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-d E,r salt* at - V
A. HOUSH-S Drug Store.
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of the most popw
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fine's Celeb rated .
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rn a nent cure.
jr the above men-
Vcy, am Unrivaled,
■> to fail when ad
:ordance with the
iented popularity
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ton, Pa. -
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the last Twenty |
•ill now giveiheir
and attention, to
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and liver P# |
occupy thejugh j
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if the they ;
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VOL. 5.
?HB ALTOONA TRIBUNE.
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paper.psr JW,. 6 00
Communications or a political character or Individual In
ttrMt will be charged according to the above rates.
Advertisements not marked with the number of insertions
desired. will be continued till forbid and charged according
to the above terms.
Business notices five cents per line for every insertion.
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/’
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EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS.
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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
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