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Weakness of the Back TS I n“ tnr", Affections of the Kidneys and B ad ■; , Dtoiualary Discharges, Imputency, Generall Debility, ' ‘ Dvspepay, Languor. Low Spirits. Confusion, ,sa® lb II«A.Ti-lditrvT^niblings. of Sight or Giddiness. Disease of the Held. Throat Nose or^Skin. Affect ions of the Liver. Lungs. Stom-: d r Buvrels-tlinse Terrible disorders arising from the tiiurv Habits of Vouth-those secuet and solitary prac-; < more fatal to thcii victims than the song of Syrens to & Mariners of Ulysses, blighting their most brilliant t pP s or anticipations, rendering marriage. Ac., impossi-j YOUNG MEN Ciiwcisllv. who have become the victims of Solitary Vice, i ■ dreadful and destuctivi. habit which annually sweeps ; ! :I;„tTi,n‘i; g .ave thousands of Young Men of the most ■ skilled talents and brilliant intellect, who might other vii-e have entranced listening Senates with t ‘e thunders of eltspience, or waked to ectasy the living lyre, may call #. i»l* full confidence MARRIAGE -Harriett J‘ei>on», or Vonng Men cotempinting marriage, lifiag aware of physical weaknets, organic debility, defer imty. if., speedily enred. _ lie wbi) places hiiiuelt under the care of Dr. ,T. may re .ifii.usly confide in lii» honor .us a gentleman, and confi dently relv upon his skill as a physician. ORGANIC WEAKNESS Immediately Cured, and full Vigor Restored. I This Distressing Affection—which renders Life miserable and marriage impossible—is the 1 penalty paid by the victims of improper indulgences. - Young persrns are to apt to commit excesses from not being awaie of the dread-- fid consequences that may ensue,. Now. who that under-' -tamls the subject will pretend to deny that the power of procreation is lout sooner by llin-e falling into improper Imhils than by tho prudynt; Besides being deprived the pleasures of healthy offspring, the most serious and del -tractive lo both body and mind arisen Tho system become* Deranged, the Physical ami Mental Func tions Weakened. Los- of Procreative Power. Nervous Irri tability. Dyspepsia, Palpitation of the Heart. Indigestion* Constitutional Debility, a Wasting of the Frame. Cough, Consumption, Decay and Death. OFFICE, NO. 7 SOUTH FREDERICK STREET, Lof* hand side going Baltimore street, h few doors from the corner. Fail not to observe name and number Letters must be paid and contain a stamp. The Doc* i.ir’s Diplomas hang in his office. A CURE WARRANTED IN TWO DAYS jVo Mercury or Xust/nis Drugs. DR. JOHNSON, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London. Grad uate from one of the most eminent Coll -ges in the Uuihd Suites, and the greater part of whose life has been spent 1b the hospitals of L*-nlon, Paris, Pbi:& ;e!phia and else where, has effected some of the most astonishing euros that were ever known; many troubled with ringing in the hwvl and ears when asleep, great nervousness, being alarmed, at sudden sounds, bashfulness, wifh frequent blushing, attended sometimes with derangement of mind, were cured immediately. TAKE PARTICULAR NOTICE Dr. J. addresses 0.11 those who have Injured themselves bv improper indulgence and solitary habits, which, rain both body and mind, unfitting them fur either business, dudy. society or marriage. These are some of the sad and melancholy effects piV ■laced by early habits of youth, viz: Weakness of the Back and Limbs, Pains in the Head, Dimness of Siglft,. boss of Muscular Power, Palpitation of the Heart. Dys popsy, Nervous Irritability. Derangement of the Diges tive Functions, General Debility, Symptoms of Consunip lion.'4C. . MiJfTALLT.—The fearful effects of the mind are much, to bo dreaded—Loss of Memory, Confusion of Ideas, De pression of spirits, KribForebodings, Aversion to Society. MHMstrust. Love of Solitude, Timidity, Ac 4 are some’ of the evils produced. Thousands of persons of all ages cap now judge what Is the cause of their declining health, losing their vigor, be- Mining weak, pale, nervous and emaciated, having aa3n cular appearance about the eyes, cough and symptoms of consumption. YOUNG MEN Who have injured themselves hy a certain practice-in dulged in when alone, a habit frequently learned from • viV companions, or- aV school, the effects of which are nightly felt, even whei&sleop, and if not cured renders marriage huposible, and destroy* both mind and body, ■should apply immediately. Whut a pity that a young man, the hope of hl» country, the darling of his parents, should be snatched from-all prospects and enjoyments of life, by the consequence of deviating from the path of nature, and indulging iu a certain secret habit. Such persons vest, before contem plating MARRIAGE, reflect that a sound ralud and body are the most necessary requisites to promote connubhl happiness. Indeed. w|th out these, the journey through’life becomes a weary pil grimage; the prospect hourly darkens to the view; Xhe ralnd becomes shadowed with despair and filled with the melancholy reflection that the happiness ot another come* blighted with our own. DISEASE OF IMPRUDENCE. ! When the misguided and imprudent votary of pleasure fitiito that he lias imbibed the seeds of this painful dis t'Me, it too often happens that nn ill-timed sense of shame. ■' r dread of discovery, deters him from applying to those who, from education and respectability, can alone be friend him, delaying till the constitutional symptoms of this hnrrid disease make their appearance, such as ulcera ted s.»re throat, diseased nose, nocturnal pain a in the head *uid dimness of sight, on the shin hone* and arms, blotches on the head, lace 'and extreml- progressing with frightful rapidity, till at lost the palate of the mouth or the bones of the nose fall in, and v icti«n of thl* awful disease becomes a horrid - object of lj, mnnBffation, HU death puu a period to his dreadful '■ufferlngs, by sending him t* •* that Undiscovered Country no traveller returns.” \ . ft » a m/Jancholy fact that thousands fall victim* to •h« terrible disease, owing to the unskillfulness of igno-. pretenders, who. by the use of that Deadly Ftiisotu •*frreury. ruin the constitutions and make the residde of Im* miserable. STRANGERS Trust not your lives, or health to the care of the many bnlearijed and Worthless Pretenders, destitute of khowl name or character, whi copy Dr-Johnston’s adver laments, or style - themselves, in the ’ newspapers, regu •v Educated Physicians, incapable of Curing, they keep Rifling mouth after month, taking their filthy and /Jfconons compounds, or as bmp ns the smallest fee; caa t ami In despair, leave you with ruined health over your galling disappointment. {"• ms credential or diplomas always hang in'his office, i reD,M *^ 8 or * r,JMt, Dent are unknown ta all'others, a »pent in the great hospitals of Kurope. ‘ l /^ t In the country ami a more extensive Private Prac w lhaa *oy pther Physician In the world. ■ INDORSEMENT OF THE PRESS. “i‘ ny thnnl,aml “ 'if®! at.ihia institution. year after il ,, *. numer “ lla lm l> < >'tant SurgicaL operations I normal by Johnston, witm-ae.i by the reporters of the KWh I, Chf>pcr ” » n <l many othT papers, notices of h«l a* . vr a PPeared again ami again before Hie public, aannSLH 1 -! s - , “ TI ' 1,n F «» a gentlemen of character arid re " ** » sufficient guarantee to the afflicted. SKIN DISEASES SPEEDILY CURED.V letw!! '? 8 cT it l nE !''■ particular in directing‘their to tala Institution, in the following manner: .. J°«N «• JOHNSTON. M. P«, Uf the Baltimore Lock Hospital, Maryland. .11. C. DKEX U 00 10 00 20 00 14 00 io oo 40 00 1 75 25 00 10 00 oMti A BEAUTIFUL PICtiuRE. And ofi. wbea.churcb wijw done I marked That little maiden near £*hia pleasant spot, with book in band Ak jrou are sitting here — She read Ibe story of the Cross. And wept with grief sincere. Years rolled away—and I beheld The child,to woman grown; Her cheqk was fairer, and her eve With brighter lustre shone ; But childhood’s truth and innocence Were still the maiden’s own. I never raiu a merrier peal Than when, a joyous bride, She stood beueatti the sacred porch. A uobie youth beside, And plighted him her maiden troth, In maiden love and pride. I never tolled a deeper knell. Than when in after ygars They laid her in the church-yard here, Where this low mound appears— (Tho very grave, my boy, that you Are waterlog now with tears!) It is ihy moUter / gentle boy, That claims this tale of mine— Thou art a flower whose fatal birth Destroyed the parent vine! A previous llower thou art my child— Two lives were given for thine! One thy sainted mother's when She gave thee mortal birth; And one thy Saviour’s, wheajn death. He shook the solid earth ; % Go! boy, and live as may befit Thy life’s exceeding worth!” The boy awoke, as from a i|rcam, And thoughtful, looked around, Dut nothing saw', save at his feet His mother’s lowly mquud, And bj his side that ancient hell llalthidden in the ground! IfiSfelknjj- BATTLE OF A BULL AND A GRIZ ZLY BEAR. In Harper’s Magazine for May there is a thrillingly interesting narrative of " A Dangerous Journey,” by a lone traveler, (a revenue officer,) from San Francisco south to San Luis' Obispo. The incident occurred in 1849, when, there was little law or government in that part of the world. The officer had lost his mule, and was on foot when he witnessed the fight. Here is his story of it: After losing my mule, I had proceeded on foot a couple of miles, when I discov ered that a latge band of Spanish cattle, w'hich had been visible for some time in the distance, began to close in toward the line of my r route, evidently with the inten tion of cutting me off. Their gestures were quite hostile enough to inspire a sol itary footman with uneasiness. A fierce looking bull led the way, followed by a lowing regiment of stags, steers, and cows, crowding one upon theother in their furi ous charge. As they advanced, the leader occasionally stopped to tear up the earth and shake his horns; but the mass kept crowding on, their tails switching high in the air, and uttering the most fearful bel lowing, while they tossed their horns and ] stared wildly, as if in mingled rage and astonishment. 1 had heard too much of the wild cattte of California, and their hostility to ware men on foot at this season ,of the year, not to become at once sensible of my dangerous position. The nearest tree was half a mile to the left, on the mar-gin of a dry creek. There was' a grove of small oaks winding for some distance along the banks of the creek; but between the«spot where I stood and this place of security scattering bands of cattle were grazing. However, there was no time to hesitate upon a choice of difficulties. Two or three hundred wild cattle rushing furiously toward one in an open plain assist him in coming to a very rapid conclusion. 1 know of ho position in which human strength is of" so little avail—the tremendous aggregation of brute force opposed to one feeble .pair of arms seems so utterly irresistible. I confess instinct lent me a helping hand in this. Scarcely conscious of the act, I ran with all my might for the nearest tree. The thundering of heavy hoofs after me, and the furious bellowing that resounded over the plain, spread a contagion among the grazing herds on the way, and. with one accord they joined in; the chase. It is in no spirit of boastfulness that I assert the j fact, but 11 certainly made that half-mile | in as few minutes as ever the same dis i tance was make by mortal man. When I j reached the tree I looked back. The ad vance body of the cattle were within a hundred yards, bearing down in a whirl wind of dust. I lost no time in making my retreat secure. As the enemy rushed in, tearing up the earth, and glaring at me with their fierce, wild eyes, I had i gained the fork of the tree, about 'six feet i from the ground, and felt very thankful 1 that I was beyond theii- reach. Still i there was something fearful in being block- ALTOONA, PA., THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1862. acted in such.a place for the night. An intolerable thirst parched my throat. The effects of the exertion were scarcely per*. ceptible at first, but as I regained my breath it seemed impossible to exist an hour longer without water. In this val ley the climate ■ is so intensely dry daring the Summer heats, that the juices of the system are quickly absorbed, and the skin becomes like a sheet of parchment. My head felt as if i compressed in a band of iron ; my tongue was dry and swollen.— I would have given all I possessed, or ever hoped to possess, for a single glass of water. While in this position with the pros pect of a dreary night before me, and suf- fering the keenest physical anguish, a very singular circumstance occurred to relieve me of further apprehension respecting the cattle, though it suggested a new danger for which I was equally unprepared. A fine young bull had descended the bed of the creek in search of a water-hole.— While pushing his way through the bushes he was suddenly attacked by a grizzly bear. The struggle was terific. I could see the tops of the bushes away violently to and fro, and hear the heavy crash of drift-wood as the two powerful animals writhed in their fierce embrace. A cloud of dust rose from the spot. It was not distant over a hundred yards from the tree in which I had taken refuge. Scarcely two minutes elapsed before the bull broke through the liushes. His head was cov ered with blood, and great flakes of flesh hung from his fore shoulders; but instead of manifesting signs of defeat, he seemed literally to glow with defiant rage. In stinct had taught him to seek an open space. A more splendid specimen of an animal I never saw; lithe and wiry, yet wonderfully massive about the combining the rarest qualities of strength and symmetry. For a moment he stood glaring at the bushes, his head erect, his eyes flashing, his nostrils distended, and his whole form fixed and rigid. But scarcely had I time to glance at him when a huge bear, the largest and most formida ble I had ever saw in a wild state, broke through the opening. A trial of brute force that baffles des cription now ensued. Badly as I had been treated by the cattle, my sympathies were greatly in favor of the bull, which seemed to me to be much the nobler animal of the two. He did not wait to meet the charge but lowering his head, boldly rushed upon his savage adversary. The grizzly was active and waiy. He no sooner got with in reach of the bull’s horns, than he seized them in his powerful. grasp, keeping the head to the ground by main strength, and the tremendous weight of his body, while he bit at the nose with his teeth, and raked stripepiof flesh from his body with his hind pawp. The two animals must have been of very nearly equal weight.— On the one side there was the advantage of superior agility and two sets of weap ons—the teeth and claws; but on the other greater powers of endurance and more in flexible courage. The position thus as sumed was maintained for some time—the bull struggling desperately to free his head while the blood streamed from his nostrils —the bear straining every muscle to drag him to the ground. No advantage seemed to be gained on either side The result of the battle evidently depended on the merest accident. As if by mutual consent, each gradually' ceased struggling, to regain breath, and as much as five minutes must have elapsed while they were locked in this motionless but terrible embrace. Suddenly the bull, by one desperate effort, wrenched his head from the grasp of his adversary, and re treated a few steps. The bear stood tip to receive him. I now watched with breathless interest, for it was evident that each animal had staked his life on the issue of the conflict. The cattle from the surrounding plains had crowded in, and stood moaning and bellowing around the combatants; but as if withheld by terror, none seemed disposed to interfere. Ren dered furious by his wounds, the bull now gathered up all his energies, and charged with such impetuous force and ferocity that thp bear, despite the most terrific blows with his paws, rolled over in the dust, vainly struggling to defend himself. The lunges and thrusts of the former were perfectly furious. At length by a sudden and well-directed motion of his head, he got one of his horns under the bear’s belly and gave it a rip that brought out a clot ted mass of entrails. It was apparent the battle must soon end. Both were griev ously wounded, and neither cotrid last much longer. The ground was torn up and covered with blood for some distance around, and the panting of the struggling animals became each moment heavier and quicker. Maimed and gory, they fought with the" desperate certainty of death—the bear rolling over and over, vainly striking out to avoid the fatal horns of his adver sary—the bull ripping, thrusting, and tearing with irresistible ferocity. At length as if determined to end the conflict the bull drew bade, lowered his head, and made one tremendous charge; but blinded by the blood that trickled down his forehead, he missed his mark, fINDEPENDENT IN EVERYTHING.] and rolled headlong on the ground. In an instant the bear whirled and was upon him. Thoroughly invigorated by the prospect of a speedy victory, he tore the flesh in huge inasses from the ribs of his prostrate foe.. The two rolled over and over in the terrible death struggle; noth ing was now to be seen save a heaving, gory mass, dimly perceptible through the dust. A few minutes would certainly have terminated the bloody strife, so far as my favorite was concerned, when, to my astonishment, I saw the bear relax in his efforts, roll over from the body of his | prostrate foe, and drag himself feebly a | few yards from the spot. His entrails i had burst entirely through the wound in his belly, and now lay in long strings over the ground. The next moment the bull erect and fierce as ever. Shaking the blood from his eyes, he looked around, and seeing the reeking mass before him, low ered his head for the final and most des perate charge. In the death-struggle that ensued both animals seemed animated by supernatural strength. The grizzly struck out wildly, but with such destructive en ergy that the bull, upon drawing back his head, presented a horrible and ghastly spectacle; his tongue, a mangled mass of shreds, hanging from his mouth, bis eyes tom completely from their sockets, and his whole face stripped to the bone. On the other hand, the bear was ripped com pletely open, and writhing in his last ag onies. Here it was that indomitable courage prevailed; for blinded and maimed as he was, the bull, after a momentary pause to regain bis wind, dashed wildly at his adversary again, determined to be vic torious even in death. A terrible roar escaped from the dying grizzly. With a last frantic effort he sought to make his escape, scrambling over and over in the dust. But his strength 'was gone. A few more thrusts from the savage victor and he lay stretched upon the sand, his muscles quivering convulsively, his huge body a resistless mass. A clutching mo tion of the claws—a groan—a gurgle of the throat—and he was dead. The bull now raised his bloody crest, uttered a deep bellowing sound, shook bis horns triumphantly and slowly walked off not, however, without turning every few steps to renew the struggle if necessary. — But his last battle Was fought. As the blood streamed from his wounds a death chill came over him. He stood for some time, unyielding to the last, bracing him self up, his legs apart, his head gradually drooping; then dropped on his fore-knees and lay down; soon his head rested upon the ground; his body became motionless; a groan, a few convulsive respirations, and he too, the noble victor, was dead. During this strange and sanguinary struggle the cattle, as I stated before, had gathered iii and around the combatants. The most daring, as if drawn toward the spot by the smell of blood or some irresis tible fascination, formed a circle within twenty or thirty yards, and gazed at the murderous work that was going on with startled and terror-stricken eyes; but none dared to join in defence of their champion. No sooner' wits the battle ended, and the victor and the vanquished stretched dead upon the ground, than a panic seized the excited multitude, and by one accord they set up a wild bellowing, switched their tails in the air, and started off full speed for the plains. I was thus fortunately re leased from imprisonment in the tree, and continued my journey towards San Mi guel. A man in a Federal uniform, says the Huntsville (Ala.) Democrat of the 9th, rode into Fayetteville, Tenn., on Sunday last, conversed freely with the citizens, said he belonged to an Ohio Regiment, al lowed a citizen, who asked permission to examine his gun, removing the cap before handing it to him, dined at a tavern with his gun on his lap at the table, had his horse fed and left. The citizens thought him one of Morgan’s men notwithstanding his representation. A short time after, however, they were undeceived. Coming four or five miles on the coad to Hunts ville, he overtook an old white man with four negroes, and three wagons of bacon; he forced them to drive their wagons dose together, put fodder under them, take out the mules and retire a few steps. Then, lighting a match, he set fire to the wagons, consuming them and their contents. - Riding to a church, a few miles distant, where preaching was, he asked the preach er if any soldiers were there, and saying that if there were he wanted them. Re ceiving a negative answer, he rode away, | and crossing the road ten miles this side ,of Fayetteville with two other Federate. This is the last we heard of them. The owner of the bacon and wagons returned to Fayetteville, with his negroes and mules, ! and related his misfortune. Several men went in pursuit of the bold marauders, but failed to find them. WONDER AT A BOLD YANKEE. CT A little boy, a few days since while coming down stairs, was cautioned by his mother not to lose hie balance. His ques* tion which followed was a puzzle : “ Mother, if I shqyld lose my balance, where would it go tot” CtmULATIH’ A BEEHIVE. BT CAPTAIS JERE WILLIAMS, “ Boys, I know where there is a Secesh bee-hive,” said Jack Philips, one; dull morning, while we were quartered on Cheat Mountain Summit “ Where is it ?” asked ope of his two hearers. “ If you’ll promise to go along and help ’cumulate it. I’ll tell you.” “ Count me one,” said Jed Wicks. “Count me half a dozen, if you want that many,” said BUI Beese. “ But I’ll tell you, boys, it’s down at Robinson’s, on Cheat river, and worse than that, it’s in the kitchen loft; and still worse, he has two all-fired cross blood hounds.” . “Come to think,” said Jed Wicks, “I havn’t time to go.” “I never agreed to go,” said Bill Reese. “ Look-a-here, feUers, I tell you we can ’cumulate that ’ere honey, and ef you fel lers are afeored to go, I can find somebody that ain’t.” “This left hander at their courage set them to warding off other excuses. , ' “ I’m not afeered to go,” said Jedjbut may be Robinson is a Union man, aM it wouldn’t do, you know.” ; “ Not by a denied sight, he ain’t." He’s one of these cussed neutral Secesh that’s ten times wuss than an out-and-outer.— ile carries news to Greenbrier camp, and I’ll prove it on him afore a week.” - “ But, then,” interposed Bill, “we can’t get past the camp guards; and if we could it looks a little to much like stealin.” , “ Gittin’ a past the guards ain’t common amusement,” said Jack, “just say you’ll, go, and the honey is ourn. And as, to the moral pint, we’ll go ’cordin to law and custom, you know. Fust, demandin' of the Secesh bees to take the oath, .they re fusin’, we arrest them and confiscate their property. All fair and legal, you see. — What’s stealin’ in times o’ peace is confis catin’ and ’cumulatin times o’ war. For stealin’ you git promoted. So, you:feee, in a moral pint of view it’s intirely different.” Their qualms of conscience being thus satisfactorily disposed of, and Jack having insured their hides against the hounds, they agreed to go if hC would get a pass to take them through the guard lines. “ Come right along, then,” said Jack, and they followed him to a remote beat, where was walking, to and fro, a Gorman sentinel, who could not read English.— After the usual challenge jack advanced, and drawing from the folds of his pocket book a crumpled paper, read as follows: Camp Cheat Mountain Summit,) ,• October 18, 1861. ; j The guard will pass the bearer, and two comrades, mi very important business. Brig. Gen. Mxlboy. The German understood none of this, except the name and title of the General, and Jack, to prevent him from calling a corporal of the guard, looked very impor tant, and made him understand that the General wished the expedition kept a pro found secret. The sentinel deferentially slipped aside, and they passed in. “ How in the dickens did get that pass,. Jack?” inquired Bill. “Pass be hanged! It was nothing but a little note Robinson sent up to thie Gen eral t’other day by me, about the boys a stealin’ from him. Yes, I give it to him much.” “ But what does He note say ?” eagerly iniquired Bill. “ Why, it says as how if the General ’lows any of the soldiers to come, stealin’ about him, his dog shouldn’t leave bar nor : hide on ’em. He done it to skeer me, as 1 he noticed me a eyein’ his bee-hive. I tuk the hint and the note, and told him ! like as not some of the' boys would be down this very day, and mebbe stqal his bee-hive or somethin’; says he, ‘do you see them ? pintin’ at his dogs. Says I, ‘1 believe I see ’em.’ Says he, ‘oneo’ them will tear the hind legs off a man the fust jerk, ef I tell ’em to.’ Says I, .‘keep a sharp look out,’ and mentioned to him 'specially to keep his eyes peeled to-day.” Bill and Jed stopped. “Jack,” said Bill, “my opinion is you’re tryin’ to git us into an infernal scrape.” “Nary time, fellers; nary time. Ijist wanted the Secesh cuss to understand that Jack Philips can ’cumulate that bee-hive if him and his dogs was a straddle of it. I tell you, ’pon honor, that I have the ropes all laid, and that bee-hive is as good as burn without ary scratch. I’ll manage Robinson and the dogs myself; they shan’t as much as look toward you.” After some further assurance they pro ceeded, and when. they approached the house they crept quietly through the laurel to make a reconnoisance. There sat Rob inson in the very door through which they would have to pass in order to reach the bee-hive, and by the doorsteps lay the two ferocious dogs- Appearances, certainly, were not very promising, hut Jack quietly remarked, “ all right, old feller.” “ Now, Bill,” said be, “ you mid Jed re main here, silent and stQl» until Jon bear me boiler, and then double quick in, wrap a blanket around the bee-hive and bring it into the laurel up the point. . Yflh needn't be a afeered of Robinson and. the dogs, they’ll be ’tended to.” EDITORS AND PROPMETOSS. About two hundred yards fcoßkthe house was a footway acroesthe>river, that part farthest from the house being a sLpgte. plank. The water was three or four feet deep, swift and cold, and the banks quite bluff. In about a half an hour front the time Jack left his friends, Robinson was startied by hearing a squawking in. the direction of the bridge, and looking up, haw jack crossing the river with a chicken under his arm. 1 “Hold on, there, you infernal scoun drel !” he shouted, “ or I’ll set the dogs on you. Here Tiger, here Maj 6,” and he and the dogs started on a run. “ ’Tain’t none of your chickens, “shout* edJack, feigning fright, “I bought it down at the widder’s.” “ Hold on, I tell you!” shouted the en raged Robinson, “ and't’ll see whose it is, you Yankee thief.” Jack stopped at the turther end of the foot-way, and stood/with his toe under one end of the plank, while Robinson advanced from the other, shaking his fist and ex claiming : “I’ll teach to come here steelin', you pilferin’, Rehouse 1 Jack had dexterously thrown the end of the plank sidewise, and Robinson mid the dogs were floundering, and fighting, and climbing over each other in four feet of water/ Jack gave a loud shout, took to his heels, and, at the appointed rendezvous found his comrades with a hive of rich honey.— WiUxtf Spirit. POSTAL IHCIDEHT. A young man from the^-rural district went to the post office the other day with a bank-note for a dollar’s worth of stamps. He was told that paper money was notre ceived. He went for Spanish quarters. “We don’t receive them now,” said the attendant, “for more than twenty rants apiece. The countryman thought Uncle Sam mighty particular, so he went and obtained a dollar’s worth of coppers. “Now,” said he, on returning to the office, and laying down bis pile on the window of the delivery, “ I guess 1 can suit you.” The man inside looked at the display of coppers, and coolly-replied: “ We never take more than three cents iii copper at one time—it is not a legal tender above that sum.” The countryman looked at the compand official for the space of a minute without stirring, and then belched out: “Ldok here, you!—ain’t you almighty . kind of particular, for fellows backed up in such a jail as this’ere? You don't take only three cents of copper at a time, hey ? Well, then, ?’pose you give me three cents worth of stamps anyhow.’’ The official very politely cut him off a single stamp, and passed it out, forwhieh the countryman laid down three cents.— \ He was about to pass away, when the lat ter cried out: . “ Look here, you 1 That'ere’s one time. Now s’pose-you give me three centa woxth more on ’em!” Uncle Sain’s clerk was not slow in dis covering that he had caught a Tartar. He turned back to the window, and asked: “ How many coppers have you got?’*' “ Well, only about ninety-seven of'em. I had a hundred when I begun.” “ Pass them in,” was the gruff reply. “Pass out your stamps fust, and then I will; but I reckon you won’t ketch me again.” The stamps were passed out and the cop pers handed over, when the countryman went off, saying: “S’pose because a fellow holds office under Unde Sam he thinks he’s smartttte all creation; but I guess theyleam’tsome thing that-time.” Sad Tales, —Correspondence has been freely resumed with loyal men inandi ptirts of Tennessee as have been re-opeppd to civilization by the Union troops. Clergy men especially are getting to be commtini cative, and sad, very sad, are the' teles some of them have to tell. One of them (an Episcopalian) writes to tbe Church Journal to say: “My salary has-been entirely stopped. For the last month or two I have been getting only from one to three dpQars a week for my services as pastor, tUs bdpg the amount of the Sunday onertory. ’ S<e»- sides this 1 have a little 'school, but It does not yield me enough to pay my rent My family consists of a wife amd six nnpbi children. From this statement yog may judge what are my prospects- In Grotfs gracious providence only have I hope. O may the Lord send us a speedy peace." Another writes: “ these themes have » fiUed aJI. tbgpp pers, religious as well as had well nigh come $0 the religion had been absorbed by politics. O what a reirpeus dearthpregails horai” - these d*y» when ionable female dreaaes, a be thankful to the lady who may the contoote. ♦ • NO. 15. ■ V
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