The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-08-27
Political and News Items.

wounded by a collision on the Illinois
Central railroad on trIday.
The gas works at Smithbridge, Mass.
were blown up on the night of the 22d,
and seven men are reported killed and Jour
seriously injured.
During late hail storm at Wells
boro, Pennsylvania, sheet OF ice measur-
ing about two feet square and three inches
thick, fell from the clouds with the hail
s.ones.
General Blair invited General Grant
to breakfast en- Monday, in Leavenworth,
and the Commander-in>Chief accepted the
invitation of the ''ablest General in the
volunteer service"
"A thief entered one of the banks in
Springfield, Mass, last week, seized a
piece of paper lying on the counter and
ran. He discovered that he had stolen a
receipt for making putty, instead of a
valuable check.
The Pennsylvania railroad company
have purchased very large tract of land
near White Hall, partly in Delaware and
partly in Montgomery counties, within
twenty miles ride of Philadelphia, which
they intend laying out in town lots.
..JohG Quincy Adams, Henry Clay,
John c. Calhoun, Thomss II. Benton
and Thaddeus Stevens died in the capital
of the United States. Adams was strick-
ell down in his seat in the House, dying
before he could be removed to his resi-
dence.
The Telegraph, of Macon, Ga, de-
clares that a car-wheel on the Southwest
ern railroad ran over a negro's leg, near
the ankle, and strange to say, he got up
and walked on, sustaining no injury more
than it slightly peeled off the skin and
bruised his leg little.
=. The Harrisburg Patriot states that a
species of co~operation system has been
adopted by the Pennsylvania Rail Road
Company. 1t is agreed to divide among
the engineers and fremen all that they
save from last years expenditure of fuel,
oil, and other articles In runninG their
locomotives.
"A Southerner is now in Boston who
has invented machine for reducing the
cane of the Florida cane5rakes 10 fibre,
and this fibre he thinks he can put down
in Boston at two cents a pound. 1t is
claimed to be equal to cotton rags for the
making of paper, and superior to Manila
hemp for the manufacture of cordage.
General A S Piatt. of West Liber :
tv, Ohio, brother of Col Don Piatt,
has left the Radical party, and, in an able
speech. announces his determination TO
support Seymour and Blair. He has al
ways hitherto been an active Republican,
The true soldiers everywhere are tearing
themselves from the foul embrace of Radi-
calism.
1t Is noteworthy fact that the Radi
Gals don't talk of making converts from
the Democracy. They don't expect to
make any. But they tremble with we'll
grounded fear lest they connot hold their
own voters together. How they abuse
and beseech by turns But alas! they
cannot save themselves from the popular
wrath which is to come next November.
Among the political changes through
out Pennsylvania, the Snyder county pa
pers state that George Schnure, Esq /,
President of the First National Bank, at
Selinsgrove, and Judge Middeswarth, son
of the late Hon Ner Middeswarth, who
have heretofore acted with the Republican
party, are now working energetically for
Seymour and Blair. So we 90 over the
whole country.
The South. with one voice, says ::
''There is no purpose on the part of any
portion of the Southern people or their
representatives to do otherwise than
maintain. as citizens of the United States,
the supremacy of the law and the integri-
ty of the country" This is n complete
answer TO the assertions of the Radicals
that the success of the Democracy will be
the revival of The ''lost cause"
Thaddeus Stevens, "the great COM
moner,' retained his faculties to the last.
A day or two before he died he was told
of kthe recent accident TO Ben. Butler, in
Worcester, when he was thrown from his
carriage. ''It gives me great pain" said
the dying commOner, Ftgreat pain" Then
closing bis eyes, as his habit was in medi-
tation, he murmured between his thin lips,
''great pain. His id neck wasn't
broke, you say %
"A special election was held last week
in the town of Grafton, Rennsaler county,
Radical candidate for Governor. The
Radical mojority was reduced ninety votes
on former majority of LAG. AS the
Radicals count heavy on Griswold's pop
ularity, this was an unpromising show fol
them. A similar falling OF everywhere
would give Seymour the State by 200,.
! 900 majority.
IF Radical rule continues, the people
may keep on paying five hundred millions
annually into the treasury, and, at the
end of twenty years, they will find tht
public debt increased, though in that time
there will have been exacted from then
ten thousand millions of dollars. l
comes to this: the rapacious Radical
must be choked from the treasury, or til,
people will be ruined and repudiation viii
become necessity.
The outrage committed by the But
Ter Zouaves who had charge of the remain
of Thaddeus Stevens at Washington i
being investigated. 1t was clearly prover