American Volunteer. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING BRATTON So KENNEDY. OFFICE-SOUTH IKABKBT M)VABE. Terms:—Two Dollars per year if paid strictly in advance; Two Dollars and Fifty Cents if paid t within three months; after which Three Dollars ‘will be charged. Those terms will he rigidly ad hered to In every instance. No subscription dis continued until all arrearages are paid, unless nt t ho option of the Editor. professional (Rafts. |JNITED STATES CLAIM AND BEAL ESTATE AGENCYI WM. B. BUTLER; ATTORNEY AT LAW, Office In 2d Story of InholTs Building, No, 8 South Hanover Street, Carlisle, Cumberland county, Penna. , , „ Pensions, Bounties, J3ack Pay. Ac., promptly collected. Applications by mall, will receive Immediate attention. , . Partlanlarattentlon gluen to the selling or rent ing of Real Estate, in town or country. In all let ters of Inquiry, please enclose postage stamp. July ii, Iser—tf r\R. GEORGE S. SEARIGKT, Den- I I tibt. Prom the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery. Office at the residence of his mother, East Loather Street, three doors below Bedford, Carlisle, Penna. Deo. 1,1865. JM WEAKLEY, Attorney at Law. , Office on South Hanover street. In the room formerly occupied by A. B. Sharpe. ESq. T7\ E. BELTZHOOVER, Attorney r . and Counselor at Law, Carlisle, Penna. Office on South Hanover street, opposite Bontz s Store. By special arrangement with the Patent Office, attends to securing Patent Rights. Deo. 1,1805. CHAS. E. MAGLAUGHLIN, Attor ney at Law. Office In Building formerly occupied by Volunteer, a few doors South of Han non’s Hotel. Deo. 1,1805. TOHN. C. GRAHAM, Attorney at • I Law. Office formerly occupied by Judge Graham, South Hanover street, Carlisle, Penna. ■ Dec. 1,1805— ly. MC. HERMAN, Attorney at Law. , Office In Rheem's Hall Building, in tho rear of tho Court House, next door to tho "Her ald" Office, Carlisle, Penha. - Dec. 1,1865. \XT F. SADLER, Attorney at Law, YY , Carlisle, Penna. Office In Building for merly occupied by Volunteer, South Hauovcr street, Dec. 1, 1805. \XT KENNEDY Attorney at Law. YV • Carlisle, Penna. Office same ns that of tho "American volunteer," South side of the Pub ilc Square. Dec. 1. 1805. JOHN LEE, Attorney at Law, North Hanover Street, Carlisle, Pa., * ob. 15, IB6o—ly. TAMES A. DUNBAR, Attorney at ft Law, Carlisle, Penna, Office a few doors West of Hannon's Hotel. Deo. 1,1805. DR. J. R. BIXLEB offers his profes sional services to tho oltizens of Carlisle and vicinity. Office on Main street, opposite thejall, in tho room lately occupied by I* Todd, Esq. April 11,1807— ly 30tg <sootrs. SPRING! 1867. BARGAINS Now opening in DOMESTIC GOODS, DRESS GOODS, (CASSIMEBES, SATTINETTS AND JEANS. WHITE G OOBS, DRESS TRIMMINGS, ZEPHYRS, BIBBONS AND NOTIONS RING’ S NEW STORE, NO. 35 WEST MAIN STREET, Opposite the Mansion House, Next door to the Post Office, .Carlisle, April 18,1867. OUT DRV GOODS MEN! TO TSE PUBLIC\ I have Just returned from, the East with my Spring stock, and as usual. I am soiling Goods a little cheaper than any other. Dry Goods House in town. Ido not think It necessary to occupy a column of newspaper to endeavor to keep up my reputation for selling Cheap Goods, nor do 1 Wish to resort to any other' clap-trap to gull the public. All I ask of them is to call and examine for themselves, and il not satis lied with the pri ces, not to buy. Remember the stand. No. 82 North Hanover street.noxt door to Dr. Kiefler’s, and Miller & Bowers’ Hardware store. VM. A. MILES. P. S. I will say nothing about my third and fourth grand openings. April 18,1807. HOOP SKIRTS. 628. 628. NEW SPRING STYLES. “OUR OWN MAKE.” embracing every New-and Desirable size, style and Shape of Plain and Trail HoopSkirts,—2. 11-4,2V5, 2 8-4,8 1-4,8 1-2.3 3-4 and 4 Yds., round every length and size 'Waist: In every respect Fibst Quality, and especially adapted to meet the wants of First Class and most fashionable Trade, „Our own. Make,” of !Hoop Skirts, are Uhter, more elastic, more durable, and really obaper than any other make of either Single or Double Spring Skirt In the American Market. They are wararnted in overy respect, and wherever intro duced give universal satisfaction.. They are now being extensively Sold by Retailers, and every Lady should try them. Ask for “Hopktn’s Own Make,” and see that each skirt Is Stamped “ W. T.HOPKINtS MANU FACTURER, 628 Arch Street, Philadelphia.”— No others are Genuine A Catalogue containing Stylo, size and Retail Prices, sent to any address. A UnlformandUbomlDlsconntallowedtoDeal ers. Orders by mall or otherwise, promptly and carefully filled—Wholesale and 'Retail, at Manu factory and Sales-rooms. No. 628 ARCH Street, PHILADELPHIA Skirts made to order,altcred and repaired. Terms, Net Cosh. One Price Only. . . WILLIAM T. HOPKINa April 18,1807—10 m. Q.REAT WATCH SAIiEI « 2000 WATCHES, Patent Lever Movements, full £ d » Hunting Cases, Sterling Silver, Beauti fully Engraved and In every respect first class' Timers. TTqbe sold at six dollars each, being less tnan tliree-foartbs the cost of manufacturing.— ei-# 8 « watches are retailed by Jewelers at from K° 10 u B »tae actual cost to the manufacturer being This stock of watches was purchased at a Bankrupt Sale In London, and are now offered at soon extremely low figures, that all mOy possess a correct Time-keeper at a merely nominal sum. «*very watch warranted for 2 years.. Forties or dering them sent by mall,mast enclose 86 cents extra to repay postage. Money enclosed In a weu sealed letter may do sent at my risk. Address all orders to „ MARLIN CONNOR. May 16,1867—1 y . • . Albany, N. Y E .CONBXAK. ' DU. O. M. WbaTHXNQTON, drug store. The subscribers have opened a new DRUG AND CHEMICAXi STORE, iVb. 7, East Main Street, Carlisle, whore they have Just received a large and fresh apply of the very best . DRUGS AND MEDICINES to be found in the City Markets, to which they invite the attention of the public. Also, a large variety of PERFUMERY and fancy articles, Dye Stufft, andvU the carlo a* Patent Medicines. All Drugs and Medicines warranted pure. Prescriptions carefully compounded. nc ' jroKNMAN * WORTHINGTON, April 26,1807—6 in PLAIN and FANCY PRINTING of bvbby description neatly’executed at the ▼oiTOTKEROmoe.i - ~:.T i U ■ '■''■ ,W; ' ■*' .-, ,~- *r.-„ ■ ■ • - i_- f -T BY BRATTON & KENNEDY. l£teal 3E state. ESTATE FOR SALE!! W. J. SHEAREE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, AND AGENT FOR THE SALE OF Cumberland Co. Real Estate, OFFERS THE FOLLOWING VALUABLE REAL ESTATE FOR SALE AT REASONABLE PRICES: IN THE ROROUaiI OF CARLISIiE. No. I. SIX of the finest BUILDING LOTS In tho Borough, on South Hanover Street. No. 2. The six most elevated BUILDING LOTS in tho Borough, situated at tho head ol South Bt. IN Tins COUNTRY No. 3. A TRACT OP THIRTY-SIX ACRES, with small but comfortable BRICK DWELLING HOUSE, Frame Stable, Ac., and a young and thriving Orchard ot CHOICE FRUIT, situate on tho Railroad, in North Middleton twp., West, and Within a ratio of, tho Borough of Carlisle. This property os a HOMESTEAD and for general or Truck Farming, Is tho most desirable tract of its slzo to'bo found anywhere in tho vicinity of Carlisle. Tho certain extension of the town West ward, partly consequent upon tho improve ments made and contemplated by tho Railroad Company in that direction, drawing, as they necessarily will, nearly tho whole trade of the town to that end, will very greatly enhance tho value of this land to the future owner, for any purpose whatever, rendering it a safe aud profit able Investment. v Feb. 28,1800. Jhmtlture, scc- B. E W I N G , CABINET MAKER AND UNDERTAKER, WEST MAIN STREET, CARLISLE, PENN’A. A Krr.NFDiD Assortment' of NEW FURNITURE for the Holidays, comprising Sofas, Camp Stools, Lounges, Centro Tables, Rooking Chairs, Dining Tables, Easy Chairs, Card Tables, Reception Chairs, Ottomans, Bureaus, What-Nots, Secretaries, <£c., Ac., Parlor, Chamber, Dining Room, Kitchen - and Office FURNITURE, of the Latest Styles. COTTAGE FURNITURE IN SETTS, Splendid New Patterns. BEDSTEADS AND MATTRESSES, GILT FRAMES AND PICTURES, in great variety. 1867. Particular attention given to Funerals. Orders from town and country attended to promptly and on reasonable terms. Deo. 43,1868—tf Q A B I N E T WAREHOUSE TOWN AND COUNTRY Tlief subscriber respectfully Informs bis friends and the public generally, that ho still continues., the Undertaking business, and is ready to wait upon customers either by day or by night. Ready made Coffins kept constantly on hand, both Elain and ornamental. Ho has constantly on and J'Hsk’a Patent Mctalio Burial Ouse, of which holms been appointed the solo agent. Tills cose is recommended us superior to any of the kind, now in use. it being perfectly air tight. Ho has also furnished himself with u new Rose wood Heaiisb and gentle horses, with which he will attend funerals In town- and country, per sonally, without extra charge. Among the greatest discoveries of the ago is Well's Bimng Matlrass, the best and cheapest bed now In use, the exclusive right of which I have secured, and will bo kept constaotly.on hand. CABINET MAKING, in all its various branches, carried on, and Beau reaus, Secretaries, Work-stands. Parlor Ware, Upholstered Chairs, Sofas, Pier, Side and Centre Tables, Dining and Breakfast Tables, Wash stands of all kinds, French Bedsteads, high and low posts: Jenny Lind and Cottage Bedsteads. Chairs of all kinds, Looking Glasses, and all other articles usually manufactured lu this lino of business, kept constantly on hand. His workmen arc men of experience, his ma terial the best, and his work made lu the latest City stylo, and all under Ills own supervision. It will bo warranted and sold low for cash. He invites all to give him a call before purchas ing elsewhere. For the liberal patronage here toflre extended to him ho feels indebted to his numerous customers, and assures them that no efforts will be spared in future to please them in style and price. Give us a call. Remember the place, North Hanover street, nearly opposite the Deposit Bauk^Corllalo.^^ Doc. 1.1665. JpiPER'S BOOK AND FANCY STORE, AND GENERAL NEWS DEPOT, 30 WEST MAIN STREET, CARLISLE, PA. A flue assortment of Goods on hand, such as Writing Desks, Port Folios, Ladles Companions, Work Boxes, Satchels, Ladles’ Purses, Pocket Books, A LARGE SUPPLY OF FAMILY BIBLES and PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUMS* AT REDUCED PRICES. DIARIES FOR 1867. Subscriptions received for all Magazines, Fash ion Books, Papers, &c., at publishers prices. You save postage and always sure of receiving your Magazines ny subscribing at Piper’s. Special attention is paid to keoplng always on hand a supply of SCHOOL BOOKS, for town and country schools. Books and Music ordered when desired. May 23,1867—if JgEALE’S (LATE POWELL’S) EMBROCATION, JFbr all Diseases incident to Horses , Cat lie, and the Human Flesh, requiring the use qf an external appli cation. This new Compound, prepared by a practical Chemist having a full knowledge of all the medi cal virtues of each ingredient that enters into Its composition, Is warranted to exceed anything of the kind over yet offered to the public as an ex ternal application for the diseases which it is rec ommended. We are satisfied that it will work Its own road into the confidence of all who use It, and those who try It once will never bo with out It, and tberetore we rely bn experience as the best test of its usefulness. It Is pronounced by Farriers, and all who have tried it to bo the best application ever used. This Embrocation has been pat up for over eight years, and it is only through the Increasing demand and urgent re- Siuest of my friends ana the pabllc that JTuoud It orth os the grand remedial agent for tho various diseases to which that noble and useful animal, tho horse, is subject. • Many remedies have been offered to tho pub lic under different formn. some of these are Inju rious, others at best of little .use, and many whol ly improper to answer tho puroposcs for which they are recommended. A Judicious and really useful composition, free from these objections, has therefore long been de sired by many gentlemen who have valuable hor ses, and are unwilling to trust them to tho care of designing and pretended Farriers. Their wishes are at length fully gratified by Dr. Beale being E revolted upon to allow tbls valuable Embroca on (which has proved so efficacious to the vari ous diseases) to he.prepared and brought out to the public.' Tbls Embrocation was extensively used by tho Government during the war. Address all Orders to DR. EDMOND BEALE, GO3 South Second Street, Philadelphia Pa. tes~ For sale at the Drug Stores of Cornman it Worthington, East Main St.ect, and D. Ralston, South Hanover Street, Carlisle. April 11,1807-Oin p'HOTOGRAPHS FOR THE MILLION! I will send, post-paid, 50 Photographs of the moat celebrated Actors for 00 cents; 60 Actresses for GO cents; 50 Union Generals for 50cents; 50 Rebel Generals for 60 cents; 50 Statesmen for 50 cents; 50 beautiful young Ladles for 50 cents; 50 fine-looking young Gentlemen for 50 cents; 0 large Photographs of French Dancing Girls, In costume, beautifully colored, exactly ns they ap pear, for 60 cents; or for 60 cents,oof the most beautiful Ladles of the Parisian Bullet Troupe, ns they appear in the piny of the Black Crook, at Niblo’s Garden, New York. Bend all orders to P, O. Box 177, TrOy, N, Y May 10,1807—1 y Correspondence of tho Ptcm.) COT.ORADO. Your readers have doubtless followed, not without Interest, tho course of your correspondent “ Arc,” through tUo IniUi au fights (in which he distinguished himself, by the way, though ho says nothing of It,) and so on to the very Far West. Atpresent lam in company with General Palmer and pursuing tho sur veying party of General Wright. For tunately we were not obliged to chase him all tho way to sundown, as the old. hunter did the buffalo bull, before over taking him. Our trip across the Plains via tho Ar kansas route from Fort Barker was in-' teresting, and at the same time .monoto nous, so far.as scenery"was - concerned. At Fort Lamed, wo wore very hospita bly entertained by Colonel Rockwell and lady. At Fort Dodge, wo again met Lieu tenant Brown, of Fort Ellsworth memo-, ry. He lms been lighting Indians nud buffaloes lately, and has won laurels and beef. Ho Is now with his company, hav ing been relieved of quarterfhoster duties. Our traveling companions were Dr. Bchiffman tot Fort Lyon) ana may. - m Fort Lyon wefound tlmtGeneral Wright, with the surveying party, had gone up tho Purgatoiro, so we continued b? this place by coach, and, procuring horses, joined him 35 miles oast at tho Trinchera Pass of Raton Mountain. There wc re mained a few days nud came here yes terday, the surveying party pushing on through the pass in tho direction of Fort Union. We leave here in a day or two, accompanied by Dr. Le Conte, for Santa Fe, but shall stop occasionally to examine con), timber, and other appearances of interest to the great Pacific Railway, E. D. So much for movements. A railroad through this country is perfectly feasible, the route up tho Arkansas river being nearly a dead level, aud in these moun tains not so difficult as the Alleghuuies. Coal and timber now become abundant, tho country is rapidly tilling up with settlers, the soil is wonderfully fertile, and countless herds of cattle aud sheep will soon be, grazing on the rich gramma grass which covers the prairies and val leys in,this region. Wc have yet to ace (he great American Desert, if it cicists / Coming from the Arkansas river to Trinidad, we had a fine view of Pike’s Peak, Greenhorn Mountain, the Spanish Peaks, and the main, range of the Rocky Mountains* which were 1 exceedingly beautiful, with their occasional patches of glittering snow to relieve their sombre hue; W© are only thirty miles from the Spanish Peaks, which loom up quite grandly against the western horizon—two giant twins lone and solitary in their pride. Trinidad ia the’, first town wo have seen, and is quite Mexican in its charac ter, more than three-fourths of Its popu lation being of that persuasion. All the houses are built of adobes, and. with the swarthy black-haired men in their wide sombreros, and the black-eyed women with shawls for head covering, worn like tho Spanish mantilla, present a scene novel and interesting to a traveler from the East. To-day an election is being held for county officers, and both parties are strong. The Republicans claim to be ahead. (3 P. M.)—The Democrats are busy “instructing tho consciences” of the Mexicans in the way. usual in the “ Fourth ward,” it is believed that the undertaker, who is, I understand, postmaster, sheriff, &c., will not have occasion to curse the healthfulncss of the climate to-morrow. Our respective digestions arc good, and our complexions browning. General Palmer is in good health. We shall pro bably meet Major Calhoun at Santa Fe. W. F. O. Near the head of Furgatory river the Union Pacific Railway enters the Terri tory of New Mexico, after having run about two hundred miies diagonally across the southeast coruor of Colorado —the most fertile portion of that Territory, in which there are extensive deposits of coal and forests of pine timber. New Mexico has an area of 121,201 square miles, nearly two-thirds of which He east of the Rio Grande, which bisects the Ter ritory the entire distance from north to south. The northwestern quarter of New Mexico is among the most rugged and mountainous regions on the conti nent, but rich in minerals. The entire eastern portion is comparatively level, being the moat western portion of the great fertile plains which slope towards the Mississippi and the Gulf, and are drained by the more southern tributaries of the Arkansas, the Red river, .aiid some of the larger streams of Western Texas. The southern half, from Albuquerque to the southern boundary, is a country of diversified aspect, made up of hills and valleys. The valleys are exceedingly, fertile, and peculiarly adapted to the cul tureoftheviue. William Hall, in his valu able work, “ Guido to the Great West,” remarks: Segar Cases, Card Cases, Gold Pens, Pen Knives, <£c«, <&c. “ The valleys and slopes in the eastern section consist generally of very produc tive land, the soil in this part being adapt ed to the culture of sugar.” Again he says: “ Cotton of good quality is grown in the southern part of the Territory; and the wine of the region, from Socorro, or even to Albuquerque, to the Texas line at Franklin, or the Mexican line at El Paso, is celebrated for its fine quality; Peaches are excellent and abundant m the southern part of the Territory.”- There is probably no portion of North America so well adapted to the rearing of sheep os New Mexico. Already mil lions are found there, and were there a communication by rail their numbers could be indefinitely increased. While out beyond Fort Reiiy I saw many Mexi can wagons,., with large bodies* loaded with wool—not in sacks, but in bulk. These wagons were unloaded into ware houses at the railroad stations just as hay is thrown loose-into a barn and tramped down. I examined some of this , wool, and found it to be of very good quality. As it requires at least two months for one of these wagon trains —each wagon drawn by four yoke of oxen and attend ed by two men—to make the trip from Santa Fe to Junction City, the expense of carrying this wool cannot be less than one hundred and fifty dollars per ton. With heavier return loads, and more as cending grade, it takes three months fop these Santa Fe trains to make their re turn trips. But, after all, the great value of New Mexico Is lu its mineral treasures, gold, silver and copper. Discoveries of rich mines of gold nave recently been report ed, but the information is yet too vague to warrant more than a general mention of . the fact. Bituminous, coal exists in great abundance on the eastern slopes; and near the Old Placet* gold mine, twen ty-seven miles southeast of Santa Fe, and but a few miles from the contemplat ed line of this, road, anthracite coal has been found. .Of thls'Mr. -Hall says: . . • “ The coal bed attbe Placer Diggings la very accessible and.easily AVorked, mea-' suring from four feet eight inches to four feet ten inches in thickness, and is gener ally very free from earthy or other impu rities. It seems to be a true anthracite, not semi-bituminous, but as destitute of bitumen as the Pennsylvania variety.” A letter from F. W. O. (Captain W. F. Colton,) from Trinidad, Colorado which we publish this morning, places in bolej relief two important facts in refer ence to .the Kansas route of the Pacific, Railway—-that it is perfectly easy and feasible, and that it traverses a region containing no evidence of the existence of the mythical American desert; on the contrary, the river bottoms are suscepti ble of highly profitable cultivation, and the adjacent plains furnish a pasture ground for countless herds of cattle and sheep. Trinidad Colorado Territory, \ . August 13, 1807. j NEW MEXICO. CARLISLE, PA., THURSDAY,' SEPTEMBER 5, 1867. EridiraL the angei. or patience To weary hearts, to mourning homes, God's meekest angel gently comes No power has ho to banish pain,. Or give us back our lost again ; And yet, In tondercst love, our dear And Heavenly Fathersendshlm'hero. There’s quiet In'that angel’s glance, There's rest In his sad countenance; Ho mocks no grief with Idle cheer, Nor wounds with words tho mourner's oar. But ills and woes hb may not cure Ho kindly trains us to endure. Angel of Patience I sent to calm Our feverish brows with cooling balm; To lay the storms of hope and fear, And reconcile life's smile and tear, _ The throbs ofwounded pride to kill; And make our own our Father’s will. 1 O thou who mournest on thy way, Willi longings for tho close of day, . , lie wnllcs with thee, that angel kind, And gently whiskers, bo resigned.’’ Ilonr up, txxw ou/Uio on.l alin.ll -tolli- i Our dear Lord orders all things well. f — filitirdfanons. DEATH AND BUUI.U OF KDGAIt A. POE. S. E. Snodgrass, M.D., writing to Bca~ die's contributes the following interesting: On Tuesday November 1. 1849, a wet mid chilly day, I received a note bearing a signature which I recog nized as-thatof a printer, named Walker, who had set type for the Baltimore Sdtur day Visiter while I was editing.it, and thus became aware of my deep interest in Mr. Poe. It stated that a man claiming Poe’s name, and to be acquainted with ;me, was at Cooth and Sergeant’s tavern in Lombard street, near High street (Bal timore,) in a state of beastly intoxication and ovideutdesfitution, and that he had been beard to 'utter my name as that of an acquaintance. I immediately repaired to the drinking saloon—-for such it was, although digni fied by the designation of tavern—and, sure enough, there was Edgar Allen Poe, in acondltiou thathad.been button faith fully described by Mr. Walker: ’H&was in the bar-corn, sitting in an arm chair, with his head dropped forward, so stupe lied by liquor and so altered from the neatly-dressed and vivacious gentleman which he was wlieu I last had the plea sure of a call from him, that, unaided, I should not have distinguished him from the crowd of less-intoxicated men, whom the occasion of an election had called to gether at the tavern, as the voting place of the ward in which it.was located. Knowing from observation on a form er occasion, when he presented himself at my editorial rooms while intoxicated, that the strain of his conversation would bo neither agreeable to me.nor creditable to my unfortunate friend if able to con verse at all, and considering the company of unsympathetic tipplers who stared at meaud entered theirßacchauallau haunt, I thought It best not to attempt to arouse him from his stupidity. Instead of so doing, I at once ordered a room for him. I had already accompanied a waiter up stairs, with a view to selecting a sufflicent ly retired apartment; and had done so, and was returning to the bar-room for the' purpose of having the evidently un desired guest conveyed to his allotted chamber, when X was met at ( the head of the stairway by Mr. H , relative of Mr,.Poe’s by marriage. He suggested.a hospital os a better place for him than the tavern. I admitted, the correctness of this sug gestion. But some remark of mine hav ing caused the relative to explain why he had not suggested a still better place—his own dwelling—he stated the reason to bo, that Mr.,Poe had “so frequently abused his. hospitality by the rudeness as well as vulgarity of his bearing , while drunk, toward the ladies of his house hold,"that he “couldn't think for a;rao ment, of taking, him to his house in his present besotted condition.” For a moment, I confess, I felt resent ful toward his friend; but I subsequent ly became satisfied that he was justified in the course he persued. The Washing ton College Hospital having been fixed upon, a messenger was despatched to pro cure a carriage. While awaiting its ar rival, I had an opportunity to.observe, more closely than I had taken time to do previously, the condition and apparel of the strangely metamorphosed being in the bar-room, who wore a name which was a synonym for genius—the first glance at whose tout ensemble was well calculat ed to recall Poe’s own so frequently hinted doctrine of the metempsychoHi*, His face was haggard, aiul not to say bloated, and unwashed, hia hair un kepl, and his whole physique repulsive. Hia expansive forehead, with its wonder ful breadth between the points where (be phrenologists locate the organs of ideali ty—the widest I ever measured—and that full-orbed and mellow, yet soulful eye, for which he was so noticeable when himself, now lustreless and vacant, as shortly I could see, were shaded from view by a rusty, almost brimless, tatter edand ribbonless palmleaf hat. His cloth ing consisted*??? a sackcoat of thin and sleezy black alpaca, ripped more or less at several of its seams, and faded and soiled, aiid pants of a steel-mixed pattern of cassiuetto, half-worn and badly-fitting if they could be said to fit at ail. He wore neither vest or neck-cloth, while the bosom of His shirt was both crumpled and badly soiled. On his feet were boots of coarse material, and giving no sign of having been blacked for a long time, If at all. . * The carriage haying' arrived; we tried to get the object of bur care upon hi s feet so that he might the more basil}' bo taken to it: But ho was past locomotion. -We therefore carried him to the coach ns if he were a corpse, and lifted him into it in the same manner;. While wd were doing this, what was left of one of the most remarkable embodiments of genius the world has produced in all the' centu ries of its history—the author of a single poem, which alone has been adjudged by more than one critic, as entitling Its pro ducer to a lasting and enviable fame—was so utterly voiceless as' to bo capable, of only muttering some scarcely intelligible oaths, and other , forms of imprecation, upon those who were trying to rescue him from destitution and disgrace. The carriage 'was, driven directly to the hospital, where its’unconcious occupant was assigned to the care of its intelligent and kindly resident physician;, Of the numerous and-strangely contradictory memories of Mr. Poo that X have pre served; there lies one before mo, which states that “ insanity ensued and the next morning he died, a miserable raying maniac.” "As to time, tills Is not true. # He lived nearly a week, instead of dying .“next day” as one account has it, or “in a few hours',” ns another records it, dy-. lug on the 7th of the sumo mohtb —Mon-’ day. Besides it might convoy the idea that he. liud no lucid moments.. But ho ihad, and, lii onp of these; an Incident transpired, which,' while Us meiUlon may serve to extend-the already long as well as interesting record of the lost words of hoted men, it will be recognized aS any thing but characteristic of Mr. Poe, who was always haunted by a terrible though 'vague apprehension of death and the grave. When the hospital physician be came satisfied that the author of “Will iam Wilson” —a favorite tale of Mr. Poe —and of “ The Raven” had written his lost story and his last poem* he addressed him, concernedly and kindly; saying t “ Mr. Poe, it Is my painful dutv 'to in form you that you have, in my judgment, only a. very short time to live. If you have any friends whom you would like to see, name them, and your-wish shall be gratified ; I will summon them.” “Friends!” exclaimed the dying son of genius—“ Friends the word for a moment; os if it bad no longer a definite weaning; 11 ray best friend would bo ho who Would take a pistol and blow out those d—d wretched brains!" pressing Ids band to bis forehead as lie uttered tire awful imprecation. During the six daysof Mr. Toe’s survi val after ho was placed in the hospital, ho hud only a few intervals of rationali ty, one of which was availed of as just described. That his disease was mania I have never fora moment doubt- I now proceed to give tho true version/ ofthe place and manner of Mr. Poo’s buri al. Among the false statements I have met-with was one to the effect Hint bo had been “ buried in tho Potter's Field of his native city.” As one of only, three, or perhaps four, persons'—not counting tho undertaker 1 and the drivers of the hearse and a single carriage, .which 'made up tho entire funeral train of the author of “ Tho Raven"—who followed tho body to, the grave, I mil happy to he able to testify that tho truth, had enough as it is, does not sustain tills story. The bury ing place of Poe was an old one belong ing to the “ Westminister Presbyterian Church," which had ceased to be used much in 1849, because ofdts location in a populous portion of Baltimore—in Green HlJ'Oct. 'I'UcTo-woro In I*,- and when our little cortege, reached It, I naturally Consoled myself with the thought that his relatives, two of whom were present, and one of these the olUel nllng clergymen—had secured him at least a temporary resting place in one of those family tombs. A grave had been dug tuning the crumbling mementoes of mortality. Into this the plainly-colllned body was speedily lowered, ami then the earth was shoveled directly upon the coflln-lid. This was so unusual oven In the burials of the poor, that I could hot help noticing tho absence of not only the customary box, as.an inejosuro for the collin itself, but.of oven the. commonest boards to prevent the direct contact of the decomposing wet earth with it. I shall never forget the emotion of disap pointment, mingled with disgust and something akin to resentment, that thrilled through my whole buinur as I heard (he clods and stones resound from the collinrlid and break the more ordina rily solemn stillness of the scene, as it impressed me. It seemed as if heartless ness, too often found directing the funer al rites of-the poor and forsaken ones of the earth,s.had suddenly become personi fied,into a malign goddess, and that she had ordered, those ’awful!}' discordant sounds as best befitting her own unearth ly mood, - ■ ‘ At tho head and foot of the grave a piece of common-undressed pine board, as unlettered, as unsuited, was placed. y Only this and nothing more!" Nor has any more befitting head or Ibot-ploeo ever been substituted for the ones I. have described, although there bus been much talk about “ rescuing the remains of the author, of “The Haven’ - ’ from their obscurity, and “building a monument worthy of his genius” etc!— recently a “ Poe Monument Association” has been started in Baltimore, and some well-intended but ratherspasmodic efforts have been made, through lectures or con certs,--to raise the funds necessary to build the proposed memento, but I be lieve with very inconsiderable results. FAST FKESSKS AND FAST AIINU.S. There is a vast deal of nonsense pub lished now-a-days.. The press is literally teeming with that’ sort of stuff. The book-maker and the journalists are equ ally guilty of a gross abuse of the facility with which, hi his ago of types and steani-prosses, the crudest tyro in com position . may indefinitely.multiply trans cript of his thoughts and place them be fore countless readers. The habit of study aucl thinking has grown compara tively absolute, and an author’s life lias become ns common ns the commonest trade. There was a period when this was not'so—when men wrote and pub lished rather to improve mankind, than to win distinction or bread—when litera ture was devoted to the discovery and vindication of truth, in all its relations, and forms, anil when ideas and opinions, as well as the style in which they were uttered, were possessed of a certain meas ure of originality, substance and maturi ty. Then it was that twenty years were /spent in composing and finishing a poem scarcely exceeding a score of verses, and that proportionate amount of labor and reflection was consumed in the elabora tion of an essay on some branch of moral, political, or physical science. * Hence it is that the works of phi losophers and poets-aml statesmen who liveil centuries ago, contain so much more of the solid bullion of sense and reason, than the shallow and flippant ef-" fusions of our time—that they have stood the test of experience, of enlightened taste and understanding through so many successive generations —that instead of perishing like the trashy ephemera of modern letters, they have survived with a perennial vitality, been renewed in numberless editions, attained to a wider and surer popularity, and arc received to day, into every select library, as standard and classical productions. More books arc now published in a quarter of a*year, than were printed in Blmkspearo’a time in a quarter of u cen tury, For every man and woman who wrote for the press then, there are thou sands. writing at present. The conse -queuco is,.a wonderful decline in the quality of the material produced. What wo have gained is case, cheapness I, ami rapidity of publication, is more than counterbalanced by what we have lost in the intrinsic value of the intellectual pro duced supplied. The writer once waited upon the printer; the printer now waits Upon the writer, who, nevertheless, keeps him busy with all his improved printing presses worked by steam power. The engine for turning out pages of •manu script, in endless multiplication fires too fast for the press,and thoughts,on all sub jects arc given ‘to the hands in the com posing room before the author has had an opportunity to turn them . twice over in his mind. Opinions on the most abstruse or'’practically important subjects, are ex temporised, in the most dogmatical.man ner, from brains which are to hurried to reduce to any logical clearness the crude notions they venture to enunciate, or to choose, withany grammatical precision, the language in which they are express ed, This is peculiarly true in the case of the editor of a newspaper, ami though there are a few of this afflicted tribe who comprehend.what they discourse about to the million, and weigh with proper cau tion the force and meaning of the phrases they use, the gfeat majority dash ahead with an inconsiderate precipitation that is sadly indifferent to the soundness of the views delivered or the absurd conciets that are affirmed. NoLawyisu.—Tho•plaintiU* in a suit brought against the ciiy of New York had been injured by a full, caused by what is termeda corporation hole,” and during' the trial, Dr. Willard Parker being upon the stand in behalf of tho plaintiff, the associate counsel or the city cross-exam ed him, and elicited the remark that “the plaintiff was so injured that ho could lie only on one aide.” Tho answer was, no sooner given than the counsel says : “ I suppose, doctor, you . mean ho would make-a*very poor lawyer!” . The court did not maintain its gravity. A coUNTttY apothecary was observed by a friend to be in the habit of draining all medicine viula returned to. him by patients into one largo bottle which stood upon, his counter. Wondering what could be his object in accumulating this strange mixture, the friend one day in terrogated him on the point. “Surely,” he said, “yoU can have no use for a mess like that.” “My dear follow,” replied the apothecary, “ that is the mostscien tific medicine I've got in.my shop. Sim ple medicines are very well for simple complaints; but that’s the stuff for a pa tient with a complication of disorders.’, THE ISOUSE OF I(OTMSCSSXLI>. . Come with mo to the eastern part of the .city—the old town—where you will dia 'cover scarcely, a sign of modern nrchitcc lure. The streets are narrow, the houses lean toward each other from the opposite sides .of tho way, as if they were friends |about to fall into each other’s arms. It. ’is the Jews’quarter. Tho doorways are crowded with women and children—all bearing the unmistakable features which, the world over, characterize this historic people—rejected of. God, despised of men, persecuted as no other nation has over been, scattered, everywhere, yet retaining ’their nationality, endowed w‘ith a vitality which has no parallel in tho human race. Wo turn down tho Jndengasse, the Jews’ alley, froqi the chief thoroughfare of the modern town. In this street, one hundred and twenty-four years ago, lived a dealer In old clothes who had a red shield for a sign, which in Gorman reads Both & child. It was in 1748 that a child was borne to this Israelite. The name given to tho boy was Abselm Meyer, who also became a clothes dealer and a pawn broker, succeeding to the business of his father. By degrees ho extended his busi ness, lending money at high rates «>{ in wre.-v mirlup,- VliO iv,w„ tUv I managing hisaflairs with such skill that Prince William the Landgrave made him his banker. When Napoleon cameaeross the Rhino, in ISOB, this clothes dealer was directed to take care of (ho treasures of the Prince, amounting to twelve milium dollars, which he invested so judiciously that it brought large increase to Ihe owner, and especially to the manager. The banker died in leaving an es tate estimated at live million of dollars— not a very large sum in these davs—but he leftan injunction upon his live >nn.i, which was made binding-by-nn-oath-giv on by his sons around his death bed, which has had and still has a powerful influence upon tho world. Thu sons hound themselves by an oath to follow their father's business together, holding his property in partnership, extending the business, that the world might know of the red shield (Rothschild). The sons were true to their oath. Na than went to Manchester, England, as early, as 1707, but afterward moved to London. Absclm remained at Frank fort, James went to Paris, Solomon to Vi enna, and Charles to Naples, the . five -brothers thus occupying Ihe great centres. Nathan, in London, amassed money with groat "rapidity, and the same may he said of the others, the wars of Napoleon being favorable to the business of the house. — Nathan went to the Continent lo'witiicss the operations of Wellington in his last campaign against Napoleon, prepared to act with the utmost energy, let the result be as it might. He witnessed the battle of Waterloo, and when assured of Na poleon’s defeat, rode all night, with re lays of horses, to Ostond ; went across the channel in a fishing smack—for it was before the days of steam—reached Lon don in advance of all other messengers, and spread the rumor that Wellington and Biuchcr were defeated. The 20th of June in that memorable year was a dis mal day in London. The battle was fought on the 18th. Nathan Meyer, of the House of Bed Shield, by hard riding reached London at midnlghtdn tho2oth. On the morning of the 20th the news was over town that the cause of the allies was lost, that Napoleon had swept all before him. England had been thq leading spirit of the struggle against Napoleon.— The treasury of Croat Britain hud sup plied funds to nearly ail of the allied Powers. If their cause was lost what hope was there for the future? Bankers Hew from door to door in eager haste to sell theirstoeks. Funds of every descrip tion went down. Nathan Meyer was be sieged by men who had funds for sale, but he was not In the market, he too hud stocks for sale. What would they give? But meanwhile he* had scores of agents purchasing. Twenty-four hours later Wellington’s messenger arrived in Lon don; the truth was known. The nation gave vent to Its Joy ; up went the funds, pouring, it as.said, five miPion dollars in to the coders of this one branch of the house of the Bed Shield. . Though Frankfort is comparatively a small city—though it lias no imperial court—it is still a groat money cent;e, solely because that .there is the central house of the Bothschilds and other bank ers. The house of the Bod Shield Is the greatest banklng liouse In the world—the mightiest of all time. Its power is felt the world over—in the Tuileriesof Paris, in the Ministerial chamber at Berlin, In the imperial Palace at SI. Petersburg, in the Vatican at Borne, in the Bank of England, in Wall street, Statestreet, ami by every New England fireside. The house of the Bed Shield, by Ihe exercise of ils financial power, can make a dill'er cnee in the yearly account of every man who reads these words of mine. Though Absolm Moyer lias been dead half a cen tury —though several of his sons have gone down to the grave—the house is I he same. Thegrandchildrcn have the spirit of the children. The children of the brothers have intermarried, ami il ls one family animated by a common purpose, that the world shall only know one red shield. ' The -house, at an early stage of the American war, took hold of tho United States bonds, Germany had confidence in America. England strove for our ruin, but the people of the Rhine believed in theslarof American liberty. Kilty years of peace had been long enough to" bring wealth to this land, and with every stea , mer orders were sent acro.-s the Atlantic for invesimontof American securities. It is supposed that Germany holds at the present time about three hundred and fifty millions of United States bonds, and it is said that there have been no less than fifty million dollars, profit to the bankers of Frankfort on American secu rities since the year 18(in. Tho great banking houses here make little show. 'The transactions of the Rothschilds amount to millions a day, and yet tho operations are conducted as quiet ly as the business of a snail counting house. You can purchase any stock’lion*. Passing along tho street, i noticed bonds of the State of California, of several American States; bonds in Dutch, Rus sian, Turkish, Arabic, Spanish, Dalian, French—bonds of all lands—of .-dates, cities, towns and companies. The ie portsof tho Frank fort Exchange art*;«ink ed at by European bankers with a-> much interest as that of London oi Paris. The power of the Red Shield was felt by Prussia last summer.. The Prussian Government demanded an indemnity of great amount, twenty-five ini Hum dollars, I believe, from theoity of Frankfort. Tho head of tno house of the Red Shield in formed Count Uismark that if the at tempt was made to enforce the levy lie would break every hank in Rerih. ; that he had the power to do it, and that he should exercise the power. , Prussia hud won a victory at Ivonnigrala; she could sweep away all'armed opposition, but here, in the person of one man, she had met an adversary who had the power to humble her, am! she declined the contest. A much lower sum Whs agreed upon, which was paid by the city. For fifteen centuries the'Jews have been cursed by the Pope, and .persecuted by the Roman Church. There is no more revolting chapter of horrors In his tory than that of the treatment of the Jews at tho bands of the PontitJs. In all lands where the Roman religion is domi nant, the children of Tsreal have been treated with barbaric rigor—allowed few privileges, denied all rights, looked upon us a people accursed of God. and set apart by divineordination to be trampled upon by the Church. In Home, at the present day, the Jews are confined to the Ghetto; they are not allowed to set up a shop in other parts of the city without a permit; they can engage only in certain trades; they are compelled to pay « normous taxes into the Papal treasury ; they are subject to a stringent code of laws established by the Pope, for their especial benefit: they .are imprisoned and lined for the most tri vial offenses. They cannot own any real estate in the city;* cannot build, tear VOL. 54.—N0. 12. down or remodel any dwelling or change their place of business without Papal per mission. They aro in abject slavery, with no rights whatever, and entitled to no privileges, and receive none, except upon the gracious condescension of the Pope. In former times they were un mercifully whipped and compelled to listen once a week to the Christian doc trine of the priests.. But time is bring ing changes. The Pope is in want of money and the house of the red shield lias the money to lend on good security. The house is always ready to accomodate Governments. Italy wants money, so she sells her .fine system of Railroads to the Rothschilds. The Pope wants mon ey, so ho sends his Nuncio to the wealthy honse of the despised race, offers them security on the property of the Church, the Oampagna, and receives ten million dollars to maintain his army and Imperi al Slate. That was in 1805. A year passes, and the Pontitlciul expenditures are live millions more than the income, and the deficit is made up by the Rothchild's, who take a second rate of interest. An other year is passed, and there is fC third annual vacaum in the Papal treasury, of six millions, which will quite likely be {tiled by the same house. The Arm cun do il.mlilv.'Oa niMvl.-VATO ae juu,' iwtftAuvo «r.n pay their yearly subscription. When will I he Pope redeem his loan at the rate he is goinyf? stover? the day is not far distant when these repre sentatives of a persecuted race will have all Hie available property of the Church in their possession. . FRENCH WIVES. 'V I *. TVomou Marry and lloiv They Art TV lion Marrlcil. What wretched wives French women make i.-They certainly are less Hlted lor matrimony than any* woman the sun shines on. Fond of excitement, devoted to pleasure, loving dress, delighting in company, home and its duties are con finement in Jail and Irksome drudgery to them. The best of them wear the breech es, haggle—as only women can haggle— about centimes and sous, reduce their husbands to hardship, drive off their friends, reduce his expenditures, dimin ish his pjeasures, place money over and above everything else, make their will, their wishes, their whims, their caprices, the law of the house hold, and think they ought to be adored us angels because they keep buttons and shins from parting company. These are, the jewels of married women in France. But oven these think light ly of fidelity to marriage vows. In this nation of social life, where society is ev erything and all elseßs nothing, nobody thinks of refusing anything which may add to the entertainment of company,— As husbands are zeroes in the best houses, any complaint they may make of invas ion of their rights is commonly disregar ded, or if insisted upon, is answered by suit for divorce. These “animals’* have no rights except so fur as union of buttons and shirts is concerned. There are no women in the world more agreeable to strangers in a drawing room than French women. Falsehood and truth are things indifferent to them ; consequently, such a thing as principle never checks their desire to be agreeable. Their natural maliciousness and their na tural sprightliness, whoso quickness and sharpness have been increased by the continual attrition of company, make their conversation entertaining. Their satisfaction in finding themselves in what they may not unjustly consider their proper sphere, dimples their cheeks with smiles and kindles light in their eyes. Their vanity, which continually goads them to struggle for applause, stim ulates them to exert all their powers of pleasing. They consequently are the most agreeable drawing-room compan ions to strangers in the world. It is almost impossible to avoid failing in love with them. Fancy pursues them beyond the drawing-room, and uses her warmest colors to draw pictures of the happiness of the men who 1 constantly possess such bright, vivacious, amiable and fashionable creatures. Fancy—that willi-o’-the-wisp of life —deceives us here, as is her wont, and, wore wo to follow her glittering, airy flame, would surely lead us into a most painful morass. The rocket, which lies hi the artificer’s laboratory, black, sullen, unattractive, in Its vulgar pasteboard case resting on an unadorned, unpolished, rough stick, does not more differ from the fiery bolt which makes mobs stare, ns it seems to scale-the highest heavens, than the French cynosure of the drawing rooms differs from tho wife in her husband's or her family’s company. Tho restraints of domestic life oppress them to an, inconceivable degree. The ideal happiness of all of them is to enjoy a motherless widow’s freedom—to have no account to give of their time or their purse, or of their body —to have no con science save only to keep unknown deeds I unreproved by public opinion. Too cold to be licentious, they are never Immoral except to gratify an ngreoablecompanion ; and, were Jove to listen to their praj’c'r,"' men’s desires would be of the same tem perature all thro’ life as they are at three score and ten. It is neither wonderful men and wo men marry here, .not wonderful they separate. Marriages are contracted sole ly for money or for social position, or for both. Women marry for these ad van-" tnges and to be free. A women is a ward, an Infant, until she marries. *She must not be seen, fit plays, where the dialogue Is as thinly .ami sparely draped as the leading actress, wlio keep its shuttlecock of conversation flying. JShe must not go on die street, or into public gardens alone. She must not dip licr nose into books which are only lit for tho shelves of married Coventry.— She lias the worst seat at the table, church, theatre, ami in the carriage. • She must bo silent, modest and respectful. All changes when she marries, rihe was a girl—she is a women. She may go where she pleases, when she pleases. The slave is tyrant in turn ; the husband {so free while unmarried) wears tho dis carded manacles; the ball.and chain are for his ankles. She reads what she pleases, hears and plays, sees any sight. Her father may have hud no matter what title, she was nobody. Her husband’s title becomes feminine, and is her prop erty ns much as it is his. The opera box, the carriage, the town and the country. . house are hers. She engages and dis misses the servants. The table Is laid to suit her taste. She has nit the keys. Therefore, women marry. If matrimony does not suit them, des pite husband, father and mother, she sues a divorce. Her husband is obliged to give her an income In keeping with their rank in society. She is as free ns air. Nut the Hight Noise.—At IMaear villc, a Methodist minister went to a tin shop to buy a blowing horn. Selecting one, he asked the clerk whether it would make a loud noise I “Oh, yes,” said the clerk: “a h—l of a noise.” “Well,” replied the minister, “as I want it to blow at camp meeting, I don’t think that kind of a noise will suit,” and walked otf. I’l'NOii reports tho speech of an Irish M. I’., who thought Ireland was over taxed. “ Take a tenth of our income, sir? Ay, hat they do; andthey’dtakoatwentieth f they dared.’’ NoSu.knck.—During a recent slander case there .was a large number of 1 ladles present, who caused a gentle murmuring' all the while. The usher called out rer peatcdly. “Silence!” when the judge mildly said: “Mr. Usher, don’t you know better than to call silence when la dies are in court?” “ Bile,” said one apprentice to anoth er, “ my boss is a better man to work for than your old man. My boss ain’t always round his shop interfering with his own business.” Kafco for m&oertishtg An VEOTISEMSKTS wiu to Inserted nt Ten com. per line for tbotlrat Insertion, and Uvo cent* tcrlvleof 1 '„ M , cb Bubseiiucat insertion. Quio Sd au'r and yoarly advertisements in AdvoruLm BC<lnollon on the above rates ■ w abonld b 0 accompanied’by the CA “ ’otWbr “fn 1 wltbout any length of lime sped.. °d for Publication, they wm bo continued until orav' ,red and charged accordingly. JOB PRINTING. Cauiw,CmcDLAns/nnacverv nth. cr description ol „-on nnd Gaud Printing e!xecn. ted In Iho neatest 8tJ v l°* at low prices. ODDS AND ENDS. Spiritualmanifestations- Pimples. The Bight op~Otjter*;Day«—r«jjow caudles. Spelling badly is defined as A. B, 0 D-bility. ’ The largest ants in the world arc call ed elejih-anis. Drawing Lessons—Three nights with a poor man's plaster. The Latest Thing on a Race-Course —A running stake. The Blue, blue sea—The present oc upnnt of the Vatican. . Should Old Acquaintance de For got?—Our Indian friends. What should a man do when his boots leak ? Take to his pumps, of course. Did tho-man who fell asleep hurt him self .more than if he had fallen when awake ? The Pleasure op Hope—Buying slock at a low figure and waiting for It to rise. Shrewd inquiries are being made whether the cup of sorrow has a. qq.ih>/>i' uiu any one tell us? Wo never aaw-sh\ There is many a man whose ton-aio might govern multitudes, if lie could oiilv govern his tongue. Queer Good-bye.—One of our'exclmn ges says a man “ blew out ids brains after bidding his wife good-bye with a shot gun. n wuv la tho mother of .a lot of errwa children like a sailor? Because she has to endure a great many sr/uafts.. Wwpv 'TrAwnnAD jtv Title clear. — 1 ho cry of those who are foolish enough to buy land of Western speculators. “Wood is tho thing after all,” as tho man with a pine leg, said when tho mad dog bit it. Tub Wisconsin farmers are paying groat attention this year to the cultivation of hops." They are doing the same tiling at Saratoga. A Oensus-taker found a woman who gave her own ago ns twenty-eight years, and. that of the-eldest son ns twentv thrcel Voltaire says a physician Is a man who mixes drugs of which he knows lit tle, to pour Into a body of Which he knows less, to cure a disease of which he knows nothing. ‘.‘l have resolved to husband my ex penses,” said Mrs. Trapper, after she hud made up her mind to marry ofl* her f-mr daughters. We know a fond mother who is so ex ercised between love and duty that she gives her boy chloroform before spanking him. , The “ local” of the Davenport (Iowa) Gazette explains tho secret of Schuyler Colfax’s success as a lecturer. He says ho spoke ‘‘viva voce for over two hours*.” , Wiiatls the difference between tho preserves of a certain fruit and a mass meeting of freedmen ? Hone: each is a blackjam. . A tipsy fellow leaning against the fence, was asked where he expected to go when he died. “If I dou’tget alongany better than now,” said ho, “ I shan’t go nowhere.” A Country Lad on his first visit to Boston, seeing some men tearing up tho street pavement for repairs, exclaimed “By George I I should think ’twas time they were picking some of the stones out of the road 1” The following notice recently appear ed on the west end of a country, meeting house: “Anybody sticking bills against the church will bo prosecuted according 10 law or any other nuisance.” At tho Court of Sessions, an onstlnato blacksmith complained that whenever lie went into a jury-box ho was associated with eleven of the most obstinate fellows in creation, for they could never agree with him. It is stated that Rosa Celeste, a Cali fornia tight-ropo equipoisist, has come east with the intention of traversing Ni agra Falls on a rope, ala Blondin. If sho succeeds, she will be a made maid; i f fal ling, a maid'of the missed. The story of a lazy schoolboy, who spelled Andrew Jackson, Adru Jaxn, ha-i been overshadowed bya youth oui West, who wished to mark a half dozen new shirts. He marked the first John Jones, and the rest “ A bashful young man escorted un equally bashful young lady. As they ap proached the dwelling of tho damsel, aim said cntrcatlngly, “ Jehiel, don’t tell any body you bcaued mo homo.” “Sary,” said he, emphatically; “ don’t you mint' I’m as much ashamed of it as you are.” It used to be said of the pre-eminently beautiful Misses Gunning, -who made such a prodigious.sensation in the fash ionable world, that they were toasted In every assembly of men, and roasted in every assembly of women. Jones complained of a had smell about the postofhee, and asked Brown what it could bo. Brown didn’t know but sug gested that it might bo caused by the “ dead letters.” W E see that one of our exchanges brings up, among other things, against u' rival, that he “ drinks hard.” How, we can bring hosts of evidence to prove that there is nothing in the world that ho does easier. “ How came such a greasy mess in the oven ?” said a fidgety spinster to her maid of all work. *• Why,” replied the girl,” the candles fell into the water, mid I put them into the oven to dry,” An old-ludy in New Jersey having read an account of the bursting-of u grindstone inamauufucturingestablishment, became terribly alarmed lest a grindstone’which was standing.in her cellar should buist and blow tho bouse up. Mrs. Stowe tellsastoryof an old min later, who had been nimble to keep some thievish boys out of his peach orchard, till he managed to reach their consciences by a story in the pulpit: Old Father Morris sometimes used his illustrative talent to very good purpose la the way of rebuke. He hud on Ids farm a fine orchard of peaches, from which some of the ten-or-twelvo-year-old gentle men helped themselves more Ibierally than even the old man’s kindness thought, expedient. Accordingly, he took occa sion to introduce into his sermon one Sunday, in his little parish, an account of a journey he took and how he saw a very line orchard of peaches which made his month water to look at them. “ So,” says he, “I came to tho fence and looked all around, for I would not have touched one of them without leave for all the world. At last I espied a man, and says I: ‘Mister, won’t you give me sumo of your peaches ?’ So tho man came and gave mo nigh about a hatful. And while I stood there eating, I said, ‘Mis ter, how do you manage to keep your peaches?’ ” “ Keep them?” said he, aud stared at me. “ What do you mean ?” “Yes,-sir,” said I. “Don’t the boys steal them?” “ Boys steal them !” said be. “Noin leed!” “Why sir,” said I, “I have a whole lot full of peaches, aud I cannot got half of them [here the old man’s voice became" tremulous] because the boys in my par-. ish steal them so.” “ Why,” said he, “don’t their parents teach them not to steal.” “ And I grew all over in a cold sweat, and told him I was afraid they didn’t.” “ Why, how you talk!” says the man. “ Do tell me where you live?” “ Then,” said leather Morns, the tears running down; “I was obliged td: tell him I lived in the town of G.” After this, Father Morris kept his peach es.
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