W.WVW Wlllilll II. A. MTIKE, Editor and Publlftber us IS A FREBJIAJ WH03 THIS TRUTH FiUK, AUD ALL ARE SLAVES BKSIDB, Tcfdjs, $2 per year In adranoe. i I i VOLUME 3. GOOD HEALTH Is piramount to wealth. If the system if- ia baJoidw purge out the vile l u mors and dis tenipers with Roback'a Blood Pilli, and get the internal organs performing their regular fonc tiors. tnd once ia order, keep them bo by the Roback'i Stomach Bitters. DYSPEPSIA. Thete prohabiy.no one disease with which maLkibd are afflicted which is the source of so nianv ailments as DisPErsi a, find there is no more cerUiu cure than Roback's Stomach Bit ters. A REMARKABLE FACT That not a sine'e instance has come to the kno e-Jj; of the proprietors, of the loilur of llobacit's Medicines to give entire satisfaction in the hundreds of thousands of caea in which they have been ued; thu is worthy of remark and undeniable evidnce of their intriucia mer- GCD I the pruife in the Hiouthiof evert hod y ii fa vor of Kolmck'n Stomach Bitters, Blood Pi: Is il Bluod Purifier. IS IT RIGHT Th.it you should bid defiance to all natural ltw and the .cience of medi-nl men, and suffer with l)pepia or Indigestion when Roback's iStuin ich iiit.ers cau be procured at iuj dru store. AS A PREVENTIVE Ajraiimt Mlaria, Fever and Ax'ie, and all dis eases, arising from a torpid stale of the liver, there i no ineuTckjo to hi'hiy f ecouiincuded Hi Kob.ick's Stomuc-h Bitters. THEY WILL CURE YOU Oi'S r.fula, Erjsipelaa, Sick or Nervouj Ilead nciie, HiliouHi :it Liver Complaint, Dyspepsia r Iiidijre-iiion, Consumption, Pain in the Back r Loin, (I ut, P'curisy, Leucorrhrei, Krr.p s, and all dicaes arising from n dismdered t-uteot t!:e atoniKcn Itobuck's Blood l'iils, StuuMcb Bitter and Blood Purifier. GRATIFYING To know '.hat a leliabie remedy is within the rvich of ever) body f i the radical cure of D ts f'psiri or Im'.icestion . Such a remedy ia Ro L.tck's Sloinsch Bitters. Suldby all Druggists. JT-tV.d b; Lt.iiMON k MtaBAT. Ebi-uab'g. ROHRER'S WILD CHERRY TONIC BITTERS ARE THE BEST IN USE! isi mm toxic bitters, The very best in the Market R. E. SELLERS & CO., AV 45 Wood St.. opposite St. Charles Hotel Also, Entrance os. 102 L 1C4 Th;rd St., PITTSBURGH, PA., Z1T Wholesale Agents for the West. ' For sale by A. A. BARKER for Ebensburg and vicinity fje.l l,'6f.-ly. ! 1869. SPEXNG ! 1869. I Opining of NEW SILKS. I Orssiso or XEW SHAWLS, ' 1 OrE.siKo of NEW CHINTZES, J OrtMNG of NEW POPLINS. I Full stock of STAPLE and F -NCY SPRING GOODS. EYRE LAXOELL, TOUHTH AND ARCH STREETS, PHILADELPHIA. K. B JOBS from AUCTION dnilr re- pDar.rl.-bt. I O II v n p n tt S E WHOLESLE DEALER IN FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC WINES AND LlQUOItS. ? ,EANDS OP BRANDT, WHISKY, IRISH WHISKY. GIN. &c, &c. . rVifLi 1uae of Liquors, Wines, to giv me a call at y- , . mlbuddlng formerly ooou by T. Q. 8tewart I ' uuiisiuwil. A lie 77 1 KH tf ' 000) Feet of HEMLOCK LUMTJER. ?r0dCe- WiU Adit... 8,f 4, Elllside, Westmoreland Co., " ' J mar.4.-2m. ENTISTKY. The undersigned, a graduate of. the Balti more College of Dental Sur gery, respect fully offers his pftorKs&ioNAi. services to the citizens of Eb- ensburg and vicinity, which place he will viait on the voubth Monday of each month, to re main one week. Angl3. SAM'L BELFOKD, D. D. S. DR. H. B. MILLER, fim Altoona, Pa., Operative and Mechanical DENTIST. OiBce removed to Virginia street, opposite the Lutheran church. Persons from Cambria county or ekewhere who get work done by me to the amount of Ten Dollars and upwards, will have the railroad fare deducted from their bills. All -woiiK wabaantsd. Jan. 21, lfcG9.-if. TU. D. W. ZIEGLER, Surgeon Den- - list, will visit Ebensburg pro fessionally on the bt-UUr D Mox one week, during which time he may be found at the Mountain House. PSPTeelh extracted without pain by the us ol Nitrate Oxide, or Laughing Gas. TAMES J. OAT3LYX, it. D., tenders his professional services as Phy eioian and Surgeon to the citizens of CarroH tewn and vicinity. OfGce in rear of build ing occupied by J. BucE & Co. as a store. Night calls can be made at Lis residence, one door south of A. Ilaug's tin and hardware store. rilay 9, 18C7. TjT DEVEREAUX, mTd'I'hy- BICIAK AND ScT.GtON, Suilljnit, Pa. Office east end of MansioL. House, on Hail Road street. Night calls may be made at the office. fm23.tf. J. LLOYD, successor to R. S. Dunn, Dealer in Drvys, Medicines, Paiiiis, 4'c Store on Main street, opposite the "Mansion House," Ebensburg, Pa. October 17. 1867.-Cm. ILOID & CO., IJanlif r, Pa Gold, Silver, Government Loans, and other Securities", bought and sdd. Interest allowed on Time Leposits. Collections made in all accessible points in the United States, and a general Banking business transacted. M. LEO YD & CO., Bakkeus, Altoona. Pa. Drafts on the principal cities and Silver and Gold fir sale. Collections made. Moneys received on deposit, payable on de mand, without interest, or upon time, with iuterest at fair rates. an81. rUANK W. HAY, WHOLESALE and RETAi L Manufacturer, of TIN. COrPKK and KIIEET-IKON WAUE, Canal street, below Clinton, Johns loicn, Fa. A Urge stock constantly band. r A SHOKMAKES.. . CKO. w. OATH Air SHOEMAKER & O ATM AN, Arron nkt at Law, Ebensmirg, Ta. Ofllcea on High street, immediately ct of Huntley 'a hardware store. apS.'CJ.' L. M'LAUGHLIN ITTOKNEY AT LAW, Johnstovn, Pa. l Ofiice in the Exchange building, on the Uorner ol Clinton ana L.ocust streets up stairs. Wul attend to all business connect ed with In profession. Jan. 31. 1867.-tf. B. L JOHNSTON'. J E. ECASLAN JOHNSTON' & EC A NLA X, Attorneys at Law, Ebensburg, Cambria co., Pa. Office opposite the Court House. -Ebensburg, Jan. 31. 1867.-tf. JOHN V. LINTON, ITTOIINEY AT LAW, Johnstown. Fa. l Ofllce in building on corner of Main and Franklin street, opposite Mansion House, second floor. Entrance on Franklin street. Johnstown. Jan. 31. 1SG7. tf. , WILLIAM KITTELL, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Ebensburg, Fa. Office in Colonade Row, Centre street Jan. 31, 1867.-tf. ft L. PERSUING, Attokxey-at- 5 Law, Johnstoxcn, Pa. Office on Frank lin street, tipstairs, over John Benton's Hardware Store. Jan. 31, 1867. WM. II. SEC II LEU, Attorni Law, Ebensburg, Pa. Office in EYAT- in rooms recently occupied by Geo. M. Reade, Esq , in LOlonaae how, Centre street. - aug.S, GEO. M. READE, Attorneat-Laic, Ebensburg, Pa. Office in new building recently erected on Centre street, two doors from High street. aug.27, THAMES C. EASLY, Attorney at-Law, OarroUtoxcn, Cambria Co.. Fa, Collections and all legal business promptly attended to. Jan 31, 18G7. A. KOPRLIN, Johnstown. T. W-DICK., EbenBborg, T7"OPELIN & DICK, Attorsets-at- JLw Law; EbenRburg, Pa. OfBce with Wm Kittell, sq., Colonade Row. oct.22.-tf. F..P. TIEIiNEY. ITTOIINEY AT LAW,: Eiensburg, r&. Office in Colonade Kow. ' Jan. 6. 1867-tf. JOSEPH M'DONALD, ITTORNEY AT LAW, Ebensburg. Pa. J! Office on Centre street, opposite LiDton'a Hotel. Jan. 31, 1S67-U. JOHN FENLON, ITTORNEY AT LAW, Ebensburg Pa. ft Office on High street, adjoining his resi dence. ' Jan 81. iabv.-u. HKINKEAD, Justice of Vie Peace and Claim Aqent. Office removed to the office formerly occupied by M. iiasson Esq.. dee'd, on High St. Ebensburg. s jlS If S. STRAYER, Justice of tub J" Peace, Johnstown. Pa. Office on th corner of ' Market street and' Locust' alley, Second Ward . dec.I2.:ly far j- gut s&&&.sg& dat of each month, and rcmahifcW3tViiV E B EN S BURG, PA, THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 1869. Kjje Jpad's gfpartment.'' XO TIME LI RE THE OLD TIM E. BY OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. There's no time like the old time, when you and I were young ; When the buds of April blossomed, and the birds of Spring time sung! The garden', brightest glories by Summer suns are nursed ; But, oh, the sweet, sweet violets, the flowers that opened first ! There's no place like the old place, where you and I were born ; Where we lifted first our eyelids on the splendors of the morn. From the milk white breast that warmed us, from the clinging arms that bore ; Where the dear eye glittered o'er us that will look upon us no more ! There's no love like the old love, that we courted in cur pride. Though our leaves are falling, falling, and fadiog side by side ; There are blossoms all around us with the colors of our dawn, And we live in borrowed sunshine when the light of day is gone. There are no times like the old times thev shall never be forgot ! here's no place like the old place keep greeu the dear old spot ! here aie no frienda like the old friends may Heaven proloug their lives! here are no Iwves like our old lovas God bless our loving wive! Salts, Slific&ts, ntcbofes, tfc. THE WILDERMESS. UY REV. AY II. H. II. ML RICA Y. The Adirondack Wilderness, or the North Woods, as it is sometimes called, ies between the Lakes George and Cham- pLin on the east, and the river St. Law rence en the north and west. It reaches northward as far as the Canada line, and southward to Booneville. Its area is about that of the btate of Connecticut. The southern part is known as the Brown I'racl Hegicn, with which the whole wil- dermis by some is confused, bat with no j more accuracy than any one county might be said to comprise an entire State. In deed, Brown's Tract is the least interest- Dg portion of the Adirondack region. It acks the lofty mountain scenery, the in tricate mesh-work of lakes, and wild grandeur of the country to the north. It is the lowlnnd district, comparatively tame and uninviting. Not until you reach the Kacq-iette do you get a gliaipse of the magnificent scent ry which makes this wilderness to rival Switzerland There, on the very ridge-board of the vast water-fhed which slopes northward to the St. Lawrence, . eastward to the Hudson, and southward to the Mohawk, you can enter upon a voyage the like of which, it is safe to say, the world does not any where else furnish. For hundreds of miles I have boated up and down that wilderness, going ashore only to "carry" around a fall, or cross some narrow ridge dividing the otherwise connected lakes. For weeks I have paddled my cedar shell in all directions, swinging northerly into the St. Regis chain, westward nearly to Potsdam, southerly to the Black Hirer country, and thonce penetrated to that al most unvisited region, the ''South Branch," without seeing a face but my guide's, and the entire circuit, it must be remembered, was through a wilderness yet to echo the lumberman's axe. It is estimated that a thousand lakes, many yet unvisited, lie embedded in the vast forest of pine and hemlock. From the summit of a mountaiu, two years ago, I counted, as seen by my naked eye, forty four lakes gleamiDg amid the depths of the wilderness like gems of purest ray amid the folds of emerald colored velvet. Last summer I mot a gentleman on the llacquetfe who had just received a letter from a brother in Switzerland, an artist by profession in which he said that "hav ing traveled over all Switzerland, and the Rhine and Rhone region, he had not met with scenery which, judged from a purely artistic point of. view, combined so many beauties in connection with such grandeur as the lakes, mountains and forests of the Adirondack region presented to the gazer's eye." And yet thousands are ia Europo to-day as tourists who never gave a pass ing thought to this marvellous country lying as it were at there very doors. An other reason why I visit tha Adirondacks, and urge others to do so, is because I deem the excursion eminently adapted to restore impaired health. Indeed it is marvelous what benefit phypically is often derived from . a trip of a few week s to those woods. To such as are afflicted with thai dire parent of ills, dyepepsia, or have lurking in their system consumptive tendencies, I most earnestly recommend a month's experience among the pines. The air which you there inhale is such as can be found only in high mountainous re gions, pure, rarined and bracing. The amount of venison steak a consumptive will consume after a week's residence in .that appetizing atmosphere is a subject of daily and increasing wonder. I have Pknown delicate ladies and fragile school girls, to whom ail food at home was dis tasteful and eating a pure matter of duty, average a gain of a pound per day for the round trip. This is no exaggeration, as some one who will read these lines knows. The spruce, hemlock, balsam and nine, which , largely compose this wilderness, yield upon the air, and especially at night, all their curative qualities. Many a eight have I laid down upon my bed of balsam boughs and been lulled to 6leep by the murmur of waters and the low si-'hino melody of the pines, while the air was Iadtn with the mingled perfume of caJar, of balsam and the water-lily. Not a few, far advanced in that dread disease, consumption, have found in this wilder ness renewal of life and heallh. I recall a youi'g man, the son of wealthy parents in New York, who lay dying in that great city, attended as he was by the best skiil that money could secure. A friend ealliug upon hitn one day chanced to ppeak of the Adirondacks, and that many bad found help from a trip to their region. From that moment be pined for the woods. lie insisted on what his family called "his insane idea," that the moun tain air and the urotan of tha forest would cure him. It was his daily request and entreaty that he ruij:ht go. At last bis parents consented, the more readily because the physicians assured them that their son's recovery was impossible, and his death a mere matter of time. They started with him for the north in search ,of life. When he arrived at the point where he was to meet his guide he was too reduced to walk. The Uide seeing his condition refused to take him into the wood?, fearinpr, aa he plainly expressed it, that Li would "die on his hands." At last unother guide was prevailed upon to nci . i.uu, hui pu uiutu iur iu money, as i he afterwards told nap, but becauee he j pitied the young man, and felt that "one j so near death as he was should be grati- j fled even in his whims." - l.tktl , v . . , I, A 1 . . ' ihe boat was halt filled with CL-dar, j pir.c, and b.ilsam bows, and the young man, carried in the arms of his guide from tho house, laid at full length upon them. The camp utensils wer8 put at one end, the guide seated himself at the ether, and the little boat passed with the living and dyiug down the la.ke, and was soon .ost to the erouD watchin? thein amid the islands to the south. This ! was in early June. Tha liist week the ! guide carried the younz man on his back over all tqs portages, lifting him in and out of the boat as he mihta chill. But the healing properties of the balsam and pine, which wire his bod by day and j night, b?gan to exert their power. Awake i or asleep, be inhaled their fragrance. j Their pungent and healing odors penotra- j ted his diseased and irritated bin js. The eecond day out his cough was less sharp and painful. At the end' of tha first week he could walk by leaning on the paddle. The second week he needed no support. The third week the cough ceased entirely. From that time he im proved with wonderful rapidity. He went hi" the first of June, carried in the arms of his guide. The second week j of November he "came out" bronzed as ! an Indian, and as hearty. Ia five months he had gained sixty-five pounds of iloh, J and llesli, too. "well packed on," as they j say in the wood. Coming out he carried ', the boat over ail portage., the vary same over which a few months before the guide had carried him, and pulled as strong an oar as any araa.eor in the wilderness. His meeting his family ! leave the reader to imagine- I he wilderness received him almost a corpse. It returned hiri to his home and the world an happy and healthy a man as ever bivouacked under its pines. 1 his, I am aware, is an extreaia case. and, as such, may seem exaggerated ; but it is not. I might instance many other cases which, if less startling, are equally corroborative of the general statement. There is one sitting near me as I write, the color of whose check, and the clear brightness of whose eye cause my heart to go out in ceaseless graliiudo to the woods, amid which she found thai health and strength of which they are the proof and sign. For five summers have we visited the wilderness. From four to seven weeks, each year, have we breathed the breath of the mountains ; bathed in the waters which sleep at their base ; and made our couch at night of moss and bal sam boughs, beneath the whispering trees. I feel, therefore, that I am able to speak from experience touching this matter ; and I believe that, all things be ing considered, no portion of our country surpasses,' if indeed any equals, in health giving qualities, the Adirondack wilder ness, f . Mr. ' Brady's Last Writing. The following remarkable passage is tho last ever written by Jamc9 T. Brady, the emi nent New York lawyer, who died not long since: "Our brothers in the pilgrimage will fall at our side,: but, however tbiekly the arrows of death may shower, we can, while our powers contiuue, do naught but move on until we reach tho awful instant when we are to exchange the feeble pulses of transitory existence for the ceaseless throbbings of eternal life. There, even there, at that mysterious frontier, if we' have been faithful and fearless in the march we may lie down obedient to destiny, with the exalted hope that, after all the objects of this world shall have become lost .for ever to our mortal sight, there may be un folded to our new aod spiritual vision another realm of unimaginable glory,' where we, and all whom we loved on earth, may realize the promise which the Great Ruler of tho Universe has made un to the Just." WILKIK3 OH TEE PIANO. "Mrs. Wilkins, of all the aggravating women I ever came across, you are the worst. I believe you'd raise a riot in the cemetery if you were dead, you would. Don t you ever go prowling i around any Q.iaker meeting, or you'll break it up. Why? .Why, you'd put i any other man's back up until he broke ' his spine. O, j'ou're too annoying to j live ; I don't want to bother with you. i Give me more covers, and go to sleep." j 'But, Wilkins, dear, just listen a min- j ute. We must have that piano, "and ', "Oh, don't, daar me, I won't have it. ; You're the only dear thing around here; j j'ou're dear at any price. I tell you once j for all that I don't get any new piano, and Mary Jane don't take singing lessons as ! long as I'm her father. There, if you j don't understand that, I'll say it over, ' again. And now stop your clatter, and j go to sleep. I'm tired of hearing you cackle." i "Hut Wilk "Now don't aggravate me. I say Mary Jane shan't loam to sing, ami plant another instrument of torture in the house, while I'm boss of the family. Hor voice is just like yours ; its got a twang to it like blowing on the ede of a piece of paper." "Ain't you ashamed, Wilk ,it,.. . i.i -i I "Its disgrace enough Jo have vou sit- tt . i i . . ,3 ; ting down and pretending to sing, and A ' A .1 f t . I . i ry injj to ueaien peoptP, wiinout uavln the children do it. The first time I heard you ein, I started round to the station house and got pis policeman, because I thought there was a murder in the house, and they wen, cutting you up by inches. I wish somebodv would. I wouldn't eo for any policemen not much." "I declare, you are n perfect brute." "Not much I wouldn't; but Smith he told me yesterday that hi3 family were kept awake half of the night by the noise you made, and said if I didn't stop those i dosrs from howlintr in mv -ellr hM ba ! obliged to complain to the Board f j Health." "What an awful story, Mr. Wilk " "Then 1 told him it was you, and you thought you could sing ; and he advised me as a friend to get a divorce, because he had said n) man could live happily with any woman who had a voice like a cross cut faw. He sai 1 I might as well have a machine shop with n I'd of files at work ia the house as that, and he'd ralh- er at any tunc." "i'hu-h ! I don't care what Smith says." 'And yuii are talking about a new pi- ano I u hj, haven't we got musical in struments enough in the house ? There's IL'l fern'S Montgomery blowing away j in the garret for ten days with that old key hule, until he's got so black in the face that he won't get his color back for a month, and then he only gets a spurt out of her every now and then. He's blown enough wind in hor to (ict up a hurricane, and I expect nothing clo but he'll get the old machine so chock full that she'll blow- back at him some day, and bust his brains out, and all along of your tomfool cry. You're a pretty mother, you are. You'd better go and join some asylum for feeble-minded idiots, you had" "Wilkin", I declare you arc too bad, for " "Yes, and there's Bucephalus Alexans der ; he's got his head full of your senti mental nonsense, and he thinks he's in lore with a girl around the corner, and he meanders about and tries to sigh, and won't eat h'n victuals, and he's cot to ro ing down into the celler, and trying to sing 'No one to love' on the coal-bin, and he liked to scare the hired girl out of her senses, so that she went up stairs and had a fit on the kitchen door-mat. and came near dying on my hands." "That's not true, Mr. Wil " "AnJ never ennio to until I put her h?ad under the hydrant. And then what does Bucephalus Alexander do but go go round night before last and try to sere nade the girli until the old man Listed up the sash and cracked away at BucephaluB Alexander with an old boot, and hit him in the fac and blackened his eye, because he thought it was two cats a yelping. Flang such a mother as you are? You go right to work to ruin your own offspring." "You're talking nonsense, Wilk " "You're about as fit to bring up chil- dren as a tadpole is to run a ferry boat, you are ; but, while I'm alive, Mary Jane takes no singing lessons. Do you under stand I It's bad enough to have her bat taring at the piano like she had some grudge against it, and to have her visitors wriggle around, fidget and look miserable, as if they had the cramp colic, while you make her play for them, and have thena getting up aud lie, and ask what it was, and how 'beautiful' It is, and steep (heir souls in falsehood and hypocrisy, ail on account of you. You'll have enough to answer for, old woman, without that." "I never did such a thing, and 3-ou " "Yes, and then you think Mary Jane can play, don't you ? , You think she can sit down and tackle that piano, and jerk out more music than a whole orchestra, don't you ? But she can't. You might just as well iet a crow-bar to openicg an oyster, as to set her to playing the piano." "You talk like a fool, Wilkins " "Play ! She play ? Pshaw ! Why she's drummed away at that polka for six months, and she can't get her grip on it yet. You might as well try to sing a long , metre tune to a hornpipe as to un dertake to dance to that polka. It would jerk your legs out at the sockets, certain, or else it would give you St. Vitus' dance, and cripple you for life." "Mr. Wilkins, I'm going to tell you a ' secret. "Ob, I don't want to hear 3'our se crets; keep them to yourself." "It's about Mary Janc'a singing." "What!" "Mary Jane, you know her singing." ."I don't know, and I don't want to ; she shan't take lessons, so rlry up." 'But ehe shall take them " "I say she shan't." "She shall, and you can't help it." "By George, what do you mean ? I' master in this hous-2 know." 1'J like you "Ye?, but she's been taking lesson for a whole quarter, while you were down town, and I paid the bill out of the mar ket money." "Well, I hope I may be shot! Yon don't mean to say that ? Weil, if you ain't a perfectly abandoned wretch, h-iug me. I'm going to sleep alona after this." And Wilkius kicked out on to the floor, and went into the other room. But lie made up with his wife, for I heard him quarreling with her next day, because she left a workbasket lull or i ,,c,:u"-5 v" l' cuaii, covered wiin n piece r t , . , . 1 of work, and he set down on it. 1 ! .1.. 1 . . - - . . 1 -., - The FinnLEK, His Wife, ant the Fiijdlk Cask. A fiddler and his wife who had rubbed through life, a most couples usually do,sometimesgood friends, at others not quite, so well, one day happened to have a dispute which was conducted with becoming spirit on both sides. The wife was suro she was rijiht. and the husband was resolved to have his own way. What was to ba done is such a case ? The quarrel grew worse by ex planation, and at last the fury of bo'h roe to such PIfcIi ,Iiat tlicy nlaJe tt vow never to sleep in the same bed for for the future. This was the most rash vow that could bo imagined, for they still wcrefiier.ds at bottom, and, besides, they had but one bed in the house. However resolved they were to go through with it, and at night the fiddle-case was laid in livid between them, in order to mike a separation In this manner thev contin ued fur threeweeks; every nisrht the fiddle case buing placed as a barrier to divide them. By this time, however, both heartily repiMited of their vow, resentment was at ao end, and their hiva began to return ; they wished the fi Idle-case away, but each had too much spirit to begin. One night, however, as they were both lying awake with the detested fiddle-case be tween them, tho husband happened to sneeze, to which the' wife, as is usual in such cases, bid God bless him : "Ay, but," returns the husband, "woman, do you say that from your heart I" ''Indeed I do, my poor Nicholas," cries his wife . "I say it with all my heart." "If so, then," says the husband, "we had as good remove the fiddle-case." Goi.d SMixa. UsrnEMEniTATBD Eloquence. As an example of powerful unpremeditated elo quence, may be given a short answer of Curren, the lrishorator, to a certain Judge Robinson "the author of many scurril ous political pamphlets" who, upon one occasion, when the barrister was ar;ruin; a case before him, had the impudence to reproacn Curran with his poverty, by tell ing him that he suspected "his law libra ry was rather contracted.' "It is true ; my Lord," said Curran, with dignified respect, "that I am poor, an1 the circumstance has certainly cur- tailed mv librarv ; my books are no! nu merous, but they are select, and I. hope they have been persued with proper dis positions. I have prepared myself for this high profession rather by the study of good works, than by the composition of a great many bad ones. I am not ashamed of my poverty, but I should be ashamed of my wealth, could I have stooped to acquire it by ser ility and conniption. If I lise not to rank, I fchall at leard be hon est ; and should I ever cease to be so, many an example shows me thut an ill gained reputation would m.ike me the would universally and the more notori ously contemptible." "Just as I Effected." An old lady was one night reading a passage in the Bible, which speaks of faith that can re move mountains. Now, there w its be hind her humble dwelling a high hill, which hid the nearest village from iriew. She had often wished this hill- might be taken ; so. before retiring, she prayed that it mightbe removed, because fhe had faith that it would be done. But in the morning, when she arose, she lifted her curtain, and lo ! the mountain was still there. Then the old woman said to her son : "Just as I expected, John ; the old hill stands there yet !" During the first, battle of Bull Kun a brigadier general discovered a soldier con cealed in a hole in the ground and ordered him to 'join his regiment. The man, looking him full in the face, placed his thumb upon his nose and replied, "No you don't, eld fellow ; you want this hols yourself." NUMBER 14, A CHILD SOMWAEIBULIST. A Milwaukee, Wis., paper tells the fal lowing remarkable story : "Some three months ago a farmer nam ed Knuteson, living a few miles froio Stockholm, went away from his . house, leaving at home a daughter about thirteen years of age, and the only occupant of th. house. Upon the return of Knuteson he found the little girl lyin; on the bod in fc half insensible state. From marks about the girl's neck it appeared that she had been severely choked and sadly frighten ed. As soon as she had in a degree re covered, fhe told her father that shortly after he liad left the house a rr.an cam in, went to a bureau, in the drawer of which was a pocket book containing two SI 00 and one 50 Government bonds and papers of value, nnd took the book wi'h its contents. Upon 'securing thesa the man grasped the girl by the throat nnd made her swear all the solemn oaths ho could think of not to tell her father or any body else who he was, or give a hint which might lead to his detection. AEida from tha bonds, tha book contained papers that were of importance to the farnu-r, and the Iwss of which he severely ftdt. "The girl acknowledged that the knew the man well, but could not tell who If was, as she had promised not to. Slit t-"-" sorrow ci her lather ovr the loss of pa- pers so valuable to him ; but despite all this, she could not be induced to give the name of the thief. Whenever urged to do -so, with tears she said the could not she had given her promise and could not break . it. "The grief of the girl at the. sorrow of her father, and the excitement through which she passed, were the means of throwing her into a severe fever, and for many days 6he was quite out of her head. In her delirium she talked quite incessant ly of the robbery, but the only word blia uttered that in a.ny way gave a clue to the robber, was an occasional appeal to Ca?pet" to spare her, and she would not tell. As Casper Schmidt was a young man who formerly worked for her father on tho farm, and was well known by the girl, suspicion turned toward him, and as he had been tracked from Now Stockholm to this city, the officer came herein search of him. As it was shown that Casper had remained hi Milwaukee but a few days and left, the search was ineffectual. "When the child had nearly recovered, from her illness, and was able to walk about a little, its mother, who 6lept with ' Ir, awoke just at daylight one morning to find the bed empty. Calling, and re cehing no nnswer, tho mother gave the alarm to the f.ither. who arose and hast ened out of tl e house. In the light snow that had fallen, he saw tracks of the child's feet leading to tho barn, and fol lowed them. Entering the barn the farm er saw a fight which paralysed him a singla timber, stretched from a scaffolding to a small platform hih up, and on this timber tho girl was slowly working her way along. The position was a danger ous one, and the father was aware that few persons ,cven with steady nerves wou! 1 care to take it. The father, not daring to speak, -xnd fairly holding his breaih from fear, watched the girl as she made her way across the limber, and breathed easier when he saw her at length reach the plat form and secure a firm foothold. Then she reached among some old boxes, and drew out the lost pocket book. As sbe did so she uttered a cry of joy, and imme diately after a cry of affright. " "The farmer did not stop, but reach! the platform by a ladder, and when thero found the girl holding ihe lost pocket book in her hand and trembling with fear. The girl was in her night clothes, and was soon taken fioin her position and into the house and to bed. She could give no account of how she reached the platfotni, only that she had been thinking very liarL of her father's loss, and dreamed one night--that the thief had gone to the barn, and. up to the scaffolding and across the tiua- ber, and hidden the stolen article amou" the old boxes. She dreamed, too, of fol lowing him and recovering it, and it w.-is. understood that she had made this peril ous trip in her sleep. "The pocket book was found focontni-'& all the papers lost, excepting the bondj, and the finding was another evidence of ins guilt of the young man Casper, he having" frequently walked across the timber, pie-' ferring the dangerous route to the rooie easy one of ascending tlie ladder, w hen h Lad business among the old boxes." Too Mccn for Her. A good story is related of a prudish old maid who at.-, plied at a certain fashionable photograph -gallery to hare her picture taken. A old maids are sometimes ot a very inquisi tive nature, always poking around where they have co business, she accidentally looked into the machine, and to her hor ror discovered that objects are reflect A inverted, or as she expressed it, "upsidf . down." She peremptorily refused to si r any more, and, adjusting ber bonne ribbons, remarked that "That gama w played out. She wasn't going to be stf up In that manner, if she never had pjc ture;" and, with a swing of the "V .Iter' which would have done credit to Yew York Broadway fashionable she ra nej from the room with an air of Insulted; nity. A friend of ours had a. surprise nsrtv the ether night. 'j.was,a Doy, . XT
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