Cambria JTrtemmu
EQEXSnCRG, PA.
Saturday Morning, : March 23, 1872.
IMnCrntl Sfnto ('ntenlUu.
arenimt to a resolution of the Democratic
tare lxecutlTe Committee this day adopted,
a Democratic Statu Convention in numbers
qua! tm the representation in both bouses of
inn Js,iUliice. is horrhv called to meet id
B.-ihnr, Pa., ou Thursday, May KOth, 1872, at 11
e'rtoclt A. u to nominate candidates for Gov
ernor, Judirn of the Supreme Court, and (should
tbe L-epialamre so determine) for Auditor Gc-u-rsrl
ami delegates at large to the Constitution
al Convention, and also to form an electoral
Tfckt an 1 select senatorial and representative
lerare to represe nt tlio State ia the Demo
cratic National Convention.
Hj erdkr of the Executive Committee.
Wn.i.f.tM A. Wallace, Chairman.
Attest Wm. M'C'lillasd, Secretary.
Harrisburif, Feb. 15. 1372.
A joint resolution passed Ihe Senate
and House of Representatives on Tuesday
last extending the time for final adjourn
ment until Thursday, April 4th.
Never before in our national history
were the corruptions of Federal officials so
glaring nnd universal. Twenty five year9
ago a defalcation of a thousand dollars
on the part of an official, indorsed by tho
political parly to which he belonged, would
have doomed that party to defeat. To
day, when Grant's office holders have
stolen more than a hundred millions from
ths tax-payers, Ihe managers of the radi
cal party turn up their noses and ask of
.tho people ; "What are you going to do
about it !"'
It is said that the notorious Pete Her
die, of Williamsporf, owns a majority of
the members of the present House of Re
presentatives. This allegation is based
on the fact that a short time ago he came
to Ilarrisburjr, as he has often done before,
well supplied with greenbacks, and at
Monday night's session succeeded, after
a struggle lasting until midnight, io de
feating a bill reducing tha price of boom
age at tho Williamsport boom, in which ,
he ia a heavy stockholder. The bill was
designed to protect the lumbermen from
the rapacity of Ilerdic and his associates,
and ought to have passed withoit a con
test, but Ilerdic has a monopoly of the
boom busines?, which is a big thicg to
him personally, and his money proved
more potent with rural legislators than the
just demauds of the hard workers in the
forest who sought to be released from the
oppressive tyranny of his boom exactions.
Since Grant's home supply of brothers-in-law
has been exhausted, he has turned
his attention to the brothers-in law of
those who 6 wear by his administration.
Tha house of lijtler is now tho fortunale
recipient of executive favor, Grant hav
ing just appointed one Parker, who is the
brotber-in law of the immaculate Iienji
ni'm F. Butler, to tho office of Surveyor
of the Port of Now Orleans, made vacant
by the resignation of Gen. James Long
erect. One would suppose that the ap
pointment two years ago by the same U.
S. Grant of a nephew of Men. Ujtler's as
Consul General at Alexandria, in Esypf,
and in which he has brought deep disgrace
upon himself and his country, would have
ratisfied Presidential expetiments in that
direction. Parker's merits and eminent
qualifications for the office have baen set
forth briefly but comprehensively by Gov
ernor Warmouth of Louiisana, who savs
that "Parker is the most nccomplshed liar
and the greatest blackguard in New Ors
leans."
Is reading the proceedings of the Legis
lature, it is very amusing to watch the
changing forms assumed by thafjonstitu
tional Convention bill in its various flights
between the two Houses. We bsve a'rea ly
explained the provisions of the bill as it
originally paFsed the House. When it
was afterwards taken up in tho Senate it
was radically charged. When it left the
Senate and went back to the House, it
provided for iho election of the. delegates
on tho second Tuesday of October next
and the Convention to meet on tbo 12ih
of November. The number of members
was fixed at 158, to bo elected in the
following manner: Twenty delegates at
large, each elector to vote for ten -four
delegates from each Senatorial District,
making 132, each elector lo vote for two
-and sir additional dakgafes from the
cily of Philadelphia, each elector lo vote
for three.. It will be seen at a glaace that
under this plan tho Convention would
consist of an equal number of members of
each political party. Wc can conceive
of no objection to this arrangement, but
the House, in its exercise of tlist profound
wifdnro'for which it is so distinguished,
refused to concur and sent the bill back
'to Ihe Senate. It was again taken up in
that branch on Tuesday last, when an
attempt was made, by a radical member
of course, lo entirely undo what the Sen
ate had so well done before. Tho bill
was . then postponed . until Thursday, but
what was done with it then we are un
able at this writing U say. To the aver
age mind it would seem lo bo an easy
task, a decent regard being had for public
opinion, for the legislature to perfect a
bill of ibis character. It would be so had
not Providence in its inscrutable ways
once more inflicted upon the. Stale-a
.. House of K'prcsentatives which,' for stu
' pidlty, ignoranee.mid venality, has seldom
- "been t i iHod and never surpassed ye
must therefore 'possess our 6ouls in pa.
iScuce aod calmly await the final result,
The Apportionment .Rill.
Whenever a dominant party io exercises
its power as to trample upon and crush
out the just and admitted political rights
of its opponents, it deserves aothing but
unmixed execration. Where the provoca
tijn is great, the resentment is usually vio
lent. It is therefore difficult to use the
language of moderation and propriety in
relening to the Congressional Apportion
ment bill which passed the lower branch
of the Legislature last week. Under the
late census this State is entitled to twenty
six members of Congress. No man who
is familiar with the relative strength of
parties in Pennsylvania will place the rad
ical majority of more than fifteen thou
sand, and that being the esse, a fair and
honest apportionment bill would give the
republicans at the 'very outside fourteen
members and the democrats twelve.
Against, this equitable proposition no valid
objection can be urged, 15ut the present
bill, as it passed ihe House, gives the re
publicans seventeen districts and the dem
ocrats nine, beuig a radical majority of
eight in the entire delegation, Whom do
these eight members represent? Why
simply the radical majority in the State
which we hiva assumed to be fifteen
thousand, which represent a population of
ninety thousand. Is that honest? is it
fair? and can any man who has a polit
ical conscience at all stand up and defend
the infamy ? . And yet it has been done
and by men too who took an oath to dis
charge their duties faithfully and honestly.
The ratio for a member under the late
census is 135,453. At the last Presiden
tial election, in Philadelphia Grant re
ceived G0.9S5 votes and Seymour 55,173.
This bill so manipulates the five districts
into which that city is divided as to insure
the election of four radicals and one dem
ocrat. In Philadelphia, therefore, it comes
down to this, that while it takes 55,173
demecratic votes to elect one member of
Congress, 60,985 radical votes can sleet
Jour ; or, to state it differently, while
55,173 democratic voters can only send
$ne man lo Congress, 15,240 radical vo
ters can do ihe same thing. This is a mon
strous outrage, not capable of being de
fended or explained away, and we are not
afraid to assert that every man who voted
for it deliberately violated his oath of office
and committed moral perjury.
The iniquities of this bill are also ap
parent fr ota the manner in which it unites
two or more democratic counties giving
heavy majorities sud assigns to them one
member with, a large surplus over the re
quired ratio, and on tho other band gives
to two or more republican counties a
moraber on an eqially large deficiency.
Take for example the following instances
of democratic districts :
, , . P'ljmhttiim.
Sixth District Bucks nnd Montgomery . HV.Hi
Seven tb District Ilerks and Lehigh .. lia.VJT
Eisz-hth District Northampton, Carbon,
Monroe, Pike nnd Wayne H0,M2
Sixteenth District York, Cumberland
and Adams 150,.oiCl
Nww look at iho following republican dis
tricts :
Population.
Ninth District-Delaware and Chester.. 117,203
Twt W'tb District Lycoming-, Cameroo,
Potter, Tioga and McKeari lt)7,0S8
Twenty-fourth District 'Washington,
licavcr and tiutlur , 121,141
It may be hero stated that when the
bill was before tha House a democratic
member proposed to amend it, so as to
give the republicans fourteen members and
tha democrats ttcclce, but the proposition
was promptly rejected by the radical ma-
tij nty. L.very sense of honor and decen
cy appeals to the Senate, in which justice
nnd fair play yet exercise their legitimate
power, to interpose its arm and prevent
the consummation of this most foul and
unmitigated wrong. .
For this bill Samuel Henry," who misro
presents the democracy M Cambria coun
ty, voted in all the different binges of its
infamy. Every amendment, every altera
tion of it, so as to do simple justice to the
democratic parly, met with his uncompro
mising opposition. A legislative club
having been placsd in his hands by the
aid of democratic votes, ha wielded it, not
in the cause of justice and moderation,
but for the deliberate purpose of knocking
out the political brains of the men who
placed him where ho is. Not only ibis,
but he famplea open the acknowledged
rights t;f o ie-f jurth tf the democracy of the
entire Sute and makes of them a pleating
and acceptable sacrifice on the altar of
radicalism. Figs. will not grow on this
tles, .neither will grapes flourish on thorn
bushes, and (lie whole course of Mr.
Henry on this bill has only strengthened
our conviction, heretofore expressed, that
democrats have no political rights which
ho feels himself bound to respect, . '
Thk Auditor-General MrT Brig
ham, who was appointed by Governor
Geary to take the place made vacant by
the death of Dr. Stanton, Auditor-General
elect, has declined the proffered
honor. In doing so ho says that his po
pition at the head of a prominent Repub
lican journal, (the Pittsburgh Commer
cial;) quite eatiifis his ambiiion, and
that ha feels that he ought to accept no
position which might, under any circum
stances, inlet. 'ere with, the free discharge
of his duties is a journalist. What
would have been tt.e action of the legisla
ture if Mr. Utigham had not declined,
must remain in mere conjecture. On
receipt of Ihe news that he had refused
the appointment, the .Senate promptly
passed a bill, continuing General Hart
ranft in office, aad providing for the
I eloction cf a successor in October.
Gen. John F. Haktkasft, the present
Auditor General of the State, is a promi
nent candidate for the radical nomination
for Governor. He is understood to repre
sent Ihe corrupt or Cameron ring, of the
"God and morality' party, and for that
reason his partisans express the utmost
confidence in his success before the nomi
nating convention. Since the robbery of
George O. Evans became known and has
been publicly exposed, Hartranfi's name
has been unfavorably connected with the
swindle. - Whether he is guilty or inno
cent is not certainly known, but that a
vast amount of suspicion attaches to htm
is very manifest. His financial operations
also with C. T. -Yerkes, jr., once a Phil
adelphia broker, but now an inmate of the
Eastern Penitentiary, have not been re
gardod as legitimate and have still further
tended to compromise his character for
official purity and integrity. If there is
any truth in the following affidavit, made
by Yerkes last DacemUer, but only recent
ly published, Hartianft would more com
pleicly represent the rottenness and de
bauchery of Grantism in this State as its
chosen candidate for Governor, than any
other man whose name has been men
tioned in connection with iho office:
Charles T. Ye.kes, jr., of the city of Phil
adelphia, being duly sworo according to law.
doth depose aijil say, that for some years ast
he had Leea acquainted with J. F. llartrauft,
auditor general of the state of Pennsylvania;
that he has at various tiosrs purchased aud
suM stocks of different kinds, and carried the
same, with money belonging to the common
wealth of Pennsylvania, which the same J.
F. llartreuft haJ caused to be deposited with
this depouent by the t-tate treasurer.
That this depouent did pay to J. F. Ilajt
ranft. auditor general, on the 10th of Decem
ber, 1870. the sum of two tho'isand seven
hundred dollars, which turn was derived from
profits on j.urchases of loans of tho com
nionwaalth and sales of the same to the
sinkiog fund, which sa'e was made on the
29th of April, 1870. That said deponent
has a'so paid lo said J. F. llartrar.ft various
amounts of money for print arising from
stock speculations with money depoitsd with
this daponant by the state treasurer at the
instance of the said Ilartratjft.
C. T. TFRK38. Jr.
Sorn and subscribed before me the 23d
day f Dacember. A. D. 1871.
r -- Wm. W. Dououekty.
seal J- Aldorman,
406 Walnut St., Thilad'a.
Unhkijgrocnd Hivek. The Crawford
County (Lid.) Democrat, gives the fol
lowing on tha authority tf "one of the
best citizens of the county" :
"Two meu named Johu E. Stanley and
Frederick llenniger, were employed to dig a
well on the -farm of Baiij-imiu Ellis, who
rfbidea in Washington county neur the line
of Harrison and Washington cou.jties. They
had proceeded but a short distance, when
they enc wintered a bed of loose 'nigger
head' r-.'eks, which, upon being b-oken opto
were found to contain water and other ub
stances, supposed to Le ore of s:rae kind.
When they reached the depth of sixty feet
from the surface, tbey came to a large cave,
which they followed a distance of ten or
twelve feet, when there before their gaze
was a beautiful river of clear water, which
upon elimination was f ut-d to contain an
iounmerahle number of, small white fish.
Upon a closer examination, it was found to
be sixteen feet wide and five feet in depth,
and a clear as pring water. As an experi
ment, a Hghted candle was placed upon a
haiall piece of plat.k and set ntliat. It
ttarted off in the darknesa with the current,
and was sojn lost to sight. Several persons
have visited this great curiosity, and many
were tbe cor:j-ctures as to where the water
came from and where it went, but nothing
satii factory cculd be learned."
The Votks of thk Soits must be
Counted. The Chicago Tr bune warns
Grant against any attempt to play over
again the game which was attempted in
the last presidential election, when it was
decided that the electoral vote of Georgia
should be thrown out if it would effect Ibe
result and counted if it would not do 60.
It says "reconstruction business is at an
end. Let ui hear nothing of rejecting
the votes of States at the next election.
When the votes of the people and the
States are cast, the attempt to set aside
that verdict would raise a whirlwind puch
as no ordinary power could allay." That
Grant would bo willing to risk a revolu
tion rather than give up the position which
he has managed to make a source of enor
mous profit to himself and family, we have
no doubt. He mut bi overwhelmingly
beaten A crushing defeat will put an
end to all ideas of military usurpation nnd
will restore the country to the peaceful
sway of civil rule once more
The McCi.cre-Gkat Contest. The
Philadelphia Inquir r in ppeaking of the
M'Cl ure-Gry contest, says : "Sj far the
testimony Gray has offered is decidedly
frivolous and does not reach any vital
point in ihe cast. To call election offi
cers opon whom palpable fraud had been
proved, and policemen who were implica
ted in wanton violence at the polls by di
rect testimony to exculpate themselves, is
a confession of weakness that a conrt
would doubtless rebuke ; and the attempt
to hold a second election in -a "division
where no election was held on the day ap
pointed, is worse than triflins : with ' the
lime of a Senate eoru'mitfeeV - If Mr. Gray
has testimony lo prove frauds on Ihe part
of his opponent or his friends, let the
committee and Ihe public have it at once,
or let the farce end by a manly surrender
to what all fair men must accept as inev
itable. .. -. ' i -.,
Petroleum Fibe is Smelting. Exper
iments with petroleum as a fuel in smelting
have been tried in St. Louia, with very grat
ifying results. A lot of p:g iron, which had
been smelted with Illinois coal and had
proved almost worthless, was treated with
petroleum fire, and in. a single hour was
converted into iron of the finest quality,
clwseiy resembling 'steel. - Common moun
tain pi? iron. It is claimed, may, by a single
application of petroleum fire iu tho puddling
furnace, bo made into the best flaogs boiler
iron. These experiments were made with
temporary apparatus, and under "prabarrsss
nvnts pot calculated to develops- their full
vj'ue.
- Be rial Placi of St. Patrick. Saint
Patrick was buried at DowDpatrick. and the
present ancient cathedral at that town is said
to have been erected on the site of his grave.
The tradition is that St. Bridget, of Kildare.
asd St. Celumba Cilia (pronounced "Kill")
were buried in the sitne grave with St. Pat
rick, and the following translated couplet is
still extant :
""Three saints' bodies this grave do fill
Bridget, I'trick aad Colli in ba Cilia."
The further tradition is that after sevaral
centuries tho right hand of thegrt.it Irish
apostle was found in an upright position over
the grave; that it was placad in a silvar
shrine, and a church, yet staadiDg on a
neighboring hill, was forthwith arected,
where the shrine containing the hand was
o'eposited, where they remain to this'day.
There is an extremely iuterestiug and. up to
the present moment, an unexplained natural
(it may be so called) rnriosity to be seen at
thia church, which in 1849 was in good pre
servation, as the writer saw it that year. The
church etands on an elevation soma twenty
or thirty perches from the high road leading
frooa Newry to Downpatrick, and as one ap
proaches frem either aide there appears a wall
which takes tie most serpentine curves im
aginable, bat when you come up to the end
of it on the road it is as straight as an arrow.
Many reasons are given for this strarjge
acd beautiful phenomenon, but none are
aatisfactory.. While on the eubject. of St.
Patrick. .we may state that tho late Very
Rev. Monsianor John Hamilton, D. D.. arch
bishop of Dublin, and parish priest of St.
Michael's in that city, published in a very
handsoaae pamphlet an exceedingly interest
ing document entitled tbe "Confession of St.
Patrick," translated from a Latin MS over
one thousand years old. It was printed by
O'Reily, Chapel tireat, Dublin, and contains
many most interesting aod little known par
ticulars about our great aaint. The pamph
let is rare, but not yet scarce.
Some months ago in Clark county, Ind..
a family of the name of Park were murdered
under circumstancss of great atrocity, and
shortly afterward three negroes, who were in
custody on suspiciea of having pepetrattd
the mnrder, were taken from prison and
hanged by a mob. One of tho negroes,
Squiro Taylor, was horribly burned and tor
tured before hanging. It has frequently been
acserted that the negroes who u rifted at the
hands of the mob were entirely innocent of
the crime with which they were charged,
and it has been thought that certain white
men who took part in tine lynching were re
ally the murderers in tbe first iustance.
Government detectives have for some time
been engaged in invettignting this matter,
and, it is said, have made some surprizing
discoveries implicating in the affair a number
of persons in Clark county who'have been
regarded as reli?i'us men and good citizens.
The Louisville Ltdjer sayt that one of the
sons of Taylor ia about to bring suit against
the Sheriff -if Clark couaty for damages in
the sum of 125.000, claiming that his fiher
came to his death in consequence of the Sher
iff having failed to ua proper diligence for
his protar'in, and that this neglect was in
tentional, in as much as the Sheriff had been
notified that there was great danger that the
Ijail would bo attacked, but refused to pro
vide a suitaMe guard. It is probable that
this suit will lead to positive disclosures re
specting one of the saost shocking crimes
that have ever difgraced a community as
sumins to be civilized. -
Fight wiru a Nlgro DEsrKrtAno Two
Kii.ld and Foch Wounded. Memphis,
March 18. A desperate fight occurred on
Prtsident's Ioland, a few miles be.ow this
city, yesterday. Deputy Sheriff F-Rodegau
went there for tbe purpose of arre&tiug a
negro named John White, who for some tiaie
has been the terror cf the negroes living
there. Ilodr-gan was mot by a large body
of armed negreeiJ, who proposed to assist iu
the arrest, but they stated thai White had
barricaded his cabin aud would make a
desperate fight. Ilodegan approached the
cabiu and demanded the surrender of White,
who refused. After s ima further parleying,
ono of the negroes approached the cabin,
aad was shot dead by White, who rushed
out and secured his gun. In a few minutes
he shot another and secured his gun, but
was wounded as he retreated to his cabin.
White theu opened a sharp firo, wounding
four others, llwdegau seeing it was impos
sible to d.isdgo him, sent to the city for
assistance. Deputy Sheriff Miko Payne
summoned a pos.-e and went over, and pro
ceoded to take measures to burn White's
cabin. While thin surrendered, but after
his arrest it was with prtat. difficulty that
the negroes were kept fruin shootin; him,
they eveu threatening to shoot the officers if
he was not delivered to Ihtm. White was
brought to this city and lodged in jail. The
prisoner has served aTgu!ar term in the
Third Cavalry, and, it is said, Las killed
several men before.
Bark b si's Ridisng Goat "Alsxis."
P. T. IUrnim- baaia tha world in rinJuclDg
novelties. The last sensation wo have heard
of. is tbe training acd education, in Cairo.
Egypt, of a beautiful Circassian Goat. This
annual rides pn horse-back, jumpa through
hoop.', over garters and banners, and other
wise performs all the most difficult feats of
the accomplished equestrian.
We always knew that Pbineas was skilled
in zoology, entomology, ornithology, anthro-po'ojy-r-iu
fact all tho "ologios," including
that of (the famous Jerome) chronolngy, but
we had no idea that he would ever be able
lo add to his vocabalary that of goalology. '
' Biirnnm has" done wonders to elevate the
standard of the once beautiful aud health-
giving equestrian art perhaps he can suc
ceed better with the genus enpricornus than
that f the genus homo. At all eveuts the
riding goat, belonging to his great show,
which made his debut.&t Nibhs last night,
is the rareit novelty ever introduced to a
New York auiience. We' congratu'ate our
country cousics on the opportunity they will
enj y this season of watching the "cape rs"
of this distinguished equestrian Caper, as it
constitutes ono of the many leading features
of Barnum's Great Moral Exhibition. We
don't know which will create the greatest
furore, the Fiji Cannibals, the Giraff,' the
Sea "Lions. 1 the Automatons, or this Riding
Goat. X. Y. Sun. ' v .:
The Scranton, Pa., Times has an account
of a" great txcitemeut among tho Knights of
Pythias. A nice looking person, young and
gent Jul, came to that place a few months ago,,
giving tho uama of Francis Williams. , lie
became acquainted at the boardiog-house
with several members of ths Knights of
Pythias Lodge, and finally expressed his de
sire to jiin. Ha was propesed, went through
the usual routine, was elected, received the
Paee'a degree, and was duly prepared for the
third or Knight's degree. , but in a certain
part of the work an accident disclosed to all
of the officers present that they had been ini
tiating and giving the degrees of the Ovder to
a iroman! - The members'were startled and
nonplussed. 'and - for a (loDg while eilence
ruignod. No cne knew what to do. It was
finally agreed thatjshe should be kept under-
supervision untu ine worthy, u rand, Chan
cellor be heard frcm, -
Hews of Cue Week.
Indiana now produces glass which rivals
that of Franco. , -
There have bsen 237 Topes, from St.
Peter to Pius IX.
Alligators run races with railway trains
on.tho Panama railway.
Portlaud has had seventy days of cons
tinued hleighing this season.
A bed of meerschaum clay has been
discovered near Taylor, Mich.
An old woman, for selling shoestrings
without a license, was fined $2 and costs in
Btstoni . .
A "girl" died recently at Portsmouth,
N. II., who had been in service in ono family
sixty nine years. .
A bill granting Paul Sol ceppeja new
trial has passed the Senate, aud been favor
ably reported from tho House committee. -
There are said to be ight hundred dif
ferent wash in? machines rasnted at Wo
ioton, three-quarters being of New England
origin. ' -
Oue hundred and fifty million feet' of!
lumrer will be t:riven out of liennett s
branch and Trout run, Clinton county, thia
season.
On the 91h iast. a cog-wheel brokein the
Allentown Rolling Mill, which will cause a
stoppage ia the manufacture of rails in that
mill for several weeks.
A man who left O.dcaloos, t.. recentlv
for Colorado; paid for the lcal Herald of
five years in advance. Thereia uo other
case of the kind on record.
Goiben, Ind., has a woman who I angs
around the railroad depot, looking for newly,
married couples, to whom she eudeavora to
sell a patent bed-apritfg. She is always suc
cessful. Senator Sumner privately denounces
Grant as "ignorant and dishonest" Greeley
in private conversation never apeaks of
Grant except as tho "dinnken tanner from
Galena."
A Reading carpcn!er has made a bid
fer fame by carving a complete "tea set"
plates, cups and taucers. knives and foiks,
cream mug. sugar bowl, teapot, etc. out
of peach stoi;es.
Jacob Bender, residing in Swatara
township. Dauphin county, committed sui
cide by shootiug himself iu the breast duriug
Saturday or Sunday uiyht. Deceased was
subject to weak-mindedness.
The election r-f a State Senator for the
Fifth District on the the 35th int.. to Ell
tho vacancy caused by the death of Senator
Evans, resulted in the return of Waddell,
Republican, by 700 n.gjotity.
Q leen Victoria has presented her groom
John Brown, with a gold medal, and has
granted him an annuity of 25. in recogni
tion of his promptness in arrtsting O'Cjoncr
when he assaulted her Majesty.
A thoughtful Connecticut widow has
had a mourning ring made of the gold fill
ings in her decea-ed husband's teeth, think
ing it wasteful to let the precious metal be
Worn out in post meitem genshing.
The D x on (III.) Telegraph says that a
German family, consisting of a father,
mother, and two children, havn at! di.d i.
Reynolds t.wuship, Lea county, of trichinae
spiralis. They were ,in the habit of eatiu !
raw pork.
Tho Democracy cf Armstrong county
have chosen E. S Golden, to represent thtm
in tho Heading Coovention, and Grier C.
Orr, Esq , Clarion, Forrest and J, fferton con
curring, as the Seuatorial Delegate ; uo in
structions. Mr. Wm. S. B'ack. editor cf the Ga
zelU and Democrat. New Catl, Pa., was
elected Mayor of that city on Friday Iaet by
ICO majority over Carpenter, Bepublican.
This is a healthy signi for the Democracy
in tho strong Radical couuty of Lawrence.
Tho small pox at present in Philadel
phia is said to be the most general, fatal
and long continued epidemic that has ever
visited the Quaker city. -More than two
hundied deaths per week have filled the
bills of mortality, and the cry ia, still they
go.
Senator Morton, chief spokesman for
Grant's administration, has introduced an
amnesty bill in the United States Senate.
Morton knows that Sumner's Civil Rights
amendment will be tacked on to the bilTand
that the measure will thus be killed. Liberal
Morton !
We learn, says the Lynchburg News,
that W. W Corcoran. Eq., of Washington!
has purchased the "Howard library" of
thirty-six hundred volumos, and presented
it to the Wai-hiugton and Lee Univerity.
It is the most valuable clasn'cal collection in
tbe State of Virginia.
Tho Valley Echo states that "Mrs.
Samuel Kuhn. of Antrim township, gave
birth to a male child, a few weeks since, that
weighed three and three-quarters pounds
only. The child is. perfectly formed and in
the best of health. Commod.-ro Foote will
have to look cut fer bis laniels."
Seth Wilbur Paine,- the editor of a little
newspaper published in Utica, called the
Bee, has been sentenced to four months' im
prisonment at hard labor in tho Albany
Penitentiary fra libel oa Ju.la. riute, in
wuncutiuo with tbe recent shooting of a
man by a woman in a street car in that city.
Tho jail at Palmyra, Missouri, was
broken open on Tuesday night, and all tho
prisoners escaped but one, who refused to
leave. Among those who escaped is Am
brose Coo, who, Jast summer, murdered Miss
Abbie Summers, formerly of Quiocy, IU.
It is believed Coo's friends wore instrumental
in the escape.
Mr. Suainer mu3t exert himself in be
half of tho man and brother. A preju
diced Democratic ifficer at Shelby, Ohio,
recently arrested . two colored citizens and
hustled them off to jiil. And they had
done nothing, absolutely nothing, except
smash the tkull and ent th thrn-if or.
.old man, named James M'Xe&lo. '
L ing Island has a lusus naturae in the
shape of a child with an alligator's head.
Tho mother of tho monstrosity, a Florida
lady, is dead, and the infant is uot likely to
survive ber long. The time wheB the mother
Ibft . the everglades cf Florida and the par
ticulars of the child's paternity have not
been'communicated to th9 press.
The New York Tribune dies not think
that tho result of the New Hampshire
election was such a great Republican victory
atter all. that it should be crowed over. It
thinks that a State which has gone Repub
lican; for soveotean years, with one excep
tion, ought to go Republican on the eigh
teenth year, unless the party is very. rotten.
A drunken man.' a blacksmith, named
Jos. Nelson, Mivlng twelve miles north of
Sedalia,' Mo., shot and killed his wife on
Sunday. , and then shot . himself, inflicting
a very dangerous wound. - He was arrested
aud locked, ud. His wife bad i
. fc,-u IU. Ltlt
to leave bun in conseniienm of omi ,-ot
ment, and because she would not return and
live with him he shot br. :
r; A little girl, named Morrison, went into
her father's .barn -at' Chester, N. Y., on
.Monday last, to hnnt f.
rough board partition separared the haymow
. from ItiA ntKi- nn.t f U I - J
ped on Ihe end of a board which proiected
over a beam, and put her h!ead through a
hohrn the partition to look into a ne.t.
The board tipped and fell to the floor below
leaving- tha sirl Imni.in k.,' t, u r
- - " v . in. i irai b in i 1 1 M , rn s i
I , , . vj una irom
1 ScdT Hi' p,rtlti0V. She wm 6tran.
A young man, named Somers, and a
girl, named Lauguard. were run oTer by a
train, near .Zaneevilje, Ohio, on Thursday
night, and Somers was instantly killed.
They were "sitting on Ihe track talkiug."
Tho Pittsburg Dispatch (Radical), says
that General Ilartrauft will oot do for gov
ernor, on acctunt i-.f the development in
tho Evaue matter; that Colonel Jordan's
show is still worse, and as for Harry White,
ho has libeled himself outside of ali proba
bilities of a umina:ion. Either of these,
says the Dispatch, would bo badly beaten
before the people, but that Ketcbum or
Morrell ruigbl win.
Nearly li e entire business portion of the
town of Laurel, Indiana, was destroyed by
firo on Monday niht Inst. Tho jil and
other buildings were badly damaged, and
both hotels arid a printing office are entirely
destroyed.' Fifteen houses were burned to
tbe grcnndLesidts a comber of ttablts and
sheds. But four of the houses were insuiud,
and it is impossible to estimate 1he loss nt
present, but it will probably re?ch J150 000.
People ar continually on the lockout
for strange freaks of tho weather, and evwry
now and then. Vhen in a dtubtfnl condition
of mind aud body, somebody 'thinks ho ha6
made a 'wonderful raeteorological discovery.
A person tli5w h in Virginia, c me out now
with a fctory of a shawer of rain from a
clvudiessky while thetars were tbinirgln
every part of the heavens. . Now, wo are
inclined Ao belie vo that either that rain or
those stars were wholly imaginary, or the
gentleman had been snvk'tng a "strong"
cigar.
Oa Wednesday evening wetk. while a
freight train on the Cumberland Valley R
R. was passing through Mechanicsburg,
Cumberland couuty, a boy named Zichariah,
aged, about fourteen years, attempted to
jump upon the moving cars. . His bold giv
ing way, he fell down upon the track and
ten cars passed orrr his legs, severiog the
right h'g below the knee and crih!cg the
left above the ankle. . Both of his legs were
amputated one above the knee' and the
o'her below. Tho boy ras still livicg atlasl
accounts.
The controversy which fir f-ome time
has raged , in the oil regions, between the
producers and carriers, has resulted in a
close combination of the fi.rnur, called the
"Petro'euTi Producers' Association." It
divides the oil regions into sixteen dis-tricte,
and pledges the producers t sell all thtir
oil through the hand f a committee, to be
chosen by them in each district. This p'an
of action will bring iho ca-riers and the
rfiuers to terms, and, as it takes the contrd
of the business out i f the hniid of middle
men, ought t be satisfactory to consumers.
Tho large clock at tho English Parlia
ment house is tho la'gast ore in the world.
The four dials cf this elm k are each 22 feet
in diameter. Every LaJf minute the j tJirt
of the minute hr.iid moves nearly sevm
inches. Tho ekek will co eieht and a half
days, bnt it only strikes seven and a half.
lhu3 indicating any neglect iu winding it up.
The mere winding up if- the strikii:2 n:e
chaniim takes two h.urs. The pendulum
is 15 feet long ; the wheels are if catt iron ;
the hour lelln8:f.et high and Qf.ut in
diameter, weighing r early 15 ton?, and the
hammer alone weighs more than 400 pound.--.
A Sickening Tuagsdy - On Friday, the
1st inst. Mrs. Sarah Meyers, wife of Theodore
Mejers, living at Crown's Mill on lijonetl's
liranh, about six miles up from Driftwood.
n mtu. ner iiiiatii sou ageu ntiio months bv
routing and boiling him alive. It .aPPea
that on indaj Jlrs. joyers went cut to one
of her neighbors atul oa rtituroin' lo the
-i .
nense sno picKe.t up tfce youngest child and
put him ou the hot stove, after holding him
there a "moment she took him up and put
him into a larye dth of boiling apple sauce,
crowded the babe down into the dieh and
held bia-i there, she then turned the child
over and pushed him into the boiling sauce
apain thus boiliug him on both sides. The
other children scared by the screams of their
little brother, ran to the mill and told tbe
men at work thfro what their toother was
doing, and they hurried to tbe house as fast
as possible, but not in time to tare the life
of the child. It had been literally roasted
and boiled alive before medical aid could be
obtained. It is alleged that Mrs. Meyers is
subject to fits cf insanity, and that it was
wht'e the was in one cf these fits that the
committed this unnatural anj horrible deed.
Wo have not heard that any inquest has
yet been held or. arrest made. The authori
ties should investigate the affair at once.
Cameron Herald.
Bronchial Consumption This is a f. rm
of cousumptiou usually of easy remedy by
means of Dr. Keyf.r's Lung Cvrv. which,
whilst it eliminatrs the mucous and phlegm
from the throat, heals the membrane and
allays that morbid irritsbiiity which produ
cos j-uch harrassing cou-hing. and when the
disease involves the laiyt.x, hoarseneso and
ptin in the throat, ltca.ler. if you value
.' he u n and life, do not allow such a con
dition to on until it has attacked the lungs
wheu.it will .not bo easily cured. I?in Tm
time. Then a few liottles of Da Kkyskr's
LtTNaTcRic'will eradicate the disease if ne
glected it will take more than a dczu.
There is hardly a form of lung disease
which Dr. Kstseb's Lvsg Cube will not
cure, if used io time. It not only heals the
lungs, bur it puts tho constitution in a
healthy condition, acd enables it to resist di
sease. Sold, at the Di-ctot 'a preat medicine
store, lf.7 Liberty street. 50 per battle,
or 4 bottles taken ot a lime. $5.
Dr. Keyser's Medical Office iu the rear cf
his store; 1C7 Liberty street. Pittsburgh,
from 10. A'.Munlii 1, p m.. and from 3 p'
m. until 6. '
AN ExTBAORDISARY CqCCKUENCS. A-
child died at Pembcrton, New Jersey, on
Tuesday, ' whose illness liad been attended
with strange aind -apparently inexplicable
maoifestations. The child wss therianghter
of a Mr. . Williams, and .was about four
mooths old when sho was taken ill with! the
croup. She was. in a dangerous state for
some time, and on Wednesday, the 6th inst.,
, khe, to all appearances, expired. A coffin
was procured, aud a grave was dog in
Munt Holly Cemetery. Suddeoly, onFri
day last, a short time before the funeral was
to have Ukcn place, tbe child couahed, and
instantly opened its eyes full of life. The
cofhn was returned to the undertaker, and
hopes were euteitained that 'the child, so
strangely spared from burial, would regain
its haaUh. On Tuesday, however, she died,
and her parents, after waitinc for auother
return to life until there could be no rea
sooablo hope or such an occurrence, interred
the body in tho gravo opened the week be
fore. More than forty years have elapsed since
Johnson"s JnoJgne Liniment was' first in
vented, during which time hundred of thou
sands have been benefitted bv its use., Fro
bably article -ever became so univorsally
popidar with all classes as Jvh nsons Ano
dyne Lintment. -
Pills which contain antimonv, quinine
and calomel, should bo avoided as severe
Cnptpg pa,n would be their only result
Ihe sart.t.Buroj. r,l best .jl are ru X
rvrj ttn-e or uU v
e wing Machine Agents
TO SELL THB I
53.
The r
mrttic is not
a now mt
C'liino. but
li a been
po(, in a
nmll wcy,
for some six
yrv. liirinir
which tiine
the mst
skillcil inv
entors have
lahorfd to
simplifj nnd
i in i r o v e.
until to-day
it i so far ahead of all others as to defy com
petition. It hnsbut sixly'pieees, count ina- every purr r,;
Machine nnd Hand, while tbe Howe Mueti iid
contains l- This will kvq an iiea of its i,:r.i.
plicity. It will do work, tine aii'l coarse, u nt
no other machine will attempt, fiorn the tini
ro5;unf-r to fifty thicknesses of drostd irv:u
lin ; it will sow without chtiUK oof rioc-dlc. Urn -a 3
or tension. All movable parts are ma .t jf
hardened steel and ournisht-d bcai injrs.
it nxurji xo xoisr wiiATtvti:,
and the proprietors hereby eifftr
A newnnl ef One Slnuftrrtl Itollfira rr
any nther lock fell tell aincbluo
thai uill run ns lijrhl.
Tbe shuttle is a cylinder, without a rivet cr
spring:; can be tilled by a blind person, ar.i
holds one hundred yards of cotton .
We claim it. and ccn t-how, a liht of firty poivs
of superiority over any machine in tli mark-1.
To experienced nirt-uts the most libemj
duce-nients will be offered. Machines er,r.r-j,-i .
and commissions paid in full, in tusl. nt tl.i
end of ech month. A handsome wsfton. v nmi
tiVi.CO. furbished without churfH. nnd sotL.!-; ;
time (riven to purchasers to enable the airi-Lt tj
compete with any Company in the state.
R- W. STEADMAM Zl CO.,
So. 29 Street,
I'aTTSISL'ElUII. P.l,
WITH THK
HEW BS AW FEED.
Kri1.,vtM,t" received, and Is now tbe Bk:
m,rkct. n mat''? ;i
I.orll Stltoh. i KinttMv. 'ol-'.vsr,
Ktxsily )kcrnl't.
shd very f ffectivo. Wo w ant ii Or PF V. I:
MACHINE AGENTS in h11 unoccupied f.;,, ;
ry, to whom wc will give He v.i m-,
TmiH. The KLLIl'l ii ' is !, LAsILST
CHINE TO SELL in the market.
HOWARD FAT 017 & CO.
VfiHt aVA g. rs,
it li J- a ii AVi;ii:,
Feb. 21. l?T2.-0:n. I I ITS DU I. ".'.
Agents Wanted
-ron the
in
Scaring
Mae
Xriierever the FLORENCE Maciine ha?
introduced, it 1ms met vith tho ifrer.rcsr y
ce.-s. It is the only machine making four
! StS: fcXS&l '
itive. It runs liu lit. an.l very fast, and
conrr-c or line i a ones. J tie Hemmer wiil t
wide or narrow hems, and tells beautifully,
attachments ro with the machine.
For information apply to or addrc-se
HECKERT & McKAIN,
Xo. S Klxth Street.
rrrTsuur.y.
March 2, lS72.-sm.
Agents Wanted fotj thk Xtw Wt r.i,
OUR CHILDREN :
OR
Hew to Make and Keep Them Kea'i:
llr AUGUSTUS K. GARDNER. !. D . "
Late Profenur in Sew Yi.tl; Jt.-iiai? t ".".'-;
It treats of Amusements. Edncntion. Vh v-'r-.:
Development. Diseases. Accidents. M:irr;-L".
&c.. iinp.rrtiinf a vast amount or riiuu vie i.
loan. m conducive to tho Health, H:ipp:nr- a:. .
vvclfai ecf the Young-. Written in a ; li
style, it is exceeJinciy Interesting-, as wK'.iti
instructive.
Kveru Fatr.ilu KhnuM have it, and r.n Frrf.tr-'.
afford to he xrithuvt it. Send for Circulars -iiS
full particular".
,a DUKF1ELD A fill MEAD, Pub!if;er.
bl. 711 Ransom Street, I'hilaci -i; -i.ia
FAMILHXITTIXC MKIIffi
The Xcotest, the 7?rf. aiiff the Cheep,-:.
NEVER GETS OUT OF OUDEE
Knits F.Tcry Ihinsr. l'riee 25 IVt--
Peron desirous of rmrcbapinar Maehin'S
Pt circulars and information, and have t! -.r
Mc,ine9erit free of ebuweoo receipt of priov,
by apply ina- to
JAMES McllRIDE. .Ap't fer Western Fenc a.
" ,-Xo-1 ixth s-t.. PittburB-h. Fa.
Entcrpristnjr"Ag-ents wanted in every tYvurr.
tojvThoni liberal terms will be given. 3-lG-lih ;.
c.h.woi.ff, lake, iJ8-1-';:;
. WOIFF mi 1
-r,.T......
J-'n uuitus A rv l) DEALERS IX
bign ot the Anvil, No. 50 Wood St.,
(Three doors above St. Charle Hotel
PITTSBURGH, PA.
Invite the attention of buyers to their S-rf
to took, which, in selectiou aud price, is unsur
passed in the countrj-.
I'Uey nre A-eniH for American Ft!e Com
pany s celebrated r iles an.l IUn, itubirrr
ICettin? and I'arklns. Ullon. Ilnnk
vworili. Illsnn A t'n.'a Kni(ll!i aierl,
PlUlbnteli lrrl, Lockl, Miorrli, Ac -Sold
at uiuuufacturcrs' prices. -iM.-3ra.j
nowisth e: t"inTeet
tl
Uollablo
Aaonts
TO SELL THB
ti:av xjrsxm fx:x:t
TCr.r: :tx ctd ra.-
vv SEWING MACHINE!
in THIS COUNTY. Host Machine in tl.e T-i
Is M:,l hne iu Market. Price, com
plete, f4j.0O. Written warrantee for five ve.-
Apply lmmediatelv to
- SMITH "& FORRESTER.
33-2-3m. n SIxtU ., ril tfckar6L, r
T
O H O O K A G E N T :
Mark Twnln'a xw t:..i,
Is ready for Canvassers. No book is look, .i f:
more unimtiently tlian this, and niteiits wi:l 0
wall to tret territory for it as early as pi.:L-''
A.inJy tr Circulars aud terms to
" - f ' DUFFIEI.D ASH MEAD, PnMi-brr.
' . .7II Sanson Street, Philadelphia-
p I CK ERSE L l7Ty 6 N SJL CO,.
Manufacturers atul Dealers in
LOOKING. GLASSES
' Fino Mantel nnd Pier Looking- G lasses anJ ";;-
turo Frames a specialty.
3-10.
141 Wooxl St., rittkburgb, r- S3.
B. COCHRAN,
: : J'lTTSBrRGH, lA.,
ronlr in Iron mill Wood Worklni
rpiinery auri .Mnuiirnvlnrc-r' Niijrlii'
has .constantly on hand n complete t'' i'
Smith's Sash and Door .Muchiti.Tv, Jii.'.op ;'n'
ornor. T'jua and Pi-. ! '-.ci ".. '
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