Gerniau Cradle Song. (Ussp. heart-loved babv ! my Jartiti* art thou. Close quick thy little blue eye-peep* new; All arc and quiet and (till ae the night. Sleep, and ill watch till thou wok eat ao bright Angela from heaven ae lovely a* thou, Float round thy cradle, and enule on thee now Later, tie true, yee ! they'll hover etill neat, Only to dry from thine eye the ead tear. Juat now, my lambkin, la golden the day Later, ah. later! 'twill not be ao gay . When norm we at ft ret thy cradle surroand. Then, darling baby, thoti'lt not eleep ao eonnd Sleep, heart-loved baby' although oomee the night, Motlier will ait near thy cradle in eight. Be it eo early, or be It ao late. Mother love, darling. atiU watches thy fate The Ceatnrj. Threagh storm m l calm Ik* yean have led Oar nation on from stage to stage. A osnturv'a (pace, until we tread The threshold of another age We see where o>r our pathway swept A torrent rtrvam of Moot and Are . And thank the £u*.\iiai> jxwer who kept Our sacred league of Siatee enure Oh ! checkered I Ton of yrarw, farewell. With all thy elrtfne and hopes and fear* j But with u* let thy ui<-uionr. " But I want you to look at it." "I shouldn't know anv wre about it if I did." " Well, then, 1 wiu.t v u to buy it." " Buy it! What for I ' •' Why, for me." " Pey five hundred 1 dlars for a hand kerchief for you t" " l'es, indeed. Why, {>apa, I should tlxiuk it was something atrocious. All the other girls have them, although certainly litis is a little, the least little nicer than th-ira. 1 don't know why Lacy should have a nicer handkerchief than I, just because she married. Any body else would say it was enough to be married, and so let me hare the hand kerchief. Married womeu have evety thing—love and lace and diamonds. Now, papa, jos-t take oat your pocket book." It was a coaxing voice. "Do you suppose I carry flve-hun dred-dollar lulls iu my poak el book ?" "It makes no odds. Your check book, then. I've set my heart on it, it's snch a beauty. If you only look at it—look at that wreath of flowers so delicately shaded; here the close work in the light, you ace, there the open work in the shade, so perfect yon can quite fancy the colon; and all done in this one thread. See, papa, there's s dew.lrop, that round hole in the mesh." " Nonsense, Flor; I can't see anything of the kind there." " That's because your eye isn't edn cated, sir. Mine is; fori have studied other people's laces t.ll I could almost work them. That's a good man! I knew you would. You always do. One, two, three !" And then there was a shower of kisses and tinkling laughter. And that was the conversation of a million aire and his daughter that Luciau Mal vin heard over the open transom o: the next room to his in the hotel where he staid overnight a year or two ago, seeing maither people nor handkerchief, and aghast at the thought of a handkerchief costing Ave hundred dollars, which was one-third of the mortgage on his little place, that he wa* trying to pay off, heart and soul—a conversation that now recurred to him in a moment of real agony, as the housemaid stood before him holding a little limp rag iu her hand that she had juri snatched out of the waahtub, and tliat last night was a bitoor. r dainty lace that Miss Rose Mer cier had called her handkerchief, and had given him to bold daring the galop. Good heavens, how was he ever going to restore it! He was a young lawyer, just entering upon what in time would probably be fine practice, but which was n >w rather empirical. He hitl started in the race for wealth and honor with good legal ability, good name, and good morals, and with no other impedimenta than a little patrimony in the shape of a mo Jest dwelling in the suburbs, which he had been obliged to mortgage for the m* ans to get a part of his education and bb profession, which mortgage he was stru ng to pay off, that he might begin the future clear of the world. He was a handsome fellow, this Lucian Malvin, an ambitions one too, in some degree, aud very nearly as proud as Lucifer. He used to feel many a pang in the as sociation with those so much wealthier than himself to which certain circam staDoos had subjected him. He had had an important case accidentally thrown into his hands, an J iiad acquitted himself so well that the wealthy clitwt took him up and would not let him down ; and when Lucian remonstrated that it was out of his power to keep up such association, aud was mortifying to his pride besides, the client had assure 1 him it was not piide, but vanity, that was mortified, and that the way to be as wealthy as those he met was to keep their cjtnpany and get their case* ; anil he thought, ou the whole, tbst perhaps his friend was right, and ho began to yield with an ignoble motive, had never theless become very fond of the ways of the people to whom wealth hail given every opportunity of culture and grace, and who knew how to treat life like a work of art. Moreover, it was not a little that he was petted by various of these good people. Certuin motherly ladies made him at home with them, and won bis confidence and hisaffection, notably Mrs. Barnetta. Parents with gfood rentrolls of their own, as Mrs. Barnetta used to tell him, were not so insistent in the matter of rentrolls as of virtue and talent in their daughters' husbands; aud he was invited here and there, and given to understand a great deal more than ho choose to under stand. Proud as Lucifer, as it was previously stated, he was going to marry no heiress of them all and be the thrall of her money; he could not marry a rich woman, he could not marry a poor one. When he married, he was going to give, not take, aud at present he had nothing to give. Perhaps he wonld have been a nobler person if he had not been quite so strenuous in this matter of obligation ; but then, as Mrs. Barnetta •I, ne wonld not have been Lucian Malvin, and Lucian Malvin was a very good fellow, after all, and there are few of us but have our faults. , It was among these people that he happened to meet ltosa Mercier. She had come from a distant place, aud was visiting his pleasantest acquaintance; and certainly the house was pleasanter still after her sunshiny little presence dawned on it. It seemed as if, for in stance, there never Lad been any flowers in the house before, although it had always been overflowing; it seemed as if PRKI). KURTZ, Mditor and 1 *ropriotor. VOLUME IX. there had leon no mu*ic thore.no light, or color, or cheer; and now the place wo* too dangerously delightful for a yonug man who did not want to many to freqnenL She wan *nch a lovely lit tie thing, not exactly beautiful, that m. ahe wrottld not have been beautiful in a picture, lnt iu flesh and blood, and iti Luciau Malviu'a eves, ahe was exceed ingty beautiful, with her aoft cilor, her dear dark gaae, and tier bright hair that broke into a cloud of sunny ring* about her aweet face, auch a gentle gayety went with her wherever ahe did, snob a tender grace of manner, too, in the in terval* of her buoyant spirit*, her voice wtw such a warbling voice, her way* were auch winsome ways. Luciau Molviu fell that he muat for* wear her prtweure unless he wanted to inak< life a burden to himself; and he ceased going to Mrs. Harriett*'a, where alie wa* stay iug, almost as suddenly as day forsake* the horison in that dreary season when twilight* are net. But if he ecnld shut himself out from the Bainettaa', he could not shut Mia* FLea oat from general society; and go where he would, he met her almost nightly, laughing gayly, singing swectiy, dancing lightly, till he declared to him self that if this was going to last, he ma? t indeed cease going out at all. But that was a little too much; he did not know how positively to deuy himself the mere sight of her. Yet things were growing very precarious when he ooald not take a book but he saw that blush iug face slide in between the page*, when he ooald not make oat a writ without being in danger of slipping her name into the blanks, when he heard the delicious voice murmuring m hut ears when he walked, and walked all night with the little spirit when he .ilept. He made a compromise with himself—it was all he could—and de clared that at any rate he would not dance with her again. It was an idle effort. He might al most as well have danced with her as have stood looking at her, quite uncon scious of his general air, and all the lov er in his glance. Mrs. Barnetta beck oned him to her side ; he stood there just as Rosa came up from her prome nade and left the arm of one osvalier to be carried off by another. " You are not dancing, Mr. Malvin i" she said. "Oh, would you hold my fan and hand kerchief I" He followed them with his eye again as the music crashed into a dashing galop. What right hail that other man with his clasp about this darling t why did she so ffer it f what decency was there iu the society which commanded snch sac rificef In his embrace—whirling wild iy to this wild music ! "You do hate him, don't you I" said Mrs. Barnetta, in his ear. "If looks ooald slay"— He started. Was he car lying hw heart upon his tleeve for daws to peck at I "Ob, I don't pity yon a hit," laughed Mrs. Barnetta, low toned. And f atting oat her hand, she took Ro sa's fan and opened it as she talked. "Anybody," said she, "with such a power of making misery, ought to en i'7 >L" " I—l beg your pardon, Mrs. Brrnet ts, but if you read me riddles, I must ask you also to be their sphinx." " Oh, no ; it was the function of th< sphinx to proponud the riddle*, not t< solve them." And Mrs. Barnett laughed her low, pleasant laugh. "Yon io not oome to as any more," she said " And as I u*ed to be in your onnfldenct liefore yon deserted me. I can imagine the re*-on. I do not like to say it is ver'. shabby treatment of an old friend. 0 course I cannot say that it is rude. Bui if yon do not dance with Miss M- rciei this evening, I shall be fearfully t ff -nd ed. lam not going to have my littlr treasure made unhappy for the rake cl the safety of the prince of all good fel lows himself." Lucieu changed o >lor so suddenly that Mrs. Barnetta put out her hand in af fright, half expecting to see him fall ; out in a moment be was himself again. "Do you— Is Miss Mercier " —he began, and paused half way. "As if I should ssy anothrr word, and had not already said alto gether too much!" said Mrs Barnetta. "There, she has left dancing and gone for an ice. What do yon think of round danoe*, on the whole ?" And they were, to all appearanmxf, deep in a discussion of the subject when Rosa re turned and swept her late partner a courtesy, and took shelter on the other side of Mrs. Barnetta. Perhaps she had seen the way Lucian's eye had fol lowed her, and it had given her a certain illumination that made her shrink. Just then the bund began one of the Hungarian waltzes, a sweet aud raptur ous measure that net the blood itself to dancing in one's veins. Why not I Oue last danoe, one last momeut of ecstasy, ere he went out forever into loneliness. Directly he hail crumpled the bit of lace into his pocket, and wss bending tiefore the little Bona, wuo seemed suddenly to have lost all her light gayety, and who put out her hand to him with a oon -cioun burning blush upon her face that his heart reflected in a melting glow. And then there was no thought of pride, or of negation, or forgetting ; the music was swinging them at its will; they cir cled iu each other's arms to its delicious and delirious movement. Yet only a mo ment was it, r few moments, s brief sweetspaonof half oonscious time; and then a faint recognition crept through its spell and warned Lucian of the poison in this honey. He was in the set of sur render; he was about to seal his fate and that of this dear girl; to take her away from her father's wealth and her luxuri ous ease, and condemn her to the cark ing cares of poverty. All his nature re belled; he chose not to bo swayed by this melody of horns and strings; he would have no passion, neither music nor love, so master his soul as to become the element in which it swam, an exclu sion of thought and fear, of sight and sound, and all other emotion; and with his imperious determination he chose to break the enchantment; the real world crept back upon his senses, he heard the tune, beyond this cloud that wrapped them, breaking again into its distinctive measure, aud exerting his will, he con trolled their steps and paused at last be side Mrs. Barnetta, and with a low bow, and without a word, gave Rosa back into that lady's care, and passed into the crowd and out of the place aud home to his losely rooms. THE CENTRE REPORTER. It was daybreak before ho sought re pooc, walking the dttor till then, hardly knowing wtist he did or what he thought, but intent upon conquering himself. He would give the World for Ki?ea Mender's love, but ho would uot give his pride. To tutu that pride uioant self-resjH ef; to marrv her, the child of opulence, tui ant either to sell hnnvlf for a price, or to reduce her to trouble and weariness in which hor love might soou wear out lie did not doubt that Im* now; without a syllable's speech, he felt sure ttf it. While it thrilled hiui wildly and deeply-, it ivyst a sudden sha dow of regret, he only hoped, and cursed hi* fate that forced him to hope snch a thing, that presently the love would pass, and some one who would make her happier would claim her. At h t gth, with maledictions iu the act, he emptied his pxvketa of the gloves, handkerchief, and trifles there, and went to Ited, with the stiu coining through the curtains, and, woru out iu txxly and mind, slept to the hle-aed and thorough oblivion of all the world. Wheu he awoke it wa* late in the day. All his trouble rushed over hitu, but in a moment all hi* will to repel it rose too. He dressed himself leisurely; he meant to call that night on Must Mercier, restore her handkerchief that he had forgotten to give hack after the .lance, and iu some indirect way let her know that he intended never to marry, aud so seal his doom beyond hope, lie went into the next room when he had completed his toilet, aud, after attend iug to one or two other affairs, looked for the handkerchief that he remember ed to have taken from his pocket and to have tossed upou the table there. It was uot on the table; it was nowhere in the room. Iu a panic, he rung the bell; and when it was answered, iusti luted an inquiry concerning the thing. Yes, indeed, Susan had seen it, and thought it was so yellow and soiled ahe would take it down and wash it. "Lorn, sir, it was the dirtiest little rag," she *aid. "Just straw color. And I thought I'd give it a run through the tub and the bluing and make it fit to be seen." " Good heavens!" he cried, with a horrified flash of remembrance that the yellower lace was the more precious wa* it, and that it never was washed ou any account except by people who .ltd nothing el-e. " Let me have it at ouce." Aud iu five minutes afterward Susan stood before him holding up the little limp rag, and with a pang as from a blow of something unknown and dread ful, the conversation that he had heard over the transom of the hotel floor, a year or two ago, swept back upou his recollection. Five hundred dollars ! And gone to grief iu a moment ! Aud he could no more replace it than he could fly, with out what was the same to him as at iso late ruin. Of coarse he mu*t replace it; be could not lie indebted, through the stupidity of hi* servant, or through any other means, to Miss Mercier in that sum. Without any doubt, she valued -ueh a bit of lace; and if anything were needed to demonstrate to him the wis dom of the oonrae he had decided on, and the utter absurdity of having dared for a single moment to look with love ou one of these darlings of f- rtuue, it was the fact that her handkerchiefs alone were item* of five hundred dollars. What a shame! what a wicked Denes*! what n preposterous folly! How oould a young man marry I He burned with ituLigna tion' hen. But to replace it ; one-thir 1 of the *um he was saving to redeem his little property from mortgage—all the money be really had in the world t>eyoud that for his daily expenses ! It wa* the ruin f hi* hopes, hi* ambitions, hi* pride, that scorned so to lie anybody's debtor ; t threw him back i:i th<- race, how long! Hut it mu*t le done. He hail a trifle •ver five hundred dollars in the bank. He drew hi* check for the neor*arj yfn and folded it away in hi* pocket '* ok. aud then went about his business ill nightfall, when ho canto Lack to his rea?y l oom*, and made him*. If ready r a call at Mis. Btru^tin's. Tue night had I ever **emed so beau tiful, the star* so 1 irge and keen and far dove the -srth, so remote aud cold— •.hey typified all the d*ir and happy things of life forev< r removed from him. His heart wa* chilled and hi* fa % wa* vhite when he stood at last m Mr*. Uaruetta'* drawing room.audshe floated forward to meet him. He had not asked for Mis* Mercier. "It is a delicate errand, Mrs. Bar- D' tta," sai 1 lie, with a dreary attempt it smiliug. " But the truth is that my maid, in her oflk-i >us kindness, has done -uch damage to a bit of Miss Mercier'* property that I must r place it. And I have era* to b<-g you, out of your friendship for me, to transact the affair, if such an article can IM. replaced here. I believe these little trifles are rather cistly, and if you will procure one " and be laid the check'.he had drawn that morning and the littlo limp rg in Mrs. flarnetUV hand—" as like the original as possible, I " "My dear Mr. Malvin, what in the worldj are yon talking of J" cried Mrs. Barnetta. " Have yon money to throw about in'this way ? Fiv hundred dol lars—what is it fori" "To replace Miss Mercier s handker chief, if you will be so good as to make the purchase." "Like this?" said Mrs. Barnetta, holding up the little limp rag by one corner. "Like that," said Lucian. " Oh, that is too good 1" cried Mrs. Barnetta, with a peal of laughter. "It is too g>*l, it is too absurd I What crea tures men are I Did yon imagine that this bit of floery was worth all that 1— this little scrid of grass cloth aud Ger man lace f No wonder the young men don't marry, then 1 My dear Mr. Mai vin, this misersble handkerchief cost ex actly two dollars snd a half, ami was nearly worn out at tl.at. Did you imag ine, too, that my jioor little Rosa could wear tive-huudred-dollar handkerchiefs, without a cent to her name I" "Without a cent to her name ?" cried Lucien, springing to hi* feet. " Exnetlv. Aha! Is that the trouble f Now why didn't you come aud talk it all over with mo in the way you used to do, and save yourself all this vexation, and save my little ltosa, too i What an ab surd boy yon are ! Another would have waited to hear that she was au heireen ; vou wait to hear that she is penniless. Well, she is, if that satisfies yon, except for what I shall leave my little god daughter when I die—which will not lie at present, D. V. And there she is in the next room now. But, bless mo"— Lucien bad not waited for the rest of the invocation. Ho was already in the next room, and Rom was already in his arms.— Jlaxar. Circassian Girls. Th sale of Circassian girls to Turks still continues. A correspondent of the London Time a says that a Moslem dealer makes choice of four young, un sophisticated girls, imports them to Constantinople, sells them and then goes back for more. If he can achieve four such trips in a year he can make a good living out of sixteen women. Many of the Circassians are living in Turkey, and there actually breed children for sale, having no more shame about it than a fashionable English mother may feel abont bringing out her girls for the matrimonial market. CENTRE HAL!-, CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY, AUGUST German) to Atnerlra. Mr. Cadwaladcr, acting secretary of state of the United Mtatea, presented Mr. Hohloser, the (leruiau minister, to the President for the purpose of ileliv eriug an autograph letter of congratula tion from the emperor of Oermauy. Mr. Hchloaer in proaeutuig the letter stated that he wa* instructed by hi* majesty to deliver upon the fourth day of July to the President in person su sutograph letter of congratulation upon the occa sion of the oetiU-unial anniversary, anil wished to add hi* jiersouai good wishes for the United State*. The President briefly replied, assur iug him of his satisfaction iu receiving this evidence of good feeling on the part of his majesty ; that his kind expres sions toward the United States were ful ly appreciated, and that the letter should be properly acknowledged. The letter is as follows; li'i/riam, t>y tKe ffra>-e. qf (h*l, Km fu ror of ('iertnanjf, King of Pnuttia, rfe., to the President oj tKe I'iutnl State*: Ohxit a.vi) (loon Fkienh : It ha* been vouchsafed to you to celebrate the centennial festival of the .lay upon which the great republic over which you preside entered the rank of independent nations. The purposes of it* founder* have, by a wise application of the teach ing* of the history of the foundation of nations, aud with insight into the dis taut future, been realixed by a develop rneut without a parallel. To cougretu late you sod the American people on the occasion affords me so much the greater pleas in e because since the treaty of friendship which my ancestor of glori ous memory. King Frederick 11., who now reals with God, ooncludrd with the United States, undisturbed friendship has continually existed Iwtween Genus uy aud America, aud has been developed and strengthened by the ever increasing importance of their mutual relations, and by an intercourse lieooming more and more fruitful in every domain of commerce and science. That the welfare of the United Stales and the friendship of the two countries may continue to in crtwae, is my aiucere desire and ooufi dent hope. Accept the renewed uasu ranee of my unqualified esteem. (Signed) Wiluu. (Countersigned) Vox Bismarck. The Difference. There wa* a man who said to himself, whenever I devote a dollar to pleasure I will devote ten ceuts to charity. This idea ho got from personal experience, for he had been chosen for a single day collector for contributions to celebrate an auuivcr*ary, au.l also collector for a fnnd for poor widows. He went futtli with tho two appeals ; in the right pocket he put the money secured for the celebration and in the left the money given for widows. When ho got home, he took account, and found that five hundred men had ©or tribute! for the celebration, and only five for the poor widows. Then he tnoralixed. Sow liere, said he, in this hand I have two thonsand dollar*, all to be burned np in t>ad smelling fireworks, and with this five times a* much value in buildings that these fireworks will destroy. On the other hand, I hare twenty dollars for a thousand of hard working widows, who to-day cannot be sure of their din: tiers, and then tin* reckless man stidl load enough for all the world to hoar • tk> to the average eitixen with an ap|*ratrT 11. The Colorado beetle, or potato bug, wm first diC<>vered iu the uanyons of the Colorado mountains, whore it fed uimiu several weed*, natives of that re giou, and wa* known to entomologists long before it lcoame s |*wt to the farmer. Uutil potatoes were plruWtd in the far West, it had nothing to subsist upou in s journey eastward, but wheu the country liecwms settled, the insect rapidly increased with the abuuilanoe of food; it wan first noticed as injurious to the cro|ia stout 1850, and since then lis* progressed eastward and into Canada with accelerated rapidity. It attacks tomatoes, and especially egg plants, of which it seem* to be more fond than of anything else. Ornaments, plant* of the family are attacked by it. It seem*, since it has come eastward, to have acquired a taste for other plants, uot at all related to the solanum family; pig weeds, mullein, thistles and smart weed among wild planta, and the cab bage among those in occasionally culti vation, are plants it has been known to attack. Bo far tut exporienoa hw shown, the insect ou tie progress eastward doe* not move ou, but some remain, and while tuey do not HiH Lu ho numerous after the first few years, potato growers upper eutly must accept tli beetle ait a fixed fact. It has kept a foothold wherever it has oome, and there la no presout in dication that it will aoon leave. It in in vain to hope that it will cure itaeif, but it deiDAuda the serious attention of all who cultivate the potato aud related plants. To be sure, there are its natural enemies, which we may hope, judging from other insect scourges, will increase sufficiently to keep it in subjection, but these slowly follow the pest. There are several of tbeae, one a genuine parasite that deposits its eggs in thw larva of the }H>tato beetle, and several others that attack, kill, and feed upon the larvar. Several larva of the ladybirds very active in this respect, and should la en eouraged, or at least not destroyed, as we have known to lx> the case. Tney move with great activity, and destroy numbers of the yooug grubs of tlie po tato bug; these are usually lead colored, with bright onauge spots; those and the perfect ladybinU should tie unmolested, as should their pnpir. The ladybird larva enters the pupa state on the potato vine, attaching itself to a stem or leaf; it coils np and may lie, by a careless ob server, mistaken for a small potato bug grub, and destroyed. This is perfectly dormant and attached, while the other will move, and is readily picked off. Other insects in the perfect state, and as larva, aid in the Work of destroying the larvia of the potato bog. The ouly safe way is to watch every other insect found among them, and do not destroy it until it is found to lie injurious to the potato plant. When the potatoes firm appear above ground, begin the search for the bugs. The first that appear come out of the ground after their winter's rest If these are captured at once, before they breed and lay eggs, it will materially diminish their future uuml-ers. Much may be done by mechanical means when the insects are not in overwhelming numbers. Borne have been very suc cessful in aimplj knocking them off by means of alight |-addle made of shingle, and catching them in a pan containing water. Wo have successfully used a I-an of sheet iron thirty inches long, with the other parts in proportion. The e ig a of the pan curve inward and make it difficult for the insects to crawl out. With this in one hand, and a light brush in the other, one can knock off the in sects in large number* very rapidly. The brush should l-e stiff enough to re move the larva- and not tnjnre the leaves; wo find a wisp of straw, or a bunch of some strong growing grass, as handy as anything. There are patented contrivances for mechanically removing the bugs, but they promise no better results than these simple means. Affri culturis A Story About Worm*. The Allentown (I'a.) Register contains the following enrioua narrative : Mr. George T. Hersli, of this city, while on a recent visit to Hellertown, met an ac quaintance, who related a most lingular story concerning an army of worms. Hie occurrence took place in lincks connty, and the story in this: "As I was at home they told me that abont a mile and a half away there was an army of worms marching from one given point to the other ami thence laok agai". Tins reemod very strange to me, and 1 came to the conclusion that I would go and soo for myself. Consequently 1 hitched in the carriage and drave to the plaoe. I tied my horse to the fence, and commenced to examine, and to my great astonishment I beheld the worms in great numbers creeping at the plaoe named, jnst from one given point to the other, a distance of abont three or four bunded yards. No worm is to lie seen anywhere else. This worm travels only mornings and evenings—evenings after suusi t and mornings till about i eight or nine o'clock. In tbe daytime they lie oonoealed under rocks and in openings. I saw them lie under rocks, one against the other. It is so fnll at their marching' time that you cannot help killing a number at every step you take when walking through that place. It is a worm alio tit an inch or an inch and a quarter long, having a whitish or yellow I isli color, with a black stripe over its l>aek. It lias sixty six feet, with which 1 it hurries itself along at a very lively speed. When yon catch the worm it screams. It has also a very offenaivc odor. It is so tender that if yon tonch it a little hard it goes to pieces. It is not a destructive worm, as it only eats earth. I never saw such a worm anil the curiosity of them prompted me to , procure some; so I caught a number of them and put them in alcohol. Hun dreds of people flock to that place to see the worms." In another paragraph the Register adds the following: Mr. Cnarles Eck ort was in Bucks connty, and by a friend taken to the place where that singnlar army of worms holds forth. He reports that the place is visited by many people from all sections of the county and from distant places. Au immense crowd was on tho ground watching the inarching of these curious wormH. Scientific men who have seen specimens of the worms say that they never saw anything like them, and can give no reasonable theory for their presenoe in this peculiar locality. The place where this curious phenomenon, if wo may so call it, can be seen is about three miles from Dunnelltown. near Pleasant hill. THE LATE MANTA ANNA. A hltrlrh ml Ik* l.tl* •( m Ntlikli Mrilraa Antonio Lopes deßanta A mm, former J president of the republic of M< xieo, died on Juuti 24. Ho ww born in tbe city of Jalaja, February *2l, 1798, nt return to Mexico till 1853, when be wn* appointed president for life, with power to appoiut bis suoccamr. His rule was so despotic that a r-wilution led by General A1 rari-X overthrew bim.aud Augti>t 16, 1855, be Rigned bis uncondi tional alalicaUon and sailed for Havana. During tbe French invasion of Mexico be returned and wan appointed grand marshal of tbe empire by Maximilian. In IHGS be conspired against the em peror and wa* forced to retire to St. Thomas In 1867 be made bis last at tempt to regaiu tbe master y of Mt-xioo, but was taken prisoner at Vera Crux and coudemued to death. President Juarer pardoned him on condition of his quitting Mexican soil forever, and be came to tbe United Slates. After the death of Juarex be returned to hia native anil and lived in seclusion in the city of Mexico till tbe time of bis death. The Sioux Chief Bitting Itali. Mr. Magintiia, of Montana, in tbe United States House, during a discus sion on tbe ludion question, gave the following history of Hitting Hull; Tbe first time I hat Bitting Bull be came known to tbe people of this nation was daring tbe great Minnesota massacre in 1%2. In 1863 he fought Sully in tbe Illack Hills. In 1864 he ravaged the Missouri river, attacking several steamboats. In 1865 he made war upon tbe peaceable Indiana. Iu 1866 the government sent out a peace commis sion to Fort Yuma, which gsve him presents, including twenty kegs of powder, and as soon as be got tbe prea eiite he broke up tbe commission and drove sway the commissioners. In 1867 he continued s c ireer of predatory war fare. 1868, when this treaty was made at Laramie, be refused to come iu and lie a party to it. In 1869 he attacked tlic settlement on tbe Musser Hhell, which waa the first time be was ever de feated, liecause tbe settlers had got no tice of bis coming and bad ambuscaded him and killed thirty-six of bis war riors. In that same year he made war upon the Crows and the Mandans. In 1870 Gen. Hancock thought of an expe dition to anbdne him. About that time this peaoc policy fever was raging, and on consulta-ion with the other generals of tbe army, Gen. Hancock recom mended that another effort should be made by the government to make a treaty with Bitting Bull. In tbe sue oeedmg winter Congress appropriated #750,000 to buy peace from Bitting Bull. That was the celebrated Tetou Sionx ap propriation, in regard to the expendi ture of which some criticism had been made. Any how, thov suooeededin get ting ationt one half of bis force into the ageucy at Fort Peck, tint be himself re fund! to oomc in. In 1874 he still oar riod on war upon tbe settlements of Montana, and ravaged them constantly. He also carried on war upon the Crows, whom he drove from their reservation, upon tbe Bboshoues, and upon every Imliau tribe friendly to the United States. In 1875 bo attacked two gov ernment stages, ran off the stock of the stsge company, and again drove the Crows off tbe reservation into Montana. By this time tbe peace commissioners saw that lie was intractable, and that he must bo disciplined. Messrs. Hrnnt and Stewart, and pe.ioolul men of like char acter, petitioned tbe ludiau department to take steps to subjugate Hitting bull. This petition resulted in tbo War de partment finally taking bold of tbo mat ter. 1 ask whether the government has violated its faith in making war on this intractable Indian, who bos never re ooguixed ita flag; bat who defies its authority, and boasts that, if be ooald get the Kioux nation to join him, be would drive this government into tbe ocean. Mr. Townsend (Rep., New Yorkl —Is this the name Indian who organized the conspiracy to murder Senator Allison and other mtisens, last summer ?" Mr. Maginnis—lt is the man who planned and organized that conspiracy. A true American is too proud to beg and too honest to steal. He gets trusted. TKRMB: #2.00 n Year, in A.dv nee. 1870. THE IIIH4H SLAUGHTER. The Haul* a4 IS* Hiillrlrll Natvwt* K<- rv ml Hmmm'm 1 Miaiul limm AaalSUa ll*B I*l 11 -rlahi LLNTI Vlahltaa will I4lwa> Tli CrlaSilMl Vmi ml I M*r*i Pmrrm Un4**ll* IH*ri*r*4 S* Mrta* lrw U(l Total I-a.. *l H 111*4 la lal (•aau4< IIIUI Uyarallae*. Further particulara of tbe desperate encounter which Col. Reno bad with the Bionx Indians on the twenty fifth of Jnue tell of tbesoffennga which bu com mand ez]>erienaad while it wae so com pleiy hemmed in by tbe Indiana. For thirty-six bonis tbe troopa were without a drop of water. Tbe appeals of the wounded fur drink were heartrending, while the others were almost exhausted, in many instances their tongues pro tending from their months, and few ul them able to speak aloud. They tried to eat crackers, bnt ooald not moisten them. Others attempted to chew and swallow blades of grass to se cure relief, bnt these clung to their parched hps and intensified their agony, j It was while thus suffering that they de termined at all baserds to gain tbe water from which they were cut off, and made the desperate dash which, while it oost them a number of lives and many wounded, secured that which they ao much needed. It was then early night, and wbeu firing oaased Col. Reno at onoe took steps to relieve his animals, which, like the men, were completely exhausted. He knew well that tbe In dians would resume tbe attack in the morning. It was in this position that Gen. Tar ry, with Gibbons' command, consisting of five companies of infantry, four of cavalry, and the Gatlin battery, found Reno. Terry bad started to ascend the Big Horn to attack the Indiana in rear, while Caster attacked them from his point of auntacL The march of the two columns was ao planned as to bring Gib bons' forces within co-operating ilia- j tance of tbe anticipated scene of action by the evening of the 26th. Ths morn ing of the 26th brought the intelligence, commouicated by three badly frightened Crow scouts, of the battle of the pre- ! vious day and its results. The story was uot credited, beoauae it was not expect ed that an attack would be made earlier I than the 27th, and chiefly because no one ooald believe that a force such as j Custer oominauded oould have m>4 with disaster. Bail the report was in no way ; disregarded. All day long the toilsome ! march was kept up, and every ey bent upon a cloud of smoke resting over the noutherii horizon, which was hailed aa a ■iign that Custer was successful and had ; tlml the village. It was only when night was falling that the weary troops laid down upon their arms. The infant ry Lad inarched twenty-nine nrte*. The march of the next morning revealed at evi ry rtep some evidence of the eonfiict which had taken place two days lief ore. At an early hour the head of the column entered a plain half a mile, wide, bordering the left hank of the Little Rig Horn, where had recently j twu-n an immense Indian village, ex- j tendiug three mile* along the stream, and where were standing ioneral lodges with borsei t-langhtered around them, ujid containing the bodies of nine chiefs. The ground was strewn every where with carcasses of horses. Their ; -amp vra* strewn with robe*, gaudily painted, with fiuely dressed hides and interesting and valuable trinkets. Tbe I ground was covered everywhere with carcasses of horses, besides buffalo . rolwa, packiigee of dried meat, and wea pons and utensils belonging to the In- ' duuie. On this part of the field was found the clothing of Lieuta. Htnrgis and Porter, pierced with ballets, and a blood stained gauntlet belonging to Oapt. Yates. Further on were found the bodies, among whom were recog nised Lient. Mcintosh, the interpreter from Fort Rice, and Reynolds, the guide. It was evident also that the In dians had shown little solicitude for their wounded, as the ravines were oov •-red with dead. While making these gloomy disoov j cries a scout came up in breathless haste with the announcement that CoL Reno, with a remnant of the Seventh cavalry, : was intrenched on s bluff near by wait ing for rrlief. The oommand pushed < rapidly ou and soon oame in aignt of a i group surrounding a cavalry guard upon a lofty eminence on the right bank of the river. Gen. Tarty forded the stream, accompanied by a small party, and rode to the snot. All the way the slopes were dotted with the bodies of men and horse*. The general ap pro .ched, and the men swarmed out at the works and greeted him with hearty and repeated cheer*. Within was found lteno, with the remains of seven com panies of the regiment. In the center of the inolosure was a depression in tbe surface, in which the wounded were sheltered, covered with canvas. Reno's command had been fighting from Ban day noon, the twenty fifth, until tbe night of the twexty-einth, when Terry's arrival canned tbe Indians to retire. Up to this time Reno and those with him were in complete ignorance of the fate of the other five companies which had been separated from them on the twenty-fifth to make an attack under Custer on the village at another point. While preparations were being made for the removal of the wounded, a party was sent on Custer's trail to look for traces of his oommand. They met a sight to appall the stoutest heart. At a point about three miles down the right bank of the stream, Gen. Custer had evidently attempted to ford and attack the village. From the ford the trail was found to lead back up the bluffs and to the northward, as if he hail been repulsed and compelled to retreat, and at the same time hail been cut off from rejoin ing the forces under Reno. The bluffs are cut into by numerous ravines, and all along these slopes and ridges and in the ravines lay the dead, lying in the order of battle, as they had fought. Line behind line showed where defen sive positious had been taken up and held, till at last few were left to fight, tuid then, huddled in a narrow compass, horses and men were piled promiscu ously. At the highest point of the ridge lay Custer, surrounded by his choseu band. Here were his two brothers and hi* nephew, Mr. Reed, Capt. Yates, Lieuts. Cooke mid Hmitli. all lying within a cir cle of a few yards, their horses beside them. Here behind Yates' oomnauy the last stand had been made, and here one after another of these last survivors of Custer's five companies had met their death. The companies had successively thrown themselves across the path of tbe advancing enemy, and had been annihi lated. Not a man had escaped to tell the teW>. bnt it wis ins ribed on the sur face of these barren hills in a language more eloquent than words. Two hundred and sixty-one bodies have been bnried from Coster's and Reno's commands. The history of Reno's operations com prises all thai is now known of this sanguinary affair. It seems that Ouster, with sight companies, nssehsd the river NUMBER 31. in the forenoon of the 25th, having marched continuously all the previous day and night. Being the upper or southern extremity of the Tillage, and probably underestimating its extent, be ordered Bern, to ford the rirer and charge Ut Tillage with three oompamas, while be, with five companion, moved down the right bank and behind the bluff, to make a similar attack at the other end. Bono mad' his charge, but finding that he waa dealing with a for on many ton re his own numbers, dis mounted hia men, and nought shelter in the timber which fringed the river bank. The position appearing to him on tenable, be remounted and out hia way to the river, forded under a murderous fire, and gained the bluff where be waa ■ulMMqnently found. Here be waa after ward joined by Capt. fieateen with three companies which had Just reached the field, and by Oapt. hlcbougsii with hia com |say and the pack mule*. The position was immediately after aom (Stely invested by the Indians, who tor more" than twooty four honra allowed the garrison no rest and inflicted severe loan. But tor the timely arrival of re lief the command would have been out off to a man. The unrulier saved with Reno waa 329, including fifty-one wound ed. The loss among the Indiana waa probably considerable, na bodies have been found in every direction, and they left behind only a small portion of their deed. DerUratiea ef Independence. The Declaration of Imlependenoe of the United tttatea waa drmtad by Jeffer •on, and examined and slightly amended by Franklin and Adama. It waa writ ten by Jefferson in tha first room of the aeoond story of the house of Jacob Oraff, south west oorner of Seventh and Market streets, Philadelphia, which ia still standing. Jefieraon waaa board er in that house, and in that chamber, according to his own statement, made in a letter to Dr. Jam as Mease, September 16, 1825, the Declaration of Indepen dence waa written. Congree* adopted the declaration in secret session. It waa already known on the fourth that Lew's resolution, which was the vital act in the opposition to Orest Britain, had been adopted on the second. The declaration waa mere ly an assignment of reasons for the paaaage of the resolutions, a vindica tion of an act already done. There waa, therefore, no excitement in Philadelphia at the time the declaration waa adopted. In fact, the character of the declaration waa not known until two day# afterward, when it made it# appearance in Donlap's paper. On the ilfth of July Oongraaa sent out circular letters, to all the as semblies, convention* and councils of oafetv of the various States, asking that tho Declaration of Independence would be proclaimed. Such proclamations generally followed. In Philadelphia, the declaration was first read to the people on Monday, the eighth of July, by John Nixon, in the State bouse yard, from an observatory erected there in 17C9 to observe a transit of Venus over the sua. Nixon w m a member cf the council of safety, and reed the declar ation instead of the sheriff of the county, who was originally requested to perform that service. In the afternoon the declaration waa read to the five bat talions of Moociators oa the common*. The king's arms over the door of the supreme courtroom were torn down by H committee of assodators ap pointed" for the purpose. In the eve niug they were burned amidst the ac clamations of a large crowd of specta tor*. Bonfires were lighted, hells were rung, and the most noted of all the peals which sounded over the city was that of the old State house bell, which had been oast twenty-four years before, bearing upon its aide the prophetic and remarkable motto: "Proclaim liberty throughout the land to all tho inhab itants thereof." The Bill to Happens* Lotteries. The fact that both Houses of the Uni ted Statea Congress have passed a bill which will have the effect, if oarried out, of entirely suppressir" the lottery boa inesa in the United State.-, or even the circulation of lottery tickets or adver tisements, has escaped public attention. Such a bill waa aent to the President for signature. The first section relates to the circulation through the mails of ob aoenc literature, and ia a slight amend ment of the present law. The second section amends section 3.8 M, so that it will read as follows: No loiter or circular concerning lotte ries, so-called gift concerts, or other sim ilar enterprises offering priaea, or oon oeraing schemes devised and intended to deceive and defraud the public for the purpose of obtaining money under false pretenses, shall be carried in the mail Any person who shall knowingly deposit anything to be carried by mail in viola tion of this section shall be punishable by a fine of not more than $506 nor less tban f 100, with costs of prosecution. How They Fined Tortw. The Frederick (Md.) Examiner prints the following : In looking over the old record* of the clerk's office of this county, the following criminal proceed ings, among others, were discovered in the prosecutions for Toryism instituted □ear the close of the Revolutionary war : State Against one A. 0., printed for nariug '' be wished all persons who went about warning people on militia duty might be hanged, not by the necks, bat by the heels." Fined £25 specie. State against J. H., presented lor "da-nning (ten. Washington and the Congress of the United States of America." Fined £ls specie. State against E. L., presented for " drinking a health to King George and damnation to Gen. Washington.' Fined £5 specie. The minutes of the court show numer ous orders passed by the oourt appro priating money for the support of the wives and children of soldiers in the Maryland line. A Concentrated Jury. In a land case being tried in San An tonio, the jury having keen dispensed with, his honor acta as judge and jury both. To have a single man acting for twelve seems very simple, but it is be wildering to the deputy sheriff, who has been attending juries for a long time. One morning, for instuioe, he looked fixedly at his honor, and after oounting him several times, inquired : " Where is the reet of you t" "When oourt adjourned, the sheriff said, rather sternly, we thought, to his honor: "Now, don't yon go talking abont this case among yourselves, and all of yon boys be on hand promptly, or I'll hunt some of yon up in sway that yon won't like." What the hog lacks in culture he makes up in aealjand enthusiasm. Items f lateral. The hmgeel period • fa a boy Ufa r ttMUbtNMOMk There fa DO NAN elate* ENOUGH T' know all the aril which ho do* Two hundred hqoor edict* of Port land, Mo., hare just gone out of bn*>- " Laianre fa aw*t to thorn who have earned it." and it fa ray oomlortabl* if joai undo baa aarnad it for yon. Dubba aays the flrat Una a firl kiaaad him in. fait aa if ba waa sliding down a rainbow with buttar and honey fa eaoh hand. A ooapia of young woman at Pry* burg, Me., appeared on the road boa fa band a few day* ainee to work on their highway taxes. Aak no faaora of any one, and yon will aoeoaed a tbooaand timea better than tboaa who are alwaya baaeeohtog tome one'a patronage. A man in a neighboring town who had a good tpyglam looked at hi* third eontir throngb it, which brought him a* near aa a flrat cousin. This fa the aaaaon of the year when man delight* to lie beneath wide spread ing shade trees, eommnniug with nature end getting bugs fa his ears. The nominating da;* bar* rum*, tb* maddae of the year, Wba* arary pouuataa chap atrnta rout d Uk* ebaeoetaar; Ha Saps hia Uttla wieg* and crow*, and mat** a mtjfhijr not**. And tb*n ba atrikaa the oamtilaU for o**U to treat lb* boy*. To feed sparing! y and irregularly fa to laae all yon give to fowls; but to study into their want* and anticipate them fa to render them very profitable. A woman who w purchasing aoma cup* and tanest* m naked what color aha would have. •' Why, I ain't particu lar," ha aaid ; " ock* that won't ahow dirt," " How ministers ire killed" is the caption of sa article circulating through the newspapers. You may not have one to kill, but it is well to know bow it is done. Agricultural journal: Qaostioo—Will the editor please inform me how the Hollander* salt cucumbers I Answer— The most common way, a* we observed when abroad, is to salt them with salt. Young ladies who intend celebrating can do eo to the beet advantage by in serting the butt of a firecracker be tween their teeth before igniting it. It often crimp* the front hair splendidly. One Ohio editor any* of a contempo rary who had aamuned the part of a mammy in a dramatic performance: " He waa obliged to put a little anima tion into himself to come up with the character, and to wear more recent linen; but that was about all. Nature had admirably qualified him to act the part" A huge kilo on a government dock in London i* known aa " the queen's to bacco pipe," and ia used to burn con demned imported goods. Great quan tities of tobacco, forfeited because unfit for sale, are there consumed; and vari ous perishable things, upon which the duties are not paid, are also destroyed. Nine hundred spoiled hams and a ship load of tea were recently burned. And now some one says that it ia idiotic to suppose that sunstroke ia caused by a stroke of the sun ; that, in fact, it frequently occur* at a time when there is no ran at all, and that the physical break down called sunstroke ia simply nervous exhaustion aggravated by exoeaeive heat, whether in eun or All this may be true, even though it does knock over a venerable pet theory. The India# Queatieu. Mr. Steele, of Wyoming, in Ui United State# House, daring s discus sion on the Indian bill, said it was not a (set that the military operations were carried on without reference to the . peaee policy. In 1868 the United States imd made a treaty with the Sioux nation, which waa a grave mistake, if it was not a national dishonor and disgrace. That treaty had been the foundation of all the difficulties in the Sioux country, and the cause of the death of Custer and his men in the Big Horn country. In 1856 Gen. Pope established posts at Porta Phil Kearney, Reno and C. F. Smith, so as to open the roads to Montana and to protect the country of the friendly Crows from the hostile Sioux. In keep ing these posts and opening that road many men, eitiseoa and soldiers, had been killed. Notable among the actions that had taken place there were the massacre at Fetterman and his command at Fort Phil Kearney—ninety-six men and officers; and yet after these men had aaerifloed their lures the government went to work and made a treaty by which it igoominioualy abandoned that coun try to these savages, dismantling its own posts, and leaving there the bonee of the men wbo laid down their lives in the wilderness. Waa it to be wondered at, under these circumstances, that Sitting 801 l and his men believed that they were superior to the general govern ment Anybody wbo knows anything about the Indian's nature, knows that the legitimate result of that cowardly policy of "peace at any prioe" waa only to defer the evil day which has now come upon as. Since that time the Sioux have been constantly depredating on the frontiers of Nebraska, Wyoming and Montana; and more men have fallen there in the peaceful avocations of civil life, without a murmur being heard, than fall under the gallant Ouster on the twenty-fifth of June. The friendly Grows have been raided upon with every full moon, so with the Shoehonee, and at last three outrages have beoome so great and so long continued that even the peaoeable Indian department could not stand them any longer, and called on the military arm of the government to punish these men. It was in carrying out this polio? that Caster and his men have been aaerifloed. I was up in that country at the time that the com missioners were there attempting to negotiate with the Sioux. At that time Young Mn Afraid of his Horses, the hereditary chieftain of the Ogallala tribe and the man who by birth is en titled to rule over these people, told me that there was not in that northern coun try, under Sitting Bull and Graxy Horse, more than from one hundred to two hundred lodges, which would not give them over eight hundred fighting men, all told, and yet the report which we now get is that there were 1,800 lodges, ' aggregating 8,500 or 4,000 fighting men in the encampment or village attacked : by Ouster. Where did these men oome , from f They came lrom the agencies where they hod been fed and fattened | by our government and where they had been better armed than the soldiers are. They came from those reservations to fight our troops, and if the present : policy is continued they will go back there as soon as the snow falls to feed ! themselves and their ponies for new operations next spring. To V>" THE HAIB GROW vtox A • SPOT WHICH *** BBOOKX BALD.—Bum and sweet oil; mix equal parts ; then wash the spot three times a day. Bum constantly need to wash the hair keeps it very clean and free from disease and promotes its growth, and ia also very strengthening to the roots of the hsir. SHORT CASE.—One pint of buttermilk or soar milk, one teaipoonfai of soda dissolved in the milk, one tablespooniu of lard, a little salt; mix aoft, and eut with a tumbler or oaks cutter; bake on a griddle.