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Tji L i C T R I ('
TELEGRAPH IN CHINA.
THE EAST INDIA TELEGRAPH COMPANYS
OFFICE,
Nos. 23 & 25 Nassau Street,
NEW YORK.
Organised under special charter from the State
of New York.
CAPITAL $5.000, OtlO
50,000 SHARES, $lOO EACH.
I) I R E C T O R S.
Hot ANDREW G CIIRTIN. Philadelphia
PAUL S. FORBES, of Russell A Co., Chiaa.
FRED. BUTTERFIELD, of F Bu tterfield A C
New York.
ISAAC LIVERMORE, Treasurer Michigan Cen
tral Railroad, Boston.
ALEX ANDER HOLLAND, Treasurer American
Express Company, New York.
Hon JAMES NOXON, Syracuse, N. Y.
O. 11. PALMER, Treasurer Western Union Tele
graph Company, New York.
FLETCHER WESTRAY, of Westray, Oibbs A
liardeastle. New York.
NICHOLAS MICKLES, New York.
OFFICERS.
A. O. CURTIN, President.
N. MICKLES, Vice President
OEORUE ELLIS (Cashier National Bank Com-
monwealth,) Treasurer.
HON. A. K. McCLL'RE, Philadelphia, Solicitor.
The Chinese Government having (through the
Hon, Anson Burlingame) conceded to this Com
pany the privilege of connecting the great sea
ports of the Empire by submarine electric tele
graph cable, we propose commencing operations
in China, and laying down a line of nine hundred
miles at once, between the following ports, vis :
Population.
Canton 1,600,000
Macoa 60,000
Hong-Kong 250,000
Swatow - 200,000
Amoy 250.000
Foc-Chow..- 1.250,000
Wan-Chu 300,000
Ningpo 400,000
Hang Chean 1,200,000
Shanghai - 1,000,008
Total 5,910,000
These ports have a foreign commerce of $900,-
000.000, and an enormous domestic trade, besides
which we have the immense internal commerce of
the Empire, radiating from these points, through
its canals and navigable rivers.
The cable being laid, this company proposes
erecting land lines, and establishing a speedy and
trustworthy means of communication, which must
command there, as everywhere else, the commu
nications of the Government, of business, and of
social life especially in China. She has no postal
system, and her only means now of commuuicating
information is by couriers on land, and by steam
ers on water.
The Western World knows that China is a very
large country, in the main densely peopled; but
few yet realize that she contains more than a third
of the human race. The latest returns made to
her central authorities for taxing purposes by the
local magistrate make her population Four hun
dred and Fourteen mil/ions, and this is more
likely to be under than over the actual aggregate.
Nearly all of these, who are over ten years old,
not only can but do read and write. Her civili
zation is peculiar, but her literature is as exten
sive as that of Eurepe. China is a land of teach
ers and traders ; and the latter are exceedingly
quick to avail themselves of every proffered facili
ty for procuring early information. It is observed
in California that the Chinese make great use of
the telegraph, though it there transmits messages
in English alone. To-day great numbers of fleet
steamers are owned by Chinese merchants, and
used by them exclusively for the transmission of
early intelligence. If the telegraph we propose
connecting all their great seaports, were now in
existence, it is believed that its business would
pay the cost within the first two years of its suc
cessful operation, and would steadily increase
thereafter
No enterprise commends itself as in a greater
degree renumerative to capitalists, and to our
whole people. It is of vast national importance
commercially, politically and evangelically.
stock of this Company has been un
qualifiedly recommended to capitalists and busi
ness men, as a desirable investment by editorial
articles in the New York Herald, Tribune,
World, Times, Post, Express, Independent, and
in the Philadelphia North American, Press,
Ledger, Inquirer, Age, Bulletin and Telegraph.
Shares of this company, to a limited number,
may be obtained at $5O each, $lO payable down,
$l5 on the Ist of November, and $25 payable in
monthly instalments of $2.50 each, commencing
December 1, 1868, on application to
DREXEL A CO.,
34 South Third Street,
PHILADELPHIA.
Shares can be obtained in Bedford by applica
tion to Heed A Schell, Bankers, who are author
ized to receive subscriptions, and can give all ne
cessary information on the subject. sept2syl
combine style with neatness of fit.
And moderate price* with the beet workmanship
JONES' ONE PRICE CLOTHING HOUSE
604 MARKET STREET,
GEO W. NIEMANN. PHILADELPHIA.
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Li AVE YGUK TIME and MONEY
by going to Q R. Oster A Co. lor cheap
and be convinced that the assertion of
one man selling 100 per cent, cheaper than an
other is simply nonsense. Ladies' cotton hose at
JO, 12,15, 20 cts. and upwards. jun2sml
ficofland'ji (folwmn.
you ALL
HAVE HEARD OF
HOOFLAND S GERMAN BITTERS,
AHD
HOOFLAND'S GERMAN TONIC.
Prepared by Dr. C. M. Jackson, Philadelphia.
Their introduction into this country from Ger
many occurred in
1825. *
THEY CURED YOUR
FATHERS AND MOTHERS,
Ami will cure you and your children. They are
entirely different from-w-w the many preparations
now in the country cal I—l led Bitters or Tonics.
They are no tavern A A preparation, or any
thing like one ; but good, honest, reliable medi
cines They are
The greatest known remedies for
Liver Complaint,
DYSPEPSIA,
Nervous Debility,
JAUNDICE,
Diseases of the Kidneys,
ERUPTIONS OF THE SKIN,
and all Diseases arising from a Disordered Liver,
stomach, or
IMPURITY OF THE BLOOD
Constipation, Flatulence, Inward Piles, Fullnos
of Blood to the Head, Acidity of the Stomach,
Nausea, Heartburn, Disgust for Food, Full
ness or Weight in the Stomach, Sour Eruc
tations, Sicking or Fluttering at the
Pit of the Stomach, Swimming of the
Head, Hurried or Difficult Breathing,
Fluttering at the Heart, Choking or
Suffocating Sensa I ft tions when in a Lying
Posture, Dimness of Vision, Dots or Webs
before the sight. Dull Pain in the Head, Defi
ciency oi Perspiration. Yellowness of the Skin
and Eyes, Pain in the Side, Back, Chest,
Limbs, etc., Sudden Flushes of HeaL
Burning in the Flesh. Constant Imagi
nings of Evil and Great Depression of Spirits.
All these indicate diseases of the Liver or Di
gestive Organs, combined with impure blood.
lIOOFLAND'S GERMAN BITTERS
is entirely vegetable and oontains no liquor. It
is a compound of Fluid Extracts. The Roots,
Herbs, and Barks from which these extracts are
made, are gathered in Germany. All the medi
cinal virtueu? are ex tracted from them by
a scientific Chemist. | ft These extracts are
then forwarded to this VJ country to be used ex
pressly for the manufacture of these Bitters
There is no alcoholic substanee of any kind used
in compounding the Bitters, hence it is the only
Bitters that can be used in esses where alcoholio
stimulants are not advisable.
HOOFLAND'S GERMAN TONIC
is a combination of all the ingredients of the Bit
ters, with PURE Santa Crux Rum. Orange, etc. It
is used for the same diseases as the Bitters, in case
where some pure alcoholic stimulus is required.
You will bear in miud that these remedies are en
tirely different from any others advertised for the
cure of the diseases named, these being scientific
preparations of medicinal extracts, while the oth
ers are mere decoctions of rum in some form The
TONIC is decidedly one of the most pleasant and
agreeable remedies ever offered to the public. Its
taste is exquisite. It is a pleasure to take it, while
its life-giving, exhilarating, and medicinal quali
ties have caused it to be known as the greatest of
all tonics.
DEBILITY -
There is no medicine equal to Hoofiand's Ger
man Bitters or Tonic in cases of Debility.
They impart a tone and vigor to the whole
system, strengthen -1- the appetite, cause an
enjoyment of the food, enable the stomach to di
fest it, purify the blood, give a good, sound,
ealthy complexion, eradicate the yellow tinge
from the eye, impart a bloom to the cheeks, and
change the patient from a short-breathed, emaci
ated, weak, and nervous invalid, to a full-faced,
stout, and vigorous person.
Weak and Delicate Children are
made strong by using the Bitters or Tonic. In
fact, they are Family Medicines. They can be
administered with perfect safety to a child three
months old, the most delicate female, or a man of
ninety.
These remedies are the best
Blood Purifiers
ever known and will care all diseases resulting
from bad blood. Keep your blood pure ; keep
your Liver in order, -w- keep your digestive
organs in a sound, I healthy condition, by
the use of these reme JLi dies, and no diseases
will ever assail you. The best men in thecountry
recommend them. If years of honest reputation
go for anything, you must try these preparations.
FROM lION. GEO. W WOODWARD,
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylva
nia.
PHILADELPHIA, March 16, 1867
I find that "Hoofland's German Bitters" is not
an intoxicating beverage, but is a good tonic, use
ful in disorders of the digestive organs, aud of
great benefit in cases of debility aud want of ner
vous action in the system
Yours Truly,
GEO. W. WOODWARD.
FROM lION. JAMES TAOMPSON.
Judge of the Supreme Conrt of Pennsylvania.
PHILADELPHIA, April 88, 1866
I consider "Hoofland's German Bitters" a valua
ble medicine in case • of attaeks of Indiges
tion or Dyspepsia. I \ can certify this from
my experience of it. J-JL Yours, withrespoct,
JAMES THOMPSON
FROM REV. JOSEPH H. KENNARD, D. D ,
Pastor of the Tenth Baptist Church, Philadelphia.
DR. JACKSON—BEAR SIR I have been fre
quently requested to connect my name with rec
ommendations of different kinds of medicines, but
regarding the practice as out of my appropriate
sphere, I have in all cases declined ; but with a
clear proof in various instances, and particularly
in my own family, of the usefulness of Dr. Hoof
land s German Bitters, I depart for once from
my usual course, to express my full conviction
that for general debility of the system, and es
pecially for Liver Com m-r plaint, it is a safe
and valuable prepare [XI tion. In some cases
it may fail ; bat usual-i-v ]y, I doubt not, it
will be very beneficial to those who suffer from the
above causes. Yours, very respectfully,
J H KENNARD,
Eigth, below CoatesStreet.
CAUTION.
Hoofland's German Remedies are counterfeited.
The Genuine have the signature of C. M. JACK
SON on the front of the outside wrapper of each
Kittle and the name of the article blown in eaoh
bottle All others are counterfeit.
Price of the Bitters, $1 per bottle;
Or, a half dozen for $5.
Price of the Tonic, #1 50 per bottle;
Or, :i half dozen for $7 50.
The tonic is pat up in <jurt bottles,
Reoollect that it is Dr Hoofland's German
Remedies that are so universally used and so
highly recommended; w—v and do not allow the
Druggist to induce I lyou to take anything
else that he may say-L-'is just as good, be
cause he makes a larger profit on it. These Reme
dies will be sent by express to any locality upon
application to the
PRINCIPAL OFFICE,
At the German Medicine Store.
No 631 ARCH STREET, Philadelphia.
CIIAB. M. EVANS,
PROPRIETOR.
Formerly C M JACKSON A Co.
These Remedies are for sale by Druggists, Store
keepers and Medicine Dealers everywhere.
Do not forget to examine the articltfoou tisjr
in order to get the genuine.
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BEDFORD, PA, FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 23, 1869.
fhe ©axftte.
For the Bedford Gaiotte.
THE BROAD TOP COAL AND IRON RE
GION.
The Keuable ( Ml d I>" < FarMM*
at HMdelsburf la hlaat 1 complete
Nueeeaa of this pioneer enter
prise.
In this age of aceellerated progress in
the industrial arts, little time is afford
ed in reviewing the stages of progress in
their development. They pass in
rapid review, as the mile posts gleam
for a moment before the vision of the
rail-road passenger. But even in the
rapid progress of the present age, there
are stations dotted along it, which
claim a passing notice.
Fifteen years go the eagle eye of
capital looked anxiously on the broad
acres of this Coal Field. Scanning its
eighty square miles of coal measures,
and testing the outcrops of its coal
seams.
The old settlers looked in amaje at
this inflow of coal hunters and were
puzzled to know what induced these
strangers to pay so frequent and as
siduous attention to the topography of
their rugged and uninviting Region.
Perhaps there lurked in their minds
a vague thought that the keepers of
some of our benevolent institutions
had been somewhat derelict in their
duty. The exhibition however, of
gold pieces, in payment for their poor
and rocky lands, removed this impres
sion, and the homesteads of the Broad
Toppers' passed into the possession of
these strangers!
In 18.06 the Broad Top rail-road was
opened from Huntingdon to the mines
Shoup's Run, and subsequently its
base extended along the Raystown Ju
niata from Saxton to Hopewell and Mt.
Dallas, reaching out branches up the
three valleys which are cut deeply a
cross the Coal Field nearly at right
angles totbis base.
The latter part of this year inaugura
ted the opening of the Coal Trade from
the Region, and tested practically the
value of Broad Top Coal at the various
points of consumption along the Penn-.
sylvania rail road and canal and in the
seaboard cities. It was received with
considerable approbation by consumers,
and distinguished itself particularly
for generating steam and for use in the
various branches of the manufacture
of iron. With a steadily increasing
demand from year to year, additional
mines were opened, improvements
erected, and miner's hamlets dotted
quite thickly over a large portion of
the field. For ten years the main
thought was directed to the develop
ment and shipment of its coal.
This was the era of coal. During the
latter part of this period, pioneer minds
were slowly but surely grasping the
problem so prominently set forth in
this Region—an inexhaustible supply
of pure mineral fuel in the Coal Field,
flanked along its western base by a
great valley, along which outcropped
the rich depositsof the fossiliferousand
hematite iron ores. The Raystown
Juniata with its accompanying rail
road, divided the ores from the fuel
and suggested a Ixise of operations,
olong which they could be readily
united and smelted.
But simple as was the act of the fal
ling apple, it required the genius of a
Newton to appreciate this illustration
of the law of gravity. It required
capital to erect furnaces, and most of
those familiar with the resources of
Broad Top, had already largely invest
ed In its coal lands and coal business.
Besides, there were other questions
which come up in the discussion, will
your Broad Top coke make good iron ?
Are you sure you have abundance of
iron ore?
The coke had not made iron in this
Region and hence suggested a doubt
in the minds of capitalists. True, the
iron ores had been thoroughly tested,
for they had been and were now being
smelted at various points in the Re
gion with charcoal.
But as the primeval forest was fast
disappearing and the charcoal iron
masters looked aghast at the widely
increasing circle of their charcoal sup
ply, the continuation of this mode of
iron making could not be entertained.
And here, for a breaf time, the matter
rested. Presently the Cambria Iron Co.
began shipping these ores to smelt at
their works. If they could be success
fully worked at Johnstown with coke,
why not in Broad Top?
In 1867, L. T. Wattson, Esq., then
Prest. of the Huntingdon and Broad
Top R. R., introduced this matter to a
number of New York gentleman, who
visited the Region and purchased coal
and iron ore lands, soon after organi
zing a company under the name of the
KembleCoal and Iron Co., of whom
the lion. William Kelley is President.
L. T. Wattson, Esq., Vice Prest. and
R. A. Wight, Esq., Sect, and Treas.
During the following year they com
menced the erection of a large furnace
at Riddlesburg, which has been com
pleted and is now in blast.
The construction of the furnace, af
ter a design by F Rumpf, Esq., of
New York city, was intrusted to
David Worden, Esq., the present Su
perintendent, under whose superior
skill and untiring energy, this noble
furnace has been brought to a success
ful issue. The furnace, is II feet wide
at bosh, 8 feet at tunnel head, and 60
feet high. Its outside base is a trunca
ted pyramid, having a base of 32 feet
square. The masonry is heavy coursed,
well banded, ashlar work, of Mahon
ing Sandstone. The tuyere arches are
turned with hard red brick, and the
interior of the furnace has a double 11*
ning of 21 inch fire brick.
The blowing engine is of the most
modern and approved plan, possessing
sufficient surplus power to increase the
blast, over the usual pressure of 31 to
4 pounds per square inch, in any exi
gency which may arise in its working.
A pumping attachment supplies
water to the water lift for hoisting the
ores and fuel and for the various uses
incident to a large furnace.
The hot blast oven is erected after
the improved Player patents, which in
sures a high heat equally diffused over
the cast iron heating pipes, and is not
injuriously concentrated at any. one
point.
Ample boiler room has been provi
ded and the furnace gases utilized in
making steam and heating the hot
blast oven.
Indeed the whole improvements and
appliances, regarded in all the ele
ments of strength, stability, ample
power, skillful construction, and em
bodying the most recent improvements,
has excited the admiration of all who
have visited it. It is located at the
village of Riddlesburg at the mouth of
Six Mile Run; it has coal 1J miles a
bove it, and abundance of red hema
tite iron ore at Tatesville mine, 10
miles south of it. All these supplies
are alongside and carried over the
Broad Top Rail Road to the furnace at
Riddlesburg.
The furnace was' put in blast the 3d
inst. During the first week of its op
erations it has made 80 tons of superior
No. 2 grey foundry metal. When full
load and blast shall be attained, it is
expected that 120 tons of metal per
week will be produced. The opera
tions thus far have demonstrated the
main question—the excellent quality of
Broad Top Coke. This result is ex
ceedingly gratifying to the pioneer
friends of Broad Top and initiates the
era long and anxiously looked fer
tile iron making era— the advent of
increasing prosperity to the whole Re
gion.
The distinguished gentlemen com
posing the Kemble Coal and Iron Co.,
have placed the friends of Broad Top
Region under deep obligations by the
exhibition of their faith in its resources,
the investment of a large amount of
capital, and the application of their
practical experience in the manufac
ture of iron.
No company yet operating in the Re
gion has excited so general an interest
in their success, and this success has
been hailed with unanimous Joy.
Our experience teaches us that the
old proverb is true-''misfortune comes
not singly," but it is evident also that
converse of this proposition is also
truth. For, during the progress of the
construction of this furnace, explora
tions west of Marklesburg, developed
presence of a mammoth seam of rich
iron ore along the flank of Tussey's
Mountain. There it was opened 9 feet
thick. Recent openings on the same
deposit traced to the Powelton Coal
& Iron Co's lands, west of Coffee Run,
show a solid seam of iron ore 21 feet
thick ! This Is not a "pocket," but a
continuous seam of excellent iron ore,
in the Levant series, Clinton groupe,
and extending as far as the measures
extend in which it is inclosed. The
one has been used and tested in the
furnaces of the Cambria Iron Co. and
declared excellent. Who shall map
out the future of Broad Top, with its
inexhaustible supply of coal and coke on
the eastern flank of its Rail Road,
and its inexhaustible supply of rich
iron ores along its western flank.
Minds that are open to the analyses
of great facts, may, measurably catch
gleaming of accellerated Industry in
this long neglected department; and to
some extent work out the rapid
growth of furnaces contributing their
products to the increasing demands of
an age—an age when the wealth,
power and civilization of nations are
measured and estimated by the stan
dard of iron. But who can fully ap
preciate the various branches of hu
man industry that will be induced by
the success of this pioneer furnace and
the recent develoments of iron ores.
Truly, Broad Top gleams under the
brightening rays of a new era. Solv
ing the great problem so long and
clearly indicated to man by the Crea
tor of all—the union in the furnace of
the twin sources of industry and wealth
—coal and iron ore.
We hail with unmingled delight the
dawn of tho iron era.
J. F.
SAXTON, PA., July 10, 1869.
Young MAX, YOU'RE WANTED.—
A lady writer under this heading, hits
off the men as follows:
"A woman wants you. Don't forget
her. Don't wait to be rich ;if you do,
ten to one you are not fit to be married.
Marry while you are young and strug
gle up tegether. Bnt mark, young
man, the woman don't want you if
she is to divide her affections with a
cigar, spittoon or whisky Jug. Neith
er does she want you if you don't
take care of her and the little "after
thoughts" which are sure to follow.—
Neither does she want you simply be
cause you are a man, the definition of
which is too apt to be an animal that
wears bifurcated garments 011 his lower
limbs, a quarter section of stove pipe
on his head, swears like a pirate, and
is given to filthy practice generally.
She wants you for a companion, help
mate—she wants you to have learned
to regulate your appetite and passions ;
in short in the image of God, not in
the likeness of a beast."
How To STOP BLOOD.— Take fine
dust of tea or scrapings of the Inside
of tanned leather and bind it close up
on the wound, and blood will cease to
flow. These articles are at all times
accessible, and easy to be obtained.
After the blood has ceased to flow,
laudanum may be advantageously ap
plied to the wounds. Due regard to
these Instructions will save agitation
of the mind and running for the sur
geon, who would make no better pre
scription
The widow and daughter of the late
Peter Cugger propose founding a hospi
tal in Albany, N. Y., as a memorial to
him.
PAH SOU 11.E FKATIUM.
The thinking, reflecting men of all
parties pronounce l>oth Grant and
Geary political humbugs of the first
water, and are becoming more and
more disgusted every day with their
silly and disreputable conduct. Since
they have been in power, corruption
and venality, in their worst forms, are
the order of the day, and shoddy rules
supreme from one end of the country
to the other. The vilest system of pec
ulation permeates every department
of the National and State Govern
ments, and the treasury of the people
is plundered at will by the scavengers
of the party in power.
The Radical party obtained its ill
gotten power by thecry of retrenchment
and reform ; and with these promises
on its lips it has permitted the thieves
and robbers who hang upon its skirts
to deplete the treasury by hundreds of
millions annually, and to saddle taxes
upon the honest industry of the coun
try equal to anything experienced by
the down-trodden subjects of Asiatic or
European Despotisms. For eight long
years has the country been ruled as
with a rod of iron ; the eyes of the
masses have been blinded to the true
situation of things; the chains forged
fur their enslavement have been welded
with more than usual care by their un
principled and despotic rulers ; and it
will require almost more than super
human efforts on the part of the peo
ple to release themselves from the ter
rible thraldom which has been impo
sed upon them by their ruthless task
masters. The American people are
paying deafly for their folly in eleva
ting two such consummate humbugs as
Grant and Geary to power. Whatev
er may have been the services render
ed by them in the late war, and we
are not disposed to under/ate the merits
of General Grant as a soldier, (as to
Geary, we think it would be difficult to
find them !) they are confessedly la.ll
ures in the high civil capacities to
which they have been elected. Neith
er of them appear to have the remotest
idea of what constitutes real statesman
ship,and their Cabinet counsellors seem
to be very little better than themselves.
Geary is a candidate for re-election
to the position of Governor of this
great Commonwealth, and asks the
people to endorse by their suffrages
his imbecility and all the corruptions
of his administration. Will they do
it? Can it be possible that a majority
of the voters of Pennsylvania will be
willing to continue the reins of power
in the hands of this empty and infla
ted demagogue, who has shown him
self to be totally unfit for the high aiTtl
responsible duties which appertain to
the office? We think not. On the
contrary, we believe that there is still
enough of integrity left in the people
to hurl John W. Geary and the vile
crew of political cormorants by which
he is surrounded.— Pottsvilte Stand
ard.
ASEFF OX I'TYSSES.
Andrew Johnson, ex-President of
the United States, is at present in
Washington, and has been "inter
viewed" by a correspondent, who re
ports at length the substance of Mr.
Johnson's remarks. A leading featureof
Mr. Johnson's conversation was anex
presslon of his individual opinion of
General Grant, which is given in lan
guage more forcible than elegant. He
regards President Grant as "the great
est farce ever thrust upon a people,
lie styles him "a little fellow who has
nothing in him. He hasn't a
single idea. He has no policy; no
conception of what the country re
quires. He don't understand the
philosophy of a single great question,
and is completely lost in trying to
comprehend his situation.
Mr. Johnson's opinion of Grant's
moral virtues is not of a very exalted
character. "He is," says A. J., "men
dacious, cunning and treacherous.
He lied to me flagrantly, and I convic
ted him by my whole Cabinet; but
that even would have been tolerable
had it been the only instance; but it
was not. He lied on many other occa
sions. * * Physically, mentally
and morally he is a nonentity. Why,
sir, his soul is so small that you could
put it within the periphery of a hazel
nut shell, and it might float about for a
thousand years and not strike the walls
of the shell. That's the size of his
soul."
A. J. hits Ulysses stoutly in a very
tender part when he says: "They talk
about his generalship. Well, he was a
mere incident of war. Men and arms
were supplied in abundance,and so mas
sive were his forces that they simply
crushed outtherebellion. It would have
been done had Grant never been born.
Therefore he was a mere incident.
But the little fellow has come to think
he is some-body really. I can't help
pitying him when I think and know
what an infinitesimal creature he really
is. I often think that about the fittest
place for Grant is at some place in the
country where there arc cross-roads.
I have been at these places and often
noticed the scenes. At one comer,per
haps there is a small black smithshop ;
at another corner there is a grocery
store, and at another a house where
the squire meets to settle case*. Well,
I have noticed at such a junction of
several roads that when the squire's
business is over, several fellows will
projiose a horse-race, and to give in
terest to the thing, a barrel of eider,
and, perhaps, half a gallon of whisky,
Will lie staked on the result. Now.
Grant is just suited to such a situation.
His ideas are of the crossroad order,
and he has not a thought abovethat."
Making all due allowance for An
drew Johnson's good cause for dislik
ing Grant, there is no denying the
fact that in his rough oif-hand way he
hits managed to give a spicy and truth
ful description of the grout Ulysses, in
some points at least.— Philadelphia
Herald.
VOL. 64.-WHOLE No. 5,499.
FLOWERS AND MUSIC.— Yes, two
gifts God has bestowed upon us, that
have in themselves, no guilty trait,
and show an essential divineness.—
Music is one of these which seeins as if
it were borne of death, but lingers with
us from the gates of heaven; music
which breathes over the gross or sad or
doubting heart to inspire it with a con
sciousness of its own mysterious affini
ties, to touch the chords of its unsus
pected, undeveloped life. And the
other gift is that of flowers, which
though born of earth, we may well be
lieve if anything of earthly soil is in
the higher realm, if any of its methods
are continued, if any of the forms are
identical, they will live on the banks
of the river of life. Flowys! that in
our gladness and in our sorrow are
never incongurous—always appro
priate. Appropriate in the church as
expressive of its purest and social
themes, and blending their sweetness
with the incense prayer. Appropriate
in the joy of the marriage hour, in the
lineliness of the sick room, and crown
ing with prophecy the foreheads of the
dead. They give completeness to the
associations of childhood, and are ap
propriate even by the side of old age,
strangely as the freshness contrasts
with the wrinkles and gray hairs; for
still they are suggestive, they are sym
bolical of the souls perpetual youth,
the inward blossom of immortality,
the armarauthine crown. In their
presence we feel that the body shall go
forth as a winged seed.
ANSWER YOUR CHILDREN'S QUES-
TlONS.— Education is erroneously sup
posed only to IK? had at schools. The
most ignorant children often have been
constant in their attendance there, and
there have been very intelligent ones
who uever saw the inside of a school
room. The child who always asks an
explanation of terms or phrases it can
not understand, who is never willing
to repeat, parrot-like, that which is
comprehensible, will far outstrip in
"education" the ordinary routine
scholar. "Education" goes on with
the children at the fireside—on the
street—at church—at play—every
where. Do not refuse to answer their
proper questions, then. l)o not check
this natural intelligence for which
book* cannot compensate, though you
bestowed whole libraries.
"PAPA," said a little urchin to his
father the other day, "I saw a printer
go down the street just now."
"Did you sonny? How do you
know the person was a printer?"
"Because I do, Papa."
"But he might have been a carpen
ter or a shoemaker."
"Oh no, Papa, he was a printer—
likely an editor—for he was gnawing a
bone, and had no stockings on. The
crown was out of his hat, and his coat
was torn. lam certain he was a prin
ter."
E * K!JY RISING. —A gentleman from
Nevada, being asked by an old lady in
relation to the welfare of a favorite
scapegrace of a nephew who had gone
to that State, informed her "that he
had died from early rising." This puz
zled the old lady very much until, by
dint of inquiry, she learned that "ear
ly rising" is the Nevada term for
hanging.
"Tommy, my son, fetch a stick of
wood." Ah ! my dear mother," re
sponded the youth," the grammatical
portion of your education has been sad
ly neglected. You should have said—
•Thomas, my son, transport from that
recumbent collection of combustible
material upon the threshhoid of this
edifice one of the curtailed excrescenc
es of defuuet wood.' "
A DOMESTIC, newly engaged, pre
sented to his master, one morning, a
pair of boots, the leg of one of which
was much longer than the other.—
"How comes it, these boots are not
the same length?" "I really don't
know, sir; but what bothers me the
most is, that the pair down stairs is iu
the same fix."
A very small pattern of a man late
ly solicited the hand of a fine buxom
girl. "Oh, no," said the fair lady, "I
can't think of it for a moment; the
fact is, Tommy, you are a little too big
to be put iu a cradle, and a little too
small to be put in a bed."
A man being awakened by the cap
tain of a pusseuger boat, with the an
nouncement that he must not occupy
his berth with his boots on, very con
siderately replied, "Oh, it won't hurt
'em; they're an old pair."
"What is the ditference bewteen edi
torial and matrimonial experience?"
in the former the devil cries for "co
py." lu the latter the "copy" cries
like the devil.
"My dear sir," said a candidate, ac
costing a sturdy wag on the day of e
lection, " I am very glad to see you."
You needn't be," replied the wag;
"I've voted."
A YOUNG gentleman speaking of a
young beauty's fashionable yellowish
hair called it pure gold. It ought to
lie," quoth Mr. K , "it looks like
twenty-four carrots.
Mrs. David Mitchell, near Newville,
Indiana county, gave birth 011 the
11th inst., to two boys and one girl.
Mother and children are doing well.
THE wisest point with many public
speakers is to kuow when precisely
enough has been said. It is the stop
ping that tells- not the beginning or
going.
A SUKK way to turn people's heads
—justgo late to church ou next, or any
other Sunday.
WHY is a dog's tail a great novelty?
Beotuse no one ever saw it before.