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EBENSBURG, PA., THURSDAY; OCTOBER 24, 18C7.
NUMBER 40.
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Lnw, Ebensburg, Pa.
, V-.,;ry 2t, LS7.
r55n:NLOX, Attorney-t Law,
I1 Ehensburg. Pa. .ii1
r.,-f-Ol!;oe opposite the P.auk. jan24
'vTy. KEADE, Attorney at
t Law, Ebcnsbnrjr, Pa.
r.- OC'xc in Colonnade Row. jan24
n 1 tIeRNEY, Attorney at Law,
El. I'nsburjr, Cambria county, Pa.
f-yOrice in Colonnade Row. jan--t
TORN STO N AN LAN , Attorneys
j at Law, Ebensburg, Pa.
L-;- Dfflrc onnositc the Court House.
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JOHNSTON. fj.JiK-tj o -
MK5 C. EASLY, Attorney at. Law,
i" Carrolltown, Cambria county, Pa.
--. Architectural Drawiners and i?pecifi-
,i''le- fjan24
' T n Tl T-T 4 T"1"f A 1
- A. IMlUi'iiUArv.XiH, viiuruey ah
' Law, Ebensburg, Pa.
fjrtioiuar attention pmu iu cunciuvug.
ja? Ofiice one door cast of Lloyd & Co.'a
.:k.G2 House. . jan24
iTmTTkL SINGLETON. Attorney at
L:tw, Ebensburg, Pa. Office on High
"-cet, west of Foster's Hotel.
Hill practice in the Courts of Cambria and
.'yininjr counties.
r.-.v Attpn.1-! also to the collection of claims
ulditra against the Government. jan-4
KORGE W. O ATM AN, Attorney at
T Law and Claim Agent, Ebensburg,
-.iria county. Ph.
I ,;f Pensions, Hack Pay and I'ounty, anl
. V. 'itary Claims collected. Hnl Estate
v .mil oId, huiI pi.vnifnt of Tnxcs nt-
t
3. i J
en.
ILvok Accounts, rotes, Due Lills,
&e., collected. Deeds, Mortga-.i.-.-.r-ients,
Letters of Attorney, Ronds,
r. ..'.y written, nd all legal business
attended, to. Pensions increased,
iLVialued Bounty collected. jan24
7) DEYEREAUX, M. I)., rhysician
il and Surgeon, Summit, Pa.
Office east of Muns;on House, on Rail
,ii strict. Night calls promptly attended
. at his office. may23
DR. 1E WITT ZEIGLEU
Having permanently located in Ebens-
offers his professional services to the
:r:is of town and viciri'y.
i'eeth extracted, without iain, with Xitrous
A', or Laii'jhitig (.
kfllooms over R. R. Thomas' store, High
eft. SCpl'J
Y.STISTRY.
The undersigned, Graduate of the Bal-
.rcwcto'.Iege of Dental Surgery, respectfully
. bis profe3sional services to the citizens
f .' ( T..-lurg. He has spared no means to
u-rnughly acquaint himself with every im
:jvtr.Hiit in hi3 art. To many years of per-
al experience, he has sought to add the
:.: irted experience of the highest authorities
: I;v t: ta 1 Science. He simply asks that an
rortuuity may be given for his work to
ck its own praise.
SAMUEL BELFORD, D. D. S.
R-f-rrnee: Prof. C. A. Harris ; T. E. 3ond,
::'V. II. Handy; A. A. RJandy, P. II. Aus
f fil.e IJ.i.t irnore t'cllege.
Jrj'Vi:l beat El.-tusburg on the fourth
' .'U l.-.y month, to stay one wjek.
1 b O 4 .
'CO., Ji '.inkers
EuFSMsfRfj, P.v.
Silver, Government Loan 3 and
I uii r'it anil soi l. Interest
1 i n.e 1' v; .: -i. Cc!'. t tior.s made
in t!.e Tniled States,
ijciiic-s tr.i.:.tat ted.
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l. LLC, li)
A ;.7 sx. Pa.
s r,r. t:. i r;::.-i.-l cities, .-.nd Silver
.1 I t . i!.'. ( '( k l :o!:r: t:i.ide. Mon-f.v-.I
i n .; ; u-it, .:iy:ii.!e on demand,
i i:.!crc.-t, cr upcu time, with inte'.t
jan2i
-!"Vii 1'rtx't. Jv.:i lloyd. Cashur.
1
:a;-r national uank
OF ALTOONA.
co vr.RXMnxr a gexgy,
A N I
ION ATF.D lV.t'usiT()nY OF THE UNI
TED STATES.
Corner Virginia aud Annie sts., North
Altoona, Pa.
T'.iouized Capital $.100,000 00
mi Capital Paid ix 150, oOO CO
I'.l lusiness pertaining to Hanking done on
'''iraUo terms.
hi'truai Revenue Stamp3 of all denomina-
i
(5 av nn l!.irw7
0 I'U'.vliAKrs of Stamn?. nercentflfo. in
-"nn1 3 W alIow e,1 a3 follows : $50 to
Vu. ' ",frnt.; $oc to $200, 3 per cent,
-w and upwards, 4 per cent. jan24
J. LLOYD,
ouccensor oj jc. uunn,
, Dealer in
r-KDrj:r,s and medicines, paints,
WLS, AND DYE-STUFFS, VEUFUME-
HV AND FANCY ARTICLES, PURE
IXES AND 11 HAND I ES FOR MKDI
d PURPOSES, PATENT MEDICINES, ic.
Also:
''fr, Cap, and Note Papers,
Feus, Pencils, Superior Ink,
And other articles kept
Til" niivrri'era rv.n annlltf
' prtseripHon, carefully compounded.
Ofl.ce on Mam Street, opposite the Moun
a .louse, LLcnsburg, paU rjan24
SIIARRKTTS Dl'SHIlT, House,
blazing and rai.rr ir.,r.;..
k-if Work done On slinrt
iff,?a?nteCtd- SiP IU dement of
,-IIall, Ebensburg, Iq. myO-Cm
it a . . 777Z r. .
V1C1,L MNGLETON, Notary Pub-
on nigu street, west of Foster's Ho-
it
ah24
AVE YOU SIIHaSnnntF.n
tor
"THE ALLEGHAMAN?"
!LT";;'
Pop!
And there they sat a popping corn,
John Stiles and Susan Cutter ;
John Stiles was stout as any ox,
And Susan fat as butter.
And there they sat and shelled the corn,
And raked and stirred the fire,
And talked of different kinds of ear3,
And hitched their chairs up nigher.
Then Susan she the popper shook,
Then John he shook the popper,
Till both their faces grew as red ..
As saucepans made of copper.-
And then they shelled, and popped, and ate,
All kinds of fun a poking,
And he haw-hawed at ber remarks,
And she laughed at his joking.
And still they popped, and still they ate,
(John's mouth was like a hopper,)
And stirred the fire, and sprinkled salt,
And shook and shook the popper.
The clock struck nine, the clock struck ten,
And still the corn kept popping ;
It struck eleven and then struck twelve.
And still no sigus of stopping.
And John he ate, and Sue she thought
The corn did pop and patter,
Till John cried out, "The corn's afire I
"Why, Susan, what's the matter?"
She said, "John Stiles, it's one o'clock,
You'll die of indigestion j
I'm sick of all this popping corn
Why don't you pop the question !"
A ROMANCE OF THE VICE-ROYALTY.
Ismail Pacha is the fifth in succession
from Neheruet Ali, the founder of the
dynasty in Egypt. Ilia urbanity and in
telligence during hia recent visit seem to
have woa for him the good will of the
people both in Paris and London, ahho'
he- somewhat amused the populace in
Paris by his alarm when a pistol was fired
during the performance of the opera of
"Don Carlos." He evidently thought
that he had been fired at and speedily left
the theatre. His accession to power wa3
marked by circumstaoces sufficiently cu
rious in themselves to merit narration.
Said Pacha, his predecessor, was known
to be very ill, and Ismail, the heir appa
rent, was hourly expecting intelligence of
Sjaid's decease. iSaid was in Alexandria,
aud Ismail in Cairo, bo that the first in
telligence would be conveyed by telegraph.
It is usual in Egypt to reward the indi
vidual wha first announces the accession
of the Paoha to the supreme dignity by
creating him a bey, if lie bo a commoner,
and pacha if he be already a bey, Pacha
being the highest title of nobility confer
red in Egypt.
The superintcnder.t of the telegraph iu
Cairo, awaro of the hopeless nature of
SJaid's complaint, aud hourly expecting
news of his demise, toik up his abode at
the telegraph oCice, in order that he might
Le the lirat to communicate the intelli
genca to the new Yiccroy. He waited
aud. waited, but Lour after hour passed
away, and the expected news did not come.
caid was evidently au unconscionably long
time in dying.
At length, tired of waiting, after more
than forty houis of wakefulness, Messy
Ley called a young man, as assistant iu
t i c department, in whom he hoped he
could confide, and told him what he ex
pected. "I am about to lie down," paid
Uca'V Ley to him. "They have made me
a couch u the next room. Wake me the
UiomeLt the telegraph cunies from Alex
andria." The young mau promised obedi
ence. Put before lying down,-Uesy Ley
said further to him, "lie faithlul in this
matter and you shall have from me. five
hundred france" (20,) and so saving the
Ley resigned himself without fear to his
repose.
The telegram came while he slept, three
hours after. Said Pacha was dead. The
young man, the Bey's assistant, reflected
that by communicating the news himself
to Ismail, who was anxiously expecting it,
he would get more than five hundred
francs. So leaving his master asleep, he
posted off in hot haste to Chougrah, where
Ismail was then residing, with the tele
gram in his hand. He was admitted to
an audience without delay. Ismail made
him a ley on the spot, but gave him no
largesse, such as ho had expected.
Iu his excitement, however, Ismail had
dropped tho paper containing the an
nouncement of Said's death, and the
young man picked it up, and as soon as
he got leave to depart from the palace, he
took the telegram to his master, Bessy
Bey, whom he roused from slumber.
Bessy Bey was delighted at being able,
as he hoped, to communicate the news
first to the future Yiceroy, and gave the
order for five hundred francs there and
then to the young man.
Hurrying off to the palace, Bessy Bey
was quickly undeceived. His news wa.
already known. The Pacha received him
coldly. He got no honor. He soon found
out by whom he had been forestalled, and
returned to the office to abuse his assis
tant in good set terms and dismiss him.
"Speak to me with more respect, my
brother," said the young man, "for I am
Bey as well as you, and cannot bo dis
missed from my post under government
without his highness' sanction. Let us
go to him together."-
But Bessy Bey was by no means pre
pared for this, and, on reflection, thought
he had better be quiet, and let the matter
drop. The young man who exhibited
such, "smartness," as the American would
call it, is now governor of a province, a
favorite at court, the ' companion of the
Pacha in Paris and London, and a much
greater man than Bessy Bey ever was.
The accession of Said, however, the uncle
and predecessor of the present Yiceroy,
was marked, by a much more extraordi
nary and characteristic event an event
that would be considered horrible any
where else except in Egypt. .
The head of the family, the oldest male
within certain degrees of affinity, succeeds
to the government of Egypt; not the eldest
sou.
Abbas Pacha, predecessor of Said, was
hated for his cruelty. He seemed to think
no more of human life than we do of ca
nine life, and he thought less of murder
ing and
torturing
a human being than
most . men would think of
putting a dog
to death in the least painful manner. As
an example. He was walking in the
grounds of his palace on the banks of the
Nile, when a new breach-loading gun, a
fowling-piece, was brought to him. He
was a good shot, and ordered it to be load
ed with ball, which was done.
At the other side of tho Nile, a poor
peasant-woman had just filled her water
pot at the river, aud was walking up the
bank with the water pot on her head.
Abbas presented the gun at her and fired.
She was wouuded in tho back and fell
writhing to the
crround.
The courtiers
applauded the accuracy of his highness'
aim, and the Yiceroy himself returned
the weapon to the attendant who brought
it, sayiug that he was satisfied with it.
No one paid the slightest attention to the
poor wretch who had been wounded. She
died that night.
It is not wonderful, then, such being
the character of Abbas, that he wa3 mur
dered at last. It is sail that those who
did it, his own servants, were instigated
by members of his own family, whom he
had outraged, so to do.
Abbas was living at the palace of Be-
nia, near Cairo, when he was murdered,
and the chief eunuch, who discovered the
matter in the morning, before any one
else knew it, called Elfi Bey, the Govcr
nor of Cairo, to the palace, in order that
they might together concert measures for
their own benefit, before the event shouldj
become generally known. They decided
that they should put Elami Pacha, son of
Abbas, on the throne, and not Said Pacha,
who was then at Alexandria, and who by
the Alahomniedan law was the rightful
heir. Had Elami been on the spot they
might have succeeded, but unfortunately
for them, he was then at sea, haviug set
out in a steamer, two days before, to go to
France, intending to make a tour of Eu
rope. If they could succeed in kcepiug
the Yiceroy's death a secret till he be re
called, the two friends, the chief eunuch
and the Governor of Cairo, doubted not
that their enterprise would be successful,
and the new Pacha would do anything
they pleased for them afterward. The
difficulty was to keep the death a secret.
A telegram was sent to Alexandria forth
with, in the name of the Yiceroy, order
ing the swiftest fcteamer available to be
scut after Elami Pacha to recall him. Said
was him?elf Admiral of the fleet, and
therefore the necessary orders had to be
issued by him.
Carefully as Elfi Bey and the chief
eunuch took their measures to conceal the
Yiceroy's death, whispers were soon spread
from the palace in various directions that
all was not right; and Halim Pacha, a
friend of Said, having heard of the order,
sent to Said, and having heard likewise
the whispers alluded to, sent another mes
sage to him by telegraph, stating that the
house he desired in Cairo was empty, and
begging of him to come himself and oc
cupy it, and not to send for any other
tenant. Halim was afraid to speak .more
explicitly. Said understood him, and
did not send for Elami.
The expedient which Elfi Bey adopted
in order to conceal the death of the Yice
roy, wa9 one which probably only would
have entered into the head of an Oriental,
and which an Oriental only would have
had the hardihood to execute. It was this.
He got the dead body of the Yiceroy,
Abbas, already more than unpleasant,
dressed up in the ordinary clothes, ordered
one of the Yiceroy's carriages, had the
corpse lifted into its accustomed seat, and
took hia own scat, as he had often done
during the life of Abbas, at his left hand.
It was given out that the Abba3 was going
to the palace, which he had himself built
in the Desert, ten miles from Cairo, the
palace called after him, Abbassieh ; other
carriages followed, and, during tho horri
ble drive, he, Elfi Bey, lifted the arm of
tho dead man occasionally, as if replying
to the greetings of the multitude. Was
it not horrible? In this way the drive
was accomplished. The Yiceroy had gone,
as on former occasions, to bury himself in
the Abbasieh, and there to celebrate his
usual orgies, remote from public business.
Nothing more.
But the truth had got wind. It was
known that Abbas was dead, notwithstand-
ing Elfi B.ey's horrible drive. Said had
pome tp. Cairo, and had sent a message to
Constantinople to announce the fact of
Abbas' death and of his accession. Elfi
still had his own guards in tho citadel of
Cairo." He daily expected the return of
Elami. It was not until eight days after
the death of Abbas that he became con
vinced that Elamt wa3 not coming, that
the country had accepted Said as their
ruler, and that there was no hope for him.
Shut up in the citadel, he trembled as he
thought of the revenge which Said Pacha
would take on him, and he finally became
convinced that there was no more hope for
him. Sail, in the meantime, sent to him
to eay that he looked with leniency upon
his transgression, inasmuch as it resulted
from too great a devotion to his lato mis
ter, and his family. But K!fi judged
Said by himsslf, and believed that the
direstj.ortures would be his fate when he
gave Himfelf up, so he destroyed himself
with poison.
"What a fool!" said Said, when he
heard;, the news; "had I not promised to
forgive him V Such is Egyptian life in
high place?.
Ismail Pacha, the present ruler of
Egypt, is about thirty-nine years of age,
with a mild expression of countenance, a
yellowish or carroty beard, usually dyed,
and an inordinate passion for amassing
money, lo this last passion every thing
else seems subordinate with him; and,
with a monopoly of cotton and sugar in
Egypt, he has contrived to render himself
the richest individual, privately, in Eu
rope or Africa.
Joe Snillli, the ITIomioii Leader.
The Ilochcster Union and Advertiser
publishes the following account of the
peculiarities which marked Joseph Smith,
the founder of Alormonism, previous to
the publication of his lievelations : I
knew him well before his book was pub
lished. He was then a wood-cutter on
my farm, more willing to live by his wits
than his ax, and worked through the win
ter in company with some twenty or thirty
other rough backwoodsmen. He and his
two associates built a rude cabin of poles
and brush, covered with leaves and earth,
in the woods open to the south, with a
camp-kettle in front for cooking; and
here, at night, around a huge fire, ho and
his companions would gather, ten or a
dozen at a time, to tell stories and sing
songs, and drink cheap whiskey (two shil
lings a gallon), and although there were
some hard cases among them, Joe could
beat them all for tough stones and im
practicable adventures, and it was in this
school, I btlieve, that he first conceived
the wonderful invention of the golden
plates and marvelou3 revelations.
And as these exercises were rehearsed
nightly to his hearers, and as their cars
grew longer to receive them, so his talcs
,grew the more marvelous to please them,
until some of them supposed that lie also
believed his own stories. Bui of this lact
there is no proof. He was impudent and
assuming among his fellows, but ignorant
and dishonest, plausible and obsequious
to others, with suilicicnt low cuuoing to
conceal his ignorance, but, in my estima
tion, utterly unqualifipd to compose even
such a jumble of truth and fiction as this
book coutaioed.
Tho most probable theory of its origin
that I remember to have heard is that it
was the strange work of an eccentric Ycr
mout clergyman, writteu to while aw.iy
the tedious hours of long confinement by
nervous debility, and that this idle pro
duction, after his decease, fell into Joe's
hands, and that having learned something
of the gullibility of his cronies, this in
cidental matter incited in him the first idea
of turning his foolish stories to account,
and thus enable him to make the surrep
titious manuscript the text book of his
gros3 imposition. I speak undcrstanding
ly in saying he was shameless as well as
dishonest, and I relate a small matter to
prove it. During the winter he was chop
ping for me, I was iu the habit of riding
through the clearing daily to see that the
brush was piled as agreed, the wood fairly
corded, and no scattering trees left uncut,
and in this way became well acquainted
with the conduct of every man; and on
each Saturday took an account and paid
the hands. My mode was to ride around
while each party measured their ranks
and turned a few sticks on the top to show
that they had been counted.
In this way I one day took Joe's ac
count, he accompanying me aud removing
the sticks on the top of each rank. After
thus going the rounds and returning to
the shanty, he said he had another rank
or two that I had not seen, and led me in
a different direction in a roundabout way,
to wood that I had already measured, but
the sticks on top had all been laid back
to their places. I saw the trick at once,
and could only make him confess his at
tempt to cheat by remcasuring the whole
lot ; and all this ho thought would have
been a fair trick if I had not found it out.
So much for the man in small things.
After he left in the spring I lost sight
of him uutil my friend Judge Whiting
(long since deceased), of the very respec
table firm of Whiting & Butler, attorneys,
who was then loaning money on mortga
ges for a trust company, asked me if I
knew anything about Joe Smith. I told
him that I knew him for a great rogue in
a small way, when ho informed me that
he pretended to be aprophet, and was
about publishing a Book of Revelations ;
and had induced two credulous men
in Palmyra to" apply to him (Judge Whi
ting) for money on mortgage to publish
it. 1 learned afterward that Joe and an
associate had prevailed ou a worthy citizen
of Waterloo (Colonel C ), who was then
in a state or great uepression iroin the re
cent loss of his wife, to join their frater
nity and cast iu his lot among them ; and
that while they were at his house taking
an inventory of his effects for the purpose,
hisson, a spirited young man, came in,
and on finding what they were about,
threatened them so strongly with a prose
cution as swiudlers, that they left for a
time, until his father had recovered from
his delusion, and thu3 escaped them.
I know nothing further of bis doings
here, but after his removal to Ohio, wheu
he established a bank that failed, I was
shown one of his bills, and I recollect
that on examining it I thought the device
on the face of it was most admirably ap
propriate, viz : A sturdy fellow shearing
a sheep.
Horace Greely's First Entrance
into Xew Yorlt.
In the last chapter of his autobiogra
phy, Mr. Greely describes his first entrance
into New York city. We quote :
"It was, if I recollect right, the 7th of
August, 1831. I was 20 years old the
preceding February ; tall, slender, pale,
and plain, with ten dollars in my pocket,
summer clothing worth perhaps a3 much
more, nearly all on my back, and a decent
knowledge of so much of the art of prin
ting as a boy will usually learn in the
office of a country newspaper. But I
knew no human being within two hun
dred miles, and my unmistakably rustic
manner aud address did not favor that
immediate command of remunerating em
ployment which was my most urgent need.
However, the world was nil before me ;
my personal estate, tied up in a pocket
handkerchief, did not at all encumber
me ; and I stepped lightly off the boat
and away from the sound of the detected
hiss of escaping steam, walking into aud
up Broad street in quest of a boarding
house. I found and entered one at or
near the comer of Wall ; but the price of
board given me was $G per week ; so I
did not need the giver's candidly kind
suggestion that I would probably prefer
one where the charge was more moderate.
Wandering thence, I cannot say how, to
the North River side, I halted next at
1GS West street, where the sign of "Boar
ding" on an humbler edifice fixed my
attention. I entered, and was offered
shelter and subsistence at 2.50 per week,
which seemed more rational, and I closed
the bargain.
"My host wa3 Mr. Edward McGoIrick;
his placj was quite as muchgrogshop as
boarding-house ; but it wa quietly, de
cently kept while 1 stayed in it, and he
and his family were kind and friendly.
I regret to add that liquor proved his
ruin not many years afterwards. My first
day iu New Yoik was a Friday, and, the
family being Roman Catholic, no meat
was eaten or provided, which I under
stood; but when Sunday evening was
celebrated by unlimited card-playing in
that same house, my traditions were deci
dedly jarred. I do not imply that my
observances were better or worse than my
host's, but that they were different.
"Having breakfasted, I 'began to ran
sack the city for work, and, in my to'al
ignorance, traversed many streets where
none could possibly be found. In the
course of that day and the next, however,
I must have visited fully two-thirds of the
printing offices on Manhattan Island,
without a gleam of success. It wa3 mid
summer, when business in New York is
habitually dull; and my youth and un
questionable air of country greenness must
have told against me. When I cal'ed at
the Journal of Commerce, ils editor, Mr.
David Hale, bluntly told me I was a ruu-a-way
apprentice from some country office,
which was a very natural, though mista
ken, presumption. I returned to my
lodging on Saturday evening, thoroughly
weary, disheartened and disgusted with
New York, and resolved to shake its dust
from my feet next morning, while 1 could
still leave with money in my pocket,
and before its alms-hou.se could foreclose
upon me.
"But that was not to be. Oa Saturday
afternoon and evening, several young
Irishmen called at Mr. McGolrick's, in
their holiday sauntering about town ; and
being told that I was a young printer in
quest of work, interested themselves in
my effort, with the spontaneous kindness
of their race. One among them happen
ed to know a place where printers were
wanted, and gave the requisite direction,
so that, on visiting tho designated spot
next morning I readily found emyloyment,
and thus, when barely three days a resi
dent. I had found anchorage in New
York."
A new suspension bridge is being
built over Niagara Falls. When comple
ted, the towers will be 105 feet high, the
span 1,250 feet, and the height above the
water 175 feet.
Talleyraud forbade the publication
of his memoirs for thirty years after his
death. . The time expires next summer,
when they will appear.
The miners iu California arc washing
out diamonds.
Electioneering Circular.
Considerable curiosity having been
manifested to learn the contents of the
libelous circular scattered broadcast
throughout Cambria couuty just prior to
the late election, we subjoin the document
entire :
"AN INSIDE VIEW OF POLITICS.
'THE WAY THK MOSEY CVOES.
" 'Tis a true saying, that if the people
knew how their money was spent, taxes
would not be easily collected. This say
iug applies just now, with peculiar foroe,
to Cambria county. Look for instance at
your Poor House, where about fifty per
sons are indifferently supported at a cost
of 10,000 a year. Of course no sane
man believes that this sum is .spent for
the. benefit of the inmates. Tho present
Steward, having made as much money as
he is likely to need, has kindly consented
to withdraw, remaining a silent partner.
The present County Treasurer being at
last settlement a defaulter, in the sum of
near 1,000 00, and the leading politicians
of town being his security, the candidato
for V ooi House Director, a brother-in-law
oi the lieasurer, who has enough of the
County's money to start a Shoe Store, is
nominated, and the Treasurer, being a
cousin of another Director, and a cousin
of the candidate for Sheriff, is to be ap
pointed Steward of the Poor House, 90
that these worthies can get their money
back, cx necessitate. This is the plan, it
may be altered as to form, but not as to
substance. But bad as this is, the oper
ations of your Commissioners' offico is far
worse. Think of paying your Commis
sioners 2,400.00 for doing the business
which a good business man can do in
forty days. Think too of paying 2,000.00
for the support of about, on an average,
six person3 for a year iu your jail. But
you may ask, havo we not Auditors to
settle all these accounts yearly. Un
fortunately the Auditors seldom know
anything about their business. They
come to town, and the first persons with
whom they confer are the Commissioners.
They tell the Auditors they must have a
Clerk, and that the Commissioners' Clerk
is tho proper person ; he is employed, and
as one ot the Auditors is always to bo
Commissioner next year, any and all bills
are soon passed.
"They then go to the Poor House,
where the Directors Clerk and the Com
missioners' Clerk soon settle the accounts
and cover all tracks. This is the system,
and it is time the people knew it. Tho
papers will never say .1 word, because they
almost live by receiving exorbitant bills
for public printing. People of Cambria
county, whatever, denial of the above may
bo made, you may rest assured that tho
half has not been told. The remedy is iu
y-iur hands, and if you do not use it, you
deserve to be taxed to death. Break up
these camps of dishonesty, the Commis
sioners and Poor House Directors, aud
your burdens will be lightened, otherwise
those burdens will bo doubled within a
few years."
M;t. Bonner's " Dexter." Wilkes'
Spirit of the Times says that the famou3
racing horse Dexter, which was bought
by Bonner of tho Lcdjcr for thirty-three
thousand dollars, was the cheapest horse
at that money that was ever purchased.
In estimating his value, we must consider
what he was worth to horsemen. He was
the means of acquiring boundless fame
and of earning money enough for the full
enjoyment of it. The year he was pur
chased by Trussell, his earniugs, clear of
all expenses,, amounted to 23,000. This
year, up to the time ot his delivery, ho
had earned 20,000. His owner received
two-thirds of the last, clear of all expen
ses. It appears, then, that the net incomo
derived from Dexter in about a year and
a-half was 37,00i. Now, we should like
some of the tine old capitalists and cun
ning young financiers who think that
Dexter was a dear horse, tu take a slato
and pencil and calculate whether a sourco
of income amounting to more than 20,-
000 a year, and likely to endure for at
least half a dozen years, was worth 33,-"
000. Mr. Bonner wanted Dexter, and tho
worth of the horse to the man that had
him is to be estimated in considering tho
price. The truth is that this hor.e occu
pied a position no horse ever, attained to
before in regard to money value. To own
the generality of trotting horses for pub
lic purposes is enough to break a bank.
To own Dexter was to gain money enough
to start one.
Says a California letter writer : Maine
is noted among the Eastern States for her
tall pine forests, so much so that sho has
the soubriquet of the "I'irie Tree State."
Yet during a sojourn the past summer
upon the headwaters of the Penobscot,
the tallest tree I saw or heard of had a
height of only 157 feet. This really is a
tall tree for the Atlantic coast. But when
1 told the Maine lumbermen that I had
seen scores of redwood cedar in Klamath
and Del Norte counties over 300 icet high,
and hosts of pine and spruce 230 feet
high, they looked upou me as one whose
lot was sure to be in the lake which burns
with fire and brimstone.
The lightning melted a ring from
the finger of a young lady in Massachu-
' selta tho other day.