The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-02-21
LOeoI Correspondence.
PORTAGE, Feb. l., 1873.

OIS4AGk, SD- Il, 1910.
Mr.. EDIToE-"Portage, Cambria county,
h:sa four licensed houses where liquor is
sold, and one unlicensed. Not one of the
five named houses has the necessary accom-
Inodations according to law
The above is an extract from a conmuni-
, cation signed o. dated Portage, Feb. Sth
1873, and published in the Cambria Herald
OF Feb. 13'h. Now, it is truth, gainsayed
( by no one, that no cause was ever, perma-
| nentiy, adj vanced 10y talsehood. a man lies
when he tells what he knotcs is not true and
he utters Jaisehood (very mild) when he
tells what he does not kHOIo to be true. There
| may be distinction i'll the mode OF lying, but
II ls distinction without difference.
Portage, Cambria county,, has only ttco
licensed hotels. The st. Cloud is new,
large, and commodious, and has all the
necessary, and tdtGful, convenlences of good
country hotel. 1t contains not less than ten
rooms and ten good beds. There Is also suf-
tcient stabliug attached for any number of
horses or ntuieS that is likely to seek for &C
commOdations. The other licensed hotel,
the Portage Exchange has not less than
nine rooms and rs many beds, and good and
sufficient stabling. In addition to these, we
have licensed Eating House, where beer,
ale and ''sich like" are lawfully sold. These
are all the drinking houses we have.
Now, the Inference is plain, That 20 he'd,
either ruth or t0itholH ii knowledge OF the
facts.
If he intended in his count TO include our
ancient neig ghboring village, mo. ., " which is
located One-h2Ll mile northeast OF ''IOrtage,
Cambria county, he is still further from
the truth in his statement of the quality of
our hotels, for there we find the ''W ashing-
ton House " kept by j. S. kiel-one Of the
largest hotels in Cambria county-with
rooms, stabhng, etc, amply sufficient TO &C
commoGate fifty men and fifty horses Thon
they have the Water Street House." kept
by ths Misses Mclaughlin. This hotel has
eight large rooms, with splendid bedding,
and ali necessary furniture, etc, besides
good StaDllng.
Now, il o. (Which stands for Quack, I
suppose intended to serve.thc temperance
cause, think he has failed. II his inten-
ton was to bring disgrace upon his own
home, he may have succeeded and may
find consolation in the reflection that it is a
dnty bird that will foul its own nest"
Portage, Cambria county" may have it's
shortComings-jUs as other towns, great and
small, have-her little scandals and her big
fights" but o. and all the rest OF man
kind" know that they are usually the work
of itinerant scallawags, who undertake to
''frighten bit," but who 90 not, as
general rule, succeed.
Portage, Cambria county, has, all along,
had good, industrious, sober and Intelligent
citizens and she has them yet, and AS may
of them, in proportion to her population, as
any city, town or village within the limits of
Uncle Sans domain. 1t IS very true, as IN
other places, our society is a ''little mixed" "
We have our great men and our small men
rich men and poor men-learped men and
men not high larned.' Some OF our
people say long prayers and some short ones,
just they do in other places. We have our
schools and our churches. We have our
temperance lectures and our intemperate
lectures. Let Local Option" or any other
man, come along when he likes, he will find
the people of Portage, Cambria county, as
kind, hospitabla, pIous and intelligent as
those of any other section of the county
Let him come, L say: and bring his friends
along he will find our hotels amply sutfi-
cient to accommodate all who may favor
them with their patronage. III tbs way of
eating, drinking and sleeping. Animals,
too, no matter tCHat may be the length Of HIetr
IrS, will always find the rack full, and a
~ owny couch of straw, or sawdust, where
on IL rest their weary limbs. r.