JU i JSneijl , Cumbria Freeman, EDEKSBVIIG, PA. Tucrsdat Mokklso, Aran. 28, 1870. A OOJ.oaKD STATRSVaN who assists lo IE4 ktot; Uwt fur the trAite fro of Mississippi, answers to the sweet sounding name of FFAiu& Simmons, when the roll of the Bobm U called by tbe clerk. Jcdox WoorwiiD has publicly announced tbat he will not be t candidate tor re-election to Congress from the Luzerne district. Be la gentleman of great ability, tad of anblemlshed personal character two qual ifications not possessed bj many of tbe men who now make oar law. Whin Judge Woodward retiree from Congress, Pennsyl vania will loa ber foremost representative. AluaT0 Cotoos bas published a lorg aod aelf-glorifying letter. In which be retj forth direr weigbty reasons why he cannot and will not again be a candidate for Con gress. Ho man in tbe United States, cot Yft excepting that prince of fools and dem agog oe, Qeorge Train, CTer compressed in the space as ranch loyalty, bombast, egotism and nonsense as baa the illustrious CoTodr lo this letter. Great is the Diana of tbe Spbesiana. Soxx weeks ago, tbe Supreme Court of the United States, In the case of Hepburn ts. Qriswold, decided that contracts made before tbe passage of the legal tender act in February, 1862, are payable In coin. After tbe recent appoint ment of Messrs. Strong and Bradley as Associate Justices of that Court, an application was made to the Court by Mr. Hoar, tbe Attorney General, lo have tho case reargued. This motion was grant ed, and tbe general impression was that by tbe added votes of the two new judges the former decision would be reversed. On yes terday week, however, the Court decided by a nnanimons vote that the case should not be re-opened, and the former action of the Court therefore stands as the supreme law of im land. It decided the two following principles : First. That contracts made before the pas sage of the Legal-Tender act are payable In eoia. even although no special reference -was made in the bargain as to the methods by which payment should be made. Second That all contract made after the ptsag of tbe Lgal Tender lair, by which it was specially agreed thnt the debt should be parable iu cola and not In currency, must be paid in coin. The Wmi or Johnstown. We publish e!se where a most singular con troversy between Daniel McLaughlin. Esq., and tbe Hon. Cyru9 L. Perching, growing out of the late abortive attempt to remove the evunty seat from this place to Johns town. It seems to us that Mr. McLaughlin evinces an undue amount of personal resent ment, not to say fully, in his effort to hold Mr. Pershing responsible for the failure of that Quixotic project. Nor do we clearly perceive how a letter written by Mr. Pershing to a member of the House, but which was tuctr dJivertJ, could acomplish juch a fatal result. In his simplicity, therefore. Mr. Mc Laughlin Is wonderfully mistaken when ha adopts the thjo:y that it wss Cyrus L. Per shing who struck the immortal Billy Patter son. The bill itself contained within it the elements of its own destruction. It was a monster of such hideous mien, that reckless and corrupt as was the last House of Repre sentatives, there was a profound depth of Infamy yawning before it, in tbe passage of thla measure, from which it instinctively re ooiled. Although it was fatally bent on the perpetration of the most shameless legisla tive iniquities, yet whon this removal scheme stood before it, in all its naked deformity. It waa forced to exclaim with the affrighted Macbeth to tbe ghost of Banquo, "Take any other shape than that!" Mr. Perching is. therefore, guiltless of the deep damnation of its taking off. It fell, as it ought to have fallen, from its own inherent weakness and injustice. A xxw scheme is before the present eco nomical Congress, with a fair chance of suc cess, by which it is proposed to take from the treasury tbe moderate sum of one hun dred thousand dollar, to begin with, to send out Capt. Hall, with the necessary vessels, etc., to explore the frozen regions in the direction of the north pole. Wherefore and for what beneficial purpose? Certainly not to discover the exit-tance of a Dorth-west passage, for that problem has been definite ly aolved, both by Sib John Fbasklin and Capt. McCliktocx. To the commercial world tbe discovery has been, and forever will be, utterly useless. This one hundred thousand dollars might as well be sunk in the Arctic ocean, as squandered in a fruit less effort to enable Capt. Hall to reach the opeu polar sea." England, after spending millions cf money and hundreds of brave men, has ceased to prosecute this expensive and profitless bus ices. Is it not the ex treme of folly for our government to renew these useless expeditions at an enormous drain on tbe treasury 1 But this administra tion is in pursuit cf glory, at whatever cost, and as it is not likely to acquire very much cf that article inside of the United States, it is doterrx.Ir.oJ to try its hand in the highest northern latitudos, amongst po!ar bears and the Esquimaux. With the purchase of San ..Domingo and Hayti the annexation - of : Cuba, Porto Rico and the Feejee Islands, (Mr. George Winters, tbe Envoy or Minister of these Islands is cow in Washington to finish up this little job.) the acquisition of Canada ami tbe Hudson's Bay territory the cutting of a ship canal across tbe Isth mus f Darieo, and Capt. Hall's expedition to tbe Uorth Pole -who will not repeat the stereotyped boat of Radicalism, that this is "tbe greatest and freest government" the world ever saw. The accomplishment of all these things U our manifest destiny, regard less of expense. pebt up IJUca contract our powers- Tt w facie bcuuttesa cvste&t u ours." Govcrnmcat In the Sooth The most monstrous evil growing out of the reconstruction policy has been the sadden elevation to places of high honor and die tinctioa, Id tbe Southern States, of raea who are alike unworthy and incompetent for a proper discharge of tbe duties of thetr posh tioni. This state of things has been the natural and inevitable result of the disfran chising provisions cf the third section of the fourteenth amendment, as well as tbe en forcement of the test or iron clad oatb, but more especially of the adoption of negro suffrage and its legitimate consequence, the right to bold office. Under the white dis franchising process of Radicalism and tbe enfranchisement of the slaves, the intelli gence, culture and wealth of the South have been banished from her Executive chambers, her legislative halls, and her courts of jus tice, and ignorance, corruption, and worse than all, carpet bagism, have been installed In their place. Of all the States that composed the South, em Confederacy, only three of them have State Executives who were born on Southern suit and who bad a fixed and permanent residence there. The rest are geverned by needy adventurers from the North, having in most instances been connected with tbe Freedman's Bureau, and who reached their present positions by tbe force of bayonets and by pandering to the worst passions and prejudices of tbe negro. In the legislative bodies of the Scuth but very few men are to be found who are native and to the manor born, or who, by reiderce. bad identified themselves with Southern interests. They are composed mainly of the alimy, scheming carpetsbagger and the ignorant, uncultiva ted negro the former intent only on p!un der, while the latter seeks merely the glory of holding office, ignorant alike of its duties and responsibilities. While Northern legis latures are proverbially venal, the same bodies in tbe South are equally as corrupt, with tbe superadded enrte of being shrouded in utter ignorance aid imbecility -that of South Carolina containing eighty odd mem bers who can neither read nor write. A majority of the Governors of the reconstruct ed Stat en have been openly charged by their own partisans with the most stupendous frauds and peculations upon their respective 8tate treasuries, while others have becu threatened with impeachment for gross mis demeanors in office. North and South Carolina, Florida. Goor gia, Louisiana and Arkansas have presented a wide field for the innate cupidity and offi cial rapacity of euch corrupt creatures as Holden, Reade, Bullock, Warmouth and Clayton. The Judiciary of these States has not escaped this frightful upheaval of igno rance and incompetency. Men without ability, experience or character have been elevated to the highest judicial Beats. A Judge of the Supreme Court in South Caro lina has the same duties to perform that are required in a judge of the same court in Pennsylvania, and ought to possess the some legal training and experience. And yet in that State, under the new order cf things, the disgraceful spectac ie bas been presented of a Pennsylvania negro, who never tried a cause in a Court House in his life, reaching at one bound a seat on the bench of her Su preme Court. We publish below a biographical sketch of this negro judge, taken from a recent number of Harper's Weekly, an intensely Radical sheet, which of course presents tbe subject in its most favorable aspect. We will not discuss tt. The mere reading of tbe article affords its own best cornmontary : Judos J. J. We oht, or South Carolina. The Hon. J. J. Wright recently elected to a seat in the Supreme Court of South Caroli na, whote portrait we five on page 149, was born in Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, and is cow about thirty one years of age. When he was about six years old bis parents removed to Montrose, Susquehanna count, in the same 6tat, whete for several years be attended the district school during the winter months, work ing for the neighboring farmers the rest of the year. Having saved up a small sum of money he entered the Lancasterian University, at Itbiaca, in New York Slate ; aad after a thor ough course of stndy there returned to the villag where his parents resided, find entered the office of a law firm, where he read law for two years, supporting himself bv teaching. He subsequent! v entered the t-ffice of Judge Collins, in WilKcsbarre, Pennsylvania, wiih whom he read law for another year. Feeling himself qnalified for the leal profession, he now applied for admission to the Bar; but so great was the exis ing prejudice, against col ored men that the Committee refused to ex amine him. In April, 1865, he was sent by the Ametican Missionary Society to Beaufort, South Caro lina, as teacher and laborer amnner the fr ed it) en. He re in dined in Beaufort until after the Civil Rights Bill bad passed, when he returned to Montrose, Pennsylvnnia. and demanded an examination. Tbe Committee found him Qual ified, and recommenced bis admission to tbe Bar. He was admitted August 13, 1665. being the first and only colored man ever admitted to practice law in Pennsylvania. In Anril. 18(56. he was appointed by General O. O. Howard. legal adviser lor the freed men in Beaufort, and acted in that capacity until he was elected to the Constitutional Convention of South Care lina. He was soon afterward elected Senator from the county of Beaufort, and acted as such until Kebrunrv 1, 18T0, when he was elected to the Supreme Bench of the State, and immedi ately entered upon the discharge of hia duties u Judge. A Carpet-nagger Floored. A piece of Radical bread fell quite unex pectedly on tho buttered side a few days ego in Congress. Louis St. Martin, Demo crat, was elected to Congress from the first Louisiana district by the trifling majority of 12,327.. A carpet-bagger by the name of J. Hale Sypher, who for some unknown reason is styled General, put in proposals, in tbe approved Radical form, for St. Martin's seat. ' The sub-committee on elections of course reported in favor of Sypher, and the Radicals of tbe House adopted the report. The Speaker requested the uow smiling and jubilant Sypher to come forward and take the iron clad oath of office. The valiant General did so promptly, so far as the mere stepping op in front of tbe Speaker's chair was concerned. But now an unexpected crisis arose in Bypher'a political fate. Hie loyal right band was uplifted, but the welcome catll t4 sot yet ta repeated by tbe ek ' er. uss at mis juncture jut. wwib, t w ical member from Illinois, moved a reconsid . . ... t . W . t - MM si eration of the vote admitting Sypher to bis j eeat, wbieb was carried by a Tote of 85 to 79. Then Mr. Fitch, Radical, of Nevada, whose tense of decency and political justice revolted at the enormity which tbe Radical leaders were about to perpetrate, followed up tbe game and offered a substitute for the original resolution in favor of Sypher's ad mission, declaring that there had been no valid elcctieain tbe district, aBd sending the whole case back to the people for a new election. This resolution was adopted by a vote of ICO to 69. As to Mr. St. Martin, we have no doubt that be yielded to the infliction with Demo cratic fortitude and Chiistian resignation. He was in the position of the man who, hav ing failed to draw a prize iu a lottery, de clared that be bad not been disappointed, for be expected nothing. But who shall do justice to the crushed hopes and wounded ambition of General J. Hale Sypher. They may be faintly Imagined, but can never be adequately described. Sypher is a Peunsyl vanian and U a special pet of Forney. We trust that the voters of the first Louisiana district will re affirm their former over whelming verdict against him, and again return Louis St. Martin to tbe seat from which he has been so unjustly excluded. The Philadelphia Inquirer (Radical.) ?n an article denouncing this msn Sypher for attempting to smuggle himself into a sent to which be had never been eleeted, uses the follow'rrg sensible language : "Let ub hope that Mr. Stfber will be the last of the carpet baggers. Let us hope, too, that the South abo.ll be to enfranchised by a general amnesty that it can select its own peo ple to represent it upon tbe floors of Congress. What does a Pennsylvanian know of the polit ical economy of Louisiana 7 Who can an alien represent there ? The interests of that State are altogether divergeut from those of Penn sylvania, and they thould have an exponent and defender in the councils of the country thoroughly conversant with them. Reconstruc tion will prove the shallowest fraud in exis tence while citizens of the North pretend to legislate for those of the late Confederacy." A Hoxribli Stort. Small-Pcx Among the Indians. Commissioner Parker, of tbe Indian Bureau, bas received a letter from General Alfred Sully, Superintendent of the Montana Indians, in which he reports that the ravages made by the small-pox among the Gros Ventres and Assiniboin tribes have been so gresU as to almost exceed belief. By General Sully's letter it appears that since last September to the first of February, when the smallpox broke out among the Gros Ventres, there have been 741 deaths, which leaves only about twelve hundred of this nation alive. What makes this calamity still more to be deplored is, that, of all the Indiaos in Montana, the most friendly towards the whites and among the Indians most disposed to accept civilization are the Gros Yuntres, and they have suffered terri bly. I am informed at one time that deaths at the agency were so rapid that tbe few men tb?re could cot dig graves fast enough. They had to fill up the ice near the forts with tbe dead and then cover them up. It was fortunate that the weather was cold, otherwire it would have beeo necessary to abandon the agency. It further a pears that when the disease waa at its height those suffering with it would prevail on their friends to carry them from their huts into the open air. where they would crawl to the river side and remain fur hours immersed in the ice-cold water. The consequence was that many took cold from tha exposure and died in frightful torment. Others commit ted suicide to escape further suffering. The locality of the camp was made known by tbe cries of the sick, which could be heard a long way tff. Under the superstition common among the Indians when greatly afflicted by disease, one cf their medicine men was killed to propitiate the offended deity. Tbe scene for long weeks was ap palling in tbe extreme, and it was only through the exertions of the physician and the few citizens employed for the purpose that the ravages of the disease were checked. The late action of the commissioner in send ing out an abundant supply of vaccine vi rus, it is thought, will prevent the recur rence in future of such terrible mortality among all the tribe. Washington Corres pondence New York World. Jpril 18. Tub Death Penalty. M. Jules Simon, in a recent t eech delivered befcre the French Corps LegUlatif, gives some striking statis tics which afford a strong argument in favor of the abolition of capital punishment. He said, that prior to 1789 there were in Eng land 240 crimes called capital. Now there are only two: treason and murder. Still, cases of crime of every kind have diminished in cumber. In France corresponding results have been observed. But the most striking facts cited were from tne experieuce of some of the smaller States of Europe, in which capital punishment has been wholly abolish ed. In the Grand Duchy of Weimar, the death penalty was abolished in 1849, but re established in 1856. In 1862, on a prop osition to abolish it again, a deputy in the Diet declared that between 1849 and 1857, when there was no death penalty, only two murders were committed, and after that they increased tenfold. So it was again abol ished, and remains so. In Belgium, where the death penalty is virtually abolished, crime has ercatly diminished. In the prov ince of Liege, Limburgh, and Luxembourg!), there has not been ao execution since 1850, and the accusations of murder are very rare ; for example, between 1832 and 1835, there was one at Bruasles, in a population of 125. 000 ; one at Ghent, in a population of 86.000 and one at Liege, in a population of 66.000. The inference to be drawn from the facts stated is that crime is checked by the cer tainty of punishment, and not by its sever ity, criminals relying uron the sympathy of jurors and the possibility of pardon from merciful rulers in cases of capital punish ment. While a wholesome dread of punish ment by imprisonment, which is more certain to follow crime, is calculated to deter them from its commission. General McClellan arrived in Bedford, on Tuesday of last week, and stopped at the Men gel Iloute. The distinguished visitor' presence brought quite a crowd in front of the hotel, who' were anxious to get a peep at "Little Mac," tho hero of Antietam. "After partaking cf dinner the General, and tbe gentlemen who arcompanied him, drove out to look at the valuable mineral lands in that neighborhood. Their visit was one of burineta connected with the proposed ereo- tion of furnaces about Bedford. -Kow that tbe Fifteenth Amendment has beon declared ratified, tbe Judiciary Committee of the Senate is engaged in pre paring a bill to enforce its provisions in the Eeveral States. In this manuer conpolidation if being made familiar to tae people. THE BURSTED BUBBLE, The Removal Question in a New Shape A Second Daniel Come to Judgment I, Who Killed Ceek Rotln-Who Saw - Ulna Die AA Hew Hit Tragi Fat AVava Broaght Abant, From the Johnstown Democrat.) Daniel IucLavghlih, Esq Dear Sir. It is currently rumored in this place that one of the persocs who ostensibly acted with the friends f the fceature for the removal of the seat of justice Irom Ebensbnrg to Johnstown, secretly joined tbe enemy and aided ic defeat ing the bill, and that you have the evidence of the same iu your possesion. As all who took an active part in the removal are suspected', we deem it but an act of justice to ourselves and the public, that the wan who would thas betrav the conldence placed in him by the people shouhi be known. We therefore ask you to have tbe evidence published. (Signed) James Potts, John F. Barnes, Cyrus Elder, Jas. McMillen, Gea Engelbach, S. B. McCormick, John Hannan. B. F. Speedy, Wm. A Lego, Samuel C. Williamson, P. O' Conrell, . W. McGarey. G. J. Thomas, Ro nald Walker, Alex. Miller, M. W. Keiro, Geo. Fockler, John Sharp. Samuel White. Charles Samuel. Ebenezer Liu, John M. King, Cyrus I art, H. A. Boggs, John J. Murphy, A. Kope lin. Dan'l McDonald. O. B. Elli, N. B. Hart zell, George McLaue. Mathew Mooney, John W. Seigh, C. Weaver, H. B Barnes, Wm. R. firubb, George Shaffer, M. L. Levergood, J. W. Haynes, J M. Fockler, T. Fockler, A. Fockler, J. M. Fredericks, Jas. H. Howard. Johs6Towh, April 14, 1870. To Messrs. Potts. Kopelin, Hannan, Barnes, Ellis, McLane. Levergood.Fockler, Mooney, O'Coimell, and others : Gentlemen: Your request is of such a character, that I would not feel at liberty to withhold the evidence which is in my pos session, on the subject you refer to. It is certainly right and proper that our people should have the privilege of scrutinizing the conduct of eacl an J every gentleman who acted as a committee in endeavoring to pass the bill for the removal of the ccunty seat from Ebeneburg to JohnstowD, and indeed of every person who took an active part in the measure. I present to yoa, therefore, a copy of Mr. Pershing's-letter, accompanying my statement, fur publication, or such use as yon may think proper to make of it. 1 would have published this letter, with a full explanation u tbe subject, sooner, but I preferred to let tbe excitement caused by the defeat of the bill in some measure subside, notwithstanding the outrage perpetrated ou myself, not to speak of that committed on our people, is perhaps without a parallel. Had the personal, professional or political rela tions existing between Mr. Pershing and myself been of an unfriendly character, this cross outrage, making me the dupe aod tool to execute as it v.ere the death warrant cf oar peorjle, would not have canted me so much pain. I pass over this, however, for the present, and proceed to give you as full a statement and history of the matter as I doubt not will enable our people to form a correct judgment and pass their verdict ao cordirgly. It is proper to state in tbe first place, in order that all may correctly uuderetaod tbe sublet, that Mr. Pershing took ao active part in the passage of the bill up to the time it came before the house. lie attended our mcttiags and on mere thau one occasion epoke warmly in its favor. He gave me, previous to the bill co.a.iog np oa a hearing before the committee, two letters to personal frienas uue a prominent n.emter of the Democratic side, the other a leaiiing niembt-r on the Republican side of the House. These letters were, as such letters should be, in opeo envelopes. After the bill parsed the com mittee of the House, Mr. Pershing signed the petition favoring its passage. He went to Llarrieburg with MeesrB. Bggs, Campbell, Barnes, and myself, as a committee to advo cate its passage, on Monday the 28th of February. It was expected to be on the Private Calendar on Tuesday following, but did not come up on that day, as no Private Calendar had been made up by tbe clerks, hence it lay over until the following Tues day. Mr. Perthing and I remained until Tuesday evening, when we returned, leaving Messrs. Boggs. Campbell and Barnes bdhiod. They returned on Friday night, and on Sat urday morning informed me that some of the leading members in favor of the bill instruct ed them that it was of the utmost importance to get Mr. Pershing there on the next Mon day, to see four of the Democratic member, whose names he gave. I saw Mr. Pershing on this subject, but he informed me that) he was compelled to attend cou-rt at Ebeosburg on that day. When I reported his reply to Messrs. Boggs and Campbell, they requested me to get letters from him to thi.se four members and take tbem with me 011 the 5 a. m. train on Monday. I promised tlx-m I would do so, and called on Mr. Pershing fur that purpose. Aa there were two of the gentlemen with whom, as he stated, he had DO acquaintance, I did not insist on him wri ting to them, but took letters tu Messrs. Brown and Schnatterly, the other two mem bers named. I was somewhat surprised, when he handed me the letters, to find they were sealed. I did not like to intimate to him, however, that this was wrong, lest he might suppose I had no confidence in him being with us. He merely told me the sub 6tat.ee of one sentence in the letters, which I repeated to Mr. Barnes a few minutes after wards, and which was as follows: "Tbe naked proposition to move the county eeat might at first sight seem inequitable, but the clause submitting it to a vote of the peo ple would relieve it of that feature." I delivered Mr. Brown his letter either on Monday evening er Tuesday morning. I learned shortly after my arrival that Mr. Schnatterly had paired off on our bill with a member in favor of it, and had gone home. On Tuesday morning we endeavored to see as many members cf the House before tbe opening of tbe session as possible. General Campbell aud Mr. Boggs exeited themselves on the Republican side and I on the Demo cratic side. We noticed Mr. Brown exerting himself with tbe Democratic members, as we hoped then, in our favor, while we knewthat Captain Porter was then laboring bard with both sides against ns. It is due to him to say. however, that be did not deceive us. He gave us fair notice that he would do all in his power to defeat the bill. I saw the great er number of the Democratic members, but could get nothiDg definite or favorable from them. Several of them inquired of me if there was anything political in it. I replied there was not that both parties in our place were almost a unit in favor of it. 1 was then asked the question bow it would affect our party politics in the county. I replied that I thought it would strengthen our party in the south of tbe county. I also told tbem that Mr. Pershing, who had been our candi date for Judge of the Supreme Court last fall, was in favor of it that his n.me was to the petition that he bad given me letters to members on the subject, and that tSey would recollect the fact that he had been with ns as a committee on the previous Tuesday. To all this they made no reply. . I then informed Boggs aod Campbell that it waa made a political issue on the Demon cratio side, and that they would find the members on that side would be almost a unit airllnof if TKaa AA nnt lfim t DM unit agahst it. Tbey did not seem to agree uu mo in tv.ia Tt kh ahnut this time 1 thought of the Schnatterly letter. It was obtained and purported to be for onr benefit, so far as MY. Pershing had made known its contents, hence it would be as available, I had no doubt, with any of the Democratic members as tbe one to whom it was address ed, if not much more, for we all knew that Mr. Schnatterly was one of the leacmg mem bers against us. not only on this b'ftl, but also on the bill lor general jurisdiction. I would now be able to counteract the move ment8 of our opponents in making this a political measnre. It was thus I reasoned. aod felt at the same trme cnagnnea mi did not think of nriog this letter sooner. I immediately tore it opea. but to my surprise and amazement found every Hne and sen tence of it, as yoa will readily perceive, against us. I put it back in my pocket, but said nothing at the time to Messrs. Boggs and Campbell, more than to repeat the warn ing that ihe Democrats would be against us. It was about this time we got a despatch from Johnstown informing us we were old. The bill cane up and was laid aside, almost every Democrat voting against it, and Mr. Brown exerting all bis ffforts to have it killed. Mr. B"ggs and I theu met in Gen. Campbell's office. As was nataral, be was excited at the result and at the contests of the despatch from Johnstown. It was clear t' him that it was one who pretended to- be with ua, and who was in our confidence, that betrayed in. He then, in a somewhat excited manner, asked for the Schnatterly letter. He re marked that it was ours and we mast see it. I replied that there was no difficulty about that, and handed it over to bim. We did not let it be'known to Gen. Campbell until ten o'clock that night. I shall not attempt to describe the feelings of wrath an indigna tion which be manifested. He remaiked that bad an angel appeared In bim and told him that it was possible for Mr. Pershing to do this, he would be loth to believe it. He insisted that I should have it struck off in handbills, as soon as I returned, and posted in every public place in Johnstown and the adjoining boroughs. I refused to do this. and remarked that, notwithstanding I had thus been stabbed by my friend, I would prefer that my own reputation might in some degree suffer than that, under the state of excitement which would be caused by such a disclosure at that time, unpleasant results might follow. 1 requested both of them, in the meantime, not to reveal the name with out my permission. I felt it my duty, how ever, a lew days alter my return, to let tne members of the committee and one or two others see the letter. Tou have now the history of the matter, so far as the letter is concerned, in as brief a statement aa I could give it with any degree of satisfaction. I am, very respectfnlly, Tour obedient servant, D. McLAL'GHLrK. fCorflrtentUl. Johnstown, March S, 1870. Hon. T. B. Soh.nattislt : I have been strongly importuned to go to Harrfcburg on Monday? but as our court meets at Ebentburg n that day, I have re.'uff d to go to Harrisbuig There is nothlrg more dita? te Jul to me tan the business of button holing members for their votes. The bill (or the removal of the county peat from Ebeneburg to Johnt-town will be on the calendar lor Tupsdav. I have been strongly pressed to write 'o you, in the event of my not going to Hairisburg rcyself. The naked pro position to remove the county se.u would be inequitable ; submitting it to a vote of the peo pie may relieve it of this feature. Ua tbi sub ject you must get all the light you car. ana then vote as your conscience tells you is right Beyond this I bare 00 demand to make or fed vice to give. The couctv seat here would be a great ad vantage to us in some reppects. Many of our Democratic friends fear, however, that there is something political concealed behind the move inent. Could 1 have a personal interview I could more tully explain myself and the sub ject. 1'lease regard this as on riDEVTr al. Wishing you success in your legislative ca reer, 1 remain yours, very truly, Cykcb L. Pebshikg. To Ail Wrii It Mat Cokcers." Having learned that an atiack was to be made upon me through the Democrat, under cover of a communication signed D. Mc Laughlin, I requested of the Messrs. Wood ruff a proof" of the aiticle. in ordtr that my reply might appear in the same issue of the paper. The very limited time afforded me between the reception of the proof sheet and the publication of the Dtmocrai, com pels a hurried reply. Mr, M-cLaughlin manifests great indigna tion in hia article. That this is assumed to divert attention from his base conduct, will be plain to every one who koows hiw. The sent-e of delicacy which restrained him from publishing a confidential letter till called on by a suspected committee is exquisite. How a letter entrusted to bis care for delivery to a gentleman in Harrisburg, and which Mc Laughlin admits he did not hand over to the party to whom it was ad 'ressed, but which he (McL ) opened and still retains, could be the "death warrant of our people." I will allow bim to explaiu when he ia relieved of the "so much paia" with which be is now afflicted. If the opening of a private letter belonging to another party revealed to him that he was a "dupe and tool," all he has to do in the future, to avoid such unpleasant revelations, is to keep his itching fingers from opening letters that do not belong to him. I deny, however, that I made bim or that he is my "dupe and tool." . I have no notion of introducing a new subject of con troversy with my assailants by claiming their property. " Mr. McLaughlin's whole communication is nothing but a piece of special pleading, intended to shield bim from merited odium. In it he labors to make it appear that' two letters which I Wrote at his special solicita tion viz; . one to Mr. Schnatterly and one to Mr. Brown were th means of defeating the bill for the removal of the county seat. The charge is wholly without foundation. Mr. McLaughlin admits that he did not deliver the letter entrusted to him to Mr Schnatterly, but alleges the absence of Mr. S. as his excuse. The fact is, Mr. Schnat terly waa in Harrisburg for several hours after Mr. McLaughlin reached there on the 7th of March, and Mr. McL. could have de livered the letter, and potsibly would have done so, had it net been, as I have good rea son to believe, previously opened. Mr Brown received the letter directed tn bim He was an opponent of the bill, and I have incontrovertible proof that he was uledeed against it before I went to Harrisburg on the 28tn ot reoruary. o iittl did mv let ter suit Mr. Brown's position on the ques tion, that he wrote to me shortly after the dfeat 01 tbe 0111 : "i never even informed any one that 1 got a letter from you." To claim that these letters defeated the removal is absurd. Mr. McLaughlin refers to the bill intro. duced at tbe late session for the extension of the jurisdiction tf the Dtetrict Court. I re garded the passage of that bill aa absolutely necessary if the court was to be of anv wr. vice iu the trial of oivil cause, and so wrote to the chairman of the Local Judiciarv. Gen McCreary. My letter waa read during the aifcussion oeiore toe committee. This bill I was negatived upon the ground, as reported " k ptliiat f - I. - t . r ... that it prqTidexj for the ekotioa of as addl- :rtn1 set of officer. Fllowlcg thw was tbe bill for the removal of the county seat from Ebeneburg to Johnstown. I went to Harrieburg n Monday tbe A8tb of February, bat Dot as Mr. McL-states with Messrs. Boggs, liarncs, troputi. uu u it self They were all tnree in auvauuo ui uij arrival. It was expected the bill would be en the Private Calender the next day. I went of my own accord, ana was no cmu missoDcd by any meetir g or party. I fouud soou after reaching Iiarrislurg that were was no chance fur the pasFRge Ol me u u. the House. We all agreed that should the bill come befoie the House on Tuesday, it would be overwhelmingly defeated. Every Democatic member with whom I conversed - inund with the belief that the otject of the bill w political, aod I was atsured that the authorship of the bill was aitriouieu to the Cambria Iron Company, and that in formation bad been received that nearly every Democrat in southern Cambria was opposed to it. Others, and of both parties. argue that the county seat would be of very little advantage to .fuhnstowu ; that we had the immense iron works, and that our town was growing and prosperoun ; that the pas sage of tbe bill would.be fatal to Ebenslurg. and ruin every property holder there. A map was produced which was intended to show that Johnstown was so far r. moved from the north aod east portion of the coun ty, that the people frrm those wcticna would be compelled to travel more than one day to reach the county 6eat, if located at JobnB towrt. To this the reply was, The bill refers the whole question to the people : Why not let them oeclde 7 The answer was. that this was fair on its face, bEt that if the bill was pasted the Iron Company would easily coirmixe votes enough to defeat the 6oncr fide residents f the coun ty. 1 suggested to a prominent Republican of tho Huwi a proviso, which, if inserted in the act, wuuld, I felt confident, insure a fair election. His reply was that be was unal terably opposed to the bill, and that H defeat was certain. If needed, I could bring abundant evidence before the public as to what I said and did while at Harrisburg. but my assailants admit that I took "d active part in tbe passage of the bill op to the time it came before the House," which was tbe wt-tk following. How the impression which prevailed originated I do not know. The fear of colonizing might possibly be traced to borne of tbe political speeches of Mr. McLauglin, ia which, as heard by hundreds, hedeeounced 'the min ions of Daniel J. Morrtll. ho were coloni zing votea.in the rftill and in the miDes." and execrated the "perjure.! scoundrels who were engaged in the business of fraudulent It has not escaped the notice of the public that some of the parties of nhbiu Mr. McL thus spoke are now his intimate fiitud.s. (?) Mr. McLaughlin and I left Harrisburg 011 the ibt of. March. Mr. B'g;js Hated ho would remain "to watch Barker." Cm my return 1 informed our people tl at unless a change was effected at Harrisburg before the following Tuesday, when tLe bill would come before the Ii-jue, it would be defeated. I was afterwards requeued by Mr. MtLauh iin to return to llarribbuig on, Monday, the 7th of March, but my engaiienieijis at. court precluded my going. I iurihe-r said to Mr. McLaughlin that :t was useUs to spend time with the Legislature, units a couiul;t change had beeo made in tbe mine's of thu ! members. Mr. LIcLauLliu theu Lauue l me the names cf four taetiibers, aith a n quest that 1 should write to tbem. I informed him that with two of those on his hat I had iu squaintance; that I knew Mr. Brown very j well, and my acquaintance with Air. Schtiat . ,. "f . . 1 .-, . r , t inner, i;u n.u uuiii iu.i.i.t, terlv was so vtry slight that 1 did D"t feel i r . 1 - 11. v , . "V .- I Central avenue, pocc'el tof-J.J at liberty to write to h.m cu the surjtct. I , . 0 f..., ?; ... . . . . I where her eon Jsrrea.8 vm; : M,- JU. aitiiatgiiiiu :tq-irtivu 10c iu jiie iu Brown and JSchnatteriy. It wr.s a request made at au improper time, and to which I t ii . 1 --J.1 j:j 1 t-nouia not nave yieiaeu. t uiu, nowever, write the letters aud hauded them to Mr. McLaughiiu, taking care at the same tirue to explaiu the coctentsjf not a single sentence as Mr. McL states), of the SSchDutterW let ter. As Mr. McLaughlin states, We all kuew that Mr. Schuatterlv was one of the leading mutbers against us not only ou this bill, but ako on the bill tor general jurisdic tion ; and it was in view ot thm lact. and cf the Etate of things as they existed ic liar risbnrg. that 1 wrote this letter, which had such terrible icfiutnee, that although Mr. Schnatterly has tuner seen it to this day, it was the "death warrant of our people," . "stabbed" the honorable gentleman who opened it, made him "a dupe and fool," and gave bim 'much pain." Did evcroue short letter accomplish more 1 My information as to the time when, and the place where, Mr. McLaughlin opened Mr. Schnatterly 's letter, differ very widely from the statement he has given. Time will settle which of the statements ia correct. Naturally. Mr. McLaughlin desires to make tbe best defence he can for himself. I cannot believe that General Campbell is fairly represented in Mr. McLaughlin's state ment. Honorable men are usually indig nant again Bt those guilty of a breach f confidence, not azaiust their victims. I am at a loss to Cud anything in my letter which warrantR the tragic scene in tbe Surveyor General's office, as described by Mr. McL. General Campbell cannot be ignorant that the defeat of the bill extending the jurisdic tion was charged to him by some of tbe very men whose names appear to the call ad dressed tu Mr. McLaughiiu, as well as by others, who, for prudential reasons, have kept their names from appearing. It was alltrged that Messrs. Campbell and Barker had entered into a political alliaoce. and that part of the contract was that General Camp bell was to secretly use bis influence and position at Harrisburg to defeat the Johns town court bills. Gen.C. may be loth to believe an angel, when in the company in which Mr. McL. places him, but be certain ly knows that some of the same parties who now assail me, but a short time ago were fluent in their assaults upon him. He has this advantage over me, however, that if he wrote any private letters, be was more for tunate in his messenger than 'I was. If Gen. C. really did propose what Mr. McL. states, there was the "wisdom of the ser pent" in the advice given him not to attempt it. "Unpleasant results" might have fol lowed to somebody, and as there may b some doubt as to whom,- perhaps it is not yet too late to try the hand-bill experiment, and test the "results." My assailants unwittingly fully explain tbe agency by which the county seat bill was defeated. . Mr. McLaughlin states that Captain Porter labored hard with both sides against us. 0 "He gave us fair notice that he would do all iu his power to defeat the bill." Every one conversant with legisla tion knows that on ail purely IocrI questions tbe wishes of the member representing them are respected. Mr. Porter, aa I was inform ed by Messrs. Boegs and . McLaughlin, bad gone to members of the House, aud person ally appealed to them to assist in the defeat of the bill. He was assisted by an influen tial delegation from Ebensburg. All these things are ignored by my asailaot8, who falsely charge the defeat cf the bill on a letter intended foi the eye of Mr. Schnatter ly alone ; a ccr.Ec'ential letter, the contents of which an honorable gentleman like Mr. Schuttterly vouW cot have indulged. Tbe and the few hor.wt owa wbotCl.T'? deceived, ean see how Frou have b en misrepresented. 1- when it wtuid beCeiivered u 'P whom it was addressed thac!- town wonM be presented &tw7 hearintr 'both sidr. v . J . c- . a. ieve, j, roe that the envelop t!rg tuJT mucilage (not "sealed") adteri-j be made tbe pretext bv a Ofck.. , orable profession for tearing it or I do not agree with the . the letter addressed to Mr. Hell'"" "all who took an active part the removal are eusi.erto.' them are. and have . ' a -ikT b.ea " V-t doubt true. If thpv in picions which surrncd thtm It Li duced Mr. McLaughlin to rob'JUa V infamy, they are excee-'inffi. L t . ic, r,.i .... will leave t'je public to ctcice j t ct tta weeks i'8bt to traduce r anv fairer refutations than 1 . .n ones which by tl,;r written cr.t,.'. are not prompted bv some other d-C" a cenre to auvance tbe lLtert r iv. munity. Ciars L. General N?vrs Item, Captain Eyre, of tts Boat,. have to fsce a formal tri.! ' . "r hi- id tnfiaru. ruoiic str.nntct j;-. mi8takah!y in that direction. Th last Ven ftnrr t . - - J v ' 1 i I t'. eonuty. 111., wLere a Ln hid egg. r.i 1 hue rpps fsftened to encb.:'- The wife r.f a rtspectab'e i:vr 01 uuuaig ia oten COI.D0M to fatj j, sickr es for a few days, a&d dmi:j riod of her illness the idea- euterl fe. that her bab. a girl onh nine wtt. so nrmiy esuoiunea in tier brain ;L ana to avert tne calamity, seiid is on Saturday night, and ttranj'u; death. A curious carard In elrcnlstiy ada. and has been teWraphtd be-, Toronto. It is to the effect tbat lu' States government has ccTmnnic; lynuiiuii'u 1111 mm; mat 13a ItZJ moving, that there is uot s a2hea:. of military ou this siffe toi.hetk tbtcj that were arns trusted w the rci iu would use them in the Fenian cuc . this disquieting tale is goir.g the rx.. the Canadian pres. ,rder hiTebcisi. from Ottawa for the withdrawal uf sit nnteers from the front, "do troubk if,-. IDg to exist tl.erp." Tbe Irish FvTCo !a- r i.y nf-J subiiiijsifin on tt.v Irish, lit ht. j reported to be unsi:i'!v active. ures have been rrare t v t:.c '.wl1 ol I' and i.sl.er w a the men who material. Kvea in List) make CaraJa 'irrvr L' fS.:hteufil an obii. xi'-ns :wi death. The Pall Ma'.l Giztiit Ul particularly severe on tha g!U., putt drawn croa itso'f threa w t- vengeance. Ite protne:.'TS :.t the poiire for p'otactUT., ajil 1 L'itT patrols the r-igf'bcrh;Kfi of the '0:.j ly. If the Fenians soccet-a a n-v.a they keep the BritUh i.aiU-r., imfct; of the water, iu a consul ttaietiu A ?icxssiyo IJ'B.Ra. A !or:!U- iv occurred in lia t.nnr tuuLt i i P. M. on Thursday a'telCCCE I Othtnre Al-nrsh. r-Mi:B :it. :M father nrd fi n r t citintr riiU.i:!?. i . .... pupil. She raPed him iito trMi'i him behind ashed atd tl.rr. rbt with a knife, ttl.ich she b.-rnwi ; minutes before f.-utn simp. Ffe homo hurriedly, and there k';tri'-' piaining children. tVil!:ni. tt! J ,; Mary, aged 6 years, an Gwji j years, in-like manner. All tr-e f-1 appear to have xp'r?j a'nW 1 The poor crea'rre rext attacif-d J mrtber. Mrs. Nel'it; Dwver. wbi h irjurid and cannot recover. At !. er's ir. quest the te'inv ry weit k that Mr. Marh is hne!es.-ly ir.: parted with her husband a'-t"r' on account of religious d Cl:"" murdered children were bunJ it rick's (Catholic) cemetery oc S:ur. 1870. APRIU in 1 1 11 tarn t i " OF THIS SPRING TR10 READY-MADE CI Hi WANAMAKER & BB TOIS MOTlI, orax TO TBI rtorit in GRANDEST STOCK or FINE CLDTHIEG PaRMlS THAT OAK HALL HAS EVER CON Since last F-U we hare m" lots adjoining us, od hve er an iron front buildihg.quli " j iner BuilJicg, making IIH JC Mail IWIIO 3 in orJer to accoow- .. PEC 1 GRE4T M bS w " who have become our tri 9 cufI!;i We Invite all our their neighbors and lrieu. - . visit, to eximiue our -irl MAMMOTH BUHE' our ana to i3i' - AiurimnTH STC IT 1 ryiiiui" Trrr,o maker & &c I 1 V CXL C14K HL .,r CLOTHING ESTAbLl Nos. 53i. 1 H Hot. 1.3.5.7.9.11 y8 rti u?0 IT
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