hiram
Findlay have roads a report awarding the
teat to Judge Findlay. Scull did not even
attempt to offer any evidence sustaining his
allegation, that a large number of frauJu
leut votes had been cast for Mr. Findlay in
Somerset couuty, although he was afforded
every facility by ths committee to do so.
lie virtually abaudoned the case, and con
tented himself with addresaiog to the mem
bers of the committee a most abusive and
iosulting letter, which was returned o him
by a unanimous vote of the committee. To
contest Mr. Findlay plain and admitted
right tj his seat was a fraud from the begin
ning, and has reflected anything but honor
on Scull and those who stood nt his back.
The other contested seat in the Senate
that of Diamond against Watt has not yet
been disposed of.
Tbe Liquor Bill.
The proposed new license law passed to a
third reading in the House laat week. It
was so amended as to submit the question of
"license" or "no license" to a vote of the
people of an entire county, instead of to the
ptoplo of a borough, ward or township, as
was provided in the original bill. We judge
that the bill will fail to become a law.
We are one of thoee who believe that nei
ther the people of a State, nor cf any county
in a State, can be legislated 'mto a blissful
state of temperance. The Legislature may
enact law after law on this surjtct it may
pile Pelion on Ossa and yet the desired end
will not be attained. The experiment has
heretofore been tried in other States and in
certain localities in our own State, and has
resulted in lamentable and disastrous failure.
As long as ardent spirit continue to be man
ufactured, men mcy be disttiidtd from their
use and induced neither to touch, taste nor
handle, but that much 6ought after and de
sirable result never has been and never wiil
be accomplished by legal enactments, how
ever stringent or severe.
If this question is to be fairly tested, let
our moral reformers at Harrisburg pass the
Maine liquor law and submit it to a vote of
the people of the entire State. That would
he the straight-forward and honest way of
lrgii-lating ou this question.
Tlie Removal Farce.
In the House of Representatives at Har
r'uburg, on last Friday, the Committee on
New Counties and County Seats reported
favorably the celebrated bill providing for
the removal, if the people so decide by their
votes, of the county seat from Ebensburg to
Johnstown. We have no doubt that the
leaders of this ridiculous movement felt quite
jubilant over the news, and that iu Johns
town everything was and still continues to
be "lovely" rnd "the goose hangs high."
In this community, so far as we cxn judge,
the action of the Committee has not produced
any marked or nnusual sensational, nor has
it in'the slightest degree ruffled the temper
of our people. On the contrary, it is regard
ed as the most stupendous jwke of the season,
ll not of the session. It is one thing to pro
care the rpport of a bill, but it is another
and quite a different thing, to mould it into
the shape of a law. It has yet to pass
through the several intricate and perilous
stages of a fiery legislative ordeal, and that
which is to-day luscious and tempting fruit
may yet, like Dead Sea apples, turn to ashes
cn the lips. This is not tbe time, nor is this
the place, to discuss the merits of the issue.
For that Jhtre is reserved an appropriate
tribunal.
In connection with th?8 subject, the JolAs
town Tribune has asserted and reasserted
that the County Commisbioners acted ille
gally in purchasing a lot on which to erect
the new jail, without having fmt obtained
the sanction of two successive Grand Juries,
as well as that of the Court.
Will the Tribune please to inform us where
the Act of Assembly which, in bis judg
ment, has thus been violated, can be found?
If ha wiil consult the distinguished legal
gentleman who sent him the dispatch from
Harrisburg last Friday, even he will Inform
him that the power to. erect a jail implies
and carries with it the power to purchase
the necessary ground for that purpose.
A moEt villainous bill is before the pres
ent Radical Congress. It has for its olject
a total and sweeping change cf the present
naturalisation laws, and proposes to take
away from the State tribunals all jurisdic
tion over tho naturalization of foreigners
and to confer on the United States Courts in
the various States exclusive control and au
thority on the subject. The following is a
Bynopsis if the bill :
It is first provided that any alien may
become a citizen of tbe United States upon
the fallowing, among other conditions:
First. Such alien shall have continuously
resided within tbe United State, with the
iutention to become a citizen thereof, at
least four years before making his applica
tion fi-r naturalization, and shall have resi
ded six months in the State, and except
in cafes specially provided for thirty days
in the district, county, or pariah iu which
such application is made, next before making
th same. Second, That at least twenty
days before the first day of tbe term or ses
sion of tbe court, at which such alien intends
to apply for citizenship, he shall file with
the clerk or prothonatory of such court a
notice of his intention, which notice shall
state his name, age, residence, occupation
or busintss, the couutry and place of bis
birth, the time and place of his arrival in
tho United States, and tho place or places of
his residence since his arrival in the United
States ; and if such alien be a resident of a
town or city in which the streets are num
bered, aud in which the streets are named
nd the houses numbered, be shall also state
the street and number of his residence at the
time of filing his notice, and such notice
thall also give the name of at least two cit
izens who are residents of the same town,
parish, or city, who are acquainted with the
applicant aud his resilience ; and no alien
shall, be admitted toTnaturalization unless
such notice, iu substantial compliance here
with, thall have been complied with. Pro
vision is made that evidence shall be taken,
in case ol jtction is made to the uatcraliza
tion of any alien. The most important fea
ture of the bill is that taking the naturali
zation question out of the hands of the State
courts. It provides that the proceedings
for the naturalization of aliens tray be had
before the circuit and district courts of the
United States, and in any county or parish
wherein there shall not be holden anutially
mure tl an two stated or appointed terms of
one or both cf said courts of tha Uiiited
States, tuch proceedings fr naturalization
may also be had in thejeourt ofbighest juris
diction in such State, Territory, or District
having a Clerk, Potbor.otary, and peal there
of, which holds a stated orjn gular session for
the trial of civil causes iu such county or
parish ; and no other court shall entertain
r have jnrisdicticn of such proceedings.
This course will relieve the State courts in
nearly all the large citiss."
It is a part of the political history of the
couutry that the enemios of the Democratic
party have never, from the "alien and sedi
tion" times of the elder Adams, borne any
love towards foreigners, for the reason that
they usually vote the Democratic ticket.
His administration was repudiated aud driv
en from power by the people, under the
leadership of Jrffersrn, on that more than
upon any other distinct issue. It is in per
fect keeping with the fanatical and prescrip
tive tendencies cf the present Radical party,
that after having by one fell swoop, through
fraud and force, conferred the right of suf
frage on more than half a million of igno
rant and uneducated negroes in the South,
it should cap the climax of its infamy by
now inaugurating a war of proscription
agaiust intelligent and educated white for
eigners. If tli is bill should become a law,
n foreigner can hereafter become a citizen
who has not. four years previously, filed his
declaration of intention. Tbe plain and in
tended effect of its passage will be to render
void and of no tfiect every declaration cf
intentions which has heretofore been made,
but which has not yet been consummated,
by the person making it. The whole pro
cess will therefore havo to be commenced
over again, and a new declaration of inten
tion must be made after the passage of this
new Radical scheme. Is this fair, or is it
honest to the men of foreigu birth who come
here to make this country their permanent
home 1 What will be the reply of our Irish
and German population, as well as the thou
sands of others from all parts of Europe who
have sought an asylum from tyranny and
oppression in this, according to radical logic
"The greatest and freest government in the
world."
There are just Jour places in this State at
which United States Courts are held. Tbe
nearest point from Cambrit county, would
be Pittsburg. Suppose that a foreigner
"should be compelled, under this Radical re
form, to go from this county, as he must, to
Pittsburg to file his declara'ion of intention,
and then be compelled to go back at the end
of four years, with one or more witnesses, to
procure bis certificate of citizenship, what
would be the actual cost. and how many cf
our Irish and German "trash" could afford
the necessary and unavoidable expense, as
well as the law's delays? If such a law
were now in existance it would practically
amount to a perfect denial of the right of
citizenship. It is a desperate scheme, and
if it succeeds it were better for on honest
and intelligent foreigner that he had never
seen the shores of this couutry. Such is the
vile spint of Radicalism, and such is its pre
tended love for the down-trodden and op
pressed of other and hitherto less fortiicato
countries than this blasted "model republic"
After the denial of bid seat in Congress to
Henry D. Foster, the next democratic vic
tim of the tyranny and parttsannhip of the
Committee ou Elections, is the Hon. George
W. Gieene, the democratic representative
of one of the interior districts of New York.
He was elected over his radical opponent,
Van Wyck, by a majority of 422 vtes.
But that was a trifling obstacle to the gross
nsnrpations of this unscrupulous Committee.'
It will be seen from the following telegraphic
dispatch that although General Paine, the
Chairman of the Committee, and w ho seem
to be tbe only honest radical on it, made a
vigorous speech iu favor of the light of Mr.
Greene to his seat, yet it was of no avail.
What democrat will be next sacrificed to
this radical Moloch?
Radical Proscription. The Ilouse to
day threw nearly the whole force of its par
tisan majority against the right of Hon. Geo.
W. Greene to his seat as the Demociatic
Representative of the Democratic Eleventh
District of New York, and gave it to his
Radical contestant. Charles H. Van Wyck,
and this, too, in tbe face of the protest of
that earnest and generally honest Radical,
General Paine, the chairman of the Commit
tee on Elections, who made a vigorous
speech, in which he demonstrated beyond
the possibility of a doubt that, even throw
ing out the two precincts in Newburg where
naturalization frauds were alleged to have
been committed, Mr. Greene still remained
elected. Gen. Slocum made a good
speech
cf ours.
Tub Sccll-Fin-play Cask. The Com.
mitUe Report in Favor of Mndlay. The
Committee in the Scull-Findlay contested
case from the Twentieth Seuatorial District
had another meeting yesterday afternoon.
The contestant, Mr. Scull, did not appear
and was not represented by counsel. Mr.
Brooke, a member of tbe committee, how
ever, presented a communication frdra Mr.
Scull, in which a majority of the committee
were charged with prejudging the case. It
was unanimously resolved by the committee
not to receive the paper, and the clerk was
instructed to return the same to Mr. Scull.
Mr. Coffroth. of counsel for Mr. Findlay, de
sired tho committee to throw open every
avenue to tbe contestant for the proof of his
allegations of fraud. Mr. Scull's action is
abandonment of the case, and the commit
tee unanimously decided to award the seat
to Mr. Findlay. Senator Lowry severely
censured the course of Mr. Scull in trying to
cbtahJ tbe seat by unfair means.
in behalf of the sitting member, and quoted
from tbe essay of Mr. Dawes, for many years
chairman of the E'cction Committee, to show
tbe general unfairness and partisanship f
that committee. Messrs. Randall and Burr
did good service in behalf of Mr. Greene, but
it was no ti6e, for Van Wyck flew around
the floor lik a cat, lobbying with members
and prompting replies to pertinent inquiries,
lie got Schenck to come up in his behalf,
and that iruecible eld gentleman made one
of his partisan appeals, in which he was un
fortunate emugh to hold up to the Ilouse
some Radical naturalization frauds as being
nf Democratic origin, but was fully exposed
by Messrs. Slocum and Cox. On the ques
tion cf allowing Mr. Grtene to retain his
seat the vote was nearly a party one, 50 to
121 ; and. on a motion to unseat both, the
vote was about the same. Finally a resolu
tion was parsed declaring Van Wyck enti
tled to the scat, and he will be pworn in to
morrow. Washington Car. N. Y. World.
Tlie Irish Land Question,
So far as we on this side of the water may
be supposed competent to judge of a meas
ure fundamentally affecting that intricate
portion of British polity known as tho Irish
land question. Mr. Gladstone's reform bill
seems admiiably adapted to a practical so
lution of the problem. Security of tenure,
facilitation of transfer, rebate for improve
ments, limitation of the heretofore harsh
rights of eviction, and. above all, tbe ad
ministration of the land law by arbitration,
are the main features of the new bill, which
is to have its second reading on the 7th of
next month. To estimate the difficulties in
the English Premier's way, it must be re
membered that the English title is that of
conquest, and that the Irish, while submit
ting to, have never acquiesced in that claim.
From generation to generation the landlord
has held by club law, and the tenant writhed
under the consciousness of being but a ten
ant where he believed himself rightly a
possessor. With this fundamental variance
of views, it is not surprising that landlords
in Ireland clung to the irritant right of
eviction, and tenants to the counter-irritant
of a shot from behind the hedge. "Put me
out of my land, not your land," the Irish
man would argue, "and I will treat you to
a dose from my blunderbuss as I would any
Our Ilarrifcbur? Letter.
IlARKi&BUna, Feb. 19, 1870.
Dear Freeman After an animated dis
cussion the Treasury bill intioduc-ed by Mr.
White, of Allegheny, passed the House final
ly on Tuesday night by a vote of 76 to 5.
The bill provides that the salary of the
Treasurer shall be 88,000 per year, that he
shall give securities to the amount of $500.
000. and that the funds shall be deposited
in Bank on interest for the benefit of the
State.
An act supplementary to the acts relative
to elections was postponed until next Thurs
day. This act repeals the 15th section of
the Registry Law and provides that town
ship and borough elections shall be held on
the third Friday in March, as heretofore.
A further supplement to the act entit'ed
an act to consolidate, revise and amend the
penal laws of this Commonwealth has been
introduced. It provides that where any par
ty io subpoenaed to testify in auy prosecu
tion for forgery, perjury or felony, and shall
be fined in a sum not exceeding two thous
and dollars or undergo an imprisonment not
exceeding two years, or both, or either, at
the discretion of the Court.
The following bills have also been pre
sented: An act to divide the Borough of
Carrolltown into two wards, and an act
granting a pension to Elisha M. Luckett.
Tbe act for the removal of the county sept
from Ebensburg to Johnstown was reported
favorably, on Friday last, by the Committee
on Counties and Townships. H.
The pREsmr.NT Appoint-in His Own
Fatuer a Postmaster. The leapnoint
ment i.f old Jesse R. Grant to be postmaster
of Covington for four yeais hmger is one of
those little things which is not easy to ac
count for. Old Jesse does not need the of
fice and the office dors not need old Jesse.
He is a weak, querulous old man, iucapable
because he is w eak and unpopular because
he is querulo'is.
Aside from having no claim upon tho
Post OfGce Department and no capacity to
be a Postmaster, he is the father of the Pres
ideut of the United States. There is an ob
vious impropriety, not undiluted with a cer
tain absurdity, iu his holding a little village
place of this sort. If he is not above it, as
very likely he is not, his offspring should be
above it. Old Jesse is seventy years of age,
and an awful old chatter-box and tattler.
He has a competency. Never very wise, he
has been growing in folly ever since his son
began to grow in fortune. Why should he
be Postmaster of Covington? He ought to
bo pickled and preserved and stowed away
in one of the glass cases at the White House,
the Patent Office or the Smithsonian Insti
t u te. Lou is v ill e Cou rier- Journal.
Tiiere is a wail in Pennsylvania by reason
of the fact that the control of the Legisla
ture there has passed out of Radical hands,
and because the Governor, our old friend
Gearj', no longer heeds the voice of them
that made him. Possessing furesight, his
Excellency sees change coming, and so trims
his sails to Democratic breezes, and similar
ly the Legislature does the same. These
things much perturb the faithful, and, with
a Ptrange oblivion as to the suicidal nature
of the remedy, ths Pittsburg Gazelle propo
ses that the party purify itself by drumming
out all its ''bummers" and "thieves." This
done, it thinks to "soon find the ways open,
perhaps through a defeat or two. to fresh
and solid triumphs." It is pleasant to know,
first, that the Governor aud Legislature of
Pennsylvania are drifting out of Radical
reach ; and, second, that, even at its best,
the Gazette sees no other immediate future
for its party than defeat. N. Y. World.
Mississippi Senators. As soon as the
Mississippi bill shall be passed there will
probably arise an interesting personal ques
tion touching the admission as Senators of
Revels, uegro, and Ames, the military satrap
by whose bayonets the State was carried for
the Republicans and his own election to the
Senate effected. The proceeding is regarded
by Democrats as a gross outrage aud a bold
ertep towards a military despotism than
even the election of the negro Revels. It is
still probable that there will be objection to
the swearirg in of these persons, and that
their papers will be referred to the Judiciary
Committee. It is objected to Ames that he
was never a citizen of Mississippi, but mere
ly an army officer there on duty ; that he
got and that he yet retains his commission
and will continue to retain it, quitting the
SUto ia case his admission ia refused.
General Sews Items.
John H. Surratt is a grocer in Baltimore.
A resolution was adopted in the New
York Assembly, for the payment of the State
debt, principal and interest, iu specie.
Three thousand tons of white clay (terra
alba) were bhipped from Aiken, S. C, the
other day, for northern confectioners and
cracker bakers.
There are two patient white men m
Gaston, N. O. Last Monday they got into
a fight, at tbe end of which one threw the
other down and 6et on him for four hours.
Tbe steamer Emma. No. 3, struck n
snag and sunk In the Mississippi river, fifty
miles above Memphis, on Saturday morning
last, and some thirty or forty persons were
drowned.
Mr. George Fox. a New York miser,
whe died some days ago. left a will in which
he devises property valued at $300,000 to
the United States Government, to assist in
the payment of the national debt.
A woman at Pine Island. Minnesota,
has givsn birth to twins, one white the
other black. It is considered a remarkable
circumstance up there, as the father of the
children had been in Montana for two yea s.
Simeon Hayden. who died recently in
Sprague, Conn., at the ripe old age of 95,
had lived under two eovernmentp. a mon-
Tna Cancellation oe Revbscb Stamps.
rRe Internal Revenue Bureau has directed
that after May 1st, 1870. all adhesive stanips
used upon instruments, documents, writings
and paper, meutioned in Schedule B of the
Internal Reveuue Laws, shall be cancelled
by the person affixing either bv writing
upon each and every stamp, in iuk, the in
itials of bis name, and the date, year, month
and day upon which the same ia attached or
used, or by cutting and cancelling the same
by a certain machine approved by the Com
missioner. This regulation has been made
on accouut of the extensive frauds alleged to
have been committed by washing, restoring
and using internal adhesive revenue stamps
which have been oLce cancelled by the "rib
bon stamp machine." Tho Commissioner
orders that after May lsr, 1870. no other
met hr.fi of cancellation than that first men
tioned above thall be recognized as legal j
or sufficient.
ry." the EugKshman would say, "and tbe
moment the rent fails out trot my tenants."
To meet this state of affairs, Mr. Gladstone
has had need of all the anility of his admin
istration ; and that ability, to judge from the
abstract of the bill telegraphed us, has come
nearer a solution of the Irith laud question
than any heretofore presented by an English
Ministry. Equity, rather than strict law.
is the animating principle of this bill ; and,
quity being equality, "splitting the differ
ence" is Mr. Gladstone's panacea. The
conquest title is recogn:zed as a title; but
then the tenant right is to be a much more
assured and stable tenant right. Facilities
for converting a tenant right into a landlord,
right are liberally furnished ; and then, to
offset this, other facilities are granted for the
improvement and security of landlorda' prop
erty. Eviction is still allowed, but when
resorted to is to operate, ipso faclo, a release
of all claim upon tenants ; and. though the
"cess," or county tax, remains, laudlord and
tenant arc to pay it half aud half. With
these as the main features of the new bill,
there are some lesser provisions of a quiet
ing nature, most noticeable among them the
confirin'itiun of "Ulster customs." Ulfter,
ns the reader know?, is the northernmost pro
vince of Ireland, and contains those counties
which hold the Scotch-Irih population.
At the time that the Stuarts first began io
reign, this particular portion of Ireland was
so turbulent that a wholesale system of con
fiscation and resettlement, kuovvu as "the
Uist r plantation," was resorted to. Most
of the Irish were rooted out of tho province
and their possessions portioned among Scotch
and English bent ficiaries, who, by the terms
of their giants, were to have no Irish ten
ants, that right being reserved to sich few
of the original Irish chiefs as it was supposed
would only receive as tenants those cf their
countrymen who acquiesced in the English
domination. Oat of these conditions grew a
system of tc-nautage known as "Ulster cus
toms," so dear to the North of Ireland peo
ple that Mr. G adstone has not seen fit to
break down the old tules there in anything
like the same proportion as in the other
provinces. Perhaps this is of the less im
portance, as in the Provinces of Omnaught,
Leinster, and Munster the great Iiih land
grievances have had their seat, and to them
more particularly, therefore, the provisions
of the reform bill are framed to apply. N.
Y. World.
other robber." "Give me the constabula- i archal and a republican, and in thiee differ-
cut town9, without ever changing bis resi
dence. Some fellow who hasn't the fear of a
sharp-pointn-5 pen before bis eyes, has pros
ecuted "Brick" Pomeroy for libel. It will
be the only libel suit that will ever be bio't,
by that reckless wight, against the irrepres
sible editor.
The cliffs of the Cumberland river, in
Kentucky, are swarming with robins. One
roost is three milts long. They can be
picked iff the buhes by hundreds, and per
sons come a distance of ten miles to fill their
baskets with them,
An earthquake visited San Francisco
on Friday last. Quite a panic waa created in
certain quarters of th city, but little dam
age done to property. No lives were lost.
In other portions of the State the shock was
felt with greater or less violei ce.
Mr. John C. Holloway, Superintendent
of the Pennsylvania Eastern Penitentiary,
died about ten days ago. His wife, over
came by grief, survived him but a few days,
and his daughter, w ho came from a distance
to attend his funeral, died on Tuesday.
The Governor has signed the bill te pre
vent the ii jury or destruction of baggage.
This will be sad n.ws for trunk makers.
But on tie other hand, a persou can now
hope that his effects will be safe from the
mashing process adopted by the employes
of railroad companies.
George Dixou, of Michigan, who caused
the death of his little son by ill-treatment,
has been sent to prison for fifteen years.
IIo expressed the opinion that the whole
prosecution hid beeu a conspiracy againxt
him. He threw his little boy down and
stamped upon his b-east.
David Craig, Eq., Representative from
Lawrence couuty, has prosecuted the editor
of the Courant, a republican paper publish
ed in that county, fcr libel. Tne prosecu
tion grows out of charges made against Craig
by the Courant in reference to his (Craig'.)
vote for uen. Irwin tor fetate treasurer.
Tho general voice of regret occasioned
in the United States by the seiious illness of
the Empress Eugenie must be gratifyiug to
Napolcou III. For .years Queen Victoria
was the one sovereign of Europe whom the
American people looked on with favor, but
the Empress has long surpassed her in pop
ularity. New Hampshire robins don't migrate.
A deep glen in the Sandwich mouutains,
clothed thickly with hemlqck, spruce, fir
and tamarack, where the snow is nearly all
lodged on the tree tops, and the light of day
and northern winds cannot strongly tuter,
is found to be peopled this winter with thou
sands cf robine.
A singular hermit dwells in Fletcher,
Vt. He is about fifty years old, lives in a
barn, sleeps in a cavern dug in the hay
mow, feeds himself on crackers, pork and
milk, never has any washing dune, but gets
a Eiiit of clothes and uses them till they "are
no more." Disappointment in a love affair
produced tais enviable state of thiugs.
An oil company baa beeu formed at
Leechburg, on the West Pennsylvania rail
road, Armstrong county, for the purpose of
putting down a well in that vicinity deep
euough to thoroughly test the matter as to
tvhether or not there is oil on the Couemaugh.
The company proposes to put down tli6 well
the distance of fifteen hundred feet, or deep
er if nect'tsary.
The Maine law was recently enforced
in East Hampton, Ct., aud every drop of
liquor in town was seized and stored. In
Buel's public house, the officers broke open
a closet and took some forty bottles of native
wine owned by Mrs. Buel and never used
except in case of sickness ; and Buel was
atferwards fined for having it in in his houso.
Legislation in Maine is controlled by Radi
cals. The Lancaster Express (republican)
says in regard to th6 decision of the com
mittee in the Scoull-Findlay case: "We
do not believe there are five men in the San
ate who are not perfectly eati.-fied that the
decision of the committee was correct and
proper, and we are confident that every one
of these would have been more than satisfied
with it if Findlay had be?n the republican
instead of the democrat."
Since the great coal fever of 1829 tbe
demand for Pennsylvania coal has been stead
ily ou the increase, but, although millions of
tons have been drawn from the mines, the
deposits show no signs of diminution. Ex
periment has establisued the fact that be
neath the soil of our State three hundred
thousand million tons lie buried ten times
more than that of England, Scotland, Wales
and Ireland combined; more than sufficient
to supply the whole world for ages to come.
The Grand Haven (Mich.) Herald says
that a two year old daughter of Joseph Je
annot, livicg at the mouth of Black Lake,
while playing with some watermelon seeds
a few days since, took one of the seeds and
put it up her right nostril. When discovered
by the mother it was so far inserted that it
was hardly perceivable, Mrs. Jeannot be
coming alarmed, called her husband, who
proceeded to stop up the left nostril and
then blowing with great force in the right
ear, had the satislaction of seeing the hidden
seed come forth from the head of his child.
A Match Tor Revels.
According to the statement of the Near
Yotk World, some years ago a negro rascal
was confined in Sing Sing prison and served
out his term. Ou graduating from that
celebrated institution, this dusky individu
al bocame a protege of the most Honorable
Charles Sumner, and studied law with that
sweet-scented philanthropist. Admitted to
the Boston bar, Mr. A. Alpeora Bradley
for that is his name managed to practice
with such success as to be kicked out of
court. After being struck from the roll of
practicing attorneys in negro loving Massa
chusetts, the great Alpeora wandered down
South, where he has been playing the role
of a pacificator. He became one of the poli
tical magnates of Georgia, was elected to
the conventiwn. and assisted to frame the
reconstructed constitution of that State un
til thiust out by his associates. For a cer
tain season Mr. A. Alpeora Bradley remained
under a cloud as dark as bis own 6kin ; but
through the late Radical reconstruction of
Georgia by Grant's satrap, Terry, tbe negio
ex-convict has turned np in all the pomp
and glory of a State Senator. Taking Bul
lock, Terry, and the whole State under his
sable wing, he determined on fixing up things
and matters with headquarters, and sent the
following telegram to the elegant and couit
ly Colfax : .
Atlanta, Ga.. February 7, 1870.
To Vice President Colfax, Washington, D. C:
Sir If we elect Senators before revising
the barbarous codi of Georgia, and enacting
a mixed jury and militia bill, the Republi
cans are defeated. Alpeora Brapley.
The effect of this message was terrible
upon the delicate Vice President. His
breakfast was thrown up at once, and since
then his stomach has been greatly deranged.
He is still so much affected that he has not
been able to reply to the honorable ex-convict.
But tbe colored Senator could not
wait. Ho must be informed at once, and
therefore sent the annexed telegram to
"Massa" Grant :
Atlanta. February 9. 1870.
To President Grant, Washington. D. C.z
Piease auswer quickly yes or no should
we vote for Senators baforo repcaliug the
black code of Georgia ?
A. Alpeora Uraplet and Others.
Ulysses, who ate mule beef in Mexico and
has a stomach like ahorse, was able to stand
it. Fully appreciating the responsible and
dignified pesition of Sumner's bosom friend,
Ulysses directed a reply to be sent forthwith
to the following effect :
A. A. Bradley, Georgia Legislature:
President has received your dispatch. He
cannot advise you prefers that you use your
own discretion.
Horace Porter, Secretary.
Late accounts from Georgia state that
Senators have been elected ; but whether the
black code was repealed or not we are not
prepared to say. Phila. Evening Herald.
About two weeks aga a party of masked
marauders went to the residence of Squire
Walton, near Colliersville, Tenn., and Sur
rounded the house. One of the men ordered
him to come out, but suspectirg danger h6
refused. The crowd then fired a volley into
the house, mortally wounding his wife and
himself slightly. They then set fire to the
bouse, refusing to allow him to remove his
children or furniture; but the assassins, be
coming alarmed, left before the flames reach
ed the inmates. The whole neighborhood 1 t?..o . .k c...,-..
Nevada Minerals. Immense mineral
deposits have beea discovered in Nevada.
The deposits are said to be of incalculable
value, most of those discovered lying quite
close to the line of railroad. Io the county
of Humboldt a large hill of sulphur has
been discovered which is so pure that It can
be lighted with a match, and burns so freely
that it is hard to extinguish. Besides this,
there are salt fields ten to fifteen miles
square, and soda for miles in extent, of un
known depth, with any amount of alum and
other minerals lying unclaimed. Since the
completion of the railroad parties have been
looking up and securing many of tho rich
deposits of minerals in that region, wbirh
J will be of great commercial value to the
ies now afforded
O FIERI FF'S SALES -.77
. eunurj nw oi Vend r
T A I." - . .. : j . -- "&0B . .
Pleas of Cambria eouatr
Vend
mon
rected, there will be ex
fi tO P.M.'-.
the 7tb dav of Maech ,.,,
u., the following Real EsuU, J S
in u.e rignt, title and ir.Vrc.
White and Naihun Vl i. ,r lts"
or parcel of Und situate h Suc,A',-l
ehip, Cumbri i countv. .lif,-,.; r"''
ft:." it-. . .'"'"SUri..,
jjiuch, m. nines, ana oilier Co,, .
less,
un improve;
THIRTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT
OF TIIE
Protection Mutual Fire Insurance Co.
OP CAMBRIA COt'STV.
Ain't of Propetlv insured as per
li!th Annual Report, $574,G5G 53
Am't o( Fropeny insured since
12th Annual Report, 24C.179 93
$71l),b3li 52
1G3.534 97
$ti47,:iul 55
acres, more or
- mijroVA.f n
execution aud to be sold at i,e". .''.
Kuepper, for use of Jacob "Weave"'1 !N
Also, all the right, title anj ;r.
Wm. Wharton, of. in m.j to a .
of land Bitutte in Clearfield towi I v
lounty. adioinine lands of V.i.1Vl?,"ft
of McFeel v, dec-d, aud othe?,"'
o5 acres, more or less, about 5
are cleared, liaviq thereon erected , :
a-naii story J.o House, a
Water Saw Miil. now in tl, occuisr.
Wharton. Tken in eiecu. L:To!tj
at the fuit of It. L. JoWtcD
"CCU'tOll an i ; l
Ai-so, all the rif-Lt, title an1in,,
Daniel Reij:hnrJ, of, in and to utor
situate in Juckeon towi,Bh D r,i '"I
r .: o i -i , r -X6r:j fc
Deduct ain't of Tol'icies expired
aud cancelled siuce 12. h lUp t.
Ain't of Premium Notes in force
as per l2th Annual Report,
Am't taken tince 12th Report.
Deduct expired and cancelled
siucc 12. it Annual Report,
$:5.Q77 99
2G 412 92
13 ES5 SO
$(.7,Hi5 11
Whole number of Policies issued.
Number isMied since 12ih Report,
Number now in force,
BI-CEIPT8.
Balance in bands of Treasurer At
last settlement, as per 12i.li An
nual Report,
Am't Pieiniuins received since
12i,h Ai uual Repot t,
Am't ree'd lrom A A. Barker,
FXPENt'ITrRFS.
Fees of officers,
Expense.
Losses bv Fire,
348 SO
JS3 10
43 2G
1 ,033
523
$ P35 95
1.0S9 C2
1G 22
$1 942 09
547 45
Da'ance in Treasurer's hands,
$ 1 .39 1 G I
... , , , . I r-Kiai ; tiuu wmi ioe IS
OrTrTANDISQ D. BTB.
Joseph II. Campbell (note). $138 C7
JOHN WILLIAMS, President.
R. J. Llotd, Secretnry.
Kxrcunvic Committee. E. RoberU, Isaac
Crawford, John Lloyd. Feb.l7.-3t
IRIAIj LIST. Caupcs sot down for
trial at a Court of Common Pleaa of Cam
bria countv. to convene on Monday, the 7th
day of March next, to wit :
ricsT vrtu.
Priople vs. Wilmore Borough School Direc
tors : Confer ts. Dun more et. al. ; Somerville
v! Marx : Farrei.sworth, for ue. vs. Wagner;
Bell vs. Swires ; Gill's use vs. Noel et. al.;
Viokroy v. Rvckmnn ; Miller vs. Luther ;
Miller t. Lutber : Miller v. Luther ; Com
monwealth vs. George ; Given v?. Cambria
Iron Company.
SECOND WEi:
Johnston & Stewart vs Burtleba'igh Sl Kin
tcr : Hood & Co., u-e, vs Piper ; Robeon vs
Cowan': Ifelsell vs Dunmire ; Trainor vs Mc
Cabe, Morgan vs Cowan; Millikcn vs Troxell;
Snyder Parke ; Cambria Irn Company vs
Raper ; C;im'ri Iron Company v Stewart ;
Cambria Iron Company vs Harshbarger et al;
Cambria Iron Company vs Mrs. K. Ragcr;
Cambria Iron Company vs Baker's Heirs ;
Burk vs Paul; McCarney vs Rutledpe; Thom
as et al vs Harshbarger; Noel vs Noel; Waton
& Co vs Keelan; Jharp vs Sham et al;Bor
ou.sli of Johnstown vs John A. Treitz: Borough
of Johnstown n John Junes ; Morg-in ct al vs
fierney eta'; Miller vs McElcarr; Brotherliue
vs Dysari et al.
J. K. HlTEp-.Troihonotary.
Prothy's Office, Ebensburg. Feb. 7, lfc70.4t.
ICENSE NOTICE. The following
Petitions for Licence have been filed in
the Court of Quarter Sessions of Cambria
county, for the action of said Court at March
Sedsions, 1S70 :
TAVKEX MCFNSS.
Carrolltotrn Borough John "W. Shrbou:h,
Pomit.ic Pper; Washington Township Otto
Helly, J. S. Kiel; Johnstown Boi ih Pat k
O'Connell, Gotleib Lessinjrer, 2J ward, Jacob
Ream, John Stmme, John Cronse. John Raab,
3d ward ; Cambria Borough Thomas Judge,
John Coad; East Conemaneh Borough Dau
ie. Good, Mich'l McCabe; Wilmore Bor Jos.
Hern. Geo. Wintrode. Valentine Mal'zi; Black
lick Twp. John B. Hite ; Ebensburg Bnr.
Henry Foster, west ward; Carroll Township
Nicholas Laniboru; Chest Township Baltzer
Helfrich ; Richland Twp. Henry Y. Shaffer ;
Gallitzin Township Luwr.n e Campbell.
E ATI SO IIOCSE IICitNSI.
Summitviile Borough James A. Maher.
J. K. HITE. Clerk.
Clerk's Office. Ebensburg, Feb. 17, 1S70 3t.
rpo THE LADIES OF EBENSBURG.
MRS. LIZZIE T. EVANS,
Late of Baltimore City, Md ,)
riUI MB FAKCY BRESS MAKER.
Has opened a F asbionablk Dels Making Es
tablishment, in connection with Mme. Demo
rest's Fashion Emporium, No fc3d Broadway,
New York, at her residence on High STackx,
next door to the Congregational church. East
Ward, Ebensburg.
Just Received New and Elegant Patterns
of all the latest styles of Ladies' and Children's
Dresses. Paris, Loudon and New Yoik Fash
ion in advance of published modes. Ladies'
and Children's Undergarments, of the most ap
proved styles, made to order on short notice.
Ebeasburg, Feb. 17, 1870. tf.
A UDITOirs NOTICE. The under--a-
signed Auditor, appointed to report dis
tribution ot the funds in tbe hands of John A.
Bluir. Esq., Trustee appointed to sel: Purpart
No. G of the Real Estate of which Ignatius
Adams died seized, hereby gives notice that he
will sit at his oflice in the Borough of Ebens
burg, for the purpose of attending to the duties
of his appointment, on Friday, tue4tu dav
ok March kext, at 2 o'clock, p. m., when and
where-those interested may attend.
WM. H. SECHLER. Auditor.
Ebensburg, February 17, lt7U.-3t.
IVTOTICE. A Petition having been
-J- presented to the Court of Common Fleas
of Cambria county, on tbe Sth day of February,
lf70, for the incorporation of the Si8tebs or
St. Josefh," notice is hereby given that a
Charter tor the same will be granted at March
Term, 1870, if no sufficient reason he shown
to the contrary.
J.K.HITE. Prothonotary.
Prothy's Office, Ebensbu g, Feb. 17, 1870. 3t.
DISSOLUTION ! The Partnership
heretofore existing between Aonfs SAcrr
and Sakah E. Buns, under the firm name of
A. Savpp & Co., has this day been dissolved
by mutual consent. Parlies indebted to said
firm will make payment to Sakau E. Bckns,
who will pay all debts contracted bv paid firm.
AGNES SAUPP.
Jan. 23, 1670. SARAH E. BURNS.
OTEL PROPERTY FOR SALE
OR TO LET 1 That well established
Tavern t'tand known as the National House,
in the Borough of Summitviile, Cambria coun'
ty, is offered for sale or rent. Possession will
be given ou the lbt day of April next. Apply
to tbe owner on the premises.
Feb. 17, l870.-et. HENRY HUGHES.
n pw. i
niug back 10 rod. ndjoin;r.? lot of f- V
uerand lands ot Wm H..1-. , "J
erected a two etory Piatk House, tut,
cupied. Taken in execution cd :0 s I
the suit of Jonathan Cuatfr. ' sttJ
Also, all the right, title an ir..
vaults juv.uu.ic, ui. la arm ti.
parcel oj jauu 6. male ia Uil
tots,
Cambria c-oudIv, af-joiniiig laodg of '-
MtGnire, Daniel Uarlin. ani otl,.... V.
iug 40 cres. more or !ea.alout ci Vt'.J
which are cleared, having thereof
oi.e and a halt st rr Frame ilj;-,.. '?
(.',.1.1. I IL I- . . I.
omuic, niiu a tun uaiiK in " Jl kir.C Of'e .
ken iu execution and to be so!d ; ilt ,. '
Thomas Taylor. " """
. Also, all the right, tit'e an.1 Inter;
James Burke, of, in and to a pits 0t 'i-,
lacd situate in Sumtnerhill towrjshb, r,,
county, adjoining landi of S. 11. K-.
tian Suiay. and others, couia u'iij
more or less, about 25 acre of C1.
cleared, having ihereon erectuJ :wol.
. v.tr.. T .fT . .
so. all the right, title anl i.-:er I
M Riffel , of, in and io a lut cf ,
a-half story Log Houses and a L
in the occupancy of Jatr.ei B jrk. Tn"
execution and to be sold al the suit o.'Jr-
fllCUGlilglC
Also
Jarr.es
situate in s'jEcn:lv::.e U-.rou'1:, C
ty, fronting on Turnpike ki.Ld, rJ u.:
an alley on the west, lot of l'e:e: D ..',
on the north east, and Railirii etrcc; ai
fuuiu easi, conuiir.iBg one c:, nj -( o;
having thereon erected a fwo.urj Fnme"
era Stand and Frame Stable, lc in lit
pancy of John H Herbert; a!5o, ;ir
Frame Tenant Ilouse, with a b!,n ;,
noi now tccuoiea , ar.u a iwo f ;orT ;i rt 2fc
now in tbe occupr.cy of Jarre V. Kt-1?
t .i. . : -i - - i m
iikcu in caeuubiuu atiu iu ir iw.u 8; ;5? g
of Ada F. Campbell, Aiiui'x of 'i.!.ti:
Campbell, dee'd.
JOHN A.BLAl?..f:e
Sheriff a Office, Ebensbuip, Feb 17, ::" ;
SHERIFF'S SALES. -By ir.
sundry wiiis of Vend. Kipon ii.;
ot the Coi;rt of Cornaioa P.ti n"
co'.mty, and to me directed, tiiere w l
posed t Public Sale, at the Fn .rEm
jonnstown, on ati'e&at. t:.e o n Jitr. ji.r
next, at 1 o'clock, T. it., t'i foiioalijSe.
Estate, to wit :
All the right, title Rrtd intfrcs: d C:i
Zimmerman, of, in and to a lot of r-iL:.
uate in 3d war J, J'.htibto J borosj ::, C
county, fronting 21 feet otf C.in v. tit-:
ruiminc back.along los of A'Urn J':j.tt
north 1)5 fet to an aliev en the :.ec;
lot of John Gei oa tr.e aouth, L.' 1.5 '.ti
erected a two story Plank Il.'-se
SLable, and a hydrant of wild:4tw
in the ccupar.cy of R. J. Ilarim. t
in execution and to be sold at tl.t
II. llorstman & Son.
Also, all the right, title an! i .:r
Sarah E Ogden and John S Ocie.'i.o', ;
to a lot of pround situate in Curii.;-'
ough, Cambria countv, fronting or; ir
feet, 1)9 feet back, adjoining io'. off.-'
Cover on the north and X-!:
south, havir.g thereon erected a ts '
Plank House, now in the occupatcyofj '
Taken iu execution and to Le eoli : '.j
of Aaron LaLly.
JOHN A. BLAIR.
Sheriff's Office, Ebcr.saurg, Feb 17. ir
OTIfiElX PA i: TITI
To Thomaa Tlnher:. tshott fT.trti
i unknown, and Robert RoberU. 3:e;'.,1
Or!enn., heir and legal reprMt: T t
Owen Roberts, late of Cambria toKi t- : --'
..ntintw .)....., , 1 . '!',L . r 1 " r I'.i'
Inquest will be held at the lt:e nt !:$
ine aeceaaed, in (Jamnria townsM?, -county,
Pennsylvania, on SATririT.w"
dat or Februart, at 1 o'clock, r-B r
purpose of maki ig partition of ifceret
of said deceased to and amerg ' i-f,i
legal rep-earntauves, il the fsmn
without prejudice to or spoils g
otherwise tev tluear.d gppmi-t ' If"
which time and place you are re ;-"'
tend if you think proper. ,
JOHN A. BL. MP.
Sheriff's Office. Ebensburg. ItV-j
17 STATE OF MRS. ELIZi--;""
J r.rnnv iwn r..t:erT-;c''
having been granted by to Ileg f'-r-"j-county
to tte undersigned cn ib'-1;'
Elizabeth Gib-on, deceased. Ct:"V'i
given to all parties indebted to .
make pay ment, and those havir.g c'f ''
the same to present them, duly au:Ka
settleasen'., to
ALFRED C. GIBSOX.Exk-.
No. 110 and 112 North SecoaJ 5'' ;
Or to JOSEPH M DONALD, E '
February 10. 1&70.
TOTICE. Tho folio win? A;
i-1 have been filed in the CoBfi- '
Pleaa of Cambria county, and i' - -.j
ed lor the action of the Court on t-
dav of March next, to wit : T:,
the second and partial accost ei -D.
Evans. Assigne of E. Pede.l :
Kii by, doing business in thenaco. - -iu
the Boroagli of Wilmore. -..
Tbe fiot and final account or A i-
A cTo-n... f 1.., VRrin. of l355 ,
shin. J.K. niTE.rro: '.-l
Proth ya Office, Ebena&urg. x-
I5cni PTinV The P
heretofore existing b'fc:,en,. flf i..
signed in the manulacture ana .,-s..
BER, under the firm name cf tc-'
OTON BBKCK , hM IMS "y u"" -3'
mutu.il rrmr.t. The bU5lEC93 ...J
on by Owen Cckmsgham, t lJ
to settle all accounts ....,!r.c.
owen crM-.i
.TAMES STOMAS-1
Ebensburg. Jan. 23. 1SG9. bi
PECIAL NOTICE. -Tbe Fi'
a oorgooa surveys
ft
those who owu portions of th,a r;rc"
pi v for Patents. Those who V
tracts, or parts of tracts, o( other o.
r. fcr not been patent"'
cure the patents bv applying to n.T)UJ
SHOEMAKER Q1-
Ebensburg. Nov. IS.l
ITTORNEY AT LANV , M
A Office in building oncorn oi p
franklin street, opposite
second floor. Entrance on fra-
Johnstown. Jan. 81. ISO
GEO. M. REAU'r' 7,t:
Et.en.bur?. Pa. Office '"J ,
recentlv erected on Centre
from High strwt.
If