The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-04-01
Local Correspondence.

Dear FreenGn-Next Thursday is moving
day-a day dreaded by the poor but laughed
at by the rich, for many rich people really
despise the poor rather than pity or sympa-
thize with them in their struggles for a sub
sistence.. We have men in our minds eye
| who are rolling in wealth, yet who would
! turn cut of doors tenant who was not able
to pay all his rents in advance And we
] have lived long enough in this world to see
| just such peoples children beg al the doors
! OF those whom their fathers contemned.
| Next Thursday is moving Gay, and it is
somewhat amusing to witness the multisude
! moving along and athwart. multiform and
| mix, through the thoroughfares of cities and
| towns. Mr.. a. is moving into an old dilapi-
! dated dwelling that Mr.. B. left, paying two
| dollars per month additional blood money for
the privilege of living. Mr.. 3. goes into the
| house which Mr.. G. vacated, while @. goes
| back to A.'s house. Mr.. Dice and Mr.. Rice
+ and Mr.. Price follow each other round with
the same inexorable fatality.
Next Thursday is moving day-a day of
hustle and jJstle-babies crying-mothers
worried and scoiding-fathers tired and mel
ancholy-dogs scenting round for new ken
nel-cats mewing for. familiar hearth and
chickens cackling for a new perch-catte
bawling, sheep bleating and pigs squealing
horses dragging heavy loads through the
mire, and houses that looked quite refined
yesterday all topsy turvy to-day. '
Next Thursday is moving day-the day
that chairs, tables, pots, kettles, sofas, mir
rors, silks, satins, new shoes and o.d ores,
seek a common level when the aristocracy
of fashionable parlors and the serfdom of the
kitchen shake hands and greet each other
with a holy kiss; when the mantle of char
ity is thrown over the cid bureau. the kitchen
cupboard and uuwashed linens.
Next Thursday is moving day, and, while
goods and chattels seek common level, the
day is not without its contrasts. On one
side of the street may be seen the rich ma
bob with more money than brains-on the
other the poor vassel with more brains than
money On the one hand the corrupt scoun-
drel that has boarded up the sordid gains of
dishODesty-on the other the meek and low
ly follower of Divine Master who said,
Lay not up treasure on earth, where moth
and rust consume. but lay up treasure in
heaven, where moth and rust do not con
sume" ~. -r
Next Thursday is moving day-the day
above all other days that Is the true emblem
of that day which will remove rich and poor
alike from temporal to an eternal condition
that day when the rich will not scorn the
poor, but when all, like the Chattels Of the
poor man, must meet on common level
when the bloated aristocrat will be as much
like clay as the poor man that USED to drag
bis family from one tenement 10 another
through mud and filth.
Next Thursday is moving day-a day that
peculiarly distinguishes the producer aud the
consumer, the men who pay all the taxes and
the men who live off the taxes of the city.
cJanty, state or nation. The one can be
told 10y his brawny arm, his hard worn hand,
his stitfened j2ints and his stopped shoulders
the other 10y his supple joints. his fine
clothes, bis starcGed linen and his naughty
look.
Next Thursday is moving day, and may
the Great Ruler of the Universe have mercy
ON the poor everywhere on that day and send
uuex pected aid TO relieve them from many
au uutold and pinching want, from the mer
ciless greed of niscIly nsen, from iuclement
skies and from the SCOTS of the proud.
Many changes will take place In our city
on Thursday. Merchants and mechanics
will change their places of business, whether
for veal or for woe, and with newly painted
signs aud newly FURNISHED exteriors, assume
new attractions and enter the maze Of world
ly competition with renewed zeal.
Such is life and such it has been for thous-
ands of years. Charity is myth, a mere
nominal virtue. Money will Luy every thing
1t will purchase character and position,
spect and adulation, while poverty will de-
privs men even of good name. The grace
! If charity is a christian virtue seldom pos
| sessed. Though we speak with the tongues
of men and of angels and have not charity
we are but as sounding brass or tinkling
| cymbals."
| Local AND GENERAL MrDLRY.-Owing
| to the late and the subsequent rain
and thaw Stoney creek and Couemaugh river
were on the rampage last Friday y.--Sixty-
Eve rev houses are going mp in Johnstown.
! There was a concert IN Union Hall on
| Saturday night last and another on MONDAY
| night--Not frog has opened his mouth
/ this spring yet.-The borough treasurer Is
report shows that we pay over $4,000 bor-
| ough tax--freft's show beef went like
hot cakes at so cts. per 10. for choice cuts.
-TLere Is some very nice machinery IN
| the saw-mill of the Cambria Iron Company
at Mineral Point.--The brick house at
! Mineral Point is to be reconstructeG.--Last
| Friday aud Saturday were pay days in Johns
town, and lots of money exchanged hands.
| samuel Royer, ESQ has been appoint
ed revenue collector for this district, in place
| Of Wesley j. Rose, Esq, resigned. .--Busi-
ness on the Penna. railroad is increasing with
the spring trade. Thirty six trains pass over
| the rails every twenty-fo four hours. Tho
| Johnstown literary society is a fixed fact,
and the members have leased the hall of the
borough councl.--The roads and streets
are intensely muddy.--The fall grain was
somewhat injured by the severe freeze in
| March.--Easter was the observed of all OBJ
servers, and was well observed.--Leut has
| lent its lease of time to time.--From Mac
! Shane's last letter he seems to be choice of
his company. and privy-leged character
when necessarily abroad. Was the night
sile he speaks Of American sile 2--The Bal
timore papers speak of a train Of cars en-
route lately for Washington, d. c., labelled
saCire. Carpet bag representatives, no doubt,
| from some OF the reconstructed States
A countryman who will not support the
printer has put up few written advertise
ments hereabouts advising a sale of his
goods and cattels.'--The chirping of the