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jmbria Freeman.
EDEXSBl'RG, PA.
TllfcRSDAT Morsing, March 31, 1870.
Ths Labgitst Newspaper Mail which
goes to any one firm in this country, is re
ceived by O. P. Rowell & Co., the New York
.Advertising Agenta. Their place of busi
ues is at No. 40 Turk Row.
Thk Legislature will adjourn finally on
Thursday, the 7ih of April. The tax-payers
will then breathe freer and deeper. The
joyous event should be celebrated throughout
the State, with bonfires and illuminations.
Thk following Washington dispatch,
which we find in a city paper of last Mon
day, is plainly indicative of the refined and
elegant amusement to which our "second
Washington so called, proposes to devote
his lei-sure hours during the coming autumn.
What will be the next Presidential enter
tainment to which the American people will
be invited?
One hundred gentlemen have organized a
racing association, and leased the National
Ittbc IiUuido ucai iiiia tnjr. aiu'ii uic j
stockholders are President Grant, General !
Sherman and a large number of prominent
army and uavy officers.
That bare faced and infamous swindle,
Butes Military History, once more floats to
the surface, notwithstanding the summary
dttposition which was made of it at the last
session of the Legislature. The plainly ex
pressed hostility of t'jat body to this plun
dering scheme has lo terrors for the enter
prising Bates, as it seems be has been work
ing up the job during the last year, without"
the shadow of legislative authority. Only
a few days ago a Radical member of the
House offered a resolution distributing to
each member of the Legislature twenty five
copies of thia literary trash, the cost of print
ing and binding each volume net to exceed
three dollars and seventy-five cents. This
neat little operation would abstract from the
State treasury the snru of nine thousand ,
three hundred and seventy fice dollars. This
is a fair specimen of Rulical economy. Of
all the corrupt schemes that have brought
deep disgrace on the Legislature for the last
ten years, we do not remember one which
has been so absolutely iniquitous as this.
Nothing but itself could be its own parallel.
As a SL7GBT evidence of the novel system
cf legislation prevailing at Ilarrisburg and
known as "cutting across lots," it may be
stated that one Adaire, (not Robin, but AN
exander,) who represents one of the Radical
districts of Philadelphia, has recently intro
duced a plain and straightforward resolution
in the House to strike the word "while"
from the third article of'thc Cconstitution.
This is worthy of Sir Boyle Roach .and would
be very convenient if it only had tho merit
of being legal ; but Adaire has failed to see
in his ignorance that he has butted his lead
en head straight against the Constitution
itself. If such a silly proposition, or one
equally as absurd, had been offered in a Leg
islature of one of the reconstructed States,
by a carpet-bagger, or even by a negro, it
would not have excited special wonder. But
coming as it does from a leading member of
the party in the "loyal North," that arro
gates to itself all Ike brains and intelligence
of the country, it creates immoderate laugh
ter and at the same time deep humiliation.
Long live the immortal Alexander Adaire of
Lappy memory.
Gilion and Geary.
When Dr. John W. Gihon, the private
secretary cf John W. Geary, was abovat to
become the editor of a new Radical proper at
Harrisburg, he addressed a letter to him
whoso legs are riddled with rebel bullets, re
signing his position, in which letter he ex
pressed" the moat unbounded faith in Geary's
patriotism, as well as in his personal and
official integrity. Gihn hands Geary over
to the glorious uncertainties of the political
future, with the following confident predic
tion :
"Your past record is auspicious of higher
honors that aicait you."
To all of which the hero, who fought above
the clouds, and who was the one and ever
present terror of Stonewall Jackson, approv
ingly and hopefully replies in the manner
following :
"You have expressed kind wishes that I
may yet be the recipient of higher honors, in
vhsch I most heartily Join you, if I can only
obtain them by a mure efficient aud faithful
dischargo of the duties of my present posi
tion." Does this hearty rejoinder on the part of
Geary point to a sat in the United States
Senate, or to tbe White House? Geary's
vaulting ambition will yet overleap itself.
When $Se auspicious time comes for such
a pretender in statesmanship to be placed
on his proper, normal political level, bis de
scent from his present elevated position will
be as sudden as it will prove to be disastrous
to all his hopes of future political prefer
ment. Great will be the fall thersof.
WuKJi Charleston was bombarded" by the
Union fleet, the Orphans' Asylum in that
city, ttkrpitig to the Sisters cf Mercy, was
reduced to a a unsightly mass of ruins. Dur
ing the subsequent occupation of the city by
the Federal troops, these heroic and self-sacrificing
women were unremitting in their
care and attention to the sick aud wounded
officers and soldiers of the Union army.
After tbe close of the war these officers, al
though scattered over different Stales, yet
entertaining a grateful sente of the many acta
ef kindness and devotion which they and the
oldiers under their command had received
at the bands of these benevolent Sisters,
united in a memorial to Congress, asking
that body to appropriate a sum of money
largo enough to enable tbera to rebuild their
ruined Asylum. The effurt did not then
pr&ve nceesaful, but it wilt txj w$n frotr, the
action of the House of Representatives dur
ing the early part of last week, which we
publish below, that this meritorious act is
about to be consummated. Apart from the
religions views of the recipient! of this pro
posed bounty, but resting exclusively upon
its own merits, no right-minded man will
interpose an objection. It is well for the
Sisters of M ercy of Charleston that Congress
does not contain a majority of men imbued
with the same liberal and tolerant spirit to
wards their order as has recently been dis
played by the Ilarrisburg correspondent of
the Blair County Radical. If that were so,
the rack weeds and the tangled grass would
grow on the site where once stood the hap
py home of the orphans of Charleston.
Mr. Dawes, from the Committee on Appro
priations, reported a bill appropriating twenty
thousand dollars to the Sisters of our Lady of
Merey ut Charleston, South Carolina, for the
purpose of rebuilding their orphans' asylum,
in consideration of services rendered by those
sisters to sick and wounded Union officer and
soldiers while that citj was tinder bombard
ment during the war, the money to be expend
ed under the direction of Sister M. Xavicr.
Mr. Benjamin made the point of order that
as the bill made an appropriation it must be
first considered in committee of the whole.
The Speaker sustained the point of order.
Mr. Dawes moved to suspend the rules to
have it considered in the Houe and passed.
The rules were suspended and the bill passed
jeas 110, nays 46.
Tbe Treasury Investigation.
Much was expected from the labors of the
committee raised by the Sate Senate to in
vestigate tho management of the State Treas
ury, as 'veil by the present incumbent, R.
W. Mckey, as by his predecessors in the
same ofEce. The people had a right to sup
pose that it would lead to some practical
result, to be followed by the necessary legis
lation, in order to protect their hard-earned
taxes from being diverted from their appro
piiate channel and made to subserve illegiti
mate and illegal purposes. That evil prac
tices exist now, and have existed in that de
partment of the State government for the
last fifteen years, and that the office, by a
management peculiarly its own, has beeu
made a source of wealth to its various occu
pants during the period referred to indeed,
that it has possessed the inherent facility of
transmuting everything into gold for its for
tunate possessor was universely conceded.
And yet, judging from the action of the
committee thus far, the proposed investiga
tion will end in a broad farce, disgraceful to
the committee, and, as most similar com
mittees have heretofore acquitted them
selves, keeping the work of promise to the
ear but breaking it to the hope of a plunder
ed and sorely taxed people.
Mr. Mackey, the present Treasurer, was
examined by tbe committee, and although he
explained the general routine of tbe business
of tho office, he persistently refused to inform
the committee how much money had found
its way into his pocket, in the shape of in
terest, for loaning the public funds to certain
banking institutions and private speculators
in various parts of the State, to ascertain
which was one of the primary objects of the
investigation. Gen. Irwin, who had been
Mackey 's immediate predecessor, as he will
bo his successor after the first Monday in
May, was the next witnesswho appeared be
fore the committee, and he stubbornly re
fused even to take the oath. This conveni
ent dodge on the part of Irwin is not calcu
lated to increase his reputation for official
integrity, but is conclusive evidence that
there is something rotten in Denmark. A
warrant for his arrest, signed by the Speak
er of the Senate and directed to tbe Sergeant-at-Aims,
was never executed, owing to a
retrograde movement by that body, and
there the matter rests, and there it will prob
ably remain during the present session.
What potent influence was brought to bear
on the Senate in order to effect this back
ward step, is a matter of conjecture. The
investigation,however, meager and imperfect
as it ha3 been, shows that a complete and
thorough reform in the hitherto loose and
illegal management of the Treasury is 6ternly
demanded. We venture to say that there is
not a member of either party in the Senate
who is not familiar with the whole question
and the remedy that ought to be applied,
and yet they have uot the nerve to arrest,
by proper legislation, this constantly in
creasing evil in that department of the State
government. For weeks there has been a
bill on the files of the Senate, introduced by
Mr. Wallace, having for its object the better
protection of the funds in the State Treasu
ry. Why has there been no effort made to
take it up and pass it ? Jt required only
one week for the Senate and House to pass
a bill, fi'ching the moderate sum of nine mil
lions and a ha? of State securities from the
vaults of the Treasury and authorizing their
transfer to certain contemplated rail roads
of doubtful utility. But when the dearest
interests of a people, robbed and plundered
almost to madness, demand prompt and
thorough protection, no voice in the Senate
is raised in their defence. If the Legislature
should adjourn without enacting some whole
some and stringent law on this vitallv im
portant subject, its members will have in.
curred a fearful responsibility and one which
they will find serious difficulty in settling
with their confiding but betrayed constitu
ents. ' The Union Pacific trains took west in
regular morning train, on March 36th, 385
pessengers from the trains which have been
suow-bound in Iowa. The number was so
great they were obliged to send out two
trains, the first consisting of three passenger
coaches, mail and express, and two of Pull
man's elegant drawing-room cars and dining
car; the second had four coaches, three
baggage cars, and two sleeping cars. Busi
ness for a while looked vprv livelv aKnf
- - J .-w.j
the Ninth street depot. Omaha Herald.
Carpet-bag lawyers in the South are
engaged in hunting up vagabond negroes
who have been denied 6eata in railroad cars,
and bring suit against the companies for
damage. CuSfy gets his name in the Rad
ical papers, and the lawyer finger the dam
ages, if any are awarded. This is according
to tbe Butler code.
The "City or Iloston," j
Ever and anon there is some notable oc
enrrence that brings out in a bold relief the
native goodness of tbe human heart that,
after all, is not totally given over to wick
edness and selfishness. Nothing more marked
has occurred during the year than tha mys
terious fate of the ocean steamer "City of
Boston," that has awakened tho sympathy
of the two hemispheres.
The ' City of Bostou" was built in Glas
gow, five j-ears ago, and was regarded as one
of the most symmetrical and seaworthy
crafts put afloat by the Inman Company,
and was built for carrying rather than for
celerity of speed. Tho following were her
dimensions :
Length on deck, 326 feet ; width of beam,
40 feet ; depth of hold, 28 feet, with a meas
urement of 2. 200 tons. She was provided
with two engines of 300 nominal horse
power, four boilers, donkey boiler and en
gine, and a large number of pumps which
were to be used in the event of any accident
to her hull, or In case of fire.
For the purpose of giving strength and
tenacity to her hull, she was-provided with
deck stringers of broad steel plates of the
name metal. She was divided transversely
by seven water tight bulk bead.-;, five of
which extended up through the passenger
deck to the spar deck of the vessel, thus
dividing her into eight water tight compart
ments. Her house was built on the main
deck, and extended from stem to stern, the
upper portion forming a promenade deck.
All the after part nf the ship, from the
engine room, was for the accommodation of
first class passengers, and contained a saloon
sixty feet in length by thirteen feet in width,
and a lower saloon fitted up with state
rooms, and capable of accommodating over
100 first class passengers. The steerage and
second cabin were forward of the engines,
asd well lighted and ventilated. She was
supplied with ten first class life boats, and
her spars, at the time of sailing, were in good
order. Having on board an ample supply
of canvass and being ship rigged, it was cal
culated that she would be able to make good
time under sail, even shou'd her engine or
machinery become disabled.
She sailed from tbe port of New York at
noon on the 25th day of January, just fifty
three days ago at noon to-day. Since leav
ing Halifax there have been no tidings of
her. She had on board 778 bales of cotton,
a large quantity of other freights, and the
Provincial Mails. She was valued at .70.
000 upon which a one-half ritk had been
taken. ,
At the time of sailing she had on board
Captain J. J. llalcrow and about one hun
dred officers and crerv. There were booked
at New Yoik eighty-four passengers, and at
Halifax forty-four, makiug in all about two
hundred and thirty souls on board.
Tho fate of that ship and her precious
human freight has become a matter of ab
sorbing interest, and deep and genuine sym
pathy with millions of people to whom both
crew and passengers were total straDgera.
A strong and noble ship, in whom so many
hopes centered, lost upon the wide waste of
trackless waters from whom no tidings are
likely to ever come to the tearful watchers
in the two hemispheres. Two hundred and
thirty human beings who once trod her decks
with confidence, and who saw the last of
! earth, as the long sea line shut out tho rece
! ding shores of the New World, gone down
amid the terror and fury of the pitiless
storm.
What strange and terrible pictures im
print themselves upon the mind as we try
to fathom the sileut mystery that enshrouds
the fate of the lost ship aud her passengers.
Of her drifting helpless upon the waves,
water logged and slowly sinking, or drifting
helpless upon the breakers and parting her
strong timbers amid the howling of the
winds, the tearing otthe cordage and rigging
and the falling of spars and masts, while the
crew and passengers, struggling and praying
in vain fur earthly succor, are swallowed up
by the seething waves, while the last minute
guns belched forth their closing requiem.
But the other day when the false and
the doubly cruel because cruelly false news
was flashed over the wires that the "City of
Boston" had arrived safely out. at Queens
town, the whole nation breathed free, the
voices of the ragged newsboys along the
streets crying in cheery tones "Safe arrival
of tbe City of Boston," sounded like a sweet
melody, and all were eager to see but ouo
word in confirmation of the joyful tidings.
But with the going down of the sun on the
evening of Wednesday last, perished the
pleasing anticipations and gloomy forebo
dings and thrice dead hope gathered with
the iiht. like a dark pall over tho land, and
a million hearts that were made happy in
the happiness of strangers, whose names and
residences were alike unknown, bled anew
with sympathy for the bereft and thrilled
with Urror for the terrible fate of the dead.
"Lost at Sea!" In all human probabili
ty these three words will alone comprise the
closing chapter of the ill-fated ship. What
tales of bravery, of heroic deeds, loving sac
rifice, noble manhood and devotion to duty,
and prayers, leave takings and death, xare
sealed forever by these three brief words,
that will hold their secret until the sea gives
up its dead, and the argosies of all the per
ished nations are brought to light. Pills
burg Post, March 19.
Toe Pope's Infallibility The New
Article. The following is the full text of
the additional article to the schemata defin
ing Papal infallibility :
"Chapter to be added to the decree, on the Su
premacy of the Iloman Pontiff, stating that
the Roman Pontiff cannot err in the defini
nition of matters of faith and morals :
'The Holy Roman Church possesses the
highebt and complete supremacy and pre
dominance over the whole of tbe Catholic
Church, which she truly and humbly recog
nizes to have received with the fulness of
power from the Lord Himself, through St.
Peter, prince of Apostles, whose successor is
the Roman Pontiff. And as she is bound to
defend before others the truth of the faith,
so also any questions which may arise re
garding faith must be defined by ber judg
ment ; because, moreover, the words of our
Lord Jesus Christ, saying. 'Thou. art Peter,
&c.,' are not to be passed over. These
words have been confirmed by subsequent
events, for the Catholic religion has ever been
celebrated, in the Apostolic See.
"Hence we teach, with the approval of
the Holy Council, and define as a dogma of
faith, that by the Divine assistance the Ro
man Pontiff, of whom, in the person of St.
Peter, It has likewise been said by our Lord
Jesus Christ, I have prayed for thee,' &c,
cannot err when, acting as the highest teach
er of all Christians, he authoritively defines
what should be adhered to by the whole
Church in matters of faith and morals ; and
that this prerogative of the incapability to
err, or infallibility of the Church.
"If any ono should resume to contradict
this, our definition, which may God avert,
lot him know that he thereby falls away
from the truth of the faith." !
Gen. George n. Thomas dicdof .appo
plexy, at San Francisco, on llnndav r,;aht-
last. He was in unusually good health up !
to within seven hours of his death. Ilia re- J
mainB will be interred at Troy, N. Y,
L
We are indebted to De Haven fc Brother,
Philadelphia, for a copy of the Omaha Herald
of March 17, from which we extract the fol
lowing : Phila. Inquirer, 26th.
The Union Pacific Rairoad has won a
lasting triumph in having operated a thous
and miles of line during the unprecedented
Btorm of the last three days, without suffer
ing eerious obstruction from mow on any
part of it. This is the crowning victory of
the continental railway as a winter line, and
not only dispels, finally and forever, the
popular error concerning the mountain snow
fall, but settles the case of malignant rivals
and enemies who have claimed for years
that it could 'not be operated in winter. It
was a writer in the Edinburg Review who
based his main argument in favor of a rival
English line from Vancouver through Ru
pert's Land to Hudson's Buy upon the
broad assertion that the Union Pacific
could not be operated in winter. It is not
a year since Horace Greely arguedfor gigan
tic subsidies to tho Fremont project upon
the same ground, while all the small fry,
croakers of high and low degree, have made
the country ring again with unanswerabe
clamor to the same effect.
The experience of a single winter has set
tled the great question triumphant' fur the
great road. The late 6torm. following upon
several others of singular severity, put it to
a final test, and it comes out of it on the
closing day of the most violent, long contin
ued and drifting storm which this country
has ever known, with a clear track from
Omaha to Ogden. In no caee has a single
train heea blocked by snow. Some of them
have lost time, but all cf them have been
kept moving, and no 6uch thing as a block
ade has occurred ou any part of this thous
and miles of line. Such a victory over false
hood and clamor, and indeed over all other
roads in the latitude, is a glorious and crown
ing one to the Union Pacific, and gives
abundant cause for congratulating the man
agement and the Company upon results
which are worth millicus of dollars to the
road and the country it traverses.
While every connecting Eastern road is
buried in snow and blockaded, the mails
from the East being at this writing three
days behind time, those from the West ar
rive with uninterrupted regularity from as
far west as California.
It would be unjust not to mention in this
connection the. forecast, energy and skill
with which the Union Pacific has been pro
tected' against snow obstructions at its most
vulneiable points, and too much credit can
not be awarded to Col. Hammond, Mr. Mead,
and the management generally, upon results
which prove the Union Pac'fic the best win
ter route in the same latitude in the United
States.
A Sad Stort. A Hartford paper says :
"A sad story of a broken home has recently
been brought to light in this city. A few
years ago Mr. and Mrs. Mich'l Brassil, liviDK
on Russel street, were a happy and united
couple, having five children. Tiie father
was a good workman, in the employ of the
Hartford & New Haven Railroad Compauy,
but some time ago became dissipated and
lost his place. Soon after tbe mother took
to drink ; then two children med ; another
fractured a hip, causing permanent lame
ness, and still another became involved in
crime and was sent to the Reform School.
Last Friday the youngest child was found
dead in bed by the side of its drunken moth
er. The eldest daughter, returning from
school, first made the terrible discovery.
The father, who was working in Middle-
town, was telegraphed for, but nothing was ;
heard from him until lasteverjiog. whec he j
was arrested by the police for drunkenness.
The mother did not recover from her stupor i
till Sunday, and then found that kind S
friends had buried her child. The father is
still in the station house. The mother is
nearly crazy, and the entire family is broken
up."
IIC-BAND AND WlFE AS "WITNESSES.
The Philadelphia Ledger says an interest
ing question was raised in the Nisi Prius,
before Justice Read, during the progress of
a trial. For the defense, Mr. Clayton called
to the witness 6tand the wife of the defend
ant, claiming to examine her under the au
thority conferred by the act of Assembly of
April"l869. Mr. Samuel C Perkins, for the
plaintiff, objected to the examination of the
wife.
Justice Read left the Court, and after con
ferring with the Judges of the Supreme
Court, returned and said : I have consulted
my brethren in the other room, and I find
that the Chief Justice, last week, admitted
a husband to testify for a wife, and upon the
general understanding cf the Court, ve
think that a wife is a competent witness for
the husband, and the husband a competent
witness for the wife. But when put upon
the stand, although she is put there by her
husband, she becomes a . general witness,
and may be examined about anything that
has relation to the case.
Qceer Experience of a German. The
Milwaukee Wisconsin relates the adventures
of a German in that city, who seems to have
had a rather singular experience. As a
train of flat cars was moving out at the rate
of five miles an hour, he attempted to jump
aboard but fell on the track. The first wheel
struck his head and pushed it off against the
snow, but turned his legs across the rail.
The next wheel pushed the legs off and
turned the head on again, and in this way
he kept spinning around like a top, until
the whole train had passed. Some specta
tors ran to the spot, expecting to find a
mutilated corpse, but found instead a dis
gusted Teuton. He said he thought he wa3
under the train about three quarters of an
hour; that at first he expected every wheel
would cut off his head or legs, but he got
accustomed to it, and concluded there was
no danger. Through all bis horizontal som
ersaults, he clung to his cigar, an instance
of devotion to the weed under adverse cir
cumstances, which would be hard to match.
Keeping Lf.nt and Health. Dr. V.
W. Hall, the publisher of Flail's Journal of
Health, in his recently published and most
excellent work on "Health and Good Liv
ing" has the following on the physical ben
efits of keeping Lent strictly, without the
dispensation usually granted :
If all persons for a month in early spring
were to abstain from all meats whatsoever,
as the spirit of the doctrine of Lent requires,
it would add greatly to the health of com
munities by enabling the system to throw
off the impurities of the body acquired by
the hearty eating of winter, would cool off
the heated blood, and thus destroy the germs
of spring and summer disease; and thus it
is that the proper practice of the precepts
of religion promotes not only the spiritual
but the physical health of man. These are
simple measures ; they are practicable, cost
no money, and are available to all; and if
heeded in a rational manner, death would
be kept from many a dwelling, and lifetime
sorrows would be lightened to many bosoms.
Michael Ferguson, who murdered Mr.
and Mrs. Lunger, at Trumansburg Landing,
N. Y.. Saturday evening week, was capture!
on Wednesday night,-at the house of his
mother, in Tiojra county, Pa. He was taken
to Ithaca, N, Y. "
General Hews Items.
A dispatch from New Orleans cf tbe
26th says f Pierre Soule is dead, aged sixty
nine years.
A poor little boy, ten years old, whose
parents are dead, shot himself through the
heart at Portsmouth, Ya. It is supposed
harsh treatment drove him to the act.
-A man has been convicted in Wiscon
sin of murdering his four wives, one after
another, aodjhas been sentenced to imprison
ment for life. There id no capital punish
ment in Wisconsin.
The town clock at Ring Sing struck
twenty-one times at 10 o'clock on Monday
night. Oje poor fellow, who had been tw
see hi friends, counted the stro'ses, and de
clared that he had never been out so late
in all his life, aud he did not know what his
wife would say.
The Scranton Democrat has a report
that the body of one of the Avoudale vic
tims has never been taken from the mine,
and that the subterranean caves of the mines
are haunted by the spirits of those who died
there ; lights are seen and strange aud un
earthly noises are heard there nightly.
Isaac Myers, of Baltimore, a well
known colored man connected with the
National Executive Committee of colored
men of that State, has been appointed a spe
cial agent of the Post Office Department at
large, at $12,000 per annum, and $3 per
diem while traveling. Another nut for poor
white Republicans to crack.
-The Daily Telegraph, a gentile paper
published in Utah Territory, says that tbe
better way for CoDgress to deal with Utah
is to admit her as a State, and let the high
civilization, religious teaching, noble exam
ple, and Christian argument of tbe millions
of the Republic lead the thousands of Utah
to a higher moral plane if they can. Ah! If.
Speaking of the return cf the assassin
Yerger to prison, the Jackon (Miss.) Pilot
says that be rode into town at 3 o'clock in
the morning with an armed body guard of
four men, went directly to the City Jail, and
demanded admission, an undertaking more
difficult at that hour than his very easy
exit. But he finally was admitted, aud his
four friends left for parts unknown.
A bearded girl has made her appearance
at Glade Spring Depot, Washington county,
Va. She is four years old, aud has a mous
tache and whiskers, the hair upon the fore
head extending to the eyebrows. Very
heavy hair, exceedingly black, extends below
the shoulders. The child is sprightly, with
fully developed limbs and well-formed body.
The arms, shoulders, and back are covered
with soft, downy hair.
The New York World, speaking of
Presidential candidates, and the formal an
nouncement of Governor Geary that he is
prepared to accept the nomination, does
"not hesitate to say that should the chance
be narrowed down to one between Grant
and Geary, we rather incline to Geary."
This is about as small a compliment as
could have been paid to Geary ; but how
infinitesimaliy less that paid to Grant.
A letter to tbe Times from an old com
rade of tbe lamented Commander Williams,
of the Oneida, says the first act of the brave
sailor's, life was to pave the captain and
crew of the British ship Cleopatra. This
humane deed va3 dne in 1853, iff St.
John's, N. B., while Mr. Williams was a
midshipman on board the sloop Decatur.
The Cleopatra was encountered in a sinking
condition and Mr. Wilii.irus went aboard of
her and brought off all her crew.
A ghost drove an entire family tnmr.l
tuously from a house in Oswego at a late
hour on Sunday night. After a while their
excitement was allayed, and on investigating
they found that a cow, on a foraging raid,
had made her way into a rear kichen and
inserted her head into aa empty Cour barrel.
The barrel became fast on her horns, and
unable to escape the incumbrance, the terri
fied animal commenced a frantic rampage
about the apartment, with the result above
desciibeJ.
The Brooklyn Eagle says that tbe Rad
icals are delighted with the idea that Revels
occupied the seat of Mr. Jefferson Davis.
Does not Zacariah Chandler occupy the seat
occupied by Lewis Cass 7 Is not Fenton in
the seat of Silas Wright, Dick Yates in the
seat of Douglas, Charles Surnrer in that of
Daniel L. Webster, Drake in that of Thos.
H. Benton Colfax in that once occupied by
Ceo. Clinton and Martin Van Buren, and
Grant in that of George Washington and
Jefferson? Why mention a single isolated
case 1
A blushing black bridesmaid near For
syth, Ga., accompanying her principals on
the wedding tour, was caught stealing a
shawl. Dinah was accused of the theft, and
confessed her guilt, and being desirous of
accompanying the wedding party on its tour,
she prayed that her punishment might be
swift and summary. It was decided Dinah
giving her ready consent that she should
receive the lawfnl complement of forty-nine
lashes. She met ber fate with resignation,
and the party went on their way rejoicing.
No cards.
A strange case of child abduction oe
curred in Chicago on St. Patrick's day. A
little girl, four years old, while playing near
home, was taken off by a young lady. In
the evening she was accidentally found in
the organ loft of the Catholic Church, a mile
and a half away, stripped naked and nearly
perishing from cold. The organist was
about to lock the church, and the child
would have been kept there until Sunday,
and would doubtless have expired. The
cause of the strange proceeding is not known,
but it is supposed to be revenge.
A bill for the enforcement of the laws
in Ireland has passed the House of Commons
in England. Mr. Gladstone admitted its
provisions were strong, and hoped they
would reach the desired point. "If so," he
said, "evils which now curse and afflict Ire
lend would soon vanish, and Parliament
might resume that beneficial legislation on
which alone it was safe to build permanent
hopes for the future." The vote in favor of
the bill shows it meets the wishes of a large
majority of the Representatives of the peoplo
both in England and Ireland. Age,
About five years ago a young man em
ployed as teller in a New York bank discov
ered upon settling accounts one evening that
he was $3,800 short. Not being able to re
place the amount himself he was discharoed
and his sureties were forced to make good
the missing amount. Since then he has
rested under continuous suspicion. A few
days ago some workmen in removing the
desk at which the teller had, formerly been
employed, found a gold check, signed bv
United States Treasurer Spinner, of the date
and amount (reckoning the premium then
obtained) of the alleged defalcation.
Some months ago. a white girl residing
in Meadville, in this State, married a negro
She is now before the Legislature asking for
it divorce, and the bill has passed tbe House.
This is an early specimen of the effect cf
Radical teachings in regard to negro equal
ity. Unions between the races will take
place, then will come disgust and aversion
to be followed by such action as that chron'
icled from Harrisburg. These occurrences
will lower the standard of public and pri
vae morals, but, if the Radical party can
gain a few votes by pandernig to the negro
movement, they will continue to urge the
colored column by all th means in their
poirer. sigc, .
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TO CASH PCRCfiir. . t5T
Til. SSIEHBJJiRt ,
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My stock crnsibta in part cf ctp-v
Tin, Sheet.ironJ7ii
COPPER AND lUUS-inyn-
BXAMF.LI.ED AND PiAIv"
SAUCE-PANS. BOILEBS i
COAL SHOVELS, MIXE T
CANS. llOUSLFURN ISIIIq pf.
WAliE OF EVEaY KIXa
f ntai'i r
HEATING asd COOKING rr
NOBLE, TBI UMPH Avr PApSj'
I NO STOVES K 0
And any Cocking F to ve rWrs -
when ordered at manufaeturt.V.."
Odd Stove Plates and Grate '
pairs, on hand for the StovrS j t v'.f"'
will be ordered when wanted. p'J"
attention rr'-., .
Spouting, VaHeys and Conda-
all of wh:ch will ho. m,' ,
- 'H OI
rials and put up by competent
Lamp Burners, Wick andOu
n MUI.LSA1.K OR F.ETAIL
I would call narti.-nlfir B'n, : - .
House Burner, with Glass d-n
I T . - At
jTiunS';u turner, I. t Crude 0"1
SUGAR KETTLEsXnD CAULH
of all sizes constantly on Lti
Special attention riven to
Jobbing in Tin, Copper and Sh
at lowest potaiUe r&tw.
Wholesale Meeciiams' L?.
now ready, and will be sent t,n aj. -.
by mail or in person. "
Hoping to see all mv c'd r!K-.
manv new ones this Sr.r.i- I r"-
most sincere iiiaiiKs !r the vry !;hr.
tronage I have already reaiVcJ.
endeavor to please a!! wLo kv a!',
tr tutry vuy or nou
Johnstown, March 7. m:.
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The undersigned respectfullv J
citizens of Ebensbarg and fhe'j u't'.ril
ally that he has n.i le a reit rt-.iu::-
prices to UASII BIAERS. My-
consist, in part, of Coding, Per', r c-j
mg Sloves, t f the most pn-.u'ar k:c'.
trare of every description, of c.y.r.:
utacture ; HarJicare of a. I k::.i, s.:
Locks, Sciews, Butt Hires, T.iV.tl
Shutter Hinge?, Bolts, lr n scd V.V
d.nv Glass. Putt-, Table Knivoani?
Carving Knives and Frkf, M.a:C"
Apple Partrs, Pen an 5 T-.tkc; K
frreat variety, Fcissor.. fi.ea!. J(az
Strops. Axes, Hatchets. H.:twt..!
Machines. Augers. Chiss'.s, T):j
passes, Squares. Files. lfa.r, Ann
j Wrc-nehcs, Piip, Panel and Cr-C;V
Chains cf all kinds. Shovels, S'.fc's.r
and Snaths, Rakes, Fork. :
Shoe Lasts, Peps. War Bnst . C
j Wtlngcrs, Grind Stones, Pater: Si
i Gates and Measures, Lumber S:: ;'.
Nai-s, Horse Shoes, Cast Steel. Kr"
Guns, Revolvers, Pistils, CarT-. '
tier. Caps. Lead,' a-c. Oil S;-..
Grates and Fire Bricks, tTtlla:!'
Pumps and Tubing ; Harness nnik
Ttr . f '1 1 rr- . .7 .. 3 IT,".'
ure oi mi siuu ; tn-uen am ml, i
in creat variety ; Carbon Oil arid ft'!;
Fish on i.r.i nsi r.?pp,i ri l1-;
: Oil, Rosin, Tar, GKssware, ra:r:?,T.-
es, Turpentine. Alcohol. &c.
FAMILY GROCERIES
such as Tea, OflVe, Sugars, M
ups. Spices, Dried Peaches. P-ricU'
Fish, Hominv, Crnckers, Rvfar:.
Parley: Soap's, Candles; TOUA'Xi
CIGARS; Paint. Whitewash, ScraM
Shoe, Ousting. ans;sh, ttwcU-'-t
Tooth Brushes, all kinds snd 's
Cords and Manilla Ropes, an ! r!"
article at the lowest rates f r C.i
lid-House SDoutina made, ram't-
up at low rates for cask- A lil tfvf
maae to country aeaicrs n;--v-r
wholesale. GE0.RO.
Ebensburg. Feb. 23. lSG'-
MOW "
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By C. W. DICKERMA.N, Hen. CH-"
and other i radical
Nearlv SOU pipes Cn fne ciiP-;.
?0U Dices On fne CAtir
:pre?sly for this work, trea:(
n tpe, and will be illu-'t"1 '
:NGRAYJ'G3 bjS.iUi'-
and open
FIXF. EN
Al?o, a splendid colore-1 fruit Ff.;'
eighteen specimens of tbe cli. ""
fruits, colored, from life.
In Ungllsli and Ccroia
THIS BOOK is a sure,
guide to every Farmer, Stock L1 " -;r.
er and Fruit Culturist. Uv it m.1.
their profits each rear, and Fril,y"
value of their land. It mukeit-'.
rich. It makes hard work eii-tf- ,. .
the labor of honest working n?-,.' v
chased bv almost every on '
6t)U copies sold in a lew sn:.!.1""':.,,
and, in many cases, hundred i ,
Agents can find no better
time. Farmers and tbeir sens c
S100 per month by selling on!? u....
copies per day, while more t1si
number can easily be sow- tifc:i
make the most successful as-j.
and now is the proper tune to i
If vou wi.h to engage in ibe
circular containing a full c)jl,
oook and terms io Se,"'v-r.n,Cv
614 Arch St., Phil.. 1'-. "
cionti. O.. KJ Monroe St-. j i
51)3 N Sixth St , St. Lo.
St., SprirffeJ.', Mass.J-W
on. the guliM-ribcr would r.
citizens of Ebensburg DjM,k:cd
the
that he i prepared to U urni.. ff
COPPER and biitr. ,
own manufacture, which M '
-f rr.Wt ia make and m
fcMisre.pectful.y
no fear but what I cn
to all who f me w'&'.'rxiRl-
mr rviiTM? -ND
1 WARE-Havi.e
and fixtures of Mr. T. s.:
the build ins: recently occup.eu .
as moderate in price ?-Tr
anv manufacturer m Uia tir-e? .;' ,d
tenitou paid to nak,ag .nd k; - ;onC;J ;
Tvrs ,.r .li kinds. An exam;n , j,
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Ebensburg, Aug. 15t"
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