The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1867-07-25
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

The Rump adjourned on Saturday,
the Goth, to meet on the 21st of Noyem-
Der.
The Bellefonte WatcAanan has the
following: EGovernor Geary, it is said,
has already made upwards of $50, 900 by
pardoning criminals
In the Surratt trial s'the Court rules
out the most important testimony for the
prisoner. 'The Court evidently thinks
itself a military commission.
"A negro in BlondinviIIe, KY, enticed
a young girl from the house and commit
ted violence upon her person. She was
so much abused that she has since died
from her injuries
IA cable dispatch received at Bridge
port, CT, states that Elias Howe, Jr..
the inventor of the sewing machine, is
dangerously i'll in London, with scarcely
hope of recovery.
Sanford Conoyer, the periursr, whose
application for new trial was refused
day or two ago in Washington city, will
be sent on to the Albany Penitentiary in
the early part ofnext week
The Grads" of Nashville are i'm
porting hundreds of negroes from the
South and having them registered i'm
mediately on their arrival, to be used in
the coming election in Tennessee.
The Garibaldians are threatening the
Pope. Napoleon, it is said, will protect
the Holy See, and the redshirt gentry,
with their "John Browns SOUL will like
ly march in some other direction on the
double quick
The Rump House has s'passed' a
bill striking the word ''white'' from the
charter and all the laws relating to the
District of Columbia, so that negroes may
hold office, sit on juries and do anything
else that white men do.
The Rump Congress has passed q
resolution of sympathy for the Cretans,
who are at war with the Turks. A little
sympathy for an oppressed people at home
would be more in keeping with humanity,
civilization and Christianity.
The Treasury Department is prepar-
ing fractional currency note of the de-
nomination of Is cents. 1t will be issued
to the public in a few weeks The new
rote will be embellished with portraits oi
Generals Grant and Sherman.
The RAIDS of the Rump are trying
their utmost to get up a little capital for
the murderer, Juarez. From their stand
point MaximiHan was the barbarian and
the Indian Juarez the saint But, with
RAIDS white is always black and black
white.
Joseph Comro, of Lancaster county,
was murdered on Saturday night week,
by, as is supposed, his wife and her para
mour, man named John Smith. The
murdered man was killed by blow from
stone The suspected parties have been
arrested.
-Blount County, East Tennessee, has
been disfranchised by Brownlow. 1t was
an intensely loyal county during the war,
being next to Brownlow's own county.
BUTT has become too conservative Knox
county, which includes Knoxville, will
probably go up next.
A passenger from Fort Benton SAYS
that the death of General Meaaher was
caused by the General having been en-
gagged in quarrel with an Irishman who
had insulted him on the afternoon of the
18th, and which caused him so much ex-
citement that he became delirious, stole
from his bed and fell overheard.
The latest wonder has scome to
light" as country paper expresses it, in
Gloucester, Mass. There is in that town,
it seems, a child Of three years old, who
plays on the piano and melodeon and
sings with marvellous skill and correct
ness, and even composes original music
nursery lyrics, we may suppose-of her
own.
On Monday night a terrible accident
occurred at atLawrenceburg, Indiana Three
little boys, brothers, were playing on the
railroad track, and were lying between
the rails, so that the engineer of the Gin
cinnatl train did not see them in time to
check the train or to give the alarm. The
cars ran over them, and killed all three
outright.
"A new city has been laid out on the
plains at Cheyennes, near the Black Hills.
Coal, iron, minerals and water power are
found in proximity. The Union Pacific
will concentrate its great locomotive ma
chine car shop at tha: point. 1t is conf
IDENTIFY expected that the city will have
five thousand inhabitants in less than
twelve months. At present it is a bare
prairie, but within four months it will be
the terminus of the railroad.
On Thursday it was stated that a
train carrying Bishop Lamey, ten priests
and six Sisters of Charity had been cap
tured by Indians near Fort Larned, and
that the men were killed and the women
taken into captivity. A dispatch received
from Fort Harker, Kansas, dated July
10Th, gives some hope that the news may
not be confirmed. 1t states that no in
formation had been received at that place