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EDESBl'RG, PA.
RATnDAT Mornino, : Apkil 20, 1871;
COMMITTEE MEETING.
The mernbersof the Democratic County Com
mittee of Cambria county, are requested to
meet at the Court Hmo in Ebensburg-, on
Montlau Hit first dan of Man vert, nt one o'clock,
P. M. A full attendance i reoues ted.
It. L. JOHNSTON, Chairman.
Under the new Apportionment bill the
counties of Cambria, Clearfield", Clinton and
Elk compos the XVII I th Sonatorial Dis.
trict, iu which district a Senator will be
elected at the general election in Octobor.
In our next issue we will vindicate the just
claims of Cambria county to the nomina
tion. Onb day last week, while lion. George
W. Woodward was about to take the cars
at the Philadelphia depot of the Northern
Pennsylvania Rail Road, he had his pocket
book stolen containing about $600 and a
draft for $ 1,700. The thief and his accom
plice made their escape in a buggy. The
Judge will probably lose his greenbacks, but
can Etop payment of the draft.
The Washington Correspondent of the
Philadelphia Inquirer, Iidical, sent the fol
lowing dispatch to that paper one day last
week :
Popular Fkki.ino. Last night, when the
President visited the National Theatre, some
one called for three cheers, but failed to
elicit a response.
Occurring where this did, It cannot but be
regardort as tho fatal handwriting tn the
wall. How true it is of Grant that
"Yesterday he might have etooJ agaiust the
world,
Now none so poor to do him reverence."
Thk Chairman of the Democratic State
Central Committee has issued the fallowing
call for the meeting of the State Convention,
to nominate candidates for Auditor General
and Surveyor General:
Heaixjoartkhs Democratic State Com
mittke of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
April 21, 1871. Tbo delegates chosen to
tho Democratic State Convention will as
Horrible in the Chamber of the Llouae of Kep
resentatives, at Harrisburg, on Wednesday,
May 24th, 1871, for the purpose of nomina
ting candidates for Auditor General and
Surveyor General, and for the consideration
of matters relating to the organization of the
party and the advancement of its principles.
The convention will be called to order at 10
o'clock, a. m. By order of the State Com
mittee. W. Mdichlku.
- Chairman.
About as cool and barefaced an attempt
to swindle the treasury as we remember ever
to have heard of, was made by a Radical
from Michigan, two horns befor the final
adjournment of Congress. A special elec
tion was very recently held In one ef the
Congressional districts of that State to fill a
vacancy caused by the election of Sir. Ferry,
a member of the House, to the U. S. Senate.
The district being strongly Republican, a
loyal man by tho name of Foster was elect
ed. So anxious was he to make a nice
thing out of it, that without even waiting
for his eredentials, ho left his homo in hot
haste and arrived at Washington on the
evening before Congress adjourned. On the
next day, and only two hours before Congress
ceased to exist, a Radical member from New
York modestly asked that Foster should be
sworn In. When the Speaker asked for his
certificate of election he was Informed that
Fester had not thai convenient document
with him, but that it was well known that
Le had been elected. "Tho House failed to
tee it in that light, and very properly refused
to admit him on hearsay evidence. It was
a very smart dodge on the part of Foster to
attempt to pocket his pay for tho entire
Kessiou, fur merely occupying his Beat two
htntrs. His little mistake In this Instance
will teach hi;n that when he returns next
December he must not forget his papers.
Hutler and Fnrnsuorlb.
The closing hour of the late Session of
Congress was signalized, as well as disgraced,
by a vulgar personal controversy between
Butler and Farnsworlh (both high prie-tsin
the Radical synagogue) that could only be
paralleled by a wholesale indulgence in pure
billingsgate by two hags In a New York or
London Fish market. Farnsworth has been
after Hutler for more than a year with a
sharp stick, exposing and holding up to
public infamy his plundering and rapacity,
while he (Butler) was connected with the
army, as well as since he has been in Con
gress. On tho occasion referred to, Butler
Lad obtained the consent of the Uousa to
make a personal explanation in reference to
the difficulty between himself and Garrett
Davis in the Sonate chamber, a few weeks
ago, at which time Senator David pronounced
him to bo "the universally recognized black
guard, coward and scoundrel in the United
State." Having disposed of the unpleas
antness between himsalf and the Kentucky
Senator in bis usual blustering and insolent
manner, Butler proceeded to make a gc-.ieral
defense of his character for honesty and in
tegrity, and especially to vindicate himself
against the charge of rank dishonesty and
swindling which Farnsworth, an a former
occasion, had made against him as Treasurer
of the Asylum for Disabled Soldiers. Farns
worth, in reply, dealt tho Massachusetts
Bob Acres the following stunning blow aDd
thus sent the noisy braggart to Coventry :
"That if that transaction, and tho testU
mony given by Butler before the Committee
on Military Affairs, at tho last session, were
before any petitjury in the United States it
would convict him (Butler) of embezzlement
and perjury."
Farnsworth beir tho judge and hiving
the evidence before him, the picture ha ha
drawn cf the acknowledged leader cf the
Radical party in the House, and the confi
dential guide and counsellor of Grant, true
to life though it bo, is not very pleasant to
ix-ntemplate.
Tlie Apportionment II III,
Contrary to general expectation, tho com.
mittee of conference on the Apportionment
bill, after several fruitless attempts to ar
rive at a satisfactory agreement, made a re
port to their respective Houses on yesterday
week, which was promptly adopted. In
the Senate the vote stood 27 in favor of the
the report to 4 againBt it, and la the House
67 for to 30 against it. The bill as passed
will be found in another column. There is
no more difficult and embarrisiog duty in
our State legislation than the preparation
and passage of a fair and just apportionment
bill. That a perfectly satisfactory bill has
ever heretofore been passed, is contrary to
all experience. Some counties that are
Democratic and others that are Republican,
must, from their peculiar location, be denied
what their electors naturally claim to be their
just and equitable representation. The pres
ent bill is unfair in two particulars. It at
taches a close and doubtful county like
Perry to the strong Radical county of Dau
phin for three members. Dauphin should
have had two members on a deficiency of
2,000 taxables and Perry one on a deficien
cy of 1.600. If Warren was entitled to a
separate member, surely Terry, which con
tains almost 1,000 more taxablos than War
ren, was unquestionably entitled to the same
favor. The worst feature in the bill, is
the monstrous and unnatural union of Wash
ington, Beaver and Butler for four members.
No valid defence can be made in favor
of this connection. If Crawford county,
with a deficiency of about 8.000, is to elect
one Senator, who will maintain that Wash
ington, with a deficiency of a little more
than 4,000, was not fairly entitled to two
representatives. Butler aud Beaver ought
each to have had one. The true principle
that ought to underlie any fair Apportion
ment bill is, that where a Republican con
stituency is given either a Senator or a Rep
resentative on a large deficiency, the like
measure of excessive justice aught to bo
meted out to a Democratic district, for pre
cisely the same reason. Bui even with the
two objections referred to, the bill is as just
as could have been expected under all the
circumstances. It is a vast improvement on
the infamous gerrymander of 18C4, or the
unjust and iniquitous bill which was passed
by the Radicals through the House during
the prasent session. It is claimed, and we
believe correctly, that taking the vote for
Governor in 1809 as the basis, the bill will
give the Radicals a majority cf one in the
Senate and surintlie House. Where parties
are so evenly balanced, the certain effect will
be to compel the nomination of tho most
competent men a consummation most de
voutly to be wished, in view of the bitter
experience of the p.ist seven years. That
an Apportionment bill approaching so near
to fairness as th!a one does, was passed at all,
is due to the manly and determined stand
taken by the Democratic members of the
Senate, from which no threats could drive
them. They are entitled to the sincere
thanks and generous confidence of the Dem
ocracy of tho State.
Wk publish below the Apportionment bill
as agreed upon by the committee of con
ference and adopted by both branches of the
Legislature :
6E3ATOS8.
Philadelphia
Chester and Delaware
Montgomery
Bucks and Northampton
Berks
Lancaster
Schuylkill
Lenigb and Carbon ....
Dauphin and Lebanon
Luzerne, Monroe and Pike
Bradford, Susquehanna, Wayne and Wy
oming i
Columbia, Lycoiuiny, Montour & Sullivan 1
Cameron, McKean, Potter and Tioga 1
Snyder, Perry, Northumberland & Union.. 1
bunion, vjamoria, oieariieid ana Elk
Cumberland and Franklin
Adams and York
Bedford, Fultoc, Blair and Somerset.......
Centre, Juniata, .Mifflin and Huntingdon
Allegheny, of whom two are to be elected
in 1871, and one inJS73 .'.
Indiana and Westmoreland.-
Fayette and Greene
Beaver, Butler and Washington
Clarion, Armstrong, Jefferson and Forest.
Lawrence, Mercer and Venango
Crawford
Erie aud Warren
BOISE OV REPBESKNTATIVII.
Adams llDclawaie. . .
Allegheny .outside of Erie
PittHbuasr.
5, Elk. Cameron and
The let.2d,3J,4tb,
5th, Cth, 7th. bih,
9ih and 14th wdi.
of the city of Pitts
burgh 1
The 10th, 11th, I2-.h,
13th.15th.16th, 17th,
Irth. 19th, 20th,
21st. 22d. and 23d
wards of the city
of Pittsburgh 1
Armstrong 1
Beaver, Butler and
Washington 4
Bedford aud Pulton I
Berks 3
Blair 1
Jefferson 1
Fayette 1
Franklin l
Greene j
Huntingdon 1
Indiana 1
Juniata and Mifflin 1
Lancaster 3
Lawrence. l
Lebanon 1
Lehigh. 2
Luzerne 4
Montgomery 2
Mercer 1
Northampton 2
Northumberland and
Montour . 9
Bradford.
Bucks. . . ,
X. Philadelphia 18
2: Pike and Warn.
Cambria.
1
Potter and McKean
Carbon and Monroe 1
Schuylkill
Snyder aud Union
Centre
Chester
2 j Somerset. . . .
Clearfield 1
Clarion nnd Forest 1
Clinton, Lycoming &
Suliivau 2
Columbia
Crawford 2
Cumberland 1
Dauohin and Perry 3
Susquehanna & Wy-
oming
Tioga
Venango
Warren.
Westmoreland..
York
Nevkr Knows to Fail. When you
come to a farmer who has tumbled down
fences, rickety barn, slab sided hogs, dilapi
dated cattle and spavined horses, you can
bet your bottom dollar that that man takes
no paper. His wife becomes uninteresting,
and his children grow up in ignorance. lie
sells his crops at less than half what they
are worth, becomes soured of life, gets the
dyspepsia and sinks into an untimely grave.
The President has issued a proclamation
convening the Senate in executive session on
May 10th, to receive and act unon such
communications as may be made" to it by
the executive. The purpose for which the
special session is called, is understood to be
the treaty concluded by the Joint High
Commission, now in session at Washington
Address l;y Democratic Itleiu- 1
bers of Congress. j
We direct the attention of our readers to
the address issued by the Democratic mem
bers of Congress, which will bo found in full
below. It Is an able and well written pro
duction, and clearly sets forth the sins of
commission as well as these of omission of
the present national administration tinder
the weak and inefficient leadership of Grant.
It will repay a careful perusal :
Washington, April 20. 1871.
Our presence and official duties at Wash
ington have enabled us to become acquainted
with the action and designs of those who
control the Radical party, and we feel called
upon to utter a few words of warning against
the alarming strides they have made towards
centralization of power in the hands of Con
gress and the Executive. The time and
attention of the Radical leaders has been
almost wholly directed to devise such legis
lation as will, in their view, best preserve
their ascendency, and no regard for tho wise
restraints imposed by the Constitution, has
checked their reckless and desperate career.
The President of the United States has been
formally announced as 'a candidate for re
election. The declarations of his selfish
supporters have been echoed by a subsidized
press, and a discipline of party has already
made adhesion to his personal fortunes, the
supreme test of political fealty. The parti
zau legislation, to which we refer, was de-
creed and shaped in secret caucus, where
the exfremest counsels always dominate and
was adoped by a subservient majority, if
not with tho intent, certainly with the effuct
to place in the hands of the President power
to command his own nomination, and to
employ the army, navy and militia at his
sole discretion, as a means of substrving his
personal ambition. When the tad expe
rience of the last two years, so disappointing
to the hopes and generous confidence of the
country, is considered in connection with
the violent utterances and rash purposes of
lhos.e who control the Presided t's policy; it
: hoi turprising mat me graveut apprelien
bions for the future peace of the nation
should be entertained. At a time when
labor is despised, and every material interest
is palsied by oppressive taxation, tho public
offices have been multiplied beyond all pre
cedent to serve as instruments in the perpet
uation of power. Partizanship is the only
test applied to the distribution of this vast
patronage. Honesty, fitness and moral
worth are openly discarded in favor of truck
ling submission and dishonorable compliance.
Hence enormous defalcations and widespread
corruption have followed the natural conse
quences of this pernicious system. By the
official report of the Secretary of the Treas
ury, it appears that after deduction of all
proper credits, many million of dollars
remain due from Fx-Collecters of Internal
Revenue, and tlat no proper diligence has
ever been used to collect them. Reforms in
the revenue and -postal system, which all
experience demonstrates to te necessary to
a fiugal administration of the government,
as well as a measure of relief to an over
burdened people, have been persistently
postponed, or artfully neglected. Congress
now adjourns without having even attempted
to reduce taxation, or to repeal the glaric
impositions by which industry U crushed
and impoverished. The treasury is over
flowing, and an excess of $80,000,000 of
revenua is admitted, and, yet, instead of
some measure of present relief, a barren aud
delusive resolutitn is passed by the Senate,
to consider the tariff and excise systems here
after, as if the history of broken pledges and
pretended remedies furnished any better
assurance of future legislation, than expe
rience has done in the past. Ship-building
and the carrying trade, once sources of
national pride and prosperity, now languish
under a crushing load of taxation, and near
ly every other business interest is struggling
without profit to maintain itself.
Our agriculturalists, while paying heavy
taxos on' all they consume, either to the
government or the monopolize, find the
prices fur their owo products so reduced
that honest labor ie denied its reward, and
industry is prostrated by invidious discrim
ination. Nearly 200,000,000 acres of public
lands which should have been reserved for
the benefit of the people, have been voted
away to g iant corporations, neglecting our
soldiers, and enriching a handful of groedy
speculators and lobbyists, who are thereby
enabled to exercise a most dangerous and
corrupting influence over State and Federal
legislation. If the c ireer of those conspira
tors bo not checked, the downfall of free
government is inevitable, and wiih it the
elevation of a military dictator on the mins
of the Republic.
Under pretense of passing laws to enforce
tho Fourteenth Amendment and for other
purposes, Congress has conferred the most
despotic power upon the Executive, and
provided an official machinery by which the
liberties of the people are menaced, and the
sacred light of local self-government in
States is ignored, if not tyranically over
thrown. Modeled upon the Sedition laws so
odious in history, they are at variance with
all the sanctified theories of an institution,
and the construction given by Rtdical inter
preters to the Fourteenth Amendment, is, to
me the language of an eminent Senator (Mr.
Trumbull) ..f Illinois, "an annihilation of
the States." Under the last enforcement bill,
the Executive may, in his discretion, thrust
aside the government of any State, suspend
the writ of habeas corpus, arrest its Governor,
imprison or disperse its legislature, silence
its judges, and trample uown its people
under the armed heal of his troops. Nothing
is left to the citizen or the State which can
any longer be called a right. All is changed
into mere sufferance. Our hopes fvr redress
are in the calm good sense, and the sober
second thought of the American people. We
call upon them to be true to themselves and
their posterity, and disregarding party
names aud minor differences, to insist upon
a decentralization of power, and the restitu
tion of Federal power within its just and
proper limits, leaving to the States that con
trol over domestic affairs which is essential
to their happiuess and tranquility and good
government. Everything that malicious
ingenuity could suggest has been done to
irritate the people of tho Middle and South
ern States. Gross and exaggerated charges
of disorder and violence owe their originto
the mischievous minds of political managers
in the Senate and House of Representatives,
to which the Executive ha6, we regret to
say, lent his aid and thns helped to inflame
tho popular feeling. In all this course of
hostile legislation and harsh resentment, no
word of conciliation, of kind encouragement,
or fraternal fellowship, has ever been spoken
by the President or Congress to the people
of the Southern States. They have been
addressed only in the language of proscrip
uon. We earnestly entreat our fellow-citizens,
in all parts of the Union, to spare no
effort to maintain peace and order, to care-
lui.y protect the lights of every citizea, to
preserve kindly relations among all men,
and to discountenance and discourage any
violation of the rights of any portiorTofV tho
people, secured under tho Constitution, or
anyjof its amendments. Let us, in conclusion,
earnestly begjof you not to aid the present
attempts of the Radical partisans to stir up
strife in tho land, to renew the issues of the
war, obstruct the return of peace and pros
perity to the Southern States, because it is
thns that they seek to divert the attention of
the country from the corruption and extrav
ieaoce in their administration of public
affairs, and the dangerous and profligate
attempts they are making towards the re
election of a centralized military government.
In thm five years of peace following the war,
the Radical administration have expended
&1, 200.000. 000 on ordinary purposes alone,
being within $200,000,000 of the aggregate
amount spent for the same purposss, in war
and in peace during the seventy-one years
preceeding June 30, 1861, including in
either case the aum paid upon principal or
interest of the public debt. It is trifling
with the intelligence of the people for the
Radical leaders to pretend that this vast
sum has been honestly expended. Uun
dreds of millions of it have been wantonly
squandered. The expenditures of the gov
ernment for the fiscal year ending June 30,
1861, were only $62,000,000; while for
precisely tho Bamo purposes, civil list, army,
navy, pensions and Indians, Si 64,000.000
were expended during tho fiscal yoar ending
June SO, 1870. No indignation can be too
stern, and no scorn too severe for the asser
tions by rtnscruplous R-idical leaders that
the great Democratic and Conservative party
of tho Union, has or can have sympathy
with disorders or violence in any part of
the country, or in the deprivation of any
man of his rights under the Constitution. It
is to protect and perpetuate the rights
which every freamao chooses ; to revive in
all hearts the feelings of friendship, affection
and harmony, which are the best guarantees
of law and order; and to throw around the
humblest citizen, wherever he may b the
protecting JR'is of those safeguards of per
sonal liberty which the fundamental laws of
the land assume, that we invoke the aid of
all good men in the work of peace and recon
ciliation. We invite their generous co-operation,
irrespective of all former differences
of opinion, so that the harsh voice of discord
may be silenced ; that a new and dangerous
sectional agitation may be checked ; that
tho burdens of taxation, direct or indirect,
may be reduced to the lowest point consis
tent with good faith to every just, national
obligation, and with a strictly economical
administration of the government, and that
the States may be restored in their integrity
and true relations to our Federal Union.
Signed by tho Democratic Senators and
members of the House.
Coal and Congress.
What Mr. Knapp, the convicted burglar
of London, sighed and waited for but died
without tho sight the monopolists in coal
have obtained. Mr. Knapp wished to be
let alone, but a pitiless policeman and a
heartless judge and jury interfered with him
and sent bim to Australia. The authors of
the corner in coal, thanks to the complais
ance of Congress, are released from the dan
ger for an.uther year. The House, indeed,
repealed the duty on coal. But the Senate
was too busy to discuns it. The absorbing
business of that body was the Ku Klux bill,
of which the pretext was that it was needed
to protect the lives of American citizens in
the South.
Yet, while tho Senate was displaying this
solicitude for the lives of Southern men,
mtn, women, and children were dying in
New York because they could not afford to
buy coal. If a commission were appointed
to investigate the condition of the poor of
New York, as a commission has been ap
pointed to investigate the condition of the
poor of thoSouth.it would be found that
the sudden rise in the pricu of coal had kill
ed fifty people in this city during January
and February for every person whom the Ku
Klux had killed in the South during the
whole year if, indeed, it ever killed anybody.
If foreign coal had been free a year age the
high price of coal, and. what is even worse,
the sudden and capricious rise in the pi ice
of coal, could not have been brought about
last winter. If coal were free now we
would be secure from the repetition of the
"corner" next year. The Sonata refuses to
free coal. Upon the Senate, therefore, be
the blood of the starving poor murdered in
New York last winter by its connivance.
To say that coal could suddenly be put up
and kept up to tho prices of last winter if
foreign coal were free is an insult to our
intelligence. It is declaration that a com
bination embracing hundred of operators
and dealers in coal could be managed as suc
cessfully as a combination embracing only
three great corporations. Uutil that declar
ation is made good, the misery, tho sickness,
and the death which dear coal has wrought,
and tho plunder of the whole north to the
extent of twenty million of dollars for the ben
efit of three great and rich coal companies,
will be laid at the door of the men who have
refused to make cal cheap by allowing free
trade in it. N. Y. World.
SintMER Mebtino of Statk Editoeial
Association. Arrangements are being per
fected for holding a Summer meeting of the
Editorial Association at Williamsport. The
time fixed upon is tho second Wednesday of
June. Just at that season the country will
be most attractive, and a trip such as is
proposed cannot fail to be full of pleasure.
It is probable that an excursion will be
made to Watkin's Glenn, in the State of
New York, which is said to be one of the
most beautiful spots in the Unitod States.
Arrangements will be made with the differ
ent railroads of the State, by which editors
will bo passed free, with ladies accompany
ing there. The meeting will bo one of a
social rather than a business character, and
the prospect is that it will be largely attend
ed. The Democratic Editorial Association
meets at Bellefonte on tho second Tuesday
in June, and it is understood that it will ad
journ iu time to allow members to join the
State Editorial Association at Williamsport.
Lancaster Intelligencer.
Thb five years rule of the carpet-baggarB
in the South, now happily drawing to a
close, has almost impoverished that section.
North Carolina has been plunged into a debt
of $19,000,000 ; Georgia into a debt of $40.
000,000.; Florida, $5,000,000; South Caro
lina, nearly $20,000,000; Louisiana. $12,
000.000 ; Arkansas. $5,000,000 ; Mississip
pi, $.000,000; Texas, $7,000,000; Ala
bama. $5,000,000 ; Virginia, $33,000,000;
and Tennessee, $36 .000.000. Here is a debt
of nearly $200,000,000. most of which is
due to the corruption and speculation of
the characterless adventurers who have had
possession of the Southern State govern
ments since the close of the war.
The Joint Commission of twenty-one ap
pointed in the Senate and House to investi
gate the condition of the South, have ad
journed to May 17, when they will re-assemble
to decide on the programme which is to
bo pursued. Some of the committee favor
making two trips South, one this spring and
another in the fall, while others prefer to
remain and have witnesses brought before
them. Ono proposition is to divide tho com
mittee into seven sub -commit tees, and go
through tho South at once. . There have
been $40,000 already appropriated, and at
least $60,000 more will be required for tho
eommitteo'fi expenses.
Political and ISc.ws Items.
-A Poughkeepsie lady has been badly
poisoned in the hands by wearing green kid
gloves.
Pennsylvania has the largest assessed
valuation of real and personal estate of any
State in the Union $1,634,219,936.
The General Cluseret so active now in
perturbing the city of Paris, was a Radical
political soldier in this country duriug the
war, serving as an aide de camp to General
Fremont.
One of the mills of the Rome, N. Y.,
Iron Works was destroyed by fire on Sunday
morning, involving a loss of $150,000, on
which there was an insurance to the amount
of $100,000.
J. A. Heistand, editor of the Lancaster
Examiner, has been appointed by the Presi
dent, Naval Officer at Philadelphia, in place
of General Baxter, whose term expired a
few days ago.
A Providence paper-says : "Thirty
black snakes were discovered in a quarry at
Westerly, ono day last week, and killed.
The largest of them measured nearly four
feet in length."
The miners of both the Schuylkill and
Lehigh regions are coming to terms, and the
resumption has already assumed such a char
acter as to warrant the belief that it will
be general in the course of a fuw days.
The Nashville Banner tells a strange
story of two beautiful and accomplished
daughters of a Southern planter, who fled to
Brazil after the war, being held as slaves,
having been Bold to pav their father's debts
of $1,200.
A woman on trial last week in Reading
Ta., on a charge of murdering her son, a boy
ten years of age, was acquitted, it being un
expectedly proved that tho boy is alive and
well. Circumstantial evidence was strongly
against her.
During a thunder-storm on Friday, a
flasih of lightning exploded several boxes of
nitre-glycerine in the Hoosac Tnonel. killing
the superintendent mason, Wm. Dunn. T.
W. Ryecroft and Robert Roberts. Two other
men were injured.
Some miscreant sot Cro to the stairease
In a public school at Birmingham, Tenn., a
few days since, while there were five hun
dred children in the building, whose mems
of escape would tiavo thns been cut off. For
tunately the fire was soon discovered and
extinguished.
A negro national convention Is called
to meet in St. Louis September 22. The
purpose of the meeting is to adopt some
particular day as a black Fourth of July,
as the negroes in different localities are now
observing different days in commemoration
of their enfranchisement.
Dr. J. Newton Evans, of Ilatborongh,
Montgomery conaty, has a cow which he
purchased a 'year ago fur a hundred and
twenty-six dollars. Since tho first of May,
1870, she made two hundred and fifty-two
pounds of butter, besides supplying the
owner's family with milk and cream.
Benjamin Franklin is said to be the name
of the only pensioner in this country who
has lost both legs and arms in tho military
service. A private in the Second Minnesota,
he was wounded during the rebellion not less
than twenty times; and yet, what there is
left of the poor fellow scer.13 to have good
health.
C. A. Treach, at Lightstreet, CofumbU
county, baa built an officentirely of paper.
The paper was manufactured in his mill ex
pressly for the houe, and is a heavy barilla
The roof and siding, inside and outside, is
paper, and the only wood in the structure U
in the floor, doors and windows. The house
is an experiment.
It is reported that the English members
of the Jiont High Commission have finally re
ceived information from their government.
that it approves the terms of the settlement
of all disputed points bef.. re the Commission
They will now proceed to draft treaties to be
submitted to both governments. What tho
terms are has not been revealed.
The Ashland. LOhio, Times heralds a
wonder. On the farm of Joshua Lord, jr.,
has, been born a queer calf. It has two dis
tinct mouths, four nostrils and four eyes.
Two of the eyc3 are in the front part of the
forehead and two are in tho natural place.
It eats rapidly from a trough, and hopes are
entertained that it will live.
According to the latest decision of the
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, a person
furnishing supplies for a new building canm t
secure himself or obtain a lien on tho build
ing unless he first has a distinct understand
ing with the builder and owner of the premi
ses. Otherwise he cannot collect one cent
for whatever he may furnish for tho struc
ture. Miss Mather and Miss Smith, of East
Had Jam, Conn., with eighteen other women,
applied to be made voters, but thev were re
fused. Notwithstanding the refusal the two
mentioned tried to vote at the recent election ,
and their votes being refused, will appeal to
courts and claim the right under the fifteenth
amendment. Miss Mather is a RepublicBn
and Miss Smith a Democrat.
Information wanted of James Taylor,
an insane man aged about fifty six years,
about 5 feet 8 inches in height, had rather
long hair, partly gray, wore brown coat,
gray pants, soft black hat. Said Taylor
WAtidered away from Ilillsville, Lawrence
county, Pa., on Fiiday 31st ult. Direct'in
formation to Mr. Wm. Taylor, Ilillsville,
Lawrence county, Pa. Papers please copy.
It is now reported that Forrester, the
supposed murderer of Mr. Nathans, of New
York.has been arrested in Gettysburg. While
it is to be hoped that this is really the fact,
il will be well enough to wait further develop
ments before accepting it as such. There
have been so many arrests and so many ca
nards inregard to capture of the assassin that
no dependence whatever is to be placed in
them. ,
Recently, Georgo M. Ellis died in
Chester county, Pa., in his 92 1 year. He
is reported to havo had the consumption
nearly all his life, his physician having as
sured hira, before he was 20, that he could
not survive the next two years. Ellis was
so pale and thin for forty years previous to
his decease that he was known as the walk
ing skeleton ; and yet he is believed to have
been, with two exceptions, the oldest man
in the county.
Mr. Charles Rupp, merchant, who re
sides about four miles south of Stick's tav
ern, in Gidorua township, just acrosa the
line in the State of Marylaud, says the York
True Democrat,:has a young son, now nine
months old, that weighs, forty-six pounds.
He is quite a curiosity in tho baby line, and
is visited by large numbers of persons.
His head is almost as largo as that of a full'
grown man and his arms as thick as a boy's
of twelve years old. He is in perfect health
and growing finely.
Another great estate in Eurono is look
ing about for an owner. The man wanted is
one Frederick-William Keyser. a German.
He served in the Union army during the re
bellion, was taken prisoner, and when last
heard from was paroled and was lvin dan
gerously sick at Wilmington, North Carolina
The estate, of which he is one of tho heirs
is valued at a million and a half !nlla i
it is said that unless Kevser can bo found or
certain proof of his death obtained, it will be
under the German law, eeventv vears befm-
it can bo divided.
A Wedding and a Funeral. The At
takapas (La.) Register brings ua this sad
narration :
The ways of Providence are inscrdtable.
Men come and go like leaves in the wind.
God is merciful, and his decrees are all wise.
We must bow in patient submission. This
week we are giveu a story in two chapters,
t-hort, and relating to tho changes of life.
Read, and profit thereby. "In the midst of
life we are in death. "
Married. On Thursday evening, the Sth
of April, at tho residence of David Berwick,
on Bayou Sale, Dr. Charles R. Fassit of Cen-
treville, to Miss Jenny, youngest daughter
of the late R bert M. Royster.
Vied. Suddenly at the residence of David
Berwick, on Bayou Sale, on Monday night,
April 12, Dr. Charles R. Fassit, one of St.
Mary's most honored and respected citizens.
His remains were followed to the grave by
a very large number of our citizens and his
brother masons, in whose beautiful grounds
he was buried.
Mr. Fassit was in Centreville on Monday,
cheerful, hopeful, and in the highest spirits.
He remarked to his partner, Dr. Allen, that
he would take a dose of dydrate cf chloral,
as he did not sleep well. On retiring to bis
room at night, he mixed a dose of the salt,
swallowed it. and on attempting to get into
bed he said to his wife: "I fear I have
taken the wrong medicine ; I feel very sick."
and fell dead by the side of his bed. The
bottle, properly labeled, was found to con
tain cyanide of potash. He had taken the
wrong bottle, by mistake the most deadly
poison. May the Great Ruler of all things,
who tempers the wind to the shorn lamb, be
merciful to his afflicted, heart broken young
widow.
Mrs. EMen Giles wants information of
her father, Wm. Elija Wcedeti, lately from
England, who left Boston on the 2d of Feb
ruary, for Pennsylvania, for the purpose of
establishing or engaging in a foundry. Mrs.
Giles and her family arrived in Boston too
late to meet her fil ter, and is now in Pitts
burgh with two sick children and no friends.
Her . present address is No. 1C9, Spring
Alley, Pittsburgh, Pa. Pennsylvania ex
changes will confer a favor fey publishing
this notice.
Ufa' gdrfrtisfmcnts.
THE SCHOOL !
More largely patronized by Younsr Men than
nnyottn-r for a Hiif-in'.'s or Academic Educa
tion is Uaptmiin College, Poiig-hkepsie, N.Y. It
is the ol'imt, btt, .!' rcct-mnalilc 1'rartieal School
in the United State?!, and the oniv one providing
situations for (Graduates, lief c-i- to patrons iu
every Suite. Addr-fs
11. G. KASTMAX. L.L.D.. President.
H0LLIDAY3EURG SEMINARY,
HOF.MDAYSBl It. PA.
BL00MINGT0N (ILL) NURSERY.
19th Year. tuO Acres. Vi Greenhouses. I-ary-e?t
Assortment all sizes. Uest itick!" I,ow
Prices! Would you know 'What, When, How
to Plant? Fruit, Shade, Everjrretti Trees, Hoot
Grafts, Seedlings, Osiifre Plants, Apple Seed.
Karly Kose Potatoes. Suriils.Kses. Greenhouse
and Garden Plants, &c. Flowrr nti Vege
table SerI! Finest, 15cf-t Collection Sorts
and q mil it . Send 10 cents for New. J Uustriitod',
Descriptive Catalogue ."0 pages. Send stumn'
Er. Crock's
or
A remedy which has been testeo
for 10 year, anrl proved in thou9
nds of ea-es, eapuhle cf curing iL
i'.soisss tia Tir:st zi Lzz-i; per
lorrmng ninny remnrkabie cures
merits u timl from all who are suf
fcrimj from sini:l:r nuVrtions ana
VHtnly M-(k:n; relief. TTill v-i It
treses prsTcv. 7:1 inn tei2 cr'ei 1U5I
Citjli:i C;;j. The PrtiMs snr it cures them all
Autu- JU relief n-id euro-of it are mnrve'oiis.
aKacsita. Krory mrreror will find relief and cur
......... i.icz.3 require on.y a few dO!es.
. , . . ..... . , . ..'u. i L) in ( ,4 llftuniUll
Livor :5f!:V-Moi etleeti Ye regulator ot this organ
kSjejsa. Its IiHnlthy action on tne stomach cures it.
Aipo:::sr. It is health-giving and nppetite restoring.
"r-zir7Ji-i,-"L'v'OT,on,h''rn is niarkedand prompt
12. C-:CZ-3 cr TA2 is rich in the medicinal
ii n-iinvnirs ana inTirnmiM tho iraf.m
2
UMhtie.i of Tar, combined with Tcgetal ln inero
icnts of undouhted valua. whi,-h
passed, not only for he complaints enumerate,!
but u ripiiij nstres eiinitei rresstS, cleanses th
Stomach, relaxes the Liver and puts them to work,
cnuses the food to dige-t, nnd makes pure blood
and begets a vivacity nrpreciated by both sound aiu)
VX .'h Jf,'V'".ir' rtIlc,-j ' ny way, we know ifyou
try the fc-'e-giTisg tsals prspsrtisi of I.r. Crook's Wine
ui ir, jou will au.i your testimony to it.s ?nl
vame m correcting anv " ills tht ' flesh is heir
jw. .v (.,t-L, i,,,,, i,y kikVA3 .ujZi t C-3. Sold b-
Lruggigta everywhere. 7
r:r Cercr-, Ccrcfsj Ts:ra. Sc-c.'slew
tizeitej d ths Ires, or Scrmni ,
lelieniiire on n ritr.-mA
anion or the Mood, take It. Crsck'l C-a-
f7 5f r:i9 st- U 1S combined
w ith the best tonic preparations of iron
tvlcw1nV,and thtlst Alterative and
blood runfier made. Ccina r.:r t'ici.
Try one Pottle. Sold bylgTT
Prepared onlv br
. CLTTtS ZZ:. It C3..Sir.a. CL
Uk tub uf.i iionsi: iowm:it.-o
and 40 packs, lied Horse Trade Mark.) Horses
cured of G'kuidrrs. Aaron Snyder's. U. 3. Assist
ant Assessor, Mount -F.tnn, Pa. ; C Paeon's Liv
ery and Exchange Stable, Sunlmrv, Pa. Hursts
cured of V minder. Wolf & Wilhclui's, Dnuville,
Pst. ; A. Ellis's, Merchant, Washing-ton villo. Pa. ;
J. Nice Sloanaker's, Jersey Shore, Pa. Horse
cured of lxing l rcr. Hess it llro.'s. Pewisburg,
Pa. Horxe cured of Colic. Thos. Clingan's. Union
Co., Pa. loas curd of Clioh m. H. Parr's, H. &
A. Cadwjillador's. Milton. Couv cured. lr. Me
Cleery, J. H. McCorinick's, Milton. Pa. Chick
ens cured of Cholera and G'nj cs. Dr. D.T. Krebs',
Watsontow n. Pa.: Dr. U. y. Davis, C. W. Sticker,
John and James Finney, Milton, Pa. Hundreds
more could lio cited whose stock was saved by
using- the lied Horse Towder prepared lv CY
Ri:s IlttOWX. Drugjrist, Chemist and Horse
man, at his Wholesale und ltetail Drug- and
Chemical Emporium, Uroadway. Milton, Pa., to
whom all orders should be addressed.
F0BT$7 PER LINE!
W e will insert an advertisement
In One Hundred and Fift3'-five First-class
Pennsylvania Newspapers!
Including Eleven Dailic
Wo refer to the publisher of this paper, to
whom our responsibility is set free.
TiHiT j-ia:vT ritEK.
Address GEO. P. KOWKLIi A CO.,
Atvrtilnic Asenls,
So. 41 Park Kovr, Nevr York.
FRAGRANT SAP0LIE2TE
Cleans KM Gloves nnd nil kinds or Cloths and
nothing; removes Paint, Grease, Tar. &e . tn
stanttv, without the least injury to the finest
fabric. Sold by Drutrtrista and Fancy Goods
Dealers. FKAti ItANT S APOLI KX E( C, Si Par
clay St., Xew ork, 40 La Salle St., Chicago.
$10
AI AY POIl A 1.1. with Stencil Tools.
Address A. E. Gkaham, Spring-Held, Vt.
Pity the Apple Parer, Corer and Sheer. Price JS.00.
fcOO CIA MOXTH Horse and Carriage furnish
WwtlJ ed. Espouses paid. li. Shaw, Alf red.Mc.
AGENTS! READ THIS!
WK Wild, PAY AGKNTS A KALAKT
OS' 30 PKK WEKK and
or allow a large, commission to sell our new and
wonderful inventions. Address M. WAG X EH
& CO., Marshall, Mich.
c
m m
1
m
And send Twenty-five Cent for a Ticket nnd
draw a Watch, Sewing Machine, Pianc, or gome
articleof value. No blanks. Six for One Dollar.
Address, PACKARD & Co., Cincinnati, Ohio.
VTNKf,AKTIow mde in 10 hours, without
flit drugs. Particulars 10 cents.
F. SAOE, Croinwvll, Conn.
. --.---. j,.-5i c. tea i.iver.
tor. Czili. Eraaf r.cers, tti etftai otany
disease deiieniiire on rir.-crA '
1 , ESE E "VEGETABLE 10rn
1 AO TI,MOXAKY JtAJSA3T. 1870
!wel4 rtaatart roaoir fcr Ce-ts, Cslii. CoMaapieL
JSothmg better." Citleu Uiios. & Co., Poston.
-OF-
13
County,
Art hereby informed that the
Washington Hotel;
7th and Chestnut,
PHILADELPHIA.
lias been refitted and refurni.
Ly the undersigned, and is r.T
open fur guests-with loca
tion central and charge
moderate render
ing it a desira
ble stopping
place for
MERCHANTS,
BUSINESS HEN,
A5D
PLEASURE SEEKERS,
RERIERIBER ! Tlis IL;f; cn
CHESTNUT STREET, at U :
boartfof Business, and but a few s:c:i
from the different places of Ar?..siz.ij.
GEORGE! J. BOL7CN
I'KOPUIETOK,
Of Jioi.TOs's Hotel, IIaukisli k,
and Columbia IIoi?e. Cue JIt
Newspaper
Advertising.
Book of 125 closely printed t rurtf. ;ar-;r .
sued, contains a list of the best' A:n-r:car. .'.!
rcrtisinyr Medium, (rivinir the r.arr.t". nrwj
tions. and full particulars conevrniriz thrift
ing- Daily and Weekly Political ur.i r-c:.;
Newspapers, together with all t!s-e r.s"--larye
circulations, published in the intiTiK '
Pclijrion. Agriculture. Literature, io. 1k
Advertiser, and every person wliocor.tonu
becoming sncb. will llnd tht?. hnek (if
value. .Mailed free to an v mMrcr-s cm n:;: '
25 c ents. K. F. KOtV KM. &. CO., i.t
lishers. Xo. 4ii Park Ttow. Sew York. ,
Tho Pittsburgh (Pn.) leader, in its ivw '
May 29. 170. says : "The firm of C. V. K '
Co., which issues this intereMirp and zt-'-"
book, is the larp-evt and best Ad vertisiKif -V"'-"
cy in the United States, and we can cbw-rf-jJ
recoimnond it fo tfieaftentinn cf i: n
sire to advertise their busines scientific!!?
nnd .Ttciiialiclljr in such a war: that
so as to secure the largest h mount ef ji;t----iJ
for the least expenditure of money."
LN INDIANA COUNTY FAK.M-
AT PRIVATE SALE!
A VALUABLE FARM, situate in I'inet
ship, Indiana county. Pa., three n::if-n -
ftroiifrstow-n. is ottered tor sale cn iw' ii
('(Hiim(i(i!ithiiyttTn;. Tho V . KM coiiTii
A t It K.N of excellent land. !" Arret Wer.
under jrood fence and in a jrc-:! st-i'c',' ci
ration, (40 Aches beintr mcado"-' tnc
covered with n thick irrowtlicf P r'n" f
THE IMPKOVK S b MKM V"'
i . - i.inML- va,'X ii ifh.-. :n
clacs condition. teUjifg' s-VV, i-V V:
PANIC HA UN, 44 f'&Sljl'r
Saw Mux, in fi
runnir.ff
and in trood workinir order. itii ft vc:D
4.V feet thick and of tirst rate .pi.ti;:. . .;
The above described Farm is situate
from the line of the Homer and' !'( -rrj :r.,.
Uoad. now partially uuder conn-net. r! '
and other information apply en tin1 rr-n. ---address
FETF.lt M !A I.Um-1-
l-25.-3m.l Ptronirstowu. I niiiar.a
fALUAIiLE HEAL ESTATK r;
SALE. The undersigned Fxefut-'r;';
Leavv, Esij.. late of I.oretto lioroi:-'--;-.. .
offer at private sale, cn accoir.n:inlani .
A FINE TRACT OF LA?
in Allegheny township. Cambria C'im:-;f
tod on ttie road leading- to i. -''S
obout one mile from i.oretto. con-1"
Acre, fully 4U Acres hchisr l'"';l'
fenced, well "watered anil in a sn'l si
OS
tuation, and havnifr a tirst rs'.i
Pa hn t hereon erected. The liai.mee '';'; ,
is covered with chestnut, oak, su.uMt.a
raluable timber. For terms and i r
niatiou applv to either of the ",,li;','".,,V
MA KG A KET I.E.W . L.;
AUG. WALTKUS. Carr.-..te-Feb.
lS.-tf. Ereeutor of M. 1 J
yALUABLE FARM NEAR LOBETi-
FOR SALE
. f.;:r t-"
Tho subscriber offers lor wi.i "' .,-;.;)
and easv payments, that most ""!- '' hjm.
eel lent FAJtM recently occupied r. ,..,41
JoininirthoPoroujrh of Loretto. cc"'-1;. ', ,v
Acre-ltW.triTnf which are in nly
of cultivation and the naianc 4 ;tir-i-
There is a comfortable H.ur. a iX-j:
an excellent Otrhmd on the prcta--' .-., '-
ui'iiiiuniKviii io ,.. -- . ,-iv''" -
perty. beautifully located, ant ist; ,.;
churches, schools, market, etc. J '",,ini;i
. . , . - . j ..I.,. i m( ,-iniM' -
..1 1 r -.t r if isHi'- "" .
table.
r or icrnis anu on , , ,;,;,
to or address
A. v. ". 1-.)..'
Feb. l$.-tf.
Carrol
1
miMlliri? T AXI) VOll ALl-
J- subscriber offers for sale 01 ' ,
tin terms, 50 Aere of H' "";)lVib lf
Chest township, some seven miles 1 jV),,i
roiitown. Hiu 'tract isci""',.,,!,,-.-,
Linn and Pine Timber, and is wl!,VV,, titer
mile of a Saw Mill. For terms " -uiation
call on or write to -.hNF.R ...
JOHN V ;lriAo--rt
4-l.-tf. St. Ijwreunbn
"Afissns. E. PAUL&Ca'S
-L1J- of Men nd Hoys' PFKI
WP. All cannnt le excelled.
SC. nJ,SfxVr.:
l''"n
for vourselTea. One door a1
Church, Wilraore, Fa
QILK AND VELA 1 '"i,fty
rrr-.r. i.n il'-"
J boundless in variety ru 2 i. 1 11
Just receded by 1 v'liiB-1 1
April 16.-21
1 here are springs of excellent u'.er ;
ent to both houses, and a spl-niid Al 1 l
CI1AHI), comprising the choicest tru A. - -premises.
There is also ft CC.1 h BAM !-