Cambria jrccman,
EBEXSBURQ, PA.
Satcbdat Morning, : Skit. 30, 1871.
DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS.
STATE.
FOR ACDITOR OEStRAL!
GtKERAL WILLIAM M'CANDLKSS,
Of Pltiladclpliia.
rOR SCRVEYOK GISKRil.!
Captain JAMES II. COOPER,
Of LauTence County.
DISTRICT.
TOR PRESIDENT JCDQC:
THADDEUS BANKS. Esq., lloHidnyiburg.
FOR STATE SENATOR:
Dos. WM. A. WALLACE, of Cleai field.
Assembly W. HORACE ROSE, Johnstown.
Prothonotary J. K. 1IITE, Kl.enshur.
a.' Tiitivaa J NO. FLANAGAN, Johnsfn.
Assoc te Judges -( K j LI,,,y i, Ehonsburjr.
District A ttorner W. H.SECHLEK, Ebens-b'j?.
Treasurer JOHN COX, Conc-miuitrh Iioroutrh.
Commissioner W.D. M CLE LLAN1, Johnsfn.
P. H. Direc'r J AS. FAR It EN". Washington Tp.
Co. Surveyor H. SCAN LAN. Carrolltown.
Auditor W. A. B. LITTLE, Allegheny Twp.
The people cf Nebraska recently voted on
tLe adoption or rejection of a new constitu
tion. While the main features of the instru
tnent were sustained by the popu'nr verdict,
that clause in it pioviding for female suf
frage met with the indignant wrath of the
voters, and waa overwhelmingly defeated.
If this superlative humbug were submitted
to a vote In each of the States of the Union,
such would be the unanimous as well as
righteous verdict. The occupation of Vic
toria C. Woodhull, Julia Ward Howe, and
host of other strong minded and able
bodied women in pantaloons, would then be
gone, to their own credit and to the un
bounded relief of society.
In politics as well as in war it is always a
afe, indeed a necessary rule, never to under
estimate the strength of your opponent.
This being the case, the importance of poll
ing a full Democratic vote in every election
district becomes apparent, and surely we
need waste no time in impressing this self
evident truth upon our Democratic friends.
If this duty is properly attended to, the
prospects of electing the Democratic State
ticket were never better. One thing is very
certain, and that if the admitted frauds
heretofore committed by the Radicals under
the infamous Registry law as applicable to
Philadelphia can be prevented, and a fair
count of the votes put in the ballot-boxes
can bo had, the result in the State does cot
admit of any doubt.
Evans and Geary.
Nothing has ever occurred in the history
of any former State administration which
nhowi uch bare-faced and premeditated
fraud as the embezzlement rf George O.
Evans. Geary's conduct in the whole his
tory of the case, as well as that of Ilartranft,
the Auditor General, has been such as to
justify and give color to the gravest suspi
cions of their own integrity. When Evans
came to Flarrieburg and proclaimed that he
was prepared to make a full and complete
settlement of his business as the agent of the
State, both Geary and Ilartranft knew ptr
fectly well that he was a defaulter to a large
amount that he had utterly failed to dis
charge the trust reposed in him that he
had swindlod the commonwealth, or. in plain
language, that he was a thief. Why did
the Governor and his advisers not then take
the necessary eteps for his immediate arrest
and why was he permitted to remain at the
capiral a week or ten days, and then, like
the Arab, fold up bis tent and silently steal
away 1 It was a most strange and suspi
cious circumstance it was couduct unusual,
totally inexplicable, and the people who
have been thus openly robbed and plunder
ed will Dever believe anything else than
that his escape from Harrisburg was con
nived at by those in authority, for a purpose
well known and understood by them. This
conclusion is strengthened and enforced from
the fact that no bona fi le, serious effort has
yet been made to arrest him and bring him
to the bar of justice. No man who is famil
iar with the facts in the case will pretend
that Evans could not have been arrested in
New Yoik, whither he went after parting
with his kind .nd accommodating friends,
John W. Geary and John F. Ilartranft.
He made no effort at concealment, but took
his ease at his inn, while the papers day
after day publicly announced his where
abouts. After Geary had given him ample
time to make the necessary arrangements for
bis flight, he wisely concluded to go. lie
would have been more of a fool than he has
proven himself to be a knave if he had not
done so.
It was anything but desirable to certain
parties, (for he doubtless had his confeders
attsin sharing the plunder,) that Evans
should be arrested and prosecuted for em
bezzlement. That was a part of the play
which was not to be performed. It would
be dangerous, becaufe if Evans was arraign
ed before a criminal court he might possibly
"squeal," or in other words, betray his ac-.
complices in guilt. It is a sorry piece of
business, and is disgraceful to the Auditor
General and State Treasurer, but especiaHy
to John W. Geary.
It is very rarely that the Radical press
has referred to or spoken of this huge swin
dle. Thoy are boisterous and exhibit a
vast amount of virtuous indignation over
the New York city frauds, but they have
treated Evans and his robbery of the State
aa though it was a trifling affair, and indeed
as though it had never happened. With
Radical office-holders under the Gran t ad
ministration robbery of the public funds ha
become 6 generally the rule, and honesty
the exception, that a theft like that of Eva us'
excites no special wonder in the Radical
breast.
If the nsxt Legislature will do its duty,
the reputation of eome men that we know
of. may possibly auffar and the assumed garb
of honesty be lorn from them.
liUIiMIil-JSMSEMll
These gentlemen re rival candidates for
Assembly before the people of Cambria coun
ty. They are both repntablo citizens, and
as such stand on a perfect equality. The
Fbkkman wages no personal warfare upon
any man, but eudeavors to discuss principles.
Mr. RcSE represented os at Ilarriiburg
l6t winter, and we need not ftate, what is
admitted by the caadid of all parties, that he
represented us honestly and efficiently. His
speeches and his votes contributed to save
the people from millions of taxation by aid
ing to prevent the passage of swindling acts
and all manner of corrupt legislation.
Mr. IIkshy is a "clever fellow," and elec
tioneers with Democrats on the "clever fel
low" principle, but there is at the same time
no more bitter or unrelenting Radical in the
county or the State than he. To talk to him
of voting for any Democrat under any cir
cumetancea would be like asking Satan to
renounce 6in. Elect him, and his first legis
lative act would bring the blush of shame
and a feeling of deep regret to every Demo
crat who voted for him.
The odious Registry Law of the Radicals
for the city of Philadelphia, which every
year ditfranchises ten thousand Democrats
in that city, will give Pennsylvania to the
Radicals so long as it remains on the statute
book. If the State is Democratic by five
thousand, it is revereed by the ten thousand
fraudti'ent majority in Philadelphia. If next
fall the State should give five thousand ma
jority for Democracy and equal rights, the
Registry Law would enable the Radicals to
count it five thousand for Grant and despot
ism. The people's voice is drowned in the
frauds of this iu famous law.
William II. R sb, in common with every
other Democratic member, voted last winter
to repeal this iniquitous law. Sam'l Hfn
rt, if elected, will vote to perpetuate this
infamy, for the" adherents of his party know
that its repeal would be a death-blow to
their organization. If the Democrats secure
a majority in the Legislature the swindle
will be repealed if the Radicals maintain
the ascendancy the swindle will be continued
In the next House of Representatives there
cannot be more than one or two majority on
either side. And what would any Democrat
think, after voting for a Radical candidate,
if the vote of that candidate in the Legisla
ture should be the means of disfranchising
his fellow Democrats in Philadelphia, and
thus losing the Keystone State to the good
cause ? Our political brethren in that city
appeal to their friends in the country for the
right to vote! Shall Democrats deny it to
them ? What amount of "cleverness" on
the part f Samuel LIesry would ease the
conscience of any Democrat fjr agisting by
his vote in the perpetuation of the great
wrong onder which the people of that city
are now suffering? Here is a question of
principle sufficient to prompt every Democrat
and every honest man of whatever party, if
he desires a fair election, to vote for Wm. II.
R"SE and against Samcel LIenhy.
But if we have a duty to perform in thus
voting on principle, we have one equally
strong in the light of interest. No man but
a Banker can now be State Treasurer. In
Democratic days no man but one combining
the elerccnts of statesmanship and financial
nhi'ity could be chosen Slate Treasurer.
Sow no one but a Banker who can buy his
way into the position can be chosen. In
purer days the State Treasurer got nothing
but the salary provided by law ; note that
office is worth five times as much as the of
fice of President the Unitrd States. Hence
it is made an olj-ct of speculation at the
expense of the people. And this is the way
it is done: There is at all times upwards
of a million of dollars of unexpended money
In the State Treasury not unfrequentiy sev
eral millions. This money is there only in
name, however, the real fact b-ng that it is
always on deposit for the benefit of certain
banks, of which Cameron's bank at Harris
burg is the principal favorite. At each
election for State Treasurer these Bankers of
course pitch in for this rich spoil.
A few years ago, Wm JM. Lloyd, Esq., cf
Altoona, the leading rntmber of the firm of
Lloj'd & Co., Bankers, was a candidate for
State Treasurer. He was defeated, but his
fiiends made him "all right" by going for
another Banker. Two years ago George F.
Huff, another member of the banking house
of Lloyd & Co., was a candidate for S'ate
Treasurer. He also was defeated, but his
friends went for another Banker, and he was
chosen. .Last year Mr. Huff was again
candidate fir that position and was once
more unsuccessful, but his friends went for
Macklt, the present Banking State Treasu
rer, aud he was elected. Samubl Henry.
the "clever fellow' now before the people of
Cambria county as the Radical candidate for
the legislature, belongs to the same firm of
Lloyd & Co. So that these berks are not
bad off for candidates. And if Lloyd fc Co.
had another "clever fellow" here in the po
sition held by Mr. IIesky. he would be the
Radical candidate for the Legislature just the
same. The only interest Mr. Henry has in
this county, although ho has lived in it some
four or five years, is iu connection with the
banking business of Lloyd & Co. That and
nothing more.
Does any intelligent man fail to see the
point in all this? We know how much of
the money belonging to the State a year or
two ago was held by Lloyd & Co., (at least
we saw a statement to that effect.) but we
do not know how much is so held now. We
do know, however, that it is divided among
those bankers who contributed to the elec
tion of the present Banking State Treasurer.
The reputed balance in the State Treasury
for the current yar is one million seven hun
dred thousand dollars. This, at simple in
terest, would net over one hundred thousand
dollars per year a sura sufficiently large to
enable several bankers to make a nice thing
of it and be very "clever fellows" at the
same time. At the rates charged by Lloyd
& Co., 12 per cent, per annum, the yarly
interest would amount to over two hundred
thousand dollars.
Now we wish it to be distinctly under
stood that we do not charge Lloyd & Co. or
any of their employes, with either corruption
or dishonesty. On the contrary, we affirm
that, so far as we know, they are all "clever
fellows" and upright men. What we do
objsct to, however, is, that if a poor or needy
man wants to get the use of a little of his
own money, (for the money of the State be
longs to the people of the State,) he must
pay double interest for it. after getting a
member of the Ebensburg Ring or somebody
elso to endorse for him, and then be asked to
voto for the man who is employod to thave
him. simply because he is a very "clever fel
low" and would like to bo elected. At least
that is the logic and the only logic relied on
to secure Dimt cratic votes, without which
Mr. Henry cannot go to the Legislature.
No more corrupt ring exists uoder the in
sulted heavens than the present Treasury
Ring of Pennsylvania. The Evans defalca
tion of $300,000. frightful as it i.. Is but a
stinking drop i.nt nf this foul pool of corrup
tion ; aud M Cj.lre, the only Radical honest
enough to expose it, ws lemoved fromeffice
for no other reason than to prevent further
disclosures.
If there is even ore Democrat, therefore,
in the county who admires a "clever fellow"
so much more than be does principle and
interest, as to vote for Samuel Usnky, let
him remember that at about the same hour
Samuel Henry will be casting his vote for
Dr. Stanton for Auditor General, in prefer
ence to the gallant M'Candlos. lest the
robberies of the past fuw jears h"iild be
expesed and the Radical party be brought
into deeper digrace, if such a thing were
possible. Let him also lemember that if
Samuel Henry should be elected to the
Legislature the banking interest must and
will be serveil at the expense of the people,
and that by the re-election of Macki-y, thro'
his aid, the funds of the Common wealth will
continue to be prostituted to personal gain
and to the perpetuation of the present Trea
tury Ring.
Personally we have none but the kindest
feelings towards Mr. Henry, and have only
said what we have said in the performance
of a sacred duty devolving npon ns. To
that gentleman individually the position he
seeks can be no object, and while his election
would be a loss to his friends and neighbors,
it would at the same time be an injury to
the best interests of the people. His election
therefore would only result in securing a
bad legislator and dpriving this community
for the time being a very "clever fellow."
Presidential "Literature.
On yesterday week a monument to the
memory of Abraham Lincoln was dedicated
with proper ceremonies In Fairmount Park,
Philadelphia. Grant was invited to be pres
ent on the occasion, but of course the press
ing necessities of his numerous other engage
ments in the pursuit cf pleasure prevented
him from attending. So intent is he In pur
suing his daily routine of sight seeing and
amusement, that he could not appropriate
even one day for the purpose of paying a be
coming and grateful respect to the memory of
the man who. more than all others, by his
kindness and generous nature enabled him
to win military renown aud thereby attain
the highe&t office in the gift of the people.
It is not a creditable act to contemplate in
the successor of Abraham Lincoln.
We publish below Grant's letter to his obe
dient henchman, John W. F.rney, in which
he sets forth his excuse for not attending.
We give it "verbatim et literatim," as one
of the literary curiosities i f the age a paral
lel to which never did before and it is to be
hoped never will hereafter emanate from a
Presidential pen. It is singularly fiat and
stale, and remarkably characteristic of the
"statesman" and "hero" from whose teem
ing and prolific brain it proceeded. If For
ney had the least regard for Grant's reputa
tion, he would instinctively have consigned
this discreditable cpietle to the oblivion of
the waste basket. We think that no intelli
gent Republican can read this letter without
blushing for "the party of great moral ideas"
and feeling how utterly unfitted for his post
is the man who now fills the Presidential
chair:
Libanox, Pennsylvania. Sept. 12. Colonel:
Mr. G. D. Coleman, t whose house I arrived,
an hour ago, has just handed me your letter of
yesterday urging upon me to accept an iuvits
tion to be present at the unveiling of the m n
ument to Abraham Lincoln, iu Fairmount
Park, on the 2d inst. I regret that I cannot
be present on so interesting an occasion. Had
I known of this eveut before other arrange
ments, which cannot well be changed, had been
made, I certainly would have entered into no
engagement which would prevent my presence.
But 1 am now on mv way with my family to
visit relations and friends among whom I was
raised, and whom I left thirty two years apo ;
and who have been advise ! of the lime of my
coming. I do not see how I can make a change
now : but permit me to express, through you,
the regret I feel for it.
There are no patriots, dead or alive, who
will be remembered more gratefully for tluir
loyalty and services to their country, than the
man whose memory will be commemorated at
Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, on the 5 d of
this September, nor none whom I more honor
as a good as well as a great man.
I know the occasion will be an interesting
one, and one long to be remembered by those
who witness it, and by posterity through the
accounts of it which will bo published.
With the expressions ot regret that I am to
be debarred the duty of being with you on the
22.1 intnt, and ot the kindest regards for the
Committee who have invited me, and for your
self. 1 subscribe myself, with great respect,
your obedient servant, U. S. Grant.
Col. J. W. Forney, Phil'a, Pa.
Some days ago the newspapers published
a thrilling account of the subsidence of an
entire county in Florida. Houses, lands,
trees, hordes, cattle sank to rise no more,
while the inhabitants fled from the appalling
scene believing that the Last Day bad come.
Whether this subsidence was confined to the
political and geographical limits of one coun
ty the writer neglected to say. A similar
phenomenon will take place in portions of
Pennsylvania on the second Tuesday of Oc
tober. Whole counties will go down for the
Cameron ring to riso no more, carrying can
didates, ringleaders and all to the bottom.
The indications of this great political mael
strom are plainly discernable in the perturbed
visages of the leaders of the treasury ring,
and. in the frantic appeals of their organs.
They may also be witnessed in the deter
mined mien of the people of the State. Be
ginning in Philadelphia. Mann, Stokely,
Collia, Bunn. Brill and Ovens will be over
whelmed. Extending westward and north
ward, it will pass over Dauphin and Perry,
Huntingdon, Blair. Luaerne, Union, Indiana
and Westmoreland, and a number of other
counties of the State. Nor will the storm
be stayed until it shall have spent its force
on the Ohio, sweeping away several treasury
ring candidates" for the legislature In Alle
gheny. The phenomenon will be visible
throughout the whole of the day of the sec
ond Tuesday of October. Harrisburg Pa
triot. Not long since Columbus, Wis., was vis
ited by a circus. The night previous death
snatched a little one from a family in the vil
lage. The (sorrowing parents laid out the
babe in the forenoon, and went to the circus
in the afternoon. Just before tea the coffin
was received, and its occupant was placed
therein. Two children of a neighbor were
called in to sit up with the remains, and once
more the cheerful pareuts paid their dollar
and weut to the monkey show.
I
This is the cry of the people to the Rad
ical party. Will the robber be stopped at
the ballot-box.
A plundered public demands the arrest of
the criminal. . Too Ions has he escaped the
punishment due his nefarious deeds; too long
has he exemplified the plating of sin with
gold, against which "the lauce of jujtice
hurt less breaks."
But his Nemesis is arrested. His crimes
have become too flagrant to be further en
dured. What a harvest this rascal has reaped !
Creeping into our confidence as a sneak thief,
he has become now the full fledged high
wayman. Where does he not steal 1 What
limit is there to his plunderings 7
He robs the national Treasury.
His.hands revel at will among the coffers
of the State.
His thievery is manifest in cities and coun
ties and boroughs.
He steals wherever there is anything to
steal.
Is it not time that he was arrested ?
That he has not before this been throttled
is due to what?
To the indifference of his victims the re
sult of the demoralizing influence of Radi
calism. How effectually, too. has he divert
ed our attention by "patriotic" stra:egy
while he played upon our pockets.
And this is an influential thief. Even the
Courts he corrupts, aud partisan Judges trem
ble and obey the wishes of this pirate.
Magistrates of commonwealths are ready to
save from prison tints the immaculate gar
ments of the Thief.
But the malefactor, whose case has been
so long postponed, comes now to the Bar of
Public Opinion.
Let him have jnstice.
Let the witnesses throng to the ballot-box
and hand in their testimony. Tan proof of
the criminal's guilt is abundant. The plun
dered tax-payers can furnish it.
Convicted already, the forms of trial only
remain, and an injured and outraged public
demand that these be observed, that the ver
dict be fairly taken, and that the judgment
thereon be honestly recorded.
The word then, is "stop thief!"
Shall he not fall in his track beneath a
shower of ballots, never to plunder more ?
Sunday Mercury.
Greei.ky Heard Fkom. He Unbosoms
Himself to the Wrong Man The It suit.
Durinu the recent visit of Horace Greeley to
this city the venerable sage was sitting on a
sofa at the Newhall hotue, conversing with
a friend, when Colonel Sawyer came up and
joined them. Greeley turned to speak with
him, and, while he was thus engaged, his
former listener departed. Col. W. J. Ker
shaw happening along just then, dropped in
the vacant seat. Presently Horace, not per
ceiving the change in the vacant seat, turned
around and resumed conversation. He said,
apparently resuming a conversation where
he had left it thort'y before : ''It is the
most disgraceful administration that
ever was witnessed in a civilized country.
It has become intolerably corrupt. There
must be a change or thete will be revolution.
Why, through his congressmen and i ffice
holders, he is trying to control the politics
of every State in the Union, as he has yours
here iu Wisconsin, ami as you will see he
will, next week, in New Jersey and Miry
land, when Republican conventions are to
meet there. Your man Washburn has been
placed on the track through these detestable
influences." Hence it occurred to Colonel
Kershaw that he was becoming the recipient
of confidence not intended for him, and he
6tted to Mr. Greeley that probably his re
marks were interded for another tnan. The
philosopher stared blankly over his specta
cles with an air that was chi'dlike and
bland, while a look of astonishment and dis
gust stole eradually over his placid counte
nance. With a most expressive "Ough !"
be started from his seat and betook himself
to the opposite side of the room in great
haste But he had said his say. JUilwau-'
kee Netcs.
Tub people of New York are settling with
the Tammany riog in their own way. The
democratic party are resolved to purge them
selves of the corrupt men who have used
the honored organization to enrich them
selves and bring scandal and reproach on the
Tarty. TLe leaders of the reform movement,
Samuel J. Tildeu, chairman of the demo
cratic central committee. Andrew H. Green,
and ex Mayor Havemeyer. are all democrats.
Tlrey will purge the party in New York of
its Tammany plunderers, preserve its politi
cal usefulness, and lead it on to victory.
But we in Pennsylvania may cry Tammanv,
Tammany, until the morrow of the election
without rendering the slightest assistance to
the citizens of New York. Neither advice,
sympathy nrr 'assistance is sought of us.
There is an Indian ring in Pennsylvania who
require all the attention her citizens can be
stow. That ring have possession of the
treasury and are now using its power to se
cure the election of Doctor Stanton aud a
radical legislature. With the money of the
people they are purchasing the representa
tives of the people and poisoning the very
fountain of political life in Pennsylvania.
The part of wisdom, therefore, la to check
the corrupt power of the Indian riog in this
State without constantly Imitating them in
bawling Tammany, Tammany ! They cry
Tammany to divert public attention from
their own jobs. The people of Pennsylva
nia will be foolish to imitate their pa.-rot cry
while they are gorging thsmslves with th
money of thejtreasury. Harrisburg Patriot.
Tiik Evans Robbery. Special A
Evans was appointed by Gov. Geary.
jent
fiVang appropriated to his own use up
wards of three hundred thousand dollars.
The Evans fraud was exposed by Deputy
Attorney General M 'CI are.
The Deputy Attorney General was re
moved from office because he tore the veil
from this piece of Radical rascality. -
The perpetrator of the fraud was pro
nounced a "satisfactory agent" by Gov.
Geary and was allowed to escape by Attor
ney General Brewster.
Auditor General Ilartranft never thought
Hof auditing Evans' accounts until this fraud
was exposed.
State Treasurer Mackey never thought rf
hunting for the money due to the State until
the public indignation was aroused at the
swindle which Evans and his co-conspirators
perpetrated.
The embezzler is at liberty, in possession
of his share of the stolen fund?, and no Rad
ical official cares about finding him.
Tax-payer, grumble and groan on. These
fellows -who rob you in princely style are
only calculating how much more you will
bear and still continue to vote the Radical
ticket. Easlon Sentinel.
The Pittsburgh Post says : We have the
written assurances of leading Democrats in
Eastern counties of this State, as well as from
Mr. Wallace, the earnest and able Chairman
of theJState Central Committee, that the pros
pects of Democratic success were never
brighter. Tb ere Is no betrayal of private
confidence in thi?. We give it as we get it
and believe every word of it to be true.
STOP TI1SEF!
Sews aud Political Hems.
F.loin. 111., has two female base
ball
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clnbs.
A Radical paper says "they (the Re
publican part3) are making a noble record."
What for stealing.
The schooner Hnrd foundered recently
in Lr.ke Michigan, and all en board lost ex
cept Captain Harrison.
A man, wifd, and seven children walked
twenty five miles to visit a circus, in Kansas,
and it wasn't a very good circus, either.
A despatch from Calcutta announces the
wreck of a steamer on the coast of India,
and that one hundred and thirty -eight natives
lost their lives.
The Bradford Argus, in a lengthy ar
ticle, pitches into the Republican pirty.
which it helped to form, and earnestly ad
vocates the election of the Democratic tic
ket. Prjf. L'ght, who made a balloon ascen
sion at Hanover. York county, on Wednes
day la?t, traveled a distance of ninety miles
in two Lours, and landed near Oxford, in
Chester couuty.
The case of Mrs. Wharton, charged
with poisoning, came up for trial at Balti
more on Monday, in the Criminal Court, but
was postponed for the preseut on account of
her alleged debili'y.
The people of Monticello, Arkansas, are
greatly excited over a report of the discov
ery of a cold mine, foar miles wist of that
town. Two similar reports come from Dal
Ls, Polk county.
Several hundred c-x Confederate soldiers
have signed a letter addressed to Senator
Schurz. expressing their regard for him and
their admiration of his Nashville speich. He
returned an appropriate reply.
On Sunday eveuing. l?th inst., Mrs.
M. Wilson, residing in Harrisburg, gave
birth to twin daughters, the combined weight
of which was eighteen pounds. The twins
are said to hive been as large as ordinary
children of three weeks old.
The North Carolinian is informed that
the "Walter Raleigh vine," on Rj.noke Is
land, is nearly three hundred years old; that
it covers an acre of ground, and that from it
last year $3,000 worth of wine was made.
A big vine or a big story.
The property of Grant and the United
States Government, says the Louisville Led
ger becomes confused on account of the un
fortunate similarity of initials. An article
that reaches Washington markel U.S. G."
may mean Ulysses S. Grant or United States
Government, just as bin Excellency pleases.
The arrest of Evans, it is said by Re
publican pipers, ijjonly a matter f time.
That we prerume is a fair statement of the
case j the time, however, will certainly be
after the election. That he could on arrest
ed and the name of every rogue connected
with this great steal exposed before the tenth
day of October, we have not a doubt.
Hardeman '8 powder mill, twenty rr'les
north of Montgomery, Ala., exploded on
Tuesday afternoon. Of eight persons em
ployed in the mill five were killed and an
other wiil die. One of the victims was
hurled ooe hundred yards and torn to frag
ment, another was blown fifty vards up the
hill and terribly mangled. The mill is a
total wreck.
Harrisonburg, Ohio, has a present sensa
tion in a daily shower of stone? cast by in
visible hands at a dwelling within its limits.
They are asserted to be of all shapes and
size-, kinds, and qualities, from a half ounce
up to five arid a quarter pounds. Some of
them are nearly ice cold, and some so hot
they could scarcely be handled. Sumo were
wet and some were dry.
Mr. Gaines, a colored State Senator in
Texas, has lost his faith in the carpet-bag
darkies who have alighted on that State like
a swarm of potato-bugs. He savs : "They
used to hang round my desk at Austin, and
use stationary, and call me fsenator G tines.
When they got office it was Mr. Gaines, and
after a time it was Matt. I am tired of such
fellows living at our ctper.se."
Horatio T. Cook, a half-crazed fellow,
committed suicide at Norwalk, Conn., on
Thursday, in a novel and most determined
sort of way, and at the same time came near
murdering his wife. He placed himself
across a keg of gunpowder which was kept
at the foot of his bed. and deliberately blew
himself to atoms. The house was destroyd
but his wife escaped with comparatively few
injuries.
A Paris paper says that a rich Ameri
can has offered to re-build the Tuileries sole
ly at his own expense, on condition that one
of the wings of the new building shall re
ceive his name, and that as long as he lives
he shall be allowed an apartment looking
out on the gardens, and an invitation to all
the ceremonies which shall ever be given in
the palace by any government wihch may
be in power there.
Charles Bradlangh, head of the Repub
lican movement in England, bns been inter
viewed by the TForM' London correspon
dent. Mr. Bradlaugh declares himself able
now to pull down the monarchy, though not
quite ready to build up the republic. That
Victoria is the last monarch who shall bit on
the Englibh throne, that he deprecates a rev
olution before 187C when he will be perfect
ly prepared for it, but that whenever the
overnment throws down the gage to him he
will pick it up.
The foolish prediction that a tidal wave
is to sweep the Atlantic eoast is producing
some good results. The Newbern Times
says, "We are informed that the people liv
ing along the banks and at Beaufort and the
entire seacoast, are, in view of the visit of
the tidal wave, holding prayer meetings
night and day, in which prayers are made
to avert the supposed impending calamity.
Miny persons are joining the church and a
general religious feeling prevails."
West Point, Mississippi, has a company
of soldiers quartered at its hotel, the expen
ses to be paidiby the village. Cause: A
young man inadvertently threw some water
upon a negro. Four negrees with shot guns
then went to hunt the young man up, but
they failed to find him, and the voting man
afterward gave one of them a thrashing.
The mayor telegraphed for United States
soldiers, ami the town is now garrisoned.
Another to the long list of outrages.
x. Pottsville, Pa., hen has hatched two
eagles. The eggs were found by a man in
the woods, who supposed them to be turkey
eggs, and placed them nader his hen. The
old hen was considerably surprised, for she
sputtered abour and trampled upon one of
her rare progeny and killed it. The other
will probably grow up and do well. Eagles
sometimes carry off chickens, and it woljld
be rather a joke if this specimen should
some day gobble up the old hen which hatch
ed it. and fly away with her.
Settlers in Southern Kansas, at n meet
ing held at Baxter Springs, a few days ago,
passed resolutions favoring the enactment
of laws forbidding persons acquiring over
one hundred and sixty acres of land: in favor
of a national paper currency only ; the im
mediate payment of the public debt accord
ing to tho terms of the contract : a strict
revenue tariff, opposed to the" so-called pro
tective tariff ; and they denounce the acts of
Congress which, under pretense of enforcing
the Fourteenth amendment, clothe the Pres
ident with the power of setting aside the
sacred right of self-government and using the
armed heels of his troops to secure his reelection.
THESE BUILDINGS, COVERING LOTS
Nos. 534, 536, 538 Market St., Nos. 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13 So. Sixth St
and Nos. 525, 527, 529 Minor St.,
Whose Salesrooms and Storerooms, spread
out, would cover more than Three Acres of ground,
making them the Largest and Completest Buildings of the kind
in America, if not in the World, are nov
COMPLETELY FILLED with our
MOST MAGNIFICENT
FULLY $750,000's WORTH
OF THE MOST
SUPERIOR READY-MADE CLOTHING, j
FOR MEN AND BOYS, EVER MADE. ' j
All nerfectly Hew aM Fresh in Designs aM Materials, j
WANAMAKER & BROWN. . Philadelphia !
A Young Man Falls raon a Stleplk.
The Syracuse Journal, Sept. 18th.. saj s :
"A young niau earned William O'lleilly,
aged twerty-'ue years, Bn of Thomas (J'
Keilly, residing at. No. 33 East Oncndago
fet:ett, had a narrow ecxaje from df-ath by
fa 1 1 i 11 g on Suuday afternoou. O'ireiliy, in
ccnjany with several others, were at the
new Centra gUaptist church, the ktveple of
which is in course of erection. OT.eiily,
who is a tinsmith by trade, ha? exprif ncd
some troub'e In wrkicg on high builditigs.
and thought to cure his timidity by asctDd
iDg the steeple. He succeeded in Climbing
Ufv the laddt rs to the uppermost c2o!d. ar.d
al ter remaining there a thort time couinienctd
his ascent.
Alter descending part way he stepped on
one of the lower ecaQ lde, aud then weut up
again. His friends remonstrated with him
to come down. This he finally attempted
to do, by means of a rope iusidd the steep'e,
and used ia hoisting materials. After de
scending a bhort distance he became confused,
and either let go his ho'd or the rrpe slipped
through his hands, and he fell. After thus
failing a short distance he struck on a board
placed acrosa the steeple, which broke, and
he fell to the ground, striking on a oil ot
rope. The distance which he fell is between
fifty and sixty feet, and it is a miracle that
he was not instantly killed.
He was taken up by his friends, who sup
posed him dead, being insensible, and car
ried him to the residence of hia father. Dr.
Mercer was summoned, but after aa exami
nation failed to find any broken boues.
Restoratives were given, and shortly after he
regained his senses. At noon the injured
man was cot as com foi table as he was in the
morning, and it was feared he had sustained
internal injuries. His escape from instant
death was a miraculous one, and should
prove a warning to the many thoughtless
persons who have been in the habit of climb
ing to the top of this steeple since its condi
tion admitted of so doinx-
SrSGCLAR Coincidknt. The Dover Del
awarean of a recent date records tho fo!low
iog utrikins coincident :
"John Viney, an aged colored ran. for
merly in the service of the late Hon. Martin
W. Bates, was struck with apoplexy or pa
ralysis od Wednesday, while fi'licg his hues
ket with slop in Mr. Ililyard's yard, and
difHi the same evening. He had attained his
75th year. We are informed that some of
old Jacob's friends telegraphed to Wilming
ton for his daushter to come down and at
tend to her father's burial, when a return
dispatch informed them that she was also
dead, and that her remains were about to be
sent to Dover. The daughter owned some
property in Wilmington, which she devised
to her father. He owned some property
here, which he left to his daughter."
Angel, Thief, or Devil. A new thiev
ing dodge is out. as practised on railroads
with success by females who enter cars, and.
finding a gentleman sitting alone, ask if
the other seat is occupied. Tbe gentleman
at once motions her to be seated, when she
politely asks him if he won't allow her to
sit by the window. Of course this request
is also granted, and she becomes seated.
Presently she finds that there is not air
enough in the car, and requests the gentle
man to raise the window. He at once rises
to do so. and as he leans over her she picks
his pocket or removes his watch, which she
passes to a male confederate in the next seat
behind her. There are three kinds of woman,
and this is number two.
The fence of the United States cost
more than the houses, cities included; more
than the ships, vessels and boats of every
description which sail on the ocean, lake and
rivers ; more than our manufactories, with
all their machinery, and more than any one
class of property, real estate excepted.
Those of New Yrk are put down at $144.
000.000; those of Ohio at SI 15.000,000,
and Pennsylvania at $190,000,000. At this
rate the money invested in fences alone is
more than equal to the national debt. As
fences require to be renewed, on an average,
once in ten years, the annual cost to the
country is not far short of S200.000.000.
GREAT WESTERN GUN WORKS.
II III cm. Double and Single Itarrel.
Siot (7 una, frrofwY, Ammunition.
Pportlnjr Goods, Kifio Ifcirrels. Locks. Mount
ings Gun Materials. Ac. Senl for a Price List
Address .1. H.JOHNSTON, (ireat Uctern linn
jrorV, I7 Smithrtold ."irri-t't. Pittsburgh, Pa
if N. B. Army CarbinesMiiMea and Kevol
ver bought or traded for.
STOCK OF FALL GLOTK
u,
1871. Fall Trade. 1871
I are. now prepared t'i i f'er
SUPERIOR INDUCEMENTS
to cash r.A'p. i f
Til. SHEET-IRON k WM IE
l.ITHFK AT
WHOLESALE Oil UETAIL
My stork consists in part of every vir't'v !
Tin, Sheet-Iron,
COINER AND I3RASS "WARES,
ENAMELLED ASP H.A'V
SAUCE-PAKS. BCILEKS fca,
COAL SHOVELS. MINE LAMPS !L
CANS. HOrSEFrKNISIIlNG HARD
WARE OF EVERY KIND.
Sprm'i Anfi-Dntt
HEATING and COOK I NT; STOVES
EXCELSIOR COOK1SG STttYtS.
NOBLE, TEIUMTII ash rAHLOK OjOZ-
INU STOVES.
And any Cooking Stove de?ir-.l I :!' :;:
when ordered at mnmif.ictuser's pr:--Odd
Stove Tlatf s ai d Gratis, ic. f :
pairs, on hand for the Staves I hY. ; t:
will be ordered when war'e.l. Part:.:'..
attention given to
Spouting, VaNeys and Conductors.
ail of which will be made out cf lot r:.
rials and pxit up by com peter, t w orkn. -.
Lamp Enrners, Wick and CticseTS
WHOLESALE OK KKT.MI-.
I would call particular atter,; n t!:f !.::'::
House Burner, with Glass C re, for l" :;:
more liszht than any other in use. A's
Taragon Burner, for CrrA- 0i'.
onr n r-rTi rr tun r in flCH't.
OUUAn iLl I LLo tiJ OnULUhUii
of all sizes constantly on Land.
Special attention giver, to
Jobbing in Tin, Copper and Sheet-Ire-
at iowet possible rates.
Wholesale Mekcimvts' Lit?
now ready, and will he sei.t on applies
v by mail or in pers:n
Hoping to yce all my old cnstorrv?r? sj
mv new ones this Spring, I returc
st sincere thanks f.?r the very ul-ora. p
man
mos
tronage I have already received, '
endeavor to pleas-1 all who may call,
er they buy or net. ,v
FRANCIS V. HAT.
Johnstown. March 7. ISC 7.
TOOD, MOKKELL & CO..
WASHINGTON STREET,
Near Pa. R. R. Depot, Johnstown, Fa .
Wholesale and Atlail Detitis i
rirmrn MV PlW
9IILLI.ERY GOODS.
HARDWARE.
QUEENSWARE.
BOOTS AND SHOES.
HATS AND CArS.
IKON AND
CARTETS AND OIL CLOTHS. .
READY-MADE CUjlh
GLASS WARE. YELLOW WAHh-
WOODEN AND WILLI.'"
CARBON OIL. &c. Ac. , , ;c V-
tW Wholesale and retail order .
and promptly filled ou the shortest no
most reasonable terms. T-rTJbC0-
WOOI
D. ilOKJ1--
LORETTO MARBLE VOfi
PRICES REDUCED! i
And Work Wurran
before det-i.linsr upon rurojiasins' , tjjirt
work elsewhere. J AMts w
Loretto, April 22, lSTl.-tf-
PROVISIONS and FEED, ALL Kl3
Together with U manner of Wes'ern Fr.
f.uch as FLOUR. BACON', H' -
MONUMENTS. Tomb Pton- ' "f V
ueait aut Tabi.k IV'-V' S "
the finest Italian Mart.lt aiul m m. U-y
of workmanship not surpass : jj C--.
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