The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1870-02-17
The New Jail Again.

We cannot he driven into prutracted and
rerhsPs an angry controversy with the
JohnGtown Tribune in reference to the ercc-
tion Of the new County Jail. No substantial
good would result from such a discussion.
FOR the very plain reason that neither the
opinions or preiudiccs Of the editor of that
paper, nor our own. can either retard the
completion of The proposed prison on the
one hand, or hast it on the other. In our
article last week we correctly stated the ac-
tion ct The Grand Jury, the Court and the
County Commissioners in the premises, and
having done so. for the ibiormation of the
people of the county, our duty was dis
charged. We stated nothing that was not
warranted by the facts. and are perfectly
willing that the people shall form their own
calm and unbiased conclusions. In the re-
ply of the editor of the Tribune to our state
ments, given in his last issue, there is nothing
whatever original or rew. 1t is merely
Tehash, bat in somewhat more elaborate
form, of the substance Of his first onslaught.
Snd d"es not change the main question:
Ills two articles Illustrate the Irishman's
dItferesce between &C ,rac ont here M.Car,-
rey !" sni "N'CArtuey, come out here %
Il ~e we're TO enter formal denial Of his
charges, he would simply repeat them next
week, for he again asserts that the lot ON
which the Jail will ho built is '.in loac
'rdmp," with the ad lItiunal falsehood. that
1t is about quarter Of a mile from, the
Court House" We l.sprov4d the ..s,cdnsp"
charge last week. and our reply row to the
other is. that the imaginary swamp is pre-
cl'ely trO squares from the present Court
House.
We treat with contempt his aspersions
aud inuendoes against certain citizens of this
place. for the reason that they are unfound-
ed, and therefore no defence is needed. The
editors device of publishing letter pur
porting TO te from Ebensburg. and pretend
Ing to reveal what terrible schemes were con-
cocted at a Conference in this place which
was never held. is very transparent. 1t is
az Old trck and Is Sometimes IesOrted to. as
In this instance. to bolster un weak cause.
Every line Of that letter bears the evidence
uf its JuhnStown earmark. It's author COM
plains. IN italics. that Collins .'tcas there
meaning in Harrisburg. Had not Philip
Collins, "Gnder the constitution and the
laws" precisely the same right tc be there
that Chvrley Ellis, with his inevitable snuff
Dor. Lad The same letter informs the
public that ''they" Che aders and a6ettors
"f the County Commi>sioner,) "are very
much afraid of bill in equity to restrain
the Commissioners aud CONTRACTOR from pro-
ceeding any further" This is a threat full
OF terrible import. and we trust that all the
weapons in the legal armory of Johnstown
will be brightly FURNISHED by the 'ides of
March" :" that the performance will cer,ai.l
ly come off, and that no postpnnemaut will
take place on account rf the weather.
We can only account for these recent out
bursts If the Tribune from The fact of the de-
feat of the bill giving general Jurisdiction to
the district Court" If the arguments Of
the gentlemen from Etensburg were So clear
AID indisputahle that they produced cunvlc-
tioL on the mind of the committee. what
bad the County Commissioners to do with
that decision. and " hat com ectiun has II
with the erection OF the new Jail? Why did
not the editor aim his slafts at the commit
tSS it4elf that struck the fata! blow, ipste.S