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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-05-27
The District Court.

We learn from the answer Of the Johns
town Democrat to our questions in regard to
the renting of Union Hall for the use of the
District Court" that the rent to be paid
for the same is eight hundred dollars per
annum. BY the terms Of the law establish
ing the Court, it is provided that four ses-
sions thereof shall be he'd in each year, to
continue one 10eek. As Union Hall will
therefore be used by the Court just four
Ioseks during the year, the stipulated rent
amounts to tloo hundred dol lars for each
sceek. We regard this an imposition upon
the people Of the county, and as not at all
oreditable to the liberality of the owners of
Union Hall. If the establishment Of the
District Court at Johnstown will prove to
be the great and inestimable boon copteuG-
ed for by the four legal gentlemen who
acted as sponsors for it if Justice, hereto
fore denied, as was alleged, is to be brought
home to every mans door and made cheap :;
if a sort of legal millennium is thereby to be
inaugurated on the classic banks OF the
Conemaugh and Stony Greek and the region
Of country adjacent thereto, it was naturally
10 be expected that the owners Of Union
HAIL." or any other Hall in that growing
aud enterprising city, W uld ave graduated
their demand for the '7int" in proportion
70 the great benefits to be conferred. In
stead, however, of mauifesting liberal and
generous spirit, as quid pro quo, they
seem to have acted entirely from motives of
self interest and with view to make the
most out of what they claimed would be
positive blessing. We have been inform
ed that, according to the contract. the use
OF Union Hall is only guaranteed to the
Court during the day time. and that if the
Hall should be required after dark for the
delivery of lecture. or for any purpose Of
then all judicial proceedings must be sus-
pended, and the fiddle, the BANJO and the
cones substituted in their place This be-
ing the case. the enornity Of the rent can
not be palliated OF justified.
We have it on uudoubted authority that
"Frouheiser's Hall'' was offered, including
the fitting up Of the Offices and jury rooms.
for the sum of four hundred dollars, or Just
One-hdJ the amount agreed to be paid for
Union Hail.
We understand that the capacity of
FronEeiser's Hall is about equal to that of
our present Court room. If it is so, or very
nearly SO. then it was sufficient for all the
purposes of the Court, and four hundred
dollars year would have been saved to the
county treasury. II the present Court room
is sufficient to accommodate the people of
the enhre county, it is perfectly manifest
that FrOnheiser's Hall ought to be large
enough 10 do the same thing for the people
of Johustown alone, unless they have lost
all their proverbial modesty.
If any good reasons can be given why the
people of the county should be made to pay
this extra rent of four hundred dollars a
year for Union Hall, we would like to see
them plainly and publicly stated.
1t would be true economy for the county
to buy Union Hall at once. provided it can
be purchased for something less than an sv
erags Washoe silver miLe.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-05-27
u EGIsTER,s NoTICE-Notice is

Ellis IER'S NOTICE Notice is
Il q hereby given that the following account a
have been passed and filed in the Register >
Office at Ebensburg, and will be presented to
the Orphans Court of Cambria county. for
continuation and allowance, on Monday, the
7th day of June next, to wit
The partial account of Peter Schara, Exec
utor of Nicholas W eiland late of Susouehanna
township, deceased.
The first and partial account of John ?.
Nesson, Administrator of John E. McDermitt
late OF Chest township, deceased
The account of Cecilia McGough, Admins
tratrix of George Mt Cough, late of ClearfieId
township, deceased.
The account of Francis Luther, Guardian of
Ann Elizabeth Luther, (now Mrs Elder)
he account of William W entz, Guardian of
William Otho Stevens.
The account of Catharine Horner, Admx. of
Daniel Horner, late of Taylor twp. decd.
The first and final account of F. Bearer.
Guardian Of Mary Aagdalena and Catharine
Gantner.
The first and final account of John n. Dom
glass and William Ivory, Executors of Mathew
Ivory, late of Allegheny township, deceased.
The final account of Jacob Stoitz, Admins
traitor of the estate of Peter While, late of Car
roll township, decd, of the personal estate of
said decedent.
The account of Ephraim Goughnour, Exec
utor of Margaret Goughnour, late of Taylor
township, deceased.
The account of Jonas F. Goughnour and
John j. Warner, Administrators of John @
Goughnour, late of Taylor township, deceased
The first and final account ofGeo N. Reade
Administrator of DR.. John NJ Jones, late of
Ebensburg, deceased
The first and final account of Cyrus L. Per
shing, Guardian of ArabelIa Weich, a minor
child of Sylvester Welch, late of Frankfort.
Kentucky, deceased.
The first account of Mrs. Lydia Marbours
Adin'x of Frederick Marbourg, late of Johns,
town, deceased.
JAMES GRIFFIN, Register.
Registers Office, Ebensburg, May 8, is69. 1t.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-05-27

PRESIDENT GRANT appears to be pecu-
liarly unfortunate in some of his most i'm
Portant appointments. lie seems to think
that the government machine can and ought
to be Iun by class of men who are his
tervile tools, :.and who failed to acquire any
reputation in the army. He has just ap-
pointed the notorious Daniel E. Sickles
Minister to Spain. Sickles is the man
whose want of generalship and military
laundering came so near rendering General
Meade's victory at Gettysburg defeat, and
for which he was threatened with a court
martial. At this particular crisis in the af-
fairs Of Spain and Cuba, moderate knowl-
edge OF craftsmanship would have selected
AS Our representative to the former country,
one OF our most eminent and trusted men,
rather than a failure and charlatan like
Slckles. To send Washburne to France
was political crime, but to send Daniel E.
Sickles to Spain, Is worse-it is a blunder.
The New York EUcning Post, a leading
Grant paper, thus speaks of the appointment
and Of Siekles's probable fate at the hand.
Of the Senate:
This is an appointment which the coun-
try will not approve. and which the Senate
when 1t meets, ought not to confirm. II is
9 bad appointment, made in the face oI
light; for though, when the name of Mr..
Sickles was first mentioned in connection
with the Spanish mission, the administra a.
tion might have been ignorant of his char.
aeter and history, this cannot now be said. u
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-05-27

If what is now notoriously taking place
in many portions of the country had occur
red during the administration of Andrew
Johnson-if military expeditions had been
fitted cnt then, as they are being organized
now, to render aid and assistance to the
men in Cuba who are in rebellion against
Spain, with whom the United States are at
peace, and if President johnson had con-
nivcd at such illegal and unfriendly pro,
ceedngs, and had fsiled to issue his procla-
nation Of neutrality, as he would have
been bound to do under his oath of office,
who doubts but that loyal Congress would
instantly have preferred articles of impeach-
ment against him. There would then have
been pretty good reason for his conviction.
But Grant looks on stolidly and does not
say a word. It is even stated that he is
pleased to see such proceedings take place.
We could expect nothing else from man of
his peculiar training and lack of ability to
comprehend the plain duties of his Office
1t is true that Spain is weak, but that is
no reason why President should incur the
taunts and jeers of the civilized govern
ments of the world.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-05-27

in whose integrity the people yet rePoss
confidence, although their faith in the purity
and houesty Of the other branches Of the
government has been greatly shaken, if not
entirely destroyed.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-05-27
SummitviIle.
Hollidaysburg,
JOhnstOWn,

The largest drum in the world passed
through Springfield. Massachusetts, Friday,
for the Boston jubilee. 1t is eight and
half feet in diameter and inscribed "Let us
have peace"
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-05-27

SUCCESSFUL. BECAUSE OF SUI
OR MERIT.-MRs s. a. ALLEN,S rs,r,s la,s
ED (nelc slyle) HAIR REsToRER or Dr. %. ~
I'm. one bottles Every Druggist SCI"
Price One Dollar,
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-09-17
$500 A YEAR.
cormorants, destroy the eggs and
the breed will become extinct.

Hon. Thomas Ewing has written
long letter on the present c0ndi.
tion of the country. MIR. Ewing
charges home upon the Radical
party frequent violations of the
Constitution, and tho cause produ-
cling tho present unsettled and do
plOrable condition OF finances. We
have not room for this most excel.
lent and timely letter, but Tor tho
present must content ourselves with
tho following extract:
In my opinion, tbeparty in pow.
or have little regard for the Com
stitution. They have for three
years past habitunIly violated it,
whenever IL stood in tho way of
favorlto measure. Nor does thoro
appear as yet, any manifest inn
provement. They persist in hold.
ing several of the States in anarchy
by their proscrip.ive roconstruc-
tion, which, in effect, forbils tho
holding OF even tho smallest Offices
by men who can read or write, un-
less they subscribe TO an oath which
not one in n hundred can take with
out perjury. All this in contempt
of the Constitution, which oxpross-
ly requires that each State shall DO
guaranteed Il Republican form of
government. In like spirit and u
liko disregard cf constitutional re-
strictions, they have created, and
still MAINTAIN, military commits
siOns to supercedo courts At law in
the trial of civil offcnscs in time Of
peace. THIS is, indeed necessary
part of their system of rcconstruc.
tion, which ronders the adminlstra-
ton ofjustice by the courts impos-
slblo.
"Such are The past acts and such
tho present ruling spirit of the par-
ty now in power, which the people
are called upon at the approaching
election to sanction or condemn
In my opinion they tend largely to
political and, with it, to social de-
moralizatIon, and ought not to DO
approved and adopted by n law a.
biding, q moral, and an intelligent
people"
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-09-17
Death OF a Modern sampson.

Captain John w. Russell del in
Franklin county, Kentucky iasewcek.
aged 7jyears. The Louisville Courier
journal says;
He was famous among western pio-
neers for his strength and intrcpidity.
lie served in the war of 1912, was o
member of the State Senate, and m
intimate personal and partizan friend
of Henry Clay. lie was for many
years a Mississippi steamboat captain.
The incidents Of his force Of will and
power of command would fll vol
lmc On one occasion in New Orleans
he had personal recontre with the
pirate Laftte, and, unarmed, whip
ped him and elected him from u
ballroom.
On another occasion, while landed at
Natchez, a passenger of his boat was
robbed by the gang which then infest-
ed the portion of the town bordering
on the river, and known as "Natchez
under the HILL" BY surrounding with
his crew the house in which the rob.
bcrs took refuge, he passed cable a.
round it, and under threat of pulling
it, with the inmates, into the river, he
compelled restitution of the moaey,
and made himself terror to the
thieves and gamblers who then infcst-
ell therive towns. ofliis great strength
persons who knew him only in his la
ter years, when enfeebled by age, wo'd
have had but little conception, though
when in his prime it was known from
Pittsburg TO New Orleans that he had
lifted shaf, weighing i647 pounds,
and that he had carried entirely across
the deck of the boat an anchor of 1919
pounds weight"
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-09-17
The state House Flag at Half
Mast.

The State House flag, on the 9th.
was At halirmast in consequence Of
tho death of Mr.. Fessondcn, ono Of
the United States Senators from the
State Of Maihe.
When Wm. Medili, who was Pl cs.
Idort ofthe Convention that framed
the present Constitution OF Ohio
was the first Lieutenant Governor
Of tho State, and was one OF the a
Llest Governors Ohio ever had, died,
no State House flag was put ut half
mast, or II tokon of respect for his
memory, by tho Radicals who are
now serving their last term Of Of
ficiaI coso in the capital OF Ohio
1Ohio Statesman.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-09-17

THE following is taken from Hon.
George II. Pendleton's speech at
Clifton, on Friday last
l have in my hand an official
statement of tho receipts and cX.
penditures of the Federal Treasury,
published in pursuance OF law, for
tho three months ending on the last
day of June, 1869. 1t shows the re-
ceipts to havs been, from taxatlun
and sale of public lands, s109.S47,-
6l8,07, or reducing the amount COL
lectcd in gold from tho customs
(s44, ,02l ,32477) to currency, at
thirty-Ihree and one third per cen
tum, tho receipts for three months
were sl24,521 ,229.90,or more than
FIVE hundred millions for the year
Mt the same rate. 1t also shows
that in addition to this enormous
amount from taxation thore were
realized from loans S44 4,062, 1890,
making a total, for three months
from all sources, IN currency, of one
hundred and siXty-nine millions Of
dollars.
During the samo time the expen-
ditures are stated for ordinary ex-
pensos ut SG6 oil, ,O25, or reducing
tho interest on the public debt to
currency, S75,lGl, ,lG0, aud for pay
ment on account o! principal of tho
debt, 19,28S,7O7, IL total of 1924, ,349,
SIG.
This jugglery about the debt /
hardly comprehend. 1t seems we
borrowed forty-four millions, and
paid forty-nlno millions, leaving an
actual payment Of about five mil
lions, but in order to effect this pay
ment there was an excess Of reve-
nues over expenditures OF orty-five
millions, and the Secretary paid n
premium Of 81 l,374, $50, or more than
twenty-five per cent.
The army consists of fifty thou
sand men, and costs $50, 1000, 900 a
year. The navy costs S25, 900, 900.
Why do we need these vast arma-
ments2 For what useful purpose
are they up2 And, il it IS not me-
cessary to have SO many mon, why
should wo have generals and staff
officers sufficient for an army ten
times as great2 1t is sald q do not
vouch for its truth) that Il Briga-
dier General sits in the ante-cham-
Der of the White House and plays
usher to the President; an eXpen-
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-09-17
what General Grants Daddy
Thinks.

A reporter of the Cincinnati En-
quircr has been interviewing J vsse
II. Grant, tho Presidents father
In regard TO the result of tho elcc-
ton in Ohio, Father Jesse talks
right out. lie declares
"But things are goipg 10 be diF-
fcrcnt in Ohio this fall 10 whatthey
were last. We amt going to have
n Presidential election, and the
Democrats ain't going to make such
fools Of themselves as they did
when they put such desperate dos-
poradocs on their ticket "a Seymour
and Blair. | have no fears about
the State ticket, but the Democrats
will be certain to carry the Legis-
lature on account OF the Fifteenth
Amendment and negro suffrage. II
/ lived in Ohio, / wouldn't vote Tor
q single Republican candidate for
tho Legislature. see they talk a.
bout reform movement in Hamil.
ton county, and l understand 4hC
Commercial is likely to favor it,
The Commercial has no principle,
and never had. 1t will favor any
thing to make morcy. Idon't think
the movement will succeed"
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-09-17
PARAGRAPHS.
Local, Political and Other
u1s. wise.
by A coNrRIpuron.

Benjamin F. Wade, Esq, United
States Senator from OHIO, and Elk
Vice President of the. United. States,
IS now stumping this State in be-
half of the Radical State ticket. In
this connection, wo would ASK, is
tins tho samo Ben Wado, who in
1867, made u speech in Marietta,
and in that speech said, "that the
negro was more intelligent and bet
ter qualified to exercise the elective
franchise, to hold office and act as
Jurors than the mass of the foreign
popnuliun, who emmigra ted aud
settled iu tbi, country, the Ignor-
ant Irish aud Dutch. That the
lrshmah was as ignorant Of politi-
cal questions and affairs, as was the
mule or horse he drove in bis cart
or dray." In this the same Ben
Wade who dragged the President
of the United States to the bar Of
the Senate as II criminal, charging
him with "high crimes and misdeN
mcanors," and as n Senator iron
Ohio, voted H. sustain all the char.
yes against President Johnson, and
for his deposition, so that, If he was
successful in his conspiracy, he
would become the President of the
United States? If this is the same
Ben Wade, he Is certainly q worthy
member Of tho Radical party, and
should be held and regarded as IN
good standing and II very proper
person to advocate and oXpound
the measures and principles OF that
party. By all means let us have
Mr.. Wade como INTO this county
His speeches will be held as inter.
cstlng now, as they were two years
ago. Ills sentiments and his man
nerO of delivering .hem, will be cher
ished and highly applaudod by the
groundlin9s.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-09-17
Negroes Must Vote White Men
Must Not.

While the Radical reconstruction
programme forbids the voting Of the
great mass of white men in the
South, it embraces the voting Of cv--
cry male negro Of luwfal age with-
in the Union. Not n negro in the
land, but, according TO the Radical
creed, is fit 10 exercise the elective
franchise, and TO hold office. By
tho Same creed tho white men Of
the South are prescribed, and the
rights secured them by the Consti-
tution-unless indeed they vote for
Radicalism-are dcnled them.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-09-17

The way tho Court House Ring
holds on to office would be admired
and commended in any other trans.
action OF business Of life. One con
versant with the state Of affairs a.
bout the Court Ilouse. would sup
pose that iium the tenacity with
winch they cling to places and
s9oils, that they have come to the
conclusion in their own minds, that
the offices were created for their
special benefit, and that no other
men but they are competent and
worthy to hold them. What ca-
IamIty would 5etall the public SER
vIco If these leeches upon the body
polite should happen to die ? The
people would certainly be at u great
loss TO find other men suitable TO
fill their places. None o. them ever
die or will let go, unless the law
steps in 10 relieve them and limit
their term of service, like that OF
Treasurer end Sheriff.
Tho way this thing Is managed
to keep up and porpetuate this
state OF affairs is about IN this man
ner. The Ring at the proper time
fixes up the County nominating
Convention, and all nominations are
made by the advice and con
sent Of the Marion and Penn Town,
ship delegates, with the assistance,
of here and there, of the necessary
number of delegates from some OF
the otner Townships, who have an
axe to grind, and who have, in ad.
vance, been bargained with. In
most OF the Townships the dele,
gates are packed IN the interests OF
certain candidates, and IN favor OF
some pIunderIng schemes, like that
of Turnpike-roads, The Ring to
hold place, patronage and influence,
sound the delegates as soon az they
arrive, and IN a patronizlng way,
say to them, "you tickle me, and I'll
tickle you" So tbs thing goes on
year after year until the Ring in the
estimation Of many good men have
become somewhat corrupt. The
Ring now think that they may dc
anything, and the people will Gus,
tain ond support them in it. L.
this conclusion, we think thoy will
find themselves greatly mistaken
The people about these times are a.
1.-Two TO their rights and mtorests.-
They know and feel that they ar,
imposed upon year after year by
those IN power, and they have come
to the conclusion that this Is q GOO
tlmo TO demand TetreachsleAt ant
reform. Rpeak tue Ring now, anc
1t cpnnot he easily welded in the
hcreal(cs, Disturb the nest ofthcs,
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-09-17
The Proposed Change In the
Constitution.

There are several points connec-
tod with tins amendment that ought
to be kept constantly before. the
people.
/. That it's ratification or rejccs
tion might depend upon tho vote Of
OHIO. It's certain to be close, and
one State, either for or against may
decide the matter.
2. That II adopted 1t deprlvos
Ohio of all future regulation OF the
right Of suffrage within her bord.
ers. That is to be demo for the
people by Maine and Texas, who
have an opposite interest to sub
servo.
In this alone there is world Of
objection to tho amendment, But
ITS immediate effects arc suicidal in
their character. 1t admits negroes
to vote, whom the people of Ohio ut
the last Governors election said, by
fifty thousand majority, should not
vote. 1t says they shall have the
ballot, although nearly every State,
North or South, had previously dc.
c!ured that thcyshould be excluded.
1t opens the doors for the Chinese,
who will swarm tho whole Pacihc
coast, aud form pagan governments
npon It.
But this is not all, and it. is not
the worst. According to Senators
Morton and Howard, tho former Of
whom is now canvassing our State
IN behalf of the Republican ticket,
the adoption of tbs amendment is
tuntamount to the legal admission
that voters hereafter may he made
by religious test; that it may
hereafter bo declared that II m1u
is not II believer IN God and the
Bible, and that if he acknowledges
Il Synod or Pope for the govern
ment of his Church, no ihuy be cX.
rludcd from participation iu.o ur poe
litical affairs. Az present such "
tost is forbidden, but under the
rules of legal Interpretation, the a
mendment would authorize IL.
The old Fcderaists tried to br eak
down the Government by narrow
ing the classes to which the Govern
ment was committed. Rendered
wise by their failure, but still hav'
ing the Same object in view, the
modern Republicans would a ccom'
plish 1t by comforting it upon SC
wide n community as to briog re~
proach upon the whole class that
exercise 1t, and thus pave the way
for II gradual, If not entire, aboIlsh-
ment of tho saffrago. 1t is well
known that the leading Radicals
are not friends of OF popular govern
m cnt and nothing would CRAFTY
them moro than to uontrive some
way by which it could dc destroyed
Negro, Chinese aud woman suf-
frags would soon lead to that result
Lot all the friends OF a democratic
governm eut be warned IN time,
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-09-17
NOTICE.

William Gulley, The said defendants Dan
vs.. iel Sims and Matthew
Daniel Sims & Sims are hereby notified
Matthew Sims. that the said William Cuff
fey, Plnintiff. did ON the 2nd day Of June,
1869, file his petition in the Court of Com
mon Pleas Of Morgan county. Ohio, on two
notes executed on May 27, 1854, and paya-
BILE one aud two years after, for 500 each,
made payable to Elizabeth GulTey or order
and by her transferred to William GufIey.
this plaintiff and that unless they answer
this petition by the 2Srd day of October,
1869, the petition will be taken MS good and
judgment renders thereon according to tho
prayer Of petition.
j. E.& FIN. II. HANNA.
Att'ys for Plaintiff.
August 10, ISG9.-6w
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-09-17
NOTICE.

IosEPH PIERCE, JOHN SHILLING,
- George Burris, Sarah Burris, the heirs at
law of Mary lIaines, deceased, and the
heirs at law 61 Robert Briggs, deeensed, will
take notice that George Briggs, William
Lindsey, Julian Lindsey, Samuel Lindsey,
Sidney Lindsey aud Nancy Briggs have
filed petition in the Court of Common
Pleas, for Morgan county, ohio, praying Tor
partition OF the south half Of the North
West quarter of section three, (3) in Town
ship eleven, (ll) in Range twelve, (l2) in
the GAINESVILLE, Ohio, Land District, aud the
case will be for hearing at the November
term, 1869, of said Court.
j. L. & FIN. r. HANNA.
Attorneys for Plaintiff.
Aug. 81, l8G9.-0w.