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Cambria jftttmmx.
EBE!VSDtnG, PA.
Thcrsdat Morning, : Acg. 24, 1871.
DEMOCRAT J C NOMINATIONS.
STATE.
roH acditob cissral:
General WILLIAM M'CANDLESS,
Of Philadelphia.
Ton surveyor general:
Captain JAMES II. COOPER,
Of Lau-rcnce Count u.
DISTRICT.
FOR PRESIDENT JUDGE !
TIIADDEUS BANKS. Esq., Uollidaysburg.
FOR STATE SENATOR:
Don. WM. A. WALLACE, (J Cleat field.
fOCSTT.
Assembly W. IIonAPE HOSE, Johnstown.
Prothonotary J. K. HITE, F.bonshurjr.
Assoo't.. Tortus ' JNO- FLANA(iA.N,.Jotanst'n.
Assoc te Judges ,( T LL,,yi,, Kbensburg-.
district Attorney-W. H.SIXHLKK, F.bcubbV
Treasurer JOI1XCOX, V.noniatisrh Borough.
win in issioner W. I. MTLELLANU, Johnst'n.
P. II. llirecr JAS. FAUIIEX, Watdiinrtii Tp.
Auditor W. A. H- LITTLE, Allegheny Twp.
William Banks. Esq., died at his resi
dence in Indiana on the 10th Instant, aged
78 years. lie was admitted to the bar in
Mercer conntj in 1825, and removed to In
diana county in 1820. Fur many years Mr.
Banks was a regular attendant at the courts
of this county, and nai well known to our
citizens, by whom he was highly respected
fur his excellent social qualities, LTe was an
able and thoroughly read member of his
profession, and enjoyed the confidence of the
people of his own county in an eminent de
gre. lie was a conscientious man, and if
there existed in these degenerate days an
honest lawyer, which is not credited by the
Ignorant and uncharitable, William Bauks
was fairly entitled to that appellation.
Green be his memory.
The Tribune, like the fabled hermit, blows
hot and cold ia the came breath ; and. like
the chameleon, takes the hue of everything
it touched. It supported Sheriff Bonacker
and opposes him ; last week it conceded he
was honest this week it thinks he is not.
Last fall it abused Ilenry Walters, Esq., and
all who thought with him; now it Fyrnpa
t Lizes with him. The editor has abnormal
hatred to all foreigners, yet one week he
praises the Irish at the expenso of the Ger
mans, and the next extols the Germane at
the expense of the Irish. Eliting the home
organ of Hon. D. J. Morell, he found Judge
Taylor all right when he was actively (al
most too actively for a Judge) supporting
Mr. Morrell for Congress. In spite of the
Judge's efforts for Mr. Morrell, he is defeat
ed for Congress; and now Morrell's organ is
filled with low abuse of Judge Taylor, and
vile caricatures only fit for a jakey paper
graces, or rathar disgraces, its columns. Ver
ily, Judge Taylor has his reward.
Tbe Democratic conferees fiom this, the
Eighteenth Senatorial District, met at tbe
Ward House, ia Tyrone, on Thursday, the
17th instant. The counties composing the
district were represented as follows : Cam
bria Jehu Hannan, JE. Ii. Dunegan, and
John A. Blair; Clearfield G. M. Brisbin,
G. B. Goodlauder, and Dr. J. M. Potter ;
Clinton connty W. II. Brown, W. W.
Bankin, and A. J. Quigley ; Elk county
J I. Kretz, C. V. Gillls, and Jackson Short.
Tbe following named gentlemen were placed
in nomination : William A. Wallace of
Clearfield, R. L. Johnston of Cambria, and
S. R. Teale of Clinton. Tbe first ballot re
sulted as follows : Wallace 6 ; Johnston 3 ;
Peale 8. The succeeding eleven ballots
showed the same result. Mr. Pealo's came
was then withdrawn, and on the 17th ballot,
William A. Wallace received 9 votes and R.
L. Juhnston 3 votes. Mr. Wallace was de
dared nominated, and on motion of Mr.
II annan. his nomination was made unani
mous. The conference then adjourned.
On Saturday last the Democratic coafer
eos from this Judicial District, composed f
the counties of Cambria, Blair and Hunting
don, met at Altoona for the purpose of nom
inating a candidate for President Judge.
The name cf TflAPDrcs Banks, Esq., of
Uollidaysburg, being the only one presented
to the conference, that gentleman was unan
imously nominated. His nomination was
anticipated in as much as the' Democratic
sentiment of the;District mo;t unmistakably
foreshadowed the selection of Mr. Banks.
The action of the conference was therefore
more a matter of form than of substance.
Mr. Banks is a gentleman of acknowledged
ability and large experience In his profes
sion. He Is in the vigor of his manhood,
and enjoys a reputation for personal integri
ty wktch cannot be successfully assailed. If
the people of the District should ratify Mr.
Bank's nomination at the ballot-box, and we
Lave implicit confidence that they will, he
will not disappoint the expectations of the
people or prove unfaithful to the high trust
"reposed in him.
Elsewrekh wilt be found a brief states
xnent of tbe doings of the Democratic Sena
torial Conference which met at Tyrone on
the 17th instant. It will be seen that on
the thirteenth ballot William A. Wallace
of Clearfield county received the nomination
for State Senator from this district, composed,
under tbe new apportionment bill, of Cam
bria, Clearfield, Clinton and Elk counties.
In 1862 Mr. Wallace was elected to the
Senate from the district then comprising the
counties of Cambria, Blair and Clearfield.
In 18C5 he was elected to the same body
from the district composed of the counties of
Clearfield, Cameron, Clarion, Forest and Elk,
and was re-elected from the same district in
1868. He has therefore served nine consec
utive years (three terms) in the Senate, and
Is now a candidate for the fourth time. This
fact alone ia certainly a high compliment to
Mr. Wallace. Ha is so well known to tho
Democracy of Cambria that it is quite un
necessary for us to eater into a detailed state
ment of his political career. Ho is a gentle
man of marked ability and occupies a de
servedly prominent and influential position
in the Senate. His election is of course a
foregone ceuclusion. as he is certain of re
ceiving a majority in every county in the
district.
The Democratic Tlcltet.
In the present number, for the first !ime,
we are enabled to give the entire Democrat
ic ticket ; and we are free to boast that it
embraces as much intelligence and integrity
as any ticket ever placed before the people
of Cambria county or of the district. First
on our list is Thadpius Bakes, our candi
date for President Judge. The Democrats
have presented an able lawyer, a truly hon
est man, and an unwavering Democrat, for
this high ofiice. Our TershiEgs, our Dur
bins, and our Johnstons can testify how wil
lingly he worked for our candidates when it
was required. We rejoice to say that there
is a fair prospect for the election of Mr.
Banks, as there are likely to be two Radical
candidates in the field.
Of William A. Wallace, our candidate
for Senator, it is needless to speak. Little
Cambria" first placed him in the Senate, and
nobly has he fulfilled his trust. He has aid
ed in restoring ns to a Domorratic District;
and while Cambria had her own preference,
she will hail tte election of Wallace as
bringing an' experience into the Senate,
coupled with a weight of character that
could not bo more abundantly found else
where. W. Horace Rose, our candidate for As
sembly, received tbe usual compliment of a
re-nomination. He made a most valuable
member during the late session. Firm as a
rock in the support of Democratic measures,
on every local issue he sustained the true in
terests of the hard-working yeomanry of
Cambria county.
Maj )r Joun Flanagan and Refs J.
Lloyd, our nominees for Associate Judges,
are fn'.ly qualified for the positions. The
former is an intelligent mechanic, the latter
an equally intelligent druggist, and both of
them honest and honorable gentlemen.
Judges Eas'y and Murray, the present in
cumbents, were without fault, but, like
Democrats, yieldod to the priuciple of "ro
tation in office."
William H. Secht.br, Esq , for District
Attorney, is a self made, ploddiDg, indus
trious lawyer a man who will efficiently
and faithfully prform the duties of the im
portant position fur which he is named.
For Prothonotary J. K. Hitb, Esq., the
present incumbent, was nominated by accla
mation, no other candidate being named to
the convention. The secret of Capt. IIite's
success has been that he is an obliging, effi
cient officer, and in every way worthy of
tte confidence reposed in him.
It is needless to do more than name John
Cox, Esq., our candidate for Treasurer. Ha
has already held the office, and in its dis
charge won golden opinions alikefrom polit
ical friend and foe.
W. D. McClelland is an honest, indus-.
trious mechanic, and will make a frugal,
careful Commissioner, and one in whose
hands the interests of the tax-payer will
not buffer.
Jamfs Fabrfn, our nominee for Poor
House Director, is a well known citizen of a
large connection that has never either held
or sought for office. He is a good, practical
business man, intelligent and shrewd, and if
anything in the Poor House requires correc
tion, the public can rest assured that he has
the judgment to see it and the determina
tion to carry oat his impressions.
For Auditor, W. A. B. Littlb was very
properly selected. A fine penman, a good
accountant, an honest man. What more
could be required ?
Th is is our ticket. In Its nomination men
equally good were defeated. This must re
sult in all conventions; but the ticket, as a
whole, is a fingularly fortunate one. It has
been nominated in a full convention, with
out any jarring elements it has that pres
tige which insures success, and with it Cam
bria county must and will reach the majority
of her palmiest days.
Whin an editor, to subserve party pur
poses, or gratify a dtsire for abuse, wishes
to denounce a citizen, all he has to do is to
attribute an article in some other pancr to
him, and forthwith take to abusing him.
Every paper has a responsible editor, and
whenever we go beyond that we run the risk
of doing a wrorg that Christian charity
would blush at. A very ludicrous case pre
sents Itself just now.
There are three newspapers published in
Johnstown. The article in the Echo on the
mbject of the county ticket is attributed by
tbe Democrat to Col. John P.Linton, and a
very severe and unjust article against Mr.
Linton is the result.
The Tribune attributes the same article
to Mr. Rose, and proceeds to empty his vials
of billingsgate on him.
Now, we take it for granted that the edi-"
tor of the EcJto wrote the article, or, if he
did not, got whosoever he pleased to write
It for him, endorsed it, and published it,
which is precisely tbe same aa if he had
written it.
But either the Democrat or Tribune, (and
we ask pardon of the Democrat for connect
ing it in any way with the Tribune,') must
be wrong, as only one man could have writ
ten it ; and this shows how wrong it is to
guess on the subject.
We trust we are at peace with all men,
but if we had an enemy in Johnstown we
should be very sorry to make him the author
of an article in order to abuse him.
While in the editorials of the Democrat It Is
some times hard to tell "which ia who." as
the editorial "we" means two, we confess
that we have not lately seen anything in the
Tribune that could be attributed to any o-en-tleman'xn
Johnstown, and we are therefore
quite sure that everything was written by
the editor. J
The Democracy cf Huntingdon county
have declared in favor of General Hancock
as the next Democratic candidate for the
Presidency. John. S. Miller, Eq., was
chosen delegate to the next State Conven
tian, with instructions to support General
Hancock. The tide of feeling, says the
Lancaster Intelligencer, is setting)sfrongly in
that direction throughout the Stated and
there seems to be no doubt that the Penn
sylvania delegation to the ntxt National
Convention will be composed of men pledged
to the support of the gallant hero, who has
such a strong hold upon the hearts of our
volunteer soldiery.
Tiie Johnstown Tribune.
We bave never sought any controversy
with the Tribune or its nominal editor. We
have always wished him and every other
brother of the press pecuniary euccess and
personal happiness. Besides, we bave al
ways believed that the province of the news
paper press is the advocacy of sound princN
pies, without descending to scurrilous attacks
on individuals, especially those neither hold
ing nor seeking office.
We had another reason for not desiring
any words with the Tribune. "Who can
touch pitch and not be defiled ?" Who that
publishes a paper to be read by the wives
and daughters of its patrons, could be seduced
into a vulgar controversy with a New York
rat, as destitute of controversial decency and
the common amenities of life as he is of hon
esty and truth a man who openly avows
that he always makes the end justify the
means, and that when he has a "point to
make," no purity of personal character af
fords any shield from his falsehoods and vin
dictive personal abuss? Besides, we are not
an adept at blackguardism ; the Tribune
man could give us ten in the game and'beat
us, and we court defeat in no such ignoble
strife.
For defending an upright and faithful of
ficer against an attack made in another
county, tho Tribune, when ample apology i.s
made, renews the attack, and because it is
resented, opens up his filthy billingsgate
battery upon a dozen or so of Democrats ;
not that they ever harmed him not that it
had anything to do with the question but
because be likes to wallow in this mire of
defamation.
"The Freeman of Ebensbnrg is owned and
controlled by a band of political thieves." Is
the outset of an article in the last number of
the Tribune. We assert and know that we
will be believed when we state that no man in
Ebensburg or elsewhere Las any control,
director Indirect, over the columns of the
Freeman but ourself, and that we possess
the exclusive right to accept or reject any
matter offered for publication. The Tribune
man knows this, but is black-hearted enough
to assert the contrary. It theu goes on, out
of its own editorial brain, to describejimagin
ary editors, and as thero is nothing good
in that brain, makes them cut a sad set in
deed. The Tribune thon "goes for" the Sheriff's
sale, lace veils, etc., and writes a half col
umn of diluted vituperation which is ia
tended to create harsh feelings among Lis
neighbors in Johnstown and vicinity.
This malicious simpleton finally agrees to
"let Know Nothingism stand for the prcs
eLt." He finds it more congenial Just now
to endeavor to stir up the Irih citizens
against the Germans and the Germans against
the Irish. But a juvenile Know Nothing
knows little of the German or Irish Demo
crats. They are Democrats because they
have taken an oath to Eupport the Constitu
tion of their adopted country because the
Democratic party accords them all their civil
rights and civil privileges, and opposes all
laws, "local option laws' or otherwise, that
interferes with the natural and inherent
rights of man.
The Tribune knows still less about the
principles of the Democratic party. That
party nominates no man to office without
inquiring, First, Is he a Democrat? Sec
ondly, Is he honest and capable? These
questions rightly answered, it matters not to
Democrats whether the candidate be native
cr naturalized German, Irish cr Welsh
they nominate and; elect him if thay can.
Tho Noons, tbe Murrays, the McDonalds,
the McGoughs. the Keans, the Griffins, the
O'Friois, tbe Mc Naraaras, the Coxes, and
scores of others, were not nominated to office
and elected in Cambria county because they
were Irishmen, but because they were "hon
est and capable." The Ilildebrands,. the
Bucks, the Bonackers, the Bergs, the Biochs,
the Annas, and others, were not nominated
and elected because they were Germans, but
because they were "honest and capable."
Tho Prices, the Lloyds, the Humphreys, and
others, were not nominated and elected be
cause merely they wbre Welsh, but because
they were "honest and capable."
"A man's a man for a' that," and no true
Democrat ever inquires where a man's birth
place is, if he is qualified to discharge his
trust. This the Tribune cannot of course
understand, and hence its ill-contrived cf
forts to destroy the harmony and success of
the Democracy must signally fail.
Ik tbe Tribune wishes to make itself of
use, instead of an organ of abuse, it might
explain a few things that many of its radical
friends wculd like to kuow something about.
It might explain why it is that Grant,
without authority and contrary to the latter
and spirit of the Constitution, bargained with
a foreign usurper for the annexation of a
territory with which we were at peace, and
endeavered to force the same upon the Sen
ate. It. might explain why the statesman, Carl
Schurz, was compelled to denounce the Pres
ident as making rapid strides to a de potism
and the overthrow of this republican gov
ernment.
It might explain why Grant favors negro
voting and opposes white voting.
It might explain why Grant has appoint
ed forty-two relatives to office, without any
regard to fitness, to the great detriment of
the public service.
It might explain how it is that a great
portion of the people's "taxes are squandered
by Grant's collectors before they reach the
Treasury.
It might explain why the lands of the peos
plo in the great West are wrested from them
and bestowed on mammoth corporations.
It might explain how George O. Evans
the Radical State Agent, swindled the peo
ple out of $291,046,91.
In March, 1867, Mr. George O. Evans, of
Philadelphia, was appointed by Governor
Geary to collect the military claims of the
State against the GencralGovernment, and.
giving bonds in the sum of ten thousand dol
lars (J) for the faithful discharge of his
duty, was immediately inducted into office
It is now charged that Mr. Evans has ap
propriated to his own use the large sum of
$363,523.85, while of the largo sum collect
ed, exceeding $2,000,000, lesslthan $399.,
000 was paid directly into the State treas
ury. An inveetigation is promised.
An Admirable ILelJcr.
During the last four months we havo read
a great many reports of "interviews" with
prominent public men in reference to the
present state of political parties and their
future prospects, but we bave seen nothing
conceived in better taste, and which con
t ainB more to admire and approve than the
following letter from IIenbt B. Stanton
of New York.to one of,his Republican friends
Mr. Stanton was an original Grant man,
but, as will be seen from Ids letter, now re
pudiates him and his party, in language as
dignified as it is plain and emphatic.
New York, July 29. Dear Sir : In your
recent letter you ask me if I was the author
of the numbers in the Albany Argus, t ijned
"A Republican From the Start," which you
read as they came out. I was, and they ex
press my settled convictions ; aud I am glad
that you in tbe main concur in them. You
ask "What of tbe future?" and tell me that
yon agree with Mr. Greeley about Grant and
one term. So do I. Greeley Is right, and
he himself would run better that General
Grant, especially in the south, where the
republican party is liable to go to pieces if
Grant is renominated. Nevertheless, I think
he will be. What then ? A large body of
the republicans will refuse to Bupport him if
the democracy act wisely. What will you
and I then do we who have acted together
for twenty-five years? I shall not regret
the success of a democrat next year, provU
ded he is sound, firm and trustworthy on the
new departure, and for these reasons in
brief:
1. I supported General Grant solely to
finish up reconstruction by the ratification
of the Fifteenth amendment. This done, 1
was done with him. Nearly my whole ac
tive life has been devoted to establishing the
anti-slavery principles now engrafted upon
the constitution. The victory being won, I
have no taste for scouring the field to rifle
the slain. The slavery controversy is ended
and the republicans will find that they can
not construct a Presidential platform out of
the debris of a demolished rebellion, nor ele
vate the negroes into undue prominence ou
1 the points of federal bayonets.
2. I want the south to aquiesce in the
constitution as it is, and be at peace. This
we shall not see until we bave a democrat
ic administration which accepts and will en
force the three amendments. Then the south
ern malcontents will give up their fight and
submit to the situation.
3. You and I were democrats of the Ben
ton and Wright school. During the rebel
lion the administration went outsido of the
constitution to snppreas it. In the recon
struction era congress kept outside about
half the time. There Is no excuse for re
maining outside now. But, having tasted
of unlicensed power, the appetite of the re
publican leaders grows by what it feeds
upon. Right there lies the danger. Uarler
the present regime the government is l s
ing into a consolidation, and unles we hasten
back within the coLstituticnal limits traced
by the fathers, our descecdents will cringe at
the footstool of a dictator. I, therefore,
should not object to the election in 1872 of
a state-rights democrat of the moderate type
of our old friend Silas Wright.
4. You tell me you want to see carpet-bag
.rule at an end. You are right. It is a
mockery cf representative government, and
is ruining tbe south, which it has involved
in debt full oDe huudred millions. You also
favor universal amnesty. But do you not
fear that we cannot secure either of the ends
while Grant or any President like him is in
power ?
5. We both agree much more closely with
the mass of democrats than with the repub
lican managers on questions of finac.ee, tax
ation, trade, etc. The old issues being out
of the arena, this alone would have weight
in determining my preference for a demo
crat. Would it not yours ?
Now, you ask me. will the democratic
party present the right sort of a candidate.
If they do. I believe he can be elected. But
will they ? General Grant received a popu
lar majority in 18C8 of about three hundred
thousand. If be Is renominated, and if tbe
democracy place a worthy candidate on a
progressive platform, do you not bilieve that
a sufficient number of those whp supported
Grant in 1868 will-fall away in 1872 to de
feat him? I certainly think so. The re
publican party was a coalition in its origin.
The exigency which bound together incon
gruous elements having disappeared, the edges
of the coalition will crumble away. Where
the fragments will go depends upon the
course of the democrats. The result of the
comiug contest is in the hands of theso re-
publican fragments. Personally I have
nothing against General Grant. He has
done all I voted for him to do, and Fome
tbing more; and, like Mr. Greeley, lam
satisfied. The defeated party in the next
Presidential campaign will go to pieces.
Which party will it be? At all events, I trust
that you and I will then, as in the past, be
found fighting ehoulder to shoulder. Yerv
truly yours, II. B. Stanton. "
Twelve convicts made their escape from
Sing Sing prison on Thursday last by means
of a singularly simple plot. Some of their
friends hired a tugboat in New York, ran it
up to the dock adjoining the prison, regard
less of the sentry's challenge, the prisoners
jumped aboard, the boat steamed out. and
the desperadoes were so far free. Pursuit
was not easy, and had not the tug run
aground on a sandbar some way down the
river, the men would probably have got
clear off. As it was, they took to some row
boats that luckily for them were at band,
and landed on the west shore. Their pur
suers, however, meanwhile had lost no time,
and at last advices several had been recap
tured, while tbe others were being hotly fol
lowed, and tbe recapture of at least a major
ity of them was only a question of a little
time. Whether the tugboat people were in
league with the rascals is a matter of doubt.
The captain tells a pretty straightforward
tale, and he may be guiltless of all complici
ty in the affair, but as one of the confederates
has been arrested, we may possibly soon be
in possession of some more definite informa
tion. . Important to School Boards. Accord
ing to an act of the last Legislature the
Court of Common Pleas has power to grant
to school boards, upon certain conditions,
the right to borrow money for the purpose
of erecting school houses. The amouut thus
allowed to be raised shall not exceed five per
cent, upon the last preceding adjusted trien
nial valuation of tbe school district 6o desirs
ing to borrow money, and the Court Bhall
decree how the money may be raised by
bonds, mortgages, etc. at any rate not ex,
cepding eight per cent., exempt from all tax
ation, and imbursable at any period not ex
ceeding twenty years. The consent, in writ
ing, of a number of the qualified electors of
the district must be obtained first, and no
tice of the intention must be published in
two papers of said county at least four weeks
before application is made for such decree.
The act became a law on the 27th of April,
1871.
Great gain in wearing Wanamaker &
Brown's Clothing.
Miners and Their Dangers.
The late accident at Pittston. by which
seventeen persons were suddenly kijled, adds
another argument to the many already urged
ia favor of better pay for those who go down
under the ground to dig coal. It seems
strange that anybody can contemplate the
perils of the miner, or read the brief details
of the many mine calamities that occur, and
yet refuse to award to the underground
workingman such compensation as ena
ble him to at least leave bis family comfort
able when the evil day shall come, as It
must and does to a very large percentage of
miners and mine laborers. Yet there are
many persons who seem to regard mine ac
cidents eveu the wholesale slaughters as
a matter of course, as incidents of the call
ing which those who adopt the trade must
take without remark or complaint. Those
persons hold that if mining is extra danger
ous vr disagreeable, miners can quit the busi
ness and go at something else. True, they
may do fo all avenues are opeu but man
is a creature of habit. It ia difficult to break
from the trammels which from youth have
bfen thrown around tho miner, evoa though
dangers menace him every day of hi3 life in
a di'znn forms.
Frequently the miner's life begins at early
boyhood, as diiver, or as his father's dinner
carrier and helper. He learns to scorn dan
ger if he does not forget its presence. He
often becomes attached to his underground
life, regardless of its linking foes, as the
sailor doss to the frail craft that is dashed by
the waves and driven by the wijds of ocean.
His friends and companions are there. All
bis associations, his hopes, his friendship
and his love, are clustered aud centered in
his life in the mines, and, while man ras
mains a rational, inbabitative, and social be
ing, he cannot at will break the bonds and
enter Into what to him looks like a new
world. The sailor, bred to the brine, pines
and frets on shore ; the soldier, inured to
camps and battles' alarms, chafes and rebels
under the calm restraints of peace ; the farm
er, wedded to the fields aud forests, cannot
bear tbe conGoed life of the city, and the
metropolitan grows lonely and hypchondria
cal listening to the croak of frogs and the
notes of the katydid. The sailor thinks not
of storms and rocks; the soldier recks nvt
the deadly bullet; the farmer considers uot
his risks, losses and discomforts, nor does the
city denizen foar impure air and water, and
the pestilence that threaten with destruc
tion tbe dwellers in cities. So the rrsiufcr,
whose life is ever at risk, from the time he
reaches the mouth of the pit in the morning
till his day's woik is done and the shaft is
left behind him, reckons not the slender
tenure by which his existence below ground
is held. And yet he is subject to accidents
and casualities when above ground tbe same
as other men, while his body is not more
hardened, his will no EtroDger, nor hid vital
ity greater than those of other mortals.
It does not follow because the miner is
apparently oblivious to the dangers that be
set him that nothiug should be done for him.
The mors he may be forgetful (.f the dangers
if the underground life the greater cnght to
bo the solicitude on the part of those who
see and appreciate his risks to guard his lifo.
While there are laws designed to protect
persons from suicidal hands surely laws
should be passed to protect 'miners against
their own recklessness, forgetfulnees and in
difference. Familiarity with daDger renders
men unfit judges cf their safety, hence the
ventilation laws should cot only be rigorous
ly enforced, but other laws should be enacted
to protect the ruir.er3 against themselves.
Few of the so-called accidents from explo
sive gases are realiy accidents. A majority
of them result from violation of the ventila
tion law unknown to or regarded with in
difference by the miners, or through tha
recklessness or carelessness of some one cf
the miners themselves. Then, agaiu, indif
ference to or familiarity with danger and
good pay sometimes induce miners to go into
places where life is very insecure. Others,
we fear, try to trade the dangers of the
mines for higher wages ; and are indifferent
abont making the mines safe. This is en
tirely wrong. While the risks to life are
many and great let the compensation be
commensurate therewith, bu now that wa
ges are down to a minimum standard the
risks should be brought down to the mini
mum by the enforcement of existing laws
and the passage of any others that may be
found necessary. It is to the interest of op
erators to reduce the risks of mining coal,
for thereby the cost of mining may be les
sened. It is to the interest of tbe miners,
because thereby their lives may be prolonged,
and it is to the interest of their wives and
children, because thereby their prop and
stay may be louger preserved to them in
life, health and vigor. FoUstille Standard.
Elections this Fall- Elections are to
be held this fall in the States of California
Maine, Texas, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Iowa.
Maryland, Massachusetts. Mississippi, Min
nesota, New York, New Jersey and Wiscon
sin, and in the territories of New Mexico
and Wyoming. California votes on the Cth
of September, for governor, state officers
aud three members of congress. The can
vass In very animated, and the contest clcse.
Governor Ilaight is tbe democratic candidate
for governor, and Newton Booth, the repub
lican candidate. Wyomicg elccls a territo
rial legislature September 5. The Maine
electiou for governor and legislature takes
place September 11. Perham, the present
governor, is the republican candidate for
governor, C. P. Kimball is bis democratic
competitor. The election in New Mexico
for delegate in congress, September "11.
Texas votes for four members of congress.
October 4. The democratic candidatesTare :
In the First district. W. S. Henderson ; Seel
ond district, J. O. Connor ; Third district,
D. C. Giddings ; Fourth district, John Han
cock. The republican candidates are not
yet nominated. Pennsylvania elects an au
ditor general, snrveyor general and members
of the legislature, October 10; on the same
day, Ohio elects a governor, stats officers and
members of the legislature ; and on the same
day Iowa chooses state officers and a legis
lature. Maryland elects state officers and a
legislature November 7 ; on the same day
Massachusetts elects a governor, state offi
cers and a legislature; also, Mississippi
elects a legislature ; Minnesota elects a gov
ernor, Btate officers and a legislature, "and
Illinois elects a member of congress at lare.
llarrisburg Patriot.
"Patriotic Sons." Thero is an Asso
ciation in Pennsylvania which calls itself
"The Patriotic Sons of America." This
body recently held a State Convention, and
tried to "enjoin all within its jurisdiction"
never "fo vote for a Roman Catholic for any
office of trust, honor, or profit." Against thfs
resolution 46 of tbe Patriotic Sons bad the
good sense to vote, but they were overpow
ered by 109 intensely Protestant Patriots of
tbe Lord George Gordon school, and so the
disqualifying edict would have passed if
somebody had not discovered that it was out
cf order, whereupon it was suffered qulotlv
to drop. A man of this late day who in
this country refuses his political confidence
to a Roman Catholic, simply because ho is
such, would have assisted at the roasting of
John Rodgers with a cheerful heart and ready
Laud. Aeto York Tribune.
rt'evrs ami 10111 leal If cms.
It rains 00 days in tho year at Sitka.
X Ch'cago man possesses the first green
back printed.
Pittsburgh had thirteen deaths from
small pox last week.
On the Pacific coast one-baif cf the peo
pie are Roman Catholics.
Miss Bliss, of Michigan, went to bliss
or some other place the other day. Coal
oil. Two-thirds of the womcnin lunatic
asylums are wives of farmers. Hard work
The Louisville Courier-Journal' says :
Grant's relatives multiply at a shocking rate.
Nearly every body now is Anti-Grant.
A lode of copper is reported to exist
eight miles from Council BluSi. and its dis
covery has caused great excitement among
the farmers owning land.
Stanton, the Radical candidate for Au
ditor General is a paper Colonel. M'Cand
less. the Democratic candidate, won tho title
of General by devotion to his country and
bravery on the battle field.
At Holly Springs, Miss., a few nights
eincf, forty or fifty armed negrr.ed took a
colored man named Horace Washington
from bis bouse and murdered him. Most cf
them have been arrested.
Unfortunate Ireland is threatened with
a great calamity growing out of the almost
entire failure of the potato crop. The blight
has developed to an alarming extent, and
hard times seem in store for that country.
A man who was diiving a cow through
the streets of Waupun, Wis., was so much
frustrated by a sudden bow from a lady that
in return, he made a bow to the cow and
threw a etone at the lady. Imagine his
ftelincs !
There is an enterprising youcg man in
Cheyenne. He becan three years ago with
two cows, and delivered milk on foot. He
now has a herd of three bun Ire I valuable
cows and cattle, and drives two horses to a
milk wagon.
The Nodaway (Missouri) Hepublican
learns that a peculiar and fatal disease is
killing off the young porkers, from the suck
ing-pig to one-hundred-pound shoats. Tbe
pigs are taken suddenly with spasmodic
twitching which soon ends them.
The Joplin lead mines, recently discov
ered in J.isper county. Mo., have four hun
dred miiitrs and prospectors at work. More
than a dozen shafts have been sunk. Out
of one of these more than thirty thousand
pounds of lead have been takcu in four
weeks.
The horses attached to one of the coach
es of the stage line between McConnelsburg
and Chambersborg took fright last Thursday
on top of tbe mountain and" ran away.
The coach was overturned about a mil frcm
the summit, kiliit.g the driver and seriously
injnring two passengers, a lady and gentle
man., Advices from Yokohama, Japan, to
July tJ2d, received by way of San Fraacisco,
report a terrible typhoon at Kaba on July
4, which caused a less of 400 lives, and de
stroyed $500,000 worth of property. Sev
eral vessels were wrecked, including the
Tride of the Thames." The captain, two
mates and steward of the latter vessel per
ished.
On Sur.dav evening week seme voting
people near Rocky Mount, Ga., were takins
a walk. One young lady having a email
switch in her Irind, struck a young iddd
who happened to Lave a smll copper car
tridge In his pantaloons pocket, which ex
ploded, the ball passing through their clcth
iDg. and lodging in the knee of the lady,
producing a painful and dangerous wound.-:
A r egro, who outraged and murdeied a
little girl near Fulton Station, ia Hickman
county. Kentucky a few day3 neo, was
taken from jail the night of his arrest and
shot th rough the body seven times. He was
left for dead, but the next morning he was
found sitting up and was taken to jail, where
his wounds were dressed. Subsequently, he
was taken out and hanged by a party of cit
izens, after he had confessed the crime.
An extensive fire occurred on Friday
evening last at Leicester, the capital of the
county of tho same name, a principal seat in
England for tho manufacture of woolen and
other hosiery. One of the lambs' wool spin
ning factories took fire and was entire'y de
stroyed. Several persons were killed by
falling walls or perished in the flames. The
bodies extricated from the ruins this morning
were so badly charred as to be almost beyond
identification.
About J8 o'clock Sunday cigbtf'ast a fire
broke out in the stable of the Waverly house,
Williamsport. The wind was blowing a gale
and tbe flames spread rapidly, and in a short
space of time about thirty baildirgs were
consumed, including tbe Waverly house, the
late Governor Packer's residence, Mulberry
street church, aud many ttores and private
dwellings. The loss will reach $125 000
insurance about $75,000. '
Jacob Vanderbilt, president of the Sta
ten Island Ferry Company ; William Braist
ed, superintendent, and the engineer, against
whom the coroner's jury returned", a verdict
of criminal negligence in connection with the
"Westfield" disaster, were brought before
Coroner Keenan Friday morning and com
mitted to the Toombs prison, the Coroner re
fusing to accept bail: but thev
quently taken before Judge Sutherland of
mo nuruuu uourt.on writs ot habeas corpn
and bailed.
In November last, a planter named
John A. Graffis, living in Heard county.
Georgia, was shot and killed in a field. Two
days afterward Thomas Teahl, living in the
neighborhood, sold his property and'left for
parts unknown with Paschal Graffis and
Mrs. Susan Knowles, eon and daughter of
the murdered man. Teahl being married
the circumstance of his leaving with another
man s wife excited suspicion that he was
concerned in the murder, and search was
made for him and young Graffis without
avail until a few dayn since, when they were
found in Izzard county, Arkansas, and ar
rested. The denial of the Persian famine is not
supported by after facte. To be sure, some
of the more gross and terrible details of the
event have not been substantiated.but enough
proven to wring tbe hearts of those whte
tables are daily loaded with all that nature
can crave or desire. At Ispahan alone there
have been already twenty-seven thousand
deaths, and in the provinces where the
dearth first broke out, the mortality ia re
ported to be even worse. In some localities,
fully one-third of tbe people have been
swept away for want of food. This is a
dreadful record, but not so revolting as that
which was first spread before the people of
the country. 1
On Saturday week a girl aged ten years,
daughter of Thomas Bennett, liTing- ncar
i ulton station.Ky.. on theTaducab and Gulf
Kailroad, was missing from her home and
search was vainly made for her. A ne-ro
wno tiad been working for Bennett tince the
war was suspected and arrested, but escaped,
lie was. however, shot and recaptured, aud
confessed that he had attempted to commit
a rape on the little child, but not succeed
ing, he first choked her to death, and then
accomplished his infamous purpose with the
aid oi a knife, after which, he threw her
body into a pond. At the last account, the
fiend ws in custody, but has, no doubt,
beon lyuched ere this.
Hoiiiws. Italuu 1.: mi. ", ."
Boston, Mass. .!,'.! 1 .-.'.- it'-'- - '
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than 3.ni j ,,! ,,. ),.UV , ' ! 'i:h. v
business aii..l fr Colltyf. y, ' V?
tauKht, ;xo-.t i-ifiid, In-.
for tin, t ir.-t St-si.o, ',.r '".
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sixtWyi-arbeirins .-M-pt. l:j r ,.' T'" -address
tbe Principal. ' t4'J--iiv...;.
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1 aul safe UounUnsr School t;,'P.
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THE MASt l l.INE I'l'MTIaN. i!v (,j ',' -t
author of "Thr I'hu-irai Lt, ,, ; 'I.
lates to the )im i tuil cf new .:
cute but outspoken: pnuti.-.ti ;T,t
bijrbly e-ndoi sed ; sell- rr;.i-i. ".,', 'x"f-
wription only. ExcIiimv-. ii 'ri! ,- -
liberal. Price . Ad. In-- f..r , .. f,"
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AGENTS! READ twv
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Whereas Let tors Tc-faip- -v r-. J..-.-
Of JiK-Jh Ii lick, 1:1 Te .1 . - ;
bavo been arnnted t- is..- . .;. - I. -
sin indebted t said .!..;.! t .si..- -make
i in mediate raynieiit. h;. i - t:
claims or desmtnd-i !'-vtii:-t i..- -.,
desired to present tile -an.e j ; .. .;
cat id for Si tt lenient. .! ii;.N"i:i"'
Carroll town. An;. IT, 1-T1.-.:. Ev- .-. r.
Advcrtisiiiu
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sued, contains a li T cr th- I- .vr.
vert isi nar Medium, irivinu- th- i iu .
tions. iir ul fui; j.rrt;ei!ais eei..-. i ...
ivft Haily and Weekly '-:.; ::i t . I -Newspapers.
tOjfther with ?' e
larjre circulati. pi.! 1: .:i i' -
liclijri, n. Agriculture, i.it.r,-u; . i . l-r
Ad vOYtiser, and every per-on v. !.. . :
boeominu- Mich, will tmd t'i.- ! ' -value.
Mailed f n-e t. an - " '
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lishers. Xo. 40 I'ark Row. N't -v ' rs.
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May 29. 1-TO. says : "The t::-n: . f . 1' !
Co.. which icstji.. this n; r. 1 'a .'
book, is the larcrot and best A.iwr::-:!.--.1.. :
cy in the I'nited States, uij.1 we an l.--r:
rceomrr.c nd it to theattein . f I: - ?
tdre to pdvertise their busin-v-- eiriitila,ll
and systematically in n-h -j..:y: ;
so ns to seeure the largest t;"!-r: ' yy.
for the least expenditure of in
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COLD-WATER SOAP!
WASHES in I.I or WAKM. !:-! ':,"
water, saves time and labor. is'i r '. '
beautifully whitean 1 ci.-aa. It v ".,'':
grease and stains, and is ni;: ,, !" " J ' -'
jure the finest fabrics. 1 ' !! dl.iN' -liiif-ed.
It is exi-oUe.-.t f..r trie-,. ;. -UKSTSOAP
IX 1"K fora.i ! - ,;y
Manufactured by becd.v .T-.r-.t:-? ' '
and e-cld by Kroccrs ii i -nera
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17 Firm Avem'k. l i-i-i i-
Good, reliable men. of ,---r': y
proved standinw'. are inv:b i 1 ' ' J.,
tion to us to a. t asa-'ent f.r -i:r n;.'..-.:.-
Elliptic has of the U-.-t
any machine ia the market, and ;
to pav (rood ne-a a l.inre v uitia ' w
All information, i uvu'.ar and
be furnished, on application " . 4 .-a '1-S-17.4t
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WHOLESALE B0OT3 AKD SE3E3.
II. CHELDS & CO.
5ots and !wfs
- AT VERY LOW PRICES,
AT
H. CHILES & CO. S,
133 WOOD ST RETT.
IITTlHRCl1'
A larsre Stock of Xailed R..Hrnn. b
and Furnace Men, onnstantly ' , ', C
we sell from 10 to 20 cents p r !'r ;
usual market rates'. Julyj-JL
LANES BBOTni'M
srcvKssoic.s ro
li. WOLFF, Jk , vv CO.,
At the old well kn.in
Cor. Liberty & Sixth date St. Cl-ir 1
pitts 15 1 it f ; i s , r (.vri.
Are now receiving- a full a-i.-,rt;:ie''t '.f,
ware for the Fall and winter n --' ,.",..!
lire having destroyed all our li''1-1' ?'
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ENTIRE NEW ONE orG-x 1
FOI OHT AT Pit FS EXT PIJirKS. and H,;'(,r!f
lrcparcd tow Hat the lowest 10' .t.:v
SKt ial attention called to our l-ir-,.'
Houxr. IfHiJ-Irr' Ifrtri'irnrf. ..
Cart'nt-rr and HUu-hsmith
Jlri'iu'l 11 ml Iiit fit in .
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Mail Cult, c-,
laneral arrangements man.- . ,,,,r
and parties hn iuir orders for If.' y
Our wholesale i aiolovrue mai.c 1 o
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