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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-03-12

Hos. FRED. l.. FOSTER, of Schuyl-
kill county, rushed into print last week
in the .Iohnstown Voiee aad Echo in
defence of his Legislative Hand Book
resolution, in reference to which some
comments have recently appeared in the
FREEMAN. His communication con-
tains nothing that is either new or
startling, being merely a rehash Of his
letter to us on Il e same subject His
delusion is. that because the LegIsla-
lures of 1871 and 1874 embarked ex-
tcnsivelv in the Hand Book business,
therefore the Legislature of 1875 ought
to follow their example. We deny the
right OF anv Legislature, past, present,
or to come, to authorize the purchase
OF this or any other book in order that
its members may be enabled to pre-
sent them TO few of their select friends.
Where is the limit to this practice !?
Robert c. Schenck, the \ nerican Min
ister to England, has lately, to the
honor of his country, issued small
sized book expIanatoiy of the myster-
les of that seductive but hazardous
game known as ",iTalC poker" Sup
pose now that some lover of dydtc in
the House, with more enterprise than
the member from Schuylkill, but with
out his refined taste, should suddenly
become as infatuated with Schenck's
treatise as Foster seems TO be with
SmuIl's Hand Book-that he induced
himself to believe that Schenck's 5 little
book contained very much valuable
=. . h., - J.,
were "all very anxious to have it for
their rcOnstituents, all he would have
to- do. according 10 Fosters logic,
would be to offer joint resolution for
the purchase of 5000 "coppies" of it,
and Schenck' 5 manual would at once
turn up legislative trump. So far
as the honesty of the transaction is
concerned, the two cases are precisely
similar, although the compilations
widely differ.
Mr.. Foster ought to know that the
last State Convention pledged the Dem
ocratic party to retrenchment and re-
form, and that the money which will
be distracted from the treasury when
the State printer presents his bill for
furnishing these Hand Books, would
pay the annual interest OH very many
thousand dollars OF the State debt
Compelling the State to pay for 5000
BY this emphatic vote a Republican
Hand Books to be distributed by the
members among their friends, is not
one of the entertainments to which the
taxpayers of the Commonwealth sup
posed thev would be invited by their
representatives The whole thing is
radically wrong and vicious and adj
mits Of no apology or excuse. 1t is
simply raid on the treasury under
the convenient forms of legislation and
ought 10 be denounced by every paper
in the State that is not afraid to ex-
press its honest convictions.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-03-12

by an accident, Captain John s.
George, lawyer. on Saturday discovered a
specimen of peculiar ore among coal dug
near lronton tunnel, five miles from Iron
ton, o., which proved to be consolidated
lump of pure diamonds weighing twenty
nine ounces, and valued at fou hundred
Thousand dollars. 1t is asserted that many
such humps have been found before. but
were thrown away at the mines as worth
less. Steps have been taken to secure
rights, options, etc. Considerable excite
ment prevails. There is no law 20 punish
man for not believing this story.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-03-12

The Democratic members Of Con-
gress elect to the Forty-fourth Con
@ress who were present az the close OF
the session last week, agreed unani-
mouslv. it is said, to support Hon
Samuel J. Randall for Speaker Of the
next House. He is undoubtedly the
coming man.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-03-12

\ DEFALCATIoS Of about $40 600,
divided between the ticket and freight
Offices OF the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road Company. st GAINESVILLE, Ohio. Is
now undergoing examination by the
Auditor Of the Ohio division Of that
Company A Young man named How
ard handled the funds Of both depart
Inents. and thus far cannot account
for the deficit.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-03-12

An article is going the rounds of
the radical press. the Johnstown Tn
hume being among the number, in which
u j. ass6Ited thst Gen. Forrest made
q speech at Muidon. in Tennessee. on
The 4th OF February, announcing these
sentiments Il believe there will be
another war, and my policy will be to
raise the black hag with the skull AMI
crossb1ncs ON it, AMI then not leave q
Republican white or black alive in this
State" All this is simply naked
lie. and as such Is disposed of by the
Nashville UHi0n, which announces that
Gen. Forrest was not at Muldon, Tenn,
Oil the 4th Of February-that he made
no speech anywhere on that day-that
in no public speech ut any time has
he uttered he sentim .n.s attributed
I, him-anl, finally, that there is 40
such pidce rs Nul,{oI IL Tennessee. -
How utterly contemplate are such
malignant s!aniers coucocted by North
crn radicalism to embi;ter and inflame
the public mint against the people oi
the Southern States.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-03-12
The CAMBRIA FREEMAN.
EREs5 BURG, PA,
Frilly Morning, March u, 1875.

TIE bill authorizing the people of
the Territory Of Colorado to frame a
constitution preparatory to its admis-
into the Union "a State, has passed
both Houses Of Congress, while the
bill comforting the same right on New
Mexico has been defeated.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-03-12

A man at FL Paso, Mexico. has actually
put in claim on the United States Gov
ernment for nine chickens destroyed by
coyotes from the American side.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-03-12

THE latest returns received Of the
New Hampshire election, held Tues
day, seem to indie lte that no choice for
Governor has been made by the popu-
lar vote, and the matter will therefore
go before the Legislature for final dc
cision The political complexion of
that body is yet in doubt. The
Democracy have gained one Congress
man, anyhow, and oyer that we crow
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-03-12

THE democratic State Committee,
80 its meeting Yesterday week, decided
that the next State Convention should
he held 1T Erie. on Wednesday, the
sth Of September. Believing as we
always did in the policy Of short and
sharp political campaigns, the time fix
ed Is proper. though our own opinion
is that State Conventions should in
variallv be held ut Harrisburg. How
ever as that question has been defin-
itely settled. it does not now admit Of
any discussion The Republican State
Committee met or the same day and
fixed on Lancaster as the place and
Wednesday. the 26th of May, as the
time for the meeting of its convention.
candidates for Governor and State
Treasurer are to be nominated 10y both.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-03-12

Hoy. WILLIAM s. KING arrived at
Washington on Saturday and found
Congress adjourned and no one au-
thorized to take his testimony Who
can picture the grief, asks the Lancas-
ter Mtejliqencer, which must have
filed his bosom at the discovery that
Congress had adjourned After his
strenuous exertlons to reach the capital
and give his testimony on Pacific Mail
affairs to be thus disappointed at find
ing no one authorized to take it was
really too bad. After taking the ''short
cut" through Canada from his Mime
sofa stock farm to his seat in Con-
gress. TO arrive painting in Washington
and find Congress adjourned, must have
been a disappointment more severe
than his failure to sell that Sl4 ,0G0 bull
in Canada at his asking price. Surely
William is born to disappointment
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-03-12


THE Altoona Tribune professes to
be neutral, or perhaps we should say
indcpen lent in politics, and is regard
ed as a respectable journal 1t saw
proper, however, in its issue of last
Saturday to compromise its fair name
by publishing 4 pOintloss and stupid
address, which it falsely and meanly
asserted had been delivered at Carroll
town by Hon. John Buck, one Of the
members of the Legislature from this
county. What possible motive the
Tribune had in thus degrading its col
umns it would he difficult to couiec-
ture, in as much as Mr. Buck, as we
have reason to believe. is Z total stran-
ger TO all connected with that paper
and has never offended or injured anv
orc Of them. This sinexcusable effort to
hold Mr. Buck up to public ridicule
cannot of course detract Fl ON his per.
sonal popularity among the people ot
Cambria county, and will therefore
only recoil on those who have seen fit
to write and print such contemptible
stuff This senseless and uncalled foI
production, which was intended ful
wit, bears several Ebensburr ear-marks
npon it and very plainly betrays its
paternity. Whenever the columns OF
the Tribune are opened TO outside
parties for the base and cowardlv pur
pose Of attempting to degrade and be
little sn upright and honest citizen, as
MIR. Buck surely is. even though that
liberty is granted, as we are confden,
was done in this instance. without the
knowledge or consent of the proprie
tors of that paper, who are both hon
orable, high minded gentlemen, we ar,
forced to say that it sinks itself be
meath the clearly defined limits of hon
orablc journalism and earns the wei
merited contempt Of all right-thinkine
men. More than that, the Tribun,
should have left such dirty to it's de
lectable namesake in Johnstown, which
has at least the frivolous excuse to of
fer that Mr.. Buck is from this count,
and hence is a proper subject for mis-
representation through its columns
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-03-12
THE BoLDEsT OPERATION

so far unearthed is the one for which
Mitchell Havenor is held. Havenor and
Sam Dickinson went to Toledo and pre-
seItcd to the house Of Hays & Co. certi.
Wilmington journal., 1875-07-30
GEN cox ANDJUDGE WATTS AT
MOI OkssANEON.
The Charlotte Observer says


Judge Greasy Sam Watts fulfilled
his appointment to speak in Morgan
ton Tuesday. Liet. Gov. Armtield was
present to meet + m. Col. Armfield
made very able and convincing ar
gumenI for cOnV -ntiOn but the fun
came when Gen raj Cox appeared un-;
expectedly on the scene. Before the
General had spoken many minutes,
HIS Greasiness arose in quite an excit-
ed way and desired to known if he
meant to be personal To which
General Cox replied that he most
certainly did, that he did not refer to
Sam Watts the anti-conventiOn speaker
exactly, but he did propose to
hold up to execration, ,Jtdge Watts
our present constitution. A gentleman
from Morganton writes us that
the General has opened on Watts
along the whole line and gave him
such a skinLing as has seldom been
witnessed i'll this or any other State.
He told about the Judge granting an
injunction against the negro commits
sioners of Halifax county who were
stealing all the county funds, and a
few days after dissolving the injunc-
ton without assigning any reason for
his conduct, then adjourning court in
the midst of a trial of a capital case
and going over to run for the negro
nomination in this same Halifax coun-
ty, AMI of his being beaten for the
nomination by another negro. This
and many other statements of SINH
lar character made General Cox about
this 'buffoon Judge" as he calls
Watts.
Greasy Sam was to speak in Marion
Yesterday and General Leach went up
to meet him. If General Leach leaves
a greasy spot of him, we shall he sur
prised.
Wilmington journal., 1875-07-30

There IS one class of persons, and
that, too, without regard to race, col
or or previous condition of servitude
whom 1t would be blind folly to expect
to vote for Democratic candidates for
the Convention. The class We refer to
consists Of men who have already
been convicted of stealing another
man s property, of forging another
man s name, or of false swearing, or
who know in their hearts, that If the
law had It's course, they would he con-
yicted Of one of these offences No
rogue, no thief. nor forger, nor per
jurer, will vote for the white mans
candidate. When they vote, they vote
for the negro party candidate. And
| what an lnroad it will make into
the ranks of the negro party if every
man guilty of larceny and forgery and
perjury, shall be deprived of the right
to vote Verify there Will be grand and
lofty tumbhng in present Radical ma
lOrltics If the law shall be changed.
rer to have the right of suffrage Is a
man whom the laws of his country
have declared to be guilty of an infa-
nous crime, a fit person to direct the
affairs of State in which honest men
| live That does, indeed seem u sim
| gular sort of law that pronounces GER
tain acts to be Infamous ard yet gives
! to the perpetrators of them the right of
suffrage, the highest of all civil rights,
in equal degree with the best and purest
and wisest citizens in the State. The
Candy Constitution, however, is no re
specter of persons as to the matter o1
suffrage, not even between the thie1
and the Judge who tried him.
Ought this to be SO? We think not
and we believe the people of NORTH
Carolina think not. Let them send
men to the Convention, therefore, who
will amend the Constitution, so thai
neither thieves nor perjurers, nor forg
ers shall vote The white mans can
didates can alone be trusted to make
this change. The negro party candl
dates certainly will not make it, fo
the simple reason, if no other, that i
will reduce their party strength so m'
ter1aI!y. Vote then for the Democratic
candidates.
Wilmington journal., 1875-07-30

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Wilmington journal., 1875-07-30
POCRISV.

As an evidence of the insincerity
and deception of the Radical party,
they raise hue and cry against law.
yers, and at the very same time, say
the Wilson AdUance they them
selves are putting forward law
yers in nearly every county where they
have any prospectof of success. In Hal
flax, O'Hara, a negro lawyer is their
candidate for Convention. In Gull
ford, they have nominated Tourgee; in
Cumberland, Buxton; in New Hano-
yer, Russell; in Perquimons. Albertson
in Wake, Badger; in Yadkin, Dula; in
Richmond, Dockery; in Craven, Leh-
man; in franklin, Bullock, and in Edge
combe. MADISON, another negro lawyer
all lawyers, beautiful mixture OF
negroes, carpet -baggers and scalawags.
And, yet, Radicals have brazen impu-
dence and effrontery to appeal to the
people against lawyers. What hon
est man vii trust such party2
Wilmington journal., 1875-07-30
ANEW CONs'TIE OR NEG no
JUDGES! WHICH DD THE
PEOPLE PREFER

Unless the Constitution shall be
changed it is almost certain that two
negro Judges will go upon the bench
ia North Carolina in 1876. and anoth-
or four years from then. In the second
or the Newbern District, in the third
or the Tarboro District, and I'D
the sixth or the Raleigh Districts the
negroes are in the majority.
Elected by District as the
Judges now are it is clear that the ne
eroes have the power, if they choose
to exercise it, to place men of their
own color on the bench whenever the
elections h4ll occur in those Districts.
The power being thus clearly
in the hands of the negroes the
only remaining question for white
men to consider is whether they vii
Wilmington journal., 1875-07-30

A limited Inquiry among gentlemen
" hose intelligence would Justify the ex-
pectation of their recollection of the
circumstances attending the imposl~
ton of the Candy Constitution on the
people OF North Carolina, has induced
me to ask space in the JOURNAL for
few plain statements in order to 'stir
up their pure mllds by way of remem-
brance.
In the first place North G trolina had
in 1867 "Repubiican form of govern
ment," which the Federal Congress
was bound by a solemn oath to guar
antee;" but that Lody, huarse with its
cries of "treascu,' trampled on It's
oatn aud proceeded to destroy our
State government and set up in its
stead a creature of its own wicked de-
vice.
In palpable violation of the Federal
Constitution, oont SO, 900 white men,
citizens of the State, were forbidden to
participate in any of the elections
attending this violent revolution, while
thousands of others were prevented
bv Intimidation and other base infiu-
ences from going to the polls, and
II go ignorant negroes, who were not
citizens of the State, were leglslated
into voters.
By the irresponsible and hostile ma
iority, thus created for the vile purposes
of cruel despotism, the Candy Constl-
tuition was declared to have been rati-
fled, not by any legal authority with
power to compare the returns of the
so-called election, but by military
satrap in Charleston, =. c., whose
contempt for the noble instincts and
lofty courage and proud inheritance of
Anglo Saxon freemen was his chl ef
Recommendation for his position.
But this was not enough-our hu-
initiation was not complete. The in
congruous compilation, containing ex-
tracts from the old Constitution OF
North Carolina, the Declarations of
Rights, the Declaration of Indepen-
dence, the Constitution of the United
States, the Constitution of New York,
and Magma Charta, had to be sent to
Washington for the approval OF Nor
ton, Butler, Edmunds, Spencer, Cam
eron, Kellogg, Sumner, Colfax, Ames
Whittemore, Brother Harlan, Pomeroy
and other Radical lights less brilliant
but not less unfit for the duties o.
state smanship. With their approval
although it conflicts pointedly with the
Federal Constitution in that 1t violat'
1.-The obligation of contracts''-it'
was returned and declared thu
Constitution of North Carolina.
The preamble begins: "We, th'
people of the State of North Carolina
grateful to Almighty God, the Sover
eign Ruler of Nations, for the ,preser
walton of the American Union" &c.
hardly can trust myself to comment o.
this preservation" but to be subju
gated, disfranchised, subjected to for
eign and hostile rule, and plundered b,
Wilmington journal., 1875-07-30
WILMINGTON. n. c.,
03d Julv 1879


23d July, 1875.
To Hnl. Il. DeROSSet, President Of
the Chamber Of Commerce.:
SIR: On the 18th instant partial ex-
animation of the harbOr and it's sur
roundings, with the public works for
improvement was made, the inclem
ency of the weather and other circum-
stances preventing thorough 1nspec-
ton of the same.
Since our visit on the 26th of March
last (reported on the 29th), no impor
tant change is perceptible in
BALD HEAD CHANNEL.
About the same draught of water Is
reported available, say 15I feet.
BALD HEAD POINT AND SMITHS ISLAND
are wearing away rapidly. The point
is almost gone, and the outer face of
the island is perceptibly wasting; also
the inner face of the island toward the
light house appears to be wearing oil
rapidly. On the opposite side, the
point of beach and shoal at Oak Island
Point are growing and extending into
the harbor.
THE TWO OPENINGS
across the line of narrow beach alluded
W al q 1SpOAI, dlC NC-A5
the lower one is entirely closed and
filled up to high-water line, the upper
one is nearly closed and filed up to, or
near low-water line. The powerful
| pressure of the river ebh IN its exit out
of
THE INLET
has had the effect of wearing some
what the north face of Z=Aos island
and pushing back the line of shoals
making seaward from the island on
the southern edge of the inlet, thus
enlarging the inlet somewhat at this
point. The same influence no doubt
has had the effect of producing Ell
croachments upon the point of beach
Just beyond the old break water, ne
cessitating the erection Of line OF
crib work about !, 100 feet in length,
(besides about 200 feet of rght-angie
abntments) from the old work to the
point of beach for its protection, which
thus far appears efficient.
| THE OLD BREAKwATER
is being constantly strengthened by ac-
cumulations of sand although the beach
has not entirely closed up against it,
owing to some leaks still remaining
A line of shoals however, appear to
be en- circling its entire front from
iZeke's Island to the point OF beach
Wilmington journal., 1875-07-30

''"N'' h'St'"S al" whites generaiiy to
'f''''' li''' y nor 'i't you pf"tes 'pec1"l-
I ) "E"i--S'' 'h' 'l'ih''lice 'iih' NA.iut'tt Il
'"' 4ht'ii'@'' between Your ie.io"
/ "h''@' "'hir"i, Thornton, OF F"Ettte-
! '''''' WE. = 1t 3F" woman. 1"u dld
/ '''' - 80 "S'.i@t allowing negroes
q '' "hi''' Ih'l. 20 muster together, hor
! 'o&'hS' "''''e i''iFA'e e9 pt1"8 comn"nd-
/ 'H "> negro OBI 'efo' nor against black
I'll VINE ""I ."i'h "ft''''-E% The sHme
7',''' o. ""f against Wilt" chiidr"h be
: noun" - Ut Si' III rs h"i hSnihff
49, r'''H H.fi'@ &'hf" ans ~ white
""f'.- Nor "id II STIR H"nr blood
even |" P-''''e""i' protest "heh the
"t' 81 amnesty :" Comb d"rate soldiers,
y"Hr comrades III arms, wh1 r"p"a.rt.
Nor ul| 4on h' come Indignant when
III" right 10 vote was gwen to thieves
ana lorg"rs and murder~rs and per
Jnrera upon rqnal terms with the best
ahd pnfeSt citiz 'n@- None OF these
"Htr"8e8 against your c"lor ana your
race co'tid excite even to paper pro
test tAe blood that only seven years
hef"re had defled the mighty Federal
t"V crnmt mt Like Gallo you cared
Tor none Of these things. The object
then was to degrade the white and to
tx--l ki,., II.
Wilmington journal., 1875-07-30
H EEP 81 BEFORE THE PEOPLE

Keep it before ne people that the
negro party, while in power, spent
S35, 81 more of the peopl,' =
money IN TWO YEARS than the white
mans party has spent in -FOUR YEARS.
Keep it before the people, that under
the rule of tt e negro party, the people
had to pay S490, 576. 90 of their money
to keep their State Government in op-
Grafton one year; and that under
the rule of the white mans party
1t takes only 1896, ,342,99.
Keep it before the people, that ne
gro government costs them more than
twice as much as white government,
aud that too, although white govern
ment means safety and security to life,
liberty and property, and negro gov
rrnn"nt means wrong, outrage and
oppression to both person and proper
ty.
The following figures, the cor
rrctness of which will not be disputed.
show how the whole matter stands at
Il glance
Wilmington journal., 1875-07-30
;. CoNIGLANn,s SPEECH.

We call the especial attention of our
readers to an extract from q speech re
Gently delivered by EDWARD CoNIGLAND
Esq, before the m citing of the tax
payers of Halifax county.
We regret very mnch that we cam
OF lay the whole of the speech before
our readers, as like everything else
that comes from MIR. CONIGLAND's s pen,
it is we'll worthy of the most attentive
perusal.
Mr.. CoxIGLAND's argument upon
the binding force of the restrictions
imposed upon the Convention by the
Legislature is not only an able one, but
an original one. We cordially com
mend it to our readers.