u - ! Cambria Freeman. 1 . . . . : EBEXSDIJIIQ, PA. Tucrsdat Mobnino, : Due. 15, 1870. IVemoeratle fi tutorial Convention, The members of the Democratlo Editorial Association of Pennsylvania, are requested to iiMt at the "Bolton House," Harrfsburgr, on Wednesday the 10th day of January next at 11 o 'clock, A. M. Punctual attendance la re quested. Those editors who were not present at Altoo na when the Association waa organized, are cepoctfuHy requested to be present at this meetln. J. ZIEQLER, Pres t P. GHAT MEEK, Seo'y. Tbe President's Message. One might as well expect to gather grapes Of thorns, or figs of thistles, as to look for any broad and statesmanlike views in a Message, or any other State paper, emanat ing from the present incumbent of the White Ucuse. The Message, in the language of "the New York Sun, a Radical paper, ' is a poverty-stricken document." Stung to des-. peratioD by his recent humiliating defeat in the Southern States, Grant sets out in his Message with the following flagrant perver sion of the truth : "It is to be regretted that a free exercise of the elective franchise has, by violence and intimidation, been denied to citizons in exceptional cases in several of the States lately in rebellion, and tbe verdict of the people has thereby been reversed." Com ing from the source it does, this broad and sweeping declaration is decidedly cool. Who was it that by "violence and intimidation" interfered with the free exercise of the elecU ire franchise at the late election in North Carolina? It was this same U. S. Grant, when he sent large bodies of U. S. troops into that State to overawe and terrify the people in the free exercise of their opinions. Who committed the same outrage in tbe city of New York at the November election ? It was U. S. Grant. Who quartered troops at the election polls in Florida, Alabama, and other Southern States at the same election ? It was U. S. Grant, who now seems so deep ly concerned about the purity of tbe ballot. Who only a few days ago ordered troops into Georgia, to intimidate the voters cf that State at the coming election and to sustain his friend Bullock, who is the vilest fraud that ever disgraced tbe Executive chair of any State in the Union? Where is the evi dence upon which Grant bases this charge of "violence and intimidation," on the part of the people of tbe South ? There is none, nor can any be produced. So far as Ala bama is concerned, there is a direct question of veracity between Grant and Gen. Craw ford, who commandod the troops in that State at the late election, who knows the truth whereof he affirms, and who has do clarod that the election was fair and peacea ble. And yet Grant charges an outraged people with the very offence which he him self has openly committed. It was to be expected that after the Bignal failure cf the San Domingo job last summer, at tbe hands of a Republican Senate, that corrupt scheme had been consigned to well merited oblivion. But the prize is loo tempts ing to be lightly abandoned, and Grant sur passes all his former efforts, in his advocacy of this venal project. He calls it "a great prize' just as Seward, his illustrious pred ecessor in the purchase of real estate, styled the acquisition of barren, sterile and frozen Alaska. To Grant's vision everything in San Domingo, the land of caulattoes and chronic revolutions, seems lovely and of good report. Have the people asked him to acquire it? lias it ever been made a test question at any general election, as the an nexation of Texas was in 1841? The treaty between him and Baez having failed of a ratification by the Senate, he is now in favor of a j jint resolution of Congress to tflect the same purpose. The Senate committee on foreign affairs, a majority of whose members are well known to be hostile to the scheme, will effectually checkmate Grant in this plundering job and give San Domingo, in any shape it may assume, its everlasting quietus. These are the only two features of the Message to which we have room this week to refer. Hon. Samuel Gbi7fitu, the newly elect ed Democratic Congressman from the Mercer district, is a native of Wales, having been born in that country in 1816 and emigrated to this country with his father and the other members of the family in 1818. His father was a miner and worked at that business for a number of years in Mercer county. At the age of 20 Mr. Griffith left his father's residence fcr the purpose of acquiring an education, and in 1842 graduated from Alle gheny College, at Meadville, with high hon ors. lie became principal of the High School in Mercer, studied law and was ad mitted to the Bar of that place in 1846. As a lawyer, Mr. Griffiith occupies a front rank in his profession. In 1849 he was married to a sister ef Gen. Hem by D. Fostkb, of Greensburg. Mr. Griffith's majority in the district was 769. Two years ago it gave a Radical majority of 1812. He revolution ized his district even more thoroughly than Mr. Speer did our own. In this portion of Cambria county, where the natives of Wales aod their immediate decendents form so large a portion of our population, a Welsh Democrat is regarded as a great political cu riosity. A Welsh Democratic Congressman is certainly a flat contradiction of Solomon's declaration, that there is nothing new under the son. At the meeting of the Democratio State Cential Comraittee recently held at Altoona, Mr. Mntcbler, tbe Chairman, was instructed to issue a call for tho next Democratic State Convention to nominate candidates for Au ditor General and Surveyor Genera!, at some time between the 4th cf next March and the first Tuesday in May, aa he may deem most expedient. It was decided to hold the Con vettirn at Earmbarg. The Representative delegate froca this county is Mr. James Jusg, of JohsrtowB. HeW Mexico and Colorado. According to good Republican authority. there is now in Washington a delegation of government officials from New Mexico.whose business it is to procure the admission, dar ing the present session of Congress, of that Territorv as a State in the Union. An effort will also be made for the admission of Colo rado. During the administration of Presi dent Johnson he very properly vetoed a bill for the admission of the latter Territory, but as Grant has shown himself to be merely a willing instrument io the hands of Congress to register its decrees, no danger of the exer cise of the veto power is now apprehended. It is a rare thing that the people of a Ter- ritoiy desire to change their relations to the general government and assume the duties and responsibilities of a State organization. The reason is obvious. While they are in a territorial condition all the expenses of the government are defrayed out of the National Treasury, but the moment they are admitted into the Union the taxes are enormously in creased and bear heavily upon the scattered and sparse population oi the new State. Some of the men who are pressing these pro- ects are ambitious of becoming Governors of the proposed new States, others United States Senators, while a majority of them would be content to serve as Congressmen. In 1869, at the election of a delegate to Congress, New Mexico polled 14,407 votes, only 1,481 more than double the vote polled in Cambria county at the President election in 1868, which was 6.493. In 1868 the vote of Colorado was 8,107, only 1,674 more votes than were cast in this county at the same election. The combined vote of New Mexico aod Colorado in 1868 and 1869 was 22.684, In 1868, at the Presidential elec tion, Lancaster county polled 24,305 votes, or 1.671 votes more than the vote of both these territories put together. In 1869. Montana polled 9,350 votes, or 1.1S0 more than Colorado did in 1868. But no Radical members of Congress would ever think of voting for the admission of Montana, for the simple reason that it would be a certain Democratic State. The Radical party Is rapidly losing the power which it has eo long and so flagrantly abused, and therefore as a matter of party necessity, four more Radical U. S. Senators must be obtained by tho creation of two rotten-boron gh States out of the thinly pop ulated rogions of New Mexico and Colorado. Is it fair is it just is it honest that these two Territories, when transformed into States, with a population less than that of Lancaster county, should wield the same political influence in the Senate as New York and Feuu6ylvaDia, with more than tight millions of inhabitants ? And yet this is just what the Radical majority propose to do. ' The proposition is monstrous and ab surd, and without the shadow of a reason or an excuse. Graot has set his heart on a re-election, and feels that ho cannot succeed without some special political good fortune. New Mexico and Colorado, with their six electoral votes, might possibly, although we do not think they would, save him from being overwhelmed in the coming political storm, and hence the determination of his friends to put these two Infamous jobs thro' Congress may be regarded as a foregone con clusion. Wheu it is done, it will be a shame less, unpr.rallekd outrage a low political device to bolster up a tottering administra tion and to thwart and nullify the influence and will of the old and larger States in the Senate. Judos Goldtuwaitk was last week elect ed United States Senator by the Legislature of Alabama. He is a Democrat and a man cf commanding ability, and was formerly one of tbe Judges of the Supreme Court of the State. He will take the place of Warner, Radical. Warner is a carpet-bagger from Ohio a State remarkably prolific of such men and through the disreputable agencies. so well known to that class of patriots, sud denly luomsd up as a grave Audpotent Sena tor. Alabama has vindicated her integrity by repudiating this Ohio importation and electing a gentleman who has resided in the State for forty years, and who will faithfully and intelligently represent the interests of his constituents. It will be the duty of the next Democrat ic State Convention to nominate candidates for Auditor General and Surveyor General In connection with the first named office we have seen suggested the name of John Hodo sos, editor of tbe Jeffersonian, published al West Chester. We have known Mr. Uodz son for twenty years. He is a gentleman of ability and culture a fearless and coura geous Democrat and is concedeJ by all who know him to be a man of unquestioned in tegrity. The Convention might go further and fare a great deal worse than nomination John Hodgson. He poseesses in an eminent degree, all the requirements for a faithful and emcient discharge of the duties of the office Jocknalistio. The Pittsburgh Post has the honor of being the oldest Democratic daily paper published in the State and un der the able management of it-a nmnriof.o Jas. P. Barr & Co., deservedly enjoys a high reputation, not only wih the Democracy of thia State, but of the TJninn. W K .. - -w i itjijr recommend the Fost to the patronage of Democrats wno desire a cheap and reliable city journal. Phe onlv Democratic nnr nuk at the State Capital is the Daily and Weekly Patriot. It is conducted with marked abili ty and with a fearlessness and independence i. . . . wnicn command eenerai commendation. t will contain a full report of the proceedings of the Legislature, the approaching session of which promises to be of mora than nri. nary interest. As the central organ of the a !. -3 II party n aeserves iu ce weu sustained. Amowo the biographical sketches of the members of tbe next Coogr8, now being published in tbe Pittsburg Post, is a very faithful pen picture of the new member from this district. It. Milton Speer, Esq., and which we would bave published this wesk had not the paper containing it disappeared from onr office before we had time even to lead it. We shall lay it before our readers next week, The Reigning Family. I. TJlyssus Simpson Grant, President of the United States. II. Jesse Root Grant, President's father, Postmaster at CoviDgton, Ky. III. Frederick Dent Grant, President's son. cadet at West Point. IV. Orvil L. Grant, President's brother, partner with the Collector cf the Port at Chicago. V. Frederick T. Dent, President's father-in-law. claimant of lands at Carondelet, Mo., euclfered by Wilson, Commissioner of the Land Office. VI. Rev. M. J. Cramer, President's brother-in-law. Minister to Denmark. VII. Able Rathbone Corbin, President's brother-in-law, negotiator of gold and real estate speculations with James Fisk, Jr., and Jay Gould. ' VIII. Brevet Brigadier General F. T. Dent, President's brother-in-law, chief usher at the Executive Mansion. IX. Judge Louis Dent, President's broth-er-iu-law, counsel for claimants before the President ; fees estimated at $40,000 a year. X. George W. Dent, President's brother-in-law, Appraiser of Customs, San Francisco. XI. John Dent. President's brother-in-law, only Indian Trader for New Mexico, UDder Indiau Bureau; place worth $100,000 a year. XII. Alexander Sharpe, President's brother-in-law, Marshal of the District of Colum bia. XIII. James F. Casey, President's brother-in-law. Collector of tbe Port of New Orleans ; place worth $30,000 a year. XIV. James Longstreet, President's broth-er-in-law'8 cousin, Surveyor of the Port of New Orleans. XV. Silas Hudson, President's own cousin, Minister to Guatemala. XVI. George K. Leet, President's brother-in-law's cousin. Public Stores, New York; place worth $100,000 a year. XVII. Orlando II. Ross, President's own cousin, Uitts. m inira Auaitoi s omco, Washington. XVIII. Dr. Addison Dent, President's brother-in-law's third ousin, Clerk in the Register's office.Treasury Departinent.Wash- iDgton. XIX. J. F. Simpson, President's own cousin, Second Lieuteaant Twenty-fifth In fantry. XX. John Simpson. President's own cou sin. Second Lieutenant Fourth Artillery. XXI. George B. Johnson, President's mother's second cousin, Assessor of Internal Revenue, Third District, OLio. XXII. B. L. Wyman8. President's cousin's husband, Postmaster of Newport, Ky. To be Sold at Osce. Twelve thousand locust clubs. Three thousand handcuffs. These articles are not second handed, but are perfectly new, never having been used in any manner' whatever. They were pro enred by that excellent citizen and patriotic gentleman. Marshal Sharpe, to be used by him in subduing his fellow-citizens at the ladt electioo, but on the eve of the election Governor Hoffman made other arrangements. And now these auxilaries of a free and en lightened government are totally useless to the present owners at least for the present, and they cannot afford, to have their capital therein invested lying idle waiting for an other election to come around. Marshal Sharpe, and the "beat goverement the world ever saw" are unusually and ex tremely anxious to realize immediately upon these articles, and they will be disposed Jof at ruinously cheap prices for ca6h. The cash is needed at ones to pay about eleven thousand ex-deputy marshals who performed heroic services on the day of election, but who have never received oue cent for their teivicis, notwithstanding nearly three weeks have eiapsed. It is to be hoped that some loyal and pa triotic citizene, some of those who poured out their money so freely during the war, will rush to the rescue cf the government in this serious emergency. Come up, now, gen tlemen ; make application at the office of the United States Marshal. Do not hesitate. nor be afraid, for these are good articles to have on your hands, and the sale will be peremptory. Who bids 1N. Y. Democrat. Aftbb. a fifty seven days' incubation. Judge Pierce, on Saturday, hatched out his long expected opinion, discharging Alexan der W. Crawford from all legal responsibil ity, for killing John C. Nolen. Even the offence of carrying concealed weapons, which, one would think, wa3 sufficiently proved before his Honor, did not prevent an absolute discharge. The legal doctrine of tho opinion may be condensed into "shoot ! shoot!" It was tbe author of that doctrine who was, in fact, on trial, and the coat of white-wash, which Judge Pierce has been so long in mixing, was intended for his Im perial Highness, the King of the Ring. We find a fitness in the title, from an analogy that often strikes us. between American Radicalism and French Imperialism. The latter's last triumph was the free discharge, by a partial tribunal, of the Imperial Prince. who shot an editor. The downfall of the whole dynasty followed. We accept the omen. Age. General Grant is but the agent of a New Yoik Company, in the effort to annex St. Dommgo to the United States. The capital of this congregation of brokers and jobbers is said to consist of twenty shares, at $15,000 each. To this company, all the mineral lands, mm privileges, and prospect ive town sites in St. Domingo have been granted. They also have the monopoly of DanKing, of building railroads, and of run- niDg steamboats, xhey are authorized in the event of annexation, to survey the whole pulic domaiu of the Republic, and to have one fifth of the same by way of compensa tion. This one-fifth they are to locate for themselves, in any portion of the island se lected. With such a fine bargain in pro- .? . f i . , , spective, u is no woooer tne scheme is pushed upon the attention of the Senate with such pertinacity. The dividends will be large. and hence the interest felt in the movement at the White House. Age. An Extkaobdinart Bkidqh. Bethle hem has a remarkable bridge. Beinz 1.250 feet in length, one end is in the borough of Bethlehem, the other end in the borough of South Bethlehem. While the ends of the bridge are in Northampton county, the mid dle section is in Lehigh county. It passes over tne .Lehigh Uoal and .Navigation Com pany'a canal, the Monocacy creek, the pub lic road leading from Bethtehem to Taylor'B Mills, Goat Island, (being an island formed by a creek and a river,) tbe public road leading from Allentown to Hellertown. the river Lehigh, six tracks of the Lebigh Val ley railroad, and Front street In the borough of South Bethlehem. Rev. Father Duggan, pastor of St. Pat rick's (Catholic) Church, at Augusta, Ga., died on Monday evening week. Ho offici ated at church on Sunday Ja apparently god health. On Monday evening, however, while sittiog in his arm chair he was seized with heart disease and died in a few minutes. War Nw8. War news from Franoe is amazingly conflicting. The Germans claim decided advantages in all the late actions.- A telegram sent by King William to his faithful Consort says : "Frederick Chaaries reports the complete defeat of the Army of the Loire in the battle of Monday, in which the French had tbe Twentieth Corps, prob ably the Eighteenth, and portions of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Corps engaged. A thousand French were dead upon the held, 4,000 were wounded and 1,600 taken pris- oners, Ueuerai u'Aureiies is reported to do wounded. Tbe German loss was 1,000, among them few officers." On the contrary. the French General Chaugy reports that "on the 9th instant an attack was made all along the lines from Meung to St. Laurent Des Bois. Last night and to-dny tbe principal effort of the enemy was at Beaugency. The Germans were very strong at that place, having no less than eighty-six cannon. Their forces consisted of two divisions of Bavarians, one division of Prussians, 2,000 cavalry and a strong reserve under the com mand of l rmce Frederick Charles and the Duke of Mecklenburg. The enemy were, repulsed, and driven beyond Grand Chartres. We sleep to-night on the positions we bad this morning. The prisoners taken ac knowledge that the Prussians suffered heavy losses. Tbe battle lasted till night." This would indicate that the French army is still in a fightiDg condition, and able to deliver blows and win victories. It is said that a division of the Prussian forces is marching in the direction of Havre, for the purpose of isolating that part from Parts and cutting off the supply of arms from beyond the sea. If this is done, it will be a bard blow upon the French. The investment of Paris still continues, and no sorties have been made since the fight led by General Ducrot. That General failed to pierce the Prussian lines, but inflicted heavy losseB upon that portiou of the army which bore the burden of the onset. It is reported that Paris has food enough for three months. But this cannot be told. Age, 12th. A Rai cf Blood. Tbe Sulphur Springs (Texan) Gazette contains the following tuot remarkable communiction : Knowing that you are not given to sen sationalism, I take this method of giving to the public an item, the truth of which I can testify as an eye witness, as can also some others living in the neighborhood. On last Sunday, the 2d inst., about eight o'clock in the morning, some six miles south of Sul phur Springs, when not a cloud was to be seen to dim the blue vault of heaven, fell what can be but termed a rain or shower of blocd, which lasted 6ome eight or ten sec onds. Its district was quite limited, and it fell in specks about the size of squirrel shot, and in density about one hundred to the size of an ordinary plate. This shower was witnessed by Mr. Bussy and famity, who were seated around the breakfast table in the yard, at the same time before stated, when, upon a sudden, came pattering the drops of blood upon the dishes, victuals, and all around. Mr Bussy immediately sect his little son for me, whose clothes were bespattered with blood on reaching my. house. An hour elapsed, probably, before my reaching the vicinity, yet the leaves, grass and table bore tho distinctly visible marks cf blood. No one in the vicinity can give an explanation of this mysterjous affair. I leavo this mat ter for the scrutiny of science and the light of revelation. C. J. dcllivan. A similar event happened in Tennessee about twenty years ago. Since then snakes and frogj have fallen m various localities. Victob Emanuel and those haviQg ccn trol In Rome, endeavor to make the outside world believe that the Pi pe is unmolested in the exercise of bis office, and that the Church in that city is the special object of their care. Ilm is not true in an' partic ular, according to tbe latest aud most reha ble accounts from the Holy City. The most outrageous conduct is manifested openly and daily toward all reighous mon and women. Schools, are closed, churches pro faned, private bouses entered and plundered. and the lives of all those who profess attach ment for the Pope threatened by the crowd of desperadoes aui ruffians who entered the city with the invaders. All communications to or from the Holy Father are read by the local anthorities, and every possiole tneaus of anoyance and insult are resorted to, to render his situation intolerable. Yet. ho is proclaiued free to exercise his great office by those who have made it impossible. Pitts burg fost. A murder of unusual atrocity was per petrated near .Now Bedford. Mass., week Vefore last. The victim was Benjamin How ard, eighty-two years cf age, who had lived alouo more than forty years supporting him self on a 6niall farm, and receiving an occa sional visit from an aged sister. He had been missed for several days, and upon secrh being made bis mangled body was dfscovered near a newly made hole or grave, a few feet within a wood. Charles Clupp, a negro boy, fifteen years of age, has been arrested, and has confessed that he murdered the old man, assisted by John Pettis, an other boy about his own age. who has not been arrested. The motive of their deed was robbery, and the amonnt obtained was $60. A singular fact is noted in connection with the burning to death of the family of four persons near Markleville., Juniata coun ty, last week. The victims, when seen through tbe flames in which tho dwelling was wrapt, lay in bed as if they had made no effort to save themselves. At the inquest physicians stated that before suffocation by smoke would take place there would be a struggle in an effort to escape, and the same thing would occur as soon as they felt the heat from fire : yet these four persons ap peared In the same position they would naturally bave taken in falling asleep a fact that gives rise to the suspicion that the fam ily was first murdered and then the house set on fire. -A high-handed outrage was recently perpetrated in Butler county, Kansas. On the 8th day of November a mob executed four men on the charge that they were horse thieves, and, as the authorities exerted them selves to detect tbe authors of the crime, four men, who would have been important witnesses against them, have since been ban ged, althongh charged with no crime. Offi cers Bent to arrest parties against whom warrants had beed issued have been seized and confined in the guard house, aod now it is probable that nothing but the presence of troops will be able to awe the miscreants into submitting to the law. A frightful accident ocenrred in a fac. tory at Birmingham, England, on the after, noon of the lltb Instant whereby nineteen persons were killed and over seventy wound ed. The building was blown to atoms. The greatest excitement prevails throughout the city. The explosion of gunpowder was the cause. The particulars of the disaster or origin of the explosion have not been as certained, owing to the gTeat confusion surrounding the scene. Kctts and Political Items. Austria haa addressed a fresh note to the great Powers, urging renewed efforts for peace. It is said there are not ten Irishmen in Ireland who do not think of coming to Amer ica sometime or other. Dnriae one of the recent sorties from Paris, four sons of a merchant of that city were killed by one Prussian shell. Pine- township, Mercer county, has a model young man. He walks to Mercer nine miles on Saturday to get shavd. Mr. Headricb. of WyhtevUIe, Va., has invented a six-barreled gun. which may be fired tour hundred times a minute bj simply turning a crank. Twenty-five thousand Catholics turned out in Buffalo, on Friday, to testify their aoDroval of the Pope's protest against tne occupation of Rome by the Italians. Indians are muraermg auu ruuuiug men in Arizona, the Apache-Mohaves beiDg the euiltv parties, while the Pina Indians act in concert with the white settlers. John H. Surratt, in a lecture delivered at Rockville, Md., denies any connection with the assassination conspiracy, but ad mits having conspired to abduct President Lincoln. Last week at Lexington, Ind., Mrs. Matilda Brown got a divorce on Tuesday i- irrj J-.. evening, a marriage license on utuuenuay morning, and before dusk was off on her bridal trip as Mrs. John J. Keede. General Butler is to introduce a joint resolution this week in the House, to cover the new Presidential policy on the San Do mingo job. Grant backs up Butler In Can ada, and Butler is to help in San Domingo. Shelby ville, Tenn., already famous for having produced a double-headed calf, is credited, on the authority of ex benator Patterson, with another monttrsity. in the shape of a double-headed child, born a few weeks since. The Butler Herald says that a large meteor was seen to descend on Sunday at uoon. near the corner of Mr. George Krugh'a house, exploding before reaching the ground. It had the appearance of a large silver ball, somewhat elongated. A jury at Waverly, Iowa, has decided that Miss Isabella Smith's feelings were in jured to the extent of $18,000 by one John l. Uampbell tnroupn nis lauure to marry her. She claimed $20,000, but is doubtless satisfied with the verdict. The Greenville Argus says it has it from reliable authority that Samuel Young, of Sugar Grove township, this county; raisd this season, on one acre cf ground, two hundred aad nineteen bushels of ears of corn, by actual measurmeut. Lloyd Brittton, colored, charged with killing Jacob Bay. a German, was convicted of murder in the first degree, at Wiliiams port, on the 7lh. The murder was commit ted on the evening of the 16th ult. A new trial has been granted to Britton. --The Salem, O., Jlepublican boasts of a subscriber, Mr. Barclay Uarrle, who has reg ularly, on the 5th day of December, for twelve years, called at the office and paid his subscription in advance. On tho last occasion he brought a new supscriber. John P. C x, General Superintendent of the Pennsylvania and New York Central Railroad Company, died suddenly on the 7th inst. of appoplexy, while in the discharge of his duties. He was a most laitntui and ef ficient officer and will be much lamented. A young man named Jolin David was shot at Erie. Pa., on Friday atternoon last at fifteen minutes past six by a desperado named Jake Gabel, and died about nine o'clock. There is ereat excitement in the city over it. The murderer has teen arrested. The project for a railroad in Westmore land county from Ludwick to Mt. Pleasant, via Stanton, is azaio revived. A committee of citizens has been appointed to confer with the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and learn what aid they may expect from that quarter. Somebody quietly dropped a one bun dred dollar greenback in the money bag, at ona of the Wellsburg. Ohio, churches, on ThankseiviDS Day. He has the satisfac tion of hearing his homo paper say that his eift was either a mistake or "conscience money." A. Rowland Kightlinger was killed on Saturday last at Hydetowu, three miles west of Titusville, by a gun in the hands of a man named Turner. The fire-arm in said to have heen discharged while the deceased was attempting to wrench it from lurner. Both parties were drunk. A child was recently born in the family of Mr. Biddle, near Mexico, Indiana, having six fiingers on each hand, six toes on each foot, and very much deformed about the face, beine destitute of any upper lip, or gums in front of the upper jaw. It is said that the child still lives. The Lower HoUBe of Congress has promptly passed a bill abolishing the frank ing privelege, and the matter is now in the hands of the Senate. It is to be hoped that a proper bill for the reformation of the abuseB connected with this system may bo put through during the present session. John Hanlon, covictod in Philadelphia of the murder ot little Mary Mohrman, was sentenced to be hanged on Saturday last , the Court having refused h.m a new trial The prisoner made a violent speech accusing the officers who testified against him of per jury and asserting his innocence of the mur der. The body of a child, 13 years of age, was recently taken from the place where it had been buried in Lebanon, the head and upper part of the breast being completely and perfectly petrified. This strange phe nomenon has excited considerable interest and curiosity among scientific and medical gentlemen. At Niks, Ohio, Thomas Ryan, a tinner. while at work a the tower of a new school building, slipped and fell to the roof and then to the ground, a distanco of seventy feet, and was not killed. He alighted in a sitting posture, and with assistance arose and walked a few steps. His injuries were internal and not dangerous. The most perilous feat that has been attempted in Harrisburg for some time was the climbing of the flag staff on the dome of tbe capital, by a man who ventured up to the topmost part, for the purpose of adjust ing the ropes, &c, that the American flag may again float over the Capitol. The top of the flag-staff is about one hundred and fifty feet high. Only a single ocean cable remains un impaired, and this has been so overtaxed with business that tbe company, to diminish the volume of despatches, has advanced the tariff. There is great danger that the bro ken cables cannot be repaired nor new ones laid during the winter, and we may be de prived, in large measure, of the telegraphic facilities heretofore enjoyed. The latest lamp murder ocenrred in Youngstown, Ohio. The victim was the wife of Daniel O'Brien. Two lamp explo sions took place po one day, in Buffalo, causing death in each instance. The fluid in one case was denominated "Union" oil, and in the other Danforth's "Patent non-explosive oil." The facts elicited demonstra ted that both were dangerous in the highest degree, suggesting the propriety of legisla tion prohibiting their sale for illuminating purpose. Th Knll flights cf immaeination in which Grant indulges la bis message, while uraina the San lomingo 100 un ijuugreos, convinces tbe Uermanwwn oiromctc ma there is a vast amount ol latent poetry in the President ! A mean trickster named tmerson. re cently called upon a Miss Rowa, at Man- Chester, I. U., ana miormeu uer ium ucr brother, who resides in Kansas, had died a few days previously, and that his friends there were short about $30 in making op the funeral expenses. Ene immediately aa vanced the money, supposing that it was to .on titr e-rrtrtBfi- Next dav She disCOV- JJ OVUM J f" J ered that she bad been made tbe dope of a wily scoundrel. Last weefc three small cnnaren. two girls and a boy, aged respectively eleven. nine ana seven years, arrived at canton, t., having traveled all tbe way from Ireland alone. They succeeded in finding their fathr Mr. John Griffin, emploved and re siding some five miles from Canton. They had only emigrant tickets, but officers of the railroads, having souls, Kindly cared lor me young travelers. Tbe daughter or ti rent linger, tne umt, OKin nrifn miinlrrpr testified that she Was at home when her father murdered her etep- . i rL i a u : 1 I 3An momer. ouo ucaiu uiui iuiuw ucr uuwu, and her step-mother said to his : "Be mer ciful to ice." He replied "God d n yon. how can I be merciful to you." He then went and got bis borne and made the girl hold it. and he went back to tbe house and said to his wife. "Sarah you ain't got enough yet, have you " He then came out of the house with a knife all bloody, and wiped it off on his sack. Tbe defense is Insanity, but if he is acquitted cn this plea, lynching is learea. CLOsnc PRICES Of DE HAVES A BKO., 40 Sooth Third Ktreet, Fhtldelpbi, at s O'cioeu, jr. 31., Uec. 12. 1S70. U. S. 6's Of "81 ! 113 lcr: 107 107 109 'A 110 ioe no no? 108 S10 625 630 " " '62, lUTX " " iot " '65, 107 " " '65, new, 109$ " " '07, . IC " -68 " 110 TT. H aTVQ , ft T-i-'UY 'rC, " " 110 Due Comp. Int. Notes, T. 'A UU1U, 11 Silrer : 103 Union Pacific R.R. 1st M.B'nds 600 Central Pacific R. R 815 unn i'aciflcLfuid Gr'nt B'nda' 3 JELAZJJS VKEIASIESICILIAJ. HAIR RENEWER. DISEASES OF THE SCALP PRODUCE GRAY HAIR AND BALDNESS! TBS USB or HALL'S VEGETABLE H4IR nESEWERI! will restore it to its natural color and promote its growtn. Our Treatise on the Hair sent free by mail. R. P. HALL & CO., Nashua, N. H., Proprietors. SHERIFF'S SALE- BY virtue of sundry writs of Vend. Ex-oonas O issued out of the Court of Common Pleas of Clearfield county, and to me directed, there will be exposed to Public bale, at t ne Court House m the Borough of Clear .Held, on Monday the 9th day of January. A. I. 1971. at 1 o'clock. P. ti.. the following- described Real Estate, to wit': All that tract or body of land, comprising 60O Acres, more or less, situate partly in Guelick township, Clearfield county ,and partly in White township, Cambria county tbe Clearfield coun ty portion containing- about 540 Acres, more or less, and the Cambria county portion tho residue said tract or body of land comprising part or tne survey in the name or Jas. iicllur trie and the whole of the survey in the name of Ann McMurtria the whole being- described as follows : Bceinnins- near the Cambria countr line, at the north-west corner of the James Mo il urtrie survey, thence alone the western boun dary line of that aurvey and of the Ann McMur- trle survey, south Jfi degrees, east J perches, to a maple, the Bouth-west corner of the Ann McMurtrie survey; thence north 81 degrees, east ulonar the line of Ann McMurtrle's survey SJ0 perchestoja dogwood, the south-east corner or Ann McMurtrie s survev: thence north 29 degrees, weat alone the eastern boundarv line of the Ann McMurtrie surveytSO perches, to the common corner or tne Ann .McMurtrie and Jas. McMurtrie surveys ; tbence along the division line between said surveva. south 61 detr.. west 193 perches, to a hemlock ; thence north 15 de grees, west ltf perches, to a post : thence south 88 degrees, west 48 perches, to a post; thence norm degrees, west za percnes, to a betniock ; thence south 61 degrees, west 50 perches, to the place of beeinninjr the Dortion in Clearfield county being unimproved ; the portion in Cam bria county containing; improvements consist ing of a Water Saw Mill, with Dwelling House, Stable, and about Two Acres of garden. Also, aoout liignt Acres or meadow on the roadside. adjoining S. North, and having about Four Acres or tne mountain land cleared and fenced. eiuzfa ana uttea in execution as tne property of Morris R. Sayer. C. HOWE. Dec. 15, 1870.-3t. Sheriff of Clearfield Co. 'JWN and COUNTRY PROPERTY for sale:. 1. A LOT OF GROUND in Mooretown, with good Plank House and Outbuildings. Cellar under the entire house. Will be sold cheap aud on eaay terms. 2. ONE LOT OF GROUND in Mooretown, 68 feet front on Main street and 200 feet deep. A choice selection of Fruit Trees on this Lot. It is a most desirable location for building. 3. A LARGE TWO STORY FRAME HOUSE on Lot adjoining the above ; finely finished and with all conveniences. Good outbuildings and an abundance of fruit trees. 4. A TWO STORY FRAME HOUSE in East Ward of Ebensburg. Cellar kitchen, well and cistern water. Good outbuildings and office on same Lot. All in good repair. Located on Main street. Rents for SlSO. 5. A LARGE TWO STORY FRAME HOUSE in the West Ward, suitable for two families. Lot 33 feet front on Main street and 264 feet deep. Could be divided. Rents for 150. 6. A TWO STORY FRAME HOUSE in West Ward, suitable for two families. Lot ftd feet front on Main street and 100 feet deep. A desi rable property. 7. BUILDING LOTS in Westward, Ebensb'g. 8. PASTURE LOTS, of about 6 acres each, one mile from town. 8. TIMBER, suitable for cord wood, on LOTS of 6 or 8 acres each, one mile from town. 10. SIXTY ACRES Himlock: Timbkr LAND. Will cut 1,000.000 feet lumber. One and a half miles from Ebensburg. 11. gA FARM OF 100 ACRES, convenient to Ebensburg; mostly cleared and in good order. Will bo sold separately or with No. 10. rVAll the above described property will be sold cheap and on easy terms. Those desiring to purchase will call on or address the under signed on or before the 1st dav of January next. J. ALEX. MOORE, . . or Shoemaksb & Oatman. Ebensburg, Dec. 1, 1S70. GOOD FOR WILMORE ! THE LADIES COMPLIMENTED! I New Firm and Nett Goods. TT has been conceded of late years that' the ladies of Wilmore and vicinity are the fairest as well as the moat sensible of any lo cality in the county, which may probably Id part be accQuntedCfor by the fact, not yet gen erally known, that they buy all their Mill loo. V.!fB Fancy Hoods at the NEW brOEMB of K. PAIL A COs who have lust opened out the largest and most complete stock er.,roii?nt to WHmore, consisting of DRY SSi2: DRESS GOODS, MILLINERY" GOODS, ?J9XIONS- HATS, OAPS, BOOTS and SHOES, HARDWARE, QUEENS WARE, OROCERIKS, e., &o., which they sell at Johnstown prices tsJlRH or la exchange for country produce. Call and see- for yourselves at the New Bufldmg, one door East of the new United Brethren Church. B. PAUL & CO. Wilmore, Nov. IT. 1870,-am. VALUABLE STORE and DWELL- v ING HOUSE PROPERTY FOB SALE. The undersigned offers on the most returnable terms bis STORE and nOUSE PROPERTY . located on High street, Ebensburg borough. It is in tbe business centre of town, conveni ent ia every respect, and in good condition. Will be sold low for cash. . H. A. SHOEMAKER. BbefcFt;, Dae- T, .ft SXL iiiil THAT'S WHi IvJifi 1 1 IB r Li AND MOST mStad Varied :adv-Iade EVER SEES IXSIDE THIS BSCURE II OF- IS I S. BABEB I GO TO B Clothing m I hi Cllrllfl Cijilll EBENSBUM)
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