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dTambria jTrccmaiu
EREXSBUIIC, PA.
Tjiuhsday Morning, : Aug. 17, 1871.
Tlie Tribune and Mr. Ilonacker.
We are glad to have the Tribune agree
with us tbat in tbe sale made by Sheriff
Bonacker, aud which the editor of that
paper has attempted to iininortalize, he(the
Sheriff) did not charge "one cent more than
the law pIIows." This is no compliment to
tbe Sheriff, for all who know him know that
he id incapable of doing an unjust act.
But Sheriff Blair left his hotel and Capt.
Illte his ofSce to bid on what they wanted to
buy at the sale. This is rather melancholy,
especially as people from Ebensburg have
no right to bid at a side in Johnstown the
principle being that the mora bidders there
are the more tho g-iods sold will bring, aud
hence tho outsiders only increase the piices
on the insiders. It is likewise true that if
the former Sheriff was there he would render
his successor any help he could, and equally
true that Prothenotary ilite, who is particu
larly efficient on such occasions, if there,
would do a like service for a brother officer.
Sheriff Blair and Captain Ilite, being gentle
men, could do no less.
Another thing : Instead of piling the costs
of a two or three days' Bale on the defendant,
Sheriff Bonacker employed two clerks in
stead of one. and paid them, and thus the
goods were all sold in a single day, as every
man knows that a good crier can sell more
than fast enough for two clerks. So far al?
is right. But the Sheriff paid Mr. Henry
Topper, the crier, for his services, the enor
mous soni of $8. This is truly frightful! In
our. country auctioneers charge 2 per cent,
on the amount sold, which would have made
$1G in this instance. And we have in our
mind's eye a case wherein a Radical crier in
Johnstown charged J19.80 for a sale where
the labor was very much less. But we don't
give names, as It is not our vocation to pa
rade tho names of citizens before the public
in any but a legitimate way.
Every man at the sale (inside or outside)
had a right to bid, excepting the Sheriff, and
the more bidders the better for Mr. Kelly.
If Mr. Topper Bold to any but the hiohest
bidders wo want the Tribune to bat so. If
he did not, then all its tirade about the sale
is tho flimsiest notsense and clap-trap.
But tbe name of Mr. Michael P. Kelly, a
worthy and respectable citizen, is paraded
before the public and his misfortunes made
the theme of complaint, because he is an
Irithman. Mr. K. is a feasible, intelligent
man, but has been, like thousands of others,
unfortunate in business. That he has been
defrauded in the sale, however, is utterly
false, as he or any one else can ascertain by
examining the costs ofjsaid sale. If ho does
so he will find that the Sheriff acted in the
spirit of kinduefs and forbearance, so far as
his cfikial oath permitted. The meanest of
all mean things, therefore. Is this attempt of
an old Know Nothing organ to array one
nationality against another for low party
purposes. Tho effort to arraign the present
Sheriff for what has been done time and
again by all his predecessors, merely because
he Is the first Gorman Sheriff of Cambria
county, bhoulj be condemned by every man
possessed of a spark of honesty.
At the State Temperance Convention
which met at Ilarrisburg on the 9th instant,
Barb Spanglkh. of Lancaster county, was
nominated for Auditor General, and E. A.
Wiiebi.er, of Mercer caunty, for Surveyor
General. A few of the delegates who were
opposed to the nomination of a State ticket
withdrew from the convention, amongst
whom was liev. Penncll Coombe, who, on
more than ono occasion, has doiivered tem
purance addresses in this place and never
failed iu wearying out the patience of his
hearers by hia dull and dreary platitudes.
"What this temporance movmeut will amount
t j It is too soon to con jecture. The members
of the convention 6eemcd to bo in earnest,
and judging from the tone of the speeches of
Messrs. Spangler and Wheeler, both of whom
were present and addressed the convention,
the campaign against King Alcohol prom-
ises to be conducted with decided vigor.
The cowardly retreat of Coombe and hia as
sociates from .the convention was precisely
what might have been expected from them.
They will war lustily in favor of the pas
sage by the Legislature of worthless "local
option" laws, and other kindred temperance
humbugs, but the moment the real friends
of temperance propose to adopt the indo
pendeat action policy, Coombe & Co. desert
their colors aud denounce the movement as
ill-timed and impracticable. If they are
tincere in their loud professions of temper
ance reform, ani are not the mere advocates
of local experiments, they would not shrink
from taking a bold and manly stand, and,
like true soldiers in the cause, would '"hang
out their banner from the outer wall."
Befori the Kentucky election Radical
editors, laboring under the delusion that the
negroes In that State would vote for the first
time, flattered their readers wUh the pros
pect of a Democratic defeat. When the tel
egraph announced tho returns from a small
portien of the State, the same editors, who
are always, like Micawber, waiting for some
thing to turn up, claimed a victory, because
Grant and his party had been beaten only
twenty tliousand. Like the man who was
refused admission into the ark by Noah, and
who irreverently abused that ancient naviga
tor for his want of hospitality, they consoled
themselves with the belief that it would not
be much of a shower after all. The Demo
cratic deluge in Kentucky, however, was on
a grand scale and Las left few of the vestiges
of Radicalism behind it. Its destruction has
been complete and overwhelming. It is now
ascertained that the majority for Leslie, the
Democratic candidate for Governor, will not
bo loss than forty and may reach fifty thou
sand. This teiuit sufficiently indicates where
the Radical fox will be after it has been
chased by the Democratic "Hunters of Ken
tucky" iu November, 1872.
A Ioor Apology.
Oliver P. Morton is the obedient bench,
man, the willing and servile apologist, of the
present administration in the Senate of the
United States, No usurpation of power,
however flagrant and unwarrantable.no hu
miliation of the Southern people, however
pointed and degrading, has been attempted
since be became a member of that body, that
has not found in him a ready and unscrupu
lous defender. The 8hameles9 aed corrupt
Snn Domingo job had no warmer advocate
in the Senato than Morton. No matter
what is done or attempted to be done, he is
ever ready to maiutain and defend it. 0
the 28th of July, during the recent political
campaign In Kentucky, he addressed a IUd
ical meeting at Louisville. In attempting
to shield Grant from the odium which he
has so justly and universally 'incurred by the
wholesale appointment rf his own and his
wife's relations to ofUce, Morton made this
appeal :
"Now, I ask if, when Gen. Grant came
to fame and power, he had turned his back
upon his poor relations, aud upon those who
stood by him in poverty, when they had
nothing to gain from him, if he had refused
to allow them to participate in his prosperi
ty, or to help them legitimately by the
power placed in his hands, I ask jeu, as man
aud women of good sense and good hearts, if
you had not thought more of him for it?"
This is the Erst time that any public man
has been bold enough to set p an excuse or
palliation for Grant's Depotitm, and we
doubt whether there is another prominent
Radical in the whole country who has bras
enough in hia face to imitate hia example,
lias Morton so far forget the history of the
country as to iaterpoee sueh a worthless plea
in extenuation of Grant's ofJence ? lias he
forgotten how sternly the first Washington
set his face against the appointment of a dis
tant relation of his to office and what he
said in strong condemnation of the practice?
With the so-called second Washington these
appointments come not singly, but in batlaU
ions, and are as thick as leaves in Valam
brosa. After Jefferson retired from the
Presidency, In a letter to a friend referring
to this precise subject, he said :
'I can say with truth, and with unspeak
able comfort, that 1 never did appoint a
relative to office, and tbat merely because I
never saw the cate in which some one did
not offer, or occur, better qualified.
Such was the uniform practice of our
Presidents in the better days of the Repub
lic, and, with rare exceptions, down to the
advent of the present gift-taking incumbent
of the White House. It was reserved for U.
S. Grant, when, in the language of Moiton,
he "came to fame and power," to foiet into
office all his relations of near or remote de
gree. If there aro any yet unprovided for,
they do not number more than two. No
European monarch over fastened so many of
his "poor relations" on the public treasury.
It Is simply unapproachable, and however
anxious Morton may be to gloss it over and
apologize for It, there it is and there it will
remain, one of the most conspicuous cf the
many dark spots on Grant's administration.
A terrible ii c tiny has broken out in
the Radical camp in Louisiana. Warraouth,
an Illinois carpet-bagger, is Governor of the
State, and Dunn, colored, Lieutenant Gover
nor. Between these two high dignitaries
there exists a political feud as bitter and
malignant as in the olden time, in Verona
divided the rival houses of Montague and
Capulet. Warmouth's bottle-holder is one
Tinchbaclc, a colored member of the Senate,
while Dunn has for his backers Casey, one
of Grant's brothers-in-law, who is Collector
of Customs at New Orleans, and Packard the
U. S. Marshal. A State Convention was
held on tho 9th instant, when tho ball was
formally opened. The convention was call
ed by the proper committee to meet in a
room in the Custom House, which was a
convenient place-fur Casey and Packard to
play their little game. Two companies of
United States Infantry (a nice business for
them to be engaged in) took possession of
the hall of the Custom House. Packard had
things so arranged that no one was permit
ted to enter the room without a ticket signed
by the U. S. Marshal. Piuchback and other
followers of Warmouth went to the Custom
House, but not having tickets, were denied
admission. Whereupon the redoubtable
Pinchback waxed wroth and mounting a
box, went for the sable Dunn and hia crow
as follows :
'Is It possible that we are to bo put down
by the government we have sustained ; if
that be the case, the sooner this government
Is torn down and a monarchy built upon its
ruins the better."
Warmouth's men then took tht hores
from his carriage and dragged It triumph
antly through the streets to Turner's Hall,
and there the anti-Grant party organized.
During the same time the Casey-Dunn, or
Grant faction, was in full blast in the Cus
tom House.
The Radical party in Lonisiana is thus a
double-headed monster of most frightful
mien. Each body adopted set of resolu
tions and appointed delegates to the Nation
al Convention. All this is purely a contest
over the spoils. It is an old saying, and one
which we believe holds good in political af
fairs, that when rogues fall out honest men
will get their own.
rios. Benjamin Champnkyb died at his
residence in Lancaster on the 9th inst., aged
71 years. In 1825 he was elected to the
lower branch of the Legislature, and in 1840
he was appointed by Gov. Porter Judge of
tho Court of Common Tleas of Lancaster
county. He served two terms in the State
Senate, the first commencing in 1843 and
the other in 18G4. He was also at one time
Attorney General of the State. The Judge
was a man cf distinguished ability, and his
reputation in the various offices he held was
pare and without blemish.
At ti e Huntingdon county Republican
convention, held on Tuesday of this week.
Messrs. Lovell, Thompson and J hnstrn
werappointedJudic'ul ct nferees, but were
nut instructed, for any one. They are be
lieved to be for Dan, which fact won't
Reado well up this way.
The New York Sun is an ably conducted
and lively Republican paper, opposed for
many and self-evident reasons, to the re
election of Grant, and in favor of the nomi
nation of Horace Gieeley as the next Repub
lican candidate for tbe Presidency. In a
recent number of bis paper, the editor of the
Sun, contrasting Grant with some of our
early Presidents, when only statesmen of
acknowledged ability and who never soiled
their hands by accepting gifts, let them as
sume whatever shape they may, were elect
ed to the highest fficu in the gift of the
people, thus holds up to public derision the
present miserable failure at the head of the
government i
"Jefferson died poor, and Monroe was in
debted to charity for the stone that bore his
epitaph. To think of our President dying
poor! Let the admirers of Grant rest as
sured that no such calamity awaits his final
exit, if it can be averted by the laying in of
a large supply of lauds, tenements, houses,
bonds, stocks, plate, horses, carriages aud
other valuables, the gifts of grateful office
holders, and of hungry;expectants who await
his re-election to thrust their bauds into the
treasury.
On the 3d of March, just before be as
cended the Capitol steps to take the oath of
office, Grant accepted a gift of $64,000. On
the 6th of March, with the pledges of his
inaugural lingering on bis lips, he appointed
the largest contributor to this fund Secretary
of the Treasury, and the two mot active
agents In raising it Sub-Treasurer and Collec
tor of the Customs at New York.
"Jefferson, with an instinctive sense of
propriety befitting the high station of Presi
dent, refused during his eight years' term to
appoint any of his relations to office, bow
ever worthy and eminent. Grant in the
firt two years of his term haa opened the
way for forty-one or more of hl relations to
thrust their vulgar noses into tbe public
crib. Does not such a President befoul the
chair once filled by Washington, Jefferson,
and Jackson ?
"If these things are done in the green tree,
what will be done in the dry ? When tbe
root rots, do we wonder that the foliage dies?
When the Executive Mansion at Washington
is converted into an exchange for the barter
and sale of offices and contracts, do we mar
vel that the miner departments of the Na
tional Government are nests of roguery, that
the State Legislatures are sinks of corruption,
and that city municipalities are dishonestly
administered ? Were Grant driven from the
White Hjdso with the brand of infamy on
his brow, we might hope that the mark, like
the characters traced on the wall before tbe
Eastern ruler, would deter others from the
commission of offences against official pro
priety and integrity.
"And what think the misses of the peo
ple as they look upon this faint picture of
the evil times upon which they have fallen?
Do they not turn from it with mingled emo
tions of disgust and despair ?"
TnH Tkocbles in Charleston. Out
rages Upon German Citizens. The Charles
ton (S. C.) Courier of Tuesday says that
tho colored Republicans'in that city eeem
determined to avenge the defeat thoir party
has suffered by assaulting the Germans.
The deeds of rowdyism, thieving and perse
cution they carried ou on Saturday night last
was terrible. Ttey formed iu squads of fif
ty toseventy-five.paradcd the streets, inflict
ing as much injury on the German store
keepers as thoy came across in their line of
march as they could. They walked into the
different stores they met with, drank what
they wantod and purchased goods, and as
soon as they got them In their possession
ran off with them. The wives of the Ger
mans so persecuted were terribly alarmed,
some of whom were at home alone. They
indulged in insulting language, brandished
sticks, fired pistols and declared war against
Germans generally. At corner of King and
Tradd streets they appeared fifty in number,
made a rush for Loggerman's grocery to get
hold of. two colored men therein, whom they
intended to kill for voting the conservative
ticket. They were so violent that a message
had to be dispatched to the guardhouse for
a force of policemen to disperse them. The
colored men inside of the store, whom they
were waiting to kill, had to be relieved of
their perilous situation by the policeman,
who escorted them to a place of safety.
Jambs A. McMasters, the talented editor
of the N. Y. Freeman's Journal, exhumes
the following incident to point a moral and
adorn a tale : "Austin Monroe was an officer
of tho American Regular Army during the
war of the United States with England, in
1812-14. With the slow and methodical
exactness of that day, a'liat of officers serv
ing in that war was made out only after
Col. Jas. Madison had been made President
of the United States. He approved of all
the War Department had recommended,
except one. nis reason for not approving
him was that he was his oxen nephew." The
application of this lesson is so apparent as
to need no further enforcement, except to
say that James Monroe is not President of
the United States, and U. S. Grant is.
P. Grey Mkek. It affords us double
breasted gratification to announce that this
gentleman haa for the fourth time been nom
inated for the Legislature by the gallant
Democracy of Centre county, and for the
fourth time will he be triumphantly elected
beyond a doubt. Mr. Meek is a fearlees,
honest and capable representative, and being
a clever gentleman and the able editor of a
live and efficient Democratic newspaper, we
reiolce with becoming iov at this additi
"evidence of his great popularity, ne will.
in an probability, be the next Speaker of
the House of Representatives.
Slanpirers. The last Legislature passed
an act relative to slanderers of females,
which is now in force, and those in the hab
it of this great vice, will do well to take
heed and save themselves from "coming to
grief." It is as follows : "An action may
be maintained by a female, whether married
or single, to recover for words hereafter
rpoken, imputing nnchastity to her, and it
shall not bo neccessary to allege or prove
special damage in order to maintain such
action. In such actions a married woman
may sue alone, and any recovery therein
shall bs her sole and separate property."
Thi "Patriotic Sons of America" Heaven
save the mark!) met in Ilarrisburg last
week to have a big spreo and denounce tho
Catholic church and its members. The or
ganization is exclusively radical, and its late
convention was a weak attempt to feel tbe
public pulse on the Know Nothing question.
Gov. John W. Geary eojoys the honor (?) of
belonging to the organization, which makes
about the sixteenth secret association that
claims him as its own all which Is designed
by him to aid in his political advancement.
Victor Emmanuel has commenced the
confiscation of propertv, in Rome, belonging
t religious bodies. This will hardly add
to his popularity among the majority ofbis
subjects, tho men he relies upon to prop his
throne In case of a popular commotion.
. Plain Words Fitly Spoken.
In frenzied desperation'the Radical jour
nals of this commonwealth have seized upon
tho fact that Gen McCaudlesj, after serving
with honor, but without deserted promotion,
for three-fourths of the war, refused to leave
his home and enter the field for the remain
ing fourth, as the only flaw which they can
pick in bis life record. Vain and persistent
search has revealed nothing beside, and so,
making a virtue of necessity, they with one
accord declare that the Democratic candidate
for Auditor General is a traitor and the friend
of traitors, because he refused to regard an
intentional insult in the light of a distin
guished favor. His three years service count
for nothing in the sight cf the malignant
partisans who conduct the columns of Radi
cal sheets. Had he served the entire length
of tho war their slanderous epithets would
be not one whit the milder; the villainous
guerilla warfare which they are waging
would remain precisely the same, without a
single redeeming trait to commend it to the
support or approval of honorable men. The
one great crime of Gen. McCandless, in the
eyes of his snarling defamers, consists in his
Democracy, lie is a Democrat, therefore his
distinguished services in behalf of a dissev
ered Union and violated constitution are not
to be considered. Gen. Longstreet, the cous
in of the President, and occupying at this
moment an ircportant Federal office in New
Orleans, is. according to their logic, a truer
patriot and a nobler gentleman than Mc
Candless. They were both in tbe war Mc
Candless on the Union, Longstreet on the
rebel side. But now, Longstreet is a patriot,
because be is a Radical, while McCandless is
a traitor. Isn't he a Democrat, and are not
all Democrats traitors? Such is the logic
employed by Radical editors! They will
malign, and defame, and stigmatize a gallant
soldier, a true patriot, aud a gentleman, be
cause be is not of their political faitb, while
a profession of Radical belief retrieves the
character of such men as Longstreet and
Joe Brown, of Georgia, and in the twinkling
of an eye converts them from crime-laden
traitors into zealous patriots aud loyal citi
zens I Thousands of black robed forms, in
this very commonwealth, were stricken by
their first great grref thro' the instrumentality
of the loyal, cffiee-holding Longstreet. As
to the record of Judge Brown, go to Ander
sonville, or-read the story of the horrors en
dured by unfortunate federals in this south
ern hell, and you have the history of this
upright justice, this benevolont patriot!
Such men are eulogized, while McCandless
and others like him, who followed wherevor
the old flag led, and Bhod their blood'not
for a party, not for loyalty, bnt for the
Union, for patriotism's sake are denounced
as traitors and the friends of traitors! What
a doubly infamous party ! Is it any wonder
that all good and true men hate it with an
intense and enduring hatred ? That they
call upon the people in God's name to drive
it from the land it desecrates to its native
hell 1
As Ohio M ybtebt. Rich Cask tor Crim
inal Lawyers. About four years ago a
wealthy old farmer of Madison county, Ohio,
named Poffenberger or Buffenbarger, died at
tho age of about eighty-one years. Eight
years previously he had married quite a
young woman, whose character by some is
stated to have been none of tbe best. About
tbe time of the marriage she made the ac
quaintance of a yonng dry goods clerk named
Colburn, who, soon after tbe old man's death,
became her husband. After her ccond mar
riage she and her husband went to New
York city to reside. Poffenberger came from
Greenbrier county, Va when a yonng man,
and by the increase in the value of land pos
sessed property at the time of his death
valued at $700,000. His land alone
amounted to 5.000 acres. Lately suspicions
were aroused against the wifo and her second
husband. The stomach of the deceased was
accordingly exhumed and analyzed by Prof.
Wormly, of Columbus, and foiled to con
tain arsenic. A requisition was in conse
quence sent to New Fork for the Colburns
and a coroner's jury summoned, which at
last accounts, was carefully weighing the
testimony. The prosecuting witness is a
man named Thompson, who, it is thought
by the friends of the Colburca, maliciously
injected the poison after death. The highest
legal talent of the State (Judge Harrison
and Chauncy Olds) has been employed by
the Colburns, and it is likely that as in the
Shoeppe case the question of poisoning by
absorption will be raised. There are no
he irs or legal representatives of the deceased
to prosecute the case, hence it is hardly pos
sible the prosecution will be pushed as vig
orously as it would be with a personal in
ducement involved.
Tna investigation into the causes of the
explosion of tbe Westfield has shown tbat
the Government inspectors of boilers at New
York are and have been for several years
past grossly ignorant and incompetent if not
dishonest men. One of them named Berry
man conld not tell bow much water would
be discharged by a pump of a given diame
ter and stroke ; could not tell how large a
safety-valve ought to be; did not know how
many cubic inches of steam there are in a
gallon of water ; could not, with the diam
eter and circumference of a boiler given him,
calculate the pressure on the boiler head,
and in many other ways exhibited a most
wofuJ condition of kcownothingness regard
ing his business. The appointing of such
creatures to responsible pssitions where life
is at stake, 6hows that if there is not incom
petency also in higher official quarters there
is very great carelessness amounting to abso
lute crime. Surely when the public pay so
dearly for public servants they should have
good ones and be properly served.
The nartford Times says : A very queer
case has come to the attention of tbe law
yers here. A man died, leaving a handsome
property, and also a handsome widow, the
latter childless but expecting to become a
mother. He also left a will, duly executed,
in which it was provided that if the expected
child should prove to be a boy, two-thirds
of the property should go to him, and one
third to the widowed mother.
If, however, the child proved to be a girl,
only one-third of the estate was to go to
her and two-thirds to the mother. The re
sult of the expected interesting event has
astounded everybody and puzzled "all
hands." The widow has become tho mother
of twins! and, what greatly heightens the
perplexity of the case, the twins are boy
and girl.
The perplexity of tho mother, her friends
and lawyers is said to be extreme. It is
claimed that there is a clear solution of the
case, bat wo haven't seen it.
While Mr. Bennett, the owner of a store
at Vienna. Clarke county, Ohio, was a few
days since drawing oil from a large can, the
gas ignited from a candle he held in his
band, and immediately the room was filled
with flames. Thirty or forty persons entered
the house to assist Mr. Bennett and to save
the . property. Almost immediately two
kees of powder exploded, demolishing tho
building, the ruins of which fell upon the
villagers, fatally injuring four, and more or
less injuring twenty-seven others, including
women.
Ifews ana Political Items.
A seven year old boy was torn to pieces
by dogs in Cincinnati the other day.
Miss Nannie Black, youngest daughter
of Hon Jeremiah S. Black, died at York, Pa.,
on the 8th.
The Qaoquinnnpssakessosanagog House
is the name under which a New Hampshire
tavern struggles.
A fire-damp explosion oceurred onMon
dav last at the Eagle shaft, PittFton, by
which some fifteen lives were lost.
Three negro boys in Charleston, S. C,
wantonly seized a little white boy and en
deavored to cut bis foot off, maiming him for
life.
All processions in Londonderry .Ireland,
on the anniversary cf the raiting of tbe siege
of that city, in 1689, have been prohibited
by tbe authorities.
A party of six paw two hundred and
twenty three shooting stars at Shrewsbury,
.New York, the other morning, in one hour
and thirty-eight minutes.
Secretary Boutwell, in a communication
to tbe last Congress, showed that upwards
of twenty millions of dollars were due from
defaulting collectors of internal revenue.
The United Bietbren in Benton county,
Indiana, expelled five members last week
because they were Masons. This action of
the church has created considerable feeling.
Joseph Messner was executed at Roches
ter, N. Y., on Friday last, for the murder of
his wife in April, 1868. lie died with scarce
a sttnggle. He made a full confession of his
guilt.
Three persons have been killed and sev
eral wounded on the Houston and Great
Northern railroad, some miscreant placing
obstructions on the track that threw off the
train.
The Snpreme Coancil Templars of Honor
and Temperance closed their session at St,
Louis on the llth inst. The next session
will be held at Erie, Pa., the third Tuesday
of August. 1872.
The Mormons of Salt Lake are making
extenoive preparations to receive Giant.
Tbe New York Sun says an elder who is
looking for an appointment proposes to pre
sent him with a wife.
The Radical State.Committee of Illinois
held a meeting the other day, and resolved
that the condition of tbe coftntry demands
that the next President shall be a statesman.
Thus Grant's own State is the first to rebuke
and repudiate him.
Number six mine of the Lehign Coal
and Navigation Company, near Mauch
Chunk, took fire on Thursday last. AH the
miners escaped uninjured. There is danger
of tho fire working through the vein whioh
extends to Tamaqua.
In Londonderry, Ireland, a company of
dragoens dispersed a number of citizens on
the 12th. who were abou celebrating the
raising of the siege of Che city in 1C89. But
they did not shoot them down without or
ders, as was the case in New York.
On Thursday night last, at Rockford,
Illinois, a negro named Smith committed
rape on the daughter of Rev. C. C. Walters,
aged eleven years. The excitement among
the citizens in consequence is intense, and
the talk of lynching him is general.
Senator Summer has declined the gold
medal tendered him by the people of Haytl.
If the Haytlans wish to get rid of the medal,
they might offer It to President Grant, who
has no constitutional scruples against the
taking cf presents, especially when the es
press3ge is prepaid.
The Radical party promised to reduce
taxation. They did not do so. They
promised to do away with the Income tax.
It is still collected from the people. We
hold them to their promises. They will
never redeem them. A reduction of taxa
tion is the death of the Radical party.
A perfect plaster cast (life-size) of the
doable-headed children of Mr. and Mrs. Fin
ley, of Ohio, has been taken by Pietro Gari
baldi, at his statuary manufactory in Boston.
The image has been duplicated by tbe artist,
one copy being for the parents and tho other
for the medical faculty of Boston.
Hon. A. Oakey Hall, Mayor of New
York, saved a child from drowning at South
Bay, on Thursday, by jumping into the
ocean and bringing the little one ashore
after it had fallen overboard from a yacht.
This Is one portion of the accounts of the
Mayor, which, we suppose, even the Times
will approve.
Near Elonesdale, Pa., a young girl,
Helen Slater, was recently abducted, ravish
ed and beaten by four men, ancl placed on
an Island in the Delaware river. She was
rescued by a man next day, in a boat, but
on reaching the main land got lost and was
not found for five days, when she was in a
pitiable condition. Several men were ar
retted on suspicion.
Nashville has a sensation. A white
woman has arrived in that city from Ohio,
with a negro of the blackest type. She
eloped with him, and ws married to him in
Nashville. Tbe negroes of Nashville are
greatly diegnsted at the poor taste of their
brother Ethiopian, and are said to be vio
lently opposed to this importation of Ohio
"poor white trash."
Mrs. Vallandigharo. wife of Hon. C. L.
Vallandigham, whose tragic death shocked
the nation, but a. few weeks ago, died at
Cumberland. Maryland, on Sunday. The
news of the fate of ber husband undermined
her nervous system, and she rapidly passed
into the same shadowy vale. Airs. Vallan
digham was a woman of many virtues, and
her sad fate will bo mourned both in private
and public circles.
A London despatch under date of Aug.
llth says that tho Pope has written a letter
to the committee who have offered him the
title of "Pius the Great" and a throne of
gold. He refused te accept the proposed
bouor during his lifetime, and suggests that
the money which has been subscribed for
the throne be employed in procuring tho ex
eruption of Catholic seminarians everywhere
from military service.
New Yorkers calculate that in about
two months the cholera, which is now travel
ing across Europe, will be in their city
From there Into the country the trip will be
rapid. Next summer the destroyer will
probably run riot over this country. It is not
too soon even now to get ready for tho terri
ble stranger by putting cities and towns in
to the very best possible sanitary condition.
"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound
of cure."
At a picnic near Rochester, Monday, a
young German girl was walking with a man
in the darker part of the grounds, when a
number of young rowdies collected about
them evidently with evil designs. Her es
cort espying them, ignominously decamped,
while the girl in ber fright ran toward the j
brink of a precipice and fell over a distance !
of seventy-five feet to the dry bed of the
river below, where sho was found dead, with
her neck broken.
Near Eddyville, Iowa, on Friday last,
Wm. Briggs, intending to re-open an old
coal shaft, sent his son and daughter to dip
out water. The son put down a ladder, de
scended.and was suffocated by fire-.damp. His
sister, not hearing him, also descended, and
Briggs coming to the mine with his brother
and a herdman, and not hearing his children,
they doscended one after another, making
five persons suffocated. 'At last accounts
but two bodies had been recovered.
At tbe fancy dress ball at white Sulpher
Springs, we ek btfjre last Miss Preston, of
Lexington, Ky., represented "Arctic Moon
light." Her dress was a succession of full
Illusion skirls dotted with swans down and
sparkling with oxydized glass, and silver
bands glistened beneath and a silver crescent
looped the overdress one side, a crown of
pine cones and slender vines, frosted with
gold and spangled with oxydized glass, res
ted on her head, and a veil dotthd with
swansdown and spangled with the glass fell
from her head to her feet at the back. Her
necklace was psarls, with diamond pend
ants. DEMOCRAT J C NOMINATIONS.
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STATE.
to ArtiTo obkokal;
Q&hebal "WILLIAM M'CANDLESS,
Of Philadelphia.
ioi rciTiroit gidisil:
Camaik JAMES If. COOPER,
Of Laurrsne Cokntyt
DISTRICT.
fOB STATU SSlfATOR!
R. L. JOHNSTON, Esq , Ebensburg.
IBuhjft to tht attion of tht District Conftrtnce.1
COISTT.
Assembly W. HORACK ROSE. Johnstown.
Prothonotary J. K. HITE, Kbensburg-.
Assoc te Judg-es-, R T j,LOYl. Ebensburg.
District Attorney W. II. SECHLER, Ebub'sr.
Treasurer JOIJN COX, Oonpinausrh liorouxli.
Ooramissioner W.D. M-CLELLAN'Xj. Johnsfn.
P. H. Direc'r JAS. FARHEN, ViishinKton Tp.
Auditor Vf. A. 11. LITTLE, Allegheny Twp.
JILLIONS HEAR TESTIMONY
TO THEIR
WONDERFUL CURATIVE EFFECTS.
xrt. rnAziEit'e
CALIFO&milERB BITTERS
A trtie rnediotne, manufactured from pure
Juiceaor vital principlesof Herbs. Roots, Burks,
Flowers, &c, embracing twenty-one species,
foundbro-wing-ou the froiden mountains of Cal
ifornia, parts of South America, and India air
possessing- wonderful well-known curutive
powers, and are offered to all people, of what
ever kingdom, land, nation, name, or color, as
the best medicinal preparation ever discovered
for the cure of
DYSPEPSIA,
Loss of Appetite, Tii digestion, Lirer Complaint,
General Debility, Diarrhren, Dysentery. Flux,
Cramp. Kiliousness, Headache, Cholera. Cholera
Morbus, Chilis, Fever and Ajrue, and for the re
hef aud cure of Affections of the IJIaddcr and
Kklneys, Pains in the Hack and Loins, and
Eruptive Iiseases such as Scrofula, Tumors
Pimples, Ac.f arising- from impurity of the
blood.
ZSTYoT sale by all Irg-srists. au.lO.-ly.I
hkm BROTHERS,
SCCCK8SOR8 TO
. WOLFF, Jr., & CO.,
Importers and Dealer in
At the old well known stand.
Cor. Liberty & Sixth (late St. Cfair) Sts.
1'ITTSniRGII, PA.,
Are Bfw recelvfngr a full assortment of Hard
ware for the Full and winter trade. Our recent
lire having destroyed all our former stock, we
are enabled to offer an-
ENTIRE NEW LINE of GOODS,
FOUGHT AT PRESENT prices, and which we are
prepared to sell at the lowrmt itnsible rutcs.
Special attention called to our Large Variety of
House IiuiUUrt' Hariluvire,
Carpentrrn' ami Blacksmiths' Tools,
iirimltural Im jilrmentt,
JJouse furnishing GarxU,
Table and Focket Cutlery.
Meat Cutters, Sleigh BelU, Ac.
Liberal arrangements made with Peddlers,
and parties having orders for p-oods in our line.
Our wholesale Catalogue mailed to all Dealers
desiring: it. Send for one! aug.lOL'm.l
WHOLESALEOOTS AND SHOE s!
II. CHILBS & CO.
Moot ana sloes
AT VERY LOW PRICES,
AT
H. CHILDS & CO.'S,
133 WOOD STREET,
PITTS DURG II.
A lnrfro Stock of Kailed Broyans. for Miners
and furnace Men, constantly on hand, which
we spllfrom 10 to 20 cents per pair below the
usual market rates. July :7. 1371.-3m.
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for sale:.
The subscriber offers for sale on fair terms
and easy payments, that most desirable and ex
cellent fAltt recently occupied by him, ad
joining the Korotifrh of lAretto, containing-116
Acrea ioo A.cre of which are in a pood state
of cultivation and the balance well timbered.
There is a comfortable House, a good Horn, and
an excellent rrartt on the premises; also, an
abundance of imre water. It is a desirable pro
perty, beautifully located, and is convenient to
churches schools, market, etc. Title indispu
table. For terms and other information apply
to or address A. WALTEHS.
Feb. ld.-tf. Cxrrolitown, Cambria Co., fa.
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GROCERIES I QUEENSWARE
WOOD AND WILLOW WARE
STATIONERY AND XOTlQx
FISH. SILT. SUB CURED !f
BACO.V, FLOlR,
FEED AND PROVISIONS,
1323 Eleventh Avenue,
Between 13th and 14th St au.
niiU
All such poods as Spices, Bruhe, Tr
and Willow Ware, Shoe Blacking ai d S-
cry will be sold from manufacturer'. V""1"
price lists, and all other Roods ininvr
rbilfidelphi.i, Baltimore, Cincinnati aid V C
burgh current prices. To dealers 1 nreL
peculiar advantage of saving them a'lT'
and dravage, tie they are not required t'?
freights from tbe priucipal cities and to
ag charges are made. Dealers mavre""
sured that my goods are of the best cju h
toy prices as moderate as ritT ni., t,
a fair, uprigbt business, and by promr
satisfactorily filling all orders, I bo-eY '
the patronage of retail dealers and 0v
Cambria connty and elsewhere. Oru'e V
spectfully solicited and satisfaction -nJ!.''
iu an cases. ui'MUS tAKLAV
Altoona, July 29, 18G9.-tf.
Q.EOKGE W. YEA GEE",
Wholesale antl Retail Dealer in
HEATING AND COOK STOVES
OF EVERY DESCRIPTION,
OF EIS OWN MAXUFACTTRE,
And GENERAL JOBBER in SPOUTS
arid all other work in his line.
Virginia Street, near Carolina Strc-
ALTOOM, P.4,
The Only dealer in the crtr havir.? tre r';'t:j
sell the renowned "UARLEYHEAP'
COOK S rOVE, the moft perfec:
complete and satisfactory
Stove ever 'ntrodueed
to the public.
Stock Immense. - Tricis Lor.
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.
TOOD, MOREELL & CO
WASHINGTON STREET,
Near Pa. R. R, Depot, Johnstown, Pi,,
Wholesale and Bcicil Dealer? in
DIILIjIXCRY GOODS,
HARDWARE,
QUEENSWARE,
BOOTS AND SHOE?;.
HATS AND CAP.?.
IKON AND .Via,
CARrETS AND OIL CLOTHS.
READY-MADE CL0TE39.
GLASS WARE. YELLOW WARE.
WOODEN AND WILLOW '.YAEE,
PROVISIONS and FEED, ALL RISE'S,
Together with all manner of TV extern
such aa FLOUR. BACON, FISH, 5ALT,
CARBON OIL, &c, ic.
U"!-.rtcsl and rAt.iil enk:?
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and promptly filled on the sliortes: noue u.
moet reasonable terms.
WOOD, MORRELL CO.
GEO. C.K. ZAnM....,....JAS.B.ZAEl.
ZAHM & SON,
DBALEE3 IS
DRY GOODS, GROCERIES,
HARDWARE. QUEENSWARE,
Hats,Caps,Boot9,Slioes,
AND ALL OTHER ARTlCItf
Usually Kept In a Country tre'
WOOL AND C0"UNTKY FKODl'CE
TAKES IN EXCHANGE F0 GCfM
STORE ON STREET
Next Door to the Post Onke,
Jtme 10, 1869. EBEXSErKG
OOK WELL TO YOUR
O EllST A X DIS CS I
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SHOES
ROOTS AND
For Men's and Ue)'
The undersigned respectfully 'a'oriTt i-
merous customers and the public fQ'j jni
he is prepared to manufacture d
SHOES of any desired size or qnV
the finest French calfskin boot? to ue &
brogan. in the tert best m ? " u
est notice, and at as modeiate pr,(- -work
can be obtained anvwhere. s-ie
Those who have worn Boots ana y
at my establishment need no assort flS
the superior quality of my ork. i;lP
easily be conyinced of the fact h t" ;e- ,
give me a trial. Trv and be convinceu-,
Repairing of Boots and .bhc
to promptly and in a workmanlike ffl vji
Thankfvll for past favors I teelconj;
my work and prices will commend me
tinuance and increaae of the sanoe.
JOHN P. Tliu
Ebensburg. April 8, -
LORETTO MARBLE WOfg
PRICES REDUCED!jp!
And Work Wirrned!
MOXUMENTS, TOMB STO'-V"-fi
HKAiTRiid Tabu- Tops, mmle oi .r
Br-
thellnoKt Italian Marble and 1:1 V i v
of workmanship not sun-ass""
any mat
manufacturer. (Jive me
before dooiilinir upon TurcnaM"fc. .-ivjO."'
Lorctto, April JS, 1S71.-
IXrUSIC! MUSIC!! ThL
-L' - of St. Joseph '
will be prepared to Rive
Iz-ssnnt on ine nA.
MKlAlKON orCAlH-
NKT OHGAN at any
time after Easter.
ttTFor terms app
fh iho niurinrSf4. lis
ter M. lloKTENSE, or to Hor
Chargres moderate.
EU-Usburs, April 1, ls.l-
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