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Cambria JFraman.
ERCXSDlllC, PA.
Thursday Morning, : Aug. 31, 1871.
M4CandIegH, Lrfn?Ktreet and the
HcRervea.
When Oererai M Candless with the gal
lant Pennsylvania Reserves staked his life
on the bloody field of Gettysburg in defence
of the Union, Gen. Longstieet, commanding
a division of the rebel army, was hurling
instruction and death into their thinned but
undaunted ranks. Gen. M'Candless is now
the Democratic candidate for a high and re
pponsible State office, and it suits the base
purposes of the Radical press to question bia
patriotism and to cram down the throats of
the people the unblushing lie that be resigned
his commission in the army at the most
critical period cf the war. Locgstreet, the
Saladin of the Confederate army, its ablest
and most skillful General, who filled many
a Pennsylvania home with a father' and a
mother's grief, now discharges the duties of
the lucrative officio of Surveyor of the Port of
New Orleans, the gift of Grant and a truck
ling and subservient Senate. He is a friend
of Grant's administration noio, and is there
fore loyal, while M'Caudless is a Democrat
and therefore a traitor. In view of these
facts, how base and cowardly are the as
saults which the Radical press continue to
make on so pure and brave a man as Wil
liam M'Candless? It is the distinguishing
trait of Radicalism, as well as its disgrace,
that it is ever ready to hawk at and tear the
reputation of any Democrat when he be
comes a candidate for office, no matter how
stainless may be hia character, or how self
sacrificing the services he may have render
ed hi3 country. Whenever these political
harpies attack the military record of Gsn.
M'Caudless, they at the same time assail the
Pennsylvania Reserves and attempt to rob
them of their well earned laurels an insult
which the companions of Gen. M'Caudless
on many a battle-field will not be slow to
resent at the ballot-box. lie and they are
one and inseperablo and share a common re
nown, and a blow inflicted on the one io
cults and outrages the other. If Radicalism
will strike with its envenomed fangs at Gen.
M'Caudless, the wound inflicted will be felt
by the Reserves. Both were heroes of the
eame victories and both shared in the same
defeats. If Gen. M'Candlesa is to be strick
en down by partisan calumny and abuse
if the most villainous slanders against him
Bhguld Le permitted to go nnrebuked if the
survivors of the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps,
will not instinctively interpose themselves as
a protecting shield between tho gallant Mo
Candless and his mercenary traducers, then
will their fair name be tarnished and their
military glory clouded, if not totally ob
scured. The ItadicallCouuty Ticket.
The delegates to the Radical county con
vention met at the Court House on last
Thursday and nominated the following
ticket :
Assembly, Samuel Henry, of Kbensbnrg.
Trothonotary, C. C. Teeter, of Johnstown.
District Attorney, T. W. Dick, of Ebenss
burg.
Associate Judgrs, Dan'l J. Jones, oPCam
bria twr.; David Hamilton, of Yoder.
Treasurer. James Qu:nn. of Johnstown.
Commissioner, Emanuel Weaver, Jof Rich
land. Poor House Director, John Good, cf Tay
lor. Auditor, P. F. Woleslagle, Wilmorc.
Surveyor, E. A. Vickroy, of Yoder.JJ '
The proceedings of the convention were
dull and spiritless, and partook more of the
character of the last sad funeral rites of Rad
icalism in Cambria county than of its bright
and auspicious resurrection. Of course no
man who is fit to be outside of the walls of
a lunatic asylum has the most remote idea
that any one of the candidates ou this ticket
Btands theghostof a chance of being elected.
His being struck by lightning, or bodily
transferred to regions beyond the skies,
would be equally unexpected and improba
ble an event. The ticket, like some other
things in this world that occasionally thrust
tiieraselvea on our notice, may therefore be
said to have been called into existence to
subserve an ornamental rather than a useful
purpose.
There was one marked pecuTiarity about
the action of the convention : The machine
was run in the aggregate and in the detail
by the exclusive friends of Ex-Congressman
D.J. Morrell, and In his interest. A want
of political fealty to him at the last October
election constituted an insurmountable bar-,
rier to the mere empty honor of a nomina
tion at its hands. Of this we do not corn
plain, as the delegates had an undoubted
right to consult their own tastes. It simply
shows that there has been a new deal of the
Radical cards in this county, and that pig
iron, and not shocks, is now trump. Io the
game that is to be played, the Democracy do
not Intend to permit themselves to be euchred
by the tricks of the Ah-Sin of Radicalism.
At the Democratic Stata Convention of
Wisconsin, held on the 23d instant, Hon.
James R. Doclittle was nominated for
Governor, This is a first class nomination.
Mr. Doolittle was an old line Whig of the
Clay and Webster school of politics, and
served with great honor and distinction io
the Senate of the United States from 1863
to 1869. During the latter part of his Sen
atorial career he repudiated the Bins and in
iquities of Radicalism, and resieted with all
his power and eloquence tha reckless usurpa
tions of Congress. He is an able man, with
a reputation pore and unsullied. In the un
equal political struggle in which he has en
gaged we confidently expect him to carry
the etandard of constitutional government to
victory. With so distinguished and gallant
a leader, however, even to be defeated is not
to be dishonored.
GborgeScbibser, the well known New
York publisher, is dead.
Knoiv-Xolliluglsm Revived.
Three weeks ago a convention composed
of a set of politico-religious fanatics, styling
themselves the "Patriotic Sons of America,'
met at Harrisburg. From the published re
port of its proceedings we take the follow
ing : - r
Resolved, That the State Committee of
l eunsyl vauia declares its abhorrence ot
man Catholicism, and cij itis all in its juiis
diction by ever3' leal rosaus to oppose the
spread of the principles of said eect. and to
that end n?v.r to vote for a Roman Catholic
for any office of honor, trust, or profit what
ever. A motion to postpone this resolution was
lost by a vote of 46 to 109. A point of or
der was finally raised that the resolution was
not in order, in which the chair coincided.
An appeal was taken and the chair sustained.
If Dr. JohDson was correct when ho de
clared that patriotism was the last refuge of
a scoundrel, the title of this vilo and pre
scriptive organization is peculiarly appro
priate. Il is the boast of tho members of this socN
ty, or order, that devotion to the constitution
of the United States is its primary olje.t and
constitutes its distinguishing feature. If this
were true, as it evidently is cot. how did it
happen, as the report of the proceedings in
form us, that the foregoing infamous resolu
tion, which is in direct conflict with the
constitution, was discussed for more than
two hours before the happy discovery was
made that it was not in order. To give the
lie direct to their hypocritical professions,
it will be seen that more than two thirds of
the self-styled patriots (God save the mark !)
composing the convention, voted against
postponing the resolution, or, in other words,
in its favor. It was after tT is vote had been
taken that an escape was found from con
summating the outrage by some one more
discreet than the rest ra'sing the point of
order. It requires one to be gifted with more
patience than we possess calmly to discuss
such stupendous villainy. When in this
boasted model republic liberty of conscience
to any class of citizens is publicly . assailed
by an organization claiming to be the pecu
liar friends of the constitution, forbearance
ceases to be a virtue. What was meant by
the pious injunction contained iu the resolu
tion, "by every legal means to oppose the
spread of the principles of said sect" (the
Catholic church)? Who but a downright
knave or a fool, or both, would suggest such
a monstrous doctrine as that? John. W.
Gsary was introduced to and addressed these
defenders of the constitution. How has
Pennsylvania falleD from her ancient and
honorable renown when her Governor thus
panders to the base and unholy purposes of
sucb an organization. Horace Greeley, who,
whatever may be said against him, is cot a
religious bigot, in referring to the proceed
ings of this conclave of "Patriotic Sons of
America," declares "that a man at this late
day who in this country refuses his political
confidence to a Roman Catholic, simply be
cause he is such, would have assisted at the'
roasting of John Rogers with a cheerful heart
u d a ready hand."
$063,520.85.
THE STATE TREASURY ROBBED.
A HUGE RING OF CORRUPT OFFICIALS.
THE "SWAG" I DIVIDED.
Til 82 Y lVILLaOT DISCORGE.
In 1867 a ring of officials obtained author
ity from tha legislature for the appointment
of a special agent to collect disallowed and
SUSPENDED claims due the .State from the
General Government.
Governor Geary at once appointed G. O.
Evans to do the work.
-..Within forty days he received $1,883,000
that belonged to the State. If ho could ac
complish this so easily, why could not the
State Treasurer do the same ?
At subsequent dates he received other
sums, until the whole amounted to nearly
13,000.000.
This money was paid mainly by drafts,
payable to the order of John W. Geary,
Governor. .
Of this vast sum a 36 S.523.85 has never
reached the treasury of the State, and is
now in the possession of George O. Evans
and the corropt ring cf State officials who
run the Government and administer the fi
nances of the State, and other prominent
Republican politicians. . .
The project was framed by the men who
control the republican party of Pennsylva
nia. ;
They are the men who robbed the treasu
ry and the people.
Why did they not expose this embezzle
ment long since? :
Why did the treasury officials fail to col
lect this money for nearly four years? '
Why do they neglect Now to prosecute
the offenders if they are not their accom
plices? Why do they seek to remove from bis of
fice the man who has exposed the fraud ?
Why are they so anxious to elect an audi
tor general who will be their own creature?
Let the candid Republican read the facts
as shown up by the Philadelphia "Bulletin,"
a Republican paper, and determine for him
self the truth or falsity of the charges we
make.
The Huntingdon Journal, and other Rad
ical papers either as blissfully ignorant or
wilfully dishonest, continue to make the
most frantic appeals to their political frieuda
to secure a majority of Radicals in the next
Legislature, and thereby make certain the
election of a United States Senator. How
often must these Baartian editors be told
tbat no election of Senator will take place
by the next Legislature, and that the official
terra of Simon Cameron will not expire until
the 4th of March, 1873. They have been
told this so repeatedly, that to see them iter
ating aud reiterating the shallow falsehood
only betrays the weakness of their cause,
and locks vory much like a drowning man
iu hid despair catching at a straw.
The Evans Muddle.
From a few vague hiLts, this matter has
ripened into a full blown development, so
far as the acts of Gorge O. Evans are-concerned.
When the report first reached the
public ear in scraps of intelligence from
Washington, it was scouted as a sensational
rumor, something to be paraded in bloated
bead lines for a single day, and then sink
below the surface. It was not dignified with
ra re importance. Certain papers in this
State were extremely reticent upon the mat
ter. They did not even allude to it as mat
ter of passing news, and such waifs as float
ed to them by telegraph were pushed to sea
agaiu. to be engulphed in the sea of frgct
fulness. . But the foul spirit, "would uot
down" at the bidding of those whose "eye
balls it seared." Each day the rumor irs-
Bumed more palpable shape, until, during
this week, it came forth clothed in the armor
of figures, which cannot be pierced by mere
shallow denials. Briefly, the matter stands
thus upon the record. Uader a joint resolu
tion of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, ap
proved March 22, 18G7, Governo Geary ap
pointed George O. Evans, of Philadelphia, a
special agent to collect the "disallowed and
suspended claims" of this State against the
United States. The agent's compensation
was net t3 exceed ten per cent, on the
amounts collected. The claims collected by
Mr. Evans, from the date of his appoint
m ntto thU time, amount to $2,303,20 1.61.
Of this sum,, thrpe government warrants,
amounting to $321,014 44. have never been
paid into the Treasury of the State of Penn
sylvania. One of the warrants, dated May
1, 1867, for $78,516 89 drawn in favor of
Governor Geary, was paid to G. O. Evans
on the first of May of the same year, within
less than a month of the appeinlment of tho
agent. More than four years have elapsed,
and the Treasury has no account of the
money. The second unpaid warrant is for
$105,f.51.46,is dated October 28, 1808, and
is drawn in favor of Governor Geary. The
third, dated August 27, 1870. is Tor $137.
816.09. Of these Bums there js no account
in the State Treasury. : Mr. Evans claims he
U entitled to certain turns for commissions,
which lie has deducted. But the account
ing officers of the State reply, "Pay up what
yon have collected, and then we will settle
the commission question." No payment has
been made, 'and in that shape the mat
ter is presented to the public. The duty of
Mr. t. vans wai to collect the claims; pay the
money to the State Treasurer promptly, and
thus keep the record clean. This be did not
do. Over "three hundred thousand dollars
have been withheld from the State, and. to
cover this, Mr. Evans has given a boud of
ten thousand dollars. The condition of that
boud ia, he shall faithfully perform his offi
cial duties, under the joint resolution of the
Legislature, and "under an agreement enter
ed into by him the 23d day of March, 1867."
What the agreement mentioned is, no one
knows. What Mr. Evans covenanted to
do under that bond, no one knows. ' All the
public know is, tbat Mr. Evans is a debtor
to the State, and should be made to disgorge
the whole amount at the erliest moment.
This whole matter was a job put up by a
few men, and is on a par with the Giant
San Domingo matter, the Boutwell paper
contracts, and the Cresswell mail contract".
This man Evans is but the blind to hide
bigger men and more desperate ones, when
money is concerned. These men engineered
the resolution through the Legislature ; had
Mr. Evans appointed ; used him as their
supple tool, nod it is 6aid touched the cash
that lingered between Washington and the
State Treasury at Harrisburg. There was
no need of a Special Agent to collect the
claims covered by the resolution. They
couiu nave oeen collected through the law
officer of the Commonwealth, without the
least difficulty and at but a trifling cost.
But the njn who engineered this matter
Faw an opportunity to make a pull at the
Treasury, and hence the machinery which
Mr. Evans worked. What the public
wish to know is. who are the men behind
Mr. Evans ? That he is but the Agent of
others is certain. The leaders of the Radi
cal party io this State, the men who are on
the G rant platform, whose hands are soiled
with innumerable dirty jobs during the war,
are not the men to allow Mr. Evans to pocket
all the gains under the claim collecting swin
dle. , If they peril their souls, thev remit
pocket, the ducats. While, therefore, it is
proper that Mr. Evana should be called up
to the Captain's office to settle, at the same
time let the public see the real offenders in
this case. Iet the "exposition'7 be so plain
that even Ah Sin will understand what it
means. Age.
Thb tide of Democratic sentiment in Penn
sylvania, contiuues 6tcadily to flow in favor
of the nomination of Genera! Hancock as
the next Democratic candidate for the Pres
idency. As Is well known, he is a native of
Montgomery county, in this State. At the
annual Democratic county meeting, which
was held at Norristown, in that county, on
the 22d instant, and which was addressed
by General M'Candless, Hon. Wm. U.
Witth. and Others, the following resolution
was passed amid great enthusiasm and the
most rapturous applause : . ;
Resolved, Tbat we unite the voice of Mont
gomery with the voice of our Democratic
neighbors, the counties of Berks and Lelijgli,
in proclaiming as our .first choice for The
next Democratic nomination for President of
the United States Major General Winfield
S. Hancock, not for the sake of his military
fame as the fighting general of the Union
army, nor becaase be is a native of our own
county of Montgomery, but because his pub
lic career has demonstrated that his devo
tion to the Union is equaled by his fidelity
to the Constitution, awd because whilst dic
tator of the Fifth Military District he steadi
ly refused to subordinate the civil to the
military authority, and nnmoved by the
denunciations and persecutions of a usurping
Congress, he fearlessly proclaimed, in a gen
eral order issued from his headquarters at
New Orleans, that the Constitution had sur
vived the war, and was stilt the rightful in
heritance of all the people, and "the right
of trial by jury, the habeas corpus, the lib
erty of the press, the freedom of speech, the
natural rights of persons and the rights of
property must be preserved."
The glorious record of General Hancock's
civil administration in the States of Louisi
ana and Texas is a. sure guaranty of his
emineut qualifications for wise statesman
ship, and of his principles as a sincere and
incorruptibie patriot ; and our delegates to
the State Convention are instructed kr give
him an unwavering support. .
A friphtfnl accident rwnmA nn C i.-.-
o uu vjatui
day night; on the Eastern Railroad at lie-
.rfl ftAVAn mHoa f mn-. T , (PI v
i . uuui Lsuahuu., . jl iie accom
modation train started behind time,' and
while stopping at the station at Portland the
Lighting Ex or ess overtook ami fclar.o i.
killing twenty-two passengers outright, of
..u ibics were women, ana: wounding
thirty one others., The cars caught fire and
inrt-o uouies were consumed. Most of the
wounded were scalded and had their limbs
fractured.' The accident is attributed to a
blunder of the conductor of the accommoda
tion train.
A Remarkable Story.
Caygga, August 21.-On Wednesday last
Rev. Nathaniel Wardell, Messrs. Orio War
dell (of Toronto). andDaniel Freidenburg,
were digging on the farm of the latter gen
tleman, which is on the banks of the Grand
river, in the township of Cayuga. 'When
they got to five or fix feet below th surface
a strange sight met them. Piled -io layers
one upon lop of the other, some two hun
dred skeletons of human beings nearly per
fect, around the ceck of each one being a
string of beads. There were also deposited
in this pit a number of axes and skimmers
mace of stone. In the jaws of several of the
skeletons were large stone pipes, one of
which Mr. O. Wardell took with him to To
ronto a day or' two after-this Golgotha1 was
uneartLeJ - ' 4 - i- v ;.
These skeletons are those tf men of gi
gantic stature," some of the thigh bones were
found to be at least half a foot longer- than
those at present known, aud one of the
skulls being examined completely covered
the head of an ordinary person. These sktl-
etons are supposed to belong to those of a:
race of people anterior to the Indians.
Some three years ago the bones of a masto
don were found embedded in the earth about
six miles from this spot., .The pit and its
ghastly occupants arc now open to the view
of any who may wish to make a visit there.
'' LATER.
Dunnville, August 22. Thero is not the
slightest doubt that the remains cf a lost
city are on this farm. At various times
within the past, years the remains of 'mud
houses with their chimneys had been found ;
and there are dozens of pits of a similar kind
to that just unearthed, though mujh smaller,
in the place which has been discovered be
fore, though the fact has not been made pub
lic hitherto. The remains of a blacksmith's
shop, containing two tons of charcoal and
various implements, were turned up a few
months ago. The farm, which consists of
150 acres, has been cultivated for near a
century,-and was covered with a thick
growth of pine, so that it must have been
ages ago since the. remains were deposited
there. The skulls of the skeletons are of an
enormous sizp, and of all manner of shapes,
about half as large again as are now to be
seen. The teeth in most of them aro still in
an almost perfect state of preservation,
though they sooa fall out when exposed to
the air. It is supposed that there is gold or
silver in large quantities to be found in the
premises, as mineral rods have invariably,
when tested, pointed to a certain spot, and
a few yards from where tha last batch of
skeletons were found, directly under the
apple tree.
Home large shells, supposed to hare been
used for holding ,water, which were also
found in the pit, were almost petrified.
There is no doubt that were there a scheme
of exploration carried on thoroughly the re
sult would be highly interesting.. A good
deal of excitement exists in the neighborhoo d
and many visitors call at the farm daily.
The skulls ami bones of the giants are fast
disappearing, being taken away by curiosity
hunters. It is the intention of Mr. Freiden
burg to cover the pit vp very soon. The
pit is ghastly in the extreme. The farm is
skirted on the north by the Grand river.
The pit is close to the banks, but marks are
thero to show where the gold or silver treas
ure Is supposed to be under. From the ap
pearance of the skulls it would seem that
their possessors died "a violent death, as
many of them were broken and dinted. The
axes are shaped like tomahawks small, but
keen instruments.; The heads are. all of
stone, and of all sizes and shapes. The pipes
are not unlike in shape the cutty pipe, aud
several of them aro engraved with dog's
heads. They have not lost their virtue for
smoking. Some people profess to believe
that the locality of Freidenburg Farm was
formerly an Indian burial place, but the
enormous stature of. the skeletons, and the
fact that pine trees of centuries' growth cov
ered the spot,' go far to disprove this idea.
Correspondence Toronto Telegraph.
Attempt to Assassinate Bbick Pome
rot ik California. Oa Monday evening
last, M. M. Pomeroy. esq , ('"Brick,")' lec
tured at Oakland, Calforoia.- A fiery indi
vidual, known as "General V La Grange, had
m iuimwucu iu Buuot iricK on sigut." on
A. ' - C . 1 " 'V - '
accouus oj an article which anneared in
PomerOVJS Ti'mncrnJ rKflef?rr nn K!i A
& - - - - I - . ( v 1 1 .j II IO
mestic relations'Tind as Mr. Pomeroy's friends
were about to start for the ball where the
lecture was to be delivered, thedouchtv rad
: i . ii .... .
ctti. KCiierar apseared at the rinnrnf tho
parlor, iu which a number nf.tari;a on.i
gentlemen were seated, and demandins to
Tt T ... -. . , , . .
oco uxi. A uiueroy, attempted to lorce his way
into the room'. He was inffrrvntv? ho ri
John Scott.' editor of tne Oa:lnndrTrnr,
script, 'hea a fist fight enstied. and the
"general' received a- thrashing which-erit
him off as meek as. a lamb,". His friends made
a considerable fussj however- and tl. i,or,fr
cf the county, fearing bloodshed, forbade
1 : r . i i i t . - .
t.uc ut-uins vi uie nan, wnercupon the mends
of Mr. PomroyJ secured another 'room,' and
the unterrified "Brick" delivered his lectura
to a large aodience, the -general" and his
friend3 taking good care to keep utof the
way." Mr. Pomerojr denies the authorship or
any knowledge of the article referred to; but
if 'General" La Grange wants an apology he
took the wrong way to , get ltv Perhaps
when he ascertains the fact that "Brick" is
a trained 'gymnast, abla tuT 'pt up" a 200
pound dumb bell, and to snttff a candle at
thirty paces with -a revolver, he wHI feci
thankful that he got-off with thrashing
UUUI VUIUUC1 tJUUlb.' t -,
Equike Affection,-The sC Faul (kinn.)
"Pioneer" says a strange case ofequin'e afs
faction and solicitude has just beea'raJateiJ to
us : "A teamster near the'fair grounds has,
for some years driven a certain span of horses
about the city, .A short time since be
turned them out upon the prairie to feed
duriag the night, and aext. morning was
disappointed at not finding them, as usual,
near his house. He searched for them in
vain for eleven days, and had about come to
the conclusion that they had been stolen,
when he discovered one of the span, about
halfway down- the precipitous river-.bank
a short distance from his stable. . Upon ap
proaching the ppot he found the mate lying
dead away down at the foot of the bank.
Examination convinced the man that, the
horse had accidentally fallen over the bank,
and broken its neck on the evening of the
disappearance of the span," and tha remain
ing horse had descended as far as it dared
to . go. toward its lost companion, and had
stood f guard over the remains for , eleven
days.'
A "New Dfp a btcbb." In the annals of
medical science a few cases and only a few
are recorded where women who have pass
ed the age of three score years have given
birth to children. These occurrences are
considered extraordinary, and always "awak
en a lively interest among scientific men.
In ono of our exchanges' we find the state
ment tbat a lady named Mrg. Betsy Hudson,
living about six milea north of Warren, Pa.,
on the Jamestown aud Warren, road, aged
sixty five years, presented her husband a few
days ago with a healthy, bouncing baby. ,
This is one of the most romnrkahl Inctin.
WWCMUWV
on record, and should receive the attention of
mo medical iraternity. - .
Kews and ..Political Items.
A volcano under tlie water has -been
discovered ir the Pacific ocean.
In 25 days recently 1,356 death's were
occasioned by boiler explosions. -X
In the late Kansas tornado, two chilf
dren were blown from the bed where they
were sleeping and dashed to pieces. '
- Harrington, convicted on circumslanMa!
evidence in Toledo, bos been found innocent
and released, after three years' confinement.
A strange bird has taken up its quar
ters in the cupola of a warehouse oear the
canal in Lafayette, Jnd, It flies only at
night, and whistles like a policeman.
A terrible event has occurred in the
city of Bologna, Italy. One of tho principal
ehurthes in the placa was struck:by liht
ningSduring a.thunder storm and thirty-two
persons killed and injured.
-a-tOrrtbe 16th of June last a Mr. Henley,
living near Havana, lib, gut a beard of rye
in his mouth, under bis Jtongue." where it
has remained ever 6ince. causing him severe
suffering. It Is the opinion of physicians
that it will finally work out under his chin.
- Ihe document fur the abolition of sia- i
very In Brazil will.be executed in Rome next ;
winter, as the Emperor and Empress intend ,
to spend the seasi.o. there. The Pope will
sign the instrument to. which bo has been
largely instrumental. It is said, in turning
the Imperial mind. 1 . . '
The President appears to be determined
that not a single one of his ro'ativcs shall le
unprovided with tfiice. It was thought all
had been accommodated, but it appears that
another has turned up in the form of a New
.York letter carrier, he being the brotherMn
law of the President's second cousin.
A local paper states tbat a woman pasr
ed th.-ongh the streets of New Bedford on her
knees the other evening, bearing three lighted
candles in each hand, and accompanied by a
woman on each side, the operation being a
religious penance in fulfillment of a vow for
the safe' return of her husband from a whal
ing voyaje.
Few Western towns seem to think they
have all the modern improvements just now
unless tbey "have a -"ghost" and several
"weird faces on window panes." Crawfords
ville, Ind., on its part; reports a ghost that
only makes strange noises, but in a single
midnight hour lays more bricks than a first
class mason could lay in a week.
The Spinner warrants for $3,000,000
not accounted for in the report of the Sec
retary of the Treasury are not of half so
much importance in the sight of the narrow
minded block heads of the Radical press, as
the local affairs of New York city. Tweed
and. Sweeny must be watched, but Grant's
thieves have carte Uancheia the U. S. treas
ury. , r ..
f An Albany man clambered Into a freight
car on Thursday night, and went to sleep.
When awakened the car was in motion.
Unable to make himself heard, and the door
being locked, be was not released from his
novel prison until Saturday night, when be
arrived at B-ston. He had no food or drink,
for forty-eight hour?. He was almost dead
when hauled out.
. The steamship LoncTona, running be
tween New York and New Orleans, was
wrecked, seventy-five mi'ei .South of San
Augustine, on the 22J inst.. and twenty
lives were lost. She was an English built
ship, and captured during tho late war,
while endeavoring to run into one of the
Southern ports with an assorted cargo of
goods. She was built in 18G3.
The Elk county Advocate says : "If ti e
credit of the Government is to be maintained,
the Republican party must be perpetuated."
Exactly so. And If State Agent Evan's
miesing warrants, Treasurer Spinner's pec
cadillos, the Past Office deficiency and the
revenue -collectors' defalcations are to be
perpetuated tho "Republican" party must
h maintained 'Tis a poor rule that won't
work both ways. 1 i.. .
Another steamboat explosion has occur
red, the details of which are almost as hor
rible as those of the "Westfield." disaster.
On Sunday the steamer "Ocean Wave" left
Mobile, with two hundred passengers on
board, bound on, an excursion to F'h river,
about twenty miles distant from the city.
On her return she stopped at Point Clear
and jnst as she was about departing from the
wharf her boiler exploded, killing between
sixty and seventy of the passengers.
The Radical Governor of Florida has a
sou io the Jacksonville Post office, and when
tbe father was impeached the son furnished
him with seventeen thousand dollars of the
public money, to pay the expenses of a trial.
The Postmaster has been called upon to pay
up. and tbe Governor is now io New York
trying to make a raise by selling railroad
bonds which be sidle. Such is tbe news
that came to us from Washington by tele
graph, and such is the material of vwhich
wjtjwpuuucan party ot toe South is com- '
posed. .... '
Minnesota had but has no longer the
premium boy fiend. Hj9 latest and final
exploit is thus described : Punished by his
mother for some offence, he went into the
woods and hucg himself to a tree. He was
detected in time and cut down. Only in
spired with new zeal at his failure, he took
a can of kerosene, called a little brother and
sister, pourod the kerosene on the fire around
which they had gathered, ami in an instant
converted himself and his victims into human
cinders- The age of this young monster
was fourteen years. J :
-f Bhcking narrativo of devastation,
suffering and misery cornea from Southern
Hungary. ;By;: neglect and bad' manage
ment dikes Lave broken down and an im
mense tract of arable country , inundated.
Crop spared by the Hood hare been de
stroyed by. hall storms of such severity as
to rum vineyards and orchards. To add to
thajnwfortunes of the afflicted people, the
authorities are seizing the cattle for arrears
of taxes Agriculture is ruined, industry
paralyzed and trade vanished a famine,
now threatens the unfortunate district.
A r"raor 53 spreading over the face of
the earth that the venerable father of the
President of the United States has resigned
the office of Postmaster of Covington. W?hat
part the old gentleman proposes to take
henceforth In official affaire Is not announced.
I erhaps under the prodigous pressure of re
sponsibility that has been resting upon him
be has become weary. ; .The pomps and van
ities of the world have faded, as it were
His great anxiety has beee to seethe admin
istration of his son a perfect success. In
tbe fond assurance tbat hia eyes have dis
covered that aplendor ineffable, he retires to
the serene enjoyment of the sweets of pri
vate life. - .
r The race at- Saratoga .Wednesday last
was the elephant race of the season the
North against the South Uelmbold of Rhode
Island I; against Longfellow of Kentucky,
nelmbold being the victor. About eight
hundred thousand . changed hands on this
race. A Methodist minister bet and lost two
hundred and forty dollara on Longfellow,
and went away muttering something about
"eternal d nation to horse races." The
?WTn nSft1,ow before the race WM of
fered fifty five thousand dollars for hishcrse,
but refused It.. The horse sprained a ten
don during the race, and is not worth five
hundred: dollars now. .So much for bein
too greedy.
O, Call at Oak Uall for your Fall Suit,
A'MiraCle in Rome. The age of mira
acles is not past, if the story of tha Wink
ing Virgin, whicluiomes from Rome, be true.
The 6tory goes that near the tomb of a re
cently deceased and most exemplary lady in
the Church of St. Crisogono a picture of Our
Lady hangs ; aud about a month ago certain
worshippers were astonished beyond measure
to see the paiuted eyes,-tbe lids of which
drooped lew. open wide and look at them.
When the news of this strange occurrence
spread, there was no little curiosity to visit
the church and see if the miracle would be
repeated. The consequence of this was thst
the priests took the picture away and locked
it up in their convent. The free thinking
ecclesiastics cither disbelieved that a mira
cle had taken place or dreaded tho scandal
likely to attach to them in the opiuion of
their brothers if they should allow it to con
tinue. But above the door of the house of
Charity adjoining-the church there is a fres
co of the Virgin and Child, and no sooner
had the picture within the church been with
drawn that the miracle was repeated ill tl Is
fresco. The fresco is on the tolid wal1,
which fact lemoves all suspicion of trick
ery, as it is impossible to manipulate it by
means of wires or other machinery. Btf jre
this miraculous fresco crowds accumulate
(hi'y, and there are said to be over ff.y
thonsmd p'rions who have registered a dec
laration that they have witnessed thi won
deiful winking image. The real facts i i the
case are involved in mystery; f.ra9jet no
one has attempted to explain cr presumed
to deny the phenomenon.
Suspended f&cm a Ecrnikg Ballooji.
At the close of the afternoon perfoimance
of Grady's circus in Columbus on Thursday,
Mr, Charles Fisher made an ascent in a huge
hot-air balloon, or rather the balloon went
up with Mr. Fisher dangling to a couple cf
ropes suspended below. Immediately blue
fcmoke was seeu to issue from a point on the
side of the balloon, about one third tbe way
up from the month to the top. Experienced
eyes at once detected that the balloon .was
on fire, but the aeronaut, all unconscious of
his danger, went on with his frightful per
formance on the trapeza. When the balloon
was about 1,500 fret in tbe air, the flames
were seen suddenly to burst from its bide,
and simultaneously a cry of horror went up
from the great crowd below. Many turned
away their eyes, and one woman fainted, al!
expecting thatFisher would at or.ee meet a
horrible death. But whether it was that
the material of the balloon was not very in
flammable, or that tbe hot air near the flames
was not favorable to combustion, certain it
is that the balloon did not bum rapidly, and
the aeronant landed in safety upon the top
of a slaughter house near the end of the
Hocking Valley bridge over the Scioto, while
the burning balloon lit in the river, the wa
ters of which speedily extinguished lie flames.
Cincinnati Gazette.
Defaulter Evans. TJte Writ for Ilis
Arrest in the Sheriff's Hands. A writ cf
capias for the arrest of Mr. George O. Evans,
the state agent who is charged with embez
zlement cf funds belonging to the state
treasury, was issued on Stuiday by a judge
of tbe Dauphin county court. The v rit is
now in the hands of Sheriff Leeds, of this
city. A search for Mr. Evans developed the
fact that he i3 not on hand, but whether he
has left town to escape arrest, cr merely on
private busicess or pleasure, has Dot been
developed. We shall know in a day or two
what the truth is. If he is an honest man.
anxious to vindicate himself, of course he
will not elude the officers of the law pur
posely, when he knows that they.want'him.
It is reported that the amount of security
will be $400,000. Philadelphia Bulletin.
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