The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-12-25
Letter from, Kentucky.


wHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE OUTRAGE BUsI-
NESS s'-CHEERFULsRsS AND HOPE REvIvING-
TIRE PEoPLE-CRCP rRosPECTs-PADUCAH AS
TOBACCO MARKET.
ICofTeSp61ideRce Cambria FrecmGn.1
PApUCAH KY, Dec. IS, 1874.
"Old Uncle Ben" often asks what sort of
world is this, ''nohow' r-sud frequently sup
plement of whatkind of people is il msde up?
Well. it is hard to tell. In their tastes and hab
It's souFe widely differ from Others. Circum-
stances and position, education and prejudice
have the moulding, almost to monopoly, of
mankind. These make the children OF Adam
what they are. We see Hate. bitter and ran
eoroias, finding iodg mont in some hearts
speaking from tho mouth and dripping from
the pen-the retention OF power their secret
close" incentive, fraud and oppression their
possession of the soul, to what end will it not
lead ?-to what means will it not resort ITO at
tain that consummation' 1t so deyoutly wish
ss? Misrepresentation and tales of horror are
poured int the willing ears OF the unreiiecting
the bleeding phantom or the Rebellion, Dur
led at Appamatox, is faunted before the eyes
of the credulous of the nations warus
sells his cotton or tobacco, pockets the money,
and with bad whisky flls that other poclfet-the
one which nature gave him-and then he is
| happy, full Of jub'iation, but, alas for him he
meets a '.colored friend and brother" They
auarrel-fght-a murder ensues-when, pres
%! the radical sheets thunder forth their bat
tie-cry against the Democracy of the South:
"Do10, ,oith them - mother ltnk forged IL. the
long chain Of crimes committed bp the .dpdci0,ts
Southerners, and cemented ioith the blood u
quiet, fnotenstce nrOrOE' These and like false
hoods have been echoed and re-ecboed from
Maine to heGulf by satellites of the Admins
| tration-men devoid OF honesty principle,
meanest form~men who .could a tale nn fold
! of interest most absorbing, of the sights to be
seen, and odors to be breathcd, which come.
rocking and sinking vie,' from vitated and
butchered honor Totting within the secretest
! chambers of infamy-men who stopped not to
| inquire as to the merits OF the case, nor cared
= whit whether it had any merits, bat who, re-
cog nizing: tksir cue, stepped boldly upon tho
political stage, .trntted and ranted their brief
half hour, and retired. How? Why, repudis-
! ted. rebuked, covered with ignonay by high
minded, noble and liberal people, Justly indig
! nant at q combination seeking to rule our coun-
| singular fact, I have observed it only since the
/ Sd of November last. That huge stablishm en- t.,
! prisoN"The Outrage MiIT'-has ceased to grind.
| We no longer hear the musical elink! cliek
of its machinery or the loud shrek of its W his
! tie. Why, you ask, has this misfortune, of all
! the direst befalien us? 60, my son, for in for
! nation to those great men and rood, Morton,
But, Joking aside. and before quitting, this
subject, mskc the assertion that no freedman
has ecer been injured here IutltOtt propagation
gnd aInp,s ca.Se prerto1sslg 9tre ana for or The
nation of that efficient hand at the partisan
bellows lately collapsed, the Pittsburgh Conn
raercinl, | affirm, aud the proof il upon record
in her crininyl courts, presided orcr bp carpet
bdggeis. that in the state or Louisiana, about
which the most has been said and written. more,
mann more, whites have been sent to their long
homes since the close of the war by negroes
than rice versa This is a fact which speaks for
itself, but it has been grossly disreg aided by
the powers that be" and the cry otsrE ricttS!
ringing from the White House has been ting
lingtn our oars for many weary reckoning,
causing us TO forget almost the nne'n"Ty-lhat
stars who shed glorious light over the trou-
bled waters wherein 1ouudered our country in
her comparative infancy-Crawford. Coiqu1t,
McDuflie, Troupe, Adams, Clay, and Webster;
and few weeks since in looking around US,
fiowery beauty of our National Tree, planted
well nigh one hundred years ago. But the
loud shouts of welcome greeting-generous,
brotherly aud kind-come swelling to us over
the Northern hills, awakening All from ttelr
A iath hg.Fy Sr6 o.
memorable 4th of November. 1874, all fears for
the future were smothered Hope which for
a season had bade the world farewell" once
more returned, and the hard, biting lines about
her mouth were crowned IN the Joyous, rip
pling smile, presaging peace and reconciliation
deep and true. 1t would have done your SOut
when tney met one another, as the news OF vic
tory after victory came flashing over the wires:
Lave you neiJ i;S lro, ia S.s 9, Vii II
named the Keystone. IN my breast burns
brig htly deep affection for her and her sisters
VINO stood by US in our time OF utmost peril !
God bless and prosper our neishbors over the
all lips. and they came from the inInost heart
too Kentucky, in common with the entire
grasps in spirit the hands OF the pstriots who
so valiantly rallied under the pennon of De-
by strong and inGissoiubie ties We are hap
pier and breath freer now that the great bosom
healthy srdor.
ave live with ono sensation:
In JOY and grief, but most in love,
Oar heart-strings musically move,
And thrill with like vibration
This portion of the dark and bloody ground"
Of which Paducah IS b,o the CHIC; city, wa bought
from that transaction has ever been known as
''JacksoBs Purchase" It's people are free and
unreSyrved in their intercourse with ca ch 9TH
er, while strangers are invariably regarded as
honest men, unless the contrary 20 shown
whi9b hs. 50 s'es osetnsiiIiy Distinguished tbom;
tho venerable fathers among us love to talk of
the bygOne, and they will interest you for hours
Mt q stretch rca ting incidents of their youth.
the withered old pedagoyue who to their then
young and untutoreSi minds seemed the pos
marvellous research--the corn -huskings" and
log -rollings, ali, with their concomitanis of
zest and thus are called up cherished memo;
ries from the grave or departed yoars, until
experience as it were the bliss of boy hood with
the mimic ecstacy of young life and its inIo-
We are no eager followers Of any new depar-
turs, but steady, sturdy, staunch believers"
son-rnoart ire entertaining such a confidence
in the integrity and good common sense Of the
un biased masses as induces us TO look FOR Cdr
Government to right itself at no distant day.
But, with all this, the "CiranScrs" have plant
this m i've -neut will end In will not stop here
70 speculate.
The crops have been wofuliy meager the
bugs and heavy rains in the late Spring having
played such sad havoc with the tobacco plant
that that great product OF our soil mas oeen of
scarcely any profit to our farmers this season.
The corn and other cereals were parched and
scorched by the burning rays of the sun, the
thermometer having for weeks at time rang
ed from SO to 100 degrees in the shade.
Although rot generally known. it is fact
none the less that Paducah is the fourth mar
ket in the United States, ranking next to Lou
isville, for the sale of the soothing weed In
addition to several places for "rehandfing,
there arc two large and thriving "stemerics"
and plug" and cigar man nu'actores here, be-
sides three comm odious brick warehouses.
which sold during the tobacco season of 1894
upwards of II, 900 hogsheads OF that com modify.
the weather so far has been del elightful-only
one splitting" of snow-and to-day is as mild
and bland almost as midsummer on the Allie
ghenies. There is not cloud to obscure the
bean utifnl blue of the sky, while the bamy
South breeze, whispering softly of the coming
Spring to the leaves that still cling 10 the pa
rent branches invites to outdoor exercise; and
my animal spirits are mastering me, yet can
not go before Offering the health of brave little
Cambria for the manfu! way in which she has
batted for the right There be those here who
rejoice in her triumph, and feel "A glowing pride
that within her boundaries the cohorts or rad
icalisrn were confronted by horned BUCK who
would not down at their imperiouS bidding.
All honor to worthy John Reilly and the con-
ciatory spirit of his supporters. L claim Cam