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Hanover Street. ■ 43" Practicing In all the Courts of this Judicial District, prompt attention will bo given to all business In the Counties of Perry andJuniata, as well as of Cumberland. ' May 24, 1860—ly*. \XT F. SADLER, Attorney at Law, . V Y • Carlisle* Penna. ■ Office in Building for merly occupied by Volunteer, South Hanover street. • Deo. 1, 1865. ‘WJ KENNEDY Attorney at Law, VY • Carlisle, Penna. Office same os tbatol the “American Volunteer,” South side of the Pub lic Square. Deo. 1 1865. JOHN LEE, Attorney at Law, Nnrr.li Huuuvnr Btroot, Carlisle. Pa... Fob. 15,1866—1 y. TAMES A. DUNBAR, Attorney at M Law, Carlisle, Penna. Office a few doors west of Hannon’s Hotel. Deo. 1,1866. • DR. J. R. BIXLER offers bis profes sional services to the citizens of Carlisle and •vimnlty. - ' . Office on Main street, opposite the jail, In the room lately occupied by L. Todd, Esq.- April 11,1867—iy . B NEWTON SHORT. M. D., Physl i aian and Surgeon, Pa.— ikfui lor past favors, would, most respectful ly inform his friends and the public generally, that he Is still practicing Medicine andHprgery In all their branches. Special attentidzflaVen to the treatment of diseases of the Eye an'dEQ&r, and oil other chronic allbotionsr ' Office in-Wllson's Building, Main St., up stairs. Nov. 29, 1860. ■ • N * DR. GEORGE S. SEARIGHT, Den tist. From the Baltimore College of Denial taurgerg. Office at the residence of uls mother, East Louthor Street, three doors below Bedford, Carlisle, Penna. DeC. 1,1865.. f\ENTIBTRY—Dr. W.B. Shoemaker- I / Practical Dentist. Newville, Pennsylvania. Omco in Miller’s Building. k* Fob, 22, 1860.—1 y. T)AVID ;F. milder, Purveyor and draftsman, MOUNT ROCK, : CUMBEREANircarFAr ~ , April 18, 1807—3m* • (ffompanles. gPECUAL IWWURA.NUE AUEJSUY I Over 825,000,000 of Capital Represented. Homo, Metropolitan, Manhattan, Artie, Secu rity, North American, Germania, all of. New York. 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Possessing the largest assets, the largest amount insured, the largest income and the largest surplus over liabilities, os shown by. the ollioial reports of the Insurance Depart ment of New York, and which will bo shOgn to any persons wishing to determme for themselves the true condition and standiugof differentcom fames by applying humMGH. OfflceNo. 20 West Main St„ Carlisle. Jan. 8,1807—0 m ‘ 2O() REWARD I PENNSYLVANIA MUTUAL HORSE THIEF DETECTING AND INSURANCE COMPANY. From three Co five-dollars will Insure your, horse against thieves for five years. Persons desiring to becomo mem berawtU apply to SAM’L &. HUMRICU, • ’ tipeoUU Agent, Office 20 West Main BU, Carlisle, Jan. 8,1807 —0m The railway passengers as surance COMPANY, of Hartford, Conn., injures against ail kinds of Accidents, CAPITAL *894,800. , , . "For five thousand dollars In case .of fotol ocel dent, or »25 Weekly Compensation In cosei ol disabling bodily Injury, at 28 penis per day. For sale at SAMUEL K.HUMBIOH’S, Office No. 28 West Main St., Carlisle, Jnn.B,lBW-0m ... TTOBBE INSURANCE.—The .under-. - rr signed takes this method of expressing his thanks to the •• Great Western Horse Insurance Company'’for the promptness with which 1 they paid nlm the insurance-on a horse lost by death. ‘The horse ’died 1 on -the 6th add on thoriOth tost.. Sesara. Feflbr & Brother, the enterprising " AgAntAnf the Company, paid me the amount<in .—but there are still many‘'mothers who have not yel lost their little boy. I wonder if they know they are living their very best day;. that now is the time to really enjoy their children I I think if X had been more tb my little boy, I might be more to my grown up son.” . The Beauty of Irish Women. Mons. Fellp.Belly, one of the writers of the Constitutionelle, having made a tour through Ireland, last summer, pro nounces the followingeulogium upon the women of the country: “The most remarkable element, tpe richest, and certainly the most full of life, of this land so life full, is the popu lation itself. No European race, that of the Caucasus excepted, can compete with it in beauty. The Irish blood,is of a pu rity and ’distinction, especially among the females, which strikes all strangers with astonishment. The transparent whiteness of the skin, the absorbing at traction, which, in France, Is but the at tribute of one woman to a thousand, is here the general type. The daughter of the poor man, as well as the fine lady, possesses an opal milky tint, the arms of a statute,’ the-Yoot^and 1 hand of- a duch ess, and the tearing of a queen, lu tho most wretched streets of the olden quar ters of Dublin, the must ideal tiutings of the pencil would grow pale before the beauty of the children; and In the com pact crowd which each day occupies the footpaths of Merlon Square, there la cer tainly the most magnificent collection of human beings it is possible to meet.-j- Blondes with black eyes, and brunettes’ with blue, are by no means rare. The race is as strong as It Is handsome, as vig orous as it is charming. The girls of Cop emara, with their queenly shoulders and eyes of fire, would put to shame, at day, those daughters of the East from whom they are said to have descended.!’ Woeds.— Think lightly ns we may, they nretbe wardrobeof immortal thought —the wlng.on which that thought goes out from the brain that conceived and the bosom that rooked it, to other men dr other times. Think of them os we will, the words’we lisped in infancy, will be’ the last we murmur in death. They were pure and uncontaminated, born in the atmosphere of a mother's love and beneath-thoolear treavenofher mild eye; and Will be forever *• sacred to the memo ry.” Learn other tongues we may wander In strange lands—but, like the dying Swiss, we shall say our last sigh, in the words wherein we learned to clothe our thoughts at the first. The loom of all thought the tint of all. feeling, the treasury of all memories, what uobhjr gifts have we than Language, and what would the world not give for one glimpse at the roush characters which it carved on the sycamore bark before,the advent of the “evil days?!’ ’ Self. Dependence.—Many an unwise parent works hard and lives sparingly all his life for the purpose of leaving enough to give bia children a start In the world, as It is called. Betting a young man afloat with money left Elm by his rela tions.is like tying' a bladder under; the arms of one who. cannot swim— chan ces to one he will lose his bladders and go to the bottom. Teach him to swim,, and he will not need the bladders.. Give your children a good education. Bee to it that bis morals are pure, bis mind cultivated and his whole nature made subservient to the laws which govern man, and you will be of more value than the wealth of tbeludies. You have given him a start which no misfortune can deprive him of. The earlier you teach him to depend uppn his own. resources and the blessing of God, the better. D,ark Hones.—To every man there are many,' many dark hours, when. he feels Inclined to abandon his best enterprise l — his heart’s dearest hopes appear delusive—hours when be feels unequal to ti e burden, when all his aspirations seem worthless.. Let no one think that be alone, has dark hours. They are the common lot of humanity. They are touchstones to try whether we are cur rent coin or not. 1121 The Salcido of the Hon. Elijah Bln. A correspondent of a Xioaisville paper gives tbefoillowingacoountof tbesuiclde of Judge Hlse, member of Congress re elect from the Third Kentucky District: “ On May 3 the Hon. Elijah Hlse com mitted suidlde tty shooting himself through the brain. X suppose be did not live an instant after the discharge of the pistols. I say pistols, because he used two. The details are sickening, but in order to give you an account in full, and stop at once any garbled statements that may be made,'! will give you all the hor rible particulars, so that in noticing his death you can present the facts. Since bis return from Washington he has been melancholy, so much so ns to excite re mark, even from bis casual acquaintances. On yesterday he leftmyofilceafterashort conversation, and went Immediately home, hot distant more than one hun dred yards. In half an hour the report reached me he bad shot himself. ' I hurried down and. found the report too true. He bad lashed a couple of eight inch rifled pistols together, and standing before a large sized mirror, had discharged both through bis brain, im mediately over the eyebrows. The whole top of his head was blown completely off. Upon a small table immediately in front of him was found the Inclosed manuscript (a minute copy of which I send). From this it appears that the condition of the country bore to such an extent upon bis mind os to render death preferable. He has also been suffering for some months aaderdiabeteameUitua, which contributed -in a great degree, no doubt, to bis despon dency. He was sixty-five years of age July 4,1860. You will perceive from the date of his article that be contemplated the act some weeks. Judge Hise left the following on his ta ble; “ I have lost all hopes of being able to add in saving the country from the im pending disasters and ruin in which dea-, potlc and unconstitutional rule has in volved her. I have been brought into the publlo service at an age too advanced, and at a period too late too allow me to hope that I cAu do anything In aid of the restoration of constitutional government, even if admitted to a seat in Congress, which, it is said, would be refused. 11 1 am enfeebled by the infirmities of age, and by disease. lam weary of the world, and Intend to leave It. I am- sick at heart, and resort to death for relief* I shall leave a poor afflicted .wife, and kind relatives, and friends, none of whom have any knowledge of ray purpose. I have kept my intent to seek death for re lief from the sorrows that afflict me, a se cret from all. Ido not think oven a sus picion of it exists in the minds of either wife, kindred or friends. - ELIJAH HISE. . “ Sunday, April 21,1867. “There is a codicil to my will In my coat pocket, since placed jn the hands of my wife. E. Hise.’’ Suicide ran in the Judge’s family. His father disemboweled himself some years ago in Russellville, Ky., and he had also au eccentric brother, named Joseph Hise, who Jumped from a vessel, between New Orleans and Havana, and was drowned. Absence of ailnd. We have beard of numerous instances of mental abstraction—most frequently connected with men qf great devotion to some particular literary, scientific or the ological investigation which monopolizes the mental powers. We could point out many individuals who fill the pulpit with ability, and display in their discourse vast powers of Intellect, who, in the so cial parly carry on some mentai exercise aiscpmagcta them' Jr om passing of thferclass, who, in his absent Intervals, is likely to appropriate to hjraseif not on ly whatever handkerchiefs may chance to come In bis way, but table napkins al so are frequently found in pockets when returning from social tea parties at bis parishioners. This was so much a habit, that his wife would search bis pockets on his return for the purpose of restoring the articles speedily to the'rightful owners.-r One day bis wife found in his side pocket a whole silk apron, strings and all. He could give no account how it come there —it was a mysterious affair. A lady of the parish however settled the matter satisfactorily. In conversation with her guest after tea, on some subject in which he felt much interest, he mistook her apron, ns shesupposed, for his handker-' chief, and began to tuck it away in his pocket. Knowing bis abstractedness, rather than break the thread of the dis course, she untied the apron string and let It go, a little amused at seeing thb whole, after two or three efforts, snugly stowed away, in his pocket. —Gleason's Pictorial. Influence of Wives. —It was not all a dream which madeslhe wife of Julius Ciesar so anxious that he should not go to the Senate Chamber on the fatal Ides, of March; and bad he compiled with he,r entreaties he might have escaped the dag ger of Brutus. Disaster followed disaster in the Career of Napoleon, from the time he ceased to feel the balance-wheel of Jo sephine’s influence on bis impetuous spirit. Our own Washington when im portant questions were submitted to him, often has said that he would like to carry the subject to his bed chamber before be had formed his decision; and those who knew the clear and elevated purpose of Mrs. Washington thought all the better of him for wishing to "make her his con fidential-counsellor. Indeed the great majority of men, who have acquired for themselves a good and great name, were not only married men—but happily mar ried—both paired and matched. . Modebn Definitions.— Water A clear fluid, ohee used as a drink. Dentist—Due who finds work fof his own teeth by taking out those of other people. My dear—An expression used by man and wife at the commencement of a quar- Policeman—A man employed by the corporation to sleep in the open air. Doctor—A man who kills you to-day to save you from dying to-morrow. Author —A dealer, in- words, who often gets paid in his own coin. Editor—A poor wretch who empties -his brain in order.to fill hls-stomach. Jury—Twelve prisoners in a box to try, one at the bur. Lawyer—A learned gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemy and keeps it himself. Heb Is an enigma. We are here to-day —and activity and bustle, and to-morrow we are gone. We die, but the world moves on as when we were actors on the .stage. As we drop away, others take our place and we are missed. Tbps since the creation, man Breathes, moves and dies. If there were not a solution to thls enlgma, Bbyond the confines of the grave, how dull, meagre and unsatisfying would be the few hours we pasa on earth. ; “ Which way do you travel from ?” asked a wag of a crooked-back gentleman. *• I came straight from Wheeling,” was the reply. “Did you?” said the other; ‘‘then you must, have been shockingly warped by the railroad.”. 1 Chance on Gbnids ?—A sudden thought—a happy hit—we are too apt- to call a lucky one. Will It be the' worsedf we give it a better name, and say it is: a gift? The thankfu’ness implied in g|ft may make it a blessing. Do Not Persevere nr Evn,.—lt is; £l fearful, thing to preserve in any course that conscience disapproves. There cdn be, in such case, neither beaCe with oqr selves nor fellowship with the Creator.' ■*' ♦ YOL, 63.--NO. 50. THIS IEfiBO AT HOME. A LECTURE BY P. B. DU CITAILLU^. By consent of the Society for the Ad vancement of' Science ana Art, and at. the invitation of the Travelers’ Club of New York city, P. B. Du Cballlu, a few evenings since, delivered an instructive and interesting lecture, at their/rooms, 222 Fifth avenue, on “ Explorations In Africa,” before a very select audience of ladies and gentlemen, comprising mem bers of the association and their friends The lecturer wa§ received with ap plause, and spoke as follows: Mr, President , Ladies and Gentlemen —I came to-day from Putnam county, in the State of New York, little thinking of the reception which awaited me this night. : I told Mr. Dunbar d few days ago I should be happy to come and talk here, but I bad no idea that ladies would be admitted, and besides I was notprepared to give a full lecture. I have been in the country on purpose to be quiet, staying with friends, in order to write three lec tures I have to deliver here and attend to my diagrams, to do the best I can to give an account of what I have doneduriug the ten years while I explored Africa. 1 find It very difficult now to do this. Du ring those ten years I have collected a greatamountof material. I havestudled ns much as I could the habits of the peo* pie, their'customs and their religion. I nave studied the natural history of the 'country, especially insects, birds, quad rupeds, gorillas, chimpanzes, and the as tronomy and geography of the country And I have to put them all in two leo tures. I find it very hard, X assure you. But as I always say, It Is far mon- diffi cult .to put down your thoughts from your own Journals of travels, than to go and travel in those foreign countries. — During those teu years 1 stayed there I made large collections. I succeeded in collecting twenty-nine gorillas, every skin of which I have either here or in England, I obtained twenty-oiio duriug the first journey. I succeeded in collect ing fifteen chimpanzes, the skins and skeletons I have, more than two thou sand birds, thousands of insects and shells; 1 succeeded in collecting one hun dred and twenty skulls of negroes.— (Laughter.). I bring the negro, not for pleasure, but ns a matter of science.— (Laughter.) The negro could not under stand.what 1 meant at first. 1 had to be very careful in obtaining the skulls, — They .thought I was crazy they said, and, would ask 11 what does that man want? He is always hunting the woods. He is wild, ana always sneaks of buying the skulls of our forefathers.” They were very shy at first about it, and always came at night with them. And now and then a man was very angry lii the vil lage, and said he hud gone into.the burial ground, and that he could not get tile skull of his father or somebpdy else.— (Laughter.) Sumetimesl would meetthem at the bouse. Each one had u bundle in which was a bag and a skull, and they told me not to tell what was there, and others said the same thing. I was glad to get those skulls, because they are cer taiuiy the pure blood of negroes, and it is a great thing to have the skulls of the pure blooded negro. There, in equatorial Africa, the uegro is very intelligent.— This country which we have explored is nothing but a vast jungle, and until re cently was not known. The gorilla had been heard of in the time of Anno,-the Carthageniau navigator,.who, in his nar rative, makes mention of a wild, hairy man, and that he succeeded In capturing only three females or three women. But tl ey were so wild he was obliged to kill them and preserved their skins. Pliny mentions that the skins were still in the temple of Juuo when the Romans took Carthage. From them the gorilla re been was struck in my explorations of this vast Jungle to find the population very thinly scattered, it abounds in tribes. I visited*myself more than thirty.tribes, from tl.e cauibal tribes to the dwarfs—little 'men. hairy men, covered with little tufts of hair.— They are from four feet three inches to four feet four inches and four feet five inches. They are. no doubt, the pigmies of Herodotus, which he described to be towards the head waters of the Nile. 'All navigation has always been from the oast towards the west. X have negroes about where they came train, when they came from another village, and found that they travelled west. They always move from the west towards the east. I never saw any exception to this. Some of these tribes are exceedingly war like ; others are very mild. The finest negroes are the. Cannibal, tribes. They are lighter colored and tall, and their su periority is principally shown by the working iron. They work iron beauti fully. The mountains there are covered with iron ; but being warlike in their na ture, they make barbed spears, arrows, axes and all sorts of implements to kill each other. In that country they kill all their prisoners. Strange to say, they do not bury any of their dead, except their kings. Those that die of diseaseare eat en up. NmV and then theygoiutoneigli horiug tribes and steal their corpses. I gave an account in my first volume of an instance where, within oue hundred yards of a settlement of the missionaries at Oaboons, they stole corpses and went back. These tribes are very much feared. I had nobody with me when I was among them; still,! found them very kind towards me. 1 told them it was very bad to eat human flesh, but they all said to me that next to human flesh the. forllla’s flesh was the best.. (Laughter.) said then, " Why don’t you kill goril las?” they said, “We can not, because they are too puwenul.” They have no guns there, and they cannot kill the gor illa with their spears. 1 had great diffi culty in leafm g the languages, and hail to stay among them a lung time to do so. Not only that, but to come down to their level of thinking. The difficulty of a traveler is to come down to the level of thinking with those negroes. It is as difficult to come to that standard as it is for the negro to come to our own level of thinking there. I never succeeded in this thing, X tried to have them explain to me their/ superstition and religion ; but I never could understand, anything about it, and at last I gave it up in de spair. I traveled sometimes and often through the thick jungles of this curious country for several days together with out, meeting a single settlement, and I have traveled through this country sev eral days without eating anything.. I have been as much os two or three days without food, and bad no companion with me but a monkey. I used sometimes, to eat a few leaves or nuts, always eating, what the monkey ate, for fear of eating something that might not be wholesome (laughter) and sometimes the monkey used to eat the bitterest nuts be could find, and of course I would fiud that bu£ (Laughter.) I waa always. obliged to camp in the forest and In that country It rains nine months of the year, near tlie bOast, and the whole year round in the Interior. So it was not always pleasant weather to camp out in.: (Laughter:)— Night after, night you are wet through there. The natives are very lozy and make their wives doeverythiug for them. (Laughter.) Every particle of baggage is carried by the women when the men are moving anywhere. All that can tie carried is carried on a woman’s back.-!-' You will see a large mau, a.big, strong, lazy savage, going along carrying a spear, •while the women are loaded down with .plantains, which are, the chief food of the country. The plalntain is a kind of ba nana; except that it is much larger and re quites cooking before it is so lit for food as the banana. The women often have to carry food enough to last a Whole fami ly for several days, and besides that stalks and other refuse have to be carried. You 1 can fancy how these men. make their wives assist them. (Laughter.) .The men are so lazy that they wilionly.thl.nk of the present moment, and never entertain the least notion of providing for the fu ture. They will sometimes nave to carry plantains, and in the beglnnlng .of tho journey they will be throwing gway he msssssssssmamsss^ A *Tnn Cents per line /or the Insertion. and five cenli per line tor each iafaeeqnent Insertion. Q,uar . teriy, half-yearly, end yearly adveffiiemeuu la sorted at a liberal redaction on v tbe *bove rates. Advertisements abbnid 1 be tteooinpanlad. by tbs Cash. Wbedjfent length, ol time specified far pabUoanra