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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-08-09
The North Carolina Election.

1t was flashed over the telegraph wires
last Friday that the Democrats and Liberal
Republicans had carried the North Carolina
election by about five thousand majority.
Up until Monday the papers of both par
ty conceded the election of MERRIMoN, the
Democratic candidate for Governor, by not
less than $500. That reported majority
has daily "grown small by degrees and
beautifully less,'' and our latest intelligence
is that both parties claim the State, so far
as Governor is concerned. If we receive
anynews to the contrary before this Thurs
day. evening, we will announce it in a
postscript.
Let the result of the election for Cover
nor be what it may, however, taoO other
facts are not questioned-first, that the
Democrats have elected .fUe of the eight
members of Congress, and, secondly, that
the Legislature will contain a Democratic
majority on joint ballot of about 20, which
will secure the election of a Democratic
United States Senator, in place of the pre-
sent Radical incumbent JOHN POOLE. 1t
is great and glorious victory for GREELEY
and Brown, even admitting, as we are far
from doing, the election Of CALDWELL, the
Radical candidate for Governor, and sounds
the political death-knell of Grantism in
November.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-08-09

INWARD INJURIES.-ThOSe outward man
ifestations of frail and departing health are
easily detected ; in truth, outward signs are
often marks of inward disease /; the pale
face, the lustreless eye, the sunken and hOl-
low cheek, with now and again the circum-
scribed spot, which, whilst it may not, like
that on Csesar's face, denote anger, it does
denote something lacking harmony in the
inward workings of the human constitution.
How quickly does your ear catch the irregu-
lar strokes of the pendulum of the clock
which indicates something wrong in its
internal workings, but how vastly more
certain, and of infinitely more Importance,
is the mutffed beat of the heart, or the gurg-
ling sound of the lungs, in warning us of the
faulty performance of those organs in the
/ human organism. When to this is added the
/ cough, the pains in the chest; the difficult
/ breathing, the livid color of the lips the
| hectic fever and the night sweats, what more
/ can be wanting TO apprise of approaching
/ danger Take DIR. kEYSER's = LUNG CURE.
Remove the peccant matter before the
. wheels of life are loaded until they revoIve
no longer in unison with that beautiful har-
I mony of health which the God OF Nature
meant for all.
Sold at S1.50 per bottle, for $500, at 167
/ Liberty street, Pittsburg. DIR. Keyser's
. private office for lung examinations in the
, rear. Office hours from 10 A. NJ. to l p NJ
and from to p. NJ, except Sundays and
/ Tuesdays
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-08-09

SCRIBNER' s FOR AUGUST.-IWo very se't-
sonable articles in SCRIBNER's s for August
are-the entertaining paper by Mr. Shahks
on seYachts and Yachting with pictures OF
celebrated yachts. ocean races, etc, and
pleasant and practical illustrated essay on
1.-The Canoe: How to Build and how TO man
age'' There are also three sterling articles
by well-known writer's OH three vital ques-
tions-Prof. Comforts "Should the Study OF
the Modern precede that of the Ancient
Ianguages?'' Amasa Walkers "Labors and
Capital in Manufactures, and Charles Dud-
ly Warmers 'swhat is your Culture to Me?''
account of "The Graphic Art" by Bensen
j. Losing, and ''The Island of Corfu, by
Charles X. Tuckernan, late United States
Minister to Greece. Hans Christian Ander-
son tells the suggestive story OF The Car
dener and the Manor" and MissAnnan re-
lates in a very fresh and striking way that
of "Hebe's Jumbles.' There is poetry by
Louise Chandler Moulten, Mary j. Serrano
and Charles S. Gage. DR.. Holland writes
about the recent strikes, and discusses, ''The
Wine Question in Society,"" and Novel
Reading" In "The Old Cabinet we find
"a Hard Time for some of Us, photo
graphs and Looking glasses" "A Glimpse
of Ones self, "''Wrccked on a Resemblance" "
( and Lost Opportunities. The Depart
ment of Name and Science is very enter
Society," among other papers, has very
sensible one on Domestic Ethics In
! Culture and Progress the Jubilee" is
mentioned, there is something about 1.-TWO
( Modes of Prison Discipline" and long re-
/ view of Lannon's Lincoln; the number clos
ing with a quaint page of Etchings by the
( Misses Ledyard.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-08-09

The base and persistent attempt of GER
tain politicians and office-holders in Johns
town to create feeling of enmity and bit
terness between the northern and southern
portions of the county, is the work of dem
agogues, and it ought not to meet with the
least favor or encouragement from either
section. If bill can be drawn, either in
Johnstown or any other locality, by which
like it, can be legally and constitutiOndtty
established, the people of northern Cam
bria will with all their hearts say to their
brethren of the south, "Let us have peace!'
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"THE BLOODY CHAsM. General Kill
patrick has the honor of having given at
once the most stinging rebuke and effec-
tive answer to Secretary BOutwell's recent
oratOrical bosh about the ''bloody chasm."
If the three hundred thousand soldiers of
the North and three hundred thousand of
the South-the flower of the nation-who
gave up their lives in the civil war, are not
enough to 'fill up the chasm, " what more,
General Fitzpatrick asks, would Mr.. Bout
well have? The graves of our Northern
hill-sides and the blackened wastes of the
South show how ample has been the sacri-
flee on both sides, and at how great a cost
has been removed the ancient cause of diff
ference between sections of the same cOun-
try. He who would call for more of the
same sort, who would ask that the result
of the bloody struggle be negatived and
the old hostility renewed, is surely not
worthy of confidence either patriot or
a man of common sense. Mr.. Boutwells S
metaphor was, indeed a most infelicitOuS
one, and the exposure of its hateful appli-
cation comes with greatest force from one
who fought gallantly through the war, and
now generously accepts its results without
tinge of the rancOr that inspires the Sec
retary of the Treasury. But if the chaSm
is not filed, it is likely to be by the dump
ing into its abysses of Mr.. Boutwell, and
the Administration of which he is a part
Sunday Mercury.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-08-09

A METEORIC STONE FOUND IHIRTEEN
FEET UNDER THE GROUND.-Some two
wears ago Mr.. John J. Murdoch, of the firm
of Murdoch & Dickson, while passing
through a field on his farm near Laclede
station, observed a curious looking hole
twelve inches in diameter and of very re-
cent origin. He thrust fence rail in it to
the depth of eight feet, with a view to fu-
ture investigation, which was, however,
prevented by other matters. What chiefly
attracted his attention was the fact that
the direction of the hole was exactly per-
pendicular, cleanly cut and eliptical in shape
and that its apparent depth was considera-
bly, greater than the length of the rail. Our
friend Murdoch was evidently determined
that whatever had gone in there should
not pull the hole in after it. Outside of
his professional pursuits, Mr.. F. j. Bow
man has an inquTing turn of mind which
led him to speculate as to what made the
hole. He 'sinterviewcd'' it yesterday, with
the following result At a depth of thir-
teen feet four inches there was found 4
stone twelve pounds in weight, about eight
inches in diameter, Oblately spheroidal in
shape, and of undoubted meteOric antece-
dents. 1t was exhibited in our editorial
rooms, and has the invariable characteristic
of meteoric stones-a fused black crust,
like varnish, with which the surface is
coated. AS to its chemical composition,
the predominating element is iron, in ma
tive or metallic state, with fair proportion
of nickel. We doubt whether an Opher
8rolite of such perfect shape is in existence,
as these visitors from the upper regions
hardly ever fail to split into fragments be-
fore reaching the earth.-!St. Louis Times,
AugUst ,.
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Hannah and Henry.

Although this article bears at its head
the names of the Democratic and Radical
candidates for Assembly in this county, we
do not propose this week to enter into
general discussion of their merits, but brief
ly to notice a communication signed ''Citi-
zen," which appeared in last Saturdays
issue of the Johnstown Daily Mountain
Voice. That communication is simply
repetition, Gd TsGuseam, of the stale, fiat
and improbable cry against that mythical
organization known almost exclusively to
certain Johnstown agitatOrs as the ''cor-
rupt Ebensburg Ring" 1t is also a lame
and impotent attempt to revive that most
preposterous of all humbugs, the removal
of the county seat from Ebensburg to
Johnstown. That insane project having,
by the proper authority, been consigned 10
merited oblivion, we did not suppose that
any man even in Johnstown would now
have the temerity to attempt its resurrec-
ton, or even do it any kind of reverence.
The pith and marrow of the communica-
ton, however, is in the following sentence:
'|This combination (meaning the conjurcd-
up ''Ebensburg Ring'') has managed by
persistent and malicious intrigue to tie up
our Court, " &c. We were and still are i'm
gressed with the belief that it was the Su-
preme Court of the State, and not the ter
rible 'fEbensburg Ring" that ''settled the
hash" for the District Court of Cambria
county. If that Court was organized in vi
olation of the constitution and the law, as
the Supreme Court says it was, did not the
best and dearest interests, both ofliberty and
property, of every citizen within its juris-
diction, imperatively demand that the Court
should be abolished, not by an imaginary
'Ring' at Ebensburg or elsewhere, but by
the highest judicial tribunal in the State
What fair and right-minded man will deny
this? There is not now, and never has
been, any feeling of hostility on the part
of the citizens of Ebensburg against the
people of Johnstown. We rejoice in her
great manufactures and feel proud of them.
We honor and respect DANIEL J. NOR
RELL as an energetic and public-spirited
citizen, always intent upon advancing the
material interests of his own locality and
whenever we say aught against his private
character or public acts on behalf of Johns
town, or against the other gentlemen asso-
ciated with him in his laudable efforts in
that direction, ''may our right arm forget
it's cunning and may our tongue cleave to
the roof of our MOUTH
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-08-09

y RARE OPPORTUNITY FOR AGENTS.
We have received from the publishers of
Wood HOus ehold Magazine two beautiful
ly tinted Crayon pictures representing the
head of a little boyIand girl, and ''Our Hope
and "Our joy are just the names for the
dear, bright, happy little faces. l. Prang &
Co. originally Published them at 81. but they
are now offered with Woods Magazine for
one year ut only S1.50- They are TO be in
troduced 10y agents, who are allowed a hand
some commission on this price, which makes
"A mSSt desirable business for Canvassers-
While the Magazine alone is richly worth
the money, the pictures are charming, aud
must be seen to be appreciated. For full
particular address S 5. WOOD & Co., New
burgh, y. Y.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-08-09

HORRIBLE MURDER IN 1LLINoIs.-A
horrible murder was committed near Yates
City on Monday morning. The victim was
the wife of John Matthewson, a farmer
married but few months. The murderer
went to the house about 8 A. NJ, while
Matthewson and hired man were working
in distant field, and ordered breakfast
While Mrs. Matthewson was preparing it
he undertook to ravish her. She resisted,
and her clothing and person showed un-
mistakable signs that there was terrible
struggle for life. When her husband re-
turned at night he found her body in the
cellar, with her throat cut and her skull
crushed. Great excitement prevails here,
and mounted horsemen are securing the
country in search of the murderer. A re-
ward of 81 900 has been offered for his ap-
prehension. A man who was near the
house that day seeking employment is sus-
pected.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-08-09

DEAR YERKEs.-A city contemporary
says of the testimony of Charles T. Yerkes,
Jr.
The last named is a convicted felon, and
his solemn oath that he has at various times
purchased and sold stock, and carried the
same with money of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania" which Hartranft had
caused to be deposited with him by the
State Treasurer, ought not to be received.
Nevertheless, he is the ''Dear Yerkes' of
the letters, which Hartranft cannot deny,
and since the conviction he has furnished
Yerkes, whom we certainly regard as quite
as good man as General Hartranft, any
day:
To HIS Ezcellency John W. Geary, Gorer-
nor Of PennsyLOdnid
DEAR SIR: We would respectfully re-
quest your excelency TO grant a pardon to
Charles I. Gerkes, Jr., who has been con-
victed of larceny in the Court of Quarter
Sessions of Philadelphia. 1t is our firm
conviction, and we speak advisedly, when we
say that we believe him to be entirely free
from any intention to commit felony, and
think to incarcerate him would be an act
of great injustice. He is largely indebted
to the city of Philadelphia, and has made
a proposition of settlement with the said
city, which proposition has been accepted
by the committee appointed by Councils to
settle the same, and consisting of gentle
men who have the entire regard and conf
dence of the people. This agreement re-
quires Mr.. Yerkes' personal attention.
We, therefore, from the belief in his inno-
cence, and that to pardon him for the of
fense charged would be for the public good,
earnestly desire that you now show your
executive clemency in this case.
Yours, most truly,
JOHN F. HARTRANFT
X. w. MACKEY
PHILADELPHIA, February 10, 1872.
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How THEY DME1.I. TnGrrnEpIxI-

How THEY DWELL. TOGETHER IN UNITY
Cameron told correspondent of the
New York Herald that the reason the e6i-
tor of the Press supports Buekalew for
Governor is that Foney dislikes Hartranft
for connecting him with the Evans swine}le
and because FOrney was underpersonal OBJ
legations to Buckalew when L. S. Senator
and when FOrney was an alleged defaulter
as Secretary of the Senate. Forney comes
back by publishing Cameron's speech in
the Senate when the MATTER was being
considered, in which that Senator declares
FoIney TO have been unjustly accused. So
they jog along, befouhng and cOndemning
one another. The Radicals have a hard
time Of it now, each editor, politician and
office holder trying to prove all the others
the greater rascalS.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-08-09

MrRDER WILL OUT.-A Chicago SeBsa-
tiOn.-The Murder Of the Joyce Children an
1S65.-The Chicago Times of the 4th inst.
makes a startling disclosure in three col
Imn sensational article. The writer states
he was night reporter in the winter of II
and found one Nelse Johnson lying on the
sidewalk on Quincy street suffering from
wounds received in a row. The reporter
nicked him up and took him into a poor
woman house, where he recovered assisted
nv the reporter, who claims johnson gave
him a full account of the murder of the
Joyce children, at West Roxbury, Massa-
cbYIsetts in 1865, as the latter had received
# dnrinG a drunken spree in this city from
a barber. who stated he was the murderer
of the children and detailed the deed.
Johnson saws the barber told him that he
had followed the children on June IL, 1865,
to West Roxbury woods, and there at
tempted to outrage the girl. She resisted
and he struck her down with large white
handled knife. Just then he saw the boy
returning from the other SIDE OF tie pas
tIlre and started to kill him. The boy ran,
the barber chased and caught him and
nIunged the knife into him many times. He
returned to the girl and found her at the
top of ledge of rocks overlooking the
highway unable to make anoise. She had
vainly endeavored to wave her apron for
assistance, but being weak from loss of
blood had fallen upon her face insensible.
The murderer then outraged the girl and
slapped her repeatedly and fed. This
barber said he was an associate of Thomas
Ainsley, the painter arrested at the time on
suspicion of being the murderer.
! Johnson's description of the murderer is
! as follows: He is five feet nine or ten in
| ches high and large, powerful man, with
an immense neck; he is twenty or thirty
years old and now either in Boston OF
! Springfield, Mass. His name Johnson
could not give. The murderer buried the
| the knife near bee ch tree on the spot, and
the reporter says that Johnson gave him
| the information ON condition that he wOulC
not repeat it until the latter was dead
johnson died few days ago in the hospita
here and the Times now publishes the secre
for the information of the Boston polic'
and asserts its belief in its truth.
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--e-A-

THAT there is total political revolution
going on in the northern parts of this State,
as well as throughout the whole cou ntry,
is an established fact. Bradford county.
in this State, was the home of DAVID WILL
MOT, and Towanda, in that county, was his
lifelong residence. The wi ole country is
familiar with the political history of DAVID
WILMoT, and also of the complete and per-
feet change of political views that was
brought about in that portion of Pennsyl-
vania by the detection from his old party
ties and associations of such leading and
prominent Democrat as DAVID WILMoT.
The revolution is now allth other way and
is going backwards among the leading Re
pubhcans of Bradford county, as will be
seen from the following proceedings of
Republican meeting, held in Towanda on
Thursday, the 1st inst, from which it will
be apparent that some of the most distin
guished Radicals of that county, and here
tofore warm friends of Gen. GRANT, have
taken a leading and active part in favor of
GREELEY and BROWN:
TOwANDA, Pa, August IA large and
enthusiastic meeting of Liberal Republicans
was held here to-day, and largely attended
by representatives from all parts of the
country. The meeting was presided over
by Colonel G. F. Mason, formerly State
Senator and prominent Liberal, with E.
ID. Overton, General Westbrook, d. II.
Park, and other prominent Republicans as
Vice-Presidents. 1t was addressed by Hon.
George Landon, late Republican State
Senator, and Allen Craig, of Mauch Chunk,
and others. Good feeling and enthusiasm
prevailed, and an organization for the cam
paign was perfected.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-08-09

GENERAL MooRHEAD AND ALLEGHENY
CoUNTY.-A correspondent of the Phila-
delphia Post recently had an interview with
the well-known Republican leader, Gen.
James K. Moorhead, of Pittsburgh, who
gave him the following information
1. That he is not and will not be a can
didate for Congress, as was reported.
2. That he is warmly for Greeley and
Brown and the whole Liberal ticket.
3. That Hon. Thomas Marshall, Liberal
Republican, will probably be candidate
for Congress in the Allegheny Butler dis
trict and win.
4. That Allegheny county cannot give
over 5000 majority for Grant. Probably
less than thai ngure.
That the most Influential Republicans
throughout the county of Al egheny are
Tor Greeley and Frowu
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-08-09

At De Kalb, H., on last Tuesday morn
ing, the inanimate body of Timothy Bow
Ter was discovered near his house, chopped
and mutilated III manner too horrible TO be
told. No less than twelve or fifteen blows
were made on his head and neck. To all
appearances the blows were made with an
axe. The head was nearly severed from
the body, and from the neck nearly to the
pit of the stomach the instrument of death
had made fearful work. His wife is sus-
pected of the crime, though she says some
unknown man did it. Bowler was a drunk
ard, and slept that night out of doors near
his house.
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A UDITOR'S NOTICE-H

A ODITORS NOTICE.-Having been
- appointed Auditor by the Orphans Conrt
tbe GL1IIa Lan2 county, TO distribute the funds in
Tx tTb1ec1u3rs OF Michael Cunningham, deceased'
viii rtels'gneu attns @ hereby gives notice thar he
Ehapsb,1n 10 Ior ,,at tnat purpose, at his office In
GiIST ourS, on IHU RSDAY, the 22D day of AU-
ali Ia ueAt, al o clock, p. M, when and whero
N'' - ho'-'-at. JOHN 5. RILEY.
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Montgomery, Alabama, Aug. 3.-Two
nights ago fifteen colored men formed a Lib
eral Republican Club here, since which
time three of the number have been seri-
ously maltreated by colored Radicals. One
named Gabe Henry was to-day stabbed in
five places and dangerously wounded.
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Democratic County Ticket.

Assenbly-JOHN HANNAH, Johnstown.
Reg and Rec.-JAS. VI. SING Err. Jackson Twp.
nmtsstOner-ANTHONY ANNA, Chest Twp,
p. II. DirectOr-JOHN BLOCH, Johpstown.
AudItOr-PETER DOCGHERTY, Summitviue.
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-Four years ago General Grant declared
that ''if he was anything at all he was a
Democrat" AS he isn't Democrat it fol-
lows that he is what his best friends claim
him to be-just nothing at aIlr'
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LETTING.

SEALED PROPOSALS will be received at the
oothee OF the Commissioners of Cambria conn
", in Ebensburg, until the 2D DAY OF SEPTFSt
bEh, Io'2 for furnishing the materials and
building TERRACE WALL in font of Tha
new Jail. Plan and Specifications can be ssen
at the commissioners office. The Commission-
ers reserve the right to reject any or all prono-
sails, If they proper to- do so RddarrS yPpi,I
please write the word Proposal on tbs r,,.
JAS. E. NEASON. ~
FRANCIS O'FRIEI. lCop,p,;ssto,
tWM. ID. McLELLAND | .
EbenSburg, Aug. 3, IS72.-4t