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Protest against tho Election.

The Cokesbury Democratic Club,
of Abbeville District, besides protest
ing against the legality of the late
election to ratify the Constitution,
and for members Of Congress and
the State Legislature, and for State
officers, declare their ability and
readiness, if allowed, to make good
before any proper tribunal, by indis-
putable proofs, the following charges
of irregularity. unfairness and fraud,
in conducting the said election in
Abbeville District:
1. Persons under age were allowed
to vote.
2. Persons who, by General Or
ders, were required to have certifi-
Gates of registration attached to their
votes, were allowed to vote without
such certificate.
3. Persons who never registered
were allowed to vote.
4. Persons living in adjoining Dis
tricts we're allowed to vote in Abbe-
vile District for members of the
Legislature, and O member to Con-
as we'll rs other officers.
5. Persons who were candidates
for Office were allowed to act as ma
nagers of the election.
6. Persons living in adjoining Dis
tricts were allowed to vote, without
having resided in Abbeville District
the required length of time.
Z. More votes were polled than
names of voters registered.
8. Ballots were counted in private,
and not until the day after the cleo
ton, in violation of the requirements
of the law.
0. Ballots were received by the
managers of the election, and by
them deposited in the ballot t-box,
and not by the voters themselves.
10. Boxes were opened and ballots
abstracted before the close of the
election.
IL. The precincts in half of Able
vile District, in which it is believed
there is majority of whites, and
certainly of Democratic votes. were
abolished, and not allowed to be
opened.
IL. At the Court House, colored
voters were allowed to mass them
selves 30 closely around the polls,
that it was difficult, if not impossible,
for white man to vote, for the first
two days Of tho election.
(Signed,)
F. 4. coNNoR, President.
[Official)
d. WYATT AIKEN, Cor. Sec'y.
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WESTON READY FOR A F1vE-THoU-
sAND-MmE WAbK.-Edward Payson
Weston, the pioneer and best known
of American pedestrians. is in town,
and preparing for another and greater
feat than that which he accomplished
so handsomely last autumn. This
time, this pedestrian is to walk from
Bangor, Maine, to st. Paul, Mime
sofa, and return to Buffalo, New
York, making in all 5000 miles, to
be completed in 100 consecutive days.
This feat is to be done for wager
of $25. 600 side-in all, $50, 600 \
Mr.. Goodwin still backing Weston,
and Messrs. William B. Fredericks,
Samuel G. Brock, William B. Per-
kins, j. G. Carroll, and Eugene M.
Ball backing time. A purse of
S25, 900 is also being raised to be
presented to Weston if he should
accomplish this monster feat. AS
he will not be allowed to walk on
Sunday, he will only have eighty-six
secular days in which to accomplish
the feat, and will have to make the
enormous average of 5S1a miles daily
in order to win. He will also have
to walk 100 miles inside of twenty
three consecutive hours five times
during the march of the 5,OOO-that
ls to say, once in each thousand; and
should he fail in doing this fent once,
he forfeits all claim to the $25, 900
purse, and forfeits $4,000 for each
event to the hackers of time in the
wager. He will also walk fifty miles
in ten consecutive hours, once in
each thousand miles, making five
times in all. In both of these feats
he will be allowed two trials at each
event. If Weston succeeds in ac-
complishing this, he will certainly
give the British pedestrians who have
been talking 30 much of late, q les
son that will in all probability drive
them back to their native shores
with very exalted opinion of Ame-
rican enterprise. Mr.. Weston pur-
poses starting on or about the 18th
of August from Bangor, Me-. and
terminating at Buffalo, N. Y, on
November 26th. He will be accom-
panied during his entire walk by q
party of six sworn judges; and there
will be attached to the carriage an
odometer for the correct measure
ment of the distance. During his
walk he will pass through twelve
different States and innumerable
cities and towns. The first deposit
of So, 600 was made last night in the
hands of the stake holder, Mr.. ELIAS.
Ne,o York Tribune.
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Central C0mn,iktss to Withdraw their.
opposition to . OonyentioH, proposed
to be assembled upon due notice,
.where the whole question. of quail
fled auffage, shout which there is ,a5
,oontrarikty Of opinion, could be calm
ly and tsmperately discussed BY d
full representation. And failing In
this, to place on record my protest
against the States assuming the
championship or qualiied suffrage at
this iunoture. I apprehend that is
would very seriously embarrass the
action of the Democratic party, and
as little to that end should be done
By us as possible. Very respectfully,
60, M. O. BUTLER.
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Dsnoer,asic sCitlbs,s,,.. !

CLnsToN, LAUREEs DIsTRIcr. This
club was organized May 1. The
meeting large and enthusiastic. Adj
dresses by Cots. W. d. Simpson and
B. W. Ball Seventy -one men-good
and true came formed and joined.
TSnnRsyInlH, LAURENs D1srR1or.-
Organized April %. John D. Patton,
President: g J. Cs.;g, vios-Presi-
dent; o. L. Fike, Secretary and TreaI-
suref.
MARTINS DEPOT, LAuRENs DIS.
TR1or.-Martin's Democratic Club,
organized May'1. DIR. VIM. Rook,
President; w. F. Metts, J. NJ.
Young, .Vioe-Presidents; J, w. Watts,
DR.. M. @. Rivers, Secretaries; J. W.
Jones, Treees=sr.
ORANaEBURa DIsTRIor.-The cause
advancing. Our energetic and ex-
oellent friend, F. NJ. Wannamaker.
Is President of the Orangeburg De-
mocratio Club, and is at work.
ABBEvILLE DISTRICT. most
favorable. the District Is moving
and Democracy triumphant. Cobes-
bury in particular, aided by Presi-
dent Conner and Col. Aiken, emulates
Columbia.
Col. Aiken writes US that they are
at work, and hope to commend our
Democratic programme alike to black
and white conservatism. All over the
State, we want the young, the ardent,
and the hopeful, to go to work.
Our causeis thewhite mans cause
it is the colored mans salvation
it saves the commonwealth.
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SINGULAR REVIVAL OF THE He.
DREW RACE. This is the singular
title of a long sensation leader in the
New York Herald, of Sunday. The
whole sum and substance Of the re-
vival. we. find, upon reading the
column-and-a-half article, is that
Disraeli. is ut the head of English
affairs; August Belmont, the Chair
man of the National Central Demo
cratic Committee; and J. 2 Benia-
min played leading part ia the late
Southern Confederacy.
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The approach of storms is to be
announced by the Western Union
Telegraph Company in all those
towns that will Communicate the in
telligence to the neighboring farmers
by means of signal guns fired accord.
ing to q preconcerted system. The
plan will thus be thoroughly tested
during the ensuing season.
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The following despatch, which
should have been published yester-
day morning, was accidentally omit
ted. Mr.. Brooks concluded his re-
marks on the admission of the
Southern States by saying: r.
"The whole object of the Congress.
sional legislation was apparent. It
was all Intended to radioalize the
South, and the party in power here
have amnesty and pardon and well
come for any man who embraces
radicalism, no matter what his past
conduct or past acts may have been,
or how deeply and darkly his hands
had been imbrued in treason. Those
who accepted radical views were par
doned by wholesale. s~,.
Paine and Bingham advocated the
bill. - -. =
Woodbridge offered an amendment
to strike Alabama from the bill.
Lost by vote of 60 to IA.
Stevens amendment, in reference.
to debts due loyal men in Georgia,
was adopted. Ayes IS, nays SO. 81
An amendment, striking from the
first section the clauses prohibiting
change in the Constitution, and in
serting in lieu thereof, that ''the Con-
stitutions of said States shall never
be amended or changed so as to dis
criminate in favor Of or against any
citizen or class of citizens of the
United States, in reference to the
right to vote, who are now entitled
to vote by said Constitutions, was
adopted without division. -.
An amendment, providing that all
these States, shall be admitted to
equal rights of suffrage, was rejected
without division. H
The bill was then passed by vote
of 10S ayes to 80 nays, and the
House adjourned.
The Charleston Ne,cs explains the
matter: s..
cit is enacted in the omnibus bill
that the five States named shall be
re-admitted to representation when
their Legislatures shall have ratified
the fourteenth constitutional amend
ment, provided that the Constitution
of the said States shall never be 80
changed as to deprive any persons Of
the right to vote, who are entitled to
vote by the present radical Constitu-
tions. This is the provision of Con-
gress; but the fourteenth constitu-
tional amendment leaves the question
of suffrage to be determined by the
states, and when it shall have become
q part of the Constitution of the
United States, it will give the States
the very right that they renoupce as
the condition of their restoration.
''Even the wisest folks trip some
times, and the step of the House Of
Representatives may be overcome by
the passage of supplementary re-
storation bill providing that, wher-
ever the laws of Congress and the
provisions of the United States Con-
stitution are at variance, the laws of
Congress, and not the Constitut;or,
shall be held and understood to be
the supreme law Of the land.s
'By our latest telegrams it will be
seen that the House has stumbled
over the block, and has amended the
bill so as to prohibit any change in
the suffrage laws which is not impair
tial in character and oDerafioo ~
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Godey. for June, has been received
by Mr.. McCarter. 1t is particularly
attractive, and the fashions reliable.

--~-.,A~o.o1oco
MUSICAL PUBLICATIONS.. We have
received from the publisher, J. L.
Peters, New York. copies of the fol-
lowing monthly publications: "Peters'
Parlor Companion, for the Flute,
Violin and Piano." price So per
annum; single copies 80, cents. It
consists of sixteen pages of music,
arranged for the flute and violin,
with piano accompanied, ad h5., or
for two violins., and may be used as
flute or violin solos if desired. =; .r,,
"Pete,'s' United States Musical Re-
Oie,o," price So per annum; single
copies 25 cents. This work contains
from twelve to fourteen pages of in
teresting musical reading, art items.
etc., besides several pieces of music. ,
"Peters' Monthly G!ee Hive," price
So per year; single copies 80 cents.
It consists of sacred and secular glees,
trios, quartettes, opera choruses, etc.
These works ore very attractive,
and will prove valuable additions to
q musical library.
MAIL ARRANGEMENTS post
Office open during the week from eh
q. m. to 6 p. m. On Sundays, from
~ to So p. m. ,tr, -.1g .
The Charleston and Western mails
are open for delivery at AZ p. M, and
close at S1a p. m.
Northern-Open for delivery at
81 a. M, closes at 2.45 p. m.
Greenville-Open for delivery 51S
p. M, closes at 8 p. m.
New ADVERTISEMENTS. Special at
tention is called to the following ad-
vertisements, published FOR the first
time this morning:
Mrs. H. G, Bronson-For Sale.
Republican Nomination. t"7
j. & Z. r. Agnew-Groceries.
Apply at:this Office-For Rent.
Fisher & Lowrance-Fan Mills.
Altee & Barry-Carolina House,
Edward Hope-Declination.
M. Ehrlich-
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",rHE CARon1NA Ho6sE." ."-Messrs.
Altee-& Barry have opened restau-
rant in the handsome building on
Washington street, formerly occu-
pied by MI. A. r. Phillips; and as they
are both old hands at the. bellows,
will doubtless afford satisfaction to
their customers. Lunch will be fur
nished every day, at 11-and, Of
course, we suppose, something extra
to-day.
LION LAaER.--We return our
thanks to the proprietors of tho Ex-
change Restaurant, for pitcher of
the celebrated Lion lager beer. BY
calling at their establishment, this
morning. at II o'clock, you can OBJ
tain a glass, together with some ex-
cellent olam chowder.
Court OF APPEALs-Friday, May
15.-J. B. Adams and wife vs. G. 81.
Latham, executor. Mr. G. ". Viii
liams was heard for appellant; no
reply.
8. M. Smith and wife rs. John Cald-
we'll. Mr.. @. D. Melton was heard
for appellant; Mr.. J. D. Pope contra.
JAS. s. Guignard ct al ads. Mary
s. P. Gibbes ct al. Mr.. Talley read
brief until 8 o'clock P. NJ, when
court adjourned until Monday next.
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should be elected, universal suffrage
will be the inevitable rule; and wher-
ever in these United States, North,
South, East or West, any attempt
shall be made to abridge it, it will be
enforced by the bayonet.
It is only through the Democratic
party that we can hope for deliver
ance. BY its agency, the ancien
regime, the dignity of the States, the
equilibrium of the Government may
be restored. Its failure will be their
death-knell. We should, therefore,
if possible, do nothing to disturb its
harmony.
But five States in the American
Union admit the negro into the body
polite. The Democratic. platforms
in eoery State exclude him in the
bmost emphatic terms. Why should
ours differ SO radicaLyfrom the entire
party? One of the prominent lead
ing cardinal features of the Demo
cratic creed, from time immemorial,
has been the exclusion of any other
than the white race from the body
politic-Indian, Chinaman and nepro,
70 admit any other would neutralize
the Government, and eradicate that
essential element of conservatism
which has hitherto checked it from
running into the most absolute and
brutal despotism-a despotism of
force, represented by numbers.
It is sincerely to bo hoped that
South Carolina will not De the first
at least, of the Southern States-to
infringe this wholesome rule, but
Eenr the ills she has with what pa
tience and endurance may be neces-
sary to preserve the integrity of her
character, rather than fly to those
which are so prominently before her.
I did not, however, propose to
extend this communication to it's
present longtime further, in fact,
than to urge with great respect the
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-12-10
To CouS1InoDtfyes,

The advertiser, having been restored to health
in few weeks by very simple remedy, after
having suffered several years W tn a severe lung
affection, and that dread disease, Consumption,
is anxious to make known to his fellow suffer
ers the means of cure. To all no desire it he
will send copy of the Prescription used Gree
of charge) with the directions for repairing and
using the same, which they will find SURE
CURE for Consumption, Asthma, Bronchitis,
&c. The only object of the advertiser in send
ing the Prescription is to benefit the afflicted,
and send information which he conceives to be
invaluable and he hopes every sufferer will
try his remedy, as it will cost them nothing,
and may prove a blessing. Parties wishing the
Prescription will please address
REV. EDW RID A. WILSON,
I65 South Second ST., Williamsburg, Kings
County New York Noy.l2, SO -ly.
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TEAcHERs' COUNTY TSsrIrUTE-The see
ond session Of the Cambria County Teachers
Institute will be held in the Court House In
Ebensburg, commencing Monday. Decem-
ber 2lst. The exercises will embrace class
drills in the various branches Of common
school study, reports on subjects Of educa-
tioral interest, aud discussions OF the reports,
lectures, &c.
Among those who are expected to be
present aud participate in the exercises, are
Hon. J. P. Wickersham, State Superinten-
dent Of Schools; Rev. Joseph Waugh, A.
H., Principal of the Holidaysburg Female
Seminary; Prof. Andrew Burtt, A. NJ, Of
Pittsburgh Rev. B. NJ. Kerr, A. NJ, Prn-
cipal of the Ebensburg Female Seminary :;
Prof. c. A. johnson. A. NJ. Of Johnstown !;
Prof G. W. Cope, Editor of the Teachers
AdrOcatE; Samuel Singleton, Esq, and
others.
Evening lectures will be delivered as fol-
lows:
Monday eveLing-Rev. Joseph Waugh.
Tuesday evening-Hon J. P.Wickershanr
Wednesday evening-Prof. Andrew Burtt
Thursday evening-Rev. B. NJ. Kerr
Boarding places will be provided for
teachers during their stay at the very lowest
rates They will confer with the special
committee Miss Maria Brook banks, Geo. W.
Cope, and T. J. Chapman, at TIE Court
House. before securing boarding places for
themselves.
Free return tickets will be furnished such
members of the Institute, as pay full fare
over the railroad in attending the meeting.
1t is believed that the course of exercises
will be such that no teacher can absent him
self or herself from the Institute without
suffering q loss. Progress is the watch
word of the profession a teachers status
in the profession will hereafter depend, in
good measure, upon the fact of his or her
attendance OF non attendance at the annual
Institute.
School directors are especially invited to
be present. In accordance with a sugges
tien of the State Superintendent, Wednes
day, OF such part of tho day as may be
thought proper, will he set apart for the
exclusive business of directors.
The public generally is invited to attend
the meetings of the Institute, as il is our
desire that the benign influence of the In
stitute shall be felt by all classes in our
midst, and that it shall "leaven the whole
lump"
T. J. CHAPMAN, Co. Supt.
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Died.

ROWLAND.-In Biacklick twp, Dec.
Sd, Amanda, second daughter of Amos and
Mary E. Rowland, aged month and days
Our little one was bright light in our
home, but we feel that God has not left US
in darkness in taking her away.
One sweet flower has dropped and faded,
One sweet infant voice has fed
One fair brow the grave has shaded,
One dear daughter now is dead.
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LOCAL AND PERSONAL.

BRIEF MENTION. Tuesday last, 9th inst,
was observed for the first time 10 this coun-
trv, bv the Catholic Church as u holiday of
obligation. being designated as the Feast os
the Immaculate Conception.-A young
man named Martin, brakeman on the
Hollidaysburg Brarch coal train, was Sc
verely injured one day last week while try
to adjust a coupling between two cars
The Fair of the Vigilant Steam Fire Com
pany opened in Altoona last night. The
Catholic Fair is still in progress, and large
crowds attend it nightly.-The new skat-
ing rink at Altoona has been completed.-
No less than four bears, a mother and three
cubs, were shot on one tree in Indiana
county, few nights since. The old bear
weighed 220 pounds, and the cubs more
than 100 each.-The Cambria Iron Com
pauy have bought Lemons Iron Works, in
Bedford county.-A young lady named
Mary Dewait was run over by a freight
train at Mlfflin on the 4th inst, while en-
deavorng to get out of the way of the ex-
press train, and so seriously injured that she
died the same evenng.-A noted horse
thief named Peter Walters was arrested,
few days ago, in Indiana county, but while
the Deputy Sheriff was on his way to Indi-
ana with his prisoner, he was knocked
down by some unknown person and Wal
tiers made his escape.-A large force of
vorkmen are now engaged in widening the
Pennsylvania canal from Hav re de Grace to
Hullidaysburg. 1t is to be made six feet
deep, and double locks placed in it similar
to those in the New York canal.--
Borough Council, at its last meeting, repealed
the law requiring hogs to be penned up,
aud the porkers are now at liberty TO roam
and root where they please. The fact that
nearly all the hogs have been butchered
s . ftar init rnft
act of our borough dads. Mr.. Porker asked
for liberty or death and verify he has Oh
tanned both.-The remains Of a child
which had been buried thirteen years were
exhumed from a cemetery at Lewistown,
not long since, for the purpose of removal,
when it was found that the legs from the
thighs downward were completely petrifed,
ana even the little shoes we've turned into
stone. The rest of the body had mouldered
entirely away.--An extensive fire occurred
in Leaven worth, Kansas, on the night of
the Sd inst, and among the victims we no
tice that our young friends, Ernest Rhey and
Charles Dougherty, in the hat and fur busi-
ness, have suffered to the extent of SIS 900,
which, however, is fully covered by insur-
ance.-No larger, fresher or more delicious
oysters were ever put up in cans than are
now for sale at the cheap grocery store of
NJ. L Oatman, at the exceeding low price
Of so cents per half can. This is the opin-
ion of all who have YET bought them, and it
will be your opinion if you try them.
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HNOR SALE.-The undersigned offers

TNOR SALE.-The undersigned offers
4 far sale the FARM on which they now
reside, situate in Allegheny township, Cambria
county, within two Eliles of Loretto. (formerly
owned BY James McAteer,) containing ONE
HUNDRED AND EIGHTY SEVEN ACRES,
more or lest, lG0 Acres of which are cleared
the balrnce well timbered. There is erected
on the premises n good DWELLING HOUSE
and splendid BARN, together with other ne
cessary outbuildings, such Blacksmith Shop,
Corn Crib. Sheep House, &c. also, an excel
lent ORCHARD of choice fruit. Title per
feet. For terms apply on the premises to
B. & @ SHIELDS.
LoPstto P. O.. Aug. 90, l869.-tf.
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BASE BALL CoNcERT.-A concert under
the auspices of the Mountaineer Base Ball
Club will be given in the Court House in
this place. probably on Tuesday evening,
2eth inst, though the time is not yet def
nitely determined upon. 1t is the purpose
of the committee having charge of the
preliminaries to leave nothing undone to
make the proposed entertainment a most
excellent one, and we feel confident our ci-
tizens will extend them liberal patronage
when the occasion to do so offers. We feel
sure the concert will be a success musically
and financially.
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AT this cold ard dismal time
We can scarcely tell in rhyme
What we wish to say
But if our advice you take,
For Shoemakers' you will make,
And that right away.
Their goods are cheap indeed,
And if you buy what you need,
You'll surely make it pay.