The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1870-06-30
The JohnstOyyn COnventIon.

This body, which was supposed by its
originators to be big with the future des>
tinies of Cambria county, met in Union
Hail, in Johnstown, on last Saturday, for
the purpose of nominating a candidate for
Assembly who is in favor of the visionary
and transparent humbug of removing the
county seat from the "obsolete village" of
Ebensburg to the queenly city of Johns
town The arcb-agitator of the move
ment, Daniel Mclaughlin, presided over
the deliberations of the convention.
We have been informed, by gentle>
man who was present, that Daniel, in his
address to the removal conclave, was
noisy and turbulent in the extreme-that
he literally tore the passions to tatters-
that he boiled over and frotted and fumed
with Indignation against the erection of
the new jail, or as he and his co-laborers
style it, the penitentiary," and that he
was more than usually abusive, if that
could be possible, of the people of the
''obsolete village" We will only say,
that in despite of this tempest in a tea pot,
the new Jail, or ''penitentiary," or "feuG-
al CASTLE as the case may be, is rapidly
going upward and onward, and will con-
time so to do, and that the people of Eb-
ensburg, in the pleasant pursuits of peace
and happiness, have thus far providential-
ly survived the well-meant, but harmless
blows of this Sampson Agonistes of the
9Th ward Of Johnstown.
The convention contained not less than
forty nor more than Jorty,tf0e delegates.
T,rO districts in the immediate vicinity Of
Johnstown, viz: Conemaugh township
and Coopersdae were not represented.
Why 'this was thus we are not prepared
to say. The townships of Washington
and Summerhill, and the borough of Will
more, were represented by SIC seif-appoint-
ed delegates--neither set having any
known living constituents. James Potts.
Esq., in pursuance Of an arrangement en-
tered into in a private room, on the nigh
previous TO the meeting of the convention.
| by the leading spirits of the removal
''RiRg," was the recipient of the high and
distinguished honor of leading the torlo1m
h2pe of removal, to certain and ignomin-
ous defeat, and as he bears a military
title of some significance, and as his cour-
age has never been doubted, it is fair to
infer, that under his strategy, aided by
that of the chicf' of his military staff, The
ssillful and scientific Gen. John F. Barnes,
late District Attorney, the campaign
promises, when these two puissant chief>
tains ''let slip the dogs of war;" to be of
the most lively and exciting character.
Gen. Potts is onaiaJle to a fault, and is
one of the ''mildest hammered men" with
in the limits of this or any other county.
We always had a kind regard for him.
both personally and politically, and we
congratulate him on his new fedged hon
ors. May he wear them meekly if not
lo,cly, aud with Christian fortitude and
resignation. We hope, for the success OF
the issue soon to be determined, that Gen.
Potts, as Charles Sumner once implored
Edwin NJ. Stanton, will ''slick" We
understand from our informant, already
referred to, that a meeting was held on
the mythical Court House Square" on
Saturday night, TO ratify the action of the
convention, and that although the aid of
first class brass band was called into
requisiiion, and although it discoursed
sweet music along the principal avenues
of the city, not more than from one to ttUo
hundred of the friends of removal graced
the aforesaid Square with their presence.
Gen. Potts appeared, and amidst the
most painful and oppressive silence Of the
vast multitude, accepted the much covet-
ed nomination, which was received with
nary cheer. The audience was then adj
dressed by the irrepressible Mclaughlin
and by Gen. Barnes, after which the de-
lighted and enthusiastic crowd Hvamosed
the rancho" SIC transit gloria REMOVAL
In our statement last week of the vote
on Gen. Logan's resolution excluding
Whittemore from his seat in the Honse,
although we gave it as the telegraph was
made to furnish it, there was great mis-
take. 1t seems that the correct vote stood
"a for his admission and 131 against it.
Among the immortal twenty>four it is a
qualification to know aud to proclaim the
fact, that the name of NJ Democrat is to
be found. The only t,Oo members from