' 'I he • _.... / 1 - 1U.11:(111(0 4 0,eii 4 Ou.k. "ital. VOL. 49. HIJNTINGDON, PA.. Wf 1) ,DAy ; )!.UGH - -1 25.,_, i . ------• -- -•-• -- • ---- - ...._....._..... ____ ._._ The Huntingdon Journal. ti he Plow'gvatitr. be a very bad or boisterous place; in work- kind o' pleadin for help : and isc . ' - ing hours it indulged in a kind of feverish her back—poor thing! Tbere .:1 The Song of the Decanter. _• . i ----------,--------- rest. But it was by night that it shone in siugie dr i n k taken on the 1 . . d a y . 1 J. it. tit . I:BORROW, - - J. A. NASII, l'I•BLIS116:10 AND PROPRIETORS. Push On. the fell glory of its appropriate name.— Cap. ;it seemed to go agin t , And 1 Then it was that the vampires that sucked Oregon Sis—her that rat. I 9,.4.. •-•:. rho, torn, nj Fifth and Worthin g ton tercet.. Awake and listen. Everywhere— the blood of honest-labor came forth.— bad—she emptied out - sok2ht .so From upland, grove and lawn, led hair. and Short. card men, poker sharpers, monte deal- knelt down and k•... Tun. HUNTINGDON Jonas. is published every Outbreathes the universal prayer. Wednesday, by J. R. Dvnuonnow and J. A. NASH, The orison of morn. ers. faro dealers and otheri Of tle._- ftater- two mil,- afoot t sas .4 y, and went acadows and got under the firm name of J. It. Dunnonnow A; Co., at Arise. and don thy working garb, All natnre is astir • ' nity sneaked out to prey on the earnings flowers .....1 pu .in the littk blue s2.ett per annum, IN ADVANCE, or $2.50 if not paid of the day, and the Bar ran riot_ It was hands, aml t for in Fix mouths from date of subscription, and . , . • ..:c laid her. tap—up Let honest motives be thy barb, ia if not paid within the year. then that great strong, fellows, who were there. uh: . And usefulness thy spur. .ec them white pickets.' No paper discontinued, inlets at the option of Stop not to list the boist • rous jeers, wearing eat their lives in a daily conflict For . • , he pithlishers, until all arrearages are paid. Ate the poor fellow could say No paper, however, will be Fent out of the State (Ile would be what thou art ;) wills naiiire—tearing ' , pen the mountains n n in , • slt n-i ‘ ii bi 4 taef' Irltiivd in wile. absolutely pail for in advance. They should not e'en offehd thy enr,, and wrcatl:ng with the i•treams, that ethers I hi . - Transient advertisements will be inserted at Still less disturb thy heart. might wear the gold they won—would ywci.ya AND A-HALF CENTS per line for the first What, though you have no shining hoaril. 4 Joe !'" I asked. gather round the gambling tablet , to , -t , insertion, SEVEN AND A-RALF CENTS for the second , (inheritance of stealth ;) i tush." he Said , po:nting to the saloon. and rive czars per line for all subsequent laser- To purchase at the broker's board. their leek"—and this tiling called "I , doe's in there; his rand'. about panned tie... Push on! You're rusting while you stand: in the early daya was a strange th* down—shot. night ofors last, in a row. Regular quarterly and yearly business advertise- Inaction will not do ; Existin.. on the superstition that _ meats Will he inserted at the following rate, 4 I e;ttc'e a p a ssin' in his checks, 'sure l Yo,u Take life's small bundle in your hand. in the composition of every m a , see Joe went to the kJ. IN sat by the : I , , ~ 1 1 , i And trudge it. briskly, through. .r7nter --..- !eas degree, it w ! ain:Cm 9 oi l ly 1 ',,a,:tintl.trn!ly Push on! ..antom 1 old float-log. tnelancholy-like, and wandered i I I 1_ aat haunted all elassea an. 4 into all iup and down the creek. and no one could 1 tu T e - h I 37 - ,o 1 Tie 5g 1 6 u01!..;,,n1 9 00,19 00 $ 27,$ 36 Don't blush ja-eituse von have a patch, human ealeulathms. 2 " saw EOOlOOO 12 VON "124 00138 1.0 El 65 ,aced reason do anything with him, and he took to 3 " 7001000 14 00118 nO!% " 134 00,50 Oti ‘ I C . '" " TI and set at ' , aught n a Co t t hr r o o n o e fe . d with thatch. t a i, t i,, s, a la r„ , .. back, dritik and aga ; n h e. and dt tthoequeaursrscddint,einwiptehr every- Local - . a 00114 00 20 00i2t Oil col i3e 00,80 091 n ,00 i i Te n irie h aElc e h lt anp 3i p -a r b eFihi l i, .alka mae t a tn ni at a i n e' ' ' K l l''enerk was much of ,* Local notices will be inserted at FIFTEEN CENTS Push on ! the world is large enongi. waking. it was fid- body. Night afire fast he got in . row per lino for each and every insertion. For you. and me. and all: lowed with ...cnt fittuity that led the with Portegee John, in a p w . - 4:er game; All Resolutions of Associations. Communications Ton must expect your share of rough. trot ~ f t• . of limited or individual interest• all party an- And now and then a fall. I into bad and dangerous they both drawe.l, but John was too quick places. nouncements, and echoes of Marriages and Deaths, But up again ! act well voar pa, t-- .s the scapegoat for all sins for him, acid Joe's bad hurt. The doctor exceeding fire lines, still be charged era CENT - CENTS Bear Bear willingly your load ;Ailing& It was the rock upan says he ain't got no livin' show. May be pee line. W There's not hlrig like a cheering iirsrt • ore built the golden castles of the you'd like to see him, Cap ?" Legal and othzr notices will be charged to the - To men d A stony logo.. party having them inserted_ Vi' future; the shifting sands :led We went together into the room where. _Advertising Agents must find their eommiesiu': Push on t - - - - outside of these figures. ' the wounded man lay. The broken windows Jump over all the ifs and 61t... were darkened with blankets, and on a ill adrertiaing arcatotte are flge anti connectable trkr“ tie advertisement i* 01.4.* i'aiter.e,l. Vim's always some kind hand - pallet we f.und a poor fellow, breathing - JOB PRINTING of every kind, in Pl a t a . z a t T, i , ..1 lifc'e wagon free. ~,,,, rut , heavily, and two boys fanning hint tender- Fancy Cetera. done wit% mcatwess and diepatels.— 1,, r‘.l“ ..-., ,ilt. SlTti. ;load-bins, Blanks, Card, Pamphlet:. ac..arevrry ' il• - tn,,,I,,r rs i.i ,1 y. - -!,:. ~ i ly as a mother. The ashy face and heavy variety and style, printed at the shorter, notice, Is shadowed by a clots, drops of sweat that gathered on the fore and every thine in the Printitte !toe will tee ex•ru- I The ann will shi ne Rshead told the unspeakable agony of the tel in the mo=t .7 , i-sic :ILl:ince and... - ei at the teweet A, f,, t h t . L ., on . „. sufferer, and showed that, sere enough, rates. ; l! :c html written , - ...on Joe's sand was nearly run out, and he be - ths.: :oil • Professional CAIN'S 7 The kin!, .n• : yond all reach 9,f. hurrean leecheraft. We With • e A rik:AllOvti had not meant - to disturb hint, but his ear, , T.C”:7 of y our, Fest,quickened by pain, caught our stealthy j I'. M . -1911YSION. t.orvev• - .. red .re rustiag while you stand; Ix.. Civil Earineer. Ilartiar. , :on. Pa: r ai 1201 do: footsteps, and, turning round, he recog. C.rricr : No. II:: Third Stec-•. enc.:1.1,72. , .arnall gentile in your band. nixed me. sudsy it. :.Seklv. through. , 1 S. T. ar,-v ... , v. aa . T'll Ch CM . B ROW N k '..;AILKY. At. , . e ........ . _____ 1-sw. .7.£,. ..:.i •*..., - .0, of --e, /-ev .al he 4terq-e. cllrr. Car A. Prompt pieesan a 7 to tire, a .rtipr I.s a'; 1., , t0e..,..... eleroctrai .0.. •I: 4 .I*,. Dit 7 ti — . U - . • ' ......ii N . lIIISI - S . MISSION. !Sa TOI I S T . lleil-Roaring Kir was neither a pretty 'A. nee enphonious_name. nor a reverential The Law of Accumulation ,--:: NT1N,:t....,:v. 1 , , Cii.I I WELL Attorsey -at -Low. ilibc. 111. 1.4 agree., Nice feruketZt. aw.a9ste.l i 11..., . w -.4. a Riniaw...t. iarl2. rt. - I In_ .1. P. BRICMIIAI - 1;11 A O , hi. # . ~..., -:-..sa! v. ..... t. Me emilmosity. irbaink ttrypt. c.ne 40ar /API j0n.11.111. w J. (MEESE, Fientl,J. OLze re- AA* w .sw4 to, teri.ver'euewb4athling, ilillftmet _L 110611. 11••nti•t, otfiee in S. T. ' • n•••••, • Tl , O .mrt.tinz, N••, Kilt St., bi ,- ....AO.. ha. llAttornepat-Law AL• N., • otreet • rtt ANKLIN SCIIOCK, Attoruoy. J • •t Law. 11111111 , 01p1.11%. Pa, Prompt atteati.bn all l.x.t 4 .kue*l. Offiec 221. hill .treet, ...ran Ck M.A. (dee.l.":2 JSYLVAN CS ttornekat • L s , u••ti•gru.., F. ltoirc, UiU Mewl, env 4.ors ;pro 04.711itk: ramatints • JACKSON, Attar J• •-• a t LA, OM:z. with Wm. Dorrio, Es q . Na 403, Dili strewt, Ilu•tinsdun, i\. All Lial buvittott; promptry attlett.h.i to. IjanUt J• It. DURBORItOW, Attorney-at t. • Law. Ilantingden, Pa., will p.actice in the oercral CO.. of Pinpoint.lon Particular .....nttien girth to the iettirinent of ',states of dere lent Tee it Joras tt. [feh.l,7l, W. MATTEIIN, itturuepat-Law J • and ilenerel Claim Agent. Iluutingdon. Soldiers* claims against the Government for bark pay, bounty, stidowe and invalid nensionA anis promptness. Odlee es nil street. [jaa.4;7l. S. GFASSINGER, Attorney -at- L• Law. liontinvion, Ps. (Mee one door Said of R. M. Speer'. °Mee. [Peb.S.ly K. A&.LIN LOVCL, L ovELL s: Att..rneyi-nt-Latr, iliemmoeux, PA. Sped: I attention given to COLLECTIONS of all kinds; to the eettlement of ESTATES, do.; end all other legal buAinets proFeeitted with fidelity and ttiopateh. inovlt,72 RA. ORBISON, Atterney-at-Law, • °Moe, 321 Hill ftteet, Huntingdon, Pa. [maY3l,7l. IfILLLkM A. FLEMING, Altorney at-Law, Huntingdon, Pa. Special attention given to collection., and all other legal buainess attended to with care and promptnesa. Office, No. 2:9, Hill /tree. [ap19,71. JACKSON HOUSE FOUR DOORS EAST OF THE UNION DEPOT, HUNTINGDON, PA. N0,12;73-6m. ApRRISON HOUSE, OPPOSITE PENNSYLVANIA R. R. DEPOT HUNTINGDON, PA April 5, 1871-ly , Miscellaneous. 1 - lEf ILOBLEY, Merchant Tailor, in Leister's Building (second floor,) Hunting don, Pa., respectfully solicits a share of paths patronage from town and country. [ractl.6,72. A. BECK, Fashionable Barber R• and Hairdresser Hill street, opposite the Franklin House. All kind; of Tonics and Pomades kept on handand for sale. D1P19,71-6m HOFFMAN & SKEESE, Manufacturers of all kinds of CHAIRS, and dealers in PARLOR and KITCHEN FURNI. TURE, corner of Fifth and Washington streets Huntingdon, Pa. All articles will be sold cheap' Particular and prompt attention given to repair ing. A share of public patronage iv respectfully solicited. Dan.15,73y WM. WILLIAMS, MANUFACTURER OF MARBLE MANTLES, MONUMENTS, HEADSTONES, &C., HUNTINGDON, PA STER PARIS CORNICES, MOULDINGS. &C ALSO SLATE MANTLES FURNISHED TO ORDER. Jan. 4, 'IL G 0 TO THE JOURNAL OFFICE for *ll kinds .f printing. FOR ALL KINDS OF PRINTING, GO TO THR JOURNAL OFFICE roc ; but. c,,nsidet lug the character of its dwellers, it was an exceedingly fitting one f•r the locality that bore it. A six months' res:donce heir convinced Inc so thoroughly of this fact that I could not conscientiously have chanzed a single letter of the nau►„ even had I pas , essed the power to do so.— Sot that it savored of sulphurous odors; nut that the Koarings of its apparent patron taint were ever heard echoing among the canons that encompassed it ; but for sin fulness, and wickedness, and rioto►is de bauchery, it was peerless among the mi ning camps I had ever visited in CalitOr- Tiaa.i.": I tarl2.l - 1 I was sent there in the summer el 13•):1 by a San Frsnchei firm, to dose ont busine , s that was drilling to involuntary bankruptcy, ttud a long, dusty ride found ate there early in June of that. year. A doe o r the camp front the mountain had not impressed Die fitvorably with it, and a nearer acquaintance only confirmed that first impression ; but, like a half reluctant bridegroom, I had resolved to take it for • better or worse," with but slight hope, however,. that it would prove any better than it looked. tjan.lll. de aeon : What do you want in Ilell Roar in' ? Pwaelierd don't stand u►uch iu those diggitts. Von ain't wauted ; better ;fit !" This was my greeting. I had just alight ' eti from any mule, tired and out of humor, and felt inclined to resent the brusque, unmannerly salutation, butdid nut. it was not a consciousness of the truth that qui eted me, for any appearance was slightly clerical. True, I had a prfect i'l tt o differ to opinion with the speaker, for of verity this was just the place where they should stay; but, making no pretensions of goodliness, I held my tongue for a mo ment. I looked up, a brawny and power ful figure confronted me, and I prudently held my temper, I replied blandly that I expected to remain there awhile, and sug gested with all meekness, that appearances were something deceitful. Soon the Bar was agog with curiosity, and a crowd gath ered. And such a crowd! Great broad shouldered fellows, dirty and unshaved, deeply marked with chronic dissipation, whose tongues were volubly impudent and early trained to blasphemy in imitation of their elders, gathered around, while I un saddled my Mule, in so awkward a man ner as to excite derision. These people weighed everything, like their gold dust, in their own scales, and measured by their standard. I was regarded as a worthless imposter. I had "store clothes" on, and this fact alone was too much for the fixed conventionalism of the Bar. Buckskin and flannel assumed a dignity in early times among the "honest miners," more yielding, more exacting than purple and fine ham'. My "boiled shirt" was considered an in fraction, and therefore the Bar was affront ed. "Deacon" was echoed from mouth to mouth. Bets were offered and freely tak en that I was a psalm-singer; a gambler, with a "dead thing," or "waxed keerds ;" a lawyer, a doctor; anything but a horse jockey or a gentleman. Although nettled with the uncorteous reception, I could not afford to quarrel with my neighbors. Beat ing my dusty hat against my knee with a well assumed swager, I turned quietly and asked if the Bar was dry. And the Bar was dry. With a whoop the crowd adjourned to the saloon—a rickety, clapboard institu tion, furnished with a few stools and rough tables—and the Bar drank—first with my self, then with Joe Miles, proprietor; then with the bluff individu.ii who had first ac costed me. Passing through the crowd, he held out his big, rough hand, and ta king mine, he led me forward with Note thing of a triumphant air. "Boys," he said, "I take it all back.— This is my old skipper, came out with him in '49. He ain't no preacher—he spends his money like a man and don't whine.— Any one that don't like him can call on Bill Thorp. That's me, boys ! Let's take suthin'!" J. HALL HUSS.. Hotels. A. B. ZEIGLER, Prop. J. R. CLOVER, Prop. Finding that things had taken an unex pected turn, I immediately took advantage of the new situation. Thorp stood sponsor for me, and his emphatic assurance of my unpreacherlike character and proper dis regard of the value of money, put the Bar in good humor; so I explained my busi ness and hoped to deserve well of the boys. And I won the friendship of those people —not by pandering to their tastes or fall ing into their practices, but by minding myown business. While abstaining from rubbing against their prejudices, and scrupulously avoiding all interference with their pleasures, I sympathized with them in all their little troubles, and they respect ed me. The Bar by day did not seem to ..led away w;th it the 1: - ..r.ti!tful and dis• 4 .4istus past ; the harvest whose sheaves of promise often yielded only bitterass and iiisappoird.mont. la :Des e tits with for tune the Bar drank deeps If it was dry by day, it was unqueheliable by night. If luck waswith the boys they drank. and with it ; ifagainst them, they drank tt:itt deeper anti cursed it . Although the Bar was a wild and abandoned place, attrition with these people taught me that there are solvents fir even chrystalized wickedness, that there is no cloud so dark as to be without a single streak of silver, no nature so rug ged as to be impenetrable or beyond reach of humanizing influences. I had been domesticated io my new home about a month when a circumstance took piece which seemed to change entire ly the whole routine of Hell-laring. There was an arrival one morning, and the Bar throbbed wit h a new sensation, a quiet., unassuming lady—a Mrs. Hampton—and her little daughter, who sought rest. and health in the mountains. Mrs. Hampton was widowed, but no one inquired into her history. She was welcomed as a new and strange element among so much wild, reck less life, that brought back memories of mother, or sister, or sweetheart far away, and the liar was pleased. The Bar eltris• toted the daughter -Daisy," and she was well named. Front this day a remarkable change took place. Every (Am desired to he well though of by the new comers; dress became an object of solicitude, drunken yells rending the quiet night were less fre quent, spirits of evil seamed to be quelled, and the Bar was on its good behavior. Little Daisy was everywhere as a minis tering angel. li' there was a sick bed in camp, Daisy was beside it with the luau riis that the hand of woman only knows how to prepare. If it pen fellow was about to "pan out" his few last. studs it life, Daisy was there, to wet the parched lips, to fill the poor, neglected heart with hope, or to write the last message to loved ones over and beyond the plains. Quiet and unobstruaive, Daisy moved about in her ministrations. As she passed the saloon on her errands of mercy—her brown hair • neatly folded over the pale ferehead, her little basket of "goodies' on her arm, and a word and smile for every one—oaths half-uttered would be choked back, and reneb and brutal jests shrunk unspoken, as it' ashamed in her presence. Even Oregon Sig—to whom a blush was a stran ger—would hang her head silently when Daisy was near, and her eyes would swell --perhaps, poor thing, with looking back to the old days seteng the apple-bh when she, too. was pure and innocent—at least I thought so. Somehow, the Bar was not so dry as formerly ; and Joe 31iles, its ruling spirit, neglected his business, and said he was tired of whiskey-selling. Ile laid aside the six-shooter, that, reports said. had served him too well on more than one occasion, with the remark that "the Bar was so quiet now, it wasn't no use to carry it." Joe was very particular now as to his appearance, dressing in the once despised "store clothes, " an took to soli tary rambling about th neighborhood. It was noticed it' Daisy had occasion to pass along the dangerous trail through the canon, Joe was there with his strong hand to guide her. If she crossed the foot-log over the turbulent stream, a steady arm was generally there to support her, and more than once Joe was found in honest conversation with her, or readino ' the books with which she supplied him. Joe finally sold out the saloon and invested in a mi ning claim, which he was industriously working when I closed out my business and left the neighbOrhood. I visited the Bar once again. Down the wild Sierra, by the same tortuous and rugged trail that I had traversed nearly two yearsbefore; windingamong the same lordly pines, rich in fragrance and stand ing like sentinels in the mountain passes ; through the same groves of laurel and and manzainto, glistening like waves of emerald and silver in the noonday sun, full blossomed and wondrous in their beauty, I visited the Bar. The place seemed changed. A few little white cot tages peeped out from among the rich foli age, spots of ground were under cultiva tion, and the hand of industry had been busy. The clap-board saloon stood in the same old place just as I had first seen it, but its dilapidated condition showed that the institution was poorly patronized. A crowd had gathered near it--not such a crowd as iu the (Idea time, but asober and quiet one. Every one looked anxious to tell me something, but no one spoke till I found my friend Thorp. Taking my hand kindly he led me aside, and for a moment was silent. "Well, Cap ," he said earnest ly, "things is rough on the Bar; they ain't like they was when you left.. She's gone—that's Daisy—and thingsain't gone right for some o' the boys ever since. Yes, Cap., it is mighty rough." I asked where Daisy bad removed to. "Oh, no, Cap., you don't understand. The old woman she went back to Sacra mento—broken-hearted, they said; but Daisy, she's gone ; called for, taken up among the stars where she belonged. We miss Daisy, Cap. She got round some o' the boys, and she made them promise to knock off their grog ; I hain't touched it since and I've saved a little, If she'ctonly staid, this thing would not a happened. You see, Cap.," he continued, "here's how it was : One o' the boys got badly hurt in his drift across the creek, and one morn ing Daisy started over to take him suthin' and it was a runnin' bank full and the log was slippery, and—well, we found Daisy a mile below, with her brown hair all tangled among the willows; and her blue eyes "0, Cap.," he said, "you have come at last. I knew she would send some one to talk to me, as she used to—to tell me about that blessed land where Christ lives —Him that she just made me understand a little when she left tu,. And pray for me, Cap., and ask Daisy to forgive um for letting the devil come back, and forgettin' all that she taught me. She told me if I would only believe all she said, that I would go to a glorious land that was away beyond the stars. She's gone there, Cap., and I believe every word of it now. 0, can you pray ? She taught me, but. I most forgot how." If I ever felt like praying, it was then. It' ever I asked forgiveness fir a poor, way ward, shattered soul, trembling on the brink of the Unknown, about to he weighed in the balance of the Eternal, it was at that moment.. 5 ,, 011 there was a silence unbroken. save by a few smothered sobs among the bystanders, but a pilot. peace ful light rested on poor Joe's face. -Come close," lie said, in a low time. "I feel better now; I know that I'm train' to where she is, and somehow I don't feel so much pain. Tell the boys to lay the be side her ; there's room enough, and then I can find the way to where she is. And Cap," he whispered, as he reached his hand under:the pillow and drew out two pie. tures, "put these on my heart, for they be long there ; poor old mother and her— the only two that ever know how to reach it. Write to mother how it was, and that it I did forget her, I never will again. When I'm gone, whisper to Daisy be lieved it all, every word of it ; that I found the road at last, and am cumin.' Yes, Cup, I'm guilt to Da--." l'oor doe: the blessed seeds of light sown by the little Daisy, had taken root at last, and an unruly and turbulent spirit was at rest forever awl forevermore.— December Overland. '43,tadirici for the Pi Personal, A Massachusetts man is suing a lady for breach of premise to marry. She did wed, but it was another man. The dam ages claimed are 810.000. She should pay it. It's worth the money to have es caped a life partnership with such a party as lie would have proved. Marshal Bazaine. in his '•seclusion" at Saint Marguerite, only goes out for two hours in the day. walking in the court be longing to his prison, under the surveil lance of two keepers. His meals are fur bished by the boatman of the island, who is, at the same time, sutler of the troops. His guard is composed of ninety soldiers of the line and five jailors. Walter Finlaison, better known in the theatrical world ns Walt. Fletcher. the comedian, was married to Miss Lizzie C. Hollis, a popular actress, at Rochester, New York, last Friday. Wild Bill, Buf falo Bill, Texas Jack, Morlacchi, John Frederici, the manager of the troupe, John Burke, the agent, were all there, and little Kit Carson Cody, too, the son of Buffalo Bill. Fulton county, Ind., has a remarkable woman in the person of Ruth Young, who was born in Virginia, remembers perfectly the canonading at Yorktown in 1781, and is 105 years 01. She is six feet tall, and wears a broad number twelve shoe. She has done plowing, chopping, harvesting, and everything else in the farming line, in which she is the best posted person in the county. Hon. George Bancroft, our Minister at Berlin, has taken a residence at Washing ton, and his presence there is early expect ed Whether he is to receive an official position at the capital is a topic of inquiry. Some say that he is soon to publish vol ume nine of his history . of the United States, and wishes to continue the work uninterruptedly to the end, adjacent to the American archives, as he has already completed his researches in the old world. C. C. Leonard, a bright and promising young journalist, died at Cleveland, the Other day. He never recovered from the effect of the severe wounds he received in battle during the rebellion, and had been failing very fast during the last year. Mr. Leonard belonged to the Danbury News school of American humorists, and some have called him the pioneer in that style of writing, which has made Mr. Bailey both fame and fortune. The celebrated sheet iron cat story, which Mr. Leonard wrote while connected with the Cleveland Leader, gave him a national reputation, and many or his subsequent performances were equally meritorious. From Cleve land he went to Titusville, where he was engaged on the Herald, and early in 1873 he accepted the position of news editor and paragraphist on the Democrat staff. He went from St. Louis to Cleveland, and du ring the last months of his life he was a correspondent of the Danbury News. There was z. de canter and mouth was gaping wide ; the rudy wine had ebbed away and left its crys tal side and the wind -vent humming, humming— up and down the sides it flew, and through the road like hallow neck the wildest notes it blew. I placed it in the window, where the blast was blowing free, and fancied that its pale mouth sung the queerest strains to toe, "They tell me—puny conquerors l—that plague bath slain his ten, and war his hundred thousands of the very best of men. but. "I"—'twas thus the bottle spoke—"but I have conquered more than all his famous conquerors, so feared and famed of yore. Then to me you youths and maidens, come drink from out my cup the beverage that dulls the brain and burns the spirits up, and puts to shame the conquerors that slay their scores below ; for this has deluged millions with the lava tide of woe. Though in the path of battle darkest wavesof blood may roll, yet while I killed the body, I have damned the very soul. The dial e r a, the sword, such r u i n never wrought as I. in mirth or malice, ou the innocent, have brought. And still I breathe upon them, and shrink before my breath ; and year by year the thousands tread this dismal road to death !" Everybody knows that money makes money, but it is not everybody that pays attention to the modus operondi by which this is brought about and the practical con sequences which f . schoolboys are taught the rule of com pound interest, but nine out ten of them forget all about it for the remainder of their lives. Yet this principal has more to do with the accumulation of large fortunes than any other cause whatever; and it has hearings on the ratio style of expenditure, both personal and natural, of which the practical character cannot be overrated. We read in a paper a few months ago of the death of an eminent London capitalist. who left the enormous fortune of three sterling. This old gentleman was . over ninety years of age at his death and it is pretty evident that he was a man of quiet habits and moderate expenditure, letting his capital accumulate from year to year by its own natural force. Now, it is only when it has becu in operation for a long aeries of consecutive years that we see what the force of compound interest is.—, For the first few years theaugmentation is almost inperceptible, but when once the power of increase has become developed, it goes on at an augmentating ratio until the results are almost incredible. There can be no doubt that in the case just mention ed the wealth accumulated after the nat ural duration of life had been reached was far more than all the seventy years previous. If money can be invested - at eight per rent., ;aid the iotervst re;nvested at the same rate, it will double itself in five years. Allow ten years for this to take place, owing to loss of time and reinvesting, and we reach the 'remarkable conclusion—re markable, we mean, to those who have not thought about it—that if a man can lay by a thousand dollars at one and twenty, and it accumulate at compound interest it will amount. to the enormous sum of thirty thousand dollars if he lives to the age of seventy, to sixty thousand at eighty, and to a hundred and twenty thousand at nine ty. This is the secret of the large fortunes of the great bankers and capitalists of Europe, whose money goes on accumula ting for generatiowt, augments with pro digious rapidity after thirty or fifty years have passed on. The process, however, may be reversed. A man wastes or spends a thousand dollars needlessly by the time he is two and twen ty. What is the effect? If he lives till seventy he will be thirty thousand poorer for it; or we will say, ho will have lost the chance of being thirty thousand dollars better off than he is. We then arrive at the general truth, that the younger a man is the more valua blo money is to him. We have seen what a thousand dollars is to a man of twenty-one, viz : the making of a fortune ; but a thous and dollars to a man of fifty would be of comparatively small amount. Suppose a man begins life with econom ical habits, and by rigid self-denial accu mulates five hundred pounds by the time he is twenty-five. That sum will amount to a competency by the time he desires to be free from the cares of business, and he then (and indeed for years before) has the pleasure of laying out his money freely, and without fear in gratifying his tastes or in doing gore). But if he is inclined to gratify his tastes when young, to buy, we will say, expen sive furniture, or to mingle freely in so ciety, so that he never saved at all until he is five and forty what good will five hundred pounds do him then ? It is of course, good in itself, but as the founda tion of a competency it is utterly inade quate. It would only amount to two thousand pounds at sixty-five, and not to competency till long after threescore and ten The points of the whole matter are therein these : Every dollar saved in youth is worth thirty doll.trs at old age; every hundred dollars spent in foolery or ffnery before five and twenty is simply three thousand dollars thrown away of provision for the time. when work ratust be a burden. Let our young men iu business think of this. They are exposed on entering life, to innumerable temptations to spend. Let such be steadily resisted. The true course in youth is quick saving and careful econ omy. By and by a time will come when this will bear its legitimate fruits. Then is the time for open-handed freedom in ex penditure, when the judgment is matured when the knowledge of the world is re quired, and when capital is accumulated to such an extent that even if there is no more saving, there need be nofurther anx iety.—Mercanes Manufacturer and Re view. The Nasby Letters , The Femak Temperance Movement Strikes the (hose Roods—What Effect it had Upon Bascom. CONFEDRIT X ROADS (which is the State uv Kentucky), February 28, 1874. —When I opened my Northern papers and red ay the prayin movement by the wim min uv Ohio and Injiana, I red to myself. "The Cross-Roads is bound to ketch it." There ain't no troubleagoin but what it liter onto the Cross-Roads Misforchon has markt the Cross Roads for its own. And last Monday Bascom got a postal card, on which it wuz statid that on the Friday followin a delegashen uv ladies from New Boston, a manufaktrin village started by a lot uv Yankees over about ten miles fr, m here, where they don't sell no spirits, wood visit the Cross-Roads and try the efficacy of prayer onto Bascom to see of they coed not convert. him to stop his sole-destroyin, demoralyzin bizness. Ez Bascom red the postal (or rather ez red it for him) he was a picter to look upon. His knees knockt together and his face turned a ghastly pale, • and his hand trembled so that it wuz with difficulty that he coed rise a glass uv likker to his "My sole destro)in biziness !" said he; "my biziness sole-destroyin : ! Good Heavens, what nest r "My time is about up, Iguess." remark ed Deck in PoL7ram. "I hey seen strange things in my lifetime, but when I am not allowed to take my regular drinks, it is time I wuz goin hence." "The idee," said Issaker Gavitt, "that selliu liquor or drinkin it is demoralizin. I her drunk likker all my life, and—" At this pint Issaker's wife come in and wantid Issaker to go and get some rice, and then go home and split some wood. Issa ker wantid to know wot she come there for, and the onreasonable woman bustid into tears, and sed she couldn't split wood, with no shoes and three inches of snow on the ground, and that there wuzn't a thing in the house fur the sick baby to eat, and of Issaker wood spend half the time at work that he did loafin at Bascom's and half the mosey on his children that be did for likker, and— Issaker did not allow her to finish her onreasonable harangue. Ile took her by the shoulder and shoved her out of the door, and swore that he didn't know how it wuz in Ohio and Neatly, but he'd be d—d if in Kentucky woman shoodent keep in her proper spear. Ile wurn't a going to allow no woman to dictate to him wot he shoed do with his time or Isis mon ey, either. Copan MePelter remarkt that of his wife ever jined in :deb a demonstrashun wish she hadn't. His wife tried to stop him from takin another drink wnnst, after he felt his oats and lied throwd a candle with a six month's baby out sir the door, and the black eye she got wuz a warum to her never to interfere with his prerogatives no mere. Poor Bascom woe east down. He Bed Amerikin liberty wuz gone, when a passel nv wiwwin got. to goin about interferin with a tuau's bizuess. But he shoodadopt vigorous measures. He'd never surrender —never. Friday come and Bascom wuz ready for em. Evry wun uv our persuasion in the Corners bed ordered his with to keep strik ly in doors an on no akkount to voucher out doorin the day. Bascom asked us all to stay with him and see him thro it. To with we all agreed. Them ez wuz mar ried and kept house, went home to fix up ther doors and nail boards over the broken glass in ther winders, so that ther wimmin ahoodn't see outside. Its no small matter to close up all the holes in the houses at the Corners. Well. at 11 o'dock perucz, , ion av wo• men did make their appearanceat the kw er end or the village, and they moved up slowly Wards Bascom's. G. W. woe ez pale ez a sheet. "What shel I do ?" asked he. "G. W.," sed I, "there is but one thing yoo kin do. Rally yoor friends about yoo, and make head agin this unholly croosade. The regular frequenters of the place are triton, and are not here. Bring em here ! Bring em here to-wunst ! Swing out a placard with shel read : "Likker free to all ! doorin the contin yooance uv this fanatikle canipane !—Ho ! all ye that thirst ! Come and drink, with out money and without price." "This, G. W., will fetch em in, and ez long ez te likker is free they will stay in, and give yoo their moral support. Shel I write the placard 7" G. W. wavered. He cast one glance at his keys, and sighed hesitatingly. I cast one glance at them kegs and wuz deter mined that so good an opportoonity shood not be lost. "Ha !" sed I, "the foe ! they come ! they come ! To hesitate now is to be lost. The bed uv the invadin column hez turn ed the corner. Shel I write ?" "Yes !" sed Bascom, bustin into tears, "write. Ef they abet me up I'm mined, and of you her free drinks I'm bustid. But I'd rather take the free drinks part of ; f "Certainly," sed Issaker Gavitt, sooth ingly; "free drinks, by all means. After all, Bascom, it amounts to the same thing. It's free drinks anyhow, for yon her to charge 'em to us, don't yoo ?" And so I writ the placard and histed it up at the door. The result wuz roajical. In less than ten minits the glad noose bad reached every house in the village, and there wuz gathered together in Bascom's rich a solid mass of liberty-loving men cc had never been seen together at the Cross- Roads. Bascom appointed two uv uz to draw likker for the thirsty crowd, and then we throwd open the doer, calkilatin to greet 'em with sic!► cheers ez would effeetooally silence all the singin and prayin they rood do. The wimminapproached. We cood see 'em. They wuz all closely called. Ez they approached the door I directed the likker to be served out faster, so ez to get the boys tuned up to the right pitch. But alas ! They didn't stop to slug or to prayer nuthin. They simply passed by pulling their vails closer to their faces and snick erin. I looked under the wail uv one uv em and saw whiskers. But with rare presence uv mind I sed nothin. "Draw more likker I" I shouted, "they will be back in a moment." By the time this drink woe down Bas com wuz so far gone that he didn't know nuthin. He got lunatic, and, springin from the counter, insisted on everybody's not only drinking, but that every man nv us shood fill a bottle, and take with U 3. It is on necessary to state what follerd. The revelry waxed furious, and by night the bodies uv the fallen were piled on top nv each other four deep. Every drop of likker in the house wuz gone, for what wezn't drank lied bin allowed to waste. for men drawl it who wuz too tite to sbct the faucets. Bascom wuz laid out, Deekin Pogram was snorin ez tho he hedn't slept for a week. and I. seesoned vessel that I am, wuz the wust played out uv any uv The nest morncn :Joe Bigler Tenchered around, and I asked him concernin the wimmin. "Wimmin :" sed he, "them wuzn't:wint min. They wuz boys employed in the lite• trys in New Boston' Nasby, - scd he, con6denshly, "my opiuyun is that that cuss. Pollock, put this job up on you, with a view to rooinin Bascom. f heered him talkin with one uv them factry men, who is his brother-in-law, and I heerd the brother-in-law say that it wuz tooguod not to do it. I presume that is wat they refer red to. But don't say that I told yoo." Passin Pollock's an hour after I heerd him and Bigler a laffin vociferously, and I know that this was wat they wuz laffin at. But thank Heaven, the joke isn't onto me. I got twenty square drinks out uv it for nothing. But Ido pity Bascom. His heart is broke. His empty barrels, his broken glasses and bottles, bear mute tee. timony to his losses. May Heaven forgive Pollock mad Bigler. PETROLEUM V. NASBT, P. M. Retiring from Business. A man will seldom do it if he knows himself. To be able to retire signifies that he is able to do business, no drone nor dead-beat, but a man of faculties, who has always been girded tight with responsibili ties. In some weary mood, under the de pression of a worn out feeling, he thinks of slipping off the yoke and turning him self out to grass. It is a delusion. What is he going to do with himself, with his habits, his faculties ? Does he want to make an end of himself before his time?— Is he ready to drop out of the world ? This is the result of retiring from his busi ness. The question will soon prick him uneasily, both from within and without, what business he has to be in the world, and a very uncanny qytestion it is. He feels "as one who treads alone, some ban quet hall deserted.", "It is good for a man to bear the yoke in his youth," and to keep young just as long as you can. It is a question of resources, but not of ex ternal resources. They must be of "the life which consisted not in the abundance of things which be possesseth." Let a man retire fr.tu the business that has kept him alert and stirred up his gifts, and put his internal resources at usury, atitUie becomes like scrap iron that was once bright ma chinery, rusting not in the weedy corner of a hack yard, or like one oldie details in Ilogarth's pictures of Finis. A leader in the dry goods trrdo at Boa ton. had by dint of hard and systematic work and keen ability amassed a fortune. Visiting a rural cousin and country parson, who flourished under the spreading elms of ono of the loveliest of our Connecticut valley villages, ho was so charmed, sooth ed, refreshed by its leafy, restful beauty, that he vowed an escape forever from the racket and hurry and din of the pavements, and the ..rovrdingbrain.work of the count ing room, to retire into a fine old mansion that stood opposite the parsonage in the aristocratic and smiling beauty of lawn and avenue and groves and garden, to in vite his soul to steal away from cumbering cares, and attach a finis to his earthly troubles. But going back to Boston with this love ly days dream in his fancy, he must first consult his business friend. Mr. Abbot Lawrence. "Don't do it," was the sage advice. "It may be well enough for a while, so long as you can be well occupied with your repairs and improvements; but Ifter that. vehA thzta What are you go inr with yourself ? What arc your ? They are not internal, apart from your insinear activities. You won't settle down to authorship. Yon and I never enjoyed a liberal education. We are dependent on external resources, the sur rounding circumstances to call out mental activities. Let us stick to our last. Dr. John Todd was constrained by his good sense at the age of seventy to make a martyr of himself in retiring from his pastorate. It was a hard and noble strug gle against the strongest impulses and in wrought inclinations of his fresh and buoyant nature. "What shall Ido ?" cried he. "If I stop preaching, it will be ths end of me." The internal resources ot' his vigorous mind rose up in protest; his whole being revolted against retiring from the business of his life. It was the healthy action of a manly soul, and that which best tones up and preserves the physical powers, and keeps the "mens sane iu sano corpore." Re-create—in order to recreate. Play with work—and above all the refreshment of good company and so cial cheer,—but, let us work while the day lasts. 4.-- The Man who can be Spared When trade becomes dull, and but little work is in the factory and not much pros pect of more coming, employers ask themselves, "Who can be most easily spared ?" One or more men must be dis charged, and those most easily spared are the ones marked out for a discharge, iu the knowledge that those most easily spared are the very men who can be most easily replaced. The men we are most loth to discharge in dull times are those who have been long in our employ, who have always been attentive to our interests, by a faithful discharge of duty, and toward whom we have learned, from long associa tion, to entertain a feeling of interest and friendship. Such men will be retained under any and all circumstances, while the shiftless eye serving, afraid-of-doing 'too much class will be shipped" at the I first opportunity they can be spared. The same result extends to all branches of trade, and be who would succeed in the battle of life must make himself master of his business, or be reckoned among those who oan be spared. Young man, remember that the men who can be easily spared are not the ones fought after when responsible positions are to be filled. Would you like to guage your own fitness for a position of promi nence? Would you like to know the prob abilities of your getting such a position ? Inquire within - Are you trying . to make yourself valuable in the position you now occupy ? If you are doing with your might what your hands find to do, the chances are ten to one that you will soon become so valuable to that position that you can not easily be spared from it; and then, sin gular to relate, will be the very time when you will be sought out for promotion to a better place. Be content to grade among the men who can easily be spare, and you may rest assured that nothing will "spare" you so certainly and so easily as promo tion.—Ex. NO. 12 Sleighing with a Girl Of all the joys vouchsafed to than In life's tetnp.tuous whirl. There's naught approaches heaven so near As sleighing with a girl— A rosy, laughing, buxom girl; A frank, good-natured, honest girl; A feeling, tiirting, dashing, doling, Smiling, smacking, jolly, joking, Jaunty. jovial. poser-poking, Deer Hifi • oleo* of a girl. Pile op your oralth a mountain high. You 'flooring, scuffing churl! I'll laugh as I go by With my jingling bells ast... - girl— The brightest, clearest, sweetest girl The trimest, gayest, neatest girl— The funniest, pushiest, frankest, fairest, Roundest, ripest, roguishest, rarest, Spunkiest, spiciest, squirmiest, squarest, Best of girls, with drooping lashes— Half concealing, lore-provoking amorous lashes— Just the girl for a chap like me to court, And lore, and marry, you see— With rosy cheeks, and clustering curls, The sweetest and the best of girls. Clippings from State Exchanges. Pottstown has a watch 150 years old The strike of the peddlers in Reading ended in a fizzle. Reading says she is the healthiest city on this continent. Work is reported dull in the Lehigh county slate quarries. The new Kutztown furnace will go into blast in about two months. The project of establishing a new daily paper at Erie has been abandoned. Fifteen liquor dealers have been indict ed at Warren for selling without license. The Wayne free Prrgs is soon to be started in Honesdale with F. A. Dony as editor. Nearly fifteen hundred dollars has been subscribed in Carbondale towards a library. _lll the material of the Lycoming Stan thud will be sold at assignee's sale, in Wil liamsport, on the 26th inst. The assets of Mercer county, January Ist, 1874, were 846,111.42; the liabilties, 820,982.12. Excess of assets over-liabil ities, $25,129.30. The iron trade is much depressed in Reading, and the outlook anything but favorable. About 2,500 men are now em ployed, the number in brisk times being over 4.000. Peter Merr:ts has just enjoyed his first ride on a railroad, although ninety years old. It was to the Blair county poor-house. His aged and blind sister accompanied hint. Tho parents of Hon. J. P. Wickersham, State Superintendent of Public Schools, celebrated their golden wedding day at Marlborough, Chester county, on the 10th in4t. A Reading drunkard let his dead child lie in the house two days without Making any preparations for the funeral. Ile was drunk, and continued so while Mayor Evans made the required arrangements. The business of the Corry brush factory is increasing so r' idly that forty addi tional hands will be immediately employ ed. The factory is owned and operated by Mr. Flynn Kent, formerly of Jamestown. Joshua U. Tomlinson, of Attleboiough, Bucks county, was nearly choked to death by his fain teeth becoming loosened while he was asleep, and lodging in his throat. The timely arrival of a phymician saved him. The Oxford Co onerative w nr i, are under a cloud The prospect now seems to be that there will have to be a sale of the whole real estate by the sheriff upon judgments under the Mechanics' Lien Law. A West Chester paper says : "A friend rubbed the snow out of his eyes last Thurs day, to tell us he bad just planted his early potatoes, and from the looks of the weath er ho thought he would have to cultivate them with a cold chisel." A young man named Shepard recently started from Gratiot county, Wisconsin, for Erie county, Pennsylvania, withadrove of forty cows, purchased for an average price of twenty-four dollars each. They are to be used for dairy purposes. The family of A. W. Woodward, of Lancaster, had a very narrow escape from suffocation by coal gas, on the night of the 11th inst. The gas was generated by a stove on the second floor, and found ingress to the sleeping rooms through a defective flue. The Lehigh Steamboat Company have ordered a steamboat of Albertson Bros., Philadelphia, which will run from the Le high bridge in Bethlehem to Calypso Island. The boat will be a propeller, run by a six horse power engine, and will draw two feet of water. Hotel keepers and others in Meadville have been grievously "taken in and done for" by one Charles Whitney, who, under pretense of •advertising a show, succeeded in sponging several days' board, borrowing some money, getting many drinks and seers, and then leaving forparts unknown. Alfred Boehm, aged fourteen, quarreled with John Papenfuse, aged thirteen, over a game of marbles, in Meadville, and beat the latter over the head with a club, in juring him very badly. It was thought at first that young Papenfuse would die, but at last amounts he was improving. Boehm was arrested and gave bail for trial. A special telegram from Modoc City to the Derrick says : In the Butler region alonethere is two hundred and fifty thous and barrels of empty tankage waiting to be filled. The production has fallen off more than half since the month of Decem ber. In that month it was six thousand barrels. Now I put it at twentyfive hun dred barrels . The Bulletin of the American Ircn and Steel Association, published at No. 265 South Fourth street, Philadelphia,appear ed last week in an entire new dress, and considerably enlarged. The Bulletin is ably edited by James M. Swank, Esq., the Secretary of the association, and is doing excellent service to the iron industries of the country. The American Steamship Company of Philadelphia, at a meeting on Thursday, passed a vote of thanks to Captain C. L. Brady, who brought the steamship Penn sylvania into port after the loss of Captain Bradburn and the first and second officers, and accompanied the thanks with some thing tangible in the shape of a check for $l,OOO. Captain Brady was a steerage passenger on the Pennsylvania when the officers were lost.
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