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Christmas Hymn.

I said to my darling maiden,
.Sleep softly and quickly sleep,
From the sky in a chariot golden
Tonight will the Christ-Child leap.
With many shining treasure
Is the tiny coach supplied;
And tomorrow. when awaking,
Thou vii. .r them by thy side"
And so fell asleep my maiden,
And whispered when she.awoke:
"The little wheels Of his wagon
I saw, and the ponies yoke.
"Among the bright stars were whirllng
The little wheels round and round;
And golden thread came twirling
And caught me up from the ground"
"No! no! the beautiful wagon
Will bring its treasures to thee;
Thou canst not thither, my maiden!
Thou stayest just here with me-"
And then the dear child grew silent,
And whispered never word;
But the golden thread size did spy lent
Wings and she flew as bird"
She was so airy maiden,
And her heart so made to fly,
Enough was fine thread golden
To draw her upto the sky.
Us, too, far heavier laden,
With sorrow and sin defiled:
Us, too, doth fne thread golden
Draw after the dear, lost child.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-07-24

Girard, Erie County, Penn, ella inns
to have a child which weighed but three
ounces at its birth, and seven ounces
when three weeks old. All it's organs
are said to be perfect.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-07-24
WINDOW SHADES.

1,U00 Window Shades in all the new tints Of color
Beautiful Gold Band Shades, sl.6o, with all trim
Kings.
Beautiful Shades zoe. each.
store Window Shades any color and any size.
Window Shades squared and put up promptly.
Walnut and painted wood Shades.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-07-24
RUGS AND DOOR MATS.

New and beautiful Rugs.
Door Mats, from Soc up to the best English cocos,
ahIt wear three years.
100 sets Table Mats assorted.
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sIATTINGs.

New Mating, Plain and Fancy, in al the different
widths made.
hattings laid with dispatch.
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VOL. III. NO. AZ.
NEW SPRING GOODS.
Jas. C. BAILIE g. eRo..

PEsP EsPECTFyLLY ASK nISr roUR ATTEN
fered BY them for sale:
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CORNICEs AND BANDS.

Rosewood and Gilt, Plain Gilt, Walnut and Gili
Cornices, with or without centres.
Curtain Bands, Pins and Loops.
CorniSeS cut and made to at windows and put up.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-07-24

Brussels three-ply and ingram Carpets OF new de-
bsns full stock Of low-prced carpets FROM SOC.
yard up.
Carpets measured for, made and laid with Dispatch
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-04-04

is much of that of the present age. The
churches and dwellings for the missionaries
and converts are surrounded by an immense
wall The fronts of some of the churches
exhibit the finest wood and stone cutting
10 he found in the new world, and it is said
II 1t to be excelled by any in the old world.
The work on the massive doors and win
doyys of Conception and San Jose is of the
very finest character. Upon them is seen
a superior order of both carrying and sculp-
tiIre work III the most elaborate designs of
apostles, angels, flowers, etc. In all of
these ruined missions RIeXican families are
now making their homes and using the diff
ferent departments as kitchens, dining
rooms, sleeping apartments, store rooms,
graneries, stables, and all other purposes.
In the rear, and connected with the Mis-
sion of San Jose, is n long range of rooms
of massive structure, designed for the mis-
sionaries, which part of this Mission was,
shortly before the late ''unpleasantness,"
taken by the St. Vincent Brothers, of Penn
svIvauia, WHO did a large amount of work
In repairing and fitting it up for a school,
During the war, however, they were driven
of. and have up to this time abandoned the
work
OF all these imposing mission edifces.
but one, that Of Conception, is now used
for the purpose they were designed by their
pious founders. These magnificent and
venerable piles are now, with the canals
that conducted water to them from the
head Of the river, with the bitches which
everywhere led water from them for the
use of the missions and to irrigate the
mission lands, in ruins, presenting sad
and melancholy appearance. But it is to
be hoped that, although they now present
a solemn grandeur, the day Will come when
their affairs will again be surrounded with
wOrshippers and their vestal fires shedding
once more their mild and radient light.
To gaze upon these magnificent ruins,
/ where two centuries ago was first planted
the STANDARD of the cross, these cemetaIieS
of the dead, where sleep in promiscuous
confusion the Spanish Christian and Indian
savage, eXcites emotions which can only be
imagined, for they cannot be described.
In viewing these grand monuments of by
gone days, and rejecting on the progress
Of events since that time, it presents the
question, which was the most virtuous age
that Of the period Of these missions, when
/ the country was inhabited 10y numerous
/ tribes Of savaGes, in utter ignorance of the
arts and sciences and Of religion, or the
/ present age, which is distinguished for its
/ fine morals and mental culture, as well as
/ for It's advancement in the arts, sciences
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-04-04

ANOTHER outrage has been peIPetrated
by the lower House of the Pennsylvania
Legislature. -Four legally elected Demo
cratic members from LuZerne county have
been ousted to make room for four Repub-
Hcan contestants. LuzeTne county has al
WAYS been Democratic by a considerable
majority, but one Republican ever having
been elected to the Legislature from there,
and that was owing to local feud. Last
fall the Democratic members were elected
by about the usual majority of 1,3OO.
1t will be remembered that it was in Lu-
zerne county that the United States Asses
sor. the Collector Of Internal Revenue, the
Chairman of the Republican County Com
mittee. and L. ID. Shoemaker, the Repub-
lican member of Congress, were arrested
last fall upon charge of bribing voters,
but having complete control of the courts
they managed to hush the matter up.
They, however, determined to have revenge
by uuseating the Democratic members of
the Legislature who were active in expos
ing them, and they have succeeded by
means of a partisan Legislature, nOtwith-
standing that the bulk of the frauds were
proved to have been on their side.
BY the rules Of the Pennsylvania Legis-
lature, separate committees are appointed
to hear the evidence and arguments III each
contested election case, and the decision of
each of these committees is final In the
present instance the committees were all
packed with members from Pittsburgh and
Philadelphia, upon the principle that it
takes a thief to catch Il thief. OF course
no other decision than the one rendered
was to be expected from such men as Joe
Ash, Jack hCCulloch, and Bob Tittermary,
the leading gutteTsnipcs Of Philadelphia.
y. /. Sun.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-04-04
EU9:iS03i--ITeGjcO.


! Last week we carried our readers over
/ bona .ttae constructed railway from this
T place to the city of Denison. and this week
we viii convey them on an imaginary rail
/ way from Denison to the city of Mexico
/ From Denison, the Missouri, Kansas and
/ Texas railroad Will continue on through
! Texas ciH Waco and Austin, to Camargo,
/ on the west bank of the Rio Grande, and
/ thence in general direction due south,
gia Monterey, Saltino, Zacateeas, San Luis
/ Potosi, and Queretaro, to the city of Mexi-
/ co. The proposed extension through Tex
as and Mexico TO the capital of the Aztecs
/ will amount to upwards of one thousand
/ miles more. The Mexican portion of this
road is Of course only a conception as yet,
but will in time be reality. 4 railroad
between these two points will one day be
built, passing through country the area
Of which viii make five States as large as
I Pennsylvania, possessing the richest soil
and minerals, and ultimately for its
fun development 30, O0O miles more of rail
way.
1t is not mere dream of fancy, the con-
tinUation Of the Missouri. Kansas and Tex
as railroad from the Rio Grande to the city
of Mexico. liberalization may occur sooner
than the most far-seeing can anticipate
Although there are as yet no exact knowl-
edge of the topography of the country along
the contemplated route, nor surveys and
estimates of the cost of building, yet the
project is feasible and practicable. From
the valley of the Rio Grande, at Camargo,
/ there can be road built at a reasonable
grade to ascend to the city of Mexico run
ming through the wealthiest, most popu-
lous and productive portion of the country
Passing through the heart of the oldest,
richest and most civilized portion of Mexi-
co, it will become one of the most impor-
tant roads on the continent. Brilliant as
is the present of the NJ, X. and T. road,
the completion Of the contemplated exten-
sion from the Rio Grande river to the city
/ of Mexico Will make its future still more
brilliant.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-04-04

The Pennsylvania Railroad Companv
IN giving notice of their proposed additional
stock distribution authorized by the late
meeting OF stockholders, says that each
shareholder will have the privilege Of sub
scilomg at par to the stock in the proper
t'"n Oh thpty-three and one-third per cent
of the number of shares Registered in tbo;T.
names April /, 1873. Those entitled TO a
traction OF share can subscribe for a full
snare. All subscriptions must be made
between May 1st and May 24th, 1878. and
no subscription will be received after the
latter date. The first instalrnent of 80 ner
cent cent. to be made between May 1st and
%4th, 1913, and the remaining 90 per cent.
on sixty days notice, in instalments not
exceeding 25 per cent, at anv one time y"
he privilege of taking new stock NAV he
sold by any shareholder, and new stoc;l
can be paid for i'll full at the time of snh-
scription, if desired.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-04-04

TERRIBLE DIsAsTER.-TOTAL Loss OF
THE STEAMSHIP ATLANTIC-SEvEN Hun
DRIED AND FIFTY PERSONS PERIsH.-A ca
BILE dispatch from Halifax, \. s., dated
April 1St, says: The steamship Atlantic,
Of the White Star Line, from Liverpool,
March Goth. for New York, running short
OF coal, made for Halifax. When about
twenty miles from port off Cape Prospect,
at 2:30 o'clock this morning, she ran ashore
on Meagher's Head. She had on board
over 1000 men. women and children.
Only 25O succeeded in landing. The re-
mainder, including all the women and
children, were lost. The captain and third
officer were saved. The first officer was
drowned.
On the first receipt of the news of the
disaster, u CunaTd and Government
steamer started to the assistance of the At
lantic, but the third officer, who arrived
here at 2:30 p. m. this afternoon. says that
the vessel and cargo are total loss.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-04-04

PRESIDENT GRANTS inaugural mes
sage delivered on the 9Th of March.
has furnished a prolific theme for
chair in the London journals. The
patronizing manner III which the Pres
i3ent expresses his Willingness to as
sist the Creator in bringing about
the desirable ends which he claims the
American Government is intended to
accomplish, is particularly admired ;
and the contrast between the Amori-
can republic as lie represents it and
the American republic as it appears
in the light Of the report Of the Credit
Mobilier Committee, and of the other
disclosures Of corruption which have
recently been made at Washington, is
dwelt upon with great gusJo by the
London writer's.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-04-04

HERE was an officer who went tbrouob
nearly all the battles of the Mexican yyaT
without scratch, and was killed Inv tbe
KICK OF mule on his journey homeward
before he reached the circle of admirino
friends who were preparing to give him
an ovation. His name was not Ga,tieId
put there is General of that name whose
experience has been somewhat similar.
AIIer 1iIu Stormlrg the heights of Credit Mobi-
I5ei, and preasting the deadly contents of
CdheS SD1i Ames' memorandum to he
Killed by the 50, salary-grab is worse
than an being kicked to death by iackass,
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-04-04

EVER since Grants reelection to the
Presidency the National debt has been
constantly increasing. The Treasury
officials have been ready with excuses,
Of course, such as they were, but the
people are beginning to look the mat
ter aquarelv in the face, and TO ask
why tac old time reported decrease is
not Kept up That much if not all
Of this decrease was q fraud and q
blind, is now quite apparent. We all
remember, says the Philad'a Evening
Herald, during the lively times Of last
year, when the Groton goldfish and cal
leo merchant was issuing grcenbacks
from the Treasury TO the tune Of S4,-
O00,O00 at pop, 10 move the crop, "
and carry the Pennsylvania October
election, we used to have monthly re-
ports about the public debt which
were really splendid. The way that
debt was reduced, all the way through
the year, was a bewiIdering and de
hghttul surprise-to the spoonies.-
Even the London editors were aston
lshed 1t wonderfully elastic powers
and faJhOmIess resources of the Re
public. This sort OF thing has all
passed away now, and the terrible truth
Is coming out in littie grains every
month
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-04-04

DEATH FROM SMoKISG.-The New York
correspondent to the Buffalo Courier re-
ports sad case of death resulting from
smoking. He says that for thirty years
the victim had been heavy smoker of the
choicest cigars, bGC in all his other habits
temperate and regular, and of excellent
cOnstitutiOn-One who, of all men, would
have laughed at the suggestion that tobac-
co was killing him. On Sunday he was
stricken with progressive paralysis charac-
teristic of nicotine, and on the next Sun
day night he died. His death was most
pitiful. First, sight was lost, then speech
then motion of the neck, then motion of
the arms, and SO on throughout the body.
and he lay for fortnight unable to move
or made a sign, save pitiful tongueless,
II lrarticulate sound, which sometimes al
most rose to frantic effort, all in vain, to
make known what he wished to say to his
family or friendS-for his consciousness and
mental faculties were left unimpaired till
within two hours OF the last. 10 ac,gY1avate
10 the utmost the horror of his situation
a living soul in dead body. The sense of
hearing WAS left unimpaired 50 that he
was conscious of all around him. while as
!ncaEable of communicating with them as
II dead, save by slight sign of assent or
dissent to the question. The doctors were
fully agreed that tobacco was the cause of
his death.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-04-04

TIE Philadelphia PRESS, having re-
Gently charged that L S. Senator
John Scott had accepted his share of
the salary steal, takes occasion to re
tract that statement in a subsequent
issue, wherein it is declared that Mr.
Scott voted against the new salary
bill and has not received the money -
Which fact is all very well so far as
it goes, but, as the Harrisburg PA
TRIoT remarks, if he has not received
the money" it stands to his credit on
the books Of tie financial officer OF the
Senate. What will he do with 1t
Another question: VIII Senator Scott
refuse to receive more than s., Geo sal
airy per annum during the remainder
Of his term If he intends to take the
increased salary in future, he gives the
same endorsement OF the justice and
propYictv Of the increase rs if he rad
received the full salary voted him by
CoHoTc-s for the list two VARS. For
it viii not be denied that If members
OF the furjy-tiiird Congress are cn-i-
tlaG 10 S7.5eg ucr anuum. those of the
last Congress we're equally entitled TO
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-04-04

PANIC IN A CHURCH-FoURTEEE PER
SONS INJURED.-Nm me the funeral obSe
quies of Rev. Father Macklin were in pro-
greSs at st. Johns church, Trenton, y. J..
on Monday morning last, a cracking noise
creatcd the impression that the gallery was
giving way, and there Immediately cnsued
a fearful panic. In the rush for the exit.
women and children were trampled be
meath the crowd, which became immova-
bly, wedgcd about the doors for about ten
minutes; meanwhile the women and chill
dren were being pulled out by the stalwart
men. Many presented Il shocking sight.
An excitement was created II the street.
ladders were raised to the chIrch win
d9ws, and the people thereby taken out.
Many OF the clergy, of whom there were
some twenty in tie church, jumped out Of
the windows and went to the front door
aud announced the safety of the building.
but without avail. Soon, however tile
fears subsided, and service was resumed.
The cracking noise had emanated from
kneelng on board. Some fourteen were
wounded more or less seriously, but none
died.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-04-04

RE4 BUTLER, who was chief engin-
eer of the bill that enabled Grant II
pocket an additional $25, GEO per an
mum, and allowed each Congressman
TO thrust his hand into the treasury
Of the nation and take therefrOm So
coo extra pay, announced that he in
tended to quiet all the ciamor of the
newspapers by addressing letter to
the people Of tile United States. 1t
is well known. saws the Lancaster IN
telicencer. that Butler has successfully
defended many thieves in the criminal
courts. ana there was much anxiety to
learn " hat excuse he could render for
the action OF the President and mem
bersof Congress. Itisnow announced
that Butler will delay the delivery Of
the argument in defence of himself
and his companions il iniquity until
the popular feeling subsidies Bold
as Ben is. Lc does not care to face
the storm Of popular Indignation which
has been aroused. There was q time
in this country when the people did
not forget to inllict proper punishment
upon a Congress which had been gull
" Of 2 similar act. Scarcely one OF
those who voted Tor or took the extra
pay was returned. 1t remains to be
seen whether we have lost the virtue
which existed among us few wears
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-04-04

THE constituent. OF General Garfield. in
Irumbuli county, Ohio, held q meeting,
last week, at which resolutions were adopt
ed calling on Garfield to resign his seat in
Congress, because Of having voted for the
salary increase. lie replied, explaining
that he SO voted because having the ap-
Tropriation bjll III charge, and the salary
amendment having been tackled ON, he was
compelled to vote for it, or go against his
own bill. Senator Morrill,, of Maine, iusti-
ties himself by a similar reason. As this
viii, no doubt, he the popular reply of Con-
gressmen, when questioned on this subject.
We viii take occasion to say that the reason
alleged is as great a swindle rs the salary
job. No one knows better than they that
it could have been kept OFF from tie ar-
pror.iation bill had they so desired. Pits
burgh Gazette.
And have YOU no word for the Pres
idcnt who endorsed tie SALARY job -
by signing the bill Are his skirts
clear OF the great sWindle"?-PosT.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-04-04

AN ENTRAORDINARY EXPERIMENT
The Chicago Times publishes long and
clrcumstantial statement of an extraordi-
nary experiment alleged to have been made
by an cX-Surge0n of the PIussian army.
named Lewis Schultz, now residing in that
city, by which he has demonstrated the
ability not only of his dog. but his infant
son, to live and move under water with as
little apparent Inconvenience as expert
enced by amphibia. The waiter asserts
that he has himself seen the boy, now
scarcely six months old, enter large bath
tub filled up especially for the purpose. and
diving to the bottom remain there for sew
eral minutes, picking up bits of candy
thrown INTO the water by the father The
dog appears from the account given to
be scarcely the equal of the child in his
amphIblous requirements, notwithstanding
mat Schultz with cOmmendabIe considera-
ton began his experiments with the canine.
This may, however have been due to the
accidental priority of birth of the latter.
The mother Of the boy, it is stated. is not
at All pleased with the experiment upon her
offspring, and expresses a desire that the
authorities should put a stop to it.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-04-04

THE Scranton Times correctly con
cludes that the quadrangle Of radic.I
committees which ousted Messrs. De
Lacy, koons, kisner and Quiglcv from
the seats in the house 10 which they
were lawfully elected by the people Of
Luzorne county, must either be wrong
or Judge Harding could not have been
right in his recent decision Of the con-
tested election Of county officers which
involved exactly the same facts and
questions Of law which came before
these committees. If the committees
had contented themselves with setting
aside the polls thrown ont by Judge
Harding and with rejecting the votes
which the judge rejected, they would
have been obliged to declare the demo
cratic representatives from Irzerne
entitled TO the seats Either the radi-
cal Judge Harding has erred or the
radical committees Of the house have
committed wrong. The radicals of
Iuzerne county will please decide
which horn Of the dilemma they will
take
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-04-04

JAMES BaooNs, tie one Democratic
member OF Congress vino was coInpro-
misedin the Credit Mobiliercorruption,
is said to be hopeIessly i'll. His in
disposition dates from the time Of the
investigation OF the wretched,afair.-
But not one Of the ten Radicals, who
were equally as guilty as BRooKs, has
manifested the slightest touch Of re-
morse. CcLFAX, who sickencd when
he smoked a strong cigar, is hale and
hearty, and goes junketing about South
Bend with admiring and sympathiz.
ing friends, bearing GRANTS cegtiG-
cate of good character in his pocket
Bat VINO Is there to mourn for JAMES
bRUUKs! Not one.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-04-04

>. The wife of a farmer named Allison
HVlng IN Lamar township, Clinton county
;ook sick Ia harvest, eight years aro. and
mas II never left her bed since exce1t for n
ieW minutes at time She apnears to
nave no well-detined disease, takes her
meals HI regularly in bed and eats heartily.
ohe talks nationally and appears to be in
fo.esoeG as usual about all matters pertain
physicians, who have examined her can
nnd nothing but an abnormal desire to lie
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-04-04

OAKEs A5IEs must have '.strucIl
easy when Sc fell in public esteem, or
he would not have been able to say as
witty a thing as the correspondent OF
the Cincinnati Gazette credits him
with. The following is the story as
the correspondent tells il:
after voting for the previous question
l"n the Appropriation Bill, which contained
the back salary amondment), Mr.. NiblacIz
said, as lie passed linn, just after voting
YES, SO, Ames, you 90 for the increase ,
Yes, answered Mr.. Ames, 1T don't hurt
me, you know. l have nothing to lose
now but, confdcntally, this is a bigcc,
steal than Credit MoLilier' How SO ,
asked Mr. Niblack. Well, the men Who
had that did pay n little something for it.
but this is Gij siEaL'''
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-04-04
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4 BILL has been reported Eavorably
in .he Pennsylvania House OF Repre-
sen,ativcs, exempt!ng from the opera
ton of the Local Option law Of March
- 1917, "all manufacturers and ven
dors Of ale, beer and native Wines