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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-08-10

JACOB TURNEY, ESQ, of Greensburg. has
been nominated as the Democratic candidate
for State Senator in the District composed
Of the counties of Westmoreland and Indi,
ana. Some years ago Mr.. Turney was a
member of the Senate, but the District was
then differently constituted from the present
one. He occupied prominent position in
that body and discharged his duties with ac-
knowledged credit and ability. The polit
ical majority in the District is against him,
but there is some hope that he may be able
to strike down or seriously cripple the Behe-
moth Of Radica,ism in Indiana county. its
boasted stronghold. If be succeeds in de-
feating Harry White. his Radical opponent,
the State will be immeasurably the gamer
and the tone of the Senate infinitely i'm
proved
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-08-10

BISHOP RosECgANZ AND TIE NEW YORK
of Columbus, Ohio, and brother of Gen. w.
S. Roseeranz, has published a communica>
ton in the Ohio State Journal in relation to
the New York riots, of which the following
is an extract
The attempt to make the Catholic church
responsible for the late New York riot is un-
fair and unjust. Those who were fred
upon by the police and military were on the
spot Ia defiance of strict command of their
archbishop, given in all the churches of the
city the Sunday previous. The feud be-
tween the Orange and Ribbon factions, both
made up of faction of the lower order of
Irish people, is now centuries old. Religion
was made the pretext. but both parties
practically renounced religion in their strife.
The New York riot was simply q continua-
tion of that strife. To make the Catholic
church responsible'for what it forbids, abhors
and condemns. is unfair and unjust.
We Catholics desire to be citizens of a free
Republic. We want nothing for ourselves
but what we will do our best to maintain
for others. 1t would he pleasure to US to
see Jesus Christ honored and loved by all
our countrymen, but no pleasure to see any
one calling himself Catholic for fashions
sake or on compulsion. The clergy have no
temporal or political design. Thsir expecta
tions are on the period that shall follow the
judgment; hence they oan suffer patiently,
though with regret. the obloquy and unjust
hate excited against them by misrepresenta-
tloEs OF such scandals as the New York riot.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-08-10

A HUSBAND IN A HURRY.-The people of
Mantua Station. in Portage county, Ohio,
are just now hugely enjoying joke on rath-
er grim subject. The wife of one of the
residents of the village has been for some
time sick, and a few days since was given
over by the physicians. The husband, that
no time might be lost, went to the underta-
ker and ordered coffin, requesting him to
come and take the measure of the "corpse"
that was to be. The undertaken told the
husband it was not his custom to measure
"corpses" that still breathed, and refused
the job. The husband took the measure of
his supposed dying wife with a stick, ordered
the coffin, and shouldering his spade, him
self dug the grave,
just here comes in the joke. No sooner
was the grave dug than the woman began to
mend, and on Monday morning was reported
very much better, though her recovery Is
not yet certain. The husband realizes the
fact that there is no use in hurrying things
and that while there is life there is hope-or
disappointment,
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vys.s. Es. BonacNer, Esq.

This gentleman was elected Sheriff Of
Cambria county at the last election by the
largest majority ever given to candidate
in Cambria county for that or any other
Office. He took an oath to perform his du-
ties faithfully. and all who know the man
know that the injunctions Of that oath will
be conscientiously observed.
But Mr. Bonacker is Democrat, and
therefore Radicals do not love him he is a
German, and therefore Know Nothings hate
him, as they are sworn to do; be periled his
life in the war to preserve the Union, and
therefore he is a standing rebuke to stay at
home Radicals.
Sheriff Bonacker is the executive officer
of the county, and as such is bound by his
oath to execute all writs. That he would
commit, or allow any oppression. every one
knows is contrary to his nature and his edu-
cation. His fees are prescribed by law, and
he can take neither more nor less. If he
charges more than legal fees, even by mis-
take, he is answerable to the law.
The Altoona Sun, respectable news
paper, published a correspondence contain
ing false. and, as the Sheriff had reason to
think, malicious matter in reference to GER
tain sale made by him. His counsel addressed
a note requiring retractiou and the name
of the author. The editor of the Sun gave
the name of the author. disclaimed any NAL
ice on his part. and publicly cautioned his
correspondent in reference to the article.
TIE author himself stated that the matter
was not written through malice, but on in-
formation received from others. The name
Of the author developed. as the Sheriff bes
leves, an innocent, inoffcnsive young man.
with whom he desired no difficulty and
whose punishment could give him no graf
ification. And there the matter ends.
As to any questions that may be asked by
any person, they will be best answered by
the Sheriff's return under oath. now on file
in the proper office. He emphatically de-
clines the Know Nothing catechism.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-08-10

WHAT bid fair at the OUTSET and during
its progress to become an interminable con-
test for official supremacy between Boutwell,,
Secretary of the Treasury. and Pleasanton,
Commissioner of Internal Revenue. has at
last been brought to close, if we can place
any reliance in the Washington dispatches
in reference to the puerile ways of the Gov
ernment at Long Branch, by the dismissal
of Peasanton from office. In this whole
proceeding. small as it was from the begins
ming. Grant has again displayed his unfit
mesa for the Office he holds. If it was a ques-
tion as was asserted. which Of these two
individuals was invested under the law
with power to discharge certain act, it was
easy of solution. 1t is plain that both
could not exercise the same power at tho
same time. An ordinary President would
have cut the Gordan knot without any use
less ceremony or delay. But this prompt
straightforward action is not the way Grant
surmounts an obstacle. Two difficulties
confronted him and caused him to hesitate
for weeks and weeks. One was, that Pleas
anton occupied high position in the Grand
Army Of the Republic, and if be removed
him he might Incur the hostility of that
important political element, The other was.
that his retention in office would certainly
be followed by Boutwel's resignation-a
risk which Grant was unwilling to assume.
A President of the nerve and decision Of
" Old Hickory would have taken the re-
sponsiblity and disposed Of conflict of au>
thorisy like this without the use of very
much red tape. Pleasanton having been
got rid of, after weeks Of shuflling and
hedging. it only remains to be seen what
new office Grant will confer on him to ap-
pease his wounded feelings and to mitigate
the rage of that military cabal known as
the Grand Army of the Republic.
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Incident of the Terrible Steam
boat Disaster In New York.

Among the bodies first laid out at the
Morgue was that of a fine looking man
about 35 years Of age. From his features
and his dress it was evident that he had
been an active business mal, for everything
about him denoted careful habits and un~
usual intelligence of mind. The luxuriant
black hair hung down wet and heavy as he
lay on the marble table, and his dark NUS
tache and side whiskers were full of sand.
But his face had not been burned, and the
features as they lay under the spray of cold
water looked like chiseled marble. This
body attracted unusual attention on the first
night after the terrible catastrophe. but no
one recognized it. The next day (Monday)
the body of the large, fine man which lay
on one side of the unknown corpse, and
the body of the lady dressed in black silk
which had lain on the other side, were both
identified by friends, and were soon removed
and placed in coffins. The body of the un-
known looked deserted and lonely after this,
and still they kept taking away the rest of
the bodies until all but this one, and that of
little boy. whose face was badly disfs-
ured, were left alone out of the entire ghast
1y looking row. At late hour on Monday
night the small body was identified as that
of Charles Elasasser, another of the uumer-
Gus victims from the family of that name
There was now only one single corpse left
on the slabs, and that was the unknown
man with the striking, interesting features.
AS one stood and gazed upon it, he could
scarcely help believing that the face bore an
expression Of lonesomeness, and that it was
pleading for recognition. All through the
waning hours of Tuesday the gas-lights
flickered over his white face, and when they
were turned out at sunrise the poor body
seemed to be doomed to go down to the
grave without mark to identify it from the
graves of all the other "unknowns." Away
up the Hudson River at the city of Hudson,
a fond wife was lying awake at night, won
dering if her husband, Mr.. George Scott,
was safe. She had heard of the terrible
accident, but she did not know that her hus-
band in his travels would take that Inflated
boat. At last she read the description of
the dead bodies that were picked up after
the explosion, and seeing one that seemed
to picture the features of her husband, she
came to New York in all haste. On reach
ing the Morgue after some delay she at once
recognized her lost husband, and SO finally
the last victim, being claimed. was removed
from that dreadful sepulchre. For some time
after the removal of Mr.. Scott's body the
tables were vacant, but in a great active
city like this, strange fatalities are frequent.
and it was not very long before the body of
some man who had been murdered or
drowned, was picked up in the river and
brought to the Morgue. He had a great
hole cut in his forehead, and he had been in
the water at least twelve hours.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-08-10

Hon. THOMAS w. TPToN, one of the Re-
publican United States Senators from Ne
braska, in recent political speech in that
State, said:
g / am unalterably opposed to the ruinous
and corrupting course of the present ad-
miniStration and here pledge myself to make
that opposition both open and uncomIro>
missing"
When a Senator Of the United States,
possessing ample facilities for becoming ac>
quainteG with the interior workings of an
administration of his own choice, thus opens
ly expresses his want of confidence in it and
his determination to oppose giving it a fur>
therance of power, it shows that there is
something rotten in Denmark" Mr.. Tip
ton does not stand alone among Republican
Senators in avowipg his contempt for the
Long Branch Administration, bat is backed
up and supported by such men as Sumner,
Schurz. Trumbull, Fenton, Patterson, and
others Of not quite so much prominence
When mutiny Of such alarming proper
tions assumes form and consistency among
the crew of ship already partially disabled
through the unseamanlike conduct of its
commanding officer. the usual result is, that
he speedily comes to grief and is forced to
surrender the baton of command to a more
skilful and trusted navigator. Such will be
the fate 10 1872 of the incompetent pilot
now at the wheel Of tPa Government
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-08-10

CAMBRIA COUNTY, says an exchange, has
gone for Gen. Hancock for President and r.
L. Johnston, Esq. for Senator. That's
more than she done for Speer for Congress
last fall. Probably if they cannot regulate
their domestic concerns they will now try
national affairs awhile until home affairs be-
come settled and quiet.
The above beautiful paragraph is from the
Clearfeld Republican of last week, the italics
being our own. When that paper sought
occasion to cast an unkind fling at the De-
mecracy of Cambria county for expressing
their honest sentiments, it should at least
have done it in the English language. W hich
is more than :" she done " in the article al
luded to. Our only regret is that the gallant
Democracy of Clearfeld county have not an
organ printed in the English language.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-08-10

IT is made matter of serious complaint
by large number of leaden Drained Rad
ical editors, that William A. Wallace, Chair
man of the Democratic State Committee, is
so fatally bent on his own election to the
United States Senate. that for the purpose
of securing a majority in the lower branch
of the Legislature. to bring about that re-
suit, he will sacrifice the State ticket. All
this dismal foreboding of treachery to Gen.
M'Caudless and Capt. Cooper is of course
based on the assumption that it will be the
duty of the Legislature to be elected nert
October to elect successor to Simon Cam
eron neat January. The statement of a
single fact is all that is necessary to consgn
this senseless charge to the waste basket Of
Radical calumnies. The term of Simon
Cameron in the Senate will not expire until
the fourth Of March, 1878. and therefore it
will Lot be the nert Legislature, but the
Legislature to be elected one gear from next
October, that must choose his successor.
What is to be said of a set of men claimiHg g
to speak for the " God and morality " par-
ty, who will resort to political dodge at a
glance so transparent and so easily exposed
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-08-10

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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-08-10

uANCoCK's POPULARITY - Hancock's
nomination will nfuse an enthusiasm into
the canvass that no other nomination could
evoke. and upon the swelling tide of that
enthusiasm he will be borne forward into
the Presidential chair. His record is SO
brilliant, and his manner has so much mag
netism about it. that they will give an i'm
petus eXertion that 10 other name now men
tior ed could call forth. Correspondents Of
eastern papers report that during the sitting
Pennsylvania, there was much enthusiasm at
the mention Of Gen. Hancock's name as the
next Democratic candidate for President.
And well it might be SO, for it is but justice
to brave ard gallant soldier, and bold
and able statesman, to say that few men to-
day stand higher in the estimation of tie
American people than Gen. Winfield s.
Hancock and we believe that the warmth
and depth of enthusiasm that would lie
awakened throughout the length and breadth
of the Union by such a nomination would
strike terror into the ranks of the admin
istration. The whole people would have
confidence in his integrity and ability, no
less than his solid adhesion to the principles
of free government. Whether in the tented
field, in the exercise of those qualities which
make the statesman, or in the private walks
of life, Hancock's superior in coura geous
and brilliant action and devotion to duty, in
comprehensive grasp of the principles of
civil government, it would be difficult to
find
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-08-10
Democratic state Executive Comrn'tee
PHILADELPHIA, July 90, 1871.

PHILADELPHIA, July 29, 1871.
The Executive Committee, authorized by the
Democratic State Convention of Pennsylvania
has been constituted and organized as follows {:
William A. Wallace, of Clearfeld, Chairman.
William Mutchler, Esq, OF Northampton.
Hon. Samuel j. Randall, of Philadelphia.
&. B. Brockway, Esq. of Columbia.
Robert l.. Johnston, Esq, of Cambria:
Hon. Charles J. Bidde, OF Philadelphia.
Lewis C. Cassidy, Esq, of Philadeldhia.
General George w. Cass. of Allegheny.
J.. a. Mackey, Esq, of Clinton.
w. s. Stengcr, Esq, of Franklin.
Hon. w. MClelland, of Lawrence, Secretary.
WILLIAM a. WALLACE. Chairman.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-08-10

On yesterday week an election was held
in Charleston, South Carolina, for Mayor
and other city officers. The contest was
warm and exciting. The Radical and car
pet-bag candidate was Pillsbury, the present
incumbent. His opponent was General
Wagner. who was supported by all the in
telligent white men and reputable negroes.
Wagner and his associates on the same ticket
were elected by about 700 majority. This
is the first blow that carpet -bagism has
received in Charleston. 1t is to be hoped
that this triumph of ths people Of that city
over their rapacious plunderers is only the
beginning of the end. and that it foreshad-
ows the defeat in South Carolina of as grace
less and corrupt set of scoundrels as ever
robbed and bankrupted State.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-08-10

WHAT GRANTS SIGNATURE CosTs. Every
import ant paper requiring the signature Of
President Grant, is sent on to Long Branch
by special messenger who is allowed ten
cents mile mileage, each way, hotel bills
and contingent expenses. 1t is estimated
that every time the signature of U. S. Grant
is now appended to any commissary order,
bigamy pardon, or other paper, it costs the
tax payers about seventy>fve or hundred
dollars, according to the allowance to the
messengers. And all this. while Grant
draws his full salary, smokes his cigar, laughs
in his sleeve at q cajoled people, and plots
with his crowd of ofice-holders to secure re-
nomination. What very patient set OF
asses the American people would prove them
selves to be if they should re-elect him.
Lancaster Intellingencer.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-08-10

A FALsEHoOD.-Inr reply to "a Democrat"
we will state that Mr.. Johnston, late Chair
man Of Democratic County COMMITTEES, left
no papers upon bis desk, nor did he offer any
to the convention. except list of the districts
and list of the offices to be filled, which
was in accordance with universal custom.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-08-10

THE Kentucky election took place last
Monday. From the returns received, the
Democratic candidate for Governor was
elected by majority of about 25 ,OOO The
Legislature is largely Democratic.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-08-10

- One Somerseter took seventy gallons of
hnckleberries to market one day last week,
and it wasn't good day for picking, either.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-08-10

THEY say that N. L. Oatm-u sells III .5
Flour in town.
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Assemoly-w HORACE ROSE, Johnstown.
ProthonOtary-J. X. HITE, Ebensburg.
,,. =, A., JNO. FLANAGAN, Johnst IL.
Assoc te Judges r. ]. LLOYD, Ebcnsburg.
District Attorney-W. If. SECHLER, Ebeusb g.
Treasurer-JOHN COX, COncmaugh Borough.
Commissioner-W. ID. .MGLELLAND, Johnst n
p. II. Direc'r-JAS. FARREN, Washington Up.
Auditor-W. A. B. LITTLE, Allegheny Twp.
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COESTH.

R. L. JOHNSTON, Eso. Ebensburg.
[Subject to the action of the District Conference
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STATE.

ron AUDITOR GENERAL:
GENERAL WILLIAM M'CANDLESS,
Of Philadelphia.
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FOR SURVEYOR GENERAL
D2SNRESE.

CAPTAIN j AMES Ii. COOPER,
Of Laurence County.
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WHOLESALE BOOTS AND SA'
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EBENsBURG, PA.
DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS.

THURSDAY MORNING, AUG. 10, 1871.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1871-01-12

proper qualifications who will un-
dertake the business of raising
animals of improved breeds, will
find it profitable business. Such
animals are being constantly
brought southwark at great ex'
pense and with some risk, OH ac-
count of change of climate, food,
&c. A trader at the South pos
sesses many and obvious advanta>
ges, which may be summed up
in one sentence. He has the mark
ct at his door.
The raising of fine horses is a
business which may be proftably
followed in some portions.
american Stock Journal
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1871-01-12
POETRY.
FOR THE CAMDEN JOURNAL.
The Mapdalen,


The Magdalen.
One plunge. and then now, and forever,
Her shame and her sorrow are gone,
Far down meath the roll of the river,
Lie features 30 wondrously wan.
Hs! ye who in life did despise her,
Who enried her beauty of brow.
Her name, and her shame lie beside her,
Ys have naught, to do with her now.
One plunge, and the struggle is over,
The rush of the river along, e1p~>
Leaves no trace, by which to diYsarssr
The grave of the righteous or wrong.
Then ye who in life did forsake her,
Who looked on her beauty in scorn,
Go leave her to rest till her Maker,
Tojudgment, shall call her at morn.
One plunge, and the conflict is ended,
And she, who was weary of breath,
Whom none in this wide world befriended,
Has sought an asylum in death.
But he who in life did betray her,
And blot her fair name with a stain,
OF Gods judgment and justice beware,
Fer be seek forgiveness in vain.
B.----.t.