JUL
Cambria Jfneman.
EOE.VDl'RG, PA.
, Thursday Morning, : : Jli.t 27, 1371.
Democratic State Nominations.
I'OH AUDITOR GEKBRiL!
Genekal WILLIAM M'CANDLESS,
Of PhiUulelphia.
von. eciWKYon osmril:
Captaix JAMES If. COOPEIt,
OflLawrence County.
Democratic County 3ioniiiiattns.
Asiembly W. HORACE V.OSE, Johnstown,
l'rothouotary J. K. 1IITE, Ebetislmor.
Amoc te judges j 1 j T T , , v,,f El.oiiM.ur?.
District Attorney W. H.SEC11LI!K, KbeusbV.
Treasurer JOHN t'OX, Oonainaujrli lloroug-n.
Cojn inissioner V. 1). M'CLK LLA N L, Johnst n.
P. H. JJirector JAS. VAUItEN'. Minister Twp.
Auditor W. A. U. LITTLE, Allegheny Twp.
Ebkata. la the communication of "Sol
tero," published on our first page, a portion
of the quotation from St. Paul in regard to
culibacy baa been inadvertently oniittsd,
thus rendering the meaning of the quotation
very inexplicable, to say the least. The en
tire test, at written, and aa it should hare
been printed, read thus : "lie that is with
out a wife is solicitous about the things of
the Lord, how he may pleasa God ; but he
that is with a wife is solicitous about the
things of the world, how h may please his
wife, and he is divided. "
According to the revised table of the
Census Office at Washington, the following
is the aggregato population of all the States
and organized Territories ef the Union :
"White, 33,581,080 ; colored, 4,879,323 ; In
dians, 25,733; Japanese, 55 ; Chinese, C3,
193 ; total, 38.549.9S7. There is evidently
a mistake in regard to the number of Indians.
They amount to at least 350,000. In 18C0
the total white population was 20,957,
,471; total colored, 4,411,830. The popula
tion of the United States is now about equal
to that of the Prussian or German Empire,
which has bean largely increased through
its wars with4Donmark, Austria and France,
and exceeds that of any other civilized
nation in the world, except Russia.
It will be seen from tha following figures
that London Is larger than the eleven most
populous cltie9 of the Uuited States, with
Alleghany city thrown in. Further still,
London contains a,greater population than
thirteen of cur States Arkansas, California,
Connecticut, Delaware. Florida, Kansas,
Minnesota, Nebraika; Nevada, New Hamp
shire, Orcgou, Rhode Island and Vermont,
with the Jive Territories of Arizona, Colorado,
Dakota, Idaho and Montana added thereto :
1. New York.. 937,434 London 3.S33,i3
i. Phila-ra.... c;:,72
3. lirooklyn... 4iS.097
4. St. Louis... 812.W.1
5. Chicago "W.370
C. Hultimoro.. 2H3.0T0
7. IJoston -'."fcl.'.C
f. Cincinnati.. :ils,'."i0
9. X. Orleans.. S-l.t8
10. Sun 1'ran'eo l.V),;trl
11. UutTalo 113,050
Total S.S23,573
Ami Allegheny ,
city, l'u M,lS3
London's excess
1,332
Is obedience to the call of the chairman
of the county committee, the democratic
county convention met in the court room on
last Monday afternoon. A full report of the
proceedings will be found elsewhere. The
convention was a full one, every election dis
trict in the county being represented. The
utmost harmony marked all iU deliberations,
and in that respect it will compare to great
advantage with many similar gatherings that
have preceded it. The ticket placed In nom
ination will be found at our masthead, and
we think we hazard nothing in saying that
it meets with general approbation from tho
democracy of the county. A vast majarity
of the aspirants, together with their respect
ive friends, were of course disappointed at
the decision arrived at, but this has necessa
rily been the case heretofore and will continue
to be hereafter. It is simply the inevitable
result of all nominating conventions. The
democracy of Cambria are deeply impressed
with the great importance to be attached to
the result of the present political campaign
in Pennsylvania, and will do their part in
aiding to achieve a victory that will rescue
the Keystone State from the mire of radical
ism and restore her to the proud political
position she occupied during the better and
purer days of the republic.
Is another column will be found a re
markable letter, written twa days before the
New York riot, by John J. Bond, Grand
Master of the OraDgemen, addressed to Jas.
J. Kelso, Superintendent of Police. It will
be seen that this letter was written for the
xprss purpose of imploring Mr. Kelso to
do precisely what ho afterwards did. after
having consulted Mayor Hall. From Mr.
Band's official relations to the Orange socie
ties, no man could possibly know so well as
he the reality and magnitude of the danger
to be apprehended, if the proposed parade
w,as allowed to take place. It seems that
he had urged the Oracgemen to abandon
their procession, and failing to get their con
sent, he made this earnest appeal to the city
authorities to take the necessary steps for
ite supprewsion. 51 r. Bond himself refused
to take any part ia the procession, and in
view of the terrible and bloody consequences
vrhich he predicted, tha Superintendent of
Fulico issued his order. As the guardian
of life and property and the preserver of the
public peace could he have done less? His
mistake was in afterwards revoking the order
and thus rendering it absolutely necessary
for Governor Hoffman to issue his proclama
tion. If John T. Hoffman had not issued
that proclamation, no man can now conceive
the extent of the appalling and bloody scenes
that would surely have followed. What
unfortunately did occur, would b'ave been
mere child's play when compared with the
dread reality. In view of thia letter and its
solemn warning, how supremely ridiculous
is the stereotyped cant about the so-called
sawed right of parade.
The laadsnlns Power.
That the pardoning power has frequently
bceu unwisely, and in some instances, reck
lessly exercised by some of the lormer Gov
ernors of this State cannot be denied. It is
a high prerogative, vested in the Executive
for wise and humane purposes and ought to
be cautiously and discreetly used. It may
be made to subserve the legitimate ends of
mercy, or it may be perverted into an in
strument dangerous to the peace and good
order of socisty. In the hands of a wise and
prudent man, its exercise is net greatly to
be feared, but when wielded by an Execu
tive so conspicuously vain, weak and un
scrupulous aa John W. Geary, it becomes
an unmixed evil. It will be remembered,
that at the very commencement of hia ad
ministration, he published a ?et of wise and
salutary rules, by which he said he would be
governed in Lis exercise cf the pardoning
power. He wss not in office three months
until he violated every one of them, and
since tha? time they have been practically a
dead letter. Constant complaints have been
made of his. frequent and disgraceful prosti
tution of this high power, and especially in
the city of Philadelphia. Last May, at the
dictation of the notorious William B. Mann,
he pardoned Brill, who had been convicted
of a gross fraud on the ballot-box. Mann
threatened Geary that if he did not pardon
him, he (Mann) would prevent any resolu
tion being pasted by the Radical State Con
vention endorsing Geary's administration,
and Geary surrendered at discretion and is
sued the pardon. For doing so he was un
sparingly denounced by all the respectable
Republican papers in the city. His latest
effort in tha pardon lico is the case of Wil
liam Hart, one of the mosi dangerous char
acters and infamous thieves in Philadelphia.
As u specimen of what the radical press of
that city say about Geary's action in this
case, we publish the following sharp com
ments from the Evening Telegraph :
"Hart, so far from being a man of pre
vious good character, Mndubtrious, quiet and
inoffensive,' as the Governor represents him,
is one of the most notorious scoundrels that
has ever infested this city. Upou his trial
the evidence was most clearly and unmis
takably against him, so that not a single
person in the court room had the slightest
doubt of his guilt. Judge Pierce, who i;ever
gives a very heavy sentence except when
the evidonce is very positive and the crimi
nal one who most richly deserves a severe
puuishment, certainly thought Hart guilty
or he would not have imposed upon hiai the
extreme penalty of the law. Ia face of all
the well-known facts of the case the Gover
nor presumes to liberate llirt, and to start
him again upen a course of depredation, in
the assumption that there was a couepiracy
against him, and because of his good char
acter. If the statements cf the pardon weie
true, why were they not produced upon the
trial 1 and if there was any doubt at all of
Hart's guilt, why were not the Judge and
tho District Attorney consulted before the
pardon was granted ? Not to waste wordi
ou the matter, the granting of this pardon
was a scandalous abuse of power upon the
part of tho Governor, and, in connection
with his other extraordinary performances in
the same Hue. if it proves nctbhig else, it at
least proves conclusively that Jno. W.Geary
is not a fit person to be entrusted with the
responsibilities of such an tfilce as that
which he now fills; and we hope that the
people of this State are by this time so
stiongly convinced of this fact that they will
take good care that after his retirement to
private life he thall never again have au op
portunity to abuse a great public trust or to
disgrace an honorable and responsible of
fice." The Spring Elections.
Having at last seen a copy of the act re
storing the Spring elections, we publish it
below for the information of our readers.
Under the provisions of the law, no elsction
of borough and township officers Tvill take
place at the next October election, but they
will be elected under the old law, which the
act restores, on tha third Iriday in February,
1872, and will enter upon the duties of their
office when the terms of the present officers
expire, which wo believe always took place
about a week after the February election :
Section 1. Be it enacted, fyc. That the
fifteenth section of an act entitled an act
further supplemental to the act relative to
the elections of this Commonwealth, ap
proved April seventeenth, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-nine, be and the
same U hereby repeated, and that in
the year Anno Domini one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-two, and annual!'
thereafter, all elections, for city, ward, bor
ough, township, and elections in the different
cities and counties of said Commonwealth,
shall bo on the days and at the times thoy
were hnld as provided ly law in the differ
ent cities, wards, boroughs, and townships,
in said counties, prior to the seventeenth of
April, Anno Domini one thousaud eight
huudred and sixty-niue, the date of the pas
sage cf tho act aforesaid.
Sso. 2. That the term of the different city,
ward, borough, township and election offi
cers in said counties to be elected at ' the
elections to be held in one thousand eight
Lundred and seventy-two, shall begin when
the terms of such officers heretofore elected
shall expire, and to with such officers annu
ally thereafter as provided by law prior to
tha passage of the act of seventeenth of
April, Anno Domini one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-niue. Provided, the term
of assessors for the present year shall extend
until their successors are duly elected and
qualified pursuant to this act ; Provided fur
ther, this act shall not apply to any elections
provided for by special laws since the pas
sage of the act of April seventeenth, eigh
teen hundred and sixty-nine, and that the
said elections in the county of Clearfield
shall be held ou the last Friday in Decem
ber in each year.
The Pora. The Tope, though eo ad
vanced in years,' is said to be a most excel
lent singer and a most eloquent orator, hav
ing retained all the depth, richness and
sweetness of hia voice, and speaking to-day
as sweetly and sonorously as he did in the
fullness of his youth. His admirers sincere
ly regret that he bo very rarely preaches er
chants the mass ; doing the latter on Christ
mas day and Easter Sunday. A Roman let
ter says that for years he has been expecting
to be assassinated ; that he has had a pre
sentment he would be Blain in the "City of
of the Soul," and that to really covets
martyrdom in the church ; believing that it
would be a fitting close to bis stormy and
troubled career, and insure the canonization
for which he has longed more than for any
earthly honor.
Orangeism.
Every Satuday, tho well-known pictorial
Msgazine of Osgood & Co., being published
in Boston, has an occasional flavor of Radi
cal politics to suit that locality, but it keeps
up a very high literary tone, and on all gen
eral and historical topics is aa impartial as
it is well informed. Some time since, says
The Age, we repudiated the claim of Irish
Orangeism to be considered as identical with
American Protestantism. Wo treated the
assumption as a mere "political dodge."
We are glad to find our judgment reinforced
by the following article in Every Saturday.
It coincides with views which we have here
tofore expressed ; but wo are glad to repeat
them from a literary journal which cannot
bo accused of Democratic proclivities :
It has appeared strange to many Ameri
cans that the projected parade of the Orarjge
societies in New York, on the 12th of July,
should have roused such an extraordinary
display of hatred on tho part of the Catholic
Irish of that city. It was first asked are
not both parties Irishmen ? Alas! no. Or
angemen is the most hateful symbol of the
English and Scotch colonists of Ireland who,
by the aid of the English army, reduced, in
1690 aud 1091. the aboriginal population of
the country to the condition of helots aud
serfs, and for nearly a hundred and forty
years kept this population down, denying
them somo of the commonest civil and re!l
gious rights. The colonists were not a tenth
part of the inhabitants of Ireland. They
were tho "Saxon" masters of millions of Cel
tic bondmen. In the same of Protestant
ism, they confiscated, proscribed, plundered,
oppressed, and killed. Toe distinction as
to religious belief was much, but it might
have Leen overcome ; the distinction as to
race has Dever been effaced. As a geueral
thing, the Protestant and Roman Catholic
Irishmen have be6n separated by as wide a
gulf as that which separates one of oilr front
iersmen from the wild Indian.
"It ia again asked, why should the cele
bratiou of the anniversary of the Battle
of the Boyne excite among the Catholie
Irishmen fiercer feelings of hatred than
the celebration of St. Patrick's Day excites
among Protestant Irishmen, or Protestants
in general ? The answer is, that the Battle
of the Boyne is associated in the minds of
the Celtic Irish with moie than a century of
tyranny, slavery, national humiliation, and
religious prosecution. If instead of celebrat
ing St. Patrick' Day. the New York Catho
lics should celebrate the anniversary of the
Massacre of St, Bartholomew, it would not
more arouse Protestant fanaticism than the
celebration of the Battle of the Boyne excites
the fanaticism of Catholic Irishmen ; for the
Battle of the B yno was a victory of one
race and nation over another, as well as one
form of religion over another. The victors
had no mercy ; and long after every Whig
statesman, and every liberal Tory fctatesman
of England, had united in repealing the laws
which oppressed Ireland, the Orange Socie
ties, only started in 1793, and prescribed by
the law, labored to Jceep alive the passions
which every British administration labored
to allay. The badge of the Orangemeu is,
therefore, to an Irish Celt what the sight of
a red flag or a red shawl would be to a wild
bull.
"Then the essential distinction of Orange
ism, at least in tha British. Isles, is allegiance
to the British Sovereign as well as fidelity
to the Troteitant faith. Though the British
Sovereign repudiates such allegiance, though
every liberal British Protestant considers
Orangeism as the deadliest enemy of tho
pacification of Ireland, it still insists on its
exceptionally enthusiastic loyalty and its
exceptionally fervent Protestantism. Prob
ably tho Orange societies of the United
Statas are composed simply of Protestant
Irishmen, distinguished from the British
and Irish Orange societies as tho Episcopal
Church in this country is distinguished from
the Church in Great Britain. Tho Ameri
can Episcopalian finds no difficulty in sub
stituting in his prayer book the name of the
President of the United States for that of
the Queen ; but the naturalized Catholic
Irishmen believe that no person can be an
Orangeman and at the saaao time an Ameri
can citizen. He would cease, in their view,
to be an Orangeman tho moment he abjures
his allegiance to the British Sovereign. We
bring forward thesa facts, not to justify, but
to explain, the special Irish hatred of Orange
ism. It is much stronger than their lovo of
the Catholic faith. In tha long fight be
tween the parties, in the old country, religion
was repeatedly dishonored by both, and, in
deed, was brought in merely to give a kind
of consecration to cupidity and tyranny cn
tho one side, and lawlessness and ferocity
on tha other.
"We have not the remotest notion that
Orangemen of this country stand for the
two prominent Orange ideas. Why then do
they assume their name 1 Are they British
subjects 1 Then they ouht to know that
the name they adopt is detested by every
eminent British statesman, Radical, Whig,
or Conservative. Are they bigoted Protest
ants, desirous of limiting the rights of the
Roman Catholics? Then they ought to
know that they live in a country where tho
equality of all eects and all churches in the
eye of the law is a fundamental principle
and fact. But they are neither. Why then
do they call themselves Orangemen 1 As
Irish Protestants and naturalized citizens of
the United States, they would excite little
animosity even from tha most passionate
and ignorant naturalized Celt.
"We are opposed to the introduction hero
of feu ls originally generated under essential
ly different.social conditions, in tho countries
from which our foreign-born citizens como.
Mere naturalization will not ruake such per
sons Americans ; to accomplish this, requires
that the vindictive passions which cling to
Old World memories shall be extinguished.
To stimulate this passion u a serious offense
against the principle of American citizen
ship. In view of what hss takeu place in
New York, and independent of tho action
of the authorities relative thereto, it is a
question worthy of serious consideration,
whether we should allow our streets to be
come the arena on which brutal and igno
rant foreigners, whether Catholic Irishmen
or fanatical Orangemen, shall display their
Old World hatred toward eack other. We
can see no question of liberty involved in
the judicious prohibition here of the ostenta
tious parading of animosities engendered
elsewhere." Every Saturday, July 29.
A young Prussian officer, who doubted
the lovo of his affianced bride, 'requested,
after tho battle of Gravelotte, one of hia
friends at homo "to Inform the young lady
that he (the officer) was among tho killed,
and Teport to him how she would receive the
news. Tho friendjcomplied with the officer's
request, but the letter which was to convey
the report of tho youeg lady's demeanor
brought to the fficjJf the terriblo news of
her death, the yount girl having committed
suicide the night afte his friend's sad commu
nication. The youn officer was so impress
ed with the catastrophe and felt so much
aggrieved at the death of his fair young be
trothed, that he went mad. He is now in a
Berlin lunatic asylum, and hia case is pro
nounced hopeless.
The Orangemen's Chief.
Mr. Bond's Letter to Sup't Kelso.
Fobt Hamilton, N. Y. July 10, 1871.
Jamts Kelso. Esq., Superintendent cf New
York Police.
My Dkab Sir: Seeing the dreadful state
of affairs which have arisen out if the con
templated paiada of the Orangemen, I have
considered it my duty to adviso them to
forego the parade on the 12th instant.
I am sorry to say they have aot taken
my advice in the matter, being confident of
the safety of their lives in your good protec
tion. I have pointed out to tkem the great
majority of their opponents, and the utter
impossibility of your power in protecting
them after the parade teas dismissed italic
by writer. Iam afraid the Orangemeu can-not-succed
(sic) ten thousand men from all
resources italic by writer j. I am very posi
tive that their own body will not mumber
more than five hundred men, for the major
ity will not attend so dangerous an undertak-
I write to you therefore in great confidence
that you will endeavor to pursuade cur men
net to appear at all on the 12th, thereby
avoiding the least possible chance of a riot.
There is no need on (sic) shedding any men's
blood italic by writer J.
I know there will be bad work on both
sides.
I think if you could send for , jSo.
, Mr. , of No. , and ,
whom Mr. will find, and openly in
form these men of tho great danger of a riot
(perhaps unsurpassable), (sic) they may be
led to prevail upon the men to forego the
parade.
I cannot attend tho parade in any case,
as I have no person to relieve me from duty.
However, this fact will not save my life.
o (Here follow person
al references, not delicate nor cautious, for
publication concerning the writer.J
If this parade is allowed to occur there
will bo a fearful loss of life, and I have dis
tinctly cautioned all those whom I could
meet to give up the parade.
In tho name of everything sacred I would
deplore the shedding of blood, and shall
withdraw from, the eociety upon that ac
count. I therefore write to you, as a ton to a
father, in the sense of counsel and advice,
and I beseech you to endeavor to pursuade
my brethren to forego tbis event of much
alarm to all engaged therein.
The Mayor wroto me a long letter, ad
vising us to forego the parade. I have read
,il to the brethren, and it seems they do not
care much about it. I am afraid they de
pend too much upon the police, and I fear
that they may have cause to regret so much
confidence.
I have done all I could to prevent murder
or riot; having failed therein, there ray res
ponsibility ceases. I pray you may be more
successful in persuading our men to forego
the parade. There is r.o one who regrets
tho sheddiug of blood of any italic of wri
ter man more than I do. and 1 pray it
shall not occur on account of the Orangemen.
If you are not very euro that tho parade
can be effected without the shedding cf
blood, I pray you, dear sir, to pursuade
these gentlemen whose names I have given
you, to forego the affair on the part of peace
and good will to all men.
Thanking you very much for the great
interest you have taken in the matter, and
hoping thai life shall be spared, I beg to
remain.
Very respectfully your obedient servant,
John J. Bond.
The ZVegro .u Klux.
Wilmington, X. C, July 17. Since the
recent conflict wilh the sheriff and his posse
;n Robeson county, in which four citizens
were killed and a number wounded, tho law
lessness of the Lowrys and their gang knows
no bounds. With the capture of their wo
men as aiders and abettors, these negro out
laws have become moro desperate than ever,
and now tiiey threaten to deluge the country
in blood if the women are not released at
once.
Besides the women, Pop Oxendine, one of
the most notorious of tho gang, has been
captured and lodged in jail here for safe
keeping, as the jail of Lamberton, the county
seat cf Robesju, has never held any of them
as prisoners longer than they desired to re
main. A few mornings since fifteen of Lowry's
gang emerged from the swamps armed to
tho teeth, and went to tho house of Mr. John
M'Nair, and demandod breakfast, which
was speedily furnished them. At dinner
time they vicited tho house ef Mr. Bridgors,
where they dined in like manner. Harry
Berry Lowry, the leader of the gang, whose
wife is now a prisoner at Lumberton, order
ed both of these gentlemen to inform the
sheriff that if the women were not instantly
released, he would devastate the county and
deluge it in blood.
The sheriff, having obtained a supply of
arms and amunition from the city, refused
to liberate the women, and retuaned a defi
ant answer to Lowry's threats. This morn
ing Lowry and his band of negro outlaws
waylaid and killed Daniel Murdock M'Lean,
a prominent citizen, and Hugh M'Lean. his
brother, a youth only thirteen years old.
They also wounded Archibald M'Collum.
These parties were riding along the road in
baggy and were fired on from a thick
piece of woods.
A state of torror exists among the women
and children of Robeson county. The
sheriff has a posse of one hundred and fifty
men in the field, but their efforts thus far
to capture the outlaws have been utterly
fruitless.
The most .intense excitement prevails in
the county, a bloody and deadly conflict is
hourly expected, and it is now a matter of
life and death with both citizens and outlaws.'
Portions of Maine, New Hampshire,
and Massachusetts were visited ou Thursday
last by an earthquake. The towns of Port
land, Saco, Biddeford, Brunswick, Ports
mouth, and Concord 'were shaken by the
internal convulsions, the wave of which pass
ed from North to South, accompanied with
a deep rumbling sound. Buildings were
rocked, church bells rung, and much dam
age done to property. The earthquake seems
to have been general in all the States named,
but not to have extended beyond their limits.
Soma years ago such occurrences were rare
East of ;the Mississippi river. But within
the laat ten years they have increased both
in frequency, leverity, and duration.
The death of Miss Sabina de Iturbide,
in Philadelphia, on Monday last, hi announc
ed. Her death recalls tho fate of her father,
the first Emperor of Mexico, who was put
to death in that unhappy country by the
party who overturned hia government.
Since that time the family have resided
principally in the United States. Ono of
the Emperor's eons was afterwards in the
service of Louis Napoleon ; be then united
bis fortunes with the ill fated Maximilian,
and came very near meeting tho fate of the
Emperor, his father. The family have
always clung to the hope that one day they
may be restored to their former legal posi
tioo.
Political and Sews xtcuisr.
Illinois had an earthquake on Monday.
The damage done Uy the Washington
explosion amounts to but about $62.0CO.
A man in Centre eounty, oa the 29th
ult., cradled 140 acres of wheat, large bind.
The wife of Col. Alexander Hamilton
died at New Brunswick, N. J.. on Friday.
She was a niece of President Monroe; her
husband is a son of tho great Ilamiltos.
Eighty dollars worth of frogs were cap
tured at Greenville by Pittsburg parties re
cently, the time occupied being three days.
They used a dark lantern and thus succeed
ed in catching them alive.
Nine fat gentlemen of Tottstown, Mont
gomery county, have been challenged by
nine fatter ones of Pouglasville to play a
game of base ball at the latter place. The
Douglasville nine weigh 1.C00 pounds.
McGehan, the Ohio murderer, whose
counsel Vallandigham was when ho shot
himself, recently escaped from jail and has
not yet been recaptured, lie was one i f
the seven prisoners who dug themselves out
and fltd.
Beford, Fulton and Franklia connties
have instructed for Hon. W. N. Hall as re
publican candidate for president judge of
that district and Somereet has acquiesced in
the action. Judge Hall is therefore the
nominee.
Mr. J. R. Fryer, cf Pettstown, has an
apple that was grown In 18G8. and is now
two and a half years old, and is in a good
state of preservation. He kept it in bis cel
lar. This is certainly something of a cham
pion apple.
An epidemic has broken out among
the horses in the New England States, which
exceeds anything of the kind in virulence
ever before known. Nothing has yet been
found to stay its progress, and the fatality
is alarming. No cause has betn assigned
for the disorder.
Thomac A. Scott, of the Pennsylvania
Central, and II. S. M'Comb have bought in
the Louisiana Levee company, and propose
to conmnaence active operations immediatly.
It is understood the transaction was con
summated throught tho ioteiveution of
Senator Wells, of Louisiana.
They have aD original way of serving
the boys for going in swimming in West
Brownsville during the day. When they go
in the water in froafof a residence, the
ladies"go" for their clothes and carry them
to the main street, and the boys are forced to
go after them. They never need the second
warning.
The New Bedford Mercury says Charles
D. Wrightington, a mechanical genius of
Fairhaven, has recently completed a minia
ture steam engine, perfect in every detail,
of aboBt one mouse power. The boiler is
three inches long, and the machine contains
over 800 pieces, some of which are of gold.
It runs finely.
The radical newspapers, not daring to
offend the office-holders by proposing candi
dates for the presidency in opposition to
Grant, busy themselves in naming tickets
for the democracy. Tho last one suggested
by these friendly movers is Lyman Trum
bull, of Illinois, for president, and Gilbert
C. Walker, of Virginia, for vice president.
Mrs. McMullsn, residing at the Irvin
iron works, Centre county, came near losing
her life lately from the sting of a wasp. In
five minutes after she was stung the virus
had permeated her entire system. She
could not speak nor scarcely move, and suf
fered the most excruciating pain. The
friends despaired of her life and summoned
medical assistance. Hopes are now enter
tained of her recovery.
A bale of cottou was sold in New Yoik
recently for fifty cents a pound, and is the
finest ever produced. Tho weight of the bale
was 443 pound, which in the aggregate
Lai realized $3,312,20 in premiums, an
average of J7.43 per pound. The cotton
was raised by W. B. McShaw.of Lee county,
Mississippi, picked by himself, wife and
daughter in their parlor, and took several
premiums in St. Louis fairs.
An explosion occurred in the Washing
ton Arsenal on Saturday last, followed by
a conflagration, which destroyed ever one
huodred thousand dollars worth of property.
The cause of the explosion is not known,
but will be made the subject of investigation.
Owing to the early hour at which the occur
rence took place, no lives were lost. There
would have been scores killed, had it taken
place at a later period in the day.
The coasts of Newfoundland and Labra
dor have been visited by heavy storms.
Sir William Logan and a geological survey
ing party had been cut off by the flooding
of the roads, but they are believed to be safe.
The effect of the storm on the coast was terri
ble. Three hundred and twenty-five fishing
smacks, twenty-three dwelling houses, over
forty stores, and $1,500,000 worth of pro
perty were destroyed, and ninety-three lives
lost.
The engine Vulcan, on the Lehigh Val
ley Railroad, exploded on Thursday last, at
Coalport. The engineer, fireman, and four
train hands were killed. All have been
found except the fireman, who is supposed
to be in tha canal. The engineer was
thrown "about three hundred yards cn the
mountain side, and fell on a tree, cutting
his body nearly in half. Ono of the hands
was blown across the river. All on the
engine were killed. The reason of bo many
being on it was that they were just at break
fast. The Fats cf a Rich and Respecta
ble" Murderer. Last March the Hon.
Noah James, a wealthy resident of Dod
dridge county, Va. , gave ono of his labor
ers, named Owens, $25, and lent him $30
besides, on condition that he would kill a
neighbor nasued Rogers, with whom James
had long been at enmity. A short time
afterward, Owens, seeing Rogers coming
along the road toward James' house, told
his employer of the fact, and the two men
then waylaid Rogers and murdered him,
James giving him ono shot with a gnn, and
Owens another shot with a pistol. Owens
was indicted for the murder, and James was
active in procuring his conviction. He was
convicted, and sentenced to the State Pris
on for life; but suspicion having been fas
tened upon James, Owens was not transferred
to tho State Prison until a few days ago, he
being kept in jail in the hope that he would
confess. He made no confession, however,
until the wails of the Penitentiary closed up
on him for life. Then bis nerves failed him,
and he told the whole story as we have,
given it above. He also said that James
promised to stand by him, and got him off.
Measures were at once taken to arrest James,
but hearing of Owens' confession, he went
home, eat his dinner, took bis gun, went out
by a little brook, pulled off his boot and
sock, placed the muzzle of the rifle to his eye,
and with his toes pulled the trigger and shot
himeelf through tho brain. His wife, bear
ing the report of the gun, sent her little
daughter out to see what had been shot. In
a few minutes the child came running back,
her face white with terror, and told her
mother that "Pa was killed." Mrs. James
raised an alarm and rushed to the spot,
where the corpse of her husband, with tho
rifle clutched in one hand, was lying. And
thus the wretched man escaped, by self
destruction, the shame cf a public trial aod
execution.
Death otf the Double Babt One Head
Outlives the Other.- Wo mentioned in our
columns, yesterday, tho presence in Boston
of a most remarkable child, the tfftpring of
Joseph and Ann E. Finley. It presented
the remarkable as well as unprecedented
phenomenon of two heads, four arms, and
two legs, and all upon a single body. The
girl for such was its sex died last even
ing at No. C Bowdoin street. The first half
orhcad breathed its last at 5. aud the second
shortly after 8 o'clock. The many thou
sands iu the Western or Middle States who
have seen this marvelous eccentricity of
nature will learn its early death with regret.
The child or children as it would almost
seem proper to alkido to tha phenomenon
had enjoyed excellent health from her birth,
nice months ago, until within two weeks,
at which time one exhibited signs of illness.
This, however, was but temporary. Ii re
covered and was bright and playful. Since
reaching Boston, a few days since, the other
or the other half was taken sick and
died yesterday afternoon, as already stated.
The two portions of the body were so inti
mately connected that the death of one
rendered that of tha other inevitable. The
spectacle was equally novel, strange and
uu paralleled. Upon one end of the body
reposed the head of the dead infant ; upon
the other that of the live ono with its eyes
still bright and curious, and its lungs in full
breathing order. All that medical aid could
accomplish was done, but it was found
unavailing. Tho child died in the presence
or its parents. The corpse presents the ap
pearance of two infants asleep. Apparently
they escaped the ordinary suffering incident
to death, for the countenances had the
expression of repose. Tho disposition of the
body is not determined upon. Several of
our pbysiciaoa were desirous, last evening,
rifhavintrit onened for examination. It is
doubtful if tfie parents consent. They re
side in Monroe county, Ohio, and live upon
a farm. They have other children, but
none have exhibited any unusual develop
ments. Nor can this extraordinary departure
from the laws of nature be accounted for. In
Philadelphia, where all the medical Solons
undertook to solve the problem, nothing
whatever was brought to light. The child
was looked upon with amazement and inter
est, but all attempts to account for iti exist
ence were futile. It was regarded as more
of a curiosity than the Siamese twins, and
most certainly the ppectacle was more
plausible to the eye. The child was shortly
to have been exhibited to the public, and
would doubtless here, as elsewere, have
attracted throngs cf visitors. The parents
were especially devoted to tho little marvel,
and their sorrow is grievous. Boston Post,
July 19.
The Indianapolis Sentinel says : "A
farmer was decapitated by a mowing ma
chine with which he was at work on his
premises, near Southport, on the 11th inst.
At the time of the accident, the farmer was
examining some portion cf the machinery
which had got out of gear, when the horses
attached suddenly started, causing the
blades to revolve, one of them striking the
man iu the back of the neck, severing the
head from the body as though guillotined.
A youthful son of the deceased witnessed
tho terrible accident, and, dumb with hor
ror, grasped the head by the hair, and ran
with it into his mother's presence."
piJOPOSED AMENDMENT
TO THE
CONSTITUTION of PENNSYLVANIA.
JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing1 an Amendment to the Constitution
of Pennsylvania.
lie il IiecTretl by the Smalt and ITo.xitt of Tiep
rexntatirtsof the Commonwealth of Petir.fuJrania
in Oenrral Ascmly tnet, That the following
amendment of the Constitution of this Copj
monwpalth be proposed to the people for their
adoption or rejection, pursuant to the provi
sions of the tenth article thereof, to wit :
AMENDMENT.
Strike out the Sixth Section of the Sixth Ar
ticle of the Constitution, and insert in lieu
thereof the following-:
"A State Treasurer shall bo chosen by tho
qualified electors f the State, at such times
and for such term of service as shall bo pre
scribed by law."
JAMBS II. WElffl,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
"WILLIAM A. WALLACE,
Speaker of the Senate-.
Approved the fifteenth day of June, Anno
Domini one thousand eig-ht hundred and seventy-one.
JNO. W. G EART.
Prepared and certified for publication pursu
ant to the Tenth Article of the Constitution.
F. JORDAN",
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Offlee BCTtnrv of tb Commonwealth, I
Uarrlsburg, July 5th, m. S J30.TO.
EBENSBURG
FOUNDRY !
J. A. SHOEMAKER,
IfsitTactvsr, sal Wl::";: sal EctaH Itiler Is
THRESHING MACHINES,
HORSE POWERS,
WIND MILLS:
PLOWS and TLOW POINTS.
SHOVEL PLOWS,
CULTIVATORS ;
HEATIN3 g COOKING STOVES
OF EVERT DESIGN AND PRICE ;
Church, School and Dinner BELLS;
CAST IHOX FDCIaG,
KETTLES, AH) CAST HOLLOW WABI
r every description, SLc, Ac,
ALL WORK WARRANTED ! 1
rfSpecial attention paid to the repairing
of all kinds of stoves. Farming- Utensils, &o.
All orders promptly attended to. Old metal,
grain, etc., taken in exchange for work.
Ebensburff, July 1, ls71.-3ui.
In w,Of
CLOTWVG
am sv m m
GREAT WESTERN GUN WORKS.
Kines, Double and Single Barrrl.
$)ut Gun, Revolvers, Ammunition.
Sporting-Goods, Kitto Run-el's. Look, Mount
ing. Gun Material?. Ac Send for Prieo List,
Addresi .1. H. JOHNSTON, Great H'ctfcrn Gun
Wfr;, 179 Suiithlleld Street, Pittsburgh, Pa.
W N. H. Army Carbines, Rifiee and Revol
vers boiifrht or traded for.
Pittsburgh. Juno IT, lSTl.-flm,.
1871. SPEING. ijtt
I aa now prepared to c"or
SUPERIOR INDUCEMENT
TO CASH PCI-.CHASF.RS CF
TI3. Mf-l! k COTTER ftn
KITHEB AT "
WHOLESALE OR RETAIL
My stock consists in part of every var
Tin, Sheet-Iron 7:1
COPPER AND BRASS M'AKEs
r.XAMEI.I.ED AND PI.A1V '
SAUCE-PAWS, EQILERS &a
COAL STIOVF.r.S "MTVF t,,,'. '
CANS. iIOUSEFURXISMivW i .
WARE OF EVERY KIND
Fpeat'a Anti-Du.t
ING STOVES.
And any Cooking Stove dcsirc-J I .
when ordered at manufacturer' '"
Odd Stove Tlates and Grates. &c. f
pairs, on hand for the Stoves I sell
will be ordered when wanted. pa'rt; .1
attention given to '"
Spouting, Valleys and Ccnrfnr
all of which will be made out of ! n
rials and put up by competent worked""
Lamp Burners, Wick and Chlmnp-i
"WHOLESALE OU liKTAIL. '
I would call particular attention tot!.eL:-'-t
House Purner, with Glass Cone, f. r eV,,
more lisht than any other in ue. A'$i -i
Paragon Eurner, for Crude Q.. ' ' '
SUGAR KETTLESAND CAULDRCAS
of all sizes constantly on Lz.l.1.
Special attention given to
Jobbing in Tin, Copper and SheeMroi,
at lowest poa.-iibie rates.
Wholesale Merchants' List;
now ready, and will be sent m aj.j..:ieat:-a
by mail cr iu perssa
Hoping to see all my old endorsers s-J
many new ones this Spiincr, I rt-tv.ra r
most sincere thanks fer the very liter.;! ri.
troiiage I have already received, p.r.J
endeavor to please ail who may call, irLetL
er they buy or not
FJtANCIS V, KAY.
Johnstown. March 7. 1SC7.
(ftREAT Reduction in Tr.:cur
TO CASH CUSTOMERS!
AT TUK EE.SmnG
nOUSE-FliRXISIUXCMRE.
The undersigned respectfully ii.it. nr. !'..s
citizens cf Ebensburg and the pt:l!':c or
ally that he has made a preat reJucti n :a
prices to CASH BUYERS. My !. A :'.!
consi&t, in part, of Cixking, rarh-r anJH-.ii
tvg Stoves, of the niutt popular kic.ls; I.n
tcare of every description, of xay own n::
ufacture ; Hardware of all kind, su:i is
Locks, Sciews, Putt Ilinces, Table 11;::-,
Shutter Hinges, Bolts, Ik n atd Nr. :
dow Glass. Putty, Table Knives ami F rks,
Carvicfr Knives and Forks, Mi at Cu"w.
Apple Parers, Pen and Pocket Kiiivri ia
great variety, Scissors, SI. ears, Kaz:r rI
Strops. Axes, Hatchets, Harr,mcrs, H
Machines, Augers, CLisel., rianes, (r
passes, Squares, Files, Rasps Anvils. V'-s,
Wrenches. Rip, Panel at.d Cross-Cut Si--,
Chains cf all kinds. Shovels, Spa:es. ryr.l.ri
and Snaths, Rakes, Forks, S'.eii'a iX
Shoe Lasts. Pegs. Wax Prices, C
Wringers, Gripd Stones. Patent M.':
Gates and Measures, Luml er Sticks, U m
Nails, Horse Shoes. Cast Steel. Vrl-zs.
Guns, Revolvers, Pistols, CartriJcf-s.
der, Caps. Lead, &c. Odd St.veP!,
Grates and Fire Bricks, Well tr.J
Pumps and Tubing ; Harness end 5j IUm
Ware of all kind ; Wooden and 17.7
in great variety ; Carbon Oil and Gi'.U-Is,
Fish Oil, Lard Oil. Linseed Oil, LuVr'.c?
Oil, Rosin, Tar, Glassware, Paints, Tiro
es, Turpentine, Alcohol. Sec.
FAMILY GROCERIES,
such as Tea, Coffee, Sugars, M.-lasses,;
ups, Spices, Dried Peaches. Dried Apr
Fish, Hominv, Crackers, Rice and lVr
Barley: Soap's, Candles; TOBACCO ai
CIGARS; Paint. Whitewash, Scrub, H .
Shoe, DustiDg, Varnish, Stove. CUr.es
Tooth Brushes, all kinds ar.d t:zcs ; b'.
Cords and Manilla Ropes, and nary et
articles at the lowest rates At CA.
-JUuce SjX'iitiw7 made, paired ar.u p.
up at low rates for cash. A liberal discc-:
made to country dealers buying 1 in
wholesale. GEO. UUMTLET
Lbensburg, Feb, 23. lS6".-tf. .
THE GREAT
OAK HALL
241 Main Street Johnstown.
S. J, HESS & BROW
HAVE XOW ON HAND
The Largest, Best Hade
Stock ff Clothing
EVER KEPT I JOHSSTOW"
consist injr chiefly of
MEN'S COATS.
MEN'S PANTS. s
MEN S YE53 ,
YOUTHS' COATS.
YOUTHS' PANTS
YOUTHS'
BOYS' COATS.
BOYS' TAXTS, .T5
BOYS' Tt-A-
We have also constantly in stock a comF,s'5
assortment of
CENT'S FIBMSDIXC GOODS,
Hats, Caps, Trunks, Valises, 4c. s
t?TVc are prc rared to make to on'c.
lng of every description on the sriom-
Call at Xo. 241 Jlnln Ztree ,
AND SEE HOW IT IS YOUBSEL
Johnstown. April 2S, 1371.-6m.
. , 7ZTZ Peace.
I S. U(JLJ-, JfSTICIi or r.W
O Johnstown, Ta. Oflio on Iron. si ,v
. i'.,n(,mi HridireanJ I a-' ,j to
HEATING and COOKING STOvr,
EXCELS1 OR C OOKISG &7X)y '
NOBLE, TRIUMPH ani, TART o- (,
EMPORIUM!
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