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Professional Cards.
:LES ZENTMYER, Attorney-at-
Law, Huntingdon, Pa., will attend promptly
•gal business. Office in Cunningham's new
Lian.4,7l.
ALLEN LOVELL, Attorney-at-
Law, Huntingdon, Pa. Special attention
o COLLECTIONS of all kinds; to the settle
f Estates &c. r and all other Legal Business
ited with fidelity and dispatch.
• Office in room lately occupied by R. Milton
Esq. [jan.4,'7l.
W. MYTON, Attorney-at-Law, Hun
tingdon, Pa. Office a ith J. Sewell Stewart,
[jan.4,'7l.
HALL MUSSER, Attorney-at-Law,
Huntingdon, Pa. Office, second floor of
's new building, 11111 street. Unn.4l7 1.
P. W. JOHNSTON, Surveyor
and Scrivener, Huntingdon, Pa. All kinds
ing, drafting, ec., done at short notice.
e on Smith street, ovet Woods & Williamson's
ffice. [mayl2,'69.
M. & M. S. LYTLE, Attorneys
at-Law, Huntingdon, Pa., will attend to
de of legal business entrusted to their care.
c on the south side of Hill street, fourth door
f Smith. Dan. 4,71.
SYLVANUS BLAIR, - Attorney-at-
Law, Huntingdon, Pa. Office, Hill street,
loons west of Smith. Dan.4ll.
A. POLLOCK, Surveyor and Real
Estate Agent, Huntingdon, Pa., will attend
veying in all its branches. Will also buy,
- rent Farms, Houses, and Real Estate of ev
ad, is any part of the United States. Send
circular. Dan.47l.
Z. J. A. DEAVER, having located
at Fran:-..linville, offers his professional ser
o the community. [jan.4,'7l.
W. MATTERN, Attorney-at-Law
and General Claim Agent, Huntingdon, Pa..
rs' claims against the Government for back
,ounty, widows' and invalid pensions attend
with great care and promptness.
on Hill street. [jan.4,'7l.
SCOTT. S. T. DROWN. J. N. BAILEY.
OTT, BROWN & BAILEY, At
torneys-at-Law, Huntingdon, Pa. Pensions,
ll claims of soldiers and soldiers' heirs against
overnment will be promptly prosecuted.
ce on Hill street. [jan.4,'7l.
R. D. P. MILLER, Office on Hill
street, in the room formerly occupied by
)hn IrCulloch, Huntingdon, Pa., would rim
illy offer his professional services to the °W
it Huntingdon and vicinity. an. 4,71.
It. PATTON, Druggist and Apoth-
ecary, opposite the Exchange Hotel, Hun
on, Pa. Prescriptions accurately compounded.
Liquors for Medicinal purposes. [n0v.23,'70.
R. A. B. BRUMBAUGH, offers his
professional services to the community.
ce on Washington street, one door east of the
sic Parsonage. [jan.4,'7l.
J. GREENE, Dentist. Office re
. moved to Leister's new building, Hill street
ingdon. Dan. 4,11.
ALLISON MILLER, Dentist has
• removed to the Brick Row, opposite the
t House. Lian.4,ll.
XCHANGE HOTEL, Huntingdon.
Pa. JOHN S. MILLER, Proprietor.
nuary 4, 1871.
R. DIJRBORROW, Attorney-at
. Luw, Huntingdon, Pa., will practice in the
rat Courts of Huntingdon county. Particular
Won given to the settlement of estates of dew
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ice in the JOURNAL Building. [feb.l,'7l.
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TRIAL LIST FOR APRIL TERM,
1871. FIRST WEEK.
John McCahan's Ears. vs. A. P. Wilson.
Geo. C. Hamilton vs. David Foam.
W. W. and D. C. Entri
ken vs. James Entriken.
Same vs. Win. S. Entriken.
Andrew Johnson vs. Powelton C. and I. Co.
Ann Cook et al we. George Mears.
Wharton & Maguire vs. E. A. Green & Co.
Same vs. Richard Langdon.
John P. Zimmerman vs. Martin Walker.
McDonald & Co. vs. Nicholas Lewis.
SECOND WEEK.
John M'Kelvy and wife v. H. C. Robinson, et. al.
P. S. Braekcaridge D. D. C. Salsburg.
H. C. Lockhart et. al. vs. James Bricker.
D. H. and B. H. Good vs. W. A. Orbison, et. al.
S. A. Hughes & Bro. vs. E. A. Greene & Co.
Hannah Rudy vs. D. R. P. Neely.
S. R. Douglas, holder vs. H. S. Wharton.
Henry & Co. vu Wm. Hatfield.
Johnston Moore's Ears vs. James P. Moor, gar.
Wm. A. Myer vs. David Fouse.
Lazarus Myer vs. Hicks & Walls.
August Kohler vs. John E. Seeds, et. al.
Aaron Beightal vs. Reuben Duff.
Jacob Hoffman cs. John Bare.
John S. Miller vs. P. R. R. Co.
John Keller's, Ears vs. Samuel Keller's Ears.
State Bank vs. Matthew Stewart.
Jabob F. Little vs. Robert Fleming.
Martin & Peterson vs. Post Jc Coplin.
William Miller vs. William M'Clure.
Michael Boring vs. Robert Hackett.
M. M. M'NgAL,
Prothonatory's Office, Mar. 15. Proth.y,
REGISTER'S NOTlCE.—Notice is
hereby given. to all persons interested, that
the following named persons have settled their ac
counts in the Register's Office, at Huntingdon, and
that the said accounts will be presented for con
firmation and allowance, at an Orphans' Court, to
be held at Huntingdon, in and for the county of
Huntingdon ' on Wednesday, the 12th day of
April, next, (1871.) to wit:
1. Administration account of Jacob Sharp, one
of the Executors of Jacob Detwiler, late of Brady
township, deceased.
2. Final administration account of David P.
G win, administrator of Hon. James G win, late of
Huntingdon borough, deceased.
3. Administration account of Hiram Shadle, ad
ministrator of Mary Shadle, late of Brady tp.. de
ceased.
4. Account of Dr. Wm. P. WRite, administrator
Catharine Rutter, late of Shirley tp., deceased.
5. Administration account of Theo. Cremer,
Esq., administrator of Wm. W. Hildebrand, late of
Huntingdon Boro, deceased.
8. Final account of Peter Harnish, administra
tor of Jacob Harnish, late of "'orris tp., deceased.
7. Administration account e Wm. Gutschall, Ex
ecutor of Abraham Gutschall, late of Springfield
township, deceased.
8. First and partial account of Benjamin Davis
and John B. Peterson, administrators of David Pe
terson, lata of Shirley tp., deceased.
9. Administration account of F. D. Rutter, ad
ministrator of Jos. Rutter, late of Shirley tp., de
ceased. . .
10. Trust account of Solomon Curfman, Bury icing
Trustee to sell the Real Estate, of Peter Curfman,
late of Cass tp., deceased.
11. Administration account of Solomon Curfman,
surviving administrator of Peter Curfman, late of
Cass tp., deceased.
12. Administration account of Samuel Peightal
and James Ward, administrators of Sarah Peightal,
late of Walker township, deceased.
13. Admistration account of Abraham Grubb,
Executor of Andrew Fraker, late of Walker town
ship, deceased.
14. First administration and trust account of G.
B. Armitage, Esq., administrator, with the will an
nexed of John Armitage, late of Huntingdon born,
deceased.
15. Partial account of Isaac Book, executor of
John Fultz, late of Tell tp., deceased.
16. Administration account of David Douglas,
executor of Jesse Hollingsworth, late of Shirley tp,
deceased.
17. Administration account of Eon. D. Clarkson
and Joseph Park, administrators of George Querry,
late of Cass township, deceelTd,
~,,,,
Stone, administrators of Michal Eton; late of Toil
township, deceased.
19. Administration account of Frederick Klep
nor, executor of W. W. Enycsrt, late of Hopewell
tp., deceased.
20. The first and final administration of 3. R.
Lowrie, Esq., executor of John Wrye, late of War
riors' Mark tp., deceased.
21. Administration account of James Coulter,
ecutor of Alexander Duffield, late of Tell tp.,dec'd.
22. Administration account of Mary P. Weaver,
late Keith, administratrix of Lewis Keith, late of
Lincoln tp., deceased.
23. Administration account of Charles W. Steel,
administrator of John Steel, late of Union town
ship, deceased.
24. Administration account of Mordecai D. Chil
cote, administrator of Amon Chilcote, late of Tod
township, deceased.
25. Administration account of George Eby, ad
ministrator of Miles Hampson, late of Brady tp.,
deceased.
26. Administration account of Robert Glenn, ad
ministrator of Samuel Rhodes, late of Franklin tp,
deceased.
27. Administration account of George Schaffer,
administrator of Jacob Schaffer, late of Walker tp,
deceased.
28 First administration account of David Gra
zier, executor of Henry Grazier, late of Warriors
mark township, deceased.
29 Administration account of Christiana Parks,
administratrix of George Parks, late of Penn town
ship, deceased.
30 Administration account of Elizabeth L. Holt
man, administratrix of George Hollman, late of
West township, deceased.
31 Administration account of Simon Wright,
Esq., administrator of Philip Pheasant, late of
Union township, deceased.
32 Administration account of M. F. Campbell
and David P. Pheasant, executors of Levi bell,
late of Union township, deceased.
33 Administration account of Peter Tippory, ex
ecutor of Sam'l Keller, late of Morris tp, deceased.
34. Guardianship account of Samuel B. Grove,
Guardian of Charles, Kate and Bruce Hampson,
minor children of James H. Hampson, late of
Brady township, deceased.
36. Administration account of James Ward and
Samuel Peightal, administrators of John Peightal,
late of Walker township, deceased.
J. E SIitiCFLER,
REGISTER . B Omen,l Register.
Huntingdon, March 15. I
NOTICE is hereby given to all persons
interested that the following Inventories of
the goods and chattier: set apart to widows, under
the provisions of the Act of 14th of April, a. d.,
1851, have been Sled in the office of the Clerk of
the Orphans' Court of Huntingdon county, and
will be presented for "approval by the Court," on
Wednesday, April 12th, 1871 :
Inventory and nppraisement of the personal
property, taken by Nancy Westbrook, widow of
John Westbrook, deceased.
Inventory and appraisement of the personal
property, taken by Mary Mills, widow of Wm.
Mills, late of Dublin township, deceased.
Inventory and appraisement of the personal
property, taken by Hese Smith, widow of Irwin
Smith, late of Mapleton. deed.
Inventory and appraisement of the personal
property, taken by Margaret Horning, widow of
Isreal Horning, late of Barre° tp., deceased.
Inventory and appraisement of the personal
property, taken by Elizabeth Miller, widow of
Christian Miller, late of Cass tp., deceased.
Inventory and appraisement of, the personal
property, taken by Elizabeth McCarthy, widow of
Wm. McCarthy, late of Brady tp., Ps.
. Inventory and appraisement of the personal
property, taken by Susan Stryker, widow of Mah
lon T. Stryker, late of West township, deceased.
Inventory and appraisement of the personal
property, taken by Susan Walker, widow of Henry
C. Walker, late of Alexandria boro., deceased.
Inventory and appraisement of the personal
property, taken by Jane Peightal, widow of Sam
uel Peightal, late of Oneida tp., deceased.
Inventory and appraisement of the personal
property, taken by Martha C. Weston, widow of
John Weston, late of Mapleton boro, deceased.
Inventory and appraisement of the personal
property, taken by Ally Clark, widow of Amos
Clark, late of Tod tp., deceased.
Inventory and appraisement of the personal
property, taken by Mary Green, widow of George
Green, late of Oneida townsh d
ip, eceased.
J. E. SMUCKER,
Clk Orphans' Court.
Huntingdon, Pa., March 15.
ASSIGNEE'S NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given that Wm. P. Ram
sey and Eliza S., his wife, of Dublin township,
Huntingdon county, Pa., by deed of voluntary as
signment, dated February 9, 1871, have assigned
&lithe estate real and personal of the said Wm. P.
Ramsey, (except so much thereof as is by the laws
of Pennsylvania, exempt from execution,) to John
S. Nimmon and A. A. Skinner, of Franklin county,
in trust, for the benefit of the creditors of tho said
Wm. P. Ramsey. All persons therefore indebted
the said Wm. P. Ramsey will make payment to
said Assignees, and those having claims will make
known to the same without
S delay.
JOHN S. NIMMON,
A. A. SKINNER,
Fannetsburg, Franklin county, Pa.
Feb. 22,"71.-61.
HUNTINGDON, PA., APRIL 5, 1871.
United_ States Laws-
LAWS
OF THE
UNITED STATES
PASSED AT THE
THIRD SESSION OF THE FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
[GENERAL NATURE-NO. 28.]
AN ACT to change the times for bold
ing the Gimlet, and circuit courts of the
United States at Erie,Pennslyypia.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That
from and after this date the July terms of
the district and circuitcourts of the United
States in and for the western district of
Pennsylvania, at Erie, shall be commenced
and held on and after the third Monday of
July in each year; and the January terms
of said courts at the same place shall be
commenced and held at Erie, Pennsylvania,
on and after the second Monday in January
of each year.
Approved, February 21, 1871.
[GENERAL NATURE—NO. 26.]
AN ACT to authorize the Union Pacific
Company to issue its bonds to construct
a bridge across the Missouri river at
Omaha, Nebraska, and Council Bluffs,
lowa.
Be it resolved by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States
of America, in Congress assembled, That
for the more perfect connection of any
railroads that are or shall be constructed to
the Missouri river, at or near Council
Bluffs, lowa, and Omaha, Nebraska, the
Union Pacific Railroad ompany be, and
it is hereby, authorized to issue such bonds,
and secure the same by mortgage on the
bridge and approaches and appurtenances,
as it may deem needfal to constuct and
maintain its bridge over said river, and the
tracks and depots required to perfect the
same, as now authorized by law of Con
gress ; and said bridge may be so construct
ed as to provide for the passage of ordinary
vehicles and travel, and said company may
levy and collect tolls and charges for the
use of the same • and for the use and pro
tection of said bridge and property, the
Union Pacific Railroad Company shall be
empowered, governed, and limited by the
provisions of the act entitled "An act to
authorize the construction of certain
bridges, and to establish them as post
roads," approved July twenty-five, eigh
teen hundred and sixty-six, so far as the
same is applicable thereto : And provided,
That nothing in this act shall be so con- i
strued as to change the eastern terminus
of the Union Pacific railroad from the
place where it is now fixed under existing
laws, nor to release said Union Pal&
Railroad Company, or its successors, from
its obligation as established by existing
laws; Provided also, That Congess shall
at all times have power to regulate said
bridge, and the rates for the transportation
of freight and passengers over the same,
and the local travel herein before provided
for. And the amount of bonds herein au
thorized shall not exceed two and a half
bridge shall be constructed as a drawbridge,
the same shall be constructed with spans of
not less than two hundred feet in length in
the clear on each side of the central or
pivot pier of the draw.
Approved, February 24, 1871.
[GENERAL NATURE-NO. 30.]
AN ACT to provide for the disposition
of useless Military reservations.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That the
Secretary of War be, and he is hereby,
authorized and empowered to transfer to
the custody and control of the Secretary
of the Interior, for disposition for cash,
according to the existing laws of the
United States relating to the public lands,
after appraisement, to the highest bidder,
and at not less that the appraised value,
nor at less than one dollar and twenty-five
cents per acre, in the United States mili
tary reservations at Forts Lane and Walla-
Walla, in the State of Oregon; Fort
Zarah, in the State of Kansas; Camp
McGarry, in the State of Nevada; Fort
Sumner, in the Territory of New Mexico;
Forts Jessup and Sabine, in the State of
Lousiana ; Fort Wayne and Fort Smith,
in the State of Arkansas ; such portion of
the Fort Abercrombia reservation as lies
east of the Red River of the North; and
such portions of the reservation at Fort
Bridger, in the Territory of Wyoming, as
may no longer be required for mili
tary purposes: Provided, That the Secre
tary of the Interior shall, whenever in his
opinion the public interests mayrequire it,
cause any of the foregoing reservations, or
part thereof, to be subdivided into tracts
less than forty acres each, or into town
lots: And provided also , That each sub
division shall be appraised and offered
separately at public outcry, to the highest
bidder, as hereinbefore provided, after
which any unsold land or lot shall be sub
ject to sale at private entry for the ap
praised value, at the proper land office :
And provided further, That should there
be improvements of buildings, or of build
ing materials, or other valuable property,
the Secretary of the Interior shall have
them appraised ; and no patent shall issue
for the real estate until the improvements
are paid for, at the appraised value there
of, under such regulations as may be pre
scribed by the said Secretary.
Sze. 2. And be it further enacted, That
the right is hereby granted to Dalles City
to have and use the waters of Mill creek
flowing through the military reservation
of Fort Danes, Oregon, and the right of
way to convey the same through said res
ervation for the purposes of supplying
Dalles City with water and for manufactur
ing purposes.
SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That
permisson is granted to the corporated au
thorities of Dalles City to extend Liberty
street southerly, on the line of the same,
through said reservation, and the land ly
ing east thereof be, and the same is, grant
ed to said Dalles City, in fee, upon the
payment to the United States therefor the
sum of five dollars per acre.
Sze. 4. And be it further enacted, That
the land hereby granted to said city shall
be surveyed under the direction of the
surveyor general for the State of Oregon
upon application to him made by the
mayor of said city; and the expenses of
such survey shall be paid by said Dalles
City.
Approved, February 24, 1871.
[GENERAL NATURE—NO. 31.]
AN ACT prescribing the form of the en
acting and resolving clauses of acts and
resolutions of Congress, and rules for
the construction thereof.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That the
enacting clause of all acts of Congress
hereafter enacted shall be in the following
form : "Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled ;"
and the resolving clause of all joint reso
lutions shall be in the following form :
"Resolved by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled ;" and no
further enacting or resolving words shall
be used in any subsequent section or reso
lution after the first; and each section
shall be numbered and contain as nearly
as may be a single proposition of enact
ment.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That
in all acts hereafter passed words import
ing the singular number may extend and
be applied to several persons or things ;
words importing the plural number may
include the singular ; words importing
the masculine gender may be applied to
females ; the words "insane person" and
"lunatic" shall include every idiot, non
comps, lunatic, and insane person; and
the word "person" may extend and be ap
plied to bodies politic and corporate, and
the reference to any officer shall include
any person authorized by law to perform
the duties of such office, unless the con
text shows that such words were intended
to be used in a more limited sense ; and
the word "oath" shall include "affirma
tion" in cases where the law an affirma
tion may be substituted for an oath, and
in like cases the word "sworn" shall in
clude the word "affirmed."
SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That
whenever an act shall be repealed, which
repealed a former act, such former act
shall not thereby be revived, unlessit shall
be expressly so provided.
Sze. 4. And be it further enacted, That
the repeal of any statute shall not
have the effect to release or extinguish
any penalty, forfeiture, or liability incur
red under such statute, unless the repeal
ing act shall so expressly provide, and
such statute shall be treated as still re
maining in force for the purpose of sus
taining any proper action or prosecution
for the enforcement of such penalty, for
feiture, or liability.
Approved, February 25, 1871.
[GENERAL NATURE-NO. 32.]
AN ACT supplementary to an act to es
tablish the Department of Justice.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That there
shall be in the Department of Justice an
additional assistant of the Attorney Gen
eral, who shall be appointed by the Presi
dent, by and with the advice and consent
of the Senate, and shall hold his office
until a successor shall be duly qualified,
and who shall be paid the salary of other
assistants of the Attorney General.
Approved, February 25, 1871.
[GENERAL NATURE—NO. 33.3
AN ACT to enable J. H. Schnell, of Cal
ifornia, to enter and pay for a section of
public land in Califbrnia for his tea
colony.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
f i kpLessftstives o,f
r , the Unite of
States •
H. Schnell, of California, be authorize.' to
enter, at the proper United States land
office, a quantity of land not exceeding
six hundred and forty acres, at the mini-
the I
mum price, according to .fines of his
improvements, tea gardens, and other cul
ture, in the county of El Dorado, in the
State of California, and to which there
may not be any adverse claim except that
of the United States.
Approved, February 27, 1871.
[RESOLUTION OF GENERAL NATURE-NO. 15.]
JOINT RESOLUTION for the relief of
John E. Hagerty, of St. Louis, Missou
ri.
Be it enacted . by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That the
Postmaster General be, and is hereby, di
rected to advertise for the transportation
of all mails in the city of St. Louis, now
under contract with John E. Hagerty, and
release him from his bond : Provided,
That new service under said advertisement
can be recurred at a reasonable rate.
Approved, February 24, 1871.
[RICOOLIITION OF GENERAL NATURE—No. 16.
JOINT RESOLUTION to extend the
benefit of the act establishing the Na
tional Asylum for disabled volunteer
soldiers to the disabled soldiers and sail
ors of the war of eighteen hundred and
twelve and the Mexican war.
Resolved by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That the
board of managers of the National Asylum
for disabled volunteer soldiers be, and they
are hereby, authorized and directed to ex
tend the benefits and provisions of the act
approved March twenty-first, eighteen
hundred and sixty-two, establishing the
said National Asylum, to the disabled vol
unteer soldiers and sailors of the war of
eighteen hundred and twelve and of the
Mexican war.
Approved, February 28, 1871.
[RISOLIITION of GENERAL NATURE—NO. 17.3
JOINT RESOLUTION granting the
Chicago and Illinois Southern Railroad
Company the right to build a bridge
across the Wabash river, and declaring
the same a post road.
Resolved by the Senate and House of .Repre
sentatives of the United States of America in
Congress assembled, That the Chicago and
Illinois Southern Railroad Company, a
consolidated corporation, formed by the
consolidation of the Mount Vernon and
Grayville Railroad Company, it corporation
organized under the general law of the
State of Indiana, and the Grayville and
Mattoon Railroad Company, a corporation
organized under an act of the legislature
of the State of Illinois, is hereby granted
the right to construct and maintain, an
iron or wooden bridge for railroad pur
poses and as a public highway, either with
a draw or a continuous span, as it may de
termine, across the Wabash river, at any
point said corporation may select, either
at or opposite the town of Grayville, in
Edwards and White counties, in the State
of Illinois, or Webb's ferry, in or opposite
White county, in the State of Illinois, and
Fogey county, in the State of Indiana, or
at any point on said river, in the neighbor
hood of said town of Grayville or Webb's
ferry, within five miles of either place :
Provided, That the bridge to be construct
ed under the authority hereby granted
shall not interfere with the free naviga
tion of said river beyond what is necessary
in order to carry into full effect the rights
and privileges hereby granted, and shall
be built at right angles with the current
of the stream where said bridge may be
erected; and that a space of at least one
hundred and seventy feet over the main
channel of said stream shall be left be
tween the piers of said structure : And
provided further, That if said bridge shall
- be built with a draw, of not less than one
hundred feet in width, and said draw is
kept in repair for the passage of boats at
all times, the detention of passing said
bridge shall not be constructed as interfer
ing with navigation of said river: And it
is further provided, That said bOdge shall
be considered as a lawful structure, and a
post road for the transmission of the
United States mails and is hereby declar
ed such : And provided further, That in
case said bridge shall be built with a con
tinuous span, the piers shall be at least
two hundred feet apart, and the bridge
shall be built at such height as not to in
terfere with the navigation of sr. id river
by steamboats: And provided further, That
all railway companies desiring to use said
bridge shall have and be entitled to equal
rights and privileges in the passage of the
same, and in the use of the machinery and
fixtures thereof, and of all the approaches
thereto, under and upon such terms and
conditions as shall be prescribed by the
district court of the United States for the
scuthern district of Illinois, upon hearing
the allegations and proofs of the parties,
in case they shall not agree.
SEC. 2. That the structure herein au
thorized shall be built under and sutj3ct
to such relations for the security of navi
gation of said river as the Secretary of
War shall prescribe, and the said structure
shall be at all times so kept and managed
as to offer reasonable and proper means for
the passage of vessels through or under
said structure; and the said structure
shall be changed at the cost and ex
pense of the owners thereof, from time
to time as Congress may direct, so as to
preserve the free and convenient naviga
tion of said river. And the authority to
erect and continue said bridge shah be
subject to revocation by law whenever the
public good chall in the judgment of
Congress so require. .
Approved, March 3, 1871.
[RESOLUTION OF GENERAL NATURE-NO. 18.]
JOINT RESOLUTION to enable owners
to obtain duplicates of lost and destroy
ed registered bonds of the United
States.
Be it resolved by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That the
Secretary of the Treasury be, and here
by is, authorized and directed, whenever
it is proved by clear and satisfactory evi
dence that any duly registered bond of the
United States, bearing interest, issued for
valuable consideration in pursuance of
law, has been lost or destroyed, so that
the same is not held by any person as his
own property, to issue a duplicate of said
registered bond, to be so marked, of like
amount, and bearing like interest as the
bond so proved to be lost or destroyed :
Provided, That the owner of such missing
bond shall file _m the treasury a bond in a
penal Reza equal to the amount of said
missing bond, and the interest which
would accrue thereon, until the principal
thereof is due and payable, with two good
and sufficient sureties, residents of the
United States, to be approval of the Sec
retary of the Treasury, with condition to
indemnify and save harmless the United
M t n frensTiSfe-d.thn a' id I
Approved, March 3, 1871.
Zitt Poor.
Matrimonial.
THREE WEEKS AFTER MARRIAGE.
My dearest, are you going out?
Indeed, 'tis very cold.
Let me, sweet love around, your neck
This handkerchief enfold:
You know how anxious for your health,
My own dear George, am I.
One loving kiss before we part—
Good bye, good luck, good-bye!
THREE YEARS AFTER MARRIAGE.
You're going out!—why don't you go?
_
I cannot help the rain.
You would'nt grieve me mightily
To ne'er come back again) -
Umbrella? I don't know where 'tie I
~.......
What'll you want next, I wonder?
Don't pester me about your cold,
Good gracious, go to thunder I
1, fading for tht 4: 1 Wan.
Salt for the Throat.
In these days, when diseases of the throat
are so universally prevalent, and in so
many cases fatal, we feel it our duty to say
a word in behalf of a most effectual if not
a positive cure for sore throat. For many
many years past, indeed we may say dur
ing the whole of a life of more than forty
years, we have been subject to sore throat,
and more particularly to a dry hacking
cough, which was not only distressing to
ourselves, but to our friends and those
with whom we were brought into business
contact. Last• fall we were induced to try
what virtue there was in common salt. We
commenced by using it three times a day
—morning, noon and night. We dissolv
ed a large tablespoonful of pure table salt
in about half a tumblerful of cold water.
With this we gargled the throat most
thoroughly just before meal time. The
result h,s been that during the entire
winter we have been not only free from
coughs and colds, but the dry hacking
cough has entirely disappeared. We at
tributed these satisfactory results solely to
the use of the salt gargle, and most cor
dially recommend a trial of it to those who
are subject to disease of the throat. Many
persons who have never tried the salt gar
gle have the impression thL, it is unpleas
ant. Such is not the case. On the con
trary, it is pleasant, and after a fews days'
use no person who loves a nice, clean
month, and a first-rate sharpener of the
appetite, will abandon it.—Religious Her
ald.
Womanly Modesty.
Man loves the mysterious. A cloudless
sky, the full blown rose, leaves him unmo
ved, but the violet which hides its blushing
beauties behind the bush; the moon when
she emerges from behind a cloud, are to
him sources of inspiration and pleasure.—
Modesty is to mark what shade is to figure
in painting—it gives to it boldness and
prominence. Nothing adds more to female
beauty than modesty ; it sheds around--the
countenance a halo of light, which is bor
rowed from virtue. Botanists have given
the rosy hue which tinges the cup of the
white rose the name of "maiden blush."—
This pure and delicate hue is the only paint
Christian virgins should use, it is the rich
est ornament. A woman without modesty
is like a faded flower diffusing an unwhole
some odor,
which the prudent gardener
will throw from him. Her destiny is mel
ancholy, for it terminates in shame and
repentance. Beauty passes like the flowers
of the albo, which blooms and dies in a few
hours, but modesty gives the female charms
which supplies the place of the transitory
freshness of youth.
Contentment.
True contentment is not the being satis
fied with things as they are, and wishing
no change. This would prevent all im
provement and reform in individuals and
in society. Dissatisfaction is often a fore
runner and harbinger of better things.
Austin Phelps says: "The unaspiring soul
is a mean one." Contentment is rather a
calm acquiescence in the present, while
waiting for and watching for opportunities
to do better for ourselves and others. It
is opposed to that restless, anxious, fretful,
irritable state, which makes a man chafe
against his circumstances as if held there
by an iron fate.
Contentment may be cultivated. If we
have but a few wants well supplied, we are
richer and happier than with many wants
ill supplied. Reduce your wants and thus
increase contentment. Look at those above
you, and your acquirements will seem to
grow respectable, your possessions to in
crease, and you will live contented with
comforts and even luxuries almost unknown
before.
In afflictions look to those who are more
afflicted than yourself. If you are sick,
others are sicker. If you have lost a fin
ger, somebody has lost a hand. If you
have lost a hand, others have lost an arm
or leg. If you have lost a part of your
property, others have lost all. If you
have a child sick, somebody has one dead.
If you have lost a child, others have lost
several. If you are poor, many others are
poorer.
An excellent way to cultivate content
ment is to make a list of your blessings.
When you begin to count them up, they
seem to multiply like the loaves and fishes
in the hands of the disciples, or like the
stars of heaven when once we begin to
number them.
By these and other ways we may bring,
ourselves into an enjoyable state of con
tentment, always remembering that we
never shall be perfectly satisfied in this
life, but, looking into the future, we may
say with David, "I shall be satisfied when
I awake with thy likeness."
"Polly, I Hollered."
Joe Jackson was a wild, rollicking fel
low, who spent most of his time in drink
ing and spreeing, while his wife, Polly,
was left at hcme to do the chores. Upon
a certain occasion, Joe left home, to be
back, as he said, that night. Night came,
but Joe did not. The next day passed ;
about sunset Joe came up in the worst con
dition possible—his clothes were dirty and
torn, one eye in deep mourning, and his
face presenting more the appearance of raw
meat than anything else. Polly met him
at the door, and noticing his appearance
Picrlaimod •
"Why, Joe, what in the world is the
matter ?"
"Pol," said Joe, "do you know Jim An
derson? well, him and me had a fight."
"Who whipped, Joe ?"
"Polly, we had the hardest fight you
ever did see. I hit him and he hit me,
and then we clinched; a_in't supper most
day morning."
"But first tell me who whipped, Joe,"
continued Polly.
"Polly," replied Joe, "I tell you, you
never did see such a fight as me and him
had. When he clinched me, I jerked
loose from him, and then gin him three or
four of the all sufficientest kicks you ever
, heard of. Polly, ain't supper ready ? I'm
nearly starved."
"Joe do tell me who whipped," persisted
Polly.
"Polly," said Joe, you don't know
nothing about fighting. I tell youwe fought
like tigers ; we rolled and tumbled—first
him on top, and then me—then the boys
would pat me on the back, and holler, 'Oh,
my! Jackson !' We gouged, and bit, and
tore up the dirt in Seth Runnell's grocery
yard worse nor two wild bulls. Polly,
ain't supper most ready ?—l'm monstrous
hungry."
"Joe Jackson," exclaimed Polly, in a
tone bristling with anger, "will you tell
me who whipped ?"
"Polly." replied Joe, drawing a very
long sigh, "I hollered !"
The Crooked Fingers.
While shaking hands with an old man
the other day, I noticed that some of his
fingers were quite bent inward and he had
not the power of straightening them. Al
luding to this fact, he said :
“In these crooked fingers there is a good
text for a talk to children."
"Let us have it, if you please," we said.
"For over 50 years I used to drive a
stage, and these bent fingers show the
effect of over-holding the reins for so many
years."
This is the text. Is it not a suggestive
one ? Does it not teach us how an oft-re
peated act becomes a habit?
The old man's crooked fingers are but
an emblem of the crooked tempers, words
and actions of men and women. . .
hen you see men and women persist
in doing and saying things that are wrong
and make themselves and others unhappy,
remember that when young they never
perhaps thought of being so wicked, but
they said wrong word and did wrong ac
tions and continued so doing until, like
the old man's fingers constantly used in
driving, they became fixed in the course
they had begun.
Home Courtesies.
A ret; led governess says : "I am one
of those whose lot in life has been to go
out into an unfriendly world at an early
age ; and of nearly twenty families in
which I made my home in the course of
about thirty years, there were only three
that could be designated as happy fami
lies. The source of trouble was not much
the lack of love, as the lack of care to man
ifest it."
The closing words of this sentence give
us the fruitful source of family alienations,
of heart-aches innumerable, of sad faces,
and gloomy home circles "Not so much
the lack of love as the lack of care to man
ifest it." What a world of misery is sug
gested by this brief remark ! Not more
than three happy families in twenty ! and
the cause so manifest and so easily rem
edied ! Ah, in the small, sweet courtesies
of life what power resides ! In a look, a
word, a tone, bow much of happiness or
disquietude may be communicated ! Think
of it, reader, and take the lesson home
with you.
Rhode Island will hold an election for
Sate officers on the sth of April, and the
Republicans are already in the field with
a strong ticket. The great question at
issue in this little State is the question of
trapping fish at the mouth of Narragansett
Bay, which is depopulating the waters of
its finny inhabitants.
NO. 14.
A Duel to Death.
In August, 1809, three gentlemen were
dining at Crockford's in Lobdon. It was
getting late. They had sat long over their
wine, and were boisterous in the mirth as
they discussed the merits of a watermelon
just set before them. In the midst of
their talk a stranger—an elderly man,
wearing a surtout closely buttoned up to
the throat, and a shabby hat—entered the
room, and seating himself at the end of an
unoccupied table, ordered a mutton-chop
and a glass of ale.
There was nothing sufficiently peculiar
about him to attract observation. He
might have been taken for a country at
torney. The expression of countenance
was serious, his manners were quiet, and
his bearing that of a gentleman—impover
ished, perhaps ; but unmistakably of gentle
breeding.
As he was eating his chop and sipping
his ale, apparently unconscious of the rath
er boisterous merriment of his neighbors,
a mellon-seed struck his right ear. Rais
ing his eyes, and seeing that the seed had
been purposely, though sportively snapped,
and that no apology was made for the petty
impertinence, he picked up the seed, and,
wrapping it in paper, put it in his pocket.
Resuming his repast, a second seed shortly
struck him on the right elbow. This was
followed by a shout of laughter. With
scarcely a change of the grave expression
of his face the stranger stooped, picked up
the seed, and carefully deposited it with
the first. A third followed, with penis
tire word, as it sped, from the half drunk
young blood, which striking the stranger
on the breast of his coat, was also picked
up and put with the last two, when rising,
he walked calmly to the offenders, and, un
buttoning his coat, he laid his card on the
table. He had on an undress military suit.
His card showed his rank. Of course,
there was no room for retreat.
A lieutenant in the British army re
quired no certificate of gentle blood. No
words passed, the young gentleman offered
his own card in exchang e , and the officerre
turned to his meal an the young man
somewhat sobered, shortly withdrew.
The next morning a note arrived at the
aggressor's residence, conveying a chal
lenge in form, and one of the melon-seeds.
The truth then flashed upon the chal
lenged party that his unwarrantable frolic
was likely to be a serious affair. The
code, however, admitted only duel or dis
grace. Accepting the challenge, naming
pistols as weapons, and gaining by toss the
first shot, the young man fired and missed
his opponent. The Lieutenant leveled his
pistol in return, and sent his ball through
the flap of tho offctittor —oos•—•36o--pldroo—
the first melon-seed snapped, the previous
evek
Pt in gbitti thass a iVlZif ing oore had
been heard from the Lieutenant. He had
had satisfaction for an insult, which, how
ever unprovoked, was thoughtless, and
which it was hoped he had forgiven. Not
so. Another note, presented by the same
friend, conveying in courteous phrase a
second challenge, with another of those
accursed melon-seeds, arrived, with the
for not sending it before - Tney-ftlet'agabl.
This time the fire was simultaneous. The
nggressor's shot failed. The Lieutenant
on the contrary, shattered with his ball the
right elbow of his antagonist.
This was terrible. The romance of ex
quisite skill was turned into a drama of
slaughter. The third melon-seed was yet
to come, and it was that which, aimed at
the breast of the unoffending stranger, had
struck, amid cheers of derisive laughter,
directly above the heart. What instructor
ever taught good behavior like this? The
note arrived at last. It contained the mel
on-seed, but no challenge.
"And what, sir," asked the young man
of the messenger, "am I to understand by
this ?"
"You will understand, sir, that my
friend forgives you. He is dead !"
A Young Man's Troubles.
A young man in Baltimore, whose lady
love had a "stern parent," who interfered
with the course of true love, had heard of
the plan of talking through a speaking
tube, so that although his "darling" was
kept up stairs, he could by that means con
verse softly with her, though not allowed
to enter the house. He therefore got a tin
pipe, of the desired length, made'by a tin
ner, and in each end of it placed, for want
of a better mouth-piece, a funnel. Deli
cious conversation went on, he sitting on
the top of a water barrel, and she leaning
from the window above. They would con
verse for hours, and exchange all the non
sense in the world, and th.en he would un
ship his apparatus, put .he funnels in his
pocket, wrap the pieces up in a newspaper
and go home in a condition of etherial bliss.
The course of true love never did run
smooth, and one evening the old gentle
man, smoking in the back garden at an
unusual hour saw the young gentleman ar
rive, fix up his apparatus, and commence
his soul communicating operations. He
went into the kitchen and asked for a
pitcher of boiling wat was handed
to him, and off he pos testairs. Just
as he got up he commcalling her.
So telling her lover to wait a moment, she
came to the door. "Telly, my dear, run
up to my room and get my spectacles ;
wait here until you come down." She
disappeared up stairs and he stole cautious
ly to the window. The moment he touched
the funnel the amorous and unsuspecting
youth clapped his mouth to it to resume
where he had broken off—"my darling you
can imagine how—" Just tnen the old
gentleman commenced assiduously filling
the funnel with hot water, and the rest of
the miserable youth's sentence was never
heard. He wore tour on his face for a
fortnight after, and declines to go into so
ciety just at present.
Be a Man•
Foolish spending is the father of pov
erty. Do not be ashamed of work. Work
for the best salary or wages you can get,
but work for half price rather than be
idle. Be your own inaator, and do not lot
society or fashion swallow up your individ
uality—hat, coat, and boots. Do not eat
up or wear out all you can earn. Compel
selfish body to spare something for profits
saved. Be stingy to your own appetite,
but merciful to others necessities. Help
others, and ask not help for yourself. See
that you are proud. Let your pride be of
the right kind. Be too proud to be lazy ;
too proud to give up without conquering
every difficulty; too proud to wear a coat
you cannot buy ; too proud to be in
company you cannot keep up with in ex
penses ; too proud to lie or steal or cheat;
too proud to be stingy.
TOWERS are measured by their shadows,
and great men by their calumniators.