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It. .. JOIIXSTOS," Editor.
EBENSBURG, PA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, T 868.
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We have mude arrangements by which
we can do or have done all kinds .f plain
hnd Imicy Job Printing, such as Books,
Pampbets. Show Cards, Bill and Lettei
Heads, Handbills, Circulars, &c, in the bent
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SUGARS, TEAS, COFFEES,
SYRUPS, MOLASSES, CHEESE, &c.
Also, a large stock of the
Best Brands of Cigars and Tobacco.
STOKE ON HIGH STREET,
Four Doors F.cst of Crawford's Hotel,
Ebensburg, Ia.
LADIES' FANCY FURS!
AT
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FUR MASi rACTouT.
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above 7th. PUILA.
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dren's Wear, in the
City. Also, a fine assortment of Gents' Fur
Oloves and Collars.
I am enabled to di?poso of my goods at very
reasonable prices, and I would therefore solicit
a visit from my friends of Cambria county and
vicinity. Remember the Name, Number and
Street! JOIIX FAREIIU,
"So 718 ARCH St., ab. 7tb, south side, Phila.
October S, lS63.-4m.
Hew Firm New Goods.
TllE undersigned, having given his son,
J. . Shields, an interest in hi store,
tho business wiil hereafter be conducted un
der the firm name of P. II. Shields & Ob.,
and as we are determined to sell Goods cheap
for cash, or exchange for grain, lumber or
produce, we hope by strict attention to bus
iness to merit a liberal patronage from a
generous public.
Having determined to eettlo op my old
books of thirty years standing, 1 now ask
those indebted to me to come forward and
make settlement on or before the 1st day of
December, 1868- P. H. SHIELDS.
Loretto. Oct. 16, 1868.-tf.
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like accuracy, ranging from the smallest card
picture to the largest size for framing, taken in
any weather, and warranted to give satisfaction.
Particular attention paid to children'" pictures
Frames of all kinds for 6a!e cheap. Frames of
any kind not on hand will be ordered when de
eired Instructions in the art on liberal terms.
E3yGallery on Julian street, 3 doors north
of Town Hill. T. T. 8 PENCE,
KtGitmrg, 0rt ft IW, Photographer.
TTk EN T ISTR Y. The undersigned,
M-P graduate
of the Haiti
more Coilege
of Dental sur
gery, respect
fully offers hi?
FttOFESSIOXA
services to the
ensburg and vicinity, which place he will visit
on the foucth Monday of each month, to re
main one week.
Aug 13. SAM'L BELFORD. D. P. S.
ENTISTRY. Dr. D. W. Zeig-
Itr has taken the rooms on
High street recently occupied by
Lloyd & Co. as a Bankiug House;
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.
DtCHrBTMILLER. pPp
ALTOONA, PA.,
Operative and rVlechanical DENTIST.
Office au Caroliiie street, between Virginia
and Emma street. All work warbantki'.
Altoona. June 18, lcG8.-6m.
mf L. O A T M A N ,
11 Mm EBENSBURG. FA.,
Is the sole owner of the Right to Manufactute
and sell
THE UNEQUALLED
METROPOLITAN OIL!!
J
AMES J. OAT.MAN, M. D.,
tenders his professional services as Phy
sician and Surgeon to the citizens f Carroll
tcwu and vicinity. Oflice in lear of build
ing occupied by J. Biicn & Co. as a store.
Night call.- can be made at his residence, one
dii.T .south of A. llau'o tin and hardware
store.
DEVEREAUX, M. D.f Phy-
fiictAK and SuiioEox, Summit, Pa.
Office eat end of Mansion House, on Rail
Road street. Night calls may be made at
the ofiio
fmy23.tf.
g3J J. LLOYD, successor to R. S.
Bunx, Dealer in Drwjs, Medicines,
Paints, ifc. Store on Main street, oppobite
tin "Mansion Hriie." Ebensburg, Pa.
October 17. lSG7.-6tn.
FI ANK -V. HAY;
WHOLESALE and RETAIL Manufacturer.
of TIN'. COPPER aud SHEET-IRON
WARE. Canal street, below Clinton, Johns
town. Pa. A large stock constantly
hand.
1). M'LAUGULIN,
ITTORNEY AT LAW, Johnstown, Pa.
J Oftice in the Exchange building, on the
Corner of Clinton and Locust streets tip
stairs. ill attend to all business connect
ed with his profession.
Jan. 31 . 18ti7.-tf.
tt. I. J011SSTO.V, J K. SCASUN.
JOHNSTON & 8CANLAN.
Attorneys at Law,
Ebensburg, Cambria co., Pa.
Office opposite the Court TJouse.
Ebensburg, Jan. 81. 1867.-tf.
JOHN P. LINTON,
ITTORNEY AT LAW, Johnstown, Pa
li Office in building on corner of Main and
Franklin strtet, opposite Mansion House,
second fl'or. Entrance on Franklin street.
Johnstown. Jan. 31. 18d7.-tf.
A. KOigLIN,
Johnstown.
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Ebeusburg.
KOPELIN & DICK, Attorneys . XT
Law. Ebensburg. Pa. Offrp with Wm.
Kittell, Esq., Colonade Row. fuct 22.-tf.
F. A. SHOEMAKER,
i
TTORNEY AT LAW. Ebensburg, Pa
Oihco on High street, one door East of the
Hanking House of Lloyd & Co.
January 31, 1867.-tf.
" F. P. TIERNEY
ATTORNEY AT LAW, Ebensburg, Pa.
Oflice in Colonade Row.
Jan. 6. 1867-tf.
JOSEPH M'DONALD,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, Ebensburg. Pa.
Office on Centre street, opposite Linton's
Hotel. Jan. 31, 1867-tf.
JOHN FENLON,
i TTORNEY AT LAW, Ebensburg Pa.
Office on High street, adjoining his resi
dence. Jan 81. 1867.-tf.
GEORGE" WT)ATMAN
ATTORNEY AT LAW, Ebensburg, Pa.
Office in Colonade Row, Centre street.
January 81, 18G7.-tf.
WILLIAM KITrELL,
ITTORNEY AT LAW, Ebensburg, Pa.
H Office in Colonade Row, Centre street.
Jan. 31, 1867,-lf.
(5 L. PERSHING, Attorn ey-at-
Law, Johnstown, Pa. Office on Frank
lin Street, up-stairs, over John Benton's
Hardware Store. . Jan. 31, 1867.
M. H. SECHLER, Attorn ey-at-.
Law, Ebensburg, Pa. Oflice in rooms
recently occupied by Geo. M. Reade, Esq , in
Colonade Row, Centre street. : ang.27.
GEO. M. READE, Atiorneg-at-Lau.',
Ebensburg, Pa. Office in new building
recently erected on Contra street, two doors
from High street. aug.27.
TJAMES C. EASLY, Attorney-
at-Law, Carrollteum, Cambria Co., Pa.
Collections and all legal business promptly
k"-"u o an bi. 1BG7.
XT KINKEAD, Justice of Veer Peace
and Claim Agent. Office removed to
the office formerly occupied by M. Hasson,
Esa.. dec, on High St.. Ebensburg. jl3.
STSTRAYER, Justice of the
Peace, .ohnstown, Pa. Oflice on the
corner of Market street and Locust alley,
Second Ward. dec.12.-Iy-
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riginal poftrn.
JUSTICE STILL. LIVES!
BY ASTOXIA.
Freemen I what tho' the Day was not yours 1
What tho' your labor is spent on the air ?
Justice has ever, and still she insures
Sjccess for the Right so never despair 1
Because this fair land is by tyrants now crushed,
Think you that Justice 's consigned to the
grave T
Never ! till Hope in your bosoms is hushed
Then, and no sooner, each freeman 's a slavct
Will you calmly look on and see the flag that
you bore
Insulted, and styled the Emblem of Shame?
Will you wait till in chains on the dark dun
geon floor
Stand off and hear tyrants curse Washington's
name ?
Will yon wait till the despots have accomplish 'd
their end,
Or now will vou boldly stand forth for the
Right?
Will you list while they promise to you to amend,
Or hurl them as traitors lrom power and
miglt?
If ever fair Justice gave this good land breath,
Asjain shall she come and revive our desire :
Agnin shall se wake from this torpor of death, '
And pass o'er this land in a whirlwind of liie.
In the very defeat that you now have sustained
Gjod victory smiles, and bids you come on :
So unfurl your proud banner, fair and unstainM,
And say to these ungodly usurpers, Begone!
And what, tho, ere peace on this fair land m iy I
dawn,
The bones of our heroes must bleach or the
pi in 1
Thank God ! they will know that the swords
thy have tiruwii
By those who survive will be sheathed with
out stain !
m m c C m
THE BABES IN THE CL0UD3.
AN ASItKICAN TKUE STOEY.
Just ten years ugo there suddenly burst
upon the western world a maciuficent
stranger from foreign parts, with "all his
travelling glories on." It was the great
comet of 1858, on the grand tour of the
universe.
It seemed strange that potty human life
could go on as usual, with its eating and
drinking, trafficking and pleasuring, while
that "flaming minister," on his billion
leagued circuit, was preaching the won
ders of infinite immensity and power, and
the nothingness of earth. The comet no
longer runs his kindling race, like Vicli
Alpine's henchman, with his fiery cross
announcing war and disaster.
Herald of battle, fate and fear.
He is on h'i3 own business, not ours.
Under the tail of this particular comet,
doublless many a tale of love was told
in the light of his swifi splendors many
a tender look exchanged. The astronomer
coolly swept the starry field with his glass,
unawed by the irregular night-guard pa-,
trolling the heavens, and the robber and
murderer disdain the awful witness. He
left us as he found us joined to our mor
tal idols, wipe in our conceit, weak and
worldly and wicked, but no castaways of
the universe after all.
We remember that comet-summer, not
so much for its great astronomical event
as for two singular incidents that more
nearly touched our human sympathies,
which will grovel in poor earthly affairs,
even within sight of the most august celes
tial phenomena.
One pleasant Saturday afternoon during
the comet's appearance, an aeronaut, after
a prosperous voyage, descended upon a
farm in the neighborhood of a large mar
ket town in one of the Western States.
He was soon surrounded by a curious
group of the farmer's family, and laborers,
all asking eager tpjestions about the voy
age and the management of the balloon.
That Becurcd by an anchor and a rope in
the hand of the aeronaut, its car but a foot
or two above the ground, was swaying
lazily backward and forward in the even
ing air. It was a good deal out of wind,
and a sleepy and innocent monster in the
eyes of the hVmer, who, with the owner's
permission, led it up to his house, where,
as be said, he could hitch it to his fence.
But before he thus secured it, his three
children, aged respectively ten, eight and
three, begged him to lift them "into the
big basket," that they might "sit on those
pretty red cushions." While the atten
tion of the aeronaut was diverted by more
curious questioners from a neighboring
farm, this rash father lifted his darlings
one by one into the car. Chubby little
Johnny proved the "ounce too much" for
the serial camel and brought him to the
ground ; and then, unluckily, not the baby,
but the eldest hope of the family, was
lifted out. The relief was too great for
the monster. The volatile creature's
spirit rose at once, he jerked his halter out
of the farmers band, and with a wild
bound mounted into the air I Vain was
the airqnaut's anchor. It caught for a
moment in a fence, but it tore away and
was off, dangling uselessly after the run
away balloon, which so swiftly and steadi
ly rose that in a few minutes those two
little white faces peering over the edge of
the car grew indistinct, and those piteous
cries of "papa !" "mamma 1" grew faint
and fainter up in the air. "f
When distance and twilight mists had
swallowed up voices and faces, and noth
ing could be seen but the dark cruel shape,
sailing triumphantly away with its pre
cious booty, like an serial privateer, the
Door father eank down helpless and speech-
less ; but the mother frantic with grief,
still stretched out yearning arms towards
the inexorable heavens, and called wildly
up into the unanswering void. , .
The aeronaut strove to console the
wretched parents with assurances that the
balloon would descend within thirty miles
of the town, and that all might be well
with the children, provided it did not come
down in the water or in deep woods. In
the event of its descending in a favorable
spot, it was thought that the older child
might step out, leaving the younger in the
balloon. Then it cnisrht again arise and
continue its voyage.
"Ah, no," replied the mother "Jennie
would never stir from the car without
Johnny in her arin9 !"
The balloon passed directly over the
market tower, and the children seeing
many people in the streets, strett hed out
their hands and called loudly for help.
But the villagers, though they saw the
bright little heads, heard ho call.
Amazed at the 6trange apparition they
might have thought the translated little
creatures small angel navigators, on some
voyage of discovery, some little cheubic
venture of their own, as heading towards
the rosy cloudlands and purple islands of
sunset solendor, they sailed deeper and
deeper into the west, and faded away.
Some company they had, poor little
skywaifs. Something comforted them
and allayed their wild terrors ?omething
whispered them that below the night and
clouds was home ; and above was God ;
that wherever they might drift or clafdi, j
.. . t, it a - tt
living or dead, they would still be in Ilia
domain and under His care
mat inougn
borne away among the stars, they could
could not be lost, for His love would fol
low them.
r" ..When the sunlight all went awav and
the EreXTconJtK-C"rae blazing out, little
Johnny was appre.henBiveJ-i?iilLlc J;"10t
might come too near their airy craft, an
set it on fire with a whisk of its dreadful
tail But when hi3 sister assured him
that the fiery dragon was "as much as
twenty miles away," and that God
wouldn't let him hurt them, he was tran
quilized, but soon after said, "I wish he
would coma a little nearer, so I could
warm myself, I'm so cold!"
Then Jennie took off her apron and
wrapped it about the child, saying ten
derly, "This is all sister has to make you
warm, datling, but she'll hug you close in
her arms, and we will say our prayers and
you shall go to sleep."
"Why, how can I say my prayers
before I have my ' supper t" asked little
Johnny.
"Sister hasn't any supper for you, or for
herself, but we must pray all the harder,"
solemnly responded Jennie.
So the two baby wanderers, alone in
the wide lieavetn, unawed by darkness,
immensity and silence, by the presence of
the great comet and the millions of un
pitying stars, lifted their little clasped
hands and sobbed out their sorrowful
"Our Father," and then that quaint little
supplementary prayer :
'Nov I lay me down to s'cep,
I pray the Lord my soul to keep ;
If I should die before I wake,
I pray the Lord my soul to take." -
"There! God beard that, easy; for
we are close to Ilim up here," said inno
cent little Johnny.
Doubtless Divine Love stooped to the
little ones, and folded them in perfect
peace for soon the younger, sitting on
the bottom of the car, with his head
leaning against his sister's knee, slept as
soundly as though he were lying in his
own little bed at home, while the elder
watched quietly through the long, long
hours, and the car floated gently on in the
still night air, till it began to sway aud
rock on the fresh morning wind.
Who can imagine that 6imple little
child's thoughts, speculations and wild
imaginings, while watching through those
hours ? She may have feared coming in
collision with a meteor for many were
abroad that night, scouts aud heralds of
the great comet or perhaps being cast
away on some desolate star island, or
more dreary still, floating and floating on,
night and day, till they should both die of
cold and hunger. Poor babes in the
clouds !
At length, a happy change, or Provi
dence we will say Providence guided
the little girl's wandering hand to a cord
connected with the valve ; something told
her to pull it. At once the balloon be
gan to sink, slowly and gently, as though
let down by tender hands ; or as though
some celestial pilot guided it through the
wild currents of air, not letting it drop
into lako, or river, lofty wood, or impene
trable swamp, where this strange, unchild
like experience might have been closed by
a death of unspeakable horror ; but caus
ing it to descend as softly as a bird alights,
on a spot where human care and pity
awaited it. .
The sun had not yet risen, but the
morning twilight had come, when the
little girl, looking over the edge of the car,
saw the dear old earth coming nearer
"rising towards them," she said. Hut
when the car stopped, to her great disap
pointment, it was not on the ground, but
caught fast in the topmost branches of a
tree.. Yet she saw they were near a house
whence help might soon come, so she
awakened her brother and told him the
good news, and together they watched
and waited for deliverance, hogging each
other for: joy and warmth, for they were
COld, , . .J ; 'I . . U
Farmer Burton, who lived in a lonely
house on the edge of his own private
prairie, was a famous sleeper in general,
but on this particular occasion be awoke
before the dawn, and, though he turned
and turned again, he could sleep no more.
So at last he said to bis good wife, whom
he had kindly awakened to inform her of
his unaccountable iusomnolence, "It's no
use I'll just get up and dress myself, and
have a look at the comet."
The next that worthy woman beard
from her wakeful ppouse was a hasty
summons at the door. It seems that no
sooner did he step forth from his house
than his eyes fell on a strange, portentous
shape hanging in a large pear tree about
twenty yards distant. He could see no
likeness in it to anything earthly, and he
half fancied it might be the comet, who,
having put out his light, had come down
there to perch. In his flight and perplex
ity he did what every wise man would do
in a like extremity ; he called upon his
valiant wife. Reinforced by her he drew
near the tree, cautiously reconnoitering.
Surely never pear tree bore such fruit.
Suddenly there descended from the
thing a plaintive, trembling little voice :
"Please take us down ; we are very cold."
Then a second little voice said: "And
hungrj', too ; please take us down V
"Why, who are you t And where are
you ?"
The first little voice said: "We are
Mr. Ilarwood's little boy and girl, and we
are lost in a balloon."
The second little voice said, "It is us
l vj no uiiui v-i a v c4 y Trim a uaiiuvu.
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Dimly comprehending the situation, the
farmer, getting hold of a dangling rope,
succeeded in pulling down the balloon.
. He first lifted out little Johnny, who
ran rapidly a few yards towards the house,
then turned round und stood for a few
moments, curiously surveying the balloon.
j--jhful little sister was so chilled
and exhatStfTu
into the house, where, tremmr?naVjl
sobbing, she told the wonderful story.
Before sunrise a mounted messenger
was dispatched to the Harwood home,
with glad tidings of great joy. lie
reachod it in the afternoon, and a few
hours later the children themselves arrived,
in state, with banners and music, and
conveyed ii a covered hay-wagon and
four.
Joy-bolls were rung in tho neighboring
town, and iu the farmer's little brown
house the happiest family on the conti
nent thanked God that night.
ROOSTERS.
By prof j. billings.
Thare is not on the whole horizon ov
live natur a more pleazing and strengthen
ing studdy than the Hooster. This re
markable package of feathers has bin for
ages food for the philosophik as well as
the simply curious mind. They belong
to the feathered sckt denominated poultry,
and are the husbands of menny wives.
In Utah it is konsidered a disgrace tew
speak disrespeckful ov a rooster. Brig
ham Young's coat ov arms is a rooster, in
full blast, crowing till he is almost bent
over double backward.
The flesh ov the rooster is very similar
tew that ov the hen ; it is hard tew distin
guish the diffiance, eppeshly in yure soup,
lioosters are the pugilists amung the do
mestik burds ; they wear the belt, and
having no shoulder to strike from, they
strike from the heel.
Koo. tcrs, according to profane history,
if mi edukashun remembers me right, were
formerly a man, who come suddenly upon
one ov the heathen gods, at a time when
he want prepared tew sec company, and
waz, for that offense, rebuilt over into tho
fust rooster, and waz forever afterward
destined tew crow, as a kind ov warning.
This change from a man akounts for their
fighting abilities, and for their politeness
tew the hens. Thare is nothing in a mau
that a woman admires more than his read
iness and ability tew smash another fel
low, and it iz jiss so with a hen. When
a rooster gits licked, the hens all march
off with the oilier rooster, if he aint lsaff
so big or hand.ome.
It iz pluck that wins a hen or a woman.
Thare iz a great variety ov pedigree
among the rooster race, but for stiddy b;z
ness giv me the old fashened dominique
rooster, short legged, and when they walk
they alwus strut, and their buzzums stick
out like a alderman's abdomnal cup"board.
This breed is hawk-colored, and has a
crooked tail on them, arched like a sickle,
and az full uv feathers az a new duster.
But when you come right down to grit,
and throw all outside influence overboard,
there ain't nothing on earth, nor under it,
that can out-style, out-step, out-brag, or
out-pluck a reglar Bantum rooster.
They alwus put me in mind ov a very
small dandy, practicing before a looking
glass. ' . .
They don't weigh more than 30 ounces,
but they make az much fuss az a tun. I
have seen them trying lew pick a quarrel
with a two boss waggon,' and don't think
they would hesitate tew fight a meeting
house if it waz the least sassy tew them.
It seems tew be necessary that there
should be'sumthing outrageous in every
thing, tew show us whare propriety ends
and impropriety begins.' This iz the mel
ancbolly case in the rooster affair, for we
hav the shanghi rooster, the greatest outrage,-
in my opinyim, ever tommitted in
the annals of poultry. '.: '
These critters are tha camel amung
fowls. They mope around the barnyard, j
tipping over the hayracks and stepping on
the yung gosling, aud every now and then j
crow confusion.
If enny body 8: ould give me a shangbi
rooster, I should halter him, and keep him
in r box stall, and feed him on cut feed,
and if he would work kind in a batness,
all right; if not,T would Luteher him the
fust wet day that cum, and salt him down
tew giv tew the poor.
But thare aint noboddy a going tew giv
me one ov this breed, knot if i know it ; i
don't think there- iz a man on earth mean
enough tew do it.
lioosters do but very little household
work. They wont lay enny eggs, nor try
to hatch enny, nor see tew the young ones.
This satisfy s me that there is some truth
in the mythologikal ackount ov the roost
er's first origin.
Yu kant get a rooster to pay enny atten
tion to a yung one. They spend thiir
time in crowing and strutting, and occa
sionally find a woim, which they make a
remarkable fuss over, calling up their
wifes from a a distance, apparently to treat
them, but, just az the Lens get thaie, this
elegant and elaborate cuss bends over and
gobbels up the morsel.
Just Uce a man, for all the world.
First Locomotive In America.
Mnjor Horatio Allen, the engineer of
the New York and Erie Kailroad, gives
the following account of the first trip made
by a locomotive on this continent :
When was it Where was it ? And
who awakened its energies and directed
its movements ? It was in the j-ear 1828,
on the banks of the Lackawaxen, at the
commencement of the railroad connecting
the canal of the Delaware and Hudson
Canal Company with their coal mines
and he who addresses you was the only
person on that locomotive. The circum
stances which led to my being on the road
were these :
-i The road had been built in the summer.
The rtrTitSK.
rails of large dimensions, notched on caps
placed far annrt. The timber had crack
ed and warped from exposure to the sun.
After about three hundred feet of straight
line, trie road crossed the Lackawaxen
creek on trestle work about thirty feet
high, with a curve of three hundred and
fifty-five to four hundred feet radius. The
impression was very general that the iron
monster would either break down the road
or leave the track at the curve and plunge
into the creek.
My reply to such apprehensions was
that it was too late to consider the proba
bility of such occurrences ; there was no
other course than to have a trial made of
the strange animal which had been bro't
there at great expense, but that it was not
necessary that more than one should be
involved in its fate ; that I would take the
first ride alone, and the time would come
when I should look back to the incident
with great interest.
As I pressed my hand on the throttle
valve handle I was undecided whether I
would move slowly or witli a fair degree
of speed, but believing that the road would
prove safe, and preferring that if we did
j go down, to go handsomely and without
any evidence of timidity, I started with
considerable velocity, passed the curve
over the creek safely, and was soon out of
hearing of the vast assemblage. At the
end of two or throe miles I reversed the
valve, and returned without accident, hav
ing thus made the first railroad trip by
locomotive on the Western herni$nhere.
A Freeholder. A gentleman who is
rather given to story telling relates the
following :
When I was a young I spent several
years in the South, residing for a while at
Port Iludaon, on the Mississippi river. A
great deal of litigation was going on there
about that time, and it was not always an
easy matter to obtain a jury. One day I
was summoned to act in that capacity,
and repaired to court to get excused.
On my name being called I informed
his Honor, the Judge, that. I was not a
freeholder, and therefore not qualified to
serve.
"Where do you reside!" inquired the
Judge.
"I am stopping,
for the time being,
at
Port Hudson."
"You board at the hotel, : I presume ?"
"I take my meals there, but I have
rooms in another part of tho town, whare
I lodge."
"So you keep bachelor's hall !"
"Yes sir." " ' - ;
"How long have you lived in that man
ner?" "About six months."
"I think you are qualified," gravely re
marked ' the Judge ; "for I have never
known a man to keep bachelor's hall the
length of time you name who had not dirt
enough in his room to make him a free
holder ! The court does not excuse you."
Arpr.E Snow. Put twelve good tart
apples in cold water, and set them over
the fire ; when soft, drain the water, strip
the skins off, the apples, core them, and
lav them in a deep dish. Beat the whites
of twelve escs to a stiff froth ; put half
a pound 'of finely-powdered white sugar
to the apples ; beat them to a stilt troth,
and add the beaten egga. Beat the whole
to a stitf snow ; then turn it into a dessert
dish, and ornameat it with myrtle or box
A roeui In the Homeric Style.
On a pine wood shed, in an alley dark,
where scattered moonbeams, shining
through a row of tottering chimneys, and
an awning torn and drooping lell, strode
back and forth, with stiff tense-drawn
muscle and peculiar tread, a cat. His
Dame was No-ral ; on yonder neighboring
shed his father fought the cats thnt came
in squads from streets beyond Dupont, in
search of food and strange adventure.
Grim war he courted, and his twitted
tail and spine upheaving in fantastic curve,
and claws distended, and ears flatly pressed
against a head thrown back defiantly, told
of impending strife. With eyes a-gleam,
and screeching blasts of war, and steps as
silent as the falling-dew, young Nerval
crept along the splintered edge, and pazed
a moment through the darkness down,
with tail a wagging triumphantly.
Then, with an impression and a growl,
in direct vengeance hissed, he started
back, and crooked in body '.ike a letter S,
or rather like a U inverted, stood in ficrca
expectancy.
'Twas well. With eye-balls glaring
and ears all aslant, and open mouth in
which two rows of fangs stood fcrth in
sharp and dead conformity, slow up a
post from out the dark below, a head ap
peared. A dreadful tocsin of determined striu
young Norval uttered ; then, with fact
unblanched, and moustache startling
straight before his nose, and tail filing
wildly to the passing breeze, stepped back
in cautious invitation to the foe.
Approaching the other, and with pre
parations dire, each cat surveyed the ad
vantage of the field. Around they walked,
with tails uplifted and back high in air,
while from their mouths, in accents hissing
with consuming rage, dropped brief but
awful sentences of hate.
Thrice round the roof they went in
circle, with an eye upon the foe intently
bent ; then sideways moving, as is wont
with cats, gave one long drawn, terrific
savage yell, and buckled in.
The fur flew. A mist of hair hung
' " --''- M; High 'bove the din of
over the uau. i.c,u .hct dreadful tumult
puiug waguus ruse iirauwneu ,i;nr-
of the ptrife and battle of the euu.
cats. So gleamed their eyes in frenzy,
that to me, who saw the conflict from a
window near, nought else was plain but
fiery stars that moved in orbits most ec
centric. An hour they struggled in leropesfnoua
might, then faint and fainter grew tho
squall of war, until all sound was hushed.
Then went I forth with lantern, and the
field surveyeJ. What saw I ?
Six claws one ear of teeth, perhaps
a handful ; and save fur, nought else
except a solitary tail. . That tail was
Norval's by a ring I knew't. The ear
was -but we'll let the matter pass. Tho
tale will do without the ear.
A Bachf.lor on Sleighing. Things
matrimonial are sour grapes to old bach
elordom ; sleighing is a matrimonial kind
of thing; at least a good deal of matri
mony has always followed closely on the
heels of a good deal of sleighing. An old
dried up, shriveled up, hard up old chap,
whose heart never experienced the divine
afilatus that comes with love, thus talks
of sleighing :
"If you meet a couple, one of whom m
a female and the other ain't, and the onj
that ain't is trying to meke figure fca uu
the snow with a whip, and squirting
bacco juice into the circles, while the wo
man looks straight ahead or leans a littia
t'other way, it may be safely set down r.a
a man and wife of some standing. If tw r
youthful heads are bent down over fofri
pretended curiosity on the robe, w!ii!
the horse has the getting along left wholly
to bis discretion, this indicates the fitt
symptoms of a softening of the heart and
generally of the bruin !
"When you meet a dashing pmr, with,
a team that is equally or, the dash, rib
bons twisted all around the driver's arms,.
with a very long whip in the socket, thev
may be set down as somebody else's win
taking an airing with Eomebodv else's
husband.
"When you see a blooming young wid
ow snugging up to a beaver overcoat like
a sick kitten to a hot b;ick, this means a
wedding that's if the widow can only
have her way about it. And so on."
What He Thought It Was. A pas
senger by a night train on tho Hudson
Kiver Railroad tells the following : Tho
train was detained at Greenbush for a.
little while, and, while waiting, a cattle
train came on the other track and stop
ped.,. Such a noise has seldom been heard; :
the cattle bellowed, the sheep set up a
bleating, and the. hogs grunted, until the.
passengers were nearly crazed.- One old
fellow had slept for hours, but this noise
awoke him. Rubbing his eyes, he listen
ed in amazement. "Good heavens V
says he, "what's this!" Peering into"
the darkness without discerning any thing,
and listening more critically, he at last
satisfied himself, and set tha passengers
roaring by the exclamation, 44 Why, this '
must ba a political convention." "
About So. Some people keep their
sterling worth in all changes of fortune ;
others, if changed in condition, lose their '"
characters. . Bars of - gold are less prized
than diamonds, but gold reduced to dust
is valuablo, while dlaaioud dvut U tlavtl
worthless.