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opposite the Mengel House,
BEDFORD, PA
The proprietor takes pleasure in offering to the
public the following articles belonging to the
Book Business, at CITY RETAIL PRICES :
MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS.
NOVELS.
BIBLES, HYMN BOOKS, AC.:
Large Family Bibles,
Small Bibles.
Medium Bibles,
Lutheran Hymn Books,
Methodist flyrnn Books,
Smith s Dictionary of the Bible,
History of the Books of the JUble,
Pilgrim's Progress, Ac., .cc , Ac.
Episcopal Prayer Books,
Presbyterian Hymn Books,
SCHOOL BCXiKS.
TOY BOOKS.
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Letter, Congress Letter,
Sermon, Commercial Note,
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Mourning, French Note.
Bath Post, Datnnsk Laid Note,
Crearu Laid Note, Envelopes, Ac.
WALL PAPER.
.Several Hundred Ditferent Figures, the Largest
lot ever brought to Bedford county, for
sale at prices CHEAPER THAN
EV ERSOLD in Bedford.
BLANK BOOKS.
Day Books. Ledgers,
Account Buo&s. Cash Books,
Pocket Ledgers, Time Books,
Tuck Memorandums, Pass Books,
Money Books. Pocket Books,
Blank Judgment Notes, drafts, receipts, Ac
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Barometer Inkstands,
Gutta Pereha.
Cocoa, and
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Glass and Ordinary Stands for Schools,
Flat Gins* Ink Wells and Rack,
Arnold's Writing Fluids,
Hover's Inks,
Carmine Inks, Purple Inks,
Charlton's Inks,
Eukolon for pasting, Ac.
PENS AND PENCILS.
Giliot's, Cohen's,
Hollowbusb A Carey's, Payson.
Duntoo. and bcnbners Pens,
Clark's lndellible, Faber's Tablet,
Cohen's Kag;e.
Office, Faber's
Guttknecht s, Carpenter's Pencils.
PERIODICALS.
Atlantic Monthly,
Harper's Magazine,
Madaiue Demorest's Mirror of Fashions,
Electic Magazine,
Godey's Lady's Book,
Galaxy,
Lady's Friend,
Ladies' Repository,
Cnr Young Folks,
Nick Nax,
Yankee Notions,
Budget of Fun,
Jolly Joker.
Phuony Phellow,
Lippincott's Magazine,
Riverside Magazine,
Waverly Magazine,
Ballou's Magazine,
Gardner's Monthly.
Harper's Weekly,
Frank Leslie's Illustrated,
Chimney Corner,
New York Ledger,
New York Weekly,
Harper's Bazar,
Every Saturday,
Living Age,
Putnam's Monthly Magazine,
Arthur's Home Magazine,
Oliver Optio's Boys and Girl's Magazine Ac.
Constantly on hand to accomodate those who want
to purchase living reading inattter.
Only a part of the vast number of articles per
taining to the Book and Stationery business,
which we are prepared to sell cheaper than the
cheapest, are above enumerated. Give us a call
We buy and sell for CASH, and by this arrange
ment we expeet to sell as cheap as goods of this
•lass are sold anywhere
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TELEGRAPH IN CHINA.
THE EAST INDIA TELEGRAPH COMPANYS
OFFICE,
Nos. 2R & lit Nassau Street,
NEW YORK
Organized under special charter from the State
of New York.
CAPITAL $5,000,000
50,000 SHARES, SIOO EACH.
DIRECTORS.
Ho* ANDREW G. CURTIN, Philadelphia.
PAULS. FORBES, of Russell A Co., China.
FRED. BUTTERFIELD, of F Bu tterfield A C
New York.
ISAAC LIVERMORE, Treasurer Michigan Cen
tral Railroad, Boston.
ALEXANDER 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, Gibbs A
Harucastle, New York.
NICHOLAS MICKLES, New York
OFFICERS.
A. G. CURTIN, President.
N. MICKLES, Vice President
GEORGE ELLIS (Cashier National Bank Com
monwealth,) Treasurer.
HON. A. K. McCLURE, 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 1,000,000
Maeoa 00.000
Hong-Kong 250.000
Swatow 200,000
Amoy 250,000
Foo-Chow . 1,250,000
Wnn-Ctau 1 200,000
Ningpo 400,000
Hang Chean 1.200,000
Shanghai 1,000,000
Total 5,910,000
These ports have a foreign commerce of $900,-
000.000. and an enormous iomestic 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 Governuioat, of business, and of
social life especially in China. She has no postal
system, and her only meats nowofcommuuicating
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 millions, 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 proflered facili
ty tbr 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 ere owned by Chinese merchants, and
u3ed by them exclusively for the transmission of
eariy 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 renumeratire 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, Im/uirer, Age, Bulletin and Telegraph
Shares of this company, to a limited number,
may be obtained at SSO each, $1(1 payable down,
sls on the Ist of November, and $25 payable in
monthly instalments of $2 50 each, commencing
December I, 15SS, on application to
DREXEL & CO.,
34 South Third Street,
PHILADELPHIA.
Shares can be obtained in Bedford by applica
tion to Reed 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 prices with the best workmanship
JONES' ONE PRICE CLOTHING HOUSE
(>O4 MARKET STREET,
GEO W. NIEMANN. PHILADELPHIA,
[sepll.'dS.yl. |
rriHE BEST PLACE TO BUY
p choice brands of ehe*ing Tobaccos and Ci
gars, at wholesale or retail, 18 at o*ter'. Good
natural leaf Tobacco* at 75 cent*. Try oar 5 cent
Yara and Hartnna eigara—they cant he beat,
jnnelßra3.
BEDFORD, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 2, 1869.
XfEW GOODS JUST RECEI VED
In AT J. M. SHOEMAKER'S BARGAIN
STORE.
NEW GOODS just Received at J.
M. Shoemaker's Bargain Store.
NEW GOODS just Received at J.
M. Shoemaker's Bargain Store
NEW GOODS just Received at J.
M. Shoemaker's Bargain Store
NEW GOODS just Received at J.
M. Shoemaker's Bargain Store
NEW GOODS just Received at J.
M Shoemaker's Bargain Store.
BUY your Dry Goods, Groceries,
Clothing, Hats, Boots and Shoes, Queensware,
Fish, Notions. Leather. Tobacco, Ac., at J. M.
Shoemaker's Bargain Store
BUY your Dry Goods, Groceries,
Clothing, Ilats, Boots and Shoes. Queensware,
Leather, Fish. Notions, Tobacco, Ac., at J. M.
Shoemaker's Bargain Store.
BUY your Dry Goods, Groceries,
Clothing, Hats, Boots and Shoes. Queensware,
Notions Leather, Tobacco, Fish, Ac., at J. M
Shoemaker's Bargain Store.
BUY your Dry Goods, Groceries,
Clothing, Hats, Boots and Shoes, Queensware,
Natione, Leather, Tobacco, Fisb, Ac , at J. M
Shoemaker's Bargain Store.
BUY your Dry Goods, Groceries,
Clothing, Hats, Boots and Shoes, Queensware,
Notions, Leather, Tobacco, Fish, Ac , at J. M
Shoemaker's Bargain Store. .
BUY your Dry Goods, Groceries,
Clothing, llats, Boot.-: and Shoes, Queensware
Notions. Leather, Tobacco, Fich Ac., at J. M.
Shoemaker's Bargain Store
Bedford, Pa., June 11, 1869.
f \ R. OSTER & CO.
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READ AND SPEAK OF IT!
COME SEE AND BE CONVINCED >
We are now receiving our usual extensive and
well assorted STOCK OF NEW AND
CHEAP SUMMER GOODS,
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And are now prepared to ofl'er SMASHING BIG
BARGAINS TO
CASH BUYERS,
In Staple and Fancy Dry Good*, Nations, Car
pet*, Oil Cloth*. Cotton Yarns, Carpet
Chains, Hots, Boot*. Shoes,
Clothing, Broom*, Baskets,
Wall and Window
Papers, Groceries, Queens
ware, Tobaccos, Cigars, Fish, Salt, <s-<•
IT e invite everybody to call and see for them
selves . NO TR ÜBLE TO SHO W GOO OS.
T E R M S CASH.
BRING ALONG YOUR CASH and we will guarantee
to SELL you Goods as CHEAP as the same stylos
and qualities can be sold in Central Pennsylva
nia.
Be assured that CASH in hand is a wonderfully
winning argument, and that those who BUY and
SKLL for CASH are always masters of the situation.
june)Bm3 G. R. OSTER A CO.
17 M. FISHER AND BABIES,
J Next Door to the Bedford Hotel.
GOOD NEWS AT LAS T.
The Cheapest Goods ever brought to Bedford.
We will sell Goons CHKAPBR, by 15 to 25 per
cent, than ever sold in Bedford county.
The best COFFEE at 25 cents, but the less
we sell the better we are off.
The LADIES' HOSE, at 10 cents we will not
have this time, but come at us for 15, 20 and 25
cents, and we will njake you howl.
You will all be waited on by ELI and the BA
BIES, as the OLD ELI cannot do anything
himself. A great variety of Parasols. Sunumbrel
las, Pocket-books Ac. Linen Handkfs (Ladies
and Gents) from 5 cents to 25 cents. CALICOES,
from 10, 12 and a few pieces at 15 cents. MUS
LINS. from 10 to 25 cents. \ ,u all know that we
sell NOTIONS 100 per cent, cheaper than anybody
else All Wool Cassimeres, from 50 cents to SI.OO
All Wool Dress Goods, from 15 to 25 cents. Tick
ing, from 20 to 40 ceuts. Paper Collars, 10 cents;
best, 25 cents per box. 4 pair Men's Half Hose,
for 25 cents. Clear Glass Tumblers, #0 cents a
dozen, or 5 cents a peace. A great lot of Boots
and Shoes, to be sold cheap. Queens and Glass
ware, very low. Syrup, SO cents and $1 00.
|l 30 for best as elear as honey, and thick as tar.
Bakers' Molasses, 50 cents per gallon, or 15 cents
a qu.'rt These Goods will •' positively" not be
sold unless frr Cash or Produce. Come and see
us, it will not cost aS®thing to sea the Goods and
Babies. N. B. All these God* Wore bought at
slaughtered prices in New York
K. M. FISHER A BABIES.
These Goods we sell so low, that we cannot af
ford to sing (Auld Lang Syne.)
All accounts must be settled by the middle of
.July next, by cash or note, or they will be left jn
the "hands of E. M. ALSIP, Esq., for collection.
junlSm3
"VTOTICE.—I hereby give notice to
i3| all persons not to barber or trust my wife,
SARAH, on my account, as I will not be respon
sible for any debts she may eontract—she baring
left my bed and board without just cause or pro.
vocation. ANDREW POTE.
Union tp., Aug 12 w3*
Ihe §slforfl ©iuett*.
DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.
1. That the federal government is
limited in power to the grants contain
ed in the Federal Constitution; that
the exercise of doubtful constitutional
powers is dangerous to the stability of
the government and the safety of the
people, and the democratic party will
never consent that the State of Penn
sylvania shall surrender her great right
of local self-government.
2. That the attempted ratification of
the proposed fifteenth amendment to
the Federal Constitution by the radi
cal members of the last legislature, and
their refusal to submit the same to a
vote of the people, was a deliberate
breach of their official duty and an
outrage upon every citizen of the State,
and the resolution making such ratifi
cation should be promptly repealed
and the amendment submitted to the
people at the polls for acceptance or re
jection.
3. That the Democratic party of
Pennsylvania is opposed to conferring
upon the negro the right to vote, and
we do emphatically deny that there
is any right or power in Congress or
elsewhere to impose negro suffrage up
on the people of this State in opposi
tion to their will.
4. That reform in the administration
of the federal and State governments,
and in the management of their finan
cial affairs is imperatively demanded.
It. That the movements now being
made for the amelioration of the con
dition of the laboring man has our
most cordial co-operation.
fi. That the legislation of the late re
publican Congress "outside of the Con
stitution," the disregard of the major
ity therein of the will of the people and
sanctity of the ballot box, in the exclu
sion from their seats in Congress of
representatives clearly elected, the
establishment of military governments
in States in the Union and the o
verthrow of all civil governments
therein, are acts of tyranny and usur
pation that tend directly to the de
struction of all republican government
and the creation of the worst forms of
despotism.
7. That our soldiers and sailors, who
carried the flag of our country to victo
ry must bo gratefully remembered,
and all the guaranties given in their
favoi must be faithfully carrietl into
execution.
5. Equal rights and protection for
naturalized and native-born citizens
at home and abroad ; the assertion of
American nationality which shall
command the respect of foreign pow
ers and furnish an example an encour
agement to people struggling for na
tional integrity, constitutional liberty
and individual rights.
9. That the present internal revenue
and taxing system of the general gov
ernment is grossly unjust, and means
ought at once to be adopted to cause a
modification thereof.
The report was acccepted and unani
mously adopted.
THE CHINESE CHANT,
All the men of big statute did not
perish in the flood, although that for
ty days' rain sweept off most of them.
Avertible Brobilignag is in our midst
to-day. Chang, the huge Chinaman,
is here, and is suffering the inconveni
ence of his bulky greatness. The cars
afford no room for him to deposit his
ample lumbar regions in. Chairs are
shaky props, beds there are none to
support him, and altogether he finds
New York City as bare of conveniences
for his comfort as Timbuetoo. Last
week orders were given for a chair of
stout strength and immense size, and
a bed fit for the reception of his
monstrous limbs is now ready for the
gaint.
Chang is a monster of flesh a giant in
height, and has exhibited himself in
England, at the request of the Prince
of Wales, he visited the Marlborough
House, and last year he was a guest at
the Tuileries.
The giant is eight feet eight inches
in height, and is about twenty five
years of age. He is good-looking and
quite intelligent, speaks English flu
ently and is quite gallant in his
way. His pet extravagance is
dress. lie devotes all his energy and
the most of his business time to the
careful in vesture of his cumbrous bod
y in store clothes. Massive chains
make arches all about his body ; what
would crush a;pigmy to the earth, hang
like silken threads about his chest and
girdle. His feet are exagerated
betle crushers, and the rest of his bod
y is of proportionate immensity,
Chang has a wife and two children,
and is said to be great in his affection
towards them. Heealls his spouse his
"pretty Kin-Foo,"and though hejflirts
and philanders with all the ladies,
Kin-Foo is in no way jealous be
lieving that a man of such inordinate
size is excusable if he does over
run with affection for another.
Chang's father is even taller than
his son, and there is a sister who ex
ceeds him in heighth a few inches.—
The sister is married, and her hus-
Ijand will not suffer her to become the
object of rude gaze. Chang has been
well educated, and belongs to a fine
family, Jjia father is a wealthy tea
merchant in Fu-Chaq. The Husslan
giant Anak is the only man who has e\
er appeared that approaches Chang in
height. Both Anak and Chang were
xhlbltid on the Continent together,
and though wore a helmet with
feathers, which made him seem of ex
traordinary height, Chang, without
any such illusive accessory, appeared
the taller man.
Mr. Wood, of the Museum, has ef
fected an engagement with the Chin
ese giant, and will soon introduce
him to the public.
WISCONSIN DINERV ROTH—TiIE FIRST
OF THE FUTURE.
A few days since a party of raftsmen
killed several negroes on the steamer
Dubuque, near Rock Island.
Let us look at the matter.
A large body of white men, hardy
lumbermen from the pineries north of
La Crosse, had been down the river
with rafts. They took passage on the
steamer Dubuque, to return after dis
posing of the lumber they had been
running to market. They were com
ing up the river as regular passengers.
The steamer was crowded. After
punching tickets for those in the cab
ins, ihe clerks of the boat went below
to mark tickets of those on the lower
decks. That this work might be well
done, as it should be, guards were sta
tioned on the stairs to prevent those
below going up till the tickets were
punched.
In this the officers of the boat wore
right—they were doing theirduty.
But they made a great mistake in
appointing two black men as guards.
Here was the origin of the trouble.
The white men on the boat were no
boys.
They were no sneaks albeit they did
wear coarse clothes and look rough.
They have families to love and pro
vide for.
They were democrats and republi
cans.
Some of them were our friends
some our enemies, that is politically.
But they were men—with men—
workingmcn— the men who are help
ing build up this country, and as time
unvails itself, they realize that the
government is not in sympathy with
them—docs not protect them— does not
care so much for them as for the black
man and the relatives of the bondhol
ders' President.
One of these men proposed to go up
stairs.
The negro guard stood on the steps
and said :
"Keep down dar! Kase you can't
come up here."
"Why not?"
"Kase yer can't.
The man thus spoken to was perhaps
under the influence of liquor to some
extent—as Grant and others high in
authority often are. He felt startled
at thus being talked to by a nigger—he
felt just as any white man would feel.
Words followed.
The negro knocked him down.
The friends of the white man rushed
in.
The friends of the black man did the
same.
The negro deck hands drew knives
and other weapons. The white men
did the same. Hot blood soon boiled.
The whites were the strongest. Some
of them were intoxicated. The negroes
were driven from the boat; were driv
en into the river, shot with revolvers,
pelted with coal—drowned.
The law stepped in at the first op
portunity and took the rioters or the
white men iu its Frasp.and there holds
them for the present.
This was not a Ku-Klux outrage,
It is a greater row than has happen
ed in the outh Ssinec the war.
But we hear no efforts of the admin
istration to make capital of it, or to
protect the black man !
The men who killed the negroes
were nearly all republicans.
They were men from the strongest
republican districts in Wisconsin.
Some of thetn, as we know, were
men who have paid for rope to hang
us with —who have denounced us as a
traitor—who voted to carry on a war
for the benefit of the negro and bond
holder.
But times have changed.
They don't mix well with negroes.
They are not New England Puritants,
spoon thieves or hypocrites.
They want the negro to stay south,
and they have sworn, and are organizing
all over the district to drive the negroes
from the river.
They don't like the negro as a rival
in labor. The majority rules. The
raftsmen of the northwest will stand
by each other.
They are hard pets to play with.
They are not afraid of a little blood
or a little danger,
Tney don't go back on friends worth
a cent.
They don't like the idea of having
white men turned loose to beg, and
black men employed at half wages by
sharpers who have discharged white
men, driven them into the pineries
and other places for labor, and the re
sult will be, if their comrades now in
jail are hardly dealt with, they will
"warm" it not only to the black men
employed as straggling laborers in that
section, but will clear out all who em
ploy negroes.
Bear in mind that this is in a repub
lican district. That negroes are not
wanted there. That is has been sworn
that they shall not remain there.
Let the majority ride !
We regret the occurrence named
greatly for the victims and for those
whose hot blood, over-excited by pas
sion, led to such fearful results. Had
we been on board the boat, it would
have been our endeavor to preserve or
der and save life. The most we can
do now is to ask that allowance be
made for those greatly excited.
During the war it was common for
mobs of excited men to beat the brains
Out of those who simply differed iu
opinion, as In the case of flelleuger, a
democrat, who was brutally murdered
at New Lisbon, Wis,, by a hundred
soldiers, whereat the people shouted
"served him right for being a demo
crat."
In this case there is an antagonism
of race and color. Poor men hard at
work do not relish the idea of be
ing compelled by moneyed corpora
tions to compete with labor, when the
blacks make no improvements with
their money.
Five out of every six republicans in
that vicinity say they do not blame
the raftsmen for not liking the negroes.
And if the negroes are to be employ
ed on the Upper Mississippi they will
inysteriousl disappear before the uner
ring aim of the pinery boys, and they
might as well so consider it and stay
below with their friends and with
their old masters who loved them
more—who will care for and protect
them better than will the republicans
of the Northwest who like niggerism
in theory but not in practice.
And so long as negroes in the South,
aided by carpet-bag seal la wags, kill
white men, so long will the lumber
men of the Northwest kill the blacks
who wander thus far from home
Pomeroy's Democrat.
A DEATH KISS.
Tit* 1 iiewlle orayoiiiis innn' xucrthrart
piermhin henrt while kissing
heir lips.
[From the Nashville (Term.) Press, July 25.]
A young gentleman named Joe White,
a very respectable, industrious, quiet,
good-looking fellow, of about eighteeu
years of age, and a resident of German
town, went to South Nashville Satur
day night to visit his lady love, a Miss
Barnes, lie had been frequently to
visit her at various times. They were
engaged to be married. He found her
in the parlor, sewing, as a proper
young girl should be. She was anx
ious to linish the article, and therefore
concluded not to throw it aside when
he entered, particularly as he compli
mented her on her pretty appearance,
with her beautiful face, bending over
her slendor lingers as she plied the
stitches with as much grace and rapid
ity as other girls display when skim
ming over the keys of a nasty piano.
lie took a seat beside her. They
chatted very gayly. After waiting a
few minutes, which to him seemed
hours, he became impatient and long
ed to imprint a chaste kiss upon her
ripe and pouting lips. With the view
of carrying out his design, he let his
arm circle her waist furtively, and as
he was drawing her close to himself,
she objected to being disturbed until
her little work was finished ; but he
insisted. She made a motion to shove
him off, as girls are said to generally.
This motion proved fatal to her happi
ness and to his life. He became im
petuous, and drawing her to him with
much violence, the needle caught in
her thimble got between them, the
point toward his heart.
It entered, and, as he was about to
imprint a kiss of love upon her lips,
his own became ashy pale, his vigor
ous grasp relaxed, aud then the fire of
love as if by a celestial puff,
at the moment of contact. He sicken
ed, fell back upon the sofa, quite help
less. The young lady much alarmed
ran for assistance. The family all ran
into the room, and proceeded to open
his shirt collar, thinking he was in a
fainting fit, and that the usual restora
tives would suffice. In undoing his
vast, it was found that the needle had
penetrated his side very deeply, a cir
cumstance which the young lady nev
noticed in her fright. The docter was
sent for. He administered what rem
edies he could. Partial conciousness
was restored, and the young fellow en
abled to talk. The scene between him
and his first, last love, was extremely
affecting.
She wept like one who feels that all
happiness on earth is lost, and he seem
ed to regret her loss and not his own
condition. He consoled her by saying
that she would soon get another lover
to fill his place, who would be more
worthy of her than he could hope to
be, and vho would make her happy.
This but increased her sorrow. She
sank down upon the floor beside him
and cried aloud. When he was be
coming worse, and the doctor gave the
emphatic opinion that lie could not
live, she started suddenly to her fi<t,
and running into another room, swal
lowed a heavy dose of laudauuin,
which was there for the use of a young
member or the family that was sick.
It was some time before she was dis
covered, and it was with the utmost
difficulty she was brought to concious
ness. "O, where is he ? let me go to
him; I will be with him." At the
same instant the young gentleman
was resigning his spirit into the hands
of its Maker in the adjoining room,
lie died about ten o'clock. She is
still in a precarious condition, and e
viuces symptoms of insanity.
CIKIOIS SCENE IX A XEW OB-
I. EVAS (OI'KT.
[From the New Orleans Picayune. J
Many persons attending the sessions
of the Recorder's Court in this city
have been edified by the pecuiari sol
emnity with which oaths are adminis
tered and the awe with which they are
generally taken. It so happened that
Wednesday morning an ungainly look
ing specimen of recently enfranchised
made his appearance before one these
tribunals in the capacity of a witness.
The Judge with an austerity of visage
that atone creates the impression of
profound melaneholly, held out the
boook to the witness, and administer
ed his solemn injunction to speak the
truth, At the conclusion of course, it
is expected that the witness will kiss
the book. Hut this "ward of the na
tion" was unused to criminal proceed
ings, and entertained curious ideas of
manner and propriety of swearing, and
stood erect.
"Why don't you kiss?" demanded
the magistrate.
"Sar!"
"Ain't you going to kiss?" was a
gain inquired.
"Sari" repeated the astonished dar
ey, evidently mistaking the meaning
of the Court, and surprised beyond
measure at such an invitation,
"Kiss, I tell you!" thundered the
judge.
"Yes sar! yes sar!" exclaimed the
frightened and trembling darkey, ner-
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ving himself for the con tern plated cm
brace, and without more ado the long
arms of the son of Ilafii were thrown
around the judicial neck, and before he
could be prevented a stentorian smack
resounded through the court room.
"Quit, you beast—help! help!"
shouted the magistrate. But the dar
key enjoyed the luxury, and the em
brace was renewed with unction.
"Take him off! Take him off!" cried
the Court, while the loud shouts of
the spectators testified their apprecia
tion of the fun. At last however,
the officers of the Court interfer
ed, and the half strangled judge was
rescued from the clasp of the literal
witness.
"Catch him! Put him in jail ! I'll
have him hung !" were some of the in
furiated ohjurgationsof the court, as he
leaned back against the wall, his face
flushed and his clothes torn from the re
cent encounter.
"God in heaven that I should Le
hugged by a nigger!" and the judge a
gain poured forth his vituperations.
But the offending darkey was at last
locked up, and the Court settled down
to its habitual order and quiet.
A BEAUTIFUL INCIDENT. —A cor
respondent of the New York Even
ing Post, writing from Frankfort-on
the-Main, relates the following: Lit
tle American school girls, are much
beloved in the German sehols, especial
ly if they happen to possess loving dis
positions themselves. A few weeks a
go the writer saw the corpse of a pret
ty eight-year old American girl who
had been confined to her bed by dis
ease for nearly nine months, during
the whole of which time her former
teachers and fellow-scholars paid re
peated visits to her home, to inquire
after her health, and bring her little
presents of flowers, or whatever else
they thought might please her. These
visits were continued up to the week
of her death, and were a great happi
ness to the little school girl. Finally,
when death came, a trait of German
character was seen which must have
helped to soothe the deepest sorrow of
the parents. The little body was laid
out, and on the last evening before in
terment, when it was placed in the
little Gothic coffin, and after it had
been decorated with flowers, as it is
the German custom, a troop of young
girls were seen approaching the house
along the garden pathway. These
fellow scholars of the little American
girl then in her coffin, and what a
pleasantly sad surprise did they bring
to the parets ! Each girl held in her
hand a beautiful boquet of roses, and
after entering the room containing tho
corpse she approached timidly the lit
tle coffin, looked for a few moments
sadly on her little companion's face,
and deposited her boquet uponthe body.
When all had done this, scarcely a vis
tage of the white burial dress could be
seen, so completely did the flowers
hide it. Months had passed away
since the little deceased one had last
been among them, yet such is their
trianing and loving character that
they never forget a little schoolfellow
playmate. The cost of the flowers a
lone bought by these school children,
and by friends and neighbors, cou'd
not have amounted to much less than
seventy guilders—so many hoquets,
indeed, that the coffin itself would not
contain them.
CATCHING A TARTAR.
Gen. Jfonry Gracy, of Uionville,
wassupamaed to give testimony before
the Congressional Committee now sit
ting in this city, to investigate the
facts of the last election. From what
we hear, the General's testimony was
of a very unsatisfactory character,
lie was asked the cause of the vote for
Gen. Grant in his parish—only two
votes being received for the Radical
Electors.
The General answered that, as far as
he could learn from the negroes, the
reason they would not come to the
polls and vote, was because the Pro
vost Marshal, who came to the Parish
as a Radical organizer, had promised,
if they would vote for the Radical
ticket in the State election, to give
each one of them forty acres of good
land, a mule, plow, hoe, axe, and set
them up in the world. This promise
had not been kept, and therefore, the
negroes would not turn out for the
nominees of the party in the Novem
ber election.
Question—Who told you this was
the reason ? #
Answer—About five hundred of the
negroes themselves.
Question— Can you give the names
of any of these ?
Answer—Yes; Jerry, Jim, Bob, Big
Bill, Sqnint-eyed Joe, Bow-legged
George, Tom—
Mr. Stevenson—That will do. PJeae
give me their surnames.
Answer —They never had any ; at
least I never knew them by such.
Question—Have you not been a
prominent politician in this State?
Answer —No.
Question—Were you not a member
of the Legislature?
Answer—Yes, hut was never promi
nent.
Question—Were you not nominated
for ::ho United States Senate in opposi
tion to Mr. Benjamin?
Answer —Yes, I was voted for.
Qnestion—Did not this show that
you were a promineut politician?
Answer—No it showed that I had
•omo popularity ; not that I was the
proper man for the place, any more
than the votes received by Gen. Grant
proved that he was fit to be the Pres
ident of the United States.
"You can stand down, sir."
Thereupon the General retired, after
having been brought all the way from
Texas to give testimony before the
Committee.—AVw Orleans limes
Good place for birds—The city of
Worms,