The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-09-17
Political and New Items.s

;c victory. and the vote shows Democrat
ic gains.
In 1864 Grant said his tastes did
not lead him to the Presidency. 1t is
safe TO inquire, do not Grants 'ftastes"
rather lead him to the bar?
The public debt has been increased
more than FoRTY~Two MILLIONS OF dollars
in twelve months. Can this be ciphered
away in Radical campaign document
The negro murderer. Alfred Alex>
ander. now in prison in Philadelphia for
murder, has been again respited by Gov.
Geary. His color will probably save his
neck.
The negro supposed TO be guilty OF
rape on Mrs. Wildmap, of Brookfield, on
the 4th instant, and which resulted in her
death, was arrested in New Haven, Conn. 4,
on Sunday last.
One of the negro Senators of Louisi>
ana had street fight with another of his
color last week. The cause of the quarrel
dates from six years ago, when the Sena>
tor was in the poor house.
The scene of all the romances about
outrages in the Sonth, is laid afar off, in
Tennessee, or Mississippi, or away in
Texas. We dont't hear of any thing of
the sort in Virginia. That is too near
home.
"A recent improvement in safety
valves not only allows the escape of steam
when the limit of pressure is reached, but
when the water in the boiler gets too low
it opens a valve and floods the fire with
water.
"A man in San Francisco has accom-
plished the feat of riding horseback three
hundred miles in fifteen consecutive hours,
on wager of 81, 800. 1t is called the
greatest feat cf craftsmanship ever accom~
plished.
"A German of Chicago offers to bet
eight puncheous of wine, worth 81, 600.
that Grant will carry Chicago = Tribune.
Another German offers to bet that Grant
can drink the ''eight puncheons'' before
he is elected.
..Uuited States skies five twenties)
sell for less in the markets of the world
than Prussian, Russian, Moorish and
Brazilian fives. Why? Because the coun-
try can't carry $4,000, 100000 of debt
and the loil leeches too.
1t has cost the people about 500
since the war for each negro that has been
made a voter for the benefit of the Radi
cal party. White laboring men in the
North work FIVE days for themselves and
one for the negro, each week.
Amos Andrews, Of Lowell, who is
II years old, has been a chronic hermit
for twenty-five years He dwells in soil
tude on 100 acre mountain, some 800 or
400 feet high, which is called by his
name, and culIivates there fruit and ma
pie orchards.
Andrew Lacy, a well~known negro
living in Marion. Ark, at one time acted
with the Radical party, but, having be-
come ashamed of his association and dis
gusted with carpet baggers, changed to be
a Democrat, for which reason his house
was sci on fire and burned down. Let US
have peace.
A disturbance occurred on the after
noon of the llth inst, in the Cincinnati
rail mill, corner of Parson and Front
streets, between John Thompson and John
Kember, when Thompson snatched a red
hot iron rod, about six feet long, and ran
it through Kember's body, killing him in
stantIy Thompson was arrested.
The Hon VIM. Jessup died at his
residence in Montrose, on Friday last, at
the age of seventy-one years. Judge
Jessup, for a long time, held the position
Of District Judge, and was highly esteem
ed for the ability and impartiality of his
judicial decisions. He was once a candi>
date for the Supreme Bench of Pennsylva-
MIA, but was not elected.
In Kansas City, Mo-, they have a
feIlow>citizen who is ore hundred and
seventeen years old. He is an old trap
per, and his name is Ferhance. Only
think of it he was twenty-five years old
when the Declaration of Independence
was made, and sixty>four at the battle of
New Orleans. in which he took part une
der Old Hickory Jackson.
"A correspondent writing from Ohio,
says: "'rhe Hon. Henry Stanbery, late
Attorney General of the United States,
although in feeble health, has signifed
his intention of taking the stump for the
candidates of the New York Convention.
The State Central Committee have already
announced him for an address at Lancas-
ter on Saturday, September 26.'
Bonner, of the Ledger, says if the
Republican party don't make more of
Hiram Sammy Grant than he (Bonner)
did out of the biography written by the
old man, (Grant's father they will have
made a bad investment. He paid the
OLD man good round sum for that bio-
graphy, yet somehow or other it not only
did not increase the circulation Of the pa4
per, but actually reduced it.
IF it is true, as the Radicals say,
that the South was never in such condi-
ton of anarchy as now, then their pet
scheme of re-negro reconstruction is
failure, since its avowed object was TO
provide adequate protection for life and
property in those STATES. If it has not
done this it is failure, isn't it? Nail n
with this the next you hear them talking
about the outrages of the South.
Great excitement was created in