% 'jpl "V i^^/‘t ( '> * ■ W 5: VOL. 52. 'itallCAS VOLUNTIiEII. .CtfdSf*'' , _ „„ -a'lliJftitluignKD KVEiir tuuiisdav iionHisa by JOHN B. BRATTON- —- TERMS! '-'V'SWi sonIPTION * —Two I*"^ ara N P pr ’^ I ' n , yia&.nnd Two Dollars and Fifty Cents, if not paid wli&iu tho year. Tlieso terms will bn rigidly nd- L: *tiOTW r to in every instance. No subscription dis continued until all arrearages are paid, unless at 'tlfOli'Option of tho Editor. T ?fti,DVKßTisKMKHTS— Accompanied by tho casit, unci 'jttpt'itixcooding ouo square, Will bB inserted three ’’ 'iimesiifor $2.00, and twenty-five cents for each additional insertion. Those of a greater length in 'proportion. . Job-JPuintinq—Such as Hand-bills, Posting-bills Pajbpljlota, Blanks, babels, Ac. Ac., executed with and at tho shortest notice. j. ihv&r • . j \VM. B. BtTLEK, ATTORNEY AT LAW, | w'-t' CARLISLE, PA. J £ T, t ffiffalPlCE WITH Wll. J. SoBABBR, E3Q 1' iv-.-LSeiit. 14, 1866—1 y. iw ' tfifli? JNO .c GRAHAM, AT LAW, - j formerly occupied by Judge., Graham, j i fictaiu" Ganovor street, Cadislo. - [sopt'l 7,'66-Iy VV. F. SADLER, - '*f'A TTORNE Y AT LAIV, CARLISLE, Pa. i-'OISoL in Volunteer Building South Hanover ill 7 ’ 1301 - I *-.. J. HI. WRAKLE¥, m|l#ttornev At law, OFFICE on South Hanover street, in the ORjß'rbnm formerly occupied by A. B. Sharpe. . 27, lsii2 — Uui - - u • NSffSHAM, A TTORNE Y AT LA IV. ck 'laftWlOß with Win. H. Miller, Esq., eonth uf -Aa- west corner of Hanover and Pomfrot streets. -'3(('Carlisle, Deo. 22, 1882—tf tr i’CMAS. 13. MAGtAI^iEfM, f : .‘■ ri T TOKNE Y-AT-Ii A W. °* I r#%fPICE in InhofTa building; just opposite , Market House. cJ , March 13, 1862—1 y. ; w. FOULK, Attorney at Law. 1 Oflieo with Janies 11. Smith, Esq., llhceiL s j H$U$tAU business ontrus* cd to him will bo protiipt- L lyattendod to. Feb. 6. 1868. ,‘J; f M. *’• MEBJffiAN, •c, ATTORNEY -AT LAW. .j" i in Rhoom's ila.ll Buildings in j j : \iJf4iho rear of the Court House, next door to the 1( j j Herald” Office, Carlisle. [Feb lie ho 1 r JAIWES A. DUNBAR, IeTTORNBY AT LAW. . 0 CARLISLE, PA. of [' ~;;it)filoe next door to the American Printing office a] - ) ib fewTdoors west oPH uTnusii‘s - h-oto 1: - hJ'f’/VApjfß U. 1864—1 y F. E BE LTZHCOYER, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW’ ;. CARLISLE, PENN’A. -h'W-'FFICE on South Hanover street, oppo ! t vl ;'aito Bcntz’e store. , arrangement with the Patent ODlce, ' attends to securing Patent llights. 22, 1864-ly ;;.;pKIJF*JS E. SBIA.VB.EY, ! -alltorney at law ycihdfe CARLISLE, PA. to securing and collecting {Soldier's Pat/, Pensions, Bounties, & c. on South Hauovcr street opposite f;B«lW‘Sv store. Foh. 13. 1852 ■ Dr. GEO. S. SI!ARIGHT, k'V r -‘''lFVpWffc« Baltimore College of Dental Surgery • v \. ■ Office At the residence of his mother. East Louth ! doors below Bedford ' Doc. 22, 18f>2. ->R. i .c. LOOIUiS, DBS - TIST. ‘'gar*etoovod from South Hanover street to Wosl - £om&6t street* opposite the Female High School [April 28, 1804> w *Jd|L AND LUMBER YARD. subscriber having leased the Yard / .'Jt'Hformerly occupied by Armstrong ic IToffor, the stock of OAL AND LUMBER, “inPilievYard, together with aa immense now stock, ’ VriUDliavo constantly on band and furnish to order fell kihds and quality of seasoned tof vjLOMBBE, d«, { - I!-’- ’ BOAUPS, “i/iA.AVv A SCANTLING-* ,„n i. V> FRAME STUFF, I VyiHßg, Plastering, Lath* Shingling Lath, worked 1 i- and Weatbctboataing, Posts and Hails, i\ v*nd'every article that belongs to a Lumber Yard. kinds of Shingles* to wit: Whitcpiue, Hem -1 .. |pok;and Oak, of dilTcront qualities. Having cars , t‘*of my‘own I can furnish bills to order of any and size at the shortest notice and on the terms. My worked boards will bo :’®intjander cover so they can bo furnished dry at dottS hl.tltly otl band all kinds of FAMt atwfpp AL under cover, which I will deliver clean part of the borough. Xowit: LykonsVal r Egg, Stoic and Nut, Luke Fiddler, Locust Mountain, Lobbery, which I myself to sell at the lowest prices. ■•'MSdfeflt quality of ‘ nchurners’ and Blacksmiths* Coal , on hand which I will sell nt the lowest fig* 'urd—weat sido of Grammar School, Main ■h ■■ *•; Cot* 5 all ; vc«, ; >veJ, •• ian'< - I • ,‘tCfi.—l still retain the same position irm of DELANCY & BLAIR, which will bo on as energetically as o/oi at tht.ir c let »car tbo Gas house. As our purchases will lo together at the bead of the market, we ifident by so doing to bo able to eccommo ir customers and the public on' the most iblo terms. Having relinquished the tan* will deovto ray entire attention to the Coal imbcr business. All kinds of Coal and • kept cojstantly on band and in the best m. The Lumber Yard Will bo managed by jo. 2ulofF, whoso experience and skill is well to the community. By strict attention to 38, short profits, and a desire to do* right wo. > secure a liberal share of public patronage. ANDREW H. BLAIR. 15, 1865-tf not* ty o\ otbflj 3, ;00dJ T 01 iws, PLOWS.- ilo at Manufacture: ik’s Plows, 'wood’s u lor’s u .‘ich’s “ cheap Hardware S (Bale, January, Before this lint was mndo, King George was on the throne, Our Fathers all wore rebels then And (ought with Washington ; Tbp Tories cheered for old King George I'ho Revolution through ; And bragged about their loydity, Ere this old hat was new. When this old hat i Has now The sons of that base crowd Revived the cry of “ Loyalty,” And bellowed it aloud ; The Government our Fathers made For them would Uerar do ; And they have torn down Since this old hat wae new* When this old hat Was ueW There was no public debt, No Green-backs took the place of gold, No millionaire had yet Ilia pile for Sevenjfhirlies spent On which no tax was duo, But each man faiPly paid his tax When this old hat was now When this old bat was now Elections still were free, And every man was thought to have A right to liberty ; Arrests were made by course of latf * Trials were speedy too. And Seward rang no little bell, When this old hat was new. When this old hat was now This land was in its prime, Miscegenation was untaugjib In all this happy clime ; And white folks then were thought as goot As Sambo, Cuff or Sue ; But things have sadly changed about Since this old hat was now. When this old hat was now The poor white man was free, And every year a bran new boy Could dandle on hia knee ; But now, for every child he has, He's taxed till ail is blue; But things I tell you were not so When this old hat'was new. When this old bat was new Gold dollars did abound, And not a stamp in all the land Could atiy frhere be found; B,ut now you dare not kiss your wife Unless you stamp her too ; But thihga I tel} yen were not so When this old liat was new. | Tlihfo hftn r»‘n HoiiKh fhnf. p. dnulOnAMnn of Jupiter aui Saturn took place in May, B. C. 7. Tliey tlieu separated slowly until July wtien tlieir motions becoming rotrogado, thby approached each other, and' were again in conjunction in September. This was their nearest approach both to the sdn and to the earth, and .was certainly a magnificent speo tacle. Again they separate and again ap proached each other, Until in December, for the third time, there was a conjunction, pro bably about the period when the magi came to Jerusalem. Will these phenomena ac count for the star of Bethlehem? They are in themselves, says Mr. Pritchard, “ beyond the roach of question; and at the first impres sion they assuredly appear to fulfill the con ditions of the magi.” “ The first circumstance yfrhich erhatfid a suspicion to the contrary arose from an ex aggeration, unaccountable for any triad hav ing a claim to be ranked among astrorioiUers, on the part of Br. fdeler himself, who de scribed the two planets as wearing the ap pearance of one bright but diffused light to persons having weak eyes: I So dans'fur inn sc/iwac/ies Anye der cine Planet fust in den Zerslreuungskreis' des andern trut, mi thin beide als ein einziger Stern ersclieinen konn ien.’ (Page 407, volume ii.) Nut only is this imperfect- eyesight inflicted on the magi, but it is quite certain that had they possess ed any remains of eyesight at all, they could not have failed to see, nut a single star, but two planets, at the very considerable distance of double the moon’s anparent diameter.— Had they bedn even twenty times closer, the duplicity of the two stars must have been ap parent ; Saturn, moreover, rather confusing than adding to the brilliance of his compan ion. This forced blending of the two lights into one by Ideler was. still further improved by Bean Alford, in the first edition of bis very valuable and suggestive Greek Testa ment, Who; indeed, restores ordinary sight to the magi, hut represents the planets as lorm ing a single star of surpassing brightness, al though they were certainly at more than double the distance of sun’s apparent diame ter. Exaggerations Of this description in duced the writer of this article to undertake the very formidable labor of calculating alresh an ephemens of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, and of the sun, from May to Be oembor, D. C. 7. The result was to confirm the fact of there being three conjunctions du ring the above period, though somewhat to modify the dates assigned to them by Dr. Ideler. Similar results, also, have been ob tained by Bncke, and the December conjunc tion has been confirmed by the astronomer royal ; no celestial phenomena, therefore, of ancient date are so certainly ascertained ns the conjunctions in question. (.Smith’s Dic aonory of the Bible, volume iii., page 1375.) —London Quarterly Review. ANDREW H. BLAIR, fust received and fo prices, a largo assort York Mctnl Plows, Bloomfield do Eagle do Cultivators, Ac., &C-, ire of H. BAXTOS, ftorfital. WHEN THIS OLD HAT WAS NEW. fflst'elliiMaiifl. sfaT op We wise men. •- • i (C7* A" Chicago jcker contributes the fol lowing to the Drawer. We hope it is not a sample of Chicago husbands : there lived on S -— — Street, Chicago, a hard-working man, who always attended to business before pleasure.' In this he was right. One day his wife was taken sick and the next day she died. The husband kept at his work as usual, and after the funeral he returned to his labors. “ Blow is this?" asked one of his neigh bors. “ Can’t you stop to mourn a little 1” “ No, sir,” was the reply. “ Business be fore pleasure.” And the old fellow returned to his bench. jgy* The following are among the notices put up at a petroleum town in Western Penn sylvania : *No talking with the chamber maid’ —• Fare as high ns any other house’— ‘ Not responsible for boots left in the Hall’— ‘ No sardines admitted.’ j£7= Miss Dobbs Bays the Sweetest line she ever rend was her Simon’s name, written in molasses on the front stoop. a OUR COUNTRY—MAY IT ALWAYS BE EIGHT—BUT RIGHT .OR WRONG OUR COUNTRY.” MOUNTAINEERING, So great an 'abundance of material £or study and thought is there in the Alps, in the geological, vegetable, and animal worlds, that it would well occupy a life of obaerva tion and reading. On the glaciers alone a whole literature, a whole branch of science has bean bestowed. As ever moving and changing Agents of vast geologic movements, they possess an interest which perhaps no other natural force but volcanoes affords.—- And whereas volcanoes arc singularly capri cious, and hear hardly any personal exami nation, glaciers are, ot all the mundane for ces, among the most constant and the most accessible. There is something about the ambiguous character of glaciers—half solid, half fluid—that is very fascinating, There is something so difficult to grasp in the scan of huge tracts df earth, as broad and lofty, perhaps, as ode of our llnglish moun tain ranges, yet heaving and working with all the ceaseless life of an ocean. To the ex perienced observer the glacier aoomfl to'have its waves, its its currents, like a sea, both cn its surface and dotfri to its basin. In no othdr mode can be watche.d the heav ing of the earth’s crest visibly, and the ma chinery of geologic change in actual opera tion. And it is this union of vast extent With movement—of force and vitality—which makes the study of the glacier .so ever fresh and so impressive to the merest scrambler as to the man of science. Glaciers, ns is well known, form bill one branch of the Alpine studies. The animal branch is naturally the least abundant in material, but in that it possesses the raafk of specialty, its retaining: yet in the midst of Europe some truces of long bygone animal eras. But the vegetation at once affords the matter for first-rate investigation. If other spots in the world .offer more extraordinary types, there are perhaps no regions in Eu rope where, in so small an area, such a vary ing 'series of climates and consequently of plants can bo seen. But quite apart from the richness or beauty of .its flora or its fau na, an Alp offers a peculiar character to all observation, The conditions under which both exist are, for the most part, so special that both fill the least observant with new suggestions. There is a poetry and a pathos in an Alpine rose or gentian, as wo see it the sole organic thing amid vast inorganic mass es, the sole link of life between us and the most gigantic forms of matter. At home, the ’brightest of birds or insects scarcely awakens a thought in a summer’s walk, but a stout man’s heart and even eye may bo softened by the sight but of a poor stranded bee, blown forth and shipwrecked amid those pit iless solitudes. In all the aerostatic phenomena, the Alps, as is well known, take the first rank ns the observatories of science. It is as difficult for the student to fail' of new ideas in their midst as for the most heedless tourist to iail to learn something. The great physical forces form there the very conditions of existence. _ The veriest scrambles gets to record something of atmospheric facts and changes. And hero it is but fair to say that Alpine climbers in general, and the Alpine club in particular, Um r.iv.mi- n v.i.y nselnl. iinnulaa-Au-nonulur. 'science, and even in some oases to science proper. It is simply ridiculous to suggest that most of them climb with any scientific purpose, any mure than men hunt to improve the breed of horses. But it is the special value of Alpine climbing that it combines a great variety of objects. And whereas some men pursue it for health, for exercise, for mere adventure or enjoyment, for the won derful exhileration it affords, for the poetry, for the solemnity and the purity of the emo tions it awakens, some find there the richest field for tlieif serious labors, and nearly all find too much that gives matter for profitable thought. Indeed a ground which, if to many it is hut one of recreation dud rest, has been thh sefihe of thb studies of the Saussuros, the Agassizes, the Roaumontd, the Forbeses, thfi Tyndala, the Huxleys, the Tschudis, the Studers, the Berlepsohs, must be one which htts equal promise for every mind and every character. But it iB dot, liftfc'r all, tis being rich in eiice, nor simply as being lovely in scenery that the Alps are'Chiefly marked. It is more that they form us it were an epitome of earth, and place before as, iti the range of a sum mer day’s walk, every form tff natural object and production in the most striking and im mediate contrast. Within a few hours after leaving the moat terrible forms of ruin, des olation, and solitude, whore itd life id found, and man can remain but for it ifew hours, the traveler is in the midst of all the luxuriant loveliness of Italian valleys and lakes, bask ing in an almost tropical heat, surrounded by the most delicate , flowers, ♦ ferns, , end shrubs, and charmed into mere test by evCWr varied landscapes, softer and iriore fairy-like than Turner ever drew; . Indeed, alter some weeks of rough work amid the glaciers, it is impossible to resist the emotion of grateful delight with which one recognizes the over flowing richness of this earth amid the sights, the sounds, the perfumes, and the myriad sensations of pleasure with which life on the Italian lakes is full. No one can taste these wholly, who has not borne the heat and bur den of the day, the toil and cold of the Al pine regions. Then only is one able to see the glory and prolusion of nature as a whole, and to conceive in one act of thought, and feel but as one manilold sensation, all that she has most strange and most beautiful, from the arctic zone to the tropics.— West minster lieview. Toweb of Babel.—A writer in a recent is sue of Blackwood's Magazine thus describes the Tower of Babel as it appears to travelers at the present day t “ After a ride (if bifid miles w 6 wore at the foot of the Bier-Himrood. Our horse’s feet were trampling upon the remains of bricks, which showed here and there through tljo’ accumulated dust and rubbish of ages. Be fore our eyes uprose a great mound of earth, barren and bare. This ,was Bier-Nimrood, the ruins (if the I’ower'of Babel, by which the first builders of the earth had vainly hop ed to scale high heaven. Here, also, it was that Nebuchadnezzar built, fur bricks -bear ing bis name hnve been found in the ruins. At the top of the mound a great irinss of brick-work pierces the accumulated soil.— With your finger you touch the very bricks, lltrge, square-soaped, and massive, that were * thoroughly" burned j the very mortar—the “ slime” now hard as granite—handled more than four thousand years ago hy earth’s im pious people. From the summit of the mound, far away over the plain, we could eoo glisten ing, brilliant as a star, the gilded dome of a mosque, that caught and reflected the bright rays of the morning sun. Phis glittering spook was the tomb of the holy AU. To pray before this at some period of his life, to kies the sacred dust of the earth around there, at Some time o* other, to' .bend his body and count hi? beads, is the daily desire of every devout Mohammedan” CARLISLE, PA.. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1865. BUTTER. Next to bread comes butter—do which wo have to saj; that, whou we remember what butter is in civilized Europe, and compare it with what t is in America, wo wonder at the forbearance and lenity of travelers in their strictures on our national commissariat. But* ter, in Englind, franco and Italy, is simply solidified cnara, with all the sweetness of* cream in its laste, freshly churned every day and unadulterated by salt. At the present moment, when salt is five cents a pound and buiter fifty, we Americans are paying, 1 should judge from the taste, for about one pound of salt toevery of butter, and those of ns who have eaten tko butter of France and England do this wit/i rueful recollection. There is, it is true,/an article of butter made in the Amcricauiscyle with salt, Which, in its own kind.and .rliy; has a merit not in* ferior to that of England and France. prefer it, and it certainly likes a rank equally respectable with the other. It is yellow, faaid, and worked "so perfectly free from eve ry particle of buttermilk \bat it might make the voyage of the world without spoling. It is salted, but salted with care fetid delicacy, so that it may-bo question whether a fastidious Englishman might nit prefer its golden solidity to the white, creamy fresh ness of his own. Now lam not fer universal imitations of foreign customs, nnd where I find this butter made perfectly, t call it our American style, and am not ashamed of it., I only regret that ‘this article is the excep tion, and not the rule, on our tables* When I reflect on the possibilities which beset the delicate stomach In this line. I do not wonder -that my venoiahlo fi’icnd, Dr. MusseV, used to close his enamels to invalids with the di direction, “ And don’t eat grease on your bread.’ 4 . America must, I think, have the credit of manufacturing and putting'ihto market more bad butter than all that is made in nil the rest.of the world together. The varieties of bad tqstes and smelts which prevail in it are quite a study. This has a cheesy taste, that, a mouldy, this is flavored with oublmgo, nnd that again with turnip, and another has n strong, sharp savor of rancid animal fat.— These varieties, I presume, come from the practice of churning only at long intervals, and keeping the cream meanwhile in unin ventilated cellars or dairies, the air of which is loaded with the effluvia of vegetable sub stances. t No domestic articles are so sympa thetic ns Those' of the milk tribe ; they readi ly take on the smell and taste of any neigh boring substance, nnd lienee the infinite va riety of flavors on which one mournfully mu ses who has late in autumn to taste twenty firkins of butter, in hopes of finding one which will simply not ho intolerable on his winter table. A matter for despair ns regards hud hotter I is that it stands sentinel at the door to bar I your way to ovors other hind of food, You tnrn from your dreadful half slice of bread, which tills your with bitterness, to your beefsteak, which proves virulent with the same poison, you think to take refuge in vegetable diet, and find the butter in the string beans, and polluting the innocence of narlv peas—it is. In the e nr "’ ~tifslT7~iTi~tno-pquaBli—the-bect3-H-W.inijn-.it, on onions have it poured over them. Hungry and miserable, you think to solace youisolf at the dessert—but the pastry is curbed; the cake is acid with the same plague ¥ou are ready to howl with despair, and your misery is great upon you—especially if this is a ta ble where you have taken board fur three months with your delicate wife and four small children. Your case is dreadful—and it is hopeless because long usage and habit have rendered your host perfectly incapable of discovering what'is the matter. “ Don't like the butter, sir? I assure you 1 paid an extra price for it, and it's the very host in the market. I looked over as many as a hundred tuba, and I picked out this one.” You are dumb, but not less despairing. Yet the process of ranking good butter is a very simple one. To keep the cream in a perfectly pure, cool atmosphere, to churn while it is yet sweet, to work out the butter milk thoroughly, and to add salt with such discretion ns not-to ruin the fine, delicate fla vor of the fresh cream. AH this;.is quite simple,'so simple that one wonders at thou sands and millions of pounds of butter yearly manufactured which are merely a hobgoblin bewitchment of cream into foul and loathe some poisons.— Mrs, Stowe, Atlantic Monthly. tiovy to Treat Frozen Limbs.— The jui ces of’ihe fleshy tisaus, when frozen in their hiihujp, cells, at once.become in each of these .inclogfpres crystals, haying a large number and sharp points, and hence rub biingSe flesh causes them to cut or tear their •way* through the tissues, so that when it is thawed the structure of the muscles is more or less destroyed. The proper, mode of trout-, ment is this: When any part of the body is frozen, it should be kept perfectly quiet un til it is thawed out, which should he done as promptly as possible. As freezing takes place from the surface inwardly, so the thaw ing should be in the reverse order, from the inside outwardly. The of a por tion of the fleshes. wiUiowjFnt the same time nutting the blood from the heart into circu lation through it, produces mortification; but, by keeping the more external pacts still con gealed until the internal heat and the exter nal blood gradually soften the more interior parts, and produce circulation of the blood, as fast as the thawing takes place, most of the dangers are obviated. If the snow which is applied is colder than the frozen flesh, it will still further extract the heat, and freeze it worse than before; blit if the snow is of the same temperature, it will keep the flesh from thawing until tHo feat of the body shall have effected it. thus preventing gangrene. Water, in which snow or ice has been placed, so as to .keep its temperature at thirty-tvfo degrees, Fahrenheit, ia probably bettor than snow* ‘ Papa, why don’t you give the tele graph a dose of gin V ‘ Why, my child ?’ • ’Cause the papers' say thrtt they are’ out of order, rtnd mamma always takes gin when she is out of order.” O” • Oh, mother 1 do send for the doctor I’ said a little boy o’f three years. 1 What for, my dear ?’ ‘ Why, there’s _ a gentleman in the parlor who says he’ll die if Jane don’t marry' him—and Jane says she won’t.’ O’ Wincholl says the people down in Al abama are so hard pressed for eggs that they have to set their turkeys on California pota toes; £7“ Church some clasp' their hands so tight in prayer that they cannot get them open when the contribution box oomes round. CONSCIOUSNESS. There cannot bo a more injudicious way of improving a person’s manners than that which was adopted in ray own case, namely : directing his attention to that point; arid, above all, setting him to copy the manners of others. If he is bent, and solely bent, on Riving pleasure, ho will easily catch in good society those.forms and expressions which are, as it were, the language (in many cases the arbitrary language) for giving utterance to that wish. lie will then ho thinking of others, not of himself, which is the very es sence of politeness; by the opposite plan you drive him to think of himself, and of others only in reference to the figure lie makes in their eyes, the result of which must bo either shyness or nffectntiunj and generally both to gether, the former springing from fear of ex posure, the other from ambition for display. I. 1,110 i.. predominated, suffered all the agonies of ex treme shyness for many years, and if the.ef forts to which I was continually stimulated had been in any degree successful, of had been applauded as such, X should probably have gune on to affectation, and remained conscious all niy life ; but finding no encouri agement, I was fortunately driven to utter despair. .Tthcn said to myself, "“Why should I endure this torture all niy life to no pur pose ? I Would bear it still if there was any progress made, and success to bo hoped for; bin since there is not, I will die quietly with out taking any more doses. I have tried my very utuiost, and find that I must be as awk ward as a bear all my life in spite of it. I will endeavor to think as little about it as a bear, and make up my mind to ondnro what cannot bo cured.” From this time I strug gled as vigorously to harden myself against censure as ever 1 had to avoid it, like a stag at bay-(u ho faces about to fight when he finds that flight is vain.) and with as much effort as the said stag, for it is not without n hard and persevering struggle that coriscious ncas can bo shaken off. I was acting more wisely than I thought for at the time, for I had not then that clear view of the. subject that I now have, and consequently I succeed ed beyond my expectations, for I not only got rid of the personal suffering of shyness, but also of most,of those faults of manner consciousness produces, and acquired at once an easy nnd natural manner, careless, indeed, in the extreme, from its originating in astern defiance of opinion,'which I bad convinced myself must ever bo against-me ; rough and awkward, for smoothness and grace arc quite out of my way, and of course tutorially pe dantic; but unconscious, and therefore giv ing expression to that good-will toward men which I really feel ; and these I believe are the main points.— WhalcUj's Commonplace Book. Who Was JfpUUiah ? The late Mr. Augur, the sculptor—one of New Haven’s celebrities—was very modest in regard to his accomplishments, arid while engaged upon the work of Jophthah and his Daughter, (which now (urn* a portion of the art collodion in Trumbull Gallery, Yale 110 .olllSUtoJ litu Toohrrand lris~labcrr“ n-seerot: —Persous-cail— lug upuu him received no infoniiation, for he alwava stepped out of his room, and convers ed with them in the hall-way. Thus the inquisitive went away no wiser than they camu. Among those who were particularly “ exercised" in regard to Mr. Augur’s mysterious conduct, was Deacon , (there’s no need calling names.) who, upon the sculptor’s coming into nis store one day, interrogated him somolhiug after the following manner ; “ I say, Mr. Augur, what are you doing cooped up in your room there? Looks rath suspicious. Ain’t luakin counterfeit money, are you ?" Mr. Augur, upon being called so pointed ly to account, replied: “ Well, us I have almost finished my work, and don't know -as it need be a secret any longer, I suppose that I may as well toll you. 1 have been making a piece of statuary, which I call Jepluhah and Uis Daughter— an undertaking which would have subjected me to ridicule at the outset." “Ah, ha! a sculptor, eh I exclaimed the deacon. “ Lot me congratulate you, Indeed lam surpassed. Bub what is the subject ta ken from ? Who was Jephthah and—” “What!” burst forth the sculptor in aston ishment, “a deacon of the church, and don’t know who Jephthah and his daughter were 1” “Oh, yes!” ejaculated the deacon, as if it had suddenly occurred to him. “ I rec’ lleot —Shorn, Hum, Jephthah* CertaßSly ; Jeph thah was one of Noah’s sons.” Mr. Augur laughed heartily and enjoyed the deacon’s discomfiture exceedingly. “ Hold on !”-broke forth the deacon , ‘TU bet that deacon -(naming n near neigh bor! don't know a thing more, about it than I do.” And out of the door he sailed to test the truth of his statement, followed by Mr, Au gur. Without stepping for breath, he inquir ed: “ Who was Jephthah ?” “ Jephthah ? Jephthah ? Let me pee.” “Don't know who Jephthah was I” inter rupted Deacon No. 1, with a. touch of sarcasm in his voice. “ Yes ; Jephthah was orto o'f Napoleon s generals.” Never too Old to Learn. —Socrates, at an extreme age, learned to play on musica instruments. Cato, at eighty years of ag thought proper to learn the Greek language Plutarch, when b etween seventy and eighty commenced the study of Latin. Boccacci was thirty Qvo years of age when he com mrerice'd his studies in polite literature, ye ho becam'e one of the throe great masters 0 the Tuscan dialect, Dante and Petrarch bo ing the other two. Sir Henry fapelman ne gleoted the sciences in his youth, but com menced the study of them when he was be tween fifty and sixty years of age. After this time ha became a most learned antiqua rian and lawyer. Colbert, the famous French ■minister, at sixty years of ago returned to his Latin and law studios. Ludovico, at the great ago of one hundred and fifteen, wrote the memoirs of his own times ; a singular ex ertion, noticed by Voltaire, who was hirasell one of the moat remarkable instances of the progressing of ago in now studios. Ogilby. the translator of Homer and Virgil, was un acquainted with Latin and Greek till ho was past the age of fifty. Franklin did not fully commence his philosophical pursuits till he had reached his fiftieth year. Acoorso, a groat lawyer, being asked why he-began the study of law so late, answered , that indeed he began it late, but h 6 could; therefore,- mas.or it the sooner. Drydon, in his sixty eighth year, commenced the translation ol the Iliad j and his most pleasing productions were written in his old age. [From tho Doylcstown Democrat.] A TRIP TO THE OIL REGIONS.’ We parted with the reader ia last week’s issue at Rouscville, inadvertency printed Kaubsvillo. At this point Cherry Run flows into Oil Crook. We leave the latter and go’ up Cherry Run to Plumer, a distance of five miles. This country has boon n favorite-one in the eyes of “ lie” speculators, judging from the number of derricks as they stand about as thick as apple trees in a well tilled apple orchard, some iu the Hut lands along tho stream and "others up on tho bluffs. There is an extensive oil relinery at llortu'bold, about one mile from Plumer. It ia uow one o’clock, P. M., and the travelers have attain ed the wonderful distance of. fifteen miles since eight in the morning, six of which waa by eteam power and railroad, as the wagon; nary dinner spread in plain fliylo is furnish ed for tho low price of one dollar: We il wait for the wagon” about halt an hour, when the dry is '’all aboard for Uit‘ho!c. ,, -“- Bach one selects the softest “ board’', he -can line! and away wo go at snail’s, speed. 'Our Course now lies over the. hills to Pitholo.-r-. The reader should bear in mind that all oil producing territory lies along the ’Ktroams and that the laud intervening is lofty Killfl. being pretty clever sized mountains. From Plumcr to Pitholo one secs but little indica tion of oil lever. Occasionally-there is a spot where it lias made its mark cither by the commoncement\»f boring, or a dry and aban doned well. Finally from the tup of a moun tain the traveler Ims tv sight of the long premised land, Pitholo,-which he expects .in duo time to reach, if ho docs not got his nefc]c broke going down the mountain. 'Finally the wagon'readies the place of destination and we are driven up to one of the hotels, where each one proceeds to divest himself of the great amount of dust that has been accumu lating upon him eii ce morning. “ Pkholc City”—that is tho corporate name—is the* wonder of tho world. It does not have its parallel in history. The ground whereon it is erected was, six months ago, farm land, now it contains six thousand inhabitants.-r*- One gentleman who was familiar with it de clared that in tho space of sixty days it rose ; from nothing to a city'of four thousand in habitants. It is built on gently sloping hill which affords good facilities for drainage. The buildings are all of frame, and tho him ber of many of them excepting tho flo'ors, doors, window's, casings, &c;, is a strafyger to a plane.- It is true some of thorn are built in hotter style, but the finish is not very smooth. The better class of stores are lined and coiled with mill worked boards, arid both ceiling and sides are put on similar to outside weath er boarding by loping one edge over the oth er. The-lumber being green, this is done to prevent tho joints opening. ( Tho houses are not framed as in Burks county; a frame of six’by eight is laid, on four posts, a few feet above the ground—There is no lime to dig cellars —and the boards .put on upright, a small piece of timber being nailed across at the proper height fof joists lor the second story. When time permits, tho joints be tween the hoards are stripped on tho outside. Oonor«lly limn is given—on ftCCOlint of tho “ ■scaToltyTjFcorfre’mirrs^foTthowvoatllor-brnirds to season. When three sides of the building is up and the roof on, it is often inhabited, and business commenced before the front is put in. Tho hotels generally present a pretty fair exterior, and perhaps tho office and bar room are papered with rich gilt paper, and the partitions hung with pictures, but go be yond tills and you will find uuplaned boards and larger crevices in tho partitions. They have high sounding mimes for tho Hotels, such as St. Nicholas, Astor House, MetroprTitan, &c., and t)io diaries are about equal to these hotels in Now York, being one dollar per meal, and the same for a bed. The city is built close to the valley or boring territory. This valley is from sixdiundrcd to thou sand feet Wide, sparsely covered with timber, mostly wild cherry ard birch. In some pla ces it is quite rocky. The city is about six miles from the mouth of the creels. A com pany has been formed under a charter from the Legislature to lay pipes from Pitholo City to the Allegheny river. They vb*rc then-engaged inputting down a six inch pipe to convey the oil from.the walls to the river, six miles, from where it can be taken to Pittsburg by boats. The creek takes its mime from the “ bottomless pit” found on a bluff about one hundred feet above the stream. This pit has long been known, and frequent attempts made to sound its depth, but with out success. Stones are thrown into it but no one can hear them strike..bottom. There ia n continued flow of gas from it, and it looks like the heat on tlio top - of n lime kiln. It is held in contemplation to build a railroad from Pithole to the conliuonoo of the creek with the Alhgheny, to bo run by horse power.— It would bo dangerous to run locomotives through the country whore’ wells are produ cing oil. on account, ol lire. Quite a town is being built up at the junction of Pithole crock and the Allegheny, in view of the busi ness to be produced by pipe and railroad. Pithole oil region comprises quite a num ber of farms, among which are the Ilulmdon, Hooker, Cowpland, and others. Two gentle men, Messrs. Plntherand Duncan, purchased one of these properties and leased it to the United States Companies, a Now York con cern, for ono-fourth of the oil produced.- ■ The U. S. C. have divided it off into small paroelflfttjnd leased these lots to other parties who are tVhoro wells, operate them, and give, the U. S. Do', one half the oil produced.— Any quantity of wells are now going down. Tney bore from 625 to 750 feet. This is gen erally done by contract, the parties boring to tube and test the well. The cost is from §5,000 to sBooogenerally, approaching close ly to the latter sum. The United States com pany has a well called by that name whicb produces about 800 barrels a day, of 2d hours. It is a flowing well. They have 23 tanks holding 1200 barrels each, to receive the oil. They also own the Twig Wells, flowing about 600 barrels per day. The Grant well flows one thousand per day.- The Island well from 300 to 400 barrels. This is ocuriosity. The flow ,is of on intermitting character, it flows for four or five minutes and then ceases for about that long hof time. It will com mence with a small stream not larger than a goose quill, and increase in size until it nils the two inch pipe to its utmost capacity. The flow from all the wells is accompanied With gas. When at its heights at the Island well it gashes out with groat force, sufficient to knock a man over if it stiuok him on the head. While Bitting in' the woods watching the progress of matters, the workmen who had bO'an engaged testing well No. 54, having ex hausted the salt water and procured a flow „f gas, withdrew the succor rod, which was followed by an immense flow of gas accora pan ed with oil. hi a few minutes a column of uil rose to a height of bisty feet, and 'he gas flowed ten or fifteen feet higher. The workmen immediately applied themselves to the task of connecting the pipes to conduct the oil to the tanks. 1 This'is an urionviable work, and the men wore nearly anffocated by the oil and gas. They were obliged several times to cease Operations and take a breath ' of fresh air, when would resume opera tions again. Before they succeeded they were., saturated from head to foot with tho oleaginous fluid. Their cavalry boots became tilled and overflowed.. This NvoU flowed ond thousand {carrels per dav. Some of the stockholders were present taking an interest in matters and could not conceal their pleas- \ uro at seeing* the-flowing “ ile” producing, golden treasures. Others took it more com placently and exhibited tilt little excitement, ifet there was not a man who witnessed tho. interesting ' spectacle [cut what manifested soino excitement. To sec a_ column of oil rising" in tlio air,to a distance. of sixty feet, ten witnessed more tlmn onob in a life time, • ’and one could not help becoming somewhat excited.-• There are other flowing wells, but their names arc not now remembered; It is’ estimated that there are 1000 wells on Pith olc creek, cither in process of. boring, yield ing oil, or abandoned. There arc.a .-number 1 . of wells yielding oil in small or largo quan tities, but 'thcy require pumping;' Some of them yield-hut 10, 20,50 and 100 barrels poi 1 day. , ijvcry barrel of oil pays a United States tuts of $l,OO in its crude state. tTlus tax is very unequal and opci'ous. Some oils are worth $45 per barrel at thcF well, where other oils are so much lighter and yield but about one tliifd theamount of refined oil, arc worth but $5, and others $3. Bpt little of the oil at Pithole is worth over $3 per bar rel at tho well; while that of'Tidoontar is worth $l5. Messrs. Pldtltcr ami Duncan ard growing richer and-richer every day, and every oil-producing well jthat is opened adds to their income. Two fine hotels are in . course of erection, one just as you outer tho ' , woods from the main street, and tho other beyond uio limits of the city. Those houses nVo both b.ciug built in good stylo and when finished will add greatly to the comfort of the visitor. A theatre has just boon completed and tho play commen6cd. Business of kind seemsd brisk, but particularly the liq uor trade.’ Stores of every kind are spring ing up, and houses command a high - Onq building 10 by 20, one dud a half stories high, rented for $2 per day. It sold while wo wcife there for $200(1. Mr, Dickerson said it had been offered him for what it cost to erect it, $BOO, soon after the opening of tho city. Lumber has been bringing $4O per IOO’O feet. Mill worked lumber $OO. It Is said there are but CO females in a popular tion of 0000. Poor chance for bachelors. Labor commands. high wages, a common day laborer receives from S 3 to SG per day j carpenters trom §5 to ST. and other mechan ics in proportion. The owner of two horses and wagon expects to receive at least $2O per • day for its use with a driver. For,ft horse, saddle and bridle, per day, $4 to $5. The price of hauling oil from Pitholo to Shafer, is from $2 to §2 50 according to the condition of the road. Five and six barrels make a load for two horses. Eggs were 35 cents a dozen ; apples 3 for a dime ; peaches 4 fur a quarter, small and poor at^tbat^ Everythin" with it, the trees, bushes, &c. A large quan tity leaks f rtf in the tanks, pumps, &c., and excavations are made in the ground, and the oil led to them by little gutters. In crossing ono of these a lady who was walking a little in advance of us made a faux pas. She had the misfortune to place her foot upon a grea sy spot, slipped and fell into the ditch. Wo thought it no time to stand upon corcraonv, not wait for an introduction, as the dandy did when he saw a lady on the street, we stepped forward, gave rt helping hand and ex tricated her front the unpleasant predicament her mishap had placed her and received her thanks. We could well afford to do this as the lady had just “ struck ilo." The roads through this country are in a terrible condition. Bat lew of them over which wo were obliged to travel have ever been laid out. They are merely opened for present use, rocks, stumps, chuck holes and hillocks abound. They are very dangerous, some of our passengers were thrown from the hack by it falling into chuck holes. No pen can describe them. They are generally but : a single track and teams have freqcntly to wait upon one another until a long string parsed before • they can, proceed. Such car nages as are used in Bucks county would nob last a week on these roads. llundreds of people are obliged to walk to and from the railroad to Pitbolo for want of vehicles.—* Many prefer it on account of the danger of * upsetting. Wo pitied ono dandy wo met on the road. He was evidently a resident of some eity r and came out there in the samtf clothing he would promenade Broadway or Chestnut street; His costume waslight fan cy cassimere pants and vest, with a thin cloth coat, cassimere hat, and thin low pat ent leather shoos. _IIo certainly had no idea of the country he had to travel through. Ar riving at Shafer and finding no hack to con vey him, or not disposed to pay 30 cents a mile, he, in company with numerous others, | started on foot. They had progressed about I two miles when a heavy rain set in and in fifteen minutes there was mud enough to cov er the tops of his shoes, lie was in a pitia blo'plight. A piece of road had been so cub up by the loaded wagons that it impassable. An enterprising young fellow felled some trees and with them made a cor duroy road for about 50 feet and opening a space of perhaps 50 feet or more, stationed himself at ono cud and demanded 25 cents for the privilege of crossing it with a team. Every loaded ‘wagon paid it to him rather than run the risk of being swamped. From Pithole wo made pur way bnck to the railroad, at Shafer, on Oil Crock. There is quite a settlement at this point. It has been built up since the discovery of oil on the Sha fer farm. It is sis miles bclowVritusviUo.— Miller farm is a mile above Shafer. This is also an oil producing farm. . Indicatioris of oil operations are to be seen all the way up the creek to Titusville, which is just in the edge of Crawford conniy. fly A man in getting out of an omnibus, a few day's since, made use of two of knees as panislets to steady himself, at which the ladies took offense, and one cried aloud, “ lie is a perfect savage 1” “True,” said a wag. inside, “ho belongs to tbo Paw-knee tribe.” [D” Upon tbo rending of the Declaration of independence at Ypsilanti, Michigan, oy a citizen of that place, a gentleman from the rural districts made this comment—“ O, he real it well enough, but darued if I believe he wrote it.’.’ Artemus War Isays ween he hear* the s mg, “ 3umo where my love lies dream ing” ho’dou’t go. lie don’t think it would be right. N 0 .17. "
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