©ljc American llolnntecv. tMMJMSIIED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING BRATTON Ac KEJTJTJiiDY. OFFICE—SOUTH MARKET B Dec. 1.1805. W KENNEDY Attorney at Law, 4 Carlisle, Penna. Ofllco same ns that ol i ho “American volunteer,” South side of the Pub lic Square. , Doc. 1. 1805. JOHN LEE, Attorney at Law, North Hanover Street, Carlisle, Pa., I* ob. 15,1800— ly. TAMES A. DUNBAR, Attorney at pf Law, Carlisle, Penna. Ofllco a few doors West of Hannon’s Hotel. Dec. 1.1805. DR. J. R. BIXLER offers his profes sional services to the citizens of Carlisle and vicinity. . >t Ofllco on Main street, opposite the Jail, in the room lately occupied by L. Todd, Esq. April 11, 1807—ly fQcaWavc, faints, &c. ttardware, Iron, nails, &c. , ■** AT lIENRT B-A XTON’S OLD AND CHEAP HARDWARE STORE EAST 2IAIJS 8 TREET, NEXT DOOR TO THE GORMAN HOUSE. I have Just returned from the East with the largest and best selection of HARDWARE over ufl'orcd Cumberland, and am able to soil the following articles a little lower thup else where in the county. All orders attended to per sonally and with our usual promptness. Goods delivered to all parts of the town free of charge. Hammered, Rolled and English Refined, Iron, Horse-Shoe Iron. Russia Sheet Iron, Burden’s Horse and Mule Shoes, Norway Nall Rods, San derson's Cast-Stool English and American Blister Steel, Sleigh Solo Steel, Spring Steel, Carriage Springs. Carriage Axles, Ac. The largest assort ment or CARRIAGE & WAGON FIXTURES yet offered, such as SPOKES, HUBS, FELLOES. BOWS PLAIN and FINISHED SHAFTS SI. EIOHR UNNEItS, Ac. , &c. 5,00 BABEIiLS Kosoadalo, Scotland and Hancock Cement, all warranted fresh. Douglas’ and Cowing’s IRON AND CHAIN PUMPS. POWDER.—A full stock of Dupont’s Rook, Rifle and Duck Powder, Safety Fuse, Picks, Mat tucks, Drills Crow-bars, Sledges, Ac. 1.000 KEGS NAILS, which we will sell low. Country merchants sup plied at manufacturers prices. I’AlNTrf.—2o Tons of the following brands of While Lead ami Zinc: WhcthcriU's French Zinc, I.ibcr/y, Buck, American do., Culorcd do., tinoiv White do., Crystal, jlTchukwj, Florence do. COLORS of every description, Dry ami in Oil n cans and lubgs, aiso, Gold Leaf, -French and Ucrmiin Deaf Bronze v.- OILS AND VABNISHES. Unseed Oil, Tui’pontino, ' Sperm do., Coach Varnish do., Fish do., Furniture do., Lard do., White Demur do., Lubric do., Japan do.. Neats Foot do., Iron & Leather do Also, Putty, Litharge, Whiling Glue, Shellac Itosin, Chalk, Alumn, Copperas, Borax, Madder, l.ogwood, «f, 15, and 20 cts., Ex it™ heavy -1-1 Ticking only 25 cents. WHITE,' RED, YELLOW and GRAY FLANNELS, from the late forced sales at greatly reduced prices, BLANKETS! BLANKETS! GOOD BROWN BLANKETS at 82.00 per pair. WHITE ALL WOOL BLANKETS SLOO per pair The largest 1% Blankets all wool, only 51.50 per pair. All the finer grades very cheap. SHAWLS REDUCED /.V PRICES! Wo have a splendid Square Shawl ladles’ size,, only 83.00, Good double Shawls 85.00 ami 80.00 sold six weeks ago at 88.00. A full assortment DRESS GOODS, AT FIiTCES TSIA T DEFY COMPETITION. All tho best grades of French Merino's at 87cts, $l.OO and 81.20. Beautiful Reps vary cheap. ELEGANT ALPACAS in Blacks, Browns, Bis. mark, Wine, Green, Blue, only 50 cts. All wool plaids reduced to 50 eta. PURS!- FURS! AJargo assortment very cheap. By special ar range men t with one ol tho largest Fur Houses In this country I ccm and w ill sell Furs lower than any store in Carlisle. FRENCH GXjOA KINGS in fancy styles very low Tho best Black Beaver all wool, very fine, only 81.50. A full stock SATINETS, CLOTHS & CASSIMERES, Just received at astonishingly low prices. Tim CRLERRATICD AMERICAN* STAR CORSET, only $l,OO. I am the exclusive agent of the above for Car lisle. . “ Hoop .Skirts, Gloves, Hosiery, Handkerchief, Lace Collars, Notts, in fact everything connected with a first class Dry Goods establishment, at prices that cannot fall to please. 1 mean what I say when 1 assert* that there is no store in this county that can offer goods at lower prices or offer a better stock. Remember tho fact that all the above goods have been pur chased within tho last week at tho lato forced sales—which onablo mo to offer these induce ments to purchasers. L. T. GREENFIELD, No. 4 East Main Bfcrsoi. P, S.—FLOOR OIL CLOTHS on hand very cheap. L, T. G. Deo. 12,1867. [Special Correspondence of the Press. new Mexico! El More, New Nexico. i November 2, 18U7, j' The traveller through-tills region is struck'with the fact that along the rivers where nn Eastern man would expect timber, it is scarce, while on the elevated mesas and up.the mountain sides tho fi nest pines existin abundance,apparently improving by their elevation. This is also a peculiarity of the gnimma grass, which makes the very best grazing. But little can bo found along tho streams, yet on the apparently aird mesas, it grows luxu riantly, and all the hay cut in Now Mexi co is procured in such places; conse quently, in speaking of the distances be tween watering places in this territory or Arizona, it must not bo supposed that the intervening lands are barren and use less. ACJUA EUIA, from which I dated my last letter, is re ally a charming place, and our party ap preciated its advantages the more from having been drenched by a storm of rain and snow as wo started from Fort Win gate for Prescott. Af/ua Frkc } or “Cold Water,” is twenty-two miles west of Wingato, on tho road to the Indian town of/fan/. -It is a largo spring of crystal water, bursting from the side of a volca nic ridge, just before beginning the most rapid ascent of the Sierra Madro on this parallel. Thegummifcis Tour hundred and eighty feet above tho spring, and Colonel Greenwood feels assured that it can be overcome by a grade of eighty feet to the mile. Tho hills that rise around tho spring are covered to their tops with nine forests, and the grazing is very good. The spring flows down tho valley .for about a half .mile, then gradually loses itself by percolating through its gravelly elevated bed. A beautiful picture was formed by our camp-fire on the hill. The herd grazing under tho trees, and the western back ground of black rock, from which burst tho cool waters of Agu Frai. This has been a resting-place for the Seaceful descendant of the Aztecs, for tho favajo on the war path, for tho Spanish explorers three centuries ago, and now a littlo band of Saxons rested by the wa ter, the pioneers of. a mighty enterprise destined to bring to this land what tho Spanish adventurer sought in it, viz: wealth. It was with a feeling of regret that I saw General Palmer and Colonel Greenwood, with tho rest of our littlo party and the three wagons moving up tfjo JUili. Z look a ino6 UrluK of ibc rrli ter shook Tauglebead’a bridle and bade good-bye to Agua Fria— l hope not for ever. THE SIERRA MADRE, or Mother Mountain, in Colorado, is a grand, snow-peaked, cloud-capped raugo. can conceive of nothing more sub lime than the place In the range whore the Rio Grand pours into the Sfc. Louis park. Here it Is very different. Gentle vallics covered with forests, head into the summit. The steep rocks give place to sweeping meadows, and tho snowy peaks to find groves, through which glimpses can becaught of the long valliea, whose waters flow into tho Pacific Oceau. It may bo owing tp the season, but! do not think the sunsets hero compare with those of the plains, near Wallace or tho mountains of Colorado. EL MORO. Descending tho western slope of tho Sierra Madre, one could almost judge of the elevation by tho size of tho timber. — It gradually grew smaller, and ten miles west of the smmit the largo trees suited for lumber were supplanted by those of smaller growth, admirably adapted for cross-tie purposes. * Twelve miles from the summit, on tbo day following our crossing it, wo en tered one of the rallies that heads in tho mountain. The mesa formation, so con spicuous east of tho mountain, we found hereon a much grander scale. I was ri ding with Mr. Hiuchman to tho roar of the main party about two miles, when wo passed a square mesa, covered with cedars, and having at its corners huge buttresses of variegated sandstone.— While wondering at tho grandeur of tbo pillars above us, our road turned tho west corner of the mesa and opened with a wide valley. Apparently, one mile from whore wo entered the valley, and direct ly across it, we saw what appeared at that distance to bo the walls of a Moor ish castle. So tho Spaniards thought three centuries ago, and called it li El Mayo," “ The H00r. ,, Wo put spurs to our horses, but found tho distance treble what we supposed it to be on starting. As ' we neared the castle it did not appear so large; wc could see what looked like an arched gateway, and above it the long narrow barred windows. It was only when wo got near enough to see the horses gazing below the white walls and our friends who had gone in advance rambling about, that wc could- form a proper estimate of the size of this truly wonderful rock. lam informed that an accurate and graphic description of “El Moro” can bo found in the report of Lieut. J. H. Simpson, who explored this country in 1849. He calls tho place “ In scription Rock,” and his discription-of It is beautifully illustrated. As 1 have not been fortunate enough to see the report referred to, I feel that even my imper fect pen picture of u EI Moro ” cannot fail to interest the general reader. Tho white sandstone rock projects from tho main mesa about one thousand feet into the valley. The front from-tho eastern approach is a circular tower shaped corner of the rock, which lifts iU head two hundred feet above the base.— This tower is capedlike a Gothic column. It is perpendicular, and smooth as pol ished marble. Tho west side is perfectly straight, and of some perpendicular height os the front tower. The eastern side is in tho form of a semi-circle, with an arc of some twelve hundred feet. Tho altitude of tho rock lessons as it nears The mesa, owing to tho fact that the ground rises by a gentlo sweep in that direction.— About midway in the semi-circle referred to, there is an alcove or recess, about for ty feet in diameter with smooth polished whitewalls. In it there are two trees growing, and their green tops are far below tbo rocks that shadow the well at their roots. Along the eastern side there arc large perpendicular masses of the white sandstone that look as if the hand of a child could destroy-thelr equilibrium, and hearl their heads to tho plain below. Tho summit of El Moro is reached by a tortuous and difficult path near the mesa, but once on top the traveller is repaid for all his trouble. Away to the blue Sierra Madre he can gaze to tho east. To tho west tho mountains around the aucieut city of Zuni loom up, while near him ho can see the towering mesas and long sweeping valleys stretching up to the mountains, or inclining towards tho wa ters of the Pacific. But-it is not in the distant landscape that the explorer is in terested. Advancing to the valley front of El Moro t he secs in tho centre of the castle a court surrounded by high walls, those on which ho stands. The court is filled with trees that raise their heads to wards his feet, and whoso dark shadows cast an air of gloom on the shattered pil lars below. From tho centre of the court a hugo white pillar rises to tho height of eighty feet. While at its base is a frag ment that once made its summit level with the ramparto -of tho.-oaatlo. - ; -Froiii tho contemplation of th|s-tbo attention is turned to other ruins than those of El Moro proper. What loolied like battle ments for tho valley, here turn out to bo tho ruins of an Indian city. Stone walls, well built, crumbling to dust.. Ancient pottery elegantly moulded; scattered about in fragments; Jasper and obsidian, used for arrows or ornament, glistening among the debris, are all that are to tell of the warlike and cultured people whoso watch-fires, centuries ago, were kept burning from the summit of El Moro. No tradition speaks of them, and sur mise guesses that this was one of the sev en cities in the kingdom of Serola , spo ken of by the early Spanish explorers, but the work itself bears evidence against euoh supposition, which I shall mention CARLISLE, PA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 9. IBGB, hereafter. Around thocaatlc hundreds of crows swarmed, suggestively tapic. They perched upon tho rooks near by, flying pnstuttered their unerthly cries, that ech oed along the walls, and completed ihc picture of ruin, and the delusion that wo stood on tho works of man’s hands. On tho plain below El Moro, and about three hundred yards from it we found the bleached bones of horses and men- Two of the skulls arc now in my posses sion, remnants of some Indian braves, who fell in fratricidal war. • THE INSCRIPTIONS f on the walls of El Moro are filled tilth interest. Indian hieroglyphics, Spuiish names and dates of centuries ago, and deeply-cut names of American pasiers, carved since the Mexican war. The/In dian hieroglyphics uro very curious.) At one point a buffalo is seen running at full gallop, with lowered horns, and belliud him aretwo hands, with arrows drawjn at rightangles with the fingers. Below these there is a representation of the moon, with the same full faced appearance and delineation* given to it by our alnulnac makers. At another point two lizards are caivcd, and below them ahugesnako “drags Us slow length along.” Feet turned in different directions, bows,- and queer Chiiiesc-iookiug ‘ characters are carved' at different points, and. compar ing the looks of the work wilii that of tho early Spaniards, it must be at least three times as old, and reasonably mus he of a subsequent date to thccvacuatior of tho town on the top of tho rocks. SPANISH INSCRIPTIONS. It is strange that tho old Spanish an nals, so for as known, make no mention of tho first Spanish explorer of this ro-j gion. In a remarkably • well-preserved, state, tho following inscription, in quaint characters, can be road on the eastern side fo tho rock, and but a few feet from tho ground: POYAQVIPAZ EL ALFEXES DN JOSEPH DK PAYBA BASCONZELIS, EL ANO QUEL XUYO EL OAVILDO DEL REYNO ASO COSTA, A 18 DB PESO, DB 1520 ANOS. This being freely translated roads: “Don Joseph de Payba Bascouzolis, a post cornet, by permission of the King and at his own expense, made this cam paign February 18, in tho your 1520.” — Ninety-four year* prior to the landing of the Pilgrims, and but thirty-four years after tho shores of St. Salvador greeted tho oyes of Columbus, Captain Basconzo lis with his hardy followers was penetra ting tho heart of tho continent, fired no Jwubfr b/ tUtr tlivagnt that au Jill Dorado would repay them for thoir toil and dan gers. Another inscription reads: • PEDRO ROMO, 1580, lin'd a little beyond it is the name, EX PROBAL PEREZ, 1072. There are many other Spanish inserp tions but I have not the space to describe them. Amongst the American names m f o the following : LT. J. 31. SIMPTON, U. S. A. and R. H. KERN, ARTIST, SEPT. 17 AND 18, 1819. I look in vain for the names of Whippet and Beale. Some person has carved the date of Gen. Whippet’s depth, with the battle he fell In. I was pleased to find the inscription: P. F. LAWS, PIIILA., 1859. General Palmer added to the list of in scriptions the following, which Mr. Hinchman carved in a very beautiful manner: RECONNOISSANCE FROM THE ENGINEER CORPS, UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY, E, D., ENGAGED IN A PRELIMINARY SURVEY FOR A RAILROAD ROUTE FROM KANSAS TO SAN FRANCISCO. ARC. The Constable and Peddleu.—A certain constable a short time since es fried a tin peddler pursuing l his trade, and iko a pickerel afteraminnow, ho rushed at him and Inquired : “ Have you a license to sell ?”. “No,' 1 coolly replied the itinerant ven der of pots and pans, “ I haven't.” “ Well, sir, I’ll attend to your case,” snya tho Dogberry. 41 All right,” says the pcddlor, “ do.” Tho eager oillcial rushes oft’ to tho near est trial justice and obtains a warrant, and armed and equipped with the awful document, started on a chase-after tho of-'- fendingitinorant. Some time, wo believe the next day, .after a long chase, tho rep resentative Yankee was found, and hus tled before tho justice, who read to him the warrant, and as, a matter of form, of course, asked him whether lie wan guilty or not guilty, “ Not guilty,” nays the unabashed ped dler. Tho justice and constable opened wide their eyes to such contumacy. Tney had not boon in the habit of seeing siu-h*. “Not guilty,” quoth the former, “don’t you peddle goods around here?’' “ Yes,” replied the alleged culprit. “Well, have you a license?” swUed Uhadamanthus, in 4 sarcastic’ tones. 44 Oh, yes,” said the traveling agent. “ Why,” says the justice—quite anoth er expression coming over his counte nance — 44 didn’t you, toll this gentleman that you had no license ?” “No, sir.” . • f‘Yes, you did,” shouted Tipstaff. 14 No, X didn’t,” quietly replies the ped dler. 44 1 say you did,” vociferated the con stable. 44 1 swear I didn't,” still persists tho peddler. 41 Well, what did you tell me, then?” 44 You asked mo if I had a license to sell, and I told you 1 hadn’t; and I have not a license to sell,” continues tho ped dler, in au injured tone, 44 for I want it to peddle with.” Death.—We have never read anything more beautiful than‘the following from the pen of George D. Prentice : 44 There is but a breath of air and a beat pf the heart betwixt this world and tho next. And in brief interval of painful and awful suspense, while we feel that death is pres ent with us. that we are powerless, and be njl powerful, and tho last faint pulsation here is but tho prelude ofendlcas Jifeherc aftcr, wo feel, in tho midst of the stunning calamity about to befall us, that the earth has no compensating good to mitigate the severity of our loss. But there is no grief without some beneflcient provision io soften its intonseness. When the good andthe lovely die, tho memory of their good deeds, like the moonbeams on the stormy sea, lights up our darkened hearts and lends to the surrounding gloom a beauty so sad, so swoot, that wo would not if wo could dispel tho darkness that en virons it.” The Trundle Bed.— The balmiest sleep we ever experienced was when wo were nestling in tholfttloold trundle bed with a curly-headed (white) brother, just turned out of tho parent.neat to make room for a hew customer. But the trun dle bed dreams were soon at an end, fo» - when tho next customer came, we were .crowded out of the trundle bed to make room for the next that was turned out of the parent ' nest, and so they kept alter nating for years,; until we were fairly turned out into the world. O! where are the little heads that we have kissed a thousand times o’er us they, nestled in the old trundle bed ? Some of them have grown old and grey, and oth ers are resting on their everlasting pillow in widely separated lands. We are al ways sad when we think of the old trun dle bed. • A little girl seeking celestial infor mation asked her mother: “ Have angels wings Tho unsuspecting mamma, full of memories of pictures and traditions, answered: “Certainly they nave.”— Straightway, Young Inquisitiveness sprung her trap: “ Then what did they want a ladder for to get down to Jacob?” Mamma’s answer is not recorded, but the ch ances are shortly after, discovery was made of the fact that Young Inquisitive’s bod-time was at hand. CAKRIER’S AI>I>2IESS, A solemn swell * The midnight bell Rang out to drowsy people; Tho Mine of Time Her song sublime Was chanting in the steeple Wrapt in a shroud Of storm and cloud, In royal stale was lying The dead old ye.ir,— While round his,bier Tho.orphan hours were crying. Around hh brow A wreath ofsnow, With wizard frost-work glowing; His looks so white, At dead of night ■ Were in the storm-winds blowing. Amidst the gloom, 11 is cheerless tomb fs hung with withered garlands; His deathless sprite Hath wing’d Ua flight Up to the distant filar-lands. Sweet harps prolong The seraph song Which hailed tho sacred manger; Amid tiio spheres The spirit-years Receive tho weary .stranger. A choral train .Swept o’er tho main, With ghosts of dead hopes haunted ; Fitful and low, Through falling snow, A requiem they chanted: Old Year, farewell! We knew Lhco well Thy loveliest flowers are faded, Forgive the tear On beauty’s bier; Forgot the brows you’ve shaded, Many a smile Did you beguile To lips of blooming maiden ; And like a thief You stole the grief ‘ From souls with sorrow laden Farewell! Old Year, So lone and drear ; And leave us no sad token Of hopes you’ve crushed, Tho voices hushed, Tho many hearts you’ve broken. Farewell! Farewell! Slow toll the bell O’er all the sad and tearful. Farewell! Farewell! With one grand swell, Ring in the btight and cheerful! December dead, I quickly sped And mounted my Peg-a-sus; But my old steed, From lack of feed Was itubborn as an ass is. With this old jade, So stiff and staid, I started for Parnassus ; There to Poetic lire Amid the mountain passes. At break of day— Still on our way— While all the bells wore ringing; Around the sky, With minstrelsy, The morning stars were singing: “ The morning Xb dawning! ’Tia New Year to-day! How lightly And sprightly Time wings on his way ! “ Hail, morning! Thy dawning With joy we behold; Thy season With reason Hath pleasures unfold. “ Beguiling Witli smiling All thoughts of tho dead, We’ll moot him, And greet him Who reigns king instead.” Since the Old Year, With passing tear, Hath fled from earth forever; My limping jade In Phocis’ shade I think I’ll safely tether. 1 [ore I’ll dismount, At Phrebus’ fount, “ i.! t.)k out. there! Whoa, Nancy! No more we’ll stray !-Tom out tho way Of our own homely fancy- 1 ' Tho “ Rads” arc* boat, Their ranks retreat, And down are all their banners; May the defeat With which they, meet Soon teach them better manuoi. In sod surprise They rub their oyos They soon will learn the fact is They caa’t succeed With such a creed As .Sambo and tho taxes. Old Thad will find Poor hope behind His sweeping confiscation ; The people say ■ That Andrew .1. Can safely rule the nation Their next defeat Leaves one retreat, At thoughts of which they shiver ; It will be found In regions round The sources of .Salt River. Well let them cry And sob and sigh, Rewailing their punt folly, We'll turn to those, Their smiling foes. Whom victory makes jolly Oh, more than dress Is our bright cross Of Democratic valor! •When “leaguers” gaze On its pure rays, They blanch with deathly palor Land of the free ! A health to thee, Through ah thy broad dominion*! Let Freedom’s sword Drive out the Ifordo Of Satraps and their minions. On nil thy shores Old ocean pours His Hood of lambent splendor And at thy gates Proud China wails, Her treasures to surrender. Thy valleys spread From fountain head By far meandering river; Thy mountain chains Are golden veins Coursed through a plain of silver Now Patrons dear, On this How Year You’ll scarcely think it funny I claim my meed ; In fact, I need A little ready money. My claim is just;— Down with the dust — I'll truly, thank you for it. Think not X dim, Except—in fun; For dunning I abhor it. Nor would I sue, • To get my due, I would much rather loose it, But if you give— As I must live— X^gtiess—l’ll—not—refuse it. Tho Rond to Wealth. The great problem which puzzles and perplexes the brains of humanity is how to get rich. From boyhood until old age, ami usually until death, the mind tries to llgure it out, blit never attains the so lution. No man, perhaps, ever reached the point of being rich in a sense synony mous with contentment. The laboring man may think that if he were worth ten thousand dollars ho would bo satisfied : but if he were to obtain that ho would want ten thousand more, and so on in definitely. Astor with his fifty millions is far from contentment, as far from be ing satisfied, ns ho whose aspirations is only for a shanty and a nig. A sufficien cy of wealth is an ignis fatuus which al ways keeps beyond the reach, and which men chase until they fall into their graves. Yet it is a laudable ambition. It iato the organ of acquisitiveness, as the phrenolo gist would say, that we owe the most, perhaps, for all that civilization and en lightenment have attained. Inventions are worked out as a means of making money,, and nearly all the improvements that art and science have made were brought forth by the sumo influence.— . ilut how small a proportion of people, in this country, or any other, over attain that degree of wealth which enables them to enjoy the comforts of life. A laboring man, for example, enters upon life with no legacy l^iit his strong arms. He works hard, makes a good living, spends his in come, and on the last day of the year ho stands, pecuniarily, just where he stood twelve months, before. Ho would like to become rich but ho has no capital,* and noway'to obtain it, and so passes through year after, with a vague idea that there is a better day ahead—a day which ho reaches only’ on the last day of Ids life. Now there is no reason why any man, with ordinary enterprise and a reasonable share of brains, might not become rich— to the extent, at least, of owning a house, possessing the comforts of life, and hav ing enough to educate his children and support him in ease during his old age. The great point in the money making career of any man is in saving the first hundred dollars. The man who can reach that point is on the sure road to fortune. Five hundred dollars is worth more to a prudent man twenty-five years of age than five thousand would be twenty years later. The accumulation of wealth may bo likened to the storting of a rail way train. It takes a groat effort to start the wheels of fortnun • mid - rery siowiy at first; but gradually they begin to turn faster still, aud at last they rush along at the rate of forty miles an hour. Oiyto make a practical applica tion, it is a difficult thing for a laboring man to accumulate money, but such a man as Stewart, or Astor, or Vanderbilt, with the momentum of millions to press him forward, finds it an easy matter to add another million to his store. Then, save the pennies, and make the start up on this road to wealth. Practice the strictest economy, abstain from every form of prodigality, resolve to put a little money in the savings bank every week, and thus lay the foundation of a capital. Keep adding to the capital until ft be comes largo enough to- start some little business, or to invest in some profitable manner, and then the rest is easy. The few dollars that were first deposted, from the month's savings will prove to be the end of a fortune, aud of such comfortaud enjoyment as are purchasable with mon ey.— New 1*0)7; Jonli Billings on lied Bugs. J never see enybody yet but what de spised bed bugs. They are the meanest nv aul crawling, creeping, hopping, or biting things. They dassout tackle a man hi dalite, but 'sneak iu, after dark, and chaw him while he is fast asleep; A mnsketowill iltc you in broad dalite, at short range, and give you a chance tew knock in his sides—the flea is a game bug, and will make a dash at you even in Broadway—but the bod bug is a garrotor, who waits till you strip, and then picks out a mellow placo to eat you. If I was in the habit of swearing I wouldn’t hesitate tow damn a bed bug rite tew his face. Bed bugs are uncommon smart in a small way; one pair of them will stock a hair mattress in 2 weeks with bugs enuf tew last a small family a whole ... It don’t do cany good tew pray when, bed bugs are in season ; tho only way toW get rid of them is tew pile up the whole bed in aquafortis,and then heave itaway and buy a new one. Bed bugs, when they have gronc aul they intend to, are about the size of a bluejay’s eye and hav a brown complex ion, and when thc3 r start out lew garrote are a/- thin az a grease ‘ pot, hut when they git thru garrotting they are swelled up like a blister. It takes them three dnyz lew get the swelling out of them. If bed bugs have eny destiny to fill, it must be their’ stuinmicks, but it seems tew me they must have been made by acksident, just as skivvors arc made, tew stick into sumbody. If they waz got up for some wise pur pose, they must have took tho wrong road for there leant bo eny wisdom in chawing a man aul nite long, and raising a family, besides, tew follow tho samo trade. If there is sum wisdom, In uul this, I hope the bugs will chaw them folks who kan see it, and leave me be, bekauso I am one of the heretieks. Russian Discipline. —Arecent French writer gives the following anecdote, which illustrates tho discipline of tho Rusiian service, though the reader must make a little allowance for tho long bow which Frenchmen are apt to draw when speaking of Russia. A Russian General, while reviewing tho troop-*, noticed a sol dier who was decorated with a military modal. “ Where did you obtuiu thut?” “At Tnlcernmn, General.” “ Very good, you area bravo man,” and i he gen oral handing him a dollar, added : “ There is something for you to drink my health with.” ■ The soldier extended his hand to re ceive the gift, when the General exclaim ed : “Kightdays in the guard house lor this man who Vailed to pieserve his po sition.” • Ten paces down the line, the same ‘.cenc, but the soldier when ollcred the money stood like a statute. He was or dered to take it by tho General, but ho was stolid. “Eig*ht days in the guard house for lliis man; cause, disobedience, of orders received from his superior ofll eer.” Politknk.s.s ix DuNKiMi.— An old gen tleman had owed a linn for years; at last, after everybody’s nalicnco and tem per were exhausted, a clerk named Frank undertook to get the money. - Frank called upon the gentleman, and met with a polite reception and the usual answer, with the addition ; “ Yon need not trouble yourself, young man, about the mutter; I will makeltnll right.” “Oh, no,” replied Frank, “I could not think for a moment of compelling you to call at tho store fora few dollars. It will not be tho slightest inconvenience forme to step in, as I pass your place of business six limes a day, to and from ray meals, and I can call every time I go by.” “Here,” said the old fellow to his book-keeper, alarmed at the prospect of being dunned six times a day for the next six months, “pay this impertinent m»T Cal. He can boat mo in politeness, and if he wants a situation 1 will give him two thousand dollars a year.” “ You are not accustoiyed to canonical proceedings,” said a clergyman to a one armed soldier. “Aint 1, though?” re sponded the soldier; “if wo didn’t have canonical proceedings down there in tho Wilderness and at Coal Harbor, then they never had ’em anywhere.” VOL. 54.—N0. 30. ON A CASH BASIS. arming waiters with family SYRIN GES IN ORI>ER TO PREVENT FRAUDS. Bonifaces are more subject to Imposi tion from penniless travellers than any other class of purveyors, and, it must bo admitted also meet with loss sympathy when they are taken in. If what wo hear of Vallejo landlords bo true, they must have suffered a heap of raatrtydom from intinerant Bohemians before they resorted to the present ingenious meas ure of self-defense. It scorns that tho rule adopted there is to pay for dinner immediately on delivery of tho plato of soup. The other day a fraudulent geni us, having unsuccessfully exploited one hotel, boldly entered tho Washington and called for dinner. He was astonish ed to see the waitor approach him with a plato of soup in one hand and n towel in the other, and a largo family syringe under his arm. Tho waiter laid tho plato of soup in front of tho customer, and significantly placed tho palm of his right hand under tho nose of the hungry customer. As our friend had not yet tackclcd his meal, ho modestly inquired the moaning of tho open hand. “ Pay in advance!” was tho torso ami preemptory reply of the waiter. “ Can’t you wait till I get through niv meal, first? “No, Mr. Our rules are positive. On delivery of the soup plunge clown (he cash.” Singular promptitude,” he muttered, ihen, reddening up with natural indig nation, said he : “ I suppose, if I don’t pay you, you’ll brain mo with that bludgeon pump ol yours?” 1 * “ Not at all, sir. Through this instru-, inent wo secure our business on a caSti basis. Your money, if you please 1” Ho thought he had the dead-wood on the soup anyhow, and dipped his spoon for the first mouthful. Before the spoon reached the broth, however, he was trans fixed at seeing the waiter coolly intro duce the point of his syringe into tho plato, and pulling the suction handle out to its fullest extent, the soup suddenly disappeared, leaving his plato as empty as his stomach. He turnedatound, but tho waiter had passed to another customer, and our friend left tho establishment in disgust. ,To Promote Health.—Do not expect, 'fascinating mystery. No. It is simply the plain little practice of leaving your bedroom window a little open at the top while steeping, both winter and summer. I do not come before you as a theorist or an inexperienced teacher, ia thus calling loudly upon every family to this health ful practice. lam tho father of ten chil dren, all in pure health, and have—thank God—never lost one, although their nat ural constitutions were not robust. But in addition to tho salutary effect of tho practice in my own family, wherever I have advised others to try its effects, It has invariably been found to bo both pleasant and beneficial.. JBSF’Atthe dinner table of u Trenton hotel, recently, sat a member of the New Jersey Legislature from one of tho back towns, who had perhaps never taken dinner at a hotel before in bis life. Be fore him was a dish of peppers, and ho kept looking at them. Finally, as the waiters were slow about bringing up the things, he took up his fork ana soused onoiutohis mouth. As lie brought down his grinders upon it, tho tears came into hfs eyes. At last, spitting tho pepper in to his hand, he laid it down by tho side of his plate, with a voice that set tho whole table in a roar, exclaimed, “Just lie there and cool!” A Fuw Hard Things.—Experience and observation have taugh men Hint it ia— Hard to quit chewing tobacco., • Hard to keep from eating too much. Hard to drink liquor and not bo intem perate. Hard to pay our debts. Hard to resist temptation. Hard to believe a man you know (o bo a liar. Hard to turn the other cheek when we are struck. Hard to borrow money from friends when we need it. Hard to love our enemies. Tin-: Gardiner Journal says that a lady lately visiting a .cemetery with her little daughter, observed on one of the stones a neatly cut figure of ahorse.— Wondering why such an emblem should l»u used, they examined the inscription closely, but could find no clue to Us ap propriateness, when her little girl, remark ed : 1 I presume she died of the nitjhi marc.” Notwithstanding the solemn surroundings, the lady could but laugh at the comicality of the idea. A newshoy once placed himself at the door of an Episcopal Church, while the services were going on, and commenced as follows: Newsboy— ’Ere’s the extra ’Kruld ! Clergyman (reading the Li(any)-.Sparo us good Lord! Newsboy—Great Riot in Nashville. Litany—Good Lord deliver us! Newsboy —Great fight with the fndi ansl LUany—Have mercy on us good Lord! Jonah And Tin: Whale.—lt is gen erally supposed that Jonah is recorded in the book nearing his mime as having been s wallowed oy a whale. Tills Is an efror. Tin* expression is a great llsh, and no such 'word occurs In the entire book. Another misquotation is, “in the sweat of thy brow shalt thou cat bread.” Th® true text Is, “ in the sweat of thy face.” (Charles Dickens—a high authority-- leans to the position that first impres sions are usually correct, ami also says: “ I have known a vast quantity of non sense talked about bad moil not looking you in the face. Don’t trust that con voli tional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance, any day in the Woek, if there is anything to uc got by it.” “Papa, Please buy mo a mu ft* when yon go to Boston,” said little three-year old Ruth. Hoi* sister Minnie hearing thin, said: “ You are too little to have a mull’.” “Am I too little to be o old'!” rejoined .he indignant littlo Ruth. One of the most original of juvenile in ventions was that of little Runny, who, instead of saying her prayers at night, spread out her alphabet on the bed, and raising her eyes to Heaven, said, “O Lord! here are the letters- arrange them to suit yourself.” Kconomy was exemplified in the case of the Indiana man who had occasion to place marble slabs for counters in bis store, and”had them made in form of gravestones, with thonames and epitaphs of his family inscribed on the under side. A saiALi* boy said to a man who was expressing his “surprise that a baker's horse did not start at tho explosion of crackers around him on the Fourth: * Why, sir, that horao has carried crack-, ers this forty years.” Tkndku Hkautkd. —Mrs. Jones, a far mer’s. wife in Connecticut, says: “1 hlevc I’ve got lh« tondercst hearted boys hi the world. I can’t toll one of’em to fetch a pall of water but what he’ll burst out a crjlu’.” System is a great thing; but tho adver tiser who deemed it essential to prosefvo an alphabetical ordercr rather “overdid” tho matter, thusly : “Bibles, black-ball, and butler; testaments, tar, and treacle; godly-books and glmbleft, for sale hero.” Bate© for advertisements will bo inserted at Ton umiu per lino for tho first Insertion, and flv# cants per lino for each subsequent Insertion. Quar terly, half-yearly, and yearly advertisements in serted at a liberal reduction on tho above rates. Advertisements should bo accompaniedtho Cash. When sent without any length specified for publication, they will bo continued until ordered out and charged accordingly. JOB PRINTING. Cards, IIANDim.DS, CincrmAiw, and •very oth er description ol Jon and Cajid Printing execu ted in tho neatest stylo, at low price*. ODDS AND ENDS. —Clerical Bates—Curates. —"Still Waters”—Whiskeys. —Grave Charges—An undertaker** —The Prize Ring—Tho wedding ring. —Tho Lap of Luxury—A cat enjoying her milk. —A point any woman can appreciate— Point lace. —Short metre—The nearest way to your sweetheart’s house. "I would not live always”—at a cheap boarding-house. —How to be at home iu-the bestsociety —Stay at home. —A dangerous character—A man uTio “ takes Jifo” cheerfully. —Wo know a man so hard up that Ik* is obliged to sleep on tick. —A man is never so apt to bo crooked as when ho is in a strait. —Tho reason wo admire pretty feet. — Because all’s well that ends well. —lf you wish to make a. pumpkin apeak, scoop it out and make it “ holler.” A South Carolina paper uses thousand dollar confederate bonds as wrappers. —No wonder graveyards yawn, when there are so many sleepers there. ~ —A reason why Indies should avoid yit uolism—lt makes them fast and cross withal / —Draw poker and old sledge are said to bo favorite games with blacksmiths. —The chap that sung “ Paddle your own canoe,” paddles his children dally. —The chap who sung “Ah! don’t mingle,” takes his whisky straight. —The Miss who sung “don't marry a man if ho drinks,” is yet unable to lind the individual she desires. —Tho chap who sung “Oh, carry me homo to die,” was carried by a policc mau, and still Urea. —Tho chap who sung “ Tho dearestspot on earth is homo,” has broken up house keeping his home bein' too dear. -xi—arorncyi? Uio worker of tho Republican party, tlmt par-* ty works with its tail. —What is the diflcrouco between a hun gry man and a glutton? One longs to eat and tho oth&r eats too long. —“Well, wife, you can’t say "I over contracted bad habits.” , “Ko, sir; you generally expanded them.” —An exchange says, n young woman in the West left the dinner-table blush ing, because the servant put some bear meat before her. —The first thing a hen says to her brood, and not the lost thing a child says to his father—“ Shell out!” —Recently upon tho death of a clerk in tho mayor's oflicoatisrew Orleans, the application record presented a list of over three thousand names. —ln Greenland the young people who woo each other eat ten pounds of tallow everyday toprovo their devotion,' —S-can- dlc-ous! —A Chinese thief, having stolen a mis sionary's watch, brought it back to him the next day to be shown how to wind it up. —Last winter, it is said, a cow washed down the Mississippi on a piece of ice, and caught such a cold that she has yield ed nothing but ice cream ever since. —“Woman isadelusion !” exclaimed a crusty old bachelor to a witty young lady. “And man is always hugging some de lusion or other,” was tho quick retort. —A rooster having thirteen nichel cents in his crop was killed at Amcabury, Mass., a few days since. CtenMhlo roos ter that. —“ This tough steak makes me think of a famous old English poet.” “That’s queer. "What poet does it make, you think of?” “Ghau-cer.” “Snowed "What a splendid ex cuse for husbands who fail to put in an appearance around the home altar, and how it has been taken advantage of late iy. —A dancer once said to Socrates, “You cannot stand on one leg as'long as I can.” “ True,” replied the philosopher, “ hut goose can.” —lt is confidently reported in diplo- - malic circles that Victor Hugo, when asked if ho could toll tho origin of the Bonaparte family, replied, “Of Cors-I can.” —Feiiianiani dales very much farther back than most people suppose. We would remind our readers that when Ho rodias’s daughter was living, there was a head-scut-her. —Wo have never entered into a conver sation with a lady just returned from church who hadn’t forgotten tho text and didn’t know the stylo of every bol#*ij;t present. —Recent mail robberies frightened a Cleveland man, who added to the address of a letter: “To dishonest P, O. officials : For God’s sake, let this letter go through —there is no money in It!” A Connecticut Yankee gives notice that his golden wedding will take place In thirty years, and that ho will discount in advance any presents his frinda intend to give him. —Mrs. Jenkins complained in ti»o eve ning that the turkey sho had eaten at Thanksgiving did not set well. “ Prob ably,” said Jenkins, “it was not alien turkey.” Ho got a glass of water in his face. —“Papa, please buy mo a muff when 3’ou go to Boston,” said little three-3*ear old iluth. Her sister Minnie homing tills said : “ You are too little to have a muff.” “Am I too little to be cold ?” re joined the indignant little Ruth. —Some people" want the United Slates called “Columbia.” In this case I sup pose wc should be Columbiads, instead of Americans. This would bo ajwopox con sidering the number of hows wo have in society. —“ Papa.” saida. littlo boy, “ ought the naster to nog mo for what I did not do V” ‘ Certainly not, my boy,” said the father.. ‘Well,” replied the little fellow, “ho lid to-day when I didn’t do my sum.” ,—There arc bulls in Portugal, ns well as in Ireland. 'The Mayor of Kstrenia para, offering a reward for Ihe recovery of the remains of a drowned man, enu merated among the recognizable marks that the lamented had a “marked ini-* pediment in his speech.” —A good story concerning the produc tion of “ The Lady of Lyons” at Salt Lake City Theatre ; “An aged "Mormon arose, ana went out with his twenty-four wives, angrily stating that ho would not sit and see a play where a man made such a cussed fuss over one woman.” —The 11 rat day a little boy wont to school the teacher asked him if he could spell. “ Yes. sir.” “ Well, how do you spell boy?” ‘‘ Oh, just as other folks do.” —A grateful lowa undertaker writes (o his friend : “If you ever want a collin, call on rac. I shall be only too happy to bury yourself or your family at cost.’.’ —Well, Jim, how did you make it down South?” “ First rater Made plenty of money.” “What did you do with it?” “Laid it out in houses and Jots.”— .“Whore?” “ Hvcry place I have been whore there were any.” “ What kind of houses and lots*. 5 ” “Codec houses and lota of whiskey.”