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We have made arrangements by which
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we are now prepared to sell at a great
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of Drups, Medicines, Perfumery, Fancy
S-.p3, Leon's, Hall's an'l Allen's Hair Restor
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tW We linre added to our stock a lot of
FINE JEWELRY, to which we would invite
the attention of th Ladies.
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS at lower prices
than ever ottered in this place.
Paper and Cigars ! 1 either wholesale or re
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fTTnnARiaiE CIGARS just re
iU.UUU ceived at M. L. Oatman's," one
door cast of "Freeman" office. Also, a large
stock of the beat branda of Chewing Tobacco.
Cigars ai wholesale prices.
AMES G. EASLY, Attorney
j at-Law, Carrollteum, Cambria Co., Pa.
Collections and all legal business promptly
attended to. Jan 81. 1867.
WILLIAM KITTELL,
iTTORNEY AT LAW, Ebensburg, Pa.
Office iu Colonads Row, Centre street.
Jan.31, 1867.-tf.
"Jf S. STRAYER, Justice of tub
Peace, Wobristown, Pa. Office on th
corner of Market strwt and Locust alley,
Seeonrl Wrd. thK42.-Jj.
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ALL KINDS OF FRUITS,
SUGARS, TEAS, COFFEES,
SYRUPS, MOLASSES, CHEESE, &c.
Also, a large itock of the
Best Brands of Cigars and Tobacco.
STORE ON HIGH STREET,
Four Doors East of Crawford $ Hotel,
Kben.sburg-, l"n.
ENTISTKY. The undersigned, a
graduate
of the Btlti
more College
of Dental Sur
gery, respect
fully offers hi-
PUOKE.SjSIOSA
services to the
citizens of Eb-
ensburg aud vicinity, which place he will Tiiit
on the FoubTii Monday of each inonta, to re
main one week.
Aug 13. SAM'L BELFORD D. D. S.
ENT I STRY. Dr. I). W. Zeir-
kr hss taken the ro:-rns on
High street recently occupied by
l.ioyn iv L- . as a Bauktng House
and offers his professional servi
ces to the citizens of Fbensburg and vicin
ity. Tcrf7i extracted without jHiin by use of
Nitrous Oxide or Laughing Gas.
DR. H. 3. MILLER,
ALTO ON A, PA.,
Operative and Mechanical DENTIST.
Office au Curoline street, between Virginia
and Eruraa streets. All tube warranted.
Altoona. June 18, lc'oS.-tim.
"TAMES J. oJvTMAN, M. I).,
tenders his professional services as Phy
sioian and Surgeon to the citizens of Carroll
tewn and vicinity. Oflice in rear of build
ing occupied by J. Buck & Co. as a store.
Night calls can be made at his residence, one
door south of A. Hang's tin and hardware
store. TIay 9j 18G7.
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-- tier an ani Sckgeon, Summit, Pa.
Office east end of Mansion House, on Rail
Road street. Night calls may be made at
the office. f my23.tf.
J. LLOYD, successor to R. S.
Bi7NV, Dealer in Drua.i, Medicines.
Paints, fyc. Store on Main street, opposite
the "Slansion House," Ebeusburg, Pa.
October 17, 18G7.-6m.'
D. M' LAUGH LIN,
TTORXFAr AT LAW, Johnstown, Pa.
1 Office in the Exchange building, on the
Corner of Clinton and Locust streets up
stairs. Will attend to all business connect
ed with his profession.
Jan. 31, 1867.-tf.
R. L JOHNSTON, J E. SCANLAi.
JOHNSTON SCAN LAN,
Attorneys at Law,
Ebensburg, Cambria co., Ta.
Office opposite the Court House.
Ebensburg, Jan. 31, 18G7.-tf.
JOHN 1 LINTON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, JoJimloicn. Pa.
Office in building on corner of Main and
Franklin street, opposite Mansion House,
second floor. Entrance on Frank.Hu street.
Johnstown. Jan. 31. 1867.-tf.
F. A. SHOEMAKER
I TTORNEY AT LAW, Ebensburg, Pa.
l Office on High street, one door East of the
Banking House of Lloyd & Co.
Jauuary 31, 18G7.-tf.
F. P. TIERNEY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, Ebensburg, Pa.
Office in Colonade Row.
Jan. 6. 18G7-tf.
JOSEPH M'DONALD,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, Ebensburg. Pa.
Office on Centre street, opposite Linton's
tiotel- Jan. 31, l8G7-tf.
JOHN FENLON,
I TTORNEY AT LAW, Ebensburg Pa.
H Office on High stieet, adjoining bis resi
dence. Jan 31. 18G7.-tf.
(J L. PERSHING, Attorney-at-
Law, Johnstotcn, Pa. Office on Frank
lin Btreet, upstairs, over John Benton's
Hardware Store. JaB. 31, 1867.
GEORGE W. O ATM AN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, Ebensburg, Pa.
Office in Colonade Row, Centre street.
January 31, 1867.-tf.
TTM. H. SECIILER, Attorn ev-at.
" Law, Ebensburg. Pa. Office in rooms
recently occupied by Geo. M.Reade. Esq , ia
Colonade Row, Centre street. aug.27.
GEO. M. READE, Aitorneg-atLaw,
Ebensburg, Pa. Office in new building
recently erected on Centre street, two doors
from High street. aug.27.
HKINKEAD, Justice of the Peace
and Claim Agent. Office removed to
the office formerly occupied by M. Hassou,
Bsj dee'd, on High St., Ebenetrurg. jl3.
THE WOLF CHASE.
During Ihe winter of 1834, being en
gaged in the northern part of Maine-, 1
had much leisure to devote to the wild
sports df a new country. To none of
these was I more passionately addicted
than that of Ekating. The deep and se
questered lakes of this Northern State,
fiozen by intense col J, preeent a wide field
to the lovers of this pastime. Often
would I hind on my rusty skates, and
glide away up the glittering river, and
wind each mazy streamlet that flowed on
toward the parent ocean, and feel my pulse
bound with joyous exercise. It was du
ring one of these excursions that I met
with an adventure, which even at this
.period of my life I remember with won
der and astonishment.
I had just left my friends bouse one
evening just before dusk, with the inten
tion of skating a short distance up the
noble Kennebec, which glided directly be
fore the door. The evening was fine and
clear. The new moon peered from her
lofty seat, and cast her rays on the frosty
pines that skirted the shore, until they
seemed the realization of a fairy scene.
All nature lay in a quiet which she some
times chooses to assi'me ; while water,
earth and air seemed to have sunken into
repose.
I had gone up the river nearly two
miles, when coming to a little stream
which emptied into the larger, I turned in
to explore its course. Fir and hemlock
of a century's growth met overhead, and
formed an evergreen archway, radiant
with froft-work. All was dark within,
but I was young and fearless, aud as I
peered into the unbroken forest that rear
ed itself to the borders of the stream, I
laughed in very joyousnees My wild
hurrah rang through the woods, and I
stood listening to the echo that reverbera
ted again and again, until it was hushed.
Occasionally a night bird would flap its
wings from some tall oak.
The mighty lords of the forest stood as
if not but time could bow them. I thought
how oft the Indian hunter concealed 'him
self behind these very trees haw oft the
arrow had pierced tho deer by this very
stream, and how oft his wild halloo had
rung for his victory. I watched the owls
as they fluttered by, until I almost fancied
myself one of them, and held my breath
to listen to their distant hooting. When
suddenly a sound arose, it seemed from
the very ice beneath my feet. It wrr
loud and tremendous at first, until it end
ed in one long yell. I was appalled.
Never before had such a noise met my
ears. I thought it more than mortal
so fierce, and amid such unbroken solitude,
that it seemed a fiend from hell hud blown
an infernal trumpet. Presently I heard
the twigs on the shore snap as if from the
tread of some animal, and the blood rush
ed back to my forehead with a bound that
made my kin burn, and I felt relieved
that I had to contend with thing9 of
earthly and not spiritual would, as I first
fancied. My energies returned, and I
looked around me for some means of de
fense. The moon shone through the open
ing by which I had entered the forest,
and considering this the best means of es
cape, I darted towards it like an arrow.
'Twhs hardly a hundred yards distant, and
the swallow could scarcely excel my des
perate flight ; j'et as I turned my eyes to
the shore, I could 6ce two dark objects
dashing through the underbrush at a pace
ne trly double that of my own. 15y their
great speed, and the short yells, which
they occasionally gave, I knew at once
that they were the much dreaded grey
wolf.
I had never met these unimals, but
from the description given of them, I had
but little pleasure in making their ac
quaint mice. Their untamable fierceness
and the untiring strength winch teems to
be a part of their nature, render them ob
jects of dread to the benighted traveler.
"With their loDg gallop, which can tire
The hounds deep hate, the hunter's fire,"
they pursue their prey, and nought but
death can separate them. The bushes
that skirted the shore flew past with the
velocity of light, as I dashed on in my
flight. The outlet was nearly gained ;
one second more and I would be compara
tively safe, when my pursuers appeared
on the bank directly above me, which rose
to the height of some ten feet. There
was no time for thought ; I bant my head
and dashed wildly forward. The wolves
sprang, but miscalculating my speed,
sprang behind, while their intended prey
glided out into the river.
Nature turned me towards home. The
light flakes of snow spun from the iron of
my skates, and 1 was now some distance
from ray pursuers, when their fierce howl
told me that I was again tho fugitive. I
did not look back I did not feel sorry
nor glad; one thought of home, of the
bright, glad faces awaiting my rctu n ; of
their tears if they should never again see
me, and then every energy of mind and
body was exerted for my escape. I was
perfectly at home on the ice. Many were
the days I spent on my skates, never
thinking that at one time thay would be
my only means ot safety. Every half
minute an alternate yelp from my pur
suers made me but too certain that they
were clos at my heels. Nearer and
nearer they came ; I heard their feet pat
tering on the ice, nearer, still, aotil I fan
cied I could hear their deep breathing.
Every nerve and muscle in mj frame wu
stretched to its trttaort tension.
The trees along the shore seemed to
dance in the uncertain light, and my brain
turned with my own breathless speed ; yet
still they seemed to hiss farth with a
sound truly horrible, when an involuntary
motion ou my part turned me out of my
course. The wolves close behind, unable
to stop, and as unable to turn, slipped,
fell, still going on far ahead, their tongues
loling out, their white tusks gleaming
from their bloody mouths, their dark,
shaggy breasts freckled with foam ; and
as they passed me their eyes glared, and
they howled with rage and fury, The
thought flashed on my mind that by this
means I could avoid them, viz : by turn
ing aside wbouever they came too near,
for they, by the formation of their feet,
are unable to run on ice except on a
straight line.
I immediately acted on this plan. The
wolves having regained their feet, sprang
directly towards me. The race was re
newed twenty yards up the stream ; they
were already clo?e on my back, when I
glided round, and dasoed past my pursu
ers. A fierce growl greeted my evolu
tion, and the wolves (dipped upon their
haunches and sailed outward, presenting
a perfect picture of helplessness and baf
fled rage. Thus I gained nearly a hun
dred yards each turning. This was re
peated two or three times, every moment
the wolves getting more and more excited
and baffled, until coming opposite the
house, a couple of stag hound-i, aroused
by the noise bayed furiously from their
kennels. The wclves, taking the hint,
stopped in their mad career, and after a
moment's consideration, turned and fled.
I watched them till their dusky forma dis
appeared over a neig hboring hill. Then,
taking off my skates I wended my way
to the house, with feelings better to be
imagined than described.
A UUXTER TREED.
The Southern hunters tell wonderful
stories of their adventure in tho forest. I
would not care to vouch for them all, nor,
indeed, for all of any one of them ; but
it is proper to remember that what appears
incredible ! the man of civilization eeem3
to be quite probable, and even common
place, in the Western wilds. Let me
tell a single story, to illustrate some of
their exaggerations, which was related to
a circle of Southern moti in a Mississippi
steamer, and did not seem to be doubted as
an authentic incident by any one of them.
The pecarry is a creature of the hog
species, and is utterly feurlcss. It pays
no regard to rifle balls unless they hit it.
and never, hesitates to attack any one and
every one, whether man or beast, that
comes across its path. A relentless war
is waged against it by the Southern hunt
ers, as much for their own safety as from
any love of the sport. It has won the
reputation of being the only wild game
which the experienced hunter always runs
from instead of stopping to fight.
A Texan said that onco when he was
ehooting in a swamp he killed a couple of
peccaries. (Th'iB creature roams in flocks
numbering from ten to fifty.) In an in
stant the whole company turned upon
him, and he at once ran to a tree and
sprang into its branches. One, two, three
hours passed and yet no help came. He
was separated from his friend, und did
not dare to stir from his position. Get
ting "oneasy both in body and mind, he
moved a little to make his seat easier,"
and losing his balance, fell. Luckily, he
said, he dropped his rifle, and caught hold
of a lower branch of the tree and clung to
it for his life, with bis feet within a cou
ple of yards of "the sile."
"This," he added, "was very okknrd
and I cud see the peccaries jumpin up to
catch hold of my feet. Fori'nately they
couldn't reach, &nd 1 thought I was safe ;
but otdy see the cunnin' of them critters ?
Several of them lay down on their stom
achs, and others got on their backs, so as
to form a platform. The head peccry
got on to it, and jumped up. and seized
me by the heel of the right boot. I
kicked t bim with my left foot, like a
horse, and when we were a-etrugglin', the
other paccaries rolled from under him and
left him bangin' on to my heel by his
tusks, while his friends were a-gruntin
away like mad all round. They made a
most dreadful nize ; and my arms were
gettin tired ; and I began to make up
my mind that I'd a have to fall and try
what a rush would do among them, when
crack went a rifle, and down fell the big
gest peccary. It took me so by surprise
that I dropped to the ground and saw that
my friend bad come up. Hut he was
soon in as bad a fix as I had been myself.
The peccaries made a rush for him, and
he was glad to do as I had done drop
his rifle and hist himself up a tree. I
made for my rifle, and loaded it and
fired ; when the pesky things turned on
me, and I had to drop it agin and run up
the tree double quick. Then my friend
he come down, got his rifle, and blazed
away at them agin ; then they went at
him full pelt ; then I came down and
fired agin ; and we kept on, firing turn
about, until you may believe me or not,
as you please, stranger we done this
fifteen times, and killed the thirty peccaries
between us."
This story, with occasional variations
and additions, was told as a true story of a
Texan hunter's life. Whether it was true
the reader can determine for himself.
Do Yrtn want tatter times? TP an. vnta
I for Scymotrr and Blair,
Maixe.
"Have you heard from Maine "
Ycsl
And we don't like it. And we don't
intend to like it. And we won't like it
one bit, and in proof that we do not, we
shall the more earnestly urge the canvass,
the hotter pour in the fire of hot, not
cold fact, and arouse the people to the dan
ger of allowing New England Senators and
carpet-bag Senators from Southern States
to control the nation.
We don't like the news from Maine,
for these reasons. We hoped to reduce
the Republican majority there, and if the
first report ba true, we have not. We
do not like it, for all last night, and all
to-day, in banks, banking houses, and
bondholders' houses and offices, there has
been too much levity. We see the pro
tected aristocrats in glee. Bondholders
rub their hands, stop their carriages, to
ask each other
"Have you heard from Maine Vf
The speculators who amassed fortunes
dealing in United States securities all over
New York to-day drinking champagne,
and dancing in glee, shouting the while,
between the popping of corks j
"Have you heard from Maine?"'
Tho turnouts of the bondholders are
more numerous in Central Park to-day
than for months the gold fish ride there,
and nod to each other, and order their
carriages up to drinking places, call for
the best wines, drink at the expense of
woi king-men, sncar at laborers, ask each
other :
"Have you heard from Maine ?
Over the prospect of more victories,
eager to tighten the bond3 about the mus
cle of labor, the exempted, gold-clutching
bondholders of the East are in too high
glee, and are shelling out thousands more
of dollars stolen from the people, to be
sent to other States for the enslavement of
labor. We do not like it one bit, for the j
carriages of bondholders tell with crushing j
effect on the bare toes of the children of
the workingmen, who are mortgaged to !
support tho children of the aristocrats,!
Tipsy bondholders, last night, drunk
with wine, and flush over the news, em
braced each other in the corridors of lead
ing hotels, whirled and twirled and held
aloft their reports from Maine, and drank
more wine and snatched at each other's
diamond pins, and waltzed about the
floors, hiccupping : "Hic-hic-ave you hie
'eard from Maine !"
At the Fifth Avenue hotel last night
one drunken bondholder, whose income
is seventy thousand a year in gold, and
who pays-no taxes, was talking to a circle
of Maineites thus :
"I say, have you heard fr'm 'aine ?
G d d n it, money is what wids. If j
we sow money we reap bonds! Rah
fr'm 'aine " And now Ies' go for them j
Western eous of" toil, we Dresume he
might have said, but "toil" was not the
word used.
Indeed, we do not like the news from
Maine. Hut it neither scares, disheart-
ens.
nor surprises us. We exoected New
England to unite against the West, the
South. We looked for results to follow
the expenditure of three hundred thousand
dollars in that State by Republicans, much
as thoy have. We know the aim i9 to
consolidate New England ; for her to join
hands with the negroes and carpet-baggers
of the South, and to control affairs to
the last hour of her destiny. We know
the Republican victories mean gold for the
rich, rags ami labor for the poor, exemp
tion from taxation of bondholders, and
tenfold taxation for laboring men and
producers, 'and we don't like the news
from Maine. Hut Seymour will be elected
for all that. Kentucky will offset Maine
and Vermont in electoral votes, and all of
Radical New England when another war
comes.
It is a long ro .id, an I a hard road, and
a dangerous road yet for Grant before he
reaches the White House. New England
has gone New England, so far as heard
from, and no man expected different.
When Oregon, and California, and Ken
tucky, and Nevada, and Montana, and
Maryland, and Mississippi, went Demo
cratic, the Republicans said : "Oh, this
don't elect your President ! "
Nor does the failure to change Maine
elect Grant. Go on with the light ; we
are not beaten, nor disheartened, nor
weakened, nor demoralized. Ar. Y. Dem.
"THEY CANTTAX ME!"
We have repeatedly heard poor men,
laboring men say, remarks the Galipolis
Dispatch, "Well, I have not got any pro
perty, they can't tax me Much !"
We recently met one of this class return
ing after a hard day's work, carrying on
his arm a peck of meal ; we accosted him,
and the following conversation ensued :
Well, Jones, how do you get on 1
"Poor enough! It seems harder to make
a 6uppert for myself and family than ever
before. I work hard, live poor, don't
driuk or lounge around, and yet it is all I
can do to live."
Well, that is not to be wondered at,
when you and other laboring men vote
year after year to increase your own bur
dens. Times will grow hard until you
change your way of voting, and taxes will
increase.
"They can'l tax me much for I've got
nothing."
Tbey can't eh ? Let's see ! What did
that peck of meal cost you ?
"Thirty cents."
Do tou know what it costa to tmIm n
bushel of meal ?
"No."
It costs about fifteen or twenty cents.
"The loyal people say you copperheads
are mighty bad people, and try to deceive
us working men, and I begin to believe
it, for I know they don't tax corn meal."
I think I can prove to you that corn
meal is pfetty heavily taxed.
"I'd like for you to do it, then."
Well, the corn from which that meal
was made was raised on taxed land,
plowed by a taxed plow, drawn by taxed
horses, hitched with taxed gears. It was
hoed with" a taxed hoe, cultivated with
taxed implements, gathered in a taxed
wagon, drawn with taxed horses, thrown
into a taxed crib, shelled on a taxed ma
chine, measured in a taxed measure, taken
in a taxed sack and ground on a taxed
mill, eeived with a taxed seive, mixed in
a taxed pan, stirred with a taxed spoon,
salted with taxed salt, put into a taxed
bake pan, baked in a taxed stove, laid out
on a taxed plate, cut with a taxed knife,
and lastly eaten by a heavily taxed man.
"Whew ! well I'll swang, that's uear
ly all taxes. I declare to srac'ious I nvnr
- a
looked at it that way before."
If it were not for the taxes you could
buy a bushel of meal for what that peck
cost you. Besides, it is not on that alone
you are taxed, but upon everything you
have to buy. A pound of sugar only
costs three or four cents," but you have to
pay from sixteen to twenty. A pound f
coffee only costs ten cents, but you have
to pay thirty, and if it costs you three
hundred dollars a year to support your
family, you may safely say one half of
it is tax. Now, is it any wonder that
times are hard, and that yea find it diffi
cult to live ?
"It costs me more than three hundred
dollars a year to live. I used to get only
fifty cents a day and I lived a great deal
better than I do now on a dollar and a
quarter. I see there is a great wrong
somewhere, and I am going to take your
advice, and see if there is any pojd in
voting for a change of rulers. I'll try the
experiment, anyhow, but I must not tell
old Squeeze, or he'll discharge me and
call me a rebel ; bnt a hundred arid fifty
dollars tax is too much for me. That
much saved, would buy my winter's fuel,
sugar, coffee, flour, &c., to last me a
year, and a roll or two of muslin and cal
ico for my wife and children. How thick
headed I must be not to see this before.
I begin to see now why old Bonds oscd to
come round and see me just before the
election and be smiling and polite, and
why Sirs. Bonds would send my wife
some little nick-nack or other. Bonds is
rich ; he gets gold from the bank for his
bond3 I work to pay that. LTis bonds
are not taxed. I pay $150 a year all in
little things ; even a box of matches is
taxed. I thank you, Mr. Editor for this
talk ; it has done me good, a new light
has broken in on me and I'll not keep it
hid under a bushel neither. I'll talk to
the men about it. It is now all plain. I
declare I'll never forget that peck of
meal !"
We gave the honest fellow a hearty
grip and passed on, more determined than
ever to work for the enlightenment and
redemption of the toil-worn sons of labor.
The Mystkry of an Or.n Foict. A
letter writer in describing Fort Marion,
one of the defences of St. Auguatin?,
Florida, gives the following story i
Fort Marion has an old, solemn and
rather threatening warlike appearance.
The outer wall, five feet thick, of the
material called Coquina, (Ko-ke-na,)
found in great abundance on the beach
near the lighthouse, has quite a slant or
inclination inward of several degrees from
a perpendicular. An inner wali two and
a half feet thick, standing perpendicular,
keeps in position a bank of sand some 8
or 10 feet thick between the outer and
inner walls. Behind these walls are ar
ranged the casements, strongly arched
overhead, and extending all around the
interior. Fpon these arches and the walls
a floor of brick, stone and concrete is
laid, whereon the heavy guns of the fort
are placed ; very few are in position now.
Within the enclosure of tho fort below are
piles of cannon balls and quite a number
of old Spanish guns partly eaten by rust.
In 1858, while putting come heavy guns
in position on the fort, an arch gave way,
making a hole some five feet wide, dis
closing a cell hitherto unknown to any
person living. In this new and strange
apartment were found one or two gun
carriages made of mahogany, finely
wrought. During the excavations made
by the officers, one of them accidentally
discovered the appearance of a doorway,
that had been masoned op. They deter
mined to test the reality of the suggestion,
and removing a few stone?, revealed an
opening into another cell, where was
found a bedstead, on which lay the skele
ton of a man chained to a huge staple in
the wall ; beside the bed stood an open
mahogany chest five feet long, 2 feet
wide, sides of plauk two inches thick,
mounted with huge irtn strap hicges
and three enormous locks. No clue .has
yet been found to the history of this case,
or the offense of this teiribly punished
victim.
A wretch was heard to say the other
evening at a social party, that a young la
dy playing the piano forte was like an ape
her iirgvrs were a'mong keys.
A Dos; Recaptures III Master'
UoiNe from T2ilees,
The best dog Etory which we hnv
heard of for some time, and which i
vouched for to be true in every particular
comes to us from Robertson CouMy. A
few nights ago Mr. Williams, who reside
about four miles west of Springfield, 1. 1
a neighbor, Mr. Pettit, have the use of hi
dog to assist and protect him Lorn chicken
thieves. About twelve o'clock on tho
same night a burgler entered the stable of
Mr. Williams and stole therefrom a youu
bay mare, with a saddle and bridle, an i
was riding along tho road past Petti:' a
house, when the dog commenced barking,
and breaking, hi3 chain, bounded over
the fence and dashed after the horseman
at full speed. Tho chase continued for
four miles, when the horse stumbled and
fell. The dog rushed up and immediately
attacked, it is supposed, the daring thief,
who fired three shots at the animal, but
misFed him, as no marks were found upon
Lim.
Whether the dog closed in upon tha
thief, or whether the thief took to his
heels across the country, has not been d?
flr.!te?y ascertained, but the dog caught
hold of the bridle lines in his mouth, and
led the horse back three miles, where ha
was met by Mr. Pettit and his man, who
were arouf-eJ by the furious sounds and
were following in the direction whither
they went. Mr. Pettit immediately re
cognized the horse and dog, and at onco
surmised what had happened. The wholo
four, the two men, dog and horse, returned
to Mr. Williams', whom they found last
asleep, altogether ignorant of what had
taken place. The next day several peo
ple in the locality testified to hearing threo
distinct 6hots fired about the place whero
the dog brought the robber to bay, aof
one of tho bullets was found en the road
about four hundred yards from the spot
where the scuffle took place. The dog is
about four year3 old, and weighs about
forty-five pounds. Mr. Williams would
not part with him for any money. Aa'i
ville Union, 1st.
pKiVirx.GED Classes. The Cincinnati
Enquirer turns up the following as com
prising some of the privileged classes under
the present Radical dispensation: 1.
The bondholder. He is exempted from
State an ! local taxat'u n. He receives his
interest on his bonds iu gold, while ever'
body else has to take his in legal-tenders.
2. The Southern negro, who has a Freed -men's
Bureau to look after his interests,
and to feed and clothe him if he don't
choose to work. 3. The New England
manufacturer, who receives an immensa
bonus in the Eh&pe of protection to bis.
fabrics, all of which comes out of tha
pockets of the laboring classes, who aro
compelled to buy them. 4. Tho railroad
monopolists to whom Congress has grunted
tracts of land large enough for empires,
out of which they can build their roads
and have a great deal to spare ! A few
favored men have thus voted to them, freo
of expense, a great railroad. 5. The Con
gressmen and legislators who sustain theso
privileged classes in their rascalities upon
the people, and who are made partners on
that account in the robberies. 6. The im
mense army o officeholders who live upon
the unclean drippings of tho Treasury.
It is a party opposed to the Democracy
which, by the act of its leaders, has
brought into being these privileged classes,
and upon which they mainly rely for their
continued existence. It is no wonder that,
with such immeue interests fastened upon
the bod' politic, and drawing its heart's
blood, tho country has ceased to flourish,
and its resources are being dried up.
Ge.v. Grant and tub Cow's Tail
Accident. That story cf the way Gen
Grant was xwcrfully overcome by a
cow's tail, told so pathetically by his fond
parental parent, has pleased a great many
children, and they are fund of repeating it,
some-times with slight deviation from its
original prolixity. Asfor instance, pass
ing a number of cleanly and well clad
children who were sitting upon the side
walk in South Brooklyn, the other day,
amusing themselves with patriotic song
and story, they regaled the ears of travel
ers with the following mournful legion of
how Ulysses commenced a race, nip anJ
tuck, with his father's cow, which ho was
going to loan, for a time at least, to a
man who kept a mixed grocery, and ho
it ended. The boys sang :
Of General Grant his father said.
Old Jesse said with pride,
That if U. S. could not get meat.
He'd 6urcly take the hide.
The charming fact to illustrate,
He gave the story wind.
That when he couldn't catch "a horn"
He grabbed tbo tail behind ;
Anil to it held right boy fully.
Until the cow did jump.
When Ulysses did come right dowa
Upon his hardened "rump.'
An elderly boy suid, at tho close, that
he rather guessed that was the way he'd
come down ia November.
. . It is necessary to elect Boyle and
Ent and a majority to the" Legislature, if
we wish an honest and economical govern
ment Tho defeat of nartrsnft and
Campbell, with a Democratic House, (and
Senate, if possible,) would open tho road
to an easy victory next year, when wo
could oust Gov. Geary, an! elect an
Executive who would be a credit instead
of disgrace to the St.te. Democrats re
member the 18th of October.
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