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VOLUME 2. EBENSBURG, PA., THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1868. NUMBER 15
628 HOOP SKIRTS. 628
W1L T. HOPKINS' "OWN MAKE"
or
"KEYSTONE SKIRTS"
ro the best and Ciieapebt Low Pbicei
Hoop Skirts in the market. Trail Skirts,
25 springs, $1.00; 80 springs, $1.20 ; and
40 springs, $1-45. Plain Skirts, 6 tapes, 20
springs., 80 Cents; 25 springs, 95 Cents;
SO springs, $1.15; and 85 springs, $1.25.
Warranted in every respect.
Our OWN Make" of "Vsios Skirts,"
Fh'vcn Tape Trails, from 20 to 50 eprings.
$1.20 to $2. CO. Plain, Six Tapes, 20 to 60
tpiinps. Lvm 85 Cents to $2.00. These
Skirt are belter than those 6old by elher
establishments as firtt class goods, and at
iiucb lowr prieea.
-Oar OWN' Hake" of "CHAMPION Skirts"
are iu every way superior to all oiber Hoop
Skirts before the public, and only have to
be examined or worn to couviuee every one
f the feet. M inufactured of the best linen-Unii-hed
English S:eol Springs, very superior
tapes. at:d the style of the metslic fasten
log and manner of securing them surpass
for durability and excellence any other Skirt
ia this country, and are lighter, more elastic,
will wear linger, give more satisfacttion.
find are realty cheaperjthan all others. Ei'ery
lady should try iJiem. They are being sold
extensively by Merchants tlirvughout this
ttnd the adjoining Statea at very moderate
prices. It you want the best, ask for
"Hopkins' Champion Skirt." If you do
Xiot liud them, get tha merchant with whom
you deal to order them fur you, or come or
fend direct to us. Merchants will find our
UifiVreut grades of Skirts exactly what they
ieed, and we especially invite them to call
and examine our extensive assortment, or
end fur Wholesale Price List.
To be had at Iitail at Manufactory, and
cf the Retail Trade generally, and at Whol
f:ile of the Manuracturer only, to whom all
rders should to addressed.
M-jnufacU,ry and Salesroom, G28 Arch Street,
Between Cth aud 7th St?.. Philad'a.
April 2, 18C8 -4in. YM. T. HOPKINS.
H. A. Shoemaker Co. are the only
cbaiere in Ebensburg who keep these cele
brated Skirts for sale.
rEis H E U T n ,
V-fl Johtiitown, Pa ,
STATIONERS
A.D UOOIi m. tonus.
JI A N U F A CT U R L' E S OF BLANK BOOKS.
POBTK-MON'AIS. I'Al'ER BOXES
AND LOOKING GLASSES.
Ijoking Glass and Picture Fraraes always
cn hand, and made to order. A large and
most complete assortment of Diawin Boom
and Miscellaneous Pictures, consisting of
Chromos, Paintings in Oil, Steel Plate Ea
praviDgs, risin Rnd Colored Lithographs,
Oil Prints, Photographs and Wood Cuts.
This collection embraces a selection of large
tized match pictures of Landscape and Do
mestic Scenes and Portraits, and 5.000 dif
ferent varieties of Curd Photographs of prom
inent men, comic and sentimental scenes and
copies of subjects by celebrated artists. We
have also a varied assortment of B1BLF.S,
PRAY Ell. HYMN and SCHOOL BOOKS.
HISTORIES, BIOGRAPHIES. NOVELS.
tel. Religious Prints and Emblems in great
variety, and the largest and most complete
stock of STATIONERY ever brought to this
county. 500 new and beautiful stales of
"WALL PAPER, including an assortment of
J'otter'a celebrated English make, for which
wa are sole agents in this locality. These
Wall Papers are handsomer in design, supe
rior in finish, and 2B inches wider than any
ether make.
The citizens of Ebensburg and vicinity are
respectfully notified that we make BOOK
BINDING and tho manufacture of BLANK
BOOKS a speciality. All work promptly
executed at moderate rates.
OO-Storo on corner of Clinton and Locust
trots, immediat'ly opposite Fester Bouse.
Johnstown. Oct.24. 1867.-tf.
JREAT BARGAINS!
J M PIRCHER
lilikl' CLOTHIER k TILOR .
IS SELLING OFF HIS ENTIRE
STOCK OF CLOTHING
At Reduced 1'rlccs,
AND WILL CONTINUE TO DO SO
V.T1L MAT lat, 1609,
IN ORDER TO MAKE ROOM FOR A
VERY LAJtGK STOCK 01
SPRING AND SUMMER GOODS,
DON'T FORGET THE PLACE,
Montgomery Street, below Blair St.,
Next Door to Masonic Hall,
Mar. 12. IZollidayshur?, Pa
TOEVERE THE MEMORY OF
HA FRIENDS DEPARTED I
MONUMENTS, TOMBSTONES, &c.
The eubscriber Etill continues to manufacture
cf the best material and ia the most
workmanlike manner, at the
Loretto Marble Works,
all kind cf MONUMENTS AND TOMB
STONES, as well as TABLE and BUREAU
TOPS, and all other work in his line. None
but the best American and Ttalian Marble
sed, and perfect satisfaction guaranteed to
all cases at prices as low as like work can
be obtained in the cities or elsewhere. Call
and see specimens and judge for yourselves
eg to the merits cheapness of mv work.
JAMES WILKINSON.
Loretto, March 12. 18C8.1y.
ICII;RD ROWAN,
ALTOONA. FA.,
HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTER,
Is prepared to make contracts for the paint
ing of Churches, Dwellings and other Build
ings in Cambria and surrounding counties,
acd for the execution of all other work in his
Jinc. jraintine done at rtriees more moder
ate and in a style far superior to most of the
work execntad in tki aection. Satisfaction
npHEALTOONA WARE HOUSE CO.,
Dealers and Commission merchants
Corner- Virginia St. and Plank Road,
Will keep constantly on hand a large ind
well selected assortment of FLOUR, FEED,
SALT, FISH, GRAIN, COAL. LIME, SAND,
Ac , at wholesale, in AltoonaCity, and
the adjoiDing couoties can be supplied with
the leading articles generally used by them
at city and mill prices.
All kinds of country prodo.ee received sad
paid for in casb, or sold on commission.
Prompt returns will be made.
Storag furnished for all articles, ivch as
floor lumber, shooks, shingles, etc.
Articles will be delivered to purchasers
or sent to freight warehouse.
Having the only houe where goods by
the car load can be removed at tka door,
thus saving drayae, our customers will re
ceive the benefit of it.
Price currents will be sent weekly to pr
aons desiring them.
THE ALTOOXA WAREUOUSK CO.
Altoona, April 80, ;868.-tf.
TCI ARM FOR SALE. The sub-
-- scribor offers at Private Sale his valua
ble FARM, situated in Cambria township,
two miles east of Ebenhhurg, on the rap
leading to Loretto. The Farm consists of 80
Acres, more or less, about 54 Acres ot which
are cleared, under good fence, and n a good
state of cultivation. The balance of the land
is well set with sugar, chestnut, locust an.l
other marketable timber. There is a com-,
fortable Fbamk House and a Frame Barn
on the premises, ai.d an Orchard of choice
Fruit Trees that have never yet fallen" to
bear. There is als a never-failing spring
f pure water and other necessary conveni
ences on the premises. The Farm will be
sold on fair terms and easy payments, and
an itidi-putable title will be given. What
is known as Bradley's Station, on the E. &
C R ii! Road, is located on this land.
Further information can be obtained bv
applying to CHARi.ES BRADLEY. '
Cambiia Tp., March 19, lPGS.-tf.
Joseph Soissosa "1 In the Court of Common
1'leas of Cambria Co..
vs. Pemia. No. 30 March
Term. A. D. 1863, E.
Peter Solet. J D. Vend. Expo.
"And now, to wit, the Sth day of April.
A. D. 18G8, James C. Ea!y, Esq.. appointed
Auditor to distribute the funds in the hands
of the Sheriff, arising from the sale of the
dtfendnut'a real estate. Rxtract from the
Record of sai i Court, certified the 9th day
of April, A. I). 18CS.
GEO. C. K. ZAIIM, rroth'y."
NOTICB IS HEREBY GIVE!, that I will at-
ten i to the duties of the above appointment
nt the office of Daniel ifcLauahlin. Esq., ia
Johnstown, on Satur lay, the 23d day of
May next, at 1 o'clock P. M., at which time
ami place nil persons interested mar attend
if they see proper. JAS. C. EASLY,
April 30, lbo8.-St. Auditor.
VILEY, FARRELL & CO.,
L111I) PIPE, -
SHEET & BAR LEAB M4SCFACTURERS
ILiO,
Pijr Lead, Iroa Pipe, Rubber ITo"e,
Esteem Oaugee, V bistlea and Valvei,
Iron and Copper Sinks and JAth Tuba,
bteam Pumps, Farm Pumpg and
Force Pumps,
And every description of gods for
WATER, GAS 8l STEAM.
No. 167 SMiTnriiLD Stbiet,
PITTSBURGH', PA.
SfirSend for a Pric List. pr.2S.-ly.
A NEW HAND AT THE BEJL-
LOWS! The subscriber ha taken the
old Davis 6hop in ihe East Ward. Klwnshurj;,
and is do prepared to do BLACKSMITH
INQ in all its branches, such as horse fchoe
iug, wigon and carriage work, and in fact
alt other work in his line. An experience
of twenty years as a horse shoer and many
years in the other details of his trace, enables
hici to guarantee perfect satisfaction in all
cases, and to cash customers he has deter
ndTied to make a treat reduction from price
heretofore prevailing in this vicinity. All I
ask is a fir trial, aud my work will coro-m-nd
itself. S. J. "WKAKLAND.
Ebensburg, April 30, 1868 -St.
WEW TAILOR SHOP. narine
x ';inerl a TAILORING ESTABLISH
MENT in the shop formerly occupied bv R.
D. Thomas, a few "doors east of A. A. Bar
ker's store, the subscriber respectfully in
forms his old customers and the rest of man
kind that he is now prepared to manufac
tureall kinds of Gent's aud Y otitis' wearing
apparel in the latest styla of the art, with
neatness ad dinpateh, aud np m th most
reasonable terms. Persons needing work in
my line are respectfully invited t give me
a call. DAVID J. EVANS.
Ebensburg. April 9., 18G8.-tf.
AUDITOR'S NOTICE. The tinder
signed Auditor, appointed by the Or
phans' Court of Cambria county to distrib
ute the funds in the hands of nry Natde,
Administratrix of Kiihurd II. Nsgle, dee'd.
to and among the persons b'gnlly entitied
thereto, hereby gives notice that he will
attend o the JutieR of said ppoiiitmnt, at
the office of F. P. Tierney, Lsq., in Ebenr
burg, on Friday, the 22d dny of May next,
at 2 o'clock p. m., wh'n and where all per
sons interested will attend, or be debarred
from coming in for anv share of Eaid fuud.
apr.3J.-3t. JAS. C. EASLY, Auditor.
EBENSBURG FOUNDRY.
IMPLOVi D hca.th has enabled me to give
my nndividd attention to the FOUN
DRY BUSINESS, and I am determined to
manufacture and sell all articles in my line
better and cheaper than they can be fur
nithed from abroad. I shall keep a constant
supply of all manner of Castings, and the
public are respectfully iuvited to call and
examine for themselves. E. GLAS.
Ebeusbnrg, April 2. 18C8. ly.
TVOT1CE. The public is hereby
- notifit d that I have this day purchased
; f,orn Ramuel F. George, of Chest Springs,
ti, f,dlowintr articles, which I have left in
his possession at my pleasure, viz : 2 Mares,
9 teta Harness. 1 Wagon. 1 pair Bob Sleds,
1 one hor Sled, 1 Shovel How and 11 Fan-
THE TIGER.S LEAP.
Tba English ship Cremona was on the
eve of leaving Caleutta cn bea homeward
bound passage. Tho starboard anchor
Lung at the cat-head, and the other was
already a-peak the sails hung in graceful
festoons from the clewlines and buntlines,
the studdtngsail gear was all rigged, the
topsail halyards were cleared ready for
running, and all thai the good ship waited
for was the presence of Mr. Iiowditch, the
owner, who was going home in her.
At length Mr. Bowditch came, accom
panied by his daughter Mary, a girl of
some thirteen years of age, and two Malay
servants. Most of his luggage had been
on board for several days ; but on the pre
sent occasion he brought on? a huge box,
which he desired to have very carefully
taken over the side : after all was 6afe and
snufc, and the old ship fairly under head
way, the men learned that the great box
contained no more nor no leas than a largi
Bengal tiger.
At any time the immediate neighbor
hood of the royal tiger wears an atmos
phere anything but pleasant, but when the
neighboi hood is bounded by the narrow
confines ut shipboard, it is reasonable to
suppose that soma anxiety at least mny be
exercised on the occasion. Some of the
sailors on board the Cremona were rather
inclined to superstition not more so, per
haps, than the common run of sailore
and under the peculiar circumstances of
the present ense they found plenty of food
forjupersiitiousdieal ; but then the thing
was done, and it couldn't be und r.e the
tiger was on board, and they concluded
that they must rnake the best of it
One man in particular, by tne name of
White, experienced the utmost dread of
the forest tyrant, and no assurance on the
part of those who felt perfectly secure
could set his mind at ease.
The cage was in the hold, directly be
neath the main hatchway; and ever and
anon, as the deep savage growl of the
royal Bengal tiger came up like the rumb
ling of an earthquake from the bowels of
the Hup, hue would start back from
his occupation, whatever it might be, and
tremblingly stand, like one thunderstruck,
till the noise had ceased.
Not many weeks before, White had
been one of a party who went up the
Hoogly as far as Burdwan after a boat
load of ivory ; and on their return, as they
were stopping at a spring which bubhles
tip on the edge of a larg jungle jif above
Chinsura, the party were startled by the
cry, "The tiger! the tiger!" which came
from one of the native guides.
The water buckets were dropped, and
all hands rushed for the boat ; but just as
White placed hi right foot over th bow,
a piercing shriek sounded iu his ear ; and
on turning he beheld, just beyond the
spring, and on the edge of the thick jungle,
his only brother, n youth ncit more than
sixteen years of age, within the fatal grasp
of the tiger.
The UUfated boy gave one more cry,
and then the sharp fangs of the brute
monarch closed upon his throat, and the
purple life tide went forth from a heart
that soon ceased beating.
"This is the slop of death " said White,
as Captain Langdon tried to assure him
that there could possibly be no danger;
"the spirit of death is on board the Cre
mona, and woe be to him who feels its
cold gripe."
"I thought you had got over your
fright," s:ud Captain Langdon in return,
as White let go of the wheel with the right
hand and drew the sleeve of his jacket
across bis eyes.
"Fright, i-ir!" answered the hardy
sailor, as he raised his eye from the com
pass and regarded his commander with a
mournful look ; "was it a flight, sir, to
have an only brother sacrificed to the tiger
demon ? to have left that boy's bones to
whiten beneath the heathen sun of Ben
gal? Oh, sir, I saw that bov's ftee as it
seemed turned with mute supplier tion up
toward the spotted Satan, and I heard his
agonizing cry for mercy as the firey balls
of the monater gleamed upon him : and
oh, heaven ! I saw that mons'er's long,
white fangs, as they settled into the ten
der flesh of my brother's neck, and I knew
that be was slaking his fiendUh thirst from
the fountain of a life that was worth more
to me than all the world beside. Call it
not a fl ight, Mr tL'u.k me not foolish that
I w ep tiius for my brother. The nnd is
with us now ! The tiger demon is upon
our deck, and I know that there shall be
one death the more now that he has come."
As White ceased speaking, the low
growl of th'j tiger camn rumbling up from
tho hold, and fur a season the poor man
could muster scarcely strength enough to
:e,idy the ship's helm
Captain Langd m walked thoughtfully
forward, und even he could not help wish
ing that Mr. Bowditch had chosen some
other mode of conveyance fjr the tiger.
Had it been a young animal, the case
would nave been ditterent : but the tiger
was full grown, of powerful build, and
w'uhal not over a month from his native
jungle, where he was captured by a large
party of hunters, of which Mr. Bowditch
was a member ; and partly as a trophy of
his own prowepp, and partly as a suljrct of
curiosity, he' had determined to take it
home with him.
The ship pursued her course for some
weeks with nothing to break the usual
xuiet of a pleasant sea voyage ; and even
till after she doubled Good Hope every
thing ct en. wrl if w aj wept th
slight uneasiness occasioned by the fre
quent bowlings of the dreadful occupant
of the hold, and even that eaused no
alarm, save in the breast of Harry White.
It was a pleasant afternoon, after the
ship bad entered the trade winds ; the
sheets and tacks and the braces remained
just as they had been belayed forty-eight
hours before, and the sky was as clear
and cloudless as an infant's heart. The
captain and the owner stood abaft the
wheel, Harry White had the helm, and
most of the men were hanging about the
deck, while little Mary Bowditch, as
blithe and happy as an uncaged lark, was
sporting among the coils of rigjjing that
hung from the fife-rail. For several hours
the tiger had been unusually restive, and
at the present moment was sending forth
the most dismal bowlings, which at length
rose to such a pitch that little Maty started
away from, her usual playing ground and
crept up to the side of her father.
"CtiDie here, Kouli," 8;iid Mr. Brow
ditch, addressing one of his Malay ser
vants who stood near the starboird gang
way ; "what is the mutter with the tigeri"
Kouli answered unhesitaii "g!v :
"Ha wants the light an I frer-h air, sir."
'"Then let him haeit," said Mr. Bow
ditch. And turning to the captain he con
tinued, "Will you have your men hoist
the cage on deck V
Captain Langdon gave consent to thi
request ; and in a tew moments a button
was ringed to the mainstay and booked
into the stout lathings of the cage, whn
the men seized the rope and easily swayed i
the large grated box upon the deck.
The CMge was composed of stout teak-
wood, strontrly bolted and barred, the front
beinj: entirely open, sve the iron rods that
rati perpendicularly fioui the top to the
bottom ; it fronted towards the bulwarks,
so that the men might puss by the opposite
side of tha deck without disturbing the in
mate.
For some time the tiger seemed much
pleased wirh the change of his situation,
which be manifested by the peculiar man
ner in which he snuffed up the fresh air
and lashed about his tail ; but in the
course of about fifteen minutes his lashing
ceased, and soon afterwards all within the
eaga became as quiet as the grave.
Whenever a long continued silence is
suddently broken by some unexpected .
tearing, rushing noise, the heart naturally
beats quicker and stronger, and the nerves
are strung by unwonted excitement ; but
when a continuous roar, which has for
days carried terror upon its very smind,
suddenly ceases, and leaves a solemn still
ness in the atmoj-phere, thon it is that the
heart experiences it s most fearful change;
for while one is exciting and nerving in its
very uature, the other Is enervating an
oppressive.
Thus if was on board the Cremona. In
the strange silence which followed the
ceasing of the monster's movements, there
was something at once startling and op
pressive, and more than one brave heart
sank a degree lower. A fearful suspicion
hal taken possession of the men as they
had seen the cage hoisted on deck : the
perpendicular bars did not seem to be
strong enough ! They had not seen them
before, for when the cage was hoisted on
board it was entirely closed up; but though
each held the suspicion yet no one dared to
give the thought utterance. Harry White's
heart sank for a moment ; but he instinct
ively loosened the heavy sheath knife by
his side, and then .seized the wheel with a
fit mer granp.
For three minutes' this silence lasted.
Not a word had been spoken, only the men
looked at eaoh other with ominous shakes
of the head, and then seemed to think of
defepce. At the end of three minutes a
sound was heard from the cage as though
its occupant was drawing a long, half
stifled bieaih, and in a moment more was
followed by a slight rubbing agaiiiAt the
back of the wood work and a gentle gather
ing of the feet.
For the first time the Malay started
back and trembled; and then, in the shxrp,
quick cry f the jungle hunter, he ex
claimed :
"The tiger ! the tiger !''
But Kouh Tnesan spoke too late ; for,
simultaneous with his own cry, there
sounded a low howl from the cage a
deep scratch of the firm set claws, a
crashing of the iron bars, one against the
O'her aidthercy! Bengal tiger stood
urit-ouud upn the d.'ck !
i h one Lap he had ra-el let ween
the bars of the cge and c!e.rvd a dt-tnce
of several yards. For some time it
seemed an age of ch:os to tho? who
watched bun the t'ger ly croMhd
where be first alighted; rd while be
lashed his sid-s with his titil, be rol!d
his eyes room upon the crew. At le gth
he seemed to faMen i:pon a vinple .l j ct,
and as he lowered hi huge hend hIoionI
to the deek, he gatl ered Limstlf for a
spring
The little Mary, as fhe tremblingly nes
tled to her father's side, was the object
upon which the tiger had set his fatal
ejes ; and with a slight stifled cry of an
guish Mr. Bowditch gathered her to his
bosom and clasped his arms tightly around
her. But the tenible animal seemed to
take no notice of the movement, other
than to raise bis eyes to the elevated posi
tion of the child and draw his legs for a
firmer leap.
Captain Langdon thought of the guns,
but through what certainly appealed to
be gross care'essness, there was not one
of tbeoa kfcd-ed. A tbonfaod thought
may have flashed across the minds of the
men, but for tho-moment they stood in a
body, like so many statues ; and ere the
captain could give an order or the men
find presence "of mind to secure the means
of defence, all eyes were turned from the
crouching tiger to the person of Harry
White.
He had lashed the helm and drawn his
long sharp knife from his sheath. A piece
of tarpaulin was wound round bis left arm,
and with his face as white as marble he
atrode ont upon the quarter rleck. .
For an instant he stood still. Not a
muscle moved in his whole system, but
the fire which flashed from his eyes was
as. bright and sparkling as that which
shone in the orbs of the beast before him.
4 Back, Harry, back !" shouted Captain
Langdon. "Here come loaded muskets.
Stand back and let the men fire."
"Ke.ep your bullets till you need them,"
returned White, without moving his eyes
from the tiger ; "I must do my duty
fiist ! There is blood upon the d-.-m n
that calls to me for vengeance. See see
those bell sent fangs that drank my broth
er's life sway ho-v they glisten and shir e!
Iv-other. brother, you shall be avenged !"
As he spoke, in accents of almost ma
niac madness, his bidy swayed to and
fro for an instant, and then, just as the
iyer 8'rained his nerves for the fatal leap,
he taised bis knife high in the air and
rushed madly forward.
The gleaming eyes c f the beast caught
the approaching form ; and with a low
premonitory growl, the muscles relaxed
their strained tension, and the tiger raised
himself upon bis haunches.
The white fi:g glistened horribly with
in the blood-like lips and the raised paw
revealed the fearful armament of sharp
hooked claws. All hands on board would
have risked much to save the maddened
man, but he was loo quick for them, and
every heart ceased its beatings as they
saw the avenger start forward.
The rays of the setting sun gleamed an
instant on the uplifted blade, and on the
next it was buried in the side of the mon
ster ; but ere it was drawn forth, those
long. fangs had srttled upon the canvass
cohering on the L-ft arm, and upon the
ii stant a sharp grating was heard as the
bone cracked and Fplintered beneath the
meeting jaws. Again and again descend
ed the knife, and as each stroke opened
some new passage for the monster's blood
that huge paw found its hold in the quiv
ering flesh of Harry White.
The men rushed forward, and would
fain have rescued their shipmate from his
self-sacrifice ; but ere they came the two
combatants had rolled over together upon
the gore-stained deck.
In one dark stream mingled the blood
of the tiger and the man. Harry White
had struck his last blow, and the knife
was buried to its heft in the heart of the
beast, from whence he who struck it
thither bad not the power draw it forth.
"You may touch th-em, if you please,"
said Kouli Thas-in, as he regarded the
fearful seene ; "but all the power on earth
cannot loose the death gripe of the tiger.
His claws are set like iron into the sides
of his victim, and till his eyes close his
muscles will not relax."
But the spectators had not long to wait,
for scarcely had the Malay ceased speak
ing when the royal brute gave one fierce
struggle, and then the giant paws laid
powerless upon the body of the devoted
sailor his huge jaws settled back, and
bis head fell like leaden weight upon the
deck. The royal tiger was dead ! Little
Mary was safe the men were safe, and
oh, how every heart beat with joy as the
truth was known. Harry White still
breathed the breath of life.
There was one death the more from the
tiger's presence onboard the ship: hut
'twas the life of the beast only that went
out to fulfill the prophecy, fr Harry
White etill lives. To be sure, he has lost
an arm, and the de o marks of the tiger's
claws are left to tell the tale of that fear
ful struggle ; but he lives, and from the
Wunty of Mr. ISowditch 1n tiipys an in-deetul-iice
from the wanis of this physi
cal world.
Near Windsor,on the beautiful Thames,
fs a small red eotlspe, and the owner
may le seen on any pleasant evening, with
I. is pipe in his mouth, sitting on his porch
in a large arm chair, which is covered
with a hose tiger's skin. That man is
Ha'ry White; and if you wish to see his'
eyes sparkle beneath their heavy la-hes.
j-t ak hitu to tell you a boat the "Tiger's
I.ep."
The Aku Kin klai Cxied.
ClTT HOTEU
(Wfeith is in New
Orleans,) 1
pril 11. J
April
I have joined 'cm. 1 am a K. K. K
Feller. I run the rik of dying some day
(or night), but I am going to unbosom my
s If and make a pubho trpose of the K, K.
K.'s fro bono publ'co.
Once upon a time, when night had
spread her sable mantilla o'er the earth,
and pinned it with a.moon, I went to bed.
l'eopie often po to bed at night, with the
exception of the K. K. K s, who never
go to bed and who never sleep. They
have ears, but they see not ; tb?y have
eyes, but tbvy hear not.
The clocks on the cupola of the Cret-
cent office had tolled forth the hour of
twelve ; the stuffed owl in the Crescent
City Museum had gone to rest ; the statue
ef Henry Clay reposed in silence in a per-
twidicular position s th tke bad reafw
& - ...
their croaking, and the frogs their biting,
the musquitoes had begu-i humming, "and
fcll went merry as a marriage belle" to
her hash ! I was sleeping in my couch of
couches like a June bug in January, but
I did not snore. I never snore. Every-,
body would do it, I presume, if it was
fashionable. But to resume.
As I said, it was past mHnighr, snd I
was dreaming of iny country seat, (a stool
with three legs,) when I was startled sud
denly by a cold, clammy, 6hrimpy hand
upon my forehead. I awoke and rose up
in bed to discover a figure clothed in white
sitting upon my bed. He (I suppose he
was a he) held in bis right hand a Komnn
candle burning blue, and in his left a sky
rocket ; his eyes were glaring balls of red
fire, and he had (wo horns in his forehead,
besides several which he had taken in his
mouth. As I awoke ho waived the torch
three times around his head and beckoned,
like Hamlet's ghost, f jr me to follow him.
I arose from my bed and followed, entirei?
in white ! lie led me through winding
streets, up dark alleys, and finally brought
me to a graveyard. All this time he had
never, for a moment, taken Lis eyes cf
fire off me. Arrived in the centre of the
graveyard, beside an unburied skeleton be
tween two thorn bushes, he shot off his
rocket, and glaring upon me, said :
'Mortuary mortal, I come from the
bloody den of the bob-tailed scorpions. I
am "the chiefest among 10,000, and the
1 altogether lovely. Yon see before you
the specter of the Great Tribe of the De
moniac Deathly Dragons. I am sent to
warn, to defy, to drag you to danger.
3ice the scorpion's tongue has hissed ; 3ice
the dirge of death is done ; 3ica the bloody
grave has gaped ! Behold !"'
I looked, and Paw in letters of blood
upon the skeleton before me, and surround
ed by letters of fire :
ttyi AM PF.D
(Illustrated by coffins and daggers.)
I gp-zed in horror, and exclaimed, in
petrified neceuts : "I believe ye my boy !"
and fainted.
When I recovered myself (and my w&l
let) I found that I was transported to a
subterranean dungeon beneath terra Jtrma.
It bad all the appearance of a place that
was worse than The Place itself"! There
were blue lights, blue fellers and blue
flames.
Even "the lights burned bine " The
4 going paragraph states that. Ary par
agraph going might state the same thing.
Brightly the "taller-dip" candles "shone
o'er (thorongh) fare women and brave
men !"
When I had been faken inside the dun
geon, I felt that I was done 1 I was in
troduced to a hard crowd in Lard times.
They formed around me (the crowd and
not the times), and in a deep sepulchral
tone that shook the cave, said :
"Whence eomes this mortuary mortal,
and is he trooly rural T"
My conductor answered for me, and
said in tones of thunder (and lightning) :
"He can keep a hotel ; he can sing like
a martingale, swim like an angel, gamble
on the green, and is lull to the corps I"
"Let him pass," said the tycoon, who
thought I hadn't a "full hand."
I passed, and found myself in the ins
ner chamber, where I saw nothing but
thunder, the yells of demona and the rat
tling of chains ; I heard nothing but
lightning, the flash of gunpowder and the
last ditch, and I dreamed the dream of
the d(un)reary !
A mangled corpse a'coJ upn a pyramid
of skulls, and holding in his right hand a
coffin and in his left hand a (pristine man)
coughin' two, he exclaimed :
"Mortal, I am the Bloody Butcher of
the Bogus Blunderers of Babylon. Swear
to keep our secrets, or dye."
As I didn't care to dye, I swore.
Then I was tetotally aurrounded by de
mons as looked like devils, not one of
whom bought their shirts at Moody's, who
shrieked :
"He swears by the fiery flagon found in
ferocious furnaces by fellers from Felici
ana that he does not, never did,, and
nsver will again, so help bim Felts !"
I was then stabbed by a small sword,
which was held in fhe hands of every de
m n in pantalets around roe, then drugged,
boiled in a caldron, set upon a hot grid
iron, slid down a gang-plank, walked over
cakes of ice, mutilated in the hair of my
bead, and finally tatooed and scalped 1
I was dragged through tubular boilers
to the tune of the "Rogue's March," strip
ped to the suit of clothes in which I was
born, powdered to atoms, and told that 1
bad a mission to perform to all outside
barbarians which is to annihilate every
liirtg thing, and to kill every decade
member of soci if. I act seeded.
'Do you swear !'
"I swear."
I was then clothed with habiliments of
woe, thrmt into a den of worms with enly
one bottle of Mrs. Winslow's vootbing
Syrup, and told to await the action of the
Impeachment Comm'.tte.
J ht, following recipe ia worth $00 a
year to a sheep farmer, and we hav: never
''en it in print : If there is any life in the
lamb, net it at once up to the head in a
blood warm bath, adding more warm wa
ter as it cools. Keep it in this fifteen or
twenty minutes, or "until it makea the
water fly with its feet." Then wipe it
dry and return it to its mother.
Wht is your nose in the middle of your
fa Because it's the ttW'.
lYliat Frightened Ulcatie.
There are many instances on record cf
brave men being scared to death nearly hi
the Clearest trifle. Men who Lvn brn
up to their armpits in blood, h:.ve darec"
the greatest peri's, and reveled in t! , tor
ture of humanity, are often awe stru!. tr
and shake like the apcn, at hi titir.g th;'
ominous tick,, tick, tick, of the woi m hi
wainscot.
Get era! Meade has Icon in a trr'iMo
s'ew ; he has Lad the nipht-swrpts :.? d
the cork'-C'ews cv.r the terrible hobgob
lins to be feared down South.
Wouldn't have his '-f.-cimx" forlhewonu.
What is il that Siiakspcare savs ?
'Gu;it makes cowards of us r.'.:."
Is that il ? Shouldn't wot:dor if it bad
that ef.cct. Bxt the
"Fe. fi, fo, fum,
T sineil the blond of an nrp''.mst
"Dead or alive I will have some,
that Lightened children to slc p, in eld
times, was nothing at all, to the
"Ku klux k'a l."
that has scared mighty Generals and tl.o
great party of "mocal ideas" and
the intelligence" into fits. If bud wl i
key has anything to do -svith the Moad j
fever, we suggest to Congress to rcrei.l
the tax, and let our pious Genera's au
Freedmen's chaplain's have some ;;&.
!d rye" at a little more reasonable piice.
Here is what frightened Meade :
BLOOD! BLOOD! BLOOD!
A QUART OF BLOOD I
tK. fK. tK f
we ii a vi-: m:r
WE ARE UEHHt f t t t
t t t t t t f t t t
TUIUCE THE BTUNDLE CAT
MEWED .
II A III
THE CAULDEOX BOILS !
When the black cat is gliding endrr the
shadows of d.irkncs and the death watca
ticks at tho lone hour of midnight, then we,
the pale riders, are abroad, f f
3-Speak in whispers and we hear vou.
i.
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fc Dream as von sTeen Jn tT.e Trr--,,-. r-.
cesses cf your houses, and hoy-rh g -or
your beds, we pathtr 3 our sleeping tl o"r -Lt.
while cur t t t t t t t aie at
your throats.
Ilav.sbcrs of the liberties of the re..'e for
whom we d:ed ind yet iive, begone tru ii be
too late. t t
C3-UnhoIv Blacks, cursed r,f G.d t-.r-
warning and Cy. t t t-0
C3-Twice hath the Sacred Serpent-
KMIi.sed.3
When again his voice is heard r--mr d. .-.r-
is sealed. t
fjcvBEWABEf TAKE HEED t-C3
Given mider our hani'R. in ll,i Tlrv r.v
tkh Sacked Serpbst, on the Mystic Day
of the Bloodv Moon. t
B. K. K. i- L. G Q.
Grand Cyclops of the Ku-Klux Klaa
For the Tenh Division.
To be cxecntd br the Gmnd Wl.tta
Death and the Battling Skeleton.
Catholic akd rs.iTr.nivT rmtmc
There is a difft reuce between Catholics and
1 rotestants in this matter of pravii-g.
When a Protestant rravs in nnblie he is nr,t
to hide his face and I end low in an awkward.
nccomtortable attitude ; and, when he would
pray in private he retires to some sveret
place, where, if any one should catch him at
; . 1 1 j 1 t 1 ti ....
11, no wouiu i jcsn use some guilty thing.
It is not so Vvit'n our Boman Catholic breth
ren. They kneel, it is true, bnt the l-.idy
above the knee U fco!t ur-richt. and t!.e f ir
is never hidden aiul as i!' this were cot
enough, they make or'iin move rr.vi.ts r.f
the Land which distinctly announce their
purpc-S'3 to every behohlor. Tho san.e Lte
dom and boldness are ob.-erv.ib'e in Catholic
children when thy B3y their ninl.ttv prnj ere.
Your little Protestant bin its its face iu the
bed and whispers its pre.ycr to the cn'jnter
pane; but car small Catholic brethren and
sisters kneel upright, make the sign f the
dress, and arc cot in the least ashamed t r
disturbed if any one sees them. An- 1 her
thing strikes a Pre tcslnnt s; ertator of Cath
olic worship the whole congregation, with
out cx-eptin, ob.-erve the etiquette of the
occasion. Wfcen kneei ng is in ordr all
kneel ; when it is the etiquette to stand a'l
stand ; v.htrn tha prayer hex k says bow every
head is low. Thoc two peculiarities ara
cause ar.d c.Tect. A Protectant child cftru
has some reason to di-ubt whether saving its
prayers is, after all, "the thing." since it ia
aware that come of its rno va'ued friends
d relations do not say theirs Allan
Monthly. '
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RaTTT ARTICt.K BT JoSIt BlLLTXGC.
Bats originally emit from Norway, and I v, uh
they had originally staid there.
They are as unc illed for as a pain in the
small of the back.
They can be domesticated dreadful a?r -that
is. as far as getting in cnpl.oard end
eating cheese and gnawing pie i concerns.
The best way to domesticate them that I
evpr saw is to surround them et:tly with a
tteel trap; you can reason with them then
so great advantage.
llats are mig; atorions they migrate to
wherever they have a mind.
Piz- n is a'.ao good for rats j it sofiecs their
nature.
Cat" ha'e rats, and rats late cats, and
who don't 1
I suppose there is betw"n fifty and sixty
millions of rsts in Ametiea 1 qu fe row
only entire'y from memory an! I d-n't
suppose there is a single cece.-siry rat in th
wool lot. This shows at a glaive io.v
many waste rata there is. R-its enhnnc - in
numbers faster th m shoe pegs do bv machi
nery. One pair of healthy rats is all that
sny man wants to start tho rat lusinesa
with, and in ninety days, without any out
lay, he will begin to hare rats to turn off.
Bats, viewed from any pV.tforra ju can
build, are uDspskabiy cusoi J.
Wht Is an unbecoming action like thm
UtleT (J 1 Because it's in cLguu.
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