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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1871-06-17
GoHEh's Famous AposlrOphe 10
Cold Water.

All those who have listened TO the prince of
platform speakers, John B. Cough. in his apos-
trophe TO cold water, with which he has electri.
ned thous and- OF delighted hearers will doubtless
be pleased to see this production in print and to
learn something OF its orr gin. 1t was originally
uttered by Rev. Paul Denton, a Texas circuit
rider, at public barbecue which he had invited
promising to furnish those who should attend
with "the best liquor ever brewed."
There, said he, pointing his motionless fin
ger 10 glass Of pure water, there is the liquor
which God, the Eternal srews for all OF his
cHidren. Not IN the simmerIug still, over smoky
fires, choked with poi,ouou, gases, aud surround.
I'd with the stencil OF -ickeuing odors and rank
corruption, doth your Father in Heaven prepare
the precious essence OF lite, pure cold water
But in the green glade the grassy dell, where
the red deer wanders aud the child loves tc play,
there God himself brews it: and down, down in
the deep valleys, where the fountains murmur
and the rils sing and high on the mountain
tops where the naked granite glitters like gold
in the sun, where the storm clouds brood, and
the thuader tones or lsh and away far off on
the wide, wide sell, where the hurricage bowls
music, and the big waves roar the chorus sweep
ing the march of God. There he brew, it, that
beverage of life pure, health giving water.
"And everywhere it is a thing of beauty: CLEAN.
ing In the dew drops, singing in the summer
rain, shining in the icegems, till the trees all
seem TO be living jewels, spreading golden veil
over the setting sun, or a white sauze around
the midnight moon, sporting in tho cataract.
sleeping in the glazier. dancing in the hail show.
er; folding its bright snow curtains softly abou.
the wintry world and weaving the many color
ed iris, that seraph's zone of the sky, whose
wool is the sunbeam OF heaven, all checkered
over with celestial flowers by the mystic hand of
refracrion, still always it is beautiful, the blessed
life-water.
mo poison bubbles on its brink. its 70 m brings
not madness and murder; ~ blood stains it.
liquid glass; pale widows and It irving orphan.
weep not burning tears upon its clear depths no
drunkard's shrieking ghost from the grave.
curses it in words of eternal despair! Speak
out, my friends; would you exchange it for the
demons drink, alcohol, 7"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1871-06-17

UNCLE SAM down East farmer, known
far and wide 10y his patriotic title--had a
ncighbor who was in the habit of working on
Sundays, bat after while this Sabbath
breaker joined the church. One day our
friend met the minister to whose church he
belonged, "Wclf, UncleC SAM said he, "do
you see any difference IN Mr.. P since he
joined the church ?" ooh, Yes" said Uncle
Sam, "a great difference. Before, when he
went out to mend his fence on Sunday he
carried his AK on his shoulder, but row hs
carries 1t under his coat"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1871-06-17
Weather Indications.

"A rosy sunset presages good weather; rudy
sunrise bad weather
A bright yellow sky in the evening indicates
wind; pale yellow sky in the evening indi.
Gates wet.
a neutral gray color at evening is a favorable
sien in the morning. 40 uniavorable one
Soft and teathery clouds hetokeu fine weather
Deep, unusual hues in the sky indicate wind
or storm. More delicate tints bespeak falr
weather.
4 rainbow at morning.
The sailors take warning;
A rainbow at night,
Is the sailors delight
II the moon shows like silver shield
he not afraid 20 reap your field;
But if she rises halo ID round,
Soon will we reap on Delayed ground.
The evening red and the morning gray,
Are certain signs of a beautiful day.
When rocks fly sporting high In air,
II shows that windy storms are near.
IL the cock goes growing to bed,
He's sure to rise with wet head.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1871-06-17
Supple

This supplement is printed to relieve the
pressure upon our advertising columns, and
will be continued while the pressure lasts.
The same number of copies of the Supple
ment is prln,sl as otthc regular issue, 50 that
Advertisements appearing in the Supplement
loose nothing on that account.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1871-06-17

whenever" said Madame de Stael, 81 see
Mr.. b., feel the same pleasure that receive
from looking at fond couple-he and his
self-love live 80 happily together"
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-09-30
TaE DEMOCRATIC RECORD.

There is one popularity of Democratic his
tory that is worth bearing in mind, now
that the rascaly theftS and shortcomings Of
Radical officials are daily coming to the sur
face.
Go back far as we may on the record,
through vcissitudes Of moneutous and start
ling aspect, when the country was most
sorely tried and the resources of her states.
manship most severely tested. and we will
find the Democracy, as party, guiltless "f
public speculation and strangers to waster
fulness Of appropriations.
Wherever an individual, here or there
holding office under past Democratic ad-
ministration, has been suspected of the mis-
use or embeZzement of funds, be has been
promptly arraigned and held to answer i.rr
his misdemeanor. There has been no hg,
Cling with theft, dilly>dallying over fraul,
nor compromise with robbery. With such
faults as may be justly attributed to tho
Democratic party, 1t can at least be said Il
it, that it never used the advantage of lis
power to betray the confidence of the tax
payers. and never assented to stealings frcm
the public treasury under any pretence -
These are facts worth remembering wh"n
our adyersares seek to drown out all otrr
considerations with the war cry of trea ut
and disioyalty, just as if defalcations. anI
ECObtIN. anu NuDlESAlt tbildlibl NGiN- '
comparison, virtues that ought to be caLou~
ized.
1t is to be recollected Of the last three Al
ministrations, as capable Of clear substanti.-
ton, that many millions Of dollars that o.
ginaTy came from the pockets Of the peopl..
have been stolen by the officers or under the
counivance Of the government. and not
single dollar Of restitution has been receiv.i
at the treasury apart from the few thousands
that fools and lunatics have returned as en-
science money. The amounts thus stol~n
are. relatively. thousand dollars to one cut
of what. in all previous sdministratirL IS.
Wing or Democratic. has disappeared thro'
the hands of dishonest officials; and though
10 former times he who embezzled, no matter
how small a sum, was held rigidly to ac-
count, now it is that hundreds of thousands
are suffered 20 be lost without even so much
as an investigation ShippeHSbITg Seiltinet-
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-09-30
NUMBER 81.
R REHEEIIEsER

Let 1t be impressed upon every mans
m'nd that a vote cast for The Democratic
ticket IS a rebuke of the moustrous corrup-
tions of the times:
That vote cast for the Democratic ticket
IS rebuke Of the wholesale robbery of the
treasury at Harrisburg by prominent Radi-
cal State officials;
That vote cast for the Democratic ticket
IS rebuke of the Radical Internal Revenue
Collectors who have stolen twenty milliors
OF dollars of the peoples money-not enc of
Wnom has been prosecuted
That vote cast for the Democratic ticket
Is rebuke OF corrupt Congress that has
stol,n the public domain from the people:
That vote cast for the Democratic ticket
Is rebuke OF that nepotism that gives the
public patronage to the Presidents relatives
so long as one can be found to put into of
fee;
That vote for the Democratic ticket is
rebuke of the Radical Congress that each
year piles the taxes higher upon an overbur-
deneG people;
That vote for the Democratic ticket is
rebuke of the bribery by which the Chief
Magistrate gives the highest offices in the
land TO those who make him the most valu-
able presents:
That a vote for the Democratic ticket is
rebuke Of a debauched Congress that has
created the President a Military Dictator,
aud placed the rights and liberties of the
people in his hands;
That a vote for the Democratic ticket is a
rebuke Of the grasping monopolies that have
been created by a subsidized National Legis-
lature
That vote for the Democratic ticket is a
rebuke of the infamous bayonet election law
and the still moro Infamous Ku klu1 bill
That a vote for the Democratic ticket is
rebuke of the Wholesale corruption that char
acterizes the carpet bag rule of the South;
That a vote for the Dem cratic ticket is a
rebIke of President Grant for using the army
at New Orleans TO elect his relations to Office
and secure his own re election;
That a vote cast for the Democratic ticket
is a rcbuke to Radical extravaganza every
where.
Let them remember all this. and then reI
member that every vote for the Radical tic
kct is an endorsement of all those wrongs
and abuses and Of thousands of Others calling
for the swift condemnation of an outraged
aud long suffering people.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-09-30

Average cost per capita for tweuty~fcur
years under Democratic Administrations.
$1.77, Gncluding expense Of Mexican war;
Cost under Republican Administration per
capita, S476, Excluding receipts for proper
tv and war material sold }
Amount Of revenue collected from the peo-
pile by the present Administration per auuum
&4II.255 477.68; for twenty>four years, SO,
SIC, ,13I. .463 II!
An expenditure Of &I77 (the average per
capita under Jackson. Van Buren. Polk,
Pierce and Buchanan,) with our present
population Gao 600 OOO) would be SO $780,
GOO. Grant spends $l90.796 $50 per an
mum. exclusive of principal and interest on
the public debt.
The total cost, including principal and
interest on the public debt, during the above
named Democratic Administrations, aver
aged less than s. per capita Amount of
Federal taxes eXtorted by Grants Admins
tration during the last fiscal year, S4l1 255.-
477.64 Gas stated by The Radical campaign
document sty led National Finances" page
~ which is az average of $10.2S per capita,
estimating the population at &c, 600 coo.
Note.-The Lincoln Administration is
omitted, for the reason that the eXtrao!dina~
ry expenditures of that Administration were
occasioned by the war. and could not be fully
compared with Grants or previous Admin
istrations. although the cost Of the Florida
and Mexican wars were Iaid by the above
named Democratic Administrations.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-09-30

THE editor of the Philadelphia Sunday
Times interviewed Nicholson. Chief Clerk of
the State Treasurer. as follows:
He does not look like good subject for
an interview. He is a regular old fogy, and
won't learn that things have changed since
he was a boy, nearly a century ago. His
words are few and carefully ordered, and the
modern term of irregularities" in finance he
either can't or won't comprehend He in
sists that theft and fraud and swindling are
good enough terms to express his views and
he sticks to them. ! modestly ventured
few interrogatories, with the following re-
suit:
RepoIter.-I learn that there is some ir-
regularity about the accounts # Mr.. Evans,
Special State Agent. Is 1t so ?
Nicholson-No irreguarity whatever =
The account is all straight but he has stolen
about $500 900 from the State Treasury.
Reporter. not Mr.. Evans make an
explanation that relieves him Of deliberate
intention to defraud 2
Nichoson.-Yes, he adds iieing to thiev
ing, and calls that defense.
Reportcr-Cannot the matter be properly
adjusted and settled?
Nicholson.-Yes, it can be settled either
in this office or in the penitentiary. Both
are State accounting institutions.
Reporter.-Can you give me any addition
al information en- the subject
Nicholson.-No, and | would thank you
to 90 about your business.
inferred from Mr.. Nicholson's last re-
mark that he was not particularly deslrous
to discuss the subject any farther, and act
ed upon the hint, and departed. From The
best information l can gather. believe that
the whole affair is inextricably mixed. Nc
Cure blames Geary Geary blames Maekey;
Mackey blames Brewster; Brewster 6iamss
! Hartranft; Hartranft blaues Jordan Jordan
| blaues Russell; Russell blames Smun. and
| Smull blames the dog. and the proper ac-
countability cannot be determined The
/ more haYe investigated il. the more OF an
abyss it seems to open, and all | can no"
| state with positive. mathematical certainty
/ is. that some $500 eco is scattered aroune
! somewhere that have not got any part o
it, and-that's what's the matter, for yot
J know how it is yourself.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-09-30

THE Pittsburgh Post advocates, with its
usual ability IAN amendment to the Consti-
tuition of the United States, which shall re-
peal the requirement of birth for the Presi~
Dental office. Certainly, none Of the mo~
tives that prompted that provision exist % W.
The trainers of the Con stitution had in view
the evils that had attended elective mon
archy in Poland. Foreign princes were the
competitors. and their iutrigues aud contests
did much for the destruction Of that unhappy
kingdom. 1t was thought not improbable
that England. France, aud Spain, al the II
holding large possessions and powerful intU~
ence in America, might furnish candidates
Cor the chief office in the United States. This
danger, if it really existed, has entirely van
ished la General Jackson's time. we re-
member, it was alleged that be bad been born
before his parents left Ireland but the bet
ter opinion is that he was born in North or
South Carolina. 1t really ought to make no
difference which Of these three places he
was born in; yet, had it been in the I'D
country, he would have been ineligible to
the Presidency. Such a discrimination IS
unnecessary now in the Constitution. and
when it is next ''amended." D." we certainly
shall be glad to see the change mads wnlcn
the Post proposes.-Age.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-09-30

No AUDIr.-The accounts of Hodge. the
four hundred and fifty thousand dollar de-
fauiter, had not been audited since 1866 !!
his was not the only door opened to specu-
lation. The accounts of Evans were never
audited nor examined from the time OF his
appointment till Deputy Attorney General
M'Clure examined and found them wanting
something like four hundred thousand dol-
lars. The punishment inflicted upon Mr..
NJ Ciure for making the discovery will no
doubt hereafter prevent investigation into
the conduct of any Radical official.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-09-30
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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-09-30

ONE man in hundred reads book !;
ninety, nine in hundred read a newspaper
Nearly century ago. when the American
press which is now a spreading oak, was in
its green twig.. Thomas Jefferson said he
would rather live in country with newspa-
pers and without a government. than 10 a
country with government but without
newspapers. The press. instead of being
the fourth, is the first estate Of the realm.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-09-30
The EAeraVag 0g "a Rcpub-
EEcan COMMUNICATION.

III 2 National Resident Democratic Exec
utive Committee at Washington have recent
ly compiled and iFsued the following tabular
statement. showing why taxes are high. and
illustrating Radical corruption and extrav>
agance:
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-09-30

TiLToN wishes the next Vice PresideTt 70
be clad in the "divine coueliness of b.seI
skin = bat the New York Commercial tn'i'
that such limited wardrobe as that NJ ma !
could ever hope to be the presiding eHi''' 4
the United States Senate.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-09-30
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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-09-30
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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-09-30
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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-09-30
ECUTOR'S NOTICE Where's

EXECUTOR'S NOTICE Whereas
hL + letters Testamentary to the estate of j A
COR KooNTz late of Carroll township, dec q,
have bpen granted to the subscriber. all persons
Indebted to said estate are requested TO make
immediate payment, and those having claims
are desired to present them in proper shape for
settlement.
MAGDALEN KOONIZ, EXecutriX-
GEORGE e SNYDER, Executor.
Carroll Twp, Sept. I, l97l.-it.'
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-07-26

The ANTHRACITE Coal E.-ThC
Philadelphia Ledger, in its weekly rev.e"
of the anthracite coal market, has the iol
lowing:
THE anthracite coal trade for the week
ending on the 18th inst. presents 10 special
feature. Production is moving forward
steadily, being fully up to. if not in excess
of, the market demand. The quoted prices
OF all the larger sizes OF coal are unchanged.
but the smallest sizes are quoted D to l0c.
per ton higher. For Lchioh Goa! there is a
full demand, and most Of the operators in
SchuylkiH coal are pretty well suppicG
with orders. The purchases Of coal for do
nestle uses are steadily increasing. Some
of the large consumers are also laying III
stock. These movements may, III some
measure, be stimulated by reports Of local
troubles in the coal regions, by which some
works in particular localities are tempo
rariy idle. There are indications that
higher prices will he realized at the ap.
preaching public sale.
The notice given by the Reading Railroad
Company Of rebate on tolls in July and
August, and an advance in September, fol.
lowed by tie circular issued by one Of the
leading New York coal-carrl ing companies
of an advance of 80 cents per ton on the
price of all the larger sizes of coal. and 30
cents On stove coal Tor August, are all facts
pointiD" to higher prices at the approach
ing sale and in the future market. One fact
is, however, to be taken into consideration,
which may check an advance. The amount
TO be sold is larger than ever before. The
last monthly sale Was 130, 900 tons-tilty per
cent. greater than the amount usually
sold-and for the sale of "Wednesday 130, 0GO
tons-an increase of 1000 tons-will be Of
fercd"
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-07-26
The Railroad Barbecue.

The barbecue ut Buffalo Springs or
Thursday next promises to be an event O
much interest. A large company is OK
pected, and stirring appeals will be made
by able orators, showing the importance Of
the Roanoke Valley railroad to the rich
country through which it is located, and
the part it must perform in the transporta.
ton of large commerce between Rich
mond and some of the most productive re-
gions of North and South Carolina.
That Richmond should be well repre-
sented there is a matter Of Importance to
her own interests. The merchants and pub
lie men should be sure that Il strong delegs-
ton shall be present.
There will be special train for convey
ing this delegation. 1t will leave Richmond
at A. NJ, and returning, will bring back
its passengers by $40 A. NJ. on Friday
morning, thus taking only one day from the
business time of those who 60.
The committee of invitation TO the bar
becue are MeSsrS. HENRY II. HURT, PAUL
c. EDMUNDs, JAMES II. HowENToN, RUFUS
II. OWEN, WIN. X. BASKERVILLE, Jr., L. II.
HARRIS, 4. A. RAwLINs, r. c. OVERLY,
and w. W. WooD. These names assure lis
that everything will be in spple.pie order,
and Col. TALCoTr has made every arrange
ment for the comfort of those who avail
themselves of the invitation extended to
them. The Object is one deeply interesting
to this city.