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The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1869-07-29
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The undersigned hereby gives potice to his
old friends and customers, that on the
lst of July he admitted his son, Geo.
II. Roberts. into full partner
ship with him in the mercart tile business in
Ebesnburg, and that hereafter the firm
name will be
EDWARD ROBERTS & son.
Their stock will embrace everything in the
fancy and staple dry goods line. Groceries
of every description. Boots and Shoes, Hats
and Caps, of the latest styles and patterns
A full line of Hardware and Queensware, and
in fact any article to be found in a we'll reg
ulated country store.
Having enjoyed successful and pleasant
experience of more than twenty years in the
business at this place, and having completed
a spacions edi6ce High street, aud in
creased my facilities for supplying my friends
at all times and AZ the lowest market prices
with the best article in the market | conf
IDENTIFY appeal TO those who have so gener-
ously given me their confidence and favo. in
the past to continue the same measure of
patronage towards the new firm.
July i5-tf. EDWARD ROBERTS.
The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1869-07-29
EDITORIAL ETCHlNGS
@% Rain every other day.

nSg~ Rain every other day.
kay Come-the black berry season.
sGy- Hon Harry White was in town
day or two ago.
rsa- What say about holding an Agri-
cultural fair in this county
rea- The Pi;tsburg police force numbers
122 men.
R@- Parts of Missouri are troubled
with the army worm.
naa-, The deaths in New York last week
we're 692. and of these 2S3 were children.
nsa- The Daniel Webster farm and
household in Franklin, n. H., has been
sold for $4,000.
BaE- The victorious nine Of the Cincin-
natl Club neither smokes nor drink, and
retire at eleven o'clock every night.
na. We can't expect to hear Democrats
com planning about hard times, since Packer
is nominated as their candidate for Gov
ernor.
Bg- Partridges are reported to be more
numerous than for several years past In
the neig ghborhood of Hanover, York Coun-
ty. Snakes are also reported as increasing
III
rea- It is reported th~t one of the at
tacheeS Of the circus dit OUT for parts
unknown during their stay in this place;
forgetting to lea7c $4,000 which belong
ed TO the institution.
R9- Didn'. Asa Packer go to Europe
during the War and stay there year or
two III order to keep out of the contest,
and were not all his sympathies in common
with tho Democratic party-on the side
Of the south
Ra- Cyrus L Pershing, the Democratic
nominee for Supreme Judge, was known
during the war as one of the most violent,
bitter and unrelenting partisans belonging
to the Democratic faith, and is, therefore,
totally unfit to occupy a seat on the Sup
rene bench.
nea- The Common Council of Portland,
Oregon, has appointed committee from
their body to receive Hon. VIM H. Seward
on his arrival, to tender him the hospitali-
ty OF the city. The citizens of Victoeia
Van Couver's Island, have also made prep
arations to give hin. generous reception
The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1869-07-29

Processing TO have holy horror of
''Yankees," the Pennsylvania Democracy
nominates asits candidate for Governor
the party Of the workingmen, it nominates
for Governor a man whose chief claims to
notoriety consists in his possession Of sew
enteen millions of dollars Protesting to
abhor monopolies, and especially railroad
monopolies, it nominates for Governor one
ofthe leading railroad kings in the country.
Processing great love for the soldiers it re-
fused to nominate a soldier for Governor.
The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1869-07-29

BSg~ A boy of fifteen, in Black hawk
county, Iowa, whose father died three years
ago, leaving his widow and son an eighty
acre farm burdened with 81 900 mort
gage, has taken whole and sole charge of
thc farm, hiring help only in seed time,
harvest and threshiug, paid of the mort
gage, purchased harvester, suiky
plough, a wagon and a set of harness, be-
sides an $50 sewing machine for his mother,
and is now out of debt. lie is a member
OF he Cedar Valley Agricultural Society.
and attends school three months each win
ter
The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1869-07-29

EDUcATIoNAL.-The State Teachers
Association, which is to meet at CIR Gems
burg on the tenth of August, promises to
be a camplete success. The people of
Greensburg have already made arrange
ments to give the teachers a hearty vel
come Al the ladies who may attend will
be entertained free OF charge and gentle
men at the low rate of from one dollar to
one dollar and fifty cents per day. Teach
ers paying full fare over the railroads to
Greensburg, viii be returned free Of
charge.
The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1869-07-29

eea, Packer has consented to come down
with the stamps. lie told the "Asa Packer
Club" which is made up largely of the
boys who will not beput off with promises,
in Philabeldhia the othe night, that ''f eve
fail it shall not be through anything want
ing IN me- This evidently means that
he will honor all drafts drawn on HIM. So
all the boys have to do is to proceed to draw,
and while they are about it, they should
draw literally. 1t is the only way to find
out wethcr Asa means business
The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1869-07-29
| UDITORS NOTICE.

IA The undersigned Auditor appointed
by the Orphans Court of Cambria county to
hear and decide upon the exceptions flied to
the account OF Cecilia M'Gough, Admin
istratrix of George MGough deceased, and
to report distribution among the creditors of
sad deceased, win set for that purpose at
his Office. in Ebensburg on Frilay 18th day
OF August next, when all interested may at
tend JOSEPH M'DONALD,
}ai! Z9-3t.s Auditor.
The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1869-07-29

THE New York CItizen Democratic
paper, offers this bit of eonso 'ation to its
Pennsylvania brethren ''Our Demo
cratic friends of Pennsylvania must need
a faggellation They have taken off
their coats and stepped up to the whip
ping post once more We hope the Re-
rublicans viii lay it on well this time"
The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1869-07-29

ps7y" y dispatch from Des Moines, Iowa,
Gays the harvest is getting on finely, and
the reports continue to grow more eucour-
aging. II the good weather continues the
amount of wheat and oats will be one fourth
larger than il any previous year, the in
creased amount raised more than making
up for the damage Inflicted by the food.
The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1869-07-29

BsA- y bad accident occurred at Robin
SON circus, in jamestown on Friday last.
The seats for spectators were loaded too
heavily and broke down. BY the fall Mrs.
Henry Weaver of that place was seriously
injured by wrenching her spine. On Sat
urday one of the managers of the show was
arrested and deposited :he sum of $4,000
as Indemnity for the result of the accident
The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1869-07-29

Reg- 10 1860 Asa Packer was delegate
.to the Charleston Convention. On the
nomination of Douglas he bolted and went
into the Breckinridge movements with the
seeessiopists. He clung to Breckirri idge
and opposed Douglas to he end. 1t is
not recorded when, if ever, he underwent
a change -
The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1869-07-29
COUNTRY PRODECB.

taken in exchange for good'' .,IG,s
Call and be convinced that a. coupt!'
cheaper than any other store IN u, ,,rs
ooioA SALES AN A. C. FRY
May 13, So
The New York herald., 1869-09-21

reverend doctor, in his sermon at the
Trinity Baptist church on Sunday evening,
undertook to criticise Byron's famous and
almost nexplicable poem Darkness" which
such authorities as Walter Scott and Jeffrey
declared to be incomprehensible, except
regarded as group Of material images repre-
senting the disruption of the whole solar sys-
tenn and the retracting of the earth towards
the original condition of chaos. But DR..
Holme found something more in the poem.
He discovered that Byron's thoughts had
reference to spiritual darkness-to the chaos
which follows the loss of grace-not to mate
rial destruction; and to support his theory
he quoted largely from the poem itself. The
ser,.sio.. was, consequently, we are told, ellis
tened to with great attention by the congre-
gation;" not, perhaps, because the congrega-
ton cared straw for the preachers views
on the subject or his very crude
criticism of the poem, but because
the Byron scandal just now makes any
thing touching on the noble poet an
attractive theme for pulpit oratory. The
'sBlack Crook" scandal some time ago did
''yeoman's service" in this regard. 1t was
transplanted from Niblos to the church with
accomplished grace. 1t is a pity that when
sensational entertainments are being gradually
Withdrawn from the stage, under the pressure
of more wholesome public opinion, they
should still be retained in tire pulpit, ever
in the form of an innocent and not very brilliant
criticism.
The New York herald., 1869-09-21

It's the general desire that the Board OF Health
will not compromise with the fat boiling and other
concerns of the same noxious class, but compel
them TO remove their establishments from the city.
or at least from Its populous parts Now Is Ihe time
for ,hose most deeply Interested In absting these
uu,sances to lend their aid to the Commissioners.
Its rare thing for the city OF New York to ind
of,cals from Boston coming hther to examine street
navemen,s or anything else connected with
street improvements. rne "Ifub' has always
boasted OF the almost immaculate cleanliness
OF Its thoroughfares, as compared with other
cities. and why special committee should be sent
here for information the subject passeth compre
henslon. But this is a fine season OF the year for
municipal junketings, and this may be al the bottom
OF the present visitation from the City OF Notions.
class has recently been organized 10 one OF our
public night schools for the purpose OF teaching the
English language to foreigners. This supplies q
want long slt and there is reason to hope that the
4 Temperament win prove successful.
The New York herald., 1869-09-21
this year by Juggling in the MongoIian. Very
well. We are waiting to see how they will
come out at Syracuse.


The news that the Spanish press is in COM
plete ferment Of excitement and indignation
against the American Minister, General Sickles,
under the idea that he was sent over solely
because he is strong partisan of the annexa-
ton Of Cuba. General Sickles says, however,
that he has done nothing to touch the pride of
the Spanish nation except to hint in kindly
way that bis government is willing to inter-
pose its friendly Offices for the settlement of
Spain's difficulty with Cuba. Very good.
This brings up the main question; and we
like this Spanish ferment because it will set
them to thinking on the main question; for
when they begin to think on it 1t will not be
long before they will think that their only policy
is to make the most they can of their costly
white elephant in getting him off their hands.
II this present ferment of the Spanish press
should cool down without any approach to
action on Cuba we hope that General Sickles
will give them another hint, and hint that
will be broad enough to bring them to negotia-
tions. Don Cesar de Bazan in his rags Is q
model Spanish cavalier; but even he, when
pinched for money. is ready for bargain.
The New York herald., 1869-09-21
Our Special Correspond udence-Foreisa and
Home.

We presented to our readers yesterday g
most ample and varied budget of special cor
respondence, conveyed to us by telegraph,
steamships and the Post Office mails, photo
graphing before them in our pages the
leading events which occurred during tho
day previous, with many of those which
took place at an early hour the same morning
on the American Continent and in the Old
World, as well as celebrating in most useful
and instructive form for their information the
main features of our kilograms, previously to
hand, conveying the points of the latest news
from Europe, Asia and Australasia. Our
telegraph letters told equally what was doing
on the Pacific coast and Wisconsin, in Penn
sylvania and Missouri, in Virginia and Rhode
Island, in Spain, in England, in France, in
Hong Kong, in Pekin and Yokohama. Our
special writer's supplied the details of former
dispatches from France, Germany, Ireland
and the antipodes at Melbourne to the Sd Of
the present month, their busy pens aided
by ocean steamers not permitting even
electricity and the girdling wire to
get very far ahead of them in the
supplying Of news to New York. The exhibit
was most complete and of a very interesting
character. 1t enabled us to tell of Napoleon,
Prim, the Duke of Genoa, Lord Clarendon,
Eugene, the Prince Imperial of France, the
German Catholic Council in Fulda, the land
reform agitation in Ireland, the death of
Bishop PhillpOtts, of Exeter, and the progress Of
the Cuban questions of royal visits and audi
ences and journeyipgs and interviews, besides
affording glimpses here and there of the hopes
and aspirations and executive plans and com.
binations of the principal personages referred
to. Bishop Phillpotts was called away at the
age Of ninety-one years, after having written
hundreds of tracts in opposition to freedom Of
conscience and material progress, and lived
just sufficiently long to see that matter,
even when ennobled In it's humanity, CAM
not set itself up against the march of mind
with any chance of success; Eugene re-
turned from Corsica to Paris to assure,
1t may be, the ''man of destiny" that
the world moved rapidly and is leaving
Bonapartism behind, while the Spaniards pro-
claimed liberty of worship in Cuba just at the
moment, but not before, when the Cubans them
selves had endorsed the principle by the use Of
that weapon which was consecrated to freedom
by the Jewish maiden when she liberated her.
self from the brutalities of the tyrant Hole
fernes-the sword. The march of civilization
is onward, and thus do we chronicle its advance,
keeping the newspaper in line with its quick
step forward.
The New York herald., 1869-09-21
Grand Congressional Match ON the
Tapis.


The public will be delighted to learn that
General Butler is to call the attention of Con-
gress to the extravagances of the Committee of
Ways and Means, which, with Mr.. Schenck at
its head, has been having happy time all sum-
mer at the public expense. Butler is caustic,
keen, logical, incisivs and effective in his
exhibitions of the shortcomings of others,
and as the people generally have been some
what scandalized by these very doings that
Butler proposes to examine he has popular
subject. The public will also be happy to
hear that Mr.. Schenck, chairman of the
Committee of Ways and Means, in
tends at the opening of the session
to present to Congress some facts in regard to
General Butler that it is thought will be dam
aging to Buffers splendid reputation for mo-
rality and fair dealing. On both sides there is
every reason for the public to be happy. Hit
him, Butler Give 1t to him, Schenck! Let no
one hold them. The beauty Of it all is that
Schenck er o6icio is leader Of his party in the
House, and Butler seems to be more fit for the
place, as the legitimate successor Of Old Thad
Stevens in boldness and talent. 1t is fight,
therefore, for the championship of the party.
The party will stand before the country may
be, in some new lights ere the fight is over
The New York herald., 1869-09-21
More Sabbath Rowdyism.

A shocking affair occurred in Jersey City
on Sunday, which bears out our former
views that neither tho moral influence of the
was effective in enforcing the commandment
which orders that we shall remember the
Sabbath day to keep it holy" The suburban
event referred to was q smashing of heads
and stabbing with knives, and other brutal
practices, reported in our columns yesterday,
avenue, with probably fatal results. These
bloody ARRAYS appear to be more frequent on
Sunday than on any other day, from which
fact it is not uncharitable to infer that there is
screw loose somewhere in our pulpit ma
chinery. The divines who preach the Gospel
evidently do not direct their attention sufi-
ciently to "the Greeks at our DOORS" or we
should have higher order of morality to
boast of. Indeed, we fear that, with the
salvation of souls and the circulation of tracts
il China and the Feejee Islands, many Of our
clergy forget the memorable words of John
Randolph, above quoted, when the question
of assisting the Greeks was presented to him.
ssWe have the Greek at our doors, he said,
and the expression is as true to-day as ever.
While fashion sits within the precincts of the
sanctuary every Sunday-when the preacher
is not on vacation-and receives mild rebukes
and gentle homilies from the pulpit with
becoming decorum, ignorance and vice and
crime run riot all over the city and its envi-
rons, even to the ultimatum of murder.
There is clearly reform needed, and it
will be acceptable, whether it comes from the
moral suasion of the church or from the brute
force of the ever ready policeman's bludgeon.
II we are not to 60 from bad to worse Sab
bath after Sabbath, reform must come from
some quarter. The secular press at least
does its part of the duty in exposing and con-
| demnng Sunday rowdyism.
The New York herald., 1869-09-21
Progress of TcIcsraphing-The Western Union
COunDnuv,a as,Orf.

Progress of TcIcsraphing Tho Western Union
Company's Report.
We see, from the annual report of the West
ern Union Telegraph Company, which has
just been issued, that the business Of tele-
graphing in the United States continues to be
rapidly developed and extended. This COM
pany alone has lines to the extent of over fifty
two thousand miles and a hundred and
four thousand miles of wire. Six thousand
miles were constructed during the past year.
This, of course, is independent of the lines of
other companies. Mr.. Orton considers that
the extension of lines and the progress Of the
telegraph business will more than keep pace
with the increase of population or development
of the country. He estimates that if this rate
of extension should continue for ten years the
company would possess q hundred and sixty
four thousand miles of wire. But the policy Of
this gigantic company is to absorb all other
telegraph lines and rival companies and to be
without competition, and considering its vast
wealth and power there is no doubt of its
ability to accomplish that. Mr.. Orton makes
an ingenious argument against the PROPOSE
tion to place the telegraph under the
control Of government; but the very
fact of the magnitude and rapidly increasing
extent of the telegraph system shows the
necessity Of government control. The tele-
graph is becoming as universal a necessity to
the public as the Post Office, and will soon
supersede, to great extent, the mail service.
In fact, the time is not far off when the gov
ernment will not be able to run the Post
Office Department without great loss in con-
sequence of the extended use of the tele-
graph. II will not be proper for the whole Of
the communications of the people, with the
exception of what might be left to the Post
Office, to be under the management Of any
corporation With postal telegraph system
under the control Of government the charges
for telegraphtng can be greatly reduced, and
this mode of communication can be brought
to the use of every individual. Congress
should as soon as possible pass law to take
possession of the telegraph system. A fair
price should be offered to the existing tele-
graph companies for their lines. II they choose
to accept the offer, all very well, but if not,
the government can and should construct new
lines throughout the whole country. The
postal telegraph has been proved success in
other countries and would be successful here.
This is one of the great questions Of the time,
and Congress will be derelict in duty to the
public if it does not take it up Immediately.
The New York herald., 1869-09-21

the part of the United States This is the stll-
alton. Spain is to stamp out the rebel
lion if she can. Cubans are TO be
murdered wholesale. The island is to be
desolated. If its fair fields should be con-
verted into shambles no natter the island
will still belong to Spain, and the re-establish-
ment Of authority will deprive the United
States government of pretext for annexation
In such circumstances what will our gov
ernment do? What should it do? Its
course is clear II has no choice if it
would act the part of brave men and prove
mental principle of our constitution that no
government should be forced upon an unwilling
people. Our history from its commencement
has been an expanded illustration of this prin-
ciple. Our sympathies have ever been on the
side Of suffering and oppressed peoples, no
matter in what part of the world they may
have been. We have ever been foremost in
succoring the distressed, although we have
ever been duly respectful to the principles Of
international law. Cuba has claims upon us.
OUc 10 Ouc Vi our uodTobt uciBuUOrb. W.
respect her people and we love her
land. Our duty, we have said, Is
plain. The Cubans must not be trampled
down because they love liberty Our first sin
was that we loved liberty, but our first victory
was that we justified our offence. Cuba is now
in our position. We are bound to help her.
The Cubans wish one of two things-inde
pendence or annexation. Our government, by
its own experience and by the claims OF JUS
tice, must help the Cubans to the one or the
other. With General Grant as President we
must not allow any European Power to dictate
to US course of foreign policy. Surely we
can, if need be, fight our way. The best
English papers say we can. Let us, then, be
true to ourselves. Cuba must not be crushed.
If she cannot win her independence we are
willing to say she ought to have it, II she
cannot have her independence we ought to be
willing to say we will do all things to secure
annexation. One or the other, General
Grant; think of it. We are a great people.
Europe says 80. Let us prove it.
The New York herald., 1869-09-21
Politics and Speculation.

Wall street has 6ete noiro. Some shrewd
fellows down there, who know more of finance
than they do of politics, have made combi-
nation, and bought not only all the gold in the
city, but all that the street would sell them.
All the gold in the city is trife to such specu-
lators. As the banks hold only fourteen mil
lions, and the amount scattered about in safes
and desks is not over q million, it required no
very formidable clique to ''corner" all there
was to be had. II will be remembered that
Erie was cornered last winter when it's stock
was about fifty millions. Gold nowadays is
only speculative vehicle, like railway stock
The fun of the situation is that number of
first class radicals went ''short" OF
gold when it was down at 1872 and they
are in very hot water. When Secretary Bout
we'll passed through here the other day they
interviewed" him; but that not sufficing they
banqueted him, all to the end Of persuading
him that 'the interests of the country" required
him to sell the Treasury gold and so get them
out of their scrape. Even the radical organ
came at him with double-leaded editorial.
It happens, however, that the administration
is trying to carry water on both shoulders.
That troublesome Pendleton is making speeches
out in Ohio, showing the farmers why the
price Of breadstufs has gone down and call
ing for more greenbacks. To sell gold would
only further decrease the price Of wheat and
corn, and so, perhaps, change the result there
next month. Hence the Secretary is unable
to give heed to the piteous entreaties of the
political spectators, around whose necks the
gold cliqne are slowly but surely tightening
the cord. How will it all end?