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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-08-17

TERRIBLE MUTINY has broken out in
the Radical camp in louisiana Yarmouth,
an Illinois carpet-bagger, is Governor of the
State, and Dunn, colored, Lieutenant Cover
nor. Between these two high dignitariss
there exists a political feud as bitter and
malignant as in the olden time, in Verona
divided the rival houses Of Montague and
Capuet. Warmouth's bottle-holder is one
Ptnchbdck, colored member of the Senate,
while Dunn Sas for his hackers Casey, one
of Grants hrothers-in-law, who is Collector
of Customs at New Orleans. and Packard the
U. S. Marshal. A State Convention was
held on the 9th instant, when the ball was
formally opened. The convention was call
ed by the proper committee to meet in a
room in the Custom House, which was a
convenient place for Casey and Packard to
play their little game Two companies of
United States Infantry "a nice business for
them to be engaged in) took possession of
the hall of the Custom House. Packard had
things so arranged that no one was permits
ted to enter the room without ticket signed
by the U. S. Marshal Pinchback and other
followers of Yarmouth went to tie Custom
House, but not having tickets, were denied
admission. Whereupon the redoubtable
Pinchback waxed wroth and mounting a
box, went for the sable Dunn and his crew
as follows:
els 1t possible that we are to be put down
by the government we have sustained If
that be the case, the sooner this government
is torn down and monarchy built upon it's
ruins the better."
armouth's men then took the horses
from his carriage and dragged 1t triumph
antly through the streets to Turner's Hall,
and there the anti>Grant party organized
During the same time the Casey Dunn, or
Grant faction, was in full blast in the Gus
tom House.
The Radical party in Louisiana is thus a
double-headed monster of most frightful
mien. Each body adopted set of resolu>
tions and appointed delegates to the Nation
al Convention. All this is purely contest
over the spoils. 1t is an old saying, and one
which we believe holds good in political af>
fairs. that when rogues fall out honest men
will get their own.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-08-17

The Hartford Times says: A very queer
case has come to the attention Of the law
yers here. A man died, leaving handsome
property, and also handsome widow, the
latter childless but expecting to become a
mother. He also left will, duly executed,
in which il was provided that if the expected
child should prove to be boy, two-thrds
of the property should go to him, and one
third to the widowed mother.
If. however. the child proved to be girl,
only one-third of the estate was to go to
her and two-thirds to the mother. The re-
suit of the expected interesting event has
astounded everybody and puzzled call
hands," The widow has become the mother
Of twins !-and. what greatly hsightens the
perplexity of the case, the twins are boy
and girl.
The perplexity of the mother, her friends
and lawyers is said to be extreme. 1t is
claimed that there Is clear solution of the
case, but we haven't seen il.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-08-17

BEFORE the Kentucky election Radical
editors. laboring under the delusion that the
negroes In that State would vote for the fret
time, flattered their readers with the pros
pect Of Democratic defeat. When the tel
egraph announced the returns from a small
portion of the State, those same editors, who
are always, like Micawber. waiting for some
thing to turn up, claimed victory, because
Grant and his party had been beaten only
twenty thousand. Like the man who was
refused admission into the ark by Noah. and
who irreverently abused that ancient naviga-
tor for his want of hosp rita!ity. they consoled
themselves with the belief that it would not
be much of q shower after ALL The Demo.
cratic aeluge in Kentucky, however, was on
a grand scale and has left few of the vestiges
of Racicalism behind it. Its destruction has
been complete and overwhelming. 1t is now
ascortained that the majority for Leslie, tho
Democratic candidate for Governor. will not
be less than forty and may reach tfty thou.
sand This result sufficiently indicates where
the Radical fox will be after it has been
chased by the Democratic Hunters of Ken
tucky" IN November, 1872.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-08-17

The TROUBLES IN CHARLEsToN.-Out-
RACES Upon German Citizens s-The Charles,
ton Is. c. Courier of Tuesday says thai
the colored Republicans in that city seem
determined to avenge the defeat their party
has suffered by assaultng the Germans
The deeds of Eowdyism, theving and perse-
cution they carried on on Saturday night last
was terrible. Ttey formed in squads of ff-
ty to seventy five, paraded the streets. infict-
ing as much injury on the German store
keepers as they came across in their line of
march as they could. They walked into the
different stores they met with, drank what
they wanted and purchased goods. aud as
soon as they got them in their possession
ran off with them. The wives of the Ger,
mans so prosecuted were terribly alarmed,
some Of whom were at home alone They
INDUCED in insulting language, brandished
sticks, fired pistols aud declared war against
Germans generally. At corner of King and
Tradd streets they appeared fifty in number,
made rush for Loggerman's grocery to get
hold of two colored men therein, whom they
intended to kill for voting the conservative
ticket. They were so violent that a message
had to be dispatched to the guardhouse for
force of policemen to disperse them. The
colored men inside of the store, whom they
were waiting to kill. had to be relieved of
their perilous situation by the policeman
who escorted them to place of safety.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-08-17

The investigation into the causes of the
explosion of the Westfield has shown that
the Government inspectors of boilers at New
York are and have been for several years
past grossly ignorant and incompetent if not
dishonest men. One of them named Berry
man could not tell how much water would
be discharged by pump of given diane
ter and stroke; could not tell how large a
safety>valve ought TO be; did not know how
many cubic inches of steam there are in a
gallon of water ; could not, with the diam
eter and circumference of a boiler given him
calculate the pressure on the boiler head,
and in many other ways exhibited most
wofui condition of krownothingness regard-
ing his business. The appointing of such
creatures to responsible Positions where life
is at stake, shows that if there is not incom.
potency also in higher official quarters there
is very great carelessness amounting to abso-
Lutte crime. Surely when the public pay SO
dearly for public servants they should have
good ones and be properly served.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-08-17
A Poor Apology.

Oliver P. Morton is the obedient bench
man, the willing and servile apologist, of the
present administration in the Senate Of the
United States. No usurpaton of power,
! however fragrant and unwarrantabe, no hu~
initiation of the Southern people, however
pointed and degrading, has been attempted
since he became a member of that body, that
has not found in him a ready and unscrupu-
/ ous defender. The shameless and corrupt
San Domingo job had no warmer advocate
| in the Senate than Morton. No matter
what is dons or attempted to be done, he is
ever ready to maintain and defend it. o.
the 28th of July. during the recent political
campaign In Kentucky, he addressed Rad.
iCal meeting at Louisville. In attempting
/ to shield Grant from the odium which he
has So justly and universally incurred by the
wholesale appointment Of his own and his
wife's relations to Office, Morton made this
appeal:
Now, ask if, when Gen. Grant came
/ to fame and power, he had turned his back
! upon his poor relations, and upon those who
! stood by him In poverty, when they had
nothing to gain from him, if he had refused
to allow them to participate in his prosperi-
! ty, er to help them legitimately by the
! power placed in his hands, | ask you, as men
and women Of good sense and good hearts, if
| you had not thought more of him for it ?''
This is the first time that any public man
has been bold enough to set ap an excuse or
palliation for Grants nepotism, and we
doubt whether there is another prominent
| Radical 10 the whole country who has brass
| enough in his face to initiate his example.
/ Has Morton 50 far forget the history of the
country as to iAterpose such a worthless plea
in extenuaton of Grants offence? Has he
| forgotten how sternly the first Washington
set his face against the appointment of dis
tant relation of his to Office and what he
said in strong condemnation of the practice ?
With the so~called second Washington these
appointments come not singly, but in battal>
ions, and are as thick as leaves In Valam-
brosa. After Jefferson retired from the
Presidency, in letter to a friend referring
to this precise subject, he said:
II can say with truth, and with unspeak>
able comfort, that ! never did appoint a
relative to Office, and that merely because |
never saw the case in which some one did
| not offer, or occur, better qualified.
Such was the uniform practice of our
Presidents in the better days Of the Repub-
lie, and, with rare exceptions, down to the
advent of the present gift-taking incumbent
of the White House. II was reserved for u
s. Grant, when, in the language of Morton.
he ''came to fame and power" to foist into
Office all bis relations Of near or remote de-
gree. If there are any yet unprovded for,
| they do not number more than t,co. No
European monarch ever fastened SO many of
his ''poor relations" on the public treasury
1t Is simply unapproacha6le. and however
anxious Morton may be to gloss it over and
apologize for it, there it is and there it will
remain. one Of the most conspicuous Of the
many dark spots on Grants administration.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-08-17

Hon. BENJAMIN CHAMPNEYs died at his
residence in Lancaster on the 9th inst, aged
II years. In 1926 he was elected to the
lower branch of the Legislature, and in 1910
he was appointed by Gov. Porter Judge of
the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster
county. He served two terms in the State
Senate, the first commencing in 1843 and
the other in 1864. He was also at one time
Attorney General of the State. The Judge
was man of distinguished ability. and his
reputation in the various offices he held was
pure and without blemish.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-08-17
Plain Words Fifty Spoken.

In frenzied desperation the Radical jour
nails of this commonwealth have seized upon
the fact that Gen McCandless, after serving
with honor, but without deserred promotion,
for three-fourths of the war, refused to leave
his home and enter the field for the rema in
ing fourth, al the only flaw which they can
pick in bis life record. Vain and persistent
search has revealed nothing beside, and 80,
making a virtue of necessity, they with one
accord declars that the Democratic candidate
for Auditor General is traitor and the friend
of traitors, because lie refused to regard an
Intentional insult in the light of distir-
guished favor. His three years service count
for nothing in the sight of the malignant
partisans who conduct the columns of Radi-
cal sheets Had he served the entire length
of the war their slanderous epithets would
be not one whit the mider; the villainous
guerilla warfare which they are waging
would remain precisely the same, without a
single redeeming trait to commend it to the
support or approval of honorable men. The
one great crime of Gen. McCandess, in the
eyes of his snarliDg defamers, consists in his
Democracy. He is a Democrat, therefore his
distinguished services in behalf of dissev>
cred Union and violated constitution are not
to be considered. Gen. Longstreet, the cous-
in of the President, and occupying at this
moment an important Federal Office in New
Orleans, is. according to their logic, truer
patriot and nobler gentleman than Nc
Candless. They were both in the war-Mc-
Candless on the Union, Longstreet on the
rebel side. But now. Lon ngstreet is patriot,
because he is Radical. while McCandless is
traitor Isn't he Demo ocrat, and are not
all Democrats traitors? Such is the logic
employed by Radical editors They will
malign, and defame, and stigmatize gallant
soldier, true patriot, aud a gentleman, be-
cause be is not of their political faith, while
profession of Radical belief retrieves the
character of such men as Longstreet and
Joe Brown, of Georgia, and in the twinkling
of an eye converts them from crime-laden
traitors into Jealous patriots and loyal citi~
zensl Thousands Of black robed forms, in
this very common onwealth, were stricken by
their first great grief tbro' the instrumentality
of the loyal, office-holdiug Longstreet. AS
10 the record of Judge Brown, go to Andsr>
sonville, or.read the story Of the horrors en-
dured by unfortunate federals in this south
ern hell, and you have the history of this
upright justice, this benevolent patriot
Such men are eulogized, while McCandess
and others like him, who followed wherever
the old flag led, and she'd their bloo6-not
for party. not for loyalty. but for the
Union, for patriotism's sake-are denounced
as traitors and the friends of traitors What
a doubly infamous party Is it any wonder
that all good and true men hate it with an
intense and enduring batred2 That they
call upon the people in Gods name to drive
it from the land it desecrstes to it's native
hell
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-08-17
The Tribune and MIR. Bonacker.

We are glad to have the Tribune agree
with us that in the sale made by Sheriff
Bonacker, and which the editor of that
paper has attempted to immortaIize, he'(the
sheriff. did not charge zone cent more than
the law alows." This is no compliment to
the Sheriff, for all who know him know that
be is incapable of doing an unjust act.
But Sheriff Blair left his hotel and Capt
H.te his Office to bid on what they wanted to
buy at the sale. This is rather melancholy
especially as people from Ebensburg have
no right to bid at sale in Johnstown-the
principle being that the more bidders there
are the more the goods sold will bring, and
hence the outsiders only increase the prices
on the insiders. 1t is likewise true that if
the former Sheriff was there he would render
his successor any help he could, and equally
true that ProthSnotary Hite, who is particu-
larly efficient on such occasions, if there,
would do like service for brother officer.
Sheriff Blair and Captain Hte, being gentle
men, could 90 no less.
Another thing: Instead of pilng the costs
OF two or three days sale on the defendant,
Sheriff Bonacker employed two clerks in
stead of one. and paid them, and thus the
goods were all sold in a single day, as every
man knows that good cFier can sell more
than fast enough fer two clerks So far ali
is right. But the Sheriff paid Mr.. Henry
Topper. the crier, for his services, the enor-
nous sam of So. This is truly frightful! In
our country auctioneers charge per cent.
on the amount sold, which would have made
SIG in this instance. And we have in our
mind'seye a case wherein Radical crier in
Johnstown charged $40 80 fer q sale where
the labor was very much less. But We don's
give names, 1t Is not our vocation to pa.
rade the names of citizens before the public
in any but legitimate way.
Every man at the sale (nside or outside)
had right to bid, excepting the Sheriff, and
the moro bidders the better for Mr.. Kelly.
If Mr.. Topper sold to any but the highest
bidders we want the Tribune TO SAY so. II
he did not. then all it's TRADE about the sale
is the tiimsiest nonsense and clap-trap.
But the name of Mr.. Michael P. Kelly, a
worthy and respectable citizen, Is paraded
before the public and his msfortunes made
the theme Of complaint. because he is an
Irishman. Mr.. X. is sensible. intelligent
man, but has been, like thousands of others,
unfortunate in business. That he has been
cefrauded in the sale, however, is utterly
false, as he or any one else can ascertain by
examining the costs of.said sale. If be does
so he will find that the Sheriff acted in the
spirit Of kindness and forbearance, so far as
his official oath permitted. The meanest of
all mean things, therefore, is this attempt of
an old Know Nothing organ to array one
nationality against another for low party
purposes. The effort to arraign the present
Sheriff for what has been done time and
again by all his predecessors, merely because
he Is the first German Sheriff of Cambria
county, should be condemned by every man
possessed of spark Of honesty.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-08-17
JAMES A. MoMAsrERs, the talented edito,

JAMES a. MCMAsTERs, the talented editor
Of the n. Y. Freeman's journal, exhumes
the following incident to point moral and
adorn tale: "Austin Monroe was an officer
of the American Regular Army during the
war of the United States with England, in
1912-14. With the slow and methodical
exactness of that day, a. list of officers serv-
ing in that war was made out only after
Col. Jas. Madison had been made President
of the United States. lie approved of all
the War Department had recommended,
except one. His reason for not approving
Elm was that he aoas his oicn nephelo" The
application of this lesson is SO apparent as
to need no further enforcement, except to
say that James Monroe is not President of
the United States, and .. S. Grant is.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-08-17

At the fancy dress ball at white Sulpher
Springs, we Elk before last Miss Preston, of
Lexington. Ky, represented "Arctic Moon
light" Her dress was a succession of full
Illusion skirts dotted with swans down and
sparkling with oxydized glass. and silver
bands glistened beneath and silver crescent
looped the overdress one side, crown OF
pine cones and slender vines. frosted with
gold and spangled with o1ydized glass, res
ted on her head, and veil dotthd with
swansdown and spaugied with the glass fell
from her head to her feet at the back. Her
necklace was pearls, with diamond pend
ants.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-08-17

P. GREY MREK.-It affords US double
breasted qualification to announce that this
gentleman has for the fourth time been NOM
mated for the Legislature by the gallant
Democracy of Centre county, and for the
fourth time will he be triumphantly elected
beyond doubt. Mr.. Meek is a fearless,
honest and capable representative, and being
clever gentleman and the able editor of a
live and efficient Democratic newspaper, we
rejoice with becoming joy at this additional
evidence of his great popularity. He will.
in all probability. be the next Speaker of
the House of Representatives.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-08-17

SLANpRRERs.-T last Legislature passed
an act relative to slanderers of females.
which is now in force, and those in the hab>
it of this great vice, will do we'll to take
heed and save themselves from looming to
grief" 1t Is as follows "An action NAV
be maintained by female. whether married
or single. to recover for words hereafter
rpoksn, imputing uDchastity to her, and it
shall not be necessary to allege or prove
special damage in order to maintain such
action. In such actions married woman
may sue alone, and any recovery therein
shall be her sole and separate property"
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-08-17

An OHIO MYsTERY.-RIoH CASE FOR GRIM
ENAL LAwYERs.-About four years ago a
wealthy old farmer of Madison county, Ohio,
named Pof1eh berger or Buffen barger, died at
the age Of about eighty-ons years. Eight
years previously he had married quite a
young woman, whose character by some is
stated to have been none of the best. About
the time Of the marriage she made the ac-
quaintance of young dry goods clerk named
Colburn, who, soon after the old man s death
became her husband. After her second mar
riage she and her husband went to New
York city to reside. Poffsn berger came from
Greenbrier county, Va, when young man,
and by the increase in the value of land pos
sessed property at the time of his death
valued at $780, ,O00 His land alone
amounted to 5000 acres. Lately suspicious
were aroused against the wife and her second
husband. The stomach of the deceased was
accordingly exhumed and analyzed by Prof.
Wormly, Of Columbus, and found TO con-
tain arsenic. requisition was in conse
quence sent to New York for the Colburns
and coroner's jury summoned, which at
last accounts, was carefully weighing the
testimony. The prosecuting witness is
man named Thompson, who, it is thought
by the friends of the Colburrs, maliciously
injected the poison after death. The highest
legal talent of the State Judge Harrison
and Chauncy Olds) has been employed by
the Colburns, and it is likely that as in the
Shosppe case the question of poisoning by
absorption will be raised. There are no
heirs or legal representatives of the deceased
to prosecute the case, hence it is hardly DOS
sible the prosecution will be pushed as Wig
orously as it would be with personal in
ducement involved.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-08-17
wb;,a NJ p.nno,t ~,

While Mr.. Bennett, the owner of store
at Vienna. Clarke county. Ohio, was few
days since drawing oil from large can, the
gas ignited from candle he held in his
hand. and Immediately the room was filed
with flames. Thirty or forty persons entered
the house to assist Mr.. Bennett and to save
the property. Almost imm ediately two
kegs of powder exploded. demolishing the
building, the ruins of which fell upon the
villagers. fatally injuring four, and more or
less injuring twenty-seven others, including
women.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-08-17
1923 Eleventh Avenus
Between 18th and l4th Sts,, AIto...

AL such goods as Spices, Brusbe. p
and Willow Ware, Shoe BIacking and S,'.. aod
cry will be sold from manufacture. '-'sl r.l-. @
price lists, and all other goods in mr. fr.ll's rI
Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cincinnati ana ''5t 5t
burgh current prices. To dealers nras.Il ..a ls
peculiar advantage of saving them an Ii'S.' ~. 3
and drayage, as they are not required *
freights from the principal cities and ~ ~ lq
age charges are made. Dealers NAV ~ ~. .''r
sured that my goods are of the best oI,l;,. d
my prices as moderate as city rates. r.! r., ~
fair, upright business, and by promr;,r ..-
satisfactorily filling all orders, hone h - ~
the patronage of retail dealers and o. -s'
Cambria comfy and elsewhere. Or6s,.
spectfully solicited and satisfaction gpss1s, g
in all cases. THOMAS CARTsEIeT
Altoona, July %, I869.-tf. D.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-08-17

THE "Patriotic Sons of America" Heaven
save the mark y met in Harrisburg last
week to have big spree and denounce the
Catholic church and its mem bers. The Or
ganization is exclusively radical, and its late
convention was weak attempt to feel the
public pulse on the Know Nothing question.
Gov. John w. Geary enjoys the honor ~ of
belonging to the organization, which makes
ahout the sixteenth secret association that
claims him as its own-all which is designed
by him to aid in his political advancement.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-08-17

AT tie Huntingdon county Republican
convention, held on Tuesday of this week,
Messrs. Lowell, Thompson and j huston
wefefappointedsJudicial conferees, but were
not instructed. for any one. They are be-
lleved to be for Dean, which fact won't
Reado we'll up this way.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-08-17

VICTOR EMMANUEL has commenced the
confiscation of property. in Rome, belonging
to religious bodies. This will hardly add
to his popularity among the majority ofshis
subjects, the men he relies upon to prop his
throne in case of popular commotion.