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3l0BaHlLL, BlMOK P. Wolvbrtos.
. HILL St WOLVEBTON,
' Attorney) nnd Counselor) at Lavr.
SUNBtTRY, ' PA .
WILL attend to the oolleotion of all kinds of
olalut, inoluding Back Fay, Bounty and Pen
Ions. , apl. 1, '6-
H. KASB,
ATTORNEY AT UW,
Two doora east of Friling's stora, Market Square,
SUNBURY, PENN'A. '
Business promptly attended to In Northumberland
and adjoining oounlies. Is also duly authorised and
Licensed Claim Agent for the oolleotion of Bounties,
Equalisation Bounties, Pension, and all manner of
claims against the Government.
Sunbury, Sopt. 15, 1S66.
o Wo
ATTORNEY AT J,"W.
North Bide of Public Square, adjoining residenoe of
Geo. Hill, Esq.,
BUNBURY, PENN'A.
Collections and all Professional business promptly
attended to in the Courts of Northumberland and
.adjoining Counties.
bunbury, Sept. 15, I860. '
J. R. HILBUSH
SUBVEY0B, AND CONVEYANCE
AND
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.
Mahonoy, Northumberland County, Penn'a
Office in Jackson township. Engagements can
bo made by letter, directed to the above address.
All business entrusted to his cue, will be promptly
attended to.
April 22, 1868. ly
TVm. M. Rockefeller. Llotd T. Rorrbach.
ROCKEFELLER & ROHRBACH.
VltUKY, PEVVt.
OFFICE the same that has been heretofore ooou
piod by Wm. M. Rockefeller, Esq., nearly op
posite the residenoe of Judge Jordan.
Sunbury, July 1, 1S66. ly
' II. It. MASS UK,
Attorney nt I.raw,. SUNBURY, PA
Collections attended to in the oountios of Nor
thumberland, Union, Snyder, Montour, Columbia
and Lycoming.
REFERENCES,
lion. John M. Reed, Philadelphia,
A. Q. Cattell A Co., "
Hon. Wm. A. Porter, '
Morton McMichael, Esq.,
E. Ketchain A Co., 2S9 Pearl Street, New York.
John W. Ashmead, Attorney at Law, "
Matthews A Cox, Attorneys at Law, "
Sunbury, March 2t, 1862.
JACOB SHIPMAN,
FIRE AND LII'E INSURANCE AGENT
SUNBURY PENN'A.
BEPRESKNT8
Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Co., York Pa.,
Cumberland Valley Mutual Protection Co.,
ew York Mutual Life, Girard Life of Phil 'a. A Ilart
ord Conn. General Aooidents.
Sunbury, April 7, ly.
Dr. CHAS. ARTHUR,
)omccopatf)ic 13f)3stcian.
Graduate of the Ilomoeopatbia Medical College of
Pennsylvania.
Office, Market Square opposite the Court House
6UXI1URY, PA.
March 31, 1866.
SUNBURY BUILDING LOTS
IN J. W. CAKE'S Addition to the Borough of
Sunbury, for Sale on reasonable terms.
Apply to lr. R. H. AWL and,
SOL. BROSIOUS,
Sunbury, Pa.
Or P. W. SHEAFER, Pottsvillo, Pa.
Nov. 24, 1S66.
AMBR0TYPE AND PHOTOGRAPH
GALLERY.
Corner Market A Fawn Street, SUNBURY, Pa.
S. BYEKLY, Piiopribtor,
Photograph, Anibrotypcs and Melainotypes tnken in
the best style of the art. apl. 7, ly
FLOUR & FEED STORE
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
TI1E subscriber respectfully Informs the publio
that ho keops constantly on hand at his new
WAREHOUSE, near tha Shamokin Valley Railroad
Depot, in SUNBURY, Flour by the barrel and sacks
of all kinds of Feed by the ton
The above is all niannfaolurod at his own Mills,
and will bo sold at the lowest cash prices.
J M. CADWALLADER.
Sunbury, April 1,1866. '
JEREMIAH SNYDER,
Attorney & Couimellor at lairT.
SISHtltV, PA.
tylf lrlct Attorney tor Northum.
lterlaud County.
Sunbury, March 31, 186 ly
Or. "W. HAITPT,
Attorney and Counsellor at sLaw,
Office on south side of Market street, four doors west
of Eyster's store,
BTTNBTJRY. PA.
Will attend promptly to all professional business
entrusted to his oare, the oolleotion of claim in
Northumberland and the adjoining counties.
Sunbury, April 7, 1866.
Bricklayer and Builder,
Market Street, 4 doora East of Third St.,
BUNBTJRTT. PENN'A.
1. II. All Jobbing; promptly at
Cenrt to.
Sunbury, Jun 8,1866.
COAL! COAL!! COAL!!!
QBANT Sc BROTHER,
fihluitera St Wboleaale & Ketall
lealersi In
WUITI St ItEU ASH. t'OAL,
in avorv variety.
Bole Agents, westward, of tha Celebrated Henry
Clay Coal.
LOWIB WBABf, SCKBUBT, Pa.
Sunbury, Jan. 13, 1866.
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER
in ovary variety ot
ANTHRACITE COAL,
TTnnar Wharf. BUNBUET. Penn'a.
tyOrdorssolioited and filled with promptness and
despatch.
bunbury, May 13, 1864. J
Attorner aad aellor at I -aw,
BOONVILLE. COOPER CO , MISSOURI.
w
riLL pay taxea on lands In any part of tno
KtAia But and sell real Estate, and all other
natters autruaMa 10 nisa wm jwv"'
iion. 4
July 8, 1865. oot 1?, 'tj.
pnYBICIAN AND SURGEON
NORTHUMBERLAND. FA.
t.d r rui rv huannad mn oshoo In Northuia
Karl and, and offers bit aarvioaa to tbo people of thai
pTsco and tho adjoining townsllpa. Ofcoa next door
to Mr. Boott'f Shoo Btoro, whoro ho aa f.und at all
hours, .a, m
Nortliusnboiland August 1, I HM.
J"j-OOB O. BECK
MERCHANT TAILOR,
And Dealer in
CLOTHS, CASSIMERE8, VESTING, Ac.
fawn street, uouth of Wearer'
Hotel,
STJ NUB It TT . I A ,
March 81, 1868. .
W. J. W0LVERT0N,
ATTOKNETTATLAW,
East end of Pleasant's Building, Up 8talrs,
SUNBURY, PENN'A.
All professional buslneas In this aad adjoining oeun
tief promptly attended to. 1
Sunbury, November 17, 1866.- ly ' ' , ,
Ilf SUBAJf B3B.
GEO. C. WELKEH,
riKB ft LIFE INBUBANOB AOENCfX',
Offioe, Market Street, SUNBURY, PA.
Risks taken in First Class Stock and Mutual Compa
nies. Capital Represented OOO.OOO.
Sunbary, May 12, 1866. y r
L. SEASUOLTI, C. B. WOLVEBTOX, C. P. BKASB0LTZ.
COAL! COAL! COAL!
THE subscribers respratfully Inform thecltisens of
Sunbury and vicinity, that they havo opened ft
COAL YARD
at J. Haas A Co's Lower Wharf, Sunbury, la.
where they are prepared to supply all kinds of Sha
mokin Coal, at cheap rates. Families and others
promptly supplied. Country oustom respectfully
solicited. ' SEASHOLTZ & CO.
Sunbury, Jaa.l 3, 1B67. . .
3000ACRES OF TIMBER
LAND FOR SALE. On the Line Mountain just
south of the Mahonoy Creek in Cameron Town
ship, Northumberland oounty, Pa., and near the
Shamokin and Mahonoy Coal Fields.
Annlv til
rr ' P. W. SHEAFER,
Engineer of Mines, Potteville, Pa.
Deocmbor 22d, 1866. 3m
BOUNTY FOR SOLDIERS.
HAVE made arrangements in Washington City,
for the prompt oolleotion of Bounty under the
late Act of Congress. I have also rccoived the pro
per blanks to prepare the claims. Soldiers entitled
to this Bounty should apply immediately, as it is es.
timated that it will require three years to adjust all
the olnims.
All soldiers who enlisted ror tnree years ana woo
vi not received more than $100 bounty are entitled
to the benefits of this Aot, as well as soldiers who
have enlisted for three yoars and discharged after a
service of two years, by reason of wounds received,
isease contracted in line oi amy, or re-enusiuiem.
Sunbury, August 18, 1866.
Pensions Increased.
The lata Act of Congress gives additional pay to
the following Pensions, vis :
1st. To those who have lost the eight of both eyes,
nr Knth hands, or totallv disabled so as to require con.
stant attendance, the sum of $25 00 per month.
2d To those who have lost oom teei, or are wuiiiy
disabled in the same so as to require constant attend
ance, the sum of $20 00.
3d. To those who have lost one hand or one foot,
or are so disabled as to render them unable to per
form manual labor $1S 00 per month, and other
oases in proportion.
The BubscriDer ib amy preparcu iur mo iwuiw.
procurement of iheee claims.
n-rl wnft.nt
Sunbury, June 16, 1866.
-acjir'm',-Wa.
THE following persons ara entitled to receive an
inorenseof Bounty under the Aot of Congress
passed July 1866, to equalise Bounties.
r ... . .. . .L. ,0l. Amw. f
1st All soldiers wno ennsieu iir ui uj
iwrtl I.,. S voars. and served their time of
enlistment and have been honorably discharged, and
have received or are entitled io receive a ouiji
$100, are entitled an additional Bounty of $100.
2d All such soldiers who enlisted for S yoars, and
have been honorably discharged on account ot
wounds received in the line of duty, aro entitled to
an additional Bounty of 100.
3d The Widow, Minor Children, or Parents of such
soldiers who died in the service of wounds or disease,
are entitled to an additional Bounty of tJlOO.
By application to S. P. WOLVERTON, Esq., of
Sunbury, Pennsylvania, who is an authorised Claim
Acent, all such olaims can oe epeeauy ouuuunu.
?. . ... .a iv
bunoury, Augusta, iouo. u
EQUALIZATION OP BOUNTIES.
X.. H. KASE,
Attorney at Uw, ftiuulmry, Ia.
8 duly authorised and Lioenaed by the Govern
ment to colleot all Military Claims against the
United States. Bounty money due soldiers under
the late Equalisation Aot of Congress, and all mili
tary claims against the State, due soldiers of 1812,
for Pensions and Uratuity. Claims due soldiers of
the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps from enlistment to
the date of muBter, promptly ooliocica.
Sunbury, August 4, 1804.
Motilities) Collected.
a. W. HATJPT. Attorney at Law, Sunbnry, Pa.
offers bis professional services for the oolleotion cf
bounties due to soldiers under tho late Equalisation
Aot passed by Congress. As an authorised claim
agent he will promptly colleot all Bounties, Pensions
aOa UrolUlUtSS UUV W DUIUICIB Wt .V nU, Vt UIV
war of 1812.
Sunbury, August 18, 186 : . '
. JN0. KAY CLEMENT, ...
Business in this and adjoining oountlea carefully
mnd nromntlv atttended to.
Office in Market Street, Third door west of Smith
A Uonther's btova ana Tinware btore,
tJ!H17RY PEJiS'A.
m9
ELEVENTH A MARKET ST3., PHILACEL'A,
THIS new and elegant House la now open for the
reoeptlon of guests. It has been fitted up in a
manner equal to any in tno country, ine location
being oentral makes It vary desirable stopping
place, both tor Merchants ana parties visiting the
eity. The parlors aro spacious, and alegantly furn
ished. The tables will be supplied with all the deli
cacies tha market will afford, and it is the intention
of tha Proprietor to keep in ovary respect a First
tjmss Hotel.
Terms $3 00 par day.
CURLIS DAVIS, Proprietor.
February 3, 1867. 8m .
Mount Carmel Hotel.
MT. CARMEL, Northumberland Co., Pa.,
THOS. BCRKET, Pbopbibtob.
This laraa eom no odious Hotel la located near the
depots of the Shamokin Valley and the Quakake A
. . . . i. . 1 i ... ... : u j . j : i
jew xora naurooas. xriu, wtit, miu uapan unnj.
This house Is located in the centre of the Coal Re.
gion and affords thebestaooommedationato travelers
ana permanent euswmers. jj w
GIRARD EOTJSE.
CHESTNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA
THIS well known Hotel, situate near tba Corner
of Ninth A Chesnut Street, Philadelphia, is, on
nnnnt of its sunerior location and exoellent accom
modations, one of the best and most desirable stopping
places in the olty.
P ' n. W. KAN AO A, Proprietor.
February 18, 1867. m
FEMALE COLLEGE.
1IORDENTOWR, N.
FLBA8ANTLV (jOCATKO ON THB DELAWARE
FIVER.
Twa rf LhreMaarter hours' ride by railroad
from New York, and one and a quarter from Phila
delphia.
BUMMER SESSION COMMENCES MARCH fith
For Catalogues, containing terms, a to., ad dross
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February i, 1B6T lm.
POETICAL.
FIRMNESS.
BY PntEBB CARET.
Well, let him go, and let him stay
I do not mean to die ;
I guen he'll find that I can live
Without him, if I try.
' He thought to frighten me with frowns,
So terrible and black
He'll stay away a thousand years
Before I ask him back.
lie said that I had acted wrong,
And foolishly beside ;
I won't forget him after that
1 wouldn't if I died.
If I was wrong, what right had he
To be so cross with me ?
I know I'm not an angel quite
I don't pretend to be.
He had another sweetheart once,
And now, when we fall out,
, . He always says she was not cross,
And that she didn't pout.
It is enough to vox a saint
It's mere than I oan bear ;
I wish that othor girl of his
Was well, I dou't care whore.
He thinks Hint she was pretty, too
Was beautiful as good ;
I wondor if she'd get him back
Again, now, if she could ?
I know she would, and thore she Is
She lives almost in sight;
And now it's almost nine o'clock
Perhaps he's there to-night.
I'd almost write to him to come
But then I've snid I won't ;
I do nut caro so much but she
Shan't have him if I don't.
Besides, I know that I was wrong,
And he was in the right ;
I guess I'll tell him so and then
I wish he'd come to-night.
TALES & SKETCHES.
i:scai'i:i 1'itoji Ji'N'i icii.
It was a bitter cold night in January
when houseless wanderers on the moor
might have Buuk down frozen to death, and
the very marrow seemed to congeal to one's
bones.
"There's one advantage in steam," growl
ed a fat old gentleman in the corner scat ;
"wind and weather don't effect it. No flesh
and blood horse could stand a night like this,
but the iron horse keeps straight ahead, whe
ther the thermometer is at zero or at boiling
water heat."
Just then the conductor entered.
"It is a dreadful night, conductor," I said,
feeling, with stiffened lingers, for my ticket,
in the breast pocket of my coat.
"Dreadful, sir," feelingly responded the
conductor. "Why. the break men can't live
outside, and so I look the other way when
they creep in, poor fellows, to get a breath
of warm air at the stove. We huv'nt bad
such a night as this sinco a year ago come
the second of February, when Tom Blask
slee, the baggage master, froze both his
feet, and a woman who was coming on from
Chicago got off at Blinn's Four Corners
with her baby in her arms, a dead corpse !"
"Frozen to-death I"
"Aye, frozen to death ; and she never
thought, poor thing, but that it was asleep.
'My baby's cold,' said she, 'but we'll soon
warm it when we get home.' It was just
such a niglit as this."
And the conductor opened tho door, and
plunged across tho coupling into the next
car, crying out :
"Hardwick I"
It was quite a considerable city with a
andsomo iron depot, flaring gas lamps.
and the usual crowd around the platform,
witn its bands in its pockets, and its ci'rar
end flaming through the night.
Our car was nearly the lust ol the long
rain and but one passenger entered it a
slender young girl, wrapped in a cray
blanket shawl, and wearing a neat little
traveling hat of gray straw, trimmed with
stone-colored velvet flowers. She seemed
to hesitate like one unused to traveling, and
dually sat down neur the door.
Pardon me, young lady," said I, "but
you had better come near tlio stove."
cue started, hesitated an instant, and tlien
obeyed.
"Does this train go to Bayswatcrt" Bhe
asked, in a voice so diliciously soft and
sweet that it seemed to thrill through me.
"Yes. Can I be of any service to you "
"Oil, no not at least until we reach
Bayswuter. I would like a carriage then."
We shall not be there before three
hours."
"Do we stop again f"
"Only atExmouth."
She drew a deep sigh, seemingly of relief,
and settled back to her corner. By the
ight of the lamp thut bung in its brass fix
ture opposite, I could see her face, that of a
lovely cuild. Apparently she was not more
than sixteen, with large blue eyes, golden
hair down straight away from that face,
und a little rosy mouth like that of a baby.
"Do you expect friends to meet you ut
Bayswuter, my child !" I asked, inciden
tally. "No, sir I am going to school there."
"It will be an awkward hour for you to
arrive by yourself one in the morning."
"Oh, I am not atraid," she said, with an
artless laugh ; "I shall go straight on to the
seminary."
bo tho express train thundered on, with
steady, ceaseless pulsing at bis iron heart,
and constant roar.
Suddenly the whistle sounded, the train
began to slacken its speed.
"Surely we are not at i.xmouth yet." I
thought, "unless I have fullen unconscious
ly asleep and allowed the process ot time to
escape me."
1 glanced at my watcn ; it was barely halt
past eleven, and I knew we were not due at
Kxmouth until a few minutes after twelve.
I rubbed the frost from tho window pane
and looked out.
We bad stopped at a lonely little way
station in the midst of dense pine woods.
"is tins .xmoum i" .
It was the soft voice of the pretty travel
er opposite.
jno 1 aon'i Know wnat place It it;
soma station. '
"Does this train atop at stations t"
"Never, generally ; they must have been
especially signaled here. You are cold, my
child your voice trembles."
"It is cold," she said, in a scarcely audi
ble tone, drawing her shawl round her.
"Ou 1 visa they would burry on 1"
"We are moving once more, ' I said.
"Conductor," lor tue man 01 tickeu was
passing through the car 'Iwhy did wo stop
at tins DacKWoous piacec
.'Out of water" was the reply, as hjt hur
riedly passing by.
Now I knew perfectly well that this ant
wer was not the real solution ot the mat
ter. Our delay had not exceeded half 1
minute, altogether too short a time for re
plenishing the boiler and where on earth
was tee water to come irom in mai atso
lating stretch of barren pine woods t
Five minutes afterwards the conductor
re-entered the car; I made room for him at
my side.
"Sit down conductor you've nothing to
do just this minute."
He obeyed.
"What did you mean by telling me such
a lie just now f"
"I spoke under my breath," he replied in
the same tone.
"About what I"
"About the reason we stopped just now."
lie smiled.
"To tell the truth, I stopped to take on a
single passenger a gentleman who has come
down from Bayswater."
"For the pleasure of traveling onco more
over the same route ?"
"Exactly so for the pleasure of traveling
it in a certain society. Don't be alarmed
for your own safety it's a detective police
man." 11
I was about to repeat the words in aston
ishment, when ho motioned mo to silence.
"And who is the offender ?
"I don't know myself." He don't want a
scene until the moment of arrest; we are
safe enough until we reach Bayswater."
"Where is he ?"
"The detective? He sits by tho door
yonder with a ragged fur-cap pulled over
his eyes ! Did you ever fee a more perfect
specimen of the dilapidated countryman?"
"I Bmiled ; I could hardly help it.
"What is the case?"
"A murder a man and his wife and two
littlo children their throats cut, last night,
and tho houso set fire too afterwards."
"Great heavens I what a monster I"
We had continued the conversation in a
whisper, scarcely above our breath, and
now the conductor rose and left mo to study
the faces of my fellow passengers with curi
ous dread and horror.
Somehow, often as I revolved the matter
in my mind, my fancy would settle on a
coarse, gross looking man opposite, with a
bushy beard and a coat of shaggy wool,
with the colar turned up round his ears. I
felt convinced that this man with the brutal
eyes and the heavy, hanging jaws, was the
Cain I and as I looked furtively across I
caught the wide open blue orbs of tho fair
little girl.
Obeying tho instantaneous impulse of my
heart, I rose and went over to her.
"You heard what we were sying my child
"Yes a murder oh, how horrible !"
"Do not be frightened no one shall hurt
you."
S!ie smiled up in my face with sweet, con
uding innocence.
Our stay at Exmouth was but brief ; but
during the delay I could see that the watch
ful detective had changed his seat to one
nearer the Brutish man in the shaggy over
coat. "See said the faltering girl "they they
locked the car doors at Exmoutb ; they are
unlocking them now."
She was right.
"Probably they were fearful lest the
criminal should escape," I return ked, in an
undertime.
"Will you may I trouble you to bring
me a glass of water ?"
I rose and made tuy way towards the ice
cooler by the door, but with difficulty, for
the tiuin was again under rapid motion.
to my disappointment the tin goblet was
chained to the shelf.
"No matter," she said, with a winning
smile, "I will come myself."
I drew the water, and held up tho cup ;
but instead of taking it as she approached,
she brushed suddenly past me opened the
door, and rushed out upon the platform.
"Stop her ! Stop her I" shouted the detec
tive, spriuging to his feet. She will be
killed; conductor brukemcn hold up !'
Tliete was a rush a tumult a bustle, I
was tirse upon the platform ; but it was de
serted, save by a half-frozen looking brake
man, who seemed horror stricken.
"She went past me like a shadow, and
jumped off as we crossed Cairn turnpike
road," he stammered.
"Jumped off the express train 1 Well,"
said the conductor shrugging his shoulders,
"she must have been killed instantly. What
mad folly 1"
"It s hve Hundred dollars out of my pock
et," said the detective, ruefully. I didn't
want a row belore we got to Bayswater, but
I was a confounded fool. A woman cor
nered will do anything, I believe 1"
"V hatr I ejaculated ; "you surely do not
mean that child "
1 mean," said the detective, calmly,
'that that child, as you cull her, is At.tila
Burton, a married woman of twenty-six
yeurs old, who last eight murdered four
persons in cold blood, and was trying to es
cape to Canada. That't what I mean."
1 lie train was stopped, and a party or us,
headed by the conductor and detective,
went back to search for any truce of the
beautiful young creature, whose loveliness
and apparent innocence had appealed to
my sympathies so earnestly. Jsor was it
long before we found her lying quite dead
by the side of the track, frightfully mang
led by the force of the fall, and mutilated
almost beyond recognition.
"Well, she s escaped justice in this world, I
if not in the next," said the detective gloom
ily, as he stood looking down upon her re
mains. "Do you suppose she expected to bo able
to spring off the train without injury?" I
asked.
"Without much injury yes ; women are
unreasoning creatures. But I never dream
ed of such insane folly, or I should have
taken prompt measures to prevent it."
'luey lilted up tno lair dead thing, and
carried it to the nearest place of refuge a
lonely farm house among the frozen hills,
aud we returned to the train, reaching Bays-
water only a few minutes behind our regu
lar time.
And when in the next morning's paper
1 read the account of the murder, and tho
tragic end of the murderess, I thought of
the slender creature's blue eyes and rosebud
mouth, with a strange, pitying thrill at my
heart.
How Cold Affects Us. Dr. Farr. in
discussing the effects of the cold weather in
1855 on the publio health, came to the con
clusion that the power of cold on life varies
according to definite laws. It was found by
investigation that tha mortality by cold is
twice as great under the age of 20 as the
mortality at 20 tO. but after that turning
point the power of resisting cold decreases
very year, and men aged 00, in comparison
with men aged 30, sutler irom cold in the
proportion of 100 to 1. As the general re
sult of five weeks' observation it is stated
that the "danger after 30 of dying of cold is
doubled every nine years of age ;' that is to
say, out of an equal population, for one
death by cold at 80 there were two st 89,
four at 48, eight at 67, and so on.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Anecdote or CJeneral Sherman.
Gen. Sherman was in Califormia at the
period when all tho worth, sense, and patriot
ism, of San Francisco were couverted into
unwilling law-breakers and an organized
mob, by the establishment of the celebrated
Vigilance Committee, whose objects were
most righteous, but whose methods were
doubtless justifiable ohly by revolutionary
necessity, if at all. They seized the known
and marked ruffians, gamblers, and banditti
of the city, and without legsd judge or jury,
hung them from the windows of the streets,
and with bloody threats drove violently all
the rest out of the place. Gen. Sherman
was then a banker, but had been educated a
soldier, His military conceptions did not
allow him to countenance so complete a
violation of lawful authority, and, single
handed, be stood out ugainst the whole
moral weight and wealth of that excited
community, insisting upon the peril of such
unlawful and high-handed proceedings. I
asked him if it did not require a greater
courage to face such an opposition than to
face a battery ? He snid it was stern work,
but that the greatest demand ever made on
his moral courage was under the following
circumstances : Tho citizens of San Fran
cisco were celebrating the Fourth of July in
ttie large American theatre, which was pack
ed to its utmost capacity. Gen. Sherman was
chief-marshal, and occupied a seat near the
iront ol the stage. 1 he orator had completed
his oration, the poet begun his song, when
one of his aids, white with fear, made his
way down the middle aisle to the foot-light,
and beckoning the general's ear, whispered
to him that the theatre had settled a foot
and a half in one of its side walls, under the
weight of the crowd, and might be expected
any moment to tumblo on their heads in
ruins. The general commanded him to sit
down just where he was, without turning
his panic smitten face to the audience, and
to say not one word. He then quietly sent
an aid out to report the condition of the
wall, and to see if the settling increased,
then gave his apparent attention to the poem,
expecting every moment, us he said, to sue
the pillars reeling and the roof fulling in ;
but, nevertheless, certain that any general
and sudden movement and affright of the
people would hasten the catastrophe and
aggravate the ruin, while, by the ordinary
slow method of dispersion, the danger might
possibly be escaped. The exercises continu
ed calmly to the close. The audience left
the theatre quietly without suspecting their
peril, and the terrible destruction was avert
ed by the presence of mind, the self-control,
the courage of that brave soul who, contem
plating at one glance ull the possibilities of
the case, decided, in a divine calmness, upon
the policy of duty, and awaited without one
betraying glance, or treacherous change of
complexion, the uncertain, tremendous con
sequences. Dr. lidlovs in the Liberal Chrii
tian. A Singular Conflict.
The Savannah Herald relates the following
extraordinary circumstances, which, it is af
firmed, took place near that city recently :
"Acouutrymun, very nearly deaf, was driving
a puir of mules attached to a wagon, when
he was met on the road by a negro on foot,
who bore an axe on his shoulder. The man
in the wagon was about taking a chew of
tobacco, when the negro stopped suddenly
and asked him fur u chew, which was
promptly given him. The negro returned
hia thanks tor the quid, looking steadfastly
at the white man, and repeating the words :
'Thank you, sir,' several times. The white
man's hearing being very dull, and not
liking the negro's appearance, he imagined
that a demand was mado for bis money,
und, in great alarm, replied he had none.
The negro perceiving the misapprehension
and thut the man was very deaf, shouted :
'I didn't ax you for money.' But the man
in his fright only heard tho word 'money.'
While the negro was endeavoring to ex
plain, the mules, who had been ncglectod
by their driver in his fright, sheered off to
the opposite side of the road, ami were
ubout to upset the wagon, when the negro
seized the reins to briug them back, which
action on his part only confirmed the diead
ful suspicion of the white man, who ic
great panic, sprang from his wagon and
took to the woods at full speed. The ne
gro, anxious to convince the man that he
meant no harm, followed in pursuit, shout
ing to him to stop. The race continued for
some distance, but the negro being the
fleetest was rapidly gaining on the terrified
white man, w ho, seeing that he was about
to be overtaken, turned to encounter his
pursuer. As the negro approached with
vociferous assurances of kindly iutentions,
and holding his axe in his baud, the white
man made a spring at him, and a desperate
struggle for the possession of the axe en
sued. In tho strife the white roan got con
trol of the weapon, when the negro for his
protection, closed with him aud succeded in
throwing him to the ground, the white man
all tho time pleading for life, and the negro
using all bis eloquence to convince him that
he meant no harm. They remained some time
on the ground locked in each other's em
brace, the white man clinging desperately
to tha axe and literally turning a deal ear to
the emphatic assurances of the uegro, wno
was now atraid to let uim up tor tear that
in his alarm, he might kill him with the
axe.
In this dilemma, each mistrusting the
other, in spite of their protestations, it was
llnaily agreed that the negro would let the
white man up upon condition that the axe
to which the latter still clung should be
thrown away. ' Watching each other like
tigers, tbey rose from the ground, the negro
holding the white man s arms irom the rear
until, with a swing or bis body, the axe was
thrown irom their reach, when they sepa
rated, running in opposite directions, the
white man nutless and with Lis clot ns near
ly torn from his person, shouting 'Murder 1
help !' at the top of his voice.
"Terror lending fleetness to his legs, he
was not long in reachiug a bouse a short
distance from the scene of the conflict.
Breathless with exertion and alarm, he re
lated bis story, declaring that he had nar
rowly escaped being robbed and murdered,
and demanded arms and assistance to go in
pursuit of the robber. In the midst of the
excitemeut which bis appearance and rela
tion of the affair had created, the negro
scarcely less alarmed and excited, approach
ed and immediately gave himself up. Ue
made his statement to those present, but as
the rjrincioal rjartv in the anair was atill in-
oredulous, ana could not be persuaded that
be bad made a narrow escape with bis life,
it was Dnauy determined to detain the ne
cro in custody till the next morning, when
be was taken to tba Freed men's Bureau for
a bearing. Accordingly, bis physical wants
having been supplied, he was tied, and his
Bupposen inienucu victim, armed with a
gun, placed over him as a guard. In the
morning the deaf man was found lying fast
asleep, and the negro was not fonnd,at all,'
' mm a
A Pica lor Karly Blarrlatfi-ea.
Rev. Henry Morgan lectured in Boston
not long since on the subject, "Young Men
and Early marriages. Tho following is the
Ilerald't report of the lecture :
"Nature, hisfory, and revelation declare,
"It is not good that roan should be alone."
He needs a help-mato a wife is the balance
wheel, the regulator, the guardian angel of
a husband's trust, confidence and prosperity.
Politically, socially, morally and spiritually,
man requires a wife. Man needs a home.
The Romans gave bachelors no legacies.
Corinth denied them sepulture. Athenians
Bcourged them. In Plato's commonwealth,
at the age of thirty-five tbey were fined.
Man is but half a man without a wife. In
all your gettings, get a wife, and never rest
from getting till you get married. Better 1
live in an attic, under the hallowed influence
of a wife, than revel in a palace of dissipa
tion Man needs a home. Marriage is the
legitimate basis of a getrwine home. Look
at the deplorable condition of the young
men of this city without homes. Boarding
houses have no elevating society of women,
no home influence, no place of mental or
moral improvement, no alur of prayer, no
angel of love. In Philadelphia there are
more homes in proportion to its population
than Boston : hence Boston has an unequal
contest in the battle of morals."
Encounter between an Elephaxt and
a Rat. A very extraordinary, encounter
between a rat and an elephant has recently
taken place in the Garden of Plants, London,
which was witnessed with interest by hun
dreds of persons. The keepers were engaged
in destroying a great number of rats, when
one of them escapod, and run to the spot al
lotted to tho elephant. Seeing no other
refuge, in tho twinkling of an eye the rat
snugly ensconced himself in the trunk of the
elephant, very much to the elephant's dissat
isfaction. He stamped bis foot und twisted
hU trunk around liko the sail of a windmill.
After these evolutions he stood suddenly still,
evidently reflecting on what was best to do.
He ran to the trough where he is accustomed
to drink, and plunged his trunk into the
water, then returned to his den, and raising
his trunk, with the water he absorbed,
he dashed out the unfortunate rat, which
was in a sheet of water liko that issuing
from a fire engine. When the rat fell to
tho ground the elephant seized him and
made him undergo the immersion and pro
jection four times. At the fourth throw it
fell dead. The elephant, with a majestic
air, but cool and placid, crushed his an
noying little enemy with his foot, and then
went round to the spectators to make his
usual collectiou of caskes, sugar and other
dainties. The feat was received with voci
ferous applause, wbicb the elephant seemed
fully to understand and appreciate.
An Eccentric Character. A Scotch
journal, the Inverness Courier, records the
death of an eccentric individual named
Hugh Miller at the age of eighty-two. Ho
adhered to the ancient style of tying the hair
in a queue, and wore the broad blue bonnet
in vogue nearly a century ago. The door
of his house hud to do service for both
bipeds and quadrupeds, tho owner and his
cattle occupying respectively the opposite
ends or the sumo domicile, while the poultry
were allowed to roost or lie 111 either end.
as their instincts dictated. To the modern
modes of agriculture Hugh was a perfect
stranger, adhering.ngidly to the good old
system of tillage which obtained somo sixty
years ago. lie ploughed shallow, sowed bis
grain at least seven weeks later than the
ordinary time for doing so, and, as might
be expected, reaped a deficient crop.
A gentleman was surprised during the
lute frosty weather to see his little daughter
bring home from Sunday-school library a
grave treatise on "Backsliding."
"My child," said he, "this is too old for
you; you can't make uny-thing of it."
"I know it, papa," was the artless reply;
"but I thought I could wbeu I took it. 1
thought it would teach me how to slide
backwards."
A certain Mr. Coffin, being blessed with a
son, a friend offered one hundred dollars for
tho privilege of naming him. The offer was
declined, when it was proposed to christen
the child Mahogany.
"Is- Yoo Love me, sat So." A good
story is told of a rustic youth and a buxom
couutry girl, who sat facing each other at a
husking party. The youth, smitteu with
the charms of the beautiful maiden, only
ventured a sly look, und now nnd then
touched Patty's foot under the table. The
girl, determined to make the youth express
what he appealed so warmly to feel, bore
with these advances a little while in silence,
when she cried out, "Look here, if you love
me, why don't you say so ? but dou't dirty
my stockings."
An Irishman, who was brought up in a
police court charged with whipping his
scolding wife, claimed that he was guilty of
no offence, and thut he was acting in strict
accordance with an ordiuanco of the board
of health. "Shure, your houor," said he to
the Judge, "I was only abating a nuisance."
"Well, wasn't that a finished sermon we
had this morning ?" asked one person of
another, as they came out of church.
"i imsiieci r was me reply ; "yes, it was
finished at last, although I began to think
it never would be."
Almost every young lady is public-spirited
enough to have her lather's bouse used as a
court-bouse.
Fresh herrings are abundant in the Nor
folk market at 25 cents per dozen.
Seven thousand dollars' worth of shade
trees have just been planted in New Orleans,
A rich vein of silver ore has been discov
ered in the town of Elizabeth, Wirt county,
w. va.
A Pike's Peaker, writing to a Minnesota
journal, says the miners are very much dis
couraged in that region they nave to dig
through a solid vein of silver tour lect ttucK
belore they reach the gold.
Punch sometimes jokes on the crave
subjects, and in one of its latest numbers
represents a little child asking its mother
"Ma, dear, what do they play tha organ so
loud for when church is over? Is it to wake
us up?"
The Hon. Robert C. WUthrop, of Boston,
in contributing (300 to tba Southern Relief
Fund, takes the occasion to write: "I tear
that onr people are not sufficiently alive to
tbo dangers or starvation wnicn is impend
ing over many parts ot the Boutn."
It is said that thore are in Maine 14,000,
000 acres of unbroken forest, of which 0,000,
000 are covered with hemlock timber. Some
body estimates that this latter area would
yield 100,000,000 cords of hemlock bark, of
which the extract for tanning purposes
000 wrtl4 lho nwket liU0-0,0Q01.
A young wife remonstrated with her hus
band, a spenthrift, on his conduct. "My
love, said he, I'm only like the prodigal son;
1 shall reform hy-and-by."
"1 will be like the prodigal son, too," sho
replied, "I will ariso and go to my father,"
aud off she went.
AGRICULTURAL, &C,
ItutKing Early Chickens) lor 9Iar
kct,
A correspondent of the Country Gentle
man says ;
"Spring chickens make so much more
money than thoso hatched later that it i
surprising more hens are not set, say early in
February, and thus raise little ones which
will sell for about 75 cents each, at eight or
ten weeks old, instead of waiting till March
or April, and then keeping those hatched
till they are twelve or fourteen weeks of
age, and selling at half the price. There is
no art nor extra expense in rearing thus
early; the hens must have comfortable nests
adjoining the roost, and must be well fed to
cause thern to lay und brood by this time of
the year, but those pullets which are about
eight months old will do it, as also tho
young bens which moulted first last au
tumn, if they are attended to in bad weath
er, aud never suffer from hunger or expo
sure to severe storms. Last year, 1808, a
bouse keeper living on one of the Necks on
Long Island, opposite the Connecticut shore,
had ninety-seven common chickens batched
in the first part of February (they were a
cross between a Dominique aqd Brahma
Pootra) ; they were put in eight little coops,
which had been used for years on the farm,
and, excepting that they had food a little
oitener than in warm weather, and the hens
were Kept in all clay, there was no purticu-
lar
pains tuKcn, me (tuny moving ot the
coops on fresh ground being done the samu
as in summer. The secret of success, if it
cau bo called a secret, consisted of putting
them on a sloping hillside, facing the south,
right away from the haunts of the old fowls,
and cot coddling them in doors, or close to
the house, where tbey are disturbed so fre
quently that on very cold days the getting
up of the ben so often chills them so as to
check growth, if not cause death. A littlo
salt hay was put on the frozen ground under
the coops, which of course had no bottoms,
and when snow fell it was shoveled away,
and on some occasions a few ashes strewn in
front. When the sun shone the little ones
could be seen running arouud the outside of
the coop, but while suow was falling, and
when very cold, tho bens would nurse them
all the time, unless for the few minutes taken
to eat up their food, which would be a
handful of grain onu time, the next scalded
meal, then perhaps a few odd scraps of faesh
meat cut fine, another time sonic cracked
corn, and now and then a few bits of pota
toes left at dinner. A healthier lot o;
chickens were never brought up; eighty
eight were alive in April, a stray cat having
killed seven, and two lost by accident. The
same person was living in North Carolina be
fore the war, where she raised much greatei
numbers all through the mouths of Decern
ber, January and Feburary, not coufiuing tb
hens at all, but having some small roosts
made with old lumber, and also bavin;
some barrels lying around for the hens t
take the broods in when it rained. By tb
by, thut is an excellent climate tor wintei
ing live stock, and anywhere near that lat
tude would be super excellent for an 111
mensu poultry establishment."
Grafting. Every farmer should leuru I
do his own grafting. It is a very easy op
ration when once understood. A sharp pet
knife and a good fine saw are indisper.sabli
Splitting the stock so that the bark shall m
be bruised, and shaping the scion wedg
fashion both ways, preserving also the bat
uuinjured, and placing the rim of the woo
of both stock and scion exactly together, 1
thut the sap can intermingle, there is 1
danger of failure if properly waxed,
muko a shoulder to the craft and think
adds to the ccrtuiaty of success, though pr
buhly weakens it. We preler also two ey
or buds to a graft, and would rather ha'
only one than more than two. One yea
wot), I shold alwayt be used when it can
obtained, as it is more certain to take ai
grows more vigorously. We wish to re mi;
those about preparing grafting wax, that '
have Sound tour parts ot rosin, one part
beeswax, and one part of beef tallow to
the best proportions. Melt them togeth
in u skillet, (which is the best.) or a tinci
and mix well, It should remain in the v
set and used as needed. Twenty or thi,
scions can be waxed with one beating t
When much grafting is to be done, a lit
fire for heating tho wax should be mado
the spot, between two bricks or stones. A
havo seen various preparations for roaki
grafting wax, and we believe we bave tr
them all, but prefer our own. Applyi
warm or hot does no injury to the graft
The object to attain in the proportion is t
the wax will not crack In cool, dry weati
or run in warm weather. April is the L
time to graft. Germantown Telegraph.
Packing Eoos. A writer advises t
eggs should be packed with the small e
upwards, ana gives uie ioiiowing ressu
"Most persons will have observed t
when an egg is boiled a vacuum is obser
at the rouud eud, which is more or less
tensive according to the age of tho egg. J
this is on thut part of the egg where
shell is most porous, aud where the a
admmitted most freely. This air chain U
of the utmost importance to the chi
whilst batching, as it serves to equalizi
supply of the necessary air under the v
tions of the outer temperuture, and it
be found that the chamber gets enlarge
the hatching proceeds ; therefore, when
are packed with the small end upwards
liquid pressea on the mcst porous pai
the shell, consequently for the air to f
trate the egg it would bave to lift tha wi
of the fluid."
Bots ik IIohses. A correspondent 1
Agricultural Bureau at Washington, wi
from Berkeley county, West Wirginia,
the following : "I give you herewith
cipe for the bots io horses : To tell wl
it is an attack of colic or bots, take
fine salt and blow a mouthful into esc!
triliif it is colic, water will begin ai
niomeuts to drop from the nostrils, if .
is tha bots. In the latter ca&e drench
a pict of melted hog's lard, and in few
repeat the dose."