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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-12-09
REEN'S NOTION > + =
REAL HAIR.
$4,000 WORTH OF REAL HAAf
HAIR GOODS.

Who'll ESALE An K I L..
any design required by large corps Of h"lr
workers, who are in full view of all customers
Hsir wholcsaled at prices US low AS any import
inv house in the country. No extra charge for
special colors. Grey Hair at Is per ct; less than
any house in the country. Hair Combings msIe
Frizzies SC, and if the work is not satisfactory
no charge will be made. Goods sold or Work
done here kept in order for five years, which l.
an inducemcnt offered by no other house in rS'
istance. Hair Goods mailed to any point in the
United States, postage paid, from
GREENS NOTION HOUSE,
ie % 76 King street.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-12-09

Will leave New York EVERY SATURDAY
for this port and, returning will leave Alexan
iria EVERY FRIDAY, at II clock.
All freight must be on the dock by ga. m.
For freight or passage apply to
HOOE s. JOHNSTON,
Agents, No Prince street.
Agents in New York,
GEO. B. MERRICK,
apo 226 South ST.. Pier No. 80 East river
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-12-09

l Esssze - e.
The steamer COLUMBIA, Captain James
Harper, resumed her regular route on SAT-
URDAI, March lst, 1873, leaving Baltimore at
4 o clock p M; returning, will leave Pier 5,
10 o clock.
Nit-All Way freight must be prepaid.
For further information apply to
my l}-Sm B. WHEAT, Agent.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-12-09

OFFlcWF rHToMAc 5EkS Mst c0Mr 49,
On and after TUESDAY NEXT, az /,
Aprl list, boats of this company will -
leave Washington and Alexandria at i, 7.l5, 8,
8, 10 and HOO u. H., T. M, and l, 2, 3, d ),
and 100 p. IN. S. s. HOWlSON, Prest.
5. GEDNEY, Supt. mh 29-tf
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-12-09
LEXANDKIA & FREDERICKSBURG
n Railway,
AND ALEXANDRIA & WASHINGTOA
RAILROAD
Las FL 81 g. g! s 49,: Es5sEsss;

IA IS FL 81 E8ss g. 49, DO 90 IS
ALEXANDRIA AND FREDERICKSBURG RAILWAY.
After g. As p. m. SUNDAY, October T., 1873,
trains will run rs follows:
Leave Southwark from Alexandra & Fredcr-
icksburg depot at sos u. H., accommodai"h
daily, except Sunday FOB d. IN. Southern Ia
press daily, except Sunday. Tue Southern IA
press AT III p. m. runs through 20 hicim'nd:
without change, connecting at RithmoI L for NJ!
points South.
Leave Northward froAi Alexandria s. Frcotr-
icksburg depot At 3."S y. III. Northern Express
daily, except Monday 6l7 p. m. acconImodn.
North and West The Northern Express
leaving at 3.%S n. m. runs through to Ba!
tmore, without change connecting with trans
on the Northern Central Railway for the North
and West.
ALEXANDRIA AND WASHINGTON RAILROAD.
After SUNDAY, Oct. 18th, trains will run
AS follows, daily, except Sunday:
Leave Alexnndria for Washington, from 81
Asaph street depot, ut 600, 100, 500 go Iu'"
and II. 100 H. H.; 12U0 M, and Loo, 2t0, 49,
4 90, 500, 600, and 100 p. m.
Trains leaving ut s. 90 81. H. and 900 ?. ILL., III"
daily all others daily except SUNDAY
Leave Washington for Aexand1l" from I'M
senger depot cor. 9Th ana b streets, ~ '''"'
100 500, 900 1000, ard ll.O0 n. m; ~" H.
and LOO, zoo, 800 400, 500, 600 and IT." D. ILL.,
Trains leaving AT 9. GO II. nj. and 100 =. H. run
daily all others daily except sunday. ,, .,
Alexandria and Fredericksburg kai!"&S
trains leave passenger depot, cor. btG ana ~
at 7.40 u. m. Quantco acconl'n and lI.,' F. ~.
Southern Express for Richmond and ali points
South EDMUND L. QUARRY,
Superintendent.
ED. S. YOUNG,
General Passenger Agent. oct ~"
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-10-03
A1@ @ .
Holt Haunted.

A fittiug shadow from the dismal past
b,s At last worn a wound into the ObduIate
conscience of General Joseph Holt. Stan
ton. Lane and King were haunted by 1t to
suicidal graves, and all these years the
pointing finger of murdered woman
ghost has bored The hard heart OF Holt,
till the scared conscience is pierced and the
wretched soul within exposed de valnly
beats the air to drive the pensIve shadow
back, but it walks pale horror IN ms
dreams: dismal, oppressive, frightful com
panion by DAY. He has borne his burden
for wears; he has seen Lane turn upon
himself like desperate serpent, infiicting
his own death wound to escape; he has
seen King fly before it, blinded and frozen
with horror and dismay, until the hOspita-
BILE waves caught his body i'll their arms
and dissolved his tortured life; he has seen
Stanton clutch at ambition, and power,
and place, in the hope of entrenchlng him
self against the presence OF rcmorse, IN
vain. More brutal and hardened than the
rest, he has shut up the ghaStly negative
within him and let 1T paint its hlmy pic
lures, unseen by the public, all the while,
III public and in private seeking to eXor-
else the stubborn shade.
Hard has his lot been and terrible his
long unrest. The keen reproach of the
dead has looked him out of countenance,
and the wall of a stricken daughter, plead
=
brain. A bloody Banquo has paralyzsd
every smile of JOY before it could fade from
his countenance, and solitude has been
startled by a chilly presence. No matter
what social path he pursued he could not
escape: toll would not Danish the faithful
spectre; home had no privacy for the soul
haunted wretch.
The world had half forgotten both him
and his victim. No one recalled the dark
deed in which he figured; no one cared to
goad him with reSurrectCd memories. The
press had long since ceased to comment
upon the awful tragedy which left so many
bitter legacies, when suddenly Judge Holt
rushed into print, crying, II am not guilty;
conduct he makes as if TO persuade his
own conscience that he was not as guilty
/ of innocent blood as some one else. As
though startled from some hideOus night
mare, he answers an invisible puTsuer. and
/ strives to cover up or soften down the
guilty part he enacted in a wantou muir
der. MStaking the Outcry of his frightful
soul for the righteous denunciation of a
world, he fanCies that the public are ac-
cusing him afresh, and he breaks out with
the whining plea he has so often uttered tC
/ the melancholy monitor that haunts his
steps. The voices of all the living would
not shake him as does the stare of the
yelled spectre and the million of echoes III
his hollow heart. Down, Judge Holt.
down! As unwclcOme to Il remorseful
people is your appaTitiOn as is the ghost of
your victim to you. Go back to your OBJ
scurity, and carry the cold corpse upon
your heart back with you. The voices
that brought you out are the vanguard of
Il host which will increase in volume as you
near the grave.-Suuday Telegram.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-10-03
II DeTdULtiIlg Postmaster.
THE PITTSBURGH POST OFFICE sYSTEMATI-
CALLY ROBBED-S}3, 435 GONE WHERE
THE wOODBINE TwINETH.

PITTsBURGH, Sept. 26.-The post-office
here was taken possession of this afternoon
by Major PctheTbridge, chief of the spe-
eial service bureau of the Post-Offiee De-
partnent. John II. Stewart, the Post
master, under orders from Washington,
has been suspended from his position, be
cause of grave Irregularities in the con-
duct of the affairs of the Office which have
eliminated in a defaleaticH, so far as as
ceTtained, of about S33, 600. The first sus-
picions of the Post-office Department as to
there being anything wrong IN the Pitts
burgh office were awakened by numerous
complaints that reached Washington from
business houses in this city Of their failure
to receive letters containing remittauceS.
An investigation was ordered about six
weeks ago by the Post-office Department.
under the direction of Major Petherbridge,
assisted by b. X. Sharraty, of New York
There was found TO be a general disor-
ganiZation and decentralization in the work
ing force of the office. The loss of letters
and delay in the delivery of mails were of
frequent occurrence, and complaints were
numerous from business men as to the
loose manner i'll which the affairs of the
Office were conducted.
An Investigation disclosed the fact that
the accounts of the office had been i'm
properly kept, and that some of the clerks
had been Systematically deprived of por-
ton OF their pay by being induced to sign
vouchers for greater amount than they
received. One instance is given of clerk
who regularly signed a voucher for fifteen
dollars a month more than he was paid.
OF course the Postmaster in his accounts
was credited with the face of the voucher.
and pocketed the difference between that
sum and the amount paid the clerk
The first evidence the Department had
of there being defalcation in the Office
was when drafts on the Pittsburgh Post
office, to the amount of $4,000, in favor
of the Pan Handle railroad company for
mail service, were returned to the Depart
ment protested for non-payment. At that
time the Post master, according to his ac-
counts, should have had ample funds To
pay the draft. This caused the prompt
action in taking possession of the Office and
suSpending the Postmaster
About o'clock p. NJ to dav the de
tectives demanded the keys of the Office
This was the first intimation Stewart had
that he was suspected, though officers had
been at work for six weeks. He was taken
before the United States Commissioners
and charged with embczzling $50, 435. Is.
lhe amount is mode up as follows: OF
the postal revenue fund, 16,416.35; of the
stamp and stamped envelope fund. SIP
oo60S; of the money order fund, 81, ,OS7. .25:
and of the funds received from box rents
and postage collected, the sum of 50. $40.
Stewart gave bail in $50, 600. Ii is said he
confeSSes the embezZlement
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-10-03

SAMUEL HENRY'S course in the Leg
islature has been praised very highly
by the radical papers, chiefly because
he reduced the Commissioners pay to
$500 a year each. They forget to add
that he voted to increase the Governors
pay from $4,000 year to $4,000 a
year They forget to state that he
himself took 81 600 from the Treasu-
ry last winter for less time than the
Commissioners are required to spend
and $500 additional (making, $1,000
in alD for going to Wilkesbarre in a
contested election case, to turn out
four Democrats who had legally been
elected and put in their places four
radicals who had been clearly defeat
ed by the people
The radicals claim that Samuel
Henry got law passed for the better
collecting of taxes in Cambria county.
but they forget to say that that law
was framed by the Chairman of the
Democratic County Committee, and
was afterwards passed so that it was
to go into effect before its passagc-
thus causing the county a heavy ex-
pcnse in litigation with the Cambria
Iron Company, which Judge Dean de
cided in favor of the County Commits
sioners.
Why don't the radicals tell all about
Mr.. llenry's legislation whlle they are
at it
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-10-03

+. /. BARNUM announces that if a bal
loon does not cross the Atlantic this fall he
Will spend $4,000, if necessary, in having
the experiment tried as early rs possible
next year, provided one or more seronauts
can be found in America or Europe who
VIII heartily make the attempt. He eyi-
dentiy does not intend to make the expert
ment with cheap balloon, for he saws:
"a AS at present advised, 1 shall have the
silk manufactured in China. mt toqetber
and prepared under the direction of scien-
thc men in London, an experimental as
censlon made from Sydenham CRYSTAL
Falace grounds and then bring the bal
loon to America, and make the trans
atlantic trip from New York. / trust the
public will believe that if | put my hand
10 the plow l shall not look back
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-10-03

A BANK suspension, general or partial,
had some significance or meaning when
the money of the country was gold or sill
yer. A bank may be rotten and insolvent,
ana fail; but TO talk of a suspension of
payments at this time is the use of an old
term without any of its significance. A
suspension of payments in promises 20 pay
at some indefinite time in the uncertain
future is an absurdity on its face In fact,
the United States Government has sus-
pended payments ever since it made Treas
ury notes legal tender. Ever since it
stopped paying coin for it's debts it has
suspended payments. 1t has issued evi-
dences OF Indebtedness, bearing no interest
and payable at no time, and these consti-
tute the money" which the banks hold
and which the depositors seek to draw out
before the banks suspend payment" :"
The whole theory of general suspension
OF payments, when there is not dollar of
coin on deposit anywhere, and when the
entire circulating medium consists of in
dehnite promises to pay, is an absurdity.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-10-03

The Lancaster Express (Republican) de-
clines to support Mackey for State Treas
urer. In reply to an article in the InteJEi-
gencer, which reminded the Express of GER
tain charges it made against Mackey last
fall, it says:
To ,he foregoing we reply, once for ALL
that our views for the management of the
State Treasury have undergone no change
since we made ourselves familiar with its
details. The facts we laid before the pub
lie during the past three years have never
been controverted and cannot be disproved
We did our duty in the premises and if
the people willing TO perpetuate the
Treasury ring rule,' as would now seem to
be the case, we wash our hands of the re-
sponsibility. We still believe in the doc
trine of the Iowa Republicans, as incorpo-
rated in their State platform, that it is the
duty of every citizen who is in favor of po-
litical reform, honesty, economy and purity
in all official administrations ''to partici-
pate in politics and to make an end of bad
men forcing their election by securing par
ty nomination )" and that it is further, "the
duty of every Republican TO oppose the cleo
ton of a bad man and an incompetent can
didate, whether he be candidate upon our
own or any other ticket
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-10-03

IN the Constitutional Convention,
last week, the following section, fixing
the number of members of the House
Of Representatives, was adopted
The members of the House of Represent
ativcS shall DC appOrtioned among the sew
eral counties, according to population, on
a ratio to be obtained by dividing the
whole population of the State, as ascer-
tanned hy the most recent United States
census, by two hundred. Any county in
Guiding Philadelphia, having more than
one ratio, shall be entitled to member for
each full ratio, but each county shall be
given at least one member and connties
shall not be Joined to form a district. ANY
county having less than five ratios shall
have an additional member for a surplus
exceeding One-half a ratio over one or more
fuil ratios. Any county, including Phila-
deiphia, having over one hundred thou
sand inhabitants, shall be divided into dis
trlcts, and every city shall be entitled to
separate representation when it's popula-
tlon equals the ratio, but no district shall
elect more than four members.
The number of members of the
House having thus been fixed at t1cO
hundred, the ratio for one member be-
ing about 1890, Cambria county,
having population, according to the
last census, of 36,569, will be entitled
to ttcO members, with a small surplus
remaining. The only argument that
has ever been used in favor Of largely
increasing the members of the two
branches Of tie Legislature is, that it
will make it more difficult, if not i'm
is unquestionably true, that it would
require more money to debauch ttUO
hURdred men than would be needed to
do the same thing with one hundred,
unless the ordinary price for vote
should be diminished by the well es-
tablished rule of demand and supply.
The mere increase in representation
for the reason above stated, which has
been assigned by Governor Curtin
and its other advocates, is an open
confession Of the utter and hopeless
depravity of the political morals of
the State. We have never been favor
ably impressed with the ultimate pro-
priety or salutary effect of the pro-
posed change, but it will be a matter
for the people, whose interests are di-
rectly to be affected, to decide for
themselves when they come to vote on
the question
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-10-03

In regard to the rumored losses of the
State Treasurer by the recent failures,
which the Radical newspapers are making
such frantic efforts to deny, it is signifi-
cant fact that the State appropriations to
schools and charitable institutions, amount
ing to more than a million and half of
dollars, and heretofore always paid before
September 1st, have not yet been paid.
This delay is, to say the least, strongly
confirmatory of the ugly rumOrs of the
past week, and dispatch to the New
York papers of last Friday says.that so
great is the inconvenience occasioned by
this unusual and unaccountable delay that
the soldiers orphans at several institu-
tlons throughout the State are dependent
upon the daily charity of surrounding
neighbors. at Mount JOY it is lamenta-
bly, so.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-10-03

The bodies of Mrs. O'AIarra, aged
sixty-five, and her daughter. aued tbiTtv
We're found near Montrose Station. ON the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western rail-
road, on Saturday morning last, but not
mangled by trains in any way. The Coro-
ner's jury ELECTED sufficient evidence to
warrant the belief that they were murdered
and placed on the track by Daniel OMAR
"a, the old lady's son, and his hired man.
named Irving Blood was found on Ir-
wing ciothes and at several points be-
tween the house and the railroad n d;s
tance of two and half miles. Daniel
. Maria had inherited some property ON
condition that he would support his mothsr
and sister, the latter of whom was mar
TALLY blind from her birth. The sunnosi-
ton is that he killed them to be relieved of
the burden Of supporting them. He and
irving have both been held to answer,
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-10-03

Col. CHARLES j. BIDDLE, one of
the proprictors and chief editor of the
Philadelphia Age, and 4 son of the
distinguished Nicholas Biddle, died
very suddenly on last Sunday even
ing, In the SAITH year of his age. Col.
Blddle was prominent officer i'm the
Mexican war, and acquired a high
military reputation in the late civil
war. He was n high toned gentle
man and an able and fearless Journal
ist. In his death the Democratic
party has lost one of its most distin-
guished advocates and the profession
one of its brightest ornaments. The
Age, in announcinghisu untimely death,
SAYS:
''In all he said or did Mr.. Biddle was
conscientious and earnest. He defended
truth and denounced error with unflinch-
ing bravery. lie was inSensible to fear
when in the discharge Of duty. His love
oil truth, justice and fair dealing was ofthe
pure shlNalrous type. He knew but one
pain TO reach an object, and that was the
SIr"Sht road of open, honest word and
dced. lie was a stranger to guile. tu-
pllclty or deceit. Scliishucss was no mart
ot ms Character. He was entirely free
from that taint of worldliness, and as hus-
band, father, brother he was ever willing
to sacrifice himself for the welfare of otb'
ers. In word, Charles !. RiddIe was a
perfect type of an American gentleman
patron and citizen, and his life and char
actor can safely be taken as models in all
hese relations uf life. "
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-10-03

The Tribune finds fault with Hen
ry Scanlan, the Democratic candidate
for Assembly, because he gives plain,
square answer publicly, to a letter adj
dressed to him by respectable citizens
on the license question. We dare
Samuel Henry, who has been asked
the same question by the voters of
this county, to answer in like manner
The people do not like private pledges
or double dealing.
Besides, we have stated on the au-
thority of Henry Scanlan himself, and
no man who knows him will doubt
his word, that he voted against Local
Option; and we know that Samuel
Henry did not vote against it.
We know, too, that radical legisla-
lures have for years labored for such
a law, and that the democrats have al
ways opposed it. We know likewise,
as shown by the official returns, that
i'll Henry Scanlan's district the vote
stood: For Local Option, -; against
it, 45. In Samuel Henry's district ::
For Local Option, 85; against, IL In
Henry Scanlan's township: For Lo-
cal Option, "a; against it, loo. In
Saml Henry's township: For Local
Option, l22; against it, "a. Figures
will not lie, gentlemen
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-10-03

SUDDEN FORTUNE.-A freak of fortune
which would brighten the pages of book
of fiction has recently been manifested in
the midst of us. The incident connected
with it are as follows: Several years ago
a woman whose name is Griffith, and her
son Isaac, became inmates of the Rens-
selaer county Poor Heuse, (whetAer from
inability to obtain employment sufficient to
secure the necessarieS of life or from i'll
heath we do not know where they re-
manned until the spring OF summer of
1871, when the lad found situation in
Patrick Byron's meat market, No. 455
Third street. The lad was industrious
and honest, and remained i'll the employ
of Mr.. Byron until a few weeks ago, when,
hearing of the death of an uncle, the lad
went to New Jersey (where his uncle diedl,
not with the expectation of hearing that
fortune had smiled upon him, but merely
to learn some particulars concerning the
death of his kinsman. His delight was
unbounded when he was Informed that the
snug sum of SO, 600 was bequeathcd to
himself and his sister, who now resides in
New York. We doubt not that the first
act of this child of fortune will be that of
placing his mother in a home befitting
their circumstances.-I'roy Wig.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-10-03

HE Herald of last week asserted,
and OF course the Voice cried ditto, that
Mr.. Henry at the last session voted
against increasing the pay of members
from $1,000 to $1,000 If either of
those papers, or both combined, can
show between this and the day of the
election, from tie official Journal of
the House, where the evidence of the
truth of the declaration can alone be
found, that Samuel Henry did what
they say he did, we pledge ourself to
vote an open ticket for him on the Sec
ond Tuesday of October.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-10-03

The question of what constitutes a
pRankrupt has just been settled by Judge
CI CClunihond, OF the United States Circuit
Court of Illinois. IL a case inst conO
GUIDED Judge Drummond decided that anv
man man who, without any legal reason, re-
Iuses payment on his paper for two weeks.
may be, under the law, adiudged a bank
iuPt. DE must satisfy the Court that he
rs Justified in Withholding payment, His
mere caprice or unwillingness to pay will
Hot iT prevent his being adjudged insoIvent
d.a,' 1ne Ieins'tl to honor his promise to re-
deem extends over fourteen davs,