The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1868-02-13
Summary OF News.

pointing out many nonsensical conditions
and its almost innumerable grammatical
blunders, the Governor concludes as
follows: "But why enumerate further
The whole bill is full of grammatica
errors, useless repetitions and palpab!e
ineongruit;es and neither the Executive
nor the Secretary Of the Commonwealth
has any authority 10 correct them. To
put such an enactment on the statute
books, in this agS of free schools, would
De reproach to the State, which [ am
unwilling to sanction" Governor Geary
has done a real service by calling atten
ton to the necessity for exercising great
care in the preparation of laws, sons OF
which prove the need of the school lmaster
even in the Capitol.
One Of Nasby's parishioners, Elder
AbSlm Pennibacker, has recently deceas-
ed. OF the Elder, Nasty says: "He
early distinguished hisself by his inven-
tive genius, which took the real Kentucky y
shoot. Twas him Hich conceived tht
idea Nv braidin small wire into the lashes
Nv niger whips; and, not satisfied with
that, he, alter a months hard study,
brought out the improvement in the
nigger paddle, Nv borin holes into it. He
had desprit struggle to set it adoptid.
The blind planters Nv the naberhood he'd
faith in The old paddle, plain, and the
Elder wuz forced to demonstrate, by
aotool experiment on his niggers, its
sooperiority. He killed two in doin it,
but he triumphed. 1t wuz found that
more chastiscment Good be inflicted with
1t in given time, than by the old method,
and that it lasted longer
The private Black Book, diary kept
by one of Maximilian's private secretaries,
has been published in Mexico, and reveals
some curious personal traits of the chief
actors in the Imperial tragedy in that
country. OF Miramon, it is told that,
having once lost at play the money of a
company of which he was the captain and
treasurer, he drew his sword and swept
all the stakes back again into his pocket.
OHoran is set down in black He
sometimes decreed death between cigar
puffs. General, / am going to shoot
you," he remarked to an astonished
prisoner, after taking last swallow Of
chocolate with him. The General was
N1"lSloA hGoCduOJ anu He was SuOk an
hour afterwards at Tacubaya.
Mr.. TILToN, in the Independent, quo
ting the concluding paragraph of Que Of
General Grants letters to the President,
wherein he repels the assault on his "honor
as soldier, and integrity as a man."
remarks as follows General Grant has
driven his pen through the President
like a spear. These closing, words have a
chivalric ring. Their author, finding
that his "honor as a soldier" and his
"integrity as a man" has been violently
against the cheek. Neither with voice
nor pen (both of which he uses rarely)
has General Grant ever appeared before
the public to greater advantage than in
the few lines which we have above tran
scribed."
4 NOVEL species of gambling IS thus
described in Washington dispatch A
gambling establishment exists in this city
where pools are opened about once week
for the Presidential candidates. Last
evening Western betting men were offering
odds of $500 to 500 that Mr. johnson
will receive the Democratic nomination.
General Hancock is the next highest
One of the prominent gamblers and
politicians of the country has been and is
still betting heavy odds on Chief Justice
Chase against General Grant as the
Republican nominee As the time for
the nominating convention draws nearer
the interest of these pools increases.
SOMETIMES people have entertained
ANGELS uuawares, but a Green Mountain
boy, who has been pelaing maps lately in
WestGeId and neighboring toW2s IN Yer
mont, does not answer to that description
His plan is to go to farmhouse and ask
for . nights lodging and food for himself
and horse. When his bill is presented il
the morning he astonishes the farmer by
asking to "see his license TO keep tavernp
Of course the license is not produced, and
| the bill is not paid. A thrifty young man
| thati
JOHN G. BREoK1NRIDGE, when las
heard from, was wandering about Syria IL
character of martyr, and telling every
| body he net that no country except this
could ever be his home, but he would no
| return to it until he could "do SO in
personal safety" John had better come
home at once, and stop making wander
| ing Jew of himself He runs no danger
in the United States except of being
forgotten.
THE La Crosse Democrat, which is gooC
authority in such matters, if in any
thing, says: at may not be general.
known, but it is fact nevertheless, tha
in 1864 the same pen that wrote tn
Chicago platform on which M'Clellal
refused to stand, also wrote Mcclellan
letter accepting the nomination and kick