The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-09-23
NUMBER 50.

bly, vindicated their right TO the ballot and
the title of freemen.
LUCK TURNINd-ElfANtEL RESIGNS.
Soon after the election EmaLual resiopeI
his office as collector and went to Washing
tea, leaving the light>complexioned girl and
myself behind. lie was gone abopt tNn
months when the rebel newspapers began TO
say great deal ab, ut selling cadeIsbins
and hey published EmaLuel's name andna
others ia a list of members of Congress ec.
eused OF doing this. But he had never done
anything of the sort The cadet that be
appointed never gave Emanuel dollar. (
was present when the arrangement was
made. and I distinctly remember that The
money was given to another person. But
EMANUEL, who was a very sensitive man
got so indignant at the charge that he re.
signed his seat at once and returned. lie
said he would scorn to sit in the same House
with menswhc iEsulted him, and at ary rate
he thought there might be as good Chances
out Of Congress as in it.
TIE CONSEQUENCE OF TOO sUCH MARRIAGE.
But from that time forward fate worked
hard against him. The first blow came so
suddenly that he was quite uDprepaIed for
1t, and it almost broke his heart. Tbouoh
he had been only short time in Washing
ton, he had got married there and it seems
that the other wife found out all about it,
She must have been told by some of Emanu
ue's rebel enemies who wanted to get him
into trouble. Well, at any rate she had
him arrested for bigamy, and as there were
plenty OF witnesses he was convicted very
easily, and sentenced to long imprisonment.
| never saw the poor man so crushed and
unhappy as he was the day they cut off his
hair, and set him TO work pegging shoes
among lot of common, miserable convicts.
But the President had not forgotten that
Emanuel voted for him in Chicago, and one
day pardon came to the prison, and he
was set free. After that he hung around
the old place for while, but he had ne en-
couragement to remain. Somehow the COL
ored people were not SO friendly as thev
had been before, aud Emanuel said fhe rebels
Che always spoke of the native white people
as rebels) had been poisoning their minds
against him.
WHAT I KNOW ABOUT FARMING
If remember right,sthat was in 1870
Emanuel still had few hundred dollars.
and finding that there wasn't much chance
to get along where these rebels were he
gathered up a few things aad pat them into
me. and then started away from the place
We stopped about fifty miles eff, and. as
he decided TO try farming. So he bought a
few acres, spending nearly all his money on
them, and as he had never worked a farm
before. he got out q lot of papers that had
articles II them about farming, written by a
great agIculturist named Greeley, and began
to sit up all night Studying the articles
Wei, after studying much as he thought
necessary he began to work the farm, but
everything seemed to go wrong, He was
particular to do every thing Just as the pa
pers said he should, and when the neighbors
saw what he was doing they said he must
have got loose from a lunatic asylum, and
would not come near him. But he kept
working on, and working on, and everything
kept getting worse and worse, till at last he
had to give up the farm altogether, and then
in tit of rage off he went and burned all
the papers and swore awfully about the au-
thor of the articles that had ruined him.
SCENE LAsT-oNE MORE UNFORTUNATE.
He had only one hope now. Time had
worn on. and it was the fall Of 1872, when
he made up his mind to go to Washington
once more. His old friend Gen. Grant had
been renominated for President, and Eman-
uel felt sure he would be elected, and he
thought for the sake Of old times the Presi-
dent might give him some sort Of an Office.
As he had very little money he ha to make
his way to Washington by stealing rides on
the trains till the conductors put him off, so
he was some time making the journey
But. unfortunately. when he got to the
White House it was known every where that
Gen. Grant had been defeated Emanuel
met the President coming out and spoke to
him. but the President told one Of his offi~
GERS to turn that beggar out of the house at
once That was the last feather. EmAn-
uel's heart sank and chill came over him
and then he walked straight down to the
Potomac and drowned himself. Poor fel,
low! I wonder where he is now World.