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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, <ic., &c,
HENRY SAXTON.
Sept. 13.15C0
Miller & bowers,
SUCCESSOR* TO
LEWIS F. LYNE,
North Hanover Street, CU rllsle. Pa ■
Dealers iu American, English and German
hardware,
Cutlery,
Saddlery,
Coach Trimmings,
Shoo Findings,
Morocco and Lining Skins,
Lasts,
Boot Trees
and Shoemaker Tools
of every description. Solid and Brass Box Ylcea,
Bellows, Files, Rasps, Horso Shoes, Horao Shoo
Malls, Bar and Rolled Iron ofall sixes.
IIAMES AND TRACES.
Carriage Springs, Axles, Spokes. Fellows, Hubs,
Ac., Ac. Saws of every variety, Carpenters’ Tools
and Building Material, Table and Pocket Cutlery,
Plated Forks and Spoons, with an extensive as
sortment of Hardware of all kinds and of the best
manufacture, which will be sold wholesale or re
tail at the lowest prices. Wo are making great
Improvements In our already heavy stock of
goods, and Invito all persons In •want of Hard
ware of every description to give us a call and wo
are conlldent you will bo well paid for your trou-
Hoping that by strict attention to business and
u disposition to plenao all tvo will bo able to
maintain tho reputation of tho old stand.
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Dec. 1,185 a.
p IPEE ' B
BOOK AND FANCY STORE,
-AND GENERAL NEWS DEPOT,
58 WEST MAIN STREET,
CARLISLE, PA.
A lino assortment of Goods on bund, such as
Writing Desk*.
Port Folios.
Ladies Companions,
Work Boxes,
. Satchels,
• Ladles’ Purses,
Fookoc Books,
Segar Cases,
Card Cases,
Gold Fens,
Pen Knives,
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DIARIES FOR 1867.
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Special attention Is paid to keeping always on
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May 29, iwT—« -
BY BRATTON & KENNEDY.
Ura ®tnrtrsr
JMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT!
POSITIVELY THE UKEATEHT REDUCTION
IN PRICES OE THE SEASON,
THIRD ARRIVAL
GREENFIELD’S, NO. 4,
EAST .MAIN STREET
All tho host makes of Prints 12J4 cts., choice
‘ styles. Prints 8, 10 and 12 els., a beautiful
MusUu bleached, 1-yard wide only
12)4 eta., best Domestic
Ginghams In town at and
15 els,, Tickings 12>«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.”