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The daily gazette., 1875-12-28

SECRET SOCIETIES IN PoLITIcs. =
The New York Herald, commenting
on secret societies in politics, secs in
the recent uttcrances OF the President,
ex,Speaker Blaine, Bishop Haven and
others, and the formation of an anti
Catholic secret society, zone of the
most formidable conspiracies against
the liberties of the country that we
have seen during the lifetime of the
republic Referring to the basis of
this movement the Herald says.
"The Catholic Church is only frac-
tion-a modern fraction-of our peo-
pie. 1t is not a growing church with
us, except as it grows from immigra =
tion. So far from its controlling the
county there is latent Protestant
feeling which makes it impossible for
any Catholic to be elected to any ma
tional office. NJ. Herman found this
when running for Governor, and with
the exceptions Of small, isolated Sec
tions like New York and St. Louis,
and New Orleans and Baltimore, there
is not part Of the country where the
Catholic faith is an advantage in the
race for preferment.
"Therefore the allegation that it is
necessary for Protestants to form into
secret political society to arrest the
Vaccinations of the Catholic Church,
is lie. There have been move
ments of this kind before, and every
one ended in disaster. 1t was seen
that the men who inspired them were
not earnest, God-fearing, religious
men, but shrewd politicians, who,
knowing how deeply seated in the
Anglo-Saxon heart is the sentiment of
respect for religious institutions, sum-
moned up all the bitter memories of
the past for political ends. The dis.
astcr which befell know-nsthineism
and native Americanism, the contume-
ly that is visited upon all who took
part in that erratic movement was so
widespread, that for the last generation,
at least, every honest politician, with
out regard to party, has made it fun
damental maxim that to attempt to
bring religion into politics or to con
troll political action by secret societie;
is the lowest kind of demagogism.- -
+ 1t is our duty as citizens tc
strike it down as treason to the repub
lie, believing, as we do, that wher
secret societies are necessary 10 pro
tect' our liberty or religion, neither q
them are worth SAYING
The New York Times a republican
paper, ridiculcs the idea of secret so
cieties TO regulate politics, and says:
politicians who coquet with thes,
strange fires are likely to be burned
They may amuse themselves with tn.
fantastic mummeries of a party o
masqueraders, but it will not pay. l
there is any real purpose in all thi
darkness, it assure to come out, to tn
discontinue of those who have beer
concerned in it, II there is nothin
more in it than the usual practical joke
politicians, who have proverbiall,
short lived regulations, may not alwsy
be able to satisfy other people as t.
its harmlessness. No new perty-anC
especially no new secret party-wil
have any more influence on America
politics than The fly oil the coac
wheel"
The daily gazette., 1875-12-28

Dull GREAT MEN.

DescarteS, the famous mathemuti-
clan and philosopher; Lat'ontaine, eel
ebrated for his witty fables and Buf.
fon, the naturalist, were all singularly
deficient in the powers of conversation.
Mormontel, the novelist, was so dull
in society that his friend said of him,
after the interview, | must go and
read his tales, in reCompense 10 my
self for the WEAKNESS of hearing him
As to COrneille, the greater dramatist
of France. he was completely lost in
Society-so absent and embarrassed
that he wrote of himself witty coup
let, imparting that he was never intel
ligible but through the mouth OF
another, Wit on paper seems to be
something widely different from that
play of words in conversation, which,
while it sparkles, dies; for Charles IL,
the wittiest of monsrchs, was so charm
ed with the humor of "Hudibras, THAT
he caused himself to be intro
duced in the character of private
gentleman to Butler, its author. The
witty king found the author very
dull companion, and was of the opinion
with many others, that so stupid fel,
low could never have written so clever
book. Addison, whose classic ele'
gance has long been considered the
model of style, was shy and absent in
society, preserving even before sin
gle stranger formal and diGnified 81
lencc, In conversation Dante wa:
tactiturn and sstirieal. Grey and AL
fieri seldom talked or smiled. Rous
seau was remarkably tame in conver
satlon without word of fancy oil
eloquence in his speech. Milton wa:
unsocial and sarcastic when much
pressed by strangers.
The daily gazette., 1875-12-28
THE EFkONrIEE TROUBLES.
Alleged inefticiency of our Colores
TtoOps.

Four Mexicans detected in stealing
cattle near Ringgold Barracks, escaped
by swimming the river. There are
5000 United States Troops on theTexas
trontier-two regiments of cavalry
and two of infantry, but all the infsn.
try and one of the cavalry regiments are
colored. and they are denounced as
almost worthless except for garrison
duty. Several Texas Congressman,
headed by Senator Maxey, visited
President Grant and asked for more
whith troops, but Grant said none
could be spared. John Bradley, a ne
gro cavalryman, was murdered and
robbed by Jusns Goloa. a desperate
woman who had previously murdered
two men.
Sixth United States cavalry arc con
centrating on the Arizonia froutier, T.
drive back tho Hexicans.
The daily gazette., 1875-12-28
CONNECTICUT ORANGES.

Connecticut reports >, 600 Sovereigns
of Industry, distributed ir 25 councils,
16 of which have paid in capital sggre-
eating $4,000. 1t is claimed that
their cooperative store system re-
duces the price of necessarics of life
15 per cent, and their secretary and
treasury reports read at Hartford, last
week, show the older to be in good
working condition.
The daily gazette., 1875-12-28

Another Foster, and an editor,
too, has tried his hand at letter writ
ing. He wrote to Alex. 81. Stephens
advocating the giving of the suffrage
to women as a means of neutralizing
the colorcd vote and restoring the
Democratic party to power. How
about the colored women, Fosters
The daily gazette., 1875-12-28

At Sandwich Islands banquets they
toast womeu-when they can.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-11-05
LOCOMOTION IN MADERIA.

The universal mode of getting about is
either to ride on horseback or in a bullock
sledge on runners, or to be carried in a
hammock. There is, however, a fourth
mode of descending from the mountains
for three or four miles on few roads. and
this is by sledyes. A ear, TO hold either
two or three persons, is placed on wooden
runners and descends tie steep, wall-in-
closed roads principally by its own weight
At starting, and where the inclination is not
great, it is dragged down by two of the
wonderfully active Madeira peasants, who
run by its side at the rate of eight or nine
miles an hour, each g-Iiding it by leath-
ern thong attached 70 its front on either
side. 1t requires but little or no exertion
to draw il along, for the road is every
where steep, and always smoothly paved
with pebbles or long stones, TO which addi-
tional smoothness and even polish, beyond
that produced by mere friction, is given by
the constant application of grease to the
runners of the bullock cars. When, how
ever, the road becomes very steep, the men
stand on the framework of the ear with
one foot, while with the other they guide
or check il. and the car then shoots down
by its own weight with a velocity that is
not a little exciting, and. after the first
dash off, extremely agreeable. The speed
is often more than twenty miles an hour.
1t is wonderful how the angular corners
are turned, the car lurching up first to-
ward one wall then toward the other; with
what ease speed is slackeued or arrested.
and how seldom any serious accident hap
pens. Merchants living in their qllntas
often make usn of Aese sledges TO 60 to
10 their couuting-l.ouses in the morning. re-
turning in the afternoon usually on horse
back.-Fraser's DagrziHe.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-11-05
COLERIDGE As \ HUMBUG.

The elder Dilke's memoirs contain much
that is Interesting. lie says that in one
place that underwood and Mackenzie say
that there was more humbug in Coleridge
than in any man that was ever heard of.
Underwood was one day transcribing some
thing for Coleridge. when visitor appear
ed. After the commonplaces. Coleridge
took up a little book lying upon the table
and said. BY the by, 1 casually took up
This book This morning, and was quite en-
chanted with a little sonnet found there
He then read OFF blank verse translation,
and entered into long critique upon its
merits The same story, the same transla-
ton, and the same critique were repeated
i've tim es in that day TO different visitors,
without one word being altered. Mr.. Un-
derwood says that every one of his fa-
nous evening conversations was got
up" Wordsworth used to do the same
thing.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-11-05
ROAST SWAN

The early history Of gastro,o,
favor OF the cygnei. though -..-
goose, it was never charged A. - -
much for one and too little for -. 70
find it gracing the boards OF r Dc
Kings, Popes, Cardinals, and ne
Of whom knew what was good. and Z.
feed; and, whatever may ba a.,
their value for the table now. wa. .
IN the reign of Henry VIII. vbs-
was of far greater value than o..
swans for the table Were char =.
pounds twelve shillings apiece. bs.;l--
cost for properly carrying them .t,,r-.
kitchen to the dining-roorn IN F,.r
one of which items Of expense was -
ed by sauce Of good strong baef
and port wine being poured H,o,,,4 :,
swan almost continuously wb7s -
roast, and then the bird introIn.s5 :
hot currant jelly. There are tbos. :
present day who affirm that cv,-r... d,
cooked are delicious, and that II o.
to please the palate, they must bsr.
kept beyond November, after VIII,
amount of artificial preparation xiii
serve them in proper flesh. fat. and i.
To the writer who can eat most tbi--.
is accustomed to roughing it. tbe a.
simply execrab1e; while others at tbz.-
table have declared that they eour5 a..
all the exquisitely combined oo,s ,f ..-
goose and the hare; discovery the ~
has been disposed to impute 10 The r--
whelming use of the currant isrv. .,
DUNG TO tolerance the rank sola---,-.
ike flavor of the swan. WIZ. if 9-l---t.
is ii not now favorite Al our fses.ss
possesses every ancienj pre- .siEs 90 r,-s-
it popular, and, with Iela,isr 20 r7v1 --
city banquets, the fashiya Of .s.i-.f-r --.-
own game" is yet more tn. cus'o-1 ,-
ever Cannot the taste be rsviyell-Ci.t.
berS'S Journal
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-11-05
TIE LION OF LUCERNE.

Thorvaldsen visited Lucerne for me -
pose of inspecting fitting site for 'nF :
nous monument to the Swiss GusTds
fell at Paris on the 10th of Angus
Thorvaldsen had accepted the comm y.
and made the design of the lion WIZ
mortally wounded, with his head ali1
paw resting on the shield Of France l.
said that the sculptor had never seen =,
ing Iona story that has toe mu'n ne
appearance of the marvellous to Dc =
credited He had, at all events
modelled one both in the "InulltN 4
Alexander" and in the bss-relisi Of
and the Lion" and in neither Is al! =.
cheney apparent, in the conception
king of beasts. The intention was u
executed the monument in bToiiA7' ..
placed it in some prominent par
picturesque city of Lucerne; bu' ns
ence there altered his views. he "a" 4
glance the capabilities of the pee'lii'N Eg,
in the vicinity, in which the hoh' s.s-
hewn i'm an excavated niche, has Ia
effect than any separate structure 'i rrr
ble or bronze could have produced
bar3h Rerieto.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-11-05

ANCIENT WALL IN MIssIssIPPI.-About
eighteen miles from Port Gibson, and one
mile from Brandywine Springs, OH the
place of Mr.. O'Quin, the existence of "a
great number of blocks of cut stone has
been known for an indefinite time, and the
people in the neighborhood have used them
for props for their houses. MIR. James
Gage, Jr., went out there few days ago
to explore, and had specimen stone
brought into town. 1t is about three feet
long, by about twenty inches square, re-
sembling in shape bar of soap. 1t is
probably native sandstone. Mr.. Gage
took this block himself from beneath the
roots of large pine tree. 1t formed the
portion Of a wall about twenty feet broad
on the top, which Mr.. Gage traced for a
distance of two bundled and fifty yar1s.
The inference shat one would naturally
draw from this superficial view is that this
must have been a city wall, but deep ex-
p'oration might show it to be portion of
a fort, temple or other building. Anyway,
its antiquity is prabably immense, antedat-
ing the history of the red men.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-11-05
sFEINUEKa.sE.

II is simply within the last ifty years
that Che practice has prevailed of employ
ing only oyer-rire grapes IN tn, production
of S.einberger, after the fashion which q
doubtful tradition reports to have been in
vogue for nearly century past with re-
gard to Ioss-J5hannisberger. The vim
tace rarely commences until late in the
Autumn. and is sometimes delayed even
into the Winter. The pickers, sturdy peas.
ant girls of eighteen or twenty years Of age,
have their gowns looped mp in kirtle-fash-
ion, according to regulation, so as not to
brush the over-ripe grapes OF as they pass
between the rows OF le;lAess vines, thus
affording them the opportunity of display
ing the very brightest printed flannel pet
ticoats and the gayest colored stockings
which money can purchase at Mayence.
The season being cold, most of them
wear mittens and have wooden comforters
tied over their heads, as to allow of the
ends falling down their necks behind.
The men who perform the heavier work
occasionally get themselves up in jaeger
costune-gray suits, piped and faced with
green. boots half way MP the legs, and
tufts of feathers stuck jIrltily in their
mountaineeIs' hats Singing in chorus
sorne song in plasc Of the Rhine and its
wine, the picle!s commence at the foot of
the slop ,one TO each row of vines, and
move steadily forward in a compact line
with all the precision of disciplined soldiers.
With little spring shears, which they carry
secured to their waists, they clip off the
ripe punches as they pass along, picking
from them at the same time the shrivelei
and Iipely rotten berries, and throwing
them into a separate receptacle. This is
what is termed the "auslese," and from
these selected grapes q special and luscious
class of wine is ma1,, Of fine flavor, and
more or less sweet, according, as the grapes
have attained the stage known as ettelSuide
in other words, mobile rotteness"-or
are merely ordinarily ripe. When the
pickers have filed their tubs, men go
round and collect the contents in oval
shaped wooden vessels called 'lereln,"
which they carry strapped to their backs.
From these the grapes are consigned to the
hand mills stationed by the roadside. and
after being thoroughly crushed are emp
tied, together wish the expressed juice, into
n large cask, fastened by strong chains to
a kind of dray, which requires a couple of
horses to drag it up the steep winding
roads. The aperture of the cask is invari-
ably secured by paddock before the dray
leaves the vineyard, 81 hough the press
house at the neighboring Valley of Eber-
lach be reached within ten minutes,
and there is no other hahi'ation beyond a
large lunatic asylum within a couple of
miles of the spot, so jealously guarded is
the produce of the famous Steinberg vine
yard.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-11-05

A WONDER OF NATURE IN FLoRTDA.-
For many years past there has been noticed
column of smoke or steam rising from an
impenetrable swamp short distance from
the Gulf coast, in Waukulla county. A
short time since, Judge White and a party
of gentlemen ih Leon and Gadsden coun-
ties formed an expedition to reach, if pos
sible, the undiscovered wonder. They
started from St. Marks in a sailboat and
made their way eastward to the mouth of
PinhoOk Creek. One of the party says:
"The coast here is very singular, and
suggests the presence OF volcanic action at
some time in the remote past. We look
upon it as n favorable indication of the vol
cano we were in search of. The whole
coast is a mass of rocks. One called the
''Gray Mare" forms natural bath house.
walled-in on all sides. The bed
of the river is mass of rock, and two
miles from its mouth it's whole volume is
vomited mp with immense force from the
yawning jaws of a rifted rock. Here the
river proper terminates and then CON-
mences series of sinks, which extend for
twenty miles back. Semi Tropical Month
lU
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-11-05

A QUEER INsECT.-There was captured
IN the streets of Austin, New, the other
day, curious insect which the Reptlse thus
describes: ''k is of the tarantula order
and its back, which is about the size of a
twenty-five cent piece, is pure white in
color, and when viewed from one side pre-
sents the exact marks of the features of a
human race, with complete mustache.
When viewed from the reverse SIDE the
marks assume the appearance of the face
OF an animal of the feline species'' The
animal was embalmed in alcohol and placed
among the curiosities in the cabinet of the
Sazerac saloon at that place.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-11-05
THE LOIRE.

The Loire is of a very different e..
acter from the generally we.l-eond1
Seine, which, so far as it Is free from
revolutionary influences Of the tide. + g
friendly river. meaning no harm IT,
Loire always means harm. Now and & -
when it is excited, it overlgws is b.
carrying ruin and desolatian aro-rl:~--
it shrinks into a scarce diztil--l.si
channel marked out 10y dan-er-l- az.
sands - quicksands which swa17v --
totally, without help or warning ,a- e..
happy man who touches them. meant e
swimmer or rash bargeman-uot 70 s7-s
of the more innocent sau,i-bauks W.
choke the way, and upset the boat Wit g
swallowing the men. The stream t.
rushes through this narrow and dey
course, threading its complicated way uE
here, now there, across the entire bread .
the channel, Is strong enough. IN it5 .a--
ultuOus current, to sweep away svs7.-l
it tencounters,and leaves the traveller 8. Ia
TO think how he is to extTicate himself i-z
any ENHANCEMENT of sandbaaks. No.E
standing all this, however, it, attraction a-
great. Few rivers can boast so many int.- g
ing places, so many old towns, eaths--s
castles. The reader viii remember IL
De Sevigne's shuidering terror Of l.
torrent which lay between her an r
daughter; but the names Of Blois. AE'-ss
Tours, and many more viii also occr e.
him-attractions which perhaps the -.
letter-writer of France would have C--
much less for than we do.-Bldcklo1d
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-11-05

COMPARISON OF BREEDS OF POULTRY
Isaac Lynde, of Ohio, wrote to the Poultru
Wortd, year ago, that on the 1st of Sep
tember he took ten pullets, each OF five
breeds, each within a week of being six
months old, and placed them in yards forty
feet square, and otherwise comfortable.
For the next six months he kept an account
OF their food and egg production, with the
following results:
The Dark Brahmas ate 1904 quarts of
corn, oats and wheat screenings laid Cos
eggs, and weighed 20 pounds.
Inc Buff Cochins ate 406 quarts, laid
59l eggs, and weighed 73 pounds.
Inc Grey Dorkings ate 3O94 quarts,
The Houdans ate s141 quarts, laid 7ss
eggs, and weighed 454 pounds.
The Leghorns ate 2314 quarts, laid SO7
eggs, and weighed 364 pounds.
AZ VIII be seen that the Leghorns laid the
greatest number of eggs with the Smallest
wight.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-11-05

She testified before the magistrate that
"dot pilly goats shoost vas a-a-vell,
was Washing py some clodings of a pig tub,
shoge, / don't ken told you how dot vas. Ifeel
me someding pehind my pack, und shump
over der tub und sthand me on my head
up NIT dot tubs bottom up, und der clod-
ings sphilt shoost like me, snd dem gotes
wink at me NIT Won eyes und vag his tails
of mine face. und walk out by his pehind
legs like man, und / can't sit me down
Good any more already" The goat was
fined one (s)cent, which he lett behind.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-11-05
FONDERFUL MEMORIES.

Scrtbs.cg's MoAt8ly for November has the
following: Pliny says that Cyrus had a
memory so prodgious that he could name
every officer and soldier in his armies; and
that Lucius Scipio knew every Roman citi-
zen by name when that city contained
more than POO, 600 capable Of bearing arms.
Seneca speaks of friend, Pontius Iatro,
who could repeat rerbdtiD, all the speeches
he had heard declaimed by the Roman ora
tors. It is said that Joseph Scaliger COM
mitteG to memory both the Had aud the
Odyssey i'll tweuty-one days. Sir William
Hamilton tells Of young COrsican Of good
family who had gone to study civil law, in
which he soon distinguished himself ''He
was frequent visitor at the house and
gardens of Muretus, who, having heard
that he possessed Il remarkable art or facul-
ty of memory, though incredulous in regard
to reports, took occasion to request from
him specimen of his power. He at once
agreed and, having adjourned with a
considerable party of distinguished audi
tors in a saloon, Muretus began to dictate
words, Latin, Greek, barbarious, signifi-
cant and noh significant, disjointed and
connected, until he wearied himself, the
young man wrote them down, and the au-
dience who were present I'VE were ALL
he says, 'marvelously tired The Corsican
alone was the one of the whole company
alert and fresh, and continually desired
Muretus tor more words, who declared he
would be more than satisfied if he could re-
peat the half of what he had taken down,
and at length be ceased. The young man,
with bis gaze fixed upon the ground, stood
silent for brief season; and then says
Itdt facinus ne59ifcissSmum.' Having be-
gun to speak, he absolutely repeated the
whole words in the same order in which
they had been delivered, without the
slightest hesitation; then commencing
from the last, he repeated them back ward
till he came to the first. Then, again, so
that lie spoke the first the third, the fifth,
and so on did this in any order that he
was asked, and all without the smallest er-
ror. lie assured me (and he had nothing
of the boaster in him, that he could recite
i'll the manner | have mentioned to the
amount of thirty six thousand words. And,
that is more wonderful, they all so adhered
to the mind, that after years interval he
could repeat them without trouble.
know, from having tried him, he could re-
peat them without trouble. | know, from
having tried him, he could do Sc after con-
siderable time.''
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-11-05
-seThe smallest man in the worId''

1.-THE smallest man in the world is
announced in London. The real name of
this gentleman is Jean Henema his nom
de plume Admiral Won Tromp, and his ma
tive place Francher, in Holland. He is &c
years of age, stands twenty-six inches in
his stockings, and is actually a foot shorter
than our Thumb" The Admirals ac-
complishments are varied he converses
fiuently in English, French, Dutch, Ger
man, and Italian--all these languages
crammed into IA head no bigger than a
California apple. Ii is too much. We can
fancy the agony Of Thumb he reads of
this formidable rival, but he need not de-
spair. No man was ever so small that a
smaller could not be found. Strange it will
be if Barnum does not fish out a fellow who
has to be looked at through a microscope,
who can put the Declaration of Indepen-
dence, Bunyans Pilgrims Progress and
Joaquin Miller's poems, with a diamond
pointed steel pen, into the latest device in
postal cards. Tromp holds the trick Just
at present, but it will be a P. T. if Pheneas
doesn't behold him with the naked eve and
go him one better.