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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-02-11

THE blood Of the editor of the Y. y.
Tijj,ae don't throb as it should for
the centennial year, and is in doubt
whether our emblem should not be
changed from an eagle to buzzard.
Hear him:
In these centennial years. it must be con-
feSScd, the spectacle presented ia not one
calculated to make every American heart
throh with pride. We aro known abroad Av
n set of ministers and ConSuls, Of whom tie
most conspicuous and important is the cmi-
neut writer on the game OF Poker whose re-
Iatlons with the Emma Mine and the Mach
ado claim, make il natural for foreigners TO
ask whether the emblem OF the nation hc
represents should properly be an eagle or n
buZzard. We have navy. but to the candid
observer, 1t seems u he an institution com
paratlvviy useless except to contractors who
want To rob tn" Treasury, and high officials
who want to take ladies on an excursion Mt
public expense. We have an army, of1yhich
Gen. BabcoCk and Col. Fred Grant are rat he r
conspicuous officers. We have Il Treasury
r"nartmcnt, the chief clerk of which has
just Geen convicted, with several other
prominent officials, of conspiracy to rob the
Treasury. W. have an Interior Department
from which & DflanO has just retired and
swindIed and ICng-srftcriug Indians are
looking to see whether lis successor means
10 follow his example. We have n Postal
Department whose chief is justly honored
hccause he has been exposing and stOTDing
the rascaiitIes previously pcrpetrated there
III. ElnaIly, We have Congress- and the
odor of Credit NObiiier, Salary grab Pacific
Mail, and other jobs zoo numerous to mention
so psrvddcs,thc Legislative halls that We look
insrinctively for the buzzard to perch over
the Speakers desk.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-02-11

/ Tie promised work Impractical economy
/ begun in the House of Representatives last
Wednesday, upon the appropriation OIL
for the Military Academy at West Point.
/ The estimates for the next fiscal year re-
/ quire S430, 410, and the bill from the COM
/ mittee gives Ss43. 641, being a saving of
StS6. S29. This difference is made up from
/ various items, but especially iii the pay aud
allowances to officers, professors, and ca
dets.
If it was proposed to single out West
Point from the whole public service, and
apply to it exclusively these reductions,
there would be some ground for the assault
upon this economy made by the advocates
of extravaganza in the House. Bat it is
only part of a system of retrenchment
which is intended to be applied to all
branches alike.
Why should the officers, professors, and
cadets receive more pay, allowances, and
contingent funds than are necessary to
maintain them respectfully? Nearly all
The departments of life have been forced
to economize by the stringency of the
times In :he face of this harsh expert
ence which comes home in Ole form or
another to every individual, "a clamor is
raised when it is proposed to cut off the
excrescences which have added millions TO
the puJlic Burdens.
The Republicans, of course, resist the
array Of mixed figures to prove how virtu-
ous lie and his party had been in the years
of their corrupt and extravaganc rule.
They have achieved wonders in the way of
economy, according to his statements, but
unfortunately the books of the Treasury
tell very different story. MIR. Hurlbut
also was very violent against the reduction,
and rehearsed the old story of continuing
Glaring abuses merely because they have
become chronic.
Secondly, they know if the Democrats
make these great reductions upon princi-
pie of genuine economy, the Republicans
must suffer by contrast for the previous
excuses at the Presidential election.
Hence, all their efforts are now exerted to
defeat this policy, and particularly to pre-
vent an entering wedge for it in the West
Point bill. Their shams will not succeed
in the House, but may prevail in the SEN
ate. In any event the President is expect
ed to veto every real reform.
This issue must soon take form and sub
stance. Parties will crystalize on it, and
the questions which have heretofore agi-
tated the public mind must disappear be-
fore one which touches the sensitive
pocket nerve. Mr.. Blaine and Mr.. Morton
may rave about dead sectional disputes
and try to fan The embers Of discord into
new life; or they may attempt to push the
anti-Catho issue. But the laboring peo-
pie who are living on short commons and
wearing out their old clothes, demand
peace as the first condition and radical re-
trenChment as the next. They will watch
every vote, and know exactly where to fix
the esponsibility.-N.T I. Sun.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-02-11

COULBN'T the Legislature Just once
make an effort to sit out the six work
ing days OF the week ? 1t is a con
summation devoutly to BE wished. It's
uniform adjournment from Friday at
noon until Monday evening is calling
down upon it severe but well meriteo
animadversion. Three days and q
half Of work out of six is not the con.
tract that was entered into by its
mcmbers and the people when they
elected them. The practice Of ad
iourning in the manner indicated is
especially to be reprehended in view OF
the statement made by the Harrisburg
Patriot last Monday, that up to that
tine not single bill had passed both
its branches. If a Republican Senate
tctU waste its time, Democratic
House ought not to initiate its vicious
example The Democratic mem bers
of the House need not be reminded that
the Pitts sburgh Convention III 1874
pledged the Democracy of the State to
the practice of the most rigid economy,
but that pledge seems to have been
forgotten. The best opportunity for
rGtrenchmeut and reform is in the
enormous and constantly increasing
expenses of the Legislature. 1t may
be very pleasant for the members to
adjourn over from Friday to Monday
evening and recurcratc their wasted
energies in the meantime by visit to
Philadelphia on free tickets, but it is
very expensive to their constituents.
Has legislation become a mere pleasant
pastime, instead of earnest, labOrious
work! 1t seems so. To cap the eli
max in this mseemly business, both
Houses, when they adjourned last Fri
day, adopted joint resolution that
when they adjourn on Friday the llth
(to-day) they adjourn to meet on the
10th, which will be neTt Wednesday,
This suspension of Legislative business
but not of legislative expenses tor four
days, was made in order that the mem
bers from Philadelphia might attend
the election next Tuesday and vote for
members OF the city councils and other
municipal officers. These four days of
recreation will cost the taxpayers of
the State not less than fifteen HOuSdnd
dollars When n Democratic House
could have prevented this outrage and
refused to do it, what a mockcry and
a sham were the promises made two
years ago by the Democratic press
throughout the State in favorOfreform?
If the people will tamcly submit to this
unnecessary and swindIing adjourn
meu5 game we are much mistaken I'm
their temper There is time beyond
which patience ceases TO be a virtue.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-02-11

Henry C.'BOwEN has written n letter in
which he atirms his ''unwavering opinion''
that Hanry Ward Beecher is guilty of the
crimes heretofore charged against him,
and also of pei.;ury aud hypocrisy. The
letter was presented to the examining
committee at Assistant Pastor HalIiday's S
house Friday night , and Mi, Bowen was sum
moned to appear before the committee on
Tuesday last. This is Mr.. Bowen's ian-
guage: | have known Mr.. Bcecher quite
intimately since the day of his arrival in
Brooklyn. l have been acquainted with
him socially and privately, in church and
in tho family, in business matters and in
religious matters. have heard attentivelv
but with profound grief what has been said
to me confidentially against him. Now
being summoned here to speak, and to
speak the truth, | solemnly give it as my
unwaverlng opinion, in view of all the facts
and evidences presented to me, that the
Kew. Henry Ware Bcechcr, without even
the shadow of doubt in my mind, is quigtv
Gf tie d'ofnl crimes IF GGuItery, per,jury and
h9pocrtsy. This l say again, and before
the bar OF this committee, is my deliberate
opinion, and | may be permitted to affirm
that give it calmly, without malice, and
with 10 other than sincere desire to do
my duty faithfully 20 God and to man, to
the church and to the world
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-02-11

ATthe suggestion Of the Centennial Com
mission Mr.. George II. RoweH has in con-
temptation plan tcr a large and complete
exhibition of American newspapers at
Philadelphia. 1t is proposed to put up
building Sc feet in length and a in width,
and furnish it with enough cases, contain
ing $50 pigeon holes each, to hold all the
5000 periodicals published in the United
States. y room is TO be fitted mp to serve
as n sort Of headquarters for newspaper
men attending the exhibition, where they
can write and read and transact all their
business. The plans for the building have
been selected and are now in the hands of
an architect. Mr.. RoweU has devised a
plan for the conduct of the exhibition, and
the project viii be carried out if the pro =
prietoTs and publishers Of newspapers show
a disposition to co Opcrare i'm the under
taking. 1t is certainly desirable that so
important n branch of American industry
as is represented by the American ncwspa-
pers should have a proper treatment al the
Centennial Exhibition. For our ncwspa-
pers are thoroughly representative of our
people, and illustrate moro strongly than
anything else the marked progress we have
made in the first century of our national
existence. MIR. Eowclls plan seems to be
a good one; ii will cost from SO, 900 to
$4,000 to carry it out, and if 200 Of the
leading newspapers of the country would
contribute 500 each the whole expense
could be met.-N. Y. World.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-02-11

People without brains are to be found
the world over, but the GAINESVILLE (Ga.
Gazette doesn't understand it in that sense.
1t says: eve saw in the Office of DR.. II.
V. Reid, of Zebulon, last week, quite a
freak of nature in the form of a child.
born without any brain The body was
well developed, being rather larger than
usual, while the bones of the face and
head seemed perfect up to line on a level
with the eyebrows, where they terminated
IN rounded ring, very much esemblinp
the top Of a dipper. At the bottom of this
the spinal cord may be seen terminating in
sort of fungus, with apparently not a
vestge of brain. The child was still
born"
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-02-11

WE do this week what we did not
have time to do in our last issue, direct
attention to the call Of the Chairman of
the County Committee, convening its
members ut the Court House, in this
place, on Thursdav, the 2d day Of
March next, for the purpose of clcctlng
two representative delegates from this
county To the Lancaster State Conven-
tiOn on the 22l Of the same month. aud
also TO select cOufcrCes to appoint, in
conjunction with Blair county, q sena-
tOrial delagatc from this district. As
wa3said once before, we believe that the
Committee in this instance may be
safely entrusted with the election orthe
delegates, and thus avoid the inconve-
nience Of holding tCo county conven.
tions in the same year. 4 list of the
mem oers of the Committee will be found
under the call i'm our local department.
and it is to be hoped that there will he
full attendance. Although it may be
very inconvcnient for most persons TO
pttend the State Convention and pay
their own expenses, we have never
known the time when men could not be
lolll'l WIZ W tIf liOG O.i!N NllIlllD btlb
anxious TO incur both At the meeting
OF the County Committee in May last,
its proceedings were mainly controlled
hv substitutes, and very general feel
ING of dissatisfaction was the conse
quence That crooked game mist not
he repeated now When man is APP
pointed on the County Committee 4
du is imposed upon him which he is
expected to perform and not delegate
TO another. This duty is that Of per-
s1nal attendance at all the meetings OF
the Committer. The regularly ap-
pointed members have the undoubted
right to erclUde substitutes from its
deliberations, and if any second handed
gentlemen OF the kind should present
themselves they ought to be informed
that they have mistaken their calling
and invited to step ont. Let the cam
paign he commenced fairly and future
harmony will be preserved. We
therefore urge upon every member OF
The Committee to he present unless there
is some controlling reason to prevent
him. In that way alone will the pro-
cec1ings of the Committee possess the
y.ility and sanction which ought to
attach TO them.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-02-11

uPvRv G. BowEy Of BROOKLYN. who

Henry G. BowEE, Of Brooklyn, who
rs supposed to know more about the
true inwardness" of Henry Ward
Beecher than any other living man, has
addressed n letter to the executive
committee of Plymouth church, in
which he gives plain and emphatic eX-
preston to his convictions as to
Beecher's want of moral character.
Although all that he says may be true,
his position is not ali enviable one when
it is considered that he sat under
Beecher's ministrations, in Plymouth
church, long after lie was fully satisfied
OF his pastors moral degradation.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-02-11

4 MAJORITY of the five members Of
the subcommittee of the House Com
mittce on Pacific Rail Roads have
agreed to report to the full committee
the Texas Pacific Rail Road bill with
the subsidy asked by Thomas A. Scott.
Thereby hangs a tale. If the .fUH
committee should report the bill fa-
vorably, and the House should pass it
in the lace of the adoption at the be
ginning of the session, hy an over
whelming majority, Of Mr. Holman's
aHtt-subsjdy resolution, which was sup
posed to represent the views of the
House on the subsidy business, what
then The ghost of that murdered
resolution will rise up to plague and
alright the men who voted for it and
afterwards voted for Scott's subsidy,
and il will not down ut their bidding.
Not one of them will be able to eX-
calm, Thou canst not say did it,"
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-02-11

THE trial of the Indictment against
General Babcocll. the confidential Sec
rotary of President Grant, who is
charged with completely with the whis-
Key ring of ST. Louis in defrauding the
government out Of the revenue on that
commodity, commenced in that city on
Tuesday last. BabcOcll has cmploved
tn able and prominent lawyers to de
feud him and asserts that he will prove
himself to be rs innocent as q lamb
We hope he may be able To do 50, but
it must strike an ordinary mind as
somewhat singular, that if lie is as
Iamb-like as he protests he il, it should
require the ingenuity and skill of ten
distinguished counsel to establish his
innocence before a jury Would not
one or ut most t,Co suffice? Babcock
evidently believes III the truth of the
old adagc, that in multitude of coun-
sci there is safety 1t is believed that
Grant himself will appear on the stand
rs one of Balicock's witnesses.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-02-11

The bill to regulate the amount of
toll and other charges to be collected
by the boom companies of the State
passed the Senate last week withoutany
serious contest. It's success in the
House Is regarded as certain. The
bill fixes the price of boomage at 81
per thousand feet, instead of 1925 as
at present. When the bill was before
the Senate, Mr Allen, Democratic
member from the Lycoming district,
showed from figures which were not
and could not be disputed that at so
cents q thousand feet, as the bill ori-
ginally proposed, the revenue of the
Williamsport Boom Company amount
cd annually to nearly $3.50, ,0O0, and its
clear yearly profit 10 more than $780,
600. 1t is surely time that IN effective
blow should be given to this rapacious
monopoly of Peter Herdic's, and thus
relieve the lumbermen from his rob
berry ana extortion
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-02-11

THE lover House of Congress has
passed the bill repeating the present
bankrupt law. This will be bad news
for the shylock commissioners in
bankruptcy, who have systematically
perverted the law for their own per-
sonal aggrandizement.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-02-11

The Republican State Convention
has been called TO meet at Harris burg
on Wednesday, the goth of March-one
week after the meeting of the Demo
cratic Convention at Lancaster.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-02-11

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On the arrival Of tie trains q
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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-02-11

NEXT Tuesday, Feb 18th, the first
gun for the centennial year viii bc fired
in Texas by the election of Governor
and other State officers. Whatever
may happen hereafter, says the Har-
risburg Pat,Tot, the Democracy are
certain of a good scnd-of
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-02-11
EBE Ms BURG, pa,
Friday Morning, Feb. IL, lS7t

TwELEv good men and true'' have
been found to try Babcock at ST Louis,
and the case has begun.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-02-11

-SamsClark (coll, prominent Repub
lican politician of Goldsboro, North Caro-
lima, has been sent to the pcnitentiary for
ten years for larceny.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-02-11
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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-02-11

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Da Lac. Oshkosh. -4Jy','re. t,ra'
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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-02-11

FIRsT pRIgE AT YIENNl ~.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-05-09
Rate. of Advertising.

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No advertisement insel ted for Iss than Fyty cents.
DAILY LEADER, all transient advertise
ments, 20 cents per line, Nonpariel. each in
sertion; 8 Insertions, s cents per line; 30
Insertions. 5 cents per line.
Local Notices, per line. BREWER. each irser-
ton. 10 cents per line 30 insertions, 3 cents
per line.
WEEKLY LEADKR all transient advertise
ments IS cents per line, first insertion one
month, 20 cents per line six MONTH 10 cents
per line; one year, 5 cents per line.
CHtYESNE. Jan. LIST. 1876.
II. GLAFcKE. Proprietor.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-05-09

And u0w ome "Encle .~lifntay
Williams who aspifes to be the
Democratic Governor Of Indiana
because his brooches are butter-nut
colored, wears a dirty shirt, and
squirts tobacco juice upon the car
petsl, and requests Springer, of Hin
OILS, not to investigate Morton's War
account, ''because the reyiving Of this
old story will elect Orth Governor by
the largest majority ever known in
that State" Uncle Jimmy Williams
with his tobacco juice running down
his chin, has the sense to see what
Springer can not, that an investiga-
ton will not only show that Morton
satisfactorily accounted for all the
money borrowed to maintain the
State credit in fitting out troops dur
ing the late misunderstanding" as
shown long ago, but also that he was
compelled to borrow this money on
account Of the determination Of the
Copperhead majority in the Legisla-
ture that the State of Indiana, under
the advice Of Hendricks, should not
contribute a cent of money OF a man
for the defense Of the Union. The
Democrats in Congress have already
had an experience of this sort when
Barney Caulfeld invited them to 90
out and see a reed shaken by the
wind. Instead Of witnessing the
President caught in the tolls, they
found that little Johnny Davenport
had spoiled their game by placing
their own monstrous corruptions ON
record and exposing it to the whole
country. They have no stomach 70
anything more of this sort, and are
tired of playing with boomerangs.
However, if the virtuous Springer,
of Illinois, really thinks Morton is
a thief, he ought to go ahead and in
vestigate him, whether it will elect
Orth or not. Old Mr.. Williams
butternut breeches and tob~acco-quids
ought not to stand in the way of
Democratic reform. [Chicago Trib-
une.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-05-09

There was another beautiful ex-
hibition of Generalization in the
House last Tuesday, just before
adjournment.
Everything was sailing along
smoothly when Atkins, of Tennessee
introducing a resolution instructing
the Committee on Appropriations to
insert in the post office appropaia-
ton bill q provision for the payment
of the salaries due the postmasters
and mail contractors in the Southern
States who went into the rebellion.
A vote was taken and the Chair (Mr
Cox decided the resolution adopted.
The Republicans hen called for a vote
by ayes and noes. AT this the North
ern Democrats began to chatter, and
Mr.. Atkins withdrew his resolution.
The Republicans wanted a vote, and
Mr.. Garfield renewed the motion to
adopt the resolution, demanding the
ayes and noes. The Democrats were
utterly d%emoralized, and were about
to stampede, when Hester Clymer
moved to adjourn, and it was carried
by a strict party vote. This is about
the only sensible thing Clymer has
done this session.