u u eeS-J? g&&&mJrlM- &&r. $s?-&ib!s!5 it. t.. joiixstox, Editor. IIB IS A FREBpAX WHOM THE TRUTH MAKE FREE, AND ALL ARB SLAVES BESIDE. II. A. itlTIKL, lu burner VOLUME 2. EBENSBURG, PA., THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1868. NUMBER 23. The Cambria Freeman wiu. be rciiLisnED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING, At Ebonsbwrg, Cambria Co., Pa. At the following rales, payable within three months from die of subscribing : One copy, one year, ----- $2 00 One copy, six mouths, - - - - 1 00 One copy, three months, -, - - - 60 Those who f.irl to pay their subscriptions until after the expiration ol fcix months will bo charged at the rate of $"2.50 per year, and those who fali to pay until after the ex piration of twelve months will be charged at the rate of $3.00 per year. - Twelve numbers constitute a quarter; twenty live, tsix. months; and fifty numbers, one year. RATES OF AD VKKTISIKU. One square, 12 Hues, one insertion, $1 00 Ev-h subsequent insertion, 25 Auditor's Notices, each, 2 00 Administrator ' Notices, each, 2 B0 Executors' Notices, each, " 2 50 "Jatray Notices, each ' 1 0 3 mos. 6 mos. 1 yr. 1 i quare, 12 lines, $ 2 50 $ 4 00 $ tl 00 2 squares, 21 lines, 5 00 8 00 12 00 j 3 squares, r.C. lines, 7 00 10 00 15 00 j Quarter column, 9 50 14 00 25 00 ! Tldrd column, 11 00 10 00 2 00 Half column, 14 (.0 25 00 36 00 j One O.lumrt, 25 00 So CO tO 00 j rr.'tV.!-.i..iial or Iminess Curds, not I exeediii;; 8 lines, with paper, C 00 ( )Mf u iry Notices, over tix lines, ten cents I'.r hue. ; ecial and business Notices eight cents per lii c f'i :i:--t ii.seriion, and four cents tur ! v.tch sabs! queiit it'scvti.'C. I TV,- f W .-. . vr fi.'ninnpii'l. t t: .s t a personal Lature must be paid for a.- adver tiscments. JuU -'III STING. We have made arrangements by which we can do or have done all kintis f plain and fancy Job l'tinting, such as books, Punphets, Show Cards, liiU and Lette-i Heads, Handbills. Circulars. Ac, in the hot t-tvle of the art and at the most moderate pries. Also, all kinds of It iliog. blank books, book bindiiu:, &c, execnt.-d toorch-r g'i as the Lest and as cheap as the rm'apfKt. rKCUltr. Tim SHADOW EI IK j 3 THE SUi'STASCE FADES. Pictures for the Million H,i vin located in Eben-djtirg, I would re-r-pref fully inform the public that I am pre pared to execute I'ilOTOGKAl'HS in every f-'yle of the att, from the smallest card Pic ture to th'j larett si.cd for framing. Fic tures takeu in any kind of weather. 211 OT 0 Gil A PI IS V A 1ST ED IX OIL, 1SDIA INK OR WATER COLORS. 1'very attention pven to the taking of Children's pictures, but in clear weather only. Special attention is invited to my stock of Iar-e l'ld'CRU FltAMKS and 1'HOTO 'JttAPil ALBUMS, which 1 will sell cheap er than they can he bought elsewhere in town. Ct'j'iinj and Enlarging dune oi rea-t-oiiable teims. I abk comparison and defy competition. Thankful for past favors, I solicit a con nance of the same. Gallery on Julian street, two doors south of Town Hall. T. T. SPENCE. Photographer. Kbensburg, Nov. 14, 18G7. "gAIiM FOR SALE. The sub- tn'ribar offers at Private Sale Lis valua ble FARM, situated in Cambria township, two miles east of Eliensburg, on the roap leading to Loretto. The Farm consists of 60 Acres, more or less, about 54 Acres of which arc cleared, under good fence, and in a pood state of cultivation. The balance of the land is well set witti sugar, chestnut, locust and ether marketable timber. There is a com-, forlable Frame House and a Frame P.akn on the premises, and an Orchard of choice Fruit Trees that have never yet failed to bear. There is also a never-failing spring of pure water and other necessary conveni ences on the premises. The Farm will bo told on fair terms and easy payments, and an indi-putable title will be given. What is known as bradley'ii Station, on the E. & C Rail Road, is located on this land. Further information can be obtained by applying to CHARLES BRADLEY. 11 EVEIiE THE MEMORY OF FRIENDS DEPARTED MONUMENTS, TOMBSTONES, &c. The subscriber ftill continues to manufacture cf the bct material arid in the mott workmanlike manner, at the- Loretto Marble Works, all kind cf MONUMENTS AND TOMB- .S TONES, as well as TABLE and BUREAU TOPS, and all other work in his line. None but the best American and Italiau Marble -nsed, and perfect satisfaction guaranteed to lt'ocouat nrii'1'14 as low as like work can be cbtaiued in the cities or elsewhere. Ctl" and see specimens and judge for yourselves as to the merits cheapness of my work. JAMES WILKINSON, loretto, March 12, 1868.13'. ; JOSEPH ZOLNER HAS just opened, and offers fur sale lowe than they can be bought Jtk tlswhere, a splendid lot of Q5 eightdayaud twenty-four hour ' V- OLOCKS, firje WATCHES tfku5&2 ' evury description, ACCOKDF.ONS. J EWEL .UY, and a variety of all articles in his line. Repairing of Clocks, Watches, and all kinds of Jewelry, dono on short notice and most reasonable terms. All work warranted. Cull at his shop. High street, opposite Public school House, Ebonsburg. fep.6,'67.J T O M . -P.. DAVIS, WITH BOYD a STROUD, Inijxtrtera and Dealers in QUEENSWARE, CHINA and GLASS, " No. 82 Nobth FouuTa St Foar doore below Merchant' Hotel, PHILA From the Rochester Union. Tlie Horrors oT Ainlertonvllle. Tlie Trutb at Last. We have for a few daya past been making faithful inquiry into the question as to who originated and enforced the policy of leaving Federal soldiers, taken by the enemy, to starve and rot in rebel prison poD, and have at last struck upon evidence that appears to remove all doubt. This evidence, we are glad to Bay, is of a character and comes from a source that at once carrya conviction and relieves us of the liability to suspiciau of unfairness that might otherwise be enter tained by our Republican fiiends. We find h in the documentary record of that immac ulate authority, the "Committee on the Con duct of the War" in a report made to that body by the chief of the Impeachment Managers, Maj. Gen. 3. F. Butler. The position occupied by Gen. Butler at this time, in the eyes of the Radical party of th country, eFpecially adds great weight to his testimony and serves to give additional im portar ce and interest to the subject under consideration. In his report Gen. Butler recites the facts concerning thu disagreement about the ex change of prisoners existing when he was entrusted with the duties of Commissioner by the Secretary of War. in December 18C8. He succeeded during the following three mouths, atter much trouble, in arranging the basis of an exchange, mac for man and t filet r for officer, with the rebel Commission er Mr. Ould, with whom beheld conference at Fortre.-s Monroe. He then says: "Mr. Child left on the S 1st of March, with the understanding that I would get authori ty and information from my government, by which all disputed pdnts possible could be adjusted, and would then confer with him farther, either meeting Lira at City Point or e's where for that pmrpose. In the mean time the ex.; hanges of sick and wounded and special exchange should go on. 'Liut. Geu Grant visited Fortress Mon r..e on the 1st of April, teitig the first time I hnd ever met him. "To him the state of the negotiations as-.to txchango was verbally communicated, and tnost eni?hilic verbal directions trere received from the Lieutenant General nol to take ny step by which another able-bidied man should In: exchanged until further ordrs from hem." On the 14th of April, General Gxaut at Washington states that the whole subject of exchange of prisoners had been referred to him as follows : Washington, 11 p. ra., April 14, IEC4. Maj. OkN. Bt'Ti.ru; Your report respecting negotiations wiih Commissioner Ould for the t s:;li.i;.ge t-f prisoners of war, oas bkcm a&Fsa- IT T) HE Kott MT ORI'EC. Until examined by me, and my orders theie tm are reoeive'l by you, ttcuss all rcKTHEK iiEMONoiaaii's. U. S. Grant, Lieut. Geu. Six r'ays later, after General Grant had '"examined," he pent a loog teHgram to General Batler, 6tating that he ha-J been empowered to "give such instructions as I may deem proper," and he gave instruc tions of which General Butler says : 'Of course these instructions, in the then state of negotiations, rendered any further exchange impossible, and retaliation useless." General Butler says he then made an effort to havo the sick and wounded excepted, so that they might 13 exchanged, and ho re ceived the following telegram in reply : Washington. 9 30 p m.. April 30. ISG4.. Maj. Gkx. B. F. Bctlkb : Receive all the sick and wounded the Confederal authorities will send you, bend no hoke in sxcbanse. U. S. Grat, Lieut. Gen. Upon this extraordinary "instruction" General Butler remarks as followg : "To obtain deliveiy of even sick and wounded prisoners without any return would be a Bomewhat difficult operation, save that the euemy, by giving us our wounded and sick in their hand, we retaiuing all the rebel sick and wounded in ours, burdened us with the care and cost of all the sick and wound ed of both sides an operation of which it is difficult to see the stragetic value, and only to be defended because of its humanity in rescuing our wounded from the destitu tion of sufferings permitted to them by the Confederates." In August the question of exchanging prisoners was again np, the rebel vCom mis sioners having renewed the offer to give man for man and officer for officer. But Gen. Grant interposod, and in a telegram to Gen. Buticr, dated City Point, August 18, 1884, said : On the Eubject of exchange, I differ with Gen. Hitchcock ; it is hard on our men held in Southern prisons Dot to exchange them, but is hum mity to those left in the ranks to fight our battles. Every man released on parole or otherwise becomes an active soldier against us at ouce either directly or indirectly. If we commence a system of exchange which liber ates all prisoners taken, we will have to fight ou until the whole South is exterminated. If we hold these men caught they amount to no more than dead men. At this particular time, to release all rebel prisoners North would in sure Sherman's defeat, and would compromise our safety hero. TJ. S. Grant, Lieut. Gen. Here we have a full and free avowal that the leaving of tens of thousands of poor Federal soldiers, whose patriotism and bravery carried them to the front of battle, to starve, and rot, aud die in rebel prison pens was a matter of studied policy a part of the tactics by which Geo. Grant made war upon the rebellion. And the people will remember that while this inhumaa pol icy was being mercilessly carried out they were told by tho government and by the or gans of tho admiui&tration that the whole difficulty about the exchange was on the part of the rebels that our governmeat was will ing and anxious to get our poor fellow out of the jawB of the terrible death that await ed them in the rebel prisons, but could noC. The duplicity was in keeping with the wor than barbarity. Geu. Butler concludes his report in these wordsjj&J jv CPnave felt it my duty to give an account with this, particular carefulness of my par ticipation in the business of exchange of prisoners, the orders under which I acted, and the negotiations attempted, whiah com prises faithful narration of all that was done, so that all may become a matter of history. "The great importance of taa questions, the fearful responsibility for the many thou eaade cf liyes which, Iry tho refusal to ex change, were sacrificed by the most cruel forms of death, from cold, starvation and pestilence, of the prison pens of Raleigh and Andersonville. being more than all the Brit ish soldiers killed in the wars of Napoleon ; the anxiety of fathers, brothers, sisters, mothers, wives, to know th8 exigency which caused this terrible aud perhaps, as it may bare teemed to them useless and unnecessa ry destruction of those dear to them, by horrible deaths, each and all have compelled me to this exposition so that it may be seen that these lives vere spent as a part of Vie system of attack upon the rebellion, advised by the wisdom of the General-in-Chief of the armies to destroy it by depletion, depending upon our superior numbers to win the vic tory at last." The loyal mourners it ill doubtless derive solace from this fact, and appreciate all the more highly the geuius which conceived the, plan and tht success won at so great a cost. It is Gen. Butler, chief Manager of Im peachment and leader of the Radical party now supporting Gen. Grant for the Tresi elency, who states these facts and makes- this criticism upon the originator and executor of the policy ef sacrificing, lifelessly and unnecessarily, more lives than the British lost in all their -wars with Napoleon. We have nothing to add. A Kemisiscesce ok Indian Slteksti Tiox. In his sermon last Sunday, in the Methodiat church in this village, the ven erable divine, Rev. Mr. Parker, of Ro chester, who. is now about seventy-five years of age, related an incident that will bo of interest to the majority of our read ers. Sixty-one years ago last Feburary, a certain person etarted from Leicester to cross the Geoneseo Flats, bound for the western shore of the Genessee river. When about half woy across the flat?, in the early evening, he was startled by hear ing a strange noise in the heavena above him, which sounded to him like the screaming and wailing of a person far up in the clouds. He returned to his home and related the circumstances to his neigh bors, who went with him to the place tho next evening, and then and there were witnesses to tho same noise. People came from a distance to hear the strange noise, and for weeks a large crowd was at 1ha place every evening, at times to the num ber of two thousand. The native Indians that were then dwelling on Squukie Hill held a council and came to the conclusion that, it was the npirit of one of their fathers .-who died a short tim previous, and had lost his way while on ita journey to the "happy hunting grounds," and in its dis tress was calling for help. To assist this daf arted father on his journey, and open a way for him, one hundred warriors were aerected and armed with rifles as heavily loaded as they could bear. These war riors were placed as nearly under the noise as possible, and at a given signal from one of their number, they fired simultaneously into the air. From that time and forever after, the noise was beard no more. Mr. John Scott, of Leicester, and Mr. Scott, of Scottsburg, aged men, were acquainted with the facts at the time, and corrobora ted the version given above. Gencssce Herald. Loccst Music The musical organs of the locust, by which they keep up the pe culiar and universal din, from sunrise to sunset, are described by a scientific writer, and the fact stated that it is only the male which ha the organs of eound. We quote as follows ; 'Tho musical organs are also very curi ous, and difficult to -describe. Directly under the shoulder of the wing on each side of the chest there is a beautiful mem brane, somewhat triangular, convex, and ribbed with fine bony ridges. This mem brane resembles a small shell, and is stretched over a cavity in the chest, the lower angle connected internally with a strong muscle. On the breast there are two large scales, one on each side, firmly attached to the breast above, but free he lp w. On bending the body backwards these scales are elevated and expose two large cavities, also covered with extremely fine and silk like membranes. These cavities arc connected with thosu under the musical membranes under the wing shoulders, and probably, serve for lungs. When these cavities are filled with air, the musical organs or membranes first described are made to produce the sound by the large muscles ; the bony ridges of the membranes being made to act upon each other with such rapidity that the mo tion is scarcely perceptible." Aw Egyttian Hermit. A letter from Egypt ttJhc Citisen, describing a voyage up the Nile, contains this item: The next iay we went ashore to see a hermit on the hank, who has sat there, perfectly nude, for fifty years. He never washes or smokes, or leaves his position. Let them believe it who will, but bis limbs were altogether too supple to confirm the Arab's story. Of course, he is old, and fat and dirty. His thick, gray hair was matted and uo burnt. He sat curled up like a bear, near a smouldering fire, with a little kitten by his side, receiving the admiring homage of our poor ignorant boatmen, who consider him a very holy man. Tby say he has power by simply lifting his hand to prevent boats from pass ing up or down the river until passengers have coma on shore to pay him reverence. Crocodiles go up and play with him, and the Nils knows him and never overflows hirja. But th truth must be told that ho was clever enough to choose for him self a seat on a high bank quite above its inundations. From N. Y. Metropolitan (Campaign) Record. "LET US HAVE PEACE," OK, How Uncle Samuel Sampson set tled Ills Family Troubles. JJncle Samuel Sampson had a large family of grown up children, several of whom were married and settled, but the old gentleman still insisted on exercising authority over them. They all lived in the same town, and in course of time it camo to pass that a quarrel sprang up and criminations and threats were freely used. Ten of the married sons had colored servants in their families, and the others said it was wrong to keep the colored peo ple as servants. The quarrel waxed so furious that the ten' sons finally said they would move away with their servants, in order to have peace, and they made pre parations to do sc. But the other eons paid they should not move away, and the old gentleman espous ed their side and threatened paternal pun ishment to the ten if they attempted to carry out their intention. They were spirited fellows, however, so they did attempt to go away with their servants and families, wh3reupon the other sons and old Uncle Samuel Sampson fell upon them and a great conflict began. It raged for a long time, and created terrible consternation in the town ; but as the ten sons were not one-third of the family, and had tho old man against them besides, they were finally compelled to submit and give up the fight. Then Uncle Samuel Sampson said to them : "Let us have peace." "On what terms ?" asked the ten. "You must give up all your servants and let them do just as they please." "But they are ours." And Uncle Samuel Sampson again said : "Let us have peace." The servants were all given up and the ten sons were working hard to get things set to rights again when another commo tion sprang up in the village. The ten had borrowed money to pay their servants whil they had them, and after the quarrel had been settled they pro posed to pay the money they had bor rowed. But the others objected because the money would not be paid to them, and the old gentleman ngain interfered "If you attempt to pay that money," said he, "we will go at you again and give you another whaling." "But it is a just debt."" And Uncle Samuel Sampson said once more : "Iet ua have peace." So the ten agreed not to pay the money, though it went sore against them, and again began to set things to rights. But they bad not got very far when another difficulty arose. There was to be an election in the town, and the ten pro posed to vote, as they had been in the habit of doing. "No," said old Sampson, "you shall not vote at this election." "It is our right," said the sons, "and when we gave up the fight there was noth ing said about taking this rigbl from us." "I say you shall not vote; that's enough. Let us bave peace 1" The election was held, and the success ful candidates were bitter enemies of the ten who were not allowed to vote, though they were just as much interested in the election as any of the others. Things went on quietly for a while, but pretty soon more trouble came about. The particular ten sons of whom I am writing were obliged to support the ser vants that had been taken from them, but did not allow them to sit at the same table. So one day old Uncle Samuel Sampson and the other sons went to them and said they must invite the released servants to sit at the table with them. "They are our own tables," said th ten, "and we do not choose to bave colored people sitting-at them with us." "But you must." "You have no business to interfere in this matter." And Uncle Samuel Sampson again said: "Let us have peace !" The end of it was that the ten had to take the colored servants into their dining rooms and eat and drink with them. All things went on smoothly for a little while, but another difficulty was brewing, and it soon broke out. The colored people complained that they were not allowed to use the property of their late employers, and old Sampson went to the latter and said : "You must allow these people to use everything you have, just the same as if it was their own." And the sons 6aid to him : "Do you allow your servants to do with your properly what you say we must allow these colored people to do with ours." But Uncle Samuel Sampson did not want to argue with them, so he merely said : "If you object, wo will thrash you again. Let us have peace." Tho next trouble was about sleeping arrangements. The colored people com plained that they had to sleep in small rooms, while the ten sons and their families had large, airy rooms. Uncle Samuel Sampson would not stand this, so he went to tbe ten sons again and told them tbey must give np tbcu rooms to the cowerl people. " These rooms are our own," said they, "and we do not recognize your right to say that we must give them up." The old gentleman got quite angry and declared that if he did not have his own way he would raise the devil winding up with his favorite remark : "Let us have peace 1" So the rooms were given up and things went on quietly once more, until Uncle Samuel Sampson and the sons who sided with him got it into their beads that it would be better for them if all the affairs of the other sons were managed by the colored people. They then went to the ten and told them they must give up everything to the colored people ; but the ten objected. They said they had already done much more than should bave been asked of them, and they would not give up every thing to their late servants. "But you must ; we will make you," said Uncle Samuel Sampson. Whereupon he and his abettors went to work and put the colored people in possession of everything by main force, and when the ten others complained of the injustice of it, Uncle Samuel Samp son said : "Let us have peace !" And there was peace, for there was nothing more to quarrel about. Uncle Samuel Sampson is much pleased with tho result of his efforts to maintain peace in his family, but I understand that the ten sons who were forced to sub mit to everything he demanded intend to test their rights in a court, and pos-sibly they may yet turn the tables on the old gentleman. Hit. Boffin. A Cool Customkh. Out at Columbus, in Ohio, lives a little weazen, dried-up shabby-looking politician, named Joe G. . He is the most insignificant looking specimen of humanity one would meet in a month, but smart as a stccl trap, any one who takes him for a fool will find himself sadly deceived. He is notorious for furnishing the finest specimen of cool impudence of any man in Ohio. The following anecdote, illustrative of this trait of his character, is told of him : Some years ago, being in Philadelphia, he received an introduction to a prominent divine of that city. The reverend gentle man invited Joe to attend his church en a certain Sunday, which invitation was accepted. They entered the sacred edifice together. It was one of the first churches of the city, and its members were fashion able and aristocratic in the extreme. The minister put Joe into an elaborately fur nished pew well to the lront. Joe nestled comfortably down into one corner of the same and looked about as interested and contented as a toad under a cabbage leaf. After a while the owner of the pew ar rived, and at once gave signs of intense disgust and indignation at the presence of the interloper. He looked at the pew, scowled magnificently, and finally after fumbling through his pocket for seme time, drew forth a card and wrote on it with a pencil : "This is my seat, Bir !" and with an air of tbe loftiest contempt, tossed it over to Joe. The latter took it up and read it with a Iamb-like meekness peculiar to himself, and then with the most delightful coolness wrote in reply : "It's a devilish good seat! What rent do you pay ?" and tossed the card back to its owner. The latter looked at it with the most profound astonishment a minute or two, and a broad grin over spread his face. He evidently enjoyed the sublime brass and coolness of his new ac quaintance, and when service was over he approached Joe, apotogized for his rude ness, invited, him to his house, gave him the best he had, and treated him with the utmost respect and consideration during his sojourn in the city. RECOLi-EcmoN of Faces It is known that Mr. Clay was remarkable for his re collection of faces. A curious incident of this wonderful power is told of his visit to Jackson, Miss., in the year 18 . On his way tho cars stopped at Clinton for a few moments, when an eccentric but strong-mined man made his way up to him, exclaiming, as he did so "Don't introduce me, for I want to see if Mr. Clay will know me." "Where did I knowTyou ?" asked Mr. Clay. "In Kentucky," answered the keen sighted but one-eyed old man. Mr. Clay struck bis long, bony finger upon his forehead, as if in deep thought. "Have you lost that eye since I saw you, or had you lost it before ?" inquired Mr. Clay. "Since," said the man. "Then turn the eound side of your face to me, that I may get your profile." Mr. Clay paused for a moment, his thoughts running back many years. "I have it !" said he. "Did you not give me a verdict as juror, at Frankfort, Kentucky, in the great case tf the U. S. vs. Innis, twenty-one years ago." "I did ! I did !" B-iid the overjoyed old man. ."And is not your name Ilardwicke V asked Clay. "It is," replid Mr. Ilardwicke, burst ing into tears. "Did I not tell you," he said to his friends, "that he knew me, though I have not seen him from that time to this! Great men never forget free." . - THREE CHAPTERS OF ROMANCE. The Boston correspondent of the Spring field Republican sends to that paper the following romantic narrativee : rosiance number one. About four yoars ago, a young law student of a Western city traveling with a party of friends, camo to Boston, and during his stay here met once or twice a young lady who lived in the most aristo cratic of our suburban towns. The ac quaintance was casual, going hardly be yond an introduction of the parties and the exchange of the usual comments on the weather, &c Time passed, as tho novelists say, and last fall the voung gen tleman wrote to the friend with whom he traveled to the following effect : He had established himself well in his profession, with a fair prospect of pecuniary success, and he wanted t marry ; but in the en tire circle of his lady acquaintances he knew not one who filled his eye. The friend who received this letter, a lady, pitying his condition, replied instantly, reminded him of the maiden whom he had met in the aristocratic suburb four years ago, and suggested that she would suit him admirably. He acted at once on the hint, and wrote to tbe young lady ; she replied, a correspondence followed ; in December he wrote that he would come East in Jan uary to see her, but could stay but one day ; he came, he returned to the West, and she went shopping; one week from to-day the twain will go before a minister and be made one. romance number two. Death laid his irresistible hand upon a young shoemaker, during the year 18G7, and the cordwainer of course "pegged out," as he said in the cheerful game of cribbage. He left a widow and a nice little property. I should have called him a manufacturer not a maker. The widow mourned long and loud and draped her person in extensive weeds. She ne'er should look upon hfs like again com mend her to a generous dose of strychnine as ths alternative. She was a conscien tious woman, and, living in the country she couldn't spend all her income on pur ple and fine linen and the other traditional luxuries of wealth. So she resolved to invest some of her accumulation green backs in a "storied urn," or some such monumental monstrosity, exmmeniorative of her defunct husband's virtues. She called upon a niaibie-worker of a neigh boring town and took counsel with him. He was a comely person and plainly had a genius for Fympathetic t-cuipture. The bargain was struck for the monument, I mean. In due season it was finished and the artist came to the village of the lady's residence to superintend its erecJion. She, was a constant attendant in the cemetery, watching the progress of the work. It was slow progress for some reason. Day after she put in an appearance in the mel ancholy enclosure, and wept silently while the work went on, except sometimes when the marble man ventured to bei for her advice on some doubtful point. Marble man though ho was, he had a tender heart, and that organ was touched by the sight of her devotion, lie pitied and anon he loved her, that Niobe in bomba zine. One day as the two 6tood contem plating the white memorial of the depart ed, he spoke ; she listened, her fobs ceas ed ; she placed her black kid glove in his muscular palm, and to make one story short they are to be married soon. I do not know whether the marble man got his pay for the monument. ROMANCE KCMBEIl THREE. I have reserved the Btrangest story for tho last. In 1845, a young man and a young woman took upon themselves the obligations of matrimony. They lived together in tho enjoyment of what is known as conjugal bliss just one year. At the -end of that time the husband dis appeared. The wife waited, and waited, like Marianna in the moated grange, but the husband came not. In due time she procured a divorce, resumed her maiden name and addressed, herself energetically to work, finding in active employment the most potent nepenthe for her sorrows. Success awarded her; she accumulated a comfortable property, and after living in Boston and in California many years, she returned to her native village and lived at her easo. Once in a while she went to Boston and visited the family of Mr. S . Since her husband left her on that memorable day in 1845, she bad never heard of or from him. Beyond doubt he was dead. Last February, Mr. S , riding near tbe city, took a stranger into his carriage. In the course of conversa tion, he asked the stranger -bis name. "G ," replied the latter. "Did you ever hear of J G ?" inquired Mr. S . "He is my brother." "And has anything ever been known of him since he disappeared years ago V "Yes, he returned very recently, and is trying to find his family." "Why, bless your soul 1" cried Mr. S , "I know his wife per fectly well ; she visited at my house, and is now living at M ." Of course tho returned wanderer soon heard this news and a few days later, the deserted wife received a letter from him whom she had once called husband, but whom, for twenty-three long years, she had not seen or beard a word of. A correspondence en sued, and two weeks ago to-day, I think, the truant went to see the woman whom he had so cruelly wronged. The particu lars of their interview I cannot give ; but H is eafe. to infer that the smouldering spark of affection was rcsusitated in their bosoms, and that the great, gulf of twenty three years that had dhided their lives was bridged by a process whose rapidity and simplicity Rocbling of Lads, or any other civil engineer, could not parallel. In fine, at the first meeting they renewed their twenty-three years' old troth-plight. The next day they went to D to see his relatives ; the next day, he or rather she, for ho had no property, bought a farm ; tbe next day they returned to M ; the next day they were remar ried very quietly ; and the next they de parted for the farm in D , where they propose to pass the autumn of their lives in the calm happiness that attends, or ought attend, "two souls with but a single thought two hearts that beat as one." The foregoing remarkable story is true in every particular, and I am ac quainted with one of th returned couple. Tbe Alkaline Dews of llio treat. A correspondent of the Chicago Tribuna writes of the country west of Laramie, on the Pacific railroad ; From Laramie to hero the country is very miserable and very curious. Here and Jhere a patch of Buffalo glass may be seen, but rarely anything except sage brush and cactus. The ground seems in capable of producing anything else. The banks of all the small streams glisten with, white where the alkali water has evapor ated. Almost all the small streams here are impregnated with this alkali. It ren ders the water almost useless for all prac tical purposes, but it produces some very queer effects, as the workmen on tho road and visitors can testify. If one drinka much of it the same effect is produced as if a strong dose of salt is taken. This greatly disgusted the workmen when they were forced to driuk It, Nor can this water be us.d in the engines with any effect ; the steam it makes has no power. The water expends itself in froth and suds, and it eats and corrodes the boiler. This has been a great source of annoyance, and is one of the worst obstacles that the road has to overcome. Another peculiarity of this water is the effect it produces on tho skin of those who wash in it ; it roughens the skin of the hand, just as a cold wind chops it in winter. It also peels the skin from the face, eo that a person who uses, this water has a new skin about every seven day?. This is especially the case where soap is used in washing. Tho gran ders west of here, where the alkali in the water is much stronger, say that when soap is wanted for washing clothes, &c, they put soma grease in the alkali water, stir it with a stick, and there is soap. Naturally it costs but very little, and when freights are reduced on the road it is pro posed to supply the whole UuiUd States with cheap and good soap. Unfortunately there is no demand for that article among the Indians, and the Great Western Soap Factory cannot bo started at prgseat. Aa it is, every man is his own sonpmakcr. The result of this bad water has been to forco the railroad company to dig deep wells along the line of the road. But even this is not always satisfactory : the well at w yoming, fifteen miles west of Lara mie, is almost useless on account of the alkali. Iu some places along the road the country is almost completely covered with the low, thick sage brush, useless for any thing, except in some places where the wood is so large that it can be burned. Ia this region, where the land happens to be free from the sage brush, it is often so im pregnated with the alkali that for two or three inches down the earth crumbles and sinks beneath the feet like ashes. Every now and then there are found is this region drifls of fossil of fish, oysters, clams, &c.g thrown up from the bottom orlhe sea quite a time ago. Some of these fish are eo well preserved that the glitter of the gold and silver 4n tbeir scales is almost as bright as ever. The oysters and clams are tre mendous in eiza, and wonld do well for the giaota of the olden days. Some of the snakes are quite large in size, but few of them are perfect. Some of them are found imbedded in red sand stone, while others lie loose in the earth. Along with tbew are to be found many sea shcls of rarioas kinds. In some case9 the fish will be found split open, and all the bones perfectly pre served. Some of these drifts are on the top of bluffs, while others are low down. An Astounding and Confouxdirci Discovert. We have an enchnnted land in Alaska. Here is what a Rul3ian guide told a Californiau who asked aboi't a range of mountains near Sitka: "They are mighty in size and cause much cold. Wonderful things are told of them. It is that in some places there are deep pooU and lakes in which dwell monsters Bern pents as long as a fir tree, which, when tbey aro in the open sea, would commit mighty damage. One thing which the Indiana tell us for certain that yonder, far away to the north, in the heart of these hills, there is a wonderful valley, so nar row that only at midday is the face of the sun to bo seen. That valley lay undi-H covered and unknown for thousands -of years ; no persons dreamed of ita existt dice ; but at hut, a long time ago, two Indian hunters entered it by chance, and then what do you think t!.ey foand ? ' They found a small tribe wf unknown' people, speaking an unknown teDgue, who . bad lived there since tho creation of the ' worli, and without knowing that ether beinga exiate j-'
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