I J f j V U. L. JOIIASTOIS, Editor. HK IS A WHOM THE TRl'TII 31 A.IES Fit EE, AND ALL AUK SLAVK3 HiiSIOK, 19. A. 31laIiac, Publlfclier EBENSBURG, PA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 18G8. XT OLTTME 2. NUMBER 47. -iss' KJC'lliflll " b "f"LZL - ? Vim arciDria sreeman WILL BU FUBUSUKD vVK:n' TIIU USD AY MOKNING, ni 7.'ii3.oz.rg, Cambria Co., Fa. if ihi jlUou-iii'j rules jnyille within three month Jiuiu die i.f' subscriiij : Oi-.a coy. tic jear, $2 00 One c ay , mx r.iouth?, - - - - 1 00 '-', ", ihieft mouths. - - - 60 Those wh fiiil to pay their subscriptions -..'.il .iiui the cxpirati'-n ft t-ix months will !vi ch-ucd at the rate of $2.50 per year, 3 1 1 won Til; to pay until after the ex i, u "1 t'vdve months will be charged at he rste $0.(H per year. )' A-il .-d u '.'.inborn cv.istitr.re e quarter; ...i t tl. sli mouths; and fifty numbers, IHTZtf O! ACVEkTISIXo. rov..,.. 12 hues, one insertion . i u s.'..-erpicnt hisert'.r.u, fl"00 25 2 00 2 oO 2 o0 1 50 1 i.f. $3 00 1 2 00 15 00 25 00 28 00 85 00 eo oo S .M 't ,it''i!.iislr.i' In..X.uvs, cacn. Li..--u".rs' Notice: . tach, y V!Cf-.. CtvCh S no. 6 men. 1 . -r-yo. v? -o.es, 4 2 50 i 4 00 x lHr-s. 24 ire 5 00 8 M) . ...r.-, 3i line. 1 00 10 00 r coifiMti, 0 50 14 00 j- .;: ' 11 00 1G 00 ?hu! .. . 14 TO 2'; 00 'm. J : 25 00 35 00 ;"f ;,iV-i-i i.i! or i'...s;iis Cards, not wc-c.ti.i ' 3 lim-f. with paper, 6 00 r-hitu. iry Notices, over six linoe, ten cents J l.r li-.e. ! S;.ttiti and business NoMrrs eight rents i.ne for tir-t inaorio'n. and four cents for sl "o:-C-.p..crit i tnor;iou. J-Lt- Vith'us of Societies, or commuuica )"S c ;-crs ual LSttire must be paid for Ai !idva ti.-e'eent. JoB rs.STiH3. Ti'o rtvo made ariaugernentH by which vi' can d j .-r have done ail kinds ' i pi in anJ Jau-v ,T-.b rrui'.;.'jr, sich r.8 IWks. rs, S I'i'V f.riR. 13 i I and Lcttci 71 ; dV'!'!s, Citeu'.ars, &e.. in the best st vie 1' t'i. f.rt. and. t the most moderate i lso. all kin.s of Killing. Ulan Ae. Book BttviirtiT, cxMUteu toon.er n.. .J a th" Lt ana as cLeap as ine e'ur-apest. j . - ... .I..-,.. 1 i.nrisr.in r-r I iftmnv i U.BE&SmJFvG FOUNDRY A.&!X ISfl'LL BLAST! J I HEW FIRM, NEW DUiLDlNGS, &c, i WIXC, j-urch i.ed veil known TB- ;'Ji.G Kol NLMIY lVo Mr. E l-.v. 'JIhji .rjd . t,ui:: .-i:d ej.hcgeJ Jt ulosost in ti.ii'.' id:' it with new machinery. : s',!, 1 u.v now prepares to mrntsa j COOK P.VlLOn t- in: Alll.tS SiVlLS, I u t.w- I- a id mort noprove l r...trrri:s 1 .KFf-i.tl ci llAUldlirs. M 1 L L CIFAll- I G . JS4.-i' :i:. i ''' A I 1 11 Wil Kr.I.S of every . ,04-rtior I11CN FKNCLNU. 1 LOUCillS J ..id i'LOUOI' C'-T I NGrf, and in f.n't all I ta. .o.cr . .".'rL'cie- la-umfactered in a first ch;n ! !eun:ry. Jo! W-rik of rdl ki:i at'.euded to I i. Ti. '.jy a.;'1 i'iif cheaply. ' I !' ' .-'j.v-l.ii iHetition of Farmers i. inviol to lo newly t-.teutcd FLOUGllS wLich we j p --. i'iijhmIh r;'V, t- m oiufi-ture cn 1 sell j iLia cou.ity, nix w Inch nre admitted to be 1 ti'i t-jct . ei .i.x. ..lim-e i to the public. ' l..uiey.vg oa--e e- capable oj per. 01 ming :.". i(;' 1 i one in thi niuH satishn tory v i.', .md knowii'g that we can do woik at .'''it r:c.s ;!!! have been ehaitej In this e 'vo.ii.ty l-vref o;' e wc nflJetitly hone that we w'l! be ' '.. Avutiiy ct !ioeri' ratror.age. b' i r nin toi; in ;de tu wholesale d :. lers ZTSr rht hiht'ci vices paid in c.ub for old r-;efit, or -i ih:gs fsiven in exchanite. Oi 'l T. ilVi A11S. i lEICTl y C-H OR Cr'CNT T vaonccs CONVKRV. YINUOE & CO. J'o,i.bur, Sett. VJ. !Mlj. 23 HOOP SHIRTS 628 AMI T'-I IlOl'KIXS, No 02 S Akch i 7 .'ii;l.. Manufacturer nt the ce!c- ! itate.! "CH AMl'UN" HOOF SKIRTS lor ili.-es to d Childieo the largest as- i r-ortiio-ot ana best rp.iality und style in the ' .- inr-'c o; x il-rt. T. ery holy should try them, j they iec'ir.iinri'ii 'htmscl ves by wealing long- i ret.iii i: their share much belter, tioin ' a.d T'xmi-o .v LA.vfcuo.vs -GLOVE i-'i 1 " CO USE TS, r .nhur id prices from j il t'ent j 5" ; iAjeether with Jo Ileckel'a ' e'Vr..itti t-hENCH W'OYKN CO ItSETS, .. r at -ni.il miu n. ty. io uitrerent oraues, ; oir. i,!J to $.a,..(j J Liy are the finest and ! .,est g.ds f-jr the prices ever imported. The -epphed n-uh HOOF ,kli;l Saud COR- j - o hi it e "wt Kites. ei 'ri,,.. n;,. i...i i r i - iciiw .m v,-j pduuin nufc jail U) va i ...i ;r ..iiMvur Good-and Prices, as we oety aii coninetiioa jio 4n2. I JiLCUiiE Tilf; SHADOW EIIE THE HL'BSTAXCE FADLS! 1 - - Is r.o. ii. perfect order for executing Pictures ! l vciy st.yte cf the r-t. Photo-r .r.hs of life i '.'" :'c ''c: rai.-inj.' from the smallest card ! p!0ln t . .rgc-.' s zj for franiing, taken in : ' i. .ther. a-xj warntnte.! to ive satisfaction, x .tried, r attntli n paia to chiMrenV ficture Frit.e.- Wind for h!e cheap. Frames of fi. kiid rej! u' hand will be ordered when de riieu. It :rutioiH iu the r.rt on liberal term- Z-ii 'o-ili'v on Julian street, 3 doors north .f Town H-.li. T. T. SPENCE. X-bcasourg, 'Jet. 8, 1SC'. Photographer. Oil N GROUSE, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC WINES ASI MQIOHS. J?E2T Bb. cs OF UliANDy, WHISKY. IRISH "WuiKY. (SIN, ic, &c. Tb.. yery best quahiiea of Iquors, Wines, Ac. for Medica' rur3sA. Prices LOW. rrH-td .tod S.utiu keepers will do well o pre me a call nt my oloon Canal street. ia ouuaiag iormer y occupied v,y T. G, Stewart & Co. Johustowu, Aug. 27, 1368. tf OOD, Li:T7'E7TriiES'KIlTTi7bt J r t uJ cneapBt Tobueeo aod Cigars ia town ...I... - .. i .......u ..i... . :.. . : .. .it .i i . ,i t . .. . . . i.i r i ,u u.vlt ciaam; tn ji nn ii i iif rs : nun iiicii oii can i'iui;!; ior Aiiorseives. 1 VV !"' : VTI-'O :;. , 1 ...i.i t "i .- ... . . i . i ..... . . . . nyni t i movcu inio una uouse, inn ty years n"n i u; vtry Jo.v price. Aik or Uopkis' -Ciiam- i wj n I first cm- tt. t..wu. and purchased it ! ? 'H.-.ad.mi.deMrhHleb.neCORSKTS ! ITntfZt lin" & f'11'"1 f ! no .-,.,t, o.r r.r...i ;...!...: t.- t ... ! twenty-five, with a wise, and a child ub..t Ejje pact's grpartnuitt. A TISIT FKOJI ST. A'ICItOE.A3, BY CLKMKXT C. MOORE. "Twaa the nij;ht before Christmas, when all througlt the house Xot a ci ejiui e was stiiTing, not even a mouse; The stockings weie hung by the vhiuinev wiLh cue, Tn hopes that St. Nicholas Foon would be there. The children were nestled all snup: in their cds. While visions of tuar-plums danced in their heiid- ; And mamma in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap, Had settled our brains for a long winter's nap; When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter. I sprang from the bed to see what w?s the matter. Away to the window I flew like a flash. Tore open the shutters, and threw up the tash. The tnooi, en the breast of the Dew-fallen enow Gave the lustre of mid da v to objects below : When what to my wondering eyes should appear ; Hut a mini iture sleigh, ai d eight tiny reinject, j With a little old driver, so liveiv an.l ouiuk, I I ki:cw in a moment it noit be St. 2Lk. ilore rapid than e.' gle? his courcr they nme, And ' e whiaded. and bhouted, and ca'd'd them bv iiiinie : "Now, Dasher! now, Dancer ! now, Prancer ! now. v ixen ! ' On, Comet! on, Cupid! on, Dunder nnd E'.itzen! To the top of the porch, to the top ot the w.b! j Now, dash away, daih away, dash aw;.y, all 1" j A cry leaves before the w ild hurricane fly, When ihev meet wuh uu obstacle mount to the j sky', i So up to the housetop the coursers tl.ey fl.?w, With i tie sleigh i'u!! ol'tovs.und St. Nicholas too. i And tlivn, in a twinkling. I hcar.i u tool j 1 he jTiuiciiifj mm pawiiir of each little hoot ; ; As I diew in my he.td and was tuiiiing around, ; Dcwn tlie chimney St. Nicholas came with a ; bou:.d. ; lie was dressed all ia fur, from his head to his loot. And hi? clothes x'ere all tarnished with ashes and soot ; A l.und e ot toy. was Curj; on his back, And he looked like a pedlar jat opening his p u k. Hi eyes, how they twi-kis i ! his dimples, how merr 1 His cheeks were l.ke ro?e, his no-o like a chtrrv droil lotie mmuh w.i- drawn up like a bow, j And the beard of his chin was ts whit as the :iow ; I Th 6t',""P 01 a P'Pe he ',elJ ti-at in hU tcelb' ' ALd smoke it encircled his head Hue a ; lie hubby nnl p!umr, a ricrht joll v old elf, Ali 1 hM' hea 1 saW lii,u'in ofra.v- j A v:r,k of his eve, and twl-t of hU head, i So .ii rive me to know I hnd nothing to dread. I He ftt.-oke not a word, but went straight to his ' V. Mk, And LI I'd ad h!a 5r0ck.Ir.Si, then tura'd with a jeik. And lavin- his Crf;er aside of his noso And t-ivinr a tiod. iid the chirnnev he ira03. He spransr to hi tlciii, to hi? ttaoi gave & whistle. Atid away they all flew like the down of a thist'e ; Hut I heatd hiiu exclaim, ere he drove out of si eh. 'Ilirrv Chh stms to all, and to all a oood mout !" o - ' ! . j ; j to ! It ! From Ballou's Monthly Magazine. TWO IURRI1I.S, AND 1V1IAT CAME OV THEM, BY JAliBS F.1ANKI.IN IITTS. My story (said the merchant) relates this very house in which we are sitting. is of au occurrence which I can truly de j sciibe as the most terrifying of my life ; such i roiled the barrel olT the dray carelessly, and au incident as never happens more than j said, with a drunken leer, 'Here's your pow once in a man's lifetime ; and it is my earn- j der, sir, and blast you and it tod ! ' I over est prayer, that, to the end of my life, I may i looked his impudence, seeing that he was be spared any more sujh minutes as were ! intoxicated, aud called to hirn to stop, as those. It was a-j though all the terror i f j I saw by the appearance of the barrel and thieescore and ten years, with all their sick the bran, I on the head that there was some ening, Ktarthntr, thriliing sensations, had j thing wrong ; but he never paid any heed been condensed into tho.-e few moments; ; to me, and drove away. To make sure, I and my wonder since then has beea that I i had the barrel unheeded, and found it full was not crazed on the spot by my awful j of flour, as I supposed I should. Now how emotions. I will briefly tell the fciorv. ! d vim p-cnhiin 'it ?" uirtc ,'ear ,u- 1 11 Is J(jt "eeea- sary fVr rae to say that I loved that wife .1 . aud ehtnl ; in tact, 1 almost idolized them Lucia was a dear good wile to mo always, j ana, ttiougn we naa been married more than i four vears. we were hardlv vet. r.ver .nr courtship. Harry, my boy, was a bright, cunning little fellow of three years, toddliog . ..To .c- -.'...!? oliout the flX)r, up to his eyes in mischief, , -i . c i i ,-. l"c 1 " " 1 rtlJ" "y"- e wc,c mirtiii:ia 1.0 cvcij iuo liciu w licil we j nrst came . out l prospered in ousiness, ami the circle of our acquaintance so'in increased as speedily a? we wished ; and aa both wife and myself were fond of company, our house soon became a pleasant resort of the young people. I was rather "ratified that they showed us so much preference, and told Lucia to encouragp thern in coming ; so it frequently happened, the first wiuter here, i that, upon returning hme at ciht, I found the pailor filled with lively company of young ladies and gentlemeu. and my wifu entertaining them as she only could. She played and 6ang much better than any one in town; she knew every parlor game that was worth playing, and could supply some new amusemeut as fast as the old one grew tiresome. I bad always joined the company upon such accasions, and never failed to pass a delightful evening ; and little Harry often di-rniss'd his little shoes and socks en tirely with delight at the notice he received, and at the fun that was going on around him. I should have told yoa before that my business was the retail hardware, and that I had a quantity of powder with my stock. There was little or no call for it, and I was considering tho propriety of returning it to the manufacturer from whom I had it on commission, when the gardener of Mr. i Jewell, the richest man in the place, came j ia and inquired for blasting-powder. i "Mr. Newell wants to level that hi'd rest to the back anJen' be xzlZf ''atrf ire tUika I to shovel it away would require too much i time and labor. 11c thinks by tutting in i half a barrel of powder on each side, in a I pretty deep excavation, he can tumble the hill over, and crumble it down. What do you think of it V I told Idtn that tho plan seemed possible to me, and pi Decoded to show him the pow- j dcr. There was notie of it really course ! enough for the purpose ; but the gardener said that Mr. .ewfcll was in a great hurry to get the work done before gardening time catrjc, and this powder might perhaps do. lie ordered a barrel, and promise;! I to send it up during the day. It happened to be rather a busy day, and I could not take the time to go homo to dinner ; so 1 took a lunch at the restaurant at twelve. On my way back to the store I met the drayman. Hike, as he was called, aud remembering my promise to tend up the powder, I Stop ped him and directed l:m about it. "Mike," I said, "ca'.l at the store and get a barrel of powder, which you are to take up to Mr. No well's. Deliver it to the gardener : he knows about it. And, by th, way, you may also call at Train's, and get a barrel of ilu lr aud twke it up to my house ." I was very busv that day in mv efhee, ! -. . J , - . , . Je i .i , t'.i.'i it tw utrui ui-iib ltioii: & uiuux;iit i - . . . . ! .i : f i r.e i .i i . again ct the powder, when 1 stepped into tlie sture and a-ked the clerk if it had been j tak-n. i "H', ho Mil!, "Hike called for it and ; . r ., , r .... , . , .. T , , - .1. to the farthest extremity of the cellar, which tok it. 1 have bera horry since, though. . , . i , e t . j , , J ' ' i was tnought drv enough for it, and s.too.1 ex t hat I let him have it." ? - i "Whv so?"' he hand old it wed enough, a:.d drove t ff in the iiht ui;ecion, so I it will 1 bo all 1-iyht." I took no alarm about it ; for, although I knew that the drayman was in t! e habit if drink in to s rno extent. I r.ever had i-iiii'.V'i to rrf f !r;n ji."1!! ff .T-.il i 1 i. l"i . i . : , . ... lie Cooi.S r.'i Pitel:.! l: nis liUUieS. filter . . , , r-. r . , c u f 1 t- go Lome for the cvininz. when a loud. ,. . h.Mi-h voice in toe store caught rov ear, ax;.!. .,, r f..n.i Mr v..,..;n i-;,..,..!f I soundly beralitg oni of the clerks. v, i! a i. .s me matter, sir I a.-cd, as I i Cairo forward. jia'.ici c.oi::., u.isi.uiu niau mi- sweul. t'jruing his angr upon mc. have you know, sir, that if my patmnaj worth anvtl.mj- at all to vou. vmiV! I.i no his anger iit'on mc. "Id - li wortii anything at ad to you, vou'd Letter not, in future, make it the subject of you rr ictic 1! j kcs. I can't and wont be tiifle, our d with ! ' I$y tLii tiroe I v.-ai beginning to be a lit tle i.rlt.ted mv-:eif. "If Mr. Newell will explain himself," I sa;-l, "'.vu wiii try to rectify anything that we may have doue amiss. For ray part, I don t u v'.cr&tana v.i. it oSence has been i r :vf 11. 1-n't this Gx's hardware store?" Ne.vc-Il if-tjuired, tcaiewhat moiliUeJ by my Coi Ine.s. "Yes bir." "Are not yon Mr Ccx 7" "I an,." "D'dn't my garJi ner coro here for a bar rtl of b!a.tin j owocr i "He did. sir ; and "Yts," burst in Newt!!, with fresh inlta tion ; "and didn't you or one of your ras cally clerks send up a barrel tf flour to au- ey i(is.r. lansw answered, beginning to get a little light. "Here is Mr. Fiagg. who de- live-red the drayman a g'xl, ho!ist barrel of A I blasting-powder. Did you FUgg?" The clerk gave a ready ;:.f:i relative. Mr. G'X mused a moment, and then said, with a greatly moderate tone : '-Well, here are the facts. I wanted the powder very much, and got impatient for it. I went down to the late and waited, and was there when the dravman came. He "i-.asiiy enough," l answered. And 1 think I must have turned pale as my thoughts ran far ahead of my speech, and dweit leai fully on the consequences that Tui li t low from tiiu lruy liv.li'a drunken mistake. "The man had crders to take a barrel of flour to my own house at the same time he received the ordtr to take the pow- der to yours. He. has given you what was meant for me, and me what was intended for you. The mistake shall be rectified at once" Mr. Newell withdrew, satisfied with my explanation ; and hardly waitirg tor lrm to leave the store, I darted out of it aud ran hatless and without umbrella or overshoes through the rain that had begun to fall, turning neither to the right nor left, and up setting more than one person in my beaa- long course. My heart knocked against my ante so loudly mat it was aunoio every step of tlie way, and I never slackened my pace until I had reached tho door f my bouse, though tire-d anl breathless. With . .i . - 1:11. the words of Mr. Newell there bail flashed utaa me a frightful fear of tho couseq-iences to my own housenoid oi tue craymatr. bluutler. I remembered that my wife had told me several days beforo that we were almost out of flour, and that I had forgot ten for several days to get it, and that up on this day she had told me that there was just bread enough to last till night, and that to-morro.v's baking must bo prepared be fore we slept. While I heard Mr. Newell's words, it .jeeurred to mo that the drayman had delivered the barrel with its dangerous contents at my house after lamplight, aud that my wife and the domestic, not per ceiving the mistake, and suspecting nothing of wh it the barrel contained, might nay, probably would open it by the lamp or candle! And as I danced frantically along the street, the thought of tho dreadful peril of my darling Lucia and my boy almost maddened me. and lent wings to my speed. The distance from the store to the house was not less than a mile; I don't believe I W4s more than five minutes in making it. As I approached the bwse I saw that the jxil&z tvis F.gbted, icd nsriy 'zzzi cf laughter and conversation struck my ear as I ran up the stairs and and into the hall. Lucia heard the closing of the door, and came out to me with a tmile. "Go right up stairs and change your coat, tred, she said, "and then come down.- Here's the gayest company we've had for a ' month ; young Thayer and his sisters, llat- tie Swift, Ned Gray, Cora Freer, aui two more whose names I don't leally know. You,r supper will be ready in a few minutes. Little Harry is full of his nonsense, and they ail admire him so. lint, mercy on me. what's tlse matter? You don't kiss me, and vou'ro t trembling ail over! Fred, what is it?" j ''That barrel ef fuur!" I gasped, unable j tosav anotner wura "Why, it came at iajt ; nut ycu neeun i j trouble yourself any more about it. Bridget's j beau was caning on tier in me sucnen wneu it came, aud he went down cellar with her, a minute a;o, to open it for her. They are there now." Foor Lucia ! she didn't understand meat all just then. She didn't know why I turned so white and trembled so, or why I broke away from her and ran like mad for the cel lar. I reached the door and plunged down i the stairs, an.ii t haon'tbeen already strainc! I ... . i. i. : t. . . i. r , T T , m i -.u .1 ! , t 1 should have gone mad with the sight I saw , tj.i i. r.i. . - u-li, n I re irhi'd ti e huttrm fJtrpsturs The cellar was just the size of the two front rc-oms, of which the parlor was the one .1 .. t 'PI. . U U A ! .,.11-. i r an 13 oiiufi mhiiiis iiitii tuj puici the parlor floor, liridgiit was holding a long , ,....I, 1,.-rt l.T. n.Lilo l..r l.iVfT ! . , , . nr.,f h:,.i a!r(..lv r.-mr.vpd the tot-most iu r. hie win. I ble hcr-.-s i t!;o Ctli ir thronidi two little wired :e v. :re ! v it'ows. ard ti e candle was within the infinencf? of the draft. It flared the ll.iu.e ii.M a long ivatnt r, auu rapi.y consunici itio ta iotv ; I ati i as tr.e w eRM;cncd and b timed red, . , , . . , r .1 great spatks aim li' rv particles of the 1'iirn- i ins w ick oetached thernse ves and floated ti, : 0 .. ,.. , , r., , , i some lailiiis u.on ttie vcrv he.nl ot t:ie b irvci. ! . , J, , r , , ! And over it t:.e boy antt girl were chatting i and 1-iughing in ur conscious peril ; over i tlu-ir h:';ids ti:e sound of tho i.iano and the j chorus -f soot and larmhter, in which I c-uld plainly disting'tish the v ;K-e of my darling : cy i i ,VPIP heaid. and t ho 1"X b ow ot the i, ..,.. t, ;.-). .o-..v.-r ti.-. . Vr o. 1 tid j 11 . I 1 111 I V , .11,1U V(l,-J.VI VI. V. I t.l Ul.M w.lv. ! r vi'rv R-.n! r.f i:s tn dcstmrtti.tj. Tf f !,p..:tat,.,t ; ..,c f r l th-.n thr(. seconds. I dashed forward, swiftly and si lently, and struck the canole with a blow from Ilr'dget's hard ; ami as it rolled away on the fi or and was extinguished in the j daikness. my overstrained powers gave way, I and I fell lifeless. i I ktiew nothing more until 1 found my ! eAf on the svfi in the parlor, with my wife's j arm about my nerk. while her other hand I pressed a vial (if hartshorn to my no:-tri!s, ! and the alarmed and trouble" I guests gath j tred about ns. Even then they did not j comprehend what was the ran.-? of the np i roar in tlie cellar that had frightened them. until I explained it in a few words: Uld then there was such a set of white faces about me as I have ever seen finee. I had ! saved them all, nrid I suppose I bhould have the strength upon another such occasion t act as I did then ; hut God forbit that the chance should ever le given me ! A TOUCH IJVf i STOiiY. Tlie following affecting narrative pur ports to have been given by a lather to his fop, as a warning derived from hie own bitter experience of the sin of resist ing a mother's love and counsel : What agony was on my mother's face when all that she had said and suffered failed to move me. She lose to go home, and I folio ?,-ed at a distance. She spoke to me no more until she reached her own door. "It is school time cow," she said. ' Go, my son, and once more let me beseech you to think upon what I have said." "I shan't go to school," said I. She looked astonished at my boldness, but replied firmly : "Certainly you will, Alfred! 1 com mand you." "I will not," said I. 'Oiw of tho two things yuu must do, Alfred cither go to school this minute, or I will lock yuu up in your room and keep you there until you promise implicit obedience to my wishes in the future." "I dare you to do it," said I ; "you can't pat me up stairs." "Allied, choose now," said my mother, who laid her hand upon my arm. She trembled violently and was deadly pale. "If you touch me I will kick you," said I, iu a fearful rage. God knows I knew not what I said ! "Will you go, Alfred V "No I" I replied, but I quailed beneath i her eyes. "Then follow me," said she, as she grasped my arm firmly. I raised my foot O, my son, hear me I raised my foot and kicked her my sainted mother. How my head reels as the torrent of mem ory rushes over me ! I kicked my mother, a feeble woman my mother 1 tdte stag gered back a few steps and leaned against the wall. She did not look at me. I saw her heart beat against her breast. "O, Heavenly Father!" she cried, "for give him he knows not what he does !" The gardener just then passing the door, and seeing my mother was pale and al most unable to support herself, came in "Take this boy up stairs and lock him in his room," said she, and turned off from me. It was a look of agony, min gled with the most intense love ; it was the unutterable pang from a heart that was broken. In a moment I found myself a prisoner in my own room. I thought for a mo ment I would fling myself from the open window, but I felt that I was afraid to die. I was not penitent. At times my haert wae subdued, bat E27 stubboroess rose in an instant, and bade me rot yield yet. The pale face of my mother haunt ed me. I Hang myself on my bed and fell asleep. Just at twilight I heard a footstep approach my door. It waa my sister, "What Rhall I tell mother for you !" she paid. "Nothing," I icplied. 'O, Alfred, for my sake and for all our sakes, say that you are sony. She longs to forgive you." I would not answer. I heard her foot steps f-lowly retreating, and auain fiung l un self on the bed to pass a wretched aud a fearful night, Another7ootstep, slower and more fee- ble than my siater'.s, disturbed me. "Alfred, my son, shall I come in T she af-ked. I cannot tell what influence operating at that moment, made me speak adverse ! 10 my iceimga. me genue voice 01 my mother, that thrilled me, melted the ice ; from ray heart, and I longed to throw my self upon her neck ; but 1 did not. My words gave the lie to my heart when 1 ; but I bravely resislcd all appeals, until kid could produce, and it roso with said I was not sorry. 1 heard her with- j the little black-eyed scoundrel look me on amazing velocity. A mile up and it en draw. I heard her groan. I longed to . a new taek. Leaning heavily on my arm, tc-red a stratum of cloud more than a call her back, lut I dul not. land absolutely resting her cheek 011 my : thousand feet thick. Emerging from this, I wa awakened from an uneasy slum- j shoulder, with thoaa wicked eyes and si I- ! Le tun fehone brightly on the airship ; her by hearing my name called loudly, i very tongue she said ; ! the sky ovcihea l was of the clearest and and my sister stood by my bed-ide. "Won t you take a chance for me ?. :. deepest blue, and below lay cloudland "Get up, Alfred. Don't wait a minute. Oh, well, Hutcher, folks preach about j " immeasurable expanse of cloud whoso Get up and come with me. Molher is the jfall of Adam, but I never blamed ! sm face looked as solid as that of the earth dying." i him, though I don't think the old fellow : not wholly lost to view. Lofty mountain I thought I was yet dreaming, but I go: j had half the exense I had. I needn't tell j and deep dark ravines, appeared below up mechanically i.tid fl.dl.,w-ed my su-ler. ! von that I took that chance, and kept on ' the peaks and sides of th-sa cloud-moua-On the bed, pale as mat ble. 1 ty my moth-j "taking chances for the unp: incipled and tains next the sun, glittered like enow, er. She had not yet utidre.-.-ed. She ; beautiful wretch that had me in tow un- 1 but casting shadows as if thev were solid !iH' !rown tewX pon tho bed to rest, I ..,,1 .lit,., ..r-vi,. t . ,i ct,-. ....-. n'l i'ng 10 go again to me, fclie was siezed with palpitation of tho heurt, and borne to her room. l cannot icii you ray ngony as i touted upon her my remorse was tenfold bitter from the thought that she would never know it. I believed rnys-df to be her murderer. I fell on the bed beside her. I could not weep. My heart burned within my Iwsom, my brain was in fire. My sister threw her arms around me and wept in silence. Suddenly we saw a mo tion of mother's hand ; her eyes unclosed. She had recovered her consciousness, but not her ppeech, She looked at me and moved her lips. I could not understand her words. "Mother! mother:' 1 shrieked, "say oii.y that you lorgive mo. She could not say it with her lips, but her hand prefsed mine. She smiled upon me, and lifted her thin white hands ; she clasped my own within them, an! cast her eyes upward. She moved ber lips in prayer, and thus f-he died. I remained i kneeling beside her, that dcur form, till my sister remove I u;e. Joy of youth had left me forever. Hoys who spurn a mother's counsel ; who are ashamed to own they are young; who think in manly to resist ht r authori ty, or refuse to yield to her influence, be ware ! I.ay not up for yourselves bitter memories for your future jears. A Newspaper Correspondent at a Ef"alr. A correspondent of the Louisuilie lJ?m- vcrat gives a bit of Lis experience as fel low? : My last letter was dated from Chicago, I don't expect to date another from that enterprising city. My malevolent star must have becnin the ascendant, else 1 nevershould have wandered out to Chicago I had no particular business there, ouly to fish, and was under the impressing that I could catch them in a bucket at the hydrants, utterly forgetting all about the great lake tunnel. My first visit to Chicago was in my tender years', in 18oG. It was the time vvlic-n Chicago took such a sudden rise by means of jackscrews. I Sy these machines they raised the entire city, house by hor.se, some two or three feet. I know all about tarious confidence games, but consider myself just as likely to bj taken in with the simplest of them as the veriest gieenhorn of Posey county, How oft these sharpers must have be- wailed their bud luck at my not having plenty of money. With all my experience I dropped into 1 fair held for the benefit of some con- founded society or other. I thought liter making Glass governor of the island, would expend a dollar or two, and 6ee j fell on the soil, pait of which Lambert i what was going on. So I bought myself j had cleared, aud harvested vast qu mti- j a ticket and slid in. I went to a tablo j ties of potatoes. Now and then a stray ! where refreshments were sold, and called j scaan joined the colony, and two women for some oysters, chicken, salad aud cof- came among them from the distant Cape i fee. A beautiful siren with big black j Seven years ofter Glass and his folks; eyes, little white hands and a most be- j were left alone, the colony had grown in- ! witching mouth, spread the edibles before me. 1 uoti t Know now it was, oui 1 icu a strong affinity for that ministering angel at once. While eating and drinking, and devouriug l.er with mine eyes in the mean time, we struck up a scattering conversa- tion. At last I arose and handed her a five dollar bill. She put it in a little box, and forgot to give me any change, but instead thereof a sweet smile, unto me saying : "Arc you a stranger to Chicago !" "Yes, madam, I am from Kentucky." "Is it por;;b!e ! I am a Kentuckian also-" "Ah ! I knew it." The reply was whimpered, but it pro duced a faint blush, a drooping of the , , ..1 , "t . I ..TI-I. beautiful eylahes, and a gratified smile- "Would you like to walk around the room and look over our fancy nrciclcs V quc-th tba etjreTt. "If you will thow me," quotJ the spooney. She took my arm, und raising he self j by it to her toes, she murmoreJ, "ti-'e are j not strangers, you know.,' j Go away, Grunt, with your Presidency, j I would not change places with you this : minute. Nor with Colfax, who waa married this morning. Go away, jack j screws- You can't raise mo any higher, j We wandered through ihat room, j talking sweetly talking, of things that j had been, of things that were, und of ; things that might be. Pretiy soon we ' came to a silver tea set that was to be ! rallied ctl". Would I take a chance !': Of course I wou! 1. Then a wonderful 1 cake, with a valuable ring concealed in it, appeared to the cupidity of chance-fakera. I was persuaded to take a chanco in the cake. And eo tilings "lided on until I concluded that if I took many mora chances my chances lor -getting Lome would be rather slim. So I refused to tempt fortune any further. j Anon a costly work box met our eves. j til I had not a dollar left. Yes, I was j pennyless, and then it began to dawn on j me that t he young lady was working for the success of the Fair, and that I had ' j made a hrst class tool of myself, as usual. ; j There was I bankrupt in inotn-y, in J reputation, in self-respect. I had been ! j robbed yes, robbed, for where is the j j ditTerence between a pair of Deningers's j and a pair of black eyes in a robbery ! i Y'ou part with your money because you can t help it. I know that society looks with lenient eyes uqon thess female uer- rillas who haunt thesi charitable fairs, but it 13 my opinion when all the robbers come to take their final trial and receive their final sentence, that little Chicago rohhar will t:ike her nlnehv ilia hi.l nf ! Jatk Sheppard t tJ - " Koniancc ct' the South Allitrillc. IVom an article ia the London A'ithc neum on the recent voyage of 1'iince Al fred in the ftiga'o Galatea, we evraet the following account of a curious littla community dwelling in mid-ocean : Ou quitting Kio the romance of the voyage began by a call at Tristan d' Aeonba. the larpPEt reck in a lonc-lv ! group of islets in the great waters a j group which is said to be fun her away trom other settlements man any o ner land ia the wot Id. Here is a prime fact for romance. Oiie of the three rocks is called inaccessible, a second Nightengale, and the third Tristan. The nearest spot on which men live is St. Helena, and that dwarf islet 13 a trifle of 1,200 miles to the north. A little story, something like that of tho Pine Islanders, or like j that cf the Piicairn Islander?, lends charm to this lonely group. During the early days of Napolean.s captivity in St. Helena a few sappers und guards were throwm upon Tristan, who dug a ditch, riitipit -i ti.itterv. threw nn l.v lints sin.l - - - J J I D .i ,.i t. r vv.,.. .1..,.. i.,..i I'lfll iL II.1LL11 VJ I SULI. ,V Utll lllY 1 1 .1 VI 1 , . .i t ,...,:. ,i uecn a year on men ioiio Di.iicii nicy r .' , , l , " were fetched away, no one knew wny. . , , r ii . A corporal bv the name oi Crhss got leava to stay behind and keep tha place r . , , i .i . . i . . tor mo DMllsii oruwn. lurcc a uiiaees i . .! r- ri"i T ..i. fifd been there before, one of whom, a m in ti'ioi.ifl .Tun'itli'in r..i iiihrf. bail t.'ikpn possession of the islet, not for the great republic, but for Jonathan Lambert him- self, who was declared by Jonathan, in a regular proclamation, to be sovereign owner and prince of the lonely rocks. j j Jonathan being gone. Glass took up his j ' sceptre, an 1 persuaded two fellows to stay and share his empire. Happily Glass ; j had a wife, a Creole woman, aud tw ' j children, so that human interests came , j into play at once. The little party, af- j ; to twenty-two men and three women. Glass told the Captain of 11. M. S. tho liorwick, "that they only req -fired a few more women to make the place an earthly paradise." Glass is now dead, and his little colony exists without either gover nor or government ; the men growing po- tatoes and making shoes, and the women, strange to say, wearing crinoline. The Prince went on shore ard visited the shanties of those curious people, to whom the chaplaiu offered his services in baptising all the youngsters and marry ing all the stray couples who might feel virtuously inclined and ready for the yoke. The youngsters came up in troops to bo baptised ; but when the reverend gentle man mentioned roaniace, the maidens were coy and the bachelors slow to ap- pear. Perhaps they did not like marry- j ing in the Prince's presence. Mr. Miller jv them tvre koitr ta consider hi proposition, and lingered in va'.a. As h gays, with much professional regret, thera w ere several girh on the island old enough to marry, and seven young men, a'.l'of whom were "eligible" for 'the sacrifice, yet the two hours slipped away without bringing the young men und" blushin girls tothe altar of hymen. The Prince could not wait ; and the British chaplain, though burning with zeal to bind these benighted swain" and nymphs in holly matrimony, had to push off for tbd Galalen, 'leaving them as wild in moial and frco in life as they had been before bis advent. Who will' not sympathize in such a case of clerical distress ? rive Jlilcs Above lite Uurtli, A TUiUI-UNG ADVENICK2. One dull day in August, just after noon. a balloon rose 111 the air at the foot of Cloet I J iilf on tlie western ede tf thu central plain of England. It was infl ited with the lightest of naes which chemical rock. Up rose the balloon with tremen l- ous velocity. Four miles above the earth a pigeon waa let loose ; it dropped down through the air as if it had been a stor.a. lhe atr was too thin to enable it to lly. It was as if a bark laden to the deck w era to pins from the heavy waters of the sea into an inland unsaline lake: tho bark would e'mk at once in the thinner water. Up, up, still higher ! What a silenc oro- ! found ! The heights of the aky were as ; ttill aa the deepest depths of the ocean, I where, as was found during the search ! for the l(,.3t Atlantic cable, the lino mad i lies as unstirred Iroci year to year a tLj j dust which imperceptibly gather on thtj '. furnitune of a deserted house. No sound, i no life Onlv thfl lirioi.t. siir.elilnn f jl'tn j J 1 .......w .....-0 through a sky which it could not warm. Up five miles above eanii ! l ibber than the inaccessible tumrr it of Chicn borazj or Dawangiii. Despite the sun shine, everything freezes. The nir g: mvh too thin to support life, eveu f'jf a fow minutes. Two men only are in that ad venturous balloon the oi:C Steeling tho air-ship, the other watching the rcientifiii instruments and recording them with a rapidity bred of long practice. Suddenly as the latter looks at Li3 instruments-, hia sight grows dim ; he takes a lens to help his sight ; and only marks from the fall ing barometer that they are testing rapid ly. A tlask of br&ndy lies within a foot of him ; he tried to reach it, but his arm refused to obey Lis will. He tries to call on his comrade, w ho Las gone up into tha ring above ; a whisper in that deep si lence would suffice but no sound cornea from his lips he is voiceless. Tho steersman comes down itito the ear ; La sees his comrade in a swoon, and feels hia own senses failing him. He saw at once that life and death hung upon a few moments. He seized or tried to seize the valve, in order to open it and let out the gas. His hands am i purple intense cold ihev aro par- ; alvzcd. thev will not resuoud to his wiil. - ... , - , . - . ! IIo scizeJ the valve with his teeth; it ' ,- , . i - - . 1 opened a muo once, iwice, muci- i . 1 .. . ', ' ba loon bean to ucsccni. Then thj swooned marksman returned to concious. - r i ness, and saw the steersman stand .ng bo- fore him. He looked at his instrument : j but now the b.trotueter was riHiS rap.diy; j t!je J'1" wf pending. i uIse L lhJ l aJ Uen hlr abu "" than ,Murta; r'ian vrny hwr? u'l"S cvi ucuii uciciic. wee uiiuuiv iirtr ui action of compulsory inaction on tiid part of the eteci sman, wdioe sotises were filling Lim, and the air-ship, with its in tensely rariried gas, would have been fi mat ing unattended, with two corpse, "m tho w idc realms t f space. " ' Ax Eriton rx a New Slit. Mr. Clark, editor of the Kendall (III) Clarion, is a man w ho love3 a joke, and never lets ao opportunity slip that promises a dish cf fun. Iloro is one of his last : "Disguised. Wo Lavc'Iately'gct a new ju cf clothes, nod no man could be mora ; effectually dirguised. We look like a j gentleman. Upon first putting it c n wa I looked like a cat in a strange garret, and . fur a long time thought we were swapped cff 1 "We went to the Loufo mid fcar-d tho i baby almost int j fits , wife asked if we j wanted to see Mr. Clark, and said he w:t3 j at the office ; went there and pretty soon ; a man came in with a strip of paper in his band. He asked if the editor was iu; told him we thought not ; Risked him if lie wished to epc him particularly ; said he wanted him to pay that bill ; told hira we didn't believe he'd bo in ; business man left. We started to the house again; met a couple of young ladies, one of them asked the other, "what handsome stranger is that!'' In our dilemma v.e met a friend and told him who we were, and j got him to introduce us to our wif., wLa j Hjvf as prsud ef ua a she b." 1 1 n
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