oriffln aud Queer Old Wayn etc., of a pioneer Steamship company. BY MARK TWAIN. It is a carious, self possessed, old-fash* ioned company, the Canard. (Scotch men they are.) It was horn before the jays of steamships; it inaugurated, ocean steamer lines, it never has lost more; than one vessel; It has never lost a pas* senger’s life at all; its ships are net?rlu gged ; great merchantile firms do not in* sure their goods sent over in Canard ships ; it is rather safer to be In their vessels than on shore. Old-fashioned is tbe word. When a thing is established by the Gun* arders, it is there lor good and all, almost. Before adopting a rtew thing tlie chiefs cogitate and cogitate and cogitate ; then they lay it before their head surveyor, their head merchant, ihelr head-builder, and their head engineer, and all the cap tains in the service, and they go off and cogitate about a year; then it the new wrinkle is approved it is adopted and put inf.) the regulations. In the old days, near forty years ago, when this was an ocean line of sailing vessels, corpses were eel permitted by the company to take Passage, or go as freight, either—sailor superstition, you know. * . Very well; to this day they won’t car ry corpses. Forty s’ears ago they always had stewed prunes and rice for dinner on dufl” days; well,to this present time, •whenever duft day comes around, yon will always have your regular slewed prunes and rice in a Cunarder. If you don’t get anything else, you can always depend on that—and depend on it with your money up, too, if you are that kind of a person. It lakes them about ten or fifteen years to manufacture a captain ; but when they got him manufactured to smt at last, they have full confidence in him. The .only order they give the captain is this, brief and to the point; “Your ship is loaded, take her; speed is nothing; follow your own road, deliver hei safe, bring her back safe—safety is all that is required.” The noted Cunard company is compos ed simply of two or three grandchildren, who have stepped into the shoes of two or three children, who stepped into the shoes of a couple of old Scotch fathers; for Burns and Maclvor were the* Cnnard company when it was born ; It was Burns and Maclvor when the originators had passed away; it is Burns and Maclvor still in the third generation—never has bem out of the two families. Bures was a Glasgow merchant, Maclvor was an old sea dog, who sailed a ship for him in ear ly times. That vessel’s earnings were cast into a sinking fund ; with the money ihev built another ship, and then another, and thus the old original packet line from Glasgow to Halifax wag established. A.i that time the mails were slowly and (itecsirely carried in English govern racm vessels.' Burns & Maclvor and Judge Haltburton -(“Sam Slick”) fell to considering a scheme of getting the job of carrying these mails in private bot- toms. Id order to manage the thing they need to be quiet about it, and also they needed faster vessels. Hallburton had a relative who was not a shining success in practical life, but bad an inventive head ; name, Sam Canard; he took his old jack knife and a shingle and sat down and whittled out this enormous Royal Mail Line of vessels that we call the Canard ers—a great navy It is—doing business in every ocean ; owning forty-five steam sh ps of vast cost; conducting its affairs with the rigid method and system of a national navy 4 promoting by merit, pri ority in routine, and for conspicuous ser v 1 oe ; using a company uniform ; retiring and disabled men and offl cers on permanent pensions, and num bering its servants by hundreds and thousands. In its own private establish ment in Liverpool it keeps 4,000 men under pav. That is what Sam Canard whittled out. That is to say, he whittled out a little mode! for a fast vessel; it was satisfacto ry ; he was instructed to go and get the maj) contract, simply under bis own nhnae ; he did it, and the company became romm>nlv known as the Conard Com ; then the company tried steam and made it work; they prospered, and bought out Haliburton, and also Canard’s Htt!e interest ; they removed Canard to Ergland and made him their London a pnt; he grew very-rich and unspeaks bly respectable, and when he died be died mi as a poor, dreaming provincial whit of experimental models, hot as the fireat Sir Samuel Cona-d, K. C. 8., or 6. W X,, or something like that, for the sovereign had knighted him. Well, the Canard Company is a great mstitutioo, and has got more money than you and I put together ; and yet none of the family ever write editorials Or deliver fc(%es. The company have built school hoctes and they educate the children of their employees ; they are going to build dwellings tor their shoremen that shall be cheap and clean and comfortable; when ° ne of their men dies, a subscription list about bis ship or in whatever arm of the service his name is booked, and what ever sum is raised tbeCunard Company add just a similar sum, and it all goes to the man’s heirs. • Their, system, of pen sions— ■ v ; ... But I have nevet been ofiereda cent lur aIJ this ;lam notetfen acquainted w ‘th a member of tbe-Cuniard company, i think I will wait awhile before I gb'; on "'t cramps my bandito write so much on ‘ stretch. Bat it is all right, anyway. Sfl many thousands of Americans have ' riiv eied iu those steamers that they will •the to read about that company. COURTSHIP AFTER CARRIAGE. There was much more than a mere-wit ticism in the remark of the old bachelor who had'paid attentions to a maiden lady for twenty years* visiting her regularly every night, when rallied for not marry* ing: “If I were married 1 should have nobody to court, and no place $ go at night” He bad deeply felt the .contrast between bis own delicate and etbereal en joyments, and the hard, discontented, fretted life of too many married people, and his- way ; was irony. He saw there was something in courtship wbich/too often exhales and expires after marriage, leaving a cold, dull, monotonous burden, where all wu®; beauty and buoyages be* fore. Let ns see wbat that something is. In courtship nothing la takea for granted.; Both parties are. pot on the hr; good; be* ha? lor. Love keeps itself fresh and. ac tive by constant expression in word and act. But, strange to say, courtship usu ally ends with marriage. Very eopn both parties yield to the sense of possession, and the feeling of security robs gallantry of motive, and extracts the poetry from the mind. The beautiful attentions which were so pleasing before marriage are too often forgotten afterwards; the gifts cease to come, or come only with the asking; the music dies out of the voice; everything is taken for granted, and the love that, like the silver jet of a fountain, leaped to heaven, deemed its natural oat let, ceases to flow altogether. Then comes dull, heavy, hard days, with two unhap pinesses tied together, and wishing them selves apart, and not always content with merely wishing. This is unnatural and wrong. What married life wants to give it new tone and sweetness is more of the manner as well as the spirit of the court ing time. Very much of the pleasures of courtship comes from the constant atten tion of the parties to others. Their affec tion voices itself in all possible ways. Every sentence is ejdged with compliments and spoken in tender tones. Every look is a confession. Every act is a new word in the exhaustless vocabulary of love. Kiss and caresses are parenthetic clauses and gestures it the dialect of love, and gifts and sacrifices are the more emphatic expressions of the spirit no language can folly articulate and no devotion declare. And it is a fact that affection confesses itself continually in look and word and act, making the voice musical and the fingers poetic in their touch and doing, that makes experience so beautiful, the only Eden many a woman has on earth. Love most have expression or it will die. It can be kept forever beautiful and bless ed as at the first, by giving it constant ut terance in word and act. The more it is allowed to flow oat in delicate attentions and noble service, the stronger and more satisfying and more blessed it will be The house becomes borne only when love drops its heavenly manna in it fresh every the true marriage vowbf-bftd* not once for all at the altar, but by loving words and helpful service abd delicate at tentions to the end.— Gdden Age. A TEBBIBLE WARNING TO EVE A Well-Known Citizen of Chicago Comes to Life In His Coffin. A few days ago, says the Chicago Times, Mr. Muhlbescb was taken sudden ly ill, at bis residence. His disease was of a very acute nature, and in spite of all the efforts of his physicians he died after a brief illness, and his sorrowing friends made ready for the funeral. An unde rla ker was summoned, and the body prop erly laid out, and yesterday the funeral services took place from his late residence. After the customary services had been performed, and the sorrowing relatives had taken their last look of the deceased, the coffin lid was screwed down, and the funeral cortege moved slowly toward the quiet confines of Qraceland cemetry, where the body was finally lowered sadly into the grave which had been prepared for it. The last prayer had been offered and the last solemn service repeated, when, just as the sexton seized bis spade and was about to drop the first shovelful of earth upon the coffin, a sound some thing like a stifled groan, followed by a scratching noise, as if the dead, man was trying to release himself from the confines of his narrow bouse, eras heard proceeidng from the still open grave. For an instant every heart stood still, and the blood of every listener seemed tv curdle in his veins. The women screamed, and hastened toward the carriages while the men were notslOw in following them. In an instant the sexton was the only man left at the grave,'abd be, too, trem bling at what he bad never beard, before. Finally he recovered presence of mind enough to descend into the grave and break open the rough box in which the coffin was encased. r Then tbe noise was repeated, and be knew that the occupant of that grave; who In a few minutes more would have been consigned to a horrible death, and Whom his friends hid already mourned as dead; was still alive and and anxious to be set free. A screw-driverwas soon procured from tbe undertaker present, and the cof fin lid removed, when its occupant, in stead of being cold dead, as be bad appeared when last seen, was found to be once more alive. Bit friends, who had by this time re* coveted con rage enough to return to the gr*ve, Were, of coots©, almost overjoyed at thiaFstrange and unexpected turn of af fairs, ajjd hastened tb rescue the late de* ceased from his unpleasant quarters and remnvfe hilD *o one of the carriages in waiting, white-be was rolltdup In a plentiful supply of blanbets and laprobes RY BODY. » ; ■ 'i and the friends who had^la^lf., followed himaorrowingiy to the gi»ve n9w)»M te ®' ed joyfully;toward their homes. ‘ The.res* cued than was so overcome on, : bi ing re®* cued from his perilous position that be/ was for a long tiajii unable, to speak; and what bis feelings were while undergoing burial, or whether, he was conscious at all or not until , the last ippm.eot when he sign ified tbat he was stiU alive. Is not known. B. C O-OiHR AN. Ai GO . ( ~ .» 121 LIBERTY 8 TRBETv CORNER FIFTH, IRON AND WOOD WORKING machinery, MANUFACTURERS’ SUPPLIES DEANE STEAM PUMPS, SASH AND DOOR MACHINERY, REPAIRING OP ALL PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO. novls-lm. jQRY GOODS .Abaction Prices, MR. M. SCHIFF, Is determined to close out his entire stock of DRY GOODS in as short a time as possible, as be intends to de vote all his attention in the future to the WOOLEN AND COTTON HOSIER!. BARGAINS INVITED TO CALL AT ONCE, Andthey will have a chance to make their selec- WELL SELECTED STOCK. octlB-2«n. H. PRANCISCUB & CO,, 513 MARKET STREET, PHILADELPHIA. We have opened for the FALL TRADE, the largest and best assorted Stock of PHILADELPHIA CARPETS Table, Stair and Floor OH Cloths, Window Shades and Paper, Carpet Chain, Cotton, Tarn, Batting, Wadding, Twines, Wicks, Clocks, Looking Glasses, Fancy Baskets, Brooms, Bas kets, Buckets, Brushes, Clothes Wringers, Wood en and Widow Ware in the United States. Oar large Increase in business enables ns to sell at low prices and famish the best quality of goods. SOLE AGENTS FOR THE CELEBRATED AMERICAN WASHER Price $5/50. The Most Perfect and Successful Washer | Seer Made. . i . Agents wasted for the AMERICAN WASHER in all parte 6f the State. mar2»-Bm—sel*3m . B.W. BEBLT. JAXTtB OSStTBH gEEIY & OSBtBN, Successors to H. W. Seely, j BHID O E STREET ROCHESTER, PENN’A. • Dealers in i GROCERIES, PROVISIONS, - QUEENSWAB® and NOTIONS, Ca&ti paid for Fanners* Marketing. * JytMy. •'* ' 7 1: ; ’ PURCHASING AGENCY. Will purchase and forward any article, i MANUFACTURED OR SOLD In this city, at the lowest price*. Parties in the country .wishing to purchase Pi anos, Organs, Hewing Machines, Guns, Revolvers Nursery Stock. Jewelry- Funalture, Millinery* Hardware, Drugs, Notions, Books, Stationery 1 Saddlery. Carpetings, Dry Goode. 4c., 4c., will do well to send to os. All goods will be chosen with a view to economy, as well as taste and fitness, and boxes or packages . forwarded by Express to nny part of the country. All orders promptly at tended to and ekUs&cticn guaranteed. Address PITTSBURG H SUPPLY CO septl3-3m ' PITTS BURGH, FA. "- y '• ’ " '" ! ‘ 9 ’, ' " -/;■ *•- ■i ?• tr PA. Manufccturers and dealersit A N P Have in store a 101 l stock of - • JITDSON GOVERNORS. &c., &c., &c. RETAILED AT FOR SIXTY DAYS, ONLY. OF NEW BBIGHTON, REGARDLESS OF COST, MANUFACTURE OF X THOSE WHO WANT ARB RESPECTFULLY tlon oat of a OHAS R HURST, ?Vi:i IHBHBANCE ail GENIAL AGENCY, . i 1 *•, ; t . - ‘ ’ ' ' ' 1 . , ■ —iivvv f -''(N*i» totDkpot,) ‘'V*'-" e v Tire I4fe ani AqcUeit lsstimce. tfOtARY PUBHC, CONVETiNi^R, - [■ ANCHOR AND.NATIONAL LINKS OF OCEAN STBAMEBB-ADAMB AND UNION EX PRESS COMPANY’S AGENCY. ‘ ij-j-v.'! ■; .■", Fire,life and Accident Policies written at fair ratesandiiberaiterms. Deeds, Mortgagee, Agree ments, &c., correctly written. Depositions and Acknowledgmentstaiten. Passengers booked to and ftom aU parts of England, Ireland, Scotland, France and Germany. - Money and goods forward ed to aR parts of tho United States and Canada. £TNA INSURANCE CO.. OF HARTFORD, CONN. CASH A55ET5,..............i.,.....56,000,000 Established in and most reliable Company In tbe World. “By their Finite ye shall know them." [Asses Paid to Jan. Ist. 1871 .$28,000,000 CASH ASSETS,.. .$1,600,000 ANDES INSURANCE COMPANY, of omcrmATi. CACH ASSETS : i. $1,600,000 CASH ASSETS, over $600,000 CASH PAID, ASSETS, $240,000 ALPS INSURANCE COMPANY, OF ERIE , PA. CASH CAPITAL $250,<00 Insures against damage by lightning as well as tire. HOME LIFE INSURANCE GO., OF NEW YORK. CASH ASSETS $8,500,000 TRAVELERS LIFE AND ACCIDENT INSURANCE CO., OF HARTFORD, CONN. CASH ASSETS,... $1,500,000 Paid losses, since its j rganization, of over $7OO a day, for death and injury. Representing the above first class Companies, acknowledged to be amongst the best in the world, and representing a cross Cash Capital of over Six teen Millions of Dollars, I am able to take Insnr anco in departments, and Policies leaned without delay. Losses liberally adjusted and promptly paid. Insure to-day. By one days' negltcl or delay you may loose the savings of years. Delays are dangerous, and life uncertain. Insure to-day. One to-day is worth two to-morrows. Quality also is of the utmost importance. The low priced, worthless article always proves the dearest. Therefore , look to Quality as the paramount consid eration of Insurance, Look to worth and wealth fcr frlmr il r -The Best is the Cheapest: -“As yon sow ftatyon shall yon reap.” . , Grateful for the very liberal patronage already bestowed, 1 flattter myself, by strict attention to a legitimate business, not only to merit a continu ance ot the same, bat hope, by the facilities and inducements ! am now enabled to offers for a large increase during the present year. - Mb. 8. A. CRAIG is duly authorized o take applications in 8^oi “^ R b I s™ ,, | hB l^J^ WD6hi P 6 Insurance and General Agent, jeIGTO Near the Depot, Rochester,Penn'a.' J^ANCASTER INSURANCE COMPANY ! LANCASTER, PA. HON. THOB. E. FRANKLIN, Pres. SH^S^.'^reasurer., EDWARD J&OWN, Secretary. 'Vr > nmnerpna: . THOB, B. FRANKUN, , JOHNL.ATLEEvPbyiIciHn; . JACOB BAUSMANJWt Farmers Nat. Bank; HENRY CARPENTER, Physician; JACOB M. FRANTZ, Parmer, _ t JNO.C. HAGER, of Hager A Bro. Merchants; QEO. K. HEED, of Reed, M’Gran* Co, Bankers; a: B. ROBERTS, ex-Member of Congress; • F. SR&ODSR, of Shroder ft Co*, Cotton -Man.; B; F. SHENS, of Shenk. Bans man ft Co.; INSURES DWELLINGS, MERCHANDISE, FARM (PROPERTY, CHURCHES, SCHOOL HOUSES, MILLS AND FACTORIES, And all other FIRE RISKS taken at as low rates as any first class Company cao aiford. LOSSES PROMPTLY ADJUSTED AND PAID. 1 Term Policies issued on Dwellings,- Cam proper tyt4£.,kt LOW RATES, And Policies liberal in other terms. Apply to CHAS. B. HTTRST, Agent, ROCHESTER, PA. aprWTWy. ripHE ENTERPRISE •Mm • &. fnffiirance 00. P. RATCHFORD STARR, President. * THOS. H, MONTGOMERY, V. Pres. ALEX. W. WILTER, Sec’y. JACOB PETISRSON, Ass’i. Sec’y. CASH *oo.ooo ABSBTI Fei.l*,’TO, $630,993 14 . EXCLUSIVELY. ; , Perpetual Poiiciea a ery liberal ratea and terms. - ‘ CSAS-fil ntJBST, Agent, ] ROCHESTER, PA: aprOTOiiy. ■ ‘“ piTTSfeURGH MARBLEIZED MANTLE WORKS! Jftl LIBERTY STREET, PITTSBURGH, PA. AUo, RANGES. GRATES. ill reeelveprompt attention, t;.?. ' ,-f : ■■■ :‘i ’V-! i ~' i> Rocherter, Aug. lit,* 1872—angS-6m. gSiTBB DEPOSIT BAK K ■ ■■! OFBBAImjR, FA?' EBKN ALLISON, • - . Cashier. COLLECTIONS PROMPTLY MADE AND RE JUTTED. 1 ’ ' ’ CORRESPONDENCE| AND j ACCOUNTS S SICITED. I INTEREST PAID ON.TIME DEPOSITS. : EXCHANGE, SECURITIES, Ac., BOUGHT AND SOLD.: Office hours from a. u. to 4p. m. myBTT3 p BENTEL & CO, BANKERS AND BROKERS FREEDOM, PA., Are now prepared to dp a genera] Banking ? and Broker business. Not(js discounted, Government bonds and other securities bought and sold. ‘and collections made on all accessible points La the Unltedstatee. , Interest allowed on time deposits. Office hoars from 9 a. to 4 p v from 6 a. x. to 9 p. a. Jan. 26,1872.6 m. NATIONAL BANE, NO. 33 FIFTH AVENUE, . PITTSBURGH, PA. R. W. MACKEY, Cashier W. McCANDLBSS, Asst. Cashier. JgANKINQ HOUSE R. E. & H. HOOPES, NEW BRIGHTON, PA. Correspondence of Banks, Bankers and Mer chants solicited. Collections promptly mad'* and remitted. OySS’Tfciy. JAMES T. BRADY & CO., (Successors to 8. Jones & C 0.,) Cob. FOURTH AVENUE & WOOD STREET PITTSBURGH, B A 2T K BBS, BUY AND SELL ALL KINDS OP INTEREST ALLOWED ON DEPOSITS MONEY LOANED ON GOYERNMENTRONDS AT MARKET RATES. Orders. Executed tor he Purchase and Sale of and GOLD. jySa’TOtly. O. 8. BARKER. P. A. BARKER. c. A. BARKER Q. S. BARKER & CO., New Brighton, Pesn’a-, Q. 8. BARKER & CO., Beaver Falls, Penn’a., B A.2STSEES Dealers in EXCHANGE, COIN, COUPONS, 4c. Collections made on ell Accessible points in the United States and Canada. > Accounts of Merchants, Manufacturers and Indi vldnals solicited. * Interest-allowed on Tfid? Deposits. CoresjKHHience will receive prompt attention. JJOCHESTER SAVINGS BANK. JOHN T. K’DONALD, GEO. G. SPETEBEB, SPEYEREH So McDONALD, Dealers- in exchange. Coin, Government Securi ties,make collections on all accessible points In the United States and Canada, receive money on depos it subject to check, and receive time deposits ol one dollar and upward, and allow interest at 6 per cent. By-laws and Roles tarnished free by applying at at tbe bank. Bank open dally from ■? a. m., till 4 p.m., and on Saturday evenings from 6 to 8 o'clock. REFER, BT PERMISSION, TO L H Oatman 4 Co, jHon J S Baton, Algeo, Scott 4 Co, I Orr 4 Cooper, S Snieder'4 Wacke, John r harp, B S Banger, B B Edgar, AC Hurst, ;T“°'iesmen’s National S B Wilson, i iMnk, Pittsburgh. Pa. novll-70-je3o-71 JEi™* Insurance Co. HARTFORD, CONN. PAID UP CAPITAL, - $3,000,000 CASH ASSETS, - $5,549,504.97. TOTAL LIABILITIES,- - - $256,008.89 NET ASSETS, - $5,293,486.08. CHARTERED IN 1819. “BY THEIR FRUITS YE KNOW THEM losses paid in 61 yean, 8 36,058,647.18 Lookto wealtb and worth for indemnity. Loo to quality as the paramount consideration of Insn rance.fprtoo frequently tbe<3teitne«t rata is only tbe index of the poorest Insurance. .The stability, wealth, liberality, and straightforward character < 1 the AStna, and its promptpossin the payment losses daring the peat 61 yean,' claim the apprecia tion of qll business men. / . . ; Applkatloas rqcalved and Policlea written at fa rates ami liberal terms, by CHAS. B. HURST, A^ent, ROOHEBTK&PA ; Enterprise salook and RESTAURANT UPBN DAY AHD KIQBT. MEALS AT ALLHOXTRS. Ho. 19 SIXTH BT., (latent. Clair,) S PITTSBURGH, febimi-ly NEAL McCAI LION 0. MABHV, PEARL SALOON, 17 SIXTH STREET, PITTSBURGH. CHOICE LIQUORS A 'HBBAE. 10-100. C. H. BENTEL, Cashier. J. W. COOK, President. OP JAS. T. BRADY S; CO; W. J, SPETEBEB, b. J. speteber. Cashier w SrJJ' Saturdays Mela’ g