RSHEY’s'~ == •BRAT£D Syrup, f. public. LAl ' of over TjfiJN lll« subscriber j. - V 1 m wldcbte^toj.. nUei s have "« pleasant and red for sain. °«*U4j prep^Z* Tlirpentine «•£'£ •» nnjr Shura, <! r "; n ; ni ‘ J *■ lint may take It.' lniU *Vtkn id ma.t gejjth* purgative. .< *a, in ta.se I'VfimKn tlwt Di. V . Cotlli !ti<>n of tha r} 0 I 1 " r '«K ehlidhood sLI ,KMt,r * Or f»f sickness, o r con«,il? T * J^ur i’a.v used it arc - • rference loamy E >£. 'H- A & pi 'w\ ff^?j s|j|d [iS£G teW-sar OVEMKNTJNGOOK. IvS 1 '- " lllcU M«*tkwii o|o tin* lkss fuel ;■ n im Binote a, that V* 1 " *’ "Iso consumed hiiuu ‘ , f , :: n "j ■‘i«i*Ror or A,,., At/* . I S...JJ or the mortar hai*nedby ,' stoves nre Invited to <•»]! .1 • ‘ Temple. a^," JOHN SIIOEMAKIS;* ■f. c yp>t/vr JtMr Cb,Mg. Iwlor Cwki*. ftmJ L _JAng.l2.lBin. GLIOE GAZETTE 1 ;’ f i ;'‘, hn r. an, l u, , ' ‘ l *> tlroulntod throughust . V,"' at Tr *"N, Criminal ; Hu’ Homo, together wm . ..ia-r;, Hot to l/o found In nu, annum, §1 f or sis month*, u ■ .wlio should wi ite tlieir m a,i : where thvT reside nlaliiiv i c. iv. MATS{fLT/*.Ocr^ 1W : ; ' v J "ih Police Oazette, -Vcip Yurk dig, . !•:!-> LYE, for ma. ■--aj. I’.nvder for AVushlfli. ©,,, m n Soap; Oatlle Soap/Klm •a Imti.l and for wile at A.ftousn-B. :u, SI'PEK-CAllBO iMw, \rlulling Soda, burhin’s -d E,r salt* at - V A. HOUSH-S Drug Store. ’Lane’s CRATED IFUG.fi >.* 15 I PILLS. e to call the atten c Trade, and!more Physicians of the of the most popw • before she public,. fine's Celeb rated . nd Liver Pills. commend them.as 11s, but simply for purports, viz-: - RMIFUGE, - rVorms from the It lias also been h the most satis j various Animals ns. -KR PILLS,, . [VER CoMPtVVJNTS, A NX EM ENTS, SICX. :. In cases of d Ague, after taking Qui : invariably make rn a nent cure. jr the above men- Vcy, am Unrivaled, ■> to fail when ad :ordance with the iented popularity ■roprietors, i Brothers? ton, Pa. - ir Drug business, .vc been success - " the last Twenty | •ill now giveiheir and attention, to . And being.de- | M’Lane’s wlc- j and liver P# | occupy thejugh j • hold among the if the they ; pare neither time , •ocuring the Best :crial, and CQn 1 " j c most thorough { s all orders to | S. Pittsburgh, P& js craoriog fro® ( j write tbejrord«S£t» pc.-o vesting BV®, of tti* t&V Can s4i svtxit t>6 icowr* f.. f "SIST ,1?) ■M ■ ,1 — - • : ■ -j i 'td *-■■■ M£SF ' WSmm. - -tr 040 Mm || ’■ • •-■ : - ■ <S/,TlSsSfl||HS ■' --^ : N ■■ ■ viSit. 1 AkjtL* 'jt£. ; ' I ■{■ ■ ■ ■ ; ■ H;;' . 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Obituary notices exceeding ten lines, fifty cents a square. p. a good, «. d. ■ j. m omxiu, m. 9. TARS. GOOD & GEMMILL HAV | / JXQ entered into Partnership in the Practice of Medicine, respectfully tender their services to the Public In the several branches of their Profession. Galls will be answered either day Or night at their office _which is the same as heretofore (jeeupied by Dra. Hirst d flood,—or at the Logan House. April 21st, 1859 am , W. M. LLOYD & CO., ALTOONA, PA., JOHNSTON, JACK & CO., HOLLWAYSBURG, PA n [Late "Sell, Johniton, Jack 4" Co.”) Drafts on the principal Cities, and Silver and Qold for sale. Collections mails. Moneys received on definite, payable on demand, without interest, or,upon time, with interest at Stir rates. Feb. 3d, 1859. r ANDS! LANDSII LANDS!!! I i The undersigned!* prepared to locate LAND WAE MNTB in the Omaha and Nebraska C|ty Land Offices.— Good selections can now be made near thi large streams and settlements. The lAnds of this lei ritory, now in Market, aru of thebost quality. \ tB- Selections carefully made. Letters cf Inquiry re quested. ALEX. i\ McRINNEV, Ouabqus, Cass County, N. Ter. July It, 1859.-tf REVEREHdIS: Rev. A. B. Clark, Altoona, Pa. WW. M. LtoTj) * Co, Bankers, Altoona, Pa. McCacxA.Dn», Editors, • “ Thob. A. Scow, Snpt. R. 8.8, “ D. McMcknU, Esq-, Huntingdon, ,Pa. T D. LEftT, ATTORNEY AT LAW fl . ALTOONA, BLAIR Co,Pa-, will practlcelaw ib the several Court* of Blair, Cambria, Huntingdon, Clearfield, Centro ami adjoining counties'.— Also in the' DUtrict Count of tho United State*. Collection* of claimaprttoiptly attended to. Agent for thesale of Heal Estate, Bpnnty Land' Warrants, and all -QMtsiness pottalnlug to conteyanclng and the law. R trots* czs: Hon. Wijmn MeCandJes'ahd Andrew Burke, Esq.. Pitts burgh; Horn Stunner A. Gilmore, Pres. Judge of Fayette J udiclal District; Hon. ChenardClemeus, of Wheel Hon HenryD.Foster, Greens burg; Hon. John W. Kiltinker, tabanon; Hon. Wm. A. Porter, Philadelphia;. and lion. George P. Hameiton, Pittsburg. June 16,1859-Iy. W R. BOYERS, T T • ATTOR&ET <t COUNSELLOR AtLAW, ALTOONA, BLAIR COUNTY, PA. Will practice In the several Courts of Blair, Cambria, Huntingdon and Indiana counties. Particular attention given to tbs collection of Claims, sod prompt remittances made. He speak* tits German language fluently, bar Office; for the present, with J. M. Cherry, £sq., op posite Kessler’s Drag Store. Altoona, August 4,1859. —tf . "VTOW FOR FITS!—THE SUB il scriher desires to Inform the citizens of Altoona that be has Just received his stock of FALL AW) WINTER CLOTHS, Which be is prepared to mate up to order on short.notice sad on as reasonable teraisf os any h other Tailor tn the place Altoona, Not. 17th, 1859. Boots and shoes.—the un derslgned has npw on band and will sell cheap at jits store in tbe Masonic .Tern* pie, a large and complete assortmentofßOOTlS AND SHOES, ready made, or made to' order, Overshoes, Ladies’ Sandals, Gum 'Shoes, Cork Soles, and everything id liU line of bmrinesa, of the best quality and. on the raostreaaonable terms. Ail niktom work warranted. J»u. 2, ’66-tf.] WM. 8. BITTNER, SURGEON DENTIST. fAFFICE IN THE MASONIC TEM \Y i’LE. [Dec. 23, ’58.-tf. £3“ A Student wanted. 1 DU. WM. |L FINLEY RE- > S BPECTFDI.LY offers his eeeVfees to the people of 'Altoona and the olning country. Ho. may be'found at the office heretolore oo copied .by Dr. O. D. Thomas. ■ Altoona, Sept. 30, X858.-tf B P. ROYER, M. D., • Offers W» professional aerviceato the citizens of Altoona and vicinity, " | 50ie best ofrelbronces can be given if.roqnlrcd. Office at realdehoe on'Bruch street, Bam Altoona, three doors aboreOonrlad’i Store. ! April 28’89-ly. Medicated fur chest prq. . TECTOB, A SAFE SHIELD AGAINST THOSE I diseases Bronchitla, Coughs, Colds, and other affec uaos of the LngsrwUeb arise ft-om the exposedstate of the according to fashion and the continnai changes ofout Climate, for sale at the Brag Store of « w KvStaxti MQ r e LIGHT! MORE LIGHT! Jnsl .arrivedat the store lof A. Roush, a splendid ” J N°, ; LWwaGO, which he Will sell at 31 eta per i?! 1 ?. •* ao * hit of Oarbon Oil Lamps of Jones Patent which are warranted to be superior to. any other kind. Altoona, N0r.24,,’69-tC OYES ! 0 YES I—GENTLEMEN draw ni«h and hear. JOSEPH F. TROUT mnonn *° the pnj.le, that he is ready to discharge hie duty ** an Auctioneer whenever called upon. fjan. 2 ’66. SPECTACLES AND-EYE PRESER y m for tale at [l-ttj KESSLER’S Q-LASS Bxlo TO 20x24, AND CUT VF to order by G. W. KESSLER. PURE WHITE LEAD AND ZINC P*h*> also Chrome. Green, Yellow, Paris Green, dry " P»nud oil at .I [L-tt] . KESSLER’S pAN RE BOUGHT At H. TUCH’S, A Co’s Patent Shoulder Seam Fine Shirts "**.9,1858. GELDING TOFF—4 LABG-B AB - «o 4 BJw«, ■ - * r * W V? S : JOHN O’DONNELL. 1 J. SHOEMAKER ; '. : r SAVING FUND. National TRUST Company. SAVING FUND. —NATIONAL SAFETY TRUST COMPANY:— ChaMduo) bi th» BIATt OF PZ-SSSYLTASU. , „ RULES. 1. Money 1* received every day, and in any amount, large or smalt 2. live pen czar, interest la paid for money from the day it to put in. ' > ' 8-The money is always paid back ip ootn, whenever it is called for, and without notice. 4. Honey :i* received from Exeeutort, AdmiftUbnUort, Guardfant, and other* who desire to have it in a place of perfect safety, and where internet obtained for it 6. Tho money received from depositors la. inveetod in Bui. Estate, Mortgages, Ground rctm, and such other first class securities as the Charter directs. 8. Office" Hours—Every day from 9 till 6 o’clock, and on Mondays and Thursdays till S o’clock in the evening. HONjH. X. BENNER, President. ■ ROBERT SELFRIDOE, Tice President. W. J. EKED, Secretary. DIRECTORS. Hemrt X. Renner, Francis Lee, Edward L. Carter, F. Carroll Brewster, Robert Seltridoe, > Joseph B. Rarrt, Samuel K. Ashton, Feeds, , C. Landreth Mcaics, Henrt Detfenderter. Office : Walnut Street, 8. W. Corner of Third St Phila delphia. April 14th, ’69-ly. Commonwealth Insurance Co., UNION BUILDINGS, 8d STREET, (p& 3 W- B. BOYERS, AGENT, ALTOONA. BLAIS COCNTT, PA. Chartered Capital 0300,000. INSURE BUILDINGS AND OTHER PROPERTY against Loss or Damage by Fire. Also against perils of the Sea, Inland Navigation and Transpor tation. DIRECTORS. Simon Cameron, Geo Bergner, W F Murray, Geo M Laumnn, ' Benjamin Parke, F K Boas, William Dock, ‘Wm liKepner, Jno H Berrvhill, Eli KUCer, A B Waribrd, Wm F Packer. James Fox, OFFICES S; SIMON CAMERON, President. > BENJ. PARKE, Tice President E. S. Secretary. Sept. 29,1859.-Ora PEN NS Y LVANIA INSURANCE COMPANY, af Piusddroh. W. it. BOYERS, AGENT, f ALTOONA, PA. Capital and Surplus over $150,000.00. DIRECTORS: Jacob Painted A A Carrier, Geo W Smith, Body Patterson, A J Jones, Wade Hampton, Henry Sproull N Toegbtiy, Robert Patrick, \C A Colton, 1 Orier Sproal, Jas H Hopkins. This Company has paid losses from the date of Its incor poration in 1854, up to. May, 1859, to amount of $302,835.07, in addition to regular semi-annual Dividends of from 5 to .15 per cent, affording evidence of its stability and useful ness. Zauri Liberally Adjutted and Promptly Paid. A. A. Carrier, Fret'C. I. Grier Sproul, Seely. CITY INSURANCE COMPANY, Office, 110. SOUTH FOURTH STREET, PHILADELPHIA.. W. H. BOYERS, AGENT, Altoona, Blair County, Pa. . Chabtze Perpetual. CapitA $200,000. Oboakized 1851. Insures from lost by Fire:— Household Goods, Buildings and Merchandize generally. , Insures Lives— During the Natural Life or <br Short Terms. Inland Insurance —On Goods, by Canal, Lakes and Land Carriage. ROBERT PERRY, Preft. H. K. Riohabmox, Vice Pres’L Ozo. C.IIEUOOU), Sec'y. [Sept. 29, ’59-6m American Life Insurance and Trust Co* Capital Stock, $500,000. Company Building, Walnut St., S. E. corner of Fourth Fhila. W. R. BOYERS. AG’T, altoona. LIFE INSURANCE AT THE USUAL MUTUAL BATES, OB AT JOINT STOCK BATES, AT ABOUT SO PER CENT. LESS, OB AT TOTAL ABBIXNANCB RATES, THE LOW EST IN THE WORLD. A. WHILLDIN, Prcs’t. 3. C. SI MfUS, Sedy. [Oct. 27th, 1859-ly. Blair county insurance AGENCY.—The > undersigned, Agent of the Blair County Mutual Fire . Insurance. Company, is at all tidies ready to insure agaihst loss or damage by fire. Budd ings, i&rdiandise. Furniture and Proparty, of every des cription, in town or country, at as 'reasonable rates as any Company in the State. Office with BellJJbhnston, Jack A Co. D. T. CALDWELL, dpwit Jan. 27, ’69-tf r*' Lycoming county mutual 'FIRE INSURANCE AGENCY.—The undersigned, agent of the Lycoming Mutual Fire Insurance Company, is at all times ready to insure against loss or damage by fire, Bmiding*, Herchandise, Furniture and Property of-every description, ip town or countiy, at as reasonable rates as any company in the State. Office in the Masonic Temple. Jaa.V6d-lf] JOHN SHOEMAKER, Agent. Great western insurance AND TRUST COMPAN Y —lnsurance on Beal or Personal property win- be effected on the most reasonable terms by their agents in Altoona at his office jl Anna St. March 17,1859. "JOHN SHOEMAKEB, Agent. TTNITED STATES LIFE INSUr BANCB Compuy. Agency, Anna Street, Altoona. . March 17> 1859. JOHN SHOEMAKER, Agent. j. g. adlijm; NOTARY P ÜBL 1C . , ALIENA, BLAIR 00, PA. Ou at all times be found at the store of J. B. HUeman. October 1.1857. UAHs ZtOAD LAJTDS VO 3Bt SALE, ON LQNO CREDIT, AND AT LOW BATES OF INTEREST rjIHE HANIBAL AND ST. JOSEPH ■ R AILROAD COMPANY. having over6oo,ooo ACRES of LANlMyiiig In the State of Missouri, which was grant ed, byAct of Congress, to aid In the construction oi tlieir Road, offer the principal portion thereof for sale, on tho most liberal terms. The greater part of these hinds are within six, and all within fifteen miles of the Railroad,’ which is now complo °f d o P* n for 088 throughout its entire length (206 miles,) and runt through a country which is nnanrlmsued by any in tho salubrity of its climate, the fertility of its. •»«. *“d the extent of its mineral resources. ■ For further information, applnat the Land'office of tho Companyvor address by letter, f JOSIAH HUNT, „ , ~ Land Commissioner, H. * St. Jo. R. B. Hannibal, Mo. y c p. 2, ’60.-ly> BAKER’S FLOUR.—A VERY SU article In Barrels and Sacks, for sale at the -juiDEL.” (Feb. 28, ’69eBt. aUEENSWARE, JUST RECEIVED. A largo and fashionabls assortment at tho store of " -V."' ; J BHILEMAN. ' A DL THE STANDARD PATENT J%. HMWCTJWB A* I-tf. Kmt*V9. SAFETY ■ v > ALTOONA, PA., THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1860. SWat Joftrg. TXIE PASTOR’S APPEAL.. . [Not lonjg since, nays the Editor of the Ladies’ Rtpoa w?re Mated outside of a circle of rood thougn cr rutg Christian mao, who were diicowing In a criticising, no M® say Carping state of mind, the merit*, or rather, de- paator and preacher. Thence they advanced to the IMUhge of ministers generally. Ie not tbit a bolt *P Which Christian men too often and too recklessly ln dnlge f The incident recalled to onr mind “ The Pastor’s Appeal,” by the author of Herbert Atherton. Here it it. We command it to all Christiana:] , Te who hare sat for weary years And criticised my voice and tone, And sorrowed that tbs word ofGcd By fiends so feeble tfiould be town; Uy Christian friends, a suppliant Tear pastor comes to yon, n»<» day, And asks yon, in the name of Christ, For fils immortal sonl to pray. \ Tempted without and weak within, Storm-tossM and tempest-driven, I straggle, ’mid wild waves of sin. .. To point to yon the shores of heaven. The very office that I bear ; Attracts the wily tempter’s eyes, For where there, floats a leader’s plums. There quick the foeman’s arrow flies. Although of all ray own dark sins I cannot tell the vast amount. For souls committed to my charge T shall be called to give account. Oh, Christ! an friends, will ye not heed • The solemn words 1 speak, this day. And for a blessing in Christ’s name Upon your pastor, humbly pray 1 Bifd Ipscellang. VALLEY POME. A LEGEND OF THE REVOLUTION, BT OKOEQB I.IPPAHD. Hidden away there in a deep glen, not many miles from Valley Forge, la quaint old farm house rose darkly over a wide waste of snow. It was a cold, dark winter, and the snow began to fall—while from the broad fire place of the old farm house, the cheerful blaze of massive logs flashed around a wide and spacious room. Two persons sat by that fire, a father and child. The father, who sits yonder, with a soldier’s belt thrown over his far mer’s dress, is a man of some fifty years, his; eyes bloodshot, his hair changed to an untimely gray, his face wrinkled and hol lowed by care, and by dissipation more than care. And the daughter who sits in the full light of the blaze opposite her father —a slenderly formed girl of some seventeen years, clad in the coarse linsey skirt and kerchief, which made up the costume of a farmer’s daughter, in the days of the Rev lution. She is not beautiful; ah no ! Care, perhaps that disease, consumption, which makes the heart grow cold to name, has been busy with that young face, shar pened in its outlines, and stamped with a deathly paleness. There is no bloom on that young cheek. The brown hair is laid plainly aside from keif pale brow. Then tell me what it is you see when you gaze in her faee ? You ; look at that young girl, and see nothing but the gleam of two large dark eyes, that burn into your soul. Yes, those eyes are unnaturally large, and dark and bright; perhaps consumption is feeding tlmm. And now then as the father sits there so moody and sullen, or the daughter sits there sp; sad and silent and pale, tell me, I bray you, the story of their lives. That man, Jacob Manheim, was a peace ful, happy man before the Revolution. — Since die war ho has become drunken and idle y driven his wife broken-hearted to the grave; and worse than all, joined, a band of tory refugees, who scoured the land at dead of night, burning and mur dering as they go. To-night at the hour of two, this tory band wjill lie in wait in a neighboring pass, to attack and murder the rebel Washing ton, whose starving soldiers are yonder in thC hats of Valley Forge. Washiogton, on his lonely journeys, is wojnt tof pass this farm house; the cut throats; are there in the next chamber, drinking and feasting, as they wait for two o’clock !at night. .. Andthe daughter Mary—for her name waC Mary; they loved that name in the gocjd old times-—what is the story of her bripf young life? Shohad been reared by her. mother, now dead and gope home, to revere this man Washington; who to-night will be attack ed juid murdered; to revere him next to Gcd. say, more ; that mother, on her joined the hands of a young partizah leader, Harry Williams, who now shades the crust and the cold at Valley Forge. J ■ 1 Well may that maiden’s qyo flash ifrith unnatural brightness, well may her pale face gather a single burningv flush in the centre of eaoh cheek.” If or yesterday afternoon, she went four milCs oyer roads of ice and snow, to tell Gapfc. Williams the plot of the refugees. She did not reach Valley Forge until Washington had left on one of Ilia lonely journeys; so this night at twelve the partf zan: captain will occupy the rooks above the neighboring pass, to trap the trapper of Charge Washington. [independent in everything.] ..Yea, that pale slender girl, remember ing the words of her dying mother, had broken through her obedience to her la- after a long and bitter straggle. How dark that struggle in a faithful daughter’s heart I She had betrayed his plot to his enemies, stipulating first for the life, and safety of her traitor father. And now, as father and child are sitting there, the shouts of the tory refugees echo from the next chamber; as the hand of the old clock is on the hour of ele ven ; hark, there is a sound of horses’ hoofs without the farm house; there is .a pause; the door opens; a tall stranger wrapped in a thick cloak white as snow, enters, advances to the fire, and, in brief words solicits some refreshments and an hour’s repose. Why does the tory Manheim start aghast at the sight of the stranger’s blue and gold uniform. Then mumbling something to his .daughter about getting some food for the traveller, rushes wildly into the next room where'his brother tories were feasting. Tell me, why does that young girl stand trembling before the tall stranger, veiling her eyes from that calm face, with its blue eyes and kindly smile ? Ah, if we may believe the legends of that time, few men, few warriors, who dared the terrors of battle with a smile, could stand unabashed before the solemn presence of Washington. For it was Washington, exhausted with along journey; his limbs stiffened and his face numbed with cold; it was the great rebel of Valley For->e, who, return ing to the camp sooner than his usual hour, was forced by the storm to take refuge in the farmer’s house, and claim a little food and an hour’s repose at bis hands. la a few moments, behold the stranger with his cloak thrown off, sitting at that oaken table, partaking of the food spread out there by the hands of the girl who now stands trembling at his side. And look ! Her hand is extended as if to grasp him by the arm ; her lips move as if to warm him of his danger, but jpake no sound. Why all this silent agony for the man who sits so calmly there? One moment ago, as the erirl in prepa ring the hasty supper, opened yonder clos et, adjoining the next room, she heard the low whispers of her father and the tories; she beard the dice-box rattle, as they were casting lots who should stab Washington in his sleep. And now the words, u Beware, on this night you die I” tremble, up on her lips, when her father comes hastily from the room and bushes her with a look. “ Show the gentleman to his ebamber, Mary;” (how calmly polite a murderer can be) “ that chamber at the head of the stairs, on the left. On the left, you mind.” Mary takes the light, trembling and pale. She leads the soldier up the oaken stairs The stand on the landing, in this wing of the farm house, composed of two rooms divided by thick walls from the main body of the mansion. On one side, the right, is the door of Mary’s chamber, on the other, the left, the cham ber of the. soldier, to him a chamber of death. For a moment Mary stands there trem bling and confused. Washington gazes upon that pale girl with a look of surprise. Look! She is about to warn him of bis danger, when, see there ! her father’s rough face appears above the bead of the stairs. “ Mary, show the gentleman into that chamber on the left. And look ye, girl, it’s late : you’d better go into your own room and go to sleep.” While the tory watches them from the head bf the stairs, Washington enters the chamber on the left, Mary the one on the right. . An hour passes. Still the storm beats on the roof; still the snow drifts on the hills. Before the fire, in the dim old hall of that farm house, are seven half-drunken men, with that tall tory, Jacob Manhicm, sitting in their midst; the murderer’s knife in his bands. For the lot hhd fal len on him. He is to go up stairs and stab the sleeping man. ■ ■ Even this half-drun ken murderer is pale at the thought; how the hnife trembles in his hand; trembles against the pistol-bar rel. The jeers of bis comrades rouse him to the work ; the light in pne Band, the knife in the other, he goes up stairs, he listens; first at the door of his daughter on the right, then at the door of the sol-' dier on the left. All is still. ' Then he places the light pn the floor; he enters the chamber on the left ; he ia gone a moment; silence 1 there is a feint groan. He comes forth again, rashes down the stairs, and stands there before the fire, with thohlpody knife in his bands. “ Look,” he shrieks, as he scatters the tied drops ever his comrades faces, over the hearth, into the fire. Look, it is his blood; die traitor Washington.” \ His oomiades gather round him with yells of joy; already, in fancy, they want the gold which will be theirs when 10, that stair dbor opens, there, without a wound, stands George 1 Wash ington, asking calmly for his horse. : - “ What !” shrieked the tory *p can neither, steel, hor bullet harm you ? Are you a Uviajg" witni shout ■ jwt :y The apparition drives him mad. He starts forward, he places his hands tremblingly upon the srina, the breast of Washington. Then he looks at the bloody knife, still clasped in his right hand, and stands there quivering is with a death spasm. 1 While Washington looks on in silent wonder, the door is flung open, the bold troopers from Valley Forge thronged the room, with the gallant form and bronzed visage of Captain Williams in their midst. At this moment the clock in the room struck twelve. Then a horrid thought crashed like a thunderbolt upon the brain of the tory Manhiem. He seizes the light—rushes to the room of hi s daughter on the right. Some one had just risen from the bed — the chamber was vacant. Then towards the room on the left, with steps of leaden heaviness. Look 1 now the knife quivers in his hand. He pauses at the door; he listens. His blood cardies in his veins'. Gathering courage he pushes open the door. Towards the bed; through whose curtains he struck s<f blindly a moment ago. Again he pauses-—not a.sound —stillness more'terrible than the grave. He flings aside the curtain. i There, in the full light of the lamp, her Voung form, but half covered, bathed in her own blood, there day his daughter Mary. And, do not look upon the face of her father, as he starts silently back, frozen to stone ] but in this pause of horror, lis ten to the mystery of this deed. After the father had gone down stairs, an hour ago, Mary silently stole from the chamber on the right, her soul shaken by a thousand fears.. She opened the door on the left, and beheld Washington sit ting by a table, on which worp spread a chart and a Bible. Then, though her ex istence was in the act, she asked him, in a tone of calm politeness, to enter the room on the right. Mary entered the chamber which he'left. I Can you imagine the agony of that girl’s soul, as lying on the bed intended for the death couch of she silently awaited the knife, although that knife might be clenched in a father’s hand. And now that father, frozen to stone, stood there, holding the light in one hand, the other still clenching the'red knife. There lay his child, the blood streaming from that wound in her arm, her eyes cov ered with a glassy film. “ Mary !” shrieked, the guilty father — for robber and tory as he'was he called to her, but that was all he could say. Suddenly she seemed to wake from that stupor. She sat up in the bed with glassy eyes. The strong hand of death was on her. As she sat there, erect and ghastly, the room was thronged with soldiers. — Her lover rushed forward and called her by name. No answer. Called again— spoke to her in that familiar tone of olden time ] still no answer. She knew him not. Yes it was true —the strong hand of death was upon her. “ Has he escaped?” she said, v in that husky voice. 1 ■ , “Yes!” shrieked the father. “Live Mary, only live, and to-morrow I will join the camp at Valley Forge.” Then that girl, that hero-woman—dying as she was, not so much from the wound ia her arm, as from the agony which had broken the last chord of life, spread forth her arms as though she beheld'a form floating there above the bed, beckoning her away. “ Mother !” she whispered, while there grouped the soldiers—there, with a speech less agony on his brow, stood the lover— there, hiding his face -with one hand, while the other grasped the light, crouch ed theTather—the light flashing over the dark bed,, with tne form in its centre—- “ Mother thank God I For my life I have saved him ” Look, even as starting on that bloody couch there, she speaks the half-formed word, her arms stiffen, her eyes wide open, set in death, glare in her father’s. face. She is dead. From the room her spirit has gone home. 1 That half-formed word; still quivering on jthe white Ups of the hero-woman— that uttered in a husky iwhisper, choked by the death rattle—that word Washington I I®* A Bey. gentleman, in the course of w lecture a sport time ago, told the fol lowing story as a hit at those kind of Christians #ho are too indolent to pursue the duties required of them by their faith. He says that one pious gentleman compo sed a Veryfervent prayer to the Almigh ty, wrote jit out legibly, and affixed the manuscript to his bed-post. Then, on cold hights, he merely pointed to the " docu toeut,” ahd with the words —“ Oh, Lord! those are my sentiments I”—blew out. the light, and nestled amid the blankets «n T what does the editor lick thd price current with ?” « Why, he don’t do it, my child.” tt Then he lies, pa.” "Hnsb, Tpjn! that is a very naughty word. : " r " Well, this ere paper says, "Pride Cur rent carefully corrected/’ hfljrwwd, X grid c- 1 -' J ■ ■ ■ EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS. ,1 . ! . ■*..AM«tcte Aiiw«p» The' Rot. Ralph Erkshire, on a oertai* OMwaiotijDsid a visit to his venerable brothel Eheneser. “O, man/' said the latter, « hut you. come in a gade time. I havea dlel of examination to-day, and ye maun tak’ it, as I hare matters V importance to settle at Peath.” “ With all nry heart,” quoth Ralph. “Noo,” says Ebeneser, “ye’ll and a’ my folks easy to examine but ane, and bint I reckon ye bad better na meddle wi*.— He has on old foabioned Scotch way o’ answering ane question: by patting anoth er, and may be ne’ll affront ye.’’ “ Affront me,” the indignant the ologian, “do ye think ho can foil me wi’ my ane tools?” “ Aweel,” says bis brother, “ I’se gieye fair warning, ye had better na oa’ himup.” The reonssont was one Walter Simpson, the vulcan of the parish. The gifted Ralph determined to silenee him* at once with a leading unanswerable question.— Accordingly, after patting a variety of simple preliminary interrogatories to the miner clodhoppers, he at once, with aloud voice cried out: “ Walter Simpson !” “ Here, sir!” says Walter, “an yc wanting'me ?” f “ Attention, sir I Now, Walter, can you tell me how long Adam stood in a state of innocence ?” “ Aye, till he got a wife," instetij cried the anvil hammerer}, but caa you tell me how long he stood after V* “Sit down, Walter,”’cried the discom fited Divine. Dephived oe the Gospel bt Faxts. —That was a novel but not so had an ar gument which the mountain member urged in the Kentucky Legislature. A few years ago, a bill propoaing a pre mium on fox scalps was under discussion. It had been somewhat roughly handled in debate by members from the more popu lous regions, where foxes were scarce, and Mr. L , from one of thfe mountain counties rose to reply. I give only his peroration : “ And are we, Sir. Speaker—we of the mountain regions—not only to witness the annual destruction of our crops, but actu ally to bo deprived by these vanpinta of the consolation o/ religwn ?" This woke the House up, and set it agape for an explanation. He continued: “ You know, Mr. Speaker, that we live in a rough country; that your fancy churches—your Preahyterians and Epis copalians—never send preachers among ns. We depend for the Gospel upon the circuit-riders of the Methodist onuxoh; and, sir, everybody knows that theyeau not be induced to travel where there are no obicKens, and that chickens cannot he raised where foxes abound!” Tbe argument was- unanswerable, and the bill became a law. JUST When, young Hodge first came up to town, bis father, told Him it would be polite, when being helped at dinner, to say to tbe host, “Half that if you please/’ It so happened that, at the first’dinner td which he was invited, a suckling pig was one of the dishes. The host pointing with his knife to the young porker, asked, " Well Mr. Hodge, will you have opr favorite dish* or a hunch of mutton f i> — Upon which recollecting his lesson, he re plied “ Half of that if you please,” to.the consternation of all present. tSF" Dean Swift, in traveling oiice, call ed at a house. The lady of the mansion; rejoiced to. have so. great a guest, with much eagerness and flippancy asked him what he would have for dinner. “Will you have an apple pie, or a gooseberry pie, sir, or a cherry pie, Or a plum pie, or pigeon pie ?” “ Any pie, madam, but a magpie,” replied the Mean in his psnal dry, sarcastic manner. IQ* At a late trial the defendant, who was not familiar with the number of words employed to .make a trifling offence, after listening awhile to the reading of the in dictment, jumped up and said : “ Them ere allegations is false, and that ere alligator knows it.” Newton’s nephew was a clergyman. When he had performed the marriage ceremony for a couple, he always refused the fee, saying, . u Go your ways, poor devils; I have done yon mischief enough already.” Scientific Governess, log.—My dear, if you puncture this ball, it will ooi-~ lapse. Do you understand me / Little Boy- —Oh yes. Yon mean if I-- prick it, ’twill go squash. . WST If you don't wish to jet singly;- never argue with a blockhead. jjememCfef the duller the razor the more yon huh yourself. Stuff your pockets With mackerel end imagine . M hojeftri member of Ap ■■ , ‘ :iM NO. 12.
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