DVEitTistaiEmt - n. .tdvertisements are inserted at the rate of sl,ooper square for first insertion, and q - each subsequent insertion 50 cents. A !Ilicral discount made, on , yearly ad v....tisements. space equal to ten' lines of this type ~,•• ir.a re. a ..qUare„ I; 1-/Ilt . hti Notices set under a head b „ ves immediately after • the 10% „ • will be ohargod ten. cents a r 1.:1011 od• in ertisertlents should be hy ert i on ;-,re Monday noon to insure ,that week's paper, Btt siness' DireffirY• BEATE!' 7 .s. ),ES CAXERON.Aitc'eY at Law. 'Beaver, ac room. formerly oc I,J Va. OftleXol :td 14., ith rin i n ,h am. All bail- Jied by the and ~ :, eotrtmted to Itim L.:.e ' luf 'gqli reeilce prom P t. 1 ...nli at tell tit) a . jeV3 y . .. S 4 )11 N 11. YOUNG ..... i torney at J. raffia and retddence or, Tbfd .t.. ea.-tiorthe Court !Irise. ls..itiebs tiruruptuatlentled.toc_ -- . lif." e;ly j ll - 11cflItEraN/Attorney \at 1...ay. (Once on . Third Ft., 1 . ,,,0w the Court Mouse. Al! hue!- --pr‘aript.y. .tended ,o ' ' ' jet!. 'lotl . s i • -F.V. T. dealer In Millinery. Trim -1,1 "` : • Ili • O a .1 - tt. . tuno .. LK) 00 2., c., on e corner or - bi rd ar .....enaiLary-freer.. je1.4'71-ly T 1 .. Kiiin. Attoruty at jiM.- ( file, cat I' j . end vf - l'hird -trees, Beaver. Pa. in:Jar:o;ly .1 S NI, NCTT. PurstclAN AN'ti SC /IGXON. 4.1.11 al tell I lull paid to treatment of Female I: c.htence and office on Third rrreet, I, el tor lite Curt-lioti.be t. \ it YMEIZZ. Manufacturer and Dealer in ,•-, ;meet. and Gaiters: Main pt. [pep2S:ly I. Ell Andrlersen . Apothecary, Main et. Prescrip .- ,„,retulls culnyonntind• (sep2stly :%lily BLIGLITON. COALE, Dealer in paints. oiLginesmails, glast, loot ing-glasses. frames, garden • 11, , ,,r-seeds and Lamy fowls. Falls street. rep:n - 71-1Y • LAM:NECKER d... , alel•Watch'es: Clocks • and Jewelry. Repairßag neatly vieenteil, ay. near Falis-st. noer7l-ly I 11 - NII'VERT, Baker S; Confeetiones-; lee ) • ereatu, Oysters nod Guile in peas On. \Viddings. Se.. supplied. noel • ' SMITH, tippositv Ptsss °Bite, Bi oadway. • Dealer in the la•-t linildiwzlrardware. gins. and putty, which he furnishes to contractors 1 , 1 builders cheap for each. oet2s 71-1 y 1 - S. Nl.Erz, Bridge street, dealer* in fresh 1.• meat and. tat cattle, will %left. Beaver on 'nesday, Thursday and Saturday of etill •rtvek. 1 EVBR.ARD-bry-Gootts, Groceries, Notions T gneensware, Big,liest price for good but a• end prudure generally.- Opposite Presh a rterl- 1 Church. Broadway. ,[rep27 71-17 • E 'W I NTEK,-fit'atchmaker, Jeweler add Op tician. '2'24 Broad way . ser27'7l-17 M. IL McDONALI , Deah•r in Fine Teas, 1 .hone Family Grocsries,gneensware.Glass ;,•, Wooden w.tre. Willow ware, &c. Broad , Sr„.., ser277l-1y • It. TUTTLE, M if. -232 Broadway, New - - 6101 ton. makes the treatment of chronic female tecnkut.sses a specialty. Con •: free to the poor every tsumlay front Ito 3 . J.. it m erp27illy _ „lIILILsf."'D coealers in fancy and Dry Goods. ' D Millinery. Groceries, •-. Broadway. New Brighton. 15p.27 • I Nl\ Photograph Gallery. Every va • - Pt, itm.s neatly co -rated. Corner of . l‘,o, New fl,pzlitou L>{'2”: 1.1 E. Den'er ui Italian Sr, Alma - mat ‘: • . Monuments, Grave. _ „'" A - ea.-on:0 , 1e prices. Railroad et., p• 1. Neu' Brighton. “727 I i MILL", Billiards. 'Tobacco, i• • - i l,!-- Furnishing Goods, Brow _•sen27l Itt 'F .k 1 1' l CO.- Groceries. Cottei% I a V d k'ruit.,, and ever Hag: . . a Gr>t Clan grocery. Bridge SI., owori:ly. \l e .1 - \\ I'N E. I)ealem iti iluotA Lear SietilvlC:4 . 1. - 2 1 . y 1 I N(.. . '.d I . 7il'. 74 l'EAli. Dealers In • I,d.iee• Funitr,hinz goods, 110-lery. ... Cr,o Apple ..t Broadway, je-Thy i t. Llis IA URANT and EATING 5A .,.". at all liourr, ta leguipplied %, ith .. of the 6C.1,011. Jeep, 10W. Win. . . of Paul and Broa way. int•ll.3'7l-ly I Ah.I . NT NI WSEHIES. Ever • 1 •Ta.L , I Fruits. Three tnileg I ast of 1i0r29'71-Iyl E. THOMAS. .. I : 1.11. \ND..t. KERR, Drag;:lsts , „ • , ~ ~ enr:Zrortway and .I. alto .. •,, • I', (.4uccemore to L It. No, fele22'7l-1) - . Nit f.akery , N \ 1;_ nption. C-.l' -II cA I N-; . \‘',ll T. - 44 • i I: pc: ~:cr i'. 11l .1! •,1 .1r MEM • 1:14 • !, ci 1,1,-11:1' 'I N.,. v 10 I.r 6 s‘ =I 111 t.ra; It A.i f ' NI., f "Os, r''r find 1),..1! or In • lEEOMME =BILE IVA r t4,-, 1.11 Pr::. ~ch,--trr 1 I s I. A 11 . 11.1.1.' Suor.• : „.,:q. ' • el! I A 't r t.1;•,•.]," I Py ' 4 r c 0.% , I 'L..., 1-,•T I lif lipri.pr:4•!tlre. •. ~,,tiot:e4 l , , Ts. :HA 1).-ptit 4•Ctl'!.l; dealer In limo.. 4la.n r. 4- , te• neatly =ntl n.,,,,n41. t• n•r. I.LEG/11,7A V CITY ciric.il •1+ a .pecially. 14.11ce. 1, - ; W. 1 ,11 HA. V , I. '1:7..1:1, tilir low; tivilliziarturvrp -.03p. 'to In Itint - lotm 14.,z60ti) co;;;lty's .11:11r LI VOLPOOL, A ::ch,•;.'.l ti..irfup..ut of :!•It.111('W. are. Uuu.rd .1, Cl 5 - Dealers in Dry. L• 4 ;, 5i10..., lists C:tp4, re. ;'n,,ware: uC . IVYrpool. / ly OE __l%!, nroadw,iy.near It. cAretully at.d accurately fel)1.:1 =FE 1, .17.4 1 , 4' 11 r. LlT's cG. In General (~ ,d +lGroreries, (Zueenr". paid 101* country pro janlilay •1 1 ,, (•ELLANEOUS I) Ilvaver conroyz Pa., aid I,r xr.611 of all hair to ordvr. ]anl/71-:y • I I. , :c•:ll.l.A.Manntaeturer of the Great • so_oe.nud Patentee of Por and centre. i , alletun. Pa J. AN kilEliNOlNi t taken hold of •• • • e.,/ Fuuntlry a..mtn. 12oehesier, r meet his old customers ,and may wail( either the BEST COOK ; r ,, k E. fleatinz Store, or atilt other kind of of I. -VI material and workmanship. The ~e •t.e, %Ili he conducted by J. J. ANDERSON &SONS. • , . l' x . .1- :.:.-..,.., . ... . . .. Vol. 54—N 0.. u. ~. . . Carpets, 011 Cloths; Mattings, &0., &c., AT LOWEST PRICES Henry McCallum, (Late McCallum Bro.'s, PITTSIVICTICG-11, aprh. , 7l:ly RETAIL - IYEAL i t:Eres • Equal to any Eastern Tot& t : o ng House. Henry :llcCallum.. aurNay. 1 1 / 4 7 D. CONE, XL D., Late of Darlington. LI • having removed to New-Brighten, offers his medical services, to all Its branches, to the pelvic. of the city and surrounding country. Office/cor ner of BuW - r and Broadway. seplSay ARTIFICIAL TEETH PERFECT. E t— T. J. k U. J. CILANDLER have pur chased the exclusive • right of Beaver county _ • to useDr.tituek's Patent by which they.can put upPulcattite as , thin u (told Plate, withabeam- Wt •• 7 T Wm enameled polish; 1 and so light and elastic as to perfectly adapt itself to the mouth; obvistingall that clumsy and bulky condition, so much complained of heretofore; and lessening their liability to break 100 percent- In deed, no one reeim. it would be willing to wear the old style plate any longer than they could conven iently get them exchanged. All branches of Den tistry performed In the best and most substantial manner. In filling teeth with gold, etc., we chal lenge competition from any quarter, and can refer. to bring subjects w - hose Bllbrzs have stood be tween thirty and forty years. Among the number. lion. *John Allison will exhibit fillings we inser ted some 115 years ago; the teeth as. erfect as the day they were filled. Laughing Gas prepared on a new plan, freein.! it from all unpleasant and dan gerous effetts, making the extraction of teeth a source oPpleasure rather than of horror and pron. Prices as loy as any vaor: dentist in the StMe. ctillce at Beaver Station. 1:0‘ nester Pa. nort: t 'l' J. it 11. J CHANDLF it. Brighton Paper Mills, BEAVER FALLS, PENN'A. , PRINTING, Hardware, Glass, Straw. RAG AND CARPET PAP 30 FL , MAN VT VA.( yrunrin3 Wholesale d: Retail by • O'-Raft. taken to erchange. Homes - Still Larger FOIL THE MILLION! ksl Rare rtiip.trt unities .re flow offered for Kt-caring in a mild. health 9, and congenial climate 1,4 ttltt third ttt their value lire years hence. N ATI* tN A L REAL ESTATE AUENCY ha- tw. ,il , • ro.tl It-tate of every description, local ed I. Middle and Soathern States: improred k. r/ at attd fruit farms; rice, sugar and rol -1,. pl.intatums: timber'and mineral lands; city, root residence. and business stands; ruin, and p.a, xitex,fac/Oriczt. 60. 11 . /./14,1 llegi.eter CODtaining dears ip tl on, Ittrattttn, price and terms of properties we have -fur sal, Address— R. AV. CLAIRE et CO. , _National Rear Estate ,17eney, 477 tiF,,/ 1%-,ia. Avenue, Walittigton, D. s; i4 • Bridge Street, I; RI DUEW ATER, l'A. 1A w Ek:1; LY RECEIVING A FRESH surriS OF t;oous IN EMIL OF . TIIE FOLLOWINCi DEPARTMENTS: 1)1Z, (.51 CDC) Stilibenvi Ile Jeans, l'a,stnn rt'S anti Sattinet!;, \Voulen Bl4nliets, • Whitt. Iliad Colored and Barred Merinos, 1)( I.li ne. , , ( . • ( ~bere = .1.") I is lihrt‘n 111:Ick )111 , 111 ,, , r, Lim , a: Mit!: Sulrur. and l . olllllioL Syrup.. M:tekerel r+-i• :Intl Star and Taltovi Oandle. • sp t ,., and Mitt,. Meat. AI. 0. ‹ i y• SALT Hardware, Nails, Glass,' Door Lort,.D.,or at ch,v, Ser,v•.7ahn 'l: t,er). ah,.. :o.d I , •a Sta. I. Sltt!:.th Dellt.. Coal rtra• and Nailo and Spade.. Sta' t 2. tt line Fork.. Scylin, and :matt., Corn'aild harden =ME =9l liE =EI galt , •r Prilldr and iiidles ..‘ N. ()IL. Linseed ()il.& White Lead. 1i0Ott:.; SI10('S LA DIEM' MlSst , ' ANI) CHILIMENs' I •a j ". Poll der and Shot, Blasting . Powder and Fuse. 1-'ll9,'64:t lIEMM2 Pittnburgh Rocheeter. Beaver . f.imitb'e Ferry Steubenville 13riageport... Bellair TUSCARAWAS BRANCII. leaves. Arrives. N.Pniladelphlati:4oa.m. Barard 9;45 a. m. Bayard 12:10p. m. I N.Phlladelphia 3:00 p.m B. R...IIYERS. General Ticket Agent. Miscellaneous. __ • AG EN TS WANTED THE PEOPLE'S BOOK 1 De4gned for every home and In dividual. rr 111 NA.rrl 0 N, Itn Haien% and Institutions, Outlines of the Government, .iriTI)GE Published in English and Gerunin 1r4,000 COPI1.1:1, 1 4 50.L13, .Ind xelling Faxter than any Book AGENTS . ARE POSITIVELY MAKING $3O TO $5O PER WEEK. SEND AT ()NCI: FoR DEscruPTivE CIRCULARS and TERMS, AND .ET THE FII:ST CHOICE OF Gs Firth Avenue, Plttlburgh, Pa fehti-ly-chd aprs-n0,.1. -- , -.Pft:c ARTIFICIAL HUMAN INSERTED TO MOVE AND LOOK LIKE THE NATURA L EYE, No Culling or Pain Whatever. A Dill - LENS —DR. CV. W. SPENCER, Sur Art nqic and Dent let, •25{ Penn Ftreet. Pltb , burgh, Pa. Nepl3:l3, 81,311 kg. 11111-beads. Cards, Yowlers, fie Dently execuetil at thh. °Mee. .11. MOORE DRUGGIST Preswriptions Carefully and Accurate= ly Cbmpounded. THE BEST BRANDS OF ASSOBTER‘ .13aeclictiria,l. WINES AND LIQUORS; I" int.K , OiIIS, DYE STUFFS: MINE MS OF ALL COLOR GLASS Sri PUTTY; Special streation given to secure the best qtuslity of Lamps end Lamp Trimmings, Lanteras A Large Assortment of TOILET ARTICLE 6, SOAPS, BRUSHES Si-- PATENT MEDICINES, Main Street, Beaver Pa. SLING GOING WZ Xamt. t ftr's Axes. F. 11 MYERS OOP, 14 OUTfI Ace°ls 840► n 1215 pm :45.90 irk 53. i 1130 24 615 1202P21 4)02. !65 410 410 640 • GOENG NORTH EXI 21()Px 0.9 it C3l 61) 725 A u 7r4 813 711 E 455 1115 1 :::zurx 111258 1010 210 845 GOING t T. MAIL IMIZI GOING WVir = m Ali.. 1-E 210Pli 425ra 810 435 ! (MAY 740 ..po 100 510 ... 650 I•• • • ,55 9.11 i ' 1057 11/0 ME in the Market TERIIITORN .1. U. FOSTER A: CO., MEI ....,.•• .... ... - , • . .-. .. i.-.. ID ■ MEM ‘... : Beaver P• • W _ re. - a''' ediiesda • riFebniaty 'lB7 Miscelliineetigir • ; 4A. - tick tts" - t r io - 2 , rot M o , cs ow ...., 10- ' . , - • . ... ~, 1 : ~ -"- • • 7 111 1 1 - ..;':... -." , '-"."'", ../ 4..4 , :, - , 4 . 2 -,- '' ".. .. -. '-',C'" • :-. -: - .-1. , , * af,..;f142. 1 ;li r . • ... - ..n . , .-: ..•• - i t - „ ie. , c'D ' 06 • SP. .. T 'et*. =I OEM April 13. itai; ly lOU kIINTING nemly and expeditionity el executed at till. office. MEYRAN & SEIDLE , ,S'accrtcsors to Reiluzman. 111 E yIR AN S 3E1113 42 STH AVE, PITTSBURGH, PA., GULL) AND SILVERSMTIIS, DEALERS IN FINE JEWELRY Watches, Diamonds, Silrer & Plated- Ware, Seth Thomas' Clocks, Fine Table (wafer}', French Clocks, REG ULA TORS, BRONZES FINE SWISS WATCHES, AMERICAN WATCHES, JULES JERGENSEN, WALTHAM WATCH COMPANY EDWARD PEREYGAUX, ELGIN WATCH COMPAN Y VACIIESON CONSTANTINY:,) UNITED STATES wATeit CO., CHARLES E. .JAC()T. E. HOWARD A: CO. • - THE zimEIZMAN WATCH," made by CARL ZIAMILIAN. Liverpool, i 4 fully vont to nay watch 'on-red to the public. both in finish nail time-keep ing kola ci.ceptinz the Frodaham.) tio% '29 I y.I ROSADANS THE INGREDIENTS THAT COMPOSE ROSADA LI S ore published on every package, there fore it is not a secret preparation, consequently PHYSICIANS PRESCRIBE IT It is a certain cure for Scrofula, Syphilis in all its forms, Rheuma tism, Skin Diseases, Liver Corn. Plaint and all diseases of the Blood. ONE BOTTLE OF ROSADLLLI will do more good than ten bottles of the Syrups of Sarsaparilla. THE UNDCIISIGNED PHYSICIANS have wed itcrsadalisin their practice for the past three years and freely endorse it as a rsliable Alterative dnd Blood Purifier. DR. T. C. PUG fl of Baltimore. DR. T. J. BOYKIN, .. DR. R. W. CARR. .. DR. F. 0. DANNELLY, " DR. J. S. SPARKS, of Nleholasvillo, Ky. DR. J. L. AIcCARTHA, Columbia, S. C. DR. A. B. NOBLES. Edgecomb, N. C. USED AND ENDORSED BY J. B. FRENCH & SONS, Fall River, Mass. V. W. SMITH, Mason, Mich. A. F. W HEELER, Lima, Ohio. B. H ALL, Lima, Of io. CRAVEN & CO., Gordonsville, V. SAWL. G. MeFADDEN, Nurfrees. born, Tenn. Our space will not allow of any ex. tended remarks in relation to Old virtues of Ilosadalls. Tothe )(edits) Profession we guarantee a Fluid Xs tract superior to any they have ever used in the treatment of diseased Blood; and to the afflicted we say try llosadalls, and you will ho restored to health. Drit , Rotadalis is sold b all gists, y p r ice $1.50 per bottle. Ad SS DB. CLEICENTS & C Manufacturing CAeasists. Ilavoisou, ND Jrzil-17. Black and Gold Front, GEORGE W. BIGGS ho. 1159 S3IITIIFIELD ST. Four doors above Sixth Ave FINE WATCH'S, CLOCKS, JEWELRY Optical and Fancy Goods, Av. PITTS - BURGH, PA. FINE WATCH REPAIRING Please cut this advertisement out and bring it with you. jel4;ly [Dec7, "MtL 0 • -.0.... • . • • , CA.I 0 11 'POt 4Xe. 0 et et to ei•• CD 14 ott vr- MEYDAN Az SEIDEL, SOLE MaiNTS INEV FM V . • • • • . _ , s•• _ I -Z doid Silittoi-Weiches. -A.111=1W11.N• wAlrps aOitartez _AN*;;;‘ • rri'w4u4Titert ttivetaut-g - Vase Sezer.Wal ~ Wat Ches, q 1 34 $2O, $35. G o i c l .waithagt - W&tches _ :Kok ori t re. *so. - adi Goat at ch es; 140 A, 410; s33lt ,0, 440. ~1 - • 1 :.,... , :( 4.`-g ILv I3 iwAng. MERIC BIRTH THOMAS4'. EMI .Fizelantasol4tEß-Glasses. *tit , 11 3 1 3 13 5 „ Yeft.'2,6l.F49lleArertile, prrisitritGit, PA. Prices, on all galas, greatly reduced. My present large - stqck must_ be closed out, in order to rebuilt', Inovl4-ly SELECT MISCELLANY. A BOLD STDOILV. • It was my first withitt North since I had taken up ray abode and entered upon the practice of my profession in New Orleans. In the city of Netiv . York I had a very dear friendfriy old chum and classmaterge Dickson ; and, as he was the only, tan I knew in the great metropo o f course I lost no time in lookingfri up. Three years had *seed since onr last meeting, but . tf:tn could scarcely have produced a change more mark ed than had taken place in the ap pearance and mann* of my friend. Our first greeting*nd friendly in quiries over , . I longed , yet forbore, to ssk the cause of my, friend's melan choly. I felt sure, In due time, of being the confidentnf his secret, pro yided no motive of delicacy prompt ed. its concealment. That evening. Jainy room at the hotel. George told- inc his story. Ho had formed an attachment for 'a young lady, -whose graces of mind and person he potrayed with all the fervor of a lover'S. eloquence. She had returned -his ifection, but the father had oppesed' is suit, having Set his heart on the; marriage of his daughter to a nephew of his. This nephew-was a young physi cian ofpreiligate character, my friend Mined rir=--0, that may have been prejudice—who had long...but unsuc cessfully wooed hisaiasin, to whom his !troffers were as repugnant as to her father thev . weranceeptable. Some u3onthasineallir. Parsons— the young lady's father—had gone South. on businew, accompanied by his nephew. At IsTO Orleans ho had been seized by,fiudden illness, which -terminates Adaya On the day proceeding his death re had executed a will (which had since been duly proved by : the deposition of the attending witnesses (contain ing a solefen request that his daugh ter, to whom he hati,left the whole estate, should accept the hand of his nephew in marriage, coupled with a provision that in case he offered and she refuSed within a specified period to enter into the proposed union, the entire estate devised to the daughter should be forfeited to the nephew. To sacrifice her fortune to her choice, would not have cost Julia Parsons a moment's hesitation, 'and nothing could have more delighted George Dickson than so fair an op portunity of showing how superior his devotion was to all considerations of personal advantage. But her fath er's dying request, in Julia's eyes, was sacred. It had surprised and stunned her, it is true, for in their many conferences on the subject he had !lever even hinted anything like coercion. Young Parsons had not the mag nanimity to forego his ungenerous advantage. , He might have been content with his cousin's fortune alone, but his right to that depended on his offer and her rejection of an alliance which she felt in conscience duty bound to accept. The brief sea son of grace, which she had been compelled to beg even with tears, had already almost passed, and a few more days would witness the con demnation of two lives to hopeless misery. At the conclusion of my friend's narrative, in which, for reasons which may hereafter be developed, I felt a peculiar interest, I prevailed upon him to accompany me to a place of amusement, to which I had previously procured tickets. Whet. we reacned the theatre the performance had already begun; but we succeeded in finding seats that commanded a fair view of the stage and of the audience. In a few minutes George touched my elbow. "Observe the gentleman nearly op posite, in front of the parquette, seat ed next the column, leaning his arm on his cane," he whispered. I looked in the direction indicated, and saw the face, whose striking re semblance to one I had seen before caused me to start with surpriSe. "Who is it?" I asked. " Eldridge Parsons." was the re wrhe nephew of whom you spoke?" "The same," answered George. " Does he resemble his uncle?" I was on the point of. inquiring, but just then the stranger drew the glove from his right hand, and I s t itw that the first joint of the middle finger was wanting, a circumstance which, for sufficient reasons, absorbed my attention. • " Do you know the exact date of Mr. Parsons' death?" I asked, when we had gained the street, at the Close of the performance. "yes," said George; "it was the Mci of December. His daughter re ceived a telegram from her cousin an nouncing the act the sameßut why do you ask?" . _ _ "I hdve a reason which .may or may not prove a good one," stating that I had bUshiess engagements for the whole of the next day, I parted from my friend, promising to meet him on the following evening. Next afternoon found meat the of fice of Dr: Parsons. . "Dr. Parsons, I presume?" were the words with which I accolted the gentleman I had seen at the theatre. , "Yes, sir." "You may not remember me, Doc tor, but I believe we have met be fore." "I beg your p!irdon for not recol lecting the occasion." "You were in New Orleans last, winter. were you not?" "I was," ho answered with embar rassment. "I am the gentleman on whom you called to draft a will." He turned pale and made no reply. , , "'JAW the record of that. iwiltin Abe Surrogate's offtcethis morning," I resumed- "and—" , . ,_ "Youspeak of my uncle's will," ho • hastily interrupted. "And 'yet," I continued, "you sold it was yours when yotkapplied to have it written. YOU` presented yourself as desimus of executing the document preparatory to embarking on a perilous voyage. "The paper was drawn in accordance with your in structions,. leaving the date to be filled, at the timid signing.,. Your locks were-gray then, and yOu g;cer tainly looked old enough to have a marriageable daughter; bu your disguise was not perfect,". mill I pointed to the mutilated tin - r. "What do you mean?" he houted in defiant tones, springing to Us feet., . "SiMply that your tuicle'S signa- ' Ore to _that paper is a forgery." I lil P ilWered. rifling and . confronting him. __"He died on the 23d of De cember. Your own telegram to that effect is in existence. It was on the 24th, the day befotve.Christmas, that you called on me 1,0 prepare the pa per now on record as his will. The zfrtoo inference is plain; you, und' kto Inference spurious estament after, your uncle's death; a d, wish ing to clothe your villiany in legal form, you procured throug me the required draft. You, or some one at your instigation. imitated the signa ture of the deceased. The witnesses who have since perjured themselves in their depositions,. were procured insomotpanner best known to your self-7-7, --, ,'FanOt4gh. sir I" he .: ejaculated pla cing his,ck against the door; "you have shown yourself in paslon of a secret the custody of;Which .may prove dangerous." :. "I am not unprepared for your threat," I replied. "In the first place, I did not come here unarmed ; in the next, I have prepared a full written statement of the facts to which 1 have alluded, with information, besides, of my 'present visit to you. This paper will be delivered to the friend_ to whom it is directed, unless within an hour I reclaim it from the messenger. who has been instructed for that length of time to retain it." His face grew livid, His frame quivered with mingled fear and rage, and his eyes gleamed like those of a wild beast at bay. "What is your purpose '?" he ex claimed, in a voice hoarse with sup pressed passion. '"To keep your secret while you live;" I answered, "on one condi tion." "Name it." "That you write instantly to Julia Parsons, renouncing all pretensions to her hand, and absolutely with drawing your proposal of marriage." After a moment's pause he seated himself at his desk and hastily penned a brief note, which he submitted for my inspection. It was quite satis factory. "Be so good as to seal and address it." I said. Re did so. "I will see that it is delivered," I remarked taking it up and bowing myself out. When I met George Dickson that evening his old 'College look had come back. He had great news to tell me. The next , thing was to take me to see Julha, and it is needlessto say that a happy marriage followed not _long after. Eldridge Parsons, I have learned, joined one of the Cuban expeditions, and was killed in an encounter with the Simniards. A PeVreet Cure Without the Doctor. 'A ''63ntributor tells -an exchange how ho was permanently cured of fits. He was riding in the mining district of Nevada—one of those mushroom growths common in the territories—when night came upon him. Tired and. hungry, he drew up at a greasy, dirty shanty which was called a tavern, and sought ac commodation. Ho thus details his . night's experience: The landlord only could give me a room With a bed-fellow. "Very well, 'don't object," said 1, as he led the way by the light of a miserable tallow dip, which he left with me to light me to bed. I surveyed the room, and particu larly my bed-fellow. He was a mild looking man ; I thought—perhaps a class leader in some primitive log church near by. His repose was so quiet and child-like I thought we would sleep peacefully together for the night; but beforeNl had blown out the light he opendd a snore that seemed liken cross between filing a saw and sawing a board, and my feelings at once became malicious toward him. I haunched my friend, and as he opened his eyes with a snap, he said: "By jingo ! how you seared me, Mister ! You going to sleep here to night?" y es. t, "Well, lam mighty glad of it. I always like company. Its kinder lonesome to sleep alone." "Yes, it is so. Pardon me for Waking you, but I thought it my duty to tell you that I sometimes take tits." "'What! fits? You don't say so, Mister !" ''Yes I do. lam not part icularly dangerous, but I bite sometimes; so be careful that I don't get my teeth into you." Well be doggoned! I hope you won't have any fits." "So do I." "I hope, Mister, you won't bite me if you do have any tits." "0, I hope not." He drew a long breath, and then said: "Well, I'm afraid won't sleep any to-night." "0, don't lose any sleep." "But how am I to know when you are going to have fits?" "0, I groan and breathe hard, and froth at the mouth; and when you hear me snap my teeth like a dog, then you'd better look out." " Well, I'm hlam'd if I ain't sorry. Mister you come in here. I'm afrai yon'll be more company than I want at present." " 0, don't be uneasy I sometimes don't have any for months. Let's go to sleep;" and I pretended to drop off into, peaceful slumber. My companion rolledand tumbled uncivilly for some time, then dropt off into a restless sleep, and soon com menced that old snore just where he left off when- I woke him up. That decided me upon having a fit and, with a fearful snore, and a terrible groan i ng,lsent my nails into his arms and my teeth into his shoulder Just hard enough to nip nicely, but it was enough for the purpose. With a ter rible yell he sprang from the bed, and went down stairs exclaiming: "0 dear, he's . got a fit; he'sgot fits! He's bit a piece out of my shoulder!" The landlord, with a crowd from the bar-room, came hurrying up l and found me just recovering from the effects of the fit; and giving me a hot toddy from his own private bottle. he left nie. He carried with him the clothing of my bed-fellovi, who turn ed in on a blanket down stairs, re solved to be bitten no more by men that had fits. —Train No. 13 ran off the track at Faster's Station on Al Valley Railroad, and the l rolled o eg ve h r e an ny embankment into the river. No one was killed. About a dozen Were badly hurt The train was smashed up badly. ir AR• • , CAP/TAI. rincumniniT. W . C`havebeen requested to publish the following article on capital pun ishment, which app e ared in the To ledo (0.) Index e time After' the a im escape of Meier, t convicted and condemned murderer from the Tole• do jail : ' , Conrad Meier. the convicted and condemned murderer whose execu tion was appointed to take place in this city on Deftmber 8, hail just " broke jail," and fled for his life to parts unknown. I -am glad of it. With • the utmost deliberation i and full 'knowledge of what the words imply, I repeat, l am glad of it. His escape, I admit, is a dangerous defeat of the ends of justice. at least in the `common Opinion of the community ; but none the less do I experience a sense of relief that this poor wretch, guilty as I suppose he is, will not be legally strangled to death;:a week from next Wednesday by the State of Qhlek—that the atmosphere will not be made thick and stifling on that day will* a defenceless man is Mur dered. in cold blood and with malice aforethought-by this great and pros perous commonwealth: You may call the actin execution, if you please —it is none the legs a murder; and I rejoice that this horrible tragedy is Indefinitely . postponed. lam glad that Meter is gone; I hope he will never he re-mitured; and what is more, I believe that you are secretly as glad as I am,—that your .hope is secretly, as strong as mine. Now, my friends, there is some thlug wrong in all this—l frankly admit it. There is something mast decidedly wrong, when men who wish well to the Suite,—who' desire to see italaws respected. obeyed and sustained,—are obliged to take pleas ure In a public defeat of those laws. It is extremely disastrous when the law of Nature and the law' of Man are thus brought into , open conflict. But yet I see no help for it. so long as Man's law remains unadjusted to Nature's law. "The laws of any community," President Walker, of Harvard University used to say. "are simply the expression of its average conscience." This is true, though it would be more exact to say that the laws of any community are the ex pression of the average conscience as it was, several generations back ; for changes in the laws by no means keep pace with changes in publicsen timent and conviction. Our statute books are full of laws which are prac tically a dead-letter. On the whole, hoitever, it Is true that the average conscience is pretty fairly expressed in the laws which are, at any par ticular period, aetively.‘and habitu ally enforced. But for this very rea son the finer and more highly cul tured conscience of the reriod,—the conscience of those men and women who we the inadequacy, or positive injustice of the laws, and labor for their reform.—is often forced into open antagonism with them. This is the origin of every battle between the law of the land and what is called the "higher law,"—that is, between the average conscience of the com munity and the conscience of the more enlightened portion of it. The bulk or the people are contented with things as they are: the more thought ful and conscientious portion of the penule will pot be contented except with things as they ought to be.— Thus is a constant warfare of conser vative and radical, of stationary and progressive exists. without which society would stagnate and decay.— The growing uneasiness with which civilized communities regard the death- penalty.iselearly, in my opin ion, occasioned by the expanding conscience of the race, which begins to realize the truth that no man is wholly a brute, that criminals are men, and that something better can be done with them than to stamp their life out under the heels of the multitude. The great faith in man which lies at the root of civilization and is the grand inspiration of Free Iteligion. begins already to teach the inviolability of human life, and to throw a sacred protection even over those who have themselves dared to violate. Yes. society is slowly learn ing that hardest of lessons, how to overcome evil with good,—how to take the desperate outcast out of his desperation and, while restraining him from further evil, to, melt his hardened heart with kindness and love. Society has no right to forget that' criminals become such, nine cases in ten, because of its own criminal neg- ' lect ; and, remembering this, it will treat them lees as criminals than as unfortunates. What are you and I doing to rescue the children of vice and poverty from their surround 7 lags? What are we doing to educate them into habibil 'of self-respect, to place them in situations where virtue shall be possible, to give them a fair chance in the great struggle of life? What right have you and I to hang a man for being what you and I, by our neglect, hatT made him ? We shall have no rig4to hang anybody, until we have given everybody at !mist a cliance to be honest and 4 right ; and then we shall not want to hang at all. Society approaches this whole question from the wrong side, when it considers first of all the inju ry the criminal has done to itself, First of all it ought to consider, what good have I ever done to the erimi .nal ? The frank and eardest investi gation of this problem would work a vast reform inaiur penal legislation, and we should discover that the pre vention of crime must be sought, not In the erection of jail and gallows, but in the erection of reform-schools anti agricultural colleges 'and every species of educational institution by which the young vagabond of our streets Shall be trained to useful in dustry. It makes my heart sick to think of the great mass Of humanity predestined to crime in' all our cities by the moral poison thby inhale at every breath; and it gi'ves me no comfort to remember that we can hang them all, the moment they yield to temptation. Society makes its own criminals , friends; shall it dare defend its right to hang them when made? I carry the war into Africa. Let society do its duty by the child, and it never need strangle the adult. A century ago the Mar quis Recarria uttered this memorable predictipn : "The punishment of death must disappear from the earth when knowledge and pot ignorance shall be the portion of the greater number." In universal education, opening an honorable career for eve ry child, will yet be found the surest remedy for pauperism and crime; but until the means of entering upon this honorable career shall be within the reach of all, I deny Point-blank the right of society to murder its un fortunates. ' The evil, howeirer, or which I complain,—that conditlim of the modern world which makes the birth of thousands of children tantapount to their direct compulsion toa dree of crime,—is very ancient, ard to cure. What unist be done mean while, before means are devised to right this wrong? Crime must be repressed in the most efficient way or society will dissolve into anarchy. Law add order are such priceless ben efits that they must be preserved aft every cost. t spits' Punishment, it is urged, is indispensable, in the ac tual state of things, in order to secure the prevention of crime; mid this is its sufficient justification. Now while this defence of Capital Punishment is almost the only one put forward deliberately at the pres- Establi,shed 1818 ' • - -- - - - cut day , I think its force is o ft en st‘ eretly enhanced in the minds of many t=eling that the worst criminals death, that their loss of life Is a righteous retritfhtion for the vile they have done. But this feeling I conceive to be utterly wrong, if made a. reason fer continuing the death penalty. It Is neither more nor less than the ti - iniffitient of gratified ven geance; it Is a vindictive emotion, unworthy of an enlightened soul. It is no part of our province to deal out the details of iniquity, as such ; the rights of society do not include this power of rewarding or punishing the individual on pur e moral grounds. With the abstract Ott or wrong of human actions, has nothing to do; ft mast regard t soleiy as beneficial°, injurious to metal order. and scrupulously forbear from assign ing to them either rewardh or pun ishments on the wore of their moral character. The murderer. may or may not deserve to be hung; but in any case that is no reason for hanging him. The only justifiable reasons for the Infliction of penalties are three, —reformation of the criminal, rep.i ration to the injured party, preven tion of future crime. ',Now the death =ty can neither reform the aim nor make any reparation to the !murdered man; Its only possible justithation must, therefore, 1* the prevents of future crime. The de fence of lintpital Punishment turns wholly on thisaue point, regardless of the moral fitness or unfitness of the penalty ; and it should be care fully observed, that to lideocate the Infliction of death as a punishment on the score of Its moral appropriate ness or desert, Is to make the elate l usurp the functions of the private 1 conscience, and meddle with matter Which ought to be sacred from all public interference.' The sole ques tion is.---IsCapital Punishment neces sary to prevent crime? As long ago as the time of Nero, it was perceived by the philosopher Seneca, that retri bution is no part of a just punish ment :—" No wise man," he says, "punishes because crime has been committed, but only la order that crime may not be committal [ Nenzo prudeneis punit quia peocaduns at, std tie pecmturl ." Unless essential to the preventon of crime, Capital Pun ishment cannot be for a moment jus tified to an enlightened conscience on t the plea that the criminal deserves &nth, as the reward othis crime. It loco business of the State what he deserves, unless the State is authorPt ed to sit as moral umpire and judge in cues of conscience, to weigh mo tives, and execute vengence for sins ' as such,—than which nothing could be mine tyranical or absurd. Keep out of the problem, therefore, all questions of moral desert, an con fine it strictly to the one inqui into social cousequences. The general question, how er, whether the State has any right. to inflict the death penalty even to se curethe prevention of crime, must be first settled. si right to punish capitally deperTfis on the AB.SOIXTk N.WEssITY of capital punishment. On this point the.great and good Ed- Ward Livingston; in his introduction to the Criminal Code of Louisiana, has, I believe, laid down the right principles :—"The right to inflict death exists, but it must be in de fence either of individual or social : existence; and it Is limited to• the case where no other alternative, re-• mains topevent the threatened des truction., ' In the application of these principles Mr. Livingston holds that a nation may wage a defensive war. against a another nation, or may sup press y arms a. rebellion or insurree: tion, s ce in these cases no alterna tive reniains; but that society never ; need take the life of an individual,', since the alternative of lin prison m en t-, always remains, and since an indi vidual can never threaten it.' actual' existence. This, however, seems to be an Inference not correctly drawn. What is social existence ?, Nut the existence of the individuals who corn pose.society. as Mr. Livingston ap parently assumes; all of these, or course, no one criminal could seri ously threaten. But social existence is the existence of that social order that established organic law, which secures life and property to all the members of society ; and a case may be coneeivekin which single individ uals. might so endanger this aggre gate stability and peace as ta'Justify the taking of their lives in simple self-defence. Tam inclined to justify the action of 'Vigilance Committees' in certain cases. At any rate, the question whether capital punishment is essential to social existence cannot be settled a priori for all communi ties; the only principle that will hold is this, that wherever it has be come possible to maintain a reasona ble degree of public security to life and property by other penalties, the right to inflict the death penalty straightway ceases, inasmuch as self defence no longer absolutely requires it. That this Is the case in all our settled States, certainly in the State of Ohio, I have not the shadow of a doubt. Highly as 1 value human life, it Is not, in my_ estimation, above all price ; freedom is worth more, honor is worth more, virtue is worth more, country is worth more, the welfare of the race is worth more, great ideas are worth more. For such as these a man will cheerfully sacrifice his life ; and to preserve them nations and communities are summoned to sacri fice the lives of their children. But, nevertheless, life is worth more in proportion as the race becomes civil ized; and, in faci, the value get on human life is one of the chief criteria of the elevation attained by any peo ple in , the scale of civilization. Sav ages fling it away in meretime; but the wise man would pkt pas die as the fool dies. A high reverence for human life is so priceless in its influ ence on social well being, that every means may welt be taken to enhance it in the community. It hr precisely because the death penalty cheapens human life, breaks down the guards of its sanctity in popular estimation, that capital punishment, the moment it ceases to be absolutely necessary, immediately becomes an enormous outrage. At the very best, it Is a necessary evil in certain disorganized states of society; but in every organ ized community it is a demoralizing agency of fearful 'rawer. The people that permits legalized murder when other penalties would better accom plish the same end, educates its chil dren to bloodshed, and wilfully fos ters crime in its own borders. For proof of this statement one need but consider the effect of public executions. The sight or blood-shed ding exercises a terribleinfluence on the imagination. I saw a year or two ago in the • daily papers au ac count of a little boy of nine years who, having seen his father kill and drags several hogs, afterwards induc ed his younger brother to play at kil ling hogs. and murdered him in the horrid sport. The school-master at Newgate, England, says that "heitas seen his pupils, before the bodies of criminals were taken down from the scaffold, play the scene over again, one acting the convict and the other the hangman.'! The famous Volney, just after the French Revolution,•re lates that he was deeply affected at seeing crowds of children amuse themselves with chopping off i nto' heads of cats and chickens, in imita tion of the dreadful scenes Of the guil lotine which had then grown inire quent:—"Even childhood had be come inured to scenes of blood, and imitated the most frightful tragedies for sport." - The Rev. I. Roberts ascertained AIMS HEAVE& All 2. • d every Wednedityliiikk'Y ofn• Argus buy Iding on Third fitreet, ver, Eta., st IrkTer yearfin advance. : Communion lone on subjects of local or general interest are 'respectfully so- HOW& To insure attention Wont of this kind must Invariably be seanupt-_ nied by the name of the author. Letters and communications should be addressed to 3. WEYA 7 I.7D, Beaver. Pa. that, out of 167 condemned criminals all but three had witnessed execu tions,—a fact that shows how little power there is in these sickening. spectacles to deter from crane. Ac cording to Mr. Buxton,—" It Is no.; torious that executions very rarely take place without being the occasion on which new. crimes are commit. ted." The testimony of Urn Ford, who was largely acqualnted with crinainalb, is the :.• me. An execu tion," he says, "rnakettpo more im pression than. the death of fly... , Executions are of no use. either for punishing aim Innis or deterring oth ers." " Every execution," said Dr. Lushington in the House of Lords, " brings an additional candidate for , the hangman." In 1822, John Lech: ; ler was hung , at Lancaster, Pa:Jor murder. The very same evening: ono Wilson, who had been present, met a weaver named Burns, with whom he had had some misunder standing. and murdered him.—was seized by the officers of justice, was handcuffed with the irons hardly yet cold from the wrists of Lechler. An Irishman. executed for forgery. was even back to his family ; and whllo his wife was lamenting over him, a, young man came to her to purchase seine forged notes. Forgetting her grief.she wassellinghimsomew hen, being surprised ty the officers, she thrust the notescin her alarm into the mouth of the corpse, where ttfe offi cers found them. So much for the exam* of her husband's fate. Con tempt efdeoth. quite as'much as the hope of escapiag the uncertain pen alty, takes away ary l ! ,uncrequently the force of the penalty. 4 pit' said to his comrade. while.( heY Fels , undergoing the torture of the wheel . , "Why do you make all this noise?— Dl4 you not know that in our profes sion wa were subject te one more malady the , rust ofthe world ?" The influenoe.ciftitSlast dying speech es of notorious criminals goes direct ly to faster a morbid *Waite which leads to crime. An it paper says that from 11 to 21 ix/Min/UN copies of each of the penny namiti'Whi of the executions of Rush, thelMan n nes, Courvoisier. Good, Condor and Greenacre were sold. Can it be doubt ed that the tendency to crime Is stint elated by such a flood of vile, exciting appeals to the imagination? The eirlizt of public executions are so greet and their e4ecitllZO a lielous, Mitt Pri vate executioos &v e now almost ev erywhere taken ic place. Yet this change does away with gist VET publicity and impresavenaie of Ow spectacle as a moral lesson,, which was supposed to be the greet re ink achieved by Capital Punishment, filet, it is a chirnge that proves that society is secretly ashamed of its own proceedings. and it simply marksii gradual approach to the complete ab olition of the death penalty. But the brutalizing influence of this b ar b2rous mode of punishment is not the sole . -.-itson for abolishing it. It is a punishm:'t ""' if inflicted on the innocent in I.74taitti_ led s h ßr a l l perjury, admits of po . r vuress ; ta there are pverwhelthing 1 ,,'00f3 that it has often been Inflicted on the . 4 .! )- nocent. Victor de Tracy said in tha French Chamberm of deputies. in 1828, that, within six months, eleven see= tences of death were reversed by the higher courts of France for errors et fact. Fitzroy Kelly said in the Brit ish Parliament that fourteen innocent persons were hanged in England dur ing the first half of the present cen tury. Daniel O'Connell makes the following statement.:--." I myself defended three brothers who were ac cused of murder. I saw the mother clasp her eldest son, who was but twenty-two years of age. I saw her Wang on her t , Lowhq was not twenty. r 'int when she clung to then_ o ryoungest boy', was but . They were executed, anirtkey weie innoctnt !" No wonder whensuch awful mistakes continually occur; that the immortal- Lafayette exelaiined in 1830 in the French 'Chamber of Deputies,—" I shall demand the abolition of the death penalty, until I have the infal libillity of human judgment proved to me!" Or that king Louis Phil lippe exclaimed,—" I have detestel it all my life long !" Not only is Capital Punishment demoralizioz to the public mind; not only are there frequentand fatal moll takes in putting the innocent to death ; but, also, it is as usel es s as It is barbarous and unjust. Thelexper iment has peen tried of dispensing with it, and with eminent succes4. The Empress Elizabeth abolishetit in Russia, declaring,—"'Experience demonstrates that capital punish ment never made men better.' Her succeswor, the great Catherine. adopt ed this reform in her code of laws, and remarked to the Count de Segur —•' We must punish crime without imitating it; the punishment of death Is rarely anything but a uselem ter harity.". In Tuscany, where the death penalty was abolished for 20 years, the Grand Duke officitilly an nounced that "all crimes had dimin ished;" and Franklin stated that in Tuscany only five murders occurred in 20 years, while in Rome and vi cinity, where the death penalty was inflicted, sixty murders occurred In three months. Capital Punishment was abolished also in Bombay ; and Sir Jamey Mackintosh, in his farewell-address to the grand jury, spoke as follows of the result.:—"The murders in the former period, in which Capital Pun ., isbnient was inflicted, were as three to one to those in the latter [period, in which the law was abolished." In the reign of Henry the Eighth,72,-' 000 criminals were executed, that is, 2,000 a year ; yet crime continually increased. It is not the severity. but. the certainty of punishment which. deters. Meke the punishment too severe, and it will not be inflicted. When a theft of 40 shillings brought death in England; within a space of . two years 553 perjured verdicts were rendered for thefts of 39 shillings and 11 pence. Jtiri will not convict honestly, If the. natty is 'excessive. In the State of ..I chigan, in which the death penalty has been abolished since 1346, a recent discussion has taken place concerning the wisdom of the .present law, in which Chief Justice Cooley,- Judge Graves, and - Ex-Gov. Austin Blair, nre in favor of the abolition of Capital Punish.' ment, while Judge Christiancy,Judke Sutherland, and Judge Johnson Ara. opposed to it. Statistics, carefully drawn, are required in this ease to - -- ; render an opinion safe. But sure I am that, in proportion as men be- - come truly civilized, they will feel more and more sympathy with the great Roman orator,: when he , el,' claims :" 1 --Away with this cruelty': from the State! Allow it not, 0 judges, to prevail any longer In the commonwealth ! It has only the fatal effect of cutting off so many of . your fellowmetrin so cruet a manner, but It has even banished from men of the mildest temper, by the - famil iar practiceof slaughter, the Bentimene of mercy." =CI Heck, a German aged forty-sic ,veani, was killed on Satur day evening at Germantown, N, Y., by jumping from the cars while in motion. He has a sister residing lu Cincinnati. —The wife of an Irish gentleman being suddenly taken ill, the husband ordered a servant to get a hem ready to go for a •doctor. By the time, however, that, the horse was ready and the note to the &peter written, the lady had recovered; on which he * added the followingl)estscript, and sent the servant pin "My wife ,hav log recovered, you need not eeme.n 12