dambria JFramanJ
EREItSBCHG, PA.
Satcrdat Morning, : ' Sept. 23, 1571.
The Itadical papers are just now boasting
loudly but foolishly over the Maine election.
Blaine is a confirmed Radical State, and to
look for any other result than the success of
the Radical ticket would be to expect that
the sky would rain larks. A verdant coun
tryman was once very a.uch surprised by
being told that the Dutch bad taken Holland.
So will political greenhorns stand aghatt
when they bear that the Radicals hare car
ried Maine.
The New Jersey Democratic State Con
vention, which met at Trenton on the 18th
instant, nominated Hon. Joel Parieb for
Governor on the first ballot. Mr. Parker
served one term as Governor of his SfSfe,
from 1803 to 1866, with great honor and
distinction. The names of several of the
most prominent and distinguished Demo
crats in the State who sought the nomina
tion were before the convention, but the
preference for Mr. Parker was so decided
and so generally expressed, notwithstanding
the fact that he was not a candidate and had
written a letter to the convention declining
to permit his name to be used, that the con
vention overruled his wish and nominated
him by acclamation amidst the most un
bounded applause. His triumphant election
doea cot admit of a reasonable doubt.
The usual October raid into this State
will be made by the Pennsylvania clerks
employed in the various Departments at
Washington, for the purpose of voting at the
approaching election. The section of the
Registry law of 1869, under which these
patriotic clerks intend to vote, would be de
clared unconstitutional by the Supreme
Court, if a proper case were before it. Until
it ia ao pronounced, however, it must be
obeyed. The section referred to confers the
right of suffrage upon those only who do not
vote tchere tiius employed." At the election
held in Washington last May for Governor,
members of the lower branch of the Legisla
ture, and member of Congress for the Dis
trict of Columbia, it was asserted after the
election that the radical election tfficers in
that city permitted all the clerks to vote
who offered to do so. Wherever, therefore,
one of these carpet-bag officials offers to vote
in this State, he should be made to swear
that he has not voted in the District of Col
umbia. The pains and penalties of a viola
tion of our election law might possibly cool
the anxiety of these gentlemen for a radical
triumph in this State. At all events, it is
the only way to test their right to vote un
der the law of 1869 by which they claim to
exercise that privilege.
Monsieur Tonson Come Again.
.Solomon in the plentilude of his wisdom
declared that there was nothing new under
the sun. However true this may have been
during the reign of that old fogy KiDg of
Israel, it is manifestly cot applicable to the
progressive spirit of the nineteenth century,
and especially in our own State. We be
lieve it was the illustrious Sam Patch, who
flourished a few centuries after Solomon had
"gone where the woodbine twineth," who
expressed the sage opinion that "somtthings
could be done as well as others," and herein
Samuel showed that he knew more than
Solomon ever dreamed of in his philosophy.
John W. Geary is a disciple of the Sam
Patch school.
The Act of Assembly establishing the Dis
trict Court of Cambria county was passed
on the 13th of April, 1869. On the 7th of
February, 1871, the Supreme Court decided
that, under the provisions of the Constitu
tion, Judge Taylor and his Associates could
not legally act a Judges of said Court. The
effect of this ck-cision, while it did not invali
date the original act in ioto, emasculated it of
its very essence by depriving the Court of the
necessary Judges to preside over it. In other
'words, it substantially abolished it. The
Attorney General of the State, F. C. Brew
ster, was the sole agent in instituting the
proceeding against the judges of the District
Court which resulted in the decision referred
to. To remedy the difficulty, a supplement
to the original act was passed during the
last session of the Legislature. On the 17th
of February, 1871, Geary vetoed this supple
ment, giving his reasons for doing so at
length, and "earnestly recommended" the
Legislature to repeal the original act. Since
the date of thia veto, several members of the
Johnstown Bar, and other citizens of the
same place, have importuned Gov. Geary
on different occasions to breathe new life
into the defunct District Conrt by appoint
in? the necessarv .Ttiriirra In hold t TT
stubbornly refused, and appealing to and
reaffirming the views expressed in his veto
message, (written by his Attorney General.)
declared that he would never etu!tify himself
by so doing. But Geary and Brewster have
suddenly seen the evil of their ways, and
have magnanimously consented to rehabili
tate the District Court and thus put the ma
chine once more in rnnniog order. For
that pnrpoee the Governor on last Tuesday
telegraphed to Capt. Bonacker, the Sheriff
of the county, stating that on the opinioD of
the Attorney General, be would immediate
ly appoint Judges of the District Court, and
directing bim to puolish his proclamation
for the election, on the second Tuesday of
October, of Jndges for the same. How per
fectly In keeping with John W. Geary's
notorious and shameless duplicity is all this
backing and filling. It ia Geary all over
and nnthintr ehttt.
We wish it understood that we are tnaku
Sng no opposition to the District Court per
t. Whether it is to be, or not . to be, is a
question of supreme indifference to the peo
ple of this section of the county, and only
concern tboee embraced within hm own ju
risdiction. W hart simply referred to tie ;
matter at some length to make it intelligi
ble to our readers, eod to expose Geary's
double dealing and dissimulation in relation
to it. We could not do less. lie has ence
more committed a plain act of self-stultification
and become the subject of infinite jest,
if cot of deserved ridicule, even among the
most ardent friends of the District Court.
A Libel on Gen. Hancock..
We took occasion some time ago in repel
ling a vile accusation against the personal
character of Gen. M'Candless, made by the
Hollidaysburg Register, to refer to an unfor
Innate propensity so often manifested of late
by the editor of that journal. The French
in their own peculiarly polite way style it
"inexactness," while in cur own pure and
vigorous Saxon it is familiarly termed "giant
lying." In an -editorial article in last week's
issue of that paper, in reference to the an
nouncement of the Hollidaysburg Standard
in favor of the nomination of Gen. Hancock
as the next Democratic candidate for the
Presidency, the following language ia used ;
"In the next place, he had charge of the
execution of Mrs. Snrratt and of course good
party Democrats will cot help to elect a
person who was guilty of helping to hang
this innocent woman !'"
The idea intended to be conveyed in the
above paragraph is, that General Hancock
was personally concerned in the execution of
Mrs. Surratt. Now, mark bow plain a tale
will put this slander down. When the per
sons implicated in the assassination of Pres
ident Lincoln, as well as Payne, who at
tempted the life of Mr. Seward, were arrest
ed, the Attorney General of the United
States, being called upon by Prea't Johnson,
filed his opinion in the Department of State
that the prisoners were properly triable bs
fura a military commission. Upon the filing
of this opinion. Gen. William A. Nichols
was ordered to detail nine military officers
to act as a commission to try the prisoners.
That order was executed and Major General
David Hunter was the President of the Mil
itary Court. This court sentenced Harrold,
Atzerott, Payne and Mrs. Surratt to death.
President Johnson approved the- finding,
and gave the order for their execution. Gen.
Hancock was not a member of the court
he did not order it, nor did he detail its
members or officers. The President's order
commanding the execution was addressed to
him simply as the commanding officer of the
Middle Military District, and that order was
transmitted to Gen. John F. Uantraft, spe
cial Provost Marshal General, and now the
Radical Auditor General of Pennsylvania,
who had been appointed by the President to
attend vpon the commission and to execute
its mandates.
This is a plain history of that transaction,
and the persistent and malicious efforts of
the Radical press to misrepresent the con
nection of Gen. Hancock with the tragic fate
of the unfortunate Mrs. Surratt only show
how much he is feared as a Presidential can
didate. Gen. Hancock had no more agency
in the military murder of Mrs. Surratt than
he had with the hanging of old John Brown.
If we had access to the files of the paper
published by the editor of the Register in
18C5. when Mrs. Surratt was hung, it would
reveal the fact that he was jubilant over the
deep damnation of her taking off. and that
he sanctioned her murder as a just sacrifice
on the altar of loyalty, a species of counter
feit and spurious patriotism which then dom
inated the country. This loyal hypocrite
now professes a mock sympathy for M a
Surratt and knowingly and deliberately falsi
fies h'story by publishing a foul libel on
Gen. Hancock when he asserts that he "was
guilty of helping to hang 'this innocent
woman.'" Could duplicity and falsehood
assume a bolder or more brazen front ?
Greeley on Grant.
Horace Greeley la admitted to be the ablest
and most influential Radical editor in the
country. His opinions therefore on the po
litical future of his party are just now at
tracting more than ordinary attention, and
will contince to be regarded with general
interest until the meeting of the Radical
National Convention. It is well known that
he ia opposed to Grant's renomination, and
has receutly published an exhaustive article in
the Galaxy in favor of the one term principle,
which is intended of course to operate against
Grant's prospects and if possible forestal
them in the Republican National Conven
tion. Mr. Greeley has lately been visiting
the North-Western States, delivering agri
cultural addresses in Wisconsin and Minne
sota, and has been occasionally interviewed in
reference to the present and future political
prospects of the party of which he is an ac
knowledged leader. When he was in Chica
go be had a conference with John Went
worth of Illinois and Mr. Grinnell of Iowa,
both prominent members of the Radical par
ty, in which he used the following severe but
sensible language regarding our "Second
Washington" and his total unfitness for the
Presidency :
"If we nominate Grant, we shall certainly
be dejeated. The public will stand no more
horse-jockey and present-taking Presidents.
We have had enough of iJiem. 1 tell you,
gentlemen, we must take a new departure, and
I can assure you that we of the Easi are de
termined that it shall be done. I have been
rather quiet about it so far. but I want every
body to understand wJiat I think. When we
lake hold of Gkaut il will not be with silk
gloves on our hands. It has got to be done.
We must throw Gbant overboard or we shall
be defeated."
"All 1 want is to have a good man nomi
nated, who if elected will consent to give up
the office at the end of his term. Besides, I
want to nominate a man who if elected will
elevate the office to where it was in former
days ; ' a man wlio will not take presents or
use the military or his office-holders to advance
his own aspirations for a second tern, and
in the meantime neglect the interests of those
whose ruler he is. Besides, I want a man
who is above mere pleasure-hunting ; a man
whq will not dawdle away one-fourth of his
term amid the follies aud frivolities of a
watering place ; and one who, when called
upon for an expression of his views on polit
ical and other subjects of national interest,
can give them in clear, comprehensive lan
guage. That's the kind of a man the peo
ple want, and that's the kind of a man we
haven't jot now,"
Tbe Kccd ofa Government Hotel
Some weeks since, we suggested to Con
gress the propriety of preparing, at a suita
ble locality near tbe national capital, an asy
lum for the benefit of the disabled Presidents,
who might be overcome with the beat of the
weather or excess of emotion during the
summer months. This would do away with
tbe. necessity of those frequent trips to and
long stays at Long Branch, which monopo
lized tbe time and depleted tbe exchequer
of his excellency tbe past season; while thoj
best government in the worm ' would then
be so close to Washington, that it might rush
into the city whenever a hostile Ku-klux
damned the constitution on the banks of the
Santee, or an Indignant Indian sounded a
war-whoop among the glens of the Sierra
Nevada. As affairs now stand, the centre
and soul of our beloved country is perambu
lating over the sands of the seashore, when
his presence is needed at the executive man
sion, and we present tbe ludicrous spectacle
of a great nation with its head in one place
and its body in another.
The suggestion alluded to, however, con
templated accommodations only for the Presi
dent of the United States, his family and
guests, for we were not then aware that each
and every member of the cabinet was in such
excessive delicate health that a prolonged
residence in Washington could not be thought
of. This is apparently the case, for our dis
patches of yesterday inform us that the gov
ernment in all its power, prestige and ma
jesty now walks about clad in the garments
of Rear Admiral James Alden the naval
representative of a wandering and scattered
administration. Robeson, the gallant sailor,
hits vanished into rural solitudes; likewise
Fish, the piscatorial diplomat; Akerman,
the stump orator; Belknap, the hero of a
hundred battles on paper ; Cresswell. the
chivalric manipulator of mail facilities ;
Bout well, the inventor of syndicates ; and
Delano, who presides over the mysteries of
the interior. All, all are gone, and on the
broad, nautical shoulders of Alden rests tha
tremendous burden of the Union, liable to
be capsized by a sudden squall.
We submit that this will not do. Scott,
Morton, Wallace and their friende all hon
orable men tell us that the country is in a
most criticol .condition, ready at any mo
ment to lapse into eternal smash. Not a
loyal hen roost in the south, from the Poto
mac to the Rio Grande, that is not threat
ened with invasion by the Ku klux ; not an
Intelligent brother of the colored pursuaslon
in the same section who may not be hung,
drawn and quartered by said Ku-klux before
the going down of the sun ; not a patriotic
carpet-bagser who may not be robbed of his
hard earnings and driven an exile from the
home of his adoption by masked ruffians in
league with tho devil and Jeff Davis ; not a
man, woman, or child in the whole land who
may not be suddenly swallowed up in the
vortex of a "new rebellion." And the only
bulwark againBt these terrible calamities is
Alden, a jolly sea-dog, perfectly at home on
board a ship of war, an'l a perfect land lub
ber at the helm of the ship of state.
Congress must take measures to prevent
the occurrence of such an awkward dilemma.
A grand government hotel must be built on
the banks of the Potomac, or the shores of
Chesapeake bay .for the accommodation of the
President and bis cabinet, where the bub and
spokes of the administration wheel may re
cuperate their exhausted euergies in the sweet
summer time, and yet continue to revolve in
the line of cffieial duty.
England has Windsor, Osborne and Bal
moral, where Victoria and her royal progeny
enjoy a dignified retirement ; cannot the uni
versal Yankee nation afford at least one Hail
Columbia Castle for the delectation of our
chosen sovereigns ? Of course therefore let
it be so ordered. St. Louis Republican.
THE REGISTRY LAW.
What most be Done In Order to Vote.
To the Voters of Pennsylvania : Your at
tention is directed to the following explana
tion of the registry law. Read it carefully,
in order to ascertain what is your duty in
the premises, and then see that your Danes
are placed upon tbe assessor's lists.
NATURALIZED CITIZENS
will see that the republican legislature has
imposed additional duties upon them. Let
them comply fully with the law, in order
that they may vote for the party which has
always stood by them.
EXAMINE THE ASSESSOR'S LISTS,
One of which is posted on the house where
the election is to be held, and the other is in
the assessor's hands. You have a right to
examine them free of charge.
These lists should contain your name,
and the names of all other qualified voters
in the district ; they should stats if you are
a house keeper, the cumber of your house ;
the street it fronts on ; your occupation, if
you board, where and with whom you board;
if you work for aoother.'yoar employer's
came ; and opposite your came bhould be
written the word "voter."
If you have been naturalized, there will
also appear the letter "N." If you have
merely dec'ared your intention to become a
citizen, the letters "D. I."
If you are between twenty-one and twenty-two
years old, the word "age." If you
have removed in the district sioce the last
election, the letter "R." will appear oppc.
site your name.
Make it your personal duty to see that your
name is ou the list.
Do not trust this mailer to any one else.
HOW TO GET BEbTITEBED.
If you find your name is not on the list,
go yourself to the assessor, and make your
claim to be put on. He is bound to add
your came. He cannot question your right
You need not discuss the matter with him,
your claim" is enough. Give him also
your precise residence, occupation, etc. He
will mark 4-C. V." opposite your name.
ATTEND TO THIS AT OKCE.
If jon delay until within ten days cf the
election, you may lose your vote.
NATURALIZED CITIZENS.
You must show . your "papers" to the as
sessor, in order to get your names registered.
If you intend to take out your "last pa
pers" before the election, you must show
your "first papers" to the assessor.
See that your names are on the list.
Those of you who do not need to have
"first papers" and intend to be naturalized
before the election, should get naturalized
first, immediately; and go to the assessor
with your papers.
AH naturalized citizens must take iheirpa
pers with them to the polls, unless they have
been voting for ten years in the same dis
trict. ,
You must tale your "papers" with you
when you vote, even if your name is on the
list.
Do not forget this, or your enemies will
deprive you of your vote.
TAXES.
The law in relation to the payment of
taxes ia unchanged. If yon have paid neither
a state or countv tax. assessed within t
years, do it without delay.
Take your last tax receipt with you to tin
polls.
Do not delay registering or navin vnm
taxes; attend to the matter now, for fear
something may prevent hereafter.
Uncle Sani Mulcted to tbe Tune
of $500,000.
Major X X IIodfc-fMt, Quartermaster tT.
H. A., In Limbo lleavleat Oefalcatlon
Kver AlaMle Against tbe Uovel-nment.
Washington, September 13. Major J. L.
Hodges, United States quartermaster, was
arrested here yesterday charged with being
a defaulter to the government to tbe amount,
of half a million dollars. The exact sum
cannot be ascertained, but tbe treasury offi
ciala say that it is tbe heaviest defalcation
ever made against the government. The
agents of the department have been to all
the banks here to find out if Hodges had any
money on deposit. It is believed that Hodg
es lost this vast amount of money by specu
lating in Wall street. The matter creates
much excitement in treasury and army cir
cles. second dispatch.
Major John Hodges, the defaulting pay
master, was arrested here last evening and
sent to Fort M 'Henry, with directions to the
commandment to place him in solitary con
finement with a sentinel to guard his cell.
Major Hodges is a well-citizen of Washing
ton, and is a native of Pennsylvania, from
which state be entered as a volunteer in tbe
army in 1871. He was appointed to the
regular army with the rank of major in Jan
uary, 1867. He has heretofore enjoyed an
excellent reputation, and at the paymaster
general's office was regarded as a thoroughly
honest gentleman, aud an accomplished
scholar and accountant. On account of his
extraordinary qualifications the paymaster
general in 1863 detained him for duty in his
office, employing him in adjusting the irreg
ular accounts of other paymasters and on
special service until two years since when he
was assigned as paymaster of bounty certifi
cates cf the second auditor's office. This
was a highly responsible position, the pay
ments sometimes amounting to $500,000 per
month. The paymaster general asserts that
he placed the most implicit confidence in his
integrity. On Thursday last the paymaster
general discovered erroneous charges in the
returns of Major Hodges, and by letlter re
quested him to explain it. This he failed to
do, when General Dries peremptorily ordered
him to close his accounts on Monday last.
Next day (Sunday) Gen. Brice received a
letter from Hodges containing a full confes
sion of his guilt, and stating that he had
been making fraudulent returns and state
ments since 1866, and that the money thus
obtained had been spent in gold stock and
gambling in New York. Ha mentioned in
the letter the name of one firm who knew
that the money ho sent them for investment
belonged to the government, and concluded
by stating that he was ready to turn overall
his property, personal aud real, amounting
to something like $50,000. He expressed
contrition for the crime, and implored to be
leniently dealt with. Hodges' father was
formerly assistant secretary of the treasury.
The defaulter is a nephew of Prof. Hodges,
of Princeton, New Jersey. There are several
parties here who knew of Hodges' enormous
Wall street speculations two years since, but
thinking it was all right they made no men
tion of the fact. He has been known to We
from $100,000 to $150,000 per day. The
Evening Star places the defalcation at $500
000, but is believed by the officials to exceed
a million.
A Serious Charge. Certain radical
newspapers in this State of the baser sort
have renewed the attempt to minufacture
knownothing capital against the brave and
gallant M'Candlkss by charging that he
recommended a Catholic preist for chaplain
of his regiment in the war. Quay, of the
Beaver Radical, is one of the last who have
taken up this charge, and in doing so, he
fixes the estimate which should be placed on
his liberality and good sense. In regard to
the truth of the statement we have not taken
the pains to inquire, but we should expect
just such action from a generous soldier like
General M'Candlkss. Although raised a
Protestant, be has none of tbe narrowness
and bigotry which these petty assailants ex
hibit in their denunciation of him ; but he
respected the religious faith of all who fought
for the cause of his country, whether Catholic,
Jew or Presbyterian. Had Quay taken an
active part in the war, aud made himself fa
miliar with the scenes of battle, be would be
able to recall many instances of the devotion,
humanity and Christian zeal of tbe Catholic
chaplains. But QrjAT was a home-guard.
This effort to make party capital out of
the appointment of a Catholic chaplain is
most unmanly and unjust. Had the Stole
Journal or Quay's Beaver Radical, or any
other newspaper, denounced General Mc
Candlkss during the progress of the war for
recommending a Catholic priest for chaplain,
or Governor Curtin for making the appoint
ment, it would have been necessary only to
have called the attention of Secretary Stan
ton to their case. The editors would have
been packed off to Fort M'HenryJor Fort La
fayette without ceremony to cool their heels
and learn wisdom. They would have been ar
rested and tried for discouraging enlistments.
Mot their most blatant protestations of a
spurious loyalty would have saved them.
That was the time when Archbishop
Hughes volunteered to represent the cause
of people of the north among the Catholics
of Europe. It was tbe time when the ap
peal of an imperiled country to her citizens
of every creed and race drowned out the
voice of thousands of such cicalas as the
Beaver Radical. But now the wars are over.
There is no further need of Catholic priests
or Irish Boldiers, and these Know Nothing
grasshoppers can be beard under every
hedge. No loDger under apprehension of ar
rest from the rebels, they can indulge their
bigotry and malignity to their hearts' con
tent, and denounce General M'Candlkss
without stint for recommending, and Gov
ernor Cuhtin for appointing, a Catholic
clergyman to a regimental chaplaincy. liar
risburg Patriot.
The Champion Family. We have been
disposed to lidicule the fears of philanthropic
British statesman which led them to devise
means for regulating the increase of popula
tion. That was before the enormous posi
bilities of reDroduct ion were fullv known tn
us. On the authority of a census marshal
mere lives or exists in Uaio a couple who
have barelv turned a double score, and vet
their oldest child is a young man of 22. Two
years his after birtb twins gladdened the pa-
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rents; neans. oix years later still, more
twins. In the intervals seven rhiM
born.. Syrenicus and Rebecca had scarcely
reacnea tne tenaer age oi z oeiore twins num
ber four were brought upon tbe stage. Be
tween the birtb of couplets each time sev
eral lonely single sojourners in the "wale"
made their innearance. At nn time ban tha
j g -
house been without some of Topper's "well
springs'" in all stages of development, and
L il. t i C il:. 1 r i i
uuw, ii iuv age ui 4, in is man nas 10 cnil
dren to cluster around his fireside, and it is
about time for more twins.
A dispatch to the World from Santa Fe.
dated Sept. 11th, says the Democrats of New
Mexico have won a great victory at the late
election. The Democratic candidate for
Congress, GallegoB, was elected over bis
Radical opponent, Chave3, by tweniu-six
hundred majority. Tbe Legislature is also
Democratic. Two years ago tho Radical
majority was eighteen hundred..
Kens and Political Items.
A thrifty citizen of Lewistown, Me ,
saved a dollar the other day by unscrewing
and returning the bandies of bis wife's coffin.
The inventor of-the stem-winding at
tachment to watches. Sir. Rothfelder, com
mitted suicide in New York, Sunday night.
Three colored men were burg in St.
James' parish. Louisiana, on Satarday, for
having committed a murder on the 10th day
of last May.
A little boy, aged 7 years, belonging to
the strong woman of O'Brien's Menagerie,
died of starvation at Stormville, N. Y., on
Thursday night.
A duck flew 246 miTes in two days in
August. It was taken from Canada by a
Michigan man, and after staying a week,
flew home again.
"Goldsmith Maid" defeated "Lucy" in
a trot at Minneapolis, Minn., on Satnrday.
trotting the first beatin 2 18&, the second in
2 17. and thetbird in 2.21.
Judge Underwood, of Virginia, has pub
lube! his opinion (unofficial) that all women
will be permitted to deposit their ballots in
the Presidential contest of 1872.
Lightning struck a Crestline building
in which were a number of card-players.
They were so affected by the incident that
they tore up their cards and sent after a Dew
pack.
The women's rights movement has at
tacked Georgia poultry, and sme of the
hens at Madison have gone off. leaving a fee
ble rooster to take care of a whole brood of
chickens.
Twenty-nine membersof tha U-. S. Sen
ate have signed a paper insisting upon re
storing Sumner as Chairman of the Commit
tee on Foreign relations. This is the first
stone at Grant.
Two children of Mrs. Brown, residing on
Taylor street. Chicago, were smothered to
death on the 17th, by smoke in the kitchen,
where they had been placed under lock while
tbe mother was at church.
France has offered to j-in the United
States in an effort to compel Corea to respect
the common rights of humanity, and the
usages of civilized nations. England will
a'so make one of the alliance.
Two white men were lately met walk
ing on a railroad in Virginia by nine colored
men, all armed, who, to make sure of get
ting all the valuables cf the two men, made
them strip, and took clothes, money, and all.
At Wakefiield. Va., on Saturday, a
brutal step-father tied his boy on the railroad
track, and then went to seek switches to
beat him with. While he was gone a freight
train came along 'and frightfully mutilated
the poor boy.
Een Ransler. tbe negro Lieutenant
Governor of South Carolina, denounces Grant
and Scott's project to proclaim martial law
in South Carolina. Ransier thinks the civil
power is strong enough to take care of disor
derly persons.
A dreadful punishment for cruelty to
dumb animals is reported in Buffalo. A
little boy tried to shoot a cat which had
taken refuge under a bed. He did not kill
the cat. bnt he set fire to the bed and burned
his father's house down.
A mammoth cheese, weighing 3,000
pounds, the product of one day's milking of
2,000 cows, yielding 30,105 pounds of milk,
manufactured in Erie county, was deposited
for exhibition in the International Industri
al Exhibition, at Buffalo, on Saturday night.
The mountain lakes in the Austrian
Alps, between the Moll and Malta valleys,
were frozen in July, and the Alps, for a
considerable distance from their summits,
covered with snow. The lakes are situate
about seven thousand feet above the level of
tbe sea.
John C. Breckenridg, say tha Lexing
ton papers, is now one of the hardest work
ing lawyers in Kentucky, and is likely to
make a good deal of money by his profes
sion. He seldom discusses politics in these
days, having discovered that they are in no
sense remunerative,
Our peripatetic President is still on the
wing. He was last heard from at Cincin
nati ; but where he will next turn up is dif
ficult to state, but it is very evident that he
may be looked for in almost any other place
than where he should be at the national
capital, at Washington.
Bailey, Hodge. Evans and Norton, are
all Republicans, and all have stolen enormous
amounts of the people's money. The Louis
ville Courier-Journal thinks the most accom
plished of the gentlemen is Colonel Bailey,
as he not only stole all the money he could
lay hands on, but stole away.
When our traveling President visited
Titusville, a breakfast was given him, tickets
to which were sold to outsiders at two dol
lars a head. A loyal colored citizen of Afri
can "scent" bought one, but was refused
admission to the banquet. Titusville darkies
are now disloyal to the administration.
John W Norton, assistant postmaster
under the late James Kelly, and lately super
intendent of monev order department in the
New York post office, is a defaulter to the ex
tent of from $100,000 to $150,000, and John
Moon, a clerk in the same office, has been de-tec-ted
opening money letters. He was arrest
ed and held to bail Jin the sum of $10,000.
Major nodge, the defaultiug Paymaster,
had two sureties, each of whom gave a bond
for $20,000 and this Is all the government is
likely to save from that half million 6teal.
It is almost as bad as Evans, whose bond
amounts to but ten thousand dollars. But
then they are loyal you know, and loyalty
should protect what loyalty steals.
The Boston near Id says there is a man
residing in that county whose parents died
several years ago, and their bodies were
placed in a tomb. Not long ago it was de
cided to h ave them buried, and consequently
their bodies were placed ia a box and laid
away in the grave, and the son took the
boards that composed the coffins home with
him to he used in patching up his barn.
The Treasury Department and the Tay
Department, at Washington, are disputing
which is responsible for the existence of a
huge deficit, for years, in the accounts of
one Paymaster. How many more may be
in the same condition ? What must be the
pystem that admits of such a condition of
things? ' It is like the four years allowed to
Evans at Harrisburg. when the law required
an annual settlement.
Welton-Malott. a farmer residing a few
miles north of Marion, Ind., has a turkey
gobbler that is quite a curiosity. Some time
since his mats laid a nestfal of eggs, and
left them, refusing to set on themNvhere
upon the gobbler assumed that responsibili
ty ,and batched out a brood of five young
turkeys, which he has fed ever pince. They
are now about four months old, but he still
takes them under his wings at eight. In
the meantime the hen has hatched another
brood, and is running a separate establish
ment. Advices from Pioche, Nevada, give
further particulars of the explosion and fire
which occurred there on the night of the 15th
inst. Every store and almost every house
In the place was burned down. Several
men were killed by the explosion of the
magazine. No information can be obtained
as to the cause of the fire. Pioche is one of
the most important silver mining camps in
Nevada, having shipped more ore during
the past year than aoy other place in the
territory. It had. a population of 2,600 ia-
A Welshman Darned Williams, who hid
bten accustomed to quarry work, while pass
ing along a road in Monson, Maine, observe
ed some slate rock that had been thrown
from a cellar. He saw at once that it was
valuable, and in company with another man
traced the vein along the surface. The
owner of tbe rocky land, supponngjt to be
worthless, sold these men fourteen acres of it
for $75. An excavation exposed good Blate
at a slight depth, and in a few weeks the ex
plorers transferred their purchase to a New
York company for $16,000.
The receDt election in California devel
oped a species of fraud that is at once novel
and scientific. On a cumber of ballots, ul
trate of silver had been applied to the name
of the taxpayers' candidate for assessor.
This substance produces no immediate effect,
so that the voter would deposit the ballot
without suspicion. By the time, however, the
box was opened to count the vote, the came
was entirely erased by the chemical action cf
tbe drug on the ink. It is painful to ee so
respectable a scieDce as cbemiftry prostitut
ed to the purpose of election fraads.
A few days since a negro woman died
in Sumter county. South Carolina, and was
buried in rather a singular manner. She
had united with a Degro church, bet bad
back-s!ided, and was not in good standing
and favor with the brethern and sisters,
So, when she became ill, no one would as
sist her or call a physician, and she died,
probably for want of attention. Tbe negro
pastor directed that the body should be
placed in the grave head downward, and
it was done ; because, as be said, "She was
going to the infernal regions anyhow, and
that was the proper position for ber."
A Noteworthy Curiosity in Nevada.
The White Pine (Nev.) News of August
8 says: Our State mineralogist. H. - W.
Whitehall, promises to give us occasionally
a scrap from his notes of travel from Los
Angeles up through the country lying below
Pioche. Many strange and curious freaks of
nature and indications of art are to be ob
served. Here we mention a remarkable dis
covery, which has never yet as we are aware,
been noticed in print. Near I vanpah, Clark
District, which lies in the south western por
tion of thi3 State, close to the line of Cali
fornia, abut forty miles from the Colorado
river, and two hundred and fifty miles from
Los Angeles, can be seen this wonderful curi
osity. On the eastern slope of Clark moun
tain, near its summit, there is a perpendicu
lar cliff two hundred and fifty feet high. At
about one hundred feet from the base of the
cliff, on its front, are engraved the charac
ters t I- L- D. The cross and letters are of
immense size, being fully sixty feet in height,
and cut into the cliff two and a half feet
deep, so that they can be plainly seen at a
distance of five miles. By whom this strange
workmanship was done Is unknown. The
fact, howerer, that the letters are the Roman
characters, and are preceded by the figure
of a cross, would make it appear that it was
done by the Jesuit missionaries, who are
known to have been in this region many
years ago. The Indiana know Dotbing of its
authors, nor have they any traditions con
cerning its origin."
Indian Idols in Iowa. The Dubuque
(Iowa) Times says that at the baea of vhat
is known as Capitola Bluff, seveD miles from
Lansing, is an Indian idol manufactured out
of the solid rock, which has stood there no
one can tell how many centuries, but which
must soon be removed to make room for the
coming railroad. At a little distance the
idol resembles a huge bear reposing on its
haunches. The strange and uncouth object
is still held in the utmost veneration sad re
spect by all Indians, and the various bands, as
they pass up and down the river, invariably
stop and endeavor to propitiate the idol with
liberal presents of tobacco, strings of gaudy
colored beads, pieces of dried buffalo tongue,
&c.
There it elts at the base ef the bluff, mute
and solemn, looking rut with expressionless
eyes over the bosom of the mighty iiver that
murmers at its feet, never mourning, never
speaking, like another sphynx. The ground
whereon tbe throne of the idol reposes is
wanted for the road bed, and the silent, ex
pressionless god, whose brow has been bathed
in the morning sunlight of so many centu
ries, must fall. But a short distance from
this is a smaller idol, which had evidently
been placed on the side of the bluff, but by
some convulsion of nature was overturned
centuries ago, and pitched into the river.
During high water it was completely cover
ed, Dut at the present stage the head and
part of the body of the image are distinctly
visible.
A Wonderful Stort. A Savannah dis
patch of the 18th inst., tells a most wonder
ful story about a startling phenomenon in
Florida, being no less than the changing into
a lake of a large portion of Orange county,
and the engulphing of trees, honses and peo
ple. There were many witnesses of the phe
nomenon, one of whom says, the first thing
that attracted attention was a giratory mo
tion of the trees, some sinking gradually out
of sight, the tops revolving more and more
rapidly as they sank aDd disappeared, the
others following, and as they fell, revolving
and describing areas of a circle against the
sky. The whole earth, as far as the eye
could reach, sank, and its place was supplied
by a sea of waters, rushing, seething, boiling
with tbe noise of mighty cataracts, ever and
anon casting to the surface the roots, tops
and bodies of mighty pines and oaks.
The country in every direction is entirely
submerged and is now one vast lake. It is
rumored that the town of Orlando is swal
lowed up and the whole chain of lakes from
Apopka to Lake Convey are now united and
form one immense inland sea. The people
are flying terror stricken from the scene of
the disaster.
Social Equality, Tbe Steubenville Her
ald publishes the following: "'There is
no accounting for tastes' is an adage, and
well verified in an instance that occurred
near the town of Wintersville, this county
a few days since. A young lady of prepos
sessing appearance, the daughter of a land
owner in that neighborhood, became ena
mored with a colored roan who worked near
her father's place. Like Desdemona, she
swore she would have him and clun to him
as affectionately as did the weak Dessie to
the swarthy Othello. This singular fancy
of the young woman culminated in an elope
ment with the colored man. So indignant
were her friends that no pursuit or effort
was made to bring the erring one back."
KErSTONE BOLT WORKS.
HUBLEY, ADAMS & CO.,
No. 5 MARKET Street,
PITTSBURGH, PA.,
MANUFACTURERS O T
CARRIAGE AND TIRE ROLTS.
PLOW AND MACHINE BOLTS,
NORWAY CARRIAGE ROLTS,
BRIDGE AND ROOF BOLTS,
SCREW HOOK HINGES.
t9-14.8tn. .WAGON BOX STRAPS-
T I I Q T "
I ' i vj ' i r k
Cheap 1 Cheaper! Cb.at
A FULL LIS CF
BLACK AND COLORED ALPACA
MOURNING GOODS
AND OTHER DRESS GOODS!
Embracing the LaicH SottUitt.
niack and Fancy Colored Tr s;ue.
Plain, Striped and Fum-v .h.t,;;.'..
Plain, Plaid and Striped' Jai an,.. r
Plain and Fancv Gr. nl.. . . ti'-,T:
meric-Hn Poplins, all color--, h r i
Lawns, t hintzes and l'or. ai,--Plain
and Striped Chambruvb'
A FtLL LINE CF
WHITE GOCD3
STRIPED and FIGURED P. K
A COMPLETE STcCK r7
HOUSEKEEPING DRY GOODS,
CASSIATERES, JEAXS,
Also, a complete variety of
As well as a fine assortment (.f
PARASOLS am) SlTX UMIJIIELUS,
Hosiery, Gloves orsets, At.,
JLT YEJITl LOW 1'IiICIS,
AT GEIS & FOSTER'S.
113 and 115 Clinton Street, Johr.stcw,
Hare just opened tLia week an eVga-t y
choice stock cf
MILL!NERYCO0DS,
DO.I.XETS, HITS.
PLOIV'ERH N" I rtII5I50,
Illusions and Lace,
BONNET AND HAT CKArE,
OF ALL COLORS.
jCI pifxes or
CAEPETS! CARPETS!
W have opened ar.d now nffor fr.r sa'ieaz:!
eiegnat a&ortmeot cf frimj c-j.tu.
BrusseU Carpets,
Three Ply Carpets,
Ingrain Carjls,
Rag. Cottage Uerrp Cj7.lt
Mattings and Rugs.
FLOOR OIL CLOTHS,
all widths, stjlcaand qualities--. W.W-si.
We invite every lady to call and exaninf
stock of g-oods.
The choicest and finest stock of m!".!!7
goods and dry goods, in town, on eibit.u.a
AT
Cms &L Foster's,
Nos. 113 and 115 Clinton Street.
Johnstown, Pa.
THE GREAT
OAK HALL
EMP0RI01I!
241 Main Street Johnstown.
S. J. HESS &
HAVE NOW ON HANP
The Largest, Eest Hade
AXD MOST Dl'BAB
Stock IF Clolliing
EVER KEPT IX JOHSSTOW'
consisting chictly of
MEN'S COATS.
YOUTHS' COATS.
YOUTHS' Vfcl-f
BOYS' COATS.
hois' rAAJ.TS, VEST?.
We bare also constantly in stock a cchf
assortment of
CENT'S FURMSHIXGCOODS,
Hats, Caps, Trunks, Valises, 4
tyWe are prepared to make VVwitV'''
AND SEE HOW IT IS Y0URSEL"
Johnstown, April 22, ISTI.-tfm.
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before deciding upou P'" wiiki
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