- -a 05 CM 1 H 1 - 1,1 3 ; i I t 1 , i b I i i r c k :1 t i: i t! n it Cambria jframau, EBB.X8DIJRG, PA. Saturday Morning, I : March 9, 1872. Pursuant a resolution of the Democratic STtnte Executive Committee this diiy sdoptea, m Democratic Ptate Convention 1 """'V."! rautl to the representation in both hoiiMj or fh" L.cislature. 1. hereby culled to jnjet In li-ading-. Ph., on Thursday, May JWth. U.S. at 11 o'cl.ck . m. to nominate caml.daf.8 for Gov- tirWi.Utureodetprmine) tof Andttof Uen 1 ami delegates at bug. to the Const tutton al Convention, and also to form an electoral lleket and select senatorial and representative 3lAts to represent the State in the Demo cratic National Convention. By ordtr of the Executive Committee. Wiu.iAM A. WitLACS, C1.airman. Attest W. M-Ci.kli.4SD, SeersUirf. Harrisburg, Feb. 15, 1S72. Tlie Constitutional ConTentlon. When the rottrs of this State with great unanimity decided at the last Octo ber election in favor of calling a convsn tion to alter and ameud the constitution, they had a right to expect that their wish would b substantially and practically complied with by the Legislature. A few days after the present session con vened, the business of prepariug the ne cessary legislation on the subject was re ferred to a special committee, consisting of nine members, with Mr. White, of Alleghany county, as ckairman. About n month ago a bill was reported by the committee fixing the number of delegates o the convention at ninety nine, the alec lion of the members to take place en the 14th of May, and the convention to fiseet aome time in June. By the terms of this .billf,eacluiieiialuual.Pjstrict would elect tiao delegates to the convention, which . - -would giva sixty six, and the remaining thirty three-wfre tu be elected by he vo- . ters ofttrfe'Whote StaW.'rio elector to vote for more Chan eighteen. This bill, which ' "would" nearly preserve a political equnlity in the convention, was well received and iippeared to give general satisfaction. A short time ago it came regularly before ihe Hause of Representatives for consid eration, and then it was discovered, not withstanding the commiitee had bestonfd upon the suljsct careful and mature de liberation before arriving at a conclusion, that about one-fourth of the members had pet projects of their own entirely at vari ance with the views of the committee as embodied in their bill. The bill was dis cussed at great length amendments in numerab'a were offered and tho result was, that when th mountain had got safely through with its labor, another and quite a difFerent issue was brought to hghr, so that the astonished Mr. White was unable to recenize a e'uijle feature of his own bantling. The bill, as it finally passed the House, fixes the number of members of the con vention at 133, to be elected at the next October election in the present Senatorial aud Legislative districts, and provides for the meeting of the convention on the 15 lb of April, 1873. This is not tho enter tainment to which the people supposed they would be invited. If it was desirable that the convention should consist of 133 members, that change could easily have bsea nude by providing for the election of three instead of two meaibera in each Sjnatorial district and electing thirty fonr at ! rge, each elec'or to vote for seventeen Wa can tell the House that it has signal ly failed to meet public expectation, and that the pecp'.o will never sanction the manner in which it has disposed of this vital question. The only argument, if it can be bo call ed, which was urged against the conven tion meeting next June, was that a l'res idehtiarcoriteet would then be vexing and disturbing the country. Does it necessat . rily allow fom that cause that the mem bars of the convention would lose their - brains, or otherwise be-rendered incapable of performing their duties? Men who could be so easily operated upon by the iojnd a?d fury ofa political campaign would be unfit la occupy scatain the con vention. This is. the ostensible, but it is not the true reason for postponing the convention until April, 1873.- Tba Sen ate of the State, as at present constituted, is hostile to a certain well known projact K'even new Senators will be chosen next fill, so that tho present.views of the Sin ate may not be the same that will be en tcrtained by the members of tkat body when it assembles in' January, 1873. Another SPksion of the Legislature is therefore needed b'fote the restraining action of the convention can b; applie J to the unlimited powers of the . General As Bimbly, and also before the woik of the convention can bo ratified by the people. One more chance is wanted to consum mate the legislative project to which we have referred, and hence the mysterious postponement both of tho election of the member to the convention aud the time of its meeting We cannot believe that the Senate will concur in the conclusion arrived at by the Hou?e. Public sentiment is unmistaka bly in favor of a speedy meeting of the convention, and looks to the Senate for a reversal of the puerile, unwise and unex pected action ot the House. If this is done, then let the members of the House pfue to concur in tho amendments made by the Senate at the peril of inclining the indignant wrath of their constituents. An election will bo held in New Hamp shire on next Tuesday for Governor and members of the Legislature. Both par ties are exerting their utmost power to secure a victory, and although, the parti sans of the administration, have literally Hooded the Stale- with money, there is a strong hope that Ihe people will be able to conq-ier. The contest will be a close fe and tho result about as uncertain as a game of chess between two players of f qually balanced skill and ingenuity. CTflE U. S Senate, by an almost unan imous rote, ha passed the resolutions to investigate the sale of arms to the French. The public will soon be officially advised ns to the extent of this transaction and of ' the amount stolen by the Iiadical officials who conducted the- busipees, St Mr. Speer on Land brants. On the 29th of February, when a bill was before Congress extending the timo for the completion of the St. Croix and Lake Superior Kail Road, and when the policy of the government granting away the public lands to rail road monopolies was discussed nt considerable length Mr. Soeer, the member of Congress from this district, having five minutes I'rme allotted to him, made the following, pertinent and well timed remarks: Mr. Spbik, of Pennsylvania. The man ner in which the friends of this measure yes terday attempted to foice it through the Hwiiso. made the impression Upon me, and I think upon the minds of several other members en this side, that the bill itself was without merit. No fair, honest, and just measure should be afraid of the light of im partial discussion : and no bill, Mr. Speaker, proposing to take from ibe national domain some two er two and a half million acres of laud without compensation, for the benefit of a railroad company, should be passed. Mr. rasa. Will the geutlcmau yield to me a moment. Mb. SfKEB, of Pennsylvania. I decline to yield, and I think the gentleman from Wis consin Mr. Risk J is the last person who should ask. that. 1 was saying that no bill that proposed to take from the national do maiu between two and three million acres of the public lands, should be forced through this House by gentlemen claiming to repre sent the people without the voice of the peo ple being heard ; for if their is one question upon which the public mind of this natien. of ail parties, of all classes is settled, it is upon this question of the robbery of the public domain by corporations and monopo lies. The laboring classes of this country have suffered it, and have suffered it iu silence, until their silence loDger would be a crime. To whom do these lands belong 7 By whose valor and patriotism and services have they been purchased aud saved for the coun try ? Whese brave arms Lave won for us these broad acres, aud to wbom do they in justice and in fairneis and in honor to day belong ? Is it to thee corporations and to these monopolies who for selfish aud specu lative purposes, from year to year, throng the lobbies of Congress ; who have their paid and pensioned agents here fioui month to month aud from year to year? Or is it to the aMant men who have become crippled in the service of the couutry, who to the niuic of tho Union have marched from one b itt'.e field to another, and who today lift up tlioir patriotic vaices and plead with lis to save to them aud to the widows and or phans ff those who have fallen a home in which to live, and a gravo iu which to Le buiied? Mr. Speaker, Congress within the last ten years has given to corporations aud monopo lies about two hundred million acres of the public lands, and 1 understand that there are bills now pending for the piviug away of two L 11 .id red millions more. When and where is this legislation to stop ? Shall it go on until every foot of our soil is absorbed? Shall it go on until thcie gigantic monopolies stretching out their arms and their purses from ocean to ocean, from the North to tbe Gu'f, shall control not only the legislation of the country, but own the soil of the coun try too? I say, Mr. Speaker, that if the platforms of parties mean anything, if the voice of the honest masses of the country is to be heard and to be heeded here by their Representatives, it is time now and in this bill for the memburs of this House to put their emphatic condemnation upon this class and this system of legislation, to rebuke the attempt made yesterday to pass this bill through the House without permittirg a word to be said by those opposed to it. aud to say to these friends of mouopoly that the poor men of the laud shall at least be heard litre ; that the common property of the peo ple shall not be squandered away, that homes and homesteads for the soldiers of the land shall be preserved, and that these parties, who profess to be the friends f the poor aud the fatherless, the fiiends of the soldier and hid widow, shall prove their friendship by something more substantial than honeyed professions. I call the attention of the people of this country today to the action of thair Repre sentatives on this floor, and 1 ask them to j'idge them here and now, not by their pro fession, but by thair works. By your fruits, gentlemen of the House, ths people will know you. Are you for or against monopolies? Are you for homes for the homeless, or for quandering still fuither the common inher itance of the people among soulless corpora tions ? Thk investigation thus far by the Mc. Clure-Gray Committee into the election frauds perpetrated in the Fourth Senatori al district, has disclosed a most unparal leled and successful scheme of villainy. The evidence is of the most startling char acter, and it is difficult to believe that such things can be done in broad daylight, and that too by men who occupy prominent positions in scciety. The unhallowed reg istry law for tho city of Philadelphia af fords n true key to tho whole infamy, and that law the radical majority in the House stubbornly refuses to modify in the inter csts of justice tnd honest elections. It is no longer a matter of doubt, that under the operations of that law and tho fraud ulent practices sanctioned under it, Asa Packer and not John W. Geary was fair ly and legally elected Governor two years aco last October. Such has always been claimed by the democratic press of that city, and now no man who has re?d the testimony taken by this committee doubts it for r moment. If tho evidence yet to be heard on the part of Col. M'Clure is of th aame character as that which has already been received, the fraudulent ma jority of about 900 by which Gray was decla-ed elected will be completely wiped out and Ihe election of M'Clure by a largo majority clearly and satisfactorily estab lished. This being djne, the dark deeds of the corrupt political tings in that city will be thoroughly cxpesed and their re petition in the future in a very great de gree prevented. His Honor Jas Potts, President JuJge of the District Court of Cambria county, is being very bitterly denounced by the Johnstown papers of both parties for uni liZ with one of the Associate Judges (Flattery) in leasing "Union Hall" for the use of the court fur ten year at an an annual rent of $800. It might be in toresting to know by what authority, either expressed or implied, these two judicial lights undertook to rent Union Hall for county purposes, but we will not now dis cus the question, preferring to leave the belligerantsjto fight outjtheir own battle on the hanks of, Ibe Stony Creek. The local option law passed the House of Representatives last week by a vote of CO yeas to 34 nays. The bill provides for taking the vote of the people for or against granting licences, in c.'ttrs borvuyhs and townsftipt. Various opinions are ex pressed as to the fate of the bill in the Senate. We repeat, again, that we are opposed to all legislation of this charac ter, believing that it will prove totally in efficient, and that it will fail to accom plish the purpose intended. Our views on this suhjact are much better expressed than we could do it, in the following ex tract taken from a very recent letter writ ten by Kichard D. Hubbard, the Demo cratic candidate for Governor of Connec ticut, and addressed to a committee of Germans who kad solicited his views en the question : "I believe intemperance to be a monstrous evil in society. This, of course, is a mere truism. The practical question is. shall we attempt to cure it by legal measures, and if so, by what measures. 1 am constrained to say, to begin with, that it is utterly impos sible, in my jiidgmenf, to lay a legal em bargo on nseo'n mouths in respect to drink or diet. Ic the next place, if it could be done, it ought not to be done in s free gov ernment. The Maine law, so-called, represents, as I understand it, enforced total abstinence by legal coercion. We have had such a law on our statute book since 1854. For tho short time that an attempt was made ro enforce it, it proved the parent of infinitely worse vices than it ceded of every conceivable firm of subterfpe, falsehood, fraud, and deceit in tho traffic the most abominable concealments and perjuries in witnesses, and a deliberate disregard and contempt of the law by swern jurors, and all this for the reason that it was felt to be a law which invaded the sauctities of private life and struck at the liberties of the poorer classes, while it left the sideboard of the rich full of fi.Ied decanters. For this reason the law has become a dead letter. It is retained ia the statute book as a dumb show for po litical t fleet by men who do uot believe in it in principle nor tegard it in practice. So much for one side of the question ; now for the other. If ycur resolution meaus, as in terpreted to me by one of your committee, that the trtfuc in alcoholic liquirs should be as free a. in tea. coffee, sugar, and flour, I do uot agree iu thef conclusion. I have seen evils connected with this traffic which demand legal repression iu ths interests of social order and the public peace. The traffic, ia my judgment, needs regula tion ; its abases need redress. The present law is impotent for this purpose. The ques tion is between prohibition on the other. One or tie other must come. For myself, I have reached the conclattion, not without some thought, that a well-ordered license system, uot prohibitory of the sale, but en tiuating it to responsible bands, with proper guarantees against abuse, will secure the just liberties of the citizen, and work at the same time a better practical result to the cause of good order acd temperance than any system of strict and enforced prohibition that has ever been attempted. Mankind may be restrained from crime. They caunot be legislated into the virtue of temperance, still less into total abstinence. The law can only prune off the vicious and criminal out-growths of the traffic. Nothing but moral force? can lay an axe at the root of the tree. Ah Amusino Iscidbst im ibe U. S. Sen ate An amuxine; little incident occurred in the Senate ou F.i lay morning. Mr. Chandler rose to a personal explanation, and, with much expectoration, began to read a letter from one of his constituents living In Jack son, Mich. Mr. Morton half-way across the chamber, called, ''Louder," and Mr. Chand ler, his voice gradually gaining power, read through the letter, from which it appeared that the writer had received under the franks cf Senators Chandler and Morten, copies of the call of the Liberal Republican meeting at Cincinnati, a speech of Gratz Brown, a letter from Senator Schnrz, &c. Both Chandler and Morlin denounced the franks as forgeries, the former using some very strong language about the Cincinnati move ment, and speaking of them in very intem perate tones. As soon as Chandler sat down his face white with excitement, Senator Tipton sprang Tip, and said that he had been treated" almost as badly. He had re ceived back a copy of one of Mr. Chandler's speeches which be had sent to a man in Ne braska, with the information that such doc uments were not wanted in that State. Tho statement, of course, ''brought down the bouse," and even Mr. Chandler was obliged to admit the joke. A IIoPeful Movement The agitation in the Ilomac Catholic Church of this country in favor of temperance is a hopeful event. No class of our population need restraint in the matter of using spirituous liquors more than that which is controlled by the Roman Catholic priesthood. The influence of Fath er Mathew in this country has been excellent among his fellow countrymen, whose popu lar beverage, unlike that of the Germans, is one that excites to crimes of violence. The only way to reach these people is throuph the church. Even Father Mathew, though he did not specially use the influence of the priesthood, obtained his popularity in a great measure from the fact that he was in "holy orders." We cannot depend on seeing in this century or in tho next another man who can wield such immense personal influence, but if the leading prelates of America will combine their forces they can carry on the good work which he left. The Bishop of Savannah has issued a strong pastoral letter on the subject, warmly approving tho seati uents of ths Bishop of New York, who re cently delivered an eloquent "temperance lecture." The recent agitation In the Cath olic Convention in Maryland in favor of a temperance organization shows that there is some real strength ia the present movement. A CtrBiou9 Addbkss. The Legislators of Minnesota visited the asylum for the dumb at Fairbault recently, and received the fol lowing curious and rather ludicrous address: For you are the men to furnish the means to help the man that built tho mill that ground the feed that fed the horse that drew tho cart that dumped the dirt that Paddy shoveled to build the road for palace cars to go upon. These are the men that make oor laws, and furnish the means to build a honse to cover our heads thst warm our toes that fill our mouths that give ns food that feeds the mind that makes us men ,and women strong to lean upon ; we bid yon welcome, and for aye shall strive your kindness to repay." The magnificent granite building of Dr. Jayne, on Chestnut St., below Third, Phila delphia, was greatly damaged by fire on M jnday night. By the superhuman exer tions of tho firemen, ths conflagration was prevented Iroaa spreading. About oue mil lion dollars is put down' as the extent of the lots in goods aud damages to the building. Letter from Irelaiici--3fo. 16. Correspondence Of tarabria Freeman. QuKtssTowu, Feb. 19, 1872. Dbar Mac I believe my last left me on the rocky shore of Kerry, gazing out into the blue Atlantic, over which I ex pect to sail in a few days and leave, per haps forever, the heather-clad kills an the sweet-sounding rills of the Emerald Isle. But lest 1 may drift into n politi cal current and show why we leave our homes and kindred, I will at once enter BALLT BUNION CAVES, which I shall do by means of a skiff and in company with a few liicnds, and guided by one who knows all the intri cate zig-zag caves in which this place abounds. We entered through the open ing on the western side of the tall cillF and often crossed at right angles the va rious entrances affording the most striking contrast light and shade, the color of the waters being often of a hue so spark ingly bright aud so extensively vivid as to resemble molten silver. As our . frail craft hurried through the deep and wave-worn arcades into bright and airy-arched or vaulted chambers, and passed from cave to cave and ball to hall, with inlets poiut ing to the sea or high cliffs, affording a protection against the waves, and occa sionally well-like apertures whioh open throagh the roof to yield a telescopic view of the heavens, one would think, as be saw such sudden transitions from abso lute darkness to most brilliant light, that be was gliding through the balls of fairy dom. One of our party fired a shot out of a revolver and we heard no less than a score of echoes. Near these celebrated caves is the nsat little village of liallybunion, where trav elers who come to visit the caves find good and excellent accommodations. The scenery all along the Kerry coast is sin gularly wild, romantic and beautiful. Here one can see ranges of mountains, whose fantastic, sublime summits pierce the clouds, rise boldly from tho shores and form a singularly picturesque scene to the noble havens which they overhang. It would be an endless task to even notice the hoary head lands, the bright and beautiful bays, the resounding rivers, the massive, majestic mountains, and other sights and scenes which are to be seen along the entire coast of Kerry, over whose huge rocky boulders the Atlantic dashes its incessant billows. However, we can not pass Smerwick, near Sybil Head, without noting that it was here Sir Wal ter lialeigh perpetrated an iuhuinan aad bloody deed. A body of Spaniards hav ing landed at Smerwick, were murdered in cold blood by British soldiers acting under orders from Kaleigk. The next point of historic note is CAIIIECIVEBK. Within about a mile of this old, patriotic village, ia Carhan House, was born in the year 1775 the immortal Daniel O' Connell. The peasantry point out to the stranger, with a pi lasurable pride, the now ivy-clad walls of Carhan House, where the illustrious Dan drew his first breath. Withia about ten miles of Ca birciveen, on the green margin of a shel tered creek running in from the Hallin skellig Bay, stands Derrynane Abbey, once the residence of the Irish Liberator. It is situated in as romantic a spot as oae's imagination could depict. The ruins of the little abbey, from which the mansion takes its name, stand within view of the house on the extremity of a low tongue of land running into the sea. We cannot pass unnoticed VALSKTIA ISLAND, which is only a 6hort distance from the mainland. All the teleuraohic news from ej 4 this side of the Atlantic, which reaches New York hourly, has to be sent here from Ihe various parts of Great Britain and Ireland before it can be put oa the electric wires, as the cable is laid from the western point of this island. Valentia Island is owned by Fitzgerald, Knight of Kerry, who I am told is a jovial, good kind vf an Irishman. SKIUiQ ROCK next claims our attention. It stands about nine miles out in the ocean and is about two hundred feet above the levol ot tbe sea. It is over three fourths of an acre in extent. We made our way ap to ibe top by means of stone stairs cut in the side of the rock. On it is built a very neat and substantial lighthouse, with its red and white lights shining out brilliant ly at night to warn agaiust shipwreck any tempest-tost mariners who may be sailing rouud this dangerous coast. On this rock is a beautiful well of cool, crystal water. which ia tho heat of summer and cold of winter is the same. One would hardly expect to find on this rock, nine miles out in the wild Atlantic, ths remains of what was once a flourishing monastery. And yet such is the fact, foi here, quite visible, are the ruined, rootless walls within which religion and learning once flourished. Ia the western point a remarkable ledge juts out some distance from Ike main rock, and from this ledge another points up wards, on the top of which there is an "eye' large enough to have a stout man pass through it. It is said that no one, unless those guiltless of any sin, can climb out and go through this -eye" and come back again in safety. A cannie son of Scotland once came along this way and said that his ancestors aided John Knox to "reform" Scotland and therefore be could go through the "eye." lie crept out on bis "all fours" and climbed up and through tbe "eye," but in coming round it he lost his balance and was hurled down a distance of one hundred feet till he met the wild waves, under which he sank to rise no more. I was told that no one since was presumptuous enough to say lie was $i'tilrstt so no other one has tried this impossible task. 1 am sure the most of your readers have read about cr seen various pano ramas of the LAKES OF KILLARHET, o on that account I will not attempt a lengthened sketch of them ; for indeed it would be almost as easy for me to trans late Indian or Chinese gibberish into the English as to convey through a pen-and-ink sketch the faintest idea of their awful, wild and stern grandeur ; their noble aad romantic sublimity. Hence I will merely allude to a few of the most prominent places. A person visiting these lovely lakes for the first time is completely at fault what to admire the most, for here we have bright mountain streams pouring down lotely glens and deep ravines, now leap ing from rock to rock and flashing like silver in the broad sunlight and anon glilteriug in the shade of tbe dark foliage till they afe lost in the shining waters of the broad lakes. A number of islets of the most picturesque forms are scattered over their surface) some of which are re dundant with vegetation, producing trees, shrubbery and plants in the wildest profu sion, amongst which are the beautiful ar butus with its tempting berries arid the mountain ash with its scarlet cluster? glowing through tho dark foliage of the holly tree. Then again wo have tbe cloud-crowned peaks of the surrounding mountains, piled up, like eternal barriers of a vast amphitheatre, of which the sparkling waters of the lakes form the smooth and smiling arena. The "Eagles' Neat" is stupendously grand. This is a rugged, cone-shaped mountain, nearly one thousand seven hundred feet in height, thickly wooded at its base, but presenting to the eye, as it travels upwards, a suc cession of broken crags thickly covered with trailing plants and flowering mosses. Amongst these inaccessible precipices the eagle builds its eyrie. Near the summit of the Mangerton mountain is Ihe "Devil's Puncb-Iiowl." The "Bowl" is a small lake about a quarter of a mile in diameter and is con tained in the deep chasm of the mountain. Its waters, of inky blackness, are intense ly cold, aud yet they have never been known to freeze. This "Bowl" is be lieved to be almost unfathomable, and those curious to find its lowest depth will have to visit the "lower regions," where it is said they will find bis Katanic Majes ty making cold punch at tbe bottom. Of tho almost countless other places of beauty, romance and sylvan charms, all I will say is that it would require the poet's pen or painter's pencil to do justice to a place where prolific nature revels rs her richest, grandest and most sublime attire. I intended to make a few remarks on things in general and "classic Kerry" in particular, but I believe I have already written enougb. I am booked for I hope a enfe voyage to Now York in a huge ship which I see lying at anchor out in Q'leenstown harbor. Ia a few hours I expect to be on hoard, so I will have to close. My next will be from the Empire City of America, where I intend spending a few days before 1 start on my home ward trip over the mountains. Y'oure, dear Mac, very truly, EaiONaClL Chased bt a Saw log Chased -by a bear ; by a wolf: by an elephant ; by a sher iff; by a spnuk ? Yes, that has often oc curred, but did you ever hear of being chased by a saw-leg. as it chanced to a French Can adian out in Curtis's woods last week ? It happenedjthus wise: They were cutting the timber from the brow of a hill in these fa mous woods, and rolling it to the bottom where a steam saw-mill is to be erected. The Frenchman was one of the lumbermen, and was attempting to manipulate a huge log for a safe descent, when he discovered that it was getting the better of hirn. He was on the under side and it weuld cot do to "hit it slide," so he screamed for help. But no help came. His strength was surely und rapidly failing, and there was nothing to do but to run for it. and run be did a fearful race. The natural philosopher ssjs that a log gains in rapidity as it descends. It is otherwise with human legs on a run, even when as in this case tbe descent is steep end icy. There was ao turning out, and the log gained with terrible rapidity on the frightened Cannuek. and was now just on his heels, when luckily he spied a hollow in bis path into which he popped with a bound ; but had barely time to huddle him self into his hole, when crash ! crash! the loj? thundered over him, and left him safe, but about tbe most bad'y scared man that ever hollooed iu Curtis' woods, if his nerves are no stronger than ours claim to be. And that is how a saw-log chased a Frenchman. Pitlsfield Sun. A Mas who Buried Eioht Wives. The Limerick (Ireland) General Advertiser contains tho following curious paragraph: "Died, last week, at the extraordinary age of 112 years, after two days illness, John Leahy, an honest, faithful domestic in the family of CUrah for upwards of eighty years. He commenced his servitude with the late Vere Hunt, Esq , as groom, in the year 1839; remained with him until the latter's death, since which period he has continuod his ser vice with Sir Vere Hnnt, Bart., until the last ten years, when he retired, although in per fect health, to a cottsge built for him within the demesne. He was married toeight wives, by seven of whom be had children ; the last he married in his lOCth year. Ho lived in the reign of six monarch, and saw. as he recorded before his death, five generations of most of tho families of tho neighborhood, of the vicissitudes of which honest John was the stationary spectator for near a century, and before his death, (retaining his senses until the lasl'moment.) he declared that he never suffereed a day's illness nor an hour's pain, unless for the death of a fri-nd, or oc cationally lor the loss of a wife. His remains were interred in the church at Nantin on Sunday last, attended by the whole neigh borhood, by all of whom be was regarded and regretted. In Boone county, Kentucky, there is a family whose singular manner of living, and other peculiarities, excite general interest. Tho bead of tho family is a native cf Scot land, an educated man, well read, and of fine conversational powers. He does noth ing lor the support of bis family, and, al thengh they are in an almost starving con dition, is devoting bis time to tbe study of Ureek. language. While bo is thns engaged they are living in a miserable hut without floor cr windows, and with scarcely food enough to keep them from starving. The woman has neither education nor sense ; in fact, the only thing she has worth speaking of is fits. She gives the family what atten tion it gets, and prepares the food sent them by neighbors, while her husband ia en-ased in his classical studies, or in prowling about the neighborhood, reading essays to his ac quaintances. People suppose" that he is crazy, and in the spring an effort will be made to provide iu some way for him end nia ueipiess lamny. The Democratic State Editorial Asso ciation met at Uamsburg on Monday. KeTTS of tiie Week. It has been proposed in Congress that Postmasters should be elected by the people. A St. Louis woman, Eix feet tall, mar ried a mac of four feet four. Ho has a high opinion of ber. Rev. M. Gilmorej a priest at Dayton. Ohio, has been appointed Bishop of the Dio cese of Cleveland. Indiana has had a disaster caused by the explosion of a sweet potato, seriously in juring a little child. Pore Hyacictha turns up in Rome, as a lecturerbeforo a Protestant society, on tbe subject of the diffusion of tbe Bible. Mrs. Kramer, who wasbrutally beaten at the time her husband was murdered, in Washington townbhip, Schuylkil county Pa., died on Monday morning last. Mrs. Dougherty, of Kenuckty, wbe joc ularly gave a leaded pistol to her grandchild end told him to shoot, was surprised to find herrelf dead immediately afterward. Francis Joseph, Emperor of Austria, declines to recognise the opponents of in fallibility as members of tho Roman Catholic ecclesiastical hierarchy of the realm. Mr. Isaac'Morris. of Whip's Cove Ful ton county, ou the 10th inst. shot an eagle which measured ten feet four inches from the tip of one wing to the tip of the other. A cautious eld bachelor, who is aware that the present year is leap year, says : "If you meet a young lady who is not very shy, you bad better be a little shy yourself." It is reported that the ex Prince Imperial of France will visit the United States next summer. He is now sixteen years of age, and is said to 6 peak five languages fluently. EbeDezer Cole, of Lachiuo, Canada, is no longor a live Cole, lie betted ten dollars that he could drink two tumblers full of al-. cohel, but tho money didn't more than pay for his coffin. A dog at Iowa Falls chased a rabbit into a log, recently, and then got stuck in the hole himself. The dog, being fast in the log, fasted for sixteen days, and has now given up the rabbit business permanently. A woman in Lancaster. Ohio, recently received a check for a large sum of money from a Cincinnati banker, who said it was morally due ber for a klndne.s which her late husband had done him in his youth. Gen. Sherman, while in Rome, visited Pius the Ninth. His impression of the Su preme Pontiff seemed to b that he was a benevoleut old gentleman, net likely from appearances to wish or do harm to any one. A fire at Scranton, Pa., on Saturday, destroyed the Odd Fallows' Hall. Graeber's hotel, the Hyde Park hotel, and five other buildings, iuott, jiU.OOO. 'Ihe water to extinguish the fire was obtained from the Oxford coal-mine. A man narrowly escaned being buried alive at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, near Tar- rytown. New Yo k As tbi ceffin was about to be lowered luio tke grave, a noise pro ceeded from it, causing the interment to be delayed long enough to discover that the man was alive. Furty years ago a blooming -young girl of sixteen married au old mau of eixtv for his money, expecting that he would soon die and leave her a wealthy veuDZ wife. Last week the lady died at the respectable age of fifty-six, leaving a husband aged one hun dred, aud four children to mourn her loss. At St. Louis, David Leith has brought suit agaiast Henry Dansmau for $1,000,000 damage for depriving bisa of "bis wife's love, society, services, assistaace and com fort." Her "love, society and services" xuvlA have been immense, or he would not charge hir neighbor so much. Dausman has evi dently a bargain. Ibe illegitimate appropriation made out of the State Treasury by the Legislature to tbe Mithntown hie has been attended with difficulties and led to dissatisfaction and lit igation. II. J. Culbeitson, Esq., has been appointed by tho Juniata county court a master in chancery to report cpou the facta and the law of the cae. A Georgia newspaper has half a column of editorial on a nail from the office wherein Old Hickory first practised law. General Grant's frieuds will doubtless take the hint and secure some blocks of Seneca sandstone for distribution in small fragments to their grand-children. At the present rate of pro fitable consumption, the quarry will soou be exhausted. Here she ia again. Mrs. Gloverson.of East Cleveland, over ninety years old, walked three miles cue of the coldest days cf last month, borrowed a cast-iron kettle weighing one hundred acd twenty-three pouuds and seven ounces, packed it home and made half a barrel of soft soap before supper time, and would have taken the kettle home that night if she had not been compelled to kuit a pair of stockings for her sou, who was going away next morning. She has taken snuff and bus smoked the usual number of years. On Friday week John D. Blancbard fell dead in his door-yard, at rlmer. Mass. The fouaral was held ob Monday, but as the remains were about to be conveyed to the grave, from the life-like appearance of the face tbe friends expressed doubts as to the body being really dead. The idea of burial was given up and a galvanic battery apoHed by the doctors, without restoring life. They advised, however, that interment be delayed. Up to Monday last tho fice was unchanged in Its life like appearance, the blood was limpid in tbe veins of the arm and there were also warm spots under both arms. Da. Oldhue's Lettek vf Isstuction to Patrons. We are constautly receiviLg let ters from all parts of the country reqestiug information respecting our system of practice and the course of proceedings necessary to obtain from us a medical diagnosis, or medi cines. To faciliate the matter of aaswering these letters, and to make plaiu tbe conditions le quired to obtaiu a thorough, sciestifie, and correct diagnosis from ocular, chemical, and microscopic txamination of the urine, we would say : Iu collecting a specimen of urine for an alysis, take that Jirsl jnissed in tlie morning, or immediately after sleep. No other kiad will be examined. Send about two ounces in a clean vial. A less quantity than two ouuees cannot be well tested. Always give the name of the patient in full. De sura to give the age of the patient. Without knowing the age we will neither examine the specimen nor give medicines. Unless the above instructions aro strictly followed, no attention will bo paid to the case. Specimens of urine can be sent by express (but not by mail), from any part of the Uui ted States ; and medicines can be obtained by tho same conveyance. Our charges for examination and medicines range from three to ten dollars. Address Drs. Oldshue. No. 182 Grant St.. Pittsburgh, Pa. L. Oi dshue. M. D., T. L Oldshlk. M. D., J. W. Oldbhcb, M. D. It is a rare thing that physicians give any countenance to a medicine, the manu facture of which is a secret. About the only exception we kaow of ia Johnson's Anodyne Liniment. This, we believe, all endi rse. aad many of them use it in their practice with great success. Hanmiba. andGesab won their victor! and battle by the sword, the spear and lS tie axe. They had bever beard f gun p., t der. The man who would undertake tu j what GRANT did at Appomatox and such implements of warfare as were t; then, would deserve to be derided and !auglltj ! at; Hot because they were not used f,r t, parpose then in view, but because, Wttrf i and more powerful ergines were know;. We do not lose sight of what the past hsi done for medicine. The past hundred has accomplished more towards the cure af i i-ousuuipwoo, man tne nve hundred yri-i i raftiAfi.la T 1 t t . , i-h.iiuu.ij. ii is common ior people stui t, die of it. It will continue to be mat '. jast so long as people neglect to pay attti. f tion to the first symptoms or follow the rui of treatment in vogue a huudred years ago. Dr. Keyser of tbe this city cureB i.early ever; f case of lung disease or chronic disease of arj kind that bo takes under treatment. )e. Keyser's Lvsq Cure is as near a spcc : for consumption as any medicine can be; i; will allay all morbid irritability, quiet tbi ccngh, lessen the inflammation, expel tl. tough, viscid mucous that blocks up the a r cells of the lungs, and give that pla-tic equality to the blood which it needs te fit it for the purposes of apparation. Ask fr L's. Keyset's LckgCcke, at the Doctor's fTc. No. 157 Liberty street. Pittsburgh. Sicg's bottles $1.30, four bottles for $5. A pamph let on Chronic Lucg Diseases sent free to sx; address. Tebsons requiring purgatives or pills should bo careful what they buy. Sme pills not only cause griping pains, but leve the bowels in a torpid. cnetiVe state. F.it sons1 Purgative mis will relieve the bowt's and cleause the blood without injury to tie system. - . i i A Weyaowega fond father. 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