The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1870-05-26
General views Items.

The Fenians are gathering in great NUM-
bers along the border, and it looks as if Cana
da was to be invaded in earnest this time.
A smart minister in Tuleio. within ten
months, has married a couple, baptized
their first child. preached the funeral sermon
of the husband, and married the widow.
As the candidates both sides in the
judicial election in New York, were unexcep-
tional men. the heavy Democratic majority
therecan only he construed as a rebuke of the
Radical party on the negro issue.
1T takes seventeen seconds to send a
written message through pneumatic tun-
mel from London to four hundred miles dis
tant This heats steam, and is not behind
electricity Bags Of heavy mail matter are
sent three miles in two seconds,
A special dispatch from Providence,
Rhode Island. says party # Feniaus. under
command of two prominent military gentle
men. were to leave that city on Monday
mcrning for St. Albans for the purpose nl
taking part in the coming Fenian attack on
Canada.
The bill to enforce the provisions of the
fifteenth amendment was passed by the Ser
ate after an all-night session. 1t is of the
most stringent character; and should it pass
the House, the negro will enjoy privileges
and protection which have never bcen eX-
tended to white men.
a After seventeen years wandering in the
wilderness. jefferson county. New York, re-
turned TO the Democratic fold on Tuesday
week, and gave Mr. Church over four hun
dred majority This is a gain Of fifteen
hundred in twelve months. The white
mans issue was the Moses in this case.
An exchange speaking Of the sparring
going on among the childless feminines
about the right TO vote. says that they scat
ter fire like au old smooth bore musket, and
do no effective execution. We would ad-
monish the writer, however. to keep at d
safe distance from these smoothhores.
In Rhode Island white citizens, natnr
allied. cannot vote unless they own rra
estate worth one hundred and fifty dollars
but negroes can walk to the polls from tho
doors of the almshouSc. The Radicals arc
passing laws to enforce the Fifteenth AMEND
ment. but care nothing for poor white men
We were shown curiosity tie Other
/ day. in the shape of young chicken witt
! four legs and three wings. The superflnou:
/ legs were perfect. and came out just below
! the neck. on either side of the body. The
! additional wing grew out between the two
others. and was also perfectly well formed
-Sno,o Hill Messenger.
/ Omaha has a man who lives with hi:
( family 10 one Of the large iron tubes us"C
/ IN the construction OF bridge. He was toe
poor to rent even the humbest frame cabin
| so he adopted this singular expedient. He
/ has constructed a neat stone fire place in hi:
! iron house and here the wife and children
manage to live and get their frugal meals.
The last method of combining style
/ and economy occurred at Albany not long
/ since A man went to an undertaken 'tC
/ borrow valuable cssket. covered with vel
vet, to use at the fuHeral of his brother
! proposing to take the body out after the
! funeral. place it in plain pine coffin ant
return the casket to the undertaken. The
undertaken was near-sighted and couldn't
see it.
The Fenians say the prospect OF a sue
cessful raid on Canada are unusually brig t
Colonel Sullivan and Major M'Namara, who
were appointed by a convention iecenty
assembled at Boston, to inspect the frontier
have returned and rendered fattering re-
/ port. The Fenian treasury is said to be in
a most HourshiDg condition. and an abun>
dance of men, money and war material is
available at any moment.
Shortly after the John Brown raid
Benjamin f. Butler, in a speech at Salem
| Massachusetts, remarked 1.-The mistake is
we look at the South through the medium
Of the kbol!tionists-a very distorted pic
ture. Human progress rs not to be set back
a thousand years because of the difference
of opinion as to the supposed rights ant
privileges of a few miserable negroes.'-
| What does the General think of a "lew mis-
! erable negroes" now