.1 4 i z , r H.rjliC, Editor and Publisher. -- HK 1 A FRKKMAn ..WHOM TUB TRUTH HAKES FREE, AXD ALL ARB SLAVES BESIDE, Terms, l r 3 eir tit utliaiice. .1 . "C X ,vt r.'sr.i OI.UME 3. EBENSBURG; PA:, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1 869. iNUMBKR 44. i cVllitzin seminary hmsWK, Camcna uotuuy, ra. J'A 'ct.Mof St. Jwseph, r o ui 'ea i. one of ' )- de- gftf. .ud W'thy iocuons . if. slave 13 tl, cuuutrr for it' Lit ct.ndfi w'ubout a rival. &n,ut - ,. , . . , ''.jjptea u the age of the pupil "Jit lvuf FF.R SESSION : I J - Ljjuiiiuc, Washing. Mending, fichlJi;l tie required to he provided i'fos-ui' 'f cToU.injr. (the uniform will rrt.-ioiBi'l tl lck, zouave -pants.) o'e t the different eaon. Ho must also f I'L'ebnEge of underclothing, six pairs of k'CK. P:';r J,)W or 8'es. a cloak -!., cii torn la. six table nipkiim. a knife I"-. pou nuu. .;, 1,5 furnish eJ with combs, etc., Taliae i,o:;e tu.p. .;.wtiiic iotoro-iDg parent or gviaiain of ,!; three a'otith. inA-tiwUiii1, 1 ear c iininenres on the ee- Hmch ot 3,-ptember ami cioeee about tne 1 a n L miiiU t n Tvt. Rat. Tion ?r c el." v r c v " -v w fvfuriher tjtrti'-ularii pb1t to or address MOTHER aui'ERioa, I I 1SC9. U Ebenaburi;, Pa. . L. OATMAN, L ME FAMILY GROCERIES! (?dr;t ami!! lour, cr.in, fccd, C0N, SALT, FISH, FRESH VEGET VBLES, L KINDS OF FRUITS, SZJJR3, TEAS, COFFEES, UPS, MOLASSES, CHEESE, &c. 1U, s Ure eWeb of tbc Erar,ds of Cigars and Tobacco, fcTOUE ON HIGH STREET, CbeDHbuisr, Pa. ENSBURG TCUNDRY ACJAIX l. 11LL Itl.tSl 1 f FIRM, NEW BUILDINGS, &c. KT1X(; T,ur hyel thn well lmown EB-K-!-.(.V.G YO DRY from Mr. Edw. '. atiii rebuilt nnd iiluii'.l it. miiei . t. braiilefl refining it wilH new machinery, JK, PAKLUR 4- IIEA TISG H IV VES. ihe Jntesc a;id niO-Jt approved pitting tKSHIJffJ MACHINKS. MILL OFR . ROSnd WATER WHEELS of cverr rwlion. IKOX FENCING, I'LOL'GIIS l'LOUGH CASTINGS, and ju fact !1 n of nri:c!ei niiinufactjred in a firt cUa a rT. juli H ork ol rfll lit,,) . ..v.iuexi b I.' 'V.j an.i done chpaplv. eipecial aiteution of Fnrmers i invited neiv pien:cd TROUGHS which we ruicrnuo ujHnuid,turc an-I sell CuLi.tY. hUC fthichar admitfn;l t I ' ever mtnjduced to the public. i in our ime in the mot satiFtflctory f-er. and knowing that we can do work at rias ti,an hnve Leen rharced jn lia rmniiy heretofore cconfidentlv hope that FH be 'ound worthy ot liberal ratronage. V-Tk ,nade to "ho,le dealera. F. lhe n p'iwt juices ptud in cash for old f orca-tinps given in exchange. fTHeS8inR STEiCTT CAflfl Ot COCSTST J CONVERT. V1NKOK& CO. f ejiburir. Sent. -2 Ivna E CHEAP CASH STORE p'S MILLS, Alleghany Township. - '"end am the public ii. general that he 4m Opeiied lit I?..lr'- i;iL I.a- --..1 1 t 7 i 8eilS0I,!irJe merchandise, con r.nS U'l.k'n,!l GOODS. DRESS I rp JL"NS' "HOCER1ES, FUR "akuw ARE, nd all other arti ';". kept in a country store. " iJAVlno r..:.l . . v o d'"if,URe of 'hem 'either for eath. 1 o. ' C0'lnlry ProJuce at as low pricci as V.mvtM1 be bo'JKht froni t-jde.iler in t-Wk A iljfr:d patronage is n si'cctfnllr fcd'iu-v. . WM. J. BUCK. VORD KR0M JOIINSTOWN1 0UX J. JlftVPIIY & CO., luSt!y,on h'lDalarge and well of seasonable Goods, Boots, Shoes, Groceries, rVt 3 of MOTIONS, Arc ally Yj c!,nsis of almost every article e i.lVa a reta'il store, all of which Fice '"V11 with care aQd aro offered J. Call 1' cannt fail to prove satisfac- I -'b. 28 Toi.11111110 for yourselves; - J- LLOYD & CO., )raftson tt r,'SEM' Altooita. Pa. Go!d f - J'nncipa cities and Silver witE I?0 depS,t' I,a3le un de rt t IDlerest. or upon time with iLOlD iCfrY,., H oo & ghf ."M-. Interest A-epofclU. allectionamada h inTu?u !vQ th9 United 8t-tc. I nfelrt bnne. trairne 18(59: FALL TRADB;'869. I am nowjprepared to offer ' ' SUriRIpR INDUCEMENTS 't u ' ' TO JA 8!l ,P C KCJ S lilts O r TIS.SIMt-lWCflFPER.f4EI . ' l EITIISH AT : WHOLESALE OR RETAIL. ; stock consiata ia part of every variety of Tin, Sliccl-Bron, COrPER AND BRASS WARES, - - -8N AMHJ.KD AND TI.AlN SAUCE-PANS. BOILERS &c, COAL SHOVELS. MINE LAMPS, OIL -CANS. HOUSEFURNISHINQ HARD WARE OF EVERY KIND. Iptat'i Anli-Ouit HEATING and: COOKING STOVES, EXCELSIOR COOKISG STOVES. NOBLE, TMUMPH akd PARLOR COOK- ' INQ STOVES, " w And any Cooking Stove ilesirsJ I will tret ' wV.en orderefPat " manufacturer's prices. Uiia otove natts ar.u trratcs, etc., tor re pair, on haud. for tle Stoves I teli ; others will be ordered when wantud. Particular 1 . .--attention given to r r Spouting, Valleys and Conductors, hII ofwhirb will he made out of Jbest re ata ri al and put up by competent workmen Laiap Bnruers, Wick and Clilnnevs WilOl-ESALK Oti KETAIL. I w.iuld call particular HtteiUit-q to th Lipht H-jcp Burner, with QJh! 0'r;e,!fvr jriv'g more liht than any lkf r Urse.- Also;' the Puragon Rurpfr, ur Crude Oil. ; It recemmenda itself. SUGAR KETTLES AND CAULDRONS of all aizea cuutaut!y on hacd. . , Spec!a! atterition gl?eri to I Jobbing in Tin, Copper and Sheet-Iron'. at lowest x.ttiuiu ratt-s. " AVNOLKsu-ii Mlkchast' LTbts uow ready, and will be Bent on application by wail or in perrja. Hopi?vp to rm a!! ray u'd customerp and many new enca -this Spring. 1 retnra my mont biucere tLanka for the very liberal pa tronaye I have already receirei, nd will endeavor to pleaso ail who may call, wheth er they buy not. FRANCIS W. HAY. Johcstown. iTarch 7. 1867. REaT Reduction in Pkicek ! TO CASH MY EH SI AT THE IJIIi:.MIMtCJ " riinvieifivr cividd The uuderained resfectfully iinrrna the citizens of Ebeirsbnrg and tlie public geticr ally that he ha uiadf a great reduction in prices to "CASH BUYERS. My stock will cous-it, in part, of Cooking, Parlor and Heal ing Stove?, of the most popular kinda ; Tin uare of very description, of my own man ufacture ; Hardware of all kind, such a L..cks, Sc.ewB, Iiutt Hinges, Table llintei. Shutter Hingt-s. Polts, lr..n and Nails. Wiu dow Glas, Putty, Tai.ie Kutvea and K.-rks, Carving Knives and F.rks, Meat Cutters. Apple I'arers, IVn p.nd P.cket Knives in Mjreat variety, Seizors. Shears, Razors and I Strops Axes, Ilatclits. Hammers, Uoring aiit'.iiiiies. Augers, Crussels, PJanc-a, (Aru passex, Squares, Files. Hasps, Anvils, Viea, Wrenches. Rip, Panel and Cross-Cut Saws Chains of all kinds. Shovels. Spades. Scythes -and Snaths, Hakes. : Forks. Sleigh P.ells, Shoe Lasts. . Pegs. Wax llnsties. Clothes Wiingerfc. Oiind Stones. Patent Molasses Qntcs and Measures, Lumber Sticks. Horse Nails, Ilore Shoes, Cast Steel. Rides. Shot Guns, Revolvers. Pistols, Cartridges. Pow der. Caps, Lead. Ac, Odd' Stove Platt'8, Graces and Fire Bricks, Well and Cistern Pump and TuLinp; .Harness avd Saddlery Ware of all kind ; Woolen an l Willoie Ware in great variety ; Carbon Oil and Oil Lamps, Fish Oil, Lard Oil, Linseed Oil, Lubricating Oil. Rosin, Tar, Glassware, Paints, VaruUh ts. Turpentine, Alcohol, &c. FAMILY GROCERIES, such as Tea, Coffee, Sugars, Molasses, Syr ups," Spices. Dried Peaches. Dried Apples, Fish, Hominy, Crackers, Rice and- Pearl Barley; Soaps, Candles; TOBACCO and CIGARS; Paint. Whitewash, Scrub. Horse, Shoe, Dusting. Varnish, Stove, Clothes and Tooth Brushes, all kinda and sizes ; Bed Cords and Manilla Hopes, and many other articles at the lowest rates for CASH. dry House Spouting made, painted and put up at low rates far cash. A liberal discount made to -country dealers buying Tinware wholesale. - GEO. HUNTLEY Ebensburg,.Feb,.23. l867.-tf. Q.EORGE V . Y E A G EE, Wlioleaale and Retail Dealer In HEATING AND COOK STOVES OF EVERY DESCRIPTION", II. OF HIS OWN MANUFACTURE, And GENERAL JOBBER in .SPOUTING aod all other work in his line. Virginia Street, near Caroline Street, ALTCOX4, PA. The only dealer In 'he citv having the right to cell ihe renowne.1 " JARLEY SjHEAF' -COOK S roVE. the most perfect ' complete and Baiisfactory ' Stove ever introduced to the public. ' Stock Immense. - Pktces .Low. fatis.faotjon guar akteed.- ; c.;loct's.gfpartmtnt. oxrr ir-Tii e co l ; ' u ? ... . - - f . : t '?! With blue4 cold handa aud stockingleFs feet. Wandered, a child ia tLe cheerless street, Children wre many, who, housed and fed. Lovingly nestled, dreaming in bed,. Caroled their joy in a landof bliss, Without a thought or care of this. They were warm in humanity's fold, But this little child was out in the cold . .Out in the cold. " ' ' Bleak blew the wind thro' the cheeriest1 street., Dftsbing along the mereiless street. All furred and shawled, man, woman and j child - - - Harried along, for the storm grew wild ; They could not bear the icicles blast, Winter so rude on (heir pathway cast. Alas! none' pitied no' one consoled " The little wanderer out in the cold, Out in the cold. She had no Jather, tihe.had no mother. Sisters none' and never a brother ; They had.. parsed on to the star-worlds , above She remained here with nothing but love. "Nothing to love." O! men .did not krow What wealthof joy that child could bestow. So i hey went by and worshipped their gold, Leaving the little one out in the cold K - Out in the cold, v . Wandered she on till the shades of night Veiled, her shivering form from sight ; Then, with cold hsnds over her breat-t, 5he prayed to her Father in Heaven for rest. When hours had fitd 'eeath the world's dark frown. Hungered and chilled, she laid herself down ; Lay down to rest, while the wealthy rolltd In callages pt her. out in the cold Out in the cold. Out in the cold lo ! an angel form L'rur.glt her vhile robes that were rich and wirm : . , Out in the cold on the sleeping child. The saiuted fce of a mother smiled A si ter pressed on her brow a k'se Ll ter 'add sencs f heavenly bliss ; And-angels gathered into their fohl, That night the little one out of the cold Out of the cold. Sales, Iu!ejcs, Urciofts, c. MY GUEAT-f.It AXPFATIICEl. His Remarkable Voyage. BV JOHN QUILL. You Pee, 8uid my great:grandfall:er, who had gathered a crowd of his friends around him at the grocery store in Dar by, que evening j j oii . Bee I was once a eailor before the mast, on a small vessel which $H9 cruising about in the South Atl.ititio Ocean. tide was a very small vessel, and so frail that I was afraid all the time that she would go to pieces, but she didn't. It happened one day that I was sent aloft to nail a block of some kind on the top of the mainmast, and as we bad no hatchet I took an ax. I- hit the mast three or four pretty stiff knocks, when all of a suddeu I thought I felt her go down with a jerk. Hut she looked all right, and I thought it. couldn't possibly.be. So I catue down and said nothing about it. Three or four days afterwards the mate says to the captain : 'Cap, it's queer we don't sight land by this time." 'Very queer," says (he captain. "And what's funny about it is that for several dajs past niy instruments have made us out to be in precisely the same latitude and longitude." "May be something's the matter with the sun." - "Or perhaps the parallels of latitude have shifted." "Or may be you've made a mistake in your figures.' "I didn'l think of that," said the mate. SSo they look another observation, and found that they were in precisely the same old place. Everybody was Irightened, and it was not until after a close examin ation (hat it was at last ascertained that I - had actually driven that mainmast through the bottom of the ship into the mud, where it had stuck fast, and that the old tub had been spinning round and round, like a weather-cock on a steeple, all this time, , without .anybody know- '? it--; ' " ' ' To fay that the captain was mad, don't describe his condition. He roared around so about it, that I got scared, and hid my self in un old cask in the hold. There I laid all day, when it was decided to heave part of the cargo over-board to lighten ship, and the rafek I was in was headed up, and I afraid to budge, and the whole concern was heaved into the water. I was in that barrel about four days. It was a little crowded, to be sure, and it would roll some, but on the whole I was ctunlbi table. One day I felt myself toss ed on ebore) and then I was so certain of saving1 tny life, that I just turned over and took a first-class nap. I was waked by something tickling my face. At first I thought it was a mosqui to, but then I remembered that no nios q.iito could possibly Lave got into that barrel an) how. I brushed at it again, and caught it. It was a straw. I gave it a jerk. Something knocked against the barrel outside, and I heard the word 'Tuytel!" 1 Then another straw was hurried, and I pulled the border jet- Something struck the barrel again and I heard this excla mation : .. ' ' . "Uer Tuyfel!" , Then another straw was put in, and I caught hold of it, and saw that it came through the bung hole, and there was a man outside trying 10 suck something or other through that straw, and every time I gave her a jerk it jammed his old nose bat against the staves. So I gave her one more pull, and then kicking the bead out of the cask, I got out and said to this fellow : 'Look a here, what in the decce'are you trying to do, anyhow j" "Nrin" saya Le, shaking his head. What are you fouling arouud here for, say ?" "AVm," says he. "That makes eighteen," says I. "A'.ti," says he. "Twenly-seven," says I. "Go on ; I'll add it up for you. I'm a lightning calculator, 1 am." "Arr" ' ', " 'Thirty-six," I said "You appear to be a regular original old first nine. What club do you belong to anyway ?" "ei'n," says be, still shaking his head ! "Forty-fi ." Just then it flashed j across my mind that he was a Dutch man. "Beer," sayB I, to try him. I had touchf.d a sympathetic chord in his nature. "Oh ! yaw ! yaw !" says he. "Ha ! ha ! dat is gout I O, yaw," aud w e rush ed into each other's arms and wept. I felt then I bad found a friend. I sincerely wished he had been my long lost brother, with the regular thing in strawberry marks on his arm, otdy I nev er bad u brother, and lie was never long lost, and never had anything on his arm. Hut this Getmau was a good fellow. He lived in Dutch Guiana, and had a wife, and three pretty daughters who were so precisely alike that I never could tell one from the other. I fell in love with one of them ; I never could tell which, so I courted them all three, just as they hap pened to come along. One day they all came in together. I tried to be sweet with the one 1 thought was the right girl, and the other two got so mad that 1 was afraid they'd burst some blood vessel or other. Then all three, said I had promised to marry them, aud a!! 4hree of them repeated the fond wotds I had whispered to them, and ac cussd me of lieachery. It looked stormy lor me. There was entirely too much love's chidings for com fort. I then offered to marry them all three, and to take them to Silt Lake ; or to cut myself in three pieces ; or to drown myself with thetn aud perish in four wa tery graves. liespectfully but firmly declined. Then they all went out. After a bit one came in and said : "Abij;ih, dear, let us chip; together, and leave these Lonid women, and go to some tunny cli:iie, where we can be hap py in the fullness of each other's love." "I will think it over, my angel," said I. She passed out. Theu one of - them came in again. "Abijah, dear, let us fly together, and leave these horrid women, and go to Si'me sunny clime, where we can be happy in the fullness ot each olhet'a love." "I say I will think it over, my own angel." . . And she disappeared. Hut she seemed anxious, so in she comes again. 'Abijah, dear, let us fly together, and leave these burred women, and go to some sunny clime, w heie we can be happy m the fullness of each other's love." "Look here, now, you've said that three limes, and that's enough. My mii.d fully grasps the idea I say I'll think it over." "Why, I never said it before," says she. "The mischief jou didn't," says I. 'Upon my sacred word and honor; I'll cross my breath lo it," says she. I saw it all. They had all three of them tackled me with the same proposi tion. It was clear that I must fly. I made up my mind to take the very first boat that left Dutch Guiana for any where. 1 left the house, and hadn't gone more thau a square when I saw the parent of the three girls in pursuit. We both rnn. He was armed. He canied his boomer ang with him. lio fired it at me. I dodged, and the boomerang flew back and brained him on the spot, and there were precisely thtce more beautiful orphans in Dutch Guiana than there were when I came. 1 slipped on board of an American vessel, and we got along well enough until a series of storms set in, and we were blown out of our course. The ship then sprang a leak, and foundered with all on board but uie. I clung lo a t-par and was washed on shore, after a ride of three days o'er the waters of the deep blue sea. I didn't know where I was ; probably in some strange land or other. I looked around. There was a hut about a mile off. I made for it. It contained one man. "He's another blasted foreigner," said I to myself; "there is no use of trying to talk to him." I wanted something to eat, so I opened my mouth wide, and pointed into it, and said, "Aw aw aw aw!" Tbe man wa evidently rurpriped. He appeared to think I must have swallowed something cr other, sobs caught me .by he jaws and held them apart, while he looked down my throat. He seemed disappointed that he didn't see anything "Aw aw aw ough !" I grunted, still pointing in my month. It seemed to occur to him lhat I had the toothache, for be went out and got a monkey-wrench, a pair of pinchers, and a cross cut saw. "Urn um um-um am!" said I, in despair, rubbing my stomach. His face lit up with the idea that I had the cramp colic, and he commenced ex erting himself to spread a muMard plaster I shook my head and rubbed my stomach and grunted : ''Ow ow ow ow." At last he thought he had it I mnst bo poisoned ; so he tried to improvise, a stomach pump out of two eel skins and a syringe. - "Avj aw aw aw!" groaned I in despair, pointing to my moutb, and draw ing a line down to my abdomen. The thotight'suggesfed itself to him that I wanted him to rip me up, so he got out a butcher knife and. began sharpening it on his boot. ' He was the most accommodating man I ever saw, that fellow, . . Then, us a last resort, I began to clip my teeth together as if I was chewing something. He instantly jumped to the conclusion lhat I had been bitten by a dog and had hydrophobia. So he first took a bucket of water out of the room, and then began to feel my leg. ' Oh, pshan 1" said I forgetting myself "I want something to eat." "We!!, why in the misc!;'f didn't you say so then V Faid he. "What sre you standing there gibbeting like some degra ded idiot for ?" "Why, I thought you couldn't under stand English ; I thought )ou wero a for eigner," S lid I. "And I took 3'ou for a wardering member of the deaf and dumb asylum." "Deaf and duuib asylum I" said I; "ot what place ?" 'Why, of New Jersey,' of course." Is this New Jersey, then ?" I asked "You can jast bet it is Listen! there's the whistle' of the Camden and A in boy railroad company." I sat down and cried like a baby when I reinembe'ied the number of times I had dead-headed on lhat very lin in das of jcie days, I may say, that were now mingled with the irrevocable past. "Take a clam V said ihe man, rous ing me from my reverie. I took a clam, took a "snifter,'' I took all the eatables and drinkables in the place, and then I walked to the depot and came home, just on the very day, you recollect, my wifo was going lo be married io another man, and now I wish I had sia'.ed away and let him. BIOAO LAEii:. EY MAKK TWAIN. Mono Lake, or the Dead Sea of Cali fornia, is one of her most extraordinary curiosities, but being ulualed in u very out-of the-wav corner of the countrv and away up among the eternal snows of the Sierras, it is hale known aud very seldom visited. . A mining excitement carried me there once, and I spent several months in its vicinity. It lies in a lifeless, treeles, hideous desert, 8,U00 feet above the level of the sea, and is goaided by mountains 2,000 feet higher, whose summits are hidden away in the clouds. The solemn, silent, sailiess sea this lonely tenant of the loneliest spot on earth is little graced with the picturesque. It is an unpretend ing expanse of greyish water, about a hundred miles in ciiumferenca, with two islands in it centre, mete upheavals of tent aud scorched , and blistered lava, snowed over with grey banks and drifts of pumice stone and ashes, the winding sheet of the dead volcano, whose vast crater the lake has seized upon aud occupied. The lake is two hundred feel deep, and its sluggish waters ate so strong with alkali lhat if you only dip the most hopelessly soiled garment into them once or twice, and wring it out, it will be found as clean as if it had been through your ablest wash erwoman's hands. While we camped there our laundry work was easy. We tied the week's washing at the stern of ! our boat, and sailed a qua: ter of a mile, and the job was complete, all to the wring ing out. If we threw the water on our heads and gave them a rub or so, the white hi! her would pile up three inches high. The water is not good for bruised places and abrasions of the skin. We had a valuable dog. He had raw places on him. He had more raw places on him than sound ones. He was the rawest dog 1 almost ever saw. He jumped over board one day to get away from the flies. Hut it was bad judgment. In his condi tion, it would have been just as comfort able to jump into the tire. The alkali water nipped him in all the raw places simultaneously, and he struck out for the shore with considerable interest. He yelp ed and barked and howled as he went ! and by the time he got to the shore there i was no bark in him for he had barked j the bark all out of his inside, aud the al ' kali water hatl cleaned the bark all off his outside, and he probably wished he had never embarked in any such enterprise. j He run round and rcuud io a cucl, rd'1 j pawed the earilj and clawed Ihe air, and threw double summetse'ts, sometimes backwaids and sometimes forwards, in the most frantic and extraordinary" manner. He was not a demonstrative deg, as a general thing, but rather of a grave and serious turn of mind, and I never saw Lim take so much interest in anything be foie. He finally struck out over the moun tains, at about 250 miles an hour, and he is going yet. This was about five years ago- We look for what i left of him along here every day. A white man cannot drink the water of Mono Lake, for it is nearly pure lye It is said that the Indians in the vicinity drink it sometimes, though. It is not im probable, for they are among the purest liars I ever saw There will be no ad ditional charge for this joke, except to parties requiring an explanation of it This joke has received high commenda tion from some of the ablest minds of the age. Horace Greeley remark ed to a friend of mine that if he were ever to make a joke like that, he Would not desire to live any longer. "J i There are no fish in Mono Lake no freigs, no snakes, no pollywogs nothing, in fact, that goes to make life tlesirable. Millions of wild ducks and sea gull swim about the suifacf, but no living thing ex ists under the surface except a white, feathery sou of werm, one half inch long, which looks like a bit of white thread frayed out at the sides. If you dip up a gallon of water you will get about fifteen thousand of these. They give to the wa ter a sort of grayifh white appearance. Then there is a fly which looks something like our house fly. These settle on the beach to eat the worms that wash ashore : any time you can see there a belt of flies an inch deep and six feet wide, and thi? belt extend. e'ear around the lake a b.;lt i'f flies one hundred miles long. If you throw a stone among them, they swarm up so thick that tluy look dense, like a cloud. You can hold them under wafer as long as you please they don't mind it they are only proud of it. When voo let them go, they pop op to the surface a? dry as a patent otiice report, and walk off as uiiconccri.t dly as if they had been ed ucated especially with a view to affording instructive entertainment in that particu lar way. Providence leaves nothing to go bv chance. All things have their uses and their part and proper niaca in na ture's economy. The ducks and gulls eat the flies the fliet cat the worms the In dians eat the flies the wild cats cat Ihe Indians The white folks eat the wild cats when the crops fail and thus all things are lovely. Mono Lake is 150 miles in a straight line from the cc?ati and between it and the ocean are one or two ranges of moun tains yet thousands of sea gulls go every season to lay their egs and rear their voung. One' would as Seon expect to find sea-gulls in Tennessee. And in this con nection let us observe another instance of Nature's wisdom. The islands in the lake being mi-rely huge masses of lava, coated over with ashes and pumice stone, and utterly innocent of vegetation or any thing that would burn ; and sea gulls eggs being entirely useless to anybody unless they are cooked, nature has provided an unfailing spiing of boiling water on the largest island and yem can put your eggs in there, and in four minutes you can boil them as hard as an)' statement I have made during the past fifteen years. With in ten feet of the boiling spring is a sprinn of pure, cold water, sweet and wholesome So, in lhat islaml you got your board and washing free of charge, and if nature had gone further, and furnished a nice Ameri can hotel clerk, who was crusty and diso bliging, and didn't know anything about the time-tables, or the railroad routs or anything and was proud of it I would not wih for a more desirable boarding house. Half a dozen little mountain brooks flow into Mono lake, but not a stream of any kind flows out of it. It neither rises nor falls, apparently, and what it doe6 with its surplus water is a dark and blood3' mystery. All the rivers of Nevada sink into the earth mysteriously after they have run 100 miles or so none of them flow to the sea, as is the fashion of rivers in all other lands There are only two seasons in the region round about Mono Lake and these are the breaking up of one winter aud the beginning of the next. More than once I have seen a perfectly blistering morning open up with the thermometer nt ninety degrees at eight o'clock, and seen the snow fall fourteen inches deep , and that same identical thermometer go down to fortv four degrees under shelter before six o'clock at night. Under farorable cir cumstances it snows at least once in ever single month in the year, in the little town of Mono. So uncertain is the climate in nimtner that a Iaily who goes out visiting cannot hope to be prepared for a-ll emer gencies unless she fakes her fan under one arm and her snow-shoes under the other. When they have a Fourth of July proces sion it generally snows on them, and they do 6ay that, as a general thing, when a man calls for a brandy toddy there, th barkeeper chops it off with a hatchet and wraps it up in a paper, like maple sugar. It is further reported lhat ihe old soak erf haven't any teetli were them out by eating gin cocktails and brandy punches. I tlon'l indorse that statement ; I simply five it for what it is worth, and it ia wwtb, well, I rlwu!d toy, millions, to any j ninn who ran" !efieve if without s'rainiittr himself. Hut I do indorse the mow ,n the Fouith t-f July, because I. know that to be true.- ' ? ' HIE JOSH UILLIAGS' IAaER.. FLM.VLK KKMAKKS. ' Dear Girls, are yu in aatch ov a" liua band ? , " , , This iz a pumper, and y it' nr rot -required tew say "Yes" out loud, but nf expeckfed few thrnw yure eyes dow n onto the earth, as tho you waz looking for a pin, and reply lew the interrogatory, with a kind ov draud in righ, nt tho 'vu eating an ojster, juice and all, utT (rt.iu the baff shell. . - Not tew press so tender a theme uniiU t becknms a lbrn in the flesh, we wi'l presume (tew avoid argument) that yu a-a n the lookout for rumthing in the nixla v line tew boost yu in -the uphilt ov lilo. and tew keep his eye" on ihe briichi; when yu begin tew go down the other side ov the mountain. Let me give yu suui small chuncks ov advice hew tew spot yure fewter hussband : 1. The man who iz jelloun ov everV little attenshun which yu git from sum other fellow,' yn will find, after it are married tu him, luvs himself more lhar he dnz yu. and what yu mistook for so lissitUile, yu will deskover, has changed into indifference Jdlouey iwi't a beart diseaze ; it is a liver kotnpl.iini. 2 A mustfsh is nol indispensible ; it iz only a little more hair, and iz a gHd deal like mosa and other excrrssciices often di z the best on sile lhat won't raiz.t enii) thing else. Don't forgit that Ihon things which 3 u admire in a pheilow be fore m.iiriage, yu will probably have lew admire in a husband after, and a muRfash will gii tew be very weak diet after a long time 3. If hu?sbanJs could be took on tiial, nzli ih cooks aie, Iw. -thirds ov them would probably be retained; but lharu don"? seem to be. enny itw for this. Tl.arcfoiv, gisls, yu will see that after yu git a man, 3 u have got tew keep him, even it' 3-u loos; on him. Consequently, if yu have got enny kold vides in the house, try him on them, orcein a while, doling courting season, ana it he Fwallers ihem well, and sez he will take sum more, h is a man who, when blue Monday cums will wash well. 4. Don': marry a phelW who iz alwua a-telhng how hiz mother doz Ihincs. It iz az hard lew suit these men az il iz tewr wean a J ung one. 0 If" a ynng man kan boat yu plavin on a pianner, and kant hear a flMi -horn plajing in the street without turning n back summerset t on account ov the mo sick that iz in him, I say, skip 'him: h might answer lew tend babe, but if yu ett li'un lew litjcing out the garden, vu will tiud that yu have got tew do it yuro self. A m.vn whoza whole bfi lies in musick ( nd not very hefty at that), ain t no better for a hussband than a seedl,. powder-; but if ho Iovls to listen wh 1-yu ing sum gentle ballad, yu will f1Kl hai mellow, and not soft, liut don't marry oimyboddy for jist one virtew eon) quick er than yu would fbp a mar. for iist on fault. G. It is one of the most tuflest thin.- for a female tew be an old maid success fully. A grate menny haz tried it, and made a bad job ov it. Everybody seem, lew look upon old maids jist as they do upon dried' bat bs hi the garret, handy for sickness and, therefore, girls, it aim a mistake that yu should bo wiiiing lew swop yurstlt oph, with some true pheilow, for u hussband. The swop is a good one; but don't swop for enny man who iz re spectabel jist bekause his father iz. Yu had better bo an old maid for 4 thousand years, and then join the Shakers, than tew buy repentance at this price. No womao ever made ibis trade who didn't git either a phool, a mean cuss, or a clown for a husband. 7. In digging down into this subject, I find the digging grows harder the further i git. It iz mutch easier tew inform yu who not tew marry, than who tew, for th reason tharejz more v them. 1 don't think yu will fuller mi advise, if i give it ; and, tharefore, i will keep it ; for i look upon advise as i do upon castor ile a mean dose tew giv, anJ a mean dose tew take. Hut i must s;iy one thing, girls, or spile. If you kan Arid a height eyed, healthy, and well ballasted 003-, who looks upon poverty as sassy az a child looks upon wealth who had rather sit cown on tha cuib-ston, in frent of the 5th avenue ho tel, and eat a ham sandwi'ch. than tew go inside, and run in debt for hiz dinner and toothpick one who is arm-d with that kind of pluck, lhat mistakes a defeat for a victory, mi advise is tew take him boddy and soul nare him at onst, for he iz a stray trout, or a breed very skarsa m our waters. Take him. I sa3', and Lild onto hiro, az hornets bild on to a tree. Ftw persons are aware of the extent to which lumber in Maine is being worked up and exported in the ahape of 6Javes. shook, laths, pickets, hoops, spexd sniff! etc. One house has lately exported $100, 000 worth of casks of all nize to Havana, Mobile, New York, HoMon, Pittsburg ami other cities. They are usually put up in rests of six, varying from 8 keg to t hevi Tu tr.
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