The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-09-04

HARD TIMES. Es.-Immigration into this
country has fallen off over fifty per cent. this .
year. as compared with 1878. The cause
of this decrease is hard times. Our labor
market is over supplied. For the fret time
in the history of the country the fact that
fewer emgrants are seeking our shores is
a matter of congratulation. Workers in
the ore beds in Lchigh county are now paid
eighty cents per day. Employees upon
railroads and public works have been cut
down fifteen to twenty per cent. III the
amount of their wages. There ls a tough
prospect ahead for winter Provisions are
likely to be cheap, which will in some mea-
sure mitigate the evil of insufficient wages.
II behooves laboring men to consider well
the causes Of present distress. Does it
arise in any measure from vicious leglsla-
ion ? Has any attempt been made to
remedy the trouble by reducing taxation?
Has the government practiced the enforced
economy which pervades the ranks of all
the middling classes of people who earn
their bread 10y days work Have salaries
been reduced with the rising value of the
currency and the falling cost of the means
of living? The answer to these questions
must be fatal to the credit of the repubH-
can party. Grant gets $50, 900 where Lin
coin received S25. 900 Hartranft gets $40,
600, where Curtin received $1,000. We
paid Lincoln and Curtin i'll currency worth
fifty or sixty cents to the dollar. We pay
Grant and IiartraiIft i'll currency worth
ninety cents to the dollar. Neither Grant
nor Hartranft, nor one of the multitude of
office holders whom they typify, will think
of taking one cent less than ali he can get
: for the service he renders, on account Of
the distress that has overtallen the people
who are obliged to pay his salary. When
the opportunity offered, Grant and lIar-
tranft both put themselves on the record
against tho reduction of salaries by failing
to use their power to enforce such rsduc-
tion. The people can expect 10 help or
! relief until they go to the polls and help
themselves. The people will deserve no
help or relief until they go to the polls and
relieve themselves. HARRISBURG Patriot.
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TIE New Ell observation-disclosures of the
! recent alleged discovery of gold in the Black
Hills country. Dakota Territory. it is said
that while Gen. Shcridln declined to sub
, NIT to an interview relative 10 his opinion
I concerning the discoveries and their rich
] ness he did throw some light upon the
character of the country commonly known
as the Black Hills. He stated that he met
/ on the Columbia river, i'll Oregon, the late
! Father De Smct, Il Catholic missionary,
, who had travelled the length and breadth
I of the unexplOred Northwestern Terrific
I ries. lie was acquainted with every tribe.
and knew their secrets, and he thea told
+ the General OF the gold dIgSIngs OF surpass-
ing richness in the neighbolhoud Of the
/ Black Hills. Credence was given to the
/ missimary's story, not oily by Gen. Sher-
idan, but by others to whom it was impart-
ed, and mining expeditions into the Big
Horn Mountains and into the country cast
/ of them have been the result. Some time
after Gen. Sheridan had met the old Catho-
lie father he chauced to be in New Golk.
Casually mentioning the revelations to GER
tain capitalists, they at once caught the
gold seeking mania, and desired to inter
view Father De Smet, but lie had departed
for Europe. and their proposed prospecting
tOur-waS abandoned. But Gen. Sheridan
never forgot the information impaired t.
him on the Columbia, and whenever an op-
portunity has offered to verify it or prove
it's falsity he has embraced if. Gold he
was satisfied, could be found in paying
quantities in the Black Hills. General
Stanly failed to reach it, but General Custer
has proved the truth Of tie auriferous ru-
mors, and las removed all doubts for the
future. General Sheridan himself has only
recently returned from trip into the Wind
River mountains bordering upon the cuuu-
try traversed by General Custer, and even
there Il country was found strange enough
in its geological character to justify any rI-
NOR as to its gold-beariTg qualities.