ft ataiataaa-WM THE CAMBRIA FREEMAN ,rlBllHH) KVKHV FRIDAY HOBMMi 3?isburg, Pa... by H, A. McPike. ,-nntccl Circulation - 7,f2S " D -STU.l. DOOMING. MATCH tT ? s, nil HIIT10.N KATES. ne vrar. cash In advance I1.J50 J- .. ' f nut p'd within 3 ruos. 1.75 If not I'M within C mo. 2.00 .. if not p'd within yor.. 2.5 "4.-. r-inrn residing outride the county Advertisinc: Tlntct". The lararaaod reltaMe crrealatke of the C ti ntcsa1t tt to th faroraola vott- etderatton of adrartiaera. wboaa farort arlll b ta aertasl t tbc following law rates: 1 foch. I tlta l 90 1 1 months San 1 ' 6 month.......... a ho 1 " 1 year -o J t month! op j " 1 year l i.wt I " monthi a. no 3 " 1 Tear UN W eol'n inontha I t-o 1J " montha m S ' 1 yr I 6 month j o 1 T year ' AJ1ntatrator" and Eieentor" Notioa . Aad!or- Notlee Stray aad a'.mllar Notleea 1 i Basinesi itemi. flrat lnaer'.lon lOe. per Una : tick anbnnent Insertion 6c. par line. " Rnotvtiont or prorteding of cofot tea or sort ty and fowntnirtini actyited fo coV affea mmi fo any mnttrr of limited or ladtrtrfwal wfref, mutt be paid for at idvrrtwrmm't. Jon Pbistiw of all kind neatly and eipedrtl oniiy executed at taunt prleea. Ion't yo Core:t It. WW jjiMi'lnnal per e:r win uciiaiuru lu ' f vtnt will the ahnve terms be de l .., l t!io"e who don't consult thlr t'.y paln Ic nJvnncp must not '," rc "l.ii oh tlit" sJin-: footina? as those ..t'tiuntl be distinctly understood ': - .'.no f-irwrJ. H. A. McPIKE, Editor and Publisher. "HI 18 A FREEMAN WHOM THE TRUTH M1II1 TREE, AHD ALL ARE SLAVES BESIDE. 81. 50 and postage per year, In advance. -"- ; vour paper nrtnrc yon stop 1C. ir I'ift. Nunc hut ecnlu wnirs do otb t ,e n 9-ahtn - life's too short. VOLUME XIV. EBENSBURG, PA., FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 18S0. NUMBER 7. iff l' rM lit f 111' ' t " .II srr out. Hood's Great Book TH i ELATE ST BE WS AMD BEST! and WINTER GOODS i.. I Sttitrn and Confederate ' state Armies. IN (IRl'.AT PIIOFTJSION AT .ot rtl J- 1L I K rI, ftrt'y-a! Confederate States Army. i't III. 1 STI KI I"(H ssiJ-iifSisiosauirnD nv General C. T. Beauregard, r.w oki.f.as, mso. J I' DUE BLACK OX THE THIRD TERM. The Argument of ai Ntatnman and a Patriot. i I was certain, neverthplcs, they would ap j prove a delay which hart for its ohject to ' avoid a prematura agitation of the public I mind on a subject so interesting as the elec- ! tion or a chief magistrate. .roJ' sriin fri'tn the sale of this I v Tin- H.i '.l Orphan Memorial iivc-t-il iti 1 "tilted States Ki-(tis-ti- iMirtur'. o:r. support and ed :i mHiit-'lpm p-J A thftr parent; '.-w lr!cnn.-i. ftho tnelanrholv In- nl :. l ! r-a ptiiunt an- ftill lrc?h in :n:r. I ) 1 i I" I K ' i A " T Oc TA VO, fONT K MSO . .v i : t: v nK l'ii"To(iti.m-ii likknkss .-kit. i.ni. "Maoe kxphesslt , .:::. ml k labor mai s kv battlk ,-,. IN IHM'OHB lltAY KNt.I.ISH - Illllt i: HOI.MK.,oit tA Vine m im.. wnn Mjiim b Kixsk. TIIRKi: m ni rv r.i is-iri halk . o. T I III". UY NTTt.K. Kt It ItOI.- KK.-T I.KVT It'CKKV .Moilixro k amii::ok-. ri vi: imh.i.ar. ; r ::mhi n . y j.fr'ii rinittmc l-y mail :!.e an..M!t:t In a r-iri stored letter or !'T. t-:tfk dmit. T ehi-ek. a copy will i-:i ir.-" "f po?tnife, r-''.tered as '.il'cr. ;- ; i:t l.ihed In the het tIe of ty-i-" : 1 1 . t papi.-r. with lllmtrationj. ti-.f-t " -iir.-u ! art. f t? -iihii-rt. tKe pnrp".p. all nliko y:t.l I-!- in t-vi-ry i;trary, on every : 1"-1! ot t'vrry fiou.'e in the .J i 'i rvt rii towix and county in the :!'? a rtfrt-n' - win if tivtn to hon ;f! vctr-: n fiTn tht crrnu. I'M 1 a !e:re to extires their i 1 !i,,,:ri Orphan Mmorial f'unii. k atfonj- t'le.r elTCle of frictidit :,!! way of c-mtrihutlnic sub- I I S l i HKNTS. KTC, I.I. 'Aiil'K t LA1!S. While so many are Innkinij forward to the cominy Presidential election in hopes of btiny the Iwky man, the mthscriher has concluded to remain in the mercantile business and give it hits nndivcd(d attention hi suiphinr his friends and the jmblic qenerullQ uith ALL KIXD OF GOObS -A.T PRICES SO LOW THAT JVO.Y.E CA A" Olt DARK COM PETE WITH TIIM. Uvyern vill uhnty find a full and eUqant stuck of everything to be found in a general store, eomjirisiny a comulrte line of DRY GOODS, DRESS GOODS, HOTIONS, HITS, CAPS, Boots, Shoes, Groceries Hardware, Tinware, j Qneensware, Glassware, ffootaiare, Ciiars, Totacco, Caieil Goois, &c, k Also, FI.CUR. f'OTJN MF.A I., F1SII, SAI-T by the bushel and barrel, DRUGS, NAILS, i GLASS, riJTTY, HUUS11F.S, KUOO.MS. Ac. I have likewise added to my stock ' lilTXT'H PATENT CORN .1.11?, irhich icill be told at the remarkable low price of SO crnts each. AHo for tale, the j BEST AND QUICKEST BUTTER-PRODUCING CHURN EVER INVENTED ! 'That I should lay down my charge at a proper perifd is as much a duty as to have borne it faithfully. If some termination to the services of the chief magistrate be not fixed by the constitution, or supplied by practice, hisoffice, iiominally;for years, will in fact become for life ; anil history shows how easily that degenerates into an inherit ance. Believing that a representative gov ernment responsible at short periods of elec tion is that which produces the greatest sum of happiness to mankind, I feel it a duty to do no act which shall essentially Impair that principle ; and I should unwillingly be the person who, disregarding the sound prece dent set by an illustrious predecessor, should furnish the first example of prolongation be yond the second term of office. "Truth also requires me to add that I am sensible of that decline which advancing years bring on, and, feeling their physical, I ought not to doubt their mental effect. Happy if I am the first to perceive and to obey this admonition of nature, and to solicit a retreat from cares too great for the wearied facilities of age. "For the approbation which the Legisla ture of Vermont has been pleased to express of the principles and measures pursued in the management of their affairs, I am sin cerely thankful ; and should I be so fortu nate as to carry into retirement the equal approbation anil good will of my fellow citi zens generally it will be the comfort of my future days, and will close a service of forty years with the only reward it ever wished." 1; ', i I !l I't l.en'l I- nennresard. Publisher, i.. pLIHIF l.r TliK HOOD ilKUOKIAL POD, I.V (IHI.rWS, 1.4. 3ti Sherii'Ps SaU. Hsued out A Urite Increase ol bimine?" has necessitated the enlargement ot my store room and the erec tlon of an additional wareroom, and ptill my establishment Is literally crowded with choice Roods and eager seekers after bargain!. Mill beinif determined to aciommodat e all who come, and especially my friends from the country, to whom the highest f rices in trade will bo paid lor all kind ol produce, 1 hare thrown open my lar and commodious ta' le for the tree use of all who may wish to put up thoir stock. Thankful" tor past favors anil hopplu many futnr onos I remain as ever. Illxti Street, riifnlinr?, Wet 3, l79. rv ivr!'-i uf I I'las ol C learfield d. tli' re will ! exposed t ':i-te 11 the lioroutjh of THURSDAY, March II, ISOO, it Jer.bed real land or:iate in ("!ear- 'lll'Ied and .e.;(.rit,(.,l T-.f rit. Pa 1 s irve'' ir r ! 1 r le .r le -t : tip I'll '0 We II !. Z ' ri' . I a-, ' ! 'Test ' lil Horr:iria if In run nt a - , rm.l ftcinvf the ;.r'ri l't: ;. t" j-nct ; tlit-n f:m:iI1 hi'"k 'rT : . t- p"t ; thon'-e . ! f 1 0 5 ier lies, ; - perrli. :nore ; ainintr 11 j a-rt. 'M-i. 1 1 ii.i t-"4 pi rt- ! I f.-ui.ty. r... -.TiitTtn Pvuny. ..il'in. Th trrt t-'li'jws : iJ'X1"- t . rncr ;! tii.:t: Ihnce , r !.-. to .':intr linr : c ti--.r.n.i:. The .nrt f i :i ; I?.-j-!n::r. r t tr.i'.'t :i:..ro- ; ' :. :; i'. r t rounfy ; '-) i T'hi'". niorr? r les-, j..-n!i- J. mi.re or l?-. t- IM" Win to tr:u-t in iih :rrv iii'irf or Alto, !- ' f.T r-i'" K IliT. i ' r.-i ''itili' . tl.c 1'iirt -r: !' r -r!:v tc-wr.-i.'v. uni ; ti.cn''; .--t : thence ivr h t : t tt -. :Tx. T:e x rt in i 1 1 i r y . .ii n - ! n it c."i:ity JiTif on vr-t r-'h'-. ni-r? (r Irc. t- -1 f, in1 -ro rr le. t-t inr.? 'T 1'---. to l'"St : ,m (ir It-. t- n-iintv n'M.vn .l--"'r!1""'! TntH t"inar t.ikn in t'T'-iitS'iii ari'l to v of .:-.!niirI I;!I!kcn ntvl A. ciiEAPiisT mnm house in altooxa. Nl'-AV AN I") COMri.CTE LINK OF MEN'S AND YOUTHS' CLOTHING, AND GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS, At Actual Hock Bottom Cash Prices! Suits from ?'2.75 up: Overcoat from "l.M up : Tent from TS ent. up : Ircs Shirts Irora 75 cents up : and other wcarim apparel and furnishing oo 1 at prices eti'ially cinrp. - I don't advertise to sell ood" 2o or "J.'i per rent, cheaper than other deMcrs. because that would be a lal-ehood. and people are not so ignorant now-a days a to NeUcve any such huiubug ; but 1 xunr ar.teo not to bo undersold bv anv man in trie bu.-rliie.-s. IVI. WOLF, RAILROAD CLOTHING HOUSE, 1127 Eleventh Avenue, below Bowman & Morrow's, AUoona, Pa. r to . po OO '.fii'-rl.i c 1.. " t- Pr-hr. WORTI OF imms to AT. S it.R The T;.- or sum at which the .. ' . "niek c fl ina't be paid at the -r 3 ieh other arrinrcmeiits tuade a r.d ; orherw'j the property will be I it uo and -"Id ii:n at 'he expene :! per m to whom it was struck off. .-1-" ot -leri'-leney at such rebate, shall : e aoi" ; and in'no ca will the f"ed ! :n t'"iirt f'.r eontirinat!on uniess the :.i.i;v pa' 1 t ' rf:e sheriff. JAMKS MAHAHKY. Sheriff. "c.-.rheld. l").-"Ji-."t. LT-T. List of Cau-if-s pet - tr a! at the enu:nar term of Court, on Monday. March W. 1S-0 : Kt r IVF.KK. vs. Lake'. Admtnletratrlx. vi. Hutler e. al. e "o v. I. other. t. Ici.ert. vs. T'uversa'iht. I'avi-. CLOTHING, HATS, CAPS, Ladies' Coats, field's Furnish (Joods. &c. AT Ars'T IJEI.OV (JOJSrP. fFrom the North American Review. "Resolved, That In the pinion of this House the precedent established by Wash ington and other presidents of the United States in retiring from the presidential office after their second term, has become, by uni versal consent, a part of our republican sys tem of government, and that any departure from this time-honored custom would be un wise, unpatriotic and fraught with peril to our free institutions." This is a resolution passed by the House of Representatives on the 15th day of De cember, 1875. It was offered by Mr. Spring er, of Illinois, after consultation with lead ing friends of the principle, and was carried immediately and almost unanimously, being opposed by the votes of only eighteen mem bers, out of two hundred and fifty-one. It received the support and approbation of all parties. Men who quarreled bitterly upon all other political subjects were of one heart and one mind when it came to be a question whether the custom established by Washing ton and other presidents, of retiiing after fieir second term, ought to be respected or could be safely departed from. And now here to wit, in the pages of this Review, comes Mr. Howe, of Wisconsin, and on the part of Gen. Grant, for whom he ap pears, denounces the resolution aforesaid, impugns the doctrine embodied in it, and as sails the integrity of its supporters in the most violent manner. I am asked, "Under which king, Bezonian?" Do I give In my concurrence ? If not, what grounds of op position can I presume to stand on ? Reliev ing in the resolution of the representatives. and dissenting from Mr. Howe's article, the j f'e universal approval of readers of the Serine shall have the why and adopting it. wherefore ; not because my individual opin ions are worth a rush, but because, on a sub ject so important, truth is entitled to every man's defence ; Iwcause this faith is shared, in our time, by the most respectable citizens of all classes, and because it is delivered to us from a past generation strongly stamped with the approbation of the Itost men that have lived in all the fif,es. A president of the United States may.ie ga'.ly be elected and re-elected for an indefi nite number of terms; there is nothing in the coii-til ulion to forbid it; btit the two tei m precedent set by Washington, followed by his successors, consecrated by time, and approved by all the public men of the coun try, ripened into a rule as efficient in its op eration as If it had been a part of the organ ic law. A distinguished and very able sena tor of the Grant party, who had carefully inquired into the state of popular feeling, told me in 187" that the sentiment which op posed a third term was stronger than a con stitutional interdict ; the people would more readily assent to a breach of pnstivc law textually inserted into the constitution than to any disturbance of an unwritten rule which they regarded as so sacred. Certainly it was adhered to by all parties, with a fidelity which some of them did not ; show to the constitution itself, down to 175, ; when the find, attempt was made to contra : vene it by putting up (ion. Grant for a third : election. This was everywhere received by ', the rank and file with mnttcrings of mutiny, , and the most devoted partisans responded , with curses which if not loud were deep. ! The movement, as Mr. Howe tells us, was met by solemn warnings from the newspa per press, by strong protests from political I conventions, and finally by the resolution ; quoted at the head of this article, which was j a rebuke so overwhelming that the support ers of the third term candidate fled from him ' in fear, deserted him utterly, and left him Similar expressions are scattered all thro' his correspondence as long as he remained In office, and after he retired to Monticello lie continued to repeat them. His conviction deepened as the years rolled on, that the principle of two terms was the only safe one, and he constantly expressed his gratitude for his conduct in Rut Madison also adopted the principle of his two predecessors, and retired at the end of his second term. Can nothing be urged against the father of the constitution to de preciate his authority or make his example i worthless ? Was not he also unpatriotic and selfishly fond of hi farm? This could be as , easily said and is not harder to believe of i him than of Washington. I And there was Monroe, apparently "so clear in his great office" that rivalry itself shrunk from his presence, and he was elected ; a second time without effort, without oppo ! sition, without one vote against him. Is it ' nothing to the purpose that he acknowledged ; the value of the Washington precedent ? ; Concede that he, the most popular of all I presidents, except the first one, could not i have got a third term if lie had asked for it, ; then his retirement proves not only that the two-term practice was right in his individual opinion, but that thti general judgment of : the nation was in its favor. all the legislation, besides the command of the army and navy. By an unscrupulous use of these mean he can coerce not only his horde of immediate dependents, but he can control th corporation!' and become the master of all the rings, put the bnsines of all classes under his feet, corrupt the venal, frighten the timid, and check all ambitions but his own. He can force the elections of every state he desires to carry by the bayon ets of his army. If that falls he can order a false return, and pay for it out of the public treasury. The people would soon perceive opposition to be useless and accept the situ ation ; elections would be as mere a matter of form as they were in Rome when sucli consuls as Nero and Domitian were elected regularly every year under the supervision of the pretorian guards. If these were no more than remote possi bilities, prudence should guard ns against them. But they are near probabilities ; the signs of the times warn us that the peril to our Institutions is imminent ; the danger is already on the wing. It is vain to remind us that the president swears to preserve, protect and defend the constitution and see the laws faithfully executed. That is true; and it is also true that, if there be no perjury in the case, the constitution, laws and liber ties of the country are safe. But the last twenty years have given us ample proof that an oath is not much restraint upon a presi dent who is Incited by ambition, rapacity, or strong party feeling to break it. It is true that this presupposes a people much degenerated and a magistrate ani mated mainly by the vulgar love of power for its own sake ; but exactly such a con junction of things has always been feared with goxl reason, and hence comes the de sire to put ever- check on that tendency to "strong government" which is now mani festing itself In many quarters. What is the remedy ? How shall we avert the dire ralamities with which we are threatened ? The answer comes from the graves of our fathers : By the frequent election of new men. Other help or hope for the salvation of free government there is none under heaven. and promises to execute a most eacred trust, , according to terms prescribed with unmis- ! takable clearness, and then dishonestly ! breaks the engagement such a government, J so conducted, is an unspeakable curse. It is not only an oppression, hut a most de- ' moralizing cheat; a base imposture, more degradinglto the nation which submits to it I than the heaviest yoke that despotic tyranny ran fasten on its neck. If, therefote, a con- j stitutional and legal administration of our ; national affairs be out of the question if onr only choice lies between a perverted re- : public and a monarchy then stop the hypo- I critical pretense of free government, and give us a king. And who shall be our royal master but Grant? That he will serve the turn as well as if not better than another, will, 1 think, be admitted by all who attend to the reasons now presently to be enumer- ' ated. j In the first place, a new monarch (that is, i one who has no hereditary claims) ought to be an approved good soldier, with skill to enforce obedience ; otherwise his sway could not last long over people disposed to be tur bulent. All, or nearly all, the founders of royal lines have been military men from Nimrod downward. It is vain to deny thtt Gen. Grant's reputation for military talent is well-founded. It is more than doubtful if an3' officer of our army could have subjugated the South so completely even with all Grant's advantages, or taken so many defeats and still won a complete victory in the end. It is not, however, what he has done, but what he lias shown himself capable of doing, that gives him his leading qualification for mas- terdom now. The fear that goes before him will make actual violence unnecessary. His strength of character will frighten his sub jects into submission where a weaker man would be compelled to butcher them for insurrection. Gen. Grant is a good hater of those who j thwart him. which is natural, and not a seri- ous fault ; but he is not fiercely vindictive, and his career has leen marked by no act of : savage cruelty. He could not be an An- tonine or a Titus, but we can trust him not ! to be a Nero. how she m as s.m:i. At Baden HadfH, a Hungarian Count, Christian W , vne Ms daughter Helen came to psss the wswn. The young Count ess, charming and beautiful, and heires. to a large fortune bequeathed her by her mother, was soon surrounded by a host of admireis. She speedily became captivated by one of tho most worthless ot her s-iitors, Carl M S mv constantly Increasing business demands a much larcor store room. I have made arrangements 'oh t'r e luirffur.l to oceunv his spacious and elegant new business hnuse now beinir completed h 1 expect to move on or about the lat nt wrrh Mt, r.n V 1 nrVTll JVFAI V Al.TOONA. lntOWfll and which will unque.'tionahl v be the finest sfre room in the .Mountain t ity. -Meantime all persons wihing the best of baru-alni in mv line should irie me an ear'.v call. a I do not Intend to transler any of mv present stock to the new bui'ldm? It slaoehterlnit price will enable me to llpoac ot them. K very person therefore, who wants to buy (joods uiueh cheaper than they can be obtained elsewhere houid pay nie a visit forthwith, as this announcement is no humbug but a positive fact. I am bound to aell If low prirea will do it. y-ThniilntC my manv customers for the kind and liberal pntrnnaire heretofore conferred npon me, and Policltiu a continuance and Increase of the same in the luttire. 1 remain Yours, HeHppct fully. CHARLES SIMON, Corner Lleveutli Avenue and Thirteenth St.eef, Altoona, Fa. l-P.'SO.-tl.J f '. of K.Xee-jtnr T. ... .V" Hiirk. Wnnrr. V ah tier. Malov. Il'iek'. Huriroon. Ivory. Kratzcr. Kill-. Kaarer. Hovle's KTeeutrli. Serliler. Smiths. .11. DON'T YOU FORGET IT !' Don't forget to bear in mind and keep in remembrance that GODFREY WOLF without a single vote in the nominating con vention of his own party. i Mr. Howe has no doubt that this resolution ! was the sole cause of Grant's defeat in 1S7. i Tie is enuallv certain that it was all wrong. However that may be, the present intent of Mr. Howe is to rally the routed third termers, and restore the courage of the rec- reants by the assurance that the jobs and of- j fices are safe, after all. s ! ropular veneration for the men who built ! up our institutions is the strongest support ! for the institutions themselves. It is not : only a great good intrinsically, but also the ' motive principle to other virtues which are indespensible m a government like ours. ! Anything, therefore, which unjustly detracts j from their reputations is a grievous public 1 injury. This applies most especially to : 'Washington, who is acknowledged, not only : by us, but by every nation, tongue and kin : dred under heaven, to have been ineompara i bly the greatest man that any country ever (Jen. Jaekson does not get off easily. We : are told that "there is ground for believing . that if Mr. Van Buren had not secured the i succession to Gen. Jaekuon the latter would j have been retained for another term." This ; is like the account we have of Jefferson's ! boom. If there was any practice of Jack- ; son's great predecessor in which he acqui j eseed with more deference than another, it ' 1 was their voluntary retirement after a proper : , period of service. He was wholly opposed to the indefinite continuance of power in the ( same hand, and he expressed his opinionson i that, as on other subjects, with an emphasis l which left no chance for misapprehension. ; ; The ground for lelieving that "in a certain ! contingency he would have beer, retained j another term" Is not anything he ever did or : ; forebore todo nothing that he ever wrote j or spoke nothing that was ever authorized , by him or by the party which supported him, ! or by the representative of either. ; Such is the outcome of Mr. Howe's assault upon the line of our great retiring presidents, from Washington to Jackson inclusive. It ; mtwt be admitted that, if the predetermined I object of the attack was to make himself ri ; diculous, it is a marked success ; but if it : was an effort in real earnest to diminish their fame, lower their standing, or shake the con fidence of the country in their virtue, then , it is the flattest failure in his essay and that 1 is saying a great deal. I think it may be affirmed with someconfi i deuce that Washington was not unworthy of ; the profound veneration in which lie is held ' in this country "nd throughout the world ; that succeeding presidents, when they fol lowed hi footsteps, not only acknowledged his wisdom and patriotism, but showed their ' own ; that the American people of our day, ! when they refused a third term to a candi ; date who had already served foT two, were. not behaving like cowards scared by a sense- If history does not teach this, we have ! I read it all wrong. In the republics of an- j ! cient and modem times the chief magistrate ! was entrusted with only temporary power, ; and always went out of office at the end of i a short period, fixed and prescribed by law , or custom. It was this, indeed, which made the substantial distinction between them and the monarchies around them. An unpunish 1 cd transgression of the customary limitation was uniformly followed by destruction. : Everywhere and always it was the fatal i symptom of decay the sure forerunner of ' ruin. When Caesar refused to lay down his i consulship, as his predecessor had done at the end of a year, and was re-elected time , after time with the acquiescence of the ' senate and the people, all that was real in : Roman freedom ceased to exist. Two le ! publics in France were brought to an end in the same way. Napoleon began Ivy being consul for a terra, then was elected fot life, and finally became emperor, with the powers I of an absolute despot. The last Bonaparte was president for four years, was re-elected for ten. and ended, like bis uncle, in grasp . ing the imperial crown. "May this be washed in theLetheand for ! gotten?" Shall these lessons be lost? Shall the lamp which guided our forefathers be ex tinguished ? Shall the broad daylight of all human experience be closed up in a little dark lantern manufactured at Milwaukee? I think this cannot be verities" are against it. third termer may as well try to blow out the sun, as he would a tallow candle, with a breath of bis mouth. Moreover, the two-term principle ought to be adhered to by us and by those who come a f ter us ( if there were no other reason ) , simply because it was a practice of those who went before us. It is to the traditions of the fathers that we owe our civilization. It may be objected that his moral behavior and mental acquirements do not bring him ) up to the mark which ought to be reached i by the permanent ruler of a great, intelligent, , and highly civilized nation ; but, in this re- i spect, he is as good as the average of sover- ; eign princes. The rresent reigning family i of England has never has a male member i who was his superior. For centuries past i the potentates of continental Europe, with only few exceptions, have had habits as coarse as his and he is wholly free from some ter rible vices to which many of them were addicted. It seems to me that he wilido.well enough to "herd with vulgar kings." The nepotism from which our democratic tastes revolt is virtue in a king. All nion archs are expected to look after their own families first, and all have their minions and favorites whom they fatten, spoil and cor rupt. Who among them has not given his protection to a worse set than Grant? The favor which Grant bestow upon cor rupt rings is given for a purpose. As a can didate lie cannot be elected, as president he cannot sustain himself, without their sup port ; but enthrone him he can afford to defy them. What we call the greediness of Gen. Grant 1 for the wages of official iniquity would be ; entirely proper in the supreme ruler of an absolute government. It is not briln'ry to buy the favor of a king with presents, and a vs. S:olti et al. v. 1'luir.mer. Irr.irn vs. K r'-temlorfer. . K o 1KINNU.L. Prothonotary. t Offlec, F.bensr.'iirtr. Feb. 1. lsy).3t HAS INA-l-KTF.I AT HI OF VAI.r.VllI.K " n 1 ; V , S. LE '.I. IT ATI'.. We. the undersieneil r.i- ' - r nt p'i-;'e sale on too p remise. ou larch :It. ISO, at 10 o'clock. L . : !" .v;nir deeriMC 1 real estate : . I. -1 , o;-5 K a v ion lioti bstba Tt. eontalti--" A v". Wth improvements, and situated In '. ' "r.h!p. t'amiii'ia eon:ity. l'a. n. 2. - i he J.itiwhtox Farm. 1M Aercs. with ..mated in Allegheny township, ! "i - r,rr. Pa. rl-:- made known on lav of ale. JOHN i. KAYI.hR. 1 M'M AS SAK'iFNT, tosn'II IKKlt'E. F rea ltors of I'r.i til Ko lor, deceased. :--i.ts. 1 8: ALL WHOM IT MAY COX-; 1. N Vo i, r.e-ehy ?fven thtt I hare 'x'.wz ieTii'C'l ersonal property, pur- ' r ire at Hher.n's 5ae. with Jacob Kons- I t to '.rv "T-ier. to w;t : '1 horr". 4 cows, j . ' Iv 1 wal car. wn.-on. 1 sb-ia-h. 1 "led, j tts- rake. 2 ! heavy harness. 2 sets Pirht end r .;. houv-hold and kltehcn ' ir:-i a ( ' ci eorn. hay. straw and corn A:'. j,er tris are euttor-ed arainst inter- a '.v manner with said rr"oer-r. noless 'c..n;..nt. A. A. STEVKNS. I '. I a . be". 0. 179. -S:i. ; V'KIl PLATED TAHLE WARE. 1 Kmvos Fr r'Ksnd Spoons (Tes and shocks and shames us like blasphemy. Nevertheless, we would not abridge the lib- ii-T- . r T-n A l T7 nTTTAAT " Prty of cch. A raging third-termer has P A I , A ( H, ( )H H AtSH I ( ) i ; as good a right to sneer at the Father of his NEXT DOOR TO THE POST-OFFICE, ALTOONA, PA., j A GRAND CL.OSING-OUT SALE OF HIS KVTIliF. STOCK AHOIT 81O.O0O M'llHTH OK OVERCOATS i WINTER CLOTHING Generally, AT COST AND LESS THAN COST. i CALL EARLY AND GET FIRST CHOKE All BEST BARGAINS ! An the Goods trill Positively be Sold at a Sacrifice. Country as an independent Hottentot has to j beat his mother. ! Jefferson also comes under review. His j precedent, whether good or evil, is at least J "to the purpose." In letters addressed to I the legislatures of Vermont, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, dated on the 10th of De ccmlier, 107, and printed in the Aurora at Philadelphia on the lf'th of the same month, he solemnly and publicly announced to the countr3- that he would not disregard the pre- .......1 V ti i ,-i .lrtf,Y-ir eritiel.m 11 cio.n Itlnt 1" 1 '" ...v.. .., K, J: ...h.t . ,,,,1ot TP. . 1C CimilOl, Ullb IIUIH J. WVI' . - " gard for their true interests required ; that when the House of Representatives, in obe dience to the universal sentiments of its con stituents, unanimously and without distinc ' tion of party, put upon its records and pub lished to the world its solemn declaration ! that the example of Washington must be adhered to in the f uture as in the past, they 1 dil not enact charlatanism or repeat a vocif eration, or issue a strange ftdmination, or im 1 peach the constitution, or lihel its framers, or : counterfeit history, or tn.tH common sense, ! but spoke what they at least believed to be the words of truth and soberness, j We are not to set up political dogmas or : invoke a blind faith even in the founders of I do not expect anything I can say to be received as a vindication of the two-term i rule. Nor is it necessary. All the support j it requires was long ago furnished by an- j other, the latchet of whose shoes I a.n not . worthy to stoop down and unloose. Jeffer son, the stainless citizen, the sterling patriot, i the unequalled statesman at once the great- ; est apostle and the truest prophet that hu- ! man freedom ever had gave his judgment ! not only at the time he acted upon the rule, but expressed his convictions after they were strengthened by many years of later reflec tion The practical object of Mr. Howe's article is to make Gen. Grant president for another term. It is not for an abstraction that he denounces the two-term precedent and vili fies the Springer resolution. The rule might stand if Grant could be elected without breaking it down. But Mr. Howe thinks that the superiority of his candidate is so very great that all authorities which oppose him should be disregarded, and he supports this opinion by assertions so extravagant that we only wonder how any man in his sober senses could have made them. A third term for Grant does not mean a third term only, but any number of terms that he choose to demand. The imperial method of carrying all elections by corrup done ; "the eternal i king is not guilty of stealing when he helps The most powerful j himself to public money without legal right. It looks to us like a terrible outrage for a president to hive himself represented at a state election by the bnyonets of his stand ing army to install governors that were re jected at the polls, to tumble the chosen legislature of a free state out of its hall, to procure t lie fabrication of false returns and force it on the people. But General Grant's lawlessness would be lawful in a country governed by the mere will of a iersonal I sovereign. V here there Is no law there can be no transgression. But while General Grant has some quali ties which would make him a tolerable king. ; and none that would make him an unen durably bad one, lie is not at all the kind of ! person that is needed as president of the j United States on the assumption that our j system of government is to be continued. I think it is to be continued. L'nlike Mr. i O'Conor, I believe that the struggle to get it j honestly administered is not hopeless. We ; are not yet reduced to the necessity of choos i ing between a republic wholly corrupt and a I monarchy founded in pure force. Therefore : I conclude with Jefferson that, if any man ; (Gen. Grant particularly) "consent to le a 1 candidate for a third election, I trust he will be rejected on his demonstration of ambi tious views." Mkmouifs or His Childhood's Home. narry Hazen, of Circleville, Ohio, writes: "I see again my childhood's home ; I pee the rippling brook and I hear ths wind that kisses the bending willows. Sweet vision of the home that watched my boyhood " Yes, yes, Harry, we know all about that. We know your folks. We knew your child hood's home like a book. Tou were born in : because lie had a handsome face, and long, j black, wavy beard, was gifted with a fascin ating manner, dressed with exquisite taste, ; danced marvelously, and possessed rare pow i ers as a singer. Carl was a noted gambler ! and given to dissipation, and Count Chris j tian became possessed of the information ' that the young chevalier had quitted Naples ! in consequence of some scandalous adven j tuie in which he had been implicated. Helen was so completely infatuated with Carl that she gave no heed the advice, the prayers, or even the order, of her father. She would not believa the report, of the dis graceful antecedents of her wily lover. The condition of affairs brought the Count, pos sessed of a remarkable degre cf firmness, to the determination of originating soma plan whereby he could effectually overcome the persistent efforts of Carl to secure his daughter, as well as convince Helen that to save her from such an unprincipled man was a deed of paternal tenderness and care. The chevalier had continued adroitly In his'work of ensnaring the young heire,, and finally in direct terms aked her to eloj-e with him. n wrote a rote proposing a clandes tine meeting at an hour when her father was in the habit of going out to play whist with some gentlemen of his aequaintaace, and in it made the suggestion that, if she favored the proposition, she wear in her belt a race as a sign of consent. Count Christian, liav- ; ing intercepted the letter, took occasion soon after to approach Helen, and then asked her j to go out with him, at the same tinae handing her a flower, remarking : "Put this in your ! belt as an ornament." She smilinplj- obey- ed. In the course of their walk they met I Carl, w ho bowed, ar.d was overjoyed to notice. ! that Helen had carried out his request. The Count conducted his daughter to the reidence of one of his acquaintances, and requested her to wait till be called Lt her. This done lie returned to the house he oc- ! cupied on the outskirts of Baden Baden, j He had sent away his servants and was aione. At the appointed Lour Carl arrhed and leap i ed over the garden wall. Finding the door I securely closed, he entered the house through one of the windows. With pleasureable ex ! citement he haltered toward Helen's apart mcnts, but great v .is his astonishment to find her father armed with a brace of pW-tols. . The Count closed the door, and said to the : miserable chevalier : j "Carl M , I could kill you : I have the '. right to do so. You have entered my hous ; at night ; you have broken into it. 1 could treat you ns a felon nothing com Id be more I natural." ; "But, sir," said Carl, trembling, and in '. most an inaudible tone, "I am not a robber." J "Not a robber I" cxclaimced Count Chris tian. "What are you, then"' You have come to stenl my dauchter, to Meal an l:eiris ! and a fortune. I have your criminal letter. ' I shall show you no mercy. If you refuse me I will slay you '." "What is your wiil, sir?" j "You must leave Baden thin instant. You must put at least two hundred leagues be tween It and you, and never come into the ; presence of my daughter. For your travel- ing expenses I will give joti 20,ooo francs." Carl endeavored to speak. "Silence," said the Co ant in a voice of thunder. "You must obsy. In that secre tary is the money. Take it." i The chevalier ventured the remark : ' Per niit me to decline your oTcr." The false niodestj of the young man vat ' overcome by the iiiiifrius gesture of the ('Id , man. "But." said Carl, "thr secretary h? locked." ; "Break the lock, then," returned the Count, and ith his pistol in his hand he re peated, "Break it, or I'll blow your brains out." J Carl obeyed. "It is well," said the old gentleman, "those bank notes are yours. Have you a pocket book with anything identifying it a belong ing to you V" Yes." "Then let it fall in front of the secretary which you have broken opn." "What, sir?" "I must have proof which will conlet you. I mean to have all the evidence of burglary. Roblor or death : Chooe ! Ab, I see your choice is made. Now go before we. I do not quit you until you are a league from P.aden. I return Into, and enter no complaint against you til! to-niorrow noon. Begone." Chevalier Carl could not resist the com pulsory wder, and Count Christian s plan was carried out to the very letter. Tho af- ; fair created great noise and excitement. ; Helen coald no longer donbt as to Carl's character, and it was not long before bis im age was banished from her heart, and that was in due time surrendered to one of her : cousins, a captain of an Antrian cavalry regiment. C3-EO- "W ZE-A-O-IEIR,, cash L)i:Ai-r:u in all kind of HEATING and COOKING STOVES -and m.m;fach:i:i;i: ok- cedent of bis illustrious oredecessor bv tie. cepting another election. His reasons are ! ie republic. The mere authority of names, brief, simple and clear, like all the produe- however great, ought not to command our tions of that master hand, and expressed in I ssent ! But a fundamental doctrine, self language so transparently truthful and dig- j evidently true, though easy to defend, is the nified that no man of rightly constituted j hardest of all things tosupport by affirmative mind can read the paper without being stir- ! argument. We cannot help but sympathize red bv the strongest emotions of respect and j with the indignation of Pitt when he thun admiration for its author. It compresses i de! "ut his refusal to look at books or hs into a few sentences all that needs to be said ! un to K,Sic ia d-f,'ncc of Fdigl-.sh liberty. In the matter before ns, it snouia ne piatn reasonable creature in e$e" that i Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, and tion or force, or of declaring them to be car- 1 when you were two months old your parents ried when they are not, is to be permanently I moved to Salamanca, New York; then about in favor of the two-term limitation, and is at the same time a perfect answer to all objec- i everT .V" hr Nw F.nalah.l Silver IMate Co. ! -r- nTTTnTTn THAATTTT T"TP ! , ....... to ..ie a Hirer. Conn., have alwavs a-iren th ret !rl I i l() l l 1 4 l A I i I -c I I l ; A I -f M , passage from it and incorporate it with his -Vr,-;., nUhe,OTU' j llJLN AM Oli.Jli.IilJ- JJaUIN V JA..Ul, I j;rtki;; itshines;thcrelikeapieceof soHd -WZ?: W()o Elnvonlh Ave., Altoona, ! pold setinasliapelessmassof lead. Intliose F-.t i'..-it. i - r " times, when the subject is up for renewed tions. Mr. Howe is fair enough to take a 1 long continuance of supreme executive pow rK have already ordered oui Hoots w. sd Shokj, tor th eominar season, which arr.T, e;.j-sr. February and March, and In -'f rrs'se ro-.m t r our new sto-k. will offer the l,'r '"'if.m'nt now on hand (rv.iwiths'andlnir - n. Jrrnr.APr.ST PLACE IX THE ITT. Rooting-, Kponflne; and Repairing of ill kind promptly mid nut lafaetorlly attended to. iq--.V79.-tr. '- In s i 'mpeio with it uood".! at pr'e-. we defv any S. HA UK KK ft llr". feiafrhJlfffiyi.. 3 ' r'T.i 't ve su.i on lmii'1 ,i small fts- nt of l.allir.V ro.VT.H. which wo nii at rreatlr rc-ione-l priees. In order to t ni. r Steele t.e."fore Sprtiirf. all enriy and 'Ira n, a, thev will u j'. last lunar at the rrl- 9 r ninjr .,r them. V. i. BAliKEH k BKO. "pIrfIcted "BUTTER COLOR ? Ir Bnttr tn fffit-di rMcr I ypr rnnd. Tri larr-m Patter Pnycr rwnTin'rd !t Tin. Tho'ii-i N Of I tlrymcn T I' I I'Mtr M I . ea 07 1 n-p-t n-nm r.rw. r. : u-n :tr 1 rrirr- ' ' ' 1 . . . . i - w 1 I"-, . a . - . J,-.it-.,K nrl.reitaAailr wl.atltla m-l.ai -- "IV h. 1 :' '' t rorv low r' 04'rtl nt. V e a larire stock of JjApiek7. and Ciirt.rnttx'sj Kir OEM. which ir'ees between i a '.zl nail al ''4 MiC. W RUPTURE CURED rrnV, worli S ' 1U Tr. J. A. Sherman Snpport and Cnratlre. withont the injury an snfterlnz tru-ses ln rjfc Cl Port- Bfet or hlndersnee (rem !ilor. Hook with likenees of had eases befhre and after cure. sent. fre, now and BARK Kit & BKO. home. tnm res rsT?"-nr Co Of!, e 2(1 Broadway, Jew eir. 'nt reef re treatment and leas ter hvt same day. consideration, this letter should be read again and again ; every citizen ought to have it by heart and teach it to his children, write it on the lintels of his door, bind it as a frontlet between his eyes, and mrke it the subject of i his meditation day and night : Dec. in, 1807. " To the Leuirlatnrc of Vermont: "I received in due season the address of the Legislature of Vermont, bearing date the 5th of November, 18w, in which, with their approbation of the general course of my ad ministration, they were pogood as toexpress their desire that I would consent to be pro posed again to the public voice on the expi ration ot my present term of office. F.nter tainingas t do for the Legislature of Ver mont those sentiments of high respect which would have prompted an immediate amwer. er in one. nana is nor oniy perilous iu urc j institutions, but perfectly certain to destroy them. Some fixed time there ought to be when the people will not only have the right, but exercise It, to displace their chief magis trate and take another. If they do not pos sess this right, they arc political bond-servants, by law ; if, holding it, they forego the use of it, they make themselves, giton-d Aoc, voluntary slaves, and they soon come to be governed in all things by the will of their superior. A lease for years, renewable and always renewed, gives the tenant an estate without end, and makes him lord of the fee. Where the chief magistmte is vested, as ours is, with great power Viable to gross abuse, if there is no law or practice which forbids liiui to be re-elected, he can remain in office for life as easily as for a term. He has the appointment of all officers, the mak ing of all public contracts, and a veto upon substituted for the system of free, popular choice. The figure of Grant standing with the seal of primacy on the mountain top, and looking down on the inhabitants of the plain below, gives a measure of the elevation which his sycophants flatter him with the hope of at taining. They urge the necessity of a strong government almost in the very words used by the adherents of Ctcsar and the two Napoleons. Strong government, in their sense means weak laws and a strong ruler; in other.words, a substantial monarchy, power ful in its scorn of all legal restraints. A free democratic republican system of government honestly administered by agents of the people's true choice ; a government such as ours was intended to be, with the powers of the federal government, the rights of the states, and the liberties of the people so harmoniously adjusted that each may check the excesses of the other such a government, scrupulously administered with in its constitutional limits, is, without doubt, the choicest blessing that God, in his loving kindness, ever vouchsafed to any ieope. On the other hand, it is quite as sure that false administration of a government theo retically free, which acknowledges the rights of the people and yet continually treads them under foot ; which swears to save and pcr juriousiy works to destroy; which receives tr n months afterward they moved to Coshoc ton, Ohio, and remained there just long enough for yon to get over the measles, and then they went down into Tennessee and How to Avoid a Bad IIi-shand. Never marry for wealth. A woman's life consist eth not in the things she toses. Never marry a fop, who struts about dandy-like in his gloves and ruffles, with a silver headed cane, and rings on Ins fingers. Be ware ! there is a trap. your father ran a saw-mill nearly a year, and i Never marry a niggardly, close fisted, mean then you all came back to Ohio and settled 1 sordid wretch, who saves every penny, or im Uutlcr county. lien you were about i spenn-i u grnugingiy. l ake care ie;-t re stint. four years old your family moved over to i you to death. Warren, Indiana, and lived there about seven ! Never marry a stranger, whose ehr.racter months, when they went down into Chris- is not known or tested. Some girls jump inta tian county, Illinois, and had the ague for j the fire with their eyes wide open, ten weeks, packing up and going on to Mus- j Never marry a nnqe or a riione one v.ho catine, Iowa, as sotm as they were strong j draggles through life, oti fwt after the other, enough. They lived there a jear and a half ; and lets things take their own course, and moved to Montgomery, Minnesota, and i Never marry a man who treats his own there your father joined the Methodist t mother or sister n:il.itid!y or indi.Termith. Church, and you lived there three years, and Mich treatment is a sure indication or n mean at Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, a year and a half j and wicked man. while he read theology, and then he entered j Never on any account marry a gambler, a the ministry and since then you haven't lived i profane jverson, one who in the least speaks in any one place longer than two years. 1 h yes. Harry, if you have any memories of of your "boyhood's home," your memory mut be a polyglot, that's all. Iiurlinn-ton Jlttrlcye Thf, following message, intended to break bad news gently, was sent to the widow of a man who had been killed by a railroad acci dent : "Dear Madam Your husband is un avoidably detained for the'present. To-morrow an undertaker will call upon you with full partieulHi i." lightly of God or of religion. Such a man will never make a good husband. Never marry a sloven, a man aim is nr glcctful of liis person or drc, and is lilihy in his habits. The external apiearaneo is an Index to the heart. Shun the rake as a snake, vijer. demon. Avoid him. Finally, never marry a man who is in the least addicted to the ue of ardent spirits. Depend UTvoii it, you are better oft alone than you would be tied to a man wh.we breath is "polluted, a' 1 -a hoi IwMfg desi :rov c. i !.
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