1 TOW II. A. M'PIESJ, Editor and Publisher. HB IB A rHHiII WHOM THK TRUTH HAKBI FREE, AND ALL ARB ILATKS BESIDE. Term, $2 per year In adrance. VOLUME 3. p:bensburg, pa, Thursday, april i, 1869. NUMBER 10. i 1 Ayer's Hair Vigor, For restoring Gray Hair to its natural Vitality and Color. A dressing which ia at once agreeable, healthy, and effectual for preserving the hair. Faded or gray hair is toon restored to its original color with ths gloss and frsshntss of youth.. Thin hair is thick ened, falling hair chtcked, and bald ness often, though not always, cured by its use. Nothing can restore the hair where the follicles are destroyed, or the glands atrophied and decayed. Bat such as remain can be saved for usefulness by this application. Instead of fouling the hair with a pasty sedi ment, it will keep it clean and vigorous. Its occasional use will prevent the hair from turning gray or falling off, and consequently prevent baldness. Free from those deleterious substances which make some preparations dangerous and injurious to the hair, the Vigor can only benefit but not harm it. If wonted mtrely for a HAIR DRESSING, nothing else can be found so desirable. Containing neither oil nor dye, it does oot soil whito cambric, and yet lasts long on the hair, giving it a rich glossy lustre and a grateful perfume. Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., I Practical axd Axaltticai. Chemists, LOWELL, MASS. PKicn si.oo. ?or le by It. J. LLOYD, Agent, Ebensburj. Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, Fop Diseases of tho Throat and Lungs, such as Coughs, Colds, Whooping; Cough, Bronohitis, Asthma, and Consumption. Probably nerer before in tb whole history of medicine, baa sn ything- won so widely and so deeply upon the confidence of mankind, aa thin exceileut remedy for pulmonary complaints. Through a long penci 'of year, and amonf tuot of the races of 1 men it has risen higher ana turner in their etstiuia- tion, as it faas becou:s better known. Its uniform character and power to cure the various affections t vt the lung's and throat, have made it known as a r i liable protector againt Uieni. While adapted to I nul'ler forms of disease and to young children, it is i at ti .ante time the most effectual remedy that can j bejriren for incipient consumption, and Uie dan ? yrruiif affections of Ue throat and lungs. As a pro. iiin against sudden attacks of Croup, it should be kept on hand in every family, and indeed as all arc sometimes subject to colds and coughs, ail should be provided with this antidote for them. Although settled t'oiuamiirion Is thought In curable, still great numbers of cases where the dis ease seemed settled, have beun completely cured, and the patient restored to sound health by the Cherry J'rctoral. So complete is its inalerv over the disorders of tha Ludrs and Throat, Uiat the most obstinate of them yield to it. When noth ing else could reach them, under the Cherry I'ec toral they subside and disappear. Siitfm ami Juilio hjtcukfrs Cud great pro tection from it. Atthtna U 'always relieved and often wholly cured by it. bronchitis la generally cured by taking the Cherry J'ectoral in small and frequent doses. M generally are its virtues known that we need cot publish the certificates of them here, or do more than assure the public Uiat its qualities axe fully maintained. Ayer's Ague Cure, .For Fever and Ague, Intermittent Tever, Chill Fever, .Remittent Tever, Dumb Atrue, Periodical or Bilious Fever, to., and indeed all the affections which arise from malarious, marsh, or miaamatio poisons. As its name Implies, It does Cur, and does riot fill. Containing neither Arsenic. Quinine, Bismuth, Ziuc, nor any other mineral or poisonous substance whatever, it in nowise injures any p.-itient. The number and importance or its cures in the ague dis tricts, are literallv beyond account, and we believe without a parallel in the history of Ague medicine. Our pride is gratified by the acknowledgments we receive of Uie radical cures effected in obstinate canes, and where other remedies hail wholly failed. Unucclimated perrons, either resident in, or travelling through miasmatic localities, will be pro tected by taking Uie AtiVE CURE daily. For lAvrr Coptaiita. arising from torpidity of the Liver, it is an excellent remedy, stimulating the Liver into healthy activity. For Bilious Disorders and Liver Complaints, it is an excellent remedy, producing many truly re markable cures, where other medicines had failed. Prepared by Da. J. C. Atkr A Co., Practical and Analytical Chemists, Lowell, Haas., and sold all round the world. TRICE, S1.00 PJHS BOTTZM. Ann Rb-csk J. Lloyd, Ebsksscb. ROHRER'S WILD CHERRY TONIC BITTERS ARE THE BEST IN USE! Ki HUM'S TONIC BITTERS, The very best in the Market H. r. SELLERS & CO., 45 W St.. opiate St. Charles Hold Alio, Entrance Nos. 102 k 104 Third St., PITTSBURGH, PA.. tSTWhoWe Agent, for the West. anftc" UyJ k- A-BARKE?jefTl6b9.DlyMrS gETTER llXSaMNS tham EVEK. hiainL, - having disposed of .red T ttEb"rg Foundry, and re oSlSw ? ?U8!n98: offer for to tlose THRESmva'S T24f 118 FOUR OF IvvS G MACHINES and ONE TON are STA5' 8LZP S0LIS' T Machine, well made, and will be sold for 1125 eaeT JjSJl will be sold H one lei for 3 et.. 1 ; corner of lands of Thomas i'arrish and heirs of j Francis G.illaher, thence bv land of said Thoa. I iirrish north 1J degrees cast 118 perches to a hemlock, theoce by land o( Mich'l McGuire south b7 degrees east 114 perches to a post, thence by Purpart Ho. 2 south 13 degrees west 173 perches to a pout, thence by land of Lemon 6 Bailey north 87l degrees west 60 perches to a cherry, thence by land of same south 46 degrees wet-1 25 perches to a , thence by land of heirs of Francis Gallaber north de gree west 70 perches to the place of beginning: containing 103 ACRES and 82 PERCHES, baring thereon erected a two-and-a-half story Plank Hovse, Bank Biu and other Outbuild ings, also a Saw Mill about 25 Acres of the laud being cleared. PURPART No. 2 Beginning at a atone pile on the land of Michael McUuire, th-nee partly by land of Bernard Weis south 42 degrees east lbi perches to a stone pile, thence south 38 degrees west 12S perches to a stone pile, thence by land of Lemon & Bailey soutfi 33 degrees west 40 perches to a stone pile, thence by land of same north 87 degrees west 131 perches to a post, thence bv Purpart No. 1 north 13 degrees enst 173 perches to a post, thence by land of Michael McGuire north 36 degrees east 120 perches to the place of beginning: containing 220 ACRES aud 26 PERCHES, about 50 Acres cleared. TURPART No. 3 Beginning at a stone pile corner of land of Bernard Weis, on line of Purpart No 2. thence north J2 degrees west 84 perches to a stone pile, thence partly by land of Michael McGuire aud partly by land of V. Aus man north 3b degrees east 23:2 perches to a coestcut stamp, thence south C,'S degrees east 20 perches to a post, thence by land of Jerome Dawson south 45 degrees enet 46 porches to a pine, thence by land of same notth 64 degrees east 0 perches to a post, thence by s.ttne south 07 degrees east 21 perches to a , thence partly by land or' Samuel Sankcr, partly by land of Henry Sank er, and partly by land of Bernard Weis. south 361 degrees west 243 perches to the place of beginning: containing 128 ACRES and 41 PERCHES, unimproved. TERMS One-third of the purchase morey to be paid on confirmation of sale, one other third in one year thereafter, with interest, to be secured by the judgment bonds and mortgages of the purchasers, and the other third to remain a lien on the premises, legal interest on the said sum to be paid by the purchasers to Amelia Bruce, widow of the said deceased, annually from the date of con&rmatiou of sales, during her lifetime, and the principal, at her decease, loathe heirs and legal representatives of the said George Uruce, or to tho parties who may then be eutitled to the s i me. MICHEAL McGUIRE. ) CHARLES McMANAMY. ( Adm'rs. Allegheny Tp., March 18. Idh9. 3t. npIUJSTEES' SALE. Pursuant to an j Js. order of tha Court of Common Ploaa of Cambria county, the undersigned. Trustees of the First Congregational Church of Ebenburg. will offer at public outcry, on TUESDAY, the ' th dat or A pbi i. kkxt, at 2 o'clock p. rn , the following described piece rr tracts of land : That certain LOT or PARTS or LOTS hav ng a front of 41 feet on Sample street, in the borough of Ehensburg,thence extending back a distance of W) feet, on which there is erected a BRICK CHURCH EDIFICE. Also, that certain piece of land comprising PARTS OF TWO LOTS, having a front ot ti feet on High street and 39 feet on Sample street, including an alley 6 feet wide extending fiom High to Sample streets, and the part of lot fronting on S imple street 33 feet, thence extending back 105 feet the said alley and lot, or part of lot. tu".be sold either together or separately. Terms 'cash. A fco simple title given. Sale to be on or near the premises. trustees : JOHN WILLIAMS, ISAAC EVANS, JNO. E. ROBERTS, DAVID J DAVIS, TUOS. M. JONES, j R. R. DAVIS, NEWTON I. ROBERTS. Ebensl.urg, Mirch IS, lHG'J.-3t. SHERIFF'S SALE. lly virtue of sun dry writs of Vend. Expon. and Al. Fi. Fa issued out of the Court ot Common I'le.is of Cambria county, and to me directed, there will be exposed to Public S::le, at the Court House in Ebcnburg, on TUESDAY, tuc 6th dat of April, 1BU9, at I o'clock p ra., the following real estate, to wit : All the right, title and in terest of George Gurley of, in and to a lot of ground situated in west ward, Ebensburg bor ough. Cambria county, fronting 23 feet on High street and extending: back 2(i4 feet to Lloyd street, adjoining lotof John Fenlon. Esq., on the east and an alley on the west, having there on erected a two stery frame bouse, a ware room and a frame stable, now in the occupancy of George Gurley. Also, all the right, title and interest of George Gurley of, in and to a lot of ground situated in Ebensburg borough, Cambria county, adjoining lands of the estate of E. Shoemaker, dee'd, David Powell, and others, containing two aud one half acres, more or less, all cleared now in the occupancy of George Gurley. Taken in execution and to be sold at th su'.t of F. P. Tiernev et. al. JOHN A. BLAIR, Sheriff. Sheriff's Office, Ebensburg, March 18, 1869 SSJGNEE APPOINTED. In the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Pennsylvania. In the matter of Augustine D. Criste, Bankrupt: The undersigned hereby gives notice of his appoint ment as Assignee f Auoi stink D. Cristc, of Munster, in the county of Cambria, and Stata of Pennsylvania, within, said District, who was Baakrupt upon b' wn petition In the District Court of said District. Dated at Ilollidaysburg, this 15th day of March, 15C9. MARTIN L. LONGENECKER, March 18, 1869. 3t. Assignee. SSIGNEE APPOINTED. In the Distrct Court of tha United States for the Western Datriet of Pennsylvania. la the matter of Johk M. Kino, of Johnstown, in the county of Cambria and State of Pennsylvania, within said District, who was adjudged a Bank rupt upon his petition by the District Court of said District , Dated at Hollidaysburg, this 15th day of March, A. D. 1869. MARTIN L. LONGENECKER. March 18, l869.-3t. Assignee. ESTATE OF DENNIS MAGEE, DEC'D. Lettera Testamentary to the Estate of Dennis Magee, late ef Carroll town ship, dee'd, having been granted to the under signed by the Register of Cambria county, all o :r.4.v.txi tn asid estate are barebv r.o- tilled that prompt pay mant must be made, and those having claims will present them ia proper snape ier aoiusnneu. BERNARD MAGEE", Executor. Jaarch 4, J860. t ORPHANS' COURT SALE ! By virtue of an alias order of the Orphans' Court of Cambria county, the undersigned, Administrators of the Estate of George Bruce, late of Alleghany township, deceased, will ex pose to sale, at the Life residence of the said deceased, on SATURDAY, MAY 1st. 18fc9. at 2 o'clock p. ni., the following lle.il Estate of which the said George Bruce died seized, situate in the township aud county aforesaid, to wit : PURPART No. 1 ficeinninir at a cherry i poet's gtgaxlmfnt. XII C riRC BY THE SEA. BY ALICE CAST. ' There were seven fishers with nets in their hands. And they walked and talked by the sea-side pands ; Yet sweet as the sweet dew-fall The words they spake, though they spake so low. Across the long, dim ceDtaries flow. And we know them, one and all Aye! know them and love them alL Seven sad men in the days of old. And one was gentle, and one was bold, And they walked with downward eyes ; The bold was Peter, the gentle was John, And they all were sad, for the Lord was gone, And they knew not if he would rise Knew oot if the dead would lise. The live-long night, till the moon went out. In the drowning waters they beat about ; Beat slew through the fogs their way ; And the sails drooped down with ringing wet. And no man drew but an empty net, And now 'twas the break of the day The great glad break of the day. "Cast your nets on the other nide"--(Twas Jesus speaking across the tide) And they cast, and were dragging hard ; But that disciple whom Jesus loved Cried straight way out, for hU heart was moved : "It is onr risen Lord Our Master, and our Lord V Then Simon, girding his fisher's coat. Went over the netd and out of the boat Aye ! first cf them all was he ; Repeating sore the denial pa.st, He feared no loDger bis heart to cast Like an anchor into the sea Down deep in the hungry sea. And the others, through the mists so dim. In a little ship came after him, Dracging their net through the tide ; And when they had gotten close to tho land They s.tw a fire of coals in the sand. And. with arms of love so wide, Jesus, the crucified ! Tis long, and long, and long ago Since the rosy lights began to flow O'er the hills of Galilee; And with eager eyes and lifted hands The seven fishers saw on the sands The fire of coals by the sea On the wet, wild sand3 by the saa. Tis long ago, yet faith in our 60uls Is kindled jit by that fire of coals That streamed o'er the mists of the sea ; Where Peter, girding his fisher's coat, Went over the net and out of the boat. To answer, "LovVt thou me?" Thrice over, "Lov'st thou me?" alts, Shtf ejus, necbofes, c. A NIGHT IN A STORM. It was a private parlor of a hotel in the Provinces. Two men sat at a well spread breakfast table. The younger had just pushed back from the table with an impatient movement. "No," he said, abruptly, "I cannot eat, I cannot drink. If I believed in presentments I should say I felt a warn ing of something disagreeable, if not hor rible." "Well, then, my dear nephew," said the elder, "as you do not believe in such things, why not make yourself comforta ble and enjoy your breakfast ? You are not to start "until to-morrow, any way, you know." The young man arose from his seat and walked to the window, throwing it open and looking out into the frosty brilliant sunshine. The air was intensely cold, and reddened his cheeks instantly. He drew in bis head, saying "I shall start this morning. There's going to be a storm, and I must go. Will you accompany me to the etatioD ? The train starts in an hour." The uncle shivered and drew his dress ing gown closer. "No," he said, "I'll not leave the house unless I'm obliged to. I did not leave England to get frozen by a Canadi an winter. I did not know you were so sentimentally foolish. Alice will not thank you for coming a day sooner. Women don't like a bridegroom around when the wedding preparations are going on, no matter how much in love they are. Take my advice, and stay here until the time appointed for you to start." Robert Russell, the young man ad dressed, listened with bare civility to his companion's words. What was such ad vice in comparison with the urgent cries of his whole nature ? . He had left Eng land three weeks before, to claim the wo man of bis choice, who had been a year in Montreal, whither she had emigrated with her parents, carrying with -her the love and promise of one in whom she be lieved with utter devotion. Kossell's uncle and adopted father had accompanied him, and now sat smiling at the impatience, the whims of youth. 'There's a storm in the air in spite of this sunlight," Russell said, still standing by the window. I should not enjoy being blockaded in by snow on my jour ney." "Probably not ; but you might as well expect it in this climate." "Well, I shall take Alice back to Eng land as soon as possible," Russell .said, with his hand on the door. "Good-bye uncle, then good-bye." ftussell was aoon speeding iVorA Ihe. town, his eyes looking eagerly forward over the vast stretches of snow an if he would outstrip even the steam which bore him. He was not half through his journey by rail, when from the west, where it had lingered throughout the sunny morning, rose, the filmy white veil that is the her ald of snow. Weatherwise people looked out of the car wiadows and shook their heads, saying "This will be a hard one. It's just a year ago since the horrible storm that blockaded in this train." Russell, looking, felt his face grow pal lid in spite of his hopes, his youthful en ergy. He did not fear the storm while on the cars ; he knew they would get to their destination before the storm would be suf ficiently advanced to retard them much. But he remembered the twenty miles he must go in a cutter after the last station, for Alice waited him at the residence of a relative beyond Montreal. Her aunt had persuaded her to have the wedding there, where wealth could give its glow to the ceremony, and what girl could resist such an invitation. "If she were only in Montreal !" mur mured Russell, and the first few flakes began to drift slowly downward. Soon the air was filled with fine sharp particles. It grew colder instead of warmer, or apparently so, for the wind rose and whirled the snow fiercely. It had snowed two hours when Russell alighted at the station in Montreal. It was already dark, save that the gloom was mitigated by a full moon. He was half benumbed by cold and sitting so long, but he could not wait. Re i son told him that he was a day early, and might easily stay in the city until to morrow ; but some feverish, morbid baste urged him on it was impossible for him to rest quiet a moment He stood a few moments by the bright fire in the waiting room. Then he de cided to go to the house occupied by Alice's parents. Arrived at the house he learned with dismay that Alice had left two or three hours previous. Oppressed with fearful forebodings he hurried on, taking the road which his servant supposed her driver had selected. As he emerged into the open country the runners of the cutter sank deep into the snow. The horses etrug gled desperately through the drifts, while the blinding storm and benumbing cold almost overpowered him. To arouse him self from the lethargy which he felt was the precursor of death, he stepped out of the sleigh and plodded on beside it. For hours it seemed to him. he traveled, al ternately walking and riding, the animals he drove being almost exhausted. Suddenly, with a snort of surprise or alarm, his horses stopped and threw up their beads, their eyes starting in their sockets at something indistinct in the gloom ahead. There is something infecting in the alarm of svn animal, and Russell felt hia cheeks pale as be moved slowly forward, leaving the horses standing there. A shudder like the first chill of an im pending doom, shook the young man as he came upon a cutter overturned in the snow. He was close to it before he could make out what it was. There were no horses attached that he saw at a glance but the tugs cut short off, were fastened there. The snow bad blown away from one side of the sleigh while the other side was deeply imbedded. He leaped upon the ruaner, and hurriedly pulled the buffalo robes away ; a fear came upon him such as he had never known before. At last, it seemed to him so long, though it was hardly a moment in that snowy moonshine be saw the palid face of a woman lying motionless among her furs. With a suppressed cry he lifted that beautiful form to his shoulder, and sat down on the cutter, bending his lips to the cold ones that could not respond to his caress. And yet she was not dead a faint breath just sighed across hia cheek. Was it thus he- had thought to greet his promised wife ! He could not think he knew nothing but that he had found Alice and his wholo being rose to tho resolve that he would save her that neither snow nor ice nor cold should take her from him. She was bis, and he claimed her despite everything. But he could not linger there ; he must be moving on, though ever so slowly. He bore his burden to bis own cutter ; taking with him the furs that could not save her after that fearful sleep had be gun. His horses walked on again they needed no guiding they could find their way better than man could direct. Anything but intense love would have despaired in that tempest of snow, with that pitiless wind freezing across the earth raising its glow on the blue white face against hia own. He roughly chafed with snow her hands and face ; but he soon saw that severer measures must be tried ; that the lethargy was too deep. She dimly felt the fierce friction, for she moaned and seemed to shrink from it a wordles request to be left alone. Russell had forgotten the cold for him self the snow swept by him unheeded. Again he lifted her in his arms and step ped oot into the snow, letting her stand beside him, then trying to make her fight her way on, knowing that if sho could once tre rooted she was sare4. At first she fell down helplessly, sank inanimately with no wish to stir. But in a moment his ceaseless efforts had some effect, and he could compel her to use her muscles slightly, though her head droop ed in an unknowing stupor. Russel felt that ho had never suffered before. He thought the pain and sor rows of all his life were crowded into that one night. By slow degrees, almost hopelessly slow, conciousness and horri ble suffering returned. His face was pale and sick, as he knew the agonies she endured. But pain was the signal of life, and not now would be despair. At last she looked at him with recog nizing eyes, and when everything else had failed, love reached the fountain of crimson, and sent a wave of its red to her face. Week, suffering, she reclined upon his arm, unable to move or to speak. Could he keep the life he had saved, through a much longer journey ? When he left the city there were a few houses scattered by the roadside for two or three families. The dim glimmer of their lights he had seen ; but since then he had noticed nothing it was a waste through which he was riding, with no lamp of hope held out to him. And the delicate girl, but half resuscita ted, he thought oh, how many miles be fore safety ? An half hour passed, and through Russell's brave soul had already darted the first doubt. Human endurance could net last forever, and it was more than he could do to preserve the feeble life he had recalled. In another half hour ice and cold might conquer him. He would die with her ; he could not live when that dear face was beneath the sod. A quarter of a mile further on, and he saw through the storm a dark object by the road side. It was a building of some kind, and it could shelter them. He turned his horses' heads that way, and plunged through the snow to the door. There was no door. It was a dismantled log hut, with its door gone, and its one little window broken out. But it was better than the fury without, and in an other five minutes Alice was sheltered from the wind. With painful but patient fumbling he succeeded in fastening the buffalo skin in front of the doorway, thus forming an insufficient barrier. Then he drew from his pocket his cigar case and his matches, and lighting one of the latter, looked eagerly round the room, in the flickering light. That glance told him that there was an immense fireplace at one side of the hut, and divine light streamed into his soul, at the sight. As bis horses had dragged the cutter to th house, the runner had grated over the top rail of a fence, and the unseen post had nearly upset the light cutter. The white-fingered fair-faced English man worked with a power that was more like fury, and when at last a ruddy blaze flew up the broad chimney, tears of joy actually started from hia eyes. Exhausted, happy, he knelt at the feet of Alice, and hid his face in her hands. With that reviving warmth came a little of strength to her weary soul. She lean ed forward, a smile upon her lips, and in her eyei, and murmured "It was heaven itself who sent you here "Robert." Two hours later, a gray dawn was struggling through the clouds ; a broad strip of blue encircled tho west ; the wind moaned in lower tones. The old hut was golden with the wood fire it threw its radiance over the two horses that had been led in, and stood wild and grateful in a corner, their eyes starting at the fire. Renovated, though weak, with a hap piness beyond words, warm in heart, Alice Malcolm greeted her wedding day. She had told her story to Robert the story of her desertion in the snow. As the storm had come on more furiously, her driver, whom she believed trust worthy, announced his intention of re turning. She had discovered that he was in a semi-intoxicated state, but she refused to return, and ho would not go a step farther, and had cut the traces and mounting one of the horses left her to her fate. She did not know when she spoke, that a mile back, within a few miles of the city, he lay frozen to death, the ed dying snow drifting over his body. He had found a fate, which his mistress had escaped. Backward, through a vista of happy years, looked Russell and his wife to that night of horror in Canada, when peril re vealed to them the full depth of their de votionthe infinitude of their lovo. "Aktemcs Waed" remarked that "There is something indescribably beau tiful in the true wife's devotion to her husband. There is something very awful in her grief when death takes him away. Leaves have their time to full, but death comes irregular and relentlessly. We re ceatly heard a most touching instance of the resignation of an affectionate woman at the funeral of her husband. Though she adored him, she did not repine at his dark boar. Looking at the remains of her loved and lost husband for the last time, she put on her bonnet, and thus Spoke to the gentlemen whose sad duty it was to officiate as pall-bearers : 'You pall-bearers just go to the buttery and! get some rum, and we'll start this man right along;'" NO BEAUX A2VT1TI1ERE. No beaux ! Absolutely no beaux ! Well young ladies, stop and consider, if, after all, you yourself have not pronounced the sentence of banishment. "We ? We banish them ? Good gra cious ! Is it not for them we have devised all this elaboration of adornment T We, indeed ! Were we not for weeks, before we came to these odious mountains, where men are as scarce as French half dressers, closeted with our dress-makers and millin ers to produce these bewitching 'suits, long and short, for morning and evening, out-door and in-door wear! Have we net cool dresses and warm dresses; dresses for rain, dresses for sunshine, dresses for neutral weather, with ribbons, gloves, sashes, parasols, hats and fans to 'match,' to the minuest shade t For whom should we take all that trouble but for the beaax? And how are we responsible for their dis gusting absence 1" Listen, my dears, for in that which yoa have just said lies your offence. Can damsels thus arrayed walk in the woods, climb the mountains (except in poetry T) Can they take even an ordinary, mild walk, without mortal terror of periling their millinery T Must they not, there fore, "ride," morning, afternoon and evening, everywhere, to the delectation of the stable keepers, and the consequent pecuniary depletion of the "beaux f" These beaux, whose fathers may be rich, but whose sons have yet to fill their indi vidual coffers ; these beaux, who have just so much to expend when they get away from a summer holiday, and who do not desire to pour it all into the pockets of the stable-keepers ; these beaux, who can get vastly more fun out of their purses, and make them last longer, with a party of "the fellows" this is the reason that, with rare exceptions, you have to throw away these ravishing toilettes on your own sex, when you play croquet, or rit on the piazza, dreaming of the "coming man." My dears, he ivon't come ! lie knows too much. He has seen his sister's mil linery and mantua-maker bills, and heard the family discussion thereon; and though be acknowledges your fascinations even through all the absurd toggery you are doomed by fashion's slavery to have and to wear, he has yet to make the fortune to enable him to foot his angel's bills. So he runs away from you, discreetly ; runs off fishing, or gunning with the "fellows," and, wiser than you, comes home brown, hale and hearty for the winter months, in stead of perspiring at your side in tight boots and yellow kids. Do you begin to understand ! Now, my dear, if you bave been ushred into the world in coach and six, till your feet and hands have become paralyzed for want of use, that is your misfortune, and your fault. Because that necessitates a rich husband. And as there are very few rich foxing husbands, you will have to bid good bye to your girlish ideal, and marry the bold-headed, gouty Mr. Smith, who was born at the same time as your own father. This, my dears, you will have to do, or face your nightmare, sutgle bless ednets. I have looked at you playing croquet, without a coat-tail among you ; I have seen you driving yourself out in your pret ty little phaetons ; and thought you put a brave face on it. I knew very well what is going on under that gay little sash of yours ; and I think it is a pity that you should have been brought up to many ar tificial wants, that your heart must go hungry in life's spring-time because of them. My dear never lacked beaux at your age. But a walk in the woods, or in the city either, involved no expense to my beaux. I could climb a fence, where there was no gate, or where there was either ; I was not afraid of dew or rain because my dress was simple. My gifts were not diamonds, but flowers, or books. My . mother would not have allowed me to ride with gentlemen, had they asked. When they came to spend the evening our tray of refreshments did not involve a "French cook." So you see my dear, though I had no silk dresses, I had plenty of beaux, and a gay heart ; and I enjoyed a sail with an old sun-bonnet over my curls, or a moonlight ramble with a merry party, much better than you do "tha German;" and half an hour was sufficient warning for me to "dress" r any kind of party in doors or out because, unlike you, I was not bothered to choose from twenty dresses which to wear ; and 1 will give you leave to ask of my beaux, who are now grandfathers if I was not able at that time to settle their accounts ! And it is because I had such a good time that I feel vexed that your youth and prettiness should so often go a-begging through no fault of yours ; and you may show this to your mothers, and tell them I say so. Cijmax "My son," said an affec tionate father at the foot of tha stnirs "arise and see the newly-rison larruaary of day, and hear the sweet birds singing their matin song of praiso to their gret Creator j come, while the dew is on the grass, and tender lambs are bleating on the bill-side ; come, I say, or I'll be op there with a switch, and give yon the soundest thrashing that ever you had in all your born days." ' Good fences pay better than lawsuits with neighbor. TUC BARBER'S GHOST. The following story is old, but a pre cious good one. We laughed heartQy over it a "long time ago," and presuming many of our readers never heard it, we serve it up for their edification : A gentleman travelling some years since in the upper part of this State, call ed at a tavern and requested entertain ment for the night. The landlord in formed him that it was oct of bis power to accommodate him, as his houe wf already full. He persisted in stopping, as he as well as his horse were almost ex hausted with travailing. After much so licitation the landlord consented to his stopping provided he'd sleep in a certain, room that had not baen occupied for a long time, in consequence of belief that it was haunted by the ghost of a barber, who was reported to have been murdered! in that room some nights before. "Very well," says the noun, I'm not afraid of ghosts," After having refrrsbed himself, be inquired of the landlord how and in what manner the room in which he was to lodge was haunted ? The landlord re plied, that shortly after they retired to rest an unknown voice was heard in a trembling and protracted accent saying." Do you w-a-nt to be sha-a-ved." "Well," replied the man, "if he comes he may shave me !" He then requested to be shown to the apartment ; in going to which he wa conducted through a large room where were seated a great number ot persons at a gambling table. Feeling a curiosity which almost every one possesses after having heard ghost stories he carefully searched every corner of the room but could discover nothing but the usual fur niture of the apartment. He then laid down, but did not close hia eyes to sleep immediately, and a few minutes he im agined he heart a voice saying, "Do yon wa-n-t to be tha-v-e-d . He arose from his bed and searched every part of the room, could discover nothing. He again went to bed, but no sooner had he begun to compose himself to sleep than th question was again repeated. He again rose and went to the window, the sound appearing to proceed from that quarter,, and stood awhile silent after a few mo ments of anxious suspense, he again heard the sound distinctly, and convinced that if it was from without, be opened the window, when the question was repeated, in his ear, which startled him not a little. Upon a minute examination, however,, he observed that the limb of a large oak tree, which stood under the window, pro jected so near the house that every brea'.h of wind, to a lively imagination, made a noise resembling the intei rogation, "Do you w-a-n-t to be sh-a-ved." Having satisfied himself that his ghost was nothing more or less than the limb of a tree coming in contact with the house,, be again went to bed and attempted to sleep ; but he was now interrupted by peals of laughter and occasional volleys of oaths and curses from the room where the gamblers were assembled- Thinking he could turn the late discovery to his own advantage, he took a sheet from his -bed and wrapped it around him. and tak ing the wash basin in his hand and throwing a towel over his arm, proceeded to the room of the gamblers, and sudden ly opening the door, stalked in, exclaim ing in a tremulous voice, "Do you w-a-n t. to be s-h-a-v-e-d !" Terrified at tha sudden appearance of the ghost, the gam blers were thrown into the greatest, conn fusion in attempting to escape it ; soma. jumping through the windows and other tumbling head over heels down stairs, Our ghost, taking the advantage of a. clear room, deliberately swept a large amount of money from the table into the Latin, and retired unseen to his owa room. The next morning he found the house in the utmost confusion. He was imme diately asked if he reated well, to which he replied in the affirmative. "Well, no wonder," said the landlord, ''for the ghost instead of going into hia own room, made a" mistake and came in ours, frightened us out of the room -and took away every dollar of our money." The gaest, with out being the least suspected, quietly at his breakfast and departed many hundred dollars richer by the adventure. . Dckikg the rebellion the staff of Gen. Wise were riding through a rather a for lorn part of North Carolina, and a young Virginian of the staff concluded to have a little fun at the expense of a long-legged specimen of tie genus homo, who wore a very shabby gray uniform and bestrode a worm fence at the roadside. Reining in his horse he accosted him with, "How are you, North Carolina?" How are. you, Virginia t" was the ready response. The staff continued : "The blockade on the turpentine makes you rather hard up. don't it t No sale for tar now, is there I" "Well ye" was "low response. "We sell all our tar to Jeff. Davis now." "The thunder you do ! What on earth does the President want with your tar 1" North Carolina answered : "He puts it on the beels of Virginians Jo make them itick on tha battle-field!" The staff rode on. "Wirr do women spend so much time and money on dress T asked a gentleman of a belle. "To worry other women," was the dj abollcal reply. " nr
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