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JOHN B. BRATTON-
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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.
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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.
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