eetiotr for damages by tbe party aggrieved ; acd If any peraoa aball fraudulently alter, add to, deface or destroy any list of voters, mad out as directed by this act, 01 tear down or remove the same from the place where it ha been fixed, with fraudulent or mischievous intent, or fur aoy improper pur pose, the person so offendiog shall be guilty of a high misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or irnpriot.ment not exceeding two year, or both, at the discre tion of the court. Sec 16. All elections for city. ward, bor ongb, township and election officers shall hereafter be held on the second Tuesday of October, subject to all the provisions of the laws regulating the election of such officers net inconsistent with this act; the persons elected to such offices at that time shall take their places at the expiration xf the terms of the persons holding the same at the time of such election ; but no election for the of fice of asseasor or assistant assessor shall be held, under toil act, until the year one thou sand eight hundred and seventy. See. 16. At all elections hereafter held, under the laws of this Commonwealth, the polls shall be opened between the hours of six and seven o'clock, a. m., and closed at seven o'clock, p. m. See. 17, It hall be the duty of the Secre tary of the Commonwealth to prepare forms for all the blanks made necessary by this act, acd furnish copies of the same to the county commissioners of the several counties of the Commonwealth ; and the county commis sioners of each county shall, as soon as may be necessary after receipt of the same, at the proper expense of the county, procure and furnish to all the election officers of the elec tion districts of their respective counties cop ies of such blsnks, in such quantities as may be rendered necessary for the discharge of their duties under Ibis act. Sec. 18. None of the foregoing provisions of this act shall apply to the city of Thlladel phi a, excepting sections twelve and thirteen. Sec. 19. That citizens of this State tempo rarily in the serviee of the State or of the United States governments, on clerical or other duty, and who do not vote where thus employed, shall not be thereby deprived of the right to vote in their several election dis tricts if otherwise duly qualified. Sec. 20. The act, entitled "A further sup plement to the act relating to the elections of this Commonwealth," approved April fourth. Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, and all other laws altered or supplied by this act, be and the a&iue are hereby repealed. Tmpbovbment im Iron-maxinq. Mr. John Burt, a leading iron-maker of Detroit, anp president of a rolling mills company, Las perfected a most valuable invention.for the manufacture of pig iron. The Tribune of tht city is only permitted now to state main facts without going into detail. By Mr. Burt's process he can convert the Mar quette ore into malleable irjn in forty min utes, manufacturing with such rapidity, also, as to turn cut thirty tons a day. The mill at Marquette, were the new process has been mainly tested thus far, is so constructed as to secure great economy in manufacture. Ira mediately adjacent to the furnace in which the ore is smelted, is what is called a rever beratory furnace, in which the chemical agencies of the invention are applied. Close to this is the arrangement for squeezing the iron, and adjoining it the machinery for roll ing It. Tbo 00 tiro piocess Is confined to a small space, and a single heating is made available for it all. The Tribune says: "We have examined specimens of manufac ture by the new process, the samples com prising the result at different stages. The fution is most complete, and the quality of iron produced compact, smooth, exceedingly tenacious and ready malleable. Some of the completed samples in large and small rods had been bent hot at different stages of heat and cold, without fracture or fraying. Oth er specimens had been cut in two cold, showing density and toughness. The pro cess of Mr. Burt bears some resemblance to that of the Ellershausen, to which, however, it is quite superior, as an examination of the metal produced by the two processes will show. We expect in a few days to be able to speak more in detail of this really great iuvtntion." PlU'BABt.Y the silliest exhibition that two Senators ever made of themselves, is that which appears in the case of Abbott and Pprague. Sprague's story about the two dogs was as old as the hills ; or, at least, as old as the time of Sir E. TLandsecr, who il lustrated it in a well known pictnre. The happy way in which Sprague made use of this fact to get himself out of the scrape, is shown in the Sprague Abbott correspon dence, of which the subjoined is an accurate, although not quite literal, translation : Abbott to Sprague. Yon 'told a story, the other day, about a dorg and a purp. I therefore deem it pro er to atk that you state distinctly if you did, or did not, rueau me. Abbott. Sprague to Abbott. I Lave no hesitation in at once complying with your very reasonable demand by say ing that the story you alluded to wap written and in print bt fore yon was born. You ure at liberty, therefore, to conclude that yon were nut either of the heroes of that story. SfBAQCE. Abbott to Sprague. Your remarkably perspicacious letter con vinces me that 1 was mistaken. I feel bet ter, and forgive yeu. As do it. Chicago Timet. Sr&isoi Natural Phxsomesok. The Atlanta Intelligencer thus describes a double beaded woman that is on exhibition in that city, and is even a greater cariosity than the Siamese twins : "The mind usually associates something hideous or repulsive in strange or remarkable freaks of nature, but this case is a singular exception in every mioutia. Her beads are perfect in formation, with intelligent, pretty faces, her form symmetrical and finely devel oped, her movements are easy and graceful, her mind is expansive and well cultivated, and her education and accomplishments are beyond the ordinary standard. Among some of the many peculiarities of this, the world's own great wonder, is her ability to converse with two persons on different sub jects at the same time, sing rery beautifully two parts of an air at once, or converse or sing together, and many equally astoundiug peculiarities, that can only be believed by witnessing them." Tv. Michael Mullen, assistant pastor of St. Patrick's Church in Chicago, died Sat urday morning week aged 34. It is a strange coincidence that he died in the same boue which has bad the same fatal influence upon four priestly occupants within a period of seven months. Rev. Patrick Dillon entered the house on the 14th of September. 18G8, and died on the 14th of October following ; his brother. Rev. James Dillon, took charge of the house October 14th, and died Novem ber 18th-following; Rev. Dr. Dunue died In the same house December 20th, thirty, 'two days after, and now, just four months after, Kev. Mr. Mullen. Cumbria Freeman. EDCASDURG, PA. Thursday, : : : Mat 6, 1S69. .J- Governor Geary. There is evidently a wide spread and well organized opposition in the republican party to the renomination of Gov. Geary. The wonder is not so much that his party should be anxious to get rid of him. as that a man of such inordinate vanity and poverty of brain should ever have been elevated to bis present high position. It was due to one of those capricious freaks of popular opinion which sometimes startle and amaze, and J which are not easily accounted for on any ordinary principle of political action. The political history of this State compels the admission that her people lave sometimes elevated men to the executive chair gifted with a lees amount of brains, than pet haps any other State in the Union ; certainly than any of the original States. That this is a matter of just reproach is unfortunately too true. Since the first ballot was cast some men have had greatness literally thrust upon them, and of this class is the present Gover nor of our State. The political career of John W. Geary, so far at least as his suc cessful aspiratioas for office are concerned. justify the declaration that he was born under a lucky star. At theoutbieak of the Mexican war he was pushed into a military position for which he had neither merit Or capacity, and returned from it with a repu tation for that which is the soldier's bright est jewel blasted and destroyed. Bis brief career in Kansas, as her third Territorial Governor, did not prove him to be a man of more than mediocre talent. Whatever military reputation he acquired during the late civil war was mainly due to the ready pen and fertile imagination of a paid army correspondent. As Governor of the State he has not given evidence of any marked ability, or that he possesses any large acd statesmanlike views, but has shown himself to be wonderfully proficient in all the small arts of the demagogue. Ilia attempted elec tion fraud at Fort Delaware, in the fall of 1SC7, clearly showed to what base purposes he could stoop when he wished to conquer. To what miserable expedients he is capable of resorting in order to neutralize the force and tfloct of the legal returns of an election, was abundantly proven by his tricky and extra official efforts in behalf of his conge nial friend, John Covode. These are but a few of his political sins, which set forth his true character as Governor of the Scare. The opposition to his re-nomination is led by McCIure, Mann and Kemble in the east and by White, Quay and others in the west. His prominent opponents are W. W. Ketch uro, of Luzerne county, and Gen. Uartranft, the present Auditor General. Of course we do not pretend to foreshadow the result of this triangular contest. We sincerely hope, however, that he will not be defeated in the radical State Convention. After having ex perienced his want of capacity during three sessions cf the Legislature, we desire that the people shall pronounce judgment upon him, and not upon a new and untried man. The democratic party confidently expect to achieve a brilliant victory in the coming State campaign, no matter who the radical candidate may be, but that party could nominate no man whom the democracy would take so much pleasure in consigning to merited political oblivion as the author of the Sam. Maguire letter. The Xevr Game Law. A game law was passed at the last session of the legislature, the important provisions of which are as follows : It is made a mis demeanor for any person or persons, to kill, hunt or take by any device, any deer or fawn between the Slst day of December and the 1st day of September, under a pen alty of fifty dollars. The killing of any pheasant between the 20th day of December and the 1st day of August, or of any pai tridge between the 20th day of December and the 1st day of October, or any fox squir rel, gray squirrel or rabbit between the 1st day of Jannary and the 1st day of August, is punishable by a fine of five dollars for each and every offence. Any person who shall, at any time, kill any night hawk, whippoorwill, thrush, lark, sparrcw, wren, martin, swallow, woodpecker, dove, robin, or any other insectivorous bird , or shall rob the nest of any wild bird whatever, shall suffer a penalty of five dollars for each and every such offence. No person shall catch any speckled brook trout save only by a hook and line, and only in the months of April, May, June and July, under a penalty of five dollars for each trout so caught. The following sections set forth the duties of constables under the law and the mode of enforcing its provisions before Justices of the Peace : Sec. 9. It shall be the duty of any constable having knowledge of the violation of any of the provisions of this act, to make report thereof to any justice o( the peace of the proper coun ty, and any other person having such knowl edge may make complaint before such justice, and the said justice shall issue his warrant for the arrest of the offender, and proceed to hear and determine the matter in issue, in the same manner as provided in .other eases, and any officer found guilty of making a wilfully false return, or neglecting to make a report of the offence when brought to bis liotice, shall be considered a party to the misdemeanor, and be liable to the payment of the fines herein im posed, and be declared incompetent to fulfill the duties of his office, and his office shall be deemed vacant. Skc 10. That any person offending against the provisions of this act, and being thereof convicted befere any alderman or justice of the peace; aforesaid, whose decision shall be final, either by the confession of the party so offend ing or by the oath or affirmation of one or more witnesses, shall for each and every offence for feit the sums attached to the same, one half to the informer and one-half to tbe use of the county, which forfeiture shall be levied by dis tress and sale of the offender's goods and chat tels; and for want of such distress, it the offen der shall refuse to pay the said forfeiture, he shall be committed to the jail of the county for the space of tea days without bail or mainprise. FaoviDan, howhtk, That such conviction be made within six mouths after the committing of tbe uSeuco. Tbe AT Y. Sun on Gen. Grant. Some of the leading radical journals of the country are beginning to speak in very plain terms of Gen. Grant and his adminis tration. Thus far he has signally failed to meet the expectations of the leaders of his party, as the debate in the Senate just pre vious to the adjournment of that body con clusively proved. When be came into power he was the possessor of many valuable gifts of real and personal property, and com menced his administration by appointing to Cabinet offices some of the very men who had been prominent in Bobscribiug to these costly presents. This was a proceeding so unusual and so nnexpected that the public sentiment of the country revolted against it. If he displayed a spirit of avarice in accept ing these gifts, he mistook tbe dignity as well aa the nature of the Presidential office by bestowing positions of honor and profit on the men who had donated them. This was followed by the appointment, in rapid succession, of nearly all of his own and his wife's relatives to lucrative offices. In one siDgle week no less than three of his brothers- in-law were the recipients of official favors at bis hands. He was the first of our Presi dents to inaugurate this system of nepotism. All his predecessors avoided it with scrupu lous fidelity. Both Washington and Jeffer son had put themselves on record against the practise in the strongest possible lan guage. On this subject the New York Sun, a leading radical paper edited by Charles H. Dana, who was Assistant Secretary of War under President Lincoln, speaks as follows : On the fourth of March, 1801, Thomas Jefferson rode on horseback unattended to the capitol, hitched his sober gelding at the gate, ascended the steps, took the oath of office from the lips of John Marshall, and delivered that inaugural address which has since been the key-note of the democrat ic party. John Quincy Adams, when his Presidential term expired, mounted a quiet nag, mailed a portmantua behind him and wended his way leisurely from Washington to Quincy, declining to receive any public demonstration from his admirers along' tbe route. At the close of General Jackson's long and remarkable administration, he de parted from the federal capital seated in a smokiog car of the railway, clad in a simple garb, waving a graceful farewell to the friends who crowded the depot, and draw ing consolation from a democratic clay pipe. Each of these eminent men on several oc casions, some of them of historical celebrity, refused to receive presents as testimonials of regard for public services, both previous to and when filling the Presidential chair, ex cepting that State legislatures voted two or three swords and medals to Gen Jackson while he was in private life, as tributes to his gallantry iu the battle of New Orleans. Neither of them ever bestowed office upon a relative, while both Jefferson and Jackson declined to do so, the former in a letter which rebuked the practice with marked emphasis. We have fallen on other times. Are they better times? Ou Wednesday, the third of March, 1869, the President elect accepted $G5,000 out of a sum of money raised in New York at his own pressing solicitation for Gen. Sherman to pay him (the Presi dent) for a house which he desired to sell. On Thursday he took the oath of office, and in his inaugural address pledged himself to the rigid execution of all lav s, whether he liked them or rot. lie then spent nearly the entire first week of his term trying to evade the plain provisions of salutary rtat utes, because they blocked the way for the admission of the most important seat in his Cabinet to the almouer who had bestowed this dazzling present. Baffled iu this by the firmness of the Senate and the frowns of the public, he nevertheless installed among his constitutional advisers other individuals who, though not obnoxious to this particular ob jection, were chiefly distinguished for hav ing conferred upon him costly and valuable benefactions. Along with other appoint ments bearing this sort of trade mark, he appointed as his Secretary of the Navy a gentleman wholly incapable of filling the place, who had taken the lead in giving him a fifty thousand dollar house in Philadelphia, some three years before ; and he surrender ed the baton of general of the armies to a lenowned soldier, who, with his knowledge and approbation lifted one hand to take the oath of office, while receiving with the other a tempting gift valued at $100,000, of which tbe fifty thousand dollar house in Washington formed a part. Not to go back to Jefferson, or Adams, or Jackson, for vir tuous examples, even Andy Johnson had s?nse and decency enough to refuse the present of a carriage and horses with the Presidential oath lingering upon his lips. Such evil practices of men in high places, whose past achievements have dazzled the popular imaginations, tend to demoralize the public service, and debauch public opin ion. Ostentatious displays and profligate expenditures come to be regarded as neces sary concomittants of official station, and it is felt that the main object of effice is not to discharge one's duties to the country, but to thereby attain sudden riches and indulge in a shoddy magnificence. The natural result of all this must inevitably be, that corrup tion anu venality will walk unabashed and almost norebuked through every department of the government. Morever, such evil ex amples not only shed their pernicious influ ence through the place-hunting and place- holding classes, but reach the very roots of Eociety. Ibey inflame tbe young men of the land with a passion for wealth as the great object of life. They tend to make lu cre the badge of honorable distinction, and the possession of riches the sole passport to power, eminence, or. even respectability. Is it not high ti me that tbe masses of the people, who neither seek nor hold office. should labor for the return of the good old times of republican simplicity, when states men felt a stain as a wound ; when the dis penser of patronage would scorn to feed his poor relations from the public crib : and when a president would cut off his right hand ere it should sign tbe commission of a man who had bestowed upon him a gift ? -fj- sassT' I our columns to-day will be found the Registry Law which was passed by the last Legislature. We have not time this week to refer to it at length, but will do so here after. By the fifteenth section of the act, the election for township and borough offi cers, which is now held in February, is re quired to be held in October at the general election. This change will save the different counties the expense of holding Spring elec tions, as they are called, but it will impose an additional labor on the election officers which it will be almost impossible for them to perform. The present arrangement ought net to have been interfered with. OrncrAT. returns from the Connecticut eleclioa briDg Jewell's majority down to ill The Paclfle Rail Road, The great marvel of the age is the won derful rapidity with which the Pacific Rail Road has been constructed. Neither in this or any other country does the history of rail road construction furnish any parallel to it. Whether it has been well and substantially built, or otherwise, and whether honesty and good faith have characterized the busi ness operations of the Company, are ques tions which remain yet to be solved. There are very grave suspicions, of recent origin, that it is a whited sepulchre, fair to behold, but within, full of rottenness and dead men's bones. We will wait and see. Tbe junction of the eastern and western branches of the road will be effected this week, near Promontory Point, in Utah Ter ritory, when the laying of the last rail and tbe driving of the last spike will complete this magnificent thoroughfare, tbe longest rail road in the world. To build this road the general government has lent the nation al credit to the amount of fifty millions of dollars. The distance from Omaha to Sa cramento is 1,721 miles. The greatest ele vation above the sea is 8,262 feet, at the summit of the Black Hills, 550 miles west from Omaha. On the road through the Rocky Mountain there are no grades ex ceeding 90 feet to the mile. When the road is in full operation it is expected that pas. sengers will be carried from New York to Sen Francisco, a distance of over 3,000 miles, in six days for one hundred dollars in gold. Psisident Geamt appointed and the Senate confirmed Charles C. Crowe, of Ala bama, to the office of Governor of New Mexico. Crowe was au officer in the rebel armv. but made speeches in Alabama last fall in favor of Grant, and is therefore now a loyal acd reconstructed citizen. To make a nest for this Crowe, Grant removed Gen. Mitchell, who was appointed Governor by Andrew Johnson. Mitchell was an officer in the Union army, and bears the scars of honorable wounds upon his person. It is stated, too, that Mitchell clipped the wings of this same Alabama Crowe, in a sharp en gagement during the war, in one of the Soathern States. It turns out, however, that Crowe cannot take the test oath, and will have to remain oat in the cold until Congress, at its next session, relieves him of his political disabilities, which of course it will do. If President Johnson had made this appointment what a universal howl of indignation would have gone up from the radical camp ! Don. Absold Flcmmm. died in Frank lin, Venango coumty, on tbe 25th of April, aged about 75 years. Mi. P. was one of our most prominent public men. He had been a member of Congress. State Treasurer and Canal Commissioner, and had discharged the duties of each with ability and acknowl edged integrity. He was one of the trusted leaders of the democratic party in the State and on more than one occasion it has felt the benefit of bis wise and prudent counsel. Amosgst the few general laws passed by the last legislature was one increasing the amomnt of property exempt from levy and sale on execution, from $300 to $500. The law also declares that any note containing a clause waiving the exemption shall be null and void. This is the death knell of all iron clad notes, which no debtor ought ever to sign or a creditor demand. They were a fruitful source of oppression in the hands of our modern Shylocks. COilMl MCATIOX. Hemlock, May 3, 1869. Dear Freeman This village (Hemlock J is situated on the line of the great Pennsyl vania Railroad, at Lilly's Station, and con tains (with tbe neighborhood that is sup posed to be accommodated by said station) about one thousand souls. The business portion of the community comprises six firms engaged in mining and shipping bitu minous coal, and who are shipping an aver age of two hundred tons daily being more than is shipped from any other station on the line of the road, except Gallitzin. Be- sides, there are some ten different parties en gaged in general merchandising, and who receive and ship all the freights by this road, aud seven firms engaged in lumbering, who are now, or will be in a few days, ship ping from 25,000 to 50.000 feet of lumber daily. I now propose to show the kind of accommodations for doing all this business furnished us by the company owning this road. In manifesting all our freights we must go to Cresson ; in receiving freights we must either prepay all freight charges or receive them at Cresson, tbe Company hav ing bo agent here to attend to their business. As our business with the toad mast be done at Cresson we may as well show the facili ties afforded us bj the Company for reach ing that point, or indeed any other point east to which business may call ns. For our accommodation, or more likely to gather up onr spare stamp, we havevone passenger train (the Mail ) to stop daily. This train goes east at 1.45, P. m. Should business call us eastward at any other time of the day. the Company, in their magnanimity, have interposed no objection to our walking. Freights received at this point are unloaded in the neighborhood of what is supposed to be the station. a building some twenty feet square and containing a water tank for the accommodation of the Company. There is no person bere to look after or take care of the goods thus disposed of, and as we can't tell just when they may arrive it is necessary that we should be on the ground pretty much all the time. Should business require ns to travel any, (and though it is almost an impossibility to get from home we are sometimes compelled to go,) and should the weather be unfavorable, as it not unfre- qnently is in this locality, we mast intrude on the hospitality oi our neighbors to shel ter us until the arrival of the train. In view of the many difficulties we hare been and are now laboring under in regard to accommodations at this point, we thought the Company, in their generosity, would not refuse to stop an additional train or- two for our accommodation when business called as east, and for this purpose a petition, signed by some eighty humble individuals who have the misfortune to be located here, was forwarded to the Assistant Superintendent of the Western Division ; but judge of onr astonishment on receiving a statement to the effect that our petition had been received, and "am sorrv to say that the fast tin3 we have to make on trains referred to prohibits us from making any way stops with them." It at once occurred to us that this objection could be remedied by making the time of said trains one min ute more, which i t seems to us, would be a very small waste of the raw material Having had the misfortune, how ever, to be reared in the woods, perhaps we don't understand the valne of time as well as do huge monopolies such as the Penn'a Railroad Company. I make this statement for the information of the Company owning thin road. belieTing they are aware there is such a station on the main line as "Lilly's," but are under the erroneous impression that nobody lives in tbe neighborhood of it. M. JLATK-JTETTS ITEMS. A boy aged nine years, named Charles Winn, of Hyde Park, fell into a coal screen on Friday last and was instantly killed. It is reported that there is to be a gen eral strike among the miners of Luzerne, Carbon and Schuylkill counties in a few days. A man in Milford, Massachusetts, is making a velocipede with wheels eight feet h:gh. It is intended to make thirty miles an boor. The son of a Turkish Pasha and a Mrs. Strong, a New York leader of fashion, are among the recent converts to the Catholic church in Rome. A Western Radical' journal speaking of Presideut Grant's nomination of negroes to office, says "the Republican party will yet did of the black vomit.- Every day brings news of more maimed heroes being tnrned out of office by Grant. He butchers his own soldiers as remorseless ly as he did in the Wilderness. It is jocosely remarked that every ap pointment made by Grant takes away from Washington a train-load of 500 passecgers the appointee and 499 applicants. An artificial sponge, made by filling india rubber in a fluid state, with bubbles of gas, and allowing it to harden, has just been introduced in England and this coun try. - There is an organ grinder at Novara who recentty returned from the United States with $20,000 in gold, an amount he had col lected in the streets during the last ten or twelve years. At Montgomery, Ohio, Thursday, Alon zo C. Mueller was shot dead, while dining with his family, by Abraham Crest, his brother-in-law. They were disputing about a family matter. In Franklin county, Maine, the roads are full of snow, aud all the traveling is upon ranners. The ground has been covered un interruptedly since the 8th of November, a period of 100 days. Michaux, the French velocipede maker and inventer, nearly starved while he was trying to introduce his machines- He now employs five hundred men, and is still una ble to meet the demand. A railway stove, just patented, has a reservoir of water so situated above it as not to become heated. In case of an accident the shock will throw epen a couple of valves, and the fire be extinguished. David Trisler, a butcher of Oonestoga Centre, was bitten by a dog on Wednesday last, which be had purchased in Lancaster and was taking home tied to his wagon. The dog died an hour or so afterwards. A stick of chestnut timber cut at Trum bull, Connecticut, when hewed and squared, measured 24x10 inches, was 28 feet long, and was perfectly sound throughout. It re quired seven yoke of cattle to draw it from the woods. A man in Boston, a few nights since, rode a velocipede (with grooved wheels.) upon a tight rope, twenty feet abovo the heads of his audience, while another man performed antics on a trapeze attached to the velocipede. An able-bodied negro died of starvation at Columbus, Ga., recently, the evidence at the inquest showing that he starved rather than work. Congress should appoint an investigating committee to inquire into this Ku Klux outrage. Jacob Kuntz was killed by lightning last Thursday afternoon in his father's barn m Salisbury township, Lancaster county. He was standing between bis father and an other brother on the barn floor, neither of whom were injured. Two daughters of Mr. Ochsenheifer, of East Mauch Chunk, were kindling a fire the other morning when they thoughtlessly poured coal oil on tbe wood, which, igniting, set fire to the clothing of the younger sitter, burning her fatally. A New York physician reports a curi ous case of a dog, which bad just died, hav ing fresh blood passed into the carotid. The dead animal was revived, stood on his feet, wagged his tail and lived over twelve hours, when he died again. A Mississippi editor and justice of the peace marreid a couple in 1858, divorced them in 1860, married the man to another woman in 1861. married the woman to an other man in 1862, and last week be remar ried the original couple. Mrs. Bedford, mother of Dr. Bedford, died at Waverly," Luzerne county, the other day. in the 96th year of her age. She was a participant in tbe bloody scenes of massa cre when the Wyoming Valley was laid waste by Butler and Brandt and their sav age followers. Captain D. A. Moore, of the Sixty-first New York Regiment fwho lost a leg in the seven days' fight before Richmond,) has lost the Post office at Columbia, S. C, to which President Grant has appointed Charles H. Wilder, an ex-slave, who is scarcely able to read or write. A colored man, his wife, his wife's sis ter, and a baby fourteen months old were burned to death near New Road Station. South Carolina, on tbe night of the 14th alt. Their charred remains were found next day in the smouldering ruins of the house in which thoy had lived. While Judge Archer, of Marshall. In diana, was removing some boxes from a shelf one day this week, a mouse jumped out of one of them and into the mouth of the Judge, and Btarted directly down his throat. Tbe Judge had bard work to stop him, and was considerably scared. Van Wyck, the famous New York sur geon, warns the public against the use of the velocipede. He says the severe jar of the small, hard seat, prod aces disease of the prostrate gland, and if young men wish to preserve their manhood they should cease the use of the velocipede. Several men who wrote to tbe President in favor of the appointment of friends have been astonished at receiving unsolicited com misions themselves. The mystery was solved by tbe fact that they closed their letters by saying "I have the honor to subscribe my self," etc., it being the rule to give all sub scribers something. ! A more aetooishiog musical prodigy than Mozart is little Susie Med bury, f Bal tic, Massachusetts. Before she could speak words, when but ten months old, 6he would sing entire tuues correctly. At two and a half years old she sang publicly before large audiences, and now, at four years of age, she plays upon, the piano or cabinet organ w th marvelous talent. The finer sensibilities of the good people of Lewistown were entertained the other day by witnessing the sale for rent of the house bold effects of an old roan named John Brown, even to the bod on which reted the time worn limbs of himself and wife. So says the True Democrat. ' Some time since an account was pub lished of the bleeping man at the Bicetre Hospital. He died on the 12th nit , having slept there seven months and three days. On the morning of his death be woke up and swallowed a pint of chocolate, also the same quantity of broth and some wine. At Omaha a man named Hale has been arrested for inhumanly treating his niece, a girl of fifteen. The City Marshal fonnd the girl baadcuffed. chained to a stake, aud her hands tied high above her head, in which condition she had been half the day. She had also been unmercifully whipped. A resident of Treasure City." in the White Pine mining region, died recently, and a man was hired to dig bis grave. When the funeral cortege arrived at tbe spot they were informed by the grave digger that he had struck a splendid lead, and had staked off a claim ; and he refused to allow the body to be buried in the hole he had dug. Two new styles of velocipede, which conflict with ne existing pstent, are report ed from Worcester, Mass. One cf these is to run entirely by friction, and the other, with common feot paddles, enables the op erator to make a mile a minute, or therea bouts, each tread on the treadles giviug the driving wheels three revolutions. A few weeks ago a colored brother in duced a young white girl, aged about seven teen, to elope with him from Petroleum Cen tre. They went to Titusville, where, by di rections of her mother, tbe girl was arrested, but afterwards escaped. The negro eluded the officers, stole a horse and made off, but was pnrsued and captured, and is now in jail at Franklin. On JTnday afternoon last, as tnree wji were playing with a pistol at Oakdale Sta tion, about twelve milss from Pittsburg, on the Panhandle railroad, the third boy acci denally shot his companions two brothers named Leickley killing one and severely woundinz the other. The pistol was charg ed with three large shot, each of which took effect. Isaac Harden and Jesse . Williams and four horses were instantly killed by a stroke of lightning on the farm of William A. Cunuingbaua, three miles from Martinsville, in Morgan county, Indiana, duiing the storm of Wednesday eveuing.. Six teams were plowing in the same field, and when the crash came all the h5rses ran away from fright, so that those who escaped the bolt of lightning were more or less injured in their flight. The following simple method oi destroy -ing that fatal enemy to our most valuable fruit, the curculio, we clip from an ex change : "As soon as the blossoms have fallen off. take some straw, and placing it on some coals in an old pan or bucket, give the trees a complete smoking by holding it un der them while the dew is jet on. Repeat this in the course of a week. This repeated two or three times will not fail to insure a good crop of fruit." Last week a negro woman living in Bourbon county. Ky., deliberately murdered one of her children by striking it on the head and breast with a club, and then threw it over the fence into a garden where it was found shortly afterward. When asked why she did it she heartlessly replied that she had too many of them anyhow. She has not been arrested, but it is hardly pssi- ble that such inhuman attrocity will be al lowed to go unpunished. Mrs. Diana Vies, a widow, lady who lives near Nashville, Tennessee, is a hundred aud fourteen years of age, and is still hale and vigorous. She rides on horseback, and does much work. She has been married three times, and bas over four hunred des cendants living. Each of her hubands served in the revolutionary war, for which she draws a pension. She is living with her daughter. Mrs. Sawyer, who is now only ninety, but thinks she too may live to a good old age. In return for the sum of one dollar, Commodore Vanderbilt has givea all his property on Staten Island to bis eldest son William. The property embraces large areas of laud, which have been permitted to remain in an undeveloped condition. The Islanders are much elated at the report that these lands are now to be disposed of in lots by Mr. William Vanderbilt to persons who will improve, and in other ways aid in the material progress aud growth of Richmond county. At Columbus, Ohio, a few nights ago. Arthur Duport, while performing a double trapez act with his brother, at the Gaieties Theatre, fell a distance of nearly twenty feet. He was hanging head downwards when be commenced to fall, but turned in bis descent so as to light on his hip. He struck on a piano in the orchestra, splitting the top in pieces, but jumped up and turned a hand spring before be left the stage, to tbe sur prise of the audience, who thought he was surely kill. Boston's vicinage was shocked into a lively state of excitement the other after noon by a very positive and unmistakable tremor in the earth and thunder in the air, which suggested earthquake at once. The lo calities affected were Brook tine. Hingham, S touch ton, Canton, Dedham and South Ded ham. It occurred at nearly three o'clock with a heavy report and a vibratory sensa tion, which did not last more thaa three sec onds. The crockery ware shook in the clos ets, and the glass in the windows. The weight aud duration of the shock was heavi est at Dedham. Tux human tamilt is so numerous that a birth and a death occur every moment. Every second a child is born ; ever second some one dies. The prevalence of sickness in the world may be realized in Dr. J. C Ayer's Laboratory, where medicines are made for all mankind. It would scarcely seem that there are throats enough to swal low the doses he issues daily, Ayer's Sar saparilla. Ague Care, and Cherry Pectoral by the thousand gallons and Ayer's Pills literally by the ton. But they most all be wanted, or he could not make sich quanti ties fof so many jeu&.NorihfieZd Telegraph. "THE HOUSE WE LIVE IN." Space forbids our speaking of the bones, muscles, lungs, brain, nerves, skin, etc. Bnt consider for a moment that the average amount of blood in an adult is thirty pounds, or about one-fifth of the body's weight. At each beat of the heart two and a half ounces of blood are thrown out of it ; one hundred and seventy-five ounces per minute t six hundred and fifty-six pounds per hoar J seven and three-fourth tons per day. All tbe blood in the body passes through the heart in three minutes, and dis tributes the nutritive principle to every texture and the source of every secretion. Now, if the blood Is weak and impure the danger of incur ring disease is imminent. This is certain to be its condition, more or less, at this period of the year. And jnet here we are admonish ad of the superior advantages of MISHLER'B HERB BITTERS for cleansing and renovating the blood. This it will always do, and also pre vent any disease arising from impure blood, because it removes the cause. Begin at oaoe to purify your blood with this great tooie. and thus ward off disease before it entrenches itself in jour system. OUR JfElY FAMILY SEWING HACEHIE ! ! 55 The superior merits of tbe "FIger" Ifa. chines over alt others, either for Family r-sa r Manufacturing purposes, are so well establiikad and ao generally admitted, that an (nsaenu,, of thiir relative excellences is no longer co sidered necessary. , OUR NEW FAM1L T MACHINE, which bas been brought to perfection regmnllM, of time, labor, or exp- arse,- is now conftdent!; presented te the" public as incomparably th Best Siwik Machixk in kxistkkcic. The machine in question is SlMPLE.COlf. PACT, DURABLE and BEAUTIFUL, j, is qeiet, light running,. and cxrASti or rtm roaxi5e m kak an vaairrr or won sever before attempted spon a single Machine, . either Silk, Twist, Linen or Cotton Tkre4, and sewing with equal facility the very Loeu aad coarsest materials, a ad aaything befwk the two extremes, ra the most beautiful ud substantial manner. Its attachments for Hen. ming. Braiding, Cording. Tucking, Quiltinj, Felling, Trimming, Binding, Ae., are Nevrt and Practical, and bare been invested, ui adjusted espesially for this Machine. New designs of the Unique, Useful and Pp. ular Folding Tops and Cabinet Cases, pecnlitr to the Machines manufactured by this Com pi nv, have been prepared for enclosing tt stv Machine. A faint idea, however, can at best be coo. veyed through the medium of a (necessarily) limited advertisement; and we therefore rge every person in quest of a Sewing ilacbmebr a. i J. a f all means to examine ana test, ii mey can pos sibly do so, all the leading rival Machines be fore making a purchase. A selection can the be made nnderstandiDgly. Branches or agea cies for supplying tht "Singer" Machines will be found In nearly every city and town through out the civilized world, where Machines ij be cheerfully exhibited aad .any informant! promptly furaihed. Or comauuicatiecs Bay be addressed to ' ' The Singer Manufacturing Companj, 438 BROADWAY, ti 12 W YORK. Pbilaselfhia Ornca, 1106 Chf.st.ntt Sram f3y-0. T. ROBERTO, Agent for Ebenburs and vicinity, keeps these Mnchines consuwiy for sale at his store on High street. Tbe pnb lie are respectfully iavited to call and see thea in operation. Instructions given free. Ma chines sold at city prices. 2 o vskioht chagi. Also, Siuger's Needles, Oil, Silk and Cellos always on hand. au 23 ly. PURIFY THE BLOOD. It is concede! by the moat enaineat medical raeu, that um blood is tbe fruitful parent of disease, by err ing as a vehicle through which noxious sub stances contaminate the flefh by absorption. The foetid contests of the bowels, if Im; retained by constipation, are often taken up by the veins or absorbents. Various morbid pro ducts, such as pas and sames of unhealthy ul cers, occasijually find tbeir way into the blood vessels, which result is seated cases of Scrof ula or King's Eril, Erysipelas. Salt Rheum, Ulcers, Eruptive and Contaneous Diseases of tbe Skin, Enlargement of the GUnda, Pain in the Head, Sides and Back, St. Vitus' Pise, Pleurisy, Dizziness, Tumors, Griping and Cho lic Pains, Ac, all of which diseases readilr yieid to the powerful influence of Dr. Roback'i Blood Purifier, wibch searches out all the Tilt humors and distempers, leaving the blood in pure and healthy conditions. The many valuable ingredients of which tb Blood Purifier is compol being adapted to each other strictly according to the lsvi of chemical science, makes it one of the ntoit valuable alteratives acd system renovators of the present age, and its success as a great mi iciue must increase so long as disease so lwg as disease continues to tcx the soul of mu- Tux leading paper of tbe Xorthwett, Wisconsin," Milwaukie. gets off some tery good things, among tbe latest of which we tra-t the following : Ax Excellent Mebicine. One of the mest pot ular medicines of the day is Hoof land's German Bitters, which is designed v keep the stomach and liver in a healthy coo diiion. The Bitters is prepared without the use of intoxicating Liquors, and if a psrton desires to driuk liquor under the fashionable name of Bitters, he had best apply for tomo tbing else than lloofland's- Druggists tell u that the sale of this article is large, and is con tinually on the increase, that all who u it are pleased with its excellent Qualities, and that they could l ot thick of keepiag swr without it. In case of debility or prostrauos of the system, HoofUnd's German Bitters v"11 be found an excellent article, aa well as fw Dyspepsia. HOOFLAXD'S GERM A IT T05IC Is a combination of all the ingredients of ! Bitters, with rvai Santa Cruz Bum, onaf. anise, etc., making a prepnratioe of rate cinal valne. The Toaie is ued for tbe saa' diseases as the Bitters, in cases where son Alcoholic Stimulant is i eqnired. Principal Of fice, 631 Arch Street, Pbilad'a. Pa. Sold ery where ky Druggists and others, sp.33. DON'T BE MAKING "RYE" ABOUT BID BREAD & OCT BUY TOFR H3r ZEC- CCD TXT FROM M. L. ATMAN, Who sells the BEST BRANDS AT THE LOWEST MARKET PBIEl JJEW CHEAP CASH STOHB BUCK'S MILLS, Alleghany Township. The subscriber would respectfully annouw to his friends and tbe public iu general tb has jest opened at Buck's XUls a large superb stock of seasonable mrcbadi' ?' sisting of all kinds of DRY GOODS. GOODS, NOTIONS, GROCERIES. rU3 N1TURE, HARDWARE, and all eii clesTusually kept in a country store. . tJfHaving paid cash for my goods I termined to dispose of them either for lumber or country produce at as low prices like goods can be bought from acy e4l?Jj, the county. A liberal patronage is resP"? solicited. WM.J. BUC-; Buck's Mills, April 2. 1809. tf. , VALUABLE PKOPEKTY AT PRI VATE SALE. The undersigned off? at private sale a HOUSE and FOUR ACB OF GROUND, with Stable. Outbuilding Stone Spring House, a lot of choice appl cherry trees and a well of excellent the premises. For further particulars PP the subscriber ou the premises l- clX beroegh. RACHEL BKf AT e e o o L J j
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