VOL. 43. The Huntingdon Journal. Office in new JOURNAL Building, Fifth Street. TIIE HUNTINGDON JOURNAL is published every Friday by J. A. NASH, at $2,00 per annum IN ADVANCE, or $2.50 it pot paid for in six months from date of sub scription, and 13 if not paid within the year. No paper discontinued, unless at the option of the pub lisher, until all arrearagee are paid. No paper, however, will be sent out of the State unless absolutely paid fur in advance. Transient advertisemunts will be inserted at TWELVE AND A-HALF CENTS per hue for the first insertion, SEVEN AND (-HALF CENTS fur the second and FIVE CENTS per line fur alt subsequent insertions. 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Hand-bills, Blanks, Cards, Pamphlets, &c., of every variety and style, printed at the shortest notice, and everything in the Printing line will he executed in the most artistic manner and at the lowest rates. Professional Cards• WM. P. & R. A. ORBISON, Attorneys-at-taw, No. 321 Penn Street, Huntingdon, Pa. All kinds of legal business promptly attended to. Sept.l2,"a3. DR. G. B. 110TCIIKIN, 325 Washington Street, Hun. tingdon. junel4-1878 TA CALDWELL, Attorney-at-Law, No. ill, Brd street. V. Office formerly occupied by Messrs. Woods & Wil liamson. [apl2,ll DB. A.B. I.OIIIMBAUG ET, offers his professional services to the C011:111111nity. Office, No 523 Was Langton street, one door east of the Catholic Parsonage. LJau4,'7l HYSKILL has permanently located in Alexandria 1.1 to practice his profession. [jan.4 '7B-Iy. 1' C. STOCKTON, Surgeon Denti.t. Office in Leister's 11. building, in the room formerly occupied by Dr. E. J. Greene, Ilnntingdon, Pa. [apl2B, '76. GB. CRLADY, Attorney-at-Law, 405 Penn Street, Huntingdon, Pa. [n0v17,'75 G 'it , Dentist, office in S. T. Brown's nPw . No. b , Penn Street, Huntingdon, Pa. [apl2:7l IT C. MADDEN, Attorney-at-Law. Office, No. —, Penn Street, Huntingdon, Pa. [apl9,'7l jSYLVANUS BLAIR, Attorney-et-Law, Huntingdon, . Pa. Office, Penn Street, three doors west of 3rd Street. [jan4,'7l JT MATTERN, Attorney-at-Law and General Claim • Agent, Huntingdon, Pa. Soldiers' claims against the Government for back-pay, bounty, widows' and invalid penaiona attended to with great care and promptness. Of fice on Penn Street. [jan4,'7l T S. GEISSINOER , Attorney-at-Law and Notary Public, L . Huntingdon, Pa. Office, No. 230 Penn Street, oppo site Court House. [febs,'7l SE. FLEMING, Attorney-at-Law, Huntingdon, Pa., . office in ilonitor building, Penn Street. Prompt and careful attention given to all legal business. [augs;74-6mos New Advertisements TITT_,TrfT SHARE DMUS CLOTHING IIOIISE Is now prepared to SUIT Its Patrons in ,MENTS of the VERY LATEST STYLE And the BEST MAKE UP. at prices to suit the times. My stock of 'READY-MADE CLOTI4-IVO FOR MEN, YOUTHS, BOYS AND CHILDREN IS FULL. Men's Suits for $4.00 up; Bays' Suits for $4.00 up ; And. Children's Suits for $2.00 up. MIDE - 52" 'LIEIIiC)3E3C. For MEN, YOUTHS, BOYS, and CHILDREN is large, and prices low. The best line of SHIRT:3, ranging in price from 35 cents up. A large assortment of HALF-HOSE-5 pair for 25 cents, and up to 50 cents per pair. LINEN COLLARS, 2 fur 25 cents. Suspenders, Shoulder Braces, and Handierchicfs. Also, Trunks and Satchels, All bought at BOTTOM PRICES FOR CASH, A_INTEP WILL 13E SOLD CIIA.I -1 . FOR CASII. GENUINE P l-I]A_R,E SHIRT. A SPLENDID LINE OF SAMPLES FOR SUITINGS To be made to order, Measures taken and good Fits guaranteed, Don't Fail to Call and Examine my Goods and Prices before Purchasing. DON'T FORGET THE PLACE : NEARLY OPPOSITE THE POSTOFFICE. 1 1 - W, MONTGOMERY. April 11, 1579 BROWN'S CARP IT STOR 525 PENN STREET, JUST THE PLACE FOR HOUSEKEEPERS ! ST , FRESH STOCK ! C.A_IR;E'MrI I ', ALL GRADES AND AT PRICES THAT CAN NOT BE UNDERSOLD H I IUHI\TITTTE,_E, The Largest Stock and variety of Chairs, Beds, Tables, Chamber Suits, Lounges, ROCKERS, MOULDINGS, BRACKETS, be., ever exhibited in Huntingdon county. WALL PAPER ! WALL PAPER ! In this department I have made important changes; procured the latest improved trimmer, and my new styles and prices for 1379, can not fail to suit purchasers. Call and see. WINDOW SHADES and FIXTURES in great variety. Plain, satin and figured paper, plain or gilt band shading, spring and common fixtures. • FLOOR OIL CLOTHS From 15 inches to 21 yards wide. Halls covered with one solid piece without joints. [Bring diagram and measurement.] For PICTURE FRAMES AND LOOKINC CLASSES, This is headquarters. Mattresses, Window Cornice, and anything in the Cabinet or Upholstering line made to order or repaired promptly. UNDERTAKING Also added 'Lo the Furniture & Carnet Business, Plain Coffins, Elegant Caskets and. Burial Cases, WOOD OR LIGHT METALIC TO SUIT ALL. BURIAL ROBES IN VARIETY. PLATE GLASS HEARS E Ready to attend funerals in town or country. My new clerk and traveling agent, FERDINAND Kocu, will call briefly in the principal towns, villages and valleys of this and adjoining counties, with samples of Wall Paper, Carpets, Carpet Chain, and illustrations of Chairs and many kinds of Furniture, to measure rooms, (tc., and receive orders for any goods in my line. If he should not reach you in time, do not wait, but come direct to the store. JAM N 1 S 525 PENN - ST., TIUNPINGDON, PA. March 21, 1879. S. WOLF'S. At Gwin's Old Stand, 505 PENN STREET. Not much on the blow, but always ready for work The largest and finest line of Clothing, Hats and Caps, In town and at great sacrifice. Winter Goods 20 PER CENT. UNDER COST. Call and be convinced at S. WOLF'S, 505 Penn st. RENT AND EXPENSES REDUCED, At S. WOLF'S. I am better able to sell Clothing, Hats and Caps, Gents.' Furnishing Goods, Trunks and Valises, CHEAPER than any other store in town. Call at Gwin's old stand. S. MARCH, Agt. MONEY SAVED IS MONEY EARNED The Cheapest Place in Huntingdon to buy Cloth • ing, Hats, Caps, and Gents.' Furnishing Goods is at S. OLF'S, Mid Penn street, one door west from Express Office. S. MARCH, Agent. TO THE PUBLIC.—I have removed my Cloth ing and Gents.' Furnishing Goods store to D. P. Gwin's old stand. - s,, , g,..Expenses reduced and better bargains than ever can be got at S. Wolf's 505 Penn Street. March 28, 1879. BEAUTIFY YOUR II 0 Al l-4: S The undersigned is prepared to do all kinds of HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTING, Calcimining, Glazing, Paper Hanging, and any and all work belonging to the business. Having had several yearq' experience, he guaran tees satisfaction to those who may employ him. PRICES Orders may be left at the JOI7RNAL Book Store. JOHN L. ROHLAND. March 14th, 1879-tf. GI) ON' S The only place in town where you can get the NEW STYLES ! ! 1879, A . rl3:7 -----*N 73 . . .. 1 „ Nil # _ I A 1 4 tl l o °. 1 ; i ; _ t 4 On . OUr . . i p . ; ~ 3 . , . 11. -,.. al. New Advertisements HERE WE ARE ! -AND GENTS.' FURNISHING GOODS, New Advertisements. BROWN, C't Pusts' o•tutr, Life's West Window. We stand at life's west window, And think of the days that are gone; Remembering the coming sunset, We too must remember the morn ; But the sun will set, the day will close, And an end will come to all our woes. As we watch from the western casements, Reviewing our happy youth, We mourn fur its vanished promise, Of honor, ambition and truth, But hopes will fall and pride decay, When we think how soon we must away. We stand at life's west windows, And turn not sadly away, To watch our children's faces The noontide of sparkling day, But our sun must set, our lips grow dumb, And to look from our windows our children come. Still looking from life's west windows; And we know we would not again Look forth from the eastern lattice, And live over all life's pain, Though life's sunlight be brilliant, its sunset is sweet, Since it brings longed-for rest to our weary feet. citoq-Etlier. In the Gloaming. You are the best judge of your own heart, but I do not think your future promises much happiness as the wile of Godfrey Hill. Remember who and what he is" These were the words over which Alice Hill pondered as she walked slowly through the grove at Bellows Falls. It was her favorite walk, when she wished fbr solitude, though it lay at some distance from her home, the stately house that crowned an incline stretch of ground overlooking the village. Remember who and what he is' Mrs. Hill had said these words very slowly, and with due emphasis only a few hours before, when Alice had read to her a letter, in which Godfrey Hill had asked her to be his wife. Who was he, then He was the second cousin of Alice, a man of about twenty seven, who had been brought up by his grandfather in the house upon Bellows Height, and had supposed his inheritance of house and furniture assured. Alice and her widowed mother had never entered the stately house while old Mr. Hill lived, but had supported themselves by keeping a school for younc , ' children, after Godfrey's cousin, Alice's father, had died. It had never crossed their wildest im agination that the old gentleman at Bel lows Falls would remember them by even a trifling legacy, and they were inclined to think that they were the victims of a practical joke, when they received the lawyer's letter informing them that Alice was the heiress of the entire estate of John Hill, of Bellows Falls. It was like a dream, to come to the splendid home, to know there was to be no more weary struggles for daily bread, to wander through magnificent rooms and extensive grounds with the deliciously novel sensation of ownership. And it must be confessed that Alice at first thought but little of the dispossessed heir. But he intrcduced himself soon as a cousin, and visited the house as a welcome guest. For, in answer to the second clause of Mrs Hill's question, what was he ? Alice could have answered truly that he was the most fascinating man she had ever seen. And Alice Hill, though a bread-winner in the busy world, had moved in good so ciety, having aristocratic family connec tions both o❑ her father's and mother's side. She was no novice to be won by a mere ly courtly manner, but she had never met a man whose intellect was so broad, whose courtesy was so winning, whose face was so handsome as were those of Godfrey Hill. And yet there was a letter in her wri ting desk, written by the dead man whose heiress she was, warning her that "because be is unworthy, because he has betrayed the trust I put in him, I have disinherited Godfrey Hill." There was no specific charge, no direct accusation, but the young heiress was warned against her cousin. Yet, in the many long conversations the two bad held together, Godfrey Hill had endeavored to convince his fair cousin that his grandfather had been influenced by false friends to believe statements to his discredit utterly untrue. He had almost convinced her that he was an innocent victim to unfortunate cir cumstances, a victim to the mistaken sense of honor. She was young, naturally trustful, and her heart was free; so it is not wonderful that Alice Hill was inclined to restore the disinherited wan to his estate by accepting the offer of his heart and hand. Absorbed in her reflections, Alice did not notice that clouds were gathering, till a sudden sum mer shower broke with violence above the tree tops. The raincame through the branches suddenly, drenching through her thin black dress, and she ran quickly to the nearest house for shelter. The nearest refuge proved to be the cot tage where Mrs. Mason, who did the wash ing for the great house, lived with her daughter, Lizzie,one of the village beauties. There was great bustling about when Alice presented herself at the door. "Mercy sakes ! You're half drowned," the old woman cried, hurrying her unex pected guest to the kitchen fire. "You're wet to the skin, dearie. Now ain't it a blessing there's a whole washing in the basket to go home ? You can go into Liz zie's room and change your clothes, and I'll do up them you've got on. Dear, dear ! Your hat is just ruined—crape won't bear wetting—and you've no shawl. You must just put on a dress of Lizzie's to go home in. It's nearly dark anyway." "Where is Lizzie ?" Alice asked. Sewing at Mrs. Gorham's, dearie. She'll be coming home, soon. I tillers make that a part of the bargain that she's to be let home afore dark, and it gets dark now by six—f'all days are shorter than summer ones. So she'll be here soon. It's clear ing up." It was clearing up,and it was also growing dark, so promising to send home the bor rowed dress in the morning, Alice started fur home. She smiled at herself as she stood before the cottage mirror, for she had not worn a gay color since her father's death five years before. Lizzie's blue dress, scarlet shawl and gay Sunday hat were- oddly out of place upon the slender figure, and setting off the pale, refined face of Alice Hill. "Dear me," said the old woman. "I HUNTINGDON, PA,, FRIDAY MAY 2, 1879. hope you'll soon chirk up a bit, Miss Alice, and take off your black. The old gentle man has been dead a year, now. Them roses do snit you beautiful." Alice glanced at the staring red flowers reflected in the mirror, and smiled as she said : •'I will take great care of Lizzie's hat, Mrs. Mason. Good bye, and thank you." It was nearly dusk, and there was a quarter of a mile to walk before home was leached, so Alice hurried through the grove, where the trees had already shut out the lingering daylight She had tied a small veil of gray tissue over the gaudy hat, as she left the cottage, and she hoped, if she met any acquaintances she would escape recognition. When she was half way through the grove she heard quick footsteps coming from the village, and a moment later a voice said, "You are punctual," and she was caught fur a moment in Godfrey Hill's arms. She knew his voice, and struggled to release herself', before realizing that he had mistaken her for the village beauty. "Pooh !" he said releasing her. "Don't put on airs, Liz. Were you going to the house ?" "Yes," she answered, faintly, indignant and yet curiuus, her woman's wits quickly seeing his error. "I must go, too, before long, though I bad far rather stay here in the wood with you, sweetheart." "Your sweetheart is at the house," Alice said, trying to assume the jealous tone of an uneducated girl. "What ! That chalky.faced girl in black ? Not a bit of it. Didn't I love you long before she came to take what is mine ?" And a curse followed, coupled with her own name, that thrilled Alice Bill with horror. "But they say you will marry her," she persisted, cahniuo• her voice as well as she could., "They say right! I will marry her, and have my own ! Then, when she is dead, you shall have your old beau again, Lizzie, and come to the great house, my wife. It is only waiting a year or two." "But she may not die !" gasped the hor ror stricken girl. "She will die ! I'll have no flue lady taking what is mine—mine, I tell you! But what ails you ? You are shaking as if you had an ague fit. I've talked it all over often enough before, and you never went off into such shakes ! It is nothing new I'm telling you." "But—you—would —not murder— her ?" the poor girl gasped, drawing her veil closer. "Come now, none of that," was the rough answer ; "you're not going back on me, now, after all you've heard of my plans. You've sworn to keep my secrets, or I'd never have told you them. But what is the matter ?" And here Alice found herself shaken with no gentle hand, to her great indigna tion. But her fears over-mastered her anger Godfrey was heir-at law to her newly acquired fortune, and if he suspected her identity, in those dark woods, she did not doubt, after what he had already said, that he would take her life. "I am not well," she said freeing her self from the rough grasp on her arm, "and I must hurry on. Wait for me here, until I do my errand at the house and come back." "Be quick, then," was the gruff reply. And if she was in haste, the scoundrel might well be satisfied at the rapidity with which his companion left him. She scarcely knew how she reached her home, tore off her borrowed finery and wrote to Godfrey Hill, declining the honor he had proposed to her, but giving no other reason for her refusal than the state ment that she did not love him sufficiently to be his. "Mamma," she said, coming into the drawing-room, "I have written to Godfrey, refusing his offer, and sent the letter to him by James I have remembered who and what he ia." • Mr. Godfrey Hill's amazement was un bounded, when returning to his home, in the village hotel to dress for his promised call upon Alice Bill, he found her note awaiting him. But he. did not renounce his hope of shaking her resolution until the nest day, when he met the true Lizzie Mason in the shaded grove, and, in the course of their lover-like conversation, that damsel told him who had worn her gay hat and red shawl on the previous evening. "An' she sent a five dollar bill with the dress, because it got wet," said the girl. "An' that I call real handsome of her. Wby, what ails you ?—you're white as chalk." "Nothing—nothing. You were not in the grove at all, then, yesterday ?" "No, I couldn't get off till long after dark and so I stayed all night, I knowed you'd be mad, waiting for me, but I couldn't help it this time. Why ?" For her lover bad started for the village without even the ceremony of a good-bye. He lost no time on his way, till he stood in the office of Jermyn & Jermyn, his grand father's lawyers. White as death, with a voice hoarse and thick, he said to the old partner : "You told me my grandfather left me ten thousand dollars, upon certain condi tions." "Quite correct. The conditions are that you leave Bellows Falls and never return to it, and that you sign a deed relinquish ing all claims as heir-at law, in case Miss Hill dies before she is of age. Mr. Hill did not draw up this paper until his will was signed and sealed ; and he was re minded that he had made no stipulation for the reversion of his estate." "Reminded by you !" was the bitter re joinder. "Reminded by me : lie was shown the danger that you might become a suitor to the young heiress." "Well, that danger is over, I have been a sincere suitor to the heiress, and she has refused the honor of an alliance." "Hum !" "So, having lost that stake, I am pre pared co accept the conditions, take the ten thousand dollars and turn my back on Bellows Falls for life." It was with a sense of great relief from a very urgent fear, that Alice Hill heard from her lawyer of the demand upon the estate, that made her poorer by ten thous and dollars, and removed Godfrey Hill from her path for life. . . She told no one of the walk in the gloaming that had revealed to her the black treachery of the man who wooed her so gently and had so nearly won the treas ure of her young heart. It made her shy of suitors for a long time, fearing her money was the magnet that drew them to her side ; but there came a true lover, at last—one she trusted and loved, and won her for his tender, faithful wife. And Godfrey Hill left his old home nev er to return. There was no thought of revenge in Alice Hill's heart, when she heard of the death of her cousin, nearly three years after his departure from Bellows Falls ; but she could not restrain a fervent thought of thanksgiving, when she realized that there was no murderous thoughts hanging upon her possible death. And her relief she told her husband, for the first time. of that involuntary masque rade that saved her from the power of a villain. "It was at this hour, Will," she whis pered, "and this is the first time since that day that I have been able to sit, without a shudder, in the gloaming " *flat `,„l istrilanp. "Died Yesterday." "Died yesterday." Who died ? Perhaps it was the brave little man whose face was always bright, whose laughter sent the thrill of pleasure and pride to the father's heart. Whose chubby hands were always is mischief and whose pattering feet were never at rest. Around his childhood days fairy pleasures were wreathed and the fair blossoms of joy were ever nodding within his reach. What did he know of trouble, what would he ever know ? Perhaps it was the fair young girl just budding into the beautiful flower of womanhood, just learning the sweet lessons of life, just waking to the reality of living and doing. Perhaps it was a strong man, full of the vigor of his manhood. Earnest and active in business, thinking and planning from day to day ; no time for ease, with the great future before him and all its glitter ing inducements scattered along the way, urging him on to wealth, honor and a ripe old age of fulfilled hopes. Perhaps it was the mother who has been resting so long on the borders of the unknown land with staff in hand and the tired still shod and ready for the few remaining steps in the earthly pilgrimage; whose life had its share of sunshine and shadow, whose heart has had its burden of joy and pain, whose days glided on like the peaceful droppings of the wayside spring, and whose years have come to the fullness of perfect trust. These all may have died yesterday,but these were not all. Perhaps hopes cherished for years ; the last glimmering spark of honest, noble principle in some heart; the fear of God and man ; the desire for good, and the true reaching forth of the soul for that which is higher and better. It may have been that the light of love and trust that brightened a whole lifetime gave place to darkness and despair, and the friendship of many happy hours passed out of existence. Perhaps the blush of in• nocence and purity faded fur the last time and tears of regret for sins were wiped away forever. Strong is he who can read calmly the list of all that died yesterday. The graves of companions and friends are carefully marked and tended, but when the principles of life, the attributes of man's better nature perish, they are hid den away to know no resurrection and de serve no recollection. So it has been, and so it shall be in the days that are to come. In the morning we go forth in the ranks fresh and full of strength for the battle, in the evening we return with lagging steps, missing often the companionship of a fellow soldier who has fallen during the day. One by one we number the jewels of our lives, love. patience, temperance, virtue, hope, which we have treasured so carefully for years, when 10, in a moment of carelessness one of the precious gems may slip from the string and be lost forever, Wise Sayings from Don Quixote. Self praise depreciates. Covetousness bursts the bag. Patience and shuffle the cards. The absent feel and fear every ill. The jest that gives pain is no jest. Other men's pains are easily borne. Pray devoutly and hammer on stoutly. Honey is not fur the mouth of an ass. A bad cloak often covers a good drinker. Lly a bridge of silver for a flying enemy. Wit and humor belong t) genius alone. Every one is the son of his own works. Let a hen live, though it be with a pip. Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open The dead to the bier, the living to good cheer. A soldier had better smell gunpowder than mask. When a thing is once begun it is almost half finished. The wittiest person in a comedy is he who plays the fool. It is easy to undertake but more diffi cult to finish the thing. We are all as God made us and often times a great deal worse. Squires and knights errant are subject to much hunger and ill luck. There is no book so bad but that some thing good may be found in it. No padlock, bolts or bars can secure a maiden so well as her own reserve. Virtue is always more presented by the wicked than beloved by the righteous. The term is equally applicable to all ranks, whoever is ignorant and vulgar. Liberality may be carried too far in those who have children to inherit from them. We cannot all be friars, and various are the paths by which God conducts the good to heaven, Between the "Yes" and "No" of a wo man I would not undertake to thrust the point of a pin. All women, let them be ever so home ly, are pleased to bear themselves celebra ted for their beauty. Beauty in a modest woman is a fire or a sharp sword at a distance; neither doth the one burn nor the other wound those that come not too close to them. A WEIGHT OF SORROW.-A. certain resident of North Adams, Mass., recently buried his wife, a woman of unusual size, and a few days after the sad event a neigh bor attempted a little in the consolatory line by remarking : "Well, Mr. --, you have met with a heavy loss." "Yes," re plied the mourner with a sigh, "she weigh ed 'most four hundred pound !"—Hart ford Courant. A WOMAN'S tears are usually more powerful than her words. Wind is not so powerful an element as water, though very essential in rendering the latter ef fective. IN Hartford a ton of ice costs thirty seven and a half cents, or three toes for one dollar. This does not include postage, of course. ...- o .—_____ SUBSCRIBE for the JOURNAL. Newspapers. The appearance of a newspaper is such an every-day occurrence, that, like most ordinary things, its commonness blinds us to its singularity, and we lose in familiarity and curiosity those impressions of surprise and astonishment which would certainly possess us were we looking at one for the first time. Unique in the world of letters, the news paper bears no resemblance to any other literary production. It is the ephemeral record of the existing now of the world's history ; a confused collection of the jot tings of rumor, or the sweepings of her studio, if she can be said to have one. It is the busy scavenger of the world's high way, picking up everything of to-day, from the revolution of an empire to the dimen sions of a mushroom. It is a cluster of bubbles floating on the stream of the present hour, the petty sandmarks of which to morrow's tide will for the most part ob literate—a crowd of transitory nothings which history will not care to chronicle. It is an emniverous monster, greedily opening its capacious jaws for anything offered. It is a restless busybody, inter fering with everybody's concerns; a noisy babbler, chattering upon every subject, and often hiding its profound ignorance under the most dogged assertions ; an im pudent intruder upon the privacies of pop ular men. It is a sleepless caterer to the appetite of the million, serving up crude and uncooked anything likely to prove welcome pabulum to the popular palace. In its anxiety to appease the insatiable craving of the quidnunc, the improbable and the fabricated are hastily dished up with the authentic. Greedy of news, too impatient to verify and inquire, it is often erroneous; but deems it beneath its dig nity to acknowledge an error, or if it does, always declares that the misstatement was copied from a contemporary. The hetero genous confusion of subjects in a news paper is singular to contemplate. The ludicrous and the pathetic are here met in strange proximity; vice and philanthropy unceremoniously jostle each other; strange cunning and stranger simplicity ; love and murder ; politics and poetry, are here all huddled together in grotesque disorder. Here in a corner are births, marriages and deaths in startling juxtapositions, death and life, as it were, hand in hand, the cradle and the coffin side by side. Here, in the advertisement columns, the profli gate corresponds with his friends by means of the well understood initials; and there li the agonized parents beseech their erratic son to return to his anxious relatives. Here a long list of wants painfully reminds us of the scarcity of employment and the su perabundance of labor ; there the heartless votary of fashion offers a starving salary to the possessor of every imaginable pre ceptive qualification. Here the honest finder of a purse of money advertises it, that it may be owned ; and there the pro fessional shark announces a vacancy fur an apprentice, concluding the pompously-ar rayed advantages with the significent words "a premium expected " Here is a singular case of death occurring from the most trival accident; there the preserva tion of life under the most heroic circum stances. Here a brutal mother is prose cured for the ill-treatment of' her own children ; there a benevolent stranger is commended for his disinterested adoption of some friendless orphans. Here are par ticulars of the costly celebration of a mar riage in high life; and there the melan choly details of the self destruction of some hope abandoned miserable. Bankruptcies and fashionable movements, theatres and crimel courts, scraps of sermons and stale conundrums, strangely mingle with each other. The newspaper is no bad test of habits and tastes. No straw thrown into the air more surely indicates which way the wind blows, no game of chance more truly reveals the state of the temper, than does the newspaper; and the peculiarities of thought and taste in the individual. Tho spectacled politician turns instinctively to the leader and foreign intelligence, to note the move ments of party and anything likely to dis turb the balance of power among the na tions. The fund holder turns to the price of stock, and anxiously scans the political horizon to see it there be any little cloud gathering, and threatening to affect prices. The merchant passes over other subjects as comparatively uninteresting to bestow his undivided attention on the price current and the state of the markets, and the wealthy ship owner cons the shipping in telligence with special interest. Some find a peculiar piquancy in the details of breaches of promise, especially if any of the letters are given. The antiquary is in ecstasies at reading paragraphs record. ing the discovery of an old Roman pot or a handful of coin. The devotee of fashion is in raptures while perusing the most ap• proved shapes and colors for the ensuing month, and the astronomer is delighted with a notice which few of the uninitiated would care ',o read, describing in scientific terms the situation and appearance of a new comet. Some of more vulgar taste, in search of the romantic and the horrible, eagerly turn to the exciting records of the criminal court, revel in the disgusting de velopments of the last murder or suicide. Few except those pitiable ones:who are bent on killing time read perseveringly down each column, but every one according to his inclination selects that for perusal which is most consonant to his taste. What varied emotions are excited in the breasts of dif ferent readers of a newspaper. Smiles and tears, expectation and disappointment fol low in the train of a newspaper; sunshine and shadow, the blackness of despair and the rainbow tints of hope chequer its pages in a strange manner, above those of any of ita literary brethren AN engineer in Denver was crushed un der his wrecked locomotive, and could not be readily taken out. He endured the agony two hours, and then cut his throat with his pocket knife. TALKATIVE persons seldom read. This is among the few truths which appear the more strange the more we reflect upon them. For what is reading but silent conversation ? A COLORED brother rose in prayer meeting and said : "My dear bruddern, I feel 's if I could talk more good iv five minutes dan I can do good in a year." THE question has been asked : "Can a Christian go to the circus !" "Yes, un til he's married, and then in most cases the circus comes to him." "WHAT's the use of your trying to lie about it so clumsily ?" says the magistrate, benevolently; "haven't you a lawyer ?" A TRUEISM : An expensive wife makes a pensive husband. Natal gistorg. THE OLD FOOT-PRINTS OP TIIE RECEDING RED MAN, AND THE EARLY LANHAM Olt THE COMING WHITE MAN WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO The Juniata Region. BY PROF. A. L. GUBS, OF HUNTINGDON, PA 'Ti, good to muse on Nations passed away Forever from the land we call our own. TAMOTDEN ARTICLE IV DESCRIPTIVE NAMES OF TUE IROQUOIS. The English called them the Five Na tions, the Five Mohawk tribes, the New York Indians, and after 1732, owing to admission of the Tuscaroras, they were called the Six Nations. The Iroquois called themselves Aquanuschioni, which means United People. As a government they were a League, which they called Ho-de`-no sau nee,which means the Citizens of the Long House. They were the lead ing member of a distinct family of Indian nations, who had many distinctive pecu liarities. They built large long bark houses, which accommodated several fami lies, from which circumstance they termed themselves collectively Konoskioni, or Cabin Builders, in contra-distinction of those wigwams of the the Algonquin tribes, which accommodated only one family. The Iroquois consisted of the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagos, Cayugas and Senecas The Hurons belonged to the same branch, or family of nations, as the Iroquois. Their seat was in Upper Canada. There were besides these, many other tribes of the same family all speaking dialects of the same language. The fact that the Hurons and the Iroquois were best known, has caused all these tribes to be termed the Huron- I•oquois family. It seems that it was com mon for the tribes of this family to form confederacies, of which that of the Five Nations is best known, and probably served as a model for the others. Their peculiar system of relationship, reckoned only through the female line, as we shall here. after show, was adopted to some extent, even by Algonquin tribes, as is evident from the words of Powhatan, who surprised the early Virginians, by informing them that his own son could not be his succes sor, but after his death his broilers, and then his sisters sons, would succeed him in the chief Sachemship of his nation. The Iroquois claimed that this system, of re lationship and inheritance originated with them at the time of the foundation of the League. OTHER HURON IROQUOIS NATIONS. Among the other tribes, nations, or con federacies of the Huron Iroquois family were the Tionnontates, living between lakes Erie and Georgian Bay; the Neuter Nation, living on the Niagara river and the ends of the lakes; the Eries, living south of lake Erie ; the Andastes, living on the head waters of the Allegheny and the west branch of the Susquehanna; the Carantowanais, living on the upper forks of the Susque hanna near Elmira; the Scahentoar-rhonons, living at Wyoming; the Otzivachson, liv ing oe the west branch of the Susquehanna; the ONOJUTTA-HAGA, living on the Ju niata; the several nations already named by the Iroquois, as having been extermin ated by them on the Potomac and in Vir ginia; the Sasquehannocks, or Minquas, or Conestogas, living on the lower Sus quehanna and on the Bay ; the Nottaways and Mehevins of Virginia; the Mannaboacs and Tuscaroras as already named. Several of these nations were denationalized and extirpated, before they were even visited by white men. The very names of others have perished. From the similarity of language some have thought that even the Cherokees were more remotely descended from the same stock. THE ALGONQUIN FAMILY, On the east, north and - west, of these members of the Huron-Iroquois group, dwelt the various tribes of the Algonquin family. They extended from the Cape Fear river, northward along the Atlantic coast, and were the Corees, the Powhatans, the Nanticokes, the Lenni Lenapes, the Mohegans, Pequots, Narragansetts, Abene quis, Adirondacks ; and in the northwest, the Twightwees or Miamis, including the Pinkashaws and Wawaughtanees ; the Illi nois, including the Kaskaskias, Cahokias, Tamaronas, Peorias and Mitchigamias ; the Kickapoos and Mascontins ; the Outs gamies or Foxes, Sacs, Sauks or Sakies ; the Menominees, Ottawas, Chippawas, Pot tawattamies, and others. Besides these, the Crirsy band of vagabond tramps called Shawanese, by the French termed Cha ounons, belonged to the Algonquins, and were first found in the basin of the Cum berland river in Tennessee, and then roving everywhere eastward, then northward, and westward over twenty States. THE OTHER SIX FAMILIES The Winnebagoes were a branch of the great trans-Missouri Dacotah family and lived in Wisconsin. In the Gulf States were five other distinct families : The Catawbas, the Cherokees, the lichees and Natchez—both small remnants of once nu merous nations ; and the Mobiilians, con sisting of Yamassees, Seminoles, Musk hogees or Creeks, Choctas and Chickasaws. These eight families comprised ail the abor iginees east of the Mississippi river. The Wyandotts, or Owendaets, were a remnant of the Tionnontates or Petuns or Tobacco nation, who fleeing from their enemies made the rounds of the lakes westward, and returned back, were seated by pormis sion of the Iroquois at the south of the west end of Lake Erie. There were of course many other minor sub divisions of these principal tribes, but they need not be enumerated here. This amount of classification ought however to be under stood, and the tribes located by the reader. TO THE IROQUOIS Nurslings of nature, I mark your bold bearing, Pride in each aspect, and strength in each form, Hearts of warm impulse, and souls of high daring, Born in the battle, and reared in the storm. The red Levin flash, and the thunder's dread rattle, The rock riven wave, and the war tempests breath, The din of the tempest, the yell of the battle, Nerve your steeled bosoms to danger and death. DRAYS. THE IROQUOIS OUR FIRST LESSON. A knowledge of the Iroquois, though living mostly in New York, is one of the first things to be learned by the students of Pennsylvania history. They held all our resident tribes in subjection, from a period anterior to the white man's settlement. They held all our lands by the right of conquest. From them all our lands were purchased, and with them, there came to us a number of land marks, in the shape of names of streams and mountains and valleys, which were once living words in their language or in the allied dialects of kindred nations. In the single appellation of JUNIATA, which they have bequeathed to ns, they have perpetuated themselves in a monument more eloquent and imperisha ble than any work they have fabricated with human hands. TEE VALES OP JUNIA.TA. Roll back the swelling tide of time. Call up the vales of the Juniata in their native wildness ! See the lofty forests waving in stately grandeur in the gentle breeze. No white man's eglged steel has yet molested its home-spun dress. Roll back the wave of the white man's improvements, displace the village and the farm, restore the orig inal drapery of nature, as she stands cloth ed in her wild attire ! Think of the val ley as it was and not as it is. Through these vales, over these hills, across these streams, once freely roved the Iroquois, the only people, excepting the Aztecs, whose institutions promised to ripen into civilization. Can a mind en dowed with commendable taste, and en lightened by even an ordinary culture, be so indifferent to the past sod present. as not to desire to know whose foot-steps for merly trod upon the soil he now stirs with his iron plow' There is not a spot where we can place our willing feet, where once a red man did not stand and claim the land his own. 'TWAS THEIRS-'TIS OITRS. The Iroquois were our predecessors in sovereignty. Our country, they once called their country—our rivers were their rivers—our hills and valleys were theirs. Before us, they enjoyed our beautiful sce nery, stood on our hill tops and breathed our fresh air. Before us, they were invig orated by our climate, and nourished by the bounties of forest and stream. Here they pursued the fleeting deer, and art fully foiled the savage bear. Once boys and girls of copper color fished in our river and creeks, and were told by fond parents that this was their country. Now children and parents and tribe exist only in history —but that history, if properly understood, is full of interest, and as instructive as any page taken from the shifting scenes of the old world. Should the story of their days not be more familiar to us than those of Greece and Rome ? The people who gave us corn and tobacco, must not be forgot• ten. If they had possessed the art of let ters, and historians to preserve their ex ploits, not Greece nor Rome in all their their glory could eclipse the grandeur of their heroes. We ought not wish to tread lightly over their bones, nor dwell thought lessly on the scenes of their exploits. Though long since gone to their Happy Hunting Grounds, let us think of how they here sustained with bow and arrow the life the Great Spirit saw fit to be• stow upon them. Look at the country once vocal with the strange sounds of their language, and every object hal a living, expresive name. "Their names are on our waters We may not wash them out." HOW AND FOR WHAT HE LIVED. The life of the Iroquois was spent in the chase, or on the war path, or at the council fire. His Government was a League, that sat lightly upon him, for he loved liberty and freedom from all restraint. Still, his League was none the leas effective. For three centuries under it, he enjoyed domes tic peace and unity. This itself proves it to have had extraordinary features of great value and enduring interest. It was a pe culiar kind of Oligarchy, having features different from any other known in antiqui ty. The substitution of the female for the male line of inheritance, causing sons to belong to the mother and not to the father, and unable to succeed the father in any office or position, thus making their sachem-ships and chief-ships partly elect ive and dependent on merit and not on paternal blood; and the absence of landed estates, caused a peculir condition of human society, in which the desire of selfish gain never thoroughly aroused his mind, so that the Iroquois man bent his whole en ergy to, and gave his life to the advance ment of the interests of the whole nation. Hospitality was a cardinal virtue. As long as they had food, they freely divided with the needy. Self and wealth, in a very great measure, gave way to common wel fare and national glory. It is a curious problem to know what this organic struct ure would have wrought out in time, had it not been interfered with by the intru sion of the whites. It would have pre presented illustrations -in civil and social life such as never have, and never will be exemplified. Imagine, if you please, for example, a nation, as civilized as we are, with a representative government like our own, in which all inheritance was in the female line, where fathers were not taken into the account, where no question of paternity disturbed the public, and where no desire to enrich sons could fire the av arice and cupidity of their sires. IROQUOIS LANGUAGE AND DIALECTS. The language of the Iroquois was not only distinct, but each tribe had its own peculiarities or dialectical variations. The whole Huron.lroquois family never use the letter M, and in fact they lack the labiala P, B, V and F, and lip sounds en tirely. In this the Cherokee language re sembled it. The absence of these labials very much circumscribed the variety of their sounds, and confined them to short mellow syllables, differing very much from the harshness of the Algonquin races. The Iroquois produced fine specimens of gen uine oratory, and it was an art much culti vated. One of their orators could open his mouth and make a whole speech before closing it. The Mohawks, Senecas and Cayugas used the letter R sparingly. the Tuscaroras used it frequently, while the Oneidas always changes the R sound into something elso. The tribes all reject ed the letter L, except the Oneidas, and sometimes the Mohawks. The Oneida di alect is the softest—the Seneca, the rough est. The Tuscaroras most nearly resem bled the Oneidas, but differed more from any of the others than any of them did from each other. The Algonquins used the labials freely, but rejected the F, and heaped up consonants to prodigal harsh ness—the farther east the worse, as wit ness the geographical names in Maine. The Iroquois abounded in a concurrence and even repetition of vowel sounds and single consonants, while Algonquins had a strong affinity for gutterals or more mi nutely for the "rough mutes" of the Greek language. A little attention to the above will enable us almost at a glance to tell whether names of persons and places are derived from Iroquois or Algonquin sources. MOHAWK A FOREIGN NAME. If it be objected to the above, that the very name of one of these tribes, the Mo hawks, violates this rule in regard to the letter M, the reply is, that this name came from the Algonquins, as will hereafter ap pear, it being a term of reproach and sig nifies Max.eaters. Most of our names for these tribes are clearly derived from their own names. NO. 18.
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