Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1855-04-11
EBENSBURG, APRIL III, 1855.

nembered The roads runifne through it,
and Connecting even It's extreme limits with
indiana borough, we're good and generally
easy Of travel Recently the citizens had
subscribed large amounts for the construction
of railroads within her borders. which would
increase the facilities FOR people reaching the
county seat, They had s1beeribed 81 70. 600
to the construction Of the branch road from
BlairsvilIc to Indiana which VIII 60 by the i
boundaries Of Wheatfe1d township, and IL,
900 to the North Western railroad
They have also lately constructed number
of public buildings, and are now about pur-
chasing = farm on which e erect poor house
'--relI c. ~ ieR have keen, and Eill H. sources
of great expense and heavy taxation. All
portions of the county have been taxed to
meet these expenses among the rest, the
people of Wheasheld township, which it is
now proposed to take from that county aud
make part of another county, in which it viii
be compelled to bear Its part of exactly SINH
lar burthens He considered this an act of
injustice, which he could not sanction Some
I of the citizens of Wheatfeld township, are
now only eight miles from the borough of In
diana If this new county be erected they
will be twenty miles from Johnstown, with
Laurel Hill between them. The argument
of convenience to the people when applied to
this case, is entirely against this BILL Wheat
field township contains about 325 voters, all
of whom are opposed to this bill He had
not heard of a single one, who was not otanxious
+ that it should be defeated. He trusted their
| wishes would not be disregarded and in
matter so seriously affecting their interests
and comfort He did not think that whole
districts should be annoyed and dissatisfied,
merely to crafty Johnstown. or any other
| town ambitious of being made seat of JUS
tee He had the strongest confidence that
| this bill would not pass; but he would not
permit himself to believe that the Legislature
would refuse to strike from the bill that part
| including Wheatfeld township Indiana coun-
ty, in the face of their manifestations of de-
| cided hostility to it. He has always been
friendly to the heerection of the county of Pine
but that was because the people of Indiana
county were favorable to that, if any division
was to be made. He had for several years
heartily supported this measure. and had used
every exertion to pass it. But if the Legis-.
lature should determine to erect Conemaugh
county, he could not urge the erection of Pine,
! as Indiana county could not be cut at both
points
Mr. Cummins thought the indications this
morning, were, that tie bill would pass. He
/ thought it wrong-that there was no justice
| in it-and knew that the people of the pro-
posed county did not ask for it, outside of the
| borough of Johnstown. The people of Som
| erset county did not want it, not even the
! people of the districts proposed to be embraced
| in it. This their vote of last fall had shown
| He had told the people of those districts, that
! if they wished to be cut from Somerset county,
| they should vote for him; if they did not.
they should vote against him This, he had
done, because he had supported the new
! county of Conemaugh last winter, and wished
/ them to express their feelings on this subject.
| They understood the issue, and voted against
| him almost unanimously. showing that they
/ wanted no change in their county relations.
| He cannot see why new county should be
/ formed Take straight line from Ebens-
/ burg to Johnstown, and the distance between
/ the points is about Ii miles. If they get the
! territory they desired from Somerset county,
the distance from Johnstown to that end of
the county would be 10 miles; and the county
would contain but 800 square miles, while 1T
would spoil the shape of the counties of SOM
erset, Cambria and Westmoreland. He wish
ed the gentleman from Cambria MIR. klng)
! would give good reason why the bill should
pass. The people of Somerset county. liy-
ing in the parts proposed to be placed INTO
/ Concmaugh, never go to law--have not to
and it was a matter of comparative unimport-
ance whether they were nearer seat of JUS
| tice than they now He hoped this bill
would not pass; but if it did, he would try to
/ be content
MIR. King replied, but SO indistinctly as to
! be almost inaudible at the opposite side of the
Hall. He said the people had recently been
| thinking of this subject. had instructed their
Senator to go for this bill which was an in
dication of their feelings The population of
Johnstown is between five and six thousand,
| and were greatly inconvenienced from want
/ of access to the sheriff and other county Off
GERS, and jail and other county buildings. In
consequence of these disadvantages, the peo-
pie there had been very anxious for some
/ years, for the erection of the new county
i His election had turned on this question He,
however, now gave notice that at the proper
time, he would move to amend the bill, so as
to leave the erection of the new county to the
| voters within the prescribed limits
/ Mr.. Mcconnell and Mr.. King further de-
bated the question; when,
Mr.. Daugherty made few remarks intro
/ ductory to letter he handed to the clerk to
be read, from parties residing in the northern
part Of Cambria count;
Mr. Foster moved an amendment 70 the
/ amendment, SO as to cut from the bill that
portion relating to Westmoreland county /;
3 which was disagreed to.
! The motion of Mr. Mcconnell to strike out
Wheatiield township. Indiana county, was
4 then lost, as follow: Yeas 20, nays H.
YEAs--Alessrs Allegood, Baldwin, Caid-
well, Cumuiins. (Somerset,) Edinger, Eys-