Iljc 2Ufuriran Dolvintecr. ' 4 4
, |'J rVA 71 Hlr% O<v I a% TAa A*
4)f |I Y ~I 111 ||7 | |fl - | |L:,1 1 ■-■ |J- | || || | (|7 §7 |
.■ • ••wJ'Mp*'" J'dwwll -J|^v♦■■wwJl'Jl*'*'v
Dollars per year if paid strictly- 1 , V I
/ttucoj Two Dollars aid Fifty Cents If paid " ‘ r — : .!
j three manias; alter which Three Dollars , • - -x’.-i
shunted. Those terms will bn rigidly ad- • » '
i 4» in every Instance, No subscription di«> ~ ; • - - » ■ . ; : 1 - ■
mod until all arrearages are paid, nuiess at ~
. . ■ . CARLISLE, PA., THORS® <'
lltcftsalonal ®W».
r~~ m transparent that stones or fish lyinp*
'• HUMRiCH. . 1 . WM. darker or twelve feet deep are seen as ol r
JMBICH & PARK-EB,' • m _ il on land. The trull up the
ATTOjiN&yBATJLAW. , , t tlie
>on Main tiueet, In Marion Hall, Car mite trip. On the left r
»u. tumbling river from F
l. 21. IMS— feet below ; on th^
tS. B. MaUJjA OGHLIN, A iron- w u B v “ I>t ’’
v at Law. Office in Building formerly . , urer
sd by Volunteer, a few doors South pi \V climbing
'jjjg And yet the summer has withheld no gift then
5 Bitch as God annually sends. The grateful nB
[TED STATES CLAIM shower.
The gloriouasunshlne and the healthful lueo
AND Have blessed eaoh passing hour,
1 nm T ? :EJSrC Y! The seed time ami Its cheerful prom’
51. M. J 3 U 1 LL R , Of rich reward for labor have *
ATTORNEY at lAw, With luclous fruits and AoW
2d Story Of InhoiTs Building, No. 3 South With the sweet breath **
r Street, Carlisle, Cumberland county .
Even now, while w
os, Bounties, Back Pay, &c., promptly Lifeless upon ’
utlons by mall, will receive immediate . - The hills, of '
a. Si-ill w r
ihirattontlon given to the selling or reel- ■
ml Estate, In town or country. In all let* S P
upilry, please enclose postage stamp. . :
.ICOT-t? . • -
. BEITZIIOOVLK, ”
TXOJi2fJS¥~AT~ZAW. Wo P re determined to close ou>
CARLISLE Pa 9 goodslegardiessof cost. Woge
auMia. fA. every purchaser twenty-five b
ico on South Hanover treot, opposite ,- Nr
dry goods store. , “!?,"* purcuaso lmtu
m& . ■ • • ~ P Forty pattern, r-
HERMAN, Attorney at Law, ESgifshto^ 2 r
Hceln Rheem’s Hall Building, In the
e Court House, next door to the “Her- double
Peanh. A full'
J. KHEARER, Attobney and
iUNSellor at Law, has removed his
:he hlthorb* unoccupied room In the
st corner of the Court House.
M-ZV ,
ENNEDY, Attorney at Law
arliKle,- Pentia. Office same, as that of
rlcan Volunteer.”
m
BHRYOOK, Justice of the
’6. Office No 8, Irvin's Row, Carlisle
86&—Iy
iR. GEORGE 8. SEARIGHT, Ben-
Jf TIBT, Bronx the BaUivxrre Colleye of Dental
bwuery. Of lice at the residence of his molhei
iEastLouther.Stroot, three doors below Bedford
iCarUale.'Penna.
Dec.l. 1885. .
BR. J- B. BENDER, Homoeopathic
physician, Office No, ft, South Hanover st„
lerly occupied by John Leo, Ekq.
I June a, 180D—ly. • . H
INDEPENDENT
POLICE.
Notices by telegraph promptly attended to. -
<tp. McCAKTNEY & BANNO.
T) OB BBT OWENS,
SLATE ROOFER,
A A r D DEAL KB IN is LA TE,
. LANCASTER, PA.
Alt 'Work Guaranteed.
<9* Orders-Left at this Office trill receive
attention. ■ October 14,18 C9 —ly.
ant <ffaps
pBESH SUMMER ABEIVAL
OP ALL THE
A -Eir STYLES
OF
HA T S A N D C A P S .
TUe subscriber has just opened atm.lS North
Bmover Street, a few doors North of the Carlisle
Bank, one of the largest and best Stocks
°em ■»? aQ d OAPS evor offered In Carlisle.
_hlllk.Hats, Cassltnere of all styles and qualities,
“LT&H^mnpw•:“ nd ° Ve^ ydeaorJp '
222 a'SuS’sgw.'sfif .sratvrsa:
ed to give satisfaction. - - -
A full assortment of
MEN’S,
BOY’S, AND , .
CHILDREN’S,
HATS.
1 have also added to nay Stock, notions of differ
ent kinds, consisting of
LADIES’ AND GENTLEMEN’S STOCKINGS,
•VkA Ties, . Suspenders, -
Cottars, Gloves,
Pencils: Inrcud,
Sewing 811 k, ' . , • Umbrellas, d’o
PRIME BEG ARB AND TOBACCO
ALWAYS ON' HAND.
Give mo a cull, and examine my stock as I feel
MDfldent of pleasing all, besides saving you-mo
uev. ' *
JOHN A. KELLER, Agent ,
No. 15 North Hanover Street.
May, 1860. . ■
JJATB AND CAPS!
DO YOU WANT A NICE HAT OR CAP ?
Jr so. Don’t fail to call on
J, G, CAtLIO,
NO. 29. WES] MAIN UTRIiKT,
’licve can be seen tbe finest assortment or '
AND OAFS'
HATS
ever brought to Carlisle. He taken-great pleas
ere in Inviting his old friends ana customers,
aaa all now ones, to his splendid stock Just re
eved from New York and Philadelphia, con
sisting in part of flue
a' ‘BILIC AND CABBIBIERB HATS,
pesicloa au endless variety of Hats and Caps o
too latest stylo, nil 01 which -bo will soil at th
Lawetl Cash • ib-fcca. Also, hla own. manufaotar
of Hats always on hand, and’
HA.TB manufactured to order.
Ho bus tho host arrangement for coloring Hats
and ull kinds of Woolen Goods, Overcoats, &0., at
the Hhortesl notice (os ho colors every week) and
OQ.lhe most reasonable terms. Also, a lino lot ol
chdtetrbmads of
TOBACCO AND CIGARS
always on buna. Ho desires to call tboattentlo
to persons who have
COUNTRY" PURS
to sell, as ho pays tho highest cash prices for lie
s&'ne. -
Q, ve him a call, at tho above number, his >ld
Haad.tta he feels conlldent of giving entire sa .is
luctlon.
ilay, iB6O, '
iSonts Sdjoea.
DAVID STROHM,
W. D. SPON6LER,
JOHN W. STROHM.
XE W AN D FONJIAB
boot, shoe, trunk and Hat
STOKE
No. 13. SOUTH HANOVER STREET.
Carlisle, Pbun’^..
Afcwdoa™ Soutli of In ho(l'.>i building.
Y 0 have just opened tho largest ana best stock
BOOTS AND SHOES
<i!n«. offereii ln Carlisle, and continue almost
»!«!>,. 10 rec eW© such goods In our line as evefy
v2?£.? untB, Onr slock consists in nil kinds and
Vtf ®“ efi Of'
hisses and Childrens* strong Leather
flat/,?’ Womens* Misses and Childrens 7 Lusting
MnV? 8 * Womens’ Glove Kid, Turkey and French
fffiTO Mens' and Boys' Calf, Bair and. Kid
Ontr.fi, .9® nd Boys’ Cull and Bulf Congress
Hr™.s® * Mona’ and Boys Lusting Gaiters and
Tlm.*/? ’ Mona’ a>id Buys' Calf and Buff Oxford
xif** Gum Sandals; Baskins and Overshoes;
Womens' Goat, Welland Carpet Blip*
Boys’ and Childrens' Fur ujjd Sax*
of all sizes and prices; Traveling
iAt& ® at<J hel«and Valises, together with a fl«o
°«, [goods, which we will sell to suit the times,
l*S? ruK BA-LES AND..&I ALLS PROFITS, ’
“ourmutto. Therefore, in lssuingourcard.it
os a personal invitation to all. In ■
uteq to ca»l and look through our stock without
under oollgatlons to buy unless suited in
-witK ty ant * Price, We shall a'ways try to deal
wan every one In a. straight forward manner.
55S»l!y e fX or y customer a full equivalent forhls
ug?®£* Welhope.aU ,wl_H avail tbamrtlrta of
meir first opportunity to call ami'see fis.' : “ ;
AMIi.WMy
JOHN DOBNEB,
MERCHANT TAILOR,
Bunding, near Rheem'u Hall, Car
."Sw P»..hoa Just returned from the Eastern
® lu ®s with the largest and most «
COMPLETE ABBOHTMENT OP
pall and winter goods,
consisting of , *
CLOTHS, . . !
. • ' ' OASSIMEUES.
. y RSTTWQ3
Ac., over brought
variuio, Hla cloths comprise
ENQLIBH.
.FRENCH, and
~ AMERICAN MANUFACTURES,
u- J?o6Bs text ire and of all shades.
lon»* P orn . el * being himself a practical cutter of'
«£*:*J? er, ouce, Is prepared to warrant perfect
m prompt filling ol orders. ‘
rtbp'lß fcy theyard,or cut to order. Don't’
i9t *H lh«\pliwe. Aug, 2s,
BY BRATTON & KENNE
iHfUsceUaneous.
| '
INDUCEMENTS!!
lnvl !' ct ' to call and too onr large
and beautiful stock of B
FALL AND WINTER ROODS,
whiolx IB ndw open for,the Inspection of pur
chasers. Kemetnber we closed out till ourSurn
-mor Goods atauctlon.and wo will now continue
to sell all our Fall and Winter Good* at
AUCTION PRICES
-Wo are determined to close out this stock o
goods iegardiess of cost. Wo guarantee to save
©very purchaser twenty-five per cent, on every
dollars worth of goods. How take warning, and
prices urc^aB ° un m J* ot t soo our goods and
£f. tte F ?«cy Silas at $1.60 16 $1.75.
French Merlnoes, 50c.; beat
t» h M ler 5?5f ,6 9. 0 . , » all WODI Cashmeres, 50c.;
'Jilt Poplins,Sl.2s* Black Alpacas,3sc.; all won!
double Shawls, $3.50; beautiful cloth Coats. $-">.00.
A full line
MOURNING GOODS,
that will be sacrificed in prices. Shawls, Furs,
Moths,-.Cosslmeres. Bltinkets, Flannels. &c„ at
such prices ns will astonish you, • sno yards
BEST, HOME MADE RAG CARPET,
very,cheap. We are still taking ‘more Carpet
Rage at full market prices.
Do not neglect to call and see howinuoU raonev
we can save you. J
... .. W. C.SAWVER&CO.,
. In theißentz House, East Main Bt.,
September 80,1869. ■ Carlisle.- Penna.
/CITIZENS OF CUMBERLAND
\J COUNTY.
We have now oh hand and just received from
the cities, and from manufacturers, the largest
>tock of new, cheap, and good goods to be.fdund
in any two stores In the valley.
Wo have the best assortment of
CLOTHS, CABSIMERS, BATINETTS,
JEAM4. FLANNELS,.TICKINGS,
QINGHAMS I PRINTS,
MUSLINS;
DR ESS GO 0 D S,
Silks, Merluoei?, * Repps, Delaines, Alpacas.
Coburgs, Plaids and Stripes.
;RIBBONB t HOSIERY, GLOVES,
Zephyrs,
Towels,
Yornfl, . ‘
Llnen'and Cotton Table Diapers,
CLOAKINGS, low prices and fine
25?. CH F K'.
can bo found anywhere under one roof.
E ÜBS AND CAE PETS,
Oil Cloths, Druggets, Blinds, Coverlets, Quilts,
Hoop and Balmoral Skirts,
SHAWLS,
of every description. In fact a splendid assort
ment of goods, and more given for the dollar,
than anywhere else.
VW o o
at tbe hJgheatprlce taken In exchange. Give us
a call
Oct. J 659.
1860.
Fall, and .winter impobta
' ; Tio.s.ui
1869.
B J B SONS,
MILLINERY AND STRAW GOODS.
ARMSTRONG. CaTOK & C 0„ •
. 237 & 230 Baltimore street,
BALTIMORE.
mpOOTßltp-AHI. JOBDEHS OF
BONNET Al»i> ; TRIMMING RIBBONS,
VELVET AND SASH RIBBONS,
BONNET SILKS, SATINS ami VELVETS, ,
Illusions, Blonds, Laces, Bushes, N.elt.s, and Crapes,
French Flowers ami Feiithers,
STRAW BONNETS AND LADIES’ HATS
TRIMMED AND! UNTRISIMED,
i Velvet and Felt Bonnets and. Hats,
SUNDOWNS AND SHALER HOODS.
The largest Stock of Millinery Goods In this
Country, and unequalled in choice variety,
which we offer at prices that will defy competi
tion.
ORDERS 'SOLICITED.
Oct. U, 1809 —Bfc.; !• \ •
p ROPERIES, &0.
The subscriber begs leave to Inform the clti
zeas of Carlisle and vicinity that be has pur
chased the Grocery Store of D- V, Keony, No. 7R
Mouth Hanover StreuL Carlisle, where he will
carry on the Grocery Business as usual, His as
sortment Is varied, and consists in pari of
CfctJEENSWARE,'
. GLASSWARE, :
STONE and .
EARTHEN WARE,
. CEDAR and
' - WILLOW WARE
TEAS,
COFFEES.
SYRUPS.
SPICES.
FANCY SOAPS,
ROPES.
• TOBACCO,
PISH.
° HALTERS,
SEGARd,
SALT,
POTATOES,
DRIED AND CANNED FRUIT,
CO BN MEAL. BUCKWHEAT, FLOUR, FEED,
am) a /nil assortment or articles -usually kept in
a first-class Grocery store. Give him a call, and
satisfaction will be guaranteed.
Oot. 10, im. JOHN HECKMAN.
HU&iBUGJ NO HUMBUG!!
lnhoff, of Carlisle, has the sole right
as Agent-tor Cumberland County, Pa., for the
sale, wholesale, of a new Burning Fluid oal'led
■ Kikq’s NoR-ExrLOSivis
jpinq PI.T7ID, which Is superior to anything ever
lulroduced. and/cau supply the trade through
the’County.'wholesale. This Fluid, Is cheaper
than Kerpaeho or any. other oil or compound la
use, emit* no bod odor or smell, and is perfectly
harmless; Merchant* ami all others wishing to
see and-in teßt'tUe article wIU pJease call at my
store; In Carllsle, ,• , . ■
0QW7.1869.-117' CHRISTIAN'INHOpP.
; 1 1"
TA‘ AAA Agents wantedforthe pAst:
Xl/j UVu nnd Nun. This raost'oxcltlng and
Interesting book, -by a popular authoress. Is now
.ready, and those who wish to capvass for It
should .apply, Immediately for :clrcular, (with
stamp, enclosed.) stating territory desired, expe
rience, 40.‘ Agents wanted everywhere for this
and other flrst-cluan books and engravings, by
CRITTENDEN & McKINMCY. 1308 Chestnut St.,
Philadelphia, Pa.
Oct. 21,.1809—3m '
TJEMOVAIi, —E- SHOWER, dealer
|\, la all kinds of FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
LIQ,U' RS, has removed hla store to tuo spacious
room In the “Volunteer Building," directly
South of tho Market House, Carlisle. His as
sortment of liquors Is very complete, and much
larger than heretofore, Ills old customoramnd
the public Ingeneral, are invited ,to give him a
•call nthinnowatomL 'j
Oofc 7f 1809. •
1 • f -i
v f j
Ah! how she cnmo and went! so stealthily
That oho can tnako the short-lived periods seem
Even with tholr wreath of blooms and Hong of
birds,
No other than a dream.
And yet the summer has withhold no gift
Such as God annually sends. Tho gratefui
shower.
The glorloussunshlne and thd healthful breeze
Have blessed eaoh passing hour.
The seed time and Its cheerful promises
Of rich reward for labor have been given,
With luclous fruits and flowers, like censors flllod
With the sweet breath of heaven:
Even now, while wrapped In royal drapery
Lifeless upon her bier the summer lies,
The hills, ns If unconscious of her fate,
Si-111 wear their rich gr6en dyes.
So quietly she left us, and so fait
The blushing blossoms looked that lust she
kissed,
Wo did not dream that anywhere on earth
So soon She would bo missed.
But now the sunlight falls with paler beams,
And sadder look upon the tender grass;
And winds, ah mo,' the plaintive, wandering
winds,
Chant dirges as they pars •
While the lone cricket by my cottage''door,
■ All tendency to lighter moods restraining.
Breaks tho-deep stillness of this autumnal eye
With the rythmical complaining.
Somewhere a summer walWthat In duo time
Will come and smile upon the dead ones sleep
ing.
And open into bloom t lie folded buds
Which spring bas in her keeping.
And''those who wait- and watch will greet frith
cheora
Each Joyous signal of her queenly coming,
And nature will break out In songs again,
Sweet as the brooklet’s humming.
Thus ouo by one the hurrying seasons pass,
Each cycle narrower to oar human seeming,
Till, glancing upward, lo J the brief years lie
.. Like some delusive'dreaming.
Only the.good and true of all our sets, .
Like timid stars,' from out Iho darkness steal
ing,
Strike their pure lights along the slope of time,
Life's real worth revealing.
Itecfllwoitg.
YOSEMITE VALLEY,
Detailed Narration of the Present Slate
,of the Wonder.
VIEWS FROM ALL POINTS,
Grandeur Vnparnllelod la all the World.
The valley Is but half a dozen miles
long, with a varying width of from three
fourths of u mile to two miles, and an av
wage depth of not loss than 2,500 feet. It
is a “sink” six miles long, a mil© wide
and half a mile deep. This would be a
marvelous thing if it were In a plain or
a prairie; the Yesomhe is in the wild
heights and rocky fastnesses of the Sier
ra Navada mountains. The boldest con
ce R ( . J .2aibj,e awes the soul, the fact as
than imagination can fashion in'its modi
exultant moments.
Coming In, you enter the valley at the
west end—by the long route, on the south
side; byjthe short route on the. north
side. If you enter from the north and
§o out on the south, you see the valley in
elail and then take a final view of it as
a whole from Inspiration Point. This
seems to me worse than madness—above
ad things else, infinitely above all things
else, every one coming.here should first
have that view from the Point. It will
remain with mo as the event of my life.
I would not change it for a hundred
views from the same rocks after seeihg
the valley in detail. Whatever else you
do when you come; here, tike the long
route by Mariposa andgive the immortal
man within you the quick unfolding of
all the sublime scene at the Point. Go
out by the shore if you please—it is much
the easiest I am told—but before you do
so, devote one afternoon to a second visit
to the point, that you may look fug up
on the valley from above and without,
alter you have seen it well from below
and within.
'■ BENTZ * CO.
Can anything in nature he more beau
tiful than the Bridal Veil fall? It is 930
feet high—ooo of perpendicular, height
and 330 more almost perpendicular—yet
so far us l feel, it has no elemeut of sue-.
Ilmiiy br grandeur: I have eeen in the
morning, cold against Its back-ground of
shadowed rocks; in the afternoon, glow
ing in the sunlight till every drop of wa
ter sparkled like a diamond; in the early
evening, when the jubilant wind played
with it us if it were but a failing flood of
rarest and white luce, and the lower half
of the great Cliff seemed bung with a
wide stretch of brilliant rainbows, com
ing and going, fading and g.owlng, till
all sense of time and place Was lost and
nothing remained but that radiant and
ever-changing splendor of which eye and
soul never weaned. How the wind cun
ettect thie lull as It does Is a mystery that
n.o study of mine can faihom. In the
morning the siieet of water comes down
with a sort of joyous nirinesss infinitely
charming; in the afternoon the breeze
Catches Hand moulds it to ten thousand
lovely and graceful forme; now it sways
slowly from side to side jyilh the even
sweepof a long pendulum; now it is
broken Into millions of duzz lug crystals;
anon it is tossed into falling waves ol
sparkling splendor; then it is divided in
to fifty streamlets for three' hundred ifeet
of its descent, and ‘ afterwards folded
quickly together and dropped with tou
derest good will and reluctant release in
to the shadowed rocks below.
Or, aguiu, cau.auy thing be more beau
tiful than Piwyak Veruul lnll, “ the cat
aract of diamonds ?" It.ia two mites of
trolling, two more of rugged rooky trail,
and then nearly a mile on foot to reach
it. While you are there, you doubt if
anything else In or out of.the valley ia so
beautiful. Measured at a low siago of wa
ter, it gives but 350 ; at a high stage, when
it shoots larther over into the canyon,
the State geologists found it to bo 425. At
this season ol the year ft is a sheet thirty
to forty leet wide at the edge of the rock,
with a varying depth of Irbm three to
twelve or thirteen inches. In May and
June H is a foaming torrent sixty to sev
enty feet wide, and not less than three
feet deep. Then Its grandeur is greatly
predominant; Uow there is something of
grande Jr and an inflntteof beauty. Here
is no swaying of the waters, no fantastic
play of an afternoon wind.
At the base of the Ml is a deep basin,
eighty to one hundred feet across; the
sweeping rush of the perpendicular de-
o eutes J a tremulous movement of
the air oyer ; thie.pdbi, driViiig the spray
into the ever green hillside, covering the
water with delightful, though evanescent
tinta.of 1 purpleliiVd yellow and- scarlet,
moistenlngthe gray granite Uith mani
fold rainbow scuds., You. uiay.lie on one
of these rocks, seventy or eighty feet
away from tho falling sheet, and loolc at
it for an hour with greater joy in each
moment. It is for the most part a cata
ract of diamonds, though'there is a space
of two hours Just before noon during
which one gets another view—great
waves and mighty showersof white wool;
that for the first fllty or sixty feet of the
descent, then.u deep shadow, and at lust
a IJootl of brilliants*
The visit to these falls give Hainan
hour’s ride along- the Mercer river,
sweeping placidly, through the level
meadows—a stream averaging seventy
fadiraL
THE BEAD HUMMER.
CARLISLE, PA.. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1869
feet In width, with water soolear and
transparent that stones or fish lying ton
or twelve feet deep are seen as clearly as
11 on land. The trail up the canyon Is
the roughest riding of the whole- Yeso
inite trip. On the left is the roaring and
tumbling river from fifty to one hundred
feet below ; on the right is the dizzy anil
rugged mountain; your horse picks hla
way caref'lly among the rocks, now
climbing a series of rude stone steps, and
then winding around bouldeis of granite
ns large as a two-stoiy farm house. Some
of the ladies of our party found the way
so full of peril that they chose to walk
rather than ride, hut this did not stem to
me needful, as these native horses are
generally sure-footed. Every rod of this
patli brings new and grand scenery. Just
where wo leave our horses is an immense
overhangi'iic cliff, under winch unenter
prising individual spends hlsdayk, keeps
ale; wine, cigars and hot tea for visitors,
and, in the spring, rubber overcoats lor
the hire ol those who are going through
the spray. Here most persons eat lunch
brought from tho hotel, glad enough to
get a glass of Horton’s ale or lea.
The Nevada falls—Y'owiye—are also on
the Merced, about a mile above the Ver
nal. The bold roca over which the Ver
nal shoots can be ascended In but one
way—yon must take to the ladders. 300
feet ol pretiy step climbing, om which
some persons are afraid to venture. I
couldn’t see but that they were suite
enough ; what there Is above tempts one
to some hazard. Ouce up, you can walk
down 100 feet over the smooth rock to the
edge of the falls. Here is a curious nat
ural balcony or parapet, hreast high,
against which you can lean and look
over into the little, basin .below; if you
aro venturesome and strong-nerved you
can even crawl out a long aud narrow 1
spur beyond the water, and see it as It!
plunges upon the rocas at the base of the
fall. From here to tile Nevada is an
‘hour’s scramble, though the wild canyon,
all the way with scenery grand aud stu
pendous—Wondrously beautiful where
the river shoots swiftly over a rock forty
feet wide and six hundred long, at a pitch
of about twelve or fifteen degrees, not in
a straight line, but describing the aro ol
a great circle, leaping at lost with a,hila
rious spriug into a deep and quiet lake
six or eight rods wise by fifteen or twen
ty rods long, scooped into the bed of solid
rook—restful contrast to the scene of gi
guntio contention within which it is set.
Bowiye.is U2s'feet high. Here, again,
is beauty, but the graudtehr is far more
than the beauty. The rock has a slope
of five or six, degrees from the perpen
dicular, so. that there is little depth be
hind tile sheet of, water at its hose.
Something of impressiveness seems to he
lost trom this fact, but there iseuough in
tho scene around to. humble any soul
into submission. The fall itself,has
hardly au equal anywhere out of the val
ley ; to it you cannot help adding -the
wild aiid precipitous pass near by at the
left; the Titanic mass of rook a little
further away, solid, isolated, almost per
pendicular on three sides, rising 2,000 leet
iuto tne Cup of Liberty; and then, on
the right, the high, rock-ribbed slope,
1,000 feet above ttmtop of the tall, so fast
uuu distant in the heavens that enor
mous pine and spruce trees on its gray
declivity look like mere shrubs, ft is
possible to climb up through the left
hand puss to the crest of the tail, but 1
contented myself with seeing the sight
from below. In the spring lime the
whole canyon is filled with blinding
spray; now you Can lie ou the rooks a
few rods trom the base aud 'watch the
fall at your leisure. A projecting rook of
eight or ten feet just where the water
breaks over the summit divides the cur
rent and plays such lantasllo tricks
Hid 1 * U'ftfEu niind can imagine, giving
unique to^u-oduqg—tVvtf-j
Indian name—dud, so far as I know, the
effect is without a parallel iu (be world. I
Tho Yosemlte fall may be beautiful to
some eyes—X can see nothing, feei noth
ing, Out its terrible grandeur. There,
have been hours in which I grew uiruid
of it, as if it were a living thing. The
angle of the rock is of such oharacier.
that for a distance of two miles "'in tne
valley, this lull seems directly in front. -
.Stand at either of t- e hotels, half a mile
UeloNV the other, anywhere in that stretch
of meadow, and the fall is squarely be
fore your eyes. It wails ou one’s foot
steps like au obedient creature—rather
like aspirit—now compelling one to bow
iu mule and profound adoration, and now
watching forohe's moments of unholy or
worldly weakness. One cannot got away
from It; step to the door of your hotel,
and there it is; look up from the shadow
in which you are lying at noontide, and
there its grandeur falls; wake in the
night and look from your window, and
it vibrates tautaliziugiy in the magic
moonlight; shut your eyes and close
your ears, and you see it and feel it fall
ing down its dizzy height into your heart
of hearts. From a dozen points of view
it is a vertical fail of 3,640 leet—what can
the eye and the minti do with sucu a
height as that? Go to the base and climb
about it; trace it down to Us simplest de-
tail, and it still remains a vertical shaft
of 1,550 feet, a’ cascade of 000 feet in
eighty or ninety rods, and then a plunge
ol 500 feel lor an ending. Mow it seems
to be fifteen feet wide uud ten or twelve
inches deep where it breaks over the
edge of the ruck ; at the melting ot the
snow's it is three or four leet deep and
thirty or forty feet wide. When the
wind first caught this long column of
water on the morning after my arrival,
it seemed to me as it X were looking at
the wonder of the world; in every morn
ing of my stay 1 have seen that same
magnificent contest of wind and water—
X -t turns the picture is so graven into my
bruin that X can see it as long os life lasts. .
The Valley contains.l,4ll acres of land
—745 of level meadow and 396 of sandy
slope. There are four or live claimants
to it, Luaiou and Hutchings might prop
erly enough De paid sometningTor their,
claims; but under the oopgresslouul act
giving the Valley to the Sta«e no part of
it cau ever bo conveyed to individuals
There will be talk in Congress Ibis win
ter about.the mutter—U ought to be defi
nitely and conclusively settled at once,
so that the public and the claimants may
know what to do next year. The mead
ow land Is so level that lu four miles and
&-huif the dyer has u desceut of but for
ty feet. The soil is,rich, and Xjamon has
as fine a garden as X ever saw—his.atravv
berries and nectarines are UU gone, hut
his bushes are filled with blackberries,
and his trees with peaches uud plums
and pears and apples—and the payment
of u two bits 1 gives every visitor a chance
to eat all he can. The valley is well fill
ed with trees—oak, spruce, pine, poplar,
fl/, maple, cellar, laurel, alder, willow
uud in the spring season the metdow
laud uud canyons are beautilul with
many strange and bright-bued flowers.
Visitors count it a duty to visit Mirror
iake to see the wonderful {eilectiou of
mountain scenery in its uurippied wa
ters. Ills a sheet of about three acres,
an enlargement of Tenaya creek, lying
at the very base of the great half dome.—
I’ve been up there three times—a three
n. lies’ ride or wal not so much for the
water views as for the superb
views; best of ail, tue grand view of the
high rock stretches of Cloud’s Best, gray
and cold and repellent under the warm
est : suu, As lor reflect! us—the quiet
pools of the Merced give them to me in
countless numbers; and In the light of
this full muon I have wamfflredupkud
down the river for hours, finding tree
and rock and cliff as sharply defined iu
the limpid water us iu the colorless at
mosphere during the day time.
It were rush madness to attempt a pic
ture of these mountains. See the figures;
On the south side of the valley, begin
ning at the west end—lnspiration Point, 1
2,073 feet; Bridal Veil Kook, 1,750 leet;
Cathedral Sphes, 2,409 leet, Cathedral
2,060 feet; the Graces, 2,850 leet; the
iSentfnel, 3,043; Glacier uock, 3,200 feet;
Valley Chiel, 3,000 feet. On the north
side of the vuiley— El Cupltau, 3,000; >he
brothers, 3,830 feet; Yoaeuilie itock, 3,-
030 feet; Royal Arch Kook* 1,060 fact;
Washington Column, 2,150 feet; North
Dome, 3,568 feet. Up Merced canyon-r-
Cad of Liberty, 3,300. Up Teuaya canyon
—the Half Dome, 4,737 feet, and Cloud's
Rest, 5,700 feet. These aro heights above
the level of the Valley, and that itself Is
4,060 leet above the sea level, so that the
summit of Half Dome is 0,800 feet above
the sea. Greater elevations than these
are given you in the valley, but I have
chosen to take the figures in the State
Geological Report. And, as I have al
ready said these rocky walls are almost
perpendicular—some of them entirely so
fur 1,500 or 2,000 feet.'
Early in the year the valley is without
atmospheric color—everything is cold,
however dazzliug and brilliant. i reck
on myself fortunate in being here at this
season. The waterfalls are at their
maximum ; at half a dozen points where
.lime visitors see plunges of from 500 to
1,000 feet I llnd nothing but a whitened
section of rook on the edge of the cliff
r.l a thousand points where they have
ribbon streamlets floating in the wind, I
am given only a blackened water-llue
down in the face of the wall. Yeti reck
on myself fortunate. There la frost on
the meadow gt daylight,-and we have a
routing open fire in the sitting room of
an evening ; but the sun is'warm at mid
day, and we sat in the shade of the nines
lust Sunday to read and chant the Epis
copal service, and hear our-Connecticut
clergyman feelingly recite Coleridge’s
sublime mountain ode. It is autumn o(
the year, and the grass land lies in russet;
but there,is a softer radiance in the air,
and when I can hideaway front the ter,
rfblo sublimity of tins surrounding,■ I
catch bits of loveliness on.the mottntai n
aides; in the afternoons these gray rocks
glow with something of invitation, aud
up (he gorges and canyons are many
golden tints, with here and there, shades
of opaline and, amethyst,!—Cor. lioston
Advertiser.
A SAIIUE lIUEI, AT TAltl.l,.
Prince Metternieh, the Austrian Am
bassador at Paris, recently fought a duel
with Count de Beaumont, a French no
bleman. The Prince received the chal
lenge. Not long ago M. be Bsaumom
discovered a number of letters in his
wife’sbourdoir. Theircontenta dispensed
him. The authors were men of rank and
distinction. Prince Metternieh wag one
of them. ■Count 1 de Beaumont answered
the letters with Ms own hand, and the
answers were challenges to fight-
The duel was foughton an island in the
Bhine, near Btrashurg, belonging to the
grand duchy of Baden. The middle of
the forenoon was the time chosen lor the
encounter. Prince Metternieh had til
choice f weapons, and selected the sabre
as he had been a cavalry officer, and there
fore is familiar with its use. His antago
nist, though a good swordsman with
the rapier, which wounds only by thrusts I
did upt so well understand the use of the
sabre, which is mainly a cutting- weap
on.
When the fight began, Beaumont ig
uoranUof the ueages of ibeeabre-combut,
rushed on the Prince with the point of
li ie sword, just us tliough it were a rapier
His antagonist was astounded at the
novelty of this attack. He forgot him
self for the instant. The Count closed
upon, him, and -pierced his right arm
above the elbow completely through.
The artery was severed, and blood gushed
from the wound in streams. The Prince
turned deadly pale, but retained his self
command sutlfcleutly to return tbeCouut’s
salute as required by the duelling code.
Neither of the adventurers spoke a word.
The Prince was taken to a neighboring
chateau, and for several hours was in
sensible, so that it was feared that he
would die. He w»» at tllo i a test
- advlceo——, duel fought
queues of the lelter-i t« tim.'oountess de
Beaumont- Her husband first foughi
Viscount Haily-Claparede, and severely
wounded ifim. The Viscount, shortly
a. er his escape from death at the hands
of M. do Beaumont, was nearly tilled by
a kind of loot poisoning occasioned by.
wearing red silk slippers A second duel
was fought between M. de Beaumont'a
youuger brother and auutherof the offen
dingletter writers, who was barely woun
ded. Moiteruich duel Is the last up to
the resent time; but Count de Beau
mout hasupooiuimeutsto fight two other
gentlemen, while-many others remain to
be challenged. •
Prince Metternioh is a favorite in Paris
society, and the duel has excited much
infeiest. It is singular that ho should
have been wounded through the ignor
ance of his opponent. Count tie Beau
mont, though uuiustructed in the sabre
exercise, was successful f If he had known
more about the useful mblhoci oflighting,
he might have been defeated.
The Paris Figaro says, that it is one of
the conditions of M. de Beaumont's chal
lenges that the duels shall continually be
renewed, as soon as the wounded recover,
until one of the two is killed.
Anecdoto of C'arloUn Fadi,
The New York correspondent of the
St. Louis Republican relates the lollow-
Ouce upon a lime, in the city of New
York, a ypung lauy, possessed of a fine
soprano voice, was to decide by a sort of
public rehearsal - her fate .with the ma
nagerial powers of the Academy. A
large number were invited, comprising
all the musical critics and amateurs and
professionals, and u large detachment
irom the theatrical and literary world,
forming a lormiable audience for ah un
fledged bird to essay its virgin flight,
among. * The opera selected' for the
morning’s debut introduced the tremb-
ling young aspirant with the -tenor, and
he, us if to add to her nervousness and
show' his contempt for her ability,
brought the open bars of Ids music to as
many notes, that is, instead ;of giving
-her time to collect herself by singing all
thfc opera set down for him, lie hummed
luuudlhly a strain or so, and gave the
concluding notes, the cue for the orches
tral accompaniment to the debutante's
aria, loudly and B avagely,as if to say,
“just see how I am paraded hero with
this Yankee novice—me, the silver-voic
ed consort of Italian nightingales. Weak
uud faint rose the first notes of the tremb-
ling girl; weaker and fainter they seem
ed to grow, as if scared at the sounds
of their own weakness. XHuiter
ed for a moment, it seemed as if her
voice bad deserted her entirely, when
loud aud clear as a bell, from the cen
tre of the house, the air was taken up.—
All eyes turned to the sweet fawn it by
friendly feeling for the poor singer, ad
ding encouragement, and marking the
time with her tiny hand, us she half rose
lu her seat in her anxiety to help u per
fect stranger and a woman; Xu a
moment the debutante took up the strain,
and, os she gathered courage and heart
to do that which was in her, the beauti
ful voice in the audience fell away from
her, aud sbe finished the aria lu triumph
amid a hurricane ofuppluuse. The young
American who decided her whole career
t * j morn'ng Is now the most famous
primadoaua we have, aud the beautiful
womuq who so nobly placed the very
c own of success bn her almost defeated
aspirations has just returned from the
fore : ji> tr umphs she so richly deserves,
nd nor tame is Carlotta Patti. They
say she s'aga more' beautiful than ever.
But not until I near the wondrous voices
of the auge'a will 1 hear anything so
sweet us was her lovely voice at that re
hearsal nine years ago. The greatest en
thusiasm Is felt at her return; but the
generous deed she did, though many
years ago, will wju for her more tuau
earthly fame. '
How Tiiue !—ln the depth of the wa
ters are Btill—the heaviest grief Is thut
burn in silence; the deepest love flows
through the eye and touch ; the purest
joy Is unspeakable; the moat impressive
prayer Is silent; and the most solemn
preacher at a funeral is the silent eue
whose Ups are cold.
TBBIM.ISG INCIIIeST AT NIAGARA.
Itv J, PltAJtKJirsr TOW.
Ju the very centre of the seething,
whirling cauldron of waters known as
the rapids, lying equidistant
between the American shore and the Is
land, and Bath Island bridge and the
brink of the falls, a rock projects two or
three feet above the water. The eye rests
upon it merely as, upon a speck in the
midst of this angry flood; with every
dash of the torrent pouring down from
the plateau above it is half submerged,
and sometimes wholly hidden from sight
At the time of this casualty a log, three
or four feet in length, had been Jammed
in or under this rock, and protruded from
it. The spot was one that was in the
dally sight of hundreds, and In tbo early
nours of that memorable summer morn-,
lug the first man who bad decagon to
cross tbo bridge, was startled and horri
fied to see a human form standing erect
in the midst of the i aging, whirling flood,
on this little point of rock, wildly wav
ing his arms. He must have shouted, too,
but his cries were drowned iu the uproar
ol the rapids. It was Joseph Avery, the
sole survivor of the unfortunate boat’s
ciew. It was conjectured that the boat
must have sped'down to this point un
harmed by rocks or rapids, and that,
sinking here, Avery was thrown or
spraug out, liuding just room euough for
a perilous foothold, while the other two,
with the boat, were swept over the cata
ract;
The alarm quickly spread. It is not
difficult to draw a crowd atNiagara—and
in half an hour the bridge and adjacent
shores were thronged with horrified yet
curious spectators. With them came
some dozens of boatmen, laborers and
others, .who comprehended’ at once that
there was a chance for rescue, and imme
diately begun to devise a plan. In the
meantime the man had been recognized
by some one, ami while the preparations
were being made a large board was rude
ly lettered with the words, in German,
“ We will save you !” and held up so he
could read it. He tossed his arms up and
down several times, in token that he
comprehended its meaning; and. then
the crowd awaited the result of the pop
ulations, and watched the object of them
with almost breathless interest. It was
truly frightful to see him there amid that
howling waste, almost within the jaws
of the mighty cataract; aud apparently
cutoff from ah human aid. But as the
day wore on, aud the poor fellow became
used to the situation, he seemed to bear
it with more.composure. .Sometimes, to
change his position, he sat down upon
(he rock, aud sometimes made gestures
to the crowd, lb© meauingof which could
not often be unders’tood. His tace, seen
through a klass, looked eager, almost be
youd the expression of human faces, but
it was hopeful too.
As noon approached the first attempt
was made for his rescue. A large raft bad
been constructed of heavy plank, bound
together cihsswise, aud this was to be
lowered down from the bridge, with
strong ropes, to the castaway, when It
was thought he could be drawn nip with
out great difficulty. The venture was'a
failure from the start. The rapids seized
it aud whirled it away before the men
could check it, the ropes became entang
led, the raft was curried far below the
vock, and at last went hopelessly over the
laJls,
It was a bitter, bitter disappointment—
aa' well to the sympathizing expectant
throug as to the imperilled . mad. lint
nothing daunted, the stout hearts and
ready hands immediately set about the
making of another raft, while others were
occupied in conveying food and drink to
poor Avery, This was easily donein tin
cases, attached to stout cords, which were
' ItfS'Quftibrjr
albie point of rock with keeu relish,"and
then stood up and bowed his
Again aud again the cheering words,
“ Wo will save you,” were exhibited, and
he was encouraged by other short sen
tences la his unlive language, which were
m the same way paiuted in. huge letters
aud held up to him.
The ufteruoou slowly wore ou—the
long, but listless summer afternoon there
at Niagara, usually devoted toiciliugover
iced drinks in the shade of the hotel
porches and parlors, but uow cheerfully
given up to the assUtauce of, or sympa
thy for, a fellow being.
There were hundreds in that crowd,
who, prompted by that spirit of Ameri
euu chivalry which is never wanting
among us, would cheerfully have plunged
in to his rescue, could the act have been
any other than useless fool-hardiness;,
and.there were wealthy meu there, who
went through the crowd under the deep*,
est souse of emotion, offering large re
wards to whoever would ■ rescue him. —
The telegraph had by this time carried
the news fur and wide; the afternoon
papers iu New York on this day contain
ed it, and the afternoon trains from Buf
falo and Rochester came freighted with
hundreds more to view the peril of the
poor Gorman for themselves.
The building of the second raft pro
gressed, but, although everything was
done to hasten it, darkness found it un
finished, and the crowd unwillingly dis
persed for the night. The Omniscient
alone can toll bow that poor, foriorii soul
passed the night, dreary hours that in
tervened beiore morning sleepless from
necessity—weary, lonely, with the water
raging like unchained beasts all around
him, and the great abyss of terror yawn
ing almost at his feet. Home sweet hope
must have sustained him iu that trying
lime, or the morning would have found
him dead there upon the rock of his
dreadful exile.
Daylight came, and with It-the eager
crowds hastened back to the points of
sight. The iucomin*/ trains all that day
brought more and more spectators, and
before noon, the bridge was literally
crowned with them, leaving but a small
space in the centre for, the workmen
with the raft; and on either side the
bank was lined—nay, packed—with spec
tators. There were thousands upon
thousands present, all eager, curious and
yet sympathetic. Avery appeared as on
the day before, still hopeful, eating and
drinking what was sent down to him,
motioning with his bauds and arms, and
watching all that was done on the bridge
and the shore.
The. crisis of the excitement arrived
when, about the middle of the second
day, the second raft was launched from
tue bridge upon the hurraing flood.—
SStrougand willing bands held the ropes,
and it was cautiously lowered until it al
most touched the spot where the casta
way stood. With a bound be placed
himselt erect on the >aft; and then arose
such u shout of rejoicing from the lips of
that multitude that It was beard even
above the roaring of the waters.
It was a-short-lived Joy. The ropes
were manned by all the hands that Could
find place, and the raft struggled up &
little way .in the teeth of the’ rapids, and
then a furious volume of water broke
over and upon it, washing it from end to
e id, and hurling Avery bodily Into the
rapids I One faint, desperate hope re
mained to him, as the irresistible current
hurled him down, be might, by stout
swimming; make the'shore of Chapin’s
island, some rods below, and to the west
of him. It was a furious, terrible strug
gle lor life; aud. while the multitude held
their breath and looked on. It seemed at
first os though the man might still save
himself* He almost reached the shore of
the little island but he never gained It.—
Home said that the bush upon which he
laid his hand broke lu his grasp, others
thought that hla strength left him, when
a few more strokes Would have saved
him. Ho yielded himself to the fury of
the rapids, aud an Instant later his body
was hurled over the fatal abyss, amid the
shudders ami groans of the heart-sick
spectators.
Those who were nearest the spot where
he went over, werecortaln that hisdylug
shriek of horror aud.uespair, articulated
the name, Mary.
Behind time—the back of a clock.;
VOL. 56.—N0. 23,
COMING TO THE CITT,'
I 11
I Many excellent men, among whom
I Mr. Greoly la conspicuous, have made It
I a point to dissuadeyoung men from tear-
I log the country, to come to tbe city. We
I have no doubt whatever that to (he man
this advice is sound. It probably has
very little client, however, for.our young
| men, as well as older ones, are much
more apt to learn from what they see
than from what they hear. Advice is
very good so long as it lies in tbe road of
inclination, and we are all glad enough
to follow it if we have already deoided'tu
do so before it reaches us, but practice
goes much farther with the best—or the
worst—of us than precept. When Mr.
Greeley says, “Boys, stay at home and
work the farm,” the natural response is,
why did you not do so? Mr. Greeley’s
“Becollectlons of a Busy Life” are far too 1
potent to be overcome by any special ad
vice he may vouchsafe to others, looking 1
<n the direction he did not travel. And !
we very much doubt If, when the adven
turous boy had packed Ids bandana hand
kerchief aud.swung it across his shoulder
en route , per shank’s horse, for New
York,• anybody's advice would have
stayed his ardor, or made the implements
of husbandry which he now so warmly
extols more precious in sight. A fore
shadowed destiny, and an irrepressible
deal re to combat and overcome difficul
ties which others deemed formidable,
would baye overborne the most earnest
counsel aijftl the tendorest solicitude. And
the fact that, in ids single instance, per
sonal courage and persistent etlbrt' were
so richly rewarded by coming to the city,
has had more to do with bringing ambi
tious and worthy young men hither, than
anything or everything which he may
say will have In beeping them away. Mr. j
Greeley came to New York to seek his J
fortune. He had no assurance of saccess. I
It was ail a chance, and he knew It. He
was willing to take that chance, because,
in bis judgment, itseemed the most likely
of anything to answer the yearnings of
his heart, and to open the way to future I
usefulness. If, alter an honest effort, he
had failed, he would by no means have
become desperate and thrown himself
away. Like a sensible boy, as he was,
he would have said : “New York is not
the place for me—l’ll go elsewhere.” And
he would have gone, and his mark would
have been made all the same.
There is nothing wrong iu young men'
trying their luck in a large city, If they
have the sense to know when they have
failed of their purpose, and the moral
courage to act upon the knowledge. One
of the last things we would attempt to do
would be to urge young men hither to
the detriment of any fair prospect else- |
where; or, in fact, to urge them hither at
all j but there is no disguising the fact
that a large city has many substantial at
tractions for sober, intelligent, virtuous
young men, and that such persons are
very much needed here. If any one will
take the pains .to look overtbelist of men
who have stamped themselves upon the
great enterprises of this city; of men who
are connec.ed with the important move
ments of the day, and whose names stand
at the head of all the beuefioient work
which reflects, so much honor upon our
city and the country at large, be will see
that they comprise a very largo majority
of country reared young men, who came
hither, as did Mr. Greeley, to seek their
fortunes. Their example is very properly
held up for the emulation i f those who
come after, and In citing it wesbduld not
attempt to cover up the fact that to them,
at least, a large city affords opportunities
which they would not have been so like
ly to encounter elsewhere.
The country and the city are alike open
to the best energies of our young men
and women, and each should have the
p-iviiege to use his or her gifts to the
tn rhohAat.
Speech of A Chippewa Chief.
There was an Indian council held re-
ceutly by IJout, Col. J. H. Knight, iu
tbeUbippewa country, at wbicb a lead
ing chief, Black Bird, made ah earoeat
speech iu support of a claim against tbe
United States Government for between
fifty and one hundred thousand dollars.
Tbe chief , bod the facts upon his side, as
the Government records show, and he
plead bis cause with great ingenuity, as
the following extract from his speech
will show :
“My Father— l greet you. I also,
through you, great our Great Father. 1
also greet our Great Father in the skies,
who has given us health, by which .we
live and express our thoughts. My
name is known in all these parts. My
name is Black Bird, in whose mouth
there is no lie. A lie never has had a
p ace in ray, mouth since I was born.—
We utter nothing against our Great
Father nor his agent. But it is our
Great Father’s place to put these things
Tight* 1118 ttlillS tUu kuug oiroot ,bo
bos much power; ho la great ana his
.arms being long and strong, can reach
afar off; even to tbe end of the earth can
he reach to settle tbe affairs of bis peo
ple. If bis shoe Is soiled be will throw
ft out and renew bis shoo—that is'what
be would do| and we are poor and weak.
His agents and lawyers (legislators) are,
strong and great. If a man was dead
and; laid In his coffin before them they
have almost power and skill sufficient to
bring him to life again. If his lawyers
(legislators) have a glove not scented to
their taste they will pull it off and throw
it away. We are poor and have claims
unsettled against our Great Father, and
we have been robbed of our laud£. It is
my desire that our Great Father and his
lawyers shall make these things right
with my people. We think the lands
still belong 10 ps. We have never sold
the lands. When our Great Father shall
have made these things right with our
people we will be satisfied—thou and not
until then. How can tho whlteman ex
pect to enter the skies that are now list
ening to us if tbesa things are not made
right? It is our desire that our Great
Fuiher and his lawyers shall make these
things right. Then the Great Spirit will
smile upon them. This Is all I have to
say, I have great faith in you, and that,
you will assist us iu getting our Great
Father to let us go to Washington and
settle our matters. This Is the reason
why our Great Father has .selected you to
be our lather.”
A Quiet Diknkh PaBTV.—A curtain
judge of Avignon, famous, for Ida love of
goon living, said to u friend one day—
“We have Just been dining off a su
perb tul key! It was excellent! Stuff
ed with truffle to the very throat—ten
der, delicate. 11l led with perfume! We
loft nothing hut the bones !”
"How many were there of you"" ask
ed the friend.
‘.‘Two," replied the judge.
“Two " echoed the other, in astonish
ment.
“Yes, two," repeated the judge, 'the
turkey—and myself.."
j|Sy* A follow, anxious to see the Queen,
left his native village, and wont to Lon
don, to gratify bis curiosity. Upon his
return his wife Baaed him what the
Queen wsslike. .“Lolkh ?"or led Hodge.
"Why, X ne'er was so cheated in ray
loffe. What, don't think, Margaret?—
Her arms are loike tholne and mofne,
although I have heard excisemen say a
score of times her arms were ‘a lion and
a unicorn.’"
jgp-Would Eve have eaten apples in
the Garden of Eden if they bad been
seven dollars per barrel ? We expect not.
The state of Adam’s funds would not
have Justified any such extravagance. ■
Aid, Moonshine.—A canard has been
flying about to the effect that'the autho
rities at Paris have seized the moon, on
account of its being the parish Xante me.
AFeobai, Sweee—The danda-iloß—
the lion chat lambs are not afraid of.
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A 5£W SPFCIBEW.
Mark Twain tella a capital story. Here
is one offals best: .
"One day when I and my brotfaer went
into tfae woods, be shot a oblchen-bawk
f and a crow, and while we were tolling la
tfae sfaade under a tree lie pulled the tails
out of the birds, and then, fooling round
-and talking, be dually built the crow’s'
tall Into the chicken-hawk's transom.
When we saw what a neat Job it was we
thought we would keep it, when we got
home we were late for supper, and wo
Just dropped it on the porch and rushed
tn. Wo had a sort of sneaking hope that
the old man and out uncle would get bit
•vith itany way, because they wereatways
pottering over geology or natural history,
or something they didn’t know anything
about. While we were at supper, they
came along and lound the bird, and we
beard them discussing It and talking all
sorts of astonishment. Directly the old
man came in—having the bird by the
leg, and says :
“Boys, where did you get this bird
"Shot him in the woods, Sir.”
“Did you ever come across any bird
like this around herb before ?”
“No, sir this 1s the first.”
"Boysfio you- know what you’ve done V■
You’ve discovered something that will
make you known everywhere- The bird
is of a new species.”
And then bo walked out, and we heard
him and uncle cone . • • that they would
label it with their o,...'names aud send ■
it to Pfolessor Hageubaum, at Albany.
Pretty soon, though, the old 'man took
hold of the tail aod it pulled out, and we
heard both of them swear a little. When
we came out the bird was lying on one
side of the fence aud the tail on the oth
er.. We did not dare to laugh, inr to let
on about hearing their talk, eit or.'
But about a. month after i nis there
came along one of the rattiest specimen
of a boy you ever saw, aud wanted to stop
with us. He was ail rags and tatters, and
tired out with runniug away from bis
madrer somewhere. His shirt was hang
ing at half-mast through his' trousers,
and two-thlrda of the tail of it was a.
piece of blue flannel that had been sewed
on. While the poor devil was eating his
dinner, uncle and the old man wore
studying up what they had better do
with him. And finally they said,
(Jeorge! thop didn’t know what to do v
with him.” Just then the boy rose anti
swung his colors in view, and, brother
Bob soys:
“Father, you might send him to Pro
fessor Hageubaum. at Albany.
It was. tub-first the old man know we
had oveiheard the bird talk, and so be
whaled us both. He says, "I*ll learn
you to play jokes on your old father.”
Mai dsns Desirixg Hvsbaxds.—A
Parls„c6rreapnndeiit, speaking of the pa
tron saint ot maidens desiring husbands
and the high regard which is paid to him
In France, relates the following illustra
tion of Manpowers: Some months since,
a maiden in a village not far from Paris,
nndlug years stealing away, and no suit
or for her hand appearing, boughta plas
ter statuette of St. Nicholas, placed it at
the head of her bed, and Dlgnt and morn
ing addiessed supplications to it lor a
suitable help-mate, . Months' Went by
without bringing a lover. The other day
her stock of patience became, exhausted.
She lost all confidence in the saint. Tak
ing the statuette by the nape of the neck
she threw it into the street, ejaculating,
“ Go to the d—!” As she threw out the
statuette a young man happened to be
passing under the window. He was bare
headed. The statuette fell on his poll
and notohly stunned him, but os it broke
to atoms, cut his scalp severely- Blood
poured profusely forth. He straightway
went to au attorney and brought suit
not see the defendant of the suit -until
she appeared in court. Her person and
mien made a deep impression on him,
and he asked leave to withdraw his suit,
title, delighted by this termination of le
gal proceedings which bad looked threat
ening to her, was very gracious to him,
and they walked home from the. court
house in company. Ho asked leave to
visit her. Ho soon asked her baud, and
they were married without delay.
S&" Yesterday a sable Adonis, named
Edward Chandler, was up as a witness
in a case of assault and battery. The pu
gilists were two females of the same ebon
hue of Edward himself, and a iittie in
quiry into the cause of the disturbance
soon revealed the fact that they both
claimed the dusky Lothario as their hus
band. Both asserted that they were law
fully married to him, and tbe severest
cross examination failed to disclose any
flaw iu tbe statements of either.
‘‘Why, you rosea’, you must be a biga
mist,” said the Judge, turning wrathful
iy.toward Edward. _
"tsar r- *;■ - * ~
•‘You’ve married both these women.”
“Yes. sar, but dey noedn’t fight ’bout
it, dough.”
. “Don’t you know this is u criminal of
fence of yours ?”
“ttnr,” replied Edward, the white of
bis eyes enlarging, and looking earnestly
into the Judge’s face.
“I’il have to have you arrested for
bigamy.”
“Datso?”
’ “Yes.”
“Den, don’t say no mo’ about it, and
VU live wid ’em 60/,” rejoined the com
placent Edward, adjusting his bat and
walking leisurely from the court mom.—
JS T . O. Picayune,
&S&-A couple of Yankee girls put a bull
frog into the hired man's bed, to see if
they could get him to talk. Dan threw
the frog out of the window and never
said a 'word. Soon after ho put a bushel
of chestuut burrs into tho girls’ bed, and
about the time.he thought they woyfd
raakeJ.be least shadow, Daniel went lo
their di.or, and rattled the latch Union*-,
ly. Out went the and iu went the
girls, but they didn’t stick,* though the
burrs did. Calling to them, he begged
them to be quietj he only wanted to
know if they had seen that pesky hull
frog ; hp’d give two dollars to find him.
6i“A Frenchman, being hard up U r a
dinner, stole a pig. He was caught in
the act, taken belore a magistral.. and
called upon for his defense, when be
thus delivered himself. "Oh, mun Dies!
I steal zo pig ? No, Sur, 1 never! Aha.
you shall see. I toll zepig", will he 'go
wiz me ? He says, 'Oui, oui 1’ and zeu 1
take him. Is zut you call steal de pig.
ven he go viz bis own consent?"..
S®""‘Mr. Simpkins has an abuiuiua.
ble gait, don't you think so?"
"No, indeed, I think it guile hand
some, especially sluce it was painted."
"Excuse mo, bul you don't understand
me—l allude to his carriage."
"Why, la me! he has nooarrlage."
“Oh, yes, he has, but Its only seen
when he walks.”
Jtjjj"A lawyer was once pleading a case
that brought tears into the Jurors' eyes,
and every one gave up the case as gone
for the plaintiff. BtittheUpposlug coun
sel arose and said, “May It please the
court, I do not propose in this case to
bore for wafer, but—." Here the te.ars
were suddenly dried, and laughing en
sued, aud the defendant got clear.
SSTA country girl who had rode h.to 1
New Albany, Xud., to do some shopping,
after making what 'purchases she needed, •
was asking by the exquisite young clerk
the usual "anything else, mum, I can do
for you ?" Her reply got hfm a Ilttfe :
“Oh no sir ; unless you will be kind
enough to go out and milk the old mare.
I rode her from home without the oolt."
jjgyYe who are eating the apple-dump-
Hugs and treacle of wealth should not
forget those who are sucking the herring- 1
bones of poverty. ;