g-&ZJS- ' 'If---- -111 namiULMUJU- '-'''ZZZZ1 -T 1-"" ""-MiBaSS3 iffiiiltfrtff Kte: ifM f w j km -' ' ' rd'tor and Publisher I,. A. n'?'hV' 1 VOLUME 5. nK IS A FREEMAN AYH03I THE TRUTH MAKES FREE, AND ALL ARE SLAVES BESIDE Terms, $2 per year In advance. EBENSBURG, PA., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1871. NUMBER 35. 51;'.;- 3(lftnsww THEEEaCISliFECTASfT Rreis?o C&Iornlum ! MX-I'OI.MJXrS. POKI.ES.S. iov i : it i'iTLi TI!:Ii,'J ';i'i:vi:x r contagion. . hotels, rostaraunt?. !-:f!io asylums, clis- r;l:,V ' 1 i. i !::. tit houses, markets, .;;-!':.. yjnUs, sowers, cess- t '.'','"' .'. ..- ,nni i.-xf)'.'iff.if flis- '. V:.'. ,.!...i-J i ' '. ship fever. ;. t i , nii'.isics, chsease-3 OI .. . i 1 I ! .1 I'l 1 n:i!v t-V ! ; A '; W illiam St., X. Y. rte. ,,M '. ;.l. 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WAG-NIiit A . . whi.e re, j. liny in South Amer . ' .. . '!i.-i:civiTi'il u -ale an. 1 sim :i.e ( ure f Nervous Weakness, .- ii-cs of tin- I'rinary and Sem I t'ie hule train of disorders anil I'ieioiis haliits. (ireat hi ineil Py tl.is nolile retnedy. ' t'i i.eiii-lit th'Mifllieted and : i -end tlie rec ipe for preparinur i ! inc. in u sealeil envelope, to i- 't. 1r r uf clfiny. Addrc-ss 'a'ii.n I), UiPle House, N.Y. City. .t M... i i in 'v P-. lr.'. -i I,. Advertising. H"-. !y printed pn?e. lately is . li-l ol thel,c-i-t Aineric-an Ad ai. '.'niinf tli? nmiies. circ-nla- M. ... p. f,.; .v.t,.',. ' A '! I'olitieal and Family a-, 1 "'" '"-'Hi'T with all those having fc--,la't:,,!"""- l"l,,l'-li-d in the intere st of A: , r'i r. , " - 1 J I .('.Tit ft. I itipnti, - Kvery i v nerson whooontenii'l.ites -H. II. will tin.C l,Ju r,V irn.nl ',!':, f' , f' totmv nddress on receipt of L.'.ri, v UKM I. iU)Vl-;l,li &, CO., I'ub- 'V I'1 l' "'k K,,H' Now York. Va i "-''"-Ii I'a.i Lratlrr. in its Issue of , V'-' " " : "'' linn of . I'. Howell & n' V '' i merest inR-and valnatilu cj ...",),. '."'-'- nd best Advertising Ajren ti. .littc-s. and we can chcfrt'utly (..a'1' '' ' ' ""' 'cut ion of those who de '.! ''ll'''i'-e their business selcii tilic-ally a', '""'eall.v in such away: that is, W,. i " ur" hirtrest amount of publicity " a-t iKiiture of money." ,.JA-Mi:s r. MILLTKEN, 7v R N EY-AT-LAW A yJ U ..!, J. STATE AO VXT, "td.ldriAYSIJUHG, PA. r. :. " :iti, nt n viven to the collection of iniiria. Huntina-dcju. Hedford, !'.,.. ,";. ietirtieM counties. 4r i-j.-'i purc hase, rent, lease. Bell Hit,- .Man' win una HK'CUiiy ( lill on or iiilili'esa mr to "" ti'le'ijee iu either Jintrlish or Ger- v"in. Mann, Ksi so.. Messrs. .Mor- v, lV 1 V 1 " T. Colli-, l'hiladel- ' r- W:l' & !r'.. M.Gorinlcy, Lv 'Mli , 1;mI" l'ittsl.urK-; Hon. John .lr; ii, ,, ,, '" ion.t.. iiiair, iioinuays- .'. I.,. . ': 1 I' . Kl:sl liu.n.i ' Ift W Vr,Oils "ait. ;' yriisl F.ldcr. I-jcci.. Johnstown: Hclleforitc. IUIJ.-If.I t. T,,.rr- ...1AMKS NUr.T- COLLECTION OFFICE 'tPMcrv o. mi ii i -or- to.,,,, " ' ' i y-s i ' j n.ut. iw KbcpnburK, Pa. ' aiti ntiun paid to collections in e i. nited stutes. ii-'a.-nM T. W. DICK, l i i'l'"' tbensljurp. XV '-'.IN cfc DICK, Attoknkys-at-"'-ilv,'. '-'"-'ishnrjr. I'a. Ollieo with Win. KPensburij. 'ii Coluna.lc, itow. I) oct.-"-'. 'm:l Mclaughlin, a umwv . Johnstown, l'a. (i;ieo In the old I.. .ii. '"rt, uiii-sTiiirs.i cniiior or in,- f.i.'r. recta. Will attend to all bus- t:d with hi profession. J 1'. LINTON, Attm nat-rstw, i.,!.r','""'w"- Va. Office Jn bnildinir south. 0r:-1 -t, l..!'rr .'.'f Main and Franklin m recta, sec- ' r.nt ruuee on Franklin street. N, Jlstick ok tiik I'kace, "t-towii. Pa. Office on Irnn street. '!' '"-aniaugh ISridgeand Pa. H. U.De-'-i tintis and all business .lutruMed to promptly attended tv. H-ll. J. l,.. . KEF FIR31 INiX OLDJSTAKD GOOD GOODS & GREAT BARGAINS FOR THE ttEADT CASH I LJAVING become proprietor? of the STORE n ltOOM and STOCK OF GOODS recently be-lona-itiff to H. . Shoemaker & Co., and having purchased an additional STOCK OF NEW GOODS I A' (ill HAT VARIETY, vre arc now prepared to supply all the old cus tomers of the late firm, and as many new ones as will patronize us, v. itli Goods of all kinds at PRICES FULLY AS LOW as any other merchant In or out of Cambria county. It is our intention to keep our Store constantly stocked with a full and well se lec ted assortment of UliV Goons, liltKSS GMHS, FANCY GOODS. NOTIONS. IJOOTS, MfOKS, 1 1 A TS. CA PS. C L )T 1 1 1 N ( 5 , C A I ! ' I "IS. F L 1'N I TIUF, ())L CLOTHS. OF F.FNSW AKK, G HO C Kit IKS, FFOFK, HA CON, FISH, SALT, TO HACCO, CIGAHS. and all other articles, lat ere or email, that can be found Ih any store of like oharacter in thy county ; and as we intend to KSCLl'SIVELY lor CASH on corsTiiY phodice, and make no bad debts, we feel sure that our stock and our prices will not only secure but retain for us a liberal share of patronage. EARLY VISITS FROM ONE AND ALL are respectfully solicited, and if we fail to ren der entire satisfaction, both as regards the qual ity of our jroods and the prices asked for them, it will certainly be no fault of the new lirm at the old stand of Hiooinaker t Co.. llijrh street, lfcm't forjret to call and we'll not forget to tfivo you full value for your moncv. MY KKS & LLOYD. Fbensburg-, Jan. '2 IsTl.-tf. EBENSBURG FOUNDRY ! J. A. SHOEMAKER, lstfistartr, ai TTidsra: acd Eotail Teller ia THRESHING MACHINES. IlORSE l'OWEBS. WIND MILLS; TLOWS and TLOW POINTS. SHOVEL PLOWS. CULTIVATORS; HEATIN3 1 COOXINB'STOYES -OF KYKIIY DKS1GN ANDVUICE; Church, School and Dinner BELLS; cast iiioiv n:cicj, KETTLES, a U'LLLH til I I : f every description, Ac Av. ALL WOllK VAIiK ANTED ! ! t "rSpecial attention paid to the repairing of all kinds of Stoves, Farming Ftensils, Ac. Ail trder promptly attended to. Old metal, grain, etc., taken in exchange for work. Kbeusburg, July 1, l'.l.-:iin. i:.MOVAL and EN LA KG EM ENT. COOKING STOVES, HEATING STOVES. Til COFFER & SllMMI Ml Having recently taken possession of the new ly fitted up and commodious building on Hisrh street, two doors east of the Bank and nearly opposite the Mountain House, the subscriber is better prepared than ever to manufacture sill articles in the TIN.COI'PEU and SHKF.T-IUON WAKE line, all of which will be furnished to buyers at the very lowest living prices. The subscriber also proposes to keep a full aud varied assortment uf Cccking-, Parlor and HeatiDg Stoves of the most approved designs. r??-SPOrTINC. and ROOFING made to order and warranted perfect in manufacture and ma terial. REPAIRING promptly attended to. All work done bv me will be done right and on fair terms, and all STOVES and WAKE sold by me can be depended upon as to quality anil cannot be undersold in price. A continuance and increase- of patronage- is respectfully solici ted, and no cn'ort will be wanting to render en tire satisfaction to all. VALI.1E LL'TEINGER. Ebensburg, Oct. 13. lS70.-tf. EXttKsiox ticki:t! I M u S : c - S f2 i 5 5 2 . 3 - $ 2 0 w a " t I 3 ca Pi w i-3 6 Km H c si 'f C CO o "a. C r. "3 t; .1 5 S p X o 1- 5 00 C5 C2 AUCTION! AUCTION! HAVING leen commissioned by Gover nor Geary to act as .1 I'L'TKtSKEIl in and for the Horough of Ebensburg, I am now prepared to receive and sell at Public uetioii all kinds of Goods, Wares. Mer chandise, ic., and also attend totheduties of uctionec-r at all sales of Lands, Tene ments, Live Stock, Household Furniture, Are., A: c, within the limitsof said Horough. Term moderate' Inquire at No. 100 High Street. -V. Ij. OATMAA", Ebensburg, pril MsTL-tf. GREAT WESTERN GUN WORKS. ItifleH, Double and Single Barrel. Shot Gun, Ilcwtlvers, Ammunition. Sporting Goods, Rifle Rarrels, Locks, Mount ings Gun Materials. e. Send for a Price List Address . I. II. JOHNSTON, a rent WeHtcmUun IFotAf, l) Smithheld Street, Pittsburgh, Pa. tr N. it. Army Carbines,Kilies and ltevol vera bought or traded for. F 7IKST NATIONAL SADDLE AND - If A f! vr.fsS SHOP OF CAMimiA f'Or.VTV, High strc-ct, (oiosite Union School House,) West Ward, Ebensburg, Fa. M. M. O'NEILL, J'roprletor. .Sucdc and jiiirwcwiiiauuuiiu im paired and all ot her work in my line executed in the best manner, on the shortest noTTc-e. and at th most reasonable rales. . Ll-Ei.-tf.J T EMMOX '& 1LANK, , t Practising VU nlclan. EitiiNsnt'itfJ, PA; t'T-Office In rear of Lemmon & Murray's Drug and Hook Store, High street. iJuu.T-t;ia.J F. A.SnoKMAKEB,...... GEO. A. BEKIIY SII O I: M A K E II fc H E 11 II Y , ATToUNKYri-AT-I.AW, March 11, 1871. EliMA'SDUIiO, rA. THE CARDIFF CI A XT. HMory of the Ktntue and Its Halter -'- . .iiinc 1111. j ...IV I A Prolitukle Venture for a 1'nriuer's i . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 J -- uriiiini uc-iuuit. BiNcnASiPTCN. Sept. 18. Tbe world must coijfcrbs that it was liever liuoibugged eo bril liantly as it was a year ago last eumuer by the discovery of the petrified man near Syra cuse, N. Y. The Cardiff Giant was'tho work of do ordiuary genius. The man that could conceive atd successfully carry out such a master-piece of jugglery is a chai?c tir. 1 propose to give a bbort account of the ibdividual and of his mysterious enterprise. A isign in front of a fine new brick build ing in this place beats the inscription, "Geo. Hull, minufacturer and dealer iu foreign and domes! io cigars." Inside the building are evidences of quite an extensive business. Uncontradicted rumor says that both build ing and busincFs have been established with capital earned to the proprietor by the Car diff Giaut, of which he was also the sole 01 i ginator, manufacturer and perpetrator. Mr. Hull is now iu his 40th year. He was born j at b.dney s rord, on the Cunnecticut River, between Hartford and Springfield. Here he lived on a farm till he was '28. Through his youth, which was filled with remarkable in cidents, he cultivated his peculiar mind in a very peculiar way, almost wholly without bocks ; but, after all, in a way just as well adapted as any other to fit hiui for making the Catuiff Giant. He was a born inventor. A harness "snap" invented by him has come iuto universal use. His patents were I'uiN tans .sturdy old Connecticut people. The young man was brought up in the must im plicit obedience to his god Puritan mother's religious faith. Rut at the age wheu the reasouing powers begin to supersede the s'm plt-st tru-t cf childhood he began to launch out into frtethiukiug, and the-u for the first time he set himself to reading. His books were exclusively the te of religious philoso phy. Cuttiug loose fiom the laith in which ho had bteu bred, he invented daring theories of his own upon religious matters. His the ological iuveutioua were, abstractedly speak ing, very unfortunate, though, practically, they earned for him all the niot.ey he possess es iu the world ; for the Cardiff Giant the source of his foitune was the direct upshot and result of his metaphysics, aud that iu this, wise: The youog skeptic, ccuiing to manhood, possts:-ed a tolerable knowledge of the polemical literature of religion. Ha had read touiethiug on both sides, though, of course, generally on the wrong side, lie had devourtd everything that savired of ra tional philosophy, whether found in David Iiuu.e's writings or iu The Sprinjidd Ilcpub lican. Thus he had become quite decently fortified in infi.lelity, aud liked nothing bet ter than to fchowifl' his pyrotechnic argu ments against religion, by engaging iu dis cussions with clergy men, deacons and church elders. It was in the midst c f one cf these discussions that there fi shed upon his miud the conception of John Henry Cardiff, the Ouondago Giant of Gypsum. At the age of twenty-eight the young, but confirmed, skeptic left the paternal farm to make his own independent fortune in the world. Chance guided his footsteps to Bing hamfton, then one of the flourishing large villages of interior New Yoik. CLainied with the resemblance of the Chenango Val ley to the rich fla'.Mauds of the Connecticut, he sought him out a few fertile acies two miles north of the village, aud transplanted there his old Connecticut occupation of to bacco raising. Oo this farm he stayed fifteen years, and besides arguiug all his religious neigLbjrs out of their senses, he continued to pay for his land, and afterward to sup port his old parents u:-c!c-r his own roof. At the end of this fifteen years he found himself in possession of a for a farmer comfortable littte fortune, being worth, when the impor tant crisis iu his life came, say $5,000. This was about 1SG3. The war was then making men restless, and driving them hither and thither on ail sorts of tnaJ erraads, either of fortune or military glory. The Broome coun tv tobacco-plauter was infected, and taking his family, he started for "the West." He went to Wisconsin, and then to lowa. He never forgot his skeptical arguments. Wher ever he went, no clergyman or preacher, ProttsUnt or Catholic, Hebrew or Greek, escaped his batteries. Many were the nights that he sat up till morning arguing ou theo logical matters. Ouo dark, stormy winter's evening at Ackley, Hardin county, Iowa, he was sitting by the dying bed of a man named Ogden. The village pastor had been called in and he too was a watcher in the sick room. True to his instincts, Mr. Hull called out the aged divine iu vindication of his be lief. From a measured and slow conversa tion they advanced to a heated discussion, which prolonged itsslf iuto an aigument, aud continued till nearly morning. Debatiug upon the veracity of "the Old Testament his tory, the skeptic stated his couvictiou that the first two chapters of Genesis, giving the history of the Creation, were false. This the venerable clergyman stoutly contested, ex pressing the most implicit faith in the narra tive of the Creation, and in the fact that our first parents were mote nearly pet feet than their descendants have proved to be. "There were giants iu those days, you know,'' said the-clergyman. "What evidence have you that there were giants?" demanded his an tagonist. "Why, tome have been found, sir"" replied the zealous but imprudent cler gymau. Retiring to bed about daybreak, the heateu brain of the skeptical debater reflected long upon what seemed to him the bigotry of re ligious zealots. "They are ready to believe anything." ho argued with himself. "No matter how improbable, they take stock in anything that affords them an argument. I verily believe that old geutlemau would be lieve a sack of hard salt was Lot's wife, if it were properly shown bim. Ilucdreds of people would believe in a stone image of one of the sons of Anak if they should find it already manufactured and couldu't discover its ori"in." Then flashed on him a full con ception of John Henry Cardiff, the Ouunda co Giant. It sprang up in his heated brain in full panoply. Every detail was there; the stone image, its burial and discovery, and the fortune to be made out of showing it to thousands of the credulous at fifty cents a head! It is wondeiful how works of ge nius thus flash on the inspired brain. No thing was lackiog of the complete Cardiff fliniit in that first conception; the exact form of tho image resuscitated from autiqui- J ty ; its peculiar posture, unlike that of stat ues of gods and men, proving it conclusively to be not an image but a petrifaction; the very pores of the fk;n, showing that the stone once had flesh and blood and a vascu lar system all had their place iu that first conception of genius. Then there was the complete scheme of tho fortune to be made fiom selling out half and quarter and eighth interests. Tu only one single respect did the idea differ from the Sua! realization. That was in respect to size. Tbe sens cf Anak, to be like themselves, must surely be sixteen feet in height; aad of that stature it was determined that the fossil man should be made, to the uttermost cubit. The difficulty of finding a stone sufficiently large, however, caused the giant to abate in his final actual lerjgtb to ten feet, eleven inches. From that night, UDeasy rested the head that gave birth to that marvelous conception. The secret was kept locked tightly there, however, for eighteen mouths. Nothing was added to or substracted from the original de sign, and the only thing developed was the money and the pluck necessary to carry the thiug through. At leogth, in the early sum mer of 18o7, the decision was taken. Mr. Hull brought back his family to Biughamp tou, and started again immediately for the West to begin woik. At that time not one other soul had been made participator in the mysterious project. Even wife and children were in total ignorance of the object of the return to Binghamptou. aud the immediate journey of the husband and father to the West. On his arrival in Wisconsin, Mr. H., beginning to hunt for land, felt the want of a partner ; yet to whom could he confide a pr ject which rested so entirely on profound t ecrecy 1 But the creator of pre-adamite man wa3 also a good reader of his fellow-men. He became acquainted with a Mr. F., from Morrison, 111. F. was then engaged in the patent-right busiuess. He was a successful man. Ho appeared to be a man who could keep a secret. So he was picked out for a partner.- Gradually, but fully, the scheme was developed to the attentive F. The suc cessful pateut-right vender replied at once that he was ready to "go in." He would put in capital, but could not spare tho time. But the lime and personal aid was just what was needed moft of all ; and so, after expos ing the secret, the offer must bo rejected, and no g od come of it ! Yet one good did come of it. F. tohl of an acquaintance livieg in Chicago, one B , who had more time, aud would also "go in." Though B. was never made a partner, yet it was in his barn iu Chicago that John Henry Cardiff's noble image was afterward sculptured.' Moreover, the confidence shared by the moneyed but busy F. was never betrayed. Failing of getting a partner, the plucky giant-maker set out again alone. He heard of vast gypsum deposits near Fort D.'dge, Iowa. After visiting and surveying the gypsum he determined that the material was exactly that of pen iff d giants, and so he bought an acre of the quarry land, being three miles below Fort D.Kige, on the east side of the river, paying 100 for it. Then drills, crowbars, blasting implements, and powder was bought, and the first step to ward revolutionizing geolcgy commenced one bright morning in August. Four men were hired to help quarry out the stone. They were compelled to excavate to a depth of fifteen feet before any pieces of stone suffi ciently large were found. Even then the layers seemed too thin for a prime giant ; so work was suspended for a few days, and further prospecting for a better quarry was di ne. The giant-buiider heard by report that at a spot a mile to the east the Dubuque and Sioux City Ilailroad Company was en gaged in constructing a culvert, and was quarrying large pieces of gypsum for the arch. Going there, he found some beautiful large sections that seemed especially made f.r embodying the fossil remains of a giaut. Qnarrymen were hired to get out as large a piece as possible. By successful "feather ing," a huge fragment of gypsum. 12 feet long, 3 feet wide, and 2 feet thick, was separated from the r". k. That fragment is today the Cardiff Giant. The stone thus procured was forty-five miles from the near est railroad station. A contract was there fore made with a teamster to curry it this forty-five miles for $123, He hitched on all the horses he could get and tugged at it three days, getting it along only two miles, and then abandoned the job. The generous giant killer paid the di.-couraged teamster $20 and let him go. Theu a new contract was made with another man to complete the job at $li0. It was agreed that the stone should be at Boonesboro' ia three days ; and its owner was told that he need give himself no unensinfss about it. So he betook his wea ried brain and body to the I'oinsboro' tavern, and rested one week, awaiting the arrival of the rough gem. Morning and evening he looked out of the window to see the big stone come into the villago, but in vain. At last he returned to the spot and found tho gyp sum lying just where ho had left it. ' Inde fatigable genius again thrown back on its resources must apply its shoulder to the wheel. Hull himself hired horses, hitched them on, and slowly but steadily the stone moved toward Boonsboro. The jmrney lasted three weeks. But the railroad finally reached, John Henry started on the first of his numerous railroad journeys, marked in black paint, "G. Hull. Chicago. 111." Btfote the stone reached Chicago Mr. Hull, goiDg on before it, had consulted with Mr. F.'s Irientl B , engaged him in the place, and rented of him his barn. This barn ia situated on Clark street, on the north side of the city beyond Lincoln Park. . The stone block was taken in the barn at night. B. also knew of men that were handy with a stone-chisel. Two of them both Ger mans were engaged to apply their art to John Henry's physiognomy. The head workman had done considereble ornamental ' stone-werk iu Chicago, and perhaps possess, ed some-slight suspicious of the sculptors art. He of course must be initiated into the se cret, and that of course raised tho pried of his wages, lie was paid $10 per day, and was a lazy workman at that. The remarkable genius who had conceived the work, after ail, was obliged to supply the better part of the "handicraft for the work cf sculpture. Fir.st, several clay images were made. Every ef fort was put forth to avoid any likeness to a statue. The peculiar position in which the giant baa been seen by so many visitors ia the result of this strenuous endeavor. Fi nally, a clay image was mads satisfactory to all requirements and the work of reproduc ing it ia the block of gypsum coiumeuced. The Gei man head employee frequently bolt ed, demanding more pay, so that Hull him self was obliged to do a large part of the work. But the statue gradually advanced toward completion. At the end of threo months, there stood John Henry, naked, bald and picturesque. But natuie herself requires more thau a sculptor's chisel for her imitation. The very pores of the skin must be represented on John Henry's bodj'. To this end the following device was resort ed : A circular piece of card-board, the size of a watch crystal, was cut out. Tho hand waH pressed on this, leaving prints of the skin's pores. Darning needles were pressed through the card-board at the points mat ked by lhese prints. Then the needles were fixed in place by plaster of Paris ; and into plaster of Paris was pouted melted lead, thus forming a handle. The tod bo made was in fact a heavy hammer, with the darniug needle points pr- p-cting from its face. Then the whole body of the mysterious giant was careful!' pecked over. Especial care was used to make the matks plaiu and deep under John Henry's nose, in the place where modern giants wear their moustaches. Fi nally, the whole body had three separate baths of sulphuric acid, giving it a lusty, dingy appearance, and carrying the date of its origin back at least 2,000 years. Now. that the giant was fiui.shed, came the hardest work of all that of getting him intornaiket if we may apply a modern phrase to so aucient a subject. This petri fied man weighed 2.900 pounds, and even to move it was a great tak ; but to move it out t'f the city and away iu secrecy there was the rub. But the same indomitable genius triumphed here as everywhere previously. The giant was measured, and a .mammoth box of two-inch plank was constructed for him. The driver who brought this box was intensely curious to learn its purpose, and was only half sati: fijd by being told that it was for the conveyance of marble. Never theless he went off, leaving the box in front of the barn door. Late at night it was taken into the barn, a derrick made, the image raised and placed in the huge coffin ; the lid wrs spiked down, and the whole box was strapped around and around with sturdy iron strips one-eighth c.f an inch thick and one and one-half inches wide. The next day John Henry Cardiff figured on the way bills at the freight depot, under the direction of "George Old:;, Union, Broom County. New York." It had been the intention of the projector to bury the giant in a Western prairie, and afterward to emigrate thither. But it was found, when the statue was com pleted, that funds were lacking for trans porting it to the West and for procuring and fitting up an emigrant wagon for carrying out the scheme. It was therefore decided, by that ill luck, that the image should be shipped to Binghampton, so that its owner, having the giant at home, could take his own time and wait for the capital to come to haod.. Union, whither the box was shipped, is the next railroad station west of Binghauipton. Mr. Hull himself came to Binghampton and rejoined his family, after an absence of nine months devoted exclu sively to his mysterious project. The pro blem now was where to bury tho giant. It was the summer of 1SG8. A great seusation had just been caused by the discovery of a cave in the earth at Salisbury, Conn. He port described this as a second Mammoth Cave, full of all sorts of relics and remaius of remote antiquity. "Here is the place for them to discover a fossil giant," said tbe giant-killer, and he started at ence for Salis bury. But the owner of the new found Machpelaii demanded a fabulous price for it, and the giant was compelled to abandon his intentions against Connecticut.. Something must speedily be done, however, for the stone man was now on his way East, and must be taken away from the railroad sta tion as soon as it should arrive. At this point it occurred to the unfailing geuius of our giant builder that he had an acquaint, ance, one Newell, withal a shrewd fellow, living near Syracuse. New , York. His resU dence was in the middle of thai famed On ondaga Hollow," where geology places an ancient inland sea, and where rumor speaks of wondeiful fossil discoveries. To Ononda ga therefore went the father of giants. He found Newell, gently broached the subject to him. anti discovered that Barkis was wil ling, and not only willing butaDxicus to get a shore in the proprietorship of the forth coming wonder. A Her some bargaining it was stipulated that Newtll should receive a one-eighth interest for his services in the nffair. On looking over Ne well's farm Mr. Ilu'l discovered a spot of sunken ground near the barn, which appeared to bo the location of an abandoued well. "Now, Ne well, there's our spot," said Anack, the father of giants ; you commence a well there, draw stone for curbing, tell all your neigh bors that you are going to open a well for vour cattle next summer, and there's our game." Newell replied that ho could play that. "Well, you want to study on that one point, and not tell anybody, not even your wife." "But, after all, I believe New ell blowcd on me," said Mr. Hull, in describ ing the result. THE BOKIAL AND THE RESURRECTION. Hull now returned home, and waited a week for the arrival of the giant at Uuion. At the eud of that time he sent two men and four horses for the big box consigned to v George Olds." They loaded the box on the wagon aud started for Cardiff, some 70 miles distant. People along the road fre quently asked about the coutents of the strange-looking box. The usual reply was, "It's Jeff. Davis" an individual whose memory was then just dying out of the world. The drivers of this wagon were relatives of Mr. Hull, and were good, trusty fellows. It was so arranged that they should arrive at Cardiff iu the night. So, stopping at New eli'a house about midnight, they unloaded the vast box, covered it up in a mass of chaff at tho barn door, and in twenty minutes had driven away again, leaving the barn-yard alone to darkness and the uususpicious look ing mass of . chaff. Iu this ignoble condi tion lay the wonderful giant for three or four weeks. At the end cf that time a derrick was finished and shipped by railread to Cardiff.- That night Hull and Newell removed the sleeping giant from his bed of straw to he "well" and buried him. Home at last in mother earth, John Henty now awaits the trump of the Harvard College professors to awake him into the famous antediluviau man. He waited just one year. During the Winter, Newell drew stone for building his "well." When curious neighbots made inquiries about it he explained something as lollows : "Waal, you see. them cattle of mine have a denied hard time of gettin' through the mud to tfce creek to drink, and I'm goin' to have a well for 'em here at the barn." Then receiving the full approbation of his neighbors (without which it is so im possible to do any new thing on a farm), Mr. Newell proceeded in the Summer to open his well. When they had dug down a few feet the giant was discovered lying on Lis side, just as he had laiu for 2.100 years, by the very marks of the earth surrounding. Cur ious ' neighbors returned to gnz:. Rumor spread the report. Citizens of Syiacuse came up in Cocks to see the wonder. Crowds ou crowds now came to see. Newell swore that he wouldn't have his ".rass trodden down auyhow, and covered up the hole again. This was too much for human cuiio.-ity. The crowd demanded a sight at the mysteri ous giant, aud offered to raise money to pay for the destruction of crops. So it finally, natural!', though wholly noex pectedly,- you know, came about that 50 cents was charged as au admittance fee. At this price over 5.000 persons vitited the giant daily. A special excursion train was run from Roches ter. Scientific men pricked up their ears from afar, and came in crowds, put on their spectacles, examined, saw the pores in the skin, saw the versimilitude of nature, and pronounced the discovery a fossil. A dele gation from Harvard College finally settled it for the country that John Henry Cardiff was no less than a pre-adamite man, who completely overthrew the Old Testament. Of all the savans who drew near in awe only one ventured to doubt. This was a joucg sandy-hairtd professor from Yale, who pretended to discover straws and bits of chaff in the dirt, and to see evidences of recent digging. But he was speedily suppressed, and science triumphed. The giant was now well on thoi market a fact of more interest to Mr. Hull than even the victory of science. Immense e tiers for shares in tho concern were madi by show men. The projector and owner of the giant came on the ground to negotiate with them. The men who bought out the original shares were Messrs. Wescott,' Higcings, and Gi'lett, of Sracuse, Speucer, of Utica, and Hamman of Homer. N. Y. Afterward, Messrs. Fitch, and Eilis $f Co.. bankers, in Syracuse, bought another eighth at 15,000. The fiual eighth was still owned by the man ufacturer, Mr. Hull. He retained his share till April. 1871, when he sold it out in Bos ton. When as-ked how much money he had made out of the enterprise. Mr. Hull replied that ho didn't care to give the precise figures, "but that he had made enough so that he wasn't pinched," and added that he expect ed a still further addition to his income by the publication of a book containing the full history of the affiir. 'The expense," said he, "of getting up the thing till the final day of planting it at Cardiff was just S2.C00; what 1 have received above that is clear gain." When I inquired as to the present whereabouts of the giant. Mr. Hull replied that he did not know yut where it was on exhibition now, and, heaving a sigh at the agony caused him at parting with his pet, he described the last occasion when he saw it. This was at New Haven last Spruig. His hotel landlord urged him to go down town to see the greatest wonder of the age. "Anel go this morning," saic. he, "for the profes sors are just now gone down to examine it." So he went down. Tho exhibitor. Gotts, espied the towering form of thegiact'a father, and pointed him out to a grayhaired profts sor. who Was engaged in examining John Henry" beneath a microscope. "That man made this image!" exclaimed the indignant professor : "never, that is unless he is more than 1.200 years old !" So it seems the giant still has his believers. A WOSDERI'l'L COXJl'RER. A CT0KY THAT WE DO SOT BELIEVK. About the beginning of lh present centu ry, a specie of the Cagliostro, or rather a superior kind ofAVizrd of the North, made his appearauce tU St. Petersburg, and aston ished the natives by his marvelous perform ances. His name was Pirnetti. and his fame j is yet in the memory of those who witnessed : 111.-?- .- 111s unrivancci cuenis. The Czar AU-xauder, having heard Tirnet ti much spoken of, wr.s desirom of seeing him ; and one day it was announced to the conjurer that he would have the honor of giviug a representation of his magical pow ers at court, the hour fixed for hiui to make his appearauce being seven o'clock. A bril liant and numerems assembly of ladies and courtiers presided over the Czir, had met, but the conjurer was absent. Surprised and displeased, the Czar pulled out his watch, which indicated five minutes after seven. Piraetti had not only failed in being in wait ing, but he had caused the court to wait, and Alexander was not more patient than Louis XIV. A quarter of an hour passed, half an hour, and no Pirnetti! Messengers who had been sent in search of him returned unsuccessful. The anger of tho Czir, with difficulty restrained, di.-played itself in threat ening exclamations. At length, after. tho lapse of an hour, the door of the saloon opened, and the gentleman of the chamber announced Pirnetti, who presented himself with a ctflm front, and the sereuity of one who had done nothing to reproach himself with. The Czar, however, was greatly dis pleased ; but Pirnetti assumed an air of as tun'uditnent. aud replied with the greatest coolness, "Did not your JIj:sly cotiimauJ my presence at seven o'clock precisely t" "Just so !" exclaimed tho Czar, at the height of exasperation. "Well, then." said Pirnetta, "let your Majasty design to look at your watch, and you, will perceive that I am exact, and that it is just seven o'clock." - The Czar," pulling out his watch violently, in order to confound what he considered a piece of downright insolence, was complete ly amaaed. The watch marked seven o'clock, la turn all -tbe com tiers drew out their watches which were found as usual, exactly regulated by that cf the sovereign. Seven o'clock ! indicated with a common accord all the watches and clocks of the palace. The art of the magician was at once manifest ia this strange retrogression in tho march cf time. To anger succeeded astonishment and admiration. Perceivtug tb.vt the Czar faint ly smiled. Timet': addieised him : Your Majesty will j.ardou me. It was by the performance of this trick that I was desirous of making my first appearance be. fore you. But I know how piccious truth is at court; it is at least necessary that your watch should tell it to yon, sire, ll 30a consult it now, 3-ou will find that it maiks tho real time." The Czar again drew forth his watch it poiuted to a lew minutes past eight ; the same reflection had taken place iu all tha watches of thoe present, and iu the clocks of the palace. This exploit was followed by others tqually amusing and surprising. At the close of t he pei formances, the Cz ir, after having complimented Pirnetti, brought back to his retxembrance that in the couisa cf the evening's auiUstmtuts he had declared that he could penetrate everywhere. "Yes, sue, everywhere!" tcplied the conj jurer, with rnueiest asJrince. ' What!" exclaimed the Czir, "could you penetrate eveu into this palace, wete I to order all the doors to be closed and guarded?" "Into this palace, sir, or even into the apailmentof your Majesty, quite as easily as I should enter into my owu house," said Pirnetti. "Well, then." said the Czar,. "at mid-day to-morrow 1 shall have ready hi' my closet the price of this evening's amusements ouo thousand rubles. Come and get them. But I forewarn you that the doors shall be closed and carefudy guarded." "To-morrow at mid-day I shall have tha honor of ptesenting myse.f before your Maj esty," replied Pirnetti, who bowed and with drew. The gentlemen of the household followed the conjurer to make sure that Ire quitted the palace ; they accompanied him to his lodgings, and a number of police surrounded the dwelliug Irona tbe moment be entered it. The palace was instantly closed, with posi tive orders not to 6uffer, under any pretext whatever, any oue to enter, were he prince or valet, until the Czar himself should com mand the doors to be optned. These orders were strictly enforced, confidential persons having watched their execution. The exte rior e.penings to the palace were guarded by the sonliery. All the approaches to the im perial apartments were protected by high eligoitaries, whom a simi le professor of the art of legerdemain possessed no means of bribing. In short, for greater security, all the keys had been carried into the imperial cabiuet. A few moments previous to tho hour affixed foi rirmuti's interview with the Czar, the chamberlain on service brought to his majesty a dispatch which a messenger had hauded l.itu through an opening in the door. It was reported from the Minister of Police that Pirnetti had not left home. "Aha! he has found out the undertaking is impracticable, and he has abandoned it," obsei ved the Czar, with a smile. Twelve o'clock sounded. While the last stroke yet reverberated, the do-r which com-i muuicated from the be-dreom of the Czar to the cabinet opeued. and Pirnetti appeared. The Czar drew Lack a couple of paces, bis brow darkened, and, after a momentary si lence, he said : "Are you aware that you may become a very dangerous individual?" "Yes, sir," he replied ; but I an: only an humble conjurer, with no ambition save that cf amusing your Majesty." "Here," said the Czar, "are the thousand rubles for last night, and a thousand for this day's visit." Pimetli, :u offering his thanks, was inter-" rupted by the Czar, who, with a thoughtful air inquired of him, "Do you count on yet remaining seme time in St. Petersburg?" "Sire," be replied, "I intend selling off thi week, unless your Majesty orders a prolongation of my sr j .urn." "No," hastily obsei ved the Czar, "it is not my intention to detain J'.:; an I. moreover," continued he, with a smile. "I should vainly endeavor to keep you against your will. You know l ow to leave St. Petersburg85 as ly as j-ou found your way into this palace." "I could do so, sire," said Piruetti ; "but far from wishing to quit St. Petersburg stealthily or mysteriously, I am desirous of quitting it in the most public manner possible by giving to the inhabitants of your capital a striking example of my magical powers." Pirnetti could not leave like an ordinary mortal ; it was necessaiy that he should crown bis success in the Russian Capital by something surpassing his previous efforts; therefore, on the evening preceding the day fixed fir his departure he announced that he should leave St. Petersburg the following day at 10 o'clock in tbe morning, and that he should quit by all the city gates at the same moment ! Public curiosity was excited to the highest degree bv this announcement, St. Petersburg at that lime had fifteen gates, which were encompassed by a multitude eager to witness this marvelous departure. The spectators at these various gates all declared that at 10 o'clock precisely Pirnet ti, whom they all perfectly recognized, pass ed through. "He walked at a slow pace and with head erect, in order to be Letter seen," they said ; "aud he bade us adieu ia a clear and audiblo voice." These uuanN mous testimonies were confirmed by the written declaiatiou of the officers placed at every gate to Inspect the passports of travels ers. The inscription of PirnettiVj passports was inscribed in the fifteen registers. Whero is the wizird, whether eoming from the North or S uth. who could in these degen erate days perform eo astonishing au exploit? A War Inctpknt. The latest "singular coiucide" is related by a New Yoik paper. Just after the battla of Winchester, a Fede ral and Confederate soldier lay sido by side one from Pennsylvania and the other from Virginia. The sion became warm friends, but finally got well aud separated, and never beard of cno another afterwards. Eight years have now passed siuce the "separation, which was very affectionate, and each re garded tbe other as dead. Lately the Penn sylvania Siiidierjstopped at a Louisville hotel, and, whiloseated ia the sitting room entered into conversation wiUi ;i gentleman, aad soca teamed that his new acquaintance was tha identical Confederate soldiers who lay beside hirr, in aWlochester hospital. But thestrang est part of the coincidence ia, that ech was twice wounded afterward, each remaiued ia the army until the close of the rebellion, and each alike went through the various grades of rank at nearly the same time, and both, having the sama rank whon tho war ended.
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