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Carabria Freeman.
EUBXSBCRG, PA.
Tiu.'ksdat Morning, : Jan. 19, 1871.
Change in Day or PubSicallon.
Thi next Issue of our paper will usher in the
fit t b year ; its existence, and we dfm the c-
casioil a fittititr one for chans-intr the pubiiea- 1
turn day of the Freeman from Thursday to Sat-
m!av printinr our inside pnjres, us heretofore,
ot (lie day previous, and nutilinir the papers so
Our for mnklni this rhunvn uru iminv.
thv two principal ones of which are 1st. That
the publication of the two papers here on The;
tame day often overtaxes the facilities of the
post-ofilce tit this place for forwarding1 man , 11 .....
mutter, au.l hence our paper, thoujrh mailed in ; arid heard him, in his own peculiar and elc
titr.e, frequently fails to reach some of the near- . ., , .
est points until Friday; 2d. Two-thirds of our ' gant conversational powers, on all subjects
country sui)S ribers do not have the piortu- ! i; . , .A .;. ;;
r.ity to lift their papers until they go to church , ct political history, and especially ins mti
ou Sunday, and by that time the news Is to some ; raate social relation with Mr. Lincolu during
extent stale, whereas by the new arrangement ,
we can hrinp the news up to Friday. Fortheso ; the dark da-s of the rebellion, will not for-
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toehanfi-eourput.iieation day.aud on and after
next week aubscrihers need not look for their
papers before Saturday.
The cows from Paris is dreadful.
Nine i
days ago the great capital was vigorously
bombarded and a rain of shot and shell was
poured into the city without interruption.
All the district lying between the Hotel des
Invaildrs and the Odeon was under fire by
day and by night. Every two minutes j
shells fell ih the neighborhood oi the Church
of St. Sulpice, killing qnite a number of wo
men aud children.
The present Fession of tho Legislature ap
pears to be peculiarly prolific cf contested
Feats. This is a disgrace and a deep humil
iation to the honesty and integrity of the
people of the whole State. In the first
place, Putney, democrat, from Armstrong
county, is contested by Steele, the radical
member last year. The seat of Hagar, rad
ical, from the 11th Philadelphia district is
contested by a democrat. Then the seat of
Lamon, radical, from the 12ih Philadelphia
district, Is also contested. There is also a
contest before both branches of the Legisla
ture, as the law requires it, as to the right
of James Lynd to his seat, according to the
returns at me last uciooer election. ior an
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Associate Judge cf the District Cmrt of j payment of the French indemnity for epoli
Philadelphia. Frauds, in all these different j ations in 1SC0 was a remarkable illustration.
cases are asserted ; but in all operations of
this kind before the Legislature a democrat,
under the modern acceptation of that dis
honored Dame, is not nearly as likely to get
his honest rights as a republican. These
cases are all yet before the respective Houses
of the Legislature, and we will watch their
progress and announce to our readers the
several results.
The Deatli oriSon. Jolin Covode.
This gentleman, who was one of the most
promiuent and influential radical politicians
in the State, died very suddenly at the
Uuited States Hotel in Harrisburg. on yes- j
terday morning one week ago. Mr. Cuvode j
was about sixty-two years of age. In 1854 tederal government, and a bunus of twenty
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mnrpland iufriet. ltv tliA nnpn Vi?if n,if
unfelt, KTflucnce of the proscriptive and re
vengeful spirit of Kuow-Nothiugism. Judg
ing from some of his late utterances as a
memoes of Congress, he still maintained and
endorsed alibis original and bitter religious
and political heresies. After 1834 he was
re-elected to Congress three tiaies in succes-
sion, and was a member of that body when
his untimely death occurred. We are not
afraid to express the opinion, from our
knowledge of his public career, that Mr.
Covode was no statesman in the full and jnst
appreciation of tho term. He was an uned
ucated man, but was naturally endowed
with a quick and active, but not enlarged,
intellect. He had the gifUof immense ener
gy of character, and that was the great secret
of his success, as it has often before been
with public men of vastly more mental abil
ity. We are willing that his faults shall be
buiied with him, but will fieely admit that
uviiu ujuefc nave ucsstrii iiiauy i
good and excellent traits of character. If
that were not true, he could not so loug and
uninterruptedly have maintained his politi
cal supremacy in the district in which he
lived. His suddeu death recalls the tucmo
riable expression of tho great Edmund
Burke on a certain melancholy occasion :
"What shadows wo are and what shadows
we pursue."
Hon. Robert 1. Ucclaert.
It will surprise our readers to be informed
that a so called petition has been presented
to the State Senate, by the' notorious, infa
mous and corrupt State Senator, Cuunel!,
frarn one of the Philadelphia districts, pro
posing to contest the right of Col. Iiobei t
Dcchert to his seat. Col. Decbert, as our
readeTTwill all recollect, was elected to the
Senate of this State, at a special election or
dered by Harry White, the then Speaker of
the Seuate, to fill the place of W. W. Watt,
republican, deceased. Cd. Dechert was
elected by a majority of 1,301. There was
no fraud whatever alleged, nor was there
any believed. The question is, can this
base and dishonorable business prove to be
successful, or, to more correctly state it, can
h democrat be admitted to bis seat in either
branch of the Legislature from Philadelphia,
if a set of corrupt scoundrels like William
B. Mana and other kindred spirits can pre
vent it 7 Wo are not in favor of evolution .
that game was attempted during the time
cf the celebrated "Buckshot" war, and with
disgraceful failure. WTe are not the advo
cates of rebellion against the law, but we
think tho time has now come that, as against
the damnable operations of this corrupt
Philadelphia radical crew, the democracy of
the State must take caro of its own rights,
and we expect t.uch men as Wallace, Buck
alew, Randall, and other well tried Demo
cratic St-nators, to aid us iu doing bo.
P. S. Since the abovewas written we
totice that th"i3 whole question has been re
ferred to a committee of the Senate, consist- j
iug of Messrs. BucLalew, Purinai), Davis 1
t, . , , 1v,t , ,T . , '
rdnken and Dili. Lo. on Monday last, j
Liadc repor agunst reccivicg the petition j
The rencrt
was adopted, ami to eado this attempted
ladical fraud.
A SpeccU from Edgar Cowan.
We invite the attention cf our readers to
the address of lion. Edgar Cowan, published
below. It is very refreshing to read such a
speech from a gentleman who was more con
fidentially consulted by Abraham Lincoln
than any other member of the U. S. Senate.
Mr. Cowan was the warm political and per
sonal friend of President Linco!a. and fully
; understood Lincoln's views of the purposes
;
! and ultimate results of the war.
Mr. Cowan paid OUr town a Visit during
Mr. Cowan paid our town a
tho last summer not by any means his first
I nm,paranr,a amonr U3. All who saw him
get the remarkable statements made by him
in reference to what Mr. Liucolu's adminis-
j tration believed to be the true purposes of
the war. Mr. Cowan has busts of friends in
Cambiia county, who appreciate and honor
his great ability and admitted integrity, and
when the good political time comos, as it
is fast coming, the honest democracy cf
Cambria will not forget Edgar. Cowan. But
tere is tho speech, as delivered by him
bo
fore the Young Men's Jackson Association of
Al'eghcny City, on Monday evening, Jan.
Otb. Mr. Cowan said :
You propose to commemorate a great
event and a most remarkable man the
battle of New Orleans and General Andrew
Jackson. The event proved the ability of
cur citizen soldiers to defend their cuuutry
success fully when under the lead of a com
petent captain. The lite of the man sdiows
how much may be done by a siugle individ
ual to serve his fellow-men when they are
foitunate eucugh to put him in the right
place. No other soldier was so capable to
I conduct our Iudian wars and briDg them to
I a final and satisfactory conclusion; and noiie
! ever visited upon unprincipled ncighro sand
the adventurers they sheltered, such tffectu-
al punishment. Those who violated tiie
no mercy from him; and a tingle example
of just severity usually sufficed. Ia his
foreign policy, when President, he was
i 1;liiv vi ar.A pfr-.-five ,,f ivKi.-h th
A great many changes have taken place
since his day, and we can well imagine how
bo would look upon many of them if ho was
allowed to re-visit the earth. Ho beiiuved
a national bank not only unconstitutional,
but with its twenty millions of capital stock
absolutely dangerous to liberty. lie saw
bow it might oppress the people by its con
tractions and expansions ; how it might
make a corner in the maikets ; and how.
j indeed, it might bribe congress, and buy
, iaws to suit itself. He therefore devoted
himself to its destruction, aud his victory
j over it is hardly less celebrated than that
over the English at New Oileene.
What would he now say or do when he
saw national banks, with a capita! of more
than three hundred millions, chartered by
cougrcss, their circulation endored by the
, oc.ii treasury t jl iiu iniernsis on rue ijil.iea
btates bonds they deposit as pecurity amount-
leg to about that sum, and the same as the i
whole capita! stock cf the Uuited States j
Lank. Can we doubt under these circutn- j
stanc-s, that he would renew the war against I
bauks, and with his usual success? j
Genera! Jackson's idea of a government j
was an organizations from becoming danger
ous. Hence he would not tolerate a cor no-
! r.ita Kr.t,r t K f Ai,, tn , . .
wjh theJ pf,ol) government. It may not
be long before the wisdom of his views on
this subject is recognized everywhere. What
confirmation would he have received in the
history of our great corporations within the
last few years ? The huge associations have
on severa! recent occasions j roved thernv
selves able to control state governments,
mould the laws at their pleasure, and disre
gard them with impunity. Aud as tl.eir
wealth multiplies, and they from time to
time discover the euorrnous power they
wield, and how it increases by combinations
easily made, no one can doubt that they
will ultimately direct all government every
I where in this country.
In Jacksoo s day. too, the nnion was in
aauger. i ne aspect oi nu bLcation was
quite as threatening as secession, but he did
not wait till it ripened into open rebellion.
he met it on the threshold and reduced it to
obedience without the loss of a man or the
firing ef a gun. Contrast this with tho
sacrifices we were obliged to make to sup
press the revolt rsf secession. Years of civil
war ; Iojs of half a million of lives, and a
waste of tea thousand million of dollars.
We only anive at the true value of such a
man, when we have felt tho need of him;
and we can now believe that if he had been
at the head of our affairs when the rebellion,
was in its first stages, his vigor and foresight
might have quelled it with little expendi
ture' of blood and money.
But that which would surprise him most
on his return, perhaps, would bo the recent
amendments to the constitution, because
there is nothing which distinguishes the new
era from tho old so clearly as they do. For
sixty years the people looked to the states
for the preservation of their rights and lib
erties; and, having created the federal gov
ernment not for general but particular aud
specified purposes, they were zealous of any
attempts to enlarge the sphere of its action.
Iu all their declarations of political princi
ples, the "reserved rights" of the state were
tiec;are mvioiaoie ana to ce maintained at
all hazirds. And yet, notwithstanding, we
have seen the whole people, alrnoit without
a murmur, yield unto the general govern
ment by far the most important of those "re
served rights," that, indeed, we always
therefore deemed essei tial to the very exist
ence of a free state. I mean its rights to
say who thall exercise its sovereignty at the
billot box. Nor could any one ever give a
reason why anybody, outside the limits of a
state could complain of its exercise of this
prerogative, for it outsiders have a right to
designate the electors, they might as well
designate the officers to be'elected.
Tho great ttate of New York has been de
prived ia this important right by the hasty
and considerate action of three-fourths of her
sister states, without the consent of her leg
islature and against tho will of her people.
This purpose was achieved under color of
an amendment of the constitution of the
United States by the partisan action of state
legislatures, and without giving the people
any opportunity cither of considering it or
of expressing their will in regard to it.
i aonsy lvama is ceprivcd m the same way,
w:l the additional disgrace that her gov-
trt!racnt waft n,ean and al JHCt enough to
consent to tne usurpation. Her own con-
hti,. - tion WM ahJ , tte which
cevcr Cl,ulj haya Uuthe case ia the event
of a legitimate amendment cf the United
States constitution. As to all the rights
coofeirtd bj ths states en the federal gov-
erumeut, its constitution may be amended
of course ; but this does not in the nature of
things, extend to rights not granted. If it
did, the states themselves, with all their
rights, might be amended out of existence,
if thre-fourth of them were foolish enough
to consent to their own destruction.
There are an hundred other novelties
which would no duubt attract- the serioii3
attention of our visitant, if indeed they are
uotjuctnow alarming our own stupid in
difference into their anxious consideration.
For instance, the spectacle of millions of
American citizens disfranchised, and mil
lions of African blaves clothed with political
power to rule over them through the medi
um of that vilest spawn of the civil war. the
'carpet baggers," and stich negroes as felt
themselvescqual to a contest with them iu
the tcramble for the spoils of a ruined peo
ple. It is a painful and humiliating sight
to see a proud and chivalrous people, like
the white inhabitants of the southern states,
subjected to the rule of their own slaves,
with negro governors, negro legislatures, and
negro judges, while that people, with all its
faults, are still of our blood and race, and in
their misfortunes entitled to that mercy at
our hands which we ourselves expect for our
own transgressions. Stato elections, too,
have been held with an armed soldiery on
tho ground to overawe the voters, even in
the great cities of the union, without even a
pretence of domestic violence which the
state authorities could not repress, or indeed
any violence at all.
But in turning away from this dark pic
ture, we are cheered by undoubted signs
that the tenible saturnalia is drawing to a
ckse, and that a weary and repentant peo
ple are returning to reason.
The Romans at one time had a festival,
which they called Saturnalia. During this
Saturnalia it happened what a singular
coincidence about this time of tho year. I
don't know why these people wiii always
have it about Christmas and New Year's.
I believe it was originally discovered that
the sun, ufier having retrograded until the
day dwindled down to less than ten hours,
creeps up, as it were, about the Utith of De
cember, on its backward course towards
another spring aud summer, creating, as it
were, another life.
During this saturnalia, everything was to
posterity upside down. Servants became
masters', aud masters became servants; tho
noble mixed with peasant, aud the peasant
took the place of the uobleman. All classes
mixed themselves together, threw oil" all the
restraints which well regulated conduct im
posed upon them. After the experience of
about a week of that kind, it appears that
everybody was anxious to fall back into his
old place, his old station, satisfied that what
ever evils may have oppressed him they
were uuti.ing compared with that which re
sulted frum an utur license, free lioin all
restraint whatever.
Now we have had our saturnalia, a sat
urnalia of a long period. War, terrible
war ; blood poured out like water ; widows
and orphans might by the twenty thousand
be seen ; battle fields, earth drenched with
blood and strewn with corpses, everything !
Ten thousand billions of the national wealth
wasted in this contest. Aiid jieople have
changed their places. These who weie
masters have become slaves, ctd those who
were slavej are now masters. The political
power of ten or twelve state3 cf the Union
wrested away from the citizens, the actual
citizens, those who always exercised it, and
those whom it was snuposed were capable
of exercising it, and given to slaves. What
would "Old Hickory" think if he came back
now frv.m the shades into life', and when he
came back to see nier governors iu the
executive chairs of the southern states; nig
ger legislators, nigger judges, nigger jurors
and nigger congressmen in the United
States senate. But the most painful thing
of all is that the people cf our race, cf our
b'.ood a tie! kindred, should be -ulji-cted to the
dumiuion of these semi-barbarou-i slaves, who
at the best are only feed for the cat pc t-ba-gcrs.
Mr. Chairman, in responding to jour
toast it would not be proper that your in
vited guest should occupy all evening.
(Several voices, "Go on.") Our saturnalia
looks as if it were coming to a chso. We
are a repentant people, aud returning to
reason, and the democratic party will have
its turn. There is nono other that th coun
try now depends upon to rescue it, and its
mission, Mr. Chairman, is a high and a
ho!y one. Let no man undervalue it ; let no
mau disgrace it ; it is to bind up the broken
fragments of the naiiou. It is to restore, to
heal the wounds of aii, to restore peace and
haimony amongst all. And this it can do
and can do readily, and gain success by re
turning simply to the principle of that con
stitution. They are begiuning to inquire
into tho nature of the changes they have al
lowed in their governments, and to find
that, just as usual, the few have their mil
lions aud the many their burdens and toils.
The good and the true are everywhere turn
ed aside, while the wicked and corrupt are
rioting in the public spoils, and ready at
any moment to sell themselves to the high-
est bidder.
In the acknowledged political demoraliza
tion prevailing, the democratic party, per
haps has a reason to congratulate itscif that
it was not in power during the last few
years. None of tho mischiefs of which the
people complain can le laid to its charge :
and it can now start on its way rejoicing to
restoration and reform, purged of all the
rogues and knaves who used to infest it in
it3 days cf power. Its mission is holy; it
will bind up the bre.ken fragments of the
union ; hea! the wounds of the long national
strife, and mako us once more a free and
united people.
Iu conclusion, I hope your association will
be one of the agencies to bring about this
consummation so devoutly to be wished.
Cn yesterday wetk, Robert W. Mackcy,
of Tittsb urgu. who held tho office for one
year from May 1SGS, tj May 18G9 was
elected State Treasurer. lie received 70
votes against CO democratic votes, which
were cast for Daniel O. Barr cf the same
city. We take it for granted that Mr. Barr,
the democratic caudidafe. is a gentleman,
and fully qualified for what is considered an
honest and faithful discharge of the duties
of the effiee but the election of Mackey was
a foregone conclusion, and has therefore
created no sort of surprise. Under the pres
ent law Mr. Barr would have done the very
same thing that Mackey has done heretofore
aud will do again. We are tired, sick and
disgusted of this whole question. So are
the people. We ask Senators Wallace,
Buckalew, Randall, Dechert, Findlay, and
all the other democratic members of the
State Senate, to pass a bill which will re
relieve the people and their representatives
of this annual and disgraceful political con
troversy. It ought to be done on every
principle of honesty, and we hope, with the
people of the State, that it trill be done by
their representatives, and especially by a
democratic Stato Senate.
Eighteen United States Senators arc to
be chotcn this ciCLth.
Tiie Monster UuiofT.
5o Lcssliiaa ScvoiiSiurJors Iiidlathl
Door-His Cmlessii to tsis t'oniiM-1-Frozcu
Toes Lead Ulia. to tiallou .
The Utica, N. Y., Herald of Saturday
says : Now that the third jury has pro-
nounced Edward II. Ruloff guilty, and, for
the second time, tuiltv of murder in the hrst
degree, and he has beea sentenced to be
hanged by the neck till he is dead, it seems
proper enough to'reeord the gift of the con-
fession to which we alluded the other day.
At his trial ia Ithaca, twenty-five years ago,
for the abduction cf his wife, he gave tho
full narticnlars of his crime to bis counsel,
Mr. Cushing. Mr. Cushiug dying left it
with a legal brother of Ithaca. It was to
this effect : Mrs. Ruloff and their child was
at the bottom of Cayuga Lake. Ruloff first
rendered his wife insensible by chloroform.
He then took up a plauk in tho floor, and
opening a vein bled her to death, the blood
flowiug through the opening. The child he
disposed of in a similar manner.
He then put the bodies in a box prepared
for the purpose. He got a neighbor to help
him load the box upon a wagon, alleging
that it was filled with books. He drove to
the lake put the box in a skiff, then filled it
with Btoi.es, and rowed out to the middle of
the lake where he pushed the box with the
corpse of his wife and child overboard. No
one saw .the dreadful deed, and until very
recen tly "none but the confident of his early
counsel knew the facts. We have the name
of him to whom Mr. Cushiug told the above,
but refrain from giving.it. Tho Ucts as we
have stated them we have reason to beiievo
are correct, and as such are first made public.
It will be seen by reference to our tele
graphic columns that Judge llogeboon has
denied arrests of judgment, and sentenced.
Ruloir to be hanged ou Friday, the 3d of
March next. We can well believe that he
heard hi3 sentence in "sullen silence." He
has listened to a like sentence once before.
Three times he has heard the wi-rd "guilty"
fall from the lips of the jury fore mau. For
a quarter of a century he has catried with
him tho knowledge of a revolting crime. He
has goue cu iu' crime. Merrick was his
third known victim. Jarvis and Df-xter,
educated in crime by him, lay their deaths
aud disgrace at his door.
II-s mother-in-law was his sixth victim
She bowed dowu with grief over the loss of
her daughter, had dragged along in life till
confronted at Binghamtou in August last
with the man whom she believed, Lut did
not know, to be guilty of that daughter's
death. The shock was too great, and she
died in less than thiee days. And we say
again, that if his sentence be carried out on
the 3d of March, Ruloil's death will be the
seventh death known to be chargeable to
Rukft's agency.
Through ail the windings of hi3 tortuous
life, the toils cf detection have beea gather
ing around him. The little .incident of
freezing the toes of one foot wh.le hiding
from the consequences of ciimes committed,
left the mark by which his last crime was
fastened upon him. By this has justice
fouml him out and claimeel at last its dues.
Tho victim is a man richly endowed with
the qualities which go far toward making
men great and useful. But his truly great
talents and varied attainments have been
prostituted to the fallowing cf crime aud tho
attainments oJ infamy, and few will regret
to see the grave closa over him. lie has
tarried too long from his final rest.
Anothfr IIopr R . llur'ning fflhe Steam
lout T. L. M:Cill Thirty 1'ersona Snj'jKsed
to have perished. Ou Salurday;night aU at
nine o'clock the steamboat T. L. McGill.
from St. Louis to New Orlea'-s. was com
pletely destroyed by fire at a placa called
Shoo Fiy Bar. The fire br.ke out aft, and
owicg to a gale prevailing, such was the
rapidity of the flames the passeugcrs had
barely time to rush to the bow and p'ugo
into the water beforo the fire was uptu
them. To add to the horrors of the scene,
the weather was intensely cold. Many who
plunged into the river were chilled, and
suak to rise no more. The survivors give
but imperfect and conflicting" reports. The
boat hail been aground for two days, and
had unloaded two hundred tons of her cargo
in order to get over the bar. She was laden
with cine hundred tons of general merchan
dise, including pork and coal oil. Just as
the passengers were preparing to retire the
alurm of fire was raised, and a general stam
pede ensued. Eleven bales of cotton added
at Memphis weie thrown overboard and
s-aved. The steamers St. Francis and White,
which had passed, were several miles above;
but peeing the fire, turueel back and arrived
in time to render valuable assistance. The
II. C. Yeagcr, lying near by.-ulso rendered
assistance.
So confufel are tho reports that it is im
possible to form an accurate estimate of the
number lost, which is probably thirty in
cluding four women and thieu children. Mr.
Eveiett, of St. Louis, states that a man aud
wife cabin passengers, came floating by them
holding to a stage plank, when the lady
cried, "Husband 1 am freezing ; let's dis
together," auel let go tho plank ; the hus
band loosed his hold,- clasped her in his
arms, and both sank together. The passeu
gers and crew lost everything, and only one
hundred tons of freight had been taken off.
This was left in charge of the acting mate
ami two deck hauds. But for officer I ea
ger few if any would have beea saved.
STILL I.ATEK.
Memphis, Tenn., January ICth. The
steamer Philo Allen passed tho wreck ef
the steamer McGill at noon yesterday, ar
riving here at midnight. She reports the
McGill burueel to the water's edge and a
portion of the hold and freight stiil burning.
Her chimneys, boilers anil machinery had
fell to the hold. They could not get near
enough to discover whether any bodies re
mained on the wreck on account of the shal
low water. Tho Yeager was still lying be
low aud had on hoard several survivors,
who will probably ariivo here to night.
Those known to be lost are William Tomp
kins, captain. Mcl'arlaud. clerk. Brown,
second engineer, the colored chambermaid,
two deck hands, white, one eleek sweeper,
the secowd steward, the porter, several pan
trymen. Th'rtecn Mexican porters and
pantrymen were burned alive in their rooms.
Tho barber. Thomas Evans, died on board
the steamer St. Fraucis after being rescued.
The Washington correspondent of the N.
Y. Herald tells the story of another gigantic
fraud which has just beeu unearthed. We
have heard of this matter before, and John
Cessna, the only ltadical in this State who
has the hardihood to contest, was said'to be
the party who pushed the thing through
Congress in the last hours of the last session.
The probabilities are that an investigation
of the Chorpenning fraud will dispose of the
little trickster and of his attempted contest.
Lancaster Intelligencer.
Grand Rapiels, Michigan, is the strong
hold of the woman-righters. The city phy
sician is a womau, one of the city pulpits
is occupied by 'a woman, who has a good
salary, the city library, consisting of several
thousand volumes, has been got tip by wo
men, and to crown all, they have a history
class, ccmpused of ladies, which has been
organized for several years, and has regular
lectures by a lady frotu an adjoining city,
Xes ami Political Items.
King Victor Emmanuel has given a
banquet in honor of General Sheridan.
A red wolf was shut in Schuylkill coun
ty lately. It measured six feet from tip of
nose to tin cf tail.
a frightened deer ran through the
streets of Pittston the other day. It was
j finally caught and dispatched.
j Xhe oldest mau in Pennsylvania is said
j to reticle in Monroe cemoty. 1 1 is name is
i George Labar, and lm age 108 years.
j The bombardment of Paris continues
without interruption throughout the day and
night, women and cuiiureu sting jhuou iu
the streets of the ciiy.
There is a boy in Reading under 12
years of age who has upwards of $300 de
posited iu the Savings Bank. The money
was earned through his own industry.
II. G. Brenner, of Laucater, was to
have been married on Thursday, but the
ceremony was preventeel by a little accident
that occurred. The bridegroom committed
suicide.
Hon. Wm. Tweed, of New York, who
recently donated 850,000 to the poor of that
city, has made another donation of $1,000
to. the relief the poor of the thirteenth ward
of that city.
The (estercian order of Monks cultivate
a farm of twelve hundred acres, nine miles
southwest.of Dubuque. Iu the ceutre of the
tract t he largest monastery in America is
being built.
Hun. John Covode a few days before
his death was appointee! president of the
Pan-Handle railroad, to take effect after the
4th of March, when bis term to Congress j
would expire. j
A child now living in Detroit is no
larger around than a man's forefinger. It
i-: n T-i.-inth r.lrl nlinnt siv inches lorT. WClcliS
. I 1 A . A 1, . niiAr J
one pou nil ami iwu ounces, auu u u-i
cried finco it was born.
David Strouse, aged sixty-five years, a
resident cf Hanover t woship, Beaver coun
ty, blew into ihe muzzle of a gun on the 7th
ult. The gun returned tho compliment by
blowing his brains out.
A man named Francis ,E. rirtow, con
fined in the Auburn State Prison for grand
larceny, has confessed to being the murderer
of Mr. Rogers who-wa3 killed in New York
on the 31st of December.
Neenah. Wis., bf.3 a dog which will
take
in exchan
money
carried
meat.
A young married woman, apparently
in good health, fell dead in Coatesviile, Ches
ter county. Pa., a few days ago, while pre-
rwTie5-'f ,v,f,,l l-.rin meat noiu oocis iiierany sirippeuoi everyimn"
"e. Being recently unable to set I me r case is mueeu moxi pmame. rnua-
, and very hungry, he stole a sash, j clelpJiia, through a Jormir citizen oi MiiHin.
it to the maiket. and pawned it for I r-" 'jmpau.y in me. prcucai
aring dinner, and her aged mother, hast- I indeed, is the nesd. and great the opportu
ne.! down stairs on being summoned, fell i mty for the philantropist. If there should
l
enei
and was killed instantly
The Chatam (Va.) Tribune pays a noto
rious colored man, named lus White, one
of the most ignorant, disgusting and aban
doned wretches that could be found in the
whole country, has been appointed postmas
ter at Pittsylvania Court House.
Patrick Butler, of Portland, who was
emplojed as a laborer on the Maine Central
Railroad, was killed instantly on Saturday
by having his own pick axe driven through
his head by a piece of frozen earth which
fell from a bank upon its upraised point.
The Chicajro Post makes a contribution
to the Mock of geographical knowledge as
follows : "The Hon. John Covode was born
in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania
that part of the Keystone State that was
wrenched from Connecticut after tho revolu
tion."
Vice Admiral Porter, notwithstanding
his abusive letters to the President, which
.---aid letters insulted General Grant's confi
denee iu human nature, was on Friday con-
is set down tr. th cr-dit of h P?,?.'.,
magnanimity. Gooel
T Ilifiril fkf T'ittcVnrrh w'-tcfi 1
store was robbed some time since of silks to ,
the value of $2,000 have sued the city fr j
their loss, alleging that the robbery occurreel
in consequence of neglect of tiie police, and j
that the city is therefore liable. Tho suit is !
attracting a great deal of interest.
One of the former staunch supporters i
of ih A.lmir.NtmiMn or- u r r? s.Wcr it o
rats leave a sinking snip. Hie latest prom
n i i
icent defectiou of this character is that of
the Hon. Cassns M. Clay, who, in a recent
speech at Pdchmoi;:1, Ky., declared open
war against the President ami his policy
if it so be that the executive has a policy.
A mulatto woman named Henrietta
Woods, some time ago. brought suit in the
Cincinnati Supreme Court acainst Zab.
Ward, of Kentucky, to recover $20,000 dam
ages, on the chargo'that he was instrumental
in hnvhm K..r L-iinanr. fr cUi. ko
The case has been transferred to the United
. . 1
States courts, and promises to be most inter
esting.
General Logan has been nominateel for
the United States Seuate by the Radicals of
Illinois. This is another anti-Grani victory.
The President iu the early part of the fight
toeik ground against General Loin, and
then attempted to back water. But he is
upon the record, and when Gen. Logan is
elected, both Senators from Illinois will be
antagonistic to the administration.
President Grant, insteael of sending a
message to Congress in regard to the coudi
tiou of affairs in the South, has transmitted
to that body a volumnous list of repeated
outrages. The period over which these ex
tended is three years, from 1867 to 1870,
and the probabilities are that most of them
are about as worthy of credit as the Ku
Klux stories which the Radical editors fill
their columns prior to elections.
Last Saturday morning, near Peoria,
III.. "Old Ira Mills, the hermit of Utica
Hill," was burned to death in his hut. lie
was a Baptist missionary preacher, and had
lived this hermit's life at Utica for thirty
eight years. Ho was accustomed to save
every scrap of metal he could find, and two
wagon loads of scraps were collected about
his premises. He owned 2-10 acres of land,
besides considerable money, and after wear
ing the same clothes for ten years, his friends
procured a very handsome burial casket, and
also a fine suit of broadcloth to bury him in.
A snow storm in the United States at
the end of the year 18G6 extended over a
district of fifteen hundred miles in length
and three hundred in width, the average
depth of snow being one foot. The weight
was estimated at five tons to the acre,or
thirty two hundred tons to the square mile
or a grand total of 1.410,000,000 tons of
snow, which is ten times the weight of all
the wheat grown in the United States since
tho discovery of America; and this vast
weight of bnowfall in one storm from one
great cloud, aud within a period of only four
days.
Grant has finally got. his San Domingo
Committee appointed. It consists of Bcnj.
F. Wade. 1 resident White, of Cornell Uni
versity, D. S. Howe, Superintendent Per
kin's Institution for the Blind, Boston. In
place of Gen. Sigel who declined the position
of Secretary, Allen A. Burton, of Kentucky
has been appointed. The Commissioners
will sail ppoedi'y, will make a hurried ex
amination, and will return quickly with a
report in favor of annexation. That is what
tky aro sent out to do. A guard of ma
rines will accompany them to prevent Cab
ral from gobbling them up.
rs. Dorric Deekman, of Duchkills. N. j
,J. was on Friday commit tea for
-'',Y,nf.r on a charge of starving
ter, Ann Deemau. Tne case is one or the
atrocious character. According to the
testimony cf one of the witnesses, tho girl h
was repeatedly beaten and -shut up in a j jjfj
IA1 vJ v . . , '
room alone, and perfectly naked. ihe
neighbors frequently gave her bread to eat.
The shrieks of the girl could be heard at
times a block from the house. The child;
died ou Wednesday last. A medical exam- j
ination showed that the child died of starva- ,
t;onthe Intestines being perfectly empty.
The child was eleven years old. j
Last Thursday a young man slipped on
the pavement iu Eikton, Md. He did not
fall to the ground, but succeeded in catching
on his hand, and walked on without serious
discomfort. The remainder ct the alternoon ;
he remained on the street and spent the
evening 'in social pleasure. About two
o'clock next morning he aroused his si.-ter
and asked her to send for the doctor as he !
believed he was dying. It was concluded j
that he was bleeding internally, but all ef- j
forts to relieve him failed, and on Sunday j
morning he died, a victim cf perhaps as
slight an accident as was ever attended with i. rn-f w
fatal results. J t ;(
in jersey uuy, ou xnuay, jeiectiyc
Elcker, of Chicago, made a statement to the
effect that he had obtained a clue to the
murderer of Benjamin Nathan. He had in
his possession a locket which he showed to ;
Judge Cordoza, Mr. Nathan's brother-in-law.
The Judge recognizes the locket and
frave the detective J150 to nrosecute - the I
bearch. They both then went to the super
intendent of police iu New York, and asked
the terms on which a reward would be divi
ded. The feuperintendent stated that he
j wanted tho whole of the detective squadVo
share equally in the reward, and that he
would set all of them t work to ferret out
the murderer. This Elcker declined and
threw the $.150 ou the table and left.
The FiitE at Mifflin Scffehixo of
the People. A letter from a gent'eman.
writing of the late fire in Mifflin, Juniata
county. says :
Many of these people who have been so ! SYRUPS, MOLASSES, CHEE" 1
unceremoniously robbeel of their homes are
utterly destitute they lost all. No homes,
.port sent
up a load of provisions. Our town is being
canvassed to-day by a committee, gathering
f.iod, cast off clerthing, and bedding. Great,
j lc ou 'uo uu uu-iita u atu i t:cac j ' uui nui-
ferers, I shall be glad to be the medium of
communication between them.
One of the saddest developemenis of this
sad event to rne is the existence of total de
pravity in man. Goods beins saved from
the stores to the value of hundreds and pro
bably th' tisaiids of dollars, were subsequent
ly stolen! The court house yard, and the
pavemc-nls in the districts not burned, were
crowded full of goods, and to these there was
of course free accefs for the?e human devils,
ami they made tha most of their chance.
i
ic.rm c: a cr.eca ir ss.uuu. ieu
One rascal was caught with a wasou filled j
full of g "oils, who had come some four miles ;
apparently with the express intention cf !
robbing this distracted, despairing peop'e. !
Strange to say, no one thought of arresting
him, but, unloading the goods, permittiiiir !
i "irn to depart, and Le 13 now c.-t to be found
I w'5en sought by the ( fhvers of the law. I
trllst tuey can never find Lim, fur we can
j wtH spare him.
! .
I . JUZ. ir'sU n ( P0 Settnd toVs cf tue
following two very singular cases of sudden
de.ith : "S.i'athitl Hicr, a citiz.u living iu
thesi'Uthern pe.rtion of the county, was ta
ken sick, and a few days ago was visited by
a neighbor, Alfred G'moie. Mr. Gitnb'e was
standing by the be -'side, hold ing him by the
hand, lie asked him how le was getting
along. Uier told hici he thought he was
going to die. Gimble remarked that we
i a" uae lu u' fme time. Almost Deiore
in
e sentence was finished, he dronned dead
wito llier s hand claspeel in his, nearly pull- j
ing him cut of bed. Uier was so frightened ;
and excited by the cirrumttacce that he j
died in a short time. We have been in
. . ... . . . -
formed of another singular occurrence that i Post. Commercial and all kinc'ei
took place in cur county a few weeks ago.
A Mr. Swiceg-H'd, we believe a local preach
er, in the evening, after he had eaten his
supper, in apparent good health, asked his
wife to prepare the bed f. r him tn n,.u.n
i as re wasgomz to die directlv. She renrov-
tiH 1-. n-V fr.r 12 wkr. T- . . . IT 1
7 , cu- "ls teal n
the porch, ana in a short time asked his wife I
if the bed was prepared, telling her to hurry j
up, as ne nad only a tew minuets to live.
He then lay dowu and died immediately.
Death op Another Female Miser.
Hannah Woodward, cf West Bradford,
whose doath at the advanced age of eighty
two years, was published some time since,
was quite eccentric in her ways. She had'
a house and a few acres of land, and fur
years livod entirely alone. She was econom
ical in her habits almost to parsimony, de
priving herself almost of the cecessailes of
life. One cord of wood would Inst her an
incredibly long time, aud iu the coldest
weather the chance visitor would find her
stove containing hardly enough fire to male
a show, while the apartment would be as!
cold as out of doors. Her wardrobe was of
in a stove pipe in the garret. Id an old
stocking was frniud 80 in gold and silver
coin. She was unmarried. She left about
82,000 in real estate, and about-$3,000 in
money.
JAMES F. MIELIKEX,
ATTORNEY-AT-uAW
--VX JtHAL ESTATE AG EXT,
HOLLIDAYSIiruO, PA.
Special attention plven to the collection of
claims in Hlair, Camliria, Huntiiurelon, Bedford.
Centre and C'loiirtield comities.
Parties wishing to purchase, rent, lease, sell
or exchange re-al cstHtw will find it prcutly to
their interests to eall on or address me.
k vr Corresiumdeuce in either Kngrlish or Ger
man solicited.
r KKFKitKM KS Wm. Mann, Ksq., Messrs. Mor
K.rn, liush & Co., Gen'l C. H. T. Collis, l'hiladel
Phia; Messrs. J. T. Way & Uro., W. M. Oormley,
Ksij., 11. B. wooik', Ksq., J'ittshurjf ; Hon. John
J-cott, lluntinyrdun; Hon. S. S. Hlair, llollidays
bure; Hon. H. F. Hose, Altoona ; I. V Woods,
if i I-ewistown: Cyrus Klder, Ksq., Johnstown;
V in. 1. ilson. Ea-i., Hellefonte. 1-ll.r.J
T?IIiST NATIONAL SADDLE AND
IIAHNEPS SHOP OF CAM UK I A COF.NTV,
iVgl t.,'w'. 'fIJKMiite rnion Sc-liool Hons.)
est Ward, Kbensbiirgr, Ph. M. M. O'XEILL,
I roprietor. S.i(i,!Jnnd Harness made and re
paired and all other work in my line executed
in t tin l-c-st manner, on Uie shortest notice, and
ut tne most reasonablo rates. fl-li.-tf.J
SJ O FI CK OF DISSOLUTION. The
' copartnership heretofore existimr hctween
Uie; nndersife-ued in Hie i!iaiiura ture of Lumber
in Caiubi iu county, has ticeu dissolvofl by mu
tual consent. Tho accounts of the lato Lrm
the most scanty description. Since her I U;T' anU T - .1 , ':'
death various sums of money have been fU & fPift S 0
found hidden away in various parts of the bbta,net! t,lt V! i ;u ,e f,r.'
house, amounting altogether to 'about 4300. f amJ S T'v 7f-
On. n ,.r . f i . -, , as to the merits cheapness i "
v..w v., uiuue-t Ya ii'unu niuuen away
ui oe bottled by Thos. iiiiuoan I
, ,. . , T- DUNCAN.
Liaekhck T p., Nov. K, l-7(. - . l-li.-at.
:., rsf tin 1 IT ..
I
9T -PT I
ALL KINDS DRY
LADIES' DHESS GrjGtj
Ready-Hade GLOTH
Hats, Caps, Beets, Sb
SATIXETTS, JEA1
And
irrc.h r-ar6nip!(ttJij)i
n
Tl
itii i
J1J
Double
m v -
jama i mi i.
Git A IV, FEED,
BAC0H, SALT, fid
FRESH VEGETABLES
DRIED l CAN'DFF.UJTs
SUGARS, TEAS, COF!
Alao, a hirg tioik cfiU
Best Brands of Cigars and Tch-
STOKE ON HIGH tTilEET
Four Doori Eaet cf CrairWi F.
Kbensbiirg, Pa.
GEO. C. II. ZAIIM
.... JAS. f.Z-
ZAHM & SON,"
PBALERS IK
DRY GOODS, GHOli
HARDWARE. QUEENS'--
Hats,Caps,Boot3,Sk
if.T-n a t t r.Ttir'O aTrrri
L'suullj Kept in a Couutrji:
WOOL AND CO UN TIwT PiXl
TJkKaiC in ixctiASis res a.:a
STORE ON 21 A IS STK.
Next Dcor to the Poster
Juno 1G, 1853. EBENsI I'-
"7
"TTAV1NG recently ei.lare
1
-R.JJ, we are now rn rreu to -reduction
Iron.) foru or trices. Vz
s:sts of Irugs. Medicine, Perkr.?.
S?oaps, Leon's, Hall's an i Alle'i E;"
atires. Pills, Ointments, Piaster-.--
Pain Killers, Ci'rate Magnesia, i.
Ginger, Pure FhiTonng Ei;ni:ti.
Lemon Srun, Soothing Syrup,
Rhubarb." Pure Spice-, kc. ;
CIGARS AND TOZA'Xyi
Blank Books. Deeds, Note-n.d PS
x um, .jn: nit i ...... .... .... - t r
Envelopes, Pens, Pencil?. Aru--r
Fluid, lilack and Ke-i Ink. IVrKrt j--
Boi-ks. Magazine?, New?
tories, Bibles. Pelit'x'Usd'rjti a--Penknives.
Pipes, ..Vc
J?" We hnve rMcd to our sicrt -FITS
E JE-.VELPY, io UxL ---the
attention of the Lilies.
PHOTOGRAPH ALLU'MS at...
than ever oil'ere.i in this pVe. .
Patx-r and Ck-ars sold eid.er
tail. LEMMO A 3-L- 1A1
July 30, 1SGS.
ERE THE MVAloIlV
TUESDS DEPLV-
EVE
MONUMENTS, TOM3ST0JU
The subscriber still ,-,r-:iEU.l"V
of the best material arid ia t.--
workmanlike manner.- ,
Loretto Marble
all kind of MONUMENTS A
STONES, as well as TABLE ui- - v
TOPS, aud all other work ui Y'rv.
but the best American a:.u -1
r. i'
JAMi
Loretto. March 12. l?CS.1y-
GOOD FOlTWIl-MOtf
THE LADIES C0MFLIM':!-
rvi r- .rJi-frCl
IME1V riBJianoi--
TT has been cor.cecu i
A- the ladiw of Vmore ana vis:(cf
f!r.t
cullty
prt
rrall
ri.
open-5 out the larf it oJ " , $; I
rter brought to A iinrf;
NOTIONS, HAT CAP l fa
O..Ac, which tber '1rtnr
for cash or in xebjnye 'r)Te ! jr:
Urt.ll ud tor ronjv. r ',
Buildlnr, on Hoor Er j j'il-
WOTICE TO LAND 0 V
warrantee names, oi gEu
of' the person? P''?"'? '.Jrefi
. r. from the eii-e..
CHOICE FAMILY GRfiftl
f irm i I
I I I W 3 t
i
i , C . ., r.,:i-T.:---'
aweil nemo - v pn-
in tb countr. - f -; f,.t nfWlli.
t known. tb.t thert-ur :
fng the location of each mt
prepared to procure ted !-;.
iice for the owners of gt'jf
the Act of A ssemhlT of the
and the supplement t. e .e- . . ,5
recent order of tLeauMr'-jj.iiii.
Ebensburg.March 21, l-4'