Cambria Freeman. EDEXSDDRG. PA. Tuersdat Mousing, : March 3, 1S70. Thc Union Pacific Rail Road, from July 28th. 18G9. to January SUt, 1870, sold 184,025 acre of land, at an average price of 11. CO per acre, amounting to iGU.993 85. Ret. Hiram ii. Revels, colored, was worn in, ou last Friday, an a United States Senator from Mississippi. Ilia feat ia imme diately in front of that of the Hon. Juns Ecott. How true ii ia that politics, like misery, make a man acquainted with many strange bed Yellows. Last Tceiday was private calendar day in tbe House of Representatives, but the general appropriation bill took precedence of it, and all the bills on the calendar were postponed for one week from that day. The bill for the removal of the county teat from Ebentburg to Johnstown, oa the classic banks of the Contmaugh and Stony Creek, will not therefore be called from itr slumbers vstil next Tuesday. Tbk last Johnstown Tribune contained a communication, fraudulently dated at Ebens burg, in which the writer undertook to ex plain the cause of the detention of lha train from Cresson to this place, on last Monday week the first day of the Adjourned Court. We will not waste time in attempting tore, ply to his wholesale and unblushing fake hoods. Referring to locomotive engines, the phrase "Campbell-back" occurs twice in that mendacious production. Will the edi tor or his ttraeiout corrscpotdent inform us. what manner of thing ia a '-Campbell back" engine 7 I". Deeds nu explanation. Is support of his allegation, that the County Commissioners acted illegally in pur chasing the lot of ground for the erection of the new jail, without having first obtaiued the approbation of two successive Grand , Juries and Of the Court of Quarter Sessions, the editor of the Johnstowu Tribune refers us to tbe Act of Assembly of April 16th, 1884. The last clause of this Act, which the Tribune ital;cizes, is merely a repetition of the power conferred on the Ctimmisoion. ers in the first part of the section. It the authority to purchase the-necessary ground is not implied in tbe power to erect a Court House or Jail, then the action ef two Graud Juries and tbe Court, would simply amount to a nullity. Any law student, who it not a Ratttian. will so clicuie. Betddef this. Judge Taylor is supposed to know what power was intended to be conferred oc the Commissioners by the Act of 1834 and the supplement thereto, paved the 9th of April, 1868, and he approved the action of the Grand Juries and directed the Commission ers to erect the building. The underpinning having thus been knocked away, the Trib une J structure tumbles to the ground and with it its legal gentleman's "opinion" as is an "opinion." Tbk last Bellefonte Watchman administers the following well merited rebuke to the ed itor of tbe Johnstown Tiibune and his vera cious Ebentburg correspondent. "R. M. G." The article needs no comment, as it fully ex plains itself: If the Johnstown Tbibuxe and its preten tious correspondents want tc make capital in favor ol lemoring the county Feat of Cambria count j to that place, they will need pursue a different course towards the representative of that county in the Legislature. We happen to h:'ve the pleasure of an acquaintance with Hon. Johx Porter, and can assure them that he is a man who will neither be Irigh'etied by their a!. use nordriven by th ir iriuendoes. Of course in thA matter of the removal of the county sett of Cambria county we have no interest nor feeling. But we like to see fair play, and If fair play is meted out Mr. Poktkk will re ceive credit in place et abnee tor his course on that question. When elected, it was not an iue befote the people: there wa no expression f the will of the voters of that county on the subject, and until there is Mr. Pobteb a course in standing entirely aloof from eiiher side, ana allowing the matter to be settled upon its own mrbits. is the only course that any fair or hon est representative could follow. During the time that he has represented the people of Cambria county in the Legislature he haa made a record that the Tbibdxe editor and corres pondents might well envy. The interests of hi eqtire constituency nave been what lie la to red for ; and because he spurns to become the tool of the few accounts for the abuse he is now receiving at the hand of those who wanted to but couldn't drive him. Amea and Reynold!. Gen. Ames, the military satrap of Missis sip pi, recently elected himself, by force of the bayonets under his command, one of the United States Senators from that State. That he is totally ineligible, on account of his want of citizenship, is plain enough, but as he is a full pledged Radical, this tri fliug objection to Ames will not be of much account. Revels has been admitted to bis eat, and why should Ames not be? Gen. Reynolds, the Military Governor of Ttxas, was spoken of by the Radical press as likely to be elected one of the Senators from that State. Whatever els may be said of him. be posfessesses some modesty and none of the brazen impudence of Ames. From a letter of Gen. Reynolds declining to permit tbe use of his name as a candidate, and from which we take tha followiug sen sible extract, it will be seen that he denies that Ame is an inhabitant of Miasissippi.'Mn the sense in which this phrase is used in the Constitution of the United States" : "The proper discharge of my duties has re quired ot me the performance ol many acts of political character, bat my conviction of light and sense of propriety would preclude the accepts u-e on my I art or any political office at tbe present time, under exitit.g circumstan ces, at the hands of the legislature of Texas. 1 have, to be sure, resided in ti e State, with trifling intervals, for more than three jears. but this residence hah been as an officer of the army, charged, iu addition to the ordinary du ties of my profession, with the reconstruction laws of Congress. Nothing but the existence of an unprecedented emergency could warrant .the government In placing in the hands ot a single individual the vast power entrusted by these laws to a district commander. I doubt whether a residence under such condition con stitutes bp inhabitant of theSute, in the sense in which this phr-.se is used la tfea Constitution ct Uiilt4 SUHb." A 31ontroas Scbeue, The iniquities of Radical legislation at Washington follow each other in rapid suc cession. The people are not permitted to recover from the surprise and indignation excited by one outrage beforo they are star tied by another still more flagrant. The proposed law, divesting tbe State Courts of all jurisdiction over the naturalization of foreigners aud conferring it exclusively on tbe Federal tribunals, is odious enough, but it is only the beginning of the end. On the false find fraudulent assumption of the radi cal leaders, that the fifteenth amendment has been formally and legally incorporated into the Constitution, a bill is now pending in Congress to enforce the provisions of that most villainous of all legislative swindles, which reads as follows: "Ax Act to enforce, the Fifteicsth Amknd SUM TO THE CoKSTITUTION. Be it enacte I by the Senate and House of Re presentatives of the Uuited States of Amer ca, in Congress aa-embled : Section 1. It shall be the duty of the Secre tary of the Interior to appoint, or cause to b appointed, three Commissioners for each elec tion district of the several Congressional dis tricts of the United States, to enforce the pro visions of the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution. The said Commissioners for such purpose thall have the sole right to decide on the qualifications of all voters who shall offer to vote for memherg of Congress or elec tors for President and Vice President, and ex clusive authority to receive the ballots cast at anv audi election. Sec. '2. It fdial" be the duty of the Commis sioners to certify the result of the election in their di-tricts respectively, duly sealed, to the said Secretary of the Interior. Sec. 3. The Secretary of the Interior shall certify under his hand and seal the names of the persons who appear to him bv the aforesaid returns to be elected member, of Congress or electors for President and Vice President, and the persons who tdmll receive such certificate of election .hail hold the office or exercise the authoiitv therein designated, subject to the sixth section of this act. Sec 4. It shall be the dutv of the United States Marj-hal in their respective districts to sustain the Commissioners of Election herein provided for in the performance of their duties, and shall detail a sufficient force of deputies to secure order at the elections herein provided for ; and in the event of the f-rce of any 6uch Marshal proving inadequate, the Maishal shall have the riht to call on the nearet command intr officer of troops of the United States to aid such Marshal to preserve order. Pec. 5. It shall be the dutv of the Seeret.n v of War to so station the troopa of the Uniti-d States, immediately preceding any election herein provided for, at convenient point adja cent to the principal pollins place of the sev eral Concressionnnl districts, and in the prin cipal cities a commanding force of fuch troops shall be encamped in the parks or other f uit aMe places of such cities, at and preceding any election as af ue-aid. Sec. C. All questions in reerard to the regu larity and fairnetB of the election of members of Onress shall be referred by th Secietary of the Interior to the Home of Representa tives, who shall have exclusive jurisdiction thrreof; and in like manner all questions re latins to the election for President and Vice Pies'ulent shall be referred to the President, w ho shall appoint a cammittee of not leas than three suitable persons to examine and decide all such questions, und whose decision shall be final ad conclusive. Sec. 7. This subject shall jro into eftVct when Congress shall, by resolution, declare that three-fourths of the Stiles have ratified the proposed Fifteenth Amendment, and have de creed that the Constitution U amended accord ingly." Atrocious as have been all the acts of Congress on the subject of the reconstruction of the Southern States, they pale their inef fectual fiies when compared with this on ward stride towards imperial power. We submit to any honest Republican whether, in the event of the passage of this bill, the very nature and essence of our much boast ed form of government will not have been completely undermined and destroyed ? It sounds more like the edict of an imperial and absolute despot than the calm and deliber ate action of an American Congress. It is the last and fatal stop towards a govern ment of the bayonet, insUad of a government of the lair. And all for what purpose? Simply to enable the negroes of the .North to deposit their rotes. The power proposed to be conferred on the Secretary of the Interior is fearlul to contemplate, and sounds the death knell of all free elections. It wipes out our own-election laws from the statute book atd substitutes in their stead the abso lute and uncontrolled power of a member of the Cabinet. It would be the broadest kind of a farce for our election officers to meet at all, since the Commissioners who are to be appointed for each election district shall have the sole tight to decide on the qualifi cation of all voters who shall offer to vote for members or electors for President and Vice President, and the exclusive authority to receive the ballot cast at any such election." Here would result a direct conflict between these tools of the Secretary of the Interior and ourwn election officers in every elec tion district in the State. Three United States Commissioners at each election board, superintending and controling it. "with tha troopa of the United Stat-a" stationed at convenient points "adjacent to the principal polling placea of the several Congressional districts." and in the principal cities "a ctmmanding force of such troops, encamped iu the parks," would be a pleasant sight to contemplate in this'modei republic" Un der this law. it would require about six thousand Commissioners to run this Radical machine in Pennsylvania, and twice flat number of troops. Will the people never awaken to a realizing sense of the infamous character of these wild and reckless schemes of the party in power, or are they prepared tamely and cowardly t submit to such gross and unparalleled usurpations? Thb following statement, taken from the Anuual Report of the Directors of the Penn sylvania Rail Road Company, show the re sult of the operations of that mammoth cor poration for the year 1869. The figures demonstrate that it is in the high tide of success aud that it is "a power in the State": EARNINGS ' Passengers .. $3,500,0716 Eiuigr't pssseng's 131.1 fi5 .93 Mails lI,9t)lUI Express nutter.. 3ti3hM45 Gereral freighte.. 12,93'i.t.5H -8 MUeellV sources. 265.401 44 $17,250,811.73 EIPKNStS. Conducting trans portation $1503.792 57 Mo ive power.... . 3 Ii7il I95 1 5 Maintenance cars 1. 4T4 59 J22 Maintenance road 3,34 1 -IfiS 10 General expenses 5213,852 56 -$12503.267 60 Iwvbg netrBhs for 1589, $5,047,544.13 Benjamin F. Wblttrniore.' The corrupt practices of several carpet lag members of Congress are being unearthed by the Military Committee of the House and exposed to public view. Until the advent of these precious scamps into the councils of the nation, the custom of selling, for a con sideration, cadetships to the Military Acad emy at West Point was unknown, but since their evil-omened appearance on the public btage the thing has been reduced to a prac tical science.' Dtirjng tbe late rebellion the loyal and Rev. Benjamin Franklin Whitte more, of the thrice loyal State of Massachu setts the home of Sumner and Butler went down South as the godly chaplain of a regiment froni the Bay State. After tbe termination of the war be took up his resi dence in South Carolina, where be became quite popular with tbe colored race. It is related of bim, that he persuaded the inno cent and unsophisticated negroes to believe that the emancipation proclamation not only conferred freedom upon them, but. what greatly astonished them, that it also abso. lutely absolved them from their marriage vows. As he was a minister of the gospel, he averred that he could make all things right again with the divorced regroes, and commenced marrying them over again at '-he moderate rate of one dollar for performing the ceremony. The negro population in this section of the. State being three fourths of the whole, Whittemore made a nice thing out of this little clerical operation, which was his first financial etsay in the land of Dixie. He was regarded as a great and good man by his poor and ignorant dupes, the negroes, who elected bim to Congress by a majority of over seven thousand. His career in that illustrious and immaculate body has been brief and inglorio'is. C.-nvicted before the Military Committee, as well by positive proof as by his own admissions, of having sold a cadetship. a vote was to have been taken last Thursday on a resolution expell ing bim from bis seat, but Whittemore. ukder the advice of Ben Butler, took time by the forelock and telegraphed his resigna tion to the Governor of South Carolina, by whom it was accepted. How perfectly nat ural aud in perfect keeping with the eternal fitness of things it was for one Massachu setts rogne, like Butler, to come to the res cue of Whittemore, hailing from the same State and who is tarred with the same stick. Having resigned his seat he could not, of course, be expelled, and a resolution of cen sure aain ttheimrnifjtl Whitte.njre was alipteJ unanimously. There are several cases of the same kind yet to be deposed of by the Committee The name of "honest" John Covode has been mentioned in connection with this traf ficking in cadet appointments. While we freely admit that the "Alligator" w mean and mercenary enough to embaik in such dirty woik, he possesses too much low cun ning to leave his tracks uncovered. The Rkjf.cteti Prp. The President is Informed that he is Worth SI 00 fie Orders Dent to Interview a Colored Citizen. Mack, the Washington correspondent of the Cin cinnati Enquirer, gets off the following : Just as I was scratching my head for sub jects of epistolary discourse this morning, a friend came along with j face full of smiles, and seul he, "Did you hear about that dog ?"; '"What dog, 'said I, thinking that, perhaps, another pointer, or perchance a terrier, had been sent to his Excellency. "Why. that same dog that was sect to the President from Cleveland." I replied that the last I had heaid of that unfortunate an imal his fate bung between Barnum and iiologna, and it was a question whether he should adoin a museum or be coverted into sausages. But my friend immediately said I was mistaken. It was very true that the President bad concluded at first not to receive that pointer, and had sent him summarily from his prem ises. But siuce then one of his confidetntial advisers, who was.an experiencd dog fancier, had cnlled on him and bet foith the praises of this Cleveland contribution in glowing terms told him he was an imported aoi roal. worth one hundred dollars, and it was a great piUtake not to acenpt him ; further more that the express charge of ten dollar as was an ertor, all the cost of transportation having been prepaid in full. The President's countenance was Instant ly overcharged with the gloom of a con scious blunder; he saw at a glance that he had acted hastily in not receiving the dog ; and bis first inquiry on recovering his self possession was as to how he conld retrieve that false step. The dog was now the prop erty of a colored citizen, and the occupant of an inverted dry goods box in a back yard ajoining the White House grounds. The President directed Dent to proceed thither and negotiate, if- possible. f-r the surrender of the animal on payment of costs. But the colored citizen, who is said to be an excellent judge of dogs, was not easily persuaded to this arrangement ; and at last accounts he and Dent were discussing the matter in a very animated and excited style of language. But Dent was evidently get ting the worst of it. CuRircs Phenomenon. A remarkable phenomenon lias been observed with respect to rivers, and that is. that in the inland parts, aud at a distance from the sea. tney flow in a direct line ; but in proportion as they approach their mouths they assume more of a winding or serpentine course. In large rivers there ia a considerable eddy along the banks, and the nearer the sea the great er ia the eddy. The surface of the water in rivor ia by no means level from bank to bank ; on the con trary, the middle cf the stream is higher or lower than the waters of the sides, accord ing to circumstances When a river swells suddenly by the melting of snow, or any other cause, the middle of the stream is sensibly higher than the 6tdes ; in one instance, the e'evation is said to have -been aa great as three feet. Ou the other hand, when rivera approach their mouth, the water near the sides is commonly more elevated than that in the middle. . There are rivers which loee themselves in the sands, and others which seem to precip iUro themselves into the bowels of the earth. The Guadalaquiver. in Spain j the Rhone, the Orbe, and many others, lose themselves in the earth. It is assertert that in the western part of St. Domineo there is a moun tain of-consideiahle height, at the foot of which are many ctverrs. or subterianean rivers, and the rivulets fall with an much noise aa to be heard at the distance of seven or dgbt snilw.f hr'H- Evening Hmld. ' Legislative Grcatncu. It must be a pleasing reflection to the people of the Commonwealth of Pennsylva nia to know that they have at least one great man in the Legislature a giant of colossal dimensions, learned above all bis compeers, with a comprehensiveness and a penetrative ness of mental and political vision, that does away with everything in the shapo of sec taries or even telescopes. That man ia Mr. Rutan, who represents the counties of Wash ington and Beaver in the Senate, lie has an itching after fame a burning desire to surround himself with a halo of greatness, that shall sttikit not only his immediate con stituents but the entire community, both in aggregate and detail, with amazed admira tion. Although Mr. Rutan has bitherto been unknown to fame, be ia not wh"l)y a mylh to the conferees of Beaver and Washington counties who met in this city last summer. Mauy of them came not upon a bootless mis sion, and have since possessed their soles in peace. Taking a step higher than the mere tKJttv intrigues of getting a nomination. Mr. Rutan, without solicitation, avows himself the champion of an "oppressed" class with a whereas, introductory to a bill, in which he proposes the immediate demolition of all convents and nunneries ia the following style : Whereas, In the course of human events we have abolished slavery or involuntary ser vitude forever from the United States of Arrer ica ; and, whereas, freedom ia the normal con dition of man ; and. whereas, there till re mains a relic of slavery still existing in all parts of our country under the form and pre tense of religion, as now exists in the Roman Catholic Church, comrconly tailed or known as thc nunneries or convents, wheie females are kept or confined against their will, having in maty instances been placed there bv their pa rents or guardians at an immature age, or when young children, or perchance from disap pointed love romances ; and, whereas, it ia an unnatural condition or relation to society, never so intended by the Creator, as woman was made for man and is the germ of society. And whilst we as a Slate appr ve of the greatest extent of religious enjoyment or toleration of sentiment, allowing all to worship God accord ing to the dictates of their own conscience ; nevertheless, we are opposed to the enforce ment ot any church rule that would compel an innocent and clten unprotected fema'e to re main iu such convent or nunnery against Ler will or cousen,t. There is greatness for you, distilled, rec tified and in quantum sifficil. How radicnt the author of this inimitably profound bill must have appealed, as he read the Iatt line of this bill in a diapasou intended to rhake the foundations of the convents. After Mr. Rutati's whereas, the Declaration of Inde pendence can only be. classed with the glit tering generalities of a past age. "In the course of human events," for instance. How crisp and fresh. Bnd original, and like a school boy's first com j osit ion, it sounds. Who but the pellucid Rutan could discover that "we" ever did anything "in the course of human events?" Who but the Senator from Beaver and Washington could elucidate tho startling fact that "there Mill remains a rtlic of slavery existing in all parts of the country under the form and pretence of re ligion 1" Who but he is so socially not to 6ay theologically profound as to be able to positively t-tate the fact, that young girls take upon tlx-mselves slavery "from disap pointed love romances?" But Mr. Rutan does not propose to stop half-way in his researches, but goes down to the very foundation, walls of society, an ! tells us that "whereas it is an unnatural condition or relation to society never so in tended by the Creator, as woman was made for man and is the germ of society." Wo man was made for man," eh ? We refer the gentleman from Washington and Buaver to the Ibn. Miss Susan B. Anthony for a settlement of that question. She will teach him better than that, or we greatly overes timate her pursnasive powers. We have no idea where Mr. Rutan picked up the theory about woman, in the above quotation, un less it was from that redoubtable knight Sir John FalstaS iu his interview with Mistress Quickly at Kastcheap, recorded in the play of Henry IV. His knowledge of the gener ic is ckarly exemplified in the expiession that woman "is the germ of society." If he wants to make himself perfect, be only has to" procure a copy of Webster'o Speller anil Detiner, and study it a few weeks. His anxiety for "religious ei j yment and toleration" ttflects great ciedit upon him. equalled only by the summary way that he promises to bring it ab. ut. There can Ins no bhadow of doubt that under the exces sively "parental" rule of Mr. Rutan's pro posed bill "religious enjoyment and tolera tion" would become "a thing of beauty and a joy forever." His proposition further along in the bill to appoint a smelling com mittee of three, at the modest rate of five dollais a day, with absolute authority to break in upon the privacy of the female in mates of Catholic hchools. ought to meet with the hearty approval of all the descend ants aud ad m iters of the witch-burners and Q laker-hangers. In the eveut of the pass age ol the bill, we inoi&t upon Mr. Rutan bciug appointed Chairman of the Committee, for, judging from the profound statesman ship that jcomW crop out iu his biM, we thiuk that hq, is uot only pre-eminently fit ted by nature for, but would take an infi nite delight ir. forcing himself iuto the pri vate apartments of ladies, against all senbe of decency and propriety aud their unavailing protestations. By all means hava Mr. Ru tan placed on the committee. He is, taken in the aggregate, a great man. and as such entitled to extraoidiuary privileges. Pitts burg Post. The Ecumenical d.uNcib.--The N. Y. Herald, referriug to the proceedings ot the Council, Bays : The position of the Roman Church at the present moment U critical iu the extreme. It seems to us to have flung away ita laat chance. We have watched thi council and have never failed to otter it sound and wholesome advice We have warned it of danger, anii we have olten pointed out a way ot deliverance But our warnings and our instructions have been equally d.sregarded. The council teems bent on ruining the Church. Oh. Thunder ! What can the Holy Father. Patriarchs, and Bishops of the Catholic Church mean, that they don't pay more at tention to the advice of the Herald For sublimity of impudence and boundless as surance, commend us to the above named sheet. Let our readers imagine, if they can. the possibility of a council of the muKt learn ed and houored ecclesiastics cf the world be ing moved or influenced by such a ridiculous thing as the babbling of a flash newspaper ! We beg leave to remark that we ilont think it probable that the windy declamation of either the European or American presj will have much effect up n the prelates in coun cil at the Vatican. Editors should boar in mind the fact that a Cnncil is not a County Convention. Columbia Herald. -t-A colored woman in Evansville. Ind., wbo during the last political campaign mar ried a white repupiican, now asks for an in junction to prevent her husband from mar rying another woman. The colored people hava loug and often .been warned against their loyal miscegeu friends, but they heed not the warning. A white negro caoaot be rtlied upon. - General Kiewi Items There is no death penalty in Michigan, and the penitentiary now hold eighty mur derers, thirty ol whom are women. -The Allentown Democrat report a man in Bethlehem who is living altogather on cat and dog meat. And lives well too, no doubt. Blighted affection has causrd a Vermont youth of 60 to sell his hcuBe. live in a hay mow in bis barn, aud never have bis clothes washed. A pretty little girl of thirteen years, while endeavoring to master a difficult les son in Philadelphia, a fw evenings ago, was seized with brain fever and died next day. Twenty thousand pounds sterling, it is said, are lying in the Bank of England, de posited there by some zealous botanist, as a reward for any obe who shall produce a blue dahlia. In a recent trial of a will rase in Troy a woman testified that she and the testator stood before a looking glass, joined hands, and agreed to live together as man and wife. She received by the will $12,000 in five- twenties, and a bonse and furniture therein. Dr. Henry Krumme. of Ridgway. Pa., has invented an Automatic Life Preserver, which is pronounced by experts to be the best Life Preserver now in existence. The Dr. has disposed of one'half interest in the invention for a very handsome consideration. A girl in Chester .Vt.. died a few days ago from tight lacing. For several months pie vious to her death this poor victim had been obliged to sleep with her corsets on. and tightened to the last notoh. for the loosening gave such pain internally that she could not bear it. Edward and Daniel Agnew were arrest ed at Readme, on Friday last, charged with bigamy. They have wives in Philadelphia, and some two months since married two young girls, named Dougherty, at Chester, to whom they represented themselves as sin gle meu. A negro bnrgler at Euclid, Ohio, enter ed a grocery at night in this way : He tcok some wagon grease, which he plastered on a piece of paper, and then potting it against a pane c f glass pressed on it. breaking the pane in such a manner as to have all the pieces of glass stick to the paper. The delicate opeiation of transfusion of blood has been successfully informed in Chicago. The patient was a young lady al most hopelessly affected with consumption. Thirty-six ounces-of blood were taken from a sister and two brothers, and injected into her veins, and she is nw recovering. Some excitement has been created in Knoxville. IVnn., by a baby which haa de parted from thc old established ru'es gov erning "cutting teeth" by cutting ita back teeth to start with. All manner of good and bad things are being predicted for the infant on account of its extraordinary con duct. A woman in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, con victed of inhumanly beating her little step sop, pulling his hair out by the hat -dful and locking him up in an out-building, with no coverit g but his night-shirt, until his feet were frozen, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment. Her name was Martha Large, but her punishment was small. In view of the many thousands of able hdied colored people in the. District of Co Inmbia. General Alcorn, of Mississippi, i-ffers to send to his plantation in that State as many as will go. at his own expense, and employ them, and offering to give one-third of his crop, but can induce none to leave. They once having partaken of Government charity, doled out in half rations there, no offer to be made, even of living anywhere tlse, will rnove them. "The work goes bravely on." Chau tauqua county, New York, the residence of Senator Fenton. haa electr-d a democratic majority in the board of suprevisors, the first since the organization of the old anti mason ic party in 1828. Lewis connty also tlects a Democratic majority of the Board the first time f.ine the organization of the Rad ical party. There are also heavy gains in other portions of the state. Pretty well for a divided party, as the Radicals a-sf-rt. Thtte terrible calamities hava been re ported within the past week. Twenty-three persons were killed and many injured bv a railroad accident near Oxford, Miss., on Fri day last ; twenty or thirty men were killed by the ixploi-ion of a boiler at a rolling mill in Scranton on last Monday, and sixty-four Uvea are reported to have been lost by the sinking of the U. S. steam corvette Oneida near Yokohnma. China, in conseqitence of colliding with the British steamer Bombay. The discovery of steel ore, in the c u ity of York, of a very superior quality, is likely to lead to pleasant and profitable results. Last wei k a contract was entered into by the -York Countv Iron and Steel Works with Messrs. S. V. Hopkit s & Co.. an Eng lish house in New York, for one thousand barrels of steel ore to be shipped to that country. The English company also reser ved, in the contract, the privilege to take five thousand tons at the same price, to wit : S7 per ton. A. party of unknown negroes murdered an old man named John Irvin Mitchellin the village of Union Church. Jefferson coun ty, Miss, tn the night of the 11th. The negroes knocked at the door of Mr. Mitchell's house, which was opened by hia wife, when she wns struck down with an axe. Mr. M.. on going to his wife's assistance, was mur dered outright. An alarm was giveu. but when assistance came the murderers had es caped. Robbing was evidently the object of the attack. They say in Washington that the wives and daughters of Republican Senators are in a perplexing quandary abt.ut Mrs. Revels, wife of the colored Senator. Of courso it would never do to cut hr acquaintance on grounds of caste. It.is reported of her that she has an unpleasant way of saving "thar" and "whir" and "I golly me!" as well as talking about "hoe cake." and the relative merits of pigs and things. n drawingroom ocasions, and has aatrong inclination to red bandana handkerchiefs, and colostal brass ear rings. Susan B. Anthony, who has been cat erwauling for woman's rights at every con vention of the strong-minded in this country for the last twenty vears. celebrated her fiftieth birthday in New York last week. Susan has been enj yfng singln blessedness all this time, consequently she haa never done our gntle six auy hj'rm. and we wish her well. But. a woman who has had no thing to do for thirty years except to de mand her rights, and who in all that time hasn't got them, has a dreary outlook fr the future. Max Fogler lives in Lincaster. H desirad to name his baby after himself. Mrs. Fogler made up her mind it should be named after her uncle Hans. The discus sion became so animated that the wife "of Mr. Fogler' bosom endeavored to enforce her views by knocking Mr. Fogler down with the preserving-kettle. He replied in a eling manner with a fWt iron, swelling Mrs. F.'g'er's nose to the size and color of an egg plant. Just as disinterested observers had about made up their minds that one more nameless orphan would be drifting around Lancaster, the iolice interfered The parties are now reconciled, and Mr. Fog ler intimates his intention to kiss his wife just as soon as her noso ahrtoks aufficiently for the rptt . Tbe Emma Disaster. 8H0CXI5O PKTAIL8 BEYEST T1XK PERSONS DROWNED. Caibo. February 23. Captain James U. Maratta. of the Emma No- 3, furnishes the following account of the disaster : Tbe wind was blowing very strong at the time, and it was very cold. The boat struck a snag on a pile of logs. Immediately all the pumps were put to work, but the whole bottom of the bow being torn out. it was of no avail. In less than ten minutes the steamer careened, neatly capsizing, and up setting the cabin btoves. In a moment the boat was a fcheet of flame. - The yawl was lowered and the ladies al put in, but at the instant it was let go, over fifty jumped for it, sinking it immediately. One lady caught Captain Maratta aud pulled him under water two or three times ; but, as be was floating past the wheel, a colored porter caught hirx: and dragged bim up. He re mained there in an awful state of suspense, almost scotched to death, until rescued by a skiff, in about an hour afterwards. The mate, Caleb Maratta, and Pilot At t en borough remained on the . forecastle, almost perishing by smoke and fire, until rescued by a skiff. The remainder of the ctew took to the water, but only foursuceeed ed in reaching the shore. D. R. Porter, second clerk, was the first to reach the shore, and the carpenter, second mate, and watch man were all that reached it alive. First Engineer Lineberger reached it, but died immediately after. Clerk W. M. Maratta was lost when the yawl was sunk, being caught and taken under by some passengers, and was never seen to rise. Thomas Trun nells, Pilot, was drowned in the same man ner. Tbe second engineer was never "seen after the boat took fire. The barkeeper was seen to jump on a plank, but was never seen afterward. I - The crew nnmbered forty-two, f which ! fifteen were lost. There were fort' cabin j passengers and fifty deck passengers, cf which sixty were lost not a lacy being saved making, in all, seventy-five ptrsons lost. All the boat's books being lost, only a few passengers' names could be ascertain ed. Everything possible was done to save passengers and crew, and floats, staging, cotton and planks were thrown overboard for them to make their escape, but the water being intensely cold, they were chilled to death. The above statement of Captain Maratta makes the disaster much more lamentable thau at firtt reported, as Pilot Atteubor ougb. who brought the first news here, felt positive that only twenty time wire 1 at. a be supposed there were only thirty five cab in passengers and sixteen on deck. Afffction of a Mother. At Louisiana. Missouri, about a wet-k ago, a skiff contain ing a mother and her two children, was seen battling its way frtm the Illinois rhote. through the grinding, crushing fields of ice, as they uhed against and pi ltd u; on each ether, swept along by the irresistible cur rent. She was iu search of her f -ur sons, 'taken from her sorue twelve months ago by her husbaud, wbo bad married a woman in Missouri, and was living on the point be tween Salt rh er and the Mississippi. The brave woman, upon reaching this shore, ob tained an offi-er. and proceeded on the search for her boys. Arriving at the residence of their father, be was found to Le absent" hog hunting." The joy of the little boys is said to have been indescribable when tbey saw their mother, from whom they had been sep arated so many months. Tbey had suBered greatly from ague and fever, and want of food, ar.d we:e marly dtstitute of c!oti.ing. their caps being made of green ctn skins. The brave woman rescued ber boys and has them now with her at home, near Grigs ville. Illinois, where she resides. Her name is Lacy A. Johnson. A child with only one ear was born in Koith Brookfield. Mass., a few days since. ROVER & BAKER'S FIKST PIIEMIUM ELASTIC STITCH FAMILY SEWING MACHINES, 495 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. ?30 Cliesluut St., riilladelpbla. T01NTS OF EXCELLENCE. Beauty and Elasticity of Stitch. Perfection and Simplicity of Machinery. Using both threads directly fron the spools. No fasteuing of seams by hand and no waste of thread. Wide range of application without change of adiMotment. The seam retains its beauty and firmness after wat-hiiig and ironing. Besides doing all kinds of work done bv other Sewing Machines. thee Machines execute the most beautiful and permanent Embroidery aid ornamental work. Tiik Highest Premiums at all the fairs and exhibitions of the Uuited State and Europe, have been awarded the GUOVER A BAKER SEWING MACHINES, and thewoBa uonk bv thicm, whertver exhibited iu competition. Thf. vf.bv highkt fbizk. THE CROSS OF THE LEGION OF HONOR, was conferred on the representative ol the OROV-ER At BA KER SEWING MACHINES, at the Exposi tion Universelle, Paris, ls-C7, thus attesting their great superiority over all other Sewing Machines. tgTFor sale bv C. T. Robikts. Ebensburg. June 3, 18U9.-Jy. TO CONSUMPTIVES. The advkbtisfk, hiving been restored to health in a lew week? by a very simp'o remedv, after having sufler-Kl several years wuh a severe lung affection, and that dread diseise, Con sumption, is anxious to make known to his fel low turTerers the means of cure. To all who desire it. be will send a cory of the prescription used (free of charge), with' the directions for preparing and using the atme, which thv will find a si bk cubic for CoMu ar tiom. Asthm. Bbonchit s. Ac. The object of the advertiser in sending the Prescription is to benefit the afflicted and spread information hich he c mceivea to be invaluable ; and be hopes every sufferer will try his remedy, as it will coat them nothing and mtv proves hleing. Parties wishing th prescription will please ad.lresa Rev EDW ' RD A. WILSON tnj'O.-ly. Williamsburg. Kings Co.. N Y. 5 5 9 5 q q qqliq q q q q q q TO THE WOKKING CLASS. We are now proprre-l to furnish sll classes with steady employment at home, the whole of th time or for spare moments. Business new, li ht and profi table. Persona of eiiher stx easily earn from 50c. to $5 per evening. Boys and girls ear:i nearly as much as men. That all who see this notice mav send their address, and test the business we make this unparalled offer; To sch as are not well satisfied, we will send $1 to pay for the trouble o writing. Full particulars, a valuable sample, which wilt do to commence work on. and a copy ol Tni rEopi.it "a Litkb abt Cojipakiox one of the largest and best family newspapers published all sent free by mail. Readet, If you want permanent, profit able work, address E. C. ALLEN 4 CO., Auwu, Mala a. - Is in excO Z T """ I mired. 1, handsome mu.hn bg.. jn whi!J Meerschaum Pipes are dai!T packed mil-.! . " Lorlllard'n VnrTif nn'h sume it.'. .', J- r -?" Smoking Tobacco j VS' its effects, as the Nicotine has l5 it leaves no diaapreeahle utTT'l it is very mild, light in color rj ail lt L iienvc uiic wuuu will lat i-. ordinarv tobacco. In iKla i - . - - - ...... ui aim orders every day for fir-t qualitr V Pines. Trv it and cm.rit. ... it claims to be "tre vivr,.'.. ' r m. Iirlllarri'ii l tl:. . - - ----- ill. rtl-inJ . CENTURY' r"lCLeT, Lhewine obacco. ; rv- w . . I "J"" flout vv - -"-""- v ui me country. SNUFFS fat',1; and is still acknowledged -the ben".; used. CWIf vonr storekerr A. ... . articles for sule.atk loin to "et tW 7 Circular of prces forwarded on ,.' P. LORIUARBtcoS,,,, GEO. C.K. ZAHM , . JA?Tv ZAHM & SON, DEALERS IX DRY GOODS, HARDWARE, QUEENS1ME 3 AKD ALL OTHER ARTICi: C'sually Kept In a Country t WOOL AND COUNTRY VUQl TAKES IS IXCUAKCI TOB toc'' STORE OX MAIN STEZZ: Next Door to the Post Or.e, June 10, 1S69. EBEXSriHG.?. Q II A M 11 E libiill HURSERY ASSOCIATE! J. S Nixo.x. Pres'L H R. F.nui.i W. G. Rked. Treaa'r. T. B. Jr.is Chumbtrtbntg, Fraakll CH The conductors of this estvhlUbmrui.ce lug their chtracter and busitmrrji tion above transient gain, hot determined to irudurt Such a quality of NURSERY STC! as shall givetmiie atiafact oa totlir lorners. They cultivate li Tr;f..ei. FRUIT TRKES, GKAPE VISES, SMALlFrJ OIIN AMKNTAI. TKKKS A:X Slll.ll KoSK3 AND IJKE DING TUMi , that are grown by the very ben nary. The underMjned has been upro'rtV dent Agent at Johnstown tor t!iea'(K.i I isl i men t. Catalogue supplied iu.uJ matiuu furnished upun application W. L AKFI5 F.b 3. 2m. J.,Lis:.fi.: B OOK AGENTS AVAXTE. Struggles and Triumphs r P. T. BARM? Wbittkn bt llixsf-ir Is OskLaiciOti Vou jir Xeaklt 80i Pagfs Ps'T-1 English asp Gkbjias 33 Elk. iCLt. Pagi E.XGRAVIVGS. It Embiaces Foett Yfas' F.ecjuir nf hi Knar T.il. a a Merchilit, Banker. Lecturer and Sho m.in. re counts of hi 1 mprWonmcnt. bis Fai-at; C..l'..l T." Tm.ro nii ii-'J Historical and Ptrrsmiil Remin:scfnct .1 ith Humor. Anecdote and Liiieriw rative. No book pnbli?hed so toen ail classes. Everv ne wants it lzr selling from 5i to 100 a wrek. K term. Our Illustrated dialogued- to AjjenU sent free. wt i n n k. fa -Fttbllabera, IlartfcrH HOTEL PROrERTTix FOR SALE. 1 he under- M M-ned offers fur sale Lis aell fiUI known and desirable H with all the ,iccesrj outhuiMic? a commooious Siat lei Ice House, Cistern. &c The Uouse k in go; Terma will be made easy. If rot March laih the property will be kf Further information can be obu plring to or addrea-dntr . H.S'1"' Loretto, Feb.:. lrTO -tf. XT A LU ABLE TAVERN 1' TY FOIt SALE! That""; able and commodious Tavern Sufi MlUate at tr.llll'ZIII. -ni"ri - B;i i. i . i i c-..,;ih r.mt l't Know n as me m icnaei t . oiu" r- ; ; ctiy, is uiirreti lor kiic vu i , terms, it is one ot tn nvs-i (r in the county, is in an excellent " and doing a "thriving hsh e. 1 -b Kiven as soon as the sale k.ffjv Persoua desiring to purchase " 'V-v addres. K-L.J0HSh Jan. 6. 1270. tr. EbcD- vZ JOHN GAY. . . . T GA Y & W hl Sneeriian tm Gr r" WHOLESALE ... Grocers and Commission M- AKD PKALKKS , FLOUR, PPvOlU0K. FIML SAH. RON OILS. . &( PITTSBURGH ST OPPOSITE UNION PASSESGEBPH PITTSBURGH, rje.ll.-ly. FELIXHEXLT WHOLESALE ... J GROM OTEL VBOTEOTV OR TO LETI-Th.t j Tavern fund known ."' c"Ki IntheBoiouBtioi unim- tv. U offered for sale or rent, be iven on the Ut dav of Apr" to the owW on the 'TT'VkT tf Teb. 17. lS70. it. 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