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The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1868-10-14

r. J. ARCHER. W. s. ARCHER.
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d j. Archer & Som, .,
l.. Commission and Forwarding
Merchants,
No 110S Cary, between 18th and 18th Streets.
Special attention paid to the sale of Wheat.
Corn, Flour and Tobacco. Liberal advances made
on produce in hand yr..
REFERENCES Col r J. Randolph and W. H..
Southall, Esq., Albemarle county; Chas. S. Gray,
ESQ.,. Rockingham. august 14-1y*
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1868-10-14

Missouri Adams, the esteemed
correspondent of the World, and otherwise
connected with the press, has returned to
Washington after projected journeying in
the west. hIr. Adams brings the gratifying
intelligence that Missouri will go for Seymour
and Blair by large majority. We place
great reliance, SAYS the National IntelAgen-
ccr. upon information from a source SO calm,
rational and nhscryant
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1868-10-14
PETERSBURG INDEX.

THE office of the INDEX was recently destroyed
by fire. Its publicationhas been resumed.
It's principles are Democratic. Its policy the
fraternation, and cordial Union Of equal States.
1t will encourage immigration, it will advocate
the most liberal systems of internalimprovements.
and give all its influence to- the development Of
the agricultural, manufacturing and mining inter-
csts of Virginia. 10"
Terms, Cash i'm Advance.
Daily, per annum 90
do do month. Observation-Disclosures. so
Weekly per annum 200
do do six months. Observation-Disclosures. 126
Club Of 10 copies Daily per annum........... 90
do 10 do Weekly per annum.. ........... Is 90
And one extra copy to each person securing club
to either.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1868-10-14
FOR VICE-PRESIDEN7
FRANCIS P. BLAIR,
OF MISSOURI.
FOR SALE,

The "vALLEr NIRctSrAN' Newspaper, Book
and Job Printing Office, complete, with good
will Of the samc. For terms, &c., address,
]. r. CROCKWELL,
Box 10, Staunton, Va.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1868-10-14

CoLoRED MEN AND WoMEN-You are
allowing your children to grow up in idleness
You permit them to break engagements at
will. You let them be as insolent as they
please to yourselves and rather like it when
they are disrespectful to their employers
How is this going to end If you, with
habits Of industry, find it uphill work to make
living, what is to become OF your children !?
White children, raised in ideness, always
turn out badly. Will your children turn
out any better? When you. are no longer
able to support them-and that day is COM
ing much sooner than you suppose-they
must-we repeatit, they must become thieves
and vagabonds. These are serious questions.
and every day you put off answering them,
makes matters worse. Worse and worse
An evil day is coming, perhaps to all of u.s.
IF you love your children and want them to
do well in the world, make them civil and
make them stick to their work A few years
hence, it will be too late, too late, Mark
The prediction. T1giaion
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1868-10-14

ryEAMS WANTED
to haul lumber from our mill to the Chess
apekke s. Ohio R. R.
Apply to
CLAY & JOHNSON,
Saltwater Steam Saw Mill, Clifton Forge, Va.
sept 16-tf
TNTEREsTIN TO FEMININE LOVING
i Swain and Tender Maybe, Infallihle Match
Maker, Green Willow Prom enade, Warranted
parson Sticking Plaster, Photograph Albums, in
large quantities, just received. among them the
Indestructihle Patent Hinge Back Album. Prices
less than heretofore.
may 6-tf u. HlkSA y ",
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1868-10-14

DR.. CHARLES MAcaILL-It is with great
pleasure that we announce to the many flen as
of DR.. Charles Macgill in this county, that
he is expected to visit our town on Tuesday
next. The Dr. will be accompanied by Gen.
J. D. Imboden and Col ]. l.. CarriIgton,
both Of Richmond, the latter gentleman the
proprietor of the Exchange Hotel" We
bespeak fer the Dr. and his associates corr
dial reception. They will arrive on the 2 30
train. During the sojourn OF these gentle
men in our town, we understand that they
will be the guests Of our esteemed townsman,
A. II. Hager,. Esq-Hagerstoicn Mad
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1868-10-14
VIRGINTA:-At rules held in the clerks

oct. 14-4t
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1868-10-14

He is wise man that can avoid an evil
he is patient man that can endure it; bu
he is valiant man that can conquer it.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1868-10-14

The WORKING PEOPLE. Labor Con
gress which was recently held in New York
city, contained, it is claimed, representatives
from 100000 working men. This estimate
is not considered to be exaggerated, since the
census report Of 1860 gives the following sta
tistics as to the number Of persons engaged in
the following trades in the United States and
Territories Printers, 25,106; carpenters,
242, 958 joiners, 8 1928; bricklayers. n, 81 !;
machinists, 1884; blacksmiths, 112,357,
making total of 444, 1884. As there are
many other occupations represented, the esti-
mate is within the bounds of probability.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-01-30
The JOIIs1sSoWU Tribune, Ne
Gr0eS, Gnh Stealing.

"a lady ia Florida lad a Thousand sheep
few lonIhs ego. Every one Of them has
since been stolen, killed and eaten b. ne
Grocs."
We find The above in the last Ebens5urg
Freeman 1t is fair specimen Of the Dem
ocTatic ''argUm ents" Of the day. Supposing
the statement Il be true, which it certainly
Is not We ask, who was the masters of the
souls and bodies. of these negroes up to 1868?
Wko have been their associates since p
From "Aom have the negroes learned ali
tEat they know2 Who have been their
teaci.rs Democrats or Republicans q
DEMOCRATS The ''nigger'' down South
IL Just Vhnt the Democrats made him. Both
he and his teachers are sadly in need of
few copies Of The Johnstown Tribune.
Our respectable neighbor, the Tribune,
from which the above is clipped, is sstting
sancy in It's new dress, and must be talked
TO-" L. selects paragraph which has been
going the rounds of the papers without con-
tradictiCn, and which found its way into our
columns precisely as all news excepting local
news gets there. True or false, we are not
its author, and the Tribune Is disengenuous
10 ctcatiGg the impression that the paragraph
was original with US.
We had no reason to doubt the truth of
the item, or we should not have given place
10 iJ; neither has the 7il6Qne. Nor does il
deny it ia ther than to aver that it Is not
">srtainly'' true; in other words, the TrI6
nHe is not certain that it is true. Indeed,
the enla rgcd Freeman would not contaiu all
the negro outrases, consisting Of murder,
robbe-! larceny, aad especially rape, which
come Up 20 US from the South. and which
~e haTs not published, MT wishing 70 make
of the Freeman criminal calendar.
But the pith Of the Tri6une's article is
aha! tho Democrats are responsible for negro
sLeep-stealing, because they were ''the mas
ters of the souls and bodies Of these negroes
rp to 1863" Now, this theory places our
Radical friends in dilemna.
Previous 70 the rebellion the Radical Alb
ol.ttunists were lond in asserting what the
IFittore now asserts /: that the Shareholders
Of Che Seuth totally neglected the mental
and moral culture of their slaves. That was
the burden Of their song. The negroes were
lot taught TO re9d and write, but were al
ioNvd 70 remain IN state of natsro. They
sesrs 1o' taught the-eR,ies of revealed reli- I
g90u, herceaINg we're no better than paans.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-01-30
THE aUasP sOxGaEss.

T.s hdy Of revo?UtioniSts rs busy in She
sEtefnlt to tsestrvy the coordinate braRches
oi the government.
It has already passed hi, t1.ongEr one
N its branches -repcCRslg that portion of the
Osastitution which makes the President
Commander IN Chief Of the Army and is
determined 10 enforce it over The Presidents
rSto. But the Republican, Supreme Curt,
bs majority of its judges, would declare
The law unconstitutional, aDd set It's provi-
sfons al naught. Congress have therefore
befcTe.5hem bin which, if passed into law,
VIII prevent a majority Of that Court from
deciding Constitutional questions.
A plain man would wonder Why this sage
eodS Of Radicals docs not at once abolish
tbs otLer departments Of the Government,
and the Executive and Judicial, as we'll as
the Legislative branch. Their object is
equally apparent, and yet they are blind
enough TO suppose The people are trcompe-
tent TO understand and take coguizance of
their destructive measures.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-01-30
That strange story,

After republishing the truly strange
story we printed couple of weeks ago
the Troy, n Y. Daily Press publishes the
following:
There is a person in this city of the
highest respectability, whom we will call
X for convenience, who has seen this Miss
Mrs. Mr.. Ellen-Edgar--Po
ham, and has been in his drug store at
Broadhead, many times, and was inform
ed by reliable parties in Broadhead of this
wonderful transformation. Whether she
ever became the mother of child, or
whether he has since become the father
of child, X does not know. Y was not
told of anything limiting at materially,
though the marriage had transpired nearly
a year, when X was informed of the cir
cumstances. 1t is not true that Powell
lived with his wife two years. The facts
as stated TO Y, by certain residents of
Broadhead, are as follows: When Miss
Burnham was married, she went with her
husband TO Washington. Her father soon
received telegram stating there was
something wrong, and calling him to
Washington. He and his wife went, and
soon returned with their supposed daugh-
ter, clad in male costume, and she was
introduced among the young ladies, (some
of whose beds she had innocently shared
but few weeks before) as Mr.. Edgar.
His father then set him up in the drug
business, at Broadhead The Burnham
family is of great responsibility, and Y
describes young Burnham as very hands
some young gentleman, of quiet demean-
or, growing light mustache of dark color. |
He was called an excellent business man.
To 60 farther back X was informed that |
while child, the supposed girl was much
more delighted with the sport of boys than
of girls. Strange to say neither the father
nor mother had any suspicion of the true
state of affairs, nor were they ever led to
suppose she was anything but female.
1t is said that great fondness always
existed between this Mr.. Burnham and |
the lady he has since married, when they
were girls together, and used frequently to |
lodge together, ignorant of this severe
practical joke of Mother Nature 1t is a !
very sad case, and the parties are TO be
pitied for " circumstances over which |
they had no CONTROL
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-01-30
ENGLAND STILL QUAKIxG.

The Fenian excitement in England sstill
urabated, and notwithstanding all the eff
forts Of Ahe government to suppress those
champions Of Irish freedom. every day seems
TO add new strength and vigor to the organ
iEaticn. What was only a rigny in re-
81 urces and prestige previous to the judicial
murder tf Tie three Fruian martyrs. is now
lapidtY developing into a huge Slant that
will not down at TIE bidding of wordy pro
carnations, or rufIain from striking q blow
wheD opportunity offers through fear Of un-
Just and hasty prosecutions. We are cory
10 believe hat F'eniaEisn can never succeed
in acccmPliSL:ng tie liberation of ireland,
at least in,open warfare, Lut if it can fright
en- and harrass John Bull INTO the doing of
a few simple acts Of justice towards that
down trOdden country. its labors and it's
sacrifices wtf1Ut have been in vain. God
speed tire day Of IFeIand's redemption from
English tyranny and oppression
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-01-30

"A destitute father in St. Louis had
not enough money to procure a coffin for
his dead child. So, taking the body in
his arms, he carried it long distance to
the cemetery, but on arriving there dis
covered that he had neglected to obtain
burial certificate, and was compelled to
retrace his steps and repeat his sad Jour-
ney, carrying his dead child all the way.
At Springfield, Massachusetts, a
gentleman is said to own machine which
cuts meat and vegetables, sits flour,
kneads bread, works crater, slices fruit,
churns, works butter better than it can be
done by hand, grinds and scours knives.
1t is simple in construction, and has but
four wheels, and yet does nearly every
thing in the housekeeping line except
scolding the servants and waiting on the
table,
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-01-30

A MAN sTABs HIS WIFE AND THEN
CUT8 HIS Own THROAT T-Following are
the particulars Of double murder in
Warren, Trumbull county, Ohio, on Suns
day night, Goth instant:
On the A. & G. w. evening train up
from Youngstown on Friday evening was
man about thirty years old, named
Charles Freeze, formerly brakeman on
the road, but discharged about a week
ago. Freeze was soldier in the late
war, but has not borne the best possible
reputation for thrift and sobriety since his
return from the army. He lived in War
ren, and had wife that belonged to a
good family, and is represented as in every
way an estimabe woman.
On the train last evening, Freeze told
the conductor that he was going to remove
from Warren to Youngstown-lhath he ex
pected his wife would not want to 90, and
that he would have trouble about it-that
if she refused to 60, there would be h-ll.'
The result proved that his threats were
not idle. On reaching his home, it would
appear that Freeze, who was much in
toxicated on the train, got into some diff
Guilty with his wife at once What the
nature of the quarrel was at first is not
known, but the result was that Freeze
stabbed his wife no less than seven times
with knife, and then, probably leaving
her for dead, went into the yard in rear
of his house and 1t his own throat from
ear to ear. There he was found, of
course stone dead. Mrs. Freeze was still
living at last accounts, but no hopes were
entertained of her recovery. The horri-
BILE affair created intense excitement in
Warren,
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-01-30
GEARY AND MEXICO.

The Anegho@safa says our ronsrks in re-
ference to tbs ''failere," John ". Geary,
in oonBeetioa With the Mexican war, is Gin
sligDAatly repudiated by every Mexican sol
utor in orr midst" If the amiable editor
Of that paper was as old as the editor of the
Freeman, he would remember the meeting
held in the Ebeneburg Court House, by the
Cambria Guards" after their return from
the Mexican campaign, in which resolutions
were adopted denouhciHg Geary for cruelty
and cowardice: and at which meeting the
uncle Of the editor of the Aueghanian. the
brave Col. Todd. made speech.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-01-30

Hon. Norman Williams, one of the
oldest and most prominent citizens of
Vermont, and father of Norman Williams,
Jr., Esq, of Chicago, and of E. III. viii.
Ilams, Superintendent of the Pennsylvania
Central Railroad, died at his residence
at Woodstock, in that State, on the 18th
inst. Mr.. Williams graduated from the
University of Vermont in 1910. He was
the first Secretary of the Vermont Senate,
and subsequently,, during period of
fifty years, held various offices Of trust
and honor. He was 76 years of age.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-01-30

In short, the Radical song was, that mental
ly and morally these poor negroes, who had
immortal souls to save, were in no better
condition than the ."beasts of the field that
perish" And this Is the ZIib1tle's theory
to-day.
And yet-"tell it not in Gath, publish it
not in the streets of Askalon"-the Tribune
aud its party are determined to throw the
government Of ten sovereign States into the
hands Of these negroes, who so far have only
been educated up to the point of stealing
sheep. 40 matter what party or what men
instructed these negroes. or failed to instruct
theui-no matter by whose instruction, or
want Of instruction, the Southern negro is
redaced to his present Ievel-we ask, and we
expect from the Tribune candid answer ::
Is he fit to govern the sovereign States of the
Ssuth2
We don't want the Tribune to Ignore this
great practical question. 1t is no answer TO
say that these negroes were slaves-that it
is not their fault that they are ignorant and
degraded. We can safely admit all this
Nor will it do TO say that their masters were
traitors. Too many of them were so, and
the slaves just as generally participated in
the treason But all this is no reply to the
question: Are they qualified to control the
destinies of the country2
We ask the Tribune to meet this practical
question squarely. With the past we have
l. IL /
bury its dead" Let US meet and cope with
the great issues of the day. In the language
Of your Radical poet:
New occasions teach new duties
Ancient good becomes uncouth
he must upwards look and onward.
Who would keep abreast of truth"
We feel as much true friendship for the
negro race as any Radical. They are free
so may they be and remain forever. They
are equal before our Courts and Juries-we
trust they may be always so. But let us not
ignore our own knowledge of their fitness,
or rather their unftness, and make them the
sovereign rulers Of the country.
The Indian tribes are not allowed the fran
chise, nor are the Chinese. The most intel
ligent foreigner, Kossuth himself, could not
have acquired the right of suffrage without
five years residence and the oath OF two ~
putable citizens that he was of ''good moral
character" and attached to the principles |
Of the Constitution"
The propensity of the Southern negro to !
appropriate the property of others to his
OWN use, is, perhaps, not so much fault of |
he negro himself as Of Radical teaching
Ihey have been taught by Radical emissa-
les that they aie entitled to the property of /
heir former masters, and it is not at all .
strange that they should proceed to appro-
pirate it.
Under these circumstances we do not
hink that the negro "and his teachers are
adly IN need of few copies of the Johns
own Tribune" as that sheet modestlv urges.
'ut rather opine that our Radical contempo-
as5 s teachings would only elevate the
tandard Of crime, SO that the poor negro,
Who IS now only guilty of stealing sheep,
would become cattle stealer and horse
hiefj In which case our Floridian lady
would, mayhap. be still greater sufferer
han at present.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-01-30
ORR SECOND YEAR.

Tas Freeman this week enters its second
year. 1t boasts the best subscription list
and more reading matter than aHy paper
Published in the county.
During tire last year we did more than we
promised, and can only promise to do our
Test ior the future. With this we know our
readers will be satisfied, for in the language
of Burns:
Gle who does the best he can
NNn wilkes do mair."
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-01-30

The wife of lager beer dealer in
Louisville, on the 18th gave birth to four
bouncing boys. This is doing pretty well,
considering that they have been married
only about year, The happy father
has ordered four extra barrels of the am
Der colored beverage he likes and vends.
and when congratulated by his friends
asks them to drink and say nothing more
about it, as he ''must dake somdimes TO
know Yedder he best glad or as mad as
der tuyyel
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-01-30

DECLINE OF GRANT SrocK. wan
ing popularity of General Grant with the
people, since his recent duplicity in the
Stanton imbroglio, says Tie Age, is every
hour becoming more apparent A nota-
ble illustration of this fact lately occurred
at popular theatre in New York. One
OF the actors introduced into a new piece
the old expression of ''fghting it out or
that line, etc. and met with a storm of
misses from all parts Of the house. A
proposition to give ''three cheers for Ans
drew Johnson" was received with great
applause, and the audience joyfully and
promptly assented to the patriotic sugges-
lion. Those astute politicians in the Rad
lcal ranks who shouldered the General on
account of his supposed availability, will
soon drop him and look out for new
man and better candidate. But if he
should run for the Presidency on the ne
gro-sutfrage platform, the Radical mill
stone around his neck will sink him deeper
than plummit ever sounded, and the
prophesy of the New York Herald, that
he will be worse beaten than General
Scott In 1852, will be certainly realized.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-01-30
The following is going the round

The following is going the rounds
OF the press: ga rule by which counter
felt greenbacks or national bank notes
can be detected, has lately been discover
ed, which upon thorough trial, has proved
lntalIiblo. 1t is this: Divide the last
two figures of the number of the bills bv
four, If one remains the letter Oh the gen
ulne will be A. If two remains it will
be Is II three remain it will be c.. For
example; a note is registered 2,64I; di-
vide forty-one by four, and you will have
one remaining. According to the rule,
the letter on the note will be A. In case
the rule fails, be certain that the note
is counterfeit" Try it.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-01-30
&HERIFF'S SALE. BY virtue

SHERIFF'S SALE.-By virtue
~ of sundry writs of Vend. Expon. issued
out of the Court of Common Pleas of Cam
bria county, and to me directed. there will
be exposed to Public Sale, at the house of
Joseph Cole, in Carrolltown, on Saturday,
the 8th day of February next. at l O'Clock
P NJ, the following Real Estate, to wit
All the right, title and interest Ct Joseph
Cole, of, in and to piece or parcel Of land
situated in Carrolltown borough, Cambria
county, adjoining lot of Simon Schroth on
the south and graveyard on the north, con-
tanning three acres, more or less, now in the
occupancy of Joseph Cole. Also, two lots
in Cam pbellstown, Cambria county. fronting
on Main street and extending back to Land
of Benjamin Wertner. adj. lining land of Benj-
Wertner on the east and south, and John
Stoltz on the north; and the other adjoins
John Stoltz on the south and Jacob Binder
on the north now in the occupancy Of Jos.
Cole. Tai in execution and to be sold at
the suit Of Francis Barberieb.
JOHN n. BLAIR, Sheriff.
Sheriff'S Office, Ebensburg, san. %, 1868.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-01-30
A UDITOR'S NOTICE.-In

A UDITORS NOTICE.-In the Or
IN phnns' Court of Cambria County.-In
the matter of the account of II. Klnkead,
Executor Of Is. J. Stahl, decd. And now,
Sd January, 1868, on motion of F. P. Tier
ney, Esq, the Court appoint J. c. Easly to
distribute funds in the hands of the account
ant. By the Court. Extract from Record.
In pursuance of the above appointment
will attend at the Office OF F. P. Tierney,
Esq, in Ebensburg, on WEDNESDAY,, THR
6TH DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1868, at o'clock P.
n, when and where all persons interested
may attend if they think proper.
], c. Easily, Auditor.
Jan. 16, 1seS.-3t.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-01-30

As the Radical candidate for the
next governorship of Connecticut is run
ming chiefly upon large fortune accumu-
lated in the currier trade, facetious in>
dlTidual combines the would be Governors =
politics and profession by calling him the
Black-and- Tan candida ate,
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-01-30

NOTICE is hereby given that the
L following account has been passed and
fled in the Registers Office at Ebensburg,
and will be presented to the Orphans Court
of Cambria county for confirmation and al
lowance, on Monday, the z4th day of Feb
ruary next, to wit:
The account of Chas. McManamy, guard
ian of the minor children of Peter Scanlan,
late of Allegheny township, deceased.
JAMES GRIFFIN, Register.
Registers Office, Ebensburg. Jan. %, 1868.