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We have made arrangements by which we can do or have done all kinds of plain rd tancy Job Punting, such as Pooks, PampheU, Show Cards, Bill and I.ettei Heads, Handbills, Circulars, &c, in the best tyle of the art and at the most moderate prices. Also, all kind of Ruling. Blank llooks. Book Binding, &c, executed to order as good as the best and as cheap as the cheapest. f mi The Last CllMul Success. IR RESTORE lASH DRESSlMfi vri'l quickly restore Cray Hair to its natural color and beauty, and. produce luxuriant growth. It Is perfectly harm!???, and is preferred over every other preparation by those who hnve a fine head cf hair, Hi well as those who wish to restore it. The beautiful glors and psrfumc imparted to the Hair make it desirable for old 2nd young. Far Sale tjr all Druggists. DEPOT, 1J3 GIIECNWIC11 ST., X. T. LADIES' FANCY FURS ! AT John Fareiras "Id established FUR Ma.npfactout, No. 718 ARCH St., above 7th, PH1LA. Have now in Biore - of my own Importa- r;-?:tioH and Manu'ac- - ture, one of the larg os est ana most beauti "ful selections of j.if- FANCY FURS. feir for Ladies' and Chil- icu a car, 1U tut; -ity. Also, a fine assortment of Qenta' Fur Cloves and Collars. 1 am enabled to dispose of my goods at very reasonable prices, and I would therefore solicit visit from ray friends of Cambria county and vicinity. Remember the Name, Number and Street 1 JOII FARCIRA, o. 718 ARCH St., ab. 7th, aouth side. Phila. October 8, 1868 .-4m. kYlE & LANDELL, Fourth and Arch Sts.. Phila., sliiOU nLiCK SI I. US, OD COLORED SILItS. FALL GOODS OPENING, FANCY AND STAPLE '-YONS SILK VELVETS. NEW STYLE SHAWLS. NEW DRESS GOODS. GOOD BLANKETS, TABLE LINENS. SHEETINGS AND SU1RTINCS, CLOTHS AND CASSIMEKES. N D, New Goods received daily in largo r?is f: r Jobbing. sep.17.-6t. QTSAY 13ULL. Camo to the premises cf :"re subscriber, in M unster ownship, on it about the 13th Inst., a two year old BULL, .:b jv'.biw sides and white back. The ooer is rf-aef.'.eJ to come forward, prove property. r -;::.ai) aDd take him away, otherwise he "Mil t d-'JOied qi ac8QMing to law. ill. sir TThEXTlSTRY. The undersigned, jLW grail via te of the Balti more College of Dental Sor cery, respect fully offers his p&ofessioxa services to the citizens of Eb ensburg and vicinity, which plnce he will visit on the rocsTH Mo day of each month, to re main one week. Aug.13. SAII'L BELFORD. D. D. S. KNTISTliY. Dr. D. "V. Zeis- hr has taken the rooms on High street recently occupied by lioyii Si to. as a Hanking f Iouse.l and offers his professional servi ces to the citizens of Ebensburg and vicin ity. Teeth extracted without pain by use of Nitrous Oxide or Laughing Gas. DR. H. B. MILLER, ffl ALTOONA, PA., Operative and Mechanical DENTIST. Office au Caroline street, between Virginia and Emma streets. All work waekantkd. Altoona. June 18, 18C8.-Cm. GREAT BARGAINS!!! Will be sold at a great sacrifice, if 6old soon, a number of THRESHING MACHINES, PLOUGHS, POINTS and other FARMING IMPLE MENTS, and CASTINGS. GOME AND SEE, FARMERS, and tou cannot fail to purchase. Ebensburg, July X). 1SC9. E. GLASS. L. O A T M A X , EBENSBURG. FA., Is the sole owner of the Right to Manufacture and sell THE UNEQUALLED METROPOLITAN OIL!! TAMES J. O ATM AX, M. D., tenders his professional Fervicesas Phy sioian and Surgeon to the citizens of Carroll tewn and vicinity. Office in rear of build ing ocrupied by J. Buck & Co. as a store. Night calls can be made at his residence, one door south of A. IIauga tin and hardware store fMay 9, 1867. BE VEREAUX, M. D., Vhy- tiCiAN asi Kceueov. Summit. Pa. Ofilce r.ist end of Mansion House, on Rail lioad street. Night cuds may be made tt the office. fmy23.tf. J. LLOYD, successor to R. S. Busk, Dealer in Druus, Medicines. Paints, fye. Store on Main street, opposite the "Mansion House," Ebensburg, Pa. October 17. 18G7.-6m. D. M'LAUGIILIN, TTORNEY AT LAW, Johnstown, Pa. 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. 81. 1867.-tf. R. ti JOHN8TOX, J B. SCASLAN. JOHNSTON & SCANLAN, Attorneys at Law, Ebensburg, Cambria co., Ta. OfQce opposite the Court House. Ebensburg, Jan. 31, 18G7.-tf. JOHN 1. LINTON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Johnstown, Pa. Office in building on corner of Main and Pranklin street, opposite Mansion House, second Coor. Entrance on Franklin itrett. Johnstown. Jan. 31. 1867.-tf. F. A. SHOEMAKER ATTORNEY AT LAW. Ebensburg. Pa Office n High street, one door East of the Banking House of Lloyd & Co. January 31, 18G7.-tf. F. P. TILTJNEY, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Ebensburg, Pa. Office in Colonade Row. Jan. 5. 1867-tf. JOSEPH RPDONALD, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Ebensburg, Fa. OflSce on Centre street, opposite Linton's Hotel. Jan. 81, 1867-tf. JOHN FENLON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Ebensburg Pa. Office on High Etieet, adjoining his resi dence. Jan 31. 1867.-tf. GEORGE W. O ATM AN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Ebensburg, Pa. Office in Colonade Row, Centre street. January 31, 1867.-tf. WILLIAM KITTELL, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Ebtnsburg, Pa. Office in Colonade Row, Centre street. Jan. 81. 1867.-tf. GL. PERSHING, Attorn ey-at- Law, Johnstown, Pa. Office on Frank lin street, upstairs, over John Benton's Hardware Store. Jan. 81, 18G7. WM. II. SECHLEH, Attorney-at Law, Ebensburg, Pa. Office in rooms recently occupied by Geo. M. Reade, Esq , in Colonade Row, Centre Btreet. aug.27. GEO. M. READE, Attorneg-atIjxwt Ebensburg, Fa. Office in new building recently erected on Centre street, two doors from High street. aug.27. AMES C. EASLY, Attorney W at-Law, CarroUtMcn, Cambria Co., Pa. Collections and all legal business promptly attended to. Jan 31, 1867. TTX KINKEAD, Justice of the rCace and Claim Agent. Office removed to the office formerly occupied by M. Hasson, Esa.. dee'd, on High St.. Ebensburg. jl3. JS. STRAYER, Justice of the Peace, tiohnstown, Pa. OillCc ou the comer cf Market etreoi acd Locuti liey, ?fcord Wfr3. -22. Ijr- EBENSBURG, PA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1868. THE REIGN OF AUTUMN. The rust is over the red of the clover, The green Is under the eray. And down the hollow the fleet-winged swal low Is flying away and away. Fled are the roses.jdead are the roses. The glow and the glory done, And down the hollow the fleet-winged swal low Flying the way o' the sun. In place of summer, a dread new-comer His solemn state renews ; A crimson splendor instead of the tender Daisy, and the darling dews. But, oh, the sweetness, the full complete ness. That under his reign are born ! Russet and yellow in apples mellow, And wheat, and millet, and corn. His frosts so hoary touch with glory Maple, and oak. and thorn ; And rising and falling, his winds arc calling, Like a hunter through his horn. No thrifty 6ower, but just a mower That comes when the day is done. With warmth a beaming and gold a gleaming Like sunset after the sun. And while fair weather and frost togethcB Color the wood so gay, We must remember that chill December Has turned his steps this way. And say. as we gather in the house together An1 .-.I ! V. 1 .1.. V 1 . jiuu jmiu me lugs uu iuo iiearwi. Help us to follow the lithe little swallow. .even to the crul of the earth. THE LOST RI1VG. ET A KKTinEI ATTOKXET. "Mr. Docket r 44Ye8, Madam." Jt was n elderly women upon whos3 brow care had furrowed many a wrinkle She was dressed in homely garments, and the struggle between penury and neatness which they evinced would have been an interesting study for a philosopher. Her eyes were red, as though the had been weeping ; and when she seated herself by my desk, the pent up current of grief burst afresh. "What is the matter, my good woman? You seem to be in deep distress," I re marked in the most encouraging tone J could command. "I am, sir. They say the Lord is near to them that are f-uffering, and I am sure he ought to be near me." "I dare say he is, ma'am. But you know that afUictions are sent to us for our good, and we ought never repine at the discipline of life, however severe it may sometimes seem to us." I had heard an excellent sermon the day before, for it was Monday, on Trib ulation, and I was just in the frame of mind for giving others more excellent ad vice, which, perhaps, I f-hould have been very unwilling to follow if the dark waves of trouble had rolled over me. "1 try to bear it as well as I can," she replied, wiping away her tears with the coi ner of her apron. "I don't know as I am acquainted with you, ma'am, I suggested, for the purpose of changing the topic and bringing her to business. I don't know as you are," she replied; and she proceeded to give me a very long and very succinct account of her previous history, beginning back some forty years, when she was born among the White Mountains in New Hampshire. I tried to check her, but it was no use. I was aa patient as the case would admit, and mindful of the duty we owe to the weak, the infirm and the ignorant ; but my patience was sorely tried. I will not punish the reader with the long, fine spun story she told roe, for a few lines will suf fice to inform him of the material facts. She was a widow her name was Marche. She had an only son, Philip, who was employed in an insurance office, and received three dollars a week for his services. He was a good boy and loved his mother, as a son should. Upon their united earnings they lived very comfort ably in an obscure street, where they hired two rooms. Mrs.Marche's cata logue of her son's virtues was ceriainly very edifying. He never fpent a cent upon himself, never went out nights, and attended church forenoon and afternoon. An evil day had come. Oh the Satur day three weeks preceding, Mr. Carman, the President of the insurance company, as he declaied, had sent Philip with a valuable diamond ring to the jeweler's to have the stone reset. On inquiry the ring was found not to have reached its destination. The jeweler had never seen it. To make the case more complicated, the boy denied having received the ring. Mr. Carman had never sent him on any such errand. The boy had been arrested on the charge of stealing the ring, and was now confined in jaiL Mr. Carman was ready to swear he delivered the valuable article into the hands of the boy, with explicit directions as to where he should carry it and what should be done with it. It looked like a bad case. The poor woman was in the paddest distress. She was sure that her darling boy would not steal. I pitied her and promised to do what I could for her son. When she had gone I called upon Mr. Carman. I found that he was pne nf those dogmatm hj fellows, who are r.SvOr in a Wrong, who fina H impossible to err, even by design, tir to make a mistaka. I trieJ to argae tho point with LI; bat ha would not say much. He told me the story ; was sure he sent it by the boy and nobody else. I ventured to suggest that he might have been mistaken ; that he had sent the ring by some other person. 'Do you take me for a simpleton, sir ? Do you think I don't know what I am about V be exclaimed, bestowing upon me a look of withering contempt. "I sent the ring with the boy, fir. The boy has stolen it. Nothing more need be aid, sir." And he turned to the newspaper he had been reading. I was not much pleased with the inter view. I was highly vexed at the haughty bearing of the fellow ; and I confess that my pique rendered me tenfold rnoie zeal ous in my endeavors to clear my youthful client. I visited Philip at the jail. He was very sad on his mother's account ; on his own he seemed not to care. A more frank, open hearted boy I never saw. He told his story ; and tliuuph I ques tioned him pretty severely, he was consist ent to the last. I made the case my own, and worked unceasingly, as it seemed to me then, for the overthrow of the haughty President of the insurance company, as much as for the salvation of toe widow and her interest ing Eon 1 visited more than a dozen jewelry shops that afternoon and the next morning ; with what result the reader shall learn in the details of the trial, which came on the next day. ' Philip was duly arraigned, and his poor mother eat by his side, weeping and sobbing like a child as the case proceeded. Mr. Carman, with majestic dignity, stepped upon the stand. He told the story I have before detailed, and was turn ed over to me for cross-examination. I could see lhat he was nettled, for he cer tainly could see r.o mercy in mv face. Mr. Carijian, are you willing to swear that you gave the ring to the boy ?" 'Certainly I am," he replied, vexed and angry, for he had answered the same que&tion a dozen times in the course of the cross-examination. "I heg your honor to notice particularly the words of this witness,' I remarked to the Court. His honor testified readily that he had noticed them, as a matter of course ; he had them in his minute3 ; and he rather snubbed me for pressing eo respectable a witness in so severe a manner. "Now, Mr. Carman, may I beg you to examine this ring " and I handed him the one he had lost. "it is mine," he replied, with evident astonishment. "You identify, the ring, do you sir V "I do." "That is all, sir. May it please ycur Honor, I shall bring but one witness for the defence. Will Mr. Graham take the stand f" Mr. Graham took the stand. I showed him the ring. "Have you ever seen this ring before?" "I have." "State to the Court what you know about it." Mr. Graham proceeded to state that he was a jeweler ; that the ring was left at his shop three weeks before by an elderly gentleman, to have the stone reset. "Is the gentleman in the court room ?" I asked. "He is ; there he sits ;"' and he pointed to Mr. Carman. The Court was astonished : the officers were astonished ; and Mr. Carman was overwhelmed with confusion. He ac knowledged his error when there was no possibility of concealing it. He asked to correct his testimony, and did so. Mr. Carman was a very absent-minded man ; and the solution of the whole mat ter is that he forgot all the circumstances connected with the ring. He intended to have sent Philip to the jeweler's with it, and actually called him for that purpose, but his attention was attracted to some thing else, and he thought no more about it. On his way home to dinner, while his mind was absorbed by an important busi ness operation, he had left the ring at Mr. J Graham's. The impression that he had given the ring to Philip was fastened upon j his mind. He remembered the fact of calling him, and his intention became a - reality. When thus cornered he amused the , judges with several other instances of absent mindedness of which he had been guilty, in this manner explaining the mis take he had made. I must do him the justice to say that he made Philip ample amends in the shape of a hundred dollar bill for the trouble be had caused him ; but I believe that Mr. Carman bated me to the day of his death. I can only say I should not have punished him so severely if he had treated me like a gentleman. ..Ex-Sheriff Henry Pratt, of Jvent county, Delaware, has taken to heart the Scriptural command to increase and mul tiply upon the face of tho earth. He has nine children, ninety-one grandchildren, and fifty-six great grandchildren, in all one hundred and fifty-six." He is eighty years of age, weighs about two hundred pounds, and taken all together is about as well as could be expected under the cir cumstances. . .The vote in Madison county, Ohio, was a tie. There is also a, tie vote on Congressmen in H'ghland county. JLEE'S MISER AISLES. BY JOHN KSTEN COOKIE They called themselves "Leo's Misera bles." That was a grim piece of humor, was it not, reader? And the name had a somewhat cuiious origin. Victor Huo'a work, Les Miscrubles, had been translated and published by a house in Richmond ; the soldiers, in the great dearth of reading matter, had seized upon it ; and thus, by a strange chance, the tragic Ktory of the great French writer had become known to tho soldiers in the trenches Everywhere you might see the gaunt figures in their tatten d jackets, bending over the dingy pamphlets, "Fautaine," "Cosette," "Ma rios," or "St. Denis," and the woes of "Jean Valjean," the galley slave, found an echo in the hearts of these brave sol diers, immured in the trenches and fettered by duty to their muskets or their cannon. Singular fortune of a wr iter ! Happy M. Hugo ! Your fancies crossed the ocean, and, translated into another tongue, whiled away the dreary hours of the old soldiers of Lee, at Petersburg ! Thus, that history of "The Wretched" was the pabulum of the South in 18G1 ; and as the French title had been retained on the backs of the pamphlets, the soldiers, little familiar with the Gallic pronuncia tion, called the book "Lee's Miserable?!'" Then another step was taken. It was no longer the book, but themselves whom they referred to by that name. The old veterans of the army thenceforth laughed at their miseries, and dubbed themselves grimly, "Lee's Miserable 1" The sobriquet was gloomy, and there was something tragic in the employment of it; bnt it was applicable. Like most popular terms, it expressed tho exact thought in the mind of every cue cuiacd the situation into e phrase. Truly, they were "i he Wretched," the soldiers of the army of Northern Vir ginia, in the fall and winter of 1364. They had a quaiter of a pound of rancid "Nassau bacon" from New England for daily rations of meat. The handful of flour, or corn-meal, which they receiv ed, was musty. Coffee and sugar were doled out as a luxury, now and then only; and the microscopic ration became a j.t to those who looked at it. A little "grease" and corn bread the grease ran cid, and the bread musty these were the food of the army. Their clothes, blankets, and shoes were no better even worse. Only at long in tervals could the Government issue new ones to l hem. Thus the army was in tat ters. The old clothes hung on the men like scarecrows. Their gray jackets were in rags, and did not keep out the chilly wind sweeping over the frozen fields. Their old blankets were in shreds, and gave them little warmth when they wrap ped themselves up in them, shivering in the long cold nights. The oil shoes, patched and yawning, had served in many a inan-h and battle and now allowed the naked sole to touch the hard and frosty ground. Hapjy the man with anew blanket! Proud the possessor of a whole rounda bout ! What millionaire or favorile child of fortune passes yonder the owner of an unpatched pair of shoes ? Such were the rations and clot bins: of the army at that epoch : rancid grease, musty meal, tattered jackets, and worn out shoes. And these were the fortunate ones! Whole divisions often went with out bread even, for two whole days. Thousand had no jackets, no blankets, and no shoes. Gaunt forms, in ragged old shirts and torn pantaloons only, clutched the musket. At night they hud dled together for warmth by the fire in the trenches. When they charged, their naked feet left blood-marks on the abatis through which they went at the enemy. That is not an exaggeration, reader. These facts.are of record And that was a part only. It was not only famine and hardship which they un derwent, but the incessant combats and mortal tedium of the trenches. Ah ! the trenches ! Those words summed up a whole volume of suffering. No longer fighting in open field, no longer winter quarters, with power to range ; no longer Ireedom, fresh air, healthful movement the trenches! Here, cooped op and hampered at every turn, they fought through all those long months of the dark autumn and winter of 13G4. They were no longer men, but machines loading and filing the musket and the cannon. Rurrowing in their holes, and subterranean covered-ways, they crouched in toe darkness, rose at the sound of coming battle, manned tho breastworks, or trained the cannon day after day, week after week, month after month, they were there in tho trenches at their grim work : and some fiat of Des tiny seemed to have chained them there to battle forever I At midnight, as at noon, they were at their posts. In the dark ness, dusky figures could be seen swing ing the s(wnge-8tafF, swabbing the cannon, driving home the charge. In the star light, the moonlight, or the gloom lit by by the red glare, those figures, resembl'in" phantoms, were seen marshalled behind the hf.nstworks to repel ine coming assault. Biionco had fled from the trenches the crash of musketry and tho bellow of artil lery had replaced it. That seemed never to cease. The nien were rocked to sleep by it. They slept on in the dark trenches, though the ruortsr-tHclla rose, described their flaming curves, and, bursting, rained jagged fragments of iron upon them. And to many that was their last sleep. The iron tore them in their tatte blan kets. They rose gasping, and streaming with blood. Then they staggered and fell; when you passed by, you saw a something lying on tho ground, covered with the old blanket. It was one of "Lee's Misera b!es," killed last night by the mortars, and gone to answer "Here!" before the Master. The trenches! ah! the trenches! Were you in them, reader ? Thousands will tell you more of them than I can. There, an historic army wa6 guarding tho capital of nn historic nation the great nation of Virginia and how they guarded it ! In hunger, and cold, and nakedness, they guarded it still. In the bright days and the dark, they 6tood at their posts unmoved. In the black niehl-wate.hes aa by day toward morning, as at evening they stood, clutching tho musket, peer ing out into the pitchy darkness ; or lay, dozing around the grim cannon, in the em brasures Hunger, and cold, and wound?, and the whispering voice of Despair, had no effect on them. The mortal tedium left them patient. When you saw the gaunt faces contract, and tears flow, it was because they had received some let ter, saving that their wives and children weie starving. Many could not endure that. It made them forget all. Torn with anguish, and unable to obtain fur loughs for a day even, they went home without leave and civilians called them deserters. Could such men be,ehot men who had fought like heroes, and only committed this breach of discipline that they might feed their starving children ?" And after all, it was not desertion that chiefly reduced Lee's strength. It was battle which cut down the army wounds and exposure which thinned its ranks But thin as they were, and ever growing thinner, the old veterans who remained by the flag of such glorious memories, were as defiant in th'u dark winter of 18G1 as they had been in tho summer days of 1 802 and 1S63. Army of Northern Virginia ! old sol diers of Lee, who fought beside your cap tain until your frames were wasted, and you were truly his "wretched" ones you are greater to me in your wreched ncss, more splendid in your rags, than the Old Guard of Napoleon, or the three hundred of Thermopylae. Neither fam ine, nor nakedness, nor suffering, could break your spirit. You were tattered and half-starvod ; your forms were war-worn; but you still had faith in Lee, and tho great cause which you bore aloft ou the points of your bayonets. You did not shrink in the last hour the hour of su preme trial. You meant to follow Lee to the last. If you ever doubted the result, you had resolved, at least, on one thing to clutch the musket, to the end, and die in harness ! Is that extravagance and is that pic ture of the great army of Northern Vir ginia overdrawn ? Did they or did they not fight to the end ? Answer ! Wilder ness, Spotteylvania, Cold Harbor, Charles City, every spot around Petersburg where they closed ia death-grapple with tho swarming enemy: Answer! winter of '65, bleak spring of '65, terrible days of the great retreat when hunted down and driven to bay like animals, they fought from Five Forks to Appomattox Court House fought staggering, starving and falling but defiant to thelast I Hearded men were seen crying on the ninth of April, 1865. Hut it was sur render which wrung their hearts, and brought tears to the gtirn faces. Grant's cannon had only made "Lee's Miserables" cheer and laugh. From Mohus, or the Last Days of Lee and his Paladins, by John Esten Cooke. Let No Man Ask eor LeisChe. The most fallacious ideas prevail respecting leisure. People are always saying to themselves : "I would do this and I would do that if I had leisure." Now, there is no condition in which the chance : of doing any good is less than in the con dition of leisure. The man fully employed may be able to gratify his good disposi-. tions by improving himself or his neigh bors, or serving the public in some useful way ; but the man who has his time to dispose of as he pleases has but a poor chance, indeed, of doing so. To do in creases the capacity of doing ; and it is far less difficult for a man who is in a habitual course of exertion, to exert him self a little more for an extra purpose, than for the man who does little or noth ing to put himself into motion for the same ; end. There is a reluctance in all things to bo set a-going ; but when that is got over, then everything goes sweetly enough. Just 60 it ia with the idle man. ' In losing that habit he loses the power of doing ; but a man whois busy about some regular emplo)meni for a proper length of time every day, can very easily do something else during the remaining hour: the rec reation of the weary man is apt to be busier than the perpetual leisure of the idle. As he walks through the world his hands hang unmufflcd and. ready by h'i6 tide, and he can sometimes do more by a tingle touch in passing than a vacant man is likely to do in a twelvemonth. Let no man cry for leisure in order to do anything. Let him rather pray that ! he mr.v never have leisure. If he really wishes to do any good thing, he will al ways find time for it by properly arrang ing bis other employments NUMBER 40. Ilovr Seth Ilavrklng Stele the Old ftadj' KistU Gown. The Boston Ncics gives us the follow ing, as having occurred in one of the vil lage of the old Bay State, within the recollection of the writer. We do not know when we have enjoyed so hearty a laugh as on reading this incident in the life of Seth Hawkins. Sunday night was the season which Seth chose to do his weekly devours, aa Mrs. Hornby would say, and his road to neighbor Jones', whose daughter Sally was the object of his particular hope, lay across three long miles of territory, stumpy as an old woman's mouth, and as irre claimable as a prodigal son gone away for the third time. One all sufficiently dark night, unheed ing wind and weather, as gallant and spruce a lover as ever straddled a stump, Seth, in beet "bib and tucker" and dick ey, and all that, started upon his accus tomed weetly pilgrimage to the shrine of Sally Jones a 6weet girl by the way, as strawberries and cream are sweet Seth knew every land mark, if he could 6eo it ; but the night was very dark, and in a little while he became confused in his reckoning, and taking the light which gleamed from farmer Jones cottage in tho distance for a guide, he pubhed boldly on, regardless of intermediate difficulties, surging occasionally to the right or left, as some obstructions arose in his path, until he ran stem on, as a sailor would 6ay, to a huge stump, and rolled inconti ncnly on the other Bide. He gathered himself up as best he could, shook himself to ascertain that no bones were broken, and then re-started on his mission of love, his ardor somewhat dampened by feeling the cold night wind playing fantastic jests around bis body, denoting that the concussion had breached his "Oh fie for shame," and that the seven and six penny cassi meres were no more to be the delight of hh eyes in con templation of their artistic excellence. lie knew to a considerable extent the damage sustained, but soon gaining the house, his first glance was over his person, to ascertain if decency would be violated by an unwonted display ; but seeing noth ing, and trusting to the voluminous pro portions of bis coat for concealment, he felt reassured and took his scat in a prof fered chair by the fire. Whilst convers ing with thefarmer about the weather, and with the dame upon ttie matter of cheese, he glanced at Sally, and saw with painful surprise, that she was looking anx iously, and tomewhat strangely, toward a portion of bis dress. She averted her eyes as she caught his dance : but anin m - w o catching her eye upon him, he was induced to turn nis eye in the same direction, and saw. cood heavens ! was it hia shirt T oozing out of a six inch aperture in the inside ot one ot Ins lnexpressibuities I He immediately changed hit Dosition. and - .j from that moment was on nettles. Was he making more revelations by the dAtnge? He watched his first oooortunitv to nush b the garment in a little. Could he succeed in hiding it, it would relieve his embarrass ment. Aeain he watched his chance, and - 9 again stowed away the linen. It seemed interminable, like tne doctor s tape worm, and the more he worked it, the more there seemed left. In the meantime, Lis conversation took the hue of agony, and his answers bore as much relation to the questions asked, as the first line of the Songs of Solomon does to the melancholy burden of "Old Mann PettingilL" At last, with cne desperate thrust, the whole disappeared, and he cast a trium phant glance toward Sally. One lnlc sufficed to show that she had comprehend ed the whole, and with the greatest effort was struggling to prevent a laugh. Meet ing his glance, she could contain herself no longer, but screaming with accumula ted fun, she fled from the room ; and poor Seth, unable to endure this last turn of his agony, seized his hat, and dashed mad ly from the house, clearing the stumps like a racer in the dark, and reaching home he hardly knew when or how. As soon as he was gone, Mrs. Jones looked about for a clean niht 2own that she had out for service on the back of the chair on which Seth had sat. She was positive 6he had taken it out, but where upon earth it was she couldn't conceive. "Sally!" cried the old lady from the doer, ''have you seen my night gown V "Yes'm," echoed her voice, as if in the last stage of suffocation "yes'm, Seth Hawkins wore it home !' It was unfor tunately the case, and poor Seth had stowed it away in the crevasse of his pants. I: was returned the next day, with an apology, and he subsequently married Sally ; but for many j-ears after, if an ar ticle of any description was missing, of apparel or otherwise, the first suggestion was. that Seth Hawkins bad stowed it away in his trow6er. Seth Hawkins is now a prominent and influential merchant in the city of Boston, and often relates the story himself, for the amusement of his young friends. . .Only four hundred souls survive the earthquake of Ecuador, out of forty thou sand, who were swallowed up in an in staut by the subsidence of the whole dis trict, which ia now covered by a lake. . . A feliow who ran away from Boston to escape the importunity of his r.'imerous creditors, is now Treasurer of the State cf South Carolina.
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