The Democrat. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1849. Cakdinal Gwbons baa done good er ▼ice to society by callling attention anew to the scandal, common to all our States, of permitting so wide an interval to elapse between the commission of a crime and the executiou of a sentence. It does, in deed, sometimes happen that a criminal who is poor and friendless ia "railroaded" to the State's prison, but no man who has money or friends need fear speedy retribution. And no matter how poor or frieudless a man may he, he can count con fidently in cusc of homicide on prolong ing his forfei od life from one to three years after Ids crime. It is now not only difficult Hi convict, but to make a conviction go" i against all sorts of ap peals and del '.vs. And when punishment finally docs < cm-take the criminal, the public has for gotten all about the crime, add the sali.'cry effect is gone. Penalty is no penally, - > far as deterrent effect is concerned, vhen its infliction is so un certain and long delayed. The remedy is not to •' ..dilute other penalties for thbse now p ".filed, but to amend the criminal p.on- lure BO as to make punish ment is-acon . 'v certain and prompt. A 1.1 . f'IAT IS A GUN. The fam I'upp establishment over in-the " Fu' • 'iid," has just cast a little playt'ni in ■ shape of a cannon that wffi never b, j • polar for sneedy and con vdtiieiit trati-, "nation. Its weight and length as w> s the expense of shout ing i'off v il, ever stand in its way of bettig use, > celebrate our Fourth of July. 1' k . the beam at 243 tons, aud measuri fo f feet in length, and has a ramp! w.;u: .id sliot of eleven miles. Evcryttuif 's loaded and tired off it CoStS; (jftec.. ~ 'ndred dollars. But it is neither 100 . j nor too long, nor too expensive ' - Russian Government, as the Emp,. . purchased it, and had it mounted : • f his many forts. ' V NKKISM. The ten ■>: Corporal Tanner from the Pons, i u and the appoiutiueut of his si -one of those two-fold acts thai ■. ■■ ,ching in consequences and attjiu 1 < it complications of a del icHte a'no ,orae character. Among otlier tnit: ved in the dismissal of Tjnini t tvlo ■ ight a peck of trouble toh tlie-i sic rs that swear by the H&rttW'in •' ■ -tration, was the diffi cult t.i-k o' • yiug the act in the face of til, i ;s they printed lauda tqp'j' e ,yj ( . his acts. Without an egn'pijwji - ' wspapers teemed with mbviirai'V' ■ • g that all that was said nhoiibi s for his position of EujiMßi 'i ' - oner was a Democratic f- what they called copper hpadiipDUf, It was claimed that his llected great credit up on-tIiSA-'Nit • . lion, as he was pre cr; i 11KAitiAfr - 1, in every particular, tq-tlipql(#v iportant duties of tlie , i( i the right man in the nbjqpJ< ItufeUe-- ■ y of the Interior Depart mteiitirreb' .'onsible for the running •f tin: IV - :'ureau, soon discovered that J.bMi >■ .i tic press had sized up Cpjnjftiv- i . nner according to his lijppjy.i .-ji u he has neither the abil ity 1 <#' ; . requisite for the proper duties of such an office. And fa i .noval or his (Secretary NoVh' d on was the dilema pre sented in ii'.ent Harrison. Which horn shoo d ke hold of, was the ugly quest!! . i;.fronted his excellency. For din <. ■ ,-s between the devil and tlu: dec,. - '.s the Republican news papers me lit in supporting Tanner, he fori nv , ;Iy fix in which his re use v. 1 .von'; . uce them. But on the ottv nil, i ew the facts alleged by See ' Not. concerning Tanner's un fltt • ' to be published, hence, id -1 .il head. All. ih s ,vas amusing to see the shin .01, pursued by Repub lican .1 At first they forgot that the a Tanner in existence, but I nicfly hinted at his retire ment, in . i little friction between him air., i. tary. But finally, like little '" ■ i ' . teemed Republican edi tor i he bitter pill, and now adi ' t !'■• i's appointment was just win.; ! n papers had claimed it to 1 u dig mistake. Bid i •• in administration quar ter, hi . ..it • ay Tanner stepping down and out 'J' ;xt delicate thing was to appoin . or, and here again Har- 1 rison | i I;into it again. Passing by -the i hible men recommended by Con - ■ and Grand Army men, he final eh i a Mr. Itaum, of Illinois, who I m een named much less reeomnn The Illinois Senators and Reprcsi iad urged the appoint ment of Martin, and, therefore, had evi u to suppose if any one from i e should be selected he would h man. It is not supposed I hat the of the other man feel flatered nt of Presidential snub bing—in as already leaked out that thev ;c it warm for the man in the Ev ' 'hair. We ha ■ ; add, l?t the good work go on in an headquarters. This kind of i.lion will result in rev oluiioi ii towns, and cities be sides In < and points in Cotnec in ut nn I AN AUTOMATON DISTKCTiVE. That is what a '• drop-a-niokel-in-the slot" machine proved itself to be in Lon don the other day. It was taken into an English court, and secured the conviction of a man who had palmed u counterfeit coin on it. By dropping a penny into the slot it hands cut a cigarette. It seems that a man got a piece of brass answering in shape, size aud weight to a penny and dropped it in, for which he received a cigaiette. For imposing on the machine its "owner had liiiu arrested, and, the case going before court he was convicted of larceny. May not the machine, therefore, be come nu important factor in the business world, by superseding a good .many sal aried clerks ? The detection of Ihe im position in the above named case indi cates that it is more careful of its own er's interests than some clutks are. We should not wonder that on the grounds of economy and trustworthiness, the auto maton handler of mutiny would get the bulge on many of the bum in kind. MAltlilAUi'. I.Kb.VSES. Tlie Following llnvr llern Grained Si net. Our Last Krjnirt. (Lawrence L. Ileover OP'Mtztn' (Mary A. Sherry Allegheny twp (Stephen A. Myers Derby. I'a (Ellen Murpliy oiesson IJumes w. Wolfort somenr* co (Mary Susan GauLta -r Altooua, liinlr co (Cyrus J. Myers Mounialndale (Mottle L. Eclndston Ulaudburg (Frank Cain Munster twp (Alice AlcElnim yiunstsr twp (Andrews. Ktrsh liarrtwp (Amelia M. Eger liarr twp (Feter W. Ratl'gan siimmerhlll (Maggie Wright sutnwerhUl (Henry Holt/man Cambria City (Hose Fischer Cambria City (Thomas Miller Parr ,p (Maggie Farabaugh BlaukJiek twp (l'aul A. Kfrlttmatter Carroll twp \ nary Sophia Hoover Carroll twp (Harry B. Campbell East Cone* laugh (Theodosia Poland Btackllck twp (Cornelius Hunt .Tacl son twp (Sarah A. Funk East contmuug i (Joseph Wylund White twp (Harriet P. Elder Susquehanna twp (George Wesse! Galtltz.n (Susanna Freg.r uallltziu Killed a Black Bear. Indiana Democrat. Samuel Boucher and his brother, Wil liam, killeu a large black bear near the former's residence iu Greeu township, on Sunday evening last. Mr. Boucher's daughter saw the bear in the barnyard and informed her father, who armed him self with a rifle and axe, and started with a dog in pursuit of bruin. He soon catne up to the bear and put three bullets into him without bringing him down. Mr. Boucher then attacked the bear with the axe, but in doing so tripped on a root and fell, close enough for bruin to give him a last embrace, which he proceeded to do, lacerating Boucher's arm fearfully. Boucher's brother then came to his relief and put a ball 111 the bear's skull, which stunned him and gave his brother an op portunity to get loose, when he seized the axe and struck the bear a deadly blow splitting bis skull iu twain. The bear weighed 432 pounds and was almost covered with fat. One of the hind quar ters was brought to this place, and placed on sale at Grail's Meat Market, where it was soon disposed of at twenty ceuts per pound. Many UayM Before It lit Forgotten. I.atrobe advance Mo man knows just how much suffer ing the Johnstown flood has caused and it will be many days before the dread effects of this catrastrophe will all have been forgotteu. Each week some new horror is brought to sight and instead of time decreasing the records of destruc tion it is increasing it. Life and reason have in many cases followed the destruc tion of home and friends and still tne taie is not all told. Should Not Deprive If In Family of Pleasure. No man should deprive his wife and family of a good local newspaper. They do not go out from home to learn the news as docs the husband and father, and the paper serves to relieve the otherwise lonely hours of his absence. It is the worst possible economy to deprive the family of a local paper. Two Kills Fractured. Saturday afternoon Jacob Zipp, who was engaged in putting the electric light wires in Morris Newman's store, Clinton street, fell twelve feet to the pavement, striking a store-bo* on the way, and fr..• - | uring two of his ribs. The issuing of checks will hereafter not proceed in any definite order. The alphabetical method has been dispensed with- The smaller claims, however, will be paid first. CONSOLIDATION. The Biggest Guns of the Anli-Con solidalionists Spiked—Meet ings in CONEMAUGII AND MILLVILLE. Col. Linton and A. J. Moxliam, Esq., the Speakers-No Injun-lie to Any tine— Eacli ISuioug.i >Voul objectively, and for the liquida tion or such dolus the uuthoi dies of such city sliall have power to adjust and provide tor Ihe same and to any separate rates f luxation ou all property subject to taxation witlilu the bound nies ot t'ae said towns ur boroughs le- Bpect'vey. " I'lie qnes on of self," continued Col. Lintion, "is not the question upon which this mutter of cousohdu ion should piuge. It is a question of common good. Ido not sec how m> own pecu niary interests are to be advanced by con solidation. lam now and have often been the counsel fur some oi the bor oughs. Were we to become a c'ty I should lose that much at least. But when it comes to a question of common public good, I can see bow we all have much to gum. In iact theie has never occurred to me one good, sound legitimate reason why we should not con solidate. Some of the local political leaders may be afraid of losing their no toriety, but they would still nave their wards to look after, and perhaps would be able to gain as much notority as by the present system. '• It is argued tlmt, were we to consoh dale tile eetilre of tlie city, Johnstown, wou.d liy tlie connivance of its c.ouoeU mru gel most of the improvements, and toe outlying portions would have to wait. Jjet us examine this objection in the lijrlit of our past experience. "The same objection was raised when Keruville was about to become a part of Johnstown borough. What has been the history of Keruville since ? iier streets have ull been paved, even up the hill iu places, and the lights have been e - t unlcd out almost into the woods. She his sewerage also, iu feet, is much better improved than she could have been had sue become a borough by herself. Then such tiling would be unfair and contrary to the spirit of right. And. if it we-e attempted to do such injustice, the out lying wards would be able to out-vote the central portion of the city. Johns town borough would furnish much less thau half the population should the whole valley be chartered a city. '• The matter of police regulations must appeal to every citizen who has re gard for the preservation of order aud the public peace. We know how, under the i,resent system, the policemen are ham pered. In the pursuit of un offender or in the discharge of any official duty, they are limited by the borough lines. They have no authority beyond the lines of their respective boioughs. Suppose we had a city government, and any serious dis turbance or riot should break out. Then the whole police force could be coneen trated at once where needed. How would it be now ? The question need not be aiswered. " Taking all things into consideration I can not help th'nking that, as a whole, this community would ve-y largely add to its importance and intluence by be coming a city, and that in the end it would be much better for us all." Mr. Moxhara was then introduced and said in substance what follows : Mr. President arid OerUlnnen. " I hardly know why I am here, for as you perhaps know I am not a cili/.eu of this country. It may be because all my interests are here. All I have is here, and since the flood I hare in some way or other been thrown into public affairs. I have seen so much suffering resulting from a waut of unity of action that it has made me very much in favor of consolidation, even if I had been indifferent in the matter before. During the whole time since the flood wc have had no man or body of men, no com mittee, that could speak for the people of this whole valley. There has been want of unity, there has I een diversity of ' pinion, and consequent diversity of action. When the money was collected it) all parts of the country there was no one to whom to : 3nd it. Those who had the funds were inquiriug to whom lliey should send it. There was no one to reply until Anally Governor Beaver, as the Chief Executive of the State, ttsked to have the money sent to him, and he would see to its distribution. Then came the Flood Commission. With a city government and one central authoi'ly empoweted to act for our 80,- 000 people there would have been no Flood Commission, nod the money would have b. en distributed long ago. Much of the suffering that will have to le endured this comiug winter wdl be in consequence of our not having iiad a power that could speak for al our people. 1 do not wish to re- Hect upon the different com mittees that have grown out of the Aood. Thay hrve all done nobly. I have some idea of lite difficulties to tie encountered by these committees. The work would not have been half so great and would have (teen lurch inure quickly done, if we had had some one empowered to speak for us all. " There is another matter that should receive our careful consideration. I speak of education. 1 do not know o! anv oilier place consisting of so many different and separate municipalities as tliis valley, that lias so maiiv good schools lint still i.,wv i something wanting. We have no central high school. I trust titer, is no one here who il e-< not want his children to ive it belle', if im-tlile, 111:111 lie nils 01111 it We are a people who over oiv oiceio. iit. aoll 1 think Hits matter of edtica mills eseiviugof lis lull hoe of Otcii iuu. Willi OUB sjsli ui tliioilghuut the vatjoy and a good ecu lai Ingh sellout we should enjoy advantages of which inost of us ire now deprived. "The qucs' 1011 of c >nso!idal.oll is one that appeals meat sim-.g!) to cveiy man's sense < f public -> n. Seltialiues must be sunk now if t > vcr 10 lie sunk Our needs arc greater .v. Tttcv vvid be great also in inc near Pome. " The l aOl ■' i.l Iron Company. i know has officially itself neutral in the matter. My company, us a company, is against il, hut that is a good reason why the people should be for it. Corporations sometimes eucroacli or attempi to en croach upon our individual rights. Wo can better resist if we act as a unit. Put Hie interests of fs I,ooo,oooagainst those of a borough of 1,000 people most of whom look to that $1,000,C00 for their daily bread, and you know which way the thing will go. Put the same against 30.000 people, and it will have practically no influence. " Then we as a city can-do many things cheaper. We shall have- heller credit. There will be more competition to get the work that a city wishes to get done thun what a small borough desires to have done. If a city of 30.000 people waaits some important public work done, atten tion is drawn to it at once. If a borough unheard of outside of its county, wants work of a like kind done, it bus to seek for some one to do it." At the conclusion of tin; speeches at both meetings an Opportunity of ques tioning Hie speakers wa given bill I here were none to he asked. Tlie auonihiuno was not large at either meet inc. but tiiose present manifested much interest. Those IteeonU. Ebenslmrg Freeman. In the Johnstown Tribune,.at Monday,, the following correspondence appears t 2. the Milur of the JuhtieUnon Tribune. SIR ; I would like, .villi your- permission to propound a >ew questions to tlie voting taxpay ers of t.'auilula county. l)o you llt>uk, fellow-taxpayers, thatlt should be necessary in have therecordsof.the Iteglstor's office trunscitbed? l)ld not Mia conn. In order ing that tliey be rranser.bed.placeaie seal orbs disapproval on the work of seats 01 the former Democrrt'e lies Ist erst Have you any assurance tluu the work of transoming Is being correctly executed? I lave you any Idea of the coat to the county t hat this undertaking will entail ? lias not the present Incumbent already leullzfeil as tnite'ifrom the emoluments of his office as many other Keglst ers. .'tUfaigrr rr cl litis on tho gratitude of the . pie, icce edl-i two leruis t Is tt. rot a sad nm n nwtry on the efficiency of the clerical fotce employed by Blair t hat George K. y.alitn ha tto be aallod lit tut direct tne work 1 would It not, have been better to have employed none but competent ten like MI. Zalitu? Would It not jj a wise nvt oo the part of tlie voters of tho county to make a change In the office, that hi the event of the court being compelled to have the work of t ran scrlbltig cbrreetc, It will be lu the hands of a man who w, l employ suitable persons to per form the work ? Does It not look as though the employment of a huge clerical fotce In the licg- Isler s office Is luteaoed to strengthen Iho polit ical prospects of Ueglster Bhtlr? Is It notfothe Interest of the taxpayers OS the county o see that hereafter none hut competent men be choseu for tills responsible ollic . that the records may be kept In such shape that there will be no aecessl'y for an outlay of thousauos of dollars to remedy defects that should never exist In the records of tho county ? HespeclfuUy submitted by A TAXI-AVER. The correspondent of the Tribune who wrote the above evidently did not know what he was writing about. For his in formation and for others who are willing to learn, we will inform him that instead of the Court placing its seal of disapprov al on the work of some of the former Democratic .Registers, Judge Johustor, who is one of the oldest members of the Cambria County Biar, is too young to know whether some of the officials who did the work were Democrats or not. It Is absolutely certain, however, that it is not the work of Republicans for the simple reason that at the time it was done the Republican party was not iu exis tence. The books to be transcribed are Records Volume 1, 2, 3 and 4 and were written by Edward V. James, Cambria County's first Prothonotary, Cornelius Mc- Donald, James C. McGuire, Philip Noon, A. Bailsman and D. T. Storm, who in the order mentioned wero his successors in office. Some of them were Democrats, and we are willing to them all, for their wo'k is a credit to them and to the people who elected them. The old record* •>f Cambria county will compare favorably in clercial ability, with any records in Pennsylvania, but age, which has no re spect for books or persons, has wrought sal havoc with the paper and binding. Some i f them have been handled and ued for upwards of eighty years, and art literally in pieces. Judge Jeremiah 8. Black, Judge Burnside, Judge Taylor, Jorluta Jr\ Cox, John G. Miles, Moses Can in, Michael Dan Magellan, Henry D. Poster and scores of other iegal luminar ies, who have long since gone to their eter nal rest have pored over these old books in he early days of their legal practice hunting up the title* in the great land suits tried in this county and grew elo quent ss they detailed to juries, tue murks, blazes, comers and lines written ou their pages. One old cilizeu of Jonns towu, David i'eelor, in hunting up the titles to tile Cambria Iron Company's land has thumbed lliein over ofluncr limn the Dai'j/ Tritx.iu bus been issued. Tue indexes were transcribed about tire years ago by a Republican "ttici.u, John It. Brown, and I he rerniih should have been transcribed ilsvtg before now. It however, worries the Trihurie'x conespolid'iit to think that the work siiould Lie dene by a Democrat. As to the sewwid pararranii the writer admits that U.-ot C. Iv Zitrn is compet ent '• to direct ) work." If the work i* neceamirv. usi'l i mm wlio knows any. thing about the t.-vurds doubt- it, whit, more is wanted. Tlie work is not dune to remedy defot-S* is stale i l.y the Tribune'* eorrtMpoodciit lint to preserve for tlie future, what age and const tut use lias a orli to piece-. IN fIKANeUL ST at A ITS. Tin* Mutual AcciwueMt UHoniitioii of Pitt: - LURUTI ULLNI>I: <• (LUMPROIIIITIC s has been a great disap pointment to many of these women, as they counted tin getting tie fulfraniount, and-many of tliero lost everything by the flood and are in needy circumstances. The officers of tlie company are prob ably doing the be-1 they can. for in the risks they look they never counted on such a wholesale loss as that occasioned by the flood- The company is a mutual one, and tlie assessment occasioned by the paying of seventeen polices, ranging from #I,OOO l SII,OOO eacn, would make it pretty 11envy for Hie remaining policy holders. It is 'eared that many of them wouldi drop their policies rather Minn pav the assessment. Tile; Boiry >■' .!A ur.s u. How t :i> To Iteltaiswt t'o-llay unit Interred iul.nwer Tmter Cemetery. Saturday evening, on tne 5:12 train. Miss Julia Howard, of Altoona. sister of the iale James B. Howard, who was drowned in the flood, arrived in the cit' . She has secured a lot in tlie Lower Yoder Cemetery, and today will have the re mains of iter brother raised in Grand View and taken to tlie former place for perma nent interment. Miss Howard had in her charge l.er niece. Miss Lizzie, ber brother's daughter, until fall session at Seaton Hill school opened, when Lizzie was sent there by her aunt. Mr. Howard was a familiar figure on our streets, and was very popular among his mauv friends. The flood caught him at Creed's corner. He was a wira drawer by occupation, and being a widower, lie boarded with Mrs. Brady, on Singer street. James, his son, is now in St. Louis. The Itomuitirt of Mr. John Quiiiu and IIIH KUtor Ellen Kelnterred. Saturday Mr. James Quina had the re mains of his sister Ellen raised from where they had been temporarily buried in Grand View, and taken to the family lot in Lower Yoder cemetery. Miss Quiun was at her home on the site now occupied by the DEMOOHAT office, when the flood mime. Her brother John Quinn, was with her. The body of Mr. John Quinu. was also raised from the old Catholic cemetery in Conemaugh borough and interred in the same place. Mr. Quinn was not drowned in the flood, but died of injuries received Ou M Tour ol Observation. Mr. Frank Wiiliams, Superintendent of the Micl igan Sttel Works at Detroit, Mich., son of our o'd friend, Mr. James Williams, Superintendent of the Water and Gas Company, sails this morning from New York for Europe. He goes for the purpose of observing how they make steel across the waters, his trip in cluding England and France. Frank stopped off Thursday evening on his way east to bid his parents good bye. During bis absence his brother, Mr. Homer D. Williams, will have charge of the Detroit works.