Cambria Stzcmau.
EBE!fSBIIRG, PA.
Thursday Morhiko, : : Aro. 3, 1871.
DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS.
TATE.
rOR jlCDITOB OlHtRiL,'
Gkkiral WILLIAM M'CANDLESS,
Of FhiUuUlphia.
tor tTRTrron qmiin:
Cawain JAMES If. COOPER,
Of Laurence County.
DISTRICT.
TOR BTATB Sl!f ATOR :
R L. JOUNSTON, Esq . Ebensbnrg.
Sulrjcot tv tht action of tht District Oonfertnc.
COUJSTT.
Assembly Vf. IIORACTK ROSH, Johnstown.
Prothonotary J. K. HITE, Ebensbure.
a t.,- i J NO. FLANAGAN, Johnsfn.
Assoc to Judges R j lloVI). Ebonsbursr.
District Attorney W. H. SECHLBR. Ebenib'p.
Treasurer JOHN COX, Coneinaujrh Borough.
Gommipaloner W. D. MTLELtAND, Johnsfn.
P. II. Direo'r J A 3. FAItKEN. Washington Tp.
Auditor W. A. II. LITTLE, Alleg-heny Twp.
Tlirea Months for Forty Cents.
In cluba of ten or more, sent to one address,
we will furnish the Freeh aw for thru months
tor torty CENTS per copt, if the names and
the cash are sent In before Sept. 1st. Now is
the time to get up clubs ror the campaign. Any
person can raise at lea?t a club of ten at fifty
cents each and resarre f 1 for his trouble.
Thbrc is not & democrat in the country
who will oot regret to learn that Daniel W.
Voorhses, of Indiana, has expressed his de
termination to retire from public life at the
expiration of the next session of Congres?
Mr. Voorhees Is a man of brilliant intellect,
of unmatched eloquence, and Is eminently
national in all his views of great public ques
tions. Ilia constituents have manfully ad
bared to him during his long and honorable
career In Congress, and hare borne him up
with their strong arms against as powerful
combinations as were ever organized to break
down and destroy any publie man in the
democratic party. As they have been true
to him, so has he always been true to them
and to the principles of the great party of
which he is so consistent and conspicuous a
member.
Taua to Its vocation, the last Johnstown
Tribune publishes an editorial article.
abounding In falsehood and scurrility, in re
ference to the late democratic county con
vention. Our first Impulse was to reply to
It In the manner It so richly deserves, but
en snore m ature reflection we have concluded.
wisely we think, to treat It with supreme
contempt. The editor is evidently desirous
of a newspaper controversy and a little cheap
notoriety that he might possibly derive from
it. Anxious and always ready as we hold
ourselves to bo to niloister to his overween
ing vanity in any reasonable way, we can
not think, just at the commencement of the
dog days, of prostituting the columns of the
Freeman to any such Ignoble purpose. In
former political campaigns, the democratic
party of Cambria county has survived the
abuts of the Tribune, and if it cannot live
after tbe present one it is weak and impo
teat and deserves to die.
Bisjamix F. Cctles Is a candidate for
the radical Domination for Governor of Mass
achusetts. Unlike other aspirants who are
asnbitieus for the same honor, he could not
wait for the action of the convention, but
with his accustomed impudence has written
and published a bold and selftlaudatory let
ter modestly avowing his own preference for
himself. This is in admirable keeping with
Butler's entire political career. Outside of
his own congressional stamping ground, the
radical press of the State, while It cordially
detests, jet fears him, stubbornly refuses to
recognize the fact that he is a proper person
to fill the executive chair of that puritanical
common wealth. As a consequence, Butler
is literally undergoing a political crucifixion
at the hands of the respectable portion of the
republican editors of the Bay State. One of
the most prominent of them, with a keen
perception of the use of language, thus mer
cilessly impales the hero of Fort Fisher and
the Dutch Qap canal :
"Because the Fifth Congressional District
hss got him, like the smalNpox, that is no
reason why be should be spread all over
Massachusetts."
It Is a rule of political action with most
radical editors, that the end to be accom
plished justifies the uto of tht most dlsrepa
table means in attaining it. No man who
imperiled his life in the late war against
secession bas a brighter or more honorable
military record than Gen. M'Candlesa. His
private character Is beyond reproach. But
ho Is the democratic candidate for a high and
responsible public office, and therefore all
the flood gates of radical detraction have
been raised and a perfect torrent of personal
abuse has been let loose against him. Even
forgery has been retorted to, and language
in reference to Gen. M'Candlesa has been
attributed to the West Chester Jeffertonian,
a democratic journal, which that paper never
uttered. This stupid and malicious Inven
tion, having had a free circulation through
the radical perss, found its way last week
Into an editorial article in the Holiidaysburg
Rrgitter, a paper widely notorious for its
scurrilous and libelous assaults upon demo
crstlc candidates. The editor of that paper
said :
"The West Chester Jeffersonlan is using
some forcible language towards the late Dem
ocratic cenvention and the candidates it put
in nomination. It says the men who set up
the 'new departure' at Harrisburg were no
thing but 'political prostitutes,' and that
General McCaodleea is a 'vile, debauched
trickster, governed by the most selfish and
sordid motivot.' "
We happen to exchange with the Jeffer
tonian, and knew when this mendacious
charge was first made that it was utterly
without foundation. While the editor of the
Jeffertonian dissents from the adoption of the
ninth resolution by the State Convention, he
is a stead fa t-t advocate of tba election of Gen.
McCandless. The only thing that surprised
us was how the editor of the Holiidaysburg
Regitter managed to keep the contemptible
but coveted lie so long out of his columns.
The Jeffertonian, in a late issue, disposes of
this weak invention of the enemy as follows:
The Village Record, of Tuesday last.
charges us with saying 'that Gen. McCand-
leas is a vile, debauched trickster, governed
by the most selfish and sordid motives
Now this sentence which we have seen
copied into a number of radical papers, is a
mere fabrication of the American liepuoli
can i. We never made use of such language
toward Gen. McCaDdlesa, and we are sur
prised that Evans should publish the above,
knowing as he does the source from which it
came. Will be be honorable enough to give
this, our denial, as conspicuous a place in
his columns as he did the false charge ?
We'll see."
If the editor of the Register is the gentle
man we take him to be, he will see the ur
gent propriety of at once withdrawing his
reckless imputation against the Jeffertonian
la language as positive as that in which the
charge was made. In this particular he can
not Over do it, as be did in promulgating
the falsehood.
Counting Out Candidate.
Col. A. K. M'Clure, by far the shrewdest
republican politician in this State, has been
"interviewed" on a recent occasion by a cor
respondent of the New York Herald. In
the published report of the conversation we
find this among other Interesting items:
' Q. Could the Democrats carry the city
of Philadelphia, Colonel 7"
"A. They have the votes to do it if they
conld only get them counted, but you see the
election machinery is In the hands of the
Republicans, and they count the Democratic
votes or not, just as they please."
In this answer to tbe question asked, Col.
M Clnre fully corroborates what has been so
frequently asserted by The Age and other
democratic papers In Philadelphia during the
last two years. The perpetration of election
frauds in that city under the manipulation
of William 3. Mann and his radical associ
ates, has been reduced to so perfect a system
that tbe true voice of the ballot box has been
suppressed and the judgment of the people
set aside. This was notoriously the esse at
the last October election when Mr. Price, the
democratic candidate for judge of one of the
courts, was counted out and tbe certificate of
election given to Lynde, his radical oppo
nent. One of the scoundrels (Billl) who
was an active agent In this Iniquitous busl-
nesawas prosecuted, convicted and sentenced
to the penitentiary for two years, but was
pardoned by Geary last May at the instance
of the leaders of tbe Philadelphia Tins. The
democratic majority in the Senate during
the last Legislature, in order to compel a fair
coant of tho vote, passed a bill requiring the
ballot-boxes to be opened and tbe vote count
ed in the presence of the judges of the court
of common pleas of the city, but the leaders
of the radical ring, knowing that If this bill
became a law, Othello's occupation would
be gone, literally swarmed at Harrisburg
and had Influence enough to secure its defeat
by the radical majority in the House.
Two things are incomprehensible to us in
Philadelphia politics. One of them Is, how
radical election officers can successfully count
out a democratic candidate who bas received
a clear majority of tbe vote polled. In the
rural districts, where fraud is the exception
and honesty the rule, such a thing seldom
if ever takes place. The otEer is, how it
comes to pass that a political drab like Sam
Josephs, of ten dollars extra pay Infamy,
can be nominated aud elected to the Legisla
ture nine or ten times in succession, in i
strong, reliable democratic district. Thereby
hangs a tale.
The two political parties In Philadelphia
are nearly equally divided, and the result of
the election in the State next fall may de
pend to a very great extent in procuring an
honest and truthful response from the ballot
boxes in that city. The Democracy of Phil
adelphia have heretofore been forewarned
In the future let them be forearmed.
Tbe Case Fairly Stated.
The following able and dispassionate arti
cle Is taken from the Catholic Telegraph,
published in Cincinnati. It has been attrib
uted to the pen of Archbishop Purcell. Be
that as it may, we are very certain that it
fully reflects the views of all intelligent and
thonghtful Catholics in reference to the late
New York riots. Substantially the same
sentiments have been expressed by the New
York Tablet and Boston Pilot, both influen
tial and ably edited Catholic organs. The
views set forth aro sound and well stated,
and cannot fail to meet with general appro
bation :
"He who would condone the aetion of riot
ers because their victims happened to be his
political or religious enemies, makes himself
a participant in their crimes against society.
A mob of any kind, organized for any pur
pose, raising its lawless arm iu name of any
cause, should be met, resisted, and crushed
by the exercise of all the power necessary to
enforce peace and vindicate the majesty of
law. In recording the history of all such
outrages, this principle of justice should
never be forgotten or be in the least obscured
by the interposition of national or religious
prejudice.
"It is the sworn duty of those to whose
hands the government of society is confided,
to teach those riotiualy inclined, by a swift,
item, and decisive method, that they are
placing themselves in a criminal position;
that law is established for the equal benefit
of all ; that it recognizes in its administration
no class or creed ; that It concedes to no por
tion of the community special favors and
privileges to the injury or the restriction of
the rights of another; that it will not risk
the welfare of society, which it is bound at
all costs to protect, by an ill timed effort at
peaceable conciliation, when its worst enemy,
a mob, is armed to bid it defiance. Any
other course which civil authority may adopt
on occasions of public disturbances, no mat
ter what may be the motives that may influ
ence it. is a cowardly betrayal of its high
trust which may be followed by the inoit
terrible disasters, for which it should be held
strictly accountable.
"A false leniency, an undetermined stand
on the part of the authorities, when the notes
of resistance to law and of preparation to
disturb tbe peace were sounding for weeks
through the land, and finally an apparent
submission to the will of outlaws, construed
as an approval of their designs, bad such a
strong tendency to feed and spread the flames
of hatred, that for their extinction was re
quired tbe blood that was shed by the sol
diery, a o o
"It might be said that Mayor Hall's pro
hibition of tbe parade, had it been sustained,
would have been obeyed by tbe Orangemen
that tbe Governor should not have rescind
ed the order that the Orangemen, feeling
themselves subjects of oppression, could have
obtained redress through tbe proper channels.
True, if the veto on the procession bad been
enforced the streets would not have been
stained with blood ; bnt at a time when it is
undecided whether the civil authority pos
sesses the power of prohibiting tbe peaceful
occupation sf tbe streets by an organized
body oi men or not, the continuance oi the
prohibition would most probably have been
productive of worse consequences to tho
whole country. Tt was generally believed at
first that Mayor Hall shaped his conduct to
please the mob, to whose voice he should not
nave listened. His order in that case would
have established a dangerous preoedent It
would have appeared to sanction mob law,
of which in the future those animated with
the same spirit would not fail to take advan
tage. But it is now known that he issued
tho order at the request of the Master of the
Orange Lodges. As defenders of the supre
macy of the civil law, hating and condemn
ing any Interference with its just sway and
administration, we have no reason to com
plain that tho order was countermanded.
Whether Gov. Hoffman exceeded his author
ity wo cannot say : but this much we can
say, if bis action was not legal it was cer
tainly judicious. If ho overstepped tho
bounds of bis authority, his offence Is one
which, in ,the circumstances, all citizens ex
cept the rioters will easily forgive."
Whin Horace Greeley returned from his
extended Southern tour in early summer his
first public speech was aimed against the
carpet-baggers whom ho found fattening
ihrough political frauds upon the Southern
people. While his language was then sum
ciently vigorous, it has grown more so since.
He believes that tho South should be governed
by Southern men, that universal amnesty
for political offenses would be as wise as just,
and that while he admits the Koklux exist,
he thinks it would not, if tbe wbole people
of tbe late Confederacy were permitted to
vote for their public omcers as well as com
pelled to pay taxes. It appears that in re
gard to carpet-baggers, at least. Mr. Greeley
is not alono in his opinions. The Galveston
"Bulletin," a staunch Republican paper.
says of the Republican carpet-bag Legisla
ture of Texas, that it is "Tho most corrupt
"body of men which ever assembled under
"the sanction of the law to rob the people
"Its members have enriched themselves at
"the expense of outrageous subsidies, and
"now enjoy mansions, bank accounts, rail
"road stock, buggies, and other luxuries."
Tbe Kuklux policy Is one utterly without
excuse ; but had the South subjugated tho
North, denied its people the ballot, while tax
ing them to support a government in which
they bad no voice in creating, sent Southern
ers to their Assemblies, put them in their
custom houses, post offices and coarts, is it
not possible that burcan nature would assert
itself here in pretty much tbe same fashion as
it does there ? Given certain circumstances.
certain results follow. Phua. Inquirer.
Sivon Camehon's journeyman "wlggle
wagger," who heads the Radical Committee
of this State, in his late spumy address,
claims that the Radical party have reduced
the State debt from $10,000,000 in 18C0 to
$26,000,000 in 1871. The Harrisburg Ta
triot properly remarks, that "no credit at
taches to that party for this reduction, inas
much as tbe policy under which it bas been
accomplished was orignatad by the Demo
cratic administration of Governor William
F. Packer. The act establishing the Sink
ing tuna was a Democratic measure, and
was adopted by a Democratic Legislature
Had tho Radical party administered that law
honestly and faithfully, indeed, had it not
deliberately violated its provisions, the State
debt. Instead of being $29,000,000, would
to-day be less than half that sum. Dur
ing tho last eleven years, from fifteen to
twenty millions of dollars have been taken
from tho Sinking Fund, contrary to law,
aud applied, not to the reduction of the
State debt, but to the payment of the cur
rent expenses of the State government."
lhese tacts puncture the wind-bae of Mr
Errett, and it falls to the ground to be trod
den under foot by all honest, fair men
Whenever a statement is put forth showing
tnat toe Radicals nave reduced debt or tax
ation, it Is either a clear fraud or an artfully
manufactured piece of account keeping.
a is Mge.
Thk Peoria Review of tho 20th savs
"Knoxvlle has been agog for the past few
wetKs over a romantic marriage, the partic
ulars of which are as follows: Mr. Philan-
der Williamson and Amelia Gardner wers
married in early life in Warren, Herkimer
county, .New York, and soon after moved
to Albion, Michigan, where tbe bride, be-
comlDg-iiome sick, lived with her husband
only two years. At the end of that time
her parents meved from Warren to Knox
villo, Illinois, and Mrs. Williamson, loving
her mother rather better than her husband,
followed them, taking with her the child.
Tho separation was acquiesced in by the hus-
oana. who soon after moved to California,
married atother wife, and in the course of
time amassed considerable property. This
was twenty years ago. Recently the second
wife died, and tho husband's heart warming
towards the bride of his youth, he hastened
as fast as the cars would carry him, back to
Knoxville, and on July 15th this strangely
divided couple wore re-engaged and re-married."
Orb of the greatest feats of modern rail
road building was performed on Sundayweek
oq the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad, which
runs from Cincinnati to St. Louis. The road
was originally constructed on a gauge of
six feet between tho rails, and It became
necessary to reduce the gauge to four feet
eight and one half perches, so as to accom
modate the cars of connecting roads. The
length of the lino is three hundred and forty
miles ; aud tho problem was to take up both
rails for this entire distance and relay them
nearer each other. To facilitate the task the
spikes for the inside of the two rails, as they
would lie in their new position, were driven,
and the holes for the outer spikes bored in
advance. An army of men. two thousand
fivo hundred in all (or seven to each mile)
was then distributed along the track, and at
sunrise they set to work. After seven hours
of incessant labor the job was accomplished,
and at four o'clock the next morning trains
were running over the road.
A Wondkbptjl Ride. On Tuesday morn
ing last, on tho arrival of the Night Express,
a horse with buggy, belonging to M'Fad
den's livery stable in Brady's Bend was tied
back of the depot. The whistle of tho loco
motive frightened the animal, and breaking
the strap, it ran forward across the track
and in front of the engine. Horse and;bug
gy were caught by tho cow-catcher, and
strange to say, wore carried nearly half a
mile, the horse escaping without a scratch,
while tbe hind wheels of the buggy were
broken but very little. It was a'remarka
ble incident, as well as a most remarkable
escape. Eatt Brady Independanl.
Another JFoarful Holocaust.
Xxplsslsn or at Steamboat Boiler Tor
riblo Roaolto Pirty Person Klllo
nmd Over wno liunarra isjaraa.
New Yobk. July 80. As tho Staten Isl
and ferry boat West field was starting from
her dock at tho foot of Whitehall, street,
next the Battery, at 1:30 to-day with a
heavy load, composed mainly or tho usual
class of Sunday excursionists, to tho num
ber of about 800, her boiler burst with a tro
mendona exnlosion. shattering tho whole
upper works of the boat into a thousand
pieces, and laying open tho whole forward
forward part of the hull from tho very keel.
Tho spectaclo on tho ill-fated vessel subse
quent to the explosion is beyond description.
A great yawning abyss btretcbed front abaft
tbe engine-room close to the stern, and the
deck seemed to hava opened, like a sepul
chre, to swallow its load of precious human
freight in the dark hold beneath. Tba dead
and dying were lying about in every direc
tion among tho debris of broken timbers,
splinters and heavy machinery. From amid
ships to the cutwater the boat presents a
vast hold filled with fragments of spars,
beams, flooring and bulwarks, and fragments
of iron. How many bodies are still beneath
the ruins in that fearful bold it is impossible
as yet to tell, but they are being brought
out every hour. Many persons, as in the
case of Professor Cheneviere of Brooklyn,
were blown bodily in tho air, falling into tho
water. Some have been hauled out by boat
men with hooks and otherwise, and a largo
party is now engaged in dragging tho bot
tom, constantly finding bodies. Men, women
and children, still alive, are brought in,
scorched, bruised and mutilated to ruch a
degree that it seemed almost impossible that
life cmld remain. Among tbe dead lay a
man with tho back of his . head absolutely
blown off, said by some to bo a fireman.
One man. John Meyer, the pilot, was thrown
from the forward pilot house twenty feet into
the air, falling on the boat and escaping
with a scratch. John Freeland was the
Captain of the boat, and Harry Robinson
Engineer. Tho boiler was inspected by
John K. Matthews. United States Boiler
Inspector, on June 15, and pronounced safe.
Harry Robinson, engineer of tho Westfield,
states that he tried the cocks on tho boiler a
few minutes before the explosion, and found
water at the upper cock. He states further,
that at that time he looked at the steam
guage and noticed that there was 27 lbs. of
steam in her boiler. Also, that the steam
was blowing off at the safety valve, showing
that the boiler was carrying the full extent
allowed by her certificate. He further states
that tbe boiler was repaired last winter.
Tho cause of explosion was probably tbe
breaking of the joints of a plate, with which
the boiler had been patched on the rear end.
Many people fell into the river, and being
unable to help themselves, were drowned.
Boiling water was scattered in all directions,
scalding those who were unable to get out
of its reach. The wind was blowing Id
ward at the time, and forced water on that
part of tho boat near the deck, where the
greater portion of the passengers had fled
to. The bodies of the injured were taken to
tbe Park Hospital, to tho First Precinct Station-house,
and to Bellevue. A large num
ber were taken to the hospital in the Park,
which was soon filled, and they were forced
to send the remainder to Bellevue. The
screams of the wounded at the hospital were
heart-rending. The wounded were lying
everywhere, some on beds, some on blan
kets, and others wore walking around groan
ing, moaning and crying.
The boats of tho revenue cutter North
erner did great service in rescuing persons
from drowning. Cue of the firemen onthe
Westfield named Robert Crawson was in the
fire room at the time of tbe explosion, and
says that fifteen minutes before the accident
ho was on the cylinder wiping it off. He
then went into one of the cabins for a drink
of water, and thence into the fire room,
where he heard a hissing noise precoeding
from the rear boiler, and went to see the
cause. Ho had gone but about half the
length of tbe boiler when he found tbe
steam bo denie that he coald proeeed no
further and turned to coma back, when ho
was struck in tho face by a flying splinter
and knocked down. He made his way back
to tho deck as fast as possible. This hissing
noise which Crawson heard must have bees
the starting of a plate patching of the boil
er, and was the first premonition of the
Impending disaster.
In Bellevue hospital at midnight there
were twenty-four bodies in coffins, and ten
on slabs, all frightfully scalded, largo patches
of skin being tore off in many places.
The surgeons at the different hospitals
say a majority of those in their oharge will
die. A crowd of people estimated at 15,000
Is congregated around Bellevue Hospital,
and a liko crowd around the Park Hospital.
July 81 12 P. M. The most reliable re
turns of the casualties by tho explosion,
give a total of fifty-seven dead, and of
wounded one hundred and forty-two.
The Fauink in Persia. Special cable
dispatches add but little to the information
received of the dreadful famine in Persia.
Tho drouth last year in the central and
southern provinces, and the consequent par
tial failure of the crops, caused great des
titution and misery all winter. At the
same time the taxes were increased on the
people of Laristaa, which brought on fam
ine, causing a number of people to leave
their homes, and a consequent decrease of
taxes to the Government. The new Gov
ernment promised to raise not only the
usual sum but still mere, and the oppression
drove the rest of the country people from
their homes, and throDged the cities, which
pay no taxes. The failure of the crops in
Laristan was rendered more disastrous be
cause the other provinces, which mostly
raise opium, cotton and silk, depended on it
for their grain. Tbe results in Ispahan,
Yezd, Kirman and Sbiraz were terrible by
the end of the winter. Before tbe new
crop, the cities were crowded. The wheat
at Kirman rose nine times its usual price,
and starvation began. Yead raises opium,
aad as the people could buy no grain, they
ate grass and roots. In Khoraesana the
people sold their children to Turcomans to
save their lives, and in other provinces tbe
people ate their children, having eaten all
their domestic animals and oven tho vermin.
In Ispahan men were caught digging up
corpses to feedtheir starving families with,
and the pestilence in consequence has com
mitted fearful ravages. One half of Persia
is said to be depopulated.
Thk Savannah (Ga.) Republican Bays:
"Tbe entire Democratic press, north and
south, 'departure,' and 'an departure,'
agrea in extolling Hon. Jeremiah Black's
address to tho voters of Pennsylvania. We
like it ourselves, and now, to settle all dis-
utes, to bring Mr. Stephens and Manton
arble, Major Thompson and Dr. Baird, and
everybody else, together, we propose that
the Democracy of all the States adopt
Jeremiah Black's address as their platform,
and that the Democratic national conven
tion, when it meets, forego the usual string
of resolutions and whereases, and put the
same address as the platform of the national
Democratic party. This is good advice,
and wo don't cara if they put Jeremiah
Black himself upon it as the candidate."
rerlls or Ballooning.
The number of accidents attending bal
loons and those who peril their lives in mak
ing ascensions in them has of late been more
frequent than ever heard of before. At
MaasilloD, Ohio, a few days ago, a man who
went by the name of
pbot. tokbes, was drowned
In tbe canal at that place. It seems Torres
was connected with G. G. Grady's circus,
exhibiting at Massillcn, and among tbe at
tractions largely advertised and offered to the
gazing multitude was a balloon ascension.
Crowds of people were present to witness it,
and at six o'clock the huge canvas bag was
properly inflated with hot air, and the aero
naut, Professer Torres, atood ready to make
his perilous journey. " The ropes were finally
unloosed. The professer caught held of a
horizontal bar attached to tbe balloon, and
in a flash was carried many hundred feet
into tho air. While in his transit he per
formed all the feats common to those skill
ed on tbe trapeze, as holding himsolf out
horizontally by the arms, and hanging by
tbe leg with tbe head down. The sight was
simply fearful, and ehowed a daring in the
man that was anything but commendable.
Starting from tho depot, tho balloon traveled
in a southwesterly direction, and having
been up ten or fifteen minutes, sank in a
canal basin, back of the residence of Gen. Jar
vis. While yet in the air, twenty or thirty
feet from the water, the aeronaut released
his hold upon the bar, to prevent tbe bal
loon from falling upon him. He fell into
tbe basis at a point eight feet deep, and
either by the force of concession, or because
of being hindered by a muddy bottom, rose
to the surface completely exhausted, and
wholly unable by his own efforts to reach
the shore, distant but a few feot. He called
loudly for help, but there was none to arrive
in sufficient time. With another effort he
appeared again above tbe water, but, almost
instantly sank, never to rise until dragged
dead to the shore. Physicians applied to his
body tbe most approved methods of resusci
tation, but it failed to respond. The oorpte
was conveyed to the Zielley-house, where
funeral services were held on Sunday after
noon under the auspices of tbe Catholics of
St. Joseph's society. In the procession
were the band and all the attendants of the
circus. Elegant flowers were freely distri
buted about tho person and grave of the
deceased, and every attention was shown to
the family of a brother traveling with him.
Ho was a middle-aged Spaniard, temperate
and industrious, and highly spoken of by all
his companions. It seems he had fallen in
to the St. Ciair river, and once Into Lake
Erie, aud It is said, escaped from Paris dur
ing the late siege in a balloon. He was ac
ccatcmed in all his ascensions to wear a life
preserver, but hero he had no idea there was
any water about.
A FATAL ACCIDENT AT POBTSMOCTK, OHIO.
Quite an excitement was created at Ports
mouth, Ohio, on Wednesday of last week oc
casioned by mismanagement in letting up
the balloon at James Robinson's circus.
The balloon being ready to ascend, tbe bal
loonist, Mr. George Aogenstall, took his
position in tho basket and sung oat t "let
go." Before the poles supporting the bal
loon were lowered, as it cleared the ground,
it blew against ono of the poles and caught
the basket, precipitating Mr. Aguenstall to
tbe ground, seriously injuring him, and also
knocked down the pole which fell on a young
man Darned George Brown, who Is not ex
pected to live.
A BALLOONIST LANDS CK A TALL FACTCBT
CUIMNET.
At Nashville, on Saturday afternoon week,
there was a large attendance at the Horti
cultural garden to witness a balloon ascen
sion by Prof. Webster. But the distin
guished voyage to the clouds failing to put
in a timely appearance, a heroic young citN
zen, Lreorge Williams, agreed to go up in
the professor's place. The balloon was in
flated with hot air instead of gas, and the
nrst "send-off" being a "foul," the atmos
pheric craft was drawn back to its mooriDgs
before getting above the trees in the garden,
and again filled with fresh hot air. The sec
ond f tart was more successful, the airship
gliding majestically into the upper regions,
the brave ascensionlat triumphantly waving
nis nanaerchiel to thousands of astonished
beholders. The balloon, when manv hun-
dred 'feet above tbe cotton factory, began to
descend very rapidly, and. strange to sav.
fell on, or rather serosa, the smoke-stack of
the factory, being penetrated by the light-nlDg-rod
on tho stack.
Tho body of the balloon fell on one side of
the stack and the basket on the other. Here
was a perwous situation for tbe vouthfal bal
loonist, and the thousands who witnessed it
seemed to realize tho painful fact. But
George Williams proved that he had nerve.
pruaence ana agility equal to the occasion.
Hanging with the basket of the balloon
about fifteen feet from tbo top of tho stack.
ne anew mat he could not longer remain in
that position, and seemed to realize that his
only hope of safety was in reaching tbe top
of that great high chimney iu the soonest
possible time. Gathering the ropes, ho
sprang out of the basket, and raoidlv climb
ed to the top. With this foothold secured,
ne poiueiy bowed his retpects to numerous
spectators, and made signs to indicata that
he was now master of the situation. How
to get down from this giddy bight was now
me question, ims was soon settled, and
the ascensionist began to descend through the
interior of the btack. sending up clouds of
sooty smoke as he went down. When he
safely reached the bottom, he was warmly
congratulated by his friends on his narrow
escape from instant destruction.
Stock-Raisino in Tbxas.- The St. Louis
Republican says :
There is no other pursuit or business so
profitable, and stock men are regarded as
the most wealthy and prosperous in tbe
State. If this is the case now when cattle
are so cheap and transportations so low and
difficult, what will it be in a short time when
railroads will penetrate the stock region 7
It may not be out of place to give a few in
stances of large fortunes made in the busi
ness in the last ten or fifteen years on the
lower Rio Grande. . .
About thirty-eight miles 'west of Corpus
Christi is the ranche of Mr. Kennedy. It
contains 150.000 acres enclosed in a strong
board fence forty miles long. Mr. K. has
40,000 head of cattle in his pasture, and is
said to have expended $100,000 in fencing
and other buildings connected with his busi
ness. Mr. Richard King's ranche, not far
from the bay, is said to be still larger, and
to contain 182,000 acres and 70.000 head
neat cattle and 20,000 horses, besides sever
al thousand sheep and goats.
The expense attending tbe business is com
paratively small. Mexicans are generally
employed at low wages. They accompany
tho herds on horseback, and have stations
for shelter, etc., along the range, which some
times extend a hundred miles or more.
In consequence of Indian incursions on
tho upper Rio Grande, cattle-raising for the
present is chiefly confined to the lower por
tion of that river and to the coast range
around Corpus Christi and Matagorda bays.
Large numbers have been shipped to New
Orleans and eastern cities from these sea
ports, chiefly slaughtered and salted, packed
in Ice, or put up in vessels arranged on the
refrigerating plan.
Political and Honrs Items.
An Indiana girl, aged 1 1, is after a di
vorce. A mule is cheaper than a stylish bonnet
in California.
Florida has grown a ripe peach with a
green one inside.
It takes the skins of 2.000 horses to
cover the base-balls manufactured yearly.
Two men were smothered to death in
Kansas to end their sufferings from hydro
phobia. They didn't look hale over in Jersey
wesk before last, when the hail was deep
enough to sleigh in.
Snow is 6aid to have fallen to' the depth
of six inches or more in the southern portion
of Casadaga Valley, Chautauqua county, N.
Y., on the 21st of July.
An eld German who crossed the ocean
to see his friends in Lyons, Iowa, reached
there just in time to fall dead before a word
of greeting could be uttered.
One hundred and seven bushels of wheat
is reported to have been produced this sea
eon on two and a quarter acres of land near
Littlestown, Adams county.
Mr. John Slidell, one of the agents of
the southern confederacy in Europe, and
well known from his connection with the fa
mous Trent affair, has jnst died.
Duricg a game ef base bal), at Tama
City, Iowa, tho batter, in throwing back his
club for a telling stroke, hit the catcher in
the temple, killing him instantly.
A remarkable family lives in Dallas
county, Ark. The father is 108 years old,
the mother 10G, and tho two are the parents
of 29 children 15 boys and 14 girls.
The Louisville Courier-Journal propo
ses a new Presidential ticket, Greeley and
Toombs, which it says would run "like;
greased hell with a tinpan tied to its tail."
During a very severe thunder storm at
Washington, Pa., on Wednesday evening
last, Mrs. John Allen was instantly killed
and her youngest child and a lady named
Elizabeth Wolf badly stunned by lightning.
The Radicals have adopted sectional
hatred and religious bigotry as the the lead
ing planks in their political platform. They
cannot win upon such ifsues. The people
are too intelligent to adopt such a programme
iD this country.
The Prince of Wales and a royal party
aro en roulc for Ireland. Far better attend
to the long deferred claims of Ireland for jus
tice, than amuse her people with idle shows,
which only point with keener regrets the
memories of the past.
The Empress Eugenie, according to tho
Tempt, on the occasion of the Papal Jubi
lee, sent a letter of congratulation to the
Pope, through Cardinal Lucien Bonaparte,
together with an offering cf one hundred
thousand francs in tho name of tho Imperial
family.
The scandal going tbe rounds of the
radical press about Jff Davis and a lady,
in a sleeping coach on a Southern railroad,
is too contemptible a canard to be found in
the columns of a respectable paper. In all
his domestic relations Mr. Davis bears the
reputation of belDg amoDg tbe beet and
kindest of men.
One cf the most audacious robberies
ever placed on record was perpetrated in
Oi.lt. within six miles of Medina, on Satur
day, by two bold robbers, who accosted a
Mr. Gay in his garden, charging him with
b log a counterfeiter, after which they placed
him in irons and robbed his residence of sev
eral thousand dollars.
Mr. Joseph Caldwell ,a well-to do citi
zsn of Columbus, Ohio, unaccountably dis
appeared more than twelve months since.
and very recently, as It bas been discovered.
died in a lunatic asylum In New Orleans,
and was buried In a pauper's grave. He
left an estate worth $150,000, and one of
his relatives is now enjoying it.
At London, in Shelbyjconnty. Indiana,
on Sunday, Henry Ellington, a rejected sui
tor, undertood to murder Miss Lizzie Smith,
and in doing this he trampled her under foot
to such an extent that, though alive at last
accounts, it is hardly probable that she can
long survive. Lynch law 1 likely to call
Ellington to account for this wanton act cf
brutality.
Alexander Lovelet, a French Canadian,
residing with his family on Navy Island.
and Edward Bogardus, of Chippewa, in at
tempting to cress to Navy Island at 12 o'clock
on Wednesday night last, were carried over
Niagara Falls. On Friday the remnants of
their boat were found below the falls. Ihe
bodies have not yet teen found. Lovelet
leaves a wife and three children.
It is reported that the Cherokee Indl
ans In western North Carolina, have filed ;
claim against the Government for all the
lands lying between the Blue" Ridge and
the Cumberland mountains, and extending
from Bristol to Chattanooga, Tenn. It is
said that when the treaty was made ceding
this land, the Cherokee chief failed to sign
It, and that it is, therefore, of co value.
When tbe Misses Collier, of Geneva,
N. Y.. reached their uncle s house at Roches
ter, Wednesday, they were surprised to find
a hearse standing at the door, and horrified
on finding that the dead was their sister Eva,
whom they had come to visit. Wrhi!e giv
ing way to the outburst of grief which natu
rally followed, a despatch came from Geneva
announcing that their sieter at borne, who
was well when they left her in the morning,
had suddenly died.
The Fulton (Mo.) Fair Play of the 26th
says: "A portion of a bridge on the Lou
isiana and Missouri Railroad, being built
over Anvase river, eight miles north of Ful
ton, fell last Sunday, carrying with it nine
men over one hundred feet to the bed of the
river below. Only one man, A. McGills,
was killed. Charles Gray, George Brem-.
mington, and William Brothers suffered se
vere internal injuries and will probably die.
The others are not seriously hurt."
There has been a "new depaiture"
taken in South Carolina. More than a hun
dred prominent Radicals, white and black,
have gone over to the Democrat , renouncing
and denouncing the Republican party as
false and corrupt. The Carolina Spartan
publishes cards from eight or ten colored
Radicals announcing their change of political
faith, and reasons for so doing. This new
departure will put a different face upon pol
itical matters down there by and by.
A terrible negro riot occurred at Golds
boro, N. C, on Saturday. About five thou
sand negros went to town to attend a Rad
ical mass meeting, and many of them be
coming drunk attacked all the whites they
could find. The police charged on them,
but were resisted with clubs, stones, pistols,
etc. One negro was killed and a number
wounded, and one colored policeman was
killed and several whites wounded. The
Radical leaders refused to take the mob out
of town when requested.
A construction train bound north, con
sisting of nine cars and having eighteen la
borers on board, was precipitated into tbe
Navasota river, at Navasota. Texas, on the
evening of July 29th, a derrick on a working
car having struck the lateral braces and rods
of the bridge, and caused the accident. The
superstructure of the span was carried away,
and the second, third and fourth spans went
to the bottom with tho cars and engine. Ten
men were instantly killed, two fatally injured
and twelve more or less hurt. One man
was thrown twenty feet in the air, and fall
ing, was instantly killed.
JUST Opened
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Cheap! Cheaper 1 Cheats
Nos. 113 and 115 Clinton Street,
JOIIXSTOYTX, pA.
A TCXL LIU! c
BLACK AND COLORED ALPACAS.
MOURNING GOODS,
AND OTHER DRESS GOODS!
Embracing the Lutett Xovtlliu
Slack and Fancy Colored Dress Siu
P am, Htnped and Fancy Japanese S;:klI
Plain, Plai.l and Striped JapaneksP Vv'
Plain and Fancy Grenadines - U;
American Poplins, all colors-erVa
Lawns, Chintzes and Percales- -r'
Plain and Striped Chambrays'
A FULL LI5B CF
WHITE GOCDS,
STRIPED axd FIGURED P.
A COUrLBTB STOCS C
HOUSEKEEPING DRY G0023,
CASSIUERrs, JEANS,
AXD LISEV FOR BOYS' TITI.
Also, a compute varisty of
As well as a fine assortment of
PARASOLS ahd SUN UMBKIIiL
Hosiery, GIveS, reu, .,
FBr XOIT TBICZS,
. AT GEIS & FOSTER'S,
113 and 115 Clinton Street, Johns!::,
Have Just opened this week an !gi:t cj
choice stock cf
MILLINERYCOODS,
DOXA'ETS, II ATS.
FLOTVER8 M.?T RIBBON
Illusions and Laces,
BONNET AND HAT CRArE,
Or ALL COLOB3.
PIECES OP
CARPETS! CAEPETS!
We have opened and now offer for ianci
elegant assortment of Spring Ci7J-
Brussels Carpets,
Three Ply Carpeis.
Ingrain Carpets,
Rag, Collage $ Ecnp Cay
Mattings and Rugs.
FLOOR OIL CLOTHS,
all widths, etylesand qualities
"We invite every lady to call and ejiz'c:3
The choicest and finest stock of mZ.r&l
Broods and dry goods, iu town, on sxbid.uw
AT
Gnis &L Foster's,
Nos. 113 and 115 Clinton Street. .
Jolinsfown, Pa.
Cash Salet Low rricetSmaZJ&l
XHE GREAT
OAK HALL
EMPORIUM!
241 Main Street Johnstown.
s. j. um & liip
ITAYK . OW ON HA3
The Largest, Best'Sade
AXD MOST Dl'RABLE'
Stock0' Clofliin
KEPT IX JOIISSTO"-
consisting chiefly oi
MEN'S COATS.
ilEN'S PANTS
-
Ja-
YOUTHS' COATS.
YOUTHS' PANTS.
YOUTHS
BOYS' COATS.
BOYS' PAST, VST5.
Wo have also constantly in stock a cecp'
assortment oi
1YI iVriUiUMliiU.:
Hats, Caps, Trunks, Valises,
tlTWe are prepared to "nrtrtt
rn f 'o. Main Sre ' i
and see; how it is yocrsel
Johnstown, April 52, 19TL-m
JOHN FENLON,
I TTORNEY AT LAV ""'bis
fl Office on Hifib street. tur" ,SB:..tf.
denco. Jan 81
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