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.”
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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.