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aUNTINGDON, PA.
Wednesday morning, Aug. 14, 1867.
AVM. LE WIS,
EDITOM
"HUGH LINDSAY, .
ENaREMES, ritoEr EXTREMES.—Ken
tucky voted last week—the anti•Radi.
ieal majority is about as large as the
Radical Majority in Tennessee. There
was no'colorecl vote in Kentucky.
THE CONTEHT.toNs.74fie Republican
and Democratic Con •.eritiOns of this
county will assemble hero to.day,(Tues
day,) and to-morrow (Wednesday.)
We will publish the proceedings of
both next week. The politicians of
both parties aro busy and the number
of voters to be sold Will be unusually
largo
,The Swiss hold their elections
on Sunday. for the purpose of securing
the sanctity of the ballot box, and im
pressing thevoters with a duo sense
of the solemnity and impOrtance of the
work they are engaged in. If voting
on Sunday has such an effect, although
we don't believe it, would it not be
well enough to introduce the custom
in America. The sanctity • of the bal
let-box in this country is not preserved
as it should be, as many an unprinci
pled man breaks a pledge when he de
posits his ballot; while as for the sol
emnity and importance of the work
the voters are engaged in, it is a well
known fact that many of them never
think of what vast importance there is
attached to the simple act of letting
drop a little piece of paper in the bal
lot-box. If all did, we would have a
far happier state of affairs. Politicians
would have to appeal toe. voter's judg
ment, and not to his passions and prej
udices; voters would think before they
voted, and whiskey-befuddled brains
at the ballot•box would be a rare oc
currence.
Xtar We see it stated that twenty
thousand Swiss women . earn a comfor
table living 'by watch-Making. This
hot should explode the idea entertain
ed by some that a woman's sphere is
the domestic, and that alone. The
time is passing away when women are
to be considered such effeminate crea
tures auto be unfit for those light tasks
which more effeminate men seek to
obtain; and Nye look for the day when
their places will be ()coupled by the
-women, who in many cases aro better
fitted for the labor than men. Itisa very
mistaken notion to suppose that a wo
man is not adapted for light manual
labor outside of the household, and we
think society would be bettor off if la
dies should be employed more univer
sally as clerks or engaged in some
easy and: useful calling. Labor is not
disgraceful, by any means; and we are
sure that an industrious young lady is
hold in higher - estimation than an indo
lent ono, simply because she gives a
practicaldemonstration of her worth.
So it will ever be.
In the cities the number of ladies
employed in light labor is remarkable.
The reason of this is, mainly, that ne
cessity compels them
. to earn their
daily bread. In the inland towns,
however, such is not the case, and wo
see ladies growing up in apparent idle
ness, simply because they are too proud
or too much ashamed to work, or ask
for employment. Such individuals
must lead a miserable existence. The
hours of the day at° full of monotony to
them, and unless the evening hours are
passed in company, or in the giddy
ball-room,they have no apparent. pleas
ure, and they retire to their couches,
with anything but the sweet content
ment of the industrious one who has
labored the day long, and feels refresh
ed for the next by a good night's rest.
If ladies would experience true con
tentment they must seek it in employ
ment; and we hope that all such no
tions as that work is disgraceful for a
lady will be swept away by public
opinion, and then The true merit of
women will be seen and:appreciated.
A NEW FIELD FOR BENEVOLENCE.—
Modern civilization has devised many
excellent institutions for the benefit of '
afflicted persons . who would be bur.
dons on society if not cared for in
a proper manner. The latest idea of
this kind is an Asylum for Useless
Young Men, which has been suggested
as a means of educating an unfortu. ,
nately numerous class into hard-work
ing and respectable citizens. If the
project could be carried out it would
be a genuine source of benefit to the
community at lerge,and its popularity
would bo immense with everybody ex
cept the "patients" themselves, who
would probably fail to appreciate its
advantages until they wore thoroughly
cured. Such a charity, however, ought
not to be confined to the male sex; but a
department for Useless Young Women
should be provided, together with com
petent instructors in the art of darning
stockings, making shirts, &c. An in•
stitution of this character could find
plenty of subjects_ to operate upon, and
if. propurly conducted by persons of
enlightened views it could scarcely
fail to bo of essential service to society.
.The highest achievement of a
politician is the judicious kissing of
babies. It goes straight to the moth
er's heart and makes her a zealous can
vasser for the balance of the campaign.
In kissing babies of a larger growth,
especially if they are pretty, and the
persuasion female, there is danger of
being regarded as one having an eye
to personal attractions. But with lit
tle babes the case is different, and the
not is an undoubted compliment to the
little darling's mother: -
A Word in Time to both Conventions.
We are old in politics, as tho saying
is, and we haven few thoughts to offer
at - this tinio, for th - o benefit of those
who know-us, as well as for those who
don't :
Ist. 80 - it understood that we are not
a member of ,either party organiza
tion. Therefore both Conventions aro
respectfully invited to save themselves
the unnecessary trouble of "reading us
out."
2d. If anybody is heard to say "Old
Dad Lewis had something to do with
that ticket," we respectfully request
that one or more of our former political
friends would inform him that such is
not the case; that we can only influ
ence "17 votes in the county," and
therefore we aro "played out."
3d. If anybody is heard to say, we
aro a candidate for Assonibly,will some
body toll him that it is not our desire
to bo "forcod" upon the good people cf
the county, as so many candidates have
already been. We are opposed to for
cing any man to vote for usj and then
again our character would not boar con
tamination. We fear the stench from
the last Legislature has not left the
halls at Harrisburg, so save us, good
friends, from being sent there.
4th. If there aro any soldiers seeking
a nomination, toll them not to be too
sanguine, for perhaps the greater will
bo their disappointment if they don't
got it. It would be well enough for
soldiers, wo think, to ascertain which
party contained the most love for the
soldier before they venture to be nom
inated.
sth. Great care should be taken to
nominate good men, for the people are
getting tired of merely going through
the motions of an election without ac
complishing any reform.
6th. The delegates should go to
both conventions with the oxpeotation
of not being bribed. Candidates have
lost so much by this means that they
have concluded to stop it. The candi
dates have come to the conclusion that
they will not be considered honest men
if they resort to bribery, and in order
to keep up appoarances they will do
nothing that is dishonest.
7th. We think it will be well enough
if both conventions have something to
say about the negro. Everybody wants
to' know just where his neighbor stands
on that question, because they have
beard so much talk about him that
they are led to believe the negro is one
of the American wonders.
Bth, and last.. 'For and in consider.
ation of the above advice to delegates,
we ask that each convention recom
mend us to the consideration of their
party as a candidate for the office of
President of these United (?) States,
as we pledge ourself to restore all the
difficulties existing between the North
and South, by playing Radical one day
and Consorvatife the next; to settle the
negro question - nn.a Permanent basis
by transportation .or social equality;
to reduce the National debt by repu
diation or pilindon the taxes; and to
thoroughly reconstruct the Southern
States by removing all the people of
those States into the North,or transpor
ting all the NorthernerS into the South.
This is our platform, and wo hope it
will suit overyho:dy, both white and
black. It is a platform, too,that is broad
enough to elect any man, but we don't
want any party to adopt it without
giving us the credit, and sharing the
"spoils."
cln a Into number of the Lynch
burg Virginian, wo find the following :
A friend who has been residing in
the peninsula for some months past,
informs us that there arc about 28,000
negroes between Williamsburg and
Hampton—a distance of thirty-six
miles. These people are sustained with
rations furnished by the government
at a cost of 890,000 monthly, while
five companies of cavalry are required
to patrol the country to prevent dep
redations. Every effort has been made
to induce a portion of them to remove
to Florida, the officers of the govern
ment offering them free transportation.
There is a standing offer of' this nature
made by General Armstrong, of the
Freedmen's Bureau, to convey the
men with their families, to any point
they may select, with the view of en
gaging in useful labor. But they bare
persistently refused every offer of the
kind and rejected every overture made
to get them employment. Under the
provisions of the civil rights bill it is
impossible to do anything contrary to
their wishes, and so they remain hud
dled within this limited area and are a
heavy tax upon the government. Some
of thorn have taken to highway rob
bery, and, but for the presence of a
large cavalry force, a residence in that
country would be intolerable. Verily?
Radicalism is a dear experiment, tax
ing the patience and pockets of the
people to a degree unprecedented in
the history of auy country.
THE STORY OF A Wwow.—A young
widow of Quincy, Illinois, mat a stran
ger on the street and asked him the
way; ho asked her if she was not a
widow; she said she was; ho said he
was a widower, a doctor, from Palmy
ra; Missouri, and proposed matrimony
on tho spot; she blushed and hesita
ted ; wouldn't he come home and see
her friends about it; the interview was
satisfactory, the marriage was arrang
ed for next morning, the widow's cash
(forty dollars) got into the doctor's
pocket, he went to get shaved, and
has never returned. He even left her,
cruel man,standing in the public square
while he "just run over to the barber's."
There was no such doctor in Palmyra,
and the curtain drops on a woman in
tears.
Ex-Gov. D. R. PORTER' DEAD.—Da
vid R. Porter died.at his•reeidenoe in
Harrisburg on Friday afterlio . en of last
'To*.
President Johnson and Secy. Stanton.
IiVASIIINGTON, August 7, 1867
The felloviing is the correct text of
the correspondence which recently
passed b4tween the 'President and
•Secretary.Of'
- '"Erecictive •Mans4ort; TVashingion, Aug.
5,' 1867— t 9irl:—Piihie considerations
of a high character constrain Die - to
say that your resignation as Secretary
of War will bo accepted.
Very respectfully,
(Signed,) ANDREW JORNSON.
To Hon Edwin M. Stanton, Sec'y of
War.
To which the See'y replied as follows:
War Department, August 5, 1.867,- 7 -
SIR : Your note of this date has been
received, stating that public consider
ations of a high character constrain
you to say that my resignation as
Secretary of War will be accepted. In
reply, I have the honor to say that
public considerations of a high char
acter, which alone have induced me to
continue at the head of this Depart
ment, constrain me not to resign the
office of Secretary of War before the
next meeting of Congress:
Ycry respectfully, yours,
(Signed. Enwtx nl. STANTON.
To the President,
[From the Washington Intelligences, oth.]
The statement, which has found* its
way in some of the public prints, to
the effect that the President has or
dered that no further communication
shall be held with Mr. Stanton, is, we
are satisfied, inaccurate.. So long us
he is permited to remain in office, of
ficial relations must necessarily sub
sist. It does not follow, however,that
ho will attend Cabinet consultations.
These are not - held in virtue of law.
They are purely discretionary with
the President, who is neither obliged
to confer with his Secretaries in for
mal meetings, nor is he restricted to
the beads of departments in seeking
advice upon public affairs.
The PreSident, we believe, will deal
with his refractory War Secretary in
another and more direct way. IL is
understood, from some of Mr. Stan
ton's fiiends, that that gentleman is
not entirely beyond the fear of popu
lar scorn, and may yet reconsider his
refusal to resign, however repugnant
such a step may be to his inveterate
love for official position. Wo learn
from a usually well informed source
that it is the purpose of Mr. Johnson
to allow this whole matter to remain
in abeyance for a few days, giving
time for reflection on the part of Mr.
Stanton and the friends who advise
him as to the course he should pursue.
If, in two or three days, he shall still
persist in the refusal to resign. the
President will suspend him, by giving
him notice, substantially, that he is
thereby suspended from the further
execution of the functions of the office
of Secretary of War, and that the
reasons for this suspension will be sub
mitted to the Senateat the next session
of Congress. •
The Surratt Cases
.No Verdict—The Jury -Discharged—
Judge Fisher and Mr, Bradley—Ex
citement in Court—Mr. Bradley Strick••
en from the Rolls—A Challenge to
Judge Fisher.
WAS HINGTON, Aug. 10.—At 12 30
Deputy Marshal Phillips came into the
court-room and stationed the officers.
This was a signal for a rush on the part
of the crowd that bad been patiently
waiting outside, and they quicklyfilled
up the space outside the bar. A num
ber were admitted inside the bar. Dis
trict Attorney Carrington was in the
court room at the time, and Mr. Brad
ley, Jr., one of the counsel for the pris
oner, came in a moment afterwards.
Mr. Bradley, Sr., and Mr. Merrick sub
sequently entered the room, they hav
ing been sent for. -There was a deci
ded commotion in the court room, and
it was whispered about :—"The jury
has agreed." "They are going to die.
charge the jury." "They can't agree,
and have asked to be discharged,"
At one o'clock the prisoner was
brought into the court room and as—
signed tho seat occupied by him dur—
ing the trial beside his counsel. lie
came into court smiling, and seemed
to be in good spirits, as he chatted
with his counsel.
Mr. Merrick made an allusion to are
port that an attempt would be made
at a rescue, whereat the prisoner
seemed to bo much amused.
At five minutes past one Judge Fish
er resumed his seat upon the bench.
Mr. Malloy, the • crier, called the
Court to order, and Marshal Phillips
was directed to bring the jury down.
By this time the room was much crow
ded. The Jury was brought in at
eight minutes past ono, and by direc
tion of Judge Fisher the names of the
jurors wore called.
Mr. Middleton, the clerk, addressing
the jury, said : "Gentlemen of the jury,
have you agreed upon your verdict ?"
Mr. Todd. We have not been able
to agree.
Judge Fisher. I have received the
followinr , letter from the jury :
To the Plon. Georgs P. Fisher, judge of
the Criminal Court :
Sri : The jury in the case of - the
United States vs. John .11. Surratt
most respectfully state that they stand
precisely now as when they first hal
lotted upon entering the room—near
ly equally divided—and they aro firm
ly convinced that they cannot possi
bly make a verdict. We deem it our
duty to the court, to the country, and
in view of the condition of our private
affairs and the situation of our fami
lies, and in view of the fact that the
health of several of our number is
becoming seriously impaired under
the protracted confinement, to make
this statement, and ask your honor to
dismiss us at once.
Most respectfully submitted.
W. B. Todd, James Y. Davis,
Robert Ball, C. Alexander,
J. Russell Barr, Wm.' McLean,
Thomas Berry, B. F. .Morsel],
Geo. A. Bohrer, B. B. Gittings,
C. G Schneider, W. W. Birth.
After the letter bad been read, Judge
Fisher asked if anything was to be
said on either side why-the jury was
not to ho discharged.
Mr. Bradley said the prisoner did
not consent, and if there was dis
charge, it would ho against the pro
test of the prisoner.
Mr. Carrington said be would - leave
the whole matter with the court.
Judge Fisher said_ he had already
received two-or three . notes of t 1 111,10-
lar tenor to the ono read. If there - ivas
any possibility of the jury agreeing ho
would not object to keeping them for a
reasonable time. But as ho was in—
formed they could not agree, he would
discharge thorn.
Tho jury was accordingly discharg
ed at ten minutes past one o'elock, and
the-jury then left the courtroom.
At this stage Judge Fisher - had Mr.
Bradley strieken.from the rolls of at
torneya practicing in the court. Mr.
Bradley_ was present, and took the
discharge as an insult, and it is said
that when the Judge was leaving in
the cars, Mr. Bradley' banded him a
note, which is thought to be a chal
lenge.
The order of Judge Fisher dismies
sing Mr. Bradley has created the most
intense excitement among all classes,
but the police are preserving order.
Tho members of the bar generally are
bitter in their denunciations of the
Judge, and have Called a meeting to
be hold on Monday morning. They
seem to make common cause against
the Judge; who, they openly declare,
has disgraced hiniself by using hie of
ficial power to reg - ent a present assault.
Surratt was remanded to the custody
of the Marshal and returned to jail.
During the entire retirement of the
July twenty-three hours they remained
as follows on the verdict :
For conviction—Mr. Todd, Mr. Barr,
Mr. Schneider, 111 r. Ale Lean.
For acquittal—Davis, Berry, Ball,
Bohrer, Alexander, Morsel!, (fittings,
and Birth. •
There is goodianthority for stating
that the jury disagreed on the ques
tion of the absence ,of Surratt from
Washington at the time of the assass
ination of the President, and that they
were entirely agreed upon this point,
that had ho been for conspira
cy he would have been convicted im
mediately on retiring to their room.
The following facts as to the nativi
ty of the jurors may not be uninterest
ing to the public.
W. B. Todd, born December 3, 1809.
at Newburyport, I%lass.
Robert Ball s born April 30, 1827, at
Alexandria county, I). C.
J. Russell Barr, born January, 7,
1812, at Northutnheland county, Pa.
Thomas Berry, born February 10,
1810, at New York city.
Goorgo A. Bobrer, born January 1,
1810, at Georgetown, D. C.
Chrietain S. Schneider, born June
12, 1831, at Wurtemburg, Germany.
James Y. Davis, born July 30, 1819,
at Northumberland, Pa.
Columbus Alexander, born Septem
ber 15, 1815, tit Alexandria, Va.
William McLean, born December 1,
1820, at Kilmarnock, Scotland.
Benj. F. Morsell, born January 30,
1821, at Prince "Geor;!o County, Md.
Benj. (linings, born December 13,
1808, at Montgomery County, Md.
Wm. W. Birth, born January 11,
1808, at Washington, D. C.
It it said by gentlemen who have
seen the communication banded by
Mr. Bradley to Judge Fisher to day,
that it first refers to the affair in the
court room between Judge Fisher and
Mr. Bradley, early in July last, dur
ing the progress•of the Surratt
and quotes the expression attributed
to Judge Fisher, to the effect that ho
(Mr. Bradley,) knew where the Judge
lived and that the latter would receive
a communication from him at any
time.
RED UILDINCL—A late letter from Port
land to the Evening Post says : A year
and a few days• ago, sonie three bun
drod and twenty acres of buildings in
the beautiful city of Portland were de
stroyed by fire. Fifteen hundred build
ings were burned to the ground, and
fifty-Aight streets and eight miles of
thoroughfare became a vast field of
calcined brick and ashes; ten thousand
persons were left, homeless; ten mil
lions of property dissipated in the
flames. The energies of a prosperous
city wore, for the moment, prostrated
and paralyzed. Yet a little more than
twelve months a grand resurrection
has ocourred. All over the burnt dis
trim, there have risen miles of now and
beautiful buildings. The City Hall has
taken on more elegant forms; banking
institutions have taken refuge in sub
stantial buildings of granite and free
stone ; and the ' thoUsand articles - of
trade are displayed in storehouses
which are better than ever before adap
ted to the needs of commerce. Along
some of the streets" there are temporary
wooden buildings, Which remind one of
some of the cities on the frontier,which
rise in the night from the prairie; but
these will soon be replaced by perma
nent and more costly;struotures. What
a splendid triumph of human skill, en
ergy and perseverance is this ! There
is something very grand in this tenac
ity of purpose, this unconquerable res
olution, this triumph over disaster. it
is a symbol of American enterprise. It
is more than that ;. it is a striking ex
hibition of Yankee pluck. Merchants
of the city tell me that in three years
they will not only make good to the
taxable property the ton millions they
lost-on that night Of sadness, but they
wilt add largely to'. their wealth, and in
every way they are setting themselves
to that work.
A NATURAL BITIDgE IN Olllo.—Ohio,
like Virginia, has a' wonderful natural
bridge. It is in Hocking county, fif
teen miles from Lancaster. A person
who visited it recently describes it as
follows : This is a grand and beautiful
arch of a solid rock, spanning a wide
ravine of some sixty feet in depth,
through which meanders, among the
rocks which have fallen from the cliffs
above, a clear and tiny rivulet, which
seems to have its drigin in springs
above and under the bridge, and flows
thence, in the coarse of two' or three
hundred yards, into . the Hocking. The
exposed portion of .the rock, forming
the bridge proper, presents a surface
on the upper side of about one bun•
dred and sixty foot in length, eight to
twenty feetin breath, and six to twelve
feet in thickness It is gently arched,
smooth on top, where the rock is, in
part, bare, and in part carpeted with
green turf, forming an ample passage
way for pedestrians, and over which,
but for one narrow place, carriages and
teams might easily cross Immediate
ly above the bridge, and separated
from it by a fissure ranging from a few
inches to several feet in width, is a
vast overhanging rock, loominK • over
space where a regiment . :ol:men,could
,tie accommodated with shade aid
shoi
ter. %%C. Whole Is'inVironed hyr
most lovely.forest, and shut.in by the
grapp and , .
Tippling in England.
The _Lancet haS raised its voice, cer
tainly none too soon, against the in
creasing indulgence among the educa
ted and gentle,of what it justly charac
terized as the pernicious habit of tip:
Piing. - There can be no doubt in the
mind of any who observes the changes,
of manners in good society that this
very serious charge is well founded, •
nor must the ladies, though the Lancet
delicately abstains from direct allusion
to thorn, be allowed to consider them
selves exempted from its strictures or
unconcerned in its warnings. Every
thing in modern customs tends that
way, the large, wine glasses in use at
all dinner tables, the introduction of
amiable alcoholic drinks; the fashion
of giving claret or =sell°
,cup as an
adjunct to the five• o'clock tea table,
and at the buffets of evening parties,
where girls, heated with dancing or
fevered with the constant round of ex
citement, may be seen swallowing
glass after glass of these tempting and
fallaciously cool beverages inplace of the
lemonades and syrups which formerly
sufficed for their refreshment. But has
the faculty, as it is called, nothing to
answer for in promoting the present
state of things? Children are nowgiven
"by the doctor's orders," an amount of
alcohol which would have horrified
their grand-mothers. The beer or port
wine administered two or three times
a day at first disgusts, but soon be—
comes grateful to them. Almost every
one of us may plead medical advice as
the beginning of the habit. They say
the modern type of disease is low; that
stimulants are requisite; and that
whether they prescribe chlorie other
or champagne, does not much signify.
Perhaps not in the physical point of
view, but in the moral ono ? Surely
the temptation to the abuse of such
stimulants as lavender, other, &c., is
not so great or so constantly recurring
as that of wino and liquors, which are
offered and pressed upon us wherever
we go. Brandy now takes the place
of sal volatile in the lady's dressing
ease ; and the properties of gin as a
cleansing agent, applicable to every
thing, from the gilt stopper of a scent
bottle to a lace flounce, are firmly im
pressed on the mind of the waiting
maid. We - would never speak but with
respect of thenoble profession of healing,
but it cannot be denied that the pecu
liar temptation assailing some of its
more "fashionablo" members is that of
following rather than leading the in
clinations of their patients.—. Pall Mall
Gazette, July 12th.
An English M. P. on the Plains.
Hon. Thomas Cave, M. P. for Barn
itable, has returned to Chicago from
the Plains, whore, besides visiting the
Union Pacific Railroad, be bad some
exciting adventures. We learn from
the Chicago Journal that while at Jules
burg, Col. Carling, commandant of the
post, tendered to Mr. Cave the hospital
ities of his camp, and an invitation for
an antelope hunt on the prairies. At
five o'clock the next morning, with the
instinct of a true English gentleman,
than whom there is no better repro
sentative,the invitation was at once ac
cepted, and with Col. Carling, his or
derly, and two scouts, the member of
Parliament was accompanied to the
field. They wore not long in finding
antelope in considerable numbers, and
excellent sport was had. After a few
hours amongst these antlered beauties,
a brace of wolves appeared upon the
scene, and Mr. C., being finely mount
ed, decided to make a dash after them,
and after an exciting chase of two
miles came up with the caYota. For
the first time, however, he found that
he had left his rifle with his attend
ants, and turned to call them to hiM
to procure it,. when he was notified
that a band--of hostile Indians were
manoeuvring to cut him off from his
party. This was evidently. no time to
tarry for the brush of the wolf which
had been run down and exhausted
Mr. Cave, therofore, reluctantly
gave up the chase, and putting spurs
to his horse soon regained his com
panions; with their fire arms, when a
new difficulty beset them. The right
scout dashed up with the not very
eheeriug intelligence that another band
of the "gentlemen without hats" wore
approaching from an opposite direc
tion, and the other scout came up with
a similar report from the left.
A council of war was at once called,
and the party dismounted for a stand
up fight. Being armed with the Henry
repeating rifle they would doubtless
have rendered a good account of them
selves, had not the Indians deemed dis
cretion the better part of valor, and
concluded they could see just as well
a little farther off.
The party accordingly returned
safely to camp, and Mr. Cave wish the
reflection that if he did not boar off
the scalp of the wolf, he saved his own,
and thus ended our friend's first clay's
experience in hunting antelope upon
she prairies.
The Indian War.
LEAVENWORTII, Kansas, Aug. s.—On
the Ist instant Captain Arms, of the
10th Cavalry, ,with forty 7 four men of
the same regiment, started in pursuit
of a band of Indian raiders, who had
boon committing outrages near Fort
Hayes. After a hot pursuit of forty
five miles our troops overtook about
seventy-five Indians on Sabine river,
and a hot fight ensued, when the In•
d ians wore reinforced by about
two, hundred braves, all armed with
Spencer carbines and commanded by
two white mon. Captain Arms was
surrounded, but fought his way oat
and fell back towards Fort Hayes,
closely pursued by the Indians, for a
distance of fifteen miles. Capt. Arms
was wounded in the thigh, and seven
of his men were also wounded.
After falling back this distance, Cap
tain Arms sent to Fort Hayes for rein
forcements. Forty additional men were
sent to him, since which time nothing
has been heard from them.
The Indians aro in strong force, and
threaten all tho posts on the Smoky
Hill route.
company has boon organized
to engage in the manufacture of elastic
sponge, to be used for upholstery and
all purposes for which curled hair is now
used, It is said that a sponge mattress
possesses all the advantages, and IS free
from many of the 'disadvantages of
hair, and can be afforded much cheaper.
The process of manufacture•-is similar
to that of- paper, as far as the prepara
tion of puip is concerned.
FREAK OF A SomNmunemsr.—A some
what singular freak of a somnambulist
has just been related to us. A. gen
tleman living. itrthe Seventh Ward one
morning:missed:a quantity of money
which he had in a drawer,and,although
strict,Search wag made, no clue to the
missing'Ca'sih could ho found. The mon
ey was Wien fain a drawer which
was kepticicketl and' the key in the
gentleman's pocket. :Th o affair was
involved in meytery, which was not
removed the next day when a set of
silver spoons were missed. The ser
vants were suspected of the theft, and
as a knowledge that the articles had
been missed had been kept from them
it was determined to keep a watch
next night and fasten the guilt upon
whoever should be found trespassing.
Everything about the house remained
quiet until about: two o'clock, when a
stir was beard. The person who was
on the watch peered Cautiously through
the hall from whence came the. sounds
of footsteps,, and saw approaching the
gentleman of the house. lie went to.
the cupboard with a stealthy step,took
therefrom.a quantity of silver plate
and started fur the back yard, closely
followed by 'the watchman, who at
once suspected the truth of the case.
The sleep-walker proceeded cautiously
to the woodshed, and covered the plate
carefully in a barrel of ashes and star
ted back to his house. lie was awoke,
however, by the wale/I=n, and .ap
peered greatly .bewildered at finding
himself in that place. The matter was
explained to him and search was at
once instituted among the ashes for the
missing property. The search was
happily rewarded by the discovery •of
the silver plate, spdous, and green
backs, safely secreted among the, ashes
where they had been deposited y the
gentleman, who had been unconscious.
ly guilty of robbing himself. This ex
perience may result in the cure of the
gentleman of his habit of sleep-walk
ing.—Milwatikee Sentinel.
Tut Taro TO EUROPE. -A voyager
to Europe gives the following account
of the passage in the steamer: There
are several ladies who kept their state
rooms from the boginning,eating noth
ing, doing nothing, crying to the cap
tain to stop the ship and put them on
shore, and asking piteously whether
the next wave will be as big as the
last one. These are hauled up on the
fourth day,and have asonsation ofbeing
bounced into the air and left hanging
there. But none arcs° utterly miserable
as the ship's bride, who came on board
with her groom in a now travelling
dress of silver colored poplin, with a
tear on her white veil as she bade her
mother good bye, dropped upon her
grooms' arm, and thought of love, pro
tection, Paris, and presents. In two
boors she has a sensation,as she stands
on the hurricane deck, of having paten
too much fruit cake. This increases as
the ocean draws nearer, and finally re
solves itself into a great, ache, both in
the bead and stomach. Proud as a
Sioux brave stands her husband. Pale
as a captive squaw is she wondering
whether such pains aro immediately
consequent-upon the marriage state,
and wishing she were single again, or
had taken the other man. At last she
fades below, like the spectre of a mer
maid, and sobs her pillow case full.
Poor dear she thinks that John will
be disgusted ; while John, like a born
surgeon, is running for hartsborn,salts,
Congress water,. and- brandy, all of
which are thrpwn.at him out of the
depths of her distress, and she lives to
believe that the first week of marriage
is the weariest of life.
A PRETTY PICTURT3.--The following
is from an eseay contributed to the
Herald of Health by Mrs. Gleason :
"1 once sat on a porch at twilight
with a little boy in my lap. His bright
plump face glowed with a coaxing ad
miration as he turned it upward say
ing: 'Moon and'star, come down to
me.' After an expectant delaY he
seemed to remember that please was a
powerful word for procuring pleasures
in his happy circle. Feeling sure of
success this time, each tiny hand was
extended, with palms upward, ready
to receive the gifts when they descen
ded as ho said : 'Moon and star, please
do Come to me.' Finding that even
please did not bring down the desired
treasures, he gently laid his hands in
his lap, and with-a soft sigh of resig
nation said : 'Moon and stars too high
for me !' but still with radiant face he
gazed admiringly. I then thought ter
ror and trouble would come. to us if,
maturer years, we had our own way
at all times, just as in mercy moon
and stars were held in their course
despite childish pleadings. So,
when
our hopes are 'deforred,or plans fail, we
may by a contemplation of Nature's
quiet grandeur grow cool and content,
saying : 'AI! this wbiLh we asked was
too high for us.'"
DO ANIMALS REASON.-.'lr. Seth
Rogers, of Bath, No., says the Port
land Argus, has in his family, a petcat,
whose , powers of perception are re
markably distinct from_ the fact that
she became recently in possession of a
beautiful kitten, which was earnestly
solicited by one of his neighbors when
it should be of an age to be removed
from its fond parent: , -One
. morning
after; the Itillan was: fbund at the
house of the person who desired it,
and it was found that "'Topsy," ,the
mother, had carried the kitten there
of her own accord, and, layingit down,
looked up and seemed to say, 'here it
is, take good care of it, since which
time she has never been near it.
MraTho Boston Traveler states that
a lady in Reading, Mass., while con
versing with some callers, suddenly
turned pale and sinking into a, chair,
exclaimed, "Did you hear that gun ? it
affected me strangely;" and wept incon
solably. Her visitors heard no report,
and it afterward appeared that no gun
had been fired at that time 'or the
place. News came, however, that her
brother,residing a hundred miles away,
was at that very hour fatally shot by
the accidental discharge of his fowling
piece while hunting in the grove year
his house.
M - Beecher says, in his new novel :
"One of these days men will call things
by their right names. Then, they
won't say, 'he's of a good disposition,'
but, 'he has a good stomach.' Half the
grace that's going is nothing but feed.
Pant said the kingdom was not. meat
and drink. Very likely not, hereafter.
But it is hero. Good skak_and light
bread are benevolence. Coffee is in-
spiration and humor. Good tea is ten,
-derness and sprightlioesS—facts very
humbling of our excellences. But
they're facts."
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
NOTICE.
Whereas my Trite Elizabeth Shank, bag loft my
bed and board 'without any - just came of prozocation,
horoby caution all iMrsims against harboring boor trust
ing, as I irlll mot pay debts Miter contracting.
Aug. 14,1867- 0 N. MANX.
FXAMINATIONS OF TEACH
ERS, inhip the diatricts named,
st will be ea follows:
West toweb, Thursday, Augu ID, Shavers Creek
Bridge.
Barren township, Friday, August 16, Honor Rill:
Jackson townehtp, /Saturday, August 17, 111cAlavey's
Vert.
Walker township, Monday, Angest 10. tefeConneistown..
Penn township, Tuesday, August 20, Marklreburg.
Carbon township and Coalmont borough, Wednesday,
August 21. Coalmont.
Hopewell end Lincoln towtskips, Theredey, August
22, Coffee Run.
Tod township, Friday, August 23, Newberg.
For full list and other matter see Teachers Advocate
for July. 1/.1.7/IStall,
sugl3 Co. Supt.
STEVENS HOUSE,
21. 23, 25. & 27 BROADWAY, N. Y.
OPPOSITE BOWLING GREEN
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The STRYRNS ROUSE Is wetland widely known to the
travelling public. The Mention is especially suitable to
merchants and business men; it Is in close proximity te
am business part of the city—is on the highway - of South
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Tilt STEVENS ROUSE has liberal accommodations
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erate rates. The rooms haring been refurnished and'
remodeled, we are enabled to offer extra facilities
for the comfort and pleasure of our Guests
Avg. 1.4,437-Om.
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AGRICUTAURAL SOCIETY.
A regulor meeting of the County Agricultural
gomoty, will be held in the Court house, on Tuesday
evening of the coming Court, 13th prox. The question
of holding a County Fair during; the present nor will ho
determined. es well ns other bodiless at importance. A
general attendance is requested.
1y order of the Society,
It. 3PDIVITT, Say.
Huntingdon, July 31,'61
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SOLDIERS HEIRS, ATTENTION 1_
The act of Con,gress opproved Starch 3,166 T, Oyes tist
Heirs of Soldiers who Wed prisoners of war, .
COSIIIIITATION FOR RATIONS,
for the time the soldier was so hold a prisoner, at the
rate of twenty-Arc cents per day, to be paid in the fellow,
ing order: Ist. To the widow, if untnarrigd ; 2d. To the
children; 3:1. To the - parents, to hot* jrct.ly if they are
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The act of February 28. 1867, provides forth& refund.
rue of the SOO Commutation Moues: where the same per
son was again drafted, and was required to enter the ser
vice or furnish a substitute.
DISCHARGED SOLDIERS.
The act of March 2,1867, also makes pro.. isions for the
payment of the
$lOO ADDITIONAL BOUNTY
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to such soldiers as have accidentally lost their dischar
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All persons having any cluhns under any of the :thaw,
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