if 4A f I ..Elk. iV 'MTNST I ill 1 THE BLESSINGS OF GOVERNMENT, LIKE THE DEWS OF HEAVEN, SHOULD BE DISTRIBUTED' ALIKE, UPON THE HIGH AND THE LOW, THE RICH AND THE POOR. ' ' ' f V SERIES. EBENSBURG, PA. WEDNESDAY," SEPTEMBER 2, 1863. VOL. 10-NO. 39. . I A 1 lli published every W'ednesday ... at I 'U1.1.1HV i r ;j pavalle in advance ; Oxb VSsvesty Five Cents, if not a mouths ; and Two Dolla rcular to those AVide-Awake THEUt OWN INTEREST. to .it ::rie '., n Pollar and Fifty Cents paid a if until the termination ot the year. 1 iripti"n will be received for a .'triod than si't months, and no will he at liberty to discontinue UUUl all arrearages wc - rtion of the etlitor. Any per- vribiti ',r 6lx monins wu ciiar "Ng Dollar, unless the money - advance. "tdverllslng Rates. One insert' n. Txco do. Three do ,., H:. lines! $ 60 $ 75 $1.00 ".v. '" J rir, l ues i t)U z uu 4 uu ' 3 months. t do. i lines I 2 50 4 50 124 lines 4 00 7 00 6 00 9 UU in no 12 00 1J UU vj V i 'If ! urn.f ' liu!S' .uran, 12 do $5 00 9 00 12 00 14 00 20 0C 35 Ot , HICKMAN. F. "O"- JAMES DOUGHERTY, WITH W. HICKMAN &L CO., Wholesale Dealers in y A S IT A C T U R E D TOBACCO, -ION AND DOMESTIC SEOARS. SSl'FPS, &c. ,0.1. THIRD & MARKET STREET. PHILADELPHIA. jTxaIR. J0HS S- DAVISON M A 1 R & DA V H O X , IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IS .'.DL1.LY, CARRIAGE AND TRUNK HARDWARE & TRIMMINGS, SADDLES & HARNESS, f . ft A o . n i riTKtVRGII, PA. Al MiXS, LEsT OAK TANNED HARXKS. SKIRTING AND RRI- DLC LEATHERS. .':::.t 17. 1?G3 lv. Cheap Cash S ore ! The subscriber would respectfully an nounce to the public that he has returned from the East with his large and well as sorted stock of goods, 'bought at the lowest cash prices, which he will dispose of at his usual small advance. OUR MOTTO. " The nimble dime bet ter than the slow dollar." Come one, come all, and be convinced that the cash system is to your advantage, and you will tro awav with the resolve that my establishment is the place to save money. No charge for showing goods, call ana ex amine. I would respectfully invite your attention to my well selected assortment of LADIES' AND' HISSES' DRY GOODS, containing all the latest and most desirable St vies of dress to be found in the Eastern Market, anions which may be had Mozam bioues. Cellulites, Killarnay Checks, Union Checks, Shepherd's Plads, Linen Lustres, Silk Poplins, a full and complete stock of Fancy and Plain Flannels and Shirtings, Linen, Muslin, Ladies' and Gentlemen's Gloves and Hosiery, and a tremendous stock of Austin Kelly , Cc.'s Patent Hoop Skirts, from four to fifty springs, which I can sell at Twenty-five Per Cent, below Philidelpaia Prices. ALSO, a great variety of CLOAKING CLOTHS, ranging in price from 5cts. to $2,25 per yard, and the largest assortment political. Evils of the Times Ilemcdy. and tuelr HON. LETTER FROM CHARLES R. BUCKALEW. :jn:r Philadelphia rates HIViN ICR white oak ih:d. a urn., staves and HEADIKG. ADDIESS, I11EO. M APPLE, X.. M2 8c 104 Gatzmer St., Philadelphia. F-.-Vruary 4, PCC.-ly. 'rant Sawmill. of Cassimeres, Sattinetts, '1 weeds, Jeans, etc. that is to be found in the country. PAP.PKTING AND OIL CLUTUS in rrcat varietv. at the lowest prices. LOOK. Mv stock of GROCERIES are selling a few cents below my would be ri vals. who - Can't see it." Tha cash sys tern Svruns still range from 40 to 70 cts per diHon. Government Coffee, bought before the late heavy .advances. I am selling at 22 cents per lb. It is superior to all tne new fancied substitutes now selling. ttKimrn Our TEAS, rauge from the low price of CO cents per pound upwards. EXCELSIOR. Our would-he competitors stand agha when thev know we have the heaviest and Wt oi.trtvl Kt(M-k of CROCKERY. CHINA. GLASS & DELTO WARE ;n anv cstublishment letween Philadelphia and Pittsburg, and that we sell eheaj er than they can buy. " They arc superb," is the common exclamation on examining our china Tea Sets, rapging in price from $12 to S20. which is lower than they can be purchased in Pittsburg. We are selling to people from all the surround ing counties, because we keep a large stock sell cheap. -One examination will su Rice to convince anyone that we are not puffing our goods. All kinds of Ornamental Flower ases. Mugs, Glassware, an 1 m fact all Kinos oi cockery ever imagined, we keep on hand. We are still selling the Wedgewood Iron Stone Sets for $5,00, which is 25 cents cheaper than thev can be bought for in Philadelphia or Pittsburg retail market. " I can't see how it is done ?" is the Well, we will tell you tne secret The following letter, written by the Hon. Chas. R. Buckalew, addressed to the mass meeting of the Democracy which was to have been held in Independence Square, Philadelphia, on the 4th of July last, but failed to come off on account of the disturbed condition of the State at the time, has found its way into public print without the author's name. We make the coiTCction, while earnestly commend- ng the sagacity and philosophic force with which its political views are pre sented. Mr. Buckalew's letter will com mand the serious attention of every think- in" man who will give it a perusal the approbation of every one conservative enough to understand the broad principles it so admirably applies to the solution of the great national problems before us : Patriot and Union. repudiation of the laws, as it denied their obligation. The- Abolitionists and the Republican arty are. therefore, first in fault, in break ing away from good faith, duty and law, and their example, and the apprehension of further acts of aggression upon South ern rights by "them provoked (although they could not justly) the existing great as - I .nrt I I . " Y 1 It.-. lULUIt ALUUA . . i, unih Krnm nnne oi lucac w i w 111 UUUUl. " w - we expect the firm establishment of xt" i r,Korir anA law. Ve are not to look to the -uilty for salvation, nor to go down shall be voted out of power. Tn Tw breathe faws for their resto- All laws shall be kept, and kept ration. The Abolitionist, the becessiomsr, and the Republican administration ana party, have each gone away iroui w laws of the land, and it is because of their unfaithfulness to duty that wasting well by President as by citizen. No proclamation-maoe iaw. No arbitrary arrest?. Xo bastiles. No suppression of the press or of free rebellion. I ...... i r, .- mninn(l I cnoofh. That reUllion was against the laws of war and the ouier evi r f . propcrty the United States, and put the whole body aflict the country. i i - r-- - :,:nl,v nc. i . i m. ti j-vt- at rrrHMi I't jvri 1 1 f .lm t dpfinnee. Althouih it assert- Irom euner a roiu..u. b- e- .i r :. ir ii .A nC inctifiPiitinn. ment. and a nrm Lnion ui.u I'll iur iL."MrlI a iv iii vuuvi v imwv.-j . . . it. is more manifest that it was lawless affections of the people cx- tbc that has been nauuionzea. inBOuru .r , 7" In tua "nepPnt calami- being without limitation ot time, must be aone ana iur . .v - mn .,.,fl.rWil Thft enmnact of LJnion Uut tor an tne wrong held, as intended by its 'authors, to "- -mrjA State9 provision contamea m jority oi we jn.-v.F 1 . o Inn t. not rcsnonsi- tno are not resinjnsiuit r - JOHN PORTER & CO. lALKRS IX ALL KINDS OF LUMBER, Are jirepareJ to cut to order, bills of SL'GAE, POPLAR. CHERRY and ASH LUMBER. A'i w.lers promptly attended to. Ad- JOHN PORTER & CO., A. 12. Hemlock, Cambria Co.. Pa, i :jGO ;icres porches and ivtiws,' ,,f valuable COAL LAND, situ car t':,e Pennsylvania Railroad, at ..nirri i'l Station, in Croyle Township, ': ibria cunty. Pa. About 0 acres of the i-i Wii.g cleared, and thereon erected a wo'.linp In .use anl barn, and other improve ments, alsn an excellent orchard of fruit "M. The above tract coutains and abun- ce of coal of a superior quantity, (a rabeiug opened,) and will be sold on rea kr.il'.e terms. Aptdv to Poland. Jenkins & Co., Balti Md., or to J. W. Stiatton, New Y'ork, "7. or to Wm. Kittell, Esq.. Attorney-at "w, Ebenshurg. Pa. POLAND, JENKINS & CO. J. V. STRATTON, ' Apnl 15. 18C3 tf. Owners. query. I am enabled to increase my business and ttock a:.. -u;i.. other tablishmcnts are gla.l to 4Vcreasn theirs. We are not compelled to a id large profits to make up lor losses ny bad debt, and we save by paying cash for good instead of buying on time and paying a higher figure. FATHERS AND MOTHERS, Our stock of Children's Carriages and Coaches, is iust the thing for those who value the health of their children more than email rmount we charge for them. Those who use a carriage once will never go ack to the old-f;u.l.ioned way oi iir-jn. chi'dren around in their arms. Call ana see our stock of Infant Carnages ana ta TVIIEELER AND WILSON'S SEWING MACIIINLS, . r ri.: .l of which I am Fole Agent ior TTMntinT.lon counties, are the oest macum i rr tr onn wsmuLcu ever usea. xuey c uv., for two years. I do not asK you to ouj un less you are satisfied you are saving money by so doing. ik. n.. v. Altoona, June 10, 1863-Sm. ERR T orttto t. uii. rnnmI wai. uirt ot ioo. x This way for K imlllitralarl Notice. -1 Whereas, letters Aliniuistratinn on the estate of Peter "Wible. late of Carroll township, Cambri catv. deceased have been granted by th leister of said county, to the undersigned, Riding in said Township, notice is hereby Pen to all persons indebted to 6aid estate w tris.ke payment without delay, and those 4T'n i-laims will preseut them properly 2ther.ticated for settlement. ELTZABETII WIBLE, JACOB STOLTZ, Administrators. Atig. 5,t Loretto, Chess Sjrrings and St Auaustine. The subscribers wish to inform the travel ing public, that they are now epred fufnish them with HACKS, CARRIAGES, tV,r n rcom mod ation in tueir Vine of business. They will run a The capital evils that afllict the nation arc, a broken Union ; civil war ; an im mense and increasing debt ; great and un exampled bitterness in the social relations of men ; and last, but not least, multi- jin.l n-.ive errors, usurpation and l' " D ' abuses of power by men in public authori tv. How these evils can be most surely removed, and their recurrence prevented, is the "Teat. " the all-engrossing question wlooli now confronts us and demands rpnlv. That reply is furnished in declaring the policy of the Democracy ot i ennsyiva nia a. policy so simple, so just, so per fi-otlv conformed to the necessities of the times, that none can misunderstand it, or sincerely question its fitness for the re pression of existing evils. That policy is connected with a sincere devotion to the laws of the land, and with a deep conviction of the necessity of main taining them intact and unbroken. These laws consist of the Constitution and sta tutes of the United States, and of the Constitutions and statutes of several . a t . 1 State., and include much ot me common law of England and those legal guaran tees of liberty which are the boast of British history. These laws ot I ne ianu ; make up that American system of free i government which has insured our pros perity and given us a high place of honor anion" the nations of the earth. But those laws have been assauea uku sys tem of government has been interrupted in its course the Suites arc broken asunder, and sounds of violence fill the land. It is time, then, to inquire, who have, ..:,U,.d those laws, and who are now the enemies of reunion and liberty ? Against whom, against what interests shall the voice of this great State be spoken and her power be exerted T ...... Unquestionably tne rauicai vw.vr Hs of the North assailed the laws per sistently and earnestly for years by in cendiary documents transmitted through the mails, to excite insurrection in the South; by seducing negro slaves to ab scond from their masters, assisting their escape, secreting them from pursuit, and by raising mobs to resist men ico..u. tion. They also created and kept up agi ;n rVmrross bv petitions for uncon stitutional laws, and the John Brown raid into Virginia a mission of rapine and blood was assisted by their contributions, and was followed by the canonization by of ;ts leaders as a saint. Instigated of the Northern legisla tures enacted statutes to defeat or impede the reclamation of fugitive slaves under the laws of the United States, thus giving State sanction to the revolutionary spirit. At last the uepuoucan puny r. i.i ,nl drew most ot the A Don- tlonists into its rants, came, great, daily hack from Lorett. to wessou, w nect with the aiuereut iram u t..-i i TVnsVinrP and L.res svivama ivanrowi, u - . . J rrl HI olen Tlir' ft tTl- pon Krancn. iney -- - weekly hack to Chess tspnngs auu o.. . - r l 'run vono r nn llllii - mi.tine. on flionaay, 'j of oach week. This is the only ""J .1. J o -oTievance on tne tuwi, D. MAGEIIAN, Esq. Attorkm .Ebenkburg Ta. 14viii At ICIIAEL nASSON, Esq. Attornet "A at Law. Ebensbure. Cambria Co. Pa. C'rliiot m Main nrreet, thre door East 1 Julian. ix 2 sure it carries the mail, and will always make the connection, teh Inquire for Ryan Durbin's Hack if you wish to be accommxUtea. - Loretto, July 29-3m. ' PS. NOON, attounet at law, EBENSBURG, CAMBRIA CCv. PA. Office one door East of the Post Office. Feb. 18, 1868.-tf. . , 'it. ana aiong wnu them obtained tneir paiuu atal dogma that there are laws oi individual will, higher m ouugauoii uwu the laws of the land, ana mat me iauer, when they conflict with tne tormer, may be broken without guilt and without re proach. It followed, in due course, mat the decision oi ui suP.c... ... United States upon negro cuizensnip anu the rights of Southern men in the terri tories was denounced, and acquiescence in it refused by the Republicans, and the validity of any law establishing slavery was denied in hcir platform adopted at Chicago. They refused to be bound by , the law, and their platform was itself a perpetual ; and the it for its own amendment provides only lawful mode by which its obligation can be-limited or changed. Considering secession as a breach of the public law, and in view of the immense interests put in peril by it, this State concurred in mea sures of hostility against tne rwuin. xut this was done to vindicate the broken air, and to secure the objects for which the rnvernment of the United States was originally founded, and for no purpose of great objects. conquest, of oppression, or ot tanaticai ex periment. Uwn this -ground we may justify our conduct, and submit it with out apprehension ot censure, to tne juag- roent of future times. But the war has lasted more than two yearsj and its management, and the same measures ot legislation ana oi executive policy which have accompanied it, have given occasion for frequent and just complaints It has been so managed that our artffies have been outnumbered where decisive battles were to be fought, or have been rashly thrown upon impregnable positions of the enemy. Our - forces, greatly outnumbering those of the Con federates, have been so disjiersed and so handled that their superiority has not de termined the issue of campaigns or con cluded the contest. After contributing one-fifth of a million ot men to the war, our State is insulted by raids, and is made dependent upon the friendship of neigh boring States for immediate defence. lint Jt is not the mismanagement of particular military operation, nor other mere errors of policy of our rulers, that i.ms conk into the hearts ot lrecmen as matter of most deep and enduring com plaint. Mere mismanagement may be imputed to inexperience in war, to acci dent, to exceptional or temporary causes, or, at the worst, to incompetency. But what shall be said ot acts ot vxngros ,1 nets of the Executive in contempt of the Constitution, which, learing upon the war, have protracted it, united the enemy, divided our own jieople, and placed us in a false position before the nations of the earth The Confiscation Act and the emancipation Proclamation are, in the opinion of a large part of our people, not only unwise and injurious to our cause, but also wholly unauthorized by any prin ciple of beligerent or constitutional law. - - .. .. JS ii.. We need go but a little way ueyonu doctrine of these mens ires before we con clude that the torch may lie applied to entire towns, and a servile, savage race le let loose to works of rapine and bar baric war. But not merely in the policy of the war itmr relations with the enemy has illegaUity, with consequent evil, appeared, TnCthese Northern States, .wholly un- ..i,l l.v rovnlt. the public sense has been outraged by related and flagrant acts of arbitrary power. he enumera tion of these would constitute a volume, and they furnish a premonition of evil in tlio future which every patriotic mind should view with deep apprehension. How long can the law be habitually and offensively broken by the public authori ties, in peaceful and free communities, before resistance will be provoKea ana a reign of social disorder established ? Thus upon reviewing our affairs, we perceive how the spirit ot revolution that of disregard and opposition to law has worked to our injury ; how it presses upon us with a heavy hand at the present moment, and threatens our future welfare. And we discover also the parties or in terests who are, in this connection charge able with guilt. The picture is dark and gloomy enough to create both abhorrence ITnfortunatlv there is no certainty of the amendment of our affairs by parties or administrations now in possession ot mt A LnUi!cf o f r ri a i m r I li power, lue awuiww ouuiua blc and insolent as oiu, auu re verted direction to the war. The Pvepub lican party, incapable and prone to abuse, has control of the federal government and of most of the State governments North nnd West : and the Confederate govern ment, inimical to reunion, ble in the sense of having intending mem. tholr be no question that if that majority could now act directly and fully upon public aflairs, they would decree immediate peace, union and lawful rule, as they existed in former times ; and would put down, or put aside, all who would venture to oppose, or would .w au tbft realization of these The Aboniioiusi piuovi . . . never commanded a majority even in tne Vnrth : the Republican party was in a minority of nearly a million of votes at the Presidential election of I860, and it is believed that a majority of the South ern people were opposed to secession even after that election, and abandoned their Unionism reluctantly, under the pressure of subsequent events. In point of fact, active earnest minori ties, North and South, have seized power j u.-i Minrsp of events, and UIIU WUUWin-u . tl, m-eat mass of the people have ap- peared to be unable to uireci mc v. destinies and secure their own welfare. They were prepared at the outset oi- tne rebellion to have maintained peace by some settlement of existing ditncumeh, and if the Crittenden Compromise had been submittedToienr-lt "would have been promptly and gladly accepted. But that occasion was permitted to pass by those who could have improved it. ar and for more than two years a and intelligent and free people, most earnestly desiring peace, have oecn slaughtering each othe-, accumulating enormous burden of debt to press upon themselves and upon future generations, and have not yet been able to extricate themselves from the difficulties that sur round them. What then is the remedy for these evils? One would think that he that runs might read it- Surely our exigence i n r...i. ,,r ttirt ro:ul of safety, and cause willing feet to turn away from the paths of error to tread it. The remedy is, toadl toj'lacanf jwirer tl.e men tcho have krpt the Ictus and to eject from power tlwsc icho have Irolxn them. The right of suffrage yet exists. It has not been stricken down by military force, and it remains to us the great instrument of ... V... li.- nrn ;md sovereign power prepa.iv.-u . wisdom of our ancestors not only lor prosperous times but also for for the mis government and calamity.. By wisely ex ercising it we may yet redeem- our fame, and secure the future. Tho nomocracy of Pennsylvania stand upon this necessity and rightful principle of public morals and of national redemp- tion: Tht ' restoration and the support of ll the lau-s of the land as thai ira-e agreed vpon between Vie States, or haw been enacted h f'n,-r. This excludes all nullifica tion, secession, proclamation-law, arbi trary arrests, abolition mobs, and Chi cago platforms. But it is not ineonsis- tent with the repeal or ameuuiueiu, ui particular statutes, or with the amend ment of the Constitution. The power of amendment is itself a fundamental law, and an invaluable feature ot our system. With a good cause, and with candi dates worthy of the cause, we stand up once more in this Commonwealth and in voke the favor of the people. Our party the Constitution, nor bro cept for crime judicially ascertained. No emancipation by Federal power, or at the expense of. the public treasury. The laws of war shall be observed. The Confederate government must re tire from the scene, and its armies be dis banded or put down. The Confederate debt to be the concern of tho States which incurred it. The Union shall be perpetual, and shall be declared so. The recent legislation of Congress shall be reviewed and corrected. The public debt of the United States shall be honestly paid. No duties of taxes except for revenue. A convention of all or three-fourths of the States shall be convened. The Constitution shall erpreszty provide in the very machinery of government, a jmcer of defence against sectional parties. Reduced to their simplest expression these declarations signify that we shall stand to the law and duty, and provide against future dangers. And if they, or the substance of them were distinctly en dorsed and held up to public contempla tion bv the States just mentioned, can any one doubt that the effect produced would be immediate, and extensive, and salu tary The end would then come into view, and its certainty would accelerate events, and give them proper direction. We would have a question of weeks or of months, instead of years or of an indefi nite period, in reaching the day of relief. And whe reached, the adjustment of our troubles would be complete and perma nent, differing in both these respects from a result achieved by force alone. It ought not to be our desire, and it not our interest, to make a Hayti or a Poland of the South. But it is not here proposed to discuss generally the question of the war or th question of the reconstruction of the Union, but to present the positions of parties wish reference to the principle of lawful rule. And the point insisted upon is, that a party faithful to law and duty must take possession of public power before we can reasonably expect a just and honora ble peace firm reunion and enduring safe ty. Let this thought sink deeply into tho minds of the people, and they will cer tainly restore the Democratic party to power, and will put down the guilty and and lawless factions who have abused their confidence and betrayed their hojes. In the Orpbant' Court of CmbrU COUNTY. June Term, 1SC3. CAMl'.RIA' COUNTY. SS. - The Common vf.ai.tii of Pennsylvania. To Thomas Fitz Gibbons and Charles Fitz Gibbons, iu Dvdge county, Minnesota, heirs and legal representatives of Michael Fitz Gibbons, late of Allegheny township, said CouDty, dee'd, you and each of you are here by cited 1o be, and appear before the Judges of our said Court, at Ebensburg on the first Monday of September next, (being the th day of said month), then and there to accept or refuse to take the real estate of the said Michael Fitz Gibbons, dee'd. situated in said County of Cambria, and which has been ap praised and valued by an inquest" awarded by the said Court and returned by the Sher iff of said Coanty, on the first day of June, A. D. 163. to wit : Premises. No. 1 6itua ted in Allegheny township aforesaid, con taining one hundred and nine acres (109) ninety nine (99) ptrches nett measure, valu ed at 741 per acre; premises No. 2, ariN joining premises No. 1. containing (80) acres and 18 perches, valued and appraised at S8.41 per acre, or show cause why the same should not b sold. Herein fail not. Seal. Wirness the Honorable GEORGE TAYLOR, President Judge of our paid Court, at Ebensburg, this firtt day of June, A. D. 18CR. E. F. LYTLE, Clork O. C. l...a rwt ctrilfL- ken the laws, nor evoked the demon of Sheriffs Office, Ebensburg, sectionalism, nor been in any respect un faithful to those vows of union which our j .JOHN BUCK. Sheriff. fathers pledged to the people of our sister I States. The words of faith pronounced j V on behalf of Pennsylvania by the Clymcr , McKean's and Ingersoll's of former times, we have kept, and we intend to keep them in letter and spirit unto the end. What is proposed is, that this State shall, at the coming election, take a front rank in a general movement of the cen tral States for the redemption of the coun try from misrule and wasting war, and impending bankruptcy, and from utter disgrace- New York, New Jersey, Ohio, d lll'mois. ami the border States south of these, can stand up with us, and said fund. CYRUS L holds position J :igrec with us in uttering the words which Johnstown. Aug. o.-ot. of EORGE ENGLEUACH for use George Conrad, vs. William Hermann. Common Pleas cf Cambria county. No. 1 Sept. Term, 1861. E. D. . The undersigned having been appointed an Auditor to distribute the fund arising from the sale of the defeudant's personal property, hereby, gives notice that he will atteu'i to tne uuura v.- tHiivj M 1 his office in the Boiough of Johnstown, on Friday the 4th day of September next, at one o'clock, P. M. at which time all persons ar red to make their claims before th 1 Auditor or be debarred from coming in oa PERSHING.