The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1883-01-12
THE BENEFICENr DEPARTED YEAR.
Important iSt Our History as one
of Peace and Prosperity.
THE HOME OF THE FREE.
fHE CHuSBE LAND oF fEE POsR AND OPPRESSED
IRsFzhr Correspondence Of the FREEMAN
PHILADELPHIA, JAN. Z, 1888.

chapter of the nineteenth century mas
closed, and let us begin the record of
the new year with hopeful hearts and
! becoming gratitude for the infinite
goodness that marked the progress OF
our comings and goings, New proof of
the stability of republican government
have been found in the orderly admins
tration of affairs which followed upon
the murder of our President, and in the
steady growth OF fraternal feeling be-
tween the lately waTring states OF the
Union. No plunge or scOurge ravaged
our land There has been no halt in
the developments of our agricultural or
mineral wealth. Our towns and cities
are increasing in wealth, afluaRce and
population. The year of 1892 will take
its place in history as one of the most
beneficient of departed years. The peo-
pie of the United States have shared to
the full in the auspicious heritage of the
year.
America still remains the chosen land
of the poor and oppressed of all lands
and clirnes. Here the immigrant finds
the largest scope for the exercise OF his
faculties and the broadcast basis of relig-
ious and political freedom that the world
has vet known. When the prosecutions
of the middle ages are revived against
the Jews in Russia the victims pause not
in their fight until they have found pro-
lection beneath the American flag.
When the Irish, Germans, Italians,
Scandinavians, and the people of all 9TH
er lands, desire to seek new homes their
thoughts first turn to the United States.
In spite of all drawbacks, the products
of American skill are finding their way
into the markets of the world, defying
competition. Immense crops have been
4 /,
area of cultivation of our ceTials indi-
cate that the country will have abund-
ance to supply the deficits of the world.
Times whirligig spins its annual
rounds continually, but the windy ways
of man are as dust which quickly rises
up and as quickly laid again. The thresh
hold of the year is a favorable time for
retrospection, and it is well to adhere to
the good fashion of making resolutions,
for even If they are forgotten OF disre-
garded, there is gain in having made
them, and i'll making plenty of them,
too. It is well for us that we cannot
withdraw the veil that hides our future.
Could we anticipate what is in store for
us-that future would mar all the en-
ioyment and peace of the present. To-
morrow is nothing more than world of
prophecies. Tomorrow we do not
know, and it is well that we do not. 1t
is indeed well that we cannot pierce the
| invisible veil that cOnceals alike our
ioys and our SORROWS. Well for us is it
indeed that we cannot see through the
gloom or shadow of coming ills, trials
and Affections.
Many prominent names attract atten-
tion in the CHRONOLOGY of the past year.
The death reaper worked heavily in the
ranks of men of letter. Ainsworth,
Dana, ROsetti, EmmersOn, LOngfellow,
Marsh, Blanc, Auerbach and others,
all fell by the death reaper's Scythe.
All of these eminent men finished their
work about the same time, and all have
been given large space in obituary
columns. Many Statesmen Heroes and
men of Science sbuffled off their NOR
tai coils last year. l could fill a column
of the FREEMAN with the names of the
eminent dead of 1882. But it is not of
the eminent dead think most of at this
time, but of the humble dead, some that
the world has never heard of, and who
have left sadder vacancies than have
the eminent dead.
regret that in this, my first letter in
the new year, cannot with pleasing re-
Election, boast of having made credit
able record i'll the old year. l cannot
felicitate myself with tie consciousness
that it would make marked point in
my history. But in a retrospective
glance over my record in the last twelve
months, in which there nothing seen in
the horizon in which l can take lust
pride, as a hopeful observer there is a
seeming prospect of doing laudable
things during the twelve months. The
old year closed rather unpropitiously,
but the new year is opening up a pros
pect of a new era of development in vir-
tuous action. While the past year,
which brought with it joys and sorrows,
brought no special joy for me, it bro't
nothing to prevent me from gratefully
welcoming in the new year. If l have
no cause for satisfaction in the past, l
have good reason for hope in looking
forward to the future.
l will take occasion to inform the
readers of the FREENIAN who have de-
sire to see Eta Ophinchia that they can
do so by getting up in the morning at
O'Clock on the goth inst. At that
time Ophipchia, star in the constelIa-
tion Of Serpent Bearer, in conjunction
with Venus, will be near enough to be
seen, and the sight will be worth getting
up at that early hour to see. Eta Oph-
inchia, Ike Venus, is "some pumpkin"
of a star. Venus is morning star
LHTOuRuOuJ JduudIN OHb ID In6 IalTbSL
and brightest of the starry throng that
makes the morning skies tremulous
with brightness.
From what witness J. A, Walsh has
said to President Arthur about the tes-
timony before the Washington Grand
Jury, there is no doubt about Mr.. Bliss,
aGovernment attorney on the Star route
cases, being man in the wrong place.
If Mr.. Walsh's oath is to be relied on,
Mr.. Bliss is sympathiZing with the Star
route thieves, and was instrumental in
permitting Senator Kellogg to escape
being implicated with Brady and the
others. Mr.. Walsh reviews at length
the court proceedings against the in
dicted men. He clearly recounts the
failures and omissions of those charged
with the prosecution, and tells the Pres
ident plainly that if he intends to put
the prosecution of the Star route thieves
above suspicion, that he will have Mr.
Bliss removed, and ill his place with an
honest man. 1t is terrible to contem-
plate, and most humiliating and degrad-
ing to think and believe, that the laws
of the land have been wantonly and
shamefully violated by the Star-route
thieves and their friends and agents;
witnesses of the Government have been
terrorized by them juTies have been
corrupted by them; Government Off
GERS have been made to violate their
oaths, and even justice itself has been
made mocSery of in the Capitol of the
Republic Can it be possible, that in this
Republic, men in the full glare of day,
can as organized plunderers, unblush-