The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1867-11-28
EDITORIAL NOTaNGs.

AN adjourned session of the Rump con-
Yened in Washington on Thursday last,
aud Notwithstanding the unmistakable re-
buke which was administered to the lead
ers Of the radical party in the late cleo
tions, the very first act of Mr.. Sumner,
the belI-wether of the party, was the in>
PRODUCTION into the Senate of bill giving
negroes the right to sit on juries in the
District of Columbia. There is little
doubt but what this smeasure will be adopt
ed and put in execution in time to place
negroes upon The jury before which John
ii. Surratt will be brought for trial, pro-
Vided he is ever again forced to go through
that ordeal In the House the majority
report on the impeachment question was
presented on Monday, and it favors the
impeachment Of the President for what ii
pleases to term general NAL administration
1t is thought that the House will adopt
this report, and vote articles of impeach-
ment, and that joint resolution will be
introduced suspending the President dur
ing trial. Great excitement prevails in
political and financial circles in conse>
quence Of this movement, and should the
lntter proposition be sustained it would
In all probability lead to serious trouble.
PRAIRIE FIRES continue to rage in nearly
all sections of the West. They have been
particularly severe in Western and North
ern Missouri and Kansas, in very many
cases actually devastating entire farms
Immense amounts Of property have been
destroyed. The swanps of Southern Mis-
rouri are said to be mass of fire, and
along tue Illinois Central Railroad for a
distance of one hundred miles the prairies
are burning, and in Union county, Illinois,
the flames have extended to the woods,
which are now burning. No relief is lock-
cd for until heavy general rain falls, Of
which there is no immediate prospect.
IT is said that the Attorney General
has expressed the opinion that Surratt
cannot be legally tried a second time for
completely in the assassination Of Lincoln,
as the Constitution forbids the putting OF
mans life in jeopardy more than once
for the same offence. 1t is possible that
a new indictment may be drawn up, but
it is more likely that the prisoner will be
released by Congressional interposition.
TIE Union Pacific Railroad is finished
to The eastern base Of the Rocky Noun
taias, a distance of five hundred ard TWEEN
tyNfve miles west of Omaha. Evans
Pass, thirty miles further, and the highest
point between the Atlantic and Pacific,
will be reached by January.
NORTHERN white men who settled in
the South since the war are making pre-
parations to leave before the negroes get
entire control of the government, knowing
from what the negroes themselves saStha
the lives and properties of white men will
not be safe after that event.
WESTON, the pedestrian, left Elkhart.
Ind, at sos P NJ, on Monday, having
made seventy miles in sixteen hours and
fifty minutes. He was making his fifth
and last attempt to walk one hundred
miles in twenty~four hours, and he felt
confident of success.
DAVID n. LYLE, Chief Engineer of the
Philadelphia Fire Department, was found
dead in the central Office of the Depart
ment on Monday morning last. Heart
disease was the cause of his death.
The Radicals had a majority last year
of lO,208 in Minnesota, which has been
reduced this year to 1927, while the pro-
posed negro amendment to the Constitu>
tion has been defeated by 1928.
JEFFERSON DAVIS arrived in Richmond
on Friday last, and his trial before the
L. S. Circuit Court was to have COM
menced on Monday, but Judge Chase
failed to put in an appearance.
LABRADOR was visited by hurricane,
on the 9th Of October, which destroyed
more than thirty vessels, and thirty-seven
persons perished.
A FUNERAL procession Of two thousand
men, in sympathy with the Fenians exc
cuted at Manchester, took place in London
on Sunday last
MARSHAL O'DoSNELL, of the Spanish
army, is dead.