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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-07-22

IL our paPer this week will be found an
admirable sketch of the life of Judge PACKER,
the Democratic candidate for Governor. 1t
was TepuLlished in Forney's Philadelphia
Press, with complimentary editorial no
tice, on the 18th of last December. Antici-
pating at that time that Mr.. Packer would
be the nominee of our party for Governor,
we preserved the paper for the use we now
make of it. 1t will amply repay careful
peruSal.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-07-22

ANOTHER RAILROAD HoRRoR.-One o
those terrible railroad tragedies which so
frequently shock the public mind, had its
occurrence at Mast Hope. Pike county. Pa.
Oh the line of the New York and Erie R.
r., OF Wednesday night of last week.
There is but single track at this point.
and the engine Of freight train ran his
train on 10 siding to allow the express
train from New York. due about midu light,
to pass. While waiting, the freight engi-
neer fell asleep, and woke up Impressed
with the belief that the passenger train bad
gone by. and at once began to move on to
the main track. He had lust gone far
enough to thrust the side of his engine
across the path Of the express, and in a mo-
ment the lightning train was upon him.
The result was that the engine, mail, ex
press, baggage and smoking cars were com
pletelv- wrecked, the FIRE from the locomo-
tive set the combustable material as well as
the depot in flames. aud, terrible to relate,
some eight or nine persons in the smok ing
car were either killed by the collision or
burned to death in the coufagrat:on, while
some ten or twelve others were more or less
injured. None OF the employees on either
train were injured.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-07-22

The Democratic State Convention confer
red upon its presiding officer, Mr.. Buckalew,
and the two candidates, Judge Packer and
Mr.. Pershing, the power of selecting the
Chairman of the State Central Committee.
This is an important trust, and ought to re-
ceive the serious consideration of the three
gentlemen to whom it has been committed.
We undertake to express the opinion, for
many apparent reasons not necessary here
to mention, that the position ought not to
be conferred on any person, no matter who
he may be or how well qualified, who is
connected with he public press To do so
would, in our judgment. be political blum
der, if not fatal mistake.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-07-22

DECLINATIoN.-JohnH II. Kennedy, Esq,
the nominee for County Auditor, has sent
letter of declination assigning business en-
gagements as his reason for doing SOY to f.
A. Shoemaker, Esq, Chairman of Co. CON-,
aud Anthony Anna, Esq, of Chest twp, hfs
has consented to fill the vacancy.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-07-22

The superior merits OF the "Sinsg
chimes over all others, either for FaIni,!
Manufacturing purposes, are 50 vel. e'.1.-'.
and so generally admitted, that an 6nuns-,
of their relative excellences Is no lonsa
sidered necessary.
OUR NEW FdJILLY DIACHL'1,,
which has been brought 10 perfection re-
OF time, labor, or exp nse, Is no" con,
presented to the public as incomp@i"''
Best SEWING MACHINE N ExIsrENCE-- I'll
The machine in question Is II N ! -,,r -,
PACT, DURABLE and BEAU iAfo-
Is quiet, light running, and CAPA'-L
FORMING A RANGE AND VARIETY OF NcAn N.a q
before attempted upon a single MacI'-Tr- -
either Silk, Twist, Linen or Cotton =.
and sewing with equal facility the 'e,! -
and coarsest materials, and anything .si -.
the two extremes, in the most oeals.-ps
substantial manner. It's attachments -
ming, Braiding, Cording. TuckinS' No
Telling, Trimming, Binding, &C. az
and Practical, and have been lh'e-
adjusted especially for this Machine, .riT.
New designs of the Unique, seiHi a.. 49,
ular Folding Tops and Cabinet case, ~
to the Machines manufactured by ths \.
ny, have been prepared for enclosing
Machine .hsa
y faint idea, however, can al o's.
veyed through the medium OF lDs.f,,sr
limited advertisement and We ihg,s-t.,. git'-t.,.
every person in quest of Se"inS c,s s
all means to exa nine and test, II ss.s..tosE ne
sibly do so, all the leading rival pa -aa'y ,,s
fore making purchase. y seieot,yl ~
be made understandingly. brsnGuslissf S5l.lissf
cies for supplying the Singer -. IL ,l-ss
be found in nearly every city ana E12s-iira 1GSii
out the civilized world, where la 80
be cheerfully exhibited and an! -.,;se,
promptly furnished. Or cOmmp ni'''
be addressed to
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-07-22

THE testimony in the Erie rair1s!
slaughter indicates that no lcSs than th-z
employees of the road, incluling the eu-ilas
were asleep on the train which c.usei tl
disaster The conductor was in hiscabUg
OF sleeping car; the train was moved viii
ont a sigma! and. according 10 the c'niGa
o, IS testimony, it Is customary TO sleep I
run trains on the Erie Road against posira
orders. The verdict holds the sleepy r.
necr guilty, and exOnerate5 all other emp
ees of the road. Immediately on the rtll.
tion of the verdict the engineer. JAMS
Griffin, was arrested. He sh, Md tris b
murder and if cOnvict.d-hnnged. iJ
examples of this sort aud there would
fewer railway smash ups.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-07-22
he Singer Manufacturing U0"F'
I5s BROADWAH,

PHILADrLrHIA OFvloE, II06 CHEssrNTy5i yi,,.s =.
G-C. 7. ROBERTS, Asent. ., los e,s esa..e
and vicinity, keeps these MScn.ns7 Tbsg
for sale at his store on High s'rT's e and sss Z
lie are respectfully invited to eau eau fres
in operation. Instructions give -.
chimes sold at city prices. No fsai'i ls;I,, and 81
Also, Siuger's Needles, Oil 'i.s aug 81,
always on hand.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-07-22

A BOY circus-rider at Louisville was 0f=g
a horse and equipments worth $4,000 dt
would turn twenty-five consecutive soue
saults on the horse's back while under 20
headway. He accomplished the feat Wit
ont difficulty, and then turned five bass T.
ersaulss before dismounting. Such a.ag
act has never before been Attempted.
"A new family velocipeda which wi'g-
~ four persons, and is worked without hm
has been patented in Springfield Mas l--
the Republic saws it is practical success
-Forney's Press assails Gen. RJss.f-3
on account Of his being a Catholic.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-07-22
Cambria Freeman.

Democratic State and County Ticket.
For Governor i:
HON. A S 4 PA G X Err,
OF CARBON COUNTY.
For Judge Of tie Supreme Court:
HON. CYRUS l.. PERSHlNG,
OF CAMBRIA COUNTY.
assembly:
Hon. JOHN PORTER, Washington Twp.
Register and Recorder:
GEO. W. OATM AN, EbensburS Borough.
Treasurer:
WILLIAM LINTON, JoEnstown Borough.
Commissioner:
JAMES E. NEASON, Clearied Township
Poor House Director:
JOHN BLOCH, Johnstown Borough.
Au3it0r:
ANTHONY ANNA, Chest Township.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-10-16

THE AUalDaehe of yesterday speaks
of the APPEAL as no very formidable
opponent, aud as having little power,
and yet devotes two mortal columns
to resist its influence. The gigantic
effort seems out of all proportion to
the occasion, if he does not underrate
it. The AralaHche seems to be much
better acquainted with "Bingen on
the Rhine" the ''speech of NoRvAL,
the bucOlic youth who fed his fathers
sheep upon the Grampian hills" the
biography of SAM PATCH" with
"FON's Book of Martyrs" and other
narcotics from the "musty pile of
stupidity" than we claim to be. Our
neighbOr seems rather to be the "Old
fogy," after all. We generally depend
upon plain English, and the language
of common sense, in preparing mat
ter for our readers. If we support
JOHNSON, it is because we believe to-
day it is the best thing we can do for
the country, without reference to past
war records and charges, many of
which we now find are false and sus-
ceptible of explanation, consistent
with the conclusion that his evil acts
were forced by Radical pressure, and
that he has always endeavored to obey
the Constitution and protect, so far as
he had the power, the rights of the
people. As for Mississippi matters and
DENT and AHooRN, VI position is
well known. We condemn the plat
forms of both parties alike, and shall
therefore support neither. We give
freely, for the benefit of our Missis-
sippf readers, anything for which we
have room, that either party have to
say. There IS a rumOr that the Con-
servatives of Mississippi may call a
Convention, and put forth candidates
and a platform, in our view, more wor-
thy of support. The only reason we
can see for any preference here is, that
the majority Of u friends are for
DEST, and that ALCORN, like STOKES,
depends on negro votes. But why
one should not do as much good for
the State as the other does not appear.
We find also the following in the Iuka
Miss Gazette of the 18th, a Demo-
cratic paper:
There is a rumor that there may be
some arrangement made by the Al
corn party to make their ticket more
acceptable to the people. This should
have been done at the start, if that
party expected to get any respectable
part of the white element of the State
70 vote for it. There is no doubt but
if Aleorn's party had not got mixed
up with that internal, drunken, ras-
cally, Jim Lynch, it might have found
favor with many white persons who
would nOtnow touch itwith a pair of
longs
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-10-16

THE New York Tribune has an ar
ticle On the history and prospects Of
cotton culture in Hindostan pre-
pared by gentleman highly eompe-
tent for that purpose, and who has
been officially connected with the
British administration in that coun-
try, and has devoted much attention
to the subject. BY great efforts the
supply from Hindostan has been dou-
bled. Yet it is now slowly falling of,
and the preponderance of the United
States in the Manchester. market is
being regained. We copy as follows
from the Tribune:
India has just the kind of soil that Is
best for cotton growing, but much of this
soil is useless without an expensive sys-
TEN of irrigation; and though the Gov
eminent in time will probably construct
the necessary works, little or nothing has
been lone a. yet, and not much can be
expected for a number Of years. More
over, it is no easy matter to persuads the
native cultivators 10 abandon their food
crops and undertake the raising Of a sta
az " AA@L 80 ~ AAA AAONAN
which they have heretofore suffered heavy
losses. The curious and complicated sys-
tenn of land tenure operates as a bar to
any great change, and renders 1t at the
same time impossible tor white settlers to
obtain plantations, should they feel dis
posed to engage in cotton growing. The
work must be left TO she natives, and if
they are not disposed to enter heartily
into it, there is no power to make them.
The great difficulty at the start was not
TO get enough OF the cotton, but to get it
clean. Ii came to market in such a filthy
state, in consequences partly of the rude
method of separating the seed from the
wool, by which the seeds were crushed
and so stained the fibre, partly Of careless
packing and transportation, that its value
was seriously diminished. With immense
trouble these difficulties were partially
overcome; but then the American supply
was off by the war, and curiousIy
enough this circumstance, which was ex-
pected to powerfully stimulate the India
cotton trade, had a decidedly unfavorable
effect. The demand became so active that
the poorest qualities OF cotton found ready
purchasers. The natives returned TO their
Old sloveuly methods Of preparing the
lint for market; the reputation Of India
cotton fell; and when the war was over,
and the Southern States began to export,
hardly anybody would touch the Hindos-
tan article, and a panic was the conse-
quence. The India planters have never
entirely recovered from the effects Of his
widespread bankruptcy, and it viii be
long before they consent to devote q
larger share of their farms to a crop from
which they rave suffered so severely. 1t
may safely be predicted, therefore, that
the United States will retain the first po-
sition in the cotton markets Of Great Brit
ain which they always held before the
war, aud surrendered only for a very few
years.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-10-16
WASHINGTON.
The Senatorial Ring TO be broken up.
A Confederate Note Case---The
Gotten Tax.

THE SENATORIAL RING To BIZ BROKEN UP.
It is asserted in Senatorial circles that
such is the dissatisfaction of a large num-
Der of Senators of the Radical type, with
the officers elected at the last session OF
Congress for the Senate, through combin-
ations effected by Senators Fenton, Nor
ton and Perry, that an attempt will be
made az TIE commencement OF the next
session to get rid of them. The ring
system in the Senate does not seem TO
meet with favor, aud there is hardly any
doubt that but a change will be made and
several of the Old officers replaced. The
opposition to the present Secretary is led
by Senators from the Pacific coast, and is
of an intense character. Judge Bond, OF
Baltimore, is talked Of for the position.
A CONFEDERATE NOTE CASE BEFORE THE
SUPREME CoURr-THE CONSTITUTION
Atty OF THE COTTON TAX.
Associate Justice Field appeared to-day
inthe Supreme Court of the United States.
All the Judges are now present.
The case of bloomington VS.. Smith &
Hartley, involving transactions in Con-
federate treasury notes at the South dur
ing the war, wa argued by Mr.. Phillips
for the appellant, the appeIlees not ap-
pearing.
The action vas upon a note for $4,000
made at Montgomery, Ala, November,
1861, by the appellees, and payable one
day after date. The defense was that at
the date of the note there was no lawful
currency in circulation in Alabama; that
the medium Of exchange was at the time
treasury notes OF the Confederate States,
and that the contract was made with the
understanding and agreement that it
should he discharged in such Confederate
notes and not in money lawful or current
By the United States.
The note was made, by its terms, a lien
or mortgage On certain real estate for
which it was given in payment, and the
action sought to hold The property for
$4,000 lawful money. TIC Court admitted
certain parOl evidence, IN consideration of
which it came to the conclusion that the
dollars expressed in tbs note meant Con-
federate Treasury notes, and found for
defendant, holding the contract wholly
illegal and void because It was payable in
Confederate Treasury notes.
The case was tried en- the United States
District Court for the Middle District of
Alabama, from which an appeal was taken
10 this Court, the appellants c%ontending
that as the contract was not entered into
for the purpose OF giving currency to
these notes, and thus indirectly attempt
ing TO aid the rebellion, IL is not affected
by the circumstance that It did give cur
rency to the notes. If there WAS no Illegal
design, the contract was neither immoral
nor Illegal. There was no other currency
by which the daily transactions of busi-
ness could be carried on, and it had been
imposed on the country by irresistible
force. The necessity for using this cur
rency was almost the same as the neces-
sity TO live. No protest or resistance-nO
rejection could avail anything.
The case Of harrington VS.. Sanders, from
West Tennessee, is to be argued soon. II
involves the question of the constitution
atty of the cOGton tax.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-10-16

they raised the taxes, the more capt.
tai, and thus the power Of collecting
taxes was reduced.-A rate of taxa
ton which will not build up a III
try, and leave all its people prosper
Gus, Will never pay off public indebt-
edness. We have now in Tennessee
a new, and, we trust, a stable and be-
ni6eent Government. Let US now
have a breathing-time, a removal Of
oppressive penalties for dilatory pay
ment Of taxes, and taxes reduced, at
least low enough 50 that men car live
in Tennessee and use their capt.
tai and make money freely; and
LET measures be taken to post
pone the just public debt, and
all the rest be repudiated, as it ought
TO be, and we shall grow to be the
greatest State of the South-working
men viii come in by the hundreds Of
thousands, and rich and poor will
thrive together. Nothing short of
such legislation will now restore a
good and thriving condition OF
things. And in this matter the
working men are even more in
terested than the wealthy. Their
demand should be " down with the
taxes!-we have found by experience
of four years that high taxation goes
with high prices, small profits and
light demand for labor. We want
work, and that capitalists should
thrive'in order to be able TO furnish
it. We demand Of the Legislature
such reduction of taxes as will leave
it possible that all should live to-
gether." The Radical rulers, in order
to plumber the Treasury, have assessed
heavy taxes on the people, and griev-
Gus to be borne, and then impudently
declared "poor people don't pay the
taxes" But their declaration is false.
The poor at last pay indirectly, and
principally by the tariffs, as all sensi-
VIC hACh hAON Aht WlOAN bbANCn VI
taxation. 1t comes all at last from
the sweat of the brow. 1t is the work
ing men who pay the taxes. In the
language of the acute, discerning and
able Philadelphia Age.
"WhO does pay them if not the
wOrkingman, the laborer, the real
producer of wealth? There is not a
loaf OF bread placed on his table, q
pair of shoes worn on his own or the
feet Of any of his family, nOr a shirt,
nor a coat, nor a dress, which is not
covered with tax bills before it reaches
the poor mans hands. If real estate
is taxed, the tax is added to the poor
mans rent. If manufactures are
taxed, the amount of tax is added to
the price of the manufactured article,
and the poor man has to pay it.
Taxes fall more heavily upon the
workingmen than on any other class OF
the community.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-10-16

An intelligent Mississippian sends
as a communication, which appears
in another column, in which he advO-
Gates the election, and sets forth, in
no improper spirit, his views of Gen.
ALCoRN. Citizens both of Tennessee
and Mississippi will take an interest,
one way or the other, in the issue in
Mississippi, and we therefore give the
communication as matter of news.
Our correspondent thinks that bywhat-
ever votes ALcORN may be elected,
he has the disposition, and the strong
est aspirations Of mis- nature will be to
redeem the errors OF his life. and leave
to history a name not to be aspersed.
He has the advantage of DENT, in
being greatly the intellectual superior,
as well as in being an old citizen, and,
in the event of his election, if he
should pursue a magnanimous course,
he would be able to secure equal if not
greater good for his State, than is to
be expected from the candidate really
dictated to the people by Gen. GRANT,
and would have it quite as much, if
not more, in his power to remove the
disabilities under which many Mis-
sissippians labor from the XIVth
Amendment. We would be far from
advocating his claims. We can advo-
cate no man standing on such a plat
form. And yet thousands of Mississip-
plans are saying that if Mississippi,
under the bayonet, is TO swallow ne
gro suffrage, they would rather take it
under the lead of an old citizen, who
has at least been once in sympathy
with them, and who, once elected,
will have the strongest motives to
their service, than with a carpetbag-
ger imposed by the Government. All
in all, this seems to be the substance
Of the news from MISSISSIPPI, and
expressive of the views of many. We
think that, if citizen of the State, we
should, under the circumstance deter
mine to go for a new Convention, and
an Out-and-out Democratic candidate.
We now know that we might have
done so in Tennessee, and won with
the same certainty we did with SEN
TER, and probably with nearly the
same votes. Mississippians may do
the same, as against the two nominal
ted and both Radical candidates on
Radical platforms, for aught we see.
A third party might win; and if it
did not they could hardly be more in
iured by defeat than they are likely to
be as the a 5 stands, let the election
go which way it will. But it is not
our privilege to advise them.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-10-16


OUR attention has been called to a
memorial, presented by DIR. WILLIAM
w. LEA, president of the Tennessee
Central Railroad Company, to the
Legislature, suggesting and urging
the construction Of a continuous line
of railway throughout the State, to be
connected eastwardly with the direct
route to Norfolk, and westwardly
with the great inter-oceanic railway
to the Pacific. This through line, it
is proposed to effect by completing the
Tennessee Central road from Fulton,
at the first Chickasaw Bluff, on the
Mississippi river, to Huntingdon,
where it will connect with the Nash
Vile and Northwestern Railroad,
making a continuous line to Nash
vile.
From Nashville the Tennessee and
Pacific Railroad is progressing with
energy towards Lebanon, and thence
surveys are being prosecuted on sew
eral routes for its extension across the
coal measures of the Cumberland
mountain to East Tennessee, tOuch-
ing the East Tennessee and Virginia
Railroad at Knoxville. 1t is proposed
to amend the chaTer of this company
so as not to require the road to touch
at Knoxville, but passing north of
that city, up the southern base of
Clinch mountain, along the Poor Val
ley, to the Virginia line, and a con-
nection with the line of railroad
through that State to Norfolk, soon to
become the great emporium of the
South. But if a more Southern line
of railway, from Norfolk, shall be
built, as proposed by Commodore NJ.
F. MAURY, in his admirable pub
LEGATION on the canal and rail-
road transportation Of Virginia,
so as to pass along the line
of North Carolina, then it will be-
come necessary to turn the Tennessee,
Central and Pacific Railroad from the
Poor Valley, in Hawkins county, by
Stanley's and Carter's Valleys, to a
connection with the East Tennessee
and Western North Carolina Rail
road, so as to connect with the direct
route to Norfolk near the White Top,
the extreme northeast corner of the
stats
This Off the western terminus Is To-
Gated at Memphis instead of Fulton)
will unquestionably be the most di-
rect, and is said to be the cheapest and
most practicable road TO the city of
Norfolk, and IF completed, .as pro-
posed, viii be the most direct line Of
communication across the continent.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-10-16

vote at the precinct where he lives.
and to show his rOad-tax receipt be-
fore he can vote.
Such a law would be beneficial TO
the whole State. We would have
good roads or less illegal voting. We
would need no Registrars papers to
protect the ballot-box, and by dispen-
sing with all registration, we would
save thousands of dollars to tine peO-
pie, and a great deal Of trouble and
loss Of time. SENEX.